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2022-05-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary May 27th (updated)
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Posted by badanov 2022-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 Zaluzhny asked Zelensky for permission to urgently withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. "Our grouping in two days can be completely surrounded, which will lead to terrible consequences, like in Mariupol, only in an accelerated format, since the city is not ready to keep all-round defense for a long time."

It's going to be truly horrific because unlike Mariupol, the slaughter will not take place in drips over weeks, and hidden from view inside a closed industrial plant, but rapidly and out in the open along the roads west and south of Lysychansk.

There are a few elite battalions remaining but most of the Ukrainian troops now have no experience, next to no training, and little ammunition. They will be slaughtered if a cease fire us not called within the next week.
Posted by Billy Budd 2022-05-28 00:25||   2022-05-28 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The United States, Ukraine, Germany and Poland, contrary to the bioweapons convention, did not notify the UN of joint experiments, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Nor was the UN informed of the unicorn fart testing. Because neither happened.

More Russian prep to use something nasty and blame everyone else.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-28 05:06||   2022-05-28 05:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait, what...? You mean the Ukrainians are getting pounded and retreating on every front? But we were told as recently as a week ago that they were winning.

Now the Narrative is that they're collapsing. Mutinies, desperation, dwindling ammo, death and despair.

So today the NY Times' main dispatch from the Donbas front -- conveniently buried beneath some dozen or so flood-the-zone pieces about Gun Violence and Evil Republicans -- warns of impending doom:

Under the fire of Russia’s long-range arsenal and facing a desperate need for ammunition and weapons, Ukrainian forces remain outgunned on the long and pockmarked eastern front, according to military analysts, Ukrainian officials and soldiers on the ground.

But...but... you told us it was the Russians who were "outgunned" and "desperate." How can this be? You mean you lied?

My how the Narrative Turns. You almost expect them to announce that western leaders are begging the Russians to talk peace, with Russia holding all the cards
Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-28 14:34||   2022-05-28 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 In my opinion Russia always plays the long game. I see desperate measures more and more on the Ukraine side.
Posted by Dale 2022-05-28 14:37||   2022-05-28 14:37|| Front Page Top

#5 If the media is giving up on it, the dems won't be far behind when the polling shows no advantage in it for them
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-28 14:48||   2022-05-28 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 dems won't be far behind when the polling shows no advantage in it for them

They were just waiting for a potent New Narrative to cast off the collapsing Ukraine Narrative. Texas - NRA - GunViolence - Trump fits the bill, perfectly.

Now it's Emily Litello time for Ukraine
Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-28 14:52||   2022-05-28 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't tell me we've spent tens of billions of USD backing yet another loser? How can this be ?

Should have stayed the fok out of it.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-28 14:57||   2022-05-28 14:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Gummint always picks losers.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-28 15:21||   2022-05-28 15:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Not to worry, the GOPe will hang onto it like a dog with a bone.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-28 15:23||   2022-05-28 15:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Another reason why the GOP doesn't deserve one thin dime in contributions.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-05-28 16:26||   2022-05-28 16:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Good analysis here by Alexander Mercouris.

"The United States is in danger of running out of weapons it can supply to Ukraine from [the United States'] own stocks... Ukraine is running out of men, ammunition, supplies and weapons, and the West, instead of being able to replace those lost supplies, is depleting its own stocks of weapons."

Thus the curious use of "lend-lease," a program of new production of future stocks rather than sales out of existing weapons inventories. This approach, based upon future production, has never been applied since World War II.

The implied depletion of western weapons stocks would also fit with what appear to be Pentagon and Intelligence Community directives to the politicians to reduce their commitments to Ukraine -- so as to enable the US backfill its own dangerously low reserves of critical weapons and supplies.
Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-05-28 17:27||   2022-05-28 17:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Hopefully it drives Nuland into a padded room.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-28 17:35||   2022-05-28 17:35|| Front Page Top

#13 My, how the Narrative shifts. The latest Washington Post story from Ukraine, published 3 hours ago, details how American mercenaries got the crap beaten out of them.

Ukraine war veterans are coming home, reckoning with difficult fight
Americans and other foreign fighters who’ve taken up arms against Russia describe glaring disparities in what they expected and what they experienced

By Alex Horton, Razzan Nakhlawi and Souad Mekhennet
THE WASHINGTON POST
May 28, 2022 at 7:07 p.m. EDT

In interviews with The Washington Post, foreign fighters from the United States and elsewhere described glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced. They recalled going into battle underequipped and outgunned...

