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Russia's army could COLLAPSE amid huge losses of more than 30,000 troops - which Putin believes is a 'price worth paying' for victory in Ukraine, confidential UK report says
The Daily Mail ^ | 30 May 2022 | CHRIS JEWERS

Posted on 05/30/2022 8:18:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Russia's army could collapse amid huge losses of more than 30,000 troops in Ukraine, according to a confidential UK report that emerged on Monday.

While Moscow's latest estimated troop losses make grim reading for President Vladimir Putin, the report claims he sees them as a 'price worth paying' for victory.

However, the new report - a secretive analysis of Putin's brutal invasion seen by The Mirror - claims that the losses could be too great for his soldiers, amid other reports that Russian morale is low.

Latest estimates from the Ukraine's Armed Forces suggest as many as 30,350 Russian soldiers have been killed since the invasion was launched on February 24, which came after more than 100,000 of the Kremlin's troops massed on the border.

In addition, several thousand Russian military vehicles - including tanks, aircraft and mobile artillery units - have been destroyed in Putin's so-called 'special military operation' that has dragged into its fourth month.

In the latest example of heavy Russian losses, it was reported on Monday that a Ukrainian paratrooper regiment destroyed a Russian regiment.

Former Ukrainian journalist and editor, and a Ukraine Army veteran, Viktor Kovalenko claimed: 'The Ukrainian 80th Paratrooper-Storm Brigade confirms that they annihilated a unit of the Russian 104 Paratrooper-Storm Regiment (76th Division).'

He said around 20 Ukrainian servicemen were killed and their armour destroyed in the attack. The location of the assault was not reported.

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


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1 posted on 05/30/2022 8:18:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Guess they’re stupid. Can’t they just go nuke as a fallback? Tactical?


2 posted on 05/30/2022 8:20:33 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican

Was the author Christopher Steele?


3 posted on 05/30/2022 8:20:44 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: MinorityRepublican
Russia's army could COLLAPSE


4 posted on 05/30/2022 8:21:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Great! Now Ukraine doesn’t need our $40 billion.


5 posted on 05/30/2022 8:21:44 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

man, I wish I could get a prop bet on that.


6 posted on 05/30/2022 8:22:34 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitantes)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

We shall see if a 1.6% loss will cause a countrywide mutiny.


7 posted on 05/30/2022 8:23:00 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just as Jimmy Carter was thankful for Obama, Obama is thankful for Joe Bidon.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Latest estimates from the Ukraine’s Armed Forces suggest


8 posted on 05/30/2022 8:24:58 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: MinorityRepublican

could


9 posted on 05/30/2022 8:26:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

MMMOOOOOOOoooooooooooo plop plop plop.....


10 posted on 05/30/2022 8:27:35 PM PDT by ganeemead (There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or siding with Nazis against Christians.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Because it’s Coming from the daily mail it goes on my cutting room floor asap.


11 posted on 05/30/2022 8:28:25 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Mount Athos

I’m not sure does the writer expect “Golden Showers” to rain on the Russian soldiers and kill them.

Regardless this has something to do with British Intelligence as Mr. Steele certainly does.


12 posted on 05/30/2022 8:30:29 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Chances of being honest reporting - 0%


13 posted on 05/30/2022 8:31:34 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: JonPreston; kiryandil; Mariner
Gotta love these confidential reports that, upon further digging, seem to reflect only the views and interpretations of official Ukrainian sources.

Here's an example: take ISW (the Kagan-Nuland outfit) and their latest assessment from May 30th. If you scroll all the way down to the footnotes, you'll see that of their 24 sources, 16 reference Facebook posts by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Similarly lopsided ratios can be seen on many of their prior assessments as well.

14 posted on 05/30/2022 8:32:16 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I want some of whatever they are smoking.


15 posted on 05/30/2022 8:33:03 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Interesting Duran video today that fleshed out Ukraine’s new plans.

Zelensky says he recognized that there will have to be negotiations but he has a plan to counter attack and take back some territory in order to improve his negotiating position.

So Ukraine has begun some attempts. They just made an attack on Russia’s forces in Kherson in order to regain control. The attack was on open ground and they suffered large losses and retreated.

Russia discovered the command center that controlled the counter attack and struck it with missiles destroying the entire compound.

https://t.me/s/intelslava

Intel Slava Z
🇷🇺🇺🇦❗The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the fact of the strike on the operational control point of the Operational Command “South” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novy Bug, which was reported in the morning. According to the information received, 37 officers, including 3 generals, were killed as a result of the strike.


16 posted on 05/30/2022 8:35:44 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: McGruff

This is worse than Baghdad Bob.


17 posted on 05/30/2022 8:38:39 PM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Ukraine better hope they collapse! And dam quick!


18 posted on 05/30/2022 8:39:57 PM PDT by crz
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To: MinorityRepublican
If this true why is everyone from Lloyd Austin to Olaf Schultz and Emmanuel Macron calling up Putin and begging for ceasefire?

This just another attempt to get Ukraine to fight to the last Ukraine in a desperate attempt to, somehow, harm Russia. It's all 100% disinformation. All this nonsense is doing is preventing a Ukrainian surrender and resulting in more Ukrainian deaths and a greater loss of territory for the Ukrainians.

Russia will control all of Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye and entire Black Sea coastline. Even if NATO, foolishly, got involved militarily, that would end up being the case.,P> The British media is going have no credibility left after this war.

19 posted on 05/30/2022 8:43:34 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: McGruff

Western mass media has been engaged in magical thinking—mind reading and wild speculation.

These days we would be better served by witch doctors with goat entrails.


20 posted on 05/30/2022 8:44:09 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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