Posted on 09/05/2023 9:31:46 AM PDT by Kazan
Ukraine lost more than 66,000 troops and over 7,600 heavy weapons since launching their counteroffensive in early June, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claimed on Tuesday.
The Gateway Pundit had reported similar figures based on tallies of daily Russian Defense Ministry figures.
Western media seek to downplay the horrific bloodbath the monstrous Biden Regime has forced on young men and their families in the disastrous “Spring counteroffensive” with no air or artillery support. The Gateway Pundit is one of the only sources reporting on the Biden-sponsored disaster, that has cost taxpayers $114 billion and approximately 400,000 innocent Ukrainian lives.
“The Kiev regime, despite their huge losses, has been trying to conduct the so-called counter-offensive for the third month already. The armed forces of Ukraine did not achieve their goals on any part of the front line,” the minister told senior defense officials, adding that the Russian troops are active “along the entire line of contact,” Shoigu said on Tuesday.
Shoigu claimed Kiev is “desperately trying to demonstrate” at least some military success to the West to keep receiving military and financial support. “In an attempt to hide the failure of the offensive, Ukrainian militants attack civilian targets and pass them off as military victories,” Shoigu said.
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Ukraine’s Rada parliament is considering a bill to suspend draft deferments for 180,000 students over 30 years old. Ukraine has expanded the eligibility for the military draft to include chronically ill and handicapped males, including the mentally disturbed. Poland has started deporting Ukrainians that are eligible for the draft, as TGP reported.
A captured Ukrainian serviceman told his Russian captors he was called up for service with practically no training after military officers threatened him with criminal liability and prison if he refused, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed.
According to the prisoner, the training consisted of ‘firing one or two magazines at the firing range’, and only a few soldiers from his platoon were allowed to throw a grenade.
At the front, the Ukrainian fighters realized that they did not want to fight, nor did they know how, the POW allegedly said. Their commanders threatened and beat the recruits to force them to get into boats and cross the Dnepr River to Russian-held territory. “I had only two options – either to die or to surrender. I chose to surrender,” the POW said.
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Is the “offensive” officially over, now that Ukraine has fired Reznikov?
2/29/2024
Why should anyone believe something spoken by a Russian official?? Or an Ukrainian official for that matter.
I don’t think many people do believe them, I don’t but what if the numbers are half what the Russians have said.
33,000 casualties and over 3000 vehicles destroyed is still a huge number in a few short weeks.
The point is I think, without air cover the Ukrainian counteroffensive was a suicide mission.
Winning!
Some say 'yes' because the new MoD will not want to become responsible for the failures of the old one.
Plus Z's call for additional conscripts (including those hiding in Poland) will take some time to ready them for the 'eastern front'.
Why is big brave Ruzzia being forced to buy weapons from North Korea?
Why is our big brave and freedom-loving DC deep-state still importing from Russia 30% of US nuclear fuel demand for US nuclear utilities?
I'm actually more curious - why is Russia still selling it to them?
Questions, questions.
“Ukraine has expanded the eligibility for the military draft to include chronically ill and handicapped males, including the mentally disturbed.”
I’ve read that 50 year old males with chronic illnesses and little to no training are on the front lines. What level of despair they must feel! :(
It was over when the Ukes tried to drive their brand new Leapord 2 tanks across a minefield without clearing it first.
Why should anyone believe something spoken by a Russian official?? Or an Ukrainian official for that matter.
Right, we get Ukrainian casualties from the Russians, and on those other threads we get Russians casualty figures from the Ukrainians.
—-> including the mentally disturbed.”
[ hmmm… zeepers]
Is there anything in history books about anybody ever losing 66K people KIA in three months of fighting??
On the first day of the Somme offensive, July 1, 1916, the British suffered 57,470 casualties.
The Somme offensive lasted until Nov 18, 1916 and claimed over 1,000,000 casualties among all combatants. Over the 4.5 months of the offensive total casualties averaged 222,222 per month.
What 76th Guards Air Assault Division doink? LOL!
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