The fat lady will soon be singing, probably an aria from Boris Godunov. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
As we warned at the end of December, Russian troops had been gaining ground on the eastern front at an exponential rate, with the key city of Velyka Novosilka nearly encircled and ready to fall. After weeks of incomplete reports on the situation, Ukrainian officials have finally confirmed that the area has been overrun. Some reports also indicate that Ukrainian soldiers were nearly surrounded during the retreat.
Kiev claims there’s been no encirclement while Russian footage of clean-up operations on the ground indicates that some Ukrainian units may have been abandoned.
The establishment media has remained relatively quiet on the event, even though geo-located video footage showing Russian troops raising flags over the center of the city are circulating widely on social media. Analysis of known Ukrainian defenses suggests that Kiev’s lines are thin beyond Velyka Novosilka and that the city was the last major stronghold preventing Russian troops from surging into central Ukraine and the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast region.
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