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For the last 72 hours, it’s been difficult to write anything about Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, which wasn’t dominated by how that invasion has snapped back to attack its creator in the best possible Frankenstein’s monster sort of way. But while Russian generals, oligarchs, and media figures have been burning brain fuel trying to decide which brutal, murderous lout had their allegiance, and Russian media was reversing itself three times in a day, Ukraine has had more important things to do.
That has included closing the gap that existed between Ukrainian troops in one area of the southern front, bringing the effort there into something closer to a single broad thrust. It also included more progress in the area north and south of Bakhmut to the point that Russian observers are starting to talk about what happens after the Russians are driven from the area.
But the biggest news has to be that over the weekend Ukraine shuttled armored vehicles across the Dnipro River on barges, established a (literal) bridgehead near the Antonivka Bridge, and are now pushing Russian forces away from the area east of Kherson after opening up a whole new front.
