As Russian Losses Mount in Ukraine, Putin Gets More Involved in War Strategy

NYT ^ | 23-SEP-2022 | Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz

[SpeedyInTexas]

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has thrust himself more directly into strategic planning for the war in Ukraine in recent weeks, American officials said, including rejecting requests from his commanders on the ground that they be allowed to retreat from the vital southern city of Kherson.

A withdrawal from Kherson would allow the Russian military to pull back across the Dnipro River in an orderly way, preserving its equipment and saving the lives of soldiers.

But such a retreat would be another humiliating public acknowledgment of Mr. Putin’s failure in the war, and would hand a second major victory to Ukraine in one month. Kherson was the first major city to fall to the Russians in the initial invasion, and remains the only regional capital under Moscow’s control. Retaking it would be a major accomplishment for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Little Pukin and the RuZZian military have been humiliated before the whole world.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Archived version: https://archive.ph/DWMGv

[BenLurkin]

Globohomo is defeating Russia, and the Russians don’t want to admit it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let me be the first to congratulate you and _resident Brandon and George Soros on successfully herding Russia into initiating a global thermonuclear war so you could enjoy the benefits but escape the blame.

I sincerely hope you are not at ground zero, because you deserve to reap the full consequences of your heroism through starvation and radiation poisoning.

[lodi90]

Ukrainian “farmers and miners” are defeating Russia. Russian supremacists will never admit such a humiliation.

[marcusmaximus]

Ukraine shot down 4 Russian fighter bombers today.

[SpaceBar]

He’s going full Hitler. You never go full Hitler.

[lodi90]

So who is going to sail on Putin’s mega yacht after the nuclear holocaust? Nobody. That’s why it’s not happening. Duh.

[rbg81]

On one hand, reminds me of the “No Retreat” policy Hitler had when his Russian campaign started to go very wrong.

On the other hand: who really knows what is going on? I have almost zero trust in the NYT as an objective news source. And the supposed similarity between Putin’s & Hitler’s strategy might be just what they want people to believe.

[lodi90]

Russia is throwing aviation into battle to fill gaps in the line because their best troops are still tied down in Kherson. Sign of desperation. No doubt.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Russia never gives up. They always double-down.

Ignorant warmongers wouldn’t know that.

[dfwgator]

Russia never gives up.

1917, anyone?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Bolshevik Revolution anyone?

[dfwgator]

If only Kerensky stayed out of the war, no Bolsheviks.

[lodi90]

Just look at the map. Russia has massively overextended. Kherson is cut off from regular Russian supply and those troops should retreat. That they don’t can only because of the amateurish military strategies of the KGB corporal.

[Mount Athos]

The only source cited in this article is unnamed government sources.

NYT back at it again. They can publish absolutely any claim using this trick if readers are dumb enough to fall for it

[BenLurkin]

My heart goes out to all the ordinary people of the Ukraine and Russia who are being used as cannon fodder by the EU and the Russian Empire in this war for grain and coal.

[pierrem15]

Russia has no advantage from initiating a nuke war, ergo, there won't be one.

No one can credibly cite Russian conventional military power, so you're reduced to waving the nuclear weenie around to frighten the children.

[SpeedyInTexas]

All RuZZians will die in a nuclear war. Enough said.

[lodi90]

Russia gave up in 1991 and 1993. 1996 in Chechnya, too. Only billions of euros of support from the Soros EU has kept Russia afloat this time.