Posted on 03/02/2022 9:11:58 AM PST by Red Badger
A senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday that some Russian troops in Ukraine have surrendered or sabotaged their vehicles to avoid fighting, according to The New York Times.
The official said that a large amount of the Russian troops are young, and have not been trained properly in preparation for this all-out invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian troops are reportedly dealing with fuel and food shortages, in addition to low morale.
The official added that there have been cases where Russian troops have punched holes in their vehicles' gas tanks to avoid continue fighting. They didn't clarify how the military has determined these incidents or how many units have acted in similar ways to avoid fighting.
Over the past two days, Russian troops have created a 40-mile convoy of tanks and vehicles around the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
The Pentagon official added that the Russian commanders in charge could be "regrouping and rethinking" their strategy.
"They have a lot of power available to them," the Pentagon official said.
About 80% of the nearly 150,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's borders have joined in on the fight, the official added.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Sounds a lot like the Battle of Leningrad...............
......I understand your questioning EVERYTHING coming from that part of the world. Most of us are. But, that said, I don’t believe there is any question about the photos showing a 40 mile long convoy of tanks, APC’s, artillery, trucks etc.
This would tend to be “corroborating” evidence that Russian troops have indeed sabotaged enough pcs of equipment in that 40 mile long convoy to stall further movement of the convoy.
I would imagine a lot of Russian troops have relatives in Ukraine.................
Your point is a good one. The military your brother served in is being destroyed.
Remember the 50 "intelligence community experts" who told us that Hunter's laptop scandal was most definitely fake and a product of "Russian disinformation?"
Or the dozen "intelligence community watchdogs" who said in the US MSM, that Trump's call to Zelensky in 2019 was most definitely a grave threat to national security?
I could go on, but you get the point.
If they're dealing with fuel shortages, why do they have to punch holes in the fuel tanks?
“May be true may be not. Nothing is trust worthy from these scumbags.”
That is the problem. The media has no credibility with me.
Yeah, and you could put one marine in an empty room and an hour later something will be broke.
Lol
Agree...but Id like to believe this.
I think I saw a movie about that once.
I’m sure the Pentagram sees a light at the end of the tunnel.
It’s the quickest way to transfer fuel from one vehicle to another if you don’t have a hose or there’s an anti-siphon blocker in the fuel inlet....................
The first casualty of war is truth.
senior Pentagon official + MSN = alternate reality.
this just in - “Gaulish forces are defeating the Roman Imperial Armies who are surrendering in droves after marching from Italia”. Should be over in days.
“I don’t believe there is any question about the photos showing a 40 mile long convoy of tanks, APC’s, artillery, trucks etc.”
I urge you to look again. The most I’ve seen in any pics are about a half-mile convoy, with at most 50 trucks/tanks. Interestingly, almost all pics of said convoy come from a private satellite firm called MAXAR. Nothing at all from our government.
I fully expect, the longer this conflict becomes unresolved, the more brutal it will be locally and more dangerous it will become worldwide.
I call this conflict the “Green War”. This conflict is being fed by oil revenue profit which has dramatically increased because of Biden’s “Green” policies of anti-US and anti-Canada energy production. High oil prices increase profit margin for Russia, Venezuela, and Iran. Those profits will be used to expand territory or attack US interests. People in this nation should realize that unrestricted growth of NATO, and restricted energy production in the US are the main causes of this conflict.
Solving the Ukraine crisis, means it cannot be ‘resolved’ until the Russians see no profit from the invasion and no improvement in security. The first step in this is to decrease the price of oil by massive drilling and pumping in the United States, supplying NATO allies. The second portion of this is to return all Russian weapons to the Ukraine side of the Polish border, arming the Ukrainians with old Soviet Block weapons. The last part, security for Russia, is the realization that Nuclear Armageddon still awaits anyone who invades Russia.
This has become a total disaster for Putin, militarily.
He expected a one day war, two days tops.
He also expected the Ukrainian military to surrender in droves and the people to welcome them as ‘Liberators’, like the Americans rolling into Paris in 1944..................
Or Putin figured no one would pay attention like when he went into Chechnya or Georgia.
That, too.........................
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