Screenshots of the map showing two long Russian incursions that looked like rabbit ears spread like wildfire in Ukraine, and the military, after initially downplaying DeepState’s assessment, quickly deployed elite troops to contain the breach. I suspect it parallel’s the stalement of the 1914-18 trench warfare, though today the lines are probably held a lot thinner in terms of numbers - the empty battlefield. At the moment, the Russians appear to have resorted to the ‘crumbling’ or ‘bite and hold’ tactics of late 1944-45, trying to put pressure on the Ukranians along the whole length of the front line.
Author: The New York Times
Published at: 2025-08-24 22:25:04
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