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Maybe the Russians are attempting to entice UKR forces into formerly occupied area and to blow the dam? Suspect they won't be rushing in.

If that is the Russian tactic, it's pretty stupid and worthy of a child.

Hitler's Atlantic Wall was more hype than reality, and he had 3+ years to prepare it. Let's see how the Russians do.

Those defenses will be good for training novices in the use of long-range artillery from the west bank.

Posted on Twitter by historian James Holland: a casualty report from the Battle of Anzio. An interesting illustration of how bad casualties can get, and this was in a time without drones, when artillery was less accurate, and most rifles were bolt-action.

Note how the author comments that the casualties represent a complete tunrover of the rifle companies (i.e. over 100% casualties over the period). I'm assuming the comment "Officers and NCOs very short and everyone strange to each other" means that the high casualty/replacement rate means that command teams are less experienced and have had little chance to "gel" with each other, rather than meaning that everyone is cranky and avoiding each other (although both could be true). I imgaine a Russian officer reading this today would be nodding his head in full understanding.

("Offrs" = Officers, "O.R." = Other Ranks)

That just looks like someone's phone camera not being able to deal with exposing the sun and the dark foreground, and blowing out the highlights.

Likely scenario is that both sides will fortify their side of the river and fighting moves to other areas of the front.

A river assault would be hugely risky and costly over whoever tried to undertake it. I cannot see Ukraine risking their more precious resources on such an endeavour.

Agree, I think any attempted crossing of the river would be foolhardy and unnecessary. The M777s do have a longer range than the 2S3s however, so the Ukrainians can pound away at Russian positions on the left bank while remaining out of counter battery range. You could envision a scenario where Russia have to keep their heavier, less mobile equipment out of range of the Ukrainians and further away from the river. A HIMARS in Beryslav would squeeze slightly further the supply routes into Crimea, restricting it to the rail line and road through Melitopol.

They love their trenches

Should Ukraine attempt to beat some of the Russians across the river or at least try and get a relatively large group of saboteurs across that could then assist any future bridging attempts. While already very improbable the odds will shorten rapidly from here.

At Novopavlivka direction Russian army shelled Velyka Novosilka, Volodymyrivka, Vremivka, Vuhledar, Mykilske, Neskuchne, Pavlivka, Prechystivka and Shevchenko of Donetsk region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

Cocktails in Crimea summer 2023 is still on

At Kupiansk and Lyman directions Russian army shelled Berestove, Krokhmalne and Cherneschyna of Kharkiv region; Makiyivka, Nevske, Novoselivske, Ploschanka and Stelmakhivka of Luhansk region and Terny and Yampolivka of Donetsk region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

3 negative reports against UA in a row, clearly comrade is under pressure.

My god, you offered an opinion instead of a link dump. Is everything ok?

Lol