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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: blackberry1

Why is Putin begging China for MREs for his starving troops?


81 posted on 03/15/2022 7:10:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Kevmo
Did I SAY that? NO! Classic straw argument.

I used your own argument against you, and you say straw man. I think not, I'm just not as easily manipulated by the powers that be as you are.
82 posted on 03/15/2022 7:12:05 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: apillar

Yep, time to disband NATO.


83 posted on 03/15/2022 7:12:18 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Mr Rogers

LOL. Look at the map. Where the Ukraine and where Iraq is.


84 posted on 03/15/2022 7:14:35 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Mr Rogers

You’re right. The only way Putin fears NATO is that it might meekly interfere with his plans to take Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania back into his new Soviet Union. There is a large and demented Putin cheering section here on FR.


85 posted on 03/15/2022 7:14:55 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Meanwhile, as the political freakout over Ukraine continues, China looks longingly upon Taiwan.


86 posted on 03/15/2022 7:15:21 AM PDT by nicollo
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To: bert

The problem with this take is that it is a lie. For all the talks of how the Russian system is wrong and the Western client “liberal democracies” around are doing better, Russia was outperforming them by all accounts post-CW. Even with sanction regimes, it was outperforming half of them, receiving hefty Western handouts.


87 posted on 03/15/2022 7:17:51 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: JoSixChip
I used your own argument against you, and you say straw man.

I think not, I'm just not as easily manipulated by the powers that be as you are.
***You have zero evidence of this assertion. It's just fun to toss it around, that's all. Standard Manichean approach to bullshiitticism argumentation.

88 posted on 03/15/2022 7:18:09 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: blackberry1

Report from Kiev: “The ba$tards have us surrounded. We have demanded their immediate surrender”


89 posted on 03/15/2022 7:20:36 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: nikos1121

You left out the “denazification” of the UKR govt and military

Thousands of Chechens brought in to root out these scum, that hide behind civilians


90 posted on 03/15/2022 7:23:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: marcusmaximus
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.

LOL. I don't believe the jet report. And ONE missile is a joke. The Ruskies hit the "foreign mercenary" base with 30 missiles alone -- all sent from over 500km away.

91 posted on 03/15/2022 7:28:12 AM PDT by montag813
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To: marcusmaximus

We will know the war is lost for Ukraine when they release a new variant. After all the elections are coming and “mail-in voting” needs to become an “urgent” priority.


92 posted on 03/15/2022 7:29:24 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Kevmo
You have zero evidence of this assertion.

I have nothing but evidence. I see the biden admin and media say something, then I immediately see you repeat it on FR. If that is not evidence of you being putty in their hands, I don't know what is.
93 posted on 03/15/2022 7:29:43 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: imabadboy99

Exactly, it is hard to believe a country the size of Russia can’t sustain a fight any longer than that, I hope the article is right but I am not buying it


94 posted on 03/15/2022 7:35:16 AM PDT by wild74
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To: JoSixChip

I have nothing but evidence. I see the biden admin and media say something, then I immediately see you repeat it on FR.
***Feel free to produce that evidence.

If that is not evidence of you being putty in their hands, I don’t know what is.
***I am pretty sure you don’t know what evidence is.


95 posted on 03/15/2022 7:36:18 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: JoSixChip

You claim you have evidence that I’m some kind of Biden shill, but you don’t produce it.

And here, you just blithely ignore the points I made, as if to admit you have no retort.

Or all the civilians we killed in Afghanistan killed Americans on 9/11?
***Nope. Just the taleban and bin-laden supporters. We rousted most of them within 6 weeks or so. Again, my emBASEeee strategee woulda been the right thing to do
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4043681/posts

You are not even capable of seeing Russia’s point of view,
***I see their point of view. I simply disagree with it. It’s like seeing Hitler’s point of view, as vile as it was. I disagreed with that one, too. And there’s plenty of learnings about appeasement from one to the other that folks like you are unwilling and incapable to see.

you just drink whatever cool-aid you are served.
***I’m saying that about you. So we should throw down, point by point. OR are you denying that Russia DID invade Ukraine?


96 posted on 03/15/2022 7:37:48 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: marcusmaximus; All

97 posted on 03/15/2022 7:37:54 AM PDT by USMC79to83
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To: brownsfan

Russia actually put missiles in Cuba. You speculate a threat of missiles in Ukraine but they were never put there.

Your thinking is alternate dimensional.


98 posted on 03/15/2022 7:40:02 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

“Your thinking is alternate dimensional.”

Another commando. You people are just friggin amazing. You’re just as bad as the left. Entrenched, insulting, and full of crap.

I’ll type this slowly so you can understand it... this is the internet. If I knew everything, I wouldn’t be here wasting keystrokes on the likes of you. I express an opinion based on what information I can gather. I offer the disclaimer in my original post that finding truth is incredibly hard.

What I do know is that if you actually knew anything, you’d present something more than your own projection coupled with insult. But then, that’s what jerk offs like you do.

Fight on keyboard warrior!


99 posted on 03/15/2022 7:45:05 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Brave Putin and Putin Puffers win a big one! One less Nazi, globalist, NATO lover! Well done!
Ukraine war: Nine-year-old girl loses arm after being shot by Russians https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10614473/Ukraine-war-Nine-year-old-girl-loses-arm-shot-Russians.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead


100 posted on 03/15/2022 7:48:19 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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