Posted on 07/17/2024 7:49:27 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia has denied its ground offensive on Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region is failing after an official said he would seal off border villages to shield them from Ukrainian shelling.
Belgorod’s regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Tuesday that civilian access to 14 Russian border villages would be restricted given the ongoing intensity of the attacks.
Asked if this meant that the Kharkiv operation had failed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday: “No, it doesn’t.”
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
According to the maps, the offensive has stalled, Russians going nowhere the last couple weeks despite the usual artillery duels and small unit tactics back and forth.
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3KM Russian Vuhledar Breakthrough | Massive Ukrainian Gaps in Defense | Russian Mobilization?
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It is almost like in a war, the battle lines change. Sometimes one side is up, then the other side.
Viewing the geo located video of Vlads monster FAB’s pounding Ukies into dust, I can agree Vlad may be taking a pause……advance, pound defensive positions into dust, advance again, repeat as necessary….
3KM Russian Vuhledar Breakthrough | Massive Ukrainian Gaps in Defense | Russian Mobilization?
Why are your Zelensky and your Syrskyi wasting precious artillery shells on "border villages", instead of using them on Russian military targets?
Kharkiv in 3 days!
Key statement in the article.
“ Asked if this meant that the Kharkiv operation had failed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday: “No, it doesn’t.”
“This operation is ongoing, it will continue until it has been successfully completed,” he told reporters.
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…..Marioupol, Bakmut, Avidivka, ……next up Kharkov, unfortunately, it may have to be reduced to rubble. The Ukies can go the hard way, or easy way, their choice. Vlad does what he says ( and so does Peskov).
On another note: defense sources are now showing Vlads latest FAB in development, the 6,000.
The 500, 1500 and 3,000 were hugely successful smashers, his 6,000 is being compared to small nukes in destructive power. Vlad will no longer need nukes, he can level cities in a more kind, caring compassionate way.
“”after an official said he would seal off border villages to shield them from Ukrainian shelling.””
“Why are your Zelensky and your Syrskyi wasting precious artillery shells on “border villages”, instead of using them on Russian military targets?”
The Ukrainians’ first priority has always been to liquidate the Russian people living in Ukraine. Sort of like Hitler utilizing limited resources to continue exterminating Jews while the Allies were destroying their armies.
I suspect the war is not going well for Russia now, at least compared to a few months ago.
There is many videos of Russian infrastructure getting hit by Ukr drones. Oil tanks etc.
So I wonder if Ukr is really on the ropes and getting ready for collapse wouldn’t they be focusing only on attacking Russian forces? This almost sounds like preparing for a Ukr offensive.
Either way I hope it ends soon ☮️
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So why is the Belgorod governor really placing those border villages off limits to the women and children, and only armed men? Are they being used as R & R centers for exhausted Russian troops? Perhaps there are large stores of explosives, vehicles, food for troops and medicine in those Russian border villages.
Meanwhile Putin continues to send his meat waves with little notable success. Current casualty figures are mostly running 1100 and higher daily. I believe the total casualties surpassed 560,000 today. What a waste. As to the 6000 bombs. They may destroy more cities, but I thought Putin was mainly after the underground resources of eastern Ukraine. How much will these “almost atomic” strength bombs destroy the underground resources Putin is after?
Vlad does what he says??!! What a joke!! Like his Special Military Operation was not going to be a war? We’re two and a half years into this WAR. Vlad has achieved the slaughter of his own army.
You cavalier attitude to destruction in the beautiful city of Kharkiv is reminiscent of Adolf’s glee about his planned destruction of Paris as German troops withdrew. You are one sicko. Whatever Russians do in this WAR, Ukraine finds an answer. If the Kharkiv bombings become even more indiscriminate, then there will be a response and Russia will feel it.
Your cavalier attitude to destruction….
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Yours, not mine. I am a realist, pointing out continuously for negotiations. Fact:
the Russian Federation has become a world power, it’s capabilities in many sectors surpasses the US’s. Get used to it.
My “ rub”, the collective West’s continuous push for war. One escalation after another. Not one advocated ( only Hungary) for negotiations….and the West has torpedoed negotiations twice. Make no mistake, Vlad is keeping his Russian provinces.
Fact: Ukraine is being pulverized, ground into dust one city, one province at a time.
Do realize, unlike most here, I have seen war firsthand. Anyone witnessing war will do anything to prevent it, even if it means having to admit defeat, eat crow, …which the US and collective West is unwilling to do.
Carry on War cheerleaders, your road leads to more destruction.
but I thought Putin was mainly after the underground resources of eastern Ukraine.
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You are a victim of Western MSM. Read Vlads speech from day one- and repeated over and over. No NATO for the Ukies, autonomy for his ethnic Russian provinces, and de-nazification. Nothing more, nothing less.
The resources will just be icing on the cake….the pulverizing of Ukraine will continue, no matter the cost to Vlad, what is so hard to understand?
They are not Russian provinces. They are Ukrainian oblasts. Your pedophile Putin will keep nothing from Russia’s Special Genocide Operation.
FR is full of veterans who know war. Ukrainians understand Solzhenitsyn’s words that “I would not wish that kind of peace on my worst enemy.”
The truth is Russia is a weak, corrupt, and incompetent country that is being upended by Ukraine. The clumsy eleven time zone country is being humiliated by the one time zone country. Despite its natural resource wealth, putrid Putin is leading his country to ruin.
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