NYT: Russia has given up on taking Kyiv (map)

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Map of towns where Ukrainian forces have recently reclaimed control around Kyiv


Maps: Tracking the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

... Ukraine’s army claimed to be in control of dozens of towns to the west and east of Kyiv where some of the most intense fighting has been going on since the beginning of the war. If Ukraine’s stated gains hold up in areas where Russia has withdrawn its troops, these movements would mark the largest shift in fighting around the capital in weeks.

Videos posted to social media appeared to show abandoned streets in the suburb of Bucha, which had been one of the most contested areas around the capital. And satellite imagery of a key airport in Hostomel by Maxar Technologies, a U.S.-based imaging company, appeared to show that Russian equipment had been removed sometime in the last 10 days.

But the wide range of Ukrainian claims made on Friday were impossible to independently verify.

Even as Ukrainian counterattacks have pushed Russian forces north, fighting has continued in areas west of Kyiv in recent days. Russia has also been conducting air and missile strikes on Kyiv and Chernihiv, according to Britain’s Defense Ministry.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/europe/ukraine-maps.html

[ColinC]

1. With few RU troops in the north and increasing pressure on the south

Is there an increasing likelihood of Ukraine surrounding the remaining Russian occupied regions in the south?

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2. IMO - It is a troops rotation

where the troops are not being replaced.

[ColinC]

3. ....

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5. 👍🏼

[L. Coyote]

4. Meanwhile, Russia is creating a global food crisis.

Link to tweet

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6. It is my strongest wish

that Russia does not shell Odesa.

[uponit7771]

8. They will, they're not much more than mechanized terrorist organization now good for killing ...

... unarmed women, children, elderly and blowing up buildings.

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10. a "mechanized terrorist organization"

yes

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7. ...

[greenjar_01]

9. The Defense of Kyiv will be studied in military schools and war colleges for decades

Kyiv is actually a difficult city to hold. The Ukrainians were extraordinarily well prepared, and the Russian approach was deeply flawed. This is a massive black-eye for a modern military. Not quite the equivalent of the US being turned back from Baghdad in 2003 (had that happened...), but pretty close.

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11. The US being turned back from Baghdad in 2003 ...

?

[greenjar_01]

12. In other words, it would be the equivalent of the US being turned back from Baghdad in 2003

Obviously, that didn't happen.

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13. 'shock and flaw'

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15. That is good news for Ukraine.