Posted on 07/28/2024 7:15:58 AM PDT by McGruff
Russian forces have made rapid gains in the eastern Donetsk region over the past week or so, capturing a few villages and closing in on the city of Pokrovsk, one of the main Ukrainian defensive strongholds in the area.
Russian forces are now only a dozen miles from Pokrovsk after Moscow’s troops pushed along a railway line and advanced about three miles toward the city, according to open-source maps of the battlefield based on combat footage and satellite imagery. The Russian progress contrasts sharply with the slow but steady gains that Moscow had made so far this year in the Donetsk region, sometimes measured in only a few hundred yards a week.
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Just to show Russians aren’t all bad:
🇷🇺 🇨🇵 “Russia is ready to grant political asylum to French citizens who suffered from watching the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said during from a press briefing.
To obtain asylum in Russia, the following documents will be required:
✅ passport of a French citizen;
✅ entrance ticket to the opening ceremony + tax receipt confirming the purchase;
✅ conclusion of a psychologist/psychiatrist on the nature of the psychological trauma suffered + notarized copy of the Russian translation.
Documents can be brought to the Russian Embassy in Paris (6th and 7th window), the processing time - up to 5 working days.
“Mr. Bielieskov, of the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Ukraine, said Russian advances so far had not translated into “major breakthroughs” that would allow Moscow to capture all of the Donetsk region, one of the Kremlin’s top military goals.”
Normally, I’d say “link please”, but in this case, there’s no shortage of links. For once, someone on Ukraine’s side got it right!
Is The NY Times letting you down? Remember when you posted their Pravda lies like they were gospel truth? Sucks to be you.
Is The NY Times letting you down? Remember when you posted their Pravda lies like they were gospel truth? Sucks to be you.
Your employers must be twisted in knots - you hate President Trump because he will end your Ukrainian Pay Day Scam - but now Globalist The NY Times is running a Pro-Putin story. The future looks bleak for the Zelensky Ponzi scheme.
And the front keeps moving west you chickensh1t armchair general that is too cowardly to enlist in the Ukrainian cause he claims to love so well.
No Russians will enter Pokrovsk until it is completely leveled, no stone left unturned.
I do have some sympathy for the Ukrainians left to defend it as their fate is terrible. And they cannot escape it.
The territory isn’t the goal, it’s just the tool. Wars of attrition aren’t pretty but they are decisive.
From “Kyiv in 3 days!” to “Pokrovsk in 3 days!”
LOL!
What about them Russian eggs? Putin is a superman who has survived 80 different varieties of cancer. You are a propagandizing, lying clown.
What happened to “Kharkiv in 3 days”? Lol!
The Ukraine thanks to the disgusting neocon scum.
That joke is older than the last Ukrainian victory on the battlefield. They are losing men at a rate that is unsustainable. Ukraine would be much better off if the war only lasted 3 days. They wouldn’t be forcibly drafting 60 year old men to fight and they wouldn’t have lost as much territory. Joe Biden wasted billions of dollars to destroy Ukraine. They just found $2 billion from an accounting error. That money will cost Ukraine thousands of lives and many more towns. Too bad money doesn’t win wars.
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