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

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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.

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[-] LeateWonceslace@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Imagine liking a queerphobic dictatorship.

[-] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 1 year ago

Putin can hang from a barbed wire noose and also this is a US proxy war

[-] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Wait a minute.. Who invaded Ukraine in 2014, and again in 2021? Who illegally annexed sovereign territory? America is not blameless, but in this war they are just the arms dealer

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 year ago

The USA has been training Ukraine military and irregulars for years. They organized a volunteer force to go fight there. They sent their politicians to support the right-wing coup. What the fuck are you talking about they are just arms dealers? They are providing recon and military intelligence, they are mobilizing their satellites and aerial assets, they are doing political work to get other nations to provide support and they are putting constraints on peace deals. They are not a fucking arms dealer.

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[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

if you are right and they are just an arms dealer they are still the bad guys. You understand arm's dealers are bad people right?

[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

No. That's a reductionist take.

"Can we have some weapons to defend ourselves?"

"No! That'd make us evil. You should just die. "

Oh a hexbear. ... You lot only have overly simplistic takes.

[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

You should just die

Yes, rip bozos

My eternal grief for the hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukrainians pressed into the meatgrinder by their Nazi overlords, eternal death to the genocidal Kiev regime and their campaign of extermination against their own country's citizens of Russian descent for eight years

CW: literally, unfathomably vile

The Ukrainian fascist soldiers are offering you cans of 'Separatist Baby Meat'!

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[-] InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Oh a hexbear. ... You lot only have overly simplistic takes.

When we respond to blatant ignorance with carefully chosen wording, backing up our position with citations and links, and calmly explaining the nuance of complex geopolitical realities, we get accused of "always throwing walls of text at people." When we answer that same ignorance with short and pithy responses, we "only have simplistic takes."

parenti-hands

There's no winning with you simple-minded dronies, but I guess there never is when one side can just make shit up that fits their vibes-based outlook on the world.