Posted on 09/06/2022 4:57:03 AM PDT by FarCenter
Summary/Overview
Russia cut Nord Stream 1, its main natural gas pipeline to Europe, blaming it on sanctions and saying it would be long-lasting. Energy prices surged; European currencies dropped to multi-decade lows.
Ukraine President’s office “explained” the Kherson offensive – or low visibility thereof – by telling the Wall Street Journal the goal was not quick territorial gains but the “systemic grinding of Putin’s army.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to investigate the safety situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has arrived. Mission leader Rafael Mariano Grossi has not yet delivered his report on the shelling of the facility and the plant’s overall safety. But ten or so members of his mission remain at the Energodar site and have proved the value of their continued presence by clarifying plant safety after a powerline was cut two days ago.
Russia claims – and there’s some independent evidence – that just prior to the arrival of the Grossi mission the Ukraine military sent commandos on barges and speed boats across the Dnepr River from the Nikopol side attempting to take over the plant. All that’s known for certain is that there was fighting near the plant in the early morning prior to the IAEA mission’s arrival.
In the South, there was company-strength fighting along the lines of control since March at and to the north and northeast of the town of Arkhanhelske.
In the East/Center theater, Russian forces continued their slow grind west out of the city of Donetsk and, further north, into the town and transportation hub of Bakhmut.
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...Ukraine President’s office “explained” the Kherson offensive...
The vaunted offensive fizzled leaving behind dead Uke conscripts.
Fake news would have trumpeted any small success with bells ringing and banners flying.
Fake news, with their silence, is reporting the Uke offensive a total failure
We were way ahead of Ukraine and knew they’d say after they lost thousands in their failed counter attack.....(Ukraine President’s office “explained” the Kherson offensive – or low visibility thereof – by telling the Wall Street Journal the goal was not quick territorial gains but the “systemic grinding of Putin’s army.”)
They’re saying that to sustain their fighters from leaving the battlefields....they’re the ones in the meatgrinder.
Perhaps too early to call it a total failure, but claiming your plan is to slowly advance under near-constant incoming fire doesn’t sound like a winning strategy.
Thoughts? ;)
I’m sure the NASA FIRMS data showing fires getting closer and closer to Kherson is probably fake news too.
You should probably start working on the excuse for the Russians getting kicked out of Kherson now so you’re not left scrambling to come up with one.
Should you go with ‘it was just a clever feint, Putin never wanted it anyway’, or do we pretend this reversal is another ‘goodwill gesture’ on the part of the invaders?
Your full it you idiot. Read a little more military history to understand things and leave your pro Russian attitudes behind.
You show up to these threads like a drunken russian soldiers to a gang rape.
Don’t you have jobs? or is russian propaganda your job?
Shooting from the hip there, are you gunslinger?
Western media and Nato are trying to put lipstick on this pig. The whole thing could have been avoided but Heir Biden and company wouldn’t listen to Russian concerns.
Ukraine has effectively lost a quarter of it’s fighting force. The failing offense is to get more US billions. The Ukrainians know the real story.
General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), former First Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Army Serhiy Krivonos, said that Kyiv lost hundreds of thousands of people killed in the special operation. He announced such information on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian media network.
According to the general, the fact that Ukraine has survived and has not yet capitulated is the merit of ordinary citizens who knew how to organize themselves, quoted by “Strana” media.
“And this is just our great achievement, and this is our right to say to the authorities: “Why did you not do anything, why are there hundreds of thousands of people who died, what did they die for, what did you do to save their lives and our independence?”, Krivonos said.
He is convinced that soon the people of Ukraine will call the authorities to account for the colossal losses on the front.
Nice ‘good morning’ to the zelensky jocksniffers, lol. Perhaps some will respond, that is if they’re not enroute to the front lines of Eastern Europe at this time.
Glad to see that you ow have the energy to comment after your long rest.
This was underlined and amplified by Ukrainian special operations officer Taras Berezovets, who told Al Jazeera that the Ukrainian offensive will gain speed as Western military equipment arrives in Ukraine and adding that, “Currently the armed forces of Ukraine feel the lack of armored vehicles for our infantry. We feel the lack of our air forces. We need tanks and we need artillery first of all.
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Who launches an offensive move without prepositioning equipment?
You do realize that everyone on here knows your a Russian hacked account right?
Do you even know how pathetically obvious it is?
Nobody that’s been on here more than a few months would post the garbage you post.
And your Russia still sucks as a country.
You mean 'Moon of Alabama' isn't showing you this?
When the Russian flee Kherson, what do you think the Moscow spin will be? Another 'goodwill gesture' on the part of the beneficent invaders? Or was the invasion of Kherson and advance toward Nikolaev just a clever feint, and Putin didn't really want it?
I have no clue as to what the ‘Moon of Alabama’ is, but your picture, which isn’t a picture at all, doesn’t even show Kherson, let alone the smoke you claim that these photos show.
Interesting. Putin’s pundits and a Rada dude on Rossiya1 a couple of months ago talked about the cost of holding and russifying Ukraine being between 5% and 15% of its population over a 20 year period. That’s dead, imprisoned, tortured, sent to gulags...
And that was based on an unconditional surrender by Kyiv leading to the installation of a Kremlin backed government.
Since those percentages equate to 3 and 9 million people, there are many in Ukraine who had family lost to Stalin and the Holodomor, who are unhappily asking what’s worse fir thrm: a million casualties to keep Ukraine free, or 3x as many casualties if Russia succeeds.
Obviously for non Ukrainians, a Russian success in Ukraine is cheaper.
You bet. KOZzy. I’m far more American than you will ever be. I grew up in the great state of Montana and now I live in Wyoming. I was eating elks steak last night and during the day I was working on the ice fishing shed for this winter.
Now run off and go masturbate to your poster of Biden.
Living in the head of a Putin Stooge 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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