Posted on 02/16/2023 4:50:35 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Putler is losing his soldiers in Bakhmut and already lost half of the Tanks
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Update from Ukraine | Putler is losing his soldiers in Bakhmut and already lost half of the Tanks
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Belarus Says Will Join Ukraine Offensive ‘Only’ if Attacked
By AFP
2-16-2023 7:00 a.m. EST
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/16/belarus-says-will-join-ukraine-offensive-only-if-attacked-a80245
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. president.gov.by
President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that Belarus would join the offensives in Ukraine “only if attacked” first by Kyiv’s army.
“I’m ready to fight together with the Russians from the territory of Belarus in one case only: if so much as one soldier from (Ukraine) comes to our territory with a gun to kill my people,” the veteran strongman told a rare press conference with foreign journalists in Minsk.
“This applies to our other neighbors,” Lukashenko said. “If they commit an aggression against Belarus, our response will be the most cruel. The most cruel!”
Minsk allowed the Kremlin to use the country as a launching pad for its military operation against Kyiv last February.
Belarus still hosts an undeclared number of Russian troops but Lukashenko has promised not to send his forces — estimated at between 60,000 and 70,000 — over the southern border to Ukraine.
Despite Lukashenko’s repeated promises, fears have been building that his troops could also intervene.
But the longtime leader said, “I do not plan to send my people, my soldiers (there),” Lukashenko said.
Fears have also grown that Belarus could announce a Russian-style mobilization.
But he did say Minsk was testing some of its mobilization abilities and was taking into account Russian blunders in their drive.
“It will not be tomorrow. But we need to be ready if anything,” he said.
Lukashenko was due to meet Putin on Friday.
He said the pair would discuss a joint regional force announced in October, that also saw several thousand Russian servicemen arrive in the ex-Soviet nation.
Lukashenko said he had asked Putin for an extra Russian division that would fall under his leadership.
Allies ‘legally and morally’
“If there will be aggression, these people would be brought into the Belarusian army.”
He gave no further details.
Putin last month said he backed plans to set up joint military training centers with Belarus.
Lukashenko said the force is purely defensive.
The two countries also regularly carry out joint military exercises.
It is unknown how many Russian soldiers are stationed in Belarus.
Lukashenko, in power since 1994, defended his role a year ago, when Russian troops launched their offensive on Ukraine, including from Belarusian territory.
He echoed the Kremlin in saying that Russia was “forced” to do so and blamed Ukraine and the West for the conflict.
“Don’t forget that Russia is our ally, legally, morally,” he said.
Asked if he could somehow influence the Russian leader, he said:
“If he believes he is right then you can’t convince him.”
Lukashenko also hit out at neighboring Poland and Lithuania — EU members — for closing border crossings with Belarus and vowed retaliation.
“It is an economic provocation,” he said. “We are forced to respond.”
Warsaw closed the Bobrowniki border checkpoint last week, citing “growing tensions” with Belarus.
Hmmmm....
That won't slow Zelensky down. If you recall, Zelensky fired on Poland and blamed Russia. If Belarus won't join Ukrainian offensive unless attacked, Zelensky will fire on Belarus and blame Russia. Problem solved.
ARTICLE
Bodies of Putin’s fallen troops are ‘piling up’ in trenches as Wagner chief slams Moscow’s ‘monstrous bureaucracy’ for slowing military gains in embattled Ukrainian city
www.dailymail.co.uk
Thursday, Feb 16th 2023
Bodies of Putin’s fallen troops are ‘piling up’ in trenches as Wagner chief slams Moscow’s ‘monstrous bureaucracy’ for slowing military gains in embattled Ukrainian city
-The head of the mercenary Wagner group has criticised Russia’s army
-Yevgeny Prigozhin blamed its ‘monstrous bureaucracy for slowing progress
-Moment Russian missile launcher is destroyed in huge fireball
The head of Russia’s mercenary outfit Wagner has slammed Moscow’s ‘monstrous bureaucracy’ for slowing military gains, saying it could take months to capture the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut.
