Ukraine has already lost half of its army, 61,207 are dead and 49,368 wounded - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
UPDATE: Russian losses stand at 5,937 dead.
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Scott Ritter:
Some initial thoughts on Russia’s partial mobilization:
First and foremost, this represents a new phase in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, namely the fact that Russia is fighting the NATO alliance as opposed to just Ukraine.
To respond to this threat, Russia is creating a new reality of its own, namely to transition from a fight that had Russia working with allies and operating on foreign soil, to Russia defending the motherland. The partial mobilization is being conducted in parallel with political referendums that will see the Donbas and other Ukrainian territory be absorbed into the Russian federation.
This absorption will fundamentally alter the legal foundations of the conflict. While the referendums currently being considered only impact lands under current Russian occupation, Putin spoke of the need to free all of “Novo Rossiya” from the yoke of Ukrainian tyranny.
I believe the absorption of Ukrainian territory will be expanded at some point to include Odessa and Kharkov.
The mobilization of 300,000 men, as well as the announced goal of bringing all other units up to the standards of the Russian army, will not happen overnight. Russia will be forming new units, and this takes time.
I believe we will see a strategic pause while Russia completes its partial mobilization. This pause will be marked by heavy fighting as Ukraine will seek to disrupt the referendums and alter the geography of the battlefield. But once Russia consolidates the new territory politically, and accrues the necessary military capacity, I believe we are looking at the physical destruction of the Ukrainian nation as the endgame for this conflict.
I also believe there is nothing NATO can do to alter this reality.
More to follow.
I’m coming to the realization that Putin wants Biden to declare martial law in the U.S.
Under martial law, the Democrats’ plan to destroy us will be moving at full-speed-ahead.
“Ukraine has already lost half of its army, 61,207 are dead and 49,368 wounded - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu. UPDATE: Russian losses stand at 5,937 dead.”
Ludicrous! Laughable!
Katya, your propaganda is showing.
As a very broad statement about the current state of our world —
I don’t personally deal very well with arbitrary and changing rules. This has been evident with COVID restrictions and with the multi-level justice system now in place in the US.
But we see it also in things like NATO. The basic NATO agreement: if one NATO member is attacked, the rest of NATO will join together to respond. Example: If the USSR invades West Germany, all of NATO will go to war against the USSR. That’s the core concept.
Today’s situation: Did Russia attack Ukraine? Yes. Is Ukraine part of NATO? No.
So it turns out that NATO is not about defending NATO members — its really just an aggressive military alliance aimed at weakening Russia.
We tell ourselves that we are the Good Guys, but we’re jumping into a war with a nuclear power. That’s not good.
BREAKING NEWS⚡️
Over past 3 weeks, Russian forces have DESTROYED over 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers and 970 pieces of military equipment, including 208 TANKS, Russian armed forces will continue military operation until goals are FULLY achieved - Russian Defense Minister Shoigu.
UPDATE: All attempts by Ukrainian army to advance in Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog front, South Ukraine, have been THWARTED - Shoigu.
WORLD AT WAR 3.0: According to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who says (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/5217) globe may be mere MONTHS away from MAJOR CONFLICT bigger than ANYTHING since WW2, slamming UN as POWERLESS to help, claiming intergovernmental organization PRACTICALLY DESTROYED by “great powers”, as Putin declares partial MOBILIZATION (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/5237), and Donbass region set (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/5222) to become part of Russia, Vucic’s warnings cast DARK SHADOW over Europe and Western world, already SUFFERING from economic BACKLASH (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/3825) of anti-Russia sanctions.
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⚡️We cannot, we have no moral right to give people close to us to be torn to pieces by the executioner. We cannot fail to respond to their sincere desire to determine their own destiny.”
Vladimir Putin promised to provide safe conditions for holding referendums in the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson region:
“We know that the majority of people living in the territories liberated from neo-Nazis, and this is primarily the historical lands of Novorossia, do not want to be under the yoke of the neo-Nazi regime. In Zaporozhye, in the Kherson region, in Lugansk and Donetsk, they have seen and are seeing the atrocities that neo-Nazis are doing in the occupied areas of the Kharkov region.
The heirs of Bandera and Nazi punishers kill people, torture them, throw them in prison, settle scores and mock civilians.”
Sounds like a speech that Adolph Hitler could have made.
They have now transcribed the rest of Putin’s speech to English. Here is the second and last part.
At the same time, the regime of reprisals throughout Ukraine against their own citizens, established immediately after the armed coup in 2014, was harshly intensified. The policy of intimidation, terror and violence is taking on increasingly mass-scale, horrific and barbaric forms.
I want to stress the following. We know that the majority of people living in the territories liberated from the neo-Nazis, and these are primarily the historical lands of Novorossiya, do not want to live under the yoke of the neo-Nazi regime. People in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, in Lugansk and Donetsk saw and are seeing now the atrocities perpetrated by the neo-Nazis in the [Ukrainian-] occupied areas of the Kharkov region. The descendants of Banderites and members of Nazi punitive expeditions are killing, torturing and imprisoning people; they are settling scores, beating up, and committing outrages on peaceful civilians.
