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Ukraine front could 'collapse' as Russia gains accelerate, experts warn
BBC ^ | Nov 20, 2024 | Matt Murphy, Paul Brown, Olga Robinson, Thomas Spencer & Alex Murray

Posted on 11/20/2024 5:04:38 AM PST by McGruff

President Biden’s decision to provide anti-personnel mines to Ukraine, and allow the use of long-range missiles on Russian territory comes as the Russian military is accelerating its gains along the front line.

Data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) shows that Russia has gained almost six times as much territory in 2024 as it did in 2023, and is advancing towards key Ukrainian logistical hubs in the eastern Donbas region.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region is faltering. Russian troops have pushed Kyiv's offensive backwards. Experts have questioned the success of the offensive, with one calling it a "strategic catastrophe" given manpower shortages faced by Ukraine.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: alexmurray; mattmurphy; nomapsmaximus; olgarobinson; paulbrown; thomasspencer; ukraine
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1 posted on 11/20/2024 5:04:38 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Russian propaganda


2 posted on 11/20/2024 5:12:37 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: McGruff

X=algebra unknown
Spurt=insignificant drip
Expert=unknown insignificant drip.


3 posted on 11/20/2024 5:18:38 AM PST by Daveinyork ( )
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President Biden’s decision to provide anti-personnel mines to Ukraine,

Our president, the great moral leader giving mines to a despotic looser.

For generations to come men women and children will lose their lives or their limbs because Biden decided that propping up his ally in crime was more important than the lives of future generations.

4 posted on 11/20/2024 5:19:07 AM PST by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: McGruff

“Ukraine front could ‘collapse’ as Russia gains accelerate, experts warn”

The quicker the better.


5 posted on 11/20/2024 5:20:23 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: TexasFreeper2009
“Russian propaganda”

Except the BBC is the biggest Ukraine supporter on the planet!

6 posted on 11/20/2024 5:22:52 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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Remember when there was a goal to make all of Europe free of land mines? When will Bono and Geldof get the music community together to make a song for peace ?


7 posted on 11/20/2024 5:23:46 AM PST by LukeL
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Bono is too busy getting it in the end from “Big Mike” Obama...


8 posted on 11/20/2024 5:26:53 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: McGruff
It is really fascinating how deranged some have become when you are told your post of a BBC article citing the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is Russian propaganda.

And among the Rooskies is "a defence researcher at Kings College London."

And "Col Yevgeny Sasyko, a former head of strategic communications with Ukraine's general staff...."

It reminds of the Freeper who her theory a while back:

"The ‘PUTIN-Biden-Clinton-Obama’ cartel did used Ukraine as a FRONT to stage their money-laundering by using Russian agents embedded BY PUTIN in the Ukraine government: Ukrainian deep-state!

President Zelensky is still trying to remove Ukraine CORRUPT “deep state created by Putin!”

Source: Ukraine CORRUPT “deep state created by Putin with Biden in the cartel

It is a fascinating time in which to live.
9 posted on 11/20/2024 5:28:24 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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--- "Bono is too busy getting it in the end from 'Big Mike' Obama..."

Bono threatened to drive his car off a cliff if Trump won the election. I check each day for that news from the UK. :)

10 posted on 11/20/2024 5:30:03 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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11 posted on 11/20/2024 5:32:52 AM PST by McGruff (Making America Great Again)
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good


12 posted on 11/20/2024 5:34:42 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Yep.

As much as I may or may not at various times have fluctuated between neutral or hostile to Ukraine (depending on how many billions of dollars taken out of MY pocket and those of my fellow taxpayers and sent against my will to them) I now fully hope they are overrun before we can be dragged into this by giving them this weaponry and approving its use.

And the sooner the better.


13 posted on 11/20/2024 5:34:48 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

9But the NONSENSICAL stories that are absolutely impossible about ukraine’s 1,000 victories (why dont they have 25 percent of Russia instead of vice versa?) are believed by dolts so easily :)

For anyone here who maybe was 40 in the 80s, you are being suckered by neocons..and honestly, it’s a disgrace.


14 posted on 11/20/2024 5:36:43 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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About 51,000 Ukrainians Have Deserted Armed Forces This Year

Ukraine needs 500,000 more troops amid slowing mobilization

15 posted on 11/20/2024 5:43:19 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: dp0622

The day that scummy a-hole Zelensky stuck out his hand and arrogantly demanded money as if it belonged to him is the day I went from sympathizing to rejection.

Given their role in the persecution of Donald Trump and the hobbling of our country’s governance due to the vile people in our government who have fostered ties with them (The Clintons, the Bidens, the Vindemanns, McCain, Nuland, et al) who are domestic enemies of this Republic, I was inclined from the start to be unsympathetic, but even more so when that SOB DEMANDED money.


16 posted on 11/20/2024 5:44:06 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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Not our problem. Not Trump’s problem. Let it collapse. Whatevs.


17 posted on 11/20/2024 5:48:44 AM PST by montag813
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To: TexasFreeper2009

No, this is the reality on the ground based on US/UK sources. Read the article.


18 posted on 11/20/2024 5:49:44 AM PST by kabar
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To: Who is John Galt?

Who wants to be the last man to die for a mistake? Everyone knows that once Trump assumes office, the war will come to an end. A negotiated solution is the only way this ten year war ends.

Biden’s actions are a sign of desperation. He hopes to keep the war going till he leaves office so the Dems can blame Trump for losing the war.


19 posted on 11/20/2024 5:54:27 AM PST by kabar
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Weren’t landmines outlawed by the Geneva Convention a long time ago? Or just Republican land mines?


20 posted on 11/20/2024 5:56:59 AM PST by Bernard ("Liberal Intellectual Incest". Goes along with employment in the Poverty-Industrial Complex.)
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