War Notes [Ukraine]
Francis Farrell The Kyiv Independent War Notes by Francis Farrell Friday, June 12 Hello, dear readers, this is Francis Farrell with this week's War Notes coming to you from a Kyiv where summer just simply refuses to properly arrive. Small talk about the weather out of the way, I want to get straight into it and bring you the good news that this week was a week of two very, very good developments in Ukraine's struggle to survive and maybe even win this brutal war. Yes, there will be the traditional caveats and warnings against getting carried away with emotion and narrative, but this time, the developments have been pretty black and white. Over the last week, we've seen Ukraine's grip on Russian logistics in occupied southern and eastern Ukraine continue to tighten with regular hits on the main highways and railways used to transfer personnel, equipment, and supplies around occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts, and of course, Crimea. This is somet...