Posted on 05/02/2022 6:37:08 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
A Ukrainian counter-offensive pushed Russian forces 25 miles east of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, US officials said on Monday night.
They also said Russian gains in Donbas had been "minimal at best" and "quite frankly anaemic", and Vladimir Putin's troops appeared to be displaying a risk aversion to casualties.
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The Democrats must have been doing some really dirty stuff in Ukraine.
With the amount of bombers and artillery Russia has. Im suprised they just havent flattened everything.
If the rumors about Putin’s health are true, he may be retiring to a nice grave sometime soon. And maybe helped along by some generals.
Not sure if its 20k dead Russians. I think its more likely to be 10k.
The Russia s tried for years to "flatten" Chechnya, which is more than twenty times smaller than Ukraine, and still couldn't do it.
I'm really curious as to where some posters are getting this idea. You guys can't have any actual military experience.
That’s because Russia is still classifying their invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation.”
Militarily and legally speaking, they’ve made the strategic decision to not engage as though this were an actual war...so far.
They’ve tried. Their air force is being cautious so they dont get shot down.
A RuZZian media report said 13,000 KIA and 7000 MIA.
Once Putin goes under anesthesia …sayonara Putin. From the operating room he goes straight to the mortuary. Patrushev will be Russia’s new boss. And don’t be surprised if he announces a ceasefire and blames everything on Putin.
Im not talking about flattening the whole country, im talking about the sliver of land in the South and East.
Oh dear, the Putin golden idol worshippers will have to crawl over more broken glass to prop up his regime now
They’re showing defeat aversion. Kharkiv is unattainable. They’re putting their forces where they can win.
I would think that every soldier ever born, except maybe the great Audie Murphy, would be “casualty averse”.
A Trump win would have denied putin and his shirtless fan boy club the oppurtunity to invade Ukraine.
Its one huge tradon they hate Trump.
Chechnya had less than 2 Million people and is smaller than our smallest state, Rhode Island. Grozny was about the size of Providence, RI. Even Mariupol is twice the size of Grozny. And Russia LOST the first Chechen War. Ukraine is 35X the area and over 20 times the population.
Russia has expended far more effort, troops, armor, artillery, bombs and missiles in Ukraine than they did in Chechnya, and have inflicted far more damage. Pushing the 2nd Chechen War as some proof that Russia is "holding back" and they could have made all Ukraine look like Grozny is ridiculous.
We never hear about Ukrains retreats - most people know the ground fighting consists of advance and retreat many times over for both sides - thus the nature of war.
I read the Ukrainians are 220km west of the road and rail junctions supporting the Russian’s Izyum offensive. However, I read the orcs did reach the Severyskyi Donets river and threw a pontoon bridge over it. But I assume Ukrainian artillery will wait for some Russians to cross before blowing it.
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