UKRAINE AS PRACTISE BOXING RING

12 May 2023

Many readers wonder why the Russians haven't blown the bridges across the dnieper, as a defensive measure.

This weekend past, it looks like the Russians did blow some bridges, those connecting the South of Ukraine to Moldova and Romania. Presumably this is to stop any NATO troop movement into South East Ukraine.

Then as to the Dnieper bridges up to Dnipro and Kyiv. I guess the Russians have left them in place because they are waiting for the Ukrainian offensive. As the Ukrainian army crosses the river, so sufficient numbers at least, then the Russians could at this point blow the bridges to prevent retreat and kill the trapped Ukrainians.

Wasn't this a bit like what they have just done in Bakmut, their "meat grinder" strategy to slowly efface the enemy army? They left some roads open so that the Ukrainians could continue to file into the city and as they did so, the Russians killed them.

So seems like the Russians are playing a long game of protecting against a NATO invasion, trapping and wiping out the entire Ukrainian army; and there'll be times when the Russians withdraw in order to suck the Ukrainians in, then close the trap again and kill them.

So the new map, as conceived by Russian strategists, seems to include Odessa. Perhaps from the Russian point of view ideally the border would run from Kiev, South West to Moldova, to include at least Transnistria, leaving Lviv as capital of a client state that buffers Poland, a dmz to a very aggressive Poland or the New Ukraine as a place where West could meet East to fight, a boxing ring really for military training and competitions.