“Ukraine digs in to fight Russia’s looming eastern offensive”-AP

Why “digging in”? Now is the time to ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!

Experts say a full-scale offensive in the east could start within days, though questions remained about the ability of Russia’s depleted and demoralized forces to conquer much ground…

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The Institute for the Study of War, an American think tank, predicted Russian forces would focus their assault on the northern edge of a sickle-shaped arc of eastern Ukraine where the pro-Russia separatists and Russian forces have seized territory.

Russian forces will “renew offensive operations in the coming days” from Izyum,

So why doesn’t Ukraine attack there, now!

From Maxar Technologies via Associated Press, captioned  a convoy of armored vehicles and trucks moving the south, around Velykyi Burluk, east of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, on April 8, 2022.

Maxar via AP: “trucks with towed artillery moving the south, around Velykyi Burluk, east of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, on April 8, 2022.” 

Those trucks are sitting ducks! There should be dead skunks all over that road!

 a town southeast of Kharkiv, to try to reach Slovyansk, even further southeast, the institute’s analysts said. But in their view, “The outcome of forthcoming Russian operations in eastern Ukraine remains very much in question.”