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Trump ally blasts Putin's 'absurd' ceasefire offer as he insists: 'Russia isn't winning'
Express UK ^ | 4/30/2025 | CIARAN MCGRATH

Posted on 04/30/2025 2:16:55 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg was also scathing about Russia's military record in Ukraine.

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He also issued a blunt assessment of Russia’s military record in Ukraine, arguing that Mr Putin’s forces had failed to achieve any decisive victories.

Mr Kellogg said: “Russia's not winning this war. Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half.

"They haven't taken the city of Kyiv, the capital, they haven't pushed to the west of the Dnipro river (which is the major river obstacle), they haven't taken Odesa.

“They've lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers and they haven't really moved anything."

“Russia moves by metres, not by miles. And the Ukrainians are fighting on their own soil, and they are fighting hard.

“So when Russia says they're winning — no, they're not. If they were winning, they would have already won this war.

"So I think they need to sit back and realise it. I think Ukraine's in a good position. The Europeans really stepped up.”

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 04/30/2025 2:16:55 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

So Gen. Kellogg disagrees. What does Gen. Mills say?


2 posted on 04/30/2025 2:22:21 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

It’s obvious that Russia stopped capturing Ukrainian territory after Putin blew up his best general Prigozhin. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.


3 posted on 04/30/2025 2:29:10 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
F#?& Kellogg.

Just end the war.

4 posted on 04/30/2025 2:29:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: marcusmaximus

No one is winning except the weapons manufacturers.


5 posted on 04/30/2025 2:31:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Not exactly unprecedented in Russian history.


6 posted on 04/30/2025 2:33:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: marcusmaximus

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-latest-updates-2056914

“The U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), said on Monday that gains were made in the Russian border region of Belgorod; near the cities of Siversk, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and Velyka Novosilka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region; and in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.”

Define major?


7 posted on 04/30/2025 2:33:17 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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Putin blew up his best general Prigozhin

Putin is no different from Stalin, or for that matter from Obama: in the choice between good flag officers and dowhattheyretold flag officers, the former always get the boot.

8 posted on 04/30/2025 2:33:38 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Should the U.S. become part of Russia?


9 posted on 04/30/2025 2:33:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So Trump pressures the EU to put more skin in the game. Will it help?


10 posted on 04/30/2025 2:34:47 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: marcusmaximus

Somebody sure does love his sleazy British tabloids.


11 posted on 04/30/2025 2:35:43 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: MrRelevant

Russia sacrificing 50 troops in a meat assault to capture a tree line 100 yards away is not winning.


12 posted on 04/30/2025 2:35:47 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: CatHerd

General Kellogg made these statements on Fox News yesterday.


13 posted on 04/30/2025 2:36:58 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
Reading the article in Express UK, one finds: "Mr Kellogg told Fox News...."

Why not just post the Fox News article?

14 posted on 04/30/2025 2:37:38 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

You should be mad at Putin instead for blowing up his best general Prigozhin.


15 posted on 04/30/2025 2:37:55 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Putin blew up his best general Prigozhin. Lol!


16 posted on 04/30/2025 2:38:54 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Should put General Kellogg in charge of Ukraine’s army if he thinks the war is going good for Ukraine.


17 posted on 04/30/2025 2:44:49 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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To: marcusmaximus

“The Europeans really stepped up.”

(snort, snort)


18 posted on 04/30/2025 2:45:59 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: McGruff

General Kellogg works for President Trump.


19 posted on 04/30/2025 2:46:28 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The Russians could do that easily by just going home.


20 posted on 04/30/2025 2:51:45 PM PDT by Petrosius ( )
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