This is Putin and GW Bush in 2002. Prigozhin is serving the wine to George Bush. Laura Bush is there too.
Posted on 01/11/2023 3:07:49 AM PST by dennisw
Russia is using prisoners and freshly mobilized troops to absorb heavy Ukrainian fire along the war's front lines in order to clear the way for its better trained forces to take ground, a US official said, calling the move a classic Russian tactic.
Prisoners recruited by the Wagner Group — a notorious paramilitary organization with close ties to the Kremlin — and others have recently been deployed to the forefront of fighting around eastern Ukraine's war-torn city of Bakhmut, which has become the epicenter of hostilities between Moscow and Kyiv.
These recruits have been forced to "take the brunt" of Ukrainian firepower in the area before they are replaced by "better trained forces" who move in behind them to try and claim territory
That Moscow's current tactic of "trading individuals for bullets" has been used on the battlefield throughout Russian history. Russia, for example, did this with conscripts who were sent into the Chechnya region during the First Chechen War of the mid-1990s.
"And what did Russia want to gain there? Everything is completely destroyed, there is almost no life left. And thousands of their people were lost," he said. "The whole land near Soledar is covered with the corpses of the occupiers and scars from the strikes. This is what madness looks like."
Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of Wagner, has used the mercenary group's achievements in Soledar as a way to demonstrate that it's the one force that is able of finding any success in Ukraine.
However, even Prigozhin has said that capturing Bakhmut will be a challenge. In a video published to social media earlier this month, the Wagner founder said that the city features layers of defense and that his fighters lack the necessary heavy armor and equipment.
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reverting to tactics from the great patriotic war.
Translation: Russia is winning this battle.
“reverting to tactics from the great patriotic war.”
No wonder USSR lost so many millions of soldiers and civilians. Ultra paranoid Stalin had his top generals purged just before Hitler invaded.
This is Putin and GW Bush in 2002. Prigozhin is serving the wine to George Bush. Laura Bush is there too.
I understand the Russian ammunition shortage is so acute, Putin has ordered that line troops hit two Zelenskyites with each bullet spent.
During the Iran-Iraq war they would give 14-year old boys religious medallions, tell them they would receive 72 virgins and send them headlong into slaughter.
>> reverting to tactics from the great patriotic war. <<
The difference of course is that in WWII, Russia was fighting real Nazis who would probably kill tens of millions of them if they had the chance. In fact, Stalin was amazed at what fighters Christians made.
Today, Russia is ridding itself of prisoners by sending them to die against an enemy who posed no imminent threat.
This is why Stalin tried to stamp out Christianity- Christianity is a direct threat to Socialism.
Who to believe.
Russian claims 30,000 KIA of their own and 125,000 KIA on the enemy.
Ukraine claims are almost exactly the same numbers but opposite on who suffered them.
Truth is the first casualty of war.
But it is a way of getting rid of one prison population.
pure evil
May it catch up with russia/putin/wagner
May they reap what they sow
Zeepers. Spit.
Russian infantry after a failed attempt to storm Bakhmut.
You post like a foreign religions convert. “Let it be so!”
Man. Just imagine we stay in a country for 20 years and lose a few thousand guys.
It’s Verdun over there.
Every crummy thing the Ukrainians are doing…seems to be mirrored by western propo as being done by Russia. And people are falling for it.
Re: 14 - another picture that shows no features such as a horizon , or objects, so that scale can be roughly determined, etc.
Folks, be wary of pictures that this FReeper other FReepers post such as this.
Hope that depleted salt mine that Prigozhin wants so bad is worth all those lives he threw away to get it for his photo op.
You have been duped into a state of ignorance on matters related to the Russian war criminals.
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