Posted on 08/13/2024 7:52:03 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
VLADIMIR Putin has reportedly called in his ex-bodyguard to lead the desperate defence of Kursk as Russian casualties pile up on their own turf.
Ukraine last week stormed into Russia and is said to have taken out so many enemy troops that they can't even be taken to morgues and identified.
In response, a shocked Vlad has given the reins to his trusted old bodyguard, who once claimed he saved him from a rampaging brown bear.
Alexei Dyumin, 51, is now coordinating the defence ministry, security agencies and regional authorities in the rush to save Russian regions from Kyiv's forces.
It's estimated that the Ukrainians have also captured up to 1200 of their rival soldiers in the staggering surge.
Dyumin's standing is such that he's even been talked of as a potential successor to Putin.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Will wait a few days before deciding if this is Propaganda.
Ukraine had better watch their six o’clock. Susan Rice is not a military strategist. Being 50 miles inside your enemies lines is very dangerous because you’re likely to be surrounded with no escape, which may be what our neocons wish for? Americans to rescue them and get pulled into their precious “Reset War”.
What precious nonsense.
sWill Stewart has secret video of The Putin’s leg shaking badly as he clutched his cancerous elbow while blubbering at the feet of Alexei Dyumin.
Why does Biden keep sending money to Zelensky?
Some kind of sensationalism there. Is Putin dead yet? I suggest you revisit the posts you made and those of many realists, like myself, when you told how Putin was kaput and Prigozhin had taken the Kremlin. I assure you and you can write this down, you will look just as foolish this time when this plays out here and in central Donbas over the next few days. Please, keep cheerleading this developing catastrophe for NATO and the Ukes.
We shall see, won’t we? I would enjoy being wrong.
Laundry. Gotta clean it well. Do you have any idea what it costs to live inside the DC Metro areas? Maids command a six figure salary these days ya know!
LMAO
great! now take out all of Russias oil refineries!
This is a British version of the National Enquirer, Star, Globe, or National Examiner, but without independence.
Fish wrap and rags require better substance.
The driver mentioned has the inside track and full confidence a master politician gives his finest student. A fine comparison would be a comparison of Kalama’s manner of entering politics, e.g., Willies play toy vs. a highly qualified security professional. Heels Up vs. Intelligence.
The guy like Kamala was in the right circles but Kamala couldn’t even handle the border.
The Economist reports (archived) on the operation from a hospital in Sumy:
"[T]he accounts from Ukraine’s wounded suggest it has not been a walk in the park, and remains risky. The hospital ward reeks of the sacrifice: soil, blood, and stale sweat. Foil burn-dressings line the corridor. In the yard, the patients, some wrapped like mummies from head to toe in bandages, smoke furiously. Angol, a 28-year-old paratrooper with the 33rd brigade, looks like a Christmas tree. His left arm is immobilised in a fixation device. Tubes, bags and wires protrude from his body. He was also about 30km into Russia when his luck ran out. He isn’t sure if it was artillery or a bomb that hit him. Maybe it was friendly fire; there was a lot of that."
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/ukraine-sitrep-the-kursk-incursion-was-stopped.html#more
Russia has thus mostly contained the Ukrainian onslaught. The operation is now a new meat grinder like Krinky on the southern front previously was. An operationally isolated attrition pit into which the Ukrainians will have to feed more and more reserves they do not have or will retreat from treeline by treeline.
Russian drones and bombers are now leading the fight. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the Ukrainian incursion has lost much of its armored equipment (machine translation):
"In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, the enemy lost up to 1,610 servicemen, 32 tanks, 23 armored personnel carriers, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, 136 armored combat vehicles, 47 vehicles, four anti-aircraft missile systems, a multiple launch rocket launcher and 13 field artillery pieces."
Dyumin stronk! Kill mishka bare hands!
That's bizarre fake news. Next they'll be claiming to have armies of 2-headed babies - there'll be pictures on the cover of the National Enquirer in the grocery store, with each baby head wearing a military helmet.
For those who wonder what's gong on -it's incredibly sad that instead of retreating his troops when they couldn't reach the Kursk Nuclear Power plant, Zelensky had them dig in. They are there without air cover. They are his best brigades. They are going to die. In fact, more are crossing the border.
Why, you ask, would Putin allow more to cross the border? Why didn't Putin already close the border, 7 days after the crossing? Why did he allow them to cross in the first place? Likely, because Putin was aware of the plan weeks prior to the Kursk incursion, according to a source who told Alexander Mercouris weeks before it happened. It's a trap. Zelensky sent his best brigades into Putin's trap, and when they couldn't make it to the plant, he told them to dig in. Sad. Stupid waste of his loyal fighting men's lives.
Kursk Becomes Ukr's Trap, Heavy Losses, Rus Retakes Ground; Ukr Toretsk Disaster, Niu-York Falling
What Scott Ritter doink?
I refuse to argue with you.
There is NO source for reality in this conflict. FACT.
Nobody talks about the “real motive”.
Have a good day.
The Sun? Seriously? Name one Ukie Offensive that has been successful? All their offensives were turned in Cauldrons, “ boiling cauldrons”, Bakmut, Avidiivka, etc….massacres.
Fact is this incursion is not sustainable. The Ukies supply lines are getting butt hammered by Vlad’s FAB’s and Kinzhals.
Take another Hopium pill, then get back with us in a week or two.
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