Posted on 07/04/2024 12:34:18 PM PDT by janetjanet998
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s army has retreated from a neighborhood in the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important town in the eastern Donetsk region that has been reduced to rubble under a monthslong Russian assault, a military spokesperson said Thursday. Chasiv Yar is a short distance west of Bakhmut, which was captured by Russia last year after a bitter 10-month battle. For months, Russian forces have focused on capturing Chasiv Yar, a town which occupies an elevated location. Its fall would put nearby cities in jeopardy, compromise critical Ukrainian supply routes and bring Russia closer to its stated aim of seizing the entire Donetsk region. The Ukrainian army retreated from a northeastern neighborhood in the town, Nazar Voloshyn, the spokesperson for the Khortytsia ground forces formation, told The Associated Press in a written message Thursday.
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>>>>Translation: I love counting the dead.<<<<
Pretty unusual for someone who claims to be a Christian REVEREND.
The ultra-lib seminary she attended must have skipped over Matthew 5:9.
And some child’s mother.
Sad
(the more likely DC blunders us into WWIII in Europe)
That may be the goal
Even the Communists at CNN are admitting that the world 🌍🌎 is in a 91 Trillion Dollar debt load.
There’s no telling what TPTB may be thinking. There seems to be a whole lot of weird stuff.
I have no idea.
>>>>”Pretty unusual for someone who claims to be a Christian REVEREND.”
And some child’s mother.
Sad<<<<
She sure as heck isn’t going to send her own kids even though they’re old enough to serve in the military. And besides, Zelensky will take them at almost any age.
1. “You’re Putin obsession is very transparent, sugar.”
2. “You can pretend to be “holier-than-thou”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4245639/posts?page=361#361
Sorry, both of these presumptive accusations are false.
“Sad”
False accusations supported by false memes are always very sad.
“... a short little Napoleon. He is mentally ill and whacked in the head. He has drained his country of fighting age men. The ones he hasn’t sent to their deaths have fled abroad.”
I thought you were talking about Putin... he is shorter than Zelensky.
“Translation: I love counting the dead.”
https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4248870%2C16
You do?
However, I find it absolutely incorrect accusation if this is another of your attempts to insult me.
“This is not DU! “Discuss the issues all you wish, BUT DO NOT MAKE IT PERSONAL!
Remember to use common courtesy when posting to FR. Leave off the insults and flames, name calling, etc.”
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UPDATES
“The most interesting updates come from the northern flank of Chasiv Yar. Here, the Russians intensified their assaults towards Kalynivka to directly attack the center of Chasiv Yar from the north.
However, the Ukrainians were readily awaiting these assaults, and so the Russians failed to advance and incurred losses so serious that they had to halt their attacks altogether and make an operational pause.
The goal of the Russian forces is to establish control over Kalynivka to utilize the canal crossing for further assaults on Chasiv Yar. If the Russians effectively exploit this advance, they would avoid crossing the canal from the Kanal district. Instead, attacking the town center from the northern crossing near Kalynivka could prove more efficient.
The Russian assaults on Kalynivka were preceded by an intense artillery barrage, augmented by glide bomb strikes, resulting in the destruction of most of the village. With no buildings left to use as firing positions, Ukrainian fighters withdrew to more favorable positions west of the canal. Subsequently, Russian troops advanced along Lisova Street, reaching the canal crossing.
Destroying all buildings in eastern Kalynivka proved to be a double-edged sword for the Russians. The destruction eliminated any possibility of concealing and protecting their troops from Ukrainian artillery, tank, and drone strikes. As a result, Russian forces were forced to move across open areas, leading to their rapid destruction.
Due to SIGNIFICANT LOSSES WITH LITTLE TO NO GAINS, Russian army morale in this area is very low.
This has led the Russian command to set up BARRIER TROOPS to kill deserters or capture them and send them back to the deadly frontline positions.
Facing a shortage of motivated personnel and struggling to command mostly demotivated troops, Russian commanders deploy only small groups of infantry for assaults.
Another reason for this tactic is the heavy losses in equipment and troops during larger assaults, where Russian forces lose between 40% and 70% of their equipment.
Ukrainian fighters in the area are using up to fifty drones daily to hit twenty-five Russian targets, PRIMARILY targeting Russian armored assault formations attempting to advance.
Deputy Head of the Presidential Office, Roman Mashovets, stated that the number of available tanks for Russian forces in the Chasiv Yar, Siversk, and Kurakhove directions has significantly decreased to 650 tanks. He also noted that the number of combat-ready armored fighting vehicles is now just 1,850.
For context, Russians have lost over 15,000 armored vehicles and 8,000 tanks, with around a dozen of each lost daily. This indicates that the current assault force can only last for a few months before being exhausted and withdrawn from battle.
Russian sources reported that Russian infantry are essentially forced to conduct DISMOUNTED ASSAULTS west of Bakhmut despite heavy Ukrainian drone operations.”
