Posted on 02/15/2023 5:30:53 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Great! Ukraine took the ground back near Bakhmut
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Update from Ukraine | Wagner is losing in Bakhmut | Big Trouble for Prigozhyn
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zelensky could have stopped this before it started, but he broke agreements and treaties and refuses to negotiate
this guy is pretty good, he’s been right about most of the things so far
thanks for posting!
It is interesting that Daniel had thought Bachmut was about to fall, but has become more optimistic because Wagner is having problems.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Bachmut is lost. Would be pleasantly surprised if it holds.
Top retired Russian general says Putin is leading his country to defeat and humiliation in Ukraine and blames the President for uniting the West with disastrous invasion
-Retired army colonel-general Leonid Ivashov has been a vocal critic of Putin
-Now, he has said the carnage in Ukraine as been worse than he imagined
By Will Stewart and Chris Jewers For Mailonline
14 February 2023 | Updated: 09:53 EST
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11748817/Ukraine-Retired-Russian-general-says-Putin-leading-country-defeat-humiliation.html
Vladimir Putin is leading Russia to defeat and humiliation in Ukraine, according to one of Moscow’s most respected military figures, who also blames the President for uniting the West with his disastrous invasion.
Retired army colonel-general Leonid Ivashov had called for the president’s resignation a year ago before the war started over a ‘criminal’ policy in ‘provoking’ an ‘artificial’ conflict, foreseeing it would trigger disaster.
Now he says the carnage across the border is worse than he imagined.
Ivashov, chairman of the independent All-Russian Officers’ Assembly and a former top aide to a famous Soviet defence minister, lambasted Putin, declaring: ‘We did not expect such a series of mistakes, wrong actions during this military operation.’
‘What happened in the end? Basically what we expected, but much worse,’ said the general, a key figure in the Soviet-era Red Army and later the Russian military, in an interview with Republic independent media.
‘But everything turned out to be much worse.’
Some estimates say the losses on both sides are now over 200,000, and rising fast. Russia alone is estimated to have lost as many as 140,000 since February last year.
‘It was not expected that there would be such destruction: in fact, entire small towns and villages were demolished to their foundations,’ Ivashov said.
‘Further, I wrote that we would find ourselves a pariah state, but, frankly, I did not think that we would not have a single ally that has serious influence on the political, economic or military-technical level.’
Ivashov blames Putin for triggering a new alignment between the US and China, and expects this to bear fruit with the pair holding the major sway in the world.
‘Russia in such a picture of the world is not mentioned at all as a political player,’ he said. ‘So now they will create a bipolar world, but without our participation.’
Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine had ‘saved NATO’ with Finland and Sweden due to join, he continued. ‘We have delivered the whole of Europe into the hands of the Americans…’ due to Putin’s ineptness.
‘There was no Collective West before, there were a lot of contradictions there. And today we are creating this Collective West with our own hands.’
Ivashov said Putin blundered by not properly seeking other solutions in Donetsk and Luhansk, before launching his invasion.
‘Did we raise this issue at the UN General Assembly? No! We immediately moved tanks there. Every problem has multiple solutions. And most importantly - do not choose the worst. But we, unfortunately, chose the worst.’
He also scathingly criticised Putin for the use of private armies in the conflict, stressing it leads to confused command structures.
Putin deployed the Wagner Private Military company in Ukraine, which has played a large part in the seven-month-long battles raging around the city of Bakhmut - a major target for Putin’s invading troops.
Wagner has claimed to take towns in the region singlehandedly, publicly embarrassing the Russian Armed Forces.
‘As for the [regular] army, there is the problem of destroying professionalism,’ Ivashov said.
Russia is paying the price for the Putin era’s demoting of military professions and instead bringing in secret services cronies and even alcohol and furniture experts to key military positions,’ the retired general said.
‘To go to war with such an army is more than a crime,’ he said.
He forecast failure if Putin forces through a new mass mobilisation, and as a hardliner he berated the dictator for seeking to gag his critics.
‘If you shut someone’s mouth, it does not mean that you have become stronger,’ he warned. ‘If sober-minded people are silenced, then you only become dumber and more corrupt, but not stronger in any way.’
Using intellect is the way to victory, Ivashov said.
‘In our country, instead of intellect, people are twisting their arms, intimidating, imprisoning. In such a situation, the country always loses and does not live long.
‘We have already experienced a systemic crisis, and what will happen next, I cannot say, I can only speculate.’
