Good News? Front Lines

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readJul 14, 2023

There is an eerie silence on Russian telegram, with a lot of recycled videos. Like other times when Russians have been forced to withdraw, something is afoot.

So this is from Estonian intelligence via Twitter:

Good News👀‼️

Ukraine “close to a bigger kind of success”: Estonian military intelligence boss, Col. Margo Grosberg

Ukrainian strikes have demolished Russian command and logistics, while Russia nears the end of its reserves and its frontline troops are running out of steam because of the lack of rotation

“The reserves of the Russian Federation are running out, as units cannot be rotated from the front”

At Bakhmut, Ukrainian liberation of key terrain around the city has put Russian supply lines there under Ukrainian fire control

“The fact that the Russian airborne troops who have been stationed in Bakhmut since the spring are still tied up in the city and suffering losses, and it is not possible to send them to other places or to the reserve, also has a big impact,” the report quotes Grosberg saying

Now what follows is speculation. But some is based on things like the video referenced by ChrisO-Wiki.

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Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB