Posted on 02/28/2022 8:56:15 PM PST by Mariner
(CNN)Ukrainian forces have so far managed to stave off Russian ground forces massed less than 20 miles north of the embattled capital Kyiv -- but though they've defied US intelligence predictions that the city would likely fall within one to four days of a full-scale Russian assault, US officials warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin could imminently increase the intensity of the attack.
Stiffer than expected Ukrainian resistance and Russia's own logistical missteps have bogged down Russia's advance, US and western officials say, sparking a fragile optimism. The US has also continued sharing downgraded intelligence with the Ukrainians, including about Russian military moves, in an attempt to help Ukraine on the battlefield, two of the sources told CNN.
But intelligence and defense officials closely tracking the Russian campaign say that Putin still holds a number of moves in reserve that could devastate the Ukrainian resistance.
"From a purely military/tactical standpoint, Russia has the manpower and firepower to take Kyiv. No question," said an American source familiar with the intelligence. "And no matter how much resistance the Ukrainians put up."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
It sure would be nice to napalm that 40 mile convoy. Just a few runs. Watch them abandon the equipment.
For those still holding on to the great lie....
What lie would that be?
The Ukrainians are making the russkis pay with blood for putin’s murderous imperialist venture.
We’re in the 3rd inning. Games got a long way to go yet.
Anything CNN states, believe the opposite automatically.
6 or so air raid sirens at the hour (9:01 am pst / 7:01 am gmt+2), any significance?
note the date of the following. interview was conducted in 2017 and this is a small part of a two-hour-plus interview available online for those who are interested. this is the Ukraine segment.
if the possibility of CIA involvement in the current Ukraine/Russia “story” hasn’t crossed your mind, you aren’t paying attention.
for starters, Ukraine was sidelined in all the early talks between US/Russia, even after Ukrainian officials complained that, as it was about them, surely they should have a seat at the table!
20 May 2020: Youtube: 9m20s: Doug Valentine: The CIA - 70 years in Ukraine
interview” by Regis Tremblay
A nine minute segment from Part 2 of Doug Valentine’s “The CIA As Organized Crime”. For 70 years the CIA has been working to undermine and occupy Ukraine to bring down Russia using such things as paramilitaries, right wing Nazi groups, corrupt politicians and businessmen, coups, and warfare in the eastern Ukraine region of the Donbass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRicZc-cZ0I
note the date - 2005.
more reason to believe what we are being bombarded with 24/7 on FakeNewsMSM is a CIA psyops.
30 Aug 2005: WaPo: U.S. to Aid Ukraine in Countering Bioweapons
By Jo Warrick
The United States and Ukraine agreed yesterday to work jointly to prevent the spread of biological weapons, signing a pact that clears the way for Ukraine’s government to receive U.S. aid to improve security at facilities where dangerous microbes are kept.
The agreement, the result of more than a year of negotiations, was announced by Sens. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during a visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The senators credited Ukraine’s reformist leaders, ushered into power by last fall’s Orange Revolution, with breaking bureaucratic resistance to the pact.
One lab to receive funding is the I.I. Mechnikov Antiplague Scientific and Research Institute, in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. The institute was part of a Cold War network of “antiplague” stations that supplied highly lethal pathogens to Soviet bioweapons factories.
“This agreement will allow us to begin addressing the problems faced by the Odessa antiplague institute and places like it,” said Mark Helmke, a staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which Lugar chairs. Under the pact, the United States will fund security upgrades at key Ukrainian biological institutes and support peaceful research by Ukrainian scientists to fight the spread of natural diseases, Helmke said. The amount of funding has not been determined.
The senators’ visit to Russia and Ukraine was disrupted Sunday when local authorities refused to allow the delegation’s military plane to leave Perm, a city in Russia’s Ural Mountains. The officials demanded that they be allowed to search the plane, then relented after several hours and allowed the aircraft to proceed to Ukraine, a spokesman for Lugar said. Yesterday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry formally apologized for the incident.
(NO PIC, ONLY CAPTION): Viktor Yushchenko, left, the president of Ukraine, greets Sens. Richard G. Lugar, center, and Barack Obama during their visit to the capital, Kiev.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/08/30/us-to-aid-ukraine-in-countering-bioweapons/72059ed1-90ca-4381-ac6f-10f4e205f09e/
Yeah when are you Putin fanbois going to wise up? This is a cousin on cousin war. The granfathers of the Ukrainians were part of the inviciale Red Army you so despertly want to belive in.
Attacking a city and taking it are two vastly different things as the Nazis found out in WW2
Just cause Putin hates the same people you do does not make him a good guy,
it is 1938 and you all are playing Chamberlin to Putin's Hitler.
The jingoistic neocons around here actually believe the Russians are being beaten. They are lapping up CNN’s, NYT, Fox’s, Biden’s disinformation as quickly as they can spew it out. The Russians have done nothing but cross the border and get into position to level however much of Ukraine it takes if Zelenskyy attempts an unwinnable war. The war mongers around here and all over the deep state are running with the lie that Russia is a paper tiger. Stupid and very, very dangerous.
The NWO RINO Freepers believe, or claim to believe, even the most childish and outrageous propaganda. I'm still laughing at all the nut jobs who claim that Russian troops are running out of gas only 100 miles from their own borders while they are actively exporting energy to the United States. It's hard to argue with willing gullibility.
Can’t understand why the crappy Russian army who can’t take on Ukraine needs an entire institution, in NATO, to contain them. Weird.
Where do you live in Russia?
Scratch a rabid warmonger and you will find a pro-lockdown loon.
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