Posted on 08/28/2023 7:25:27 AM PDT by bimboeruption
The Ukrainian Army lost up to 4,855 servicemen last week, TASS reports, as its counter-offensive inches forward in Southern Ukraine. Last week, the Ukrainian forces lost 1,490 fighters in the Donetsk area, 1,180 servicemen in the South Donetsk area, 820 in the Zaporozhye area, 665 in the Kupyansk area, 485 in the Krasny Liman area and 215 in the Kherson area, TASS reports, based on the figures of the Russian Defense Ministry.
On Saturday, Aug. 26, the Ukrainian Army lost a total of 785 casualties, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, which claims to have repelled five attacks by the elite Ukrainian 82nd Air Assault and 46th Airmobile brigades in Robotyne in the Zaporozhye region, with up to 200 Ukrainian casualties. Up to 240 Ukrainian servicemen were killed and wounded outside of Donetsk, where heavy fighting was also taking place.
Russia does not release its own casualty figures. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry claims that Russia has lost 261,310 soldiers since beginning of the war.
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." J.R.R. Tolkien
Total combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to August 28, 2023: pic.twitter.com/Fkc1jq6EII
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 28, 2023
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that the village of Robotyne on the southeastern banks of the Deniepr river “has been liberated and our troops are moving southeast” of the town.
Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar confirms the liberation of Robotyne (Zaporizhzhia oblast) on the southern front. Speaking to the Military Media Center, Hanna Maliar said that "Robotyne has been liberated and our troops are moving southeast" of the town. The deputy minister… pic.twitter.com/xAwJl49B2F
— Dénes Törteli 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇦 (@DenesTorteli) August 28, 2023
Russian military sources claimed that after several dozen small and large attacks, the Ukrainian military were forced to regroup in the region. Some Ukrainian reconnaissance companies and battalions were partially withdrawn from the front due to loss of combat capability, Southfront reports.
As the USA pushes for a breakthrough in the offensive, the Ukrainian military is accumulating significant forces north of Robotyne, preparing for another attack. Russian military reportedly spotted up to 83 units of heavy military equipment moving in the area on August 24.
Video of the Ukrainian Army retaking Robotyne a few days ago. pic.twitter.com/i7497EwTSa
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 26, 2023
Yevgeny Balitsky, the acting governor of the Zaporozhye region, said that Ukrainian assault units reached the first line of Russian defenses yesterday, but were “completely destroyed”, Sputnik News reported. Ukrainian sources claimed Robotyne has been captured. NATO-aligned Institute for the Study of War also claimed that Ukrainian forces are advancing south of Robotyne, near Urozhaine and Staromayorske, as well as near Dontesk.
Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wrote that “the strategy pursued in the NATO area, based on continuous military supplies to Ukraine and on the logic of escalation, has not resulted in the expected Russian military defeat… There has been no defeat of the Russian army in Bakhmut, there has been no weakening of its military and paramilitary units, there has been no retreat under the Ukrainian counteroffensive.”
“After a year and a half of war, what is the reality that prevails over all these simplistic predictions pumped by war propaganda?”, Conte wrote. “The reality is 500 thousand deaths on both fronts. The reality is over 6 million Ukrainian refugees who left their country. The reality is entire cities and vast territories completely destroyed that we will have to help rebuild in the coming years, with a European financial commitment, estimated in the initial stage alone at €50 billion. The reality is that the Russia-Ukraine conflict has had a pull effect on global military spending growth by 3.7% in 2022 compared to the previous year, with last year’s military spending reaching a record amount of $2,240 billion across the planet.” “We have always been convinced that it was a mistake to be led by the obsession to inflict a military defeat on the Russian Federation,” the former Italian PM wrote. “Next year the election campaign for the American presidential election will be held. It’s easy to predict that even in the U.S. this conflict will be at the center of political debate, creating grounds for military disengagement, since the strategy followed here has already cost U.S. taxpayers tens and tens of billions of dollars.”
They told me that the Russians are shooting bottle rockets because they ran out of missiles. They swore to me that hundreds of thousands of millions of Russian soldiers are being slaughtered.
Oh, who to believe?!
Approaching LBJ numbers
TASS reports. Ok.
That happened a long time ago. They’re saying 400,000 Ukranian soldiers have died in this conflict so far.
This means nothing to Putin and Zelenskyyyyy. Both are wretched Communists.
“Oh, who to believe?!”
NOBODY! Wars are fought on a battlefield with munitions, food and petroleum, all of which must be constantly replaced. Off the battlefield wars are fought with propaganda. It’s a certainty that many thousands have died on both sides, but a small price to pay for untold billions of dollars to launder and stuff Zelensky’s and FJB’s pockets!
Fighting to the last Ukrainian to force disenfranchised voters in the East and South to submit. It would be interesting to interview Ukrainian mothers who have lost their sons…
Its pathetic how Russians have brainwashed the simple minded to make this about “corruption.”
It seems to me that no one would be dead if the Russian tanks and missiles stayed on their side of the border.
But yeah...this is about Joe Biden’s corruption.
From 1943-1945 the Germans were retreating. During their retreat they created strong points atcritical junctions with multilayered defenses that the Russians were forced to attack. It was there that the Russians suffered huge casualties attacking these fortifed death zones. The Russians learned these lessons the hard way and have not forgotten them. Both the Germans and now the Russians came to appreciate the tactical wisdom of General Longstreet. General Lee did not.
The “counter-offense” is a disgusting joke. Ukrainian men and boys, many of whom were abducted from the streets by Zelinsky thugs... are forced to commit suicide trying to advance through fortified defenses of meaningless pieces of what was farmland for a few headlines. The next day it is taken back by more experienced and better equipped Russian forces with few casualties or deaths. It is stupidity for the benefit of war mongers everywhere to keep the money flowing to the corrupt puppet regime.
Where are the women protesting for equality? They should be demanding we withhold aid until there is some equity.
Unconditional surrender seems to be the only solution.
It's pathetic how Bidenistas have brainwashed the simple minded to make this about “Russian collusion.”
It seems to me that no one would be dead if the Ukrainian tanks and missiles had not been firing on the breakaway republics since 2014 and NATO had not tried to expand right up to Russia's border.
But yeah...this is about Joe Biden's “patriotism”.
Because Russians always lie.
Zelensky always tells the truth.
Can you tell me how many people have died in the recent chick war in Ethiopia?
Biden's corruption is only a very small part of it. The larger part is the corruption of the GloboHomo empire (led by Soros, Kerry, Biden, Graham, McCain, Obama, etc..) that organized the Maidan Revolution in 2014 and overthrew a democratically elected government. That is the primary reason this is happening.
Biden's corruption and the rape of the Ukrainian people by the GloboHobo empire between 2014 and the Russian invasion is minor compared to the revolution itself.
Nice try.
The only people talking about NATO in Ukraine were the Russians. Anyone with a brain cell understood Ukraine was years away from qualifying for membership.
And if that is such a deep concern for Russia...why haven’t they attacked Finland and Sweden who are right on their border and seconds away from a missile on St Pete.
Nope...all fallacies.
But I am not going to spend my morning dismissing your weak attempts to justify carnage.
The Russians in Ukraine need to leave. Or die. Its their choice.
Casualties explained:
KIA: Killed in Action
MIA: Missing in Action
WIA: Wounded in Action
500,000 “casualties” does not mean 5K KIA. Most WIA return service.
It should be okay. After all TASS is under Putin's control as are the "Biden-Clinton-Obama" folks and all those Russian agents embedded in the Ukraine government.
Sure we should start talking about Ethiopia now.
And yes Russia and Putin and Tass lie.
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