Posted on 04/02/2023 8:06:38 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian forces in Ukraine have failed to meet a key deadline for progress in eastern Ukraine ahead of a long-touted counteroffensive from Kyiv, according to a new assessment.
Moscow did not manage to "achieve the Kremlin's goals" of exerting control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions by March 31, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank said on Saturday.
The two regions, which collectively make up the Donbas, saw fighting between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists break out in 2014. They have seen many of the heaviest clashes since the start of the all-out war in February 2022.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
What are you taking about?
Even as the Taliban advance started they were saying it would take at least a year for the Taliban to get near Kabul.
In the end it took less than six weeks for the Taliban to capture every city in Afghanistan, and Kabul to fall, once the lynchpin of the Bagram Air Base was lost.
You any many other Freepers supporting the Biden regimes disasterous adventure in Ukraine love posting articles from these same unreliable sources.
Newsweek!! Go back and read their reporting on the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Go back and read their reporring on the laptop.
It's amazing to me how you guys are falling right in line with the leftist propaganda and Biden taking points. Here on Free Republic! It's like the last 10 years didn't even happen.
Meanwhile, the Ukraine war effort will collapse in the way Hemingway described bankruptcy occuring:
Slowly at first, then all at once.
Free Republic Post: Zelensky Says War Could Be Over Soon
Explicitly he is taking about surrendering territory in exchange for peace.
When that happens Newsweek will tell you Ukraine and their NeoCon pupetmasters won, somehow.
Will you believe them on that, too?
It’s beginning to look like we can use “coded language” on this issue...
And....? So....? What’s the punishment and who’s going to administer it?
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