Posted on 05/29/2022 8:08:29 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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With Russia’s war in Ukraine now in its fourth month, mainstream media consumers have been treated to seemingly endless headlines and analysis of Russia’s extensive military losses. At the same time Ukrainian forces have tended to be lionized and their battlefield prowess romanticized, with essentially zero public information so far being given which details up-to-date Ukrainian force casualties, set-backs, and equipment losses.
But for the first time The Washington Post is out with a surprisingly dire and negative assessment of how US-backed and equipped Ukrainian forces are actually fairing. Gone is the rosy idealizing lens through which each and every encounter with the Russians is typically portrayed. WaPo correspondent and author of the new report Sudarsan Raghavan underscores of the true situation that “Ukrainian leaders project an image of military invulnerability against Russia. But commanders offer a more realistic portrait of the war, where outgunned volunteers describe being abandoned by their military brass and facing certain death at the front.”
As many careful and less idealistic observers suspected the whole time, a steady stream of both wartime propaganda and one-sided social media feeds where it seems the only tanks being blown up are Russian ones has served to present a very skewed portrayal of the battlefield to the Western public. While it’s perhaps easier to get sucked into this pro-Ukraine bias based on the innumerable so-called open source intelligence self-anointed ‘experts’ on Twitter, this is less so if one wades into Telegram, where a flood of uncensored videos from both sides gives a truer picture, as the fresh report seems to also suggest…
Ever heard of what Russian orks do to civilians of captured cities? No, thanks. No surrender. Why didn’t we surrender in 1941?
May 27, 2022 8:58am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-reality-conflict-putin-zelenskyy?intcmp=tw_fnc
Doesn't sound like winning to me.
Yes, actually Russia conquered all of Kyiv and Kharkiv 3 days into the war, and the victories in Luhansk have NOT already begin the process of a full reversal because Russian Orcs and Goblins suck at war, and no, Ukraine does NOT have more than 700,000 army with fresh reserves currently being assembled and already reinforcing the East as we speak. Everyone is just depressed and in catastrophic conditions as they quake in terror of the mighty Russian army that has done nothing but show how manly and sexy they are in this entire fight. Unlike the USA they have no gays in their military, didn't you hear? /s
And Zelenskyy also saying he has no intention of stopping until the February 2022 borders are re-instated do not sound like losing, either.
https://t.me/s/milchronicles/471
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Military analytics on the situation in Ukraine on May 29
North Fighting continues in the Dergachi area - the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to counterattack the positions newly occupied by the allied forces. The counterattack was unsuccessful. The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses in manpower and equipment and were forced to retreat. It seems that the potential and the backlog of small temporary successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this sector are gradually fading away. There are several reasons for this: these are problems with fuel, and the lack of a full-fledged set of military equipment, and the quality of personnel, which leaves much to be desired, and the forced withdrawal of part of the troops to strengthen the Donbass and Izyum groups. Therefore, for the time being, we see that Ukrainian troops cannot move far from Kharkov. Izyum region.
Liman was taken, which will soon become Red Liman again. Around it now there is a cleaning and expansion of the security zone. They report a powerful artillery preparation along the entire line - from Velikaya Kamyshevakha to Svyatogorsk, and firing is already heard on the outskirts of Raygorodok. This is the next fortified area, followed by Slavyansk. Now we are seeing active steps in its direction. Well, after the capture of Svyatogorsk, the allied forces will completely oust the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and close the issue with the left bank of the Seversky Donets, on which they will no longer remain.
LPR.
The assault on Kamyshevakhi continues. Half of the territory is already under control. It continues to hold out in Zolote, but a large grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is crowding, the encirclement ring is not yet closed.
Fierce battles are going on in the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration. This zone, which is defended by about 10,000 VES troops, has already been surrounded, and the routes leading from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime are under fire from the allied forces. Any supply is practically docked. The output of the APU is cut off from here. Therefore, the main events in this area will unfold inside these cities.
East. Donetsk region.
