Servicemen of the Carpathian Sich Battalion are seen on a tank on a frontline, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the town of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine December 8, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi
CNBC: Russia’s Ukraine onslaught shows zero signs of a winter lull as conflict rages
* As the Russia-Ukraine war heads into winter, there has been some expectation that freezing temperatures on the battlefield could bring a lull in the conflict.
* Last weekend, a top U.S. intelligence official even said they expected to see a “reduced tempo” in the fighting and that this was likely to continue over the “coming months.”
* There appears to be no signs in a let-up in the war, however, and both Russia and Ukraine are sending out smoke signals that there is no time, and no desire, for a cessation of hostilities.
As the Russia-Ukraine war heads into winter, there has been some expectation that freezing temperatures on the battlefield could bring a lull in the conflict.
Last weekend, a top U.S. intelligence official even said they expected to see a “reduced tempo” in the fighting and that this was likely to continue over the “coming months” with both the Ukrainian and Russian militaries expected to regroup and resupply, and to prepare for counter-offensives in the spring.
There appears to be no signs in a let-up, however — with extremely intense fighting in eastern Ukraine, with the devastation in parts of the region reminiscent of World War I — and both Russia and Ukraine sending out smoke signals that there is no time, and no desire, for a cessation of hostilities.
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WNU Editor: I see no signs that there will be a lull in the war during winter. On the contrary. I see an escalation in the fighting as Russia positions the 300,000+ reservists it called -up two months ago.
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WNU--do you (or anyone) know what 'sich' means in Carpathian Sich Battalion? Thanks
Well, it appears to be a reference to a group of Galician fighters who participated in the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Probably just a coincidence.
Sich s a common noun.
"The Zaporozhian Sich (Ukrainian: Запорозька Січ, Zaporozka Sich; also Ukrainian: Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового, Volnosti Viiska Zaporozkoho Nyzovoho; Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower)[1] was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state[2] of Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, including as an independent stratocratic state within the Cossack Hetmanate for over a hundred years,
The name "Zaporizhia" refers to the military and political organization of the Cossacks and to the location of their autonomous territory 'beyond the Rapids' (za porohamy) of the Dnieper River.[6] The Dnieper Rapids were a major portage on the north-south Dnieper trade route. The term sich is a noun related to the Eastern Slavic verb sich' (сѣчь), meaning "to chop" or "cut"; it may have been associated with the usual wood sharp-spiked stockades around Cossack settlements."
But I can see where 10:26 aka 12:38 would check under his bed for a si
ch.
12:38 is really going to check under his bed now.
Zaporozhian Siches and their leaders
Khortytsia Sich (1556–1557)
Wężyk Chmielnicki (1534–1569)
Tomakivka Sich (1564–1593)
Wężyk Chmielnicki (1534–1569)
Michał Wiśniowiecki (1529–1584) (1569–1570)
Iwan Swiergowski (1574)
Samiylo Kishka (1574–1575)
Bohdan Ruzhynski (1575–1576)
Jacub Szach (1576–1578)
Ioan Potcoavă (1577–1578)
Lukyan Chornynsky (1578)
Jan Oryszowski (1581)
Samuel Zborowski (1581–1584)
Bohdan Mokoshynsky (1584)
Mykhailo Ruzhynski (1585)
Zakhar Kulaha (1585)
Bohdan Mokoshynsky (1586)
Lukyan Chornynsky (1586)
Demyan Skalozub (1585–1589)
Krzysztof Kosiński (−1593)
Bazavluk Sich, (1593–1638)
Hryhoriy Loboda (1593–1596)
Bohdan Mokoshynsky (1594)
Jan Oryszowski (1596)
Severyn Nalyvaiko (1596)
Khrystofor Netkovsky (1596–1597)
Hnat Vasylevych (1596–1597)
Tykhin Baybuza (1597–1598)
Fedir Polous (1598)
Semen Skalozub (1599)
Samiylo Kishka (1600–1602)
Havrylo Krutnevych (1602–1603)
Ivan Kutskovych (1602–1603)
Ivan Kosyi (1603)
Kaletnyk Andriyevych (1609–1610)
Olifer Holub (1622–1623)
Mykhailo Doroshenko (1623–1625)
Kaletnyk Andriyevych (1624–1625)
Marek Zhmaylo (1625)
Mykhailo Doroshenko (1625–1628)
Hryhoriy Chorny (1628–1630)
Ivan Sulyma (1628–1629)
Lev Ivanovych (1629–1630)
Taras Tryasylo (1630)
Timothy Orendarenko (1630–1631)
Semen Perevyazka (1632)
Timothy Orendarenko (1632–1633)
Ivan Petrizhitsky-Kulaga (1632)
Andriy Didenko (1633)
Dorothy Doroshenko (1633)
Ivan Sulyma (1633–1635)
Sava Kononovych (1637)
Pavlo Pavlyuk (1637)
Illyash Karayimovych (1638)
Yakiv Ostryanyn (1638)
Dmytro Hunia (1638)
Mykytyn Sich (1639–1652)
Karpo Pivtora-Kozhukha (1639–1642)
Maksym Hulak (1642–1646)
establishment of the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
Chortomlyk Sich (1652–1709)
Kamyanka Sich (1709–1711)
Oleshky Sich (1711–1734)
Nova Podpolnenska Sich (1734–1775)
Danubian Sich (1775–1828)
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