Posted on 03/29/2022 7:36:08 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Russia has agreed to “fundamentally cut back” military activity around Kyiv and Chernihiv in order to “increase mutual trust” in a step towards a peace deal with Ukraine.
Russia’s deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin says Russia will "radically reduce" military activity outside the two cities, reports have claimed.
Mr Fomin said Moscow has decided to “fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv” in order to “increase mutual trust for future negotiations to agree and sign a peace deal with Ukraine”, according to Russian news agency Tass.
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I’m not going to hold my breath.
doessn’t quite sound right.
On to the next thread
“West Suspicious That Latest Russian Compromise Offers Are “Tactical Exercise To Play For Time”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4050652/posts
Yes rewriting history..
Yeah the attempt at encircling Kiev was a disaster.
Oh no wait it was just a “feint”...
I hope the war really does stop. But remember that after Russia deployed more than 100K troops on Ukraine's birder, it announced they were withdrawing, and then they attacked. In fact Russia announced withdrawal several times in 2021.
“Large numbers of BMDs with Russian and VDV flags were spotted today on their way from the Ukrainian border to Belarus”
To me, it looks like they are rotating units back to be reconstituted. Let the soldiers eat and sleep solidly for a while, after a month of being worn down. Fill the units back up to combat strength with individual replacements, and issue them new equipment to replace losses.
Reportedly, the Commanding General of the Eastern Military District of Russia (a three star Colonel General) is on the ground in Belarus, supervising the formation of a refreshed force there. Some of the reinforcements mobilized from the Far East have had time to arrive in Belarus.
I’d guess that they put a new guy in charge of that (Kiev) operation, and are giving him some time to assemble his task force, before he has to go in and give it his try.
“is it possible that World War 3 can be avoided on free Republic and make peace here between the Putin lovers and the Zelensky lovers?”
Never /s
No, Russia is pretending to be a force to be rekoned with
International reports on You tube are billed as “Russians retreat from Kyiv “
In point of fact, the Russians are in retreat or in the venacular, “Getting the Hell Out”
I’m anxious to hear our local propagandist lie about the retreat
“Naw...the Putin cult is anti Trump.”
How can that be since he encouraged us to vote Trump in 2016. At least that’s what your masters Killery and Brandon say.
But, Ukraine was accepted into the European Union.
Of course they are playing for time. They bit off more than they can chew and now have a case of indigestion... so they move to a more defensive position while adapting plans to match their lowered expectations.
But we now know it was Putin and the Democrats against Trump....lol. And a little something to console the Putin Puffers.
Ukrainian woman gang-raped by drunk Russian soldiers as her son wept https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10662723/Ukrainian-woman-gang-raped-drunk-Russian-soldiers-four-year-old-son-wept.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead
But we now know it was Putin and the Democrats against Trump....lol. And a little something to console the Putin Puffers.
Ukrainian woman gang-raped by drunk Russian soldiers as her son wept https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10662723/Ukrainian-woman-gang-raped-drunk-Russian-soldiers-four-year-old-son-wept.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead
How come?
I also hope a ceasefire happens asap.I could support any partition of land that they agree about...
but if they’re not even talking about crimea and donbass, this makes me think it’s not going anywhere.
Putin Puffers are easy to spot and expose.
As a general concept, it’s useful to just sign onto the phrase — if it hasn’t been developed, it likely doesn’t exist.
This is true everywhere, not only Ukraine. No one had even heard of Qatar in 1995. Now they are the richest per capita country on earth via the big offshore gas field they share with Iran. Everyone can see that. If alleged gas reserves exist, they would be producing now.
Ukraine pre war and Covid flowed about 690 million cubic feet per year. Less now. They consume 1100 million cf/yr. That’s a deficit of 500K. Even more than oil, with its talk of billions of barrels and millions of barrels/day, gas deludes people with its talk of trillions of cubic feet. The Reserves estimates say Ukraine has 36 years in underground storage at current domestic consumption rates. Reduce that estimate by 2 and increase Ukraine consumption via some influx of EU money and you are down to single digit years (and usually reserves estimates slash by more than 2).
There are alleged gas reserves in the Crimea, but notice GAZPROM doesn’t have it flowing. That’s curious. They have had from 2014. See the mantra above.
There IS, for SURE, extensive coal in the Donbas, but that will never play with a green administration in Washington, found to be saying that the US is demanding coal to be available to Ukraine for burning and selling.
That gas field in the west near Lyiv . . . errr alleged gas field. Chevron had signed up to develop it (it’s shale, not conventional). They pulled out in 2014. No war risks in that region. A more powerful reason was asserted. Nothing there.
Note - This does not mean a ceasefire.
So aren’t the Russiaphobics.
Never heard that but I’ve heard Russians speak out about Putin...nice try Putinista.
Like we do our President - sheesh! You failed on that one.
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