PBS:
Across the 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) front line, Ukrainian forces are attempting to wear down the enemy and reshape battle lines to create more favorable conditions for a decisive, eastward advance. One strategy could be to try to split Russia’s forces in two so that the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, is isolated from the rest of the territory it controls.
Ukraine’s troops were given a boost of morale last week by an armed rebellion in Russia that posed the most significant threat to President Vladimir Putin’s power in more than two decades. Yet how the revolt by Wagner Group mercenaries under the command of Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin affects the trajectory of the war remains to be seen.
The infighting is a major distraction for Russia’s military and political leaders, but experts say the impact on the battlefield so far appears minimal.
The US/EU/NATO puppet government in Ukraine is unwise to assume that the Russian military is “distracted.” The Russian grunts are hunkered down in a multi-layered defense network that has been prepared for several months. Even if Wagner’s March of Justice was not a psyop intended by Russia to cause the Ukrainian military to make mistakes with their spring counteroffensive, the result has been the same. Thousands of Ukrainians are being thrown at the Russian lines, but they are not getting through. As they try in vain to break the land bridge and conquer Crimea in the south, the sudden emergence of a Wagner base in Belarus, combined with Prigozhin’s arrival in Belarus, have prompted the US/EU/NATO puppet government in Ukraine “to strengthen northern defences.”
Who got distracted?
ArklahomBoy 