{"id":1637088,"date":"2022-09-08T19:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637088"},"modified":"2022-09-08T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T23:22:54","slug":"ukrainian-forces-outsmarted-the-russians-with-us-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukrainian-forces-outsmarted-the-russians-with-us-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian forces &#8216;outsmarted the Russians&#8217; with US artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukrainian-forces-outsmarted-the-russians-with-us-artillery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/08192144\/90-127\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An ongoing counteroffensive has reclaimed \u201cmore than a thousand square kilometers\u201d from invading Russian forces over the last week, according to an update from <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>&#8216;s president released hours after a visit from Secretary of State <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antony-blinken\">Antony Blinken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the ongoing defense operations, our heroes have already liberated dozens of settlements,\u201d Ukrainian President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> said in his latest update. \u201cAnd today this movement continued, there are new results. In total, more than a thousand square kilometers of our territory have been liberated since September 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken vouched for the \u201cclear and real progress\u201d that Ukrainian forces have made without corroborating the specific amount of land that Zelensky touted. But his arrival evinced the growing optimism in Western circles about Ukraine\u2019s battlefield prospects amid a multipronged operation in both the prized southern region of Kherson and the city of Kharkiv farther north.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s very early, but we\u2019re seeing clear and real progress on the ground, particularly in the area around Kherson but also some interesting developments in the Donbas in the east,\u201d Blinken told reporters in Kyiv. &#8220;But again, early days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/russia-purchase-rockets-artillery-shells-north-korea\">US: RUSSIA TO PURCHASE ROCKETS AND ARTILLERY SHELLS IN ARMS DEAL WITH NORTH KOREA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials have been clear about their plans for a fall <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/suspense-builds-ukraine-counteroffensive-russia-annexations\">counteroffensive<\/a>, to the point that friendly observers have worried they might have been too candid about their plans insofar as Russian commanders took the opportunity to reinforce their positions around <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/ukraines-kherson-counteroffensive-advances-russia-throws-in-new-army-corps\">Kherson<\/a>. That transparency appears now to have been a gambit to draw Russian forces across the Dnipro River, pin them down, and then attack the area that they had vacated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems they have outsmarted the Russians, at this phase at least, [by] drawing [the] Russians best troops to Kherson, putting them into a trap, blowing all the bridges [across the] Dnipro,\u201d a senior European official told the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. \u201cSo now [the] Russians are in trouble because Ukrainians are advancing close to Kherson &#8230; and Russians can\u2019t get any reserves from anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces around Kharkiv also are lacking reinforcements, the official said, because the troops who would have fortified that area are now pinned down on the western side of the Dnipro. \u201cThey pulled them from Donbas, and Donbas and Kharkiv oblasts are connected, neighboring, so you cannot bring from Donbas additional [troops] because you just don\u2019t have [them],\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces have paid a heavy price for any successes, however, due to the staggering amount of artillery power that Russia has brought to bear in the months since Ukrainian forces repulsed the attack on Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were just hitting us all the time,\u201d a wounded soldier identified as Oleksandr <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/09\/07\/ukraine-kherson-offensive-casualties-ammunition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <i>Washington Post<\/i> in an interview in a Ukrainian hospital. \u201cIf we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This soldier, who allowed himself to be photographed while recovering from the loss of his left arm, struck an optimistic note about the counteroffensive. \u201cYou have to make jokes to keep your spirits up. We can have this outlook because we\u2019re Ukrainians,\u201d he told the <i>Washington Post<\/i>. \u201cWe\u2019re kind if you don\u2019t touch us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken brought to Kyiv an announcement of a new raft of weapons worth $675 million, headlined by \u201cadditional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)\u201d and as well as \u201cadditional High-speed Anti-radiation missiles\u201d \u2014 a weapon that has allowed Ukrainian forces to strike at Russian radar systems in the area.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russians are in many instances throwing everything they have at Ukrainian soldiers and Ukrainian civilians, and they\u2019re doing it indiscriminately,\u201d Blinken said Thursday. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re on the receiving end of that, it\u2019s got to be incredibly horrifying. And at the same time, you have very precise weapons that we and others have provided to the Ukrainians that allows them with one shot to do what the Russians may try to do with 15 or 20 shots, so that\u2019s also part of what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing counteroffensive has reclaimed \u201cmore than a thousand square kilometers\u201d from invading Russian forces over the last week, according to an update from Ukraine&#8217;s president released hours after a visit from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}