Ivashov, 79, was senior aide to Soviet defence minister Marshal Dmitry Ustinov.
Later he headed the military cooperation department at the Russian defence ministry, and later was president of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems.
On Tuesday, Russian forces bombarded Ukrainian positions along the frontlines in eastern Donetsk region in what appeared to be early salvoes of the new offensive - as NATO allies met in Brussels to plan stepped-up supplies to the Kyiv government.
Ukraine said Bakhmut was in a precarious position.
‘There is not a single square metre in Bakhmut that is safe or that is not in range of enemy fire or drones,’ regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukraine’s national broadcaster.
He said Russian artillery was hitting targets all along the frontlines in Donetsk, which along with Luhansk region makes up the Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial heartland and a main objective for the Russians.
With the first anniversary of the invasion approaching, the Kremlin has intensified operations across a broad area of southern and eastern Ukraine and a major new offensive has been widely anticipated.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that the bombardments and ground attacks indicated the offensive was already underway.
Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday its forces had repelled attacks in five settlements in Luhansk and six in Donetsk, including in Bakhmut, over the past 24 hours.
They had also beaten back an attack on a town in Kharkiv region, which borders Russia in northeast Ukraine.
‘The situations is difficult as a whole, but controlled,’ Kyrylenko said. ‘The enemy has not been able to achieve a tactical or strategic success there.’
The Russian assault on Bakhmut has been spearheaded by mercenaries of the Wagner group. Britain’s defence ministry said on Tuesday the mercenaries had made small gains in the northern outskirts in the past three days but an advance to the south of Bakhmut had probably made little progress.
The capture of Bakhmut would give Russia a new foothold in Donetsk and a rare victory after months of setbacks.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin said that the U.S.-led NATO military alliance demonstrated its hostility towards Russia every day, and was becoming more and more involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
‘NATO is an organisation which is hostile to us and which proves this hostility every day,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
‘It is trying its best to make its involvement in the conflict around Ukraine as clear as possible,’ Peskov added.
Moscow has said weapons supplies to Ukraine by NATO countries are dragging out the conflict and raising the possibility of a further escalation. Kyiv and the West say deliveries of advanced military hardware are crucial in helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s offensive.
and he was killing his own ethnic Russian citizens
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VIDEOS
1. ‘Staggering’ number of Russian troops killed | General Petraeus
Times Radio
2-15-2023 6:30 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CryVKKlxIo
2. They wanted to make ‘cannon meat’ out of us. We refused! | Break the Fake
TVP World [TVP is a Polish public broadcast service]
Feb 15, 2023 5:45 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZq50g74OoA
Reservists from the Kaliningrad region disobeyed direct orders from their commander and refused to storm Ukrainian positions in the Donbas.
3. Russian army units destroyed after attacking Bakhmut with large force at night
Kanal13
Feb 15, 2023 6:45 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX4_8ZONGF8
“zelensky could have stopped this before it started, but he broke agreements and treaties and refuses to negotiate.”
Just wondering: What agreements and treaties did Zelensky sign that he later broke?
The one who started it, and the one who can end it, is Putin. The first agreement that was broken was the one where Russia respected Ukrainian independence. All else flowed downhill from there.
Here’s a map of the current situation around Bakhmut.
“A close-up map of the approximate situation around the city of Bakhmut.
There have been no confirmed changes to control since the last update.”
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1626011734249988098?s=20
VIDEOS
1. WAGNER CHIEF IS MAD: UKRANIANS ARE BRINGING NEW FIGHTERS, THEY ARE NOT GIVING UP ON BAKHMUT || 2023
Warthog Defense
Feb 15, 2023 7:47 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdKCsmNF7ms
2. UKRANIANS ARE SHOCKED - RUSSIANS TROOPS ARE FIGHTING EACH OTHER IN FRONT OF THEM || 2023
Warthog Defense
Feb 15, 2023 9:48 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUshoz9jS2g
3. UKRANIAN FIGHTERS REPEALED ANOTHER ATTACK IN BAKHMUT, RUSSIANS RETREATED WITH HEAVY CASUALTIES
Warthog Defense
Feb 15, 2023 5:45 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpSFni5NOlo
ARTICLE
Ex-Gazprom official says decades of the Russian gas giant’s work has been ‘flushed down the toilet’, with export revenues expected to halve this year
Ryan Hogg
14 feb 2023
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-gas-energy-gazprom-sanctions-ukraine-decades-work-flushed-toilet-2023-2
State-owned energy company Gazprom has slashed the supply of natural gas to Europe. AFP/Getty Images
-Gazprom’s years of work on exporting Russian gas have been “flushed down the toilet,” an ex-official said.
