Posted on 05/05/2022 6:10:49 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, but he said he didn’t expect the 10-week-old conflict to “drag on this way.”
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“But I am not immersed in this problem enough to say whether it goes according to plan, like the Russians say, or like I feel it,” he said in the nearly 90-minute interview at Independence Palace in Minsk. “I want to stress one more time: I feel like this operation has dragged on.”
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Back from your break?
Those Belarusians must be a bunch of Biden bootlicking, neocon, Soros stooge, globohomo Nazi warmongers!
Based on what I’m seeing in the various press sources, Russia is winning, but it’s costing more than they expected.
TRANSLATION:
"Those perfidious Ukrainians! Not immediately surrendering, as Putin and I had expected them to!"
Regards,
https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/05/03/the-supreme-court-is-working-for-putin/
For the last few weeks, the fronts in eastern Kharkov and the northern Donbass have been functionally merging, and now these areas cannot be viewed separately.
As I’ve described previously, Russia’s strategy differs greatly from the rapid-advance, “leave as many enemy behind us as possible” days of late February and early March.
It’s now one of very slow, deliberate grinding down of Ukrainian forces through massed artillery, aerial bombing, ground and sea-based missile attacks, nighttime commando raids, and occasional tank raids against weakened positions.
The Ukrainians bring up forces, they get wasted, they bring up more, get wasted, and slowly Russia (and the Donetsk forces further east) move in.
There is clearly no hurry to advance; the main goal is to wear out the Ukraine’s human resources—and then, ultimately, there will come a breaking point, and everything will take care of itself.
Based on extensive prisoner accounts, today, we may confidently say that the majority, perhaps SIZEABLE majority, of Ukrainian forces deployed to the northern sector—with fighting primarily between Kharkov city and the Russian border, and then Izium southeast to Yampol’—were NOT in uniform as of February.
They are mobilized inactive-reservists, draftees, or (deployed from their home regions, in violation of their contracts) Territorial Defense militia.
What this tells you, is that the regular army has taken very substantial losses (likely including through desertion.)
I previously estimated that casualties in the northern sector since early April have been at least 3:1 in Russia’s favor. I now believe it’s more like 4:1.
It is telling that the Ukraine has failed to document even just one new Russian prisoner in the last few weeks (unless I missed something—but I don’t miss much.)
Many Ukrainian bodies will never be recovered—for example, those hit directly with an Iskander tactical ballistic missile (see below for demonstration purposes only), of which Russia continues to shoot at least several per day, each and every day, at Ukrainian sector command posts and platoon or company-sized strongpoints.
Even Lukashenko isn’t buying your nonsense.
So if Russia is so dominant, how come they haven’t won yet?
Against a smaller opponent, in an area only the size of a mid-level US state, and they still can’t finish what they started
Putin is desperately trying to claim some kind of ‘win” so he’ll have leverage at the negotiating table, but right now Russia has achieved nothing and lost a LOT
I say Russia just gives up eventually, from sheer losses of personnel and equipment
(course they won’t admit that)
I hope Russia goes all the way to Transnistria and owns the Black Sea. That way we and NATO won’t be able to stick our nose into the Black Sea again.
1) They have the bulk Ukrainian army in Donbass surrounded so there is no reason to rush in an suffer more causalities. Those troops have nowhere to go and are in a meat grinder.
2) They are trying to minimize the damage to infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, with exception of Mariupol, because they want the locals to accept Russian rule. And, it's working. The Russian flag is being raised, local currencies are being converted to rubles and the internet service providers are switching over to Russian providers.
But, a country capable of running up to 300 sorties a day could wipe out any city at any time in a "shock and awe" campaign. But, shock and awe doesn't tends to alienate the people living in those areas and it costs a lot more money to rebuild them.
You're going to look like a fool for believing the Biden regime and Ukrainian propaganda. You're sucker. But, then again, you're neocon so no one should be surprised.
As I said…………no one expected this War to need to last this long.
It’s was assumed and believed Russia would have secured Kyiv within 2 weeks.
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