Russia has been trying to encircle and capture the city ahead of February 24, the first anniversary of its invasion, but the bodies of Vladimir Putin’s forces are said to be ‘piled up’ in trenches as his army continues to struggle.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the infamous Wagner mercenary group, has attacked the Russian military for slowing efforts to retake Bakhmut, arguing the city could have already been captured from Ukraine.
He said in a series of messages online: ‘I think it’s [going to be in] March or in April.
‘To take Bakhmut you have to cut all supply routes. It’s a significant task.
‘Progress is not going as fast as we would like.
‘Bakhmut would have been taken before the New Year, if not for our monstrous military bureaucracy.’
He added: ‘Because there are a huge number of problems that need to be solved. Naturally it will also depend on whether we continue to be bled,’ in a reference to the end of prisoner recruits.
Prigozhin has previously accused the Russian military of attempting to ‘steal’ victories from Wagner, a sign of his growing influence and the potential for dangerous rifts in Moscow.
Wagner’s claims to have captured ground without help from the regular army - which Prigozhin regularly criticises - has caused friction with senior military leadership.
In Bakhmut, a deputy commander with a mortar unit of the State Border Guard of Ukraine, said fighting remained intense.
He noted: ‘We have to acknowledge the enemy’s successes. There’s a regular Russian army here and they also have regular artillery groups and they shoot accurately as well.
Most of the city’s 70,000 pre-war population have left, leaving Ukrainian soldiers dug in.
Taras Dzioba, press officer for the Ukrainian 80th Air Assault Brigade, said: ‘They [the Russians] are sending a lot of troops.
‘I don’t think that is sustainable for them to keep attacking this way.
‘There are places where their bodies are just piled up. There is a trench where... they just don’t evacuate their wounded or killed.’
Russian forces are continuing to suffer heavy defeats on the battlefield - but in an effort to hide these losses, officials in Crimea are burning dead troops in crematoriums ‘around the clock’.
Near the local crematorium in the village of Krasna Zorka, Crimea, there ‘is a constant line of military vehicles numbering up to 10 units’, Ukrainian armed forces said.
‘The occupiers use these trucks to bring dead Russian servicemen and mercenaries.’
Putin claimed to have annexed the Donetsk region, which includes Bakhmut, last year but his forces remain fighting Ukrainian troops there.
The fierce fighting for the eastern industrial city is now the longest running battle of Russia’s campaign and Moscow’s key military objective.
Taking Bakhmut would be a major win for Moscow, but analysts say its capture would be mainly symbolic as the salt-mining town holds little strategic value.
Prigohzin, who is close to Putin, said the speed of Russian progress in the battle would depend on whether Ukraine continued to send reserves.
Ukraine, determined not to lose any ground ahead of an anticipated counter-offensive in the spring, has been asking for more modern weapons from its allies.
Russia rained missiles across Ukraine and struck its largest oil refinery earlier today, Kyiv said.
Following a pattern of heavy bombardments after Ukrainian battlefield or diplomatic gains, Russia launched 36 missiles in the early hours, Ukraine’s Air Force said.
The missiles triggered air-raid sirens and landed across Ukraine, including at the Kremenchuk refinery, where the extent of damage was unclear. About 16 were shot down, the Air Force added, a lower rate than normal.
‘Another massive missile attack by the terrorist state on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine,’ the Defence Ministry tweeted. Ukraine said the barrage included three KH-31 missiles and one Oniks anti-ship cruise missile, which its air defences cannot shoot down.
Meanwhile Belarus, which allowed Russia to use its territory to send troops into Ukraine at the start of the war, said it would only fight alongside its ally if it was attacked.
Bolstered by tens of thousands of reservists, Russia has intensified ground attacks across southern and eastern Ukraine, and a major new offensive appears to be shaping as the first anniversary of its Feb. 24 invasion nears.
