Posted on 09/30/2022 11:40:58 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Lyman direction
-The Ukrainian Army liberated Drobysheve. Russian troops defending the town retreated to Lyman.
-Ukrainian forces liberated Yampil and are pushing towards Lyman and Zarichne through the forest area.
-Fighting is reported in the vicinity of Terny and Stavky.
-The only exit route from Lyman is within the firing range of UA forces. Russian troops defending Lyman are de-facto surrounded.
-The Ukrainian Army is also advancing north, but the movement is obscured by the fog of war and actual well maintained silence regime by Ukrainian soldiers.
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Yeah and spewing BS about Ukraines immenient demise for months is one of those things that happens
ZZPeedy, is that you? Mispelling Russia seems to be a thing with you.
On reddit there is video of Ukes in Lyman. Also report of a big slaugher of Russians trying to escape.
But in the words of KAzan: Zeo percent chance Russia will lose any of the land it has taken...LOL!
Did someone give them wrong directions to Crimea. I thought that was being liberated by that million man army?
Ivan, you’re saying it wrong. Don’t say it will be “an embarrassment” for Ukraine to defeat Russia. Say, it will be “another surprise” when Putin springs his latest trap on Ukraine.
And, don’t put down your own soldiers, calling them “rebels” and “reservists.” First, there are no reservists yet in Ukraine. Only professional contract soldiers. The reservists are still being trained in Mother Russia. Putin wouldn’t send untrained reservists into a combat zone, the way the corrupt western historians say Stalin did.
These aren’t reservists. They must be something like a Russian USO show that got disoriented because they were relying on a faulty, western-produced map.
That’s it. A USO show. Bob Hopinski and a dozen Russian girls each more beautiful than Ann Margaret. Driving across Ukraine to uplift the already morale of the brave Russian troops. Only, their American-built deuce-and-a-half truck broke down. And, while any four of them could defeat the entire Ukrainian army, we understand that Putin might have to order them to surrender rather than risk that one should break a fingernail.
Thanks for the maps.
Since the troops in Lyman appear to have held in place rather than to have retreated when it seemed likely they would be cut off I’d guess they are more reliable troops willing to follow orders and that they were ordered to stay in place, probably for domestic Russian political reasons.
A couple weeks ago Russians in a similar situation did retreat, probably out of a mix of panic by individual elements and orders from higher ups who decided it was wiser to save their forces for a later day.
For the Ukrainians it seems the wisest course is to encircle and siege any concentrations of Russians steady enough to hold in place. For Russian troops to retreat across large areas so soon after Putin’s ceremonies would make Putin appear foolish. I expect Putin to sacrifice future military strength for domestic political considerations in the near term.
They didn’t “repatriate” anything.
They carried out a bit of symbolic tubthumping kabuki theater that most of Russia knows is bollocks, and the international community knows is farcical and illegal.
The Donbas - a region spread across parts of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions - is the only section of the entire annexed region that Russia had even a paper-thin moral claim to.
Russia didn’t ballot Zaporizhzhia. A Russian TV station gave a total vote count of less than 40,000 for a province with a population of 1.666 million at the start of the conflict, and that included empty ballot sheets being put in the “yes” pile live on Russian TV news.
The 800,000+ people in Zaporizhzhia city didn’t get a vote, and most people in the occupied territory boycotted it. Russia had to go door to door with guns to get a pitiful number of crosses and when even that failed they counted the unused sheets as “yes” votes.
But as you say, the Russians don’t care about Lyman just as much as they don’t care about the reality in the Oblasts.
Leonid Pasechnik (Lugansk) and Denis Pushilin (Donetsk) are the only two separatist leaders out of the four who represent regions where there was any real appetite for Russian annexation.
The other two guys are literally just random opportunist sad sacks making a name for themselves by exploiting the occupation, and both were signing a bunch of documents that even Putin knows are totally worthless.
If Putin really does want the annexation to mean something, expect shock, awe and maybe even a nuke to hit Zaporizhzhia City. It is, after all, the most densely populated pocket of “Russophobia” inside the annexed region.
If he makes no move on it at all, then that tells you the annexation is complete theater. Putin doesn’t want these little places, he wants Russian cultural capital to be spread around the globe.
Over the last 75 years America has exported cars, cartoons, movies, TV shows, art, industries, technologies, franchises, and liberal values all without having to fire a shot. Funny thing about the free world is, it happily bought what America sold. Us Brits only celebrate Halloween like America does because we watched E.T. and loved it.
Macdonalds is a global business because people like the idea that wherever they go in the world, if they order a burger they know exactly what they’ll get AND they’ll get it in minutes.
Look at what Russia exports successfully. Oil, gas and other minerals. Grain. Borscht. Caviar. Vodka, The Lada Riva. The Bolshoi Ballet. Cybercrime. Ransomware. Kaspersky. Telegram. Hundred year old literature.
There’s some really awesome Russian movies, cartoons and TV shows - how does the West watch them? Netflix and Channel Crime!
Does anyone drive a Russian built car? I last saw a Lada Riva on my travels in Eastern Europe many years ago, next to a rusted up Yugo Zastava. The only marque from that era that isn’t a joke today is Skoda - which is now a Western brand.
That’s what gets Putin’s goat. Russkyi Mir is selling Scotch Mist. There is no new tangible product other than what’s been around for decades.
Basically, Russia isn’t being “oppressed” by the West, the 11 time zone country has had more than thirty years to prove it is capable of inventing something that isn’t utterly shit and would have mass market appeal, and it failed.
Ukraine exported cossack dancing better than Russia exported any Russian folk dancing.
That’s how shit Russia is. This war of influence is really just a cover for Putin having the most well-earned inferiority complex.
The way military aid works, dollars never leave the US. That’s not how it works. Ever. With any country.
It’s how we keep the War Industry alive and well in the US.
“ The way military aid works, dollars never leave the US.”
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Lots of money circulating in Ukraine now. Funny how that works.
Of all sources of information about the war I think You Tube is the least believable.
Word this afternoon is that one end of Lyman is Ukraine property once again...whole town is probably controlled by them in 24 hours.
Maybe Russia can hustle up another logistics hub, but this talent of ‘quick-action’ isn’t something that they’ve demonstrated in the past six months.
And you know this how? Military spending is akin to giving a country a store credit and a list of equipment they can use it on. We then package it up and send it to them.
We don’t give them a pallet with a billion dollars.
I am not saying there haven’t been transfers, but not in the billions of dollars.
I am not debating whether or not any of this is a good idea, but there ARE people who believe we send them cash. These folks need some education on military assistance.
More US aid money to Ukraine is at Raytheon and DuPont than Kiev.
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” I think You Tube is the least believable.”
OK, I accept your opinion.
However, Denys Davydov has an outstanding reputation & is often quoted by other media outlets.
Denys Davydov Telegram Channel: https://t.me/pilotblog youtube.com/c/PilotBlogAirplanesandAviation https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/
Only neocon Bidenistas like you and ZZpeedy (SpeedyInTexas) use the idiotic term "RuZZia."
“Only neocon Bidenistas like you and ZZpeedy (SpeedyInTexas) use the idiotic term “RuZZia.”
Are you under the influence?
I am not neocon nor Bidenista.
I have never used the term “RuZZia.”
Anyway, remember labels are for soup cans!
You posted a random YouTube video with “RuZZia” in the title. That act of stupidity should’ve tip you off that you’re posting crap
WOW! You got me LOL
Part of someone else’s title!!!
I normally just trash Orc Putin. The Russian people have been enslaved & are to be pitied.
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