![]() While waiting the 45 minutes or so for Hydro to respond and cut power, I used the opportunity to switch up my 3 Firefighters on the nozzle to learn some techniques. Earlier this summer I responded as Incident Commander to a "wires arcing" call that had set a bunch of underbrush and scrubby vegetation on fire, which if not controlled could have threatened several residences and many acres of cultivated field crops, in a heavily forested rural area. ![]() In fact, sometimes you can even train during an active call. The world must prepare to hear about a new Russian assault and a steady but slow Ukrainian withdrawal until June and then the battlefield will belong to Ukraine.Ī great article reposted by my friend and colleague Shawn Matheson from Oakville Fire. All the empty towns and fields gained will mean nothing as a renewed Ukraine come back better armed, fed and equipped. When the tanks and the guns arrive, Russia will be in a state of exhaustion and will have reduced its capacity to fight. They can surge forward and take some territory at huge expense, but AFU forces will mount fighting withdrawals until Russia runs out of men or ammunition. Russia does not have enough men or materiel to mount an offensive that will change the war to their advantage. Putin believes that he cannot afford to wait and hopes that a breakthrough now, followed by 'talks' will be enough for him to retain Donbas and Crimea. The weather forecast is cold and dry for the next few weeks which will harden the soil and permit offensive operations. Perhaps they hope to advance on Kharkiv and Kyiv again or perhaps it is a safe storage area. Russian troops left Belarus recently after 'exercises' but left a lot of materiel behind. His Generals clearly believe that the arrival of these weapons will be enough to tip the balance of the war against them.Īs a result they are attempting to move their reserves north to Luhansk for what appears to be preparations for an early offensive. The promise of advanced heavy tanks and longer range artillery from the west has forced Putin's hand.
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