On Thursday, Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen visited Kyiv and Bucha in the first visit by an Israeli minister since the offensive started.
‘Israel stands firmly in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and remains committed to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,’ Cohen said during a press conference in Kyiv with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.
Cohen, who is due to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, however did not announce any pledges of weapons that Ukraine has been requesting for months.
Israel has adopted a cautious approach since Russia’s Ukraine campaign began last February, seeking to maintain neutrality between the two sides.
Cohen’s Ukrainian counterpart said he was ‘grateful’ for humanitarian initiatives but emphasised the ‘most important’ for Ukraine was to be able to win on the battlefield.
‘Israel is aware of our list of military needs, and we will wait for the relevant decisions to be made, primarily regarding the protection of Ukrainian sky,’ Kuleba said.
Ukraine especially hopes to learn from Israel’s extensive air-defence experience as Moscow has been unleashing regular waves of aerial attacks on the country’s infrastructure.
The strikes have left millions in the cold and dark in the middle of winter.
In the latest wave overnight, Kyiv said it had shot down 16 missiles from the two dozen launched from planes and ships in the Black Sea.
The missiles, which hit the north and west of Ukraine, killed a 79 year-old in the central Dnipropetrovsk region.
With Russia still battering the energy grid - despite what analysts say is a dwindling stockpile of long-range projectiles - fears have steadily mounted of a potential new Russian attack from the north.
Russia had launched the nearly year-old offensive from its soil and Belarus, ruled by Kremlin-ally Alexander Lukashenko.
During a rare interview with international media including AFP, on Thursday, Lukashenko said his country would only join Russia’s offensive in Ukraine if Belarus is attacked first by Kyiv.
‘I’m ready to fight together with the Russians from the territory of Belarus in one case only: if so much as one soldier from (Ukraine) comes to our territory with a gun to kill my people,’ he said.
A stupid way to distract from the neo Nazi Ukrainian military that the US is supporting with almost 2 billion tax payer dollars would be to play games and make up names to imply Putin=Hitler. But propagandists are desperate, so here we are, on a thread about ‘Putler’. *eyeroll*
VIDEOS
1. Hundreds of Russians couldn’t break the siege near Ugledar - they sought to hide in forest
Kanal13
2-16-2023 3:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/live/N1_irW3W3-4
2. In Ukrainian trenches | Military Mind | TVP World
TVP World [TVP is a Polish public broadcast service]
2-16-2023 5:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/live/ayWjoYSh7ps
Despite a massive Russian onslaught, Ukrainian troops are holding their lines.
3. War is not like in movies! Interview with a con recruited by Russian Ministry of Defense
Lviv.Media
2-16-2023 12:30 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/live/3FArxGzqxX0
Aleksey Gromov from Nizhny Novgorod spent half his life in prison: first for petty theft, then for murder. Like other “warriors,” he agreed to go to war in exchange for a pardon. However, the war turned out to be different than he had imagined. Now he says he made a mistake and was better off staying in prison. In an interview with Liubomyr Ferens, Oleksiy explained how he came to this epiphany
00:00 Start
01:26 “People in masks came for us”
02:05 About murder and petty theft
03:25 In which structures do convicts recruited by the Ministry of Defense fight?
04:37 Why did you decide to go to war?
05:50 Who are the people of Bandera?
07:38 What does Russia have to do with the Ukrainian people of Bandera?
08:54 “I would not go to kill”
10:42 “I apologize for all Russians”
12:12 About Russians who die for nothing
14:35 “I’d rather go for a new term”
15:43 About the separatists
17:27 About state borders
20:14 “I came here to find out the truth”
22:06 About the Russian language in Ukraine
It comments to itself. Propaganda is so hard.
So sad. And that’s only half the story. The other side is even more decimated.
Uh huh.
Ukes launch 1 artillery shell, Russkies reply with 50.
Russkies shoot 80 missiles, Ukes say they shoot down 79 but somehow 1/2 their electric grid is destroyed. I guess it was hit by the one, terrible, weak and poorly aimed missile that somehow the Ukes missed.
