(November 9, 2022 at 6:57 pm)Thumpalumpac Wrote: A rear-guarded evacuation was probably the best option the Russians had available. Ukrainians report Russians still inside the city. Satellite images show Russian forces constructing new trenchworks east of the Dneipr. Their concern has to be safeguarding their big naval base at Sevastopol.
They've already pulled their ships back to the Azov sea, but they are entrenching in Crimea know, so that's their last stand. And to think Putin could have kept Crimea if he never invaded on 2/24/22. Now he's going to lose it all, and spend the rest of his life trying to hold the Russian Federation together with whatever military forces he has left.
