Has Russia Started A New Offensive In Southern Ukraine?

Moon of Alabama: Ukraine - Russian Army Activates Southern Front 

The long expected Russian offensive in Ukraine has begun. 

The Ukrainian army, egged on by its U.S. controllers, had put most of its resource into the static defense of the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) - Soledar sector of the eastern front. An insane number of Ukrainian brigades, though many partially depleted, were concentrated on that 50 kilometer long front. This left other sectors nearly empty of Ukrainian troops.  

I count the equivalent of some 27 brigade size formations in that area. The usual size of a brigade is some 3,000 to 4,000 men with hundreds of all kinds of vehicles. If all brigades had their full strength that force would count as 97,500 men. In a recent interview the Ukrainian military commander Zaluzhny said that his army has 200,000 men trained to fight with 500,000 more having other functions or currently being trained. The forces which are currently getting mauled in the Bakhmut area constitute 50% of Ukraine's battle ready forces. 

On the southern and northern sectors of the battle-line the Ukrainian forces have been thinned out and are only able to defend against minor forces.  

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Update: Fighting on Ukraine southern front 'sharply' increases (AFP).  

WNU Editor: I expect Ukraine will be launching a counter offensive in the next day or two. But if not, it will be a signal to the Russian military, and to those who are watching the war very closely, that reports that Ukraine's military is severely depleted are true.