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In Ukraine -- Russia has suffered devastating losses to its elite Spetsnaz commando units that could take a decade to replenish
MAILONLINE ^ | 14 April 2023 | By CHRIS JEWERS

Posted on 04/14/2023 7:36:29 AM PDT by dennisw

Bungling commanders sent them to help failing frontline infantry, leaked US documents reveal

This is after Russian commanders sent Spetsnaz troops into direct combat

Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has devastated Russia's clandestine special (Spetsnaz) forces, classified American documents that were leaked online reported.

The leak first became widely known about a week ago.

But the revelations have also demonstrated how deep American spy networks have infiltrated the Kremlin's own intelligence agencies and military command structure.

And to compound the Kremlin's own embarrassment, the documents have also provided a damning assessment of Russia's own military capabilities.

The deployment of Spetsnaz units is typically reserved for stealthy, high-risk missions which require soldiers with significant determination, skill and ruthlessness.

In the early days of the war, it is understood such units were ordered - and failed - to penetrate the heart of Kyiv and capture Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky.

For such missions, the units receive some of the most advanced training available to Russia's military which takes years to complete - and high levels of expertise.

However, when Putin ordered his forces across the border in February 2022, Russia's senior commanders ordered their elite forces into combat - not trusting their conventional fighters to be effective on their own.

As a result, the units have taken heavy losses.

The assessment says the 22nd Separate Spetsnaz Brigade as well as two other units have suffered an estimated 90 to 95 per cent attrition rate, The Post says.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chrisjewers; chrisjewerslol; globalistpropaganda; propganda; thebozo; thefogeybot
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1 posted on 04/14/2023 7:36:29 AM PDT by dennisw
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Putin’s bungle in the jungles. The Ukrainian jungles of resistance fighters and guerilla fighters, who know their home turf.


2 posted on 04/14/2023 7:38:05 AM PDT by dennisw (This)
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DailyMail is the place for propaganda (as we can see below), or at least propaganda directed against Russia or in favor of Ukraine.

Daily Mail

Ghost of Kyiv ‘is killed’: Ukrainian fighter ace who shot down more than FORTY Russian aircraft ‘dies in battle against overwhelming enemy forces’

https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10768131/amp/Ghost-Kyiv-fighter-pilot-killed-shooting-FORTY-Russian-aircraft.html?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#aoh=16804483465020&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-10768131%2FGhost-Kyiv-fighter-pilot-killed-shooting-FORTY-Russian-aircraft.html


3 posted on 04/14/2023 7:39:56 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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Welcome to the Friday edition of Denny's Ukrainian Spam, as offered by CHRIS JEWERS and the Daily Male. Please leave your brain at the door, crack open a Bud Light and breathe in that Biden war PropAgenda!


4 posted on 04/14/2023 7:40:14 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Glad so many 22nd Separate Spetsnaz Brigade tankies on the cyber front have survived - congrats JonPreston on your remarkable longevity! It’s not easy to survive Zotting and HIMARS.


5 posted on 04/14/2023 7:40:44 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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I still think it was our own ‘leak’ at least partially to prepare the public that we already have troops on the ground there, as a way to move past debate on the matter.


6 posted on 04/14/2023 7:42:25 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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You’re welcome and remember, they might ZOT the alias, but the Movement lives on


7 posted on 04/14/2023 7:43:37 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Haha, I like it.


8 posted on 04/14/2023 7:44:22 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: dennisw
VDV, too. Not just Spetsnaz.


9 posted on 04/14/2023 7:46:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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You can bet the Russians and Chinese among others are cleaning house top to bottom on their intelligence services looking for the spies. How could one person do so much damage???


10 posted on 04/14/2023 7:47:10 AM PDT by armydawg505
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Does anyone find it weird that ONLY the Washington Post has seen these “other released documents?”

And now all the other state-run media are running with the exact same stories - based ONLY on refererences to WaPo.

Where are these “other documents” if they are in the public domain already?

I will admit otherwise if they appear elsewhere - but it seems to be more FAKE NEWS, designed to manipulate public opinion.


11 posted on 04/14/2023 7:48:22 AM PDT by PGR88
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Nothing has changed. The same lying mental midgets that brought us Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, et.al., are still in charge, except for their leader for the past two years, a bungling buffoon that doesn’t even know when his diaper is filled. Only the blind expect a different outcome from the last 20+ years. The real morons are the virtue signaling cheerleaders of the military industrial complex. They need to really reconsider their decision making paradigm.


12 posted on 04/14/2023 7:48:30 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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You’re welcome and remember, they might ZOT the alias, but the Movement lives on

I'm sure that will be of immense comfort to the widows and orphans across Russia.

13 posted on 04/14/2023 7:49:07 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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14 posted on 04/14/2023 7:52:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: dennisw

Since at least 1880 The Daily Mail is the propaganda rag for the Amero Brit cabal worldwide. This is (as the same so called “leaked” documents show for those who haven’t had their news redacted) is absolute BS. The Russian “bench” is deeper than Ukraines could ever be (even with the fact now revealed that we have US troops in Ukraine fighting Russians (a nuclear power) without a declaration of war which the Constitution requires. The Russians will outlast both of us. Just as they did in the proxy war that was Vietnam (the Red Chinese lost to the Russians in that one).

The Daily Mail is a “teat” and A propaganda rag. So, no.


15 posted on 04/14/2023 7:52:10 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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The Intel leaks are highly disputing these reports.


16 posted on 04/14/2023 7:53:15 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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What time is it in Bakhmut?


17 posted on 04/14/2023 7:56:54 AM PDT by JonPreston
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We know from the recent leaks the deep state is lying about everything Ukraine. We have troops on the ground, and we’re trying to get ordnance returned from South Korea to supply Uke because our supplies are running low. They’re making such a big deal about the leaker to cover up the seriousness of what’s in the leaks, and it proves all is true and our government has been lying to us all along.
Don’t believe a word of this because lying liars do what they do, lie.


18 posted on 04/14/2023 7:58:24 AM PDT by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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☝️ Leftists are using Left wing tactics and attacking Jon Preston personally instead of sticking to Daiky Mail ☝️


19 posted on 04/14/2023 7:59:28 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: ConservativeInPA
The real morons are the virtue signaling cheerleaders of the military industrial complex.

Well, the crowd they're cheering to - the cheerleaders are heavily invested in the MIC. Great returns since 1981.
20 posted on 04/14/2023 7:59:59 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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