Posted on 05/28/2022 6:39:44 AM PDT by JonPreston
Russia asserted Saturday that its troops and separatist fighters had captured a key railway junction in eastern Ukraine, the second small city to fall to Moscow’s forces this week as they fought to seize all of the country’s contested Donbas region.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the city of Lyman had been “completely liberated” by a joint force of Russian soldiers and the Kremlin-backed separatists, who have waged war in the eastern region bordering Russia for eight years.
Lyman, which had a population of about 20,000 before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, serves as a regional railway hub. Ukraine’s train system has ferried arms and evacuated citizens during the war, and it wasn’t immediately clear how the development might affect either capability.
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“Putin seems to have the Big Mo”
Correct, the Special Military Operation seems to be progressing rather steadily.
You don’t hear much about Ukraine these days. It appears that Russia is making the slow plodding march to taking the eastern part of Ukraine, which is what many experts said from the beginning is what Russia really wants.
I think it’s costing them more than they thought it would, though.
This is not now, nor has it ever been about Putin.
This is about the Russian state pursuing its national interest.
If Putin was not there, this operation would have occurred anyway.
He’s just glad he isn’t stuck with Big Mike.
It’s best we help make it as expensive as we can for Putin. Aggression is in the Russian DNA. It took 2 bombs to suppress the Japanese. The Russians just might know better than to go that route. They’ve backed down before. Young soldiers not returning home will send a collective message to the parents. The more the better.
Don’t forget the Holodomor. Russia probably suffered the most in WW2. Sad state of affairs. You do not get anywhere trying to understand people.
That's the most idiotic thing I've read on FR in a long time.
“Signs of Ukrainian Collapse in Donbass as Liman Falls to Russia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJp89ReD1qw&ab_channel=AlexanderMercouris
Interesting news/analysis in this report. Supposedly a big reason for the narrative shift is the reality setting in that U.S. and NATO war stocks are now so depleted, there is only a 2 week supply of warfighting ordnance left in Europe for all needs.
Seems we don’t have infinite war stocks to funnel into Ukraine, much of which is destroyed before it gets to the eastern fronts.
“I think it’s costing them more than they thought it would, though.”
That is likely the case, but it’s not a cakewalk for the West because they thought they’d have the Russian economy on its knees almost immediately. Now they’re left having to choose between freezing this winter or paying for their gas on Russian terms.
About the only winners will be the Defense Contractors, as it wasn’t looking good for them, with Afghanistan gone and Iraq pretty quiet.
What I can’t understand is why we need to start a war to help out the defense contractors, why not simply do what Reagan did and build up our military without a war? That way, we wouldn’t wind up with the rest of the Europe (including our troops there) now virtually defenseless against a Russian conventional attack, due to most of our weapons inventory being given to Ukraine..
The Ukrainians should seriously consider bombing the dam at Nova Kakhova. Eliminate one Russian held crossing over the Dnieper,and flood out the Russian forces between there and the Black Sea.
Remove the COPE and its quite clear (lol).
I don't understand your putting those two items in proximity to one another.
The Holodomor was a Russian crime - a genocide of the Ukrainian people perpetrated by Stalin and his henchmen.
In contrast, the suffering of the peoples of the Soviet Union and/or the sacrifices they made in WW2 were the fault of the German Nazis (but also to Stalin's blundering).
Regards,
The point of the first map from 1914 is NOT to show Ukraine has no right to exist, or that it is Russian property. Same goes for Ireland, etc etc. The point is that central European borders have appeared, disappeared and shifted for centuries going back a thousand years. But suddenly, the latest "Bloodlands" border revision is worth risking nuclear WW3?
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So you’re saying Russia will get what it wants, but we support the killing of as many Ukrainians and Russians as possible in the process? I think your thought process is all F*ed-up.
The entire purpose of the Ukraine propaganda was to gin up support for the 40 billion corruptofest. They wouldn’t have been able to marshal almost universal support from the stupid politicians for that amount of money if people knew it was a lost cause.
Now that that is accomplished, there is no need to keep the lie going, especially when facts go so strongly against it.
Mariner is right. Russia places vast importance on its only warm water port and the Ukes were cutting off the water to the Crimea Peninsula and the 10 mile long bridge over the Strait of Karch is too vulnerable.
Educate yourself.
Yep, it’s 100% not our business. I see it as pointless (except for the corrupt state department) foreign entanglement that will accomplish nothing good for the U.S.
Great summation with maps. I hope the mad dog neocons can open their tiny minds.
Borders have been fluid in Eastern Europe for centuries and Putin’s historical hero is apparently Catherine the Great who participated in the partition of Poland/Lithuania and gained Ukrainian territory on three different occasions. Crimea came into the Russian fold under Catherine.
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