Posted on 10/29/2023 4:52:23 PM PDT by Kazan
When Russell ‘Texas’ Bentley talks about the war in the Donbas, and the struggle against Nazis in Ukraine, it’s not hearsay. He has been there from the start, and served in Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017, fighting on the side of the Donetsk People’s Republic – now a region of Russia. He was also baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.
This last week Bentley shared a new update from downtown Donetsk with some really big news.
Sputnik reported:
“The biggest thing that everybody’s talking about recently is the advances of our guys in the Avdiivka front. They’ve taken the Terrikon (slag heap) which is a literally strategic position from there. They can observe for miles around.”
Not unlike Mariupol with the Azovstal industrial area, in Avdiivka the Coke plant is an area where Ukrainian soldiers have deeply fortified and are holed up.
From the conquered slag heap Russians can survey that area, as well as the whole town of Avdiivka, and even further up to the rear areas.
Bentley suggests that the pincers are closing, since the visibility allows Russian forces to ‘bring in drones, artillery, rocket fire, whatever we need in order to block off reinforcements and reprovisioning’.
We’ve seen time and again – the Russian war of attrition and its boa-constrictor ’embrace’ of cities.
Bentley also explains why both Russia and Ukraine are committing so many forces to this particular battle.
“Avdiivka is a street strategic position along the whole Donbass front. When it falls, the Donbass front is gonna shatter like glass. Once Avdiivka is out of the way Russia will be able to move in any direction that they want for as far as they want there. It’s one of the strongest positions that’s ever been built in this war. And once it’s taken, the Ukrainians aren’t going to have anything else, any defensive positions that can anywhere near or match what they built up in Avdiivka.”
Bentley spent a lot of time on the Avdiivka front, even since he first worked there at in 2014, including when it was briefly conquered by Russians.
Is he is also well informed about the Ukrainian fortifications in the city.
“The Ukrainians were building up the defensive positions, tunnels. There’s a whole network of tunnels under that city now. It’s like a whole underground city underneath the regular city. So it’s a major position.”
Bentley has lived in the Donbas for over a decade, so he knows the reality on the ground. And through him we confirm that, while Russian geopolitical goals surely play a role in the war, there is also a very real humanitarian issue for Donetsk civilian areas, under constant Ukrainian artillery fire for the last 9 years.
“Another big development is that, as the Russian forces have moved forward on the northern side of the pincer, the Ukrainian artillery that’s been bombing Donetsk for almost 10 years, ever since the beginning of the war has had to move back further and further. So we’re getting to the point where literally, you know what, what we’ve all been praying for here in Donetsk all these years, the crops are getting ready to be moved out from artillery range. They’re not gonna be able to hit the cities, the civilian parts of Donetsk anymore. And that’s a beautiful thing.”
The Nazis in Ukraine are the invading RuZZian Nazis.
Too bad the Uke Nazis are fighting to The Last Ukrainian.
When do they pay you your 10%?
And a anti-evangelical, anti-Israel dictator on the other side, with a overall pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ+ anti-evangelical, anti-conservative West on the other side, and with atheistic China lusting for world domination being a greater long-term physical threat than all, though the spiritual declension of the West and rise of the Left is the actual primary enemy, fighting against the Almighty it cannot win.
Avdiivka is the new Mariupol and Bakhmut.
That’s what they told us about Bakhmut.
Struggle against Nazis in Ukraine.
Lol.
This is as crazy as leftist crap.
Very good source on the war here updated twice a day
Military summary
https://rumble.com/c/MilitarySummary
Latest video
This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 29th of October 2023
https://rumble.com/v3sh8o4-the-fall-3rd-stage-of-avdiivka-assault-the-new-battle-for-dnieper.-military.html
What Dagestan doink?
Unpossible! I see regular posts on here that Ukraine is just on the verge of defeating Russia.
Thanks for sharing this. The pro-Nazi zeepers here (like Berlin above) desperately deny every reference to the anti-civilian terrorism practiced by Ukraine since 2014, but personal reports like this are an important reminder of what has been going on.
What is that crazy talk supposed to mean?
Where is your 10 percent?
Or you are special aren’t you?
Yes I think Russ may capture Avdiivka, and perhaps even capture a few thousand prisoners, a victory.
No I don’t see how it will make the entire front shatter into pieces—-especially with Rasputia right around the corner.
This can’t be true!
Ukraine is winning and Zelensky will be doing a victory dance in Red Square very soon.
I know because RevMom and Speedy tell me so every day.
/s
Yes, posted by Vindman his own self.
He’s here, you know. He’s a Zeeper.
The Russians must have a really big problem somewhere. When their propagandists drag out that old debunked lie you know they are desperate.
Bentley is one of the people who started the fighting. His viewpoint is about as unbiased as that of the Hamas PR department.
That means he's a Russian special forces operator.
So instead of him being like a Hamas PR operative, he is like a Hamas gunman talking about Israel. Totally unbiased.
If he saw shelling it was because his Russian artillery team was receiving counter battery fire.
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