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Zelenskyy vows Ukraine will win as Russia redoubles effort
The Associated Press ^ | September 22, 2022 | JENNIFER PELTZ

Posted on 09/22/2022 5:29:57 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Ukraine’s president implored the world Wednesday to punish Russia for its invasion, even as the leader vowed his forces would win back every inch of territory despite Moscow’s decision to redouble its war effort.

In a much-anticipated video address to the U.N. General Assembly hours after Russia announced it would mobilize some reservists, Volodymyr Zelenskyy portrayed the declaration as evidence the Kremlin wasn’t ready to negotiate an end to the war — but insisted his country would prevail anyway.

“We can return the Ukrainian flag to our entire territory. We can do it with the force of arms,” the president said. “But we need time.”

Putin’s decree Wednesday about the mobilization was sparse on details. Officials said as many as 300,000 reservists could be tapped. It was apparently an effort to seize momentum after a Ukrainian counteroffensive this month retook swaths of territory that Russians had held.

But the first such call-up in Russia since World War II also brought the fighting home in a new way for Russians and risked fanning domestic anxiety and antipathy toward the war. Shortly after Putin’s announcement, flights out of the country rapidly filled up, and more than 1,000 people were arrested at rare antiwar demonstrations across the country.

A day earlier, Russian-controlled parts of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans for referendums on becoming parts of Russia. Ukrainian leaders and their Western allies consider the votes illegitimate.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: europe; globalistpropaganda; nato; ukraine; war
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To: Kazan

But Comrade Kazan, the Russian Federation will not exist in a year or two.


21 posted on 09/22/2022 6:39:32 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Kazan
Kherson and Zaporozhye will vote to become part of the Russian Federation and will remain part of it longer than any of us will be alive.

Crazy Russians. They currently occupy 9.2% of Kherson Oblast and 3.6% of Zaporozhye Oblast, but they will currently hold a 'referendum' on becoming part of Russia. Makes sense.

22 posted on 09/22/2022 6:41:15 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: dfwgator

nicky also lied in 1905.

he gave the people a parliament to stave off protests because of russian losses in the russo japanese war.

then, 2 years later he closed down parliament


23 posted on 09/22/2022 6:41:18 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Timber Rattler
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/russia-announces-partial-mobilization-the-gloves-are-coming-off.html#more

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said (video, Sputnik report) that 300,000 reservist will be mobilized. Conscripts and people currently studying will not be send to Ukraine.

He also said that, so far, 5,937 Russian soldiers have died during the war in Ukraine. (This number does not include the militia of the DPR and LPR, or the Wagner group, who have done most of the frontline work and thus have had higher losses.) Shoigu puts Ukrainian losses at some 62,000 killed and some 50,000 wounded. (I regard this as a low estimate.) Russia's total military reserve, people who have previously gone through military training, is 25 million. It also has the equipment to arm those forces.

There are rumors that the Ukraine is preparing for an all out offensive, mobilizing and preparing new units from Kiev and further west for one big push against the Russian and allied forces. It will take a few months to prepare for this. The Ukraine will need much more equipment and ammunition from the 'west', including 'western' tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, and has yet to train troops to be able to use it. It is likely intending to start the offensive only in spring.

The call up Russia announced now may have the intent to draw Kiev into a premature launch of its general offensive. The mobilized Russian troops will take about three months to be ready for war. Russia could thus launch its own offensive during the winter season. In the meantime constant defensive work will continue to severely degrade the Ukrainian units which are currently on or near the frontlines.

With a force of an additional 300,000 troops, far beyond the 100,000 to 150,000 engaged now in the war, the Russia forces could change their tactics from the slow grind that is happening now into a larger scale maneuver war with heavy strikes into the operational depth of the Ukrainian army.

Belarus, allied with the Russian Federation, is also in the process of getting ready for war. It could, as it had threatened before, cut of the supply lines from the 'west' into the Ukraine in the western part of that country.

Should current Ukrainian attacks on civilians and infrastructure in Russia and the Donbas regions continue, we can expect that the Russian forces will start to degrade Ukrainian infrastructure on a large scale. The electricity and railway networks would be the primary targets.

Update:

Some two weeks ago a successful Ukrainian offensive led to the retreat of Russian troops in the Kharkov region. That at least is the 'western' version of that story. A different narrative is that the Russian troops intentionally withdrew from the region to raise Russian calls for an escalation of the war. The Izium withdrawal was thus probably a mere catalyst for 'starting in earnest':

The Russian public, which at first did not fully understand why the war was necessary, has since grown in its awareness. It now understands the big game that is played against its country. It may soon demand to adjust the level of resources put into the war to the one needed for a decisive victory. Polls will clarify if or when that point is reached.

That is why Dima concludes that: "We can say that today was the best ever [..] day for the Russians in the territory of Ukraine."

It is now probably assured that they will be liberated. One way or another.

I also believe that the withdrawal from the Izium region, which left behind a significant number of pro-Russian civilians under deadly threats from fascist 'filtration' groups, will be the catalyst for a significant escalation on the Russian side.

Finally the gloves are coming off.

24 posted on 09/22/2022 6:41:20 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: mountainlion

‘the cousin of soros...” - you’re saying that because theyre jewish????


25 posted on 09/22/2022 6:42:23 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Kazan
More "Moon of Alabama" drivel?


26 posted on 09/22/2022 6:49:30 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

Is Chuck Schumer right in calling for $12 billion more dollars in aid to Ukraine?


27 posted on 09/22/2022 7:01:27 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Old necons never die, they just smell that way.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Okay then, get it over with and quit spending the money of US taxpayers and ruining our lives.


28 posted on 09/22/2022 7:02:32 AM PDT by dforest
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To: lodi90

hah hah, that is pure fiction. Maybe not. Zelensky just banned any political opposition.

Only the Biden regime would consider such a notion a functioning democracy.


29 posted on 09/22/2022 7:05:45 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

Do you have any idea what happened in the US during WWI?


30 posted on 09/22/2022 7:07:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bloodandgravy

Yes, whatever it takes to throw the Russians back across their border.


31 posted on 09/22/2022 7:18:08 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: dforest

LOL. Ukraine has had 5 presidents since the KGB corporal occupied the Kremlin.

Why Putin’s opposition is dead or in jail?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkJICBrJMk


32 posted on 09/22/2022 7:24:55 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Timber Rattler

Hope Putin is not killed before the Nuremberg 2 trials.


33 posted on 09/22/2022 7:29:38 AM PDT by rrrod (6a)
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To: NorseViking

Putin is worse.


34 posted on 09/22/2022 7:30:16 AM PDT by rrrod (6a)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, that spreading democracy thing has been used a long time. Woodrow Wilson wanted to push us into us into it for that reason.


35 posted on 09/22/2022 7:40:32 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

I’m also talking about the “American Protective League” and the “Slacker Raids”, and the Sedition Act.


36 posted on 09/22/2022 7:42:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cronos

https://welovetrump.com/2022/05/24/deep-dive-is-zelensky-a-cousin-of-george-soros/


37 posted on 09/22/2022 7:45:31 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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