Posted on 11/07/2022 6:58:30 PM PST by Timber Rattler
According to Meduza sources close to the Kremlin, the presidential administration has prepared several new manuals for Russian propagandists. They indicate how to talk about the situation in Kherson – to prepare “public opinion” in Russia for the fact that the city can be abandoned.
One of the documents states that the Kherson direction is “the most difficult for the Russian army at the current stage of the special operation.” Propagandists are offered to explain this situation by the fact that Ukraine “it is vitally necessary to demonstrate the combat capability of its terrorist formations to ask for new help from the West”:
“Kyiv will not reckon with its own losses – it is ready to ruin tens of thousands of its own and others for the sake of new trenches and arms supplies. Russian troops seek to save the lives of civilians and personnel. The danger of a massive strike on the city by a huge group of nationalists dictated the evacuation of civilians from the city to the left bank of the Dnieper.”
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Two sources close to the Kremlin noted that the Russian authorities now view the surrender of Kherson as an “undesirable” but “probable” scenario at the front.
(Excerpt) Read more at odessa-journal.com ...
Exactly so.
The Odessa Journal.
So, the Russian troops were really just there on a peacekeeping mission, handing out blankets and hot cocoa, and rescuing the odd kitten from a tree. These lightly armed tourists could not possibly be asked to stand against a vast army of bio-engineered Ukrainian cyborg troops, supported by zombies—yes, zombies, it’s true, you heard it here first. That’s the ticket.
It’s inevitable. They can’t re-supply over the river.
Good news is that with Kherson itself evacuated, they can go ahead and blow the dam.
Not just any zombies, but Nazi Satanist Zombies.
Keep up, will you?
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Its not a retreat its a trap. This shows that they are winning because they are putting into motion a plan for Ukraine to lose money and Russia to save money by letting Ukraine take back more territory. If you disagree you are a Nazi ANTIFA. Not nazi antifa in a figurative sense. A nazi antifa in a literal sense who sieg heils to hitler and wants to gas jews and nonwhites while also being in favor of microaggression training and transgender surgery for kids.
At this rate Ukraine will lose all the way to Moscow.
You're living in fantasy world, that is if you even believe the nonsense you're posting.
Russia’s got them right where they want ‘em. /sarc
Damn it.
I was almost “In before the Putin BoyZ”.
And there you were.
You’re quite delusional if you think Russia is winning. This is not what winning looks like.
If they blow the dam Crimea gets no water.
Too late, the election is tomorrow.
Electric grids aren’t that vulnerable, on the whole. They are pretty tough systems.
These are distributed systems consisting mainly of power lines. These make bad targets and are generally easily repaired. There are point targets but on the whole these are akso easily repaired, given a stockpile of parts and good crews. Blowing up a substation causes mainly temporary, recoverable damage, a matter of days or weeks at most.
There are a few point targets that are hard to replace, or to replace quickly. These are major transformers, which arent in ready supply, critical power plant components, especially turbines and their casings, boilers, which though readily repairable tube by tube are not a quick fix as a whole, and a few more bits and pieces which if destroyed are weeks or months out for replacement or rebuild. Much of this probably can be imported from the EU but it remains to be seen what stockpile levels are.
All the hard to replace bits are, however, small as targets go. A big transformer can be the size of a van, but if protected by sandbags, berms and concrete (which they most certainly are by now) requires a direct hit with a precision weapon. Most of the other bits are inside concrete structures of one kind or another. And further protected by now if the Ukes are on the ball.
A power grid and its generation assets is not something that can be taken out in one volley. Damage is going to be anticipated and repair assets will be ready. It will take an extended campaign to suppress it, with constant attacks, and its likely that the repair crews will keep ahead of the attacks. Without command of the air, permitting the use of “iron” bombs, such a campaign will absorb a huge quantity of expensive long range precision munitions.
Word from some articles has been that there are Russian soldiers dressed as civilians and occupying civilian dwellings in Kherson.
There’s also some concern in the U.S. government that the Russians might hit Kherson with nukes. Biden Administration officials have directly warned Russian officials against doing so.
That’s interesting because some reports indicate there are still civilians in Kherson. Anyone have a clue how many?
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