the country. the ukranian army had let major forces run out extremely long fuel supplies and logistics trades and they slaughtered them, slaughtered them, and then when the tanks were running out of fuel they have what they call a javelin fest where they bring out a javelin missile and destroy every tank. what i learned is what i learned before the war is that these people, if invaded, and they were insaided, were just going to go full cossack on the russians. the russians are afraid of the ukranian soldier. that s one thing that i ve learned. some of them units don t have as much discipline as the main force army, but the main force army is a nato-level lethal force which is why russians shifted to these tactics away from the maneuvers where they get out wiped out quickly to marching artillery through and
The Russian push to the east may be part of a broader initiative to establish a Russian corridor along the Black Sea coastline up from Odessa through Mariupol to the Donbas area.
outskirts of kyiv covering some war crimes, and in the town i was at, there were just a lot of tanks like that, just riddled across the roads, and it was just some of the remnants of the chaos and destruction that was really wreaked on the area and i was there with some ukrainians who were, you know, looking at that russian tank and just made kind of that comment about thanking the united states, presumably thinking that that tank was destroyed by a perhaps a javelin missile that was funded or donated or given by the united states. i mean, i think it really shows how much of a need the ukrainians have and how much of a desire they have for the west to do more. we just heard that officer pleading with the west to provide a green corridor.