9/18: Ukraine News Roundup
Korshak: Ukraine invasion into Kursk- Ukrainian military strategy and successes.
Old friend Stefan Korshalk digs into military strategy and successes of the Kursk invasion. Long piece with a lot of military information. He also highlights how US ban on strikes within Russia affects ow Ukraine can fight and causes excess casualties.
Key quotes:
I’m very inclined to the view that we have just seen the Ukrainians old school out-general their Russian opponents.
Even at full strength, this means the Russian counterattack on paper was less than 10,000 men and 300 armored vehicles.
at the moment Ukraine invaded Russia, in September 2024, the best the Russian Federation could come up to defend the holy soil Mother Russia was a hodge-podge formation roughly the size of a single US Army line combat brigade.
Latvia alone almost certainly could put more troops into the field to defend its sovereign territory from a foreign invader, than Russia is doing right now.
WSJ: 1mln dead in the Russia-Ukraine War
High losses on both sides…
The article highlights the tragic cost to the Russian invasion. I just don’t like the language of both sides…
Ukrainians are being purposely bombed and killed by the Russian military. The Russian government policy is to make Ukraine unlivable. The Russian government also has a policy of kidnapping Ukrainian children.On the Russian side, 600,000 Russians have fled Russia and about 600,00 are dead or wounded as part of the failed Russian military operations in Ukraine.
I don’t really see both sides of the question…
Kyiv Independent: IMF enabling Russia war effort
Strong editorial by two of the leaders of Kyiv School of Economics highlighting how the IMF is complicit in assisting the Russian war machine by its latest mission to Moscow.
Key quote: The IMF's job is to promote global economic cooperation and stability, not to ensure the financial stability of an aggressor state. If it acts to boost Russia’s economy, the IMF will be advancing Moscow’s ability to keep the war going.
IMF perfidy is summed up by naming Ksenia Yudaeva, who is under sanctions and former adviser to the Bank of Russia, as Russia’s Executive Director at the IMF.