Posted on 03/25/2022 2:23:09 PM PDT by libh8er
Ukraine has disabled 20 Russian battalions, Western officials said today, as a Kremlin army chief hinted that Moscow may scale back its attack on its neighbour and instead focus on 'liberating' the eastern Donbas region.
Russia's defence ministry also updated its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers, adding that 3,825 soldiers had been wounded - figures that are far lower than Western intelligence estimates that put Moscow's losses in the tens of thousands.
In a military update today, Moscow attempted to put a positive spin on its disastrous invasion saying that the first phase of its military campaign in Ukraine was over.
But the update - combined with the West's claim that Russia has lost 20 out of the 120 battalions originally massed on Ukraine's border - is the latest sign that Vladimir Putin has rolled back his ambitions, and is on the run.
In another embarrassing blow to Putin, it was revealed today that a Russian brigade commander had died after being run down with a tank by his own troops.
Western officials believe Colonel Yuri Medvedev was brutally taken out by mutinous soldiers after their 37th Motor Rifle Brigade suffered huge losses.
But despite the apparent change in tactics, smaller-scale strikes continued without pause as Russia, suffering heavy losses and meagre progress against key targets, pursues its relentless campaign of bombardment against Ukraine's cities.
In one attack on Friday, Ukraine said a Russian missile attack had hit a military command centre in the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine. Kyiv officials reported the attack on Friday, adding it was unknown if there were any casualties.
'Today at around 4.30 p.m, the Russian occupiers launched a missile strike on the territory of the Air Force Command in Vinnytsia,' the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram.
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Supposedly that’s all they ever wanted to do, but nothing is clear in this thing.
Since day 1 of the invasion Russian demands have been:
Neutral Ukraine
Stop shelling the Donbas
Independence for the Donbas and Ukraine
Get rid of the Nazi unitd
They might keep Mariupol too, if they can take it. The Russian people might expect some return in the form of a “land bridge” to Crimea, in exchange for the lives of their sons and husbands.
“as Western intelligence says...”
Well, there you go. Wishes multiplied by erroneous assumptions, in a made-for-TV-movie, with a romantic subplot.
What are the names of these “western officials” saying that Russia has lost 20 battalions?
LOL. Where are the 20 lost battalions? What indicates where are the plans outside southeast?
Yep, the only question is how big Donbass will be. The longer Ze is playing the more likely he is to become a landlocked country.
Biden already spilled the beans up front and Putin himself gave the three specific goals he was looking to achieve.
It has all been globalist hype that he was trying to take back all of Ukraine (and Eastern Europe!) this spring.
That was ALWAYS the intention...look at the negotiations to date...The damn civil war in donbass has been going on since 2014....at least.
***They might keep Mariupol too, if they can take it. ***
It is effectively done, what is happening now is mopping up. The administration building in Mariupol has been taken two days.
And of course they are going to keep it... well, specifically DNR is going to keep it, it is in the former Donetsk province.
As for the land bridge.. technically it is already in existence (even w/o Mariupol) but it would require forming Kherson PR to legalize.
Oh, no, Putin Bros!
Collapsed his economy for what?
Will be a far more dangerous situation after Putin dies w/i the next couple of years.
Good thing we will have tough President Harris to restore respect for ‘Merica!
Where are the 20 lost battalions?
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Dead, wounded, missing, captured; they are no longer effective BTGs.
The Russians were clearly trying to take Kyiv, force a surrender, depose Zelensky and put someone more to Putins liking in his place. If they had done that they would have taken all of Ukraine without actually conquering the entire country
What a staggering miscalculation by the rabid dog. Lose an enormous amount of men and material for something you basically already had. Your military is an international laughing stock. Sanctions are going to devastate so many sectors of your economy. And your fellow criminal regime the CHICOM’S now own you. Just wow!
But, this propaganda organ is declaring victory for the Ukrainians?
And, no, I don't believe the Russians have lost more troops than they did in WWII against the Nazi in the same region. The claim is absurd.
Possibly, but likely not. They’ve got loads more firepower than they rolled out, of course.
As pointed out in another thread, if the reference in this slop is to the 37th Guards Rifle Division, it ceased to be a division over a decade ago.
Thanks for the update, Generalissimo.
Apparently the “neo-Nazi” Azovs are dug in at Mariupol and fighting fanantically. They won;t be defeated unbless they can be somehow blasted out of their bunkers.
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