Posted on 08/18/2022 8:56:43 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
VLADIMIR Putin has been forced to pull back his jets and helicopters from Crimea after a massive blitz on Russian military bases - as humiliating video shows mutinying soldiers refusing to fight.
Ukrainian intelligence sources claim some 24 fighter jets and bombers along with 14 choppers retreated deeper into the Black Sea peninsula - or back to mainland Russia.
The dramatic withdrawal follows the heavy bombardment of Putin's military bases on the Russian-occupied peninsula over the last nine days from Ukrainian special forces.
A devastating series of explosions at an air base last week destroyed 20 jets and caused £1bn of damage.
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The retreat suggests Putin fears fresh losses on the battlefield - and the apparent Ukrainian ability to strike deeper into Russian-occupied territory could indicate a dramatic shift in the war.
It comes as footage showed the moment dozens of pro-Putin fighters mutinied by refusing to head to the frontline in Donetsk, in the east of Ukraine.
The troops from so-called Luhansk People’s Republic complained of “threats, blackmail, intimidation and deception” to force them to slaughter Ukrainians - and they bluntly refused to fight.
A statement read by one of the fighters said: "We, servicemen from mobilisation reserve battalion 2740, refuse to go and fight in the Donetsk People's Republic.
"We have fulfilled our duty for the defence of the Luhansk People's Republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Was a brilliant strategy to strike at Crimea. Putin never imagined this could happen.
So say
the Sun UK.
and the Bidenites swallow it whole.
Or I don't know, maybe we should not pretend the kind of propaganda coming from either side are news stories?
Ukraine pulled back their troops in 2014. Thousands of Ukraine soldiers wouldn’t fight their brother Russians.
Could just be regrouping for a concentrated counterstrike. However, agree that it was a smart strategy to go for Crimea. All eyes were on Ukraine and assumed Ukraine would be on the defensive the whole time. This switches things when now the Russians have to think on 2 perspectives. They can’t devote all resources to the offense when their airfields and supply zones are vulnerable. You pull back forces to defend those areas and now your offense is that much weakened.
Idiots should lurk and not comment.
GOOD!
RUSSIAN SCUM!
KILL ‘EM ALL!
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Your Two Minute Hate time is up.
You also have the LPR refusing to deploy to Donetsk.
And the Buryats and Chechens killing each other over looted goods.
General Pavel's nephew at The Daily Smell and The UK Spun.
The Real Deal at the UK Sun:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/topic/page-3/page/2/
Dem Page Tree hot-cha-chas...
"Rhian Sugden WOWS!!!"
I just don’t trust any British news organizations reporting on Ukraine
Where’s your Crimean air defense? LOL!
I think it’s interesting that the groups Putin is supporting in those two regions refer to themselves as “Peoples’ Republics”, because we all know what that really means.
The LPR is Luhansk militia, trollboy.
Their concern is securing Luhansk Oblast, not Donetsk Oblast.
This will take your mind off the warfap:
Sixth-inning Zeepers weigh in with General Pavel's directives.
Donetsk is out of conscripts so Putin is begging LPR to deploy to Donetsk and LPR tells Putin to go to hell.
Did you learn to type one-handed from The Toobin guy?
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