Ukes have had 10 or more ‘mobilizations’ and now are kidnapping kids and elderly off the street to send to the front, russkies get thousands of volunteers in addition to their one call-up.
So its obvious that the russkies must be losing all of their men, equip and are about to be routed.
Sure, Jan.
ARTICLE
Moment a Russian thermobaric missile launcher is destroyed in huge fireball explosions amid brutal trench warfare as Kremlin claims frontline advances - while cremating their dead ‘around the clock’
-Video shows the TOS-1A Buratino erupting into flames following Ukrainian strike
-Ukrainian soldiers from Azov Battalion stormed a Russian trench full of troops
By Rachael Bunyan For Mailonline
08:08 EST, 15 February 2023 | Updated: 08:08 EST, 15 February 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11753701/Russia-Ukraine-war-Moment-Russian-thermobaric-missile-launcher-destroyed-huge-fireball.html
Extraordinary footage shows the moment a Russian thermobaric rocket launcher was destroyed in a series of fireball explosions on the front line in Ukraine.
Video shows the TOS-1A Buratino, which is equipped with thermobaric warheads, erupting into flames following a Ukrainian strike near Vuhledar in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian weapons system is seen engulfed in a series of fireball explosions and the video shows artillery rockets shooting out of from the burning wreckage.
The Buratino is equipped with thermobaric warheads which spread a flammable liquid around a target and then ignite it. It can destroy several city blocks in one strike and cause indiscriminate damage.
The destruction of the heavy flamethrower system comes as further video shows Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov Battalion storming a Russian trench full of mercenaries from the Wagner private military near Bakhmut and forcing them to retreat during brutal trench warfare.
Russia today claimed its troops had broken through two fortified lines of Ukrainian defences on the eastern front - but Ukrainian forces said Russian forces have not yet been successful in their efforts to punch through their defences.
Russian forces are continuing to suffer heavy defeats on the battlefield - but in an effort to hide these losses, officials in Crimea are burning dead troops in crematoriums ‘around the clock’.
Near the local crematorium in the village of Krasna Zorka, Crimea, there ‘is a constant line of military vehicles numbering up to 10 units’, the Ukrainian armed forces said.
‘The occupiers use these trucks to bring dead Russian servicemen and mercenaries.’
Meanwhile, footage from the trenches near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, shows heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops.
The video, filmed a soldier from the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, begins by showing a second Ukrainian soldier in the shallow trench as exchanges of gunfire are heard between the Ukrainian and Russian sides.
The images then show the Ukrainian soldier filming the action opening fire on the Russian position, which the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade said was made up of Wagner mercenary soldiers, seen on the left of the screen attempting to advance along the trench.
The Ukrainian soldier filming the action appears to lie down, taking cover behind a mound of dirt next to the trench, with the images on the left of the screen, apparently filmed by a drone above the trench, showing the Russian fighters taking fire before turning around and retreating.
The Ukrainian soldier then shouts ‘Davay, blyad’’, which can be loosely translated into English as ‘Let’s f***ing do this!’, before he continues to fire at them.
The Ukrainian soldier then puts down his assault rifle before unpinning a grenade and tossing it towards the Russian soldiers and resuming fire as the footage ends.
Meanwhile, Russia is pouring heavy equipment and mobilised troops into the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine but Ukrainian forces are still defending the region, regional governor Serhiy Haidai said on Wednesday.
Russia said earlier on Wednesday that its troops had broken through two fortified lines of Ukrainian defences on the eastern front.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said Ukrainian forces had retreated in the face of Russian attacks in Luhansk but did not say in which part of the region.
‘There is a lot of shelling, the aviation is already connected. The attacks are coming from different directions in waves,’ Haidai said. ‘We see that they are transferring mobilised people (to the front), we also see that there is more (heavy) equipment.’
But he added: ‘Those who spread the information that allegedly our defence forces have pulled back beyond the line of the administrative border (of Luhansk) — this does not correspond to reality.’
