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Wagner boss Prigozhin says Russia could take two years to capture east Ukraine regions
Reuters ^ | 2/11/2023 | Reuters

Posted on 02/11/2023 7:35:22 AM PST by marcusmaximus

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has said in a rare interview that it could take two years for Moscow to control the whole of two eastern Ukrainian regions whose capture it has stated as a key goal of the war.

Yevgeny Prigozhin said his understanding of Russia's plan was that it needed to fully control the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that Moscow last year claimed as "republics" of Russia, in a move condemned by most countries of the United Nations as illegal.

"As far as I understand, we need to close off the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and in principle that will suit everyone for now," he told Russian military blogger Semyon Pegov in a video published on Friday.

He said that could take 1-1/2 to two years.

"If we have to get to the Dnipro, then it will take about three years," Prigozhin added

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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1 posted on 02/11/2023 7:35:23 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

That’s the strategy; allow NATO to send meat into the charnel house and set the meat grinder on high. Remember, this all could have been avoided, but you cheer on war and Biden.


2 posted on 02/11/2023 7:38:27 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: marcusmaximus

Where is the Orchestra going to get more convicts to charge the Ukraine’s machine guns?


3 posted on 02/11/2023 7:43:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: JonPreston

The was unavoidable since warmongering Russia just can’t stop invading its neighbors in colonialist wars of choice. It’s just how they roll.


4 posted on 02/11/2023 7:44:32 AM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Since the 2014 CIA coup, the Kiev regime has engaged in a genocide against Russian speakers in the Dunbass. Russia has stopped that. Please educate yourself.


5 posted on 02/11/2023 7:51:23 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: lodi90

“The was unavoidable since warmongering Russia just can’t stop invading its neighbors in colonialist wars of choice. It’s just how they roll.”

You need to follow this thread, including the source at the Ron Paul institute. Of course you won’t. You have already drank the coolaid. You can’t let yourself be confused with the facts...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4130261/posts


6 posted on 02/11/2023 7:59:58 AM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: JonPreston

Another Putin Su-25 shot down near Bakhmut just now. All according to Putin’s grand strategy. LOL!


7 posted on 02/11/2023 8:01:26 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

I’m not surprised. Its another “forever war.”


8 posted on 02/11/2023 8:07:52 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: marcusmaximus
Another Putin Su-25 shot down...

That's it then - the war's over! Thank God, our boys can finally come home! All hail the victorious Zzelenskyy - it's Nobel Peace Prize time!!

;>)

9 posted on 02/11/2023 8:10:38 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Who is John Galt?

A new fur coat for the dead pilot’s widow is in the mail!


10 posted on 02/11/2023 8:11:58 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

You seem to be the one in need of education. Yanukovych was removed from power by the democratically-elected Rada, there was no coup. Also, the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, which was in place in the Donbas from 2014 to 2022, did not issue any reports that said Ukraine was conducting genocide. It did, however, report that BOTH SIDES violated the ceasefire on multiple occasions and that the Russian proxy forces routinely stationed illegal heavy weapons next to civilian hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings.


11 posted on 02/11/2023 8:14:55 AM PST by Salohcin
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To: Salohcin

“Yanukovych was removed from power by the democratically-elected Rada,”

You miss a little unimportant fact that several members of his party were murdered and the constitutional majority required to sack the president wasn’t reached.


12 posted on 02/11/2023 8:18:48 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: Salohcin

Stupid is a condition of lack of education but dumb is another matter. You can educate the stupid and bring them to transcend their condition. The dumb on the other hand are hopeless. Take you for example.


13 posted on 02/11/2023 8:22:54 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body... gives me more rights. )
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To: marcusmaximus
A new fur coat for the dead pilot’s widow is in the mail!

Only if Hitler-Putin, who has reportedly died 15 or 20 times, can ship packages from his mausoleum!

;>)

14 posted on 02/11/2023 8:29:19 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: marcusmaximus

Nobody here considers this statemen may be diversionary apparently.


15 posted on 02/11/2023 8:34:39 AM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: marcusmaximus

But she can only wear it in the photo. There are other son to be widows that are gonna need that coat.


16 posted on 02/11/2023 8:42:08 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: marcusmaximus

Well maximus at least this will give you some job security…

So there’s that!


17 posted on 02/11/2023 8:45:48 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: lodi90
The was unavoidable since warmongering Russia just can’t stop invading its neighbors in colonialist wars of choice. It’s just how they roll.

If true, why didn’t Russia take ALL of Georgia in 2008?
18 posted on 02/11/2023 8:48:11 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

If Prigozhin doesn’t take Bakhmut before Putin’s “victory concert” on the 22nd, he going to find himself with a sudden case of window cancer.


19 posted on 02/11/2023 8:49:51 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

It didn’t happen when Trump was president


20 posted on 02/11/2023 8:57:10 AM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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