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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.”

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ChatGPT lists the major US news media sources having a presence in Moscow. I have never seen photographs of 100s of wounded military age men walking or wheelchairing the streets. The numbers of wounded and killed are likely absurd.

I can’t even find such things in youtube videos made by content people who are strongly anti Russian and passing through. I have looked. They don’t exist.

And note since these people are passing through, once they are outside Russia, they never talk about such imagery that they were forced to delete.

It just doesn’t exist.


21 posted on 04/30/2025 2:51:52 PM PDT by Owen
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To: McGruff

The war is not good for Ukraine but loosing it would be catastrophic. Until Russia stops Ukraine has not option but to continue.


22 posted on 04/30/2025 2:53:56 PM PDT by Petrosius ( )
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To: Petrosius
The Russians are home.

23 posted on 04/30/2025 2:54:34 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

But you love the sensatuonalist prose of the Brit tabloids. That’s why you choose to post their articles all the time rather than articles from news sources. Their over-the-top hysteria is amusing up to a point. But only up to a point.

The Express is really scraping the bottom, BTW. Unless you’re interested in Csmilla’s bunions, then it’s your go to source!


24 posted on 04/30/2025 2:55:19 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: marcusmaximus
--- " Lol!"

It is adorable that you offer old news and "laughing out loud." Quite the limp debater....

25 posted on 04/30/2025 2:56:33 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: marcusmaximus

Sounds like General Kellogg works for Ukraine’s Ministry of Disinformation.


26 posted on 04/30/2025 2:57:21 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Theyve taken exactly what they want. Theyve won. Sorry. This is all just gravy to bargain with later.


27 posted on 04/30/2025 2:58:51 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: marcusmaximus

Did it ever occur to General Kellogg that perhaps Russia really did not have designs to take anymore than what Russia has taken? That all of the claims being made as to what Putin was seeking were nothing more than propaganda to generate support for Ukraine.


28 posted on 04/30/2025 3:05:52 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: marcusmaximus

Ukraine is slowly losing the war I think that’s fair to say but when it comes to any war “Truth is the first casualty”.


29 posted on 04/30/2025 3:09:00 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: marcusmaximus
Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/PZP-dquWLzQ
The Red shows the 20% the Russians have already taken and the arrows show what they take next.
Made it ‘Tard proof for the Short Bus crowd.😂🤡
Your welcome in advance.
30 posted on 04/30/2025 3:12:59 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (XKeep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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To: Robert DeLong

Tell that to the families of Putin’s VDV airborne troops who were wiped out at Hostomel before they could advance to Kyiv. They had their orders and their dying wasn’t a feint.


31 posted on 04/30/2025 3:14:46 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Kellogg is off the reservation. He needs to go.


32 posted on 04/30/2025 3:28:55 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

Kellogg just sealed the minerals deal. Big win.


33 posted on 04/30/2025 3:29:42 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yeah, in oblasts with majority Ukrainian populations and which Russia has recognized as Ukrainian by treaty. Perhaps I should claim your house and move in. You would have to step aside because I claimed it, no?


34 posted on 04/30/2025 3:33:24 PM PDT by Petrosius ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

Exactly so.

The war is a stalemate, and will likely continue to be so as long as the West is willing to provide enough munitions for the Ukrainians to hold the Russians at bay.

It appears the Russian government is willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of troops from the ‘Stans, to attrit against Ukrainians. So... stalemate.

But Russia is also losing tremendous amounts of hard to replace war material, as well as hundreds of thousands of difficult to replace men. This is not to Russia’s long term advantage.

The question is: How does Putin stop the war without losing his head?

It is not easy to see how. President Trump is attempting to find a solution which allows leadership on both sides to survive.


35 posted on 04/30/2025 3:33:58 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marcusmaximus

Keith Kellogg is senile.


36 posted on 04/30/2025 3:34:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

General Kellogg just closed the minerals deal for President Trump.


37 posted on 04/30/2025 3:36:18 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Tell that to the families of Putin’s VDV airborne troops who were wiped out at Hostomel before they could advance to Kyiv. They had their orders and their dying wasn’t a feint.


Exactly so. Putin was given bad intelligence that Ukraine would be a cake walk like Georgia.

It wasn’t. The Ukrainians showed they were willing to fight. This surprised Putin and the Russian war machine.


38 posted on 04/30/2025 3:36:51 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marcusmaximus; MrRelevant
Russia sacrificing 50 troops in a meat assault to capture a tree line 100 yards away is not winning.

Tell your mom to tell you to stop leavink your Special Ukraine Sock on the computer desk.


39 posted on 04/30/2025 3:38:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marktwain

The Ukrainians also surprised Biden who gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine in a “minor incursion”.


40 posted on 04/30/2025 3:38:45 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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