Posted on 07/12/2023 9:29:37 AM PDT by Kazan
The Ukrainian army has lost over 26,000 men and over 3,000 items of military hardware in its failed Spring Counter-Offensive, said Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, including 12 US Bradley fighting vehicles and 17 German Leo II tanks.
Since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive on Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia June 4, Ukraine’s losses “have reached over 26,000 servicemen and 3,000 items of various pieces of armament,” Shoigu said, according to TASS.
According to the Russian Defense Minister, Russian troops destroyed 21 planes, five helicopters, 1,244 tanks and other armored vehicles, 17 German-made Leopard tanks, five AMX tanks produced by France and 12 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in the counter-offensive.
Shoigu claimed Russian forces eliminated 914 pieces of automotive equipment, two air defense systems, 25 multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS), 403 field artillery cannons and mortars. He said Russian air defense systems shot down 176 HIMARS rockets, 27 Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles and 483 drones of the Ukrainian armed forces.
According to Shoigu, the USA are well aware of “the high efficacy of our defense lines and barrier minefields, [and the] professional work of army aviation and ground-attack aircraft who carry out pre-emptive strike at the adversary’s targets.”
#Russia #Ukraine #war 🔥
5,000 Ukrainian army trained in #Germany. According to Forbes, in just 1 hour Kiev army lost almost 1/5 of their Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 1/5 of their Leopard 2 tanks and 1/2 of their Leopard mine-clearing tanks -that’s a lotta damage. pic.twitter.com/q8PQz4hCOJ
— Mahmood Khan (@Mahmood88239370) July 8, 2023
According to sources, Russia’s heavy use of land mines is the main reasion the much-awaited Ukrainian offensive hit a brick wall. Battefield images seemed to show U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicles and German Leopard II tanks taken out by land mines. Observes say this may be the reason the USA are considering delivering cluster munitions to Ukraine.
“On February 28, 2022, Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki said that the use of cluster bombs would be a war crime,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “Over a year later, Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to US President Joe Biden, said at a briefing that the White House would provide cluster munitions to Ukraine… President Biden said that it was a “difficult decision” to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, but Ukrainians “need them.” He forgot to add that dead Ukrainians need them especially badly.”
“…and the Russians are dying. That’s the best money we’ve ever spent.” — Lindsey Graham. pic.twitter.com/mzM5DUOd25
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 28, 2023
Senator Lindsey Graham visited Kiev in May, allegedly calling “Russians dying” the “best money we’ve ever spent.”
According to the Russian defense minister? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hush foreigner, and learn about the Maidan color Revolution
Now Russia is doing incursions into Ukrainian lines in the north to draw more Ukrainians away from the southern line. In fact, the reason for the near-breakthrough in Robotnye in the southern line is because an armored brigade was sent there. Now they’re going to have to go back because Avdiivka is encircled.
Oh, those are easy to find, believe me. Just check any of the daily propaganda threads here. They’re plentiful.
Check engine. 😁
LOL!!!!
I was born in the USA and have lived here my whole life except for the three years I was in Germany serving with the US Army. Sorry to disappoint you.
Oh, the Maidan Revolution. You mean when the Ukrainian people rose up against the betrayal by Yanukovych who was attempting to hand Ukraine to Russian control? Don't make the CIA into some sort of all-powerful bogeyman who can overthrow governments at will. But even if the events of 2014 had occurred as the Russian propagandists have characterized it, this still would not have justified a Russian invasion. Stop pretending that this is anything than an attempted land-grab by Russia.
Pretty much agree!
Putin wants his legacy to be restoring as much as is possible the 1914 Imperial borders.
Not our problem, a European problem! We can sell arms to them if they wish to buy them.
Nothing I have typed should be interpreted as me being for or against Putin or Ukraine.
“Ukrainian army has lost over 26,000 men and over 3,000 items of military hardware in its failed Spring Counter-Offensive”
Except they didn’t.
Silly Neocon. Learn about Vicky Nuland and the involvement of McCain and his lap dog from South Carolina. And since it's important for you to wave your military credentials around, why not get yourself over there and fight for Zelensky. Lord knows he needs help.
...and two dogs.
Do you really think that a handful of CIA agents could have fomented the popular protests that brought those crowds to the streets? Get real. They may have helped but they could have done nothing if there were not already widespread popular discontent. But, as I have said before, even if the events were as you imagine, this still would not justify a Russian invasion.
If that collection of NATO freaks meeting in Vilnius yesterday and today are people you support and believe in, we have absolutely nothing to talk about. They are dregs, criminals and perverts who not that many years ago would have been arrested on sight. So embrace them and their color revolutions if you want. They always need compliant men like you to keep them in power and more importantly to keep the money laundering grift going.
And Putin is a choirboy. LOL!
DO NOT MISS THIS:
A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLeBb6hPUC8
So, question the numbers all you like but the map doesn't lie.
How many Ukrainians have to die fighting a war they can't win? How much more money do US taxpayers have to waste on something that provides zero benefit to the average citizen?
Are you really going to believe the Biden regime? Neocons want us to about this war. But, the map of the conflict doesn’t lie. It shows zero progress after more than month of this failed counter offensive.
Yes. That is usually how it works !
“Where are all the neocons that hyped this absurd counter offensive that anyone with any honesty and knowledge about this proxy war knew was doomed to failure?”
That’s the thing - they all knew it was going to fail and that the Ukrainians would get BUTCHERED...and that shows just what they think of Ukrainians - I guess they view them as ‘useful idiots’.
“So if we are getting our Ukrainian casualty figures from Russia, it only stands to reason we should get our Russian casualty figures from Ukraine. Right?”
Given Ukraine’s track record, I wouldn’t trust them very much....so I prefer the British (BBC), and I think their number is a bit under 30,000 at this point.
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