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Russia has been 'forced to merge depleted units into new battalions in Ukraine after up to 25,000 soldiers were killed in failed advance on Kiev', UK says
Daily Mail ^ | 4/30/2022 | Chris Pleasance

Posted on 04/30/2022 7:33:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Russia has been forced to merge and redeploy depleted and disparate units from failed advances in northeast Ukraine, a British military update said on Saturday.

'Shortcomings in Russian tactical coordination remain. A lack of unit-level skills and inconsistent air support have left Russia unable to fully leverage its combat mass, despite localised improvements,' the military tweeted.

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Ukraine continues to carry out attacks behind Russian lines to cut off vital supply routes, with a fuel dump in the Donetsk region catching fire today.

Kyiv has not acknowledged carrying out any of the attacks - which have also hit railway bridges and ammo dumps - but is widely thought to be orchestrating them.

Russia is pouring troops into the battle in Donbass in an effort to force a bloody victory having been defeated in its initial aim to storm in Kyiv, topple the government, and install a puppet regime loyal to Moscow.

After it became apparent they did not have sufficient force to take the capital, Russia's generals yanked their units out, patched them up as best they could, and then threw them back into the fight in Donbas.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; chrispleasance; clownworld; globohomoagitprop; justaketheirword4it; maximumagitprop; mi6agitprop; noevidence; putin; russia; theirwordalone; ukraine; war
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To: BenLurkin

“Bad news (for the Ukraine) is that the new battalions are now battle-hardened and motivated.”

The corollary to that, of course, is...so are the Ukrainians.

This fight is going to last longer than most thought. And, if Russia DOES ultimately prevail, it will become embroiled in a resistance fight that will make the French equivalent of the 1940s pale in comparison. And there will be perpetual bad blood between Russians and Ukrainians, even more than there is now; and much more than there was before the invasion.


21 posted on 04/30/2022 7:55:50 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: tlozo
No one in Russia expected to invade Ukraine. That's why everyone stole from the military budget. Until Putin said "we're going to war"

So do you tell your boys that we've stole from him?

22 posted on 04/30/2022 7:56:41 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: marcusmaximus

Yep. Low morale and poor training. Most Russian advances seem to be either due to heavy shelling, weak UA militias, UA fuel and ammo shortages


23 posted on 04/30/2022 7:57:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

“Bad news (for the Ukraine) is that the new battalions are now battle-hardened and motivated.”

For some exposure to battle will be a formative experience like turning iron into steel. For others it may be like repeatedly bending aluminum. The problem for the new units is they haven’t been given a chance to rest and recover. They are going directly from one fight, where they got beaten, to another, but with people they’ve never worked with before.

Peter Zion opined that the soldiers in the Donbas (former Ukrainians) who may have initially been in favor of Russia have been forced into the trenches for several years with no letup and may now not be so in favor of Russia. Zion described them as “the entire adult, male population.” If I’m Russian, these aren’t the men I want behind me. Also, the new Russian general, who has reportedly had a few heart attacks, will be at the front where other generals have been killed. (Probably not a good move.)


24 posted on 04/30/2022 8:00:52 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Meanwhile, some good news:

The first family, of 3 members, was able to exit Azovstal along the corridor for civilians
Apr 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhAeKDq4Hw


25 posted on 04/30/2022 8:00:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: PIF

Please post the links for your posts.


26 posted on 04/30/2022 8:01:00 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon!)
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To: marcusmaximus

I really don’t understand this “conflict” and never have.

What I have noticed is there have been a LOT of weapons moving around and not a whole lot of things blowed up.

I have a feeling that what we think is going on is not what we think. We may have a nasty surprise in the making.


27 posted on 04/30/2022 8:04:41 AM PDT by Sarcazmo
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28 posted on 04/30/2022 8:05:11 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Hi.

I don’t care which side you listen to, it’s pretty obvious that Vlad bit off more than he can chew.

Ivan isn’t doing well in their invasion of the Ukraine. They should have had Kyiv and Donesk in the first week or two.

Example? U.S. Seventh Corp would have the whole enchilada in two weeks. Three weeks tops.

Imho.

5.56mm


29 posted on 04/30/2022 8:07:49 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: PIF

Russia is failing to seize all of Donbass so Putin cannot claim a "propaganda" victory here. So what's next for him?

30 posted on 04/30/2022 8:08:26 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Sarcazmo

That is why you don’t treat the Daily Mail as a reliable source of military intel. It is sensationalist!


31 posted on 04/30/2022 8:09:32 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: BenLurkin
More good news. Buryats and Chechens are killing each other in Kherson. Diversity is Russia's strength!

Reports coming in about a shootout between Russian forces in Kiselivka, in the Kherson region.

50 Buryats started shooting against 50 Chechens after the Chechens stole goods that the Buryats had looted from Ukrainian homes.

Killed & injured on both sides before FSB intervened.


32 posted on 04/30/2022 8:12:13 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: BenLurkin

So are those of the Ukrainians. It’s folly to think they’re not also adjusting and reconsolidating resources for a long fight. When this settles into an insurgency.. and it will.. that will sap the Russians’ abilities even more.


33 posted on 04/30/2022 8:12:15 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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To: marcusmaximus

Daily Snail I see.


34 posted on 04/30/2022 8:12:53 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: tlozo

The Ukes one is US Government welfare.


35 posted on 04/30/2022 8:16:20 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ought-six; All

Graphic video: The Russian unit commander (Chechen) was killed by the (Ukrainian) shell at the moment of live reporting on social media TikTok that their mission was completed successfully with only one wounded.

https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/status/1520068931800686594


36 posted on 04/30/2022 8:18:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: DarthVader

Rereading my post I guess it was unnecessarily cryptic.

What I meant to suggest is that none of this makes any sense. The “conflict” doesn’t make any sense at all. I have no position on this “conflict” one way or the other.

Yet Sean Penn, a raging liberal and peace and harmony loving man feels so strongly about it that he wants to put his little liberal hands on a battle rifle and kill as many other people as he possibly can.

This makes no sense. He should want to be on a plane dropping rose petals on Ukraine.

And then I notice that insane amounts of arms are moving from all over the world into this region. And nobody finds this suspicious at all. It appears to be the HQ of the globalists. If there was no “conflict” the nations of the world could never send this quantity of arms over there. It would immediately be viewed with extreme skepticism.

Yet here we are.


37 posted on 04/30/2022 8:21:52 AM PDT by Sarcazmo
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To: BenLurkin

What evidence on motivation?


38 posted on 04/30/2022 8:24:16 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: marcusmaximus

That’s not going to buff out.


39 posted on 04/30/2022 8:24:29 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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40 posted on 04/30/2022 8:26:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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