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 ...
Yup. Just ask Georgia
Retaliation for Russian slaughter of Ukrainians
Or maybe they just disagree with you
Putin know how to motivate!
Would’ve required too many troops
Thanks for posting this! :)
This wasn’t a very Strong post, nick.
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I’ll believe that I’ll let others make their own judgements.
Yanukovich fled like a coward back to Russia
because that’s what failed stooges do
sure, let’s see what happens in the next few weeks eh.
Two more years to maybe win a seven day war.
Winning.
It does not have to be a ‘forever war’.
Russia can end their war and go home tomorrow.
If true, why didn’t Russia take ALL of Georgia in 2008?”
Because they are taking things a bit at a time so we wont notice. They have been doing that over again and are finding it successful (until now). Wake up!
Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine
Wednesday February 8, 2023“On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were located in the vicinity at the time and kept a record of the shelling as it took place. What the OSCE discovered was that the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded. Keep in mind, the Ukrainian Army was, in fact, shelling civilian areas along the Line of Contact that were occupied by other Ukrainians.
We want to emphasize that the officials from the OSCE were operating in their professional capacity gathering first-hand evidence of shelling in the area. What their data shows is that Ukrainian Forces were bombing and killing their own people. This has all been documented and has not been challenged."
One Word: Bullscheise
Yet today “shelled by Ukraine” Donetsk looks nothing like Mariupol. Why is that? Could it be because one is a gaslighting fairy tale promoted by fans of Russian Nazis and the other is a city destroyed in an orgy of genocidal violence?
So anyone who doesn’t push the Deep State’s proxy war ‘talking points’ is a Nazi lover? That saves you time - you just dismiss all facts which threaten your beloved talking points without exerting yourself.
The longer this war takes to resolve, the more money the Wagner Group and military contra tors make. The people making the big money don’t want this war to end.
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