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A Russian reserve army of 15,000 soldiers is pinned down near Bakhmut and will be destroyed, says Ukraine's spy chief
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | September 25th, 2023 | Alia Shoaib

Posted on 09/25/2023 2:38:22 PM PDT by Mariner

Russia has deployed a new military formation of about 15,000 soldiers to fight around Bakhmut.

Ukraine's spy chief, Kyrylo Budanov, said the 25th Army was deployed earlier than planned.

Budanov said Ukraine is pinning down Putin's forces near Bakhmut to prevent redeployment to the south.

Ukraine is pinning down a newly created Russian reserve force near Bakhmut and is confident the 15,000-strong unit will be destroyed, Ukraine's spy chief says.

Kyrylo Budanov told The War Zone that Ukraine was pinning down Russian forces in Bakhmut to prevent them from being deployed to other axes where its counteroffensive is pushing forward.

"The Russians recently redeployed their only reserve force - the 25th Army - which was just recently raised and hasn't completed its creation," he said.

"Now it's redeployed to roughly the north of Bakhmut, and that's the place where it's going to be buried."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 15000pinneddown; 25tharmy; bakhmut; bidenswar; goodriddance; kyrylobudanov; notourbusiness; notourfight; notourproblem; notourwar; putinsblunder; russialosing; tothelastukrainian
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To: Darksheare
I missed what happened to the spokestrans.

Suspended and being investigated, they say. Never to be heard from again.

The clowns in Kiev thought it would be a nice PR act to show their Beltway DC globohomo masters, but probably saw it wasn't playing well in Peoria.

21 posted on 09/25/2023 3:05:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Vermont Lt
This used to be an American site.

Now its full of globohomo neocon trolls and AI bots.

22 posted on 09/25/2023 3:06:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: DavidThomas
I only believe headlines when they tell me what I want to hear.

That’s a good policy. Did you see that the Washington Post poll that has Trump up ten points over Biden? Yes, that’s what I want to hear and I believe it. It’s the Washington Post, the finest newspaper in America. They never lie. /s

23 posted on 09/25/2023 3:07:04 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Vacate the chair. Shutter the government until it can be correctly defunded.)
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To: Mariner
LOLOL!!!

Buttin'Off weighs in.

24 posted on 09/25/2023 3:10:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: canuck_conservative

These guys aren’t at Stalingrad. And the Wehrmacht was surrounded, not pinned down. There is a specific meaning to being “pinned down”.:Military terms and tactics are way above your head, obviously. You should get out more. There’s a nice tea shop down the street from your cubicle at the defense bureau there nearby you in Kyiv.


25 posted on 09/25/2023 3:10:25 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Vermont Lt

Could you get any more middle-schoolish with your comments.


26 posted on 09/25/2023 3:10:33 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Taking a break from hating on Sarah Palin, lt?
27 posted on 09/25/2023 3:14:04 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: DavidThomas
I only believe headlines when they tell me what I want to hear.

I only believe headlines that are verified by at least 3 other outlets. I don't trust the media no matter what they say - whether I want to believe it or not.

28 posted on 09/25/2023 3:14:15 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Mariner

Putin’s Poofters immediately post hysterically irrelevant snark.


29 posted on 09/25/2023 3:18:09 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Vermont Lt
This used to be an American site. Now we have Russians such as yourself stinking it up with vodka breath and borscht farts.

100%, well said

and they're easy to spot, too ...

they never blame Putin for starting this war, it's always the fault of their imaginary bogeymen


30 posted on 09/25/2023 3:26:01 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: DavidThomas

If Putin were to lose 15K troops I wouldn’t shed a tear but these Ukie sources make the Imperial Japanese Navy look like paragons of truth in their after action reports.


31 posted on 09/25/2023 3:28:39 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: canuck_conservative

Correction: America, under Obama, started this war in 2014.


32 posted on 09/25/2023 3:38:43 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: xkaydet65

...this report brought to you by Ukraine Jane.


33 posted on 09/25/2023 3:43:30 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: Prince of Space

America attacked Russia in 2014?


34 posted on 09/25/2023 3:44:11 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative

35 posted on 09/25/2023 3:51:31 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: Mariner

Git on with it!


36 posted on 09/25/2023 3:57:27 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Vermont Lt

This used to be an American site. Now we have Russians such as yourself stinking it up with vodka breath and borscht farts.

Go back to the Motherland and kill a Uke for Putin.
____________________

SCORE! But it is the ubiquitous Russian cabbage dishes that really produce the anal sulfur emissions. I hear that the old fart Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu (born 21 May 1955) is the worst offender.


37 posted on 09/25/2023 3:58:36 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: Mariner
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38 posted on 09/25/2023 4:00:30 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: Mariner

Sure, if the Ukraine Spy says so.
Complete dis-information.


39 posted on 09/25/2023 4:03:02 PM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: Seruzawa

“There is a specific meaning to being “pinned down”.:Military terms and tactics are way above your head, obviously. You should get out more. There’s a nice tea shop down the street from your cubicle at the defense bureau there nearby you in Kyiv.”

You’re assuming that the bonehead journalist who wrote the article know the difference between “pinned down” and surrounded. Like “magazine” and “clip, “automatic” and semiautomatic,” etc.


40 posted on 09/25/2023 4:19:31 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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