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The Ukraine War: Little change in the past week

The Ukraine War as of April 7, 2022
The Ukraine War as of April 7, 2022. Click for full map.

Since my last weekly report on the Ukraine War, so little has changed that I am not bothering posting a new map. The one to the right is from April 7th, and other than some minor changes, including the completion of Russia’s full withdrawal from the entire northern regions, the front line in the east remains essentially the same. The most recent map from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) can be found here for comparison. In one place Russia appears to have pushed forward, while in another it has pulled back. Meanwhile, ISW reports increased Ukrainian resistance efforts in one large area.

Overall, the Russians appear bogged down, while the Ukrainians show renewed military strength.

The Institute today also published its weekly summary of the entire war situation. The most important takeaway is that it appears all negotiations between the two nations have collapsed.

Ukraine and Russia are both unlikely to advance ceasefire negotiations until the ongoing Russian campaign in eastern Ukraine develops further. The Kremlin likely seeks to capture at minimum the entirety of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, while Kyiv seeks to further degrade the Russian military and potentially conduct major counteroffensives.

This fact suggests strongly to me that the Ukraine has concluded its military situation is excellent, and that negotiations serve it no purpose. While Russia has been focusing its invasion effort entirely in the east in the hope it might make more gains that way, it has also made very little progress. While it continues to slowly take control of Mariupol street-by-street, the city has remained unconquered now many weeks longer than expected. This failure of Russia to quickly take the city not only ties up a large part of their military, it sows morale issues in its own army while the Ukraine resistance is enlivened by it.

The next few weeks will reveal whether Russia will be able to harness the necessary forces to make further gains in the east, or whether the Ukraine will begin to retake territory back from Russia. Right now it is difficult to predict which way the war will go.

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50 comments

  • Col Beausabre

    ““My center is giving way. My right is in retreat. Situation excellent. I attack!”

    The message was sent to GQG by Ferdinand Foch but the spirit is shared by Volodymyr Zelensky

  • Edward

    Col Beausabre,
    I remember General Foch, from a couple of decades ago, reading “The Guns of August” about the First World War. As I recall, it did not go well for him or his French army and resulted in a bogged down war of attrition that only ended when the Americans came into the war after the Lusitania was sunk by the Germans. I recall that things did not go well for Germany, either.

    I’m sure there is a lesson to be learned there. I wonder whether Russia or Ukraine has learned it.

  • Edward: Is “The Guns of August” fiction, or history? I have been trying to locate a good military history of WWI and have failed. All the books I have read so far do whatever they can to make believe the American arrival was irrelevant, and based on what I do know, that is simply absurd.

    I am also open to other suggestions from anyone.

  • Edward

    “The Guns of August” is an excellent historical book. The author’s first chapter looks at what started the war, and my conclusion was that it happened because the monarchs of Europe just didn’t get along. She notes that the German army was spoiling for another fight with France, but I think there was less to it than that. In the 19th century, they had tried intermarrying everyone, but it turned out that the monarchs had no problems with going to war with their cousins.

    My conclusion is an oversimplification, but as far as I can tell, no one has a better reason for WWI.

    In the television series “The World At War,” about WWII, they interview an historian who considered WWII part 2 of a continental civil war, where WWI was part I.
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071075/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

  • Edward: In reading about “The Guns of August”, it appears to mostly be about the first month of the war and what caused it. While that is of course worth reading (and I shall), I am right now curious about the actual war itself, and how it ended, from a military perspective.

    As I say, more suggestions are welcome.

  • Reg

    If you’re interested in the causes of WW1, try “ Europe’s Last Summer”. Based on more recent research. The book suggests that the war ( or wars at the start) wasn’t accidental.

  • wayne

    Edward-
    Highly recommend Victor Davis Hanson’s, “The Second World Wars.”
    Some but not all of the video course he did for Hillsdale College, is available at YT.

