Posted on 03/09/2023 10:17:01 AM PST by Kazan
The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told reporters on Wednesday that the embattled frontline town of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, could come under Russian control. He said: 'They have suffered big losses but at the same time we cannot rule out that Bakhmut may eventually fall in the coming days.' However, he played down the significance of the town, which Russia has carried out a months-long offensive to recapture, saying 'this does not necessarily reflect any turning point of the war and it just highlights that we should not underestimate Russia'.
Four thousand people remain in Bakhmut, which has largely been levelled by Russian shelling. On Tuesday President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to fight on in the city, saying: 'There is no part of Ukraine about which one can say that it can be abandoned'
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/europe/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-cnn-interview-bakhmut-intl/index.html
Russian troops will have “open road” to capture key cities in eastern Ukraine if they seize control of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in an interview with CNN, as he defended his decision to keep Ukrainian forces in the besieged city.
“This is tactical for us,” Zelensky said, insisting that Kyiv’s military brass is united in prolonging its defense of the city after weeks of Russian attacks left it on the cusp of falling to Moscow’s troops.
“We understand that after Bakhmut they could go further. They could go to Kramatorsk, they could go to Sloviansk, it would be open road for the Russians after Bakhmut to other towns in Ukraine, in the Donetsk direction,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an exclusive interview from
Where is Russia going to find more criminals to throw against Ukrainian bunkers?
It’s still falling? Dang, russia really is a garbage military. only what 9 months now and they still haven’t taken it?
I suspect we’re going to see Russia start to use more fixed wing and rotary aircraft once they have the Ukranians on the run. Manning anti aircraft batteries will become more difficult as the Ruskies gain ground.
“may” fall ...
or may not ...
"NATO has been training the Ukrainian military since 2014, NATO partners have been supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with the necessary weapons and training since 2014"
-Jens StoltenbergTime and time again it becomes very clear that NATO was steering the pot all along.
🤔 pic.twitter.com/cPSB1qSTqa— Richard (@ricwe123) March 9, 2023
Even Madam Euro-hole the Borg Queen admits it?
Kazan is quite fanatical, isn’t he?
>only what 9 months now and they still haven’t taken it?
Well, they killed 1/4 of a million troops without taking much causalities.
Name ‘em. Ping ‘em.
Maybe it’s typical but getting objective, truthful news from this war seems to be impossible. I have given up. I have no idea what the status really is. The only thing l am sure of is that it is the biggest rat money laundering in history.
Meanwhile, this is the state of the Ukrainian military:
https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukrainian-soldiers-in-bakhmut-our-troops-are-not-being-protected
During their brief visits to the nearby town of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent of unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.
“We don’t get any support,” says a soldier named Serhiy, who has been fighting on the front lines in Bakhmut, sitting down with his friend, also named Serhiy, for a conversation in a small cafe in the Kostiantynivka market. Both men are in their 40s but one of them is a bit older than the other.
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They say that Russian artillery, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers are often allowed to strike Ukrainian positions for hours or days without being shut down by Ukrainian heavy weapons. Some complained of poor coordination and situational awareness, allowing this to happen or making it even worse.
Mortarmen spoke of extreme ammunition scarcity and having to use weapons dating back to World War II. Drones that are supposed to provide critical reconnaissance information are also scarce and are being lost at very high rates in some parts of the battlefield.
All this leads to terrifying casualties of both dead and wounded. "The battalion came in in the middle of December… between all the different platoons, there were 500 of us," says Borys, a combat medic from Odesa Oblast fighting around Bakhmut. "A month ago, there were literally 150 of us."
“When you go out to the position, it’s not even a 50/50 chance that you’ll come out of there (alive),” says the older Serhiy. “It’s more like 30/70.”
It is like the commie lovers in the west were so upset at the collapse of the Soviet Union that they decided to remake it by expanding NATO. The WEF is the new Politburo
They speak out of both sides of their mouth:
Bakhmut is critical
Bahhmut is not that important.
I have a simple rule I follow which renders the truth just about 100% of the time. Whatever comes out of this administration, flip it 180° and you'll have it.
Just ask yourself what we've been told about everything from Trump, covid, Jan 6, Ukraine, etc and you'll see I'm correct.
note, 100 km = 60 miles
so Russia has barely gotten more than 70 miles from their border
after 1 year, billions of dollars spent, thousands of pieces of equipment lost, and 70,000 dead
Russia has been exposed!!
Will you also be rooting for Xi Jinping when he invades Taiwan?
Should I admit I never knew how to do that until now?
Ty
To a bunch of Russian convicts armed with only shovels? How do we get our $Billions refunded?
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