Google translated.
Original link: http://uapress.info/uk/news/show/62445
This is not unexpected. The real question is how several thousand Kiev troops will get out of the trap.
1 posted on
02/17/2015 1:48:50 PM PST by
tcrlaf
To: tcrlaf
And the answer is, of course, they won't. Anymore than they got out of the airport. The propensity for Ukraine Generals to permit their units to be cutoff, surrounded, and exterminated is amazing.
Debaltseve is the Alamo. Or perhaps, a more modern example would be Poznan, 1945....
2 posted on
02/17/2015 1:52:22 PM PST by
donozark
(On the other side of fear lies freedom)
To: tcrlaf
Looks like the Ukrainians got a little too aggressive after taking Slaviansk from the rebels. What I don’t understand is why they did not pull back from Debaltsev (towards Slaviansk) when it looked like they were about to be cut off. Patton never worried about being cut off because Uncle Sam provided him with so much material and other resources he could always overwhelm, with firepower from his units as well as tactical air, anyone who tried to do so. Ukrainians are operating on a shoestring.
4 posted on
02/17/2015 2:28:31 PM PST by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: tcrlaf; All
Several Tweets about this, in the last hour:
The elements of the 40th battalion in #Debaltseve surrendered to NAF w/ ALL weapons, light and heavy.
7 posted on
02/17/2015 3:25:52 PM PST by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: tcrlaf
Not to fear. General Poroshenko will save them.
21 posted on
02/17/2015 5:22:53 PM PST by
McGruff
(We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama 2011)
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