Ukraine’s Big Day of Airstrikes Is a Hit in Russia

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This month, the Month of the Kursk Surprise, has been full of surprises. Kyiv has launched its longest-ranged drone attack against Russia so far. In Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, a massive oil depot has been exploding all day.

The biggest story this week in the war is that Ukraine’s commander in chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi informed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “UA forces managed to capture another Krasnooktyabrskoe Settlement and cut off Russian Army’s land communications with the southern banks of the Seym River, in the Glushkovsky District of the Kursk Region.”

All Russian forces, estimated at hundreds, are effectively cut off. Ukraine has captured 2,000 Russian prisoners of war during the Kursk Surprise. If Syrskyi’s report is accurate, they may have captured much more.

Back to those drone attacks.

Drones have been a major threat to the Russian Marinovka Air Base, located east of Ukraine in Volgograd.

The Su-34 light bombers and the older Su-24 fighter/bombers were — was? Stationed at Marinovka were the top-of-the-line Su34 fighter/bombers and older Su-24 light bombers. You never know. It’s difficult to imagine that anything survived those fires.

The fires started by multiple strikes on an oil storage depot in Rostov, a nearby city, are so hot that they cannot be extinguished.

A failed airstrike against Moscow was less successful. The Kremlin says it has shot down 11 drones, and I believe them since there are no reports of injuries or damage.

Even though the strikes against Moscow were not successful, they still added up to be Ukraine’s most destructive and largest day of attacks on Russia.

Biden is AWOL, despite his hard-talking. Foreign Policy reported on Wednesday that “frustration” is growing on Capitol Hill because the Biden administration failed to meet its deadline for submitting a detailed report to Congress about its strategy in the Ukraine war.

The strategy report, which was required to be presented to Congress by early June to receive the multi-billion dollar package of military assistance for Ukraine and its allies, has not been submitted 10 weeks after it was originally due.

Roger Wicker, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that “this abdication in leadership combined with missed opportunities to capitalize on Russia’s battlefield errors has cost unnecessary lives and prolonged war”. “Ukraine proves every day that she can defeat Putin’s invasion. It’s time for President Obama to remove the handcuffs on our assistance.

ISW reported on Wednesday, in a report that made you say, “Hmmm,” that “the Kremlin actively tries to condition Russian society to accept the limited Ukrainian existence in Kursk Oblast and to downplay the importance of the incursion.”

These last two weeks have been a real show for a military that was thought to be bleeding almost dry until just last month.

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