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Ukraine Counteroffensive Forcing Russia to Deplete 'Certain Units': Kirby
Newsweek ^ | August 29, 2022 | ANDREW STANTON

Posted on 08/29/2022 1:51:42 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

Russia is being forced to deplete "certain units" from key parts of Ukraine in order to have enough troops respond to Ukraine's counteroffensive in Kherson, United States National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Monday.

Ukraine launched the counteroffensive on Monday as it hopes to take back control of Kherson, the first major city Moscow won control of at the start of the invasion, which was launched on February 24 by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the more than six months since the war started, Russia has faced a stronger-than-expected response from its Eastern European neighbor, as well as weaknesses in its own military that have given Ukrainians optimism that they can successfully gain more ground after weeks of the two countries being locked in a stalemate.

Kirby said during a Monday press conference that Ukraine's counteroffensive has already had an effect on Russia's military, which has had trouble recruiting troops in recent months.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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Putin running out of troops...
1 posted on 08/29/2022 1:51:42 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

A year ago Kerby told us the Afghanistan surrender was a precision withdrawal. Tell me again why we should believe him?


2 posted on 08/29/2022 1:55:28 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Timber Rattler

KirbyIdiot is the epitome of West/US/EU/UK/NATO propaganda, as par.

“Today, during the day, on the direct instructions of V. Zelensky, Ukrainian troops attempted an offensive in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions in three directions.

As a result of the active defense of the grouping of Russian troops, the AFU units suffered heavy losses.

During the fighting, 26 Ukrainian tanks, 23 infantry fighting vehicles, nine other armored combat vehicles were destroyed, two Su-25 attack aircraft were shot down.

The enemy’s losses in manpower amounted to more than 560 servicemen. Another attempt at offensive actions of the enemy failed miserably.” - RuMoDsaid

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/europes-economic-and-social-suicide-provoked-by-the-us-and-helped-along-by-europes-leaders.html#more


3 posted on 08/29/2022 2:04:48 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler
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4 posted on 08/29/2022 2:21:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: AAABEST; achilles2000; Alberta's Child; Allegra; ANKE69; BlackbirdSST; C210N; Cathi; caver; ...

*MAGA First/Anti-War/Anti-Globalist Ping*

If you want on or off this list, please let me know.


Snake Rattler running out of spam


5 posted on 08/29/2022 2:22:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sounds like everybody is running out of troops. Somebody should be brokering some kind of peace conference, but it would appear that with the US backing Ukraine that there is nobody in a position to do it.


6 posted on 08/29/2022 2:24:16 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

Or maybe the Russians should just leave Ukraine and go home?


7 posted on 08/29/2022 2:25:03 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

And more confirmation:

‘Russia Repels Ukraine Attacks in Kherson, Advances Kodema & Donetsk; EU Continues Slide into Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtEWFaYFs8c

‘Ukraine SITREP: the promised “major Ukrainian counter-attack” ends in disaster’
http://thesaker.is/ukraine-sitrep-the-promised-major-ukrainian-counter-attack-ends-in-disaster/


8 posted on 08/29/2022 2:30:45 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler

Or maybe Ukraine should just leave Donetsk and Luhansk and go home. They aren’t welcomed there.


9 posted on 08/29/2022 2:33:56 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Timber Rattler

Well, you’d like to be able to keep both sides from throwing away another 60,000 thousand casualties over moving the front a couple of kilometers in either direction. Neither side has the armor remaining to mount a sustained offensive. So, if the Russians decide to stay there’s very little that Ukraine can do about it other than accept unfavorable loss ratios.


10 posted on 08/29/2022 2:37:59 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: fieldmarshaldj
This post brought to you by Russian brotherly 'love'


11 posted on 08/29/2022 2:43:29 PM PDT by Brellium (The environment is of upmost importance, without trees where will we hang Moscovites?)
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To: Tallguy

“Somebody should be brokering some kind of peace conference, but it would appear that with the US backing Ukraine that there is nobody in a position to do it.”

Congratulations, you have deciphered the effect of war and come up with the right formula twice. If the US and other countries had stayed out of it to begin with it would have been over long ago and a peaceful determination would have been accomplished. But by the US and other countries supplying weapons and tech to the Ukraine the war has been extended thus more and more people have been killed or injured military and civilian alike for what will be the same outcome and there will be less considerations for the loser.

And that doesn’t cover the cost of weapons that were sent that the Ukraine will never pay for while we have people starving in our country and the shortage of fuel oil coming shortly will make others die or suffer from the cold while the people pay exuberant prices so the administration can say they are doing something else for the world by supporting the ecology liars that gave money to their campaign.

And the hits just keep coming.

wy69


12 posted on 08/29/2022 2:48:45 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: Timber Rattler

Kazakhs turn on Z Russians.

Kazakhs Confront Russian Tourists Over ‘Z’ Stickers On Cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g19jdzG19SY


13 posted on 08/29/2022 3:02:15 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

God of all nations,
Draw near to the people of Ukraine. In their fear, give them comfort. And help them to be comforters to
their children. In their panic, give them peace. Our deepest prayer is that the folks in Ukraine would be
protected and that there would be a path to safety. Be with their military as they literally lay down their
lives for one another. Grant wisdom to the leaders and peacemakers. Be with us too, that our hearts
would not become numbed to the terror and loss of our brothers and sisters. Help us to be generous
and welcoming to those who will seek asylum. Open our eyes to ways that we might help. Praying with
desperation and trust, amen.


14 posted on 08/29/2022 3:06:19 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Brellium

Sodomite Troll fail.

Your hero Zelensky is the big fan of Sodomites. Proliferating the globalist sodomite agenda is more important to him than saving lives in the middle of a war. It got him a big spread in Vanity Fair !


15 posted on 08/29/2022 3:09:30 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: cranked
More random blogs and videos for source material, Comrade Cranked?


16 posted on 08/29/2022 3:13:57 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: FreshPrince

Dear Lord,
Remove the cancerous evil known as Zelensky from office in Ukraine ! May he stop sacrificing his citizens to hold power for himself and the Satanic globalist hordes !

AMEN !


17 posted on 08/29/2022 3:23:07 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Timber Rattler

Lol. Shifting troops to meet an offensive is the usual combat tactic. This what happens when people who have never touched a rifle write military analyses.


18 posted on 08/29/2022 3:23:17 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Timber Rattler

I suppose last night, Tucker Carlson must have been a possessed Russian mouthpiece when he openly stated on his show that Ukraine was losing the conflict and losing it badly, huh?


19 posted on 08/29/2022 7:27:28 PM PDT by cranked
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