“What 10 most important qualities are needed for brigade commander to really hold frontline”
Yurii Butusov
02.07.24
If we want to defeat the enemy and truly save the lives of our soldiers, we must scale up the experience of successful brigades, create divisions on their basis, and promote successful brigade commanders to leadership positions, giving them the right to determine personnel policy.
TOP 10 qualities which are needed for a brigade commander to really hold the frontline:
1. To become a leader for thousands of people, to create a team and to constantly strengthen the combat capability of the brigade.
2. To be responsible for subordinates and the team, to value their lives above your career and ambitions, to support them not only in their successes but also in their mistakes, to punish them only for crimes and lies.
3. Define clear criteria for evaluating commanders of different levels, fairly assess achievements, change people’s positions or assign them tasks in accordance with their level of competence, and explain the logic of their personnel decisions.
4. Organize a headquarters and appoint a chief of staff to ensure an uninterrupted process of combat management without manual control, both at the brigade and battalion levels.
5. Establish and strengthen cooperation and harmony in all service branches, attached and adjacent units, volunteers, and civil society organizations.
6. Do not lie in reports to management and do not tolerate lies in reports of subordinates, and punish and dismiss for lying.
7. Be critical of your own actions and decisions, analyze the actions of the brigade first of all, starting with your own problems and the problems of your headquarters, and conduct regular after-action reviews in all units.
8. Search for and attract people to the units, create conditions in the brigade so that most of the subordinates act as recruiters rather than critics and create a good reputation for the brigade.
9. Negotiate supplies, barter, beg, buy weapons, ammunition, drones, and supplies for the brigade with volunteer funds, develop its own production of ammunition, electronic warfare, and drones, train personnel, and plan the use of drones and new types of weapons.
10. Negotiate with the command to determine an adequate defense lane to have the forces to create a second echelon, saving people and their forces. Source: https://censor.net/en/r3497783
Putin cannot and will not stand against the peace brought by President Trump.
Trump ‘flipped the script’ stating he would do more to protect Ukraine than Biden.
Trump said Biden Will ‘Give’ Ukraine to Putin effectively to “cede Ukraine as a gift to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.”
ARTICLE
Putin says he will not cease fire in Ukraine: peace through mediators and Ukrainian Parliament not good enough for him
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA
STANISLAV POHORILOV
Thursday, 4 July 2024
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/4/7464104/
Russian Ruler Vladimir Putin has said that Russian forces will not cease fire in Ukraine because the Kremlin leader seems unsure that Ukraine will do the same, and also considers it “pointless” to turn to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) to negotiate, while he is not satisfied with mediators either.
SOURCE: Russian propaganda outlets RIA Novosti and TASS
QUOTE FROM PUTIN:
“We need to ensure that the other side agrees to take steps that are irreversible and acceptable to the Russian Federation. A ceasefire is impossible without reaching this agreement.”
DETAILS:
He said that “Russia cannot agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine because it is not sure of Kyiv’s reciprocal actions”.
Putin began to lie about the alleged agreements to withdraw Russian troops from Kyiv in 2022, saying that “there were no reciprocal steps from Ukraine”. The Kremlin leader did not specify what steps he was talking about.
Putin said that he seems to have been deceived again because “all the agreements reached in Istanbul (related to the withdrawal of troops) were thrown into the trash”.
Putin also said that he “considers it pointless to appeal directly to the Verkhovna Rada”, as most of its members are subordinate to what the ruler of Russia believes to be the illegal authorities in Ukraine.
“All powers should be transferred to the Rada, but it does not assume these powers. Therefore, of course, we can appeal, (but) based on the practical situation and what is happening in real life, it is more or less pointless,” Putin complained.
In addition, Putin said he did not want to negotiate through intermediaries. “We have always been in favour of negotiations; you know this very well; we have never abandoned them. The only question is that it seems unlikely to end the conflict (the war in Ukraine - ed.) with the help of intermediaries and only through them,” Putin said.
PREVIOUSLY:
-During talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on 2 July, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proposed an urgent truce, which is part of all pro-Russian “peace plans”, but did not insist on it.
-Putin also claimed that since President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s five-year term of office has expired and no new elections are being held, power in Ukraine should allegedly pass into the hands of the parliament and its chairman, Ruslan Stefanchuk.
BACKGROUND:
- On 14 June, Putin made up new “conditions for the start of peace talks”: Ukrainian troops must withdraw from all four Ukrainian oblasts (Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk), and Kyiv must declare that it has no plans to join NATO.
- US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP said during a debate with current US President Joe Biden that the proposals put forward by Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin as conditions for ending the war against Ukraine waged by Russia are “NOT ACCEPTABLE”.
- On 30 June, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he currently sees only one model for negotiations with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin: a tripartite agreement with mediators, as utilized on the grain corridor
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