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| Russia's Military Defeat in Northern Ukraine |
UPDATE 07 April 2022: Two days ago in the comments of this SITREP it was noted how Eschatology Today has viewed this war from the get-go based upon Ezekiel 38:4 and the importance of the Hebrew word shoob within that verse. There is a small gap of time between the first part and second part of that verse. The gap lies between "I will turn you around," and "Put hooks into your jaws and lead you out..." The turning around is now well underway and what remains unknown is the precise gap of time until the Lord inserts those prophetic hooks in the jaws. In that the overall prophetic narrative is moving along at what appears to be warp speed these days, well, it may not be a case of the Lord tarrying very much. "These things must take place" and that requires the passage of some minute passage of time as we understand the ticking of the clock.
The map image above, is the situation on the ground in Ukraine as of this morning, 07 April 2022. The map image below is from just over three days ago. What this new image and what all senior military leaders (both US and NATO commanders) are saying is that the mighty Russian military (army, navy, air force and rocket forces) have been thoroughly defeated in northern Ukraine. This is a stunning reversal. The hand of God as the One responsible for the turning around is evident, perhaps not to all of you, but definitely to yours truly.
Even Russian soldiers making unsecure phone calls to mothers, family members and girl friends back in Russia are admitting that they are being "whipped" by Ukrainian forces. In fact, in their hasty, no-time-to-waste, head-long flight out of the country, elite Russian units have abandoned their most devastating weaponry. These the Ukrainians promptly captured, made speedy repairs to in some cases, and then turned them upon their former owners. This weaponry notably includes the TOR-1A Buratino (featured early on in this SITREP series) thermobaric "vacuum" artillery system. Russian units were then given no rest and were further annihilated in full retreat. It's that ancient Hebrew "shoob" word that Ezekiel was inspired to use and its literal meaning in full display, at least for those like me who take the Lord's prophetic word literally.
And to think, this is just the beginning of woes to befall Russia's and her allies military forces as we approach the 70th Week of Years.
04 April 2022: The above graphic encapsulates the known and estimated combat losses suffered by the armed forces of the Russian Federation in the forty days of its invasion of Ukraine (24 FEB - o4 APR 2022). This is where Eschatology Today's SITREP coverage begins the clearly evident third phase of this war, which begins not only with this accounting, but also with the overwhelming and mounting evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity in just two of the dozens of Ukrainian suburbs and villages surrounding the capital Kyiv.
In the settlements Bucha and Irpin in Kyiv Oblast, which are nearly twin cities separated only by the Bucha River, the mass graves and many human corpses littering the streets are visible in satellite reconnaissance imagery. Bucha/Irpin are separated from Kyiv City boundary only by about one-thousand feet of the Irpin River basin. This is how close Russian armor came to entering the capital. Now the Ukrainian counter-attack has driven Russian forces back to the Belarus border along the entire axis of the west banks Dnieper River. Forced Russian retreat is also occurring along the east bank in the direction of Chernihiv, and east of Kyiv to a point well over 60 miles in the direction of Nizhyn. Map below.
It is in this third phase of the war that Russian forces are regrouping and being re-deployed south in an attempt to secure Luhansk, Donetsk and a land corridor along Ukraine's Azov Sea coastline to connect with Crimea. There's no way to determine the duration of this third phase, or its outcome, but the Lord's hooks will drag these armies to their destruction in Israel in days to come.
