Posted on 10/01/2022 8:43:40 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
Russia suffered another setback during Ukraine's counteroffensive, confirming it withdrew troops from the eastern town of Lyman, within the newly annexed Donetsk region.
Ukraine’s armed forces on Saturday said they had "liberated" five settlements in the Donetsk region and encircled thousands of Russian soldiers.
"Due to the risk to be encircled, the allied forces were withdrawn from Krasny Liman to more advantageous frontiers," Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday.
"The Russian troops in the area of Lyman are encircled. Yampil, Novoselivka, Shandryholove, Drobysheve, and Stavky settlements are liberated. Stabilization measures are being conducted there," Serhii Cherevatyi, Speaker of the Eastern group of troops, told a Ukrainian news outlet reported Pravda.
The advancement comes one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a land grab for not only Donetsk but the Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions as well.
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But Ukrainian forces have been making advances in western Luhansk and northern Donetsk as they inch toward the strategically important city of Sievierodonetsk, which Russia has occupied since June.
Cherevatyi said that some 5,000 to 5,500 occupiers were in Lyman, but noted it was difficult to estimate the number of troops in the areas surrounding the town due to the fluid movement of troops in combat zones.
The spokesman said that some Russian troops tried to unsuccessfully break through Ukraine’s barricade near the city while others had begun to surrender.
Taking Lyman is a significant strategic win for Ukraine but Cherevatyi said the fight to fully liberate the city was not over.
Lyman has served as a major logistics and transport hub for Russian forces and its operations in northern Donetsk, reported Reuters.
Securing the city is the biggest battlefield win for Ukraine since it forced Russian troops to withdraw from roughly the entire Kharkiv region in a major counter-offensive last month.
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—”Perhaps, but I suspect most of the 300,000 will be used behind the lines.”
What sort of jobs would you suspect they are doing that would support the tip of the spear?
Also there are videos of some already deployed to the front lines.
They only have side arms and some ammunition; no shelter, food, water...AND NO OFFICERS OR SENIOR NCOs.
Just conscripts without training.
Russia Has NO PLAN For Their Soldiers After Mobilization
https://youtu.be/1gQAymJvsTU
but then Putin doesn’t pay me as much as those 3-letter operations
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GRU, FSB, MSS?
In any case, we’ll see if another 300,000+ Russian troops change things a bit.
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They are absorbing the ball bearing Mother Russia desperately needs.
Cheer up it looks like the 300K have morphed into 1.5 million.
Oh i got a lot of putard predictions saved up for post analysis when this is all over.
This the best money spent in decades. For what amounts to spare change to the Pentagon Ukraine is grinding RuZZian military into hamburger.
The other half of the time, they excuse Russia's failure to defeat Ukraine as predicted as due to the massive influx of weapons from the West that has unfairly stacked the deck against Russia on the battlefield.
Not I.
I’m a ‘Russian supporter’ because I’m a non-supporter of Soros, bidEn regime, MSM, NATO, Deep State, DNC/GOPe, CIA biolabs in Ukraine, etc.
However, I don’t excuse ‘Russia’s failure to defeat Ukraine’, since that failure is the spouting of the MSM eneMedia.
As far as the ‘money’, it is mostly worthless fiat. The reserve currency dollar is nearing EOL, and a PM-based currency will replace it... as is occurring now with the growing BRICS+.
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“...Putin doesn’t pay me as much as those 3-letter operations...”
So, you admit Putin pays you. I understand the big bucks go to the big social media platforms like Facebook. Those Russian trolls are really makin dough.
Not only was Lyman liberated today but so were areas down in the Donetsk Oblast. And you thought you had a sure winner with the eleven-time-zone country bullying the one-time-zone country. You should not have believed all that Russian propaganda about the Donbas. Thousands of Russian speakers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are kicking Russians out of the Donbas. Glory to Ukraine !!!
“...As it is, the (smallish) town is empty, and it’s rubble, Ukraine is welcome to have it...”
But, it was just celebrated as Russian territory Friday night!!!
It is not exactly empty. The Ukrainians captured tons of munitions. Oh, and there are tons of Russian corpses on the road going out of town to the East.
Good morning - hear it’s getting chilly there now.
“...hear it’s getting chilly...”
Those cool temps will keep the abandoned Russian cadavers in good condition until the Ukrainians get around to burying them with the traditional sunflower seeds.
If the Ukes were smart, they would offer immediate protection for any defecting Russian solider. Come on over! However, the families left behind in Russia will pay a price for sure.
If the Ukes were smart, they would offer immediate protection for any defecting Russian solider. Come on over! However, the families left behind in Russia will pay a price for sure.
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