Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Soledar captured by Russia.
Expect more of the same soon.
PS: Neener neener neener. THUGR is a weener.
I'm right and you're wrong
Nyah nyah nyah.
Well, that's bc I post reality, but you embrace lies.
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Quote:You "jumped the gun", Signym. Maybe you should wait until it actually happens rather than prematurely declaring victory?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Soledar captured by Russia.
Expect more of the same soon.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/jump--the--gun
Why is Russia so keen to capture the town of Soledar?
By Rob Picheta, Tim Lister and Olga Voitovych, CNN
Updated 11:11 AM EST, Wed January 11, 2023
Fighting is still raging in Soledar, a salt mine town in eastern Ukraine, despite Russian claims that it has gained control of the region.
Should Russian troops indeed capture the town, it would mark Moscow’s first gain in the Donbas for months – potentially offering President Vladimir Putin some welcome news after a string of defeats on the battlefield since last summer.
The significance of Soledar in military terms is minimal. However, its capture would allow Russian forces, and especially the Wagner mercenary group, to turn their focus on nearby Bakhmut, which has been a target since the summer.
Taking Soledar would also represent a symbolic PR win for the man who runs Wagner – oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has frequently criticized the Russian Defense Ministry’s management of the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/europe/soledar-ukraine-russia-explainer
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Eventually M$M will bow to reality. They'll change their tune in two or three days, or memory hole this altogether.
Why is Kiev fighting so hard for Bakhmut? On the one hand they keep saying it's of no strategic significance. OTOH they keep sending in reinforcements, defending every millimeter.
I think there are a few reasons:
Having to retreat from Bakhmut would be terrible optics, and "Z" hates bad optics
Bakhmut is a road and rail hub for Kiev's defense line
It has eight years of dug-in defenses, and it's Kiev's best defense line. Kiev may not Have an equivalent fallback position, so if they're routed from Bakhmut it might be all the way to the Dnieper.
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Did he expect a promotion after Mission Accomplished in Ukraine? Not gonna happen. Instead, President Vladimir Putin demoted Russia's top commander in Ukraine, three months after he was installed. Gen Surovikin, dubbed "General Armageddon" for his brutal tactics in previous wars, is demoted to be the deputy of Gen Gerasimov. Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov has been appointed to lead what Russia calls its "special military operation" against its neighbour.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64235713
Surovikin being demoted to deputy is better for him than mysteriously dying in an "accident" because "General Armageddon" wasn't getting the results -- a quick victory -- he was expected to deliver.
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Putin fires another general
The Russian army in Ukraine is changing command again. They are now on their third leader:
• February 2022: Army General Aleksandr Dvornikov, the "Butcher of Syria," leads the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• October 2022: General of the Army Sergey Surovikin, aka "General Armageddon," replaces Dvornikov.
• January 2023: General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, also Chief of the General Staff and Hero of the Russian Federation, replaces Surovkin.
Dvornikov lasted eight months but Surovikin lasted only three. Why?
“They have taken someone who is competent and replaced him with someone who is incompetent, but who has been there a long time and who has shown that he is loyal,” said Dara Massicot, senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation in Washington. “Whatever is happening in Moscow, it is out of touch with what is happening on the ground in Ukraine.”
Putin keeps going up the chain of command for new generals. But I don't think there are too many more to go before he's leading the army himself.
https://jabberwocking.com/putin-fires-another-general/
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Soledar captured by Russia.
Expect more of the same soon.
PS: Neener neener neener. THUGR is a weener.
I'm right and you're wrong
Nyah nyah nyah.
Well, that's bc I post reality, but you embrace lies.
Holy shit, can anyone say 6 years old. Sorry sig, I didn't know you were 6 or I'd of been kinder. Wow, too funny.
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Since Poland is mobilizing 200,000 troops on its eastern border (i.e. with Ukraine) supposedly equipped with all-western weaponry, Russia is probably preparing for an escalation beyond Ukraine's border.
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Quote:That is last year's news, Signym. Have you got anything more recent?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since Poland is mobilizing 200,000 troops on its eastern border (i.e. with Ukraine) supposedly equipped with all-western weaponry, Russia is probably preparing for an escalation beyond Ukraine's border.
Up to 200,000 Poles to be called up for military training next year
Dec 9, 2022
Under the Homeland Defence Act, in force since April 2022, each year the government issues a decree which provides the number of persons who may be called up for active military service or military exercises. The defence ministry published the guidelines for next year in a draft resolution earlier this month.
Until 2009, Poland had compulsory military service for men, but that was scrapped in favour of a fully professional army. However, in recent years the growing threat of Russia has pushed the government to seek to increase the size and strength of the armed forces.
In 2017, a new Territorial Defence Force was established. This year’s Homeland Defence Act foresees a doubling in the size of the armed forces, from the current 143,500 troops (111,500 professional and 32,000 territorials) to 300,000 (250,000 professional and 50,000 territorials).
https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/12/09/up-to-200000-poles-to-be-called
-up-for-military-training-next-year/
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CNN, in a shocker, reported on the unfolding disaster today in Soledar and Bahkmut:
A Ukrainian soldier fighting in the eastern town of Soledar told CNN that the situation is “critical” and the death toll is now so high that “no one counts the dead”.
The soldier is from the 46th air mobile brigade, which is leading Ukraine’s fight to hold onto Soledar in the face of a massive assault from Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries. . . .
He described a dynamic battlefield where buildings change hands daily and units can’t keep track of the escalating death toll. “No one will tell you how many dead and wounded there are. Because no one knows for sure. Not a single person,” he said. “Not at the headquarters. Not anywhere. Positions are being taken and re-taken constantly. What was our house today, becomes Wagner’s the next day.”. . .
The soldier said that he believed Ukraine’s military leaders would eventually abandon the fight for Soledar and questioned why they hadn’t done this yet. “Everyone understands that the city will be abandoned. Everyone understands this,” he said. “I just want to understand what the point [in fighting house to house] is. Why die, if we are going to leave it anyway today or tomorrow?”
https://sonar21.com/endgame-for-ukraine-in-bahkmut/
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Quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces are "far from" capturing the embattled city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine despite recent reported advances in the nearby salt-mining town of Soledar, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). https://www.understandingwar.org/
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Why die, if we are going to leave it anyway today or tomorrow?”
https://sonar21.com/endgame-for-ukraine-in-bahkmut/
Some Russian sources have begun discussing "an implausible collapse of the current Ukrainian frontline and a Ukrainian retreat" as far back as the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the think tank observed.
The ISW said current Russian discussion about the "imminent capture of Bakhmut" and the "collapse of Ukrainian defensive lines" are "divorced from the current operational reality in the Bakhmut area, where Russian forces remain far from severing Ukrainian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) needed to encircle Bakhmut."
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-forces-bakhmut-soledar-ukraine-isw-17
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