Nobody Saw this Offensive Coming

Dylan Combellick
1 min readJun 1, 2023

Okay, maybe I’m going a little crazy, and this is a rapidly developing story, but the more I think about it, the smarter it seems. Zelensky made a stop in Moldova today, and at the same time, Poland sent four cargo planes of small arms. Prime Minister Sunak of the UK has pledged military aid to assist Moldova “in the face of Russian threats.”

Publicly available flight tracking data has a NATO Rivet Joint flying over Moldova at this moment, and there is no previous record of NATO intelligence collection flights like this one flying over Moldovan airspace because of the presence of Russian forces in the area. An AWACS plane was noted in the area earlier today, probably providing cover for the leadership aircraft that were flying into the area.

Is this where the Ukrainian offensive starts? This would be a genius move from Zelensky, an easy victory as there are fewer than two thousand Russian troops in Moldova, and they are not of the highest caliber.

Zelensky is making a joint statement after meeting with the “Fighter Plane Summit” members in Moldova.

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Dylan Combellick

Retired analyst, Russian linguist, and New START inspector, father of 3, living in Uzhgorod, Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/@DylanC78