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Putin's forces may only be able to keep up the fight for another 14 days, defence sources say as increasingly-desperate invaders launch more devastating strikes on Kyiv this morning
Daily Mail ^ | 3/15/2022 | Mark Nicol

Posted on 03/15/2022 6:04:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Russian forces may only be able to sustain full fighting capacity for another 'ten to 14' days, senior UK defence sources indicated last night, after which Putin's men will struggle to hold the ground they have already captured from Ukrainian troops.

UK defence sources say that Kyiv has Moscow 'on the run' and the Russian army could be just two weeks from 'culmination point' - after which 'the strength of Ukraine's resistance should become greater than Russia's attacking force.' Advances across Ukraine have already stopped as Moscow's manpower runs short.

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as Russia's invasion falters, its methods become more brutal - with cities increasingly coming under indiscriminate rocket fire. Kyiv, the capital, suffered another round of bombing on Tuesday morning as apartment blocks were set on fire by early-hours strikes, though there was no immediate figure on casualties.

Ukraine's military said four Russian helicopters, a jet, and a cruise missile were shot down by its forces which remained in control of all major cities - including the badly-hit southern port of Mariupol.

Putin's stuttering invasion has forced even his close allies to admit, publicly, that things are not going to plan.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: putin; russia; ukraine; war
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To: jpsb

GFY moron. It was the USA’s Democrats spreading around buckets of corrupt cash in Ukraine.

I have been to Ukraine. Several times. Yes business is difficult and corrupt. Not as corrupt as Washington, DC, however. My company chose not to do business there because of the corruption.

I have been in Kiev. I have been in Sevastopol. I have been in Yalta. The civilians in that country do not deserve to be slaughtered by Russians, any more than the civilians of Texas do. No matter what you think.

Have some more coffee and say your morning prayers, Mr. Grouchy.


101 posted on 03/15/2022 7:50:17 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Mr Rogers

I think the citizens of Serbia, Libya and Iraqi might disagree.


102 posted on 03/15/2022 7:50:43 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: brownsfan

You called another freepers thinking one dimensional and you react like it’s an insult when I say you think alt dimensionally? That’s being a jerk? You need to grow some thicker skin son. Seems I hit a nerve.

BTW, I may be a keyboard warrior today, but I did 20 years out in the field at the tip of the spear before my current job supporting the warriors still out there.

What qualifies you to insult someone else’s opinion?


103 posted on 03/15/2022 7:52:17 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: marcusmaximus

Russia just placed personal sanctions on Biden and Hillary. Whatever that means.


104 posted on 03/15/2022 7:53:00 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: blackberry1

You mean, they can’t drag it out until November, and call Republicans “Putin backers”? Oh, well. Next crisis. Let’s go, Brandon.


105 posted on 03/15/2022 7:53:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: JoeVortex

I don’t care what the topic is, if it’s in the Daily Mail it’s fake news.


106 posted on 03/15/2022 7:54:30 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: marcusmaximus

That is part of war and to be expected, but these pictures in no way verify this story.


107 posted on 03/15/2022 7:55:04 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: HollyB

They gotta have sex, ‘cause Venal Vladmir says.


108 posted on 03/15/2022 7:55:35 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: bte

I can.


109 posted on 03/15/2022 7:55:41 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: marcusmaximus

The Daily Mail is all propaganda all day long every single day.


110 posted on 03/15/2022 8:04:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: marcusmaximus

So what?


111 posted on 03/15/2022 8:05:14 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Magnum44

“What qualifies you to insult someone else’s opinion?”

Not sure what bearing your service has on this, but if it makes you feel better to make sure I know you served, great.

I don’t see one dimensional thinking as an insult. Very bright people often get in a mode of one dimensional thinking. The poster I called a one dimensional thinker posted something to the effect: Putin invaded Ukraine, that makes him the clear bad guy.

As I said in my original opinion, invasion makes Putin mostly bad, but are there mitigating circumstances? Do you know for sure there aren’t? Does anyone? How much are we being lied to? Seems to me that the left/RINOs are lathered up to get us into a war.

But, you felt the need to join the keyboard brigade, which confirms my opinion of you.


112 posted on 03/15/2022 8:20:24 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: FlyingEagle
GFY moron.

And yet you are unable to refuse one single thing I said. Tell me again, who is the moron here?

113 posted on 03/15/2022 8:20:36 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

‘’I don’t care what the topic is, if it’s in the Daily Mail it’s fake news.’’

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Quote of the day. The more territory Russia takes, the worse they are doing it seems


114 posted on 03/15/2022 8:21:26 AM PDT by ALX
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To: brownsfan

Let me give you a hint. When you are invading a country without any justifiable cause, you’re the bad guy.


115 posted on 03/15/2022 8:23:54 AM PDT by Salohcin
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To: brownsfan

You’ll buy me nothing.

As usual your post was insults devoid of substance.

Typical anti American leftist Putin ass kisser.


116 posted on 03/15/2022 8:25:01 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Salohcin

Presumably US and Western mass media oligarchs gets to decide what a “justifiable cause” is—and you believe every word.


117 posted on 03/15/2022 8:25:18 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Williams

“As usual your post was insults devoid of substance.

Typical anti American leftist Putin ass kisser.”

Glass houses, stones.


118 posted on 03/15/2022 8:29:20 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: brownsfan

He probably doesn’t give you facts because the strategic as well as moral issues are so clear to those of us who know even an ounce about the world situation but ...

We also know that if someone takes the time to list facts, you will answer with an insult, or something about vaccines, or you’ll pretend you saw none of the substance and address none of it.

Happens many times a day on here.

Trump armed the Ukrainians to fight and kill the Russians with offensive weapons. There were a lot of important reasons why he did that. I’ll stick with Trump, and if you’re a conservative you ought to have heard him brag about this in 100 speeches.

Now we can all read your stupid insults as an “answer”.


119 posted on 03/15/2022 8:30:36 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Salohcin

“Let me give you a hint. When you are invading a country without any justifiable cause, you’re the bad guy.”

26 biolabs. American supported. Those are facts. Beyond that, I don’t know, but I agree, that makes him mostly bad.

If Cuba had 26 biolabs supported by Russia, what would we do?


120 posted on 03/15/2022 8:31:30 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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