Russian artillery, drones and missiles have been relentlessly pounding Ukrainian-held eastern areas for months, indiscriminately hitting civilian targets and wreaking destruction, as the war largely slowed to a grinding stalemate in the winter.
“The enemy, trying to take full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, continues to focus his main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk areas,” the Ukrainian military reported, referencing towns in the two provinces as well as on the eastern edge of the neighbouring Kharkiv region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said Russia was in a hurry to achieve as much as it can with its latest push before Ukraine and its allies gather strength.
“That is why speed is of the essence,” he said as NATO defence chiefs met in Brussels for talks that continue on Wednesday. “Speed in everything - adopting decisions, carrying out decisions, shipping supplies, training. Speed saves people’s lives.”
Bakhmut’s capture would provide a stepping stone for Russia to advance on two bigger cities, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in Donetsk, giving it momentum after months of setbacks ahead of the first anniversary of the invasion on Feb. 24.
“The battles are literally for every foot of Ukrainian land,” Zelenskiy said, describing the conditions on the eastern frontline in his evening address on Tuesday.
Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said there was fighting “around every single house” in Bakhmut. “The situation remains extremely difficult, but under control of our forces and the front line has not moved,” he said in a YouTube video.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is using shells faster than the West can make them and says it needs fighter jets and long-range missiles to counter the Russian offensive and recapture lost territory.
The United States and NATO have pledged that Western support will not falter in the face of a looming Russian offensive.
Representatives of the 27 European Union countries meet in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss a new batch of sanctions against Russia, which the head of the bloc’s executive said could amount to 11 billion euros ($11.8 bln) in lost trade.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said supplying Ukraine with fighter jets would certainly be discussed but that it was not a focus at the moment, and added he was in favour of raising NATO’s military spending target. British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Western allies could help Ukraine more quickly by supporting their position on the ground rather than focusing on the provision of jets.
Russia, which calls the invasion a “special military operation” to eliminate security threats, said NATO demonstrated its hostility towards Russia every day and was becoming more involved in the conflict. Kyiv and its allies call Russia’s actions an unprovoked land grab.
Russia holds swathes of Ukraine’s southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, including its nuclear plant, nearly all of Luhansk and over half of Donetsk. Last year, Russia declared it had annexed the four regions in a move condemned by most United Nations members as illegal.
Russia plans to seize back all the settlements in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region that it surrendered to Kyiv last year, the head of the Russian-installed administration there said on Wednesday.
The upper chamber of Russia’s parliament will hold an extraordinary meeting on Feb. 22 that will focus on adoption of laws on the integration of four regions into the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reported citing a senior lawmaker.
A U.S.-backed report published on Tuesday said Russia had held at least 6,000 Ukrainian children - likely many more - in camps in Crimea and Russia whose primary purpose appeared to be political re-education. Russia’s embassy in Washington said Russia accepted children who were forced to flee with their families from the shelling in Ukraine.
Psychos gotta psycho.
Let me ask a stupid question. Who is Putler? Is that a blending of the names of Hitler and Putin?
It’ll be over soon
Gee, Reverend Mother, it must be one of the seven days each week when you vomit forth another tranche of UKRAINIAN PROPAGANDA.
Col MacGregor is saying he has Intel of an alarming nature. Specifically in the last 2-3 days almost all long range Russ artillery and missile attacks are targeting suspected Ukrainian AA guns and missile positions, radar sites and C in C etc.
This is a switch from more traditional tactical targets before like armor, men, trucks etc. This ominous development could be an indicator the big one is on the way….he says within a matter of days. They want to clear the skies for preliminary air assaults, create confusion then move in a quarter million regular army with a few thousand tanks, several thousand BMPs and light many light vehicles.
“..almost all will be riding, armored infantry that will follow air, artillery strikes”.
We shall see….
What filth we have stinking up our wonderful country.
To think we are taking direction from the likes of this fool.
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