Art and aviation worked hard near Avdiivka, and a successful attack by the allied forces near Krasnohorivka was recorded. As noted, here, in addition to the line of defense being built for eight years, ours is opposed by one of the most combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the 25th brigade. And yet it is gradually being squeezed out by Somalia, Sparta, the 100th and 1st brigades. Slowly but surely. Marinka is unchanged.
South.
At Davydov Brod, at the crossing over the Ingulets, there was an attempt to break through the front line with an armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This group was quickly taken into the fire bag, completely suppressing the attempted breakthrough, as a result of which the Ukrainian soldiers, having abandoned their equipment, were put to flight. The pace with which they ran away from the area, just a retreat to call the language does not turn. The proposed attack on Berislav was thwarted.
Otherwise, positional battles are going on in the southern zone. Significant changes are not observed.
@milchronicles
It’s all been bullshit from globalist media from jump street
Ending never in doubt
Which is precisely what realists here have tried to explain to people who couldn’t be bothered
Now many of them are......er.....quiet
“What? Ukraine losing? Inconceivable.”
What? Russians still did not take Kiev? Inconceivable! Oh, I get it. They are fighting a careful war in order not to hurt civilians.
As an example of the Baghdad Bob nature of such posts, I was just reading about this and am familiar with WTF it's talking about: the river crossing has been confirmed successful and Russian forces were the ones that retreated. See below:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-29
Your propaganda also is also 24 hours old, as I believe the Russians are no longer claiming they they "destroyed" the Ukrainian offensive. They are now claiming that they are counterattacking those towns. IOW, this would not be possible if the Ukrainians did not succeed.
If you're going to post Russkie propaganda, I recommend only posting the latest versions.
And they’re not burning food processing plants like they are here?
https://t.me/s/sashakots/33179
Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting secret negotiations with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the burial of their dead. And about surrender. Negotiations were crowned with success, according to Grouping “O”. Read the details.
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⚡️Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting secret negotiations with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the burial of their dead. And about surrender. The negotiations were successful. The “O” group reports:
“I will not repeat that this has already become the norm for the Kiev regime and they operate on the principle: “no body, no business.” I want to talk about something else here.
I tried to write this post for a long time, something kept stopping me. Probably did not want one of its participants to repeat the fate of Sergei Lapko (company commander who received a term for showing the plight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
So, after the liberation of another settlement from the Nazis in the Donetsk region, we went to the enemy command (fortunately, intelligence works well and their call signs with the frequencies on which they work are well known to us) and offered them to pick up the bodies of their dead comrades, naturally with a complete cessation fire from our side and unimpeded passage of the car to the designated place.
After a short conversation, they received a categorical refusal and a request not to disturb them anymore on this occasion (this is a literary language, there was a long stream of obscene expressions). Toward evening they were all buried. (I’m not attaching a photo, I’ll explain further).
In the middle of the night, they come to me on the radio from the checkpoint and ask me to urgently arrive. Understanding nothing, I am undermined, I leave for the post. On the spot, they tell me that a fighter came from the other side, calls your call sign, said he will only talk to you. I go into the room, a young guy is sitting, the uniform is dirty, shabby. Showed documents. And he began to say: “I’m the commander of a platoon of those boys whose bodies you proposed to take today, I couldn’t get on the radio, my own people would be immediately decided. Bury my soldiers, please, and tell me where, I will tell their relatives the location. The command flatly refuses inform families about the dead and wounded, so as not to cause panic among relatives. We are now called up only because otherwise we will go to jail, and here we can’t retreat, cadre or nationalists are behind us, we will get a bullet from them.
He told how they were prepared in training before being sent to the front end. “For two weeks we studied the charters, 30 parthorons for shooting training and on the road.” All his words were confirmed by photographs. He says: “Fortunately, they don’t take away phones, we record everything.”
They talked for a long time, spoke about the mood in the units: “everything is sad, everyone is afraid, and those who are in front and those who are behind.” But he came not only with this request. “My main task,” he continued, “is to save the lives of my fighters. Tell me how we can surrender. We don’t want to fight for the oligarchs who are sitting abroad and our corrupt government! Why is it possible for Azov, but not for us?” .
