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Signs of Coming Russian Offensive Mount on Multiple Fronts in Ukraine
https://www.wsj.com/ ^ | Feb. 4, 2023 | By Matthew LuxmooreFollow

Posted on 02/05/2023 11:41:05 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

DNIPRO, Ukraine—Russia is regrouping its forces in eastern Ukraine and launching offensives along five lines of attack, Ukraine’s armed forces said on Saturday as officials in Kyiv and Western capitals continue to warn of a major Russian push to gain territory.

The main focus of Russia’s offensive remains the besieged city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, which it is seeking to surround and capture. The Ukrainian military said it had repelled multiple attacks, inflicting significant losses for the Russians.

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To: canuck_conservative

“we didn’t start this war Putin did, when he invaded Ukraine in 2014”

LOL - good one. Ukraine was just minding its own business in 2014 and Victoria Neuland was in Grade School then.


61 posted on 02/06/2023 5:42:24 AM PST by BobL
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To: blitz128

Well stated. Thank you. putin is clearly evil, a dictator willing to destroy a country and kill tens of thousands of Ukrainains and russians for what?

for his ego!


62 posted on 02/06/2023 5:44:13 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Krosan

in a nustshell, this:

“It really is a rare occasion when morality is so clear. Russia invaded Ukraine to eradicate them. Ukrainians do not want to be eradicated.”

Russia is the invader. russia must be stopped and held accountable.


63 posted on 02/06/2023 5:47:31 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: blitz128

“putin invaded Ukraine because he wanted it and any talk of higher reasons IMO is bs

The only difference between Ukraine and Poland Latvia Lithuanian and Estonia is they are part of NATO”

Yes, these are facts.

putin is an evil man


64 posted on 02/06/2023 5:50:04 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong

Everyone knew this was going to happen....it was no secret and planned since 2014 and before....Poroshanka said on video Ukraine was ‘given’ 8 years to get ready to take over the Donbass and Crimea....Putin got ahead of them...It’s just that simple.


65 posted on 02/06/2023 5:50:26 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

You are entitled to you opinion, of course.

I disagree. It is not simple at all. It is complex and intricate and putin is an evil player in it. He wants to go backward in history, creating the soviet empire again, imo.

But times have changed and Ukraine is not going along with putin’s evil ambitions.


66 posted on 02/06/2023 6:10:02 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Krosan
Should have just not invaded and there would be no killing.

Russia believed Ukraine was committing genocide against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine. That is why Russia intervened. I don't know if that was true or not but there is plenty of documentation on ethic Russians being murder in Eastern Ukraine. And vice versa.

68 posted on 02/06/2023 6:38:32 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Sunsong

Ukraine will have no choice whn the just settles. hy have an never will be their own country, they cannot stand on their own.


69 posted on 02/06/2023 7:16:54 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

LOL Ukraine has been “a country” longer than russia has


70 posted on 02/06/2023 7:18:43 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

No Good Guys here. Enough war Crimes for both sides. In truth, its a silly border dispute over what is or is not, Russia and is or is not Ukraine. But wars have been fought for silly reasons in the past. The War of Jenken’s Ear comes to mind where George Washington’s brother was lost. From time to time nations, like people, go on killing sprees—This is our time. We forgot WW II so we must have a WW III to remember that “War is Hell”. Maybe we need this—like a big bowel movement to clean the National intestines. This war will end, Ukraine will rebuild, many women will have babies, monuments built, and parades where men old beyond their years will shuffle down streets for years to come. A few will be changed for the better, most will not.


71 posted on 02/06/2023 7:19:51 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: BobL
You are continuing pushing the false Kremlin-approved propaganda. All of the the territories that Putin claims are Russian, except for Crimea, in truth have ethnic-Ukrainian majorities. In everyone of the five annexed oblasts of the so-called "Novorossiya", ethnic Russians are a MINORITY.


72 posted on 02/06/2023 7:28:37 AM PST by Salohcin
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To: Salohcin

When did I say they were Ethnic Russian majority?


73 posted on 02/06/2023 7:35:32 AM PST by BobL
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To: Sunsong

You said....”Ukraine has been “a country” longer than Russia has”

Idiot...Kiev was once the capital of Russia. You really need to catch up on History.

August 24, 1991
Ukraine officially declared itself an independent country......The majority of Ukraine was incorporated into the Russian empire after the second partition of Poland in 1793, while the remaining section—the principality of Galicia—remained part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and was a key battleground on World War I’s Eastern Front.

additionally.....Ukraine and Russia go back to ‘Kievan Rus’, a medieval Viking federation that ruled first from Novgorod to the north, and then from Kyiv. Its territory included what is now Ukraine, Belarus and part of Russia. Kievan Rus meant “the land of the Rus”.


74 posted on 02/06/2023 7:43:45 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: BobL

You said that Ukraine was made up of lands that belonged to other nations. On what basis do these lands belong on other nations? Again, with the exception of Crimea, all of these territories have ethnic-Ukrainian majorities. Doesn’t that preclude any claim that they “belong” to other nations?


75 posted on 02/06/2023 7:45:07 AM PST by Salohcin
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To: caww

I like the old spelling: “Kiow”


76 posted on 02/06/2023 7:47:04 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Salohcin

“You said that Ukraine was made up of lands that belonged to other nations. On what basis do these lands belong on other nations?”

You guys need to work on your English Language skills.


77 posted on 02/06/2023 7:53:24 AM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

You need to work on you arguments. You made a statement that certain lands inside Ukraine “belong” to other nations but you now can’t back up that statement. I’ll grant you, however, that you are a master at deflection.


78 posted on 02/06/2023 7:58:14 AM PST by Salohcin
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To: Sunsong

Lol. Utter BS


79 posted on 02/06/2023 8:03:14 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: Sunsong

Lol. Utter BS


80 posted on 02/06/2023 8:04:08 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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