BIG SERGE—All that is simply to say that in the summer of 2022 these forest belts were a problematic setting for the Russian force. Now, however, they have rectified their manpower deficiencies and find themselves in a position where securing the Donets forest belt is a high operational priority. This is because the belt runs horizontally (that is, east-west) below Russia’s axis of advance towards Lyman.
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ALEKS—Ukraine’s power generation capacity needs to be brought down slowly and carefully to a critical level. This level needs to be sufficient to provide the civil population enough hours of electricity, per day, to maintain critical and live-saving processes. This is what we are witnessing these days. It is important to understand, that not all kinds of power plants can be destroyed. Yes, NPP’s of course not. But there are power plants, generating voltages, which would cause such an imbalance of voltages in the power grid, that it would physically destroy substations and other equipment due to overloads. I don’t want to go into details since I’m not an electrical engineer. A low level of energy supply could be maintained until the new offensive starts, to provide energy to the civil population.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Militarily, the consensus of expert opinion within the U.S.-and-allied countries has changed from Russia’s losing the war in 2022 when Russian forces pulled back from Kharkiv in the spring and Kherson in the fall, to the U.S.-and-allied forces (these are Ukrainian soldiers who are equipped with U.S.-and-allied financing and weaponry) losing the war while NATO runs out of weapons and ammunition to send there and yet Russia unrelentingly continues to supply new weaponry and ammunition and slowly to take new ground in Ukraine. This war of attrition is going very badly now against The West (the U.S. imperial Government and its foreign ‘allies’ or colonies — especially the ones in Europe: EU and NATO).
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LARRY JOHNSON—I have confirmed that the Defense Intelligence Agency is relying solely on Ukraine for the intelligence on Russian and Ukrainian casualties. In other words, if Ukraine tells its DIA liaison officer that Ukraine killed 400 Russians in its latest HIMARS strike then that is what DIA tells the U.S. General commanding EUCOM. This is more than troubling. This is dangerous.
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