‘They Are in a Panic’: Ukraine’s Troops Size Up the Enemy

The New York Times ^ | October 7, 2022 | Carlotta Gall

[Timber Rattler]

Racing down a road with his men in pursuit of retreating Russian soldiers, a battalion commander came across an abandoned Russian armored vehicle, its engine still running. Inside there was a sniper rifle, rocket propelled grenades, helmets and belongings. The men were gone.

“They dropped everything: personal care, helmets,” said the commander, who uses the code name Swat. “I think it was a special unit, but they were panicking. It was raining very hard, the road was bad and they drop everything and move.”

After months of static fighting and holding the line under withering Russian artillery barrages, Ukrainian soldiers are exulting over their smashing of Russian lines in the northeast three weeks ago, and their recapturing of swaths of territory seized by Russian troops earlier this year. They have almost retaken the whole of Kharkiv Province, as well as territory in each of the four regions that President Vladimir V. Putin claims to have annexed for Russia.

There has been little time for reflection for the Ukrainians as they press their counterattack, focused on keeping the pressure on the retreating Russian army to prevent it from regrouping. Yet after months in the trenches never seeing the faces of the enemy, Ukrainian soldiers and commanders have now engaged the Russians up close and gotten a chance to size up their opponent.

“We have the strength to do this,” Swat said. “Because right now they are in panic, they really are in panic.”

[Timber Rattler]

As Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forest used to say, "Keep up the scare!"

[Travis McGee]

[bigfootbob]

My favorite American warrior.

[canuck_conservative]

LOL again

you can post that boring graphic another 10 times, and Russia will STILL be retreating!!

(yay Ukraine)

[WKUHilltopper]

NY Times. Now there’s a source you can trust…

[Travis McGee]

Not smart to declare victory and call the game in the 3rd inning.

[canuck_conservative]

I didn’t say Ukraine had won yet,

just that Russia keeps going backwards

(good thing their tanks have all those reverse gears, they’ll need ‘em)

[bert]

Within the last say 48 or 72 hours, the media all over has come out of hiding to report the general failure of the Russians to maintain a hold on occupied territories.

The New York Times is merely among the media of the European and other countries that are reporting on the drastic change in Russian fortunes in the Ukraine. The Russian debacle is just too great to ignore

[roving]

What source do you trust, Pravda?

[canuck_conservative]

Russian Truth!

LOL

(pretty soon even Pravda and Tass will have to report the obvious)

[oblomov]

Yay for the globalist left faction!

It’s sooo much better than the neo-Stalinist left faction!

[roving]

You do realize they did accomplish the mission they were on, right? Why take that away from them?

[roving]

They keep making fun of the source, but never give us their secret source. I’m really curious who they think is trustworthy

[bert]

I spend some time each day watching the reporting of events in Ukraine. There are several that are pretty much proUkraine propaganda.

I can’t say I have ever seen a Russian source reporting on the military action. There are several reporting on the withering Russian economy but not the failing military

[Vigilanteman]

Agreed. And just because it is printed in the New York Times doesn't necessarily mean it is a lie.

But I'd still take it with a large grain of salt.

[C210N]

you can post that boring graphic another 10 times, and Russia will STILL be retreating!!

TM, I hope you post that graphic in every single Deep State Cabal thread on their center of corruption in Ukraine. Reminds me of ALL OldeEB's old glowBull warming posts, with a very appropriate goebbels graphic.

FR is being invaded by the MSM/bidAn-Regime/DSC/DNC/GOPe digital troopers pushing Ukraine and their clown Zelensky.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[canuck_conservative]

So you support one of America’s enemies? (Russia)

[C210N]

I can’t say I have ever seen a Russian source reporting on the military action

We're (US and here on FR) being flooded with MSM crap on Ukraine. Early on, the Russian sources were banned or eeked out of search engines and the airwaves. RT is banned.

There is a fog of war, and we are in the midst of that very thick fog wafting all but from one side. There may be fog coming from Russia's side, but if there is some of it coming here, it is being overwhelmed.

[Renfrew]

“You do realize they did accomplish the mission they were on, right? Why take that away from them?”

Not surprising behavior. McGee is an American hating leftist. He hates our military most of all.