There were over 7.5 million people living in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions before the outbreak of hostilities. Many of them were forced to become refugees and leave their homes. Those who have stayed – they number about five million – are now exposed to artillery and missile attacks launched by the neo-Nazi militants, who fire at hospitals and schools and stage terrorist attacks against peaceful civilians.
We cannot, we have no moral right to let our kin and kith be torn to pieces by butchers; we cannot but respond to their sincere striving to decide their destiny on their own.
The parliaments of the Donbass people’s republics and the military-civilian administrations of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have adopted decisions to hold referendums on the future of their territories and have appealed to Russia to support this.
I would like to emphasise that we will do everything necessary to create safe conditions for these referendums so that people can express their will. And we will support the choice of future made by the majority of people in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
Friends,
Today our armed forces, as I have mentioned, are fighting on the line of contact that is over 1,000 kilometres long, fighting not only against neo-Nazi units but actually the entire military machine of the collective West.
In this situation, I consider it necessary to take the following decision, which is fully adequate to the threats we are facing. More precisely, I find it necessary to support the proposal of the Defence Ministry and the General Staff on partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation to defend our Motherland and its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to ensure the safety of our people and people in the liberated territories.
As I have said, we are talking about partial mobilisation. In other words, only military reservists, primarily those who served in the armed forces and have specific military occupational specialties and corresponding experience, will be called up.
Before being sent to their units, those called up for active duty will undergo mandatory additional military training based on the experience of the special military operation.
I have already signed Executive Order on partial mobilisation.
In accordance with legislation, the houses of the Federal Assembly – the Federation Council and the State Duma – will be officially notified about this in writing today.
The mobilisation will begin today, September 21. I am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of military recruitment offices.
I would like to point out that the citizens of Russia called up in accordance with the mobilisation order will have the status, payments and all social benefits of military personnel serving under contract.
Additionally, the Executive Order on partial mobilisation also stipulates additional measures for the fulfilment of the state defence order. The heads of defence industry enterprises will be directly responsible for attaining the goals of increasing the production of weapons and military equipment and using additional production facilities for this purpose. At the same time, the Government must address without any delay all aspects of material, resource and financial support for our defence enterprises.
Friends,
The West has gone too far in its aggressive anti-Russia policy, making endless threats to our country and people. Some irresponsible Western politicians are doing more than just speak about their plans to organise the delivery of long-range offensive weapons to Ukraine, which could be used to deliver strikes at Crimea and other Russian regions.
Such terrorist attacks, including with the use of Western weapons, are being delivered at border areas in the Belgorod and Kursk regions. NATO is conducting reconnaissance through Russia’s southern regions in real time and with the use of modern systems, aircraft, vessels, satellites and strategic drones.
Washington, London and Brussels are openly encouraging Kiev to move the hostilities to our territory. They openly say that Russia must be defeated on the battlefield by any means, and subsequently deprived of political, economic, cultural and any other sovereignty and ransacked.
They have even resorted to the nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia.
I would like to remind those who make such statements regarding Russia that our country has different types of weapons as well, and some of them are more modern than the weapons NATO countries have. In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.
The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended – I repeat – by all the systems available to us. Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around.
It is our historical tradition and the destiny of our nation to stop those who are keen on global domination and threaten to split up and enslave our Motherland. Rest assured that we will do it this time as well.
I believe in your support.
Putin got right to the point in the first sentence:
"The subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup."
Putin will wait till after November 8. If the Rats steal the midterms again, then he will use tactical nukes and dare the Biden regime and the Eurotrash to do something about it. WW3 is what the GloboHomos desperately want. It all falls into their plans to have millions killed and nations destroyed to be replaced by a one world government.
Unlike the US National Guard who train regularly and can reach professional military level in a few months, the Russian reserves are essentially out of practice.
Essentially they are calling up cannon fodder.
They will face a battle hardened Ukrainian army.
So I have been reading as nauseum here how the war is over for Ukraine, Z is going to flee, Uke army is surronded, cut off, “its over” Uke army is destroyed, its all a done deal...Ukraine as a country is going to disappear in a month...
so why does Putin need this mobilization?
Cathy “Ukraine has already lost half of its army....Russian losses stand at 5,937 dead.”
Ha ha. And this depleted army still managed to kick Putin’s army out of the area around Kharkiv?!
This week?
Head’s up to Freepers on this thread:
I saw on another thread that Joe Biden is scheduled to address the United Nations today. I do not know what time.
It will be interesting to hear what he has to say in response to Putin’s address.
In all my 50 years of public service I have never seen a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions - on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.Ukraine is not, and never has been, a threat to great Russian Motherland. The only one threatening another country is Russia. It should also be clear that by "neo-Nazi" Putin means patriotic Ukrainians who see their country as separate and independent of Russia. Nor has there been any attempted genocide by the Ukrainians in Donbas. This is pure Russian myth. The claim, also, that the present Ukrainian government was installed by a "coup" in 2014 cannot be taken seriously. It was freely, and overwhelmingly, elected in 2019. Additionally, this action by Putin is a clear admission that his "Special Military Operation" has been a failure, that he needs a mobilization of reserves to complete the operation. And finally, this shows that Putin would rather go to all-out war and risk the lives of countless Russians rather than risk his own political power. At this point, this is about the survival of Putin, not of Russia.