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What’s Ahead in the War in Ukraine December 22, 2022
Russia Matters ^ | December 22, 2022 | U.S. Lt. Col. Alex Vershinin

Posted on 12/24/2022 8:19:50 PM PST by Cathi

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1 posted on 12/24/2022 8:19:50 PM PST by Cathi
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To: Cathi
Russia LIVES Matters...
2 posted on 12/24/2022 8:32:37 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Cathi

Zelensky has probably dispersed the 42 billion to the Ukranian Ogliarchs on the French Riviera just like last time. He will be begging for more money in oh......two weeks.


3 posted on 12/24/2022 8:35:15 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1 ( )
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To: Cathi
The Russians are very unforgiving to their leaders who fail them, and I suspect they will also be unforgiving to the Kremlins propagandists.

I expect 100 years from now they will still be finding shallow graves in Russia with the remains of those propagandists after this war.

One must feel at the very least, a small amount of morbid curiosity on the location of such a grave, I would expect.

4 posted on 12/24/2022 8:47:43 PM PST by Brellium (The environment is of upmost importance, without trees where will we hang Moscovites?)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1; Cathi
Zelensky has probably dispersed the 42 billion to the Ukranian Ogliarchs on the French Riviera just like last time.

The gaming tables in Monaco are LIT.

5 posted on 12/24/2022 8:56:05 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: Cathi
Thanks for posting this.

I looked around for it earlier, and couldn't find it.

Merry Christmas! :)

6 posted on 12/24/2022 8:57:47 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: Cathi
At this ratio, it has less than 3 million draftable men.

And no Denys Davydov...     

7 posted on 12/24/2022 8:59:52 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: kiryandil

From the Washington Post’s, “Inside the monumental, stop-start effort to arm Ukraine”

It says (link to full article here (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/23/ukraine-weapons-biden/)):

“...the initial war supply operation clearly wasn’t built for the long haul.

As the grueling conflict continues with no end in sight, it has exposed flaws in U.S. strategic planning for its own future battles, and revealed significant gaps in the American and NATO defense industrial base.

Stocks of many key weapons and munitions are near exhaustion, and wait times for new production of missiles stretch for months and, in some cases, years.”


8 posted on 12/24/2022 9:23:11 PM PST by Cathi
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To: sauropod

review


9 posted on 12/24/2022 9:32:57 PM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Cathi
The keyword tags on this post do seem desperate and projecting.   Merry Christmas to you and yours.
10 posted on 12/24/2022 10:13:06 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister; Cathi; Admin Moderator
The keyword tags on this post do seem desperate and projecting.

And I see those same keywords a lot.

I wonder if the Mods will shed some light on who is spamming those keywords?

I saw they did so on another thread a few days ago.

Merry Christmas!

11 posted on 12/24/2022 10:20:06 PM PST by Allegra
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To: kiryandil

https://t.me/Slavyangrad

Ukrainian armed forces retreat to the outskirts of Marinka with heavy losses: details

Since 20 December, units of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which occupies positions in the western part of the city, have suffered heavy losses in Marinka.

A howitzer artillery division of the AFU with 122mm D-30 guns suffered serious damage during counter-battery fighting.

According to the “Military Chronicle” serious losses (https://t.me/milchronicles/1417) were recorded in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th airborne assault battalions of the 79th AFU brigade, reconnaissance and tank companies of the Armed forces of Ukraine.

The number of killed and seriously wounded in these units since December 15 is estimated at between 350 and 460. Due to the serious losses, the brigade urgently had to be reinforced and mobilised from the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, and a security company and engineering units reclassified as assault troops were also sent to the line of battle.

According to the military sources,the key reason for the large losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Marinka was the activity of artillery and armoured vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces. T-72B3 tanks are rapidly advancing towards the western outskirts of the city with the support of drones, allowing crews to reconnoitre dangerous positions and fire on firing points in buildings with minimal risk.

According to radio intercepts by the AFU, units of the 79th airborne infantry battalion have recorded shortages of communication and surveillance equipment, ammunition for machine guns and machine guns and wound dressing supplies, as well as quadcopters, which were used for reconnaissance of AFU positions. Also, AFU units complain of an acute shortage of anti-tank weapons - grenade launchers and ammunition for them are in short supply.

Due to the rapidly deteriorating tactical situation, since the evening of 23 December the Ukrainian armed forces have been amassing their remaining forces on the western outskirts of Marinka near Shakhtyorskaya and Poligraphicheskaya Streets, where field headquarters are gradually being moved from the central fortified area.

In the event of a failure at the last line of defence, Ukrainian army units plan to retreat to reserve positions to the fortified area near the Marinka dam, where batteries of BM-21 Grad complex were previously stationed. However, control over the entire city (including the outskirts) in this case will be definitively lost.
#Source (https://t.me/ukraina_ru/123872)


12 posted on 12/24/2022 10:58:55 PM PST by Cathi
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To: Cathi

“The Russian forces are limited by manpower”

So you are admitting that your “partial” mobilization was a failure?


13 posted on 12/25/2022 4:58:24 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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Knock it off with the keyword abuse!!!

14 posted on 12/25/2022 5:48:13 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: higgmeister; Cathi; Allegra; kiryandil; SunkenCiv

Whoa!!!

Spamalot, SC?


15 posted on 12/25/2022 6:01:53 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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Okee-dokee!


16 posted on 12/25/2022 6:15:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Jane Long

Shill a lot Jane Long?


17 posted on 12/25/2022 6:16:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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LOL...please do tell exactly what I ‘shill a lot’ for, SunkenCiv.


18 posted on 12/25/2022 6:22:31 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: Cathi

“Ukraine simply cannot go toe to toe with Russia in artillery battles.” Actually, since November they can. The HIMARS out ranges anything you Russians have.


19 posted on 12/25/2022 6:42:04 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: Jane Long

LOL... Your addressees show everyone exactly what I’m talking about.


20 posted on 12/25/2022 6:55:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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