...the conflict has drawn Western military veterans who either have never deployed into combat previously or have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies — not this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology.
Posted by Oye Como Va 2022-05-28 20:55||   2022-05-28 20:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Total clownshow. Poor deluded fools. The WaPo reporters continue their sad tale:

"...Russian artillery pounded their position a half-hour later, and [American mercenary] Dakota’s team withdrew under the cover of night. About a week later he felt nauseated and carsick. He was diagnosed with a brain injury linked to his proximity to the shelling, he said, and left for home toward the end of April. He has been in recovery ever since.

Other volunteers described different frustrations. Pascal, a veteran of the German army, was on a team with Cancel, the American killed in combat in late April. Problems arose during their first mission, he said.

The team suspected their two-way radios were being monitored by Russian forces, and they lacked extra batteries, forcing them to rely on unsecured cellphones and WhatsApp to communicate. Soon after they exchanged plans, their position was attacked by Russian artillery, he said.

The volunteers felt underinformed during many of their missions, not knowing where they were — and, vitally, where the Russians were, Pascal said. The day Cancel was killed, he said, they took fire from a position they believed to be Ukrainian but didn’t have radio communication to confirm. Two members of the team ventured out to investigate. Gunfire sounded, and they never returned, he said.
The remaining team members came under heavy fire, including artillery rounds, from the same direction, Pascal said. One team member was killed in the shelling. Pascal and another volunteer turned their attention to Cancel, who had be struck by shrapnel, he said. They applied tourniquets in a fruitless attempt to stop the bleeding. Their bodies were left behind as Pascal and another survivor withdrew.

That was Pascal’s last mission. He later crossed into Poland. Miller, the American volunteer, met him at a bar in Warsaw and noted how shaken up he seemed. They stepped outside and Miller consoled him, using Google Translate to find the right words in German. They hugged.

“From the beginning, we had no chance,” Pascal said in an interview. “I was asking myself why I survived and the others did not.”
Posted by Oye Come Va 2022-05-28 21:02||   2022-05-28 21:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Who is to blame for raising these "glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced"?

Who gave them the impression that could defeat a great power military when they "went into battle underequipped and outgunned"?

Very well then, so perhaps it's the foolish arrogance of "Western military veterans who ... have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies" — unlike "this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology...."

Ultimately though the blame rests with the Wesyern politicians, the defense contractors and the media figures who lied to the public and pretended that Russia is not a great power with great resolve and overwhelming force, fighting for what the Russians believe is their very existence as a great nation. Saying it implying otherwise was a Big Lie.
Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-05-28 21:09||   2022-05-28 21:09|| Front Page Top

#16 CNN is now preparing their viewers for Ukraine's defeat in the Donbas - "GAME OVER," according to CNN's retired colonel military analyst.

Posted by Oil Derek 2022-05-28 22:38||   2022-05-28 22:38|| Front Page Top

#17 "Kämpfe nicht mit Russen. Auf jede List reagieren sie mit einer unvoraussehbarer Dummheit.”
Posted by On The Fritz 2022-05-28 23:31||   2022-05-28 23:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Pull Tolstoy and Vlad from your shelves!
Yes, prepare! Putin's humanist elves,
Spilling ink over blood
And Ukrainian mud,
Must help Russians think well of themselves!

Only be sure always to call it please "research."
Posted by Philing Bumble3071 2022-05-28 23:43||   2022-05-28 23:43|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ Aiming in general direction of visitors and Steshin types (whom I also enjoy), not at you Burgers, least of all badanov.
Posted by Philing Bumble3071 2022-05-28 23:53||   2022-05-28 23:53|| Front Page Top

#20 Sorry, Herr Fred. Your sarcasm can't hide your ignorance. Ukraine is collapsing.

There are at least eight videos from eight units, posted on Ukrainian social media, all of them refusing to carry out suicidal missions. Each of these units presents a formal demand to President Zelensky and the Ukrainian General in Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:

13th Battalion of 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade

2nd Company of the 46th Rifle Battalion

3rd Platoon of the 46th Infantry Battalion

115th Brigade

3rd Platoon of the 115th Brigade

71st Jaeger Infantry Brigade

Ukrainian 14th Brigade: 6th Battalion, 4th, 5th, and 6th companies

Cherkasy Territorial Defense
Posted by On The Fritz 2022-05-28 23:54||   2022-05-28 23:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Zelensky's days are numbered. Talk now of a coup to depose him unless peace talks begin.

Go ahead, Jolly Joker: find a rhyme for Zelensky.
Posted by On The Fritz 2022-05-28 23:57||   2022-05-28 23:57|| Front Page Top

#22 Ha! Me Fred! Preening I am.
Posted by Philing Bumble3071 2022-05-28 23:59||   2022-05-28 23:59|| Front Page Top

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