    Mr. Z.,
    –did a deep dive into WW1 about 6-8 months ago, and I distinctly recall watching material specifically dealing with your current interest.
    If I can relocate anything on point, I’ll drop you an email.

  • Col Beausabre

    Edward, He commanded one of the armies whose counter-attack stopped the Germans on the Marne, threw them back and saved Paris, denying the Germans victory.

    “Foch’s counterattack was an implementation of the theories he had developed during his staff college days and succeeded in stopping the German advance. Foch received further reinforcements from the Fifth Army and, following another attack on his forces, counter-attacked again on the Marne. The Germans dug in before eventually retreating. On 12 September, Foch regained the Marne at Châlons and liberated the city. The people of Châlons greeted as a hero the man widely believed to have been instrumental in stopping the retreat and stabilising the Allied position. Receiving thanks from the Bishop of Châlons (Joseph-Marie Tissier), Foch piously replied, “non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam” (“Not unto us, o Lord, not unto us, but to Your name give glory”, Psalm 115:1).[18]

    As assistant Commander-in-Chief with responsibility for co-ordinating the activities of the northern French armies and liaising with the British forces; this was a key appointment as the Race to the Sea was then in progress. General Joseph Joffre, Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the French Army, had also wanted to nominate Foch as his successor “in case of accident”, to make sure the job would not be given to Joseph Gallieni, but the French Government would not agree to this. When the Germans attacked on 13 October, they narrowly failed to break through the British and French lines. They tried again at the end of the month during the First Battle of Ypres, this time suffering terrible casualties. Foch had again succeeded in coordinating a defense and winning against the odds.”

    Von Moltke, the German Chief of Staff, recognized immediately after the Marne that they were now forced into a war of attrition they could not win and told the government to make peace with the Entente immediately. “Following the German retreat from the Marne, Moltke allegedly reported to the Kaiser, “Your Majesty, we have lost the war.” and was relieved on 14 Sept 1814 to be replaced by Falkenhayn.

    In November 1914, Falkenhayn realized that Germany would not be able to gain a perfect victory, neither in the east nor in the west. He advocated a mild peace with the Russian Empire to Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, the better to concentrate against the French and British. Neither Bethmann Hollweg nor the generals on the Eastern Front, such as Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff or Max Hoffmann, supported the idea since they believed that negotiation with the Russian Empire was impossible. ” His recommendations were rejected, dooming a generation of European men to an early death.

    In 1918, Foch was appointed Supreme Commander of all forces on the Western Front – French, Belgian, British, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Indian and Portuguese – and orchestrated the Hundred Days Campaign that knocked Germany out of the war.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days_Offensive#Battles_of_the_Hindenburg_Line

  • wayne

    Mr. Z.,
    -sent you some links that might be enlightening.

  • About World War I: Most histories I have read ignore the importance of Fritz Haber and the nitrate supply. At the start of the war all smokeless propellants and useful high explosives came, ultimately, from manure. There were even a couple of naval battles to keep Chile Saltpetre from the Germans. The stupid Western tactics make more sense if you realize the very high confidence of the French and British that the Germans would be out of ammunition very shortly.
    Haber got Ammonium Nitrate from air and changed everything.

  • Col Beausabre

    1) First, everybody grossly underestimated the amount of ammunition consumed in modern warfare. Which led to a crisis in late 1914/early 1915. The British version became the “Shells Scandal” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Crisis_of_1915#:~:text=The%20%27shell%20scandal%27%20emerged%20in%201915%20because%20the,The%20shortage%20was%20widely%20publicized%20in%20the%20press.

    2) “stupid tactics” – OK, what would you have done, given there was a political imperative to throw the Germans off French soil. And the Germans lost just as many men when they went into the attack.

