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Hello All,

Haven't posted for a couple of months and I'm sorry about that. I hope to be posting with more regularity from this time on.

There have obviously been significant things going on in various places since my last post, but this is just a little background about Ukraine.

The biggest capture in the warzone since July would be the regional city of Chasiv Yar, long fought-over, bitterly contested and whose status was disputed until recently, as it gradually emerged that the Russians had indeed ground down the city's defenders and assumed control of the city.

Now, the Russians are apparently close to seizing control of the similarly-sized city of Kupiansk, while eyeing off the bigger city of Pokrovsk in the mid-to-longer turn.

On the whole, while the overall war is still something of a stalemate, the advantage is clearly with the Russians who are not only inching forward methodically, but have more manpower and capacity to sustain overall operations on a longer term basis.

Moreover, various credible analysts are also observing that Russia is starting to gain the ascendancy in technology, tactics, logistics and the like, even as tit-for-tat drone and rocket strikes continue.

Despite talk, there appears to be no real interest in Moscow, Kiev, Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, etc, to end the war.

Meanwhile, roughly 200,000 Russians and well over 500,000 Ukrainians have been killed, with no end in sight to the killing, while the nation of Ukraine itself has been all but destroyed and will never be the same again.

Below is a link to an oldish article, from early August or so, which at the time of its release put the fall of Chasiv Yar into context.

I plan to post again very soon with a fresh update.

Link to the aforementioned article is below:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljaze ... chasiv-yar