Kyiv:UAF begin offensive ops in specific areas.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 8, 2024
Jan 8, 2024 - ISW Press



Ukrainian officials highlighted the need for more air defense systems after another large series of Russian missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of January 7 to 8. Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces launched a total of 59 missiles and drones against Ukraine including: eight Shahed-136/-131 drones; seven S-300/400 missiles; four Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles; 24 Kh-101/555/55 and eight Kh-22 cruise missiles; six Iskander-M ballistic missiles; and two Kh-31P air guided missiles. Ukrainian military officials reported that the Russian strikes targeted critical and civilian infrastructure, and military facilities in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, and Khmelnytskyi oblasts and that Ukrainian forces downed all eight Shaheds and 18 Kh-101/555/55 cruise missiles. Ukrainian Air Force Spokesperson Colonel Yuriy Ihnat reported that the percentage of Russian air targets that Ukrainian forces shot down on the night of January 7 to 8 did not change in comparison to previous, more intense Russian strikes, but that Ukraine needs to intercept more Russian missiles and drones given the large number of such systems that Russia regularly launches.

 

Pravda !!

 

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And yet another Big Bang.
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Russia is never going to allow itself to be encircled by US weapons, and anyone who is trying to accomplish that is dangerous to the world. There was never a reason to put our weapons in Ukraine, and there still isn't.

 

Russia has been "encircled by US weapons" for decades, at the request of Russia's neighbors. In Ukraine Russia seeks conquest, not security.

 

Putin will never give up, but he isn't the problem. Good luck with his replacement when he dies; after we killed a few tens of thousands of Russians, I imagine they are going to be much worse.

 

Maybe yes, maybe no. Not important.

 

Not everyone is on board with your crusade. IT IS important to those of us who care about our families that the person in charge of a nation with more nukes than us has been given a mandate of vengeance by its people because of the actions of a death cult.

I imagine the survivors of the predictable destruction aren't going to treat the members of such cult nicely.

 

The guy has been in power for 25 years and didn't conquer anything but a small strip of land next to his country after being heavily provoked by the most powerful country.

 

He's a cowardly bully, feared only by the weak in spirit.

 

A bully encircles other countries with their weapons. At least I'm consistent; I have the same problem with Iran encircling Israel.

 

The US was invited by Russia's neighbors to protect them from Russia.

 

So, we should have been wiser.

I don't give a crap about Europe, and neither did the founders. It's time we left. Europe is filled with WEF fascists bent on crazy medical and fake climate change mandates and mass censorship of anyone who disagrees all while expecting us to defend them forever...

 

The last time we followed your advice Hitler nearly conquered Europe.

 

Yeah and why did that happen?

 

Because freedom and independence were defended too slowly.

 

No, it's because Woodrow Wilson disregarded the founder's warnings and got involved in a fight we shouldn't have. Then we put our boot on Germany's neck for 20 years and it inevitably led to a Hitler. We've been entangled ever since. Time to go.

 

Nonsense.

 

I know, it hits home because it's true. The Kaiser wasn't Hitler, and it wasn't our fight.

 

The Germans attacked us and brought on our entry into WW1.

 

NATO wall from Arctic, Baltic, to Black Sea....RuZZia is encircled.

 

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 9, 2024
Jan 9, 2024 - ISW Press



A Ukrainian public opinion survey on Ukrainian attitudes towards the Ukrainian government and military indicates that Ukrainian society overwhelmingly supports Ukraine’s military and its leadership while experiencing tensions typical in a society fighting an existential defensive war. The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KMIS) published a survey on December 18, 2023, that it conducted between November 29 and December 9, 2023, that shows that 96 percent of respondents support the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 88 percent trust Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and 66 percent trust Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.[1] 84 percent of respondents in a previous KMIS poll conducted in December 2022 expressed trust in Zelensky, and trust in many Ukrainian institutions experienced a similar decline between December 2022 and 2023 – an unsurprising development given the protracted war. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), the Ukrainian National Police, and Ukrainian volunteers did not see similar decreases in polled public trust during this time.