    3) Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1918 for his process of producing nitrogen from the atmosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

    4) He was responsible for the introduction of chemical warfare by the Germans and was given the rank of captain as the chief of chemical troops

    “In addition to leading the teams developing chlorine gas and other deadly gases for use in trench warfare, Haber was on hand personally when it was first released by the German military at the Second Battle of Ypres (22 April to 25 May 1915) in Belgium”

  • Underestimation of ammunition: Yup. By the old rules countries without colonies and access to the sea should have run out of manure even faster. This under appreciated technology is neglected in history. My only thesis.

    Stupid tactics: My point is that the tactics wouldn’t have been so dire had the old rules applied. I apologize. It was a failure of strategy which gutted a handful of countries and ended a very successful stage of a very successful civilization. But what adjective would you apply to this suicide pact? Did that war have to happen?

    Haber: A good Lutheran and German by his lights. Certainly not a paragon. He did much which I consider evil. He was also given an institute and many other things. Taken away from him by the NSDAP because this Lutheran had Jewish ancestry.

  • Edward

    Col Beausabre noted: “[Ferdinand Foch] commanded one of the armies whose counter-attack stopped the Germans on the Marne, threw them back and saved Paris, denying the Germans victory.

    The German plan was to maintain a front line at the German-French border while a second force broke through Belgium and into the north of France, swept through France and arrive on the rear of the French Army’s front line at the border. The German forces were supposed to leave one force at Paris to attack that city, but when the time came they kept that force with them as part of the pinch on the French Army. This was a mistake, because the French force defending Paris disobeyed orders, came out of the city, attacked the German flank, stopped their progress and the pinch on the French Army never occurred, saving France from certain surrender, and prolonging the War in a quagmire.

    France was saved, but at what cost? If the German plan had worked, once France fell they were going to move their army to Russia. Would it all have turned into a worldwide war or been over in the planned two months (the amount of ammunition that anyone had)?

    It wasn’t until WWII that there was enough manufacturing capability to keep the forces supplied with enough ammunition to make progress throughout the course of the war.

    Robert,
    You are correct. After the first month or so, WWI was a mess with hardly anything worth noting as progress. As I recall, the author talks about the ineffective methods used after the first couple of months but does not detail battles. She mentions that an artillery unit would get enough ammunition and orders to fire only once a day, which is too little to get a bead on the target. Whether or not the tactics or strategies were stupid, they were largely ineffective. The whole war was a real cluster.

    I don’t know any other good non-fiction books on WWI, the war to end all wars, but I’m sure there are plenty. That war had many lessons, including that when President Wilson warns you not to humiliate Germany, listen to him. It is one of the few things he said that was worth hearing.

  • James Street

    Uh oh. It’s getting serious now.

    The International #Cat Federation has banned #Russian cats from its shows.
    https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499289953443930113

    None of this seems organic.

  • wayne

    “The Ending of World War I: The Road to 11 November”
    Gresham College / David Stevenson (2018)
    https://youtu.be/kqJsKRtiBOQ
    49:41

    The PDF transcript is here: (direct hot link)
    https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/content.gresham.ac.uk/data/binary/2868/2018-11-07_DavidStevenson_TheEndingOfWWI-T.pdf

  • wayne

    Ref_ “ammunition shortages,”

    “The Pity of War” (1999) by Niall Ferguson.
    1914 high explosives production:
    5,000 tons. Britain.
    14,400 tons. Germany.

    1915:
    24,000 tons. Britain.
    72,000 tons. Germany

    1916:
    76,000 tons. Britain.
    120,000 tons. Germany

    1917
    186,000 tons. Britain.
    144,000 tons. Germany.

  • Diane E Wilson

    A couple of other World War I histories, or related:

    Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, by Christopher Clark. Covers German unification and many of the wars that led up to WWI, including the rise of Bismarck and the development of Germany’s philosophy and planning for a two-front war. Germany’s unification was driven by the Brandenberg kingdom which became the German state of Prussia. After WWII, Prussian was essentially erased from the map and from the German language and culture, so that it could not rise again and start another war.

