Posted on 03/02/2022 2:02:12 PM PST by Trump20162020
After an embattled few days, the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has fallen to invading Russian troops, The New York Times reports.
Kherson mayor Igor Kolykhaev met today with the local Russian commander who plans to set up a military administration in the area, according to the newspaper.
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Bkmk
Sad.
Remember the source is the NYT...
Kherson falls to Russian forces, first major Ukrainian city conquered — NYT
***For a second I had my hopes up because I thought it said NYET
NOT SAD.
How soon will Google maps start showing Ukraine as part of Russia?
Gives Russia control of the Dnieper River. Kiev largely loses inland access to the Black Sea if this is true.
So has the celebrated street fighting by armed civilians begun? Suspect the Russians will not be kind to any partisans or their families that they identify or capture. Wish the Ukrainians well but there will be a lot more death and destruction.
EXACTLY! Forgive me if I don’t trust the paper that hid the Georgian massacre.
Any attempts by NATO to intervene would cause WW3. If Russia stops there, there will be no choice but to outlast Putin (if he is indeed sick), as with Brezhnev and his successors.
They do show the four on the southern end as still part of Japan even though Russia has occupied them since 1945. A peace treaty from World War II has never been concluded as a result.
The Ukrainians are having to make some hard choices. Most of their forces are in the East, and the rest have been moved to defend Kiev and Kharkiv.
They can’t commit much to the southern front near Crimea.
The rape of women and children begins.
Makes sense.
Access to, and later control of, the Black Sea has been a Russian project for the last 350+ years. Odessa, Mykolaiv are either in their total control or surrounded. Mariupol is definitely also target. That could be a battle because that’s supposedly where the Azov Brigade is strongest.
The deep state clowns and their sock-puppet President and VP never imagined history might repeat.
“Gives Russia control of the Dnieper River. Kiev largely loses inland access to the Black Sea if this is true.”
Yup. Russia will surely annex Ukraine east of the Dnieper, basically reducing Ukraine by half. Ukraine west of the river will still have some major agricultural areas, especially Vinnitsa and that area of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast west of the river. But Russia will gobble up the agricultural areas east of the river, and the industrial production east of the river. That will impoverish Ukraine.
” Suspect the Russians will not be kind to any partisans or their families that they identify or capture.”
They will be treated as combatants, though I doubt they’ll go after non-combatant families. However they will clear clusters of combatants in neighborhoods with the least risk to themselves.
So would you.
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