The Offensive Makes Significant Progress

Overnight we had the first hints of a breakthrough. Ukrainians reportedly captured a prisoner near Tokmak in Zaporizhia. This is one of the lines of advance. If he was captured in the municipality, on the northern edge, that be fifteen kilometers south of the front line. If in the city, that’s about twenty. This is an important point from a logistics perspective.

This morning we got more confirming information from Volymedia. Let me lean on them and the British Ministry of Defense—first the MoD, with a very general statement.

Here is some of what Volymedia posted in a long post:

After the relatively rapid success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine last September in the Kharkiv region, many began to perceive the expected Ukrainian offensive as a cavalry attack. Quickly, decisively, with a trampling and roar. They attacked, broke through, released, won. Therefore, when after the first five days there was no stream of news about the liberated territories, both Ukrainians and foreigners sympathizing with Ukraine began to doubt the success, complain about the lost German tanks and American infantry fighting vehicles.

At the same time, few people think that it is impossible to compare the Kharkiv operation with the current offensive simply because of the incomparability of goals and the resources involved.