Russia-Ukraine Flash Report 13 OCT 2022 08:30 PDT - This is a First (Patreon)

Neither belligerent reported any significant fighting along any point of the line of conflict in Ukraine over the last 12 hours.

A lot of artillery fire, rocket attacks, and air strikes, but no major ground combat.

This has never happened since February 24. There were a number of skirmishes, and Ukraine made a significant advance in that last little sliver of Kharkiv, but the fighting was very light, with mobik units simply surrendering.

If we were writing the Situation Report right now, it would be four words, "Nothing important happened today."

What's going on?

It's a tale of two armies. For Ukraine, they are consolidating gains, resupplying, having the rear echelons catch up with the front, rotating troops, and getting ready for the next offensive.

Russian forces? They are digging in, building defenses, deploying mobiks with low morale and poor equipment, and waiting to be attacked.

Could you have imagined this 33 weeks ago?