British military officials advised that Ukraine should focus on defense in its ground fight against Russia in the east while focusing on targeted strikes against Crimea and Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, The Sunday Times reported.
The advice was given when British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps and UK Army Chief Antony Radakin visited Ukraine last week. The British officials said rather than attacking, Ukrainian forces should hold the line and pull back to more favorable ground if necessary.
“This will allow the Ukrainians to focus their efforts on the Black Sea and Crimea, where their forces, with the help of Western long-range missiles, have landed significant blows over the past six months,” the report said.
A recording of a conversation between German military officers that was recently published by Russian media revealed that the UK has soldiers “on the ground” in Ukraine helping Ukrainian forces use Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of 155 miles, making them capable of hitting targets throughout Crimea.
Attacks on Crimea have always been considered a red line for Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the risk of escalation hasn’t stopped Ukraine’s Western backers from assisting with such strikes, as Storm Shadows have been reported to be used in multiple Ukrainian attacks on Crimea.
The UK has also helped Ukraine strike Russian ships in the Black Sea. Another recent report from the Times credited Radakin with helping “the Ukrainians with the strategy to destroy Russian ships and open up the Black Sea.”
Ukrainian attacks on Crimea and territory inside the Russian mainland have increased since it’s become clear Ukraine has no chance of winning on the battlefield. Since Russia captured the strategic Donetsk city of Avdiivka last month, Russian forces have been making steady gains in the east, and Ukraine is suffering from serious manpower and weapons shortages.
We are very lucky Russia has not declared war yet on West. What is the end game here?
End game ?
Suitcases of cash for every Western Politician who visits Kiev.
From U.S taxpayers. You and I.
FAFO!
Perhaps Russia needs to end the posers in England who still think that they have an empire.
The loss of London is no big deal.
“The loss of London is no big deal” – definitely it is not necessary at the moment from any viewpoint. Let’s hope it will never happen. When Ukrainian army collapses (and it is only the matter of time), Russia will incorporate Odessa and Nikolaev regions into Russian Federation and thus push the border further west. Then Ukraine, if it still exists, will have no access to Black Sea coast which makes Crimea much safer.
FJB
I love how you “antiwar” types take every opportunity to scream NUKE ‘EM!
Hey, jaggoff, the Brits have nukes too.
Not after they are incinerated Mr. Retard.
Yeah. Your “antiwar” stance is total bulls**t. Stop being a poser.
Never claimed to be antiwar you retard.
Then go away, MAGA scum.
OK Idiot, as an Independent I can see your lack of IQ!
MAGA Independent. You’re that a**hole with the f**ked up takes, sitting at the end of the bar, that everyone hates.
You must be as delusional and retarded as the senile angry old man in the White House.
Either that or you are just another low IQ middle school left wing drop out. Try looking up the word Independent if you know how to spell.
Awww…are you angry, Q-anon, f**kwad?
In other words, they advice Kiev regime to concentrate on terrorist attacks against civilian population. Ukrainians are doing it already beginning from the spring 2014. Nothing is new.
Only a fascist dipsh!t like you calls the people of a country being invaded, attacked, destroyed, and annexed by a hitler wannabe midget, terrorists.
You are the one behaving like a terrorist with your support for your Neo Nazi leader. Nothing is new.
“People of a country being invaded, attacked, destroyed, and annexed by a hitler wannabe midget” can absolutely be terrorists.
Terrorism is a tactic, not a cause.
Not sure where you are going with that but since… are you implying the Ukrainians in this case, are or could be a terrorist nation?
I don’t believe in the false god called “nation” in the first place, so I have no particular comment on that deity’s characteristics.
Anyone who engages in terrorism is a terrorist, whether (s)he does so for a “good” cause or a “bad” cause. I support ending the British occupation of the Six Counties, but I don’t pretend that e.g. the Omagh bombing wasn’t terrorism.
Not sure where you are going with that but since… are you implying the Ukrainians in this case, are or could be a terrorist nation?
Congratulations to Crimea for celebrating 10 years after voting overwhelmingly to re-join the Russian Federation !!
Gaza Palestinians be like, “Yo, Moscow, you taking applications ?”
