Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

IS Ukraine LOSING the war in Donbas? Defenders fall back to avoid capture as Russians advance after blasting towns to wastelands.... (40 photos)
FOR MAILONLINE ^ | 28 May 2022 | DAN SALES and CHRIS MATTHEWS

Posted on 05/28/2022 5:09:53 AM PDT by dennisw

IS Ukraine LOSING the war in Donbas? Defenders fall back to avoid capture as Russians advance after blasting towns to wastelands while Boris Johnson offers fresh support to Ukrainian president Zelensky Withdrawal from the Luhansk region likely, admits Ukraine in new war blow

Area is hugely significant and one of main aims of Putin and Russia's invasion President Zelensky said Ukraine was protecting Luhansk as best it could Putin had launched invasion under the aims of capturing Luhansk and Donetsk Boris Johnson offered renewed support for Ukraine in a phone call with Zelensky

Ukraine has admitted it may have to retreat from its last post in the Luhansk region as Russian forces continue their relentless march.

Putin's forces - now into their fourth month of the invasion - have concentrated on the east of the country in recent weeks.

Ukrainian soldiers leaving Luhansk will be a blow to the country, due to its symbolic significance in the war.

This morning Boris Johnson offered fresh support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky said they spoke on the phone about 'strengthening defence support for Ukraine, intensifying work on security guarantees and supplying fuel'.

He added: 'We must work together to prevent a food crisis and unblock Ukrainian ports.'

Putin wants both Luhansk and Donetsk regions in full and their capture was one of his earliest objectives in the deranged despot's so-called 'special military operation'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 10percent4bigguy; 40billiondowndrain; adailyfailfail; angrybidenbotsonfr; angryneoconsonfr; bidenacommie; blueandyellowdrank; cccp; china; chrismatthews; cia; clownworld; communism; cryinginmybritbeer; dansales; denniswmeltdownlol; derangeddespot; haha; itistolaugh; lizhazthesadz; mccainswar; neocons4biden; nyuknyuknyuk; putinacommie; putinsbuttboys; russia; russiax3; soros; sovietunion; swampniks4bidenswar; theneoconsemote; theneoconslashout; ukesretreating; uketards; ukraineslushfund; ussr; vatniks; xisbuttboys; yousankmydonbass; yousankmyluhansk
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 301-306 next last
To: dennisw

The sound of $40B in U.S. aid being flushed down the drain.


41 posted on 05/28/2022 5:46:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RedMonqey

Prodded?

Does a prodding justify the destruction of a country?
Murder, rape, and genocide?

I don’t think so.


42 posted on 05/28/2022 5:46:46 AM PDT by KOZ. ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: skeeter

Lots of Ukraine is looking like lots of Detroit, Michigan. It is cheaper to let destroyed or blasted via a Rus missile, 5-10 story apartment buildings. Let them stand and crumble over time.


43 posted on 05/28/2022 5:48:09 AM PDT by dennisw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: norwaypinesavage

Russia has already proposed rebuilding this old, shi**y area. This is their demolition phase.


44 posted on 05/28/2022 5:48:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: BobL

Russia has been terrorizing the entire world, especially Ukraine for decades.

How many millions have you killed there?

Sad that you have excuses upon excuses for ‘liberating’ everyone.

So why go liberate you’re own shithole russia? Your whole government is filled megalomaniacal douchebags.


45 posted on 05/28/2022 5:49:47 AM PDT by KOZ. ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: dennisw
IS Ukraine LOSING the war in Donbas? Defenders fall back to avoid capture

The main question now is whether the retreat will become a rout.

One major factor in Ukraine's demise that the press will never uncover is the country's chronic fuel shortages. In mid-April, the Ukrainian government foolishly implemented price controls on fuel which, of course, led to widespread shortages. It's tough fighting for national survival when you can't fuel your tanks and trucks. And even now, Zelenski and his economic advisors are too stupid to put two and two together and they blame their fuel shortages on "logistical problems." Zelensky would have eventually nationalized the country's fuel industry (which would have made shortages worse), but he has more pressing matters at hand, like staying alive.
.
46 posted on 05/28/2022 5:49:55 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KOZ.

You need a medication adjustment. 🤣


47 posted on 05/28/2022 5:50:00 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: PIF

More demonization from ex-NSA propagandist.

Alinski would be proud.


48 posted on 05/28/2022 5:54:12 AM PDT by Grey182 (Trump won, Benedict is still Pope & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Qui is

Nice, but you have fallen into the common delusion from 6000 miles away. All European derived people who look at this Ukie-Russian fight should be very concerned. Am I racist for wanting more white people on this planet. NO!


49 posted on 05/28/2022 5:54:30 AM PDT by dennisw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: BiglyCommentary

Unfortunately holding may not be relevant.

