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Will Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine shift the war’s momentum? | The Take

  • August 27, 2024



Will Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine shift the war’s momentum? | The Take

As Ukraine pushes into Russian territory, Russia has answered with a large-scale attack targeting key infrastructure across Ukraine. With intense fighting in Belgorod and rapid advances in Donetsk, both sides are raising the stakes. What implications will the surprise offensive ultimately have on the future of the conflict?

In this episode:

-Alex Gatopoulos, Defense Editor, Al Jazeera English

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan and Tamara Khandaker, with Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Shraddha Joshi and our host Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

21 comments

  3. We all support Russia, who had not to accept NATO troops and an hostile regime on it's border, why ? Well why didn't the USA want missiles in Cuba last time in 1962 ? So Russia should accept what the US refused to ? No. i mean niet. So the problem is that NATO refused to discus the problem created by it's will to deploy troops at Russia's border. So i support Russia, i wish an utter defeat for Ukraine, a country that by-the-way never existed before 30 years, for example, at the Chernobyl accident there was no question about that Ukraine was Russia. You can watch every report from Chernobyl, there is no ukraine nationalism. Chernobyl = 1986. There was no nationalism. So it was created, by the USA only to harm Russia, because they do the same for Taiwan, and otherwise. They support everything that harms Russia, cf Navalny, in Georgia and everywhere else.

  6. There will be no negotiations. Why do these "experts" perpetuate this narrative? So that the masses will believe WW3 happened naturally instead of being coerced. We all will suffer because of these puppets.

  7. Zelenski want more , but the pay back will always be worse for ukrainians people . Could it be that Zelenski hate all slavic people ? he never gets enough of their blood , after all Ukraine started bombing Donbass in 2015 after years of ignoring the Minsk accords .

  9. Awful opinoin on the situation. One oil refinery fire will disrupt the Russian economy? Do you even know how much oil they produce and export around the world? This is same propagandistic approach that the eu politicians take: Overhype Ukrainian drone strikes that do very little actual damage so that your population thinks Ukraine has a chance so you can spend their money on american weapons to send to Ukraine to keep "weakening russia" while digging themselves into a deeper hole in the eventual negotiations. But yeah, that's been the plan since 2014.

  12. It's a stupid war the Russian s started it and looks like Ukraine is doing what Russia started invading Russian area it's going to be a bad war because Russia is ruthless

  14. Let's suppose ukraine managed to assemble an assault corp made of two brigades, i.e. 6,000 men, with a couple of mechanized battallions for the kursk offensive. Zelenskyi claims they have occupied… Well, let's take half of that, 540 sqr km. It means the ukranians have 11 men per sqr km to defend its gains. That's obviously unsustainablw in the long run with supply lines being shelled. Two weeks ago russians did not have the numbers for a counteroffensive, but that's changed now. As your corresponsal well noted, russian build up now is formed by experienced vdv troops and former wagnerian units. Finally, digging strongholds in donetsk is one thing, doing it in russian territory is somethg else entirely. How long before either getting encircled or with supply lines cut off? That's the real analysis need d, my friend.

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