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.
So you acknowledge it’s not part of the separatist regions. Why would Russia want to occupy hostile territory?
And don’t take my word (and common sense) for Russia not trying to conquer the whole of Ukraine; that’s what U.S. military analysts think. Or are they Russian propagandists?
Why would Russia want to occupy hostile territory?
I don’t know, ask the Chechens, or any number of similar ethnic minorities that are part of the last intact European empire. Also, hexbears stop linking me to the same weird compilation of illegible and irrelevant crap.
That link is perfectly legible and incredibly relevant. You just want to pull the “if you don’t have sources I demand them and if you do they don’t matter” bullshit.
I never demanded sources, because you’re right, it’s incredibly easy to produce a shitty source. They’re mostly useful for uncontroversial things where there’s a lot of subject matter experts with no real stake in the exact answers.
If you actually wanted to convince me Russia wasn’t trying to conquer Ukraine, I guess you’d have to convince me I don’t remember the winter of '22 right. I saw the shit happen, and I can read behind the lines well enough to know that when someone launches a full-scale invasion of a smaller neighbor starting with their capital, they mean to put it under their control, one way or another.
I have here in my hand a list of 205 . . . a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. .
I wouldn’t trust those US Military Analysts!
