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| Russian special forces 'furious' with war plan in Ukraine |
| 2022-03-07 |
| BLUF: [Washington Examiner] "Sources have been telling me, sources that are well connected to the Russian Security Services, that the offensive is not going well, that some special forces, the Russian Spetsnaz, are furious because they have been sent into battle without proper support, and many of them have been killed. They say that the national guard forces and the regular army, the national guard forces include those Chechen units, that two of them are not coordinating on the field. And that the overall battle plan is somewhat disjointed in that it's partly a plan for war and partly a plan for peacekeeping and so-called de-Nazification of this country. And it has led to a lack of cohesion," Engel reported. "A lot of this goes back to the man who's behind it all, Vladimir Putin, who I'm told is now increasingly isolated, is just taking advice from his inner circle, that there are only about three people who matter right now," Engel continued. "And that speech, you mentioned it a short while ago, that Putin gave yesterday — bizarre location, speaking at Aeroflot, to a group of flight attendants. He sounded incredibly angry. He sounded detached. He was talking about how the Ukrainians here are machine-gunning people, that they're driving around in cars packed with explosives, jihadi-style. And he went very deep and repeatedly on this theme that they're fighting against the Nazis. It was the angriest I've ever seen him." Related: Spetsnaz: 2022-02-08 Russia Has 15,000 Crack Troops on the Ukrainian Border Spetsnaz: 2022-02-02 Russia starts huge war games in Belarus - opening up a new front in intimidation of Ukraine - and hosts a rival summit with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban in Moscow as NATO leaders fly into Kiev for meeting Spetsnaz: 2022-01-07 Dozens of Protesters Killed in Kazakhstan; 12 Police Dead |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 I think a number, perhaps a dozen or so, Spetsnaz ops were launched in the first two days of invasion. These were done to take airfields and other important property near big cities. https://youtu.be/J5Bmv9LzhNk |
| Posted by: Caligula 2022-03-07 17:44 |
| #10 This stuff is so juvenile it must have come from the West Wing. I was thinking that the bad news is that the Brandon WH gave a wink and nod to the invasion, but the good news was they provided the invasion plans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-07 11:16 |
| #9 I think a number, perhaps a dozen or so, Spetsnaz ops were launched in the first two days of invasion. These were done to take airfields and other important property near big cities. A lot of these ops were stopped and the troops killed or captured. Obviously the Spetnaz command is somewhere between unhappy and suicidal. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-03-07 10:37 |
| #8 Where's Jay Ward when you need him? |
| Posted by: No Fortunate Son 2022-03-07 09:39 |
| #7 This stuff is so juvenile it must have come from the West Wing. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-03-07 09:26 |
| #6 Lil Marco climbing down off the "Let’s start WW III" wall. No evidence yet he's able to bring Pierre Delecto or Miss Lindsey with him. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-07 09:00 |
| #5 Spetsnaz soldats bitching about high paid Wagner Group contractors ? Yes, I read the book, then saw the movie. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-07 08:49 |
| #4 There's a good reason there aren't many high windows to jump from in DC. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-07 08:32 |
| #3 "Sources have been telling me" What kind of sources? Top. Sources. Yeah, this reads like a media op. "OMG! Putin has lost it. What if he goes nuclear? We must do something." All part and parcel with that terribly distorted pic of Putin at a loooong table the other day. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-03-07 08:30 |
| #2 ^ 'sources that are well connected to the Russian Security Services,' Vladimirsky Prospekt pleasure girls? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-03-07 04:21 |
| #1 "Sources have been telling me" that tells the story there. I trust nothing this media spews. |
| Posted by: Dale 2022-03-07 03:48 |