Posted on 02/12/2023 7:39:38 AM PST by marcusmaximus
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said in a rare interview made public on Friday that Russian forces must capture the strategic city of Bakhmut to proceed with their campaign but faced fierce resistance from Ukrainian defenders.
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“Bakhmut is needed so our troops can operate comfortably,” Prigozhin said. “Why is it called the meat grinder? Because the Ukrainian army is sending more and more and more units.”
“It is probably too early to say that we are close. There are many roads out and fewer roads in. Ukrainian troops are well trained ... and like any large city it is impossible to capture it from head-on. We are managing very well.
“First we have to quietly take Artyomovsk and then we can say loud and clear that we have taken it,” he added, referring to Bakhmut by the Soviet-era name used by Moscow.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
I am already getting what I wished for. One-fifth of the population of the Ukraine has already fled the country and half of it is in ruins. Russia has already seized its industrial heartland. The Ukraine is already gone and what remains is on life support provided by idiots willing to fight to the last Ukrainian.
Your hero Biden done f***** up.
“I hope the Ukraine loses and its territory split amongst all of its neighboring countries. The Ukrainians were in on the coup against President Trump.”
You want an entire country destroyed, an entire people to lose sovereignty in their own nation, because a tiny handful of Ukrainians may have worked against Trump? Then logically you must want the same for our own United States since something even far worse happened here.
Don’t ever wish evil upon innocent people.
Not true but I wish it were. RuSSia’s long history of bullying the surrounding countries needs to stop. Like a schoolyard bully that hits and hits and hits, there is no appeasement is hiding. Time to do what must be done.
Prigozhin better stay far away from windows (defenestration) if his canon fodder, convict army cannot produce in time for Vlad’s big Moscow victory party of Feb 21
Duh
It would appear Ukrainians do indeed fight
Vindman, 44, explained during his impeachment testimony that he had been offered the position three times but declined the position because of his loyalty to the United States. The lieutenant colonel was born in Ukraine, but his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was a toddler.
Vindman claimed he did not know why he was offered the high ranking position of defense minister.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/vindman-reveals-that-he-had-been-offered-a-position-as-defense-minister-of-ukraine
And, amazingly, after President Trump was only out of office a little over a year we were at war with Russia at the behest of the Ukraine.
I want the Ukraine to lose and I am already getting what I wished for. One fifth of the population of the Ukraine has already fled the country and half of it is in ruins. Russia has already seized its industrial heartland. The Ukraine is already gone and what remains is on life support provided by neocon idiots willing to fight to the last Ukrainian.
Vladimir Solovyov’s son is (gasp!) a GOBLOWHOMO! In russia of all places too!
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for February 13, 2023 + US sanctions deliberately compounding Syrian earthquake relief efforts:
- US rep admits US sanctions and occupation of eastern Syria are to prevent reconstruction for use as leverage following Washington’s failed proxy war;
- Russian missiles & drones targeted Ukraine’s power grid inflicting heavy damage nationwide;
- The missile/drone strikes included an unmanned naval drone targeting a bridge in Odessa;
- Western governments and analysts admit that it will take years to send Ukraine NATO jets;
- Any appearance beforehand means NATO pilots are posing as Ukrainian pilots;
- CNN claims captured “Wagner” fighters say Russia is suffering heavy losses, CNN suggests 80% of the 50,000 Wagner recruited have died, been injured, or are captured;
- This suggests only 10k Wagner fighters are outfighting/surrounding Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut;
- CNN used US-EU supported front “Russia Behind Bars” to back claims in report, a similar tactic used during the US proxy war in Syria;
You want an entire nation to be destroyed because a tiny handful worked against Trump.
That means you want America destroyed too - if you’re at all consistent.
The smarter way - the moral way - would be to reject your view that it is right to destroy entire countries because of a handful of people. I don’t want Russia destroyed. I don’t want China destroyed. I don’t want millions of innocent people to suffer for the actions of a handful. You do.
What’s the deal with Solovyov’s kid? Didn’t your Putin ban globohomos from Mother Russia?
We fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine, overthrew a democratically-elected President, setoff a civil war and trained and funded neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists, encouraging them to persecute and kill the ethnic Russian population.
Minus the years under Trump and the necessary war in Afghanistan, our neocon/liberal world order foreign policy has been disaster and one engaged in solely to enrich our political class and their financial backers.
The Ukrainians made their bed and now they are lying in it.
On the contrary. Ukraine is still Ukraine despite being attacked by the biggest country in the world for a year. It’s American conservatism that is on “life support”. It is in danger of becoming a broken and defeated fringe movement clinging to Chomskyite Anti American rhetoric and secret servers in Germany nutbaggery. Ukrainians defend hearth and home while political losers piss and moan at their keyboard. And that’s why they hate them.
Ukraine did not invade Russia.
You are right, the Ukraine did not invade Russia. That being said, the Ukraine broke away from Russia and were not smart enough afterwards to quit attacking and killing ethnic Russians. They made the mistake of involving themselves in the tensions between NATO and Russia and are getting what they deserve.
“That being said, the Ukraine broke away from Russia...”
False. Both Russia and Ukraine broke away from the Soviet Union as it dissolved.
“... and were not smart enough afterwards to quit attacking and killing ethnic Russians.”
The ethnic Russians were not smart enough to not rebel and use violence to create two new states with Russian support forcing Ukraine into a civil war it never wanted.
“They made the mistake of involving themselves in the tensions between NATO and Russia and are getting what they deserve.”
Then at the very least the “ethnic Russians” have been getting what they deserve, right?
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