A collapse of Russian positions to Crimea may be in the offing by the end of August. Putin will whip up nuclear war hysteria as his army looses

A collapse of Russian positions to Crimea may be in the offing by the end of August. Putin will whip up nuclear war hysteria as his army looses

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“Russia's war on Ukraine is about to enter a new phase, with the heaviest fighting shifting to a roughly 350km frontline stretching southwest from near Zaporizhzhia to Kherson, paralleling the Dnieper River,” the tweet said.

The MoD said that equipment is also reportedly being moved from Russian-occupied Melitopol, Berdiansk, Mariupol and from mainland Russia via the Kerch Bridge into Crimea.


Russia has also deployed battalion tactical groups, which comprise between 800 and 1,000 troops, to Crimea. These will “almost certainly” be used to support Russian troops, the MoD said.

Meanwhile, the MoD said that Ukrainian forces are “focusing their targeting on bridges, ammunition depots, and rail links with growing frequency in Ukraine’s southern regions”.

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If Putin's army is JUST north of Crimea by September 2022, I predict that there will be nuclear war threats from the Kremlin at least once a day, and maybe even missile strikes near Poland. Missile strikes to scare Western allies into not delivering more weapons to Kyiv

In a word, Putin will totally LOOSE IT, and the job of commentators will be to avoid falling for Kremlin hysteria

Because that is all which Putin has left. Whipping up the hysteria: Kremlin pronouncements as to it being able to H bomb EU , and American cities will become more frenzied if Ukraine forces move onto Crimea



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Ukraine war set to enter ‘new phase’ as Russian forces prepare for Kherson counter-offensive, MoD warns


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he war in?Ukraine?is set to enter a new phase, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said, with?Russian?forces “almost certainly” preparing for a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south.

In an intelligence update released on Saturday, the MoD said that Russian convoys of military trucks and artillery are shifting southwest from the?Donbas?region in anticipation of a renewed assault by Ukrainian forces in Kherson.

“Russia's war on Ukraine is about to enter a new phase, with the heaviest fighting shifting to a roughly 350km frontline stretching southwest from near Zaporizhzhia to Kherson, paralleling the Dnieper River,” the tweet said.

The MoD said that equipment is also reportedly being moved from Russian-occupied Melitopol, Berdiansk, Mariupol and from mainland Russia via the Kerch Bridge into Crimea.


Russia has also deployed battalion tactical groups, which comprise between 800 and 1,000 troops, to Crimea. These will “almost certainly” be used to support Russian troops, the MoD said.

Meanwhile, the MoD said that Ukrainian forces are “focusing their targeting on bridges, ammunition depots, and rail links with growing frequency in Ukraine’s southern regions”.

This includes a “strategically important railroad spur” that links Kherson to Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukrainian forces are using a “combination of block, damage, degrade, deny, destroy, and disrupt effects to try to affect Russia’s ability to logistically resupply”, the Mod added.

“Russia’s war on Ukraine is about to enter a new phase, with the heaviest fighting shifting to a roughly 350km front line stretching southwest from near Zaporizhzhya to Kherson, paralleling the Dnieper River,” they concluded.

It follows reports that President Biden is poised to approve a $1 billion assistance package for Ukraine, including munitions for long-range weapons and armoured medical transport.


Three sources briefed on the matter told Reuters that the package, set to be announced on Monday, would include munitions for HIMARS and NASAMS surface-to-air missile system – both regarded as key to strengthening Ukraine’s defence.

HIMARS play a key role in the artillery duel between Ukraine and Russia, which has been described as "grinding" with very little movement of the front line in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.


Since Vladimir Putin’s forces crossed the border in February, the conflict has settled into a war of attrition fought primarily in the east and south of Ukraine.

Moscow is trying to gain control of the Donbas, comprised of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, where pro-Moscow separatists seized territory after the Kremlin annexed Crimea to the south in 2014.

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