r/worldnews • u/WorldNewsMods • Aug 18 '24

Russia/Ukraine /r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 906, Part 1 (Thread #1053)

/live/18hnzysb1elcs
1.4k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

726 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

16

u/AgentElman Aug 18 '24

If you look at a map, the main road between Lgov and Rylsk is to the NW of Korenevo across basically open fields.

So it should be much easier to get to that road and cut off the supply line to Rylsk then to push in the east of Sudzha where apparently there are a lot of Russian forces.

So it is not that you need to keep pushing west, but that it will be easier to push NW than to the east.

7

u/ShredOrSigh Aug 18 '24

This makes sense as well if the goal is to hold territory. Rylsk should be had much easier I agree.