After receiving all the instructions, he left, left with the hope that his remaining subordinates would remain alive. A day later, after the start of the assault on the next settlement, the platoon of this commander surrendered in full force, as he promised. Now their lives are not in danger.
Summing up, I want to ask only one question. When will the population of Ukraine realize that their president, a drug addict and boy-loving Arestovich, does not care about the lives of the citizens of his country!? They calmly surrendered the Azov in Mariupol, declaring that this was an evacuation, and they will continue to do so. Until the last Ukrainian... I wanted to briefly, but it didn’t quite work out.”
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Unless Russia uses nukes, the ending is indeed not in doubt. Ukraine is still assembling its reserves and none of Russia's current possessions can be held on the long term. Ukraine's forces will actually outnumber Russian forces by a large ratio by August at the latest, but most likely sooner. Meanwhile, Russia's concentrated attack is already losing steam despite the jerk-off session enjoyed by the Putinists on this forum with articles like this.
There has been a strange shift, beginning with the New York Times, then moving to Kissinger and the rest of the media, attempting to change public opinion about what is going on in the war. It is not a united effort, as there are still large portions of the media in disagreement. The hope of this appeasement brigade is that Russia, which has finally concentrated forces for a singular goal, will finally take the final city in Luhansk (note: Donbass itself is still not taken), which can then be used to force Ukraine into a new Minsk agreement and giving up land.
This is something desperately wanted by the Germans who, despite promises to the contrary, have not delivered to Ukraine any (or very little) support since March. France is also desperate to return to business as usual with the Russkies.
None of this noise, however, changes the objective view of the ground. The same shitty Russian forces that were more successful in gang raping little boys than taking territory is doomed to fail in the East. They simply do not have the forces or the armor to do it after losing more than a thousand of their modern tanks. Even if they take the last city in Luhansk, which they are already showing signs that they cannot, they cannot hold it on the long term.
It is simply impossible, no matter what Kissinger says, or the pedophile Scott Ritter, or that slob Cuban or Brazilian or whatever the hell he is, or Larry the "CIA analyst" who has spent 30 years promoting BS conspiracy theories, including denying that Al-Qaeda was a threat 2 months before the 9/11 terror attacks.
I would urge FReepers to take an objective look at their information and where they get it, using as many different sources as possible, instead of just regurgitating what they hear from literally the dumbest and most worthless people possible.
I like you but you’re wrong
But hey it’s like auburn Alabama
Well know who wins
Well maybe
Western media has been pretty much propaganda inc
I enjoy you and your posts as well, but take it to the bank: Russia will lose unless it resorts to nukes or chemical/biological WMD.
No kidding. A real no brainer. Those who thought Ukraine could defeat Russia were delusional.
If you consider trusting this Russian site “Tsarism” then you should also consider that they already declared Russian victory and total collapse of Ukrainian forces on the 8th day.
It’s day 96 now.
Re: 35 - Stop being a pig. You can make your point without the sexual references.
Some of us have been trying to warn people here that.....brace yourselves.....the corporate media is lying.
I know, I know. Some of you may need to sit down until the room stops spinning as you contemplate this.
Pretty much a pictograph of Western coverage thus far. If Putin does succeed, these same ‘truth-tellers’ will be saying, “we predicted this all along.”
Ukraine lost this war on day one. Yes, I am sure the russians made mistakes and the ukrainians had some victories but there was never a doubt the russians would wear down and slowly destroy the weak ukrainian military.
Well let's see. Should I believe the same MSM that spent 5 years telling me Trump was a Russian asset? The same MSM that to this day says the jabs are safe and effective?
I've been seeking out alternative news/views on this situation and some seems very level headed and tend to make sense but the truth is, when there are two opposing truths and I'm not in Ukraine, I have no way to be sure. Some things I've read have seemed way too pro Russia. The MSM seems to have gone overboard with pro Ukraine views. I figure the truth is somewhere in between.
The only thing I know for sure is that most of that $40 billion, will not be going to good use because I do know my own country's government.
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