Tom Clonan: Russia has pivoted to regenerate a major offensive on the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts

Tom Clonan Security specialist and columnist, TheJournal.ie RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE been fighting in Ukraine for almost 50 days.

As is the case with many defeated armies – mauled by a superior fighting force and forced to withdraw – Putin’s military have taken out their frustrations on the civilian population north of Kiev. Reports from towns like Bucha show evidence of torture, mass executions and rape of men, women and children.

Given Putin’s personal command and control of these forces, he should face investigation for war crimes in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine.Russia’s main military efforts now represent a pivot – to reorganise, re-equip, reinforce and regenerate a major offensive on the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. This consists of the main assault on Mariupol in order to enforce a land corridor between Russian territory and the Crimean Peninsula through Eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian civilians find themselves trapped in this nightmare scenario, denied water, food and medical treatment. #Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to youIn 2013, over a thousand civilians were murdered in Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, including 426 children. In 2014, Assad targeted Kafr Zitov and Saraqeb in Idlib Province with a chlorine attack. A similar chlorine gas attack was mounted in Zubdiya, a suburb of Aleppo in 2016.

TomClonan Gang rape of women & girls, mass murder of civilians and abduction and deportation of other Ukrainian civilians to Siberia, does anyone think Putin will settle for anything less than the destruction of Ukraine as a nation?

TomClonan He was always going for consolidation east of the dnieper. The west Kiev withdrawal was tactical. The Ruble is back to it’s pre war level and we’re in east Asia de-dollarisation transition. Just call it for what it is. Washington v Moscow in post empire transition.

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