#kherson
#Roundtable | The #Kherson #Withdrawal, with Brian Berletic, #Andrei #Martyanov | Nov. 10, 2022
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DyXeZNQY3yk
Source: The Roundtable — Gonzalo Lira youtube, smoothiex12.blogspot.com, The New Atlas
The “conflict”, i.e. the armed invasion, started in southern #Ukraine when the Russian #army occupied #Crimea in February 2014. The Russian-inspired separatist #uprising in the east started later, in about a month.
It was clear to us from the beginning that Russia could not do any good in Ukraine. By 2014, a reactionary authoritarian regime had already been established in #Russia that denied all individual and social rights and brutally persecuted and destroyed all independent activity. Of course, we still have many questions about the Ukrainian state and the ruling class in Ukraine. But at least the anarchist movement, the socialist movement in Ukraine was able to operate relatively freely for some years. It suffices to say that throughout the existence of the independent Ukrainian state, there has not been a single political anarchist prisoner here. At the same time, many dozens of our comrades in Russia ended up in Russian prisons – guilty solely for their anarchist convictions. So, we were well aware of what #Putin did for libertarian ideas.
The #RKAS reaction was therefore irreversible: it was necessary to resist the Russian attack by all means.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/10/04/leftists-outside-ukraine-are-used-to-listening-only-to-people-from-moscow-interview-with-rkas-anarcho-syndicalists-in-eastern-ukraine/ #history #war #anarchism #labour #donbas #chechnya #zaporizhzhya #kherson #left #georgia #moldova
The Ukraine #War gave dealers from the breakaway pro-Russian states in east #Ukraine a chance to expand their presence. Online marketplaces offering synthetic #drugs in the ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’ eventually started selling their goods in the Russia-occupied cities of #Mariupol and #Kherson in early September.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/09/13/russian-world-brings-in-crystals #telegram #methadone #amphetamine #donetsk #luhanis #p2p #bitcoin
A major question that is being raised is how long the said #conflict will continue. After all, in no way does it fit into the timeframe of the announced Russian "blitzkrieg" or that of active hostility phases in any of the wars waged in the early 21st century. In any case, the war has been lasting for months already. And there is every reason to believe that it is not going to end anywhere within 2022.
In this regard, it is natural to look into the prospects for the next year and go beyond just predictions and assumptions. Such outlook should be totally practical. Namely, how far should Ukraine’s military ambitions extend? Also, as a logical derivative of this question, what help exactly does the Armed Forces of #Ukraine need from partners for the coming year 2023?
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3566404-prospects-for-running-a-military-campaign-in-2023-ukraines-perspective.html #war #military #russia #crimea #kherson #weapons
Even though the Battle of #Donbas is far from over, #Ukraine is expected to open the next chapter of the #war sometime in the near future — a highly anticipated, major counter-offensive operation in the south, particularly to liberate the Russian-occupied city of #Kherson.
#Kyiv has declared its intentions to liberate the only regional capital captured by Russia following the Feb. 24 full-scale invasion.
Experts across the world agree that retaking Kherson is the most feasible way for Ukraine to score a major victory over #Russia and turn the tide of the war. As part of a counter-offensive operation, Ukraine would likely seek to block the occupied city, cut the Russian garrison off from supplies and reinforcements, and hold the blockade until Russia surrenders.
This would be a daring mission, demanding the most effective contribution of all components ranging from infantry to air defense and counter-battery activity.
Thanks to local terrain and Russian #military flaws, Ukraine's plan may in fact be realistic.
But in order to carry it out, Ukraine's military would have to demonstrate excellent coordination of war power and do the difficult #work of clearing the area of Russian forces, supply lines, and ammunition depots — before going in.
https://kyivindependent.com/national/what-would-a-ukrainian-counter-offensive-in-kherson-look-like #waffen
The fact that the Ukrainian forces had to abandon those territories in the first place was the result of a miscalculation. They had been taken by Russian forces in the early days of the invasion. According to Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National #Security and Defense Council of #Ukraine, as he noted in a Liga.net article on June 18, Ukraine had expected the main Russian attack to come from the territory of the self-proclaimed #DNR and #LNR and consequently concentrated its most combat-ready units there.
This blunder left the south relatively unprotected for an invasion from #Crimea, which enabled the rapid Russian advance toward #Mariupol and the occupation of #Kherson and #Zaporizhzhia regions. It also created the threat of #Mykolaiv and #Odesa being occupied, while for some time part of the Russian strategy seemed to be to take the entire Black Sea coast of Ukraine, in effect creating a land bridge from Russia all the way to #Transnistria in #Moldova.
Though that has not been achieved and is unlikely to be achievable in light of the successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, what Russia did achieve after the fall of Mariupol is a land corridor to Crimea, which was among #Moscow’s key strategic objectives from the beginning.
https://russiapost.net/politics/occupation #war #un #osce #military #irpin #bucha #culture
Over the past two months, attention on the #Ukraine War has generally focussed on the Russian eastern offensive. The Russians, having learnt some of the lessons of their failed #Kyiv and #Kharkiv offensives, have concentrated much of their combat power in eastern Ukraine, where they have slowly, painfully and brutally seized most of the #Luhansk region.
But there is another front in this #war that is also important: the campaign in the south. Because of its long-term economic implications for the state of Ukraine, the war in the south may prove even more decisive than the #military operations in the #Donbas.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/pockets-of-resistance-why-the-southern-ukraine-front-matters-20220621-p5av9z.html #odessa #guerilla #melitopol #berdyansk #kremenna #kherson #russia
A Russian-appointed official in southern #Ukraine’s occupied city of #Kherson has been killed in an apparent car bomb, Russian state media reported Friday.
Kherson’s so-called "military-civilian" administration told the state-run TASS news agency that one person died in a car explosion inside a residential neighborhood in the early morning. #war #russia
L'occupant russe disperse des manifestants pacifiques à Kherson à l'aide de grenades lacrymogènes et en tirant à balles réelles en l'air.
Quelque chose me dit que ça va pas dissuader longtemps les habitants, surtout avec des rayons vides à cause des pillages russes et de la désorganisation du commerce provoqué par le crétin du kremlin.
#politique #manifestation #ukraine #Kherson #putin #poutine #invasion #invasion-russe #standwithukraine
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Всем привет, я #новичок.Мне интересны #archlilnux, #cars, #carsdontownthestreets, #kherson, #автомобили, #кино, #музыка, #политика, #революция, #украина и #херсон. Спасибо за приглашение, @David Morley!