World News

32351 readers

758 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

632

‘We Cannot Win’ Says Top Russian Commander (www.kyivpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

742 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://archive.li/Z0m5m

The Russian commander of the “Vostok” Battalion fighting in southern Ukraine said on Thursday that Ukraine will not be defeated and suggested that Russia freeze the war along current frontlines.

Alexander Khodakovsky made the candid concession yesterday on his Telegram channel after Russian forces, including his own troops, were devastatingly defeated by Ukrainian marines earlier this week at Urozhaine in the Zaporizhzhia-Donetsk regional border area.

“Can we bring down Ukraine militarily? Now and in the near future, no,” Khodakovsky, a former official of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, said yesterday.

“When I talk to myself about our destiny in this war, I mean that we will not crawl forward, like the [Ukrainians], turning everything into [destroyed] Bakhmuts in our path. And, I do not foresee the easy occupation of cities,” he said.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Odd that Putin still has to stop obviously rig his elections considering how support is so high.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is indeed odd that US propaganda can't make up its mind between "Putin Ebil Crazed Dictator Sole Actor Behind War" and "Russian Brainpan Predisposed to Being Big Meanies." So Which is it? Do Russians actually not support Putin and the SMO or are all of these western sources talking about his soaring approval actually just on Putin's payroll?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Those western sources also agree that he rigged his election. Not saying he needed to but it was very obvious that he did.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Not saying he needed to but it was very obvious that he did.

picard

Do you hear what you're saying?

Putin: "Even though I have overwhelming support, I'm going to conduct a giant conspiracy to win an election I would win anyway. It may come with very high cost and no actual benefit, but YOLO. In fact it might even undermine all that support I already have. But fuck it, I'm an evil dictator, so that's what I'm gonna do."

putin-wink

Those western sources also agree that he rigged his election.

Maybe, just maybe... no, no, hear me out... Maybe you should start questioning all the things you hear from those western sources?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Are we talking about Biden or Putin I can't keep track?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not saying he needed to but it was very obvious that he did.

Come on. Take like ten seconds to think about what you typed out here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like how the American democrats put their whole ass on the scale in order to get biden to win their nomination, or how the entire american media apparatus openly collaborated with the democrats in order to drag biden's senile corpse past trump's bloated corpse to the finish line?

Russia is a product of American interference, and their government is but a reflection of the wretched system of governance that is the American government.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That means anything Russia does is bad, then, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That means anything Russia does is Blowback in America's face.