Posted on 09/29/2022 7:14:50 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Vladimir Putin will formally annex occupied regions of Ukraine to Russian in a major speech tomorrow, the Kremlin has confirmed, as he attempts to regain the initiative after his forces suffered a humiliating rout earlier this month.
Putin's speech comes after Russian-backed proxy governments in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions held sham referendums earlier this week on whether to go ahead with the move.
Armed Russian soldiers taking ballot boxes door-to-door left the results in no doubt, and Ukraine along with its Western allies have vowed not to recognise the results.
But it still marks a turning point in the war because it will allow PUTIN TO SPIN THE LIE to his own people that any attack on those regions is an attack on Russia itself - paving the way for him to escalate, possibly as far as using nukes.
Ukraine has vowed to defy that threat is continuing to attack into those regions today, with a key town in Donetsk now all-but surrounded.
Lyman, which sits close to the Donets river, is being flanked from northwest and southeast, with Kyiv's troops having cut off all escape routes bar one.
Putin's forces are facing 'imminent defeat' in the town which is a key supply hub for troops in the region.
Taking the town would clear the way for Ukraine to attack into neighbouring Luhansk province - which is almost completely under Russian control.
Putin maintains that the ultimate goal of his 'special military operation' is the liberation of both Donetsk and Luhansk, and defeats there would make it impossible to spin the war as a success.
It comes off the back of a devastating Ukrainian counter-attack east out of Kharkiv earlier this month that returned thousands of square miles to Kyiv's control and buckled Russia's frontline.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Anyone besides TRUMP suggested Peace talks? Nah! War may be Hell but it sure is profitable for some.
You have any proof of what you are posting?
I have been all over Russia and never seen what you describe.
Yeah, unlike when the guy whose country is being annexed is humiliated
The Russian Rybar map, maintained by pro-Russian war posters on Telegram.
Sept 28 situation.
Repost on twitter if you can’t get to Telegram.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1575043916478353408/photo/3
Ukraine would be the country that thinks that everyone else should suffer hyperinflation so that billionaire comedian Zelensky can stuff his offshore bank accts and perhaps buy another home in FL.
The obvious deep state shills here on FR seem to all support the cv19vx (and narrative), the Ukr intervention, the Syria intervention, and presumably the 2020 election steal.
How about The Grey Zone, which Cranked keeps posting from? See my post here documenting its far left bonafides: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4096895/posts?page=27#27
“The west is clueless about the patriotism in Russia for the motherland.”
As usual, you jump to conclusions.
The West fully recognizes the resolve of the Russian people to defend Mother Russia when Mother Russia is the victim of an invasion. But, of course, that is not what happened in Putin’s War. In Putin’s War, Russia is the invader, the aggressor; and it is the Ukrainians who are fighting heroically and tenaciously to defend THEIR Motherland.
Zelensky has homes all over the world.
Pandora Papers on Ukraine is the saddest thing ever. Rampant corruption.
San Francisco is not spelled R-u-s-s-i-a
OR, Ukraine would be the country that has a shitty army of Orcs infesting large chunks of its major cities that is willing to fight and die to defend itself and live free from Russian domination.
That army of raping, filthy orcs and goblins is easy to miss, so I won't hold such an error against you.
Please tell us what you mean when you say you are "secure in your manhood" when dancing onstage?
Your profile mentions the low character of Biden and Obama, but you neglect to mention the other half of the Uniparty: Bush, Romney, McCain, Nikki Haley, Pence etc. That other half also supports Biden and opposes MAGA. And BTW MAGA by and large could care less what happens to Ukraine. The ppl who support that intervention should be uniquely and directly billed for the $ we sent there.
This is what the Russians are saying - maintained by pro-Russian analysts on Telegram.
You don’t HAVE to believe what the Daily Mail publishes. But the ground truth is not really in dispute between Ukrainian and Russian sources. The Ukrainians are more conservative if anything.
There are all sorts of ways to get alternate sources and to do ones own “open source” intelligence work. You just have to do some work. Not just spout memes.
Actually during WWII, the Nazis invaded more Ukrainian land mass than Russian land mass.
Source issues again, knucklehead?
Luhansk — 98.42% Donetsk — 99.23% Zaporozhye — 93.11% Kherson — 87.05%
Russia's land-bridge complete so Ukraine isn't completely land-locked.
The Chinese. The Turks.
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