Posted on 10/05/2022 4:53:38 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Russian military lacks the manpower necessary to hold of a further Ukrainian advance into the Luhansk region, a correspondent embedded with the Russian military in the occupied city of Svatove said on Tuesday evening.
“The Russian troops do not have enough manpower to stop the enemy attacks,” Alexander Kots, for Russian pro-government tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda said in a video posted to Telegram. “The recent Russian losses are directly connected to that. It’s a very difficult period of time on the front line at the moment.”
He said that “we expect a serious fighting here very soon,” and that “it remains to be seen if it could stop the enemy advances.”
Kots confirmed that Russian forces were trying to fortify their defense at the line connecting the occupied cities of Kreminna and Svatova. Yuriy Podolyaka, a pro-Russian military blogger said on Monday that Russian troops had withdrawn to the Zherebets River, which runs just west of Kreminna and Svatova.
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Just as by every definition the Russian military is failing in Ukraine, by every definition, Russia invaded the sovereign territory of its neighbor. You are aware that Russia entered Ukraine with a massive military force. They weren’t invited by the sovereign and internationally recognized Ukrainian government.
You would be a far more effective proponent of Russia if you’d simply acknowledge reality. The Russian government has admitted its military is being pushed out of large sections of territory it captured. Maybe you should follow their lead.
I too would have loved to have been a fly drone on the wall in ZelenskyyIdiot’s office when hours after his green screen staged signing of application for entry into NATO, the US, NATO, and Germany basically said, “No. Go back to the Dunce table and know your cannon fodder role.”
Russia is retreating in the north and south. Towns that cost Russians months of attacks to take fell in days to Ukrainian forces. This according to you is more Russian winning. Okay
I find it fascinating that an occupied area “votes “ to be annexed by their occupiers and that is legitimate in your mind So again if the Germans forced a referendum on occupied France and we know what the results would have been. In your mind would that be legitimate and Ike needs to call off d-day….
if Putin had limited himself to the two regions and just drove his armies in there the west would have done nothing Xiden said as much but this is not about ethnic Russians, saving Christianity …. This is all about Putin and his dreams of a greater Russia
No matter what happens from this point on (unless Putin is removed and Russia as a country decides to go in a different direction) Russia is now fully revealed to be a second world country with a second world economy and a military that is not good but has nuclear weapons
🤣🤣🤣🤣 ok Ivan
Russia was paying its soldiers directly from EU gas payments to Gazprom bank. Obviously, that money is gone now that Putin turned off gas supplies to Europe. Dirty, unequipped, hungry, wet, frozen and unpaid soldiers do not make much of a war machine. It’s going rough for Russia. Soon.
This is computer game warfare, not the real thing! You will be very disappointed in the truth.
You did not have any problems when the US and NATO carved up an “occupied area” when they, by force of arms, held a “fake’ referendum and created Kosovo out of Serbia, did ya?
“Do you hear them laughing in Belgrade?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1jUHqTHkBc
Thank you for your valued input into this discussion.
Agree to all that plus Putin promised to wipe Ukraine off the map. That was obviously highly motivating to Ukrainians of all social classes.
You have lost
The Russian forces in Ukraine have lost combat effectiveness
Death is now their lot as they are continuously enveloped
“Lost” is relative to user.
“That’s what the Germans thought too, circa 1942.”
This isn’t 1942 and it sure as heck ain’t the Red Army.
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LOL!
Aren't all wars?
I wouldn’t say Iraq was. The police action mission was.
It depends on one’s definition I guess.
I get your point.
“The Limits of Ukraine’s Offensive and the High Price to Pay When it Ends”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pONjlORXdFQ
No... it’s not. And no... I won’t.
Unless they can surrender without Putin's thugs executing them later for it, that's most definitely the case.
While my dad was a Marine and all my uncles and grandfather served in the Army / Navy, I'm not a military person nor familiar with war or how they're conducted.
I thought all wars were wars of attrition.
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