Russia will take Donbas, control the south, then call for a ceasefire.

Countries like Germany, France, US will call for ceding the area for “peace”.


50 posted on 05/28/2022 5:55:05 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: dennisw

The Situation in Ukraine

A real WAR between Russia and Ukraine would last 72 hours or less. The ONLY reason this operation is lasting any longer than that is that Russians are taking extreme care not to harm civilians or civilian ifrastructure. That should be obvious.

NAZIS, of course, do not have any such scruples. A totally reasonable assumption is that any sort of evidence of wanton killing and destruction you may be seeing in news from Ukraine, is the work of the bandera-Nazis and not the work of the Russian military.

This is more like a rescue mission, since Russians still generally view typical Ukrainians as fellow Slavic Orthodox Christians.

"A rescue mission ?" you might ask...

As in,

And put an end to the gargantuan deep-state child trafficking and money laundering ops and other forms of extreme transnational gangsterism.

The thing that is really new and different about this operation is that, historically at least, nine ways out of ten when Christians have had to face off against barbarian hordes, the Christians have gotten wiped.

THIS TIME THE CHRISTIANS HAVE WON!!!!

In fact, not only won but won in spectacular fashion. Acting with no more than about 15% of its available forces, Russia has produced a candidate for greatest demonstration of maneuver warfare since Genghis Khan, and all of that with a force no larger than a third or so of the bandera-Nazi defenders while standard doctrine says they should need three times the size of the defending force...

There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or taking the side of Nazis against Christians. The potential for conservatives who have taken the side of the deep state and the banderaNazis in this business to end up looking and feeling stupid, is vast and I don't think they're going to have to wait very long for that.

==============================================

Enjoy talkinig about your hero banderaNazis and their overlords (Soros, Biden, Obango, KKKlintons et. al.) while you can; by my reckoning, you have about two weeks before the big collapse...

Today's SitRep

51 posted on 05/28/2022 5:55:10 AM PDT by ganeemead (There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or taking the side of Nazis against Chri)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BobL
We’re just sick of the Neocon/Globalist wars,

Neocon/Globalist???

You sound like a Russian plant on FR, or a computer bot programmed to use those words at every thread that mentions Russia or Putin.

BTW, I haven't heard 'neocon' used by anyone other than those that hate republicans or any offshoot of republicans. Perhaps you as a bot need to be reprogrammed.
52 posted on 05/28/2022 5:56:35 AM PDT by adorno
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: dennisw

Who are you freaks that have invaded FR? And what happened to the adults?


53 posted on 05/28/2022 5:56:44 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: skeeter
I'm just relieved the western oligarchs haven't so far drawn us into the conflict as they so obviously want.

It's all about the money. The $40 Billion was just a down payment. The real money is what they are making by doubling and tripling energy prices. We have the biggest bunch of easily duped arm-chair generals here West of Eastern Europe.

Call Of Duty-obsessed Teen Travels To Ukraine To Fight Russians

Daily Mail crew retaking the Donbas

54 posted on 05/28/2022 5:56:44 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child; Qui is
--- "I'm going to add this link to my “Favorites” just for your post. Outstanding."

Agreed. "Qui is" wrote of "...being both objective and analytical of the information provided."

In so many posts about the Covid scam, as a different stream of news and comment threads, emotion seems to drive the verbiage, rather than the "objective and analytical." With this news and the first comments, it seems the same. This thread began with the post and second which was nothing more than lashing out at others on this forum. This was the stuff of social media, not something appropriate to a site ostensibly of thoughtful and informed conservatives. "Qui is" is wise.

55 posted on 05/28/2022 5:58:21 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Chunga85

Spot on.


56 posted on 05/28/2022 5:58:37 AM PDT by Grey182 (Trump won, Benedict is still Pope & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: KOZ.
I’ve asked you this before, you’re attacking ANOTHER sovereign nation, and a free people, why are you so happy and revelling in their destruction?

Simple thoughts for simple minds. There is no such thing as history. Just your "feelings."

The military situation in Ukraine, as seen by an ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence

57 posted on 05/28/2022 5:59:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: dennisw

Da fuq you talking about, Willis? Appears you have sprung a leak or blown a gasket. Suggest you seek professional counseling ASAP.


58 posted on 05/28/2022 5:59:30 AM PDT by Qui is (First, never apologize to the enemy, and second, never forget that Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: Qui is

I have yet to see any “Putin-Rooskie fanbois” on FR.


Good luck, I made that very statement here two weeks ago and unleashed a veritable barrage of neocon and globalist hate for stating a fact.


59 posted on 05/28/2022 6:01:41 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: KOZ.

Just explaining from the tradition Russian viewpoint.

Didn’t say it was justified but if one plays with a snake one should expect to be bit.


60 posted on 05/28/2022 6:04:31 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 301-306 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson