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Also with some losses, no significant progress on either side and everything going at an extremely slow pace; basically a stalemate... for now.
A newly established bridgehead on the "left" (Eastern) bank of the Dnipro certainly counts as significant progress.
It may become so, but it is not yet.
I wonder if there are precedents for creating one slowly for weeks, with the passivity of the enemy.
I think we're holding different definitions of "significant progress". Can you give an example of your definition? Do you only consider "significant progress" a full rout of Moscovite forces?
I don't think you don't appreciate what has happened so far. Occupying a terrain that is almost impassable, unusable, of no strategic or tactical value, etc, is not significant progress. When they overcome that terrain and establish a real bridgehead, capable of fortifying, expanding, providing logistical support, etc, it will be significant progress.
Is the terrain ahead more defensible than a river crossing?
I might agree with that logic, but the land on the left bank where the bridgehead is maybe only one of those things.
You're assuming that Russia does not make any progress either, which is not true.
Link?
The easiest way to appreciate the progress of both would be to go to some timelapse on youtube, like this one.
Thanks!
Also the Institute for the Study of War's website which has regular updates on the Ukraine war (including maps):
https://www.understandingwar.org/
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