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Russian TV Avoids Mention of Ukraine War Anniversary amid 'Failures'
Newsweek ^ | Feb. 26, 2024 | Isabel van Brugen

Posted on 02/28/2024 11:35:18 AM PST by canuck_conservative

"Russian officials and state-run and state-affiliated TV channels likely refrained from commenting on the two-year anniversary of the start of Russia's full-scale invasion to avoid drawing attention to Russia's failures to achieve its stated strategic goals in Ukraine and its more immediate goals of seizing all of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, while also suffering high personnel losses," the ISW said...

The think tank said a recent opinion poll, conducted by independent Russian opposition polling organization Chronicles between January 23 and 29, suggests that "Russian sentiments about the war in Ukraine have largely remained unchanged in recent months and that most Russians are largely apathetic to the conflict, though most do not support a second wave of mobilization."

Mention of the war anniversary was therefore likely largely avoided by state TV and Kremlin officials "in an effort to maintain public apathy toward the war that, in part, allows Russian officials to continue the war without significant public backlash," the ISW said.

"ISW continues to assess that Putin is likely aware that a second mobilization wave would be widely unpopular and is concerned that such a measure would generate widespread discontent," the think tank's update concluded, adding, however, that Putin may change his approach to the topic after his re-election in the presidential election in March...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: 140000deadrussians; 3rdyear; failedinvasion; putin; putinsblunder; putinswar; putinswarofchoice; russia; zeepercreepers
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"Whatever you do, don't mention the War"

... except this isn't a British comedy ...

1 posted on 02/28/2024 11:35:18 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Probably because the Russians consider the war to have begun in 2014 when the Ukraine attacked their people in Donestsk.


2 posted on 02/28/2024 11:37:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: canuck_conservative

...and Donald Trump is suffering dementia because he mistakenly called his wife Mercedes and he recommends that people who have no water coming out of their showerheads should spend five times as long in the shower as they normally would. Also, Republicans are responsible for whatever problems there are at the border.


3 posted on 02/28/2024 11:38:32 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: canuck_conservative

Oh come on certainly Russia is proud of the fact that it has now taken more than 2 years for it to fight with frigging Ukraine. /s


4 posted on 02/28/2024 11:38:41 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: BenLurkin

Hilarious. Yeah that’s the reason, they will be acknowledging the 15 year anniversary.
Wow that’s embarrassing.


5 posted on 02/28/2024 11:40:23 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

Indeed. Their “Special Military Operation” intended to put an and to a decade of low-intensity warfare backfired hugely.


6 posted on 02/28/2024 11:41:45 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Williams

If Russia is incompetent, then Russia poses no expansionist risk.
Yet you keep pimping both ideas. Why is that?


7 posted on 02/28/2024 11:44:11 AM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

That second, surprise, mass-mobilization right after the election isn’t going to go over well

Any Russian with any rational sense, that wants to stay alive, should GTHO of Russia now, before the election


8 posted on 02/28/2024 11:44:20 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Huh? No idea where you’re getting your info, but Ukraine keeps losing territory and, in fact, most recently their strategic outpost city of Andriivka was taken by Russian forces.


9 posted on 02/28/2024 11:49:04 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: EEGator

They are largely incompetent as their invasion of Ukraine plainly shows. But they can still cause a lot of trouble, they are mainly a threat to themselves. But they are also a threat to us.


10 posted on 02/28/2024 11:50:50 AM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Do you comb Newsweak looking for crap like this? It is a RAT site ya knucklehead.

Did Ukraine mention the fact that everything they have tried has been a major failure on the fabulous Anniversary?

How many Newsweak threads do you have going at one time? LOL

I am still against sending anymore money or weapons to Ukraine.


11 posted on 02/28/2024 11:52:43 AM PST by dforest
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12 posted on 02/28/2024 11:54:15 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: EEGator

Keep spinning like a top idiot.


14 posted on 02/28/2024 11:55:45 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

Great comeback, truly witty.


15 posted on 02/28/2024 12:00:19 PM PST by EEGator
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To: canuck_conservative

The anniversary of this war is the CIA-led Maidan coup which began 11 years ago on 21 November 2013.


16 posted on 02/28/2024 12:06:14 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

more Russian lies & propaganda to cover for your Kremlin dwarf


17 posted on 02/28/2024 12:16:54 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: canuck_conservative

You’re getting cranky, is the war not going well for you?

Schadenfreude is such a guilty pleasure. Embrace the suck you lefty loon.


18 posted on 02/28/2024 12:19:18 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

All I see is a former superpower flailing around on the battlefield

That’s why we’re now in Year 3


19 posted on 02/28/2024 12:26:59 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: canuck_conservative

“and its more immediate goals of seizing all of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts”

So going on three years, they have yet to capture all of oblasts that were supposedly annexed? And we are not even talking about the supposedly Russian oblast of Kherson.

Thats pathetic!


20 posted on 02/28/2024 12:40:51 PM PST by funwithfood
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