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Ukraine to encounter challenging battles, and there will be losses, but it can succeed – Pentagon
Ukrainska Pravda via Yahoo ^ | June 21st, 2023 | Ukrainska Pravda

Posted on 06/21/2023 11:40:14 AM PDT by Mariner

Commenting on the course of counteroffensive operations in Ukraine, Pentagon believes that the Ukrainian forces have the necessary assets for their actions to be successful.

According to the correspondent of European Pravda, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh expressed this assessment on Tuesday.

According to Singh, hostilities in Ukraine are "turning into protracted battles every day, as was the case in Bakhmut."

"We know that the battles will be difficult. We know that it will take time. And we are sure that the Ukrainians have what they need. They have the combat power and the ability to succeed in counteroffensive operations," she emphasised.

The Pentagon representative highlighted that a meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine took place last week, during which the participants announced new packages of military support to Kyiv.

​​"We believe that we have provided Ukraine with the systems and means that they need to fight right now. We understand that the battle will be difficult. And, of course, the Russians will adapt, as they have been since the beginning of the war. But so will the Ukrainians", she added.

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The Pentagon expects them to perform like the US III Armored Corps.

The ragtag Ukrainian conscripts don't want to die against a solid and lethal wall of defense.

The Ukrainians are under enormous pressure to commit suicide.

1 posted on 06/21/2023 11:40:14 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

“There will be losses”

Bank that


2 posted on 06/21/2023 11:42:02 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Mariner

The only way that Ukraine wins is for full NATO involvement, including air and ground forces.


3 posted on 06/21/2023 11:45:42 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: Mariner
The ragtag Ukrainian conscripts don't want to die against a solid and lethal wall of defense.

Ukrainians are fighting for the freedom of their country. The Russians are fighting to impose totalitarian domination. Ukrainians are fighting invaders. The Russian “Mir” bombs civilians. I think 80% is a serious underestimation.


4 posted on 06/21/2023 11:47:06 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Mariner

The only battle the Ukrainians are winning is the PR battle


5 posted on 06/21/2023 11:47:41 AM PDT by steel_resolve (The Sleeper Must Awaken. )
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To: tlozo

—> Ukrainians are fighting for the freedom of their country.

If this was true, they wouldn’t have forced conscription…


6 posted on 06/21/2023 11:50:50 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: Thunder90
The only way that Ukraine wins is for full NATO involvement, including air and ground forces.

That's nonsense, Ukraine needs weapons.

We sent Ukraine 200 M113's, and have 6,000 in stock that we will never use.

We sent 113 Bradleys to Ukraine, we have 2,000 in stock...

7 posted on 06/21/2023 11:52:17 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: tlozo

You lie like a rug. Russia has avoided killing civilians throughout this campaign. Ukraine on the other hand has been using civilians as human shields. Add that to the terrorist acts of blowing up the pipeline, the dam and efforts to blow-up the nuke station. Stop your lying.


8 posted on 06/21/2023 11:54:37 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
If this was true, they wouldn’t have forced conscription…

Which we had in WW2...

World War II era draft card belonging to musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly


9 posted on 06/21/2023 11:54:56 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Thunder90
"The only way that Ukraine wins is for full NATO involvement, including air and ground forces."

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Not even then.

10 posted on 06/21/2023 11:56:06 AM PDT by Neanderthal
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And did the US go through the streets snatching teenagers to forcibly serve?

I don’t remember this?


11 posted on 06/21/2023 11:57:24 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: Mariner

And monkeys could fly out my butt.


12 posted on 06/21/2023 11:59:11 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: JoSixChip
You lie like a rug. Russia has avoided killing civilians throughout this campaign.

Feb 25, 2022, Russian's moved into Hostomel. They took up positions around the 'Fora' supermarket. From here they set an ambush attacking 12 vehicles. The ambush reportedly resulted in the death of 11 and wounding of 15 civilian's.

Russian Troops Firing on Civilian Cars

13 posted on 06/21/2023 11:59:37 AM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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You lie, the Ukrainians nazis did that and then tried to blame it on the Russians.


14 posted on 06/21/2023 12:01:32 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: Mariner

The Pentagon: Cashing checks written in the blood of foreign soldiers since who-knows-when...


15 posted on 06/21/2023 12:02:45 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: JoSixChip

Moron, its russian troops.


16 posted on 06/21/2023 12:03:24 PM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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Thats easy for the pentagon to say


17 posted on 06/21/2023 12:08:18 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: JoSixChip; tlozo; All

UNHCR estimates approximately 9,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293492/ukraine-war-casualties/

The Iraq war logged about 300,000 civilian death with the US doing all it could to avoid civilian casualties.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/iraqi

Given the universal Ukrainian use of human shields, I’d say Russia has done very, very well in avoiding civilian casualties


18 posted on 06/21/2023 12:08:46 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Cashing checks written in the blood of foreign soldiers since who-knows-when...

US isolationists have a long history in the US, fortunately in the past they were ignored.


19 posted on 06/21/2023 12:10:17 PM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Mariner
UNHCR estimates approximately 9,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths.

OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration. This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties.

20 posted on 06/21/2023 12:13:55 PM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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