The 19th day of war: humanitarian convoys and tactical counterattacks

UKRAINE - In Brief 14 Mar 2022 by Dmytro Boyarchuk

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All of us are involved in humanitarian convoys these days. Some are hosting displaced people, some are helping with humanitarian supplies, some are arranging logistics for civilians locked in the actions area. Hundreds of thousands of people are moving to the West, away from Russian bombs.Reports from the frontline have become scarce and stingy. The Ministry of Defense keeps addressing Ukrainians not to report on social nets everything they see through the windows. Special channels for reporting enemy moves were created but publications of targets Russian missiles hit and any details of actions people observe are called harmful. Ukrainians eagerly react to those calls and we learn about actions now mainly from General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and with a substantial delay. From those stingy reports we know that Ukrainian forces are running tactical counterattacks in different directions where such opportunities emerge. The reported numbers on Russian losses stopped growing fast, meaning that fights are not as active as at the start of the war. Volodymyr Zelenskiy reported near 1300 Ukrainian soldiers killed in action. Civilian casualties are much higher – only in Mariupol more than 2000 civilians died from Russian bombs. The Russian army keeps leaving dozens of tanks and other military equipment on the fields without fuel or simply running from potential death. People are joking that Russian army is the main supplier of military equipment to Ukrainian forces now. Here is a link showing a Ukrainian tractor carrying a Russian multiple rocket launcher, and we have many such videos on social nets with tanks and other equipment Ukrainian farmers are bringing to t...