Posted on 09/10/2022 7:11:28 PM PDT by Widget Jr
A funny thing happened in Ukraine today...
Statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, by General Igor Konashenkov, September 10, 2022:
"Russian troops that operate near Balakleya and Izyum to be redeployed for reinforcement at Donetsk direction in order to reach preestablished objectives of special military operation. With this purpose, Izyum-Balakleya group of troops had been redeployed to the Donetsk People's Republic within 72 hours. Various deceptive and demonstrative manoeuvres had been carried out marking real action of the troops within the abovementioned operation. The enemy had been under powerful fire attacks with the involvement of aviation, missile troops and artillery for preventing any damage to Russian troops. Over 2,000 Ukrainian and foreign militants, as well as more than 100 units of armoured equipment and artillery have been eliminated within 72 hours."
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OSINT Defender, https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1568656767395176448:
"There are Extremely Unconfirmed Reports from within the last few minutes that Ukrainian Forces have managed to capture Donetsk International Airport after Russian Forces retreated and that they are now beginning to advance into the outer areas of Donetsk City."
Oleksiy Goncharenko, https://twitter.com/GoncharenkoUa/status/1568643958074392577
"My sources say - Ukrainian forces entered Donetsk airport! Keep fingers crossed!"
Gregor Martin, https://twitter.com/Guderian_Xaba/status/1568592199419416578
Also reports about intense battle at #Donetsk airport now."
War Monitor, https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1568601502390063104
"There is reports of battles at Donetsk airport now."
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Russian General Igor Konashenkov and the rest of the Russian general staff are having a bad day, may they continue. Ordering a redeployment to an area under attack as redeployed forces are arriving is kind of embarrassing. Even more when Donestk was under Russian occupation for eight years before the invasion began.
For General Konashenkov to state that the forces in Balakleya and Izyum are being redoployed, is an admission that the entire Russian front in that area has collapsed. What Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, Gonzalo Lira or the rest of Russia's online shills say to pretend otherwise is irrelevant. There is no organized withdrawal of Russian forces in the area of the Oskil River. The Russian army is being routed and the pace of the rout has not slowed or stopped.
Taking Donestk also means Ukraine is in position to take back territory that Russia has illegally occupied since 2014.
Look at Donesk on a map. No way UKR troops have made it that far south. Not credible.
Good point.
Now if this counter offensive continues to go well, then maybe the next aid package will get delayed and it will be smaller.
THAT’S GREAT!!! UKRAINE can be FREE AGAIN to TAKE GRAFT, er, FUNDS from the US to GIVE back to the DEMS!!, er, to build their infrastructure!!!
They’ve been a corrupt AS HELL country..er, IMPORTANT ALLY and UPSTANDING country for a long time!!
Let’s keep risking all out nuclear war so that DEMS can GET THEIR FUNDING AGAIN!!!
If you were Comrade Xi and duly noted the performance of the Russian army what would you be more likely to do? Would you attack a well defended Taiwan across 90 miles of open ocean? Or would you be wondering if all those locally produced ships ,planes and huge army of China, though combat untested, have the ability to seize Russia’s rich, underpopulated Far Eastern Asian Pacific territories and the treasure house of Siberia.
Suspect if Russia did not have nuclear weapons, it would be much smaller.
Interesting...Time will tell...
Bkmk
More than one prognosticator has opined that Russia is pulling back in order to use nukes or fuel air bombs.
Made sense at first but their troops have pulled back 50+ miles, if these tales can be believed. Seems like a strange tactic.
Russia without nukes is not using rubles anymore, and may not be speaking much Russian as an official language.
And many fiction books have included China actively taking Siberia, instead of just a passive encouragement of “refugees” and foreign guest workers in Siberian towns.
The Ukrainians have been entrenched near the airport since 2015. The separatists never captured the control tower so the airport hasn’t been functional.
All emojis belong to us …
Play it safe, turn off all the tough talk, and take no provocative action until world affairs cool down. China is not going to be stupid for the convenience of others.
It seems YOU are the one who needs to look at a map. This has nothing to do with the Uke offensive in Kharkiv Oblast. Ukraine forces have been on the outskirts of Donetsk city since the day Russia invaded. To great embarrassment, Russia has been unable to push them back from the capital city of the so called DPR, leaving the entire city in Uke artillery range. The airport is at the very edge of Russian controlled territory and a raid there would be no surprise to anyone. That doesn't mean it happened.
It is hard to say what’s going on except that Ukraine is mounting major offensive.
Russians are trying to spin it and probably do not know what’s going on anyway.
Ukraine is trying to keep lid on the info.
All what is sure, there are major surprise attacks in many places and the Russians are on the run.
#35. Nah. Ukraine drives Russia back to the border. Crimea is optional. Then it is over.
Kremlin propaganda is hilarious. Regrouping?!? And their explanation for the Moskva etc.
They are awaiting instructions from the Kremlin.
Kazan posts the answer that the problem is that Ukraine is too slow and this is a brilliant Putin feint
History has shown that when a country ostensibly at peace commits a huge amount of capital ( as China has done) building up its armed forces, actual war almost always soon follows. The question is: Who is China likely to fight and to what purpose?
From grozny, Chechnya?
Those aren’t elite troops, those are Kadyrov Chechens. All talk.
Russian elite troops were the VDV paratroopers who died in March failing to take Hostomel
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