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Zelensky says Ukraine needs more time for counter-offensive
BBC ^
| 5/11/23
| Hugo Bachega
Posted on 05/11/2023 6:32:59 AM PDT by JonPreston
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, as the military awaits the delivery of promised aid.
The expected attack could be decisive in the war, redrawing frontlines that, for months, have remained unchanged. It will also be a crucial test for Ukraine, eager to prove that the weapons and equipment it has received from the West can result in significant battlefield gains.
Ukrainian authorities have tried to lower expectations of a breakthrough, publicly and in private. Earlier this month, a senior government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the country's leaders "understood that [they] needed to be successful" but that the assault should not be seen as a "silver bullet" in a war now in its 15th month.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: counteroffensive; zelensky
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Huh? No counteroffensive? I read the Russians were fighting with shovels, Putin is dying and Wagner is being chased back to Moscow?
To: JonPreston
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posted on
05/11/2023 6:34:12 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
To: Timber Rattler
Sorry, that’s poorly written MSM propaganda.
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posted on
05/11/2023 6:37:09 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: JonPreston
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posted on
05/11/2023 6:39:04 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
To: JonPreston
Zelensky says Ukraine needs more time MONEY for counter-offensive There, fixed it.
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posted on
05/11/2023 6:40:53 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
05/11/2023 6:42:24 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: Timber Rattler
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posted on
05/11/2023 6:43:47 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: JonPreston
To: Timber Rattler
To: JonPreston
“More time” is just a crime family way of saying, “More Money.”
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:03:54 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
To: JonPreston
Maybe the Ukraine’s rank and file soldiers are balking at the thought of “going over the top” after seeing what happened to the Russian GIs who tried it.
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:17:37 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
So you’re saying the Ukes are frightened because they killed so many Russians?
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:21:45 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:26:46 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: JonPreston
If you have to ask the world to postpone the war for a few months, you got major problems.
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:34:19 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
To: JonPreston
Basically, yeah.
By now everybody knows that going on the attack in this war is extremely difficult. Morale among the Ukraine’s GIs may not be high enough to motivate them into leaving cover and risking death for few hundred yards of shell-churned dirt.
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:34:19 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Jeff Chandler; BenLurkin
Russian GIs
Wait, what?
I don’t like that either, GIs means Americans, not Russians or other foreigners.
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:41:24 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
To: JonPreston
More time and most importantly MORE AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS.
Stop funding corrupt Ukraine.
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:46:22 AM PDT
by
tennmountainman
( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
To: ansel12
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posted on
05/11/2023 7:49:26 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: JonPreston
He’s out of touch and Ukraine is out of time.
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posted on
05/11/2023 9:16:55 AM PDT
by
Kazan
To: JonPreston
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posted on
05/11/2023 10:16:10 AM PDT
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
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