NATO Testing Waters on Buffer Zone as Ukraine Offensive Grinds to Halt

Update for the conflict in Ukraine for October 2, 2023

- Ukraine’s offensive is now at the 4 month mark, exhausting its potential and failing to achieve any of its objectives;

- The Western media admits that Russia has actually gained more territory this year including during the Ukrainian offensive despite being on the defensive;

- Russia continues degrading a variety of Ukrainian military capabilities the West cannot sufficiently replace while maintaining pressure along the line of contact;

- Both the Russian economy and its military industrial base are admittedly growing while Ukraine and its Western sponsors exhaust their stockpiles, lacking the ability to renew them;

- The West continues talking about building military industrial projects within Ukrainian territory, with the UK recently claiming they may send British troops to “train” Ukrainians in Ukraine;

- This appears to be the foundation for creating a “buffer zone” within western Ukraine, similar to the US-Turkish occupation in Syria, meant to freeze the conflict;

References:

Failing Offensive

New York TImes - Who’s Gaining Ground in Ukraine? This Year, No One (September 28, 2023):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-map-front-line.html
RT - Russian general in charge of Ukraine operation speaks out (October 2022):
https://www.rt.com/russia/564934-general-surovikin-ukraine-operation/
The Times - Ukraine counteroffensive: ‘I’m ready to die . . . 90% of the guys here will die too’ (September 5, 2023):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraine-counteroffensive-i-m-ready-to-die-90-of-the-guys-here-will-die-too-76jvs3kwj
Mediazona - Russian casualties in Ukraine (September 22, 2023):
https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng
NYT - Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say (September 13, 2023):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-missile-production.html
Novaya Gazeta - The barren barrels (November 2022):
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/11/02/the-barren-barrels-en
NYT - Defenses Carved Into the Earth (December 2022):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/world/europe/russian-trench-fortifications-in-ukraine.html
War on the Rocks - A Chat with Britain’s Top Officer, Adm. Radakin (September 18, 2023):
https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/a-chat-with-britains-top-officer-adm-radakin/
Alexander Mercouris - NYT Ukr No Gains, Budanov: Continuing on Foot; German MSM: Rus Army Stronger; France Out of Niger (September 29, 2023):
https://youtu.be/q6hbriZynaQ?si=4XzGRPdp4IJzl-nD
Foreign Policy - Ukraine’s Longest Day (April 2023):
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/18/ukraine-russia-war-counteroffensive-attack-bakhmut-himars/

Buffer Zone

NYT - Western Leaders Urge Arms Manufacturing in Ukraine (September 28, 2023):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/world/europe/ukraine-arms-manufacturing-nato.html
The Guardian - British troops could deploy to Ukraine for first time to train soldiers, says Grant Shapps (September 30, 2023):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/30/british-troops-could-deploy-to-ukraine-to-train-soldiers-says-grant-shapps

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