President Zelensky is in #Izium today
Posted on 09/14/2022 3:40:10 AM PDT by Cronos
Moscow for the first time openly recognizes a defeat since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, in February 2022. Kremlin officials and state media propagandists are extensively discussing the reasons for the Russian defeat in Kharkiv Oblast, informs the Institute for the Study of War.
The Kremlin never admitted that Russia was defeated around Kyiv or, later, at Snake Island, framing the retreat from Kyiv as a decision to prioritize the «liberation» of Donbas and the withdrawal from Snake Island as a «gesture of goodwill».
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) originally offered a similar explanation for the Russian failure in Kharkiv, claiming that Russian forces were withdrawing troops from Kharkiv Oblast to regroup, but this false narrative faced quick and loud criticism online. The Kremlin’s acknowledgment of the defeat is part of an effort to mitigate and deflect criticism for such a devastating failure away from Russian President Vladimir Putin and onto the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the uniformed military command.
U.S. Department of Defense informed that according to Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force general Pat Ryder, Ukraine’s success in its counteroffensive against the Russian invasion did not surprise its allies and partners.
Meanwhile, president Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops are pressing Russian forces northeast of Kharkiv and many of the invaders have fled across the border into Russia.
Deputy Prime Minister for European integration Olga Stefanishyna told France24 that Russian officials had reached out to Ukraine to negotiate in recent days, a move she believes is aimed at stopping the rapid Ukrainian advance.
The Ukrainian media The Kyiv Independent informs that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a phone call with Russian President Valdimir Putin on Tuesday, 13 September. During a 90–minute conversation, Scholz urged Putin to reach a diplomatic solution as soon as possible based on a ceasefire, a complete withdrawal of Russian troops, and respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Scholz stressed that any further Russian annexation steps «would not go unanswered and would not be recognized under any circumstances.»
Nearly 50 municipal deputies have signed a petition demanding the resignation of Putin.
That is 29 more signatures than on Monday, 12 September, and Ksenia Thorstrom, a municipal deputy of the Semenovsky District in Saint Petersburg, told CNN: «Now we have 47 verified signatures.»
CNN also informs that Russia has covertly transferred over USD 300 (EUR 300.54) million to foreign political parties around the globe since 2014, a senior Biden administration official said Tuesday, citing a review by the US intelligence community.
Meanwhile, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) informs that access was renewed to another, third backup power line to the Zaporizhzhia plant in the Russian–occupied city of Enerhodar. All of the plant’s six reactors remain in a cold shutdown state, but they still require power to maintain necessary safety functions.
Gee I hope the putards get the memo!
War/Conflict comes with successes and defeats. Fact.
“War/Conflict comes with successes and defeats. Fact.”
So I guess this aged well:
Just after the failed ZelenskyyIdiot Nazi Regime PR ‘offensives’? Yeah, okie dokie. LMAO.
3 posted on 9/1/2022 7:12:45 AM by cranked
Does change what I have said:
War/Conflict comes with successes and defeats.
Further does not change that ZelenskyyIdiot is a Nazi sympathizer who is directly tied to neo-Nazis’ military/militia elements and the neo-Nazi SBU within Ukraine.
The ONLY thing that matters is this:
The war/conflict is far from over.
The only Nazis around are you and your Putinist buddies shitting all over the forum.
This may not end up a great victory but a huge defeat.
Long proved otherwise to you, Nazi sympathizer and supporter. Bet.
Still laughing?
Indeed.
A win on paper.
A PR win to be more specific.
In reality, when your sorry ass military is resorting to mercs to win operations, it only confirms that the ‘best and brightest’ of the Ukrainian military has been obliterated.
Better yet, can the ‘mercs’ and Ukrainian cannon-fodder hold what they have taken?
Indeed, I am still laughing, at you ‘war is won’ knuckleheads.......
Normally Moscow waits weeks or months before admitting something went wrong. The counter offensive is still going and the Kremlin issued a statement on Kharkiv. Those two facts tell how bad this is for Putin and the top of the Russian government.
Ukraine has 1.1 million military personnel now while Russia has failed to mass mobilize (because it simply can't). They started the war with 250,000. And this personnel is constantly being supplied by new weapons of ever greater strength and power. Russia, right now, doesn't have the forces to hold the territory they have, and everything that is happening today was predicted months ago even by your own people, such as Igor Strelkov, the former Defense Minister of the Donbass and the terrorist who shot down that airline. I shared these predictions myself, stating that the tide would turn after Ukraine finished mobilizing its forces by the end of July and August.
What prediction/promise did any of you freaks ever make that has come true? Last week we were told the offensive had already failed. You've been sold on Russkie BS but are too retarded to see it.
Yep, that’s the guy whose irregulars seem to be taking back a lot
of ground from the suppose tough guy.
Not sure I’d want to be advertising that. I do think it’s big of you
folks to.
“The war/conflict is far from over.”
Even though you were trying to claim it was over:
“Of course, FreshPrince of Bel-air, of course:
“While Establishment Media Pushes Delusional Narrative on Ukraine, US Military Brass Now Recognizes The War is Lost”
https://sonar21.com/while-establishment-media-pushes-delusional-narrative-on-ukraine-us-military-brass-now-recognizes-the-war-is-lost/
“Russia Readies Knock Out Blow in Donbass...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-78WysP5EQ
81 posted on 8/1/2022, 12:27:32 PM by cranked”
LOL, calling Jewish Ukraine President Zelensky a 'nazi sympathizer' is so moronic, even the Kremlin stopped trying to use that talking point. Now they are saying Russia needs to de-Ukrainize the country.
“You don’t understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from us.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin in reported comment to U.S. President George W. Bush
There is “neither industry, nor a state there” in Ukraine. In 2013, there was “industry there, but there was no state even then.
Then-Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev quoted in a conversation with an industry watchdog official –
Ukraine has “several million people [not loyal to Russia]” who “need to be partially eliminated and partially squeezed out.” “New Russia,” or the territories from Kharkov, Odessa, Zaporozhye, and Dnepropetrovsk, “should be joined to the Russian regions, with full denazification, deukrainization.” Russia should institute a “complete ban on Ukrainian fonts, Ukrainian texts, programs on [the] Ukrainian language, on teaching Ukrainian – ie completely.”
Russian economist and pundit Mikhail Khazin remarks – “They need to be partially eliminated”
There is “no Ukraine,” although there is “Ukrainianism” – a “specific mental disorder. Surprisingly brought to the extreme degree passion for ethnography. Such bloody lore. Muddle instead of the state. There is borscht, Bandera, bandura. But there is no nation.”
Former Putin aide Vladislav Surkov in Q&A – Surkov: “I’m Interested in Acting Against Reality”
Further been proven to you, knucklehead tlozo.
Not my fault you continue to ignore that evidence put before your blind and lying eyes.
Please continue being a Nazi sympathizer and supporter tho, cause there are a lot within FR that are right there with ya.
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