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I suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. 
But of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile.
Wish we could provide more.
No country should suffer Russian aggression. >

Who didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going.  Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.
Same goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks.  Same goes for mobiks.
Ukraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time. >

For those who say "Iran is already sanctioned enough":
This is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient. >

Also this is a typical "argument" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.
For each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already. >


For each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. 

It's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough >

Interesting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress. >

Reports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar.  
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The one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. 
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That level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today.  Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now.