Guno צְבִי (10-01-2022), signalmankenneth (10-01-2022), ThatOwlWoman (10-01-2022)
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“In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, the allied troops were withdrawn” from the city to a “more advantageous” location, the ministry said in a statement posted on Telegram.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.
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Guno צְבִי (10-01-2022), signalmankenneth (10-01-2022), ThatOwlWoman (10-01-2022)
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
Doc Dutch (10-01-2022), ExpressLane (10-01-2022), Guno צְבִי (10-01-2022)
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.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (10-01-2022), ExpressLane (10-01-2022), Guno צְבִי (10-01-2022)
Doc Dutch (10-01-2022)
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.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
The rumor is Putin has ordered the reverse gears removed from Russian tanks.
IMPEACH 46 FOR TREASON
Biden/Harris 2024
IT'S A NO BRAINER!
Cypress (10-01-2022)
Cypress (10-01-2022)
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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