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    Putin's Forces Are Retreating From Key City of Lyman

    RIVNE, Ukraine — Russian forces withdrew from the strategic eastern city of Lyman on Saturday, just a day after President Vladimir V. Putin’s internationally derided declaration that the region where it lies and three others in Ukraine were now part of Russia.

    The battle for Lyman, a city in Donetsk Province with a pre-war population of 20,000, is particularly poorly timed for the Kremlin after it illegally declared its annexation of swaths of Ukraine and Kyiv’s stunning victories in the country’s northeast last month.

    Hours after Ukraine’s defense ministry said its forces were entering the city, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in it had taken the decision to pull out of Lyman.

    “In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, the allied troops were withdrawn” from the city to a “more advantageous” location, the ministry said in a statement posted on Telegram.

    The acknowledgment came after Ukraine’s Defense Ministry posted a video on Twitter showing two soldiers unfurling the country’s yellow-and-blue flag at a sign marking the city limits. The army “will always have the decisive vote in today’s and any future ‘referendums,’” it added in a pointed reference to the annexation process.

    A senior Ukrainian military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Lyman was “already liberated.”

    “A mop-up is ongoing,” the official said. “The Russians have nowhere to run.”

    The city’s position on the banks of the Siversky Donets river means its recapture by Ukrainian forces would lend them a strategic foothold for further advances east. It also would put additional pressure on the Kremlin, which has been facing blowback at home over its setbacks on the battlefield and the conscription of hundreds of thousands of men to fight in Ukraine.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...-news.amp.html

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    Moon, the self proclaimed great defender of Muslims, has been as quiet as a church mouse about Putin's disproportionate press-ganging of Muslim and Asian minorities to fight in a war for White Christian Slavic imperialism.

    Putin faces anti-mobilization protests from Russia's minorities

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Moon, the self proclaimed great defender of Muslims, has been as quiet as a church mouse about Putin's disproportionate press-ganging of Muslim and Asian minorities to fight in a war for White Christian Slavic imperialism.

    Putin faces anti-mobilization protests from Russia's minorities

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fra...ation-protests
    General Jack Keane was on Brett Baier's show last night and stated Putin is facing "a stunning military defeat with massive casualties". 25,000 dead, 65,000 wounded in an army of about 200,000.

    No doubt some of those were Russia's top units. Now Putin is recruiting a 300,000 man cannon fodder army.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    General Jack Keane was on Brett Baier's show last night and stated Putin is facing "a stunning military defeat with massive casualties". 25,000 dead, 65,000 wounded in an army of about 200,000.

    No doubt some of those were Russia's top units. Now Putin is recruiting a 300,000 man cannon fodder army.
    I don't know what the off ramp is for Putin. If he is percieved to have lost this war and made a catastrophic blunder it puts him at risk personally

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    Putin has money.
    Why doesn't he spend the rest of his life eating, drinking, and fucking instead of going out of his way to be a global asshole?

    I guess that if you are an asshole, that's beyond you to figure out.
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    The rumor is Putin has ordered the reverse gears removed from Russian tanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I don't know what the off ramp is for Putin. If he is percieved to have lost this war and made a catastrophic blunder it puts him at risk personally
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I don't know what the off ramp is for Putin. If he is percieved to have lost this war and made a catastrophic blunder it puts him at risk personally
    The best solution for the Russian people is for Putin to fall out of his hospital bedroom window. Preferably, 10 stories up or higher.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    Putin has money.
    Why doesn't he spend the rest of his life eating, drinking, and fucking instead of going out of his way to be a global asshole?

    I guess that if you are an asshole, that's beyond you to figure out.
    I really think Putin is committed to a vision of white Slavic imperialism, and he is almost messianic about it. He may be a criminal, but his commitment goes beyond wealth and material possession. He probably sees himself as a historic Russian figure on a par with Peter the Great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Putin's Forces Are Retreating From Key City of Lyman

    RIVNE, Ukraine — Russian forces withdrew from the strategic eastern city of Lyman on Saturday, just a day after President Vladimir V. Putin’s internationally derided declaration that the region where it lies and three others in Ukraine were now part of Russia.

    The battle for Lyman, a city in Donetsk Province with a pre-war population of 20,000, is particularly poorly timed for the Kremlin after it illegally declared its annexation of swaths of Ukraine and Kyiv’s stunning victories in the country’s northeast last month.

    Hours after Ukraine’s defense ministry said its forces were entering the city, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in it had taken the decision to pull out of Lyman.

    “In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, the allied troops were withdrawn” from the city to a “more advantageous” location, the ministry said in a statement posted on Telegram.

    The acknowledgment came after Ukraine’s Defense Ministry posted a video on Twitter showing two soldiers unfurling the country’s yellow-and-blue flag at a sign marking the city limits. The army “will always have the decisive vote in today’s and any future ‘referendums,’” it added in a pointed reference to the annexation process.

    A senior Ukrainian military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Lyman was “already liberated.”

    “A mop-up is ongoing,” the official said. “The Russians have nowhere to run.”

    The city’s position on the banks of the Siversky Donets river means its recapture by Ukrainian forces would lend them a strategic foothold for further advances east. It also would put additional pressure on the Kremlin, which has been facing blowback at home over its setbacks on the battlefield and the conscription of hundreds of thousands of men to fight in Ukraine.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...-news.amp.html
    Truly amazing, could not have timed it better, Putin continues to make himself look like a weak fool.

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