    A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, by Geoffrey Wawro. This is the eastern front companion to The Guns of August, covering events leading up to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, and the web of alliances that trapped Germany into WWI. Much of the blame for WWI is placed on Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, who saw the war as the solution to Austria’s wounded pride. To call the Emperor’s incompetence “breathtaking” is a severe understatement.

  • Jeff Wright

    I thought WWI was the dumbest conflict—until this one.

  • pzatchok

    I thought the human loses in the American Civil War were bad until compared to WWI.

    Trench warfare, The fastest way to slow down a war.

  • Mitch S.

    “The First World War” by John Keegan. He’s a noted British military historian but gives I think a fair judgement of the American contribution.
    Even when the collapse of Russia (the revolution) freed German armies to fight in the west, they did not have the manpower to replenish their losses and the arrival the of Americans, who could bring millions into the war, took away any hope of victory.

    We see from history that once a war has broken out, the offensive nation usually does not accept their plan has failed unless they face total defeat, (Germany in WWI and Germany/Japan in WWII being the obvious examples). But how can that come about when the country is nuclear armed without the use of nuclear weapons (and he disaster of nuclear war)?
    It’s the conundrum we face. Dangerous times.

  • Mitch S: I will check out Keegan’s book. I have just ordered Stephenson’s “With our Backs to the Wall,” which focuses on the end of the war.

    I have found that it is a big mistake to study the history of a war without studying its military component. Sadly, that was exactly how schools taught the history of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and both World Wars when I was growing up. I have spent a lot of time filling in those gaps.

  • Steve Earle

    Mr Z, try the “Apocalypse World War One” video series. You may remember that I homeschool my son and we just finished WW1 in our history lessons. We streamed that video series on Curiosity Stream but it can be found on other services as well.
    It is a well done documentary series that covers the pre-war period, WW1, the Inter-war period and WW2 (which they demonstrate clearly was the inevitable result of how WW1 was ended/paused…)
    The series uses archival footage much of it rarely seen and much of it colorized to good effect. I felt it was well worth watching.

  • Steve Earle: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I have found the amount of information you can obtain from any film documentary, no matter how well done, to be pitifully small compared to a good well-sourced written history. Moreover, from personal experience writing scripts for the Science Channel, it is rare that the visual medium can get the facts right, or prevent that medium from distorting the history, no matter how hard the filmmakers try.

    Watching this documentary series after reading the histories I have just purchased might be worthwhile, but first must come the written work. Only then will I have the proper context for the images and the less detailed history provided in the documentary.

    In my humble opinion.

  • wayne

    Steve Earle-
    Good deal on the homeschool thing’!! Don’t know what Grade(s) you’re teaching but Hillsdale College has some great stuff in the non-scientific realm. It’s all free, just get on their mailing list.
    For science stuff, MIT open courseware has a lot of material, UC San Diego has a lot of freshman physics, and I must shill for Dr. Walter Lewin and his “For the Love of Physics” lectures.
    (Which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEHVhv0SBMpP75JbzJShqw )
    A tangential short by Dr. Lewin:

    “I am Still Alive Because of D-Day”
    Dr. Walter Lewin, June 6, 2019
    https://youtu.be/p5bsw8GNqCM
    3:11

    Mr. Z.,–
    You mean ‘Stevenson’ with ref to: “Our Backs to the Wall.”
    I am sympathetic to your point regarding lectures & documentaries, the Gresham College lecture by Stevenson I linked above, for example, is 50 minutes, but the PDF text transcript is only 4 pages.
    (Personally, I just don’t read a lot of physical books anymore.)

  • Wayne: Stevenson’s book just arrived, and to compare it to his lecture illustrates my point about reading books. You have a four page transcript. I have a book whose text is 545 pages long, with another 100 or so in notes and bibliography.

    To say that the lecture must simplify things would be a somewhat spectacular understatement.

  • Let me add that Steveson did his lecture for the same reasons I have done my own lectures about my own books in the past: Not to replace them but to encourage readers to read them.

  • wayne

    Mr. Z.,
    Good deal on the book!

