Posted on 11/28/2022 9:02:35 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Following a string of Ukrainian military successes in the south, the Kremlin sought on Monday to tamp down speculation that Russian forces would withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex, with President Vladimir V. Putin’s spokesman saying that Moscow has no plans to end its military occupation of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
“One should not look for signs where there are none and cannot be any,” said the spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov.
Mr. Peskov’s comments came after some pro-Russian military bloggers wrote posts suggesting that Moscow’s forces would withdraw from the area, and after Ukrainian officials said there were indications that Russia was taking steps to leave the facility.
Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant soon after invading Ukraine in late February, stationing troops and military equipment there. A withdrawal from the plant would mark another setback for Russian forces in a region that Mr. Putin has sought to annex illegally.
On Sunday, Petro Kotin, the president of the Ukrainian state nuclear energy company, Energoatom, said that there were signs that Russian troops were “packing and stealing whatever they can find” at the Zaporizhzhia complex, although he emphasized that there was no evidence that the troops had actually begun to pull out.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Nov 27, 2022
Update on Russian military operations in and around Ukraine for November 28, 2022.
- Battle front is stable, Russian forces are pushing back amid stalled Ukrainian offensives;
- Russia continues dismantling Ukraine's power grid, leaving millions without electricity;
- US claims Russia is committing "war crimes" despite the US having targeted power grids repeatedly amid multiple wars of aggression;
- Western sources claim Russia is running out of cruise missiles because of older cruise missiles allegedly turning up in Ukraine;
- Using older cruise missiles and target drones to spoof enemy air defense systems is a long-standing and successful tactic;
- Western media admits growing complications regarding Ukraine's use of donated heavy weapons;
interesting ... the complex is only 100 miles from Kherson, but on the south side of the Kakhovka Reservoir
NYT story about as reliable and certifiable as the Die Welt reporting Zelensky dead.......
Logical fallacy on yout part, for in your first reply you say it’s the next shoe to drop for Putin even though the argument/claim the Russians will leave/abandon it has not yet been proven yet you act as if it has been proven.
I’ll let you figure out which logical fallacy you committed.
Continued... you see, the NYT isn’t providing evidence this is something that is definitively occuring, or has occurred, but rather a claim that it will occur.
Just like Kherson?
Will Russia blow up the plant before they retreat? That’s my only concern.
“Just like Kherson?”
The same Kherson that when the Russians were withdrawing civilians and troops from, the Western/US/UK/EU/NATO propaganda media was celebrating, etc. and now that the Ukrainians are doing such, silence?
LMAO.
so you admit Russia withdrew from Kherson
but why would they do that if they are allegedly winning?
Resident of Canuckistan, home of the Nazi ‘I am proud of my Nazi grandpa’ FreelandIdiot’s war bond drive to #saveUkraine, it is and has long been abundantly clear that you lack understanding of military terms such as retreat, feint, and WITHDRAWAL/WITHDRAW.
But Ukraine still #winning!
Despite....
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you didn’t answer the question, as usual
Don’t have to answer an idiotic question.
Tell you what, I will answer your question once you prove “I am proud of my Nazi grandpa” Freeland is not a Nazi herself....
that’s OK, you don’t have to answer it
but other people watching this thread will be noticing that you’re afraid to answer that question, and draw their own conclusions
why would they withdraw? its a critical chokepoint.
let vlody have Chernobyl
“Using older cruise missiles and target drones to spoof enemy air defense systems is a long-standing and successful tactic”
yup light em up and take notes on targets
“that’s OK, you don’t have to answer it”
“I am proud of my Nazi grandpa” Freeland a Nazi or not?
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