Putin Suffers Most Humiliating Ukraine Defeat Yet

Yahoo News.com ^ | September 30, 2022 | Barbie Latza Nadeau

[Timber Rattler]

Moscow planned to celebrated the annexation of huge swathes of Eastern Ukraine Friday but Putin’s party was wrecked by a lightning counter-attack that may have trapped thousands of his men in a key city supposedly now part of Russia.

Ukrainian sources claimed that the strategic city of Lyman, which has served as a Russian military hub in Donetsk, has been encircled and supply lines cut. “Lyman! The operation to encircle the Russian group is at the stage of completion,” said Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko on Friday. The claim could not be independently verified but, if confirmed, it would be one of the most serious Russian military losses of the war so far.

Pro-Kremlin forces have conceded that the Ukrainians have made major gains in the region and are close to cutting off the Russian staging post in northern Donetsk, which has been under Russian control since July.

[Timber Rattler]

Lyman is raining on Putin's parade today.

[2banana]

It is an interesting turn of events.

Hard not see a Russian counter attack as the Russians are not evacuating the city

It may be a Stalingrad. But who is on which side...

[nwrep]

The authoress Barbie Latza Nadeau:

[cranked]

Oh look, more Ukraine is winning! Russia getting ass-stomped and getting pushed back to the very gates of the Kremlin. Viva la Ukraine!

Quiet before the storm.
Look over here but not over there.

[anton]

Please take Soros propaganda elsewhere.

[Timber Rattler]

And...?

[FreshPrince]

Ukes taking back more land!

This aged well:

“In fact there will be, around the end of the week. The hohos who have gone into this adventure around Kharkiv will all be dead. This is an obvious Russian
trap and the only real “surprise” there has been for Russians is the sheer number of hohos who have walked into it. They have no cover where they are now and the Russian air force is just across a nearby border....
12 posted on 9/12/2022, 4:48:12 AM by ganeemead

[nwrep]

Only thing worth looking at on this page. Everything else is BS.

[Timber Rattler]

Yep, and remember all the "Battle of the Bulge" predictions?

Those didn't age well either.

The Russians' northern flank is getting rolled up like a rug.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[Timber Rattler]

So you're going to go the sexist/misogynist route to attack a news story, eh?

Nice.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Editorials disguised as news stories are propaganda.

[FreshPrince]

This aged well:

“I will continue to sit back and watch as Ukraine daily crumbles as the Russians take their sweet ole time grinding up the Ukrainian military. Do or die is fast approaching for the ZelenskyyIdiot government and Ukraine.
117 posted on 8/1/2022, 2:11:35 PM by cranked”

I hope Ukraine keeps on “crumbling” and retaking territory

[canuck_conservative]

And what’s Russia gonna attack back with?

* IF they could, they would have done it by now *

in case you hadn’t noticed, Russia has been in retreat for the last month

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So you're going to go the sexist/misogynist route to attack a news story, eh?

Editorial screeds are not "news stories."

[montag813]

She CHOSE that pic? Imagine how much more nuts she usually looks.

[cranked]

And yet, neo-Yatzi ZelenskyyIdiot is STILL DEMANDING AND BEGGING for more and more US/EU/NATO tanks, planes, other military hardware, and money!!!

Goshdamn ironic for a country who asserts over and over and over they are taking minimal losses and are winning, winning, and winning.........

[FreshPrince]

Yes I do!

The funny thing is they still keep on making stupid predictions even after their previous ones are shown to be a joke. Thats a special type of stupid, or denial...

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I don't think a major Russian counter-attack here is likely. One advantage Ukraine has had throughout this entire war is superior Western intelligence, both satellite and SIGINT. They'd have plenty of advance warning if Russia had sufficient forces and organization in the area to mount a counter-attack. The fact that the ukrainians are pressing this attack this hard suggests a determination that Russia lacks the available forces. You just can't hide the necessary equipment and forces from satellites, and we've almost certainly penetrated their communications as well.

This also makes it even more unlikely that Russia would use nuclear weapons, because they would have to nuke actual Russian territory and people. At least, if they believe their own referenda.

[canuck_conservative]

“homoglobalists” didn’t invade anybody

Russia did

Russia is the warmonger here

stop trying to deflect & cover for a bloodthirsty monster with your childish imaginary bogeymen