    Tangentially, if Germany had not smuggled Lenin back into Russia….. things may have proceeded differently.

    Metallica:
    “One” (1989)
    https://youtu.be/WM8bTdBs-cw
    7:44

  • wayne

    “In Memory of My Family Murdered by the Nazis”
    Prof. Walter Lewin (May, 2020)
    https://youtu.be/DwUexUstPEE
    7:54

  • Realist

    More than 2000 captured Ukrainian soldiers in a prison somewhere in DPR

    https://t.me/intelslava/25891

  • The Gorilla in the room is that Russia has committed the ultimate stupidity. Worse they appear to be about to double down on it. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE has forgotten or never had a clue as to how bad this mess is,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputitsa

    The Rasputitsa. Do a google search for “images” type it the criteria,
    Stuck in the mud in Ukraine

    You will find many many images of whole tanks swallowed up by the MUD! And look closely many of those images are tanks swallowed up in the mu on ROADS. Every Russian military planner and ammetuer military history geek knows all about Rasputitsa. Yet still Putin makes his assault with armor, MOTORIZED forces right in the middle of Rasputitsa. This crap doesn’t dry up til JUNE!

    The Donbas is great looking on a MAP. It is FLAT. Which is exactly what is wrong with it. FLAT, it does not DRAIN. All that snow melt, it just sits there and turns thousands of square miles of countryside into a soup that can literally swallow entire tanks whole.

  • Cotour

    If true, and I see no reason why it should not be true:

    “Russia outlines plans to seize Ukraine’s entire south coast to create a land corridor to MOLDOVA as ‘Putin is told 30,000 of his troops have been killed’ during invasion

    *Putin wants to control entire south Ukraine and Donbas to emulate Catherine the Great, key commander said
    *That means taking not just Mariupol but coastal cities Mykolaiv and Odessa – cutting Ukraine off sea access
    *Russia claims it struck 58 military targets last night as it continues its brutal assault on eastern Donbas region
    *The staggering Red Army death toll could now be as high as 30,000, the Kremlin fears as Putin is told figure”

    Wouldn’t that indicate that besides the 30K dead soldiers there are probably 3 times that, 90K have been wounded? (Who is Putin replacing these men with?)

    And this is all in the span of a month and a half? Heavy prices to pay, but who cares when you are in effect a dictator?

  • Cotour

    Putin realizes now that what he has done is screwed.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10765463/Sisters-Victory-don-nurses-outfits-Z-emblem-pose-troops-Ukraine.html

    Putin thought that he could balls to the wall just move into Ukraine and do as he please without much consequence.

    But I think this story above demonstrates that he is now in a forced PR mode of attempting to garner favor with the world and spin his aggressive actions with some pretty little Russian thangs dressed up in some kind of Mother Tersa gear on the front line. (Fail)

    Raw political warfare aggression without getting some measure of agreement and consensus from some measure of the international powers in the world is no longer acceptable. Why? Because its live and in color, 24 / 7. Technology has transformed what can and can not be done in such instances. No one in the context of an invasion and violence can hide what they are doing any more and ask for forgiveness after the fact.

    (It also does not help when those you invaded are providing you with your buttocks being well kicked)

    Where is Questioner when you need him!?

  • Realist

    Scott Ritter: It is over for Ukraine! (2 min piece)

    https://t.me/realscottritter/95

  • Realist

    Ukrainian troops are surrounded near Izyum

    According to military correspondent Poddubny, the combined unit of the 1st brigade of the National Guard and the Armed Forces of Ukraine is pressed against the Oskol reservoir. Around 1,000 fighters were surrounded. Now Russian artillery is grinding them

    Another batch of hohols near Izyum, with their heads held high, headed for captivity to Russian units.

    https://t.me/intelslava/27144

  • Realist

    Russia’s Plan A and Plan B, explained by Jacob Dreizin

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSogX3qyidk

  • sippin_bourbon

    Q, is that you.
    You devil you.