-An ex-manager at the gas giant bemoaned the impact of the Ukraine war to Reuters after gas prices fell close to two-year lows.
-Gazprom’s overseas revenues are nearly $3 billion lower than they were a year ago, per Reuters.
Decades of work by Gazprom to build up Russia’s natural-gas exports have gone to waste, a former official at the state-run energy giant has said, as Ukraine war sanctions threaten to help cut the company’s overseas revenues in half.
Speaking to Reuters on the condition of anonymity, the former Gazprom manager spoke about the impact of the collapse of Moscow’s gas exports to Europe on the company and the Russian state.
“The work of hundreds of people, who for decades built the exporting system, now has been flushed down the toilet,” he told Reuters.
Russia’s gas exports to Europe have fallen significantly thanks in part to sanctions imposed on Moscow after President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in late February last year. The Kremlin’s decision to cut flows via a key pipeline to Germany also brought down trade.
As a result, Gazprom could see its revenue from overseas customers halve this year, according to Reuters calculations. Those sales were around $3.4 billion in January, down from $6.3 billion in the same period last year, it reported.
Because Gazprom is under the hand of the Kremlin, that is likely to have a direct impact on Russia’s trade deficit. The country’s oil and gas deficit dropped by nearly 50% at the start of 2023.
Energy prices are dipping after a milder winter than expected for Europe, which has successfully built up stocks of oil and gas. At the same time, Europe has opened up its gas supply chain to include imports from the likes of the US, undoing years of developments to trade links between Russia and the West.
A price cap on Russian energy has also softened demand for the country’s exports, and European natural-gas futures are trading around their lowest levels in nearly two years. Commodities trader Pierre Andurand told the Financial Times he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost the energy war over falling prices for the commodity.
Gazprom didn’t immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
[ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Russia’s oil and gas revenue crashed by nearly 50% at the start of 2023, leading to a wider budget deficit as Moscow’s spending soars
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-oil-gas-prices-revenue-budget-deficit-widens-ukraine-war-2023-2]
FEB 14
State Emergency Service of Ukraine
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Ukrainian rescuers were visited by Jose Andres, founder of the World Central Kitchen organization, which feeds people in hot spots
▪ representatives of his organization distribute food packages, water, and hot food to citizens in the de-occupied territories of Ukraine.
“I came to visit the Ukrainian rescue team, which traveled 3,000 miles to support the Turkish people while their country is going through war. This is the spirit of the Ukrainian people. We will make sure that they are fed daily,” said Mr. Jose.
▪ note that Jose Andres is marked on the alley of courage in Kiev. In November 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky awarded him the Order of Merit of the second degree.
VIDEOS
1. Footage From Vulhedar Shows Russian Troops PANICKING!
Combat Veteran Reacts
Feb 15, 2023 7:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfMGAJTeQ6s
2. 15 Feb: Ukrainians ANNIHILATE 2 WEEKS OF RUSSIAN PROGRESS | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
Feb 15, 2023 6:15 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhkbbU21ggc
3. Ukrainians made a big move: The connection between Belarus and Russian army were cut off!
Ultimate Ukraine
Feb 15, 2023 7:15 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUwcfZ3Eupo&t=16s
4. WAGNER CHIEF IS MAD: UKRANIANS ARE BRINGING NEW FIGHTERS, THEY ARE NOT GIVING UP ON BAKHMUT || 2023
Warthog Defense
Feb 15, 2023 7:30 p.m. EST [ENGLISH go to closed caption/CC; then subtitles: Russian auto-generated/select English]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdKCsmNF7ms&t=60s
Update for Russian military operations in Ukraine for February 15, 2023:
- Ukrainian forces continue to lose ground along the line of contact;
-Bakhmut faces encirclement by Russian forces which Ukraine admits is using heavy artillery shelling, not "human waves" to destroy Ukrainian positions;
- NATO begins to admit to limits of what it can send Ukraine in terms of weapons and ammunition;
- Efforts by Western nations to increase production will still fall far short even after several years of expanding production lines;
- US announces plan to train Ukrainian forces to fight on less ammunition, using maneuver warfare instead;
-This requires long periods of complex training to be effective and is impractical for Ukrainian forces;
- The US is signaling that it is simply attempting to draw out the conflict for as long as possible;
Bingo!
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