Posted on 05/16/2022 8:12:47 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Nato's secretary general says Russia's war in Ukraine is not going to plan and that its attempt to capture the eastern Donbas region has "stalled".
Jens Stoltenberg also said Ukraine could win the conflict.
Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) estimates Russia has lost about a third of its ground combat force since the war began in February.
The Russian invasion has been hampered by stiff Ukrainian resistance and logistical issues.
Its initial goal appeared to be to sweep across the country and topple the Ukrainian government. Instead, Russia has withdrawn from areas around the capital Kyiv after failing to capture it and since mid-April has been focusing its efforts on two eastern provinces.
In Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv, officials say Russian forces have withdrawn from to the border and that residents were returning.
"Russia's war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned," said Mr Stoltenberg.
"They failed to take Kyiv, they are pulling back from around Kharkiv, their major offensive in Donbas has stalled. Russia is not achieving its strategic objectives."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
No plan survives first contact with the enemy.
Gee, ya think?
Boy, he looks like s#!t.
Peter Hitchens Column Saturday April 30, 2022
"In the United Kingdom, a DSMA-Notice (Defense and Security Media Advisory Notice) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security..."
British journalist Peter Hitchens, the contrarian conservative journalist and outspoken defender of British tradition and traditional values including a Christian aversion to war, now finds himself constrained in his work by a government order.
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Special Report: British Journalist Peter Hitchens Censored By British Government With Special Order Amidst Ukraine Tensions
May 1, 2022
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This means that the Brit journopuppets who ARE writing about Ukraine are writing government-approved pieces.
And the government is firmly behind Ukraine...
I’ve heard “stalled” more times than can be counted, and we all heard 6 weeks ago that Russian troops were out of gas, heard apocalyptoc forecasts though the ruble rebounded, the overwhelming majority of nations don’t care that sanctions were placed on Russia, etc.
And NATO bombed Libya offensively when it is a defensive organization and Libya wasn’t a member of NATO and under Odumba’s unproven allegations that gaddafi was going to kill 10k of his own people.
But this isn’t NATO’s business anyway.
But yet we should believe the TV anyway, Russia! Russia! Russia! and all, right?
Get a life though the MIC would say otherwise.
US politicians aren’t the only ones laundering $ through Kiev.
Boris and Liz need some work done on their third homes.
The money has to come from somewhere. 
The move by Finland and Sweden to join NATO could be a fatal judgement error by Putin. This was the last thing he wanted, particularly Finland.
“The move by Finland and Sweden to join NATO could be a fatal judgement error by Putin. This was the last thing he wanted, particularly Finland.”
Yep. If you are the schoolyard bully and beat up a kid the other kids will fear you
But if you try to beat up the scrawny nerd but the nerd ends up pummeling you things won’t go great for you.
???MIC would say otherwise???
Microsoft Internet Chat?
Not much of a source.
Unlike the well thought out sanctions strategy.
"could win"? I keep hearing it's basically over, as long as we keep sending Billions.
Duh.
It’s “stalled” because the Russian army has most of the pro-Russian areas under its control.
There’s mainly a sliver near Moldavia in far western Ukraine that the Russian army can’t get to.
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