    Still posting the arm chair quarterbacks, I see.

  • Realist

    Jacob Dreizin:

    “It’s been about 60 days since the invasion. Russia clearly wanted to leave the infrastructure alone, but was left with no choice. Now, who will we blame for the coming starvation, etc.?

    As I have said many times since the very first days of the war, if the U.S. and its hegemonic bloc do not back down and try to cut a deal, THE UKRAINE WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED.

    At least one-third of it will go to Russia, and the rest will become another Afghanistan, albeit one with a number of severely under-maintained and overstressed nuclear power plants.

    Several million more refugees will hit Europe at the worst possible time.

    Hey, all in a day’s work!

    Keep checking in with the Dreizin Report!

    https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/04/26/the-prophecy-has-been-realized/

  • “Realist” wrote, “As I have said many times since the very first days of the war…”

    Yes, you did, but you did it with the nickname Questioner using a different IP address. You are still in Halle (Saale), Germany, using the same Deutsche Telekom AG ISP. You have simply changed your name so as to make it difficult for my regular readers to link you with your earlier comments, also pure propaganda for Russian aggression, and totalitarian oppression.

    You will deny this of course, but it is patently obvious that “Realist” and “Questioner” are the one and the same. If not, you are then simply both working out of the same office, and doing so likely under the pay of Russia.

  • Cotour

    “Where is Questioner when you need him!?”

    Ask and you shall receive :)

  • wayne

    “The Carpet Bombing of Germany begins”
    April 3, 1942
    https://youtu.be/awrNasqitEw
    17:31

  • Realist

    “The cover-up in Ukraine is getting worse | Redacted with Clayton Morris”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skd9hWsFdAg

    10 min

  • Cotour

    Getting scary:

    If anyone who is reading BTB comments remembers when this whole Ukraine issue started, I made an observation out of the box that Putin looked not normal. He looked bloated and different, and I proposed that his health (Alone with the arrival of the Joe Biden Democrat party machine puppet administration of desperation) may have something to do with the timing or motivation of his military moves.

    And now we see this opinion growing in the media: https://www.the-sun.com/news/5236303/putin-undergo-cancer-operation/

    And that now appears to be so.

    Information? Disinformation?

    Has Putin made his legacy moves to scoop up Ukraine and any other country he can to reconstitute the Russian empire before be buys the final Dacha?

    Timing is everything in life, get it wrong, misread the field before you and pay a heavy price.

    Will Putin survive his apparently imminent surgery? Does he really trust his own doctors? May be a 50/50 gamble.

    Things are not looking up for Putin.

  • Col Beausabre

    From another thread

    Col Beausabre
    April 28, 2022 at 1:42 pm
    Oh, boy, Bob – Questionable has returned. The Ivans’ check must have cleared

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NYFq7ZJg4c

  • Col Beausabre

    ““The cover-up in Ukraine is getting worse”

    Yep, the one made in Moscow

    How come Putin has made criticizing his war an offense you’ll be imprisoned for?

    What is he TERRIFIED of?

  • Cotour

    What is about to go on in the bowels of the Democrat party?

    https://youtu.be/rLGHq1eVQfg

  • Realist

    Special Military Operation (Live) w/Andrei Martyanov & Gonzalo Lira

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrDl414AFM

  • Cotour

    Not much time left for Putin: https://youtu.be/IggBlPGVzOg

    How “Real” are he and his agents ; ?

    He should have listened to me, he never called.

  • Col Beausabre

    32 days overdue and counting

  • Col Beausabre

    Anybody who uses the term “Special Military Operation” seriously, without mocking it, is one of Putin’s flunkies. Go away, you’re wasting Putin’s money, your lies aren’t convincing anyone nor are they sowing dissent. They are, however, quite humorous. Too bad so many electrons had to die to spread such drivel/

    BTW, Bob, you should be proud, you and BtB are on Putin’s Enemies List. That’s a high honor

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