Not funny. I hope you are good a reading a little history. Since the Nakbha of 1948, Palestine has been under occupation. Since 2006 Gaza has been under a brutal blockade. Nothing goes in or out, except for rare instances. Food is limited (Israel calculated the caloric needs of Palestinians of various age groups, then allow only enough food for starvation plus. Medicines are limited. Potable water is limited. Electricity is shut off, preventing potable water from being available for the Palestinians, as well as the treatment plants being nonoperable (Last week, the IDF took out the treatment plant). Imagine you not being able to leave the city block you lived on, electricity cut off at the whim of others, limited potable water. That would not be fun, and is sure to drive you crazy.
Hold up, VIP ’30 – I already knew, and fully accept as true, everything you said. My point, being in the middle pastures between “pointed” and “ironic”, is to suggest the Russian Federation might be considered a postmodern savior-state not just for the Criminians & eastern Ukrainian ethnic Russians, but maybe also the Palestinians by applying for & receiving accession to membership in the Federation.
With a further interesting cross-sub-cultural meme positing the Russian Federation as the Star Trek Federation, the Palestinians as the Fremen of Dune mythos, and the Apartheid State of Israel as the Daleks of Doctor Who.
I leave out Star Wars references because that franchise has fallen ATS under Disney & Kathleen Kennedy.
Today’s a weird one at work, don’t mind my random brainidness.
Interesting:
FAILED ICJ CASE AGAINST RUSSIA BACKFIRES, PAVES WAY FOR GENOCIDE CHARGES AGAINST UKRAINE
Kit Klarenberg
https://www.mintpressnews.com/failed-icj-case-against-russia-backfires-paves-way-for-genocide-charges-against-ukraine/287028/
Here is the dope. Czarist Russia needed ice-free ports to actively join world-trade. For the Atlantic side, Odesa, Sevastopol and Mariupol on the Black Sea were available. The Soviet Union inherited and further developed them. Then, when Ukraine separated from the Russian Federation, Russia suddenly had ZERO ports on the Black Sea. Yes, there was an agreement for sharing the naval base at Sevastopol but that could be legally ended by Ukraine.
Imagine that California leaves the Union. Suddenly the US loses the ports of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Then California elects a US-unfriendly government which wants to enter into a defe3nsive pact with China.
Attempts by Ukraine to recover Crimea may trigger a big Russian attempts to capture Odesa, Kharkiv and perhaps all of Ukraine. That was done before.
Russia barely took Avdiivka and they can’t even take back Gorkovsky. I think Odesa, Kharkiv, and the rest of Ukraine are safe! Hahaha
By capture you meant, indiscriminately launching hundreds of missiles daily into those cities’ civilian infrastructure?
Yes, You got it right.
I remember we were told that the Crimea vote to join the Russian Federation was done by force. There were Russian tanks in damn near every driveway. So, aren’t Ukraine’s attacks on Crimea really attacks on captive Ukrainians by Ukrainians?
Kiev wants the land back, not the people. Same as with the Donbasi’i regions.
Not so. Not so.
This may result in Ukraine becoming land locked…!
All Russia has to do is take more Ukrainian land until all of Ukraine becomes under Russian control.
Britain makes it clear that damaging Russia’s Navy should be the priority, even though that doesn’t help defend Ukraine.
Sure, that’s why Russia has already taken Odessa.
Remember the massive amphibious assault two years ago that allowed them to occupy Odessa?
And don’t forget the massive amount of cruise missiles Russia launches from its lack Sea Fleet uncontested everyday.
Yep, it surely hasn’t helped Ukraine.
Lol
It helps keep the grain corridor open for exports. Please try to keep up, son.
It is open.
What kind of idiot question is that?
It is open. Need a source?
It’s called internet and its free. Use it.
That’s why I said “helps keep it open”.
“British soldiers are in Ukraine helping fire Storm Shadow missiles, which can hit targets deep inside Crimea”
-Dave DeCamp-
And do you know who is also in Ukraine? You guess it right, the entire Putin’s Army is, and those aren’t helping but engaging in destruction and annexation of the land.
Just like US forces are in ME helping Israelis with intelligence on Gaza and South Lebanon…!