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Has Putin lost control of his power-hungry mercenary chief? Wagner boss brags that his men ALONE have taken strategic town of Soledar… prompting even the Kremlin to deny Russia have control of the area
Daily Mail ^ | 1/11/2023 | Jack Newman

Posted on 01/11/2023 10:32:09 AM PST by marcusmaximus

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21 posted on 01/11/2023 12:41:05 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: McGruff

UK Daily Propaganda
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Of course, Soledar is gone, Bakmut is the next Marioupol , quite obvious with every Ukie loss the collective West’s propaganda gets stronger.

Fact is Soledar and Bakmut is lost.Fully expect the West to escalate.


22 posted on 01/11/2023 12:52:23 PM PST by delta7
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“ Ukrainian Defense Lines And What Happens When They Are Breached

Soledar has fallen to Russian troops. Bakhmut (Artymovsk) will follow soon.

This constitutes the breach of Ukraine’s second defense line within the Donetzk and Lysichansk oblasts. I will discuss those lines with the maps below.

The first map shows the range of land taken by Russian forces by April 1 2022 (Kiev region not shown).

Russia had invaded with a small force of some 100,000 soldiers supported by some 50,000 soldiers of the Donetzk/Luhansk Republics. The opposing forces were 250,000 regular Ukrainian army troops which quickly grew to 450,000 and then 650,000 by mobilization of reserve forces plus the Territorial Defense Forces. During the first weeks the Russian forces had taken a huge amount of land that they barely had the numbers to hold.

At that point Russia was still hoping that the negotiations held at that time with Ukraine in Turkey would have a positive outcome. As a confidence measure it had already started to pull back from around Kiev. However, after phone calls from and a visit by the British prime minister Boris Johnson the Ukrainian government ended the negotiations by suddenly adding demands the Russia would never agree to. The troops from Kiev were pulled back anyway and moved to the east of Ukraine where they started an attack on the first defense line (yellow) of the Ukrainian forces.

This first defense line, like later ones, ran along railway and road communication routes that connect major cities. In the map above the cities that constituted the first defense line were, north to south, Siverodonetsk, Lysichansk, Popasna, Svitlodarsk.

Cont. reading: Ukrainian Defense Lines And What Happens When They Are Breached…..

https://www.moonofalabama.org/

When/ if Bakmut falls:

Ukraine 1991-2023 RIP , the sooner the better….unless the sore losers , the collective West, doesn’t escalate…Senile Joe’s failed Ukie war will have dethroned the corrupted US hegemony, with disastrous results.

Carry on, War cheerleaders, your road leads to destruction.


23 posted on 01/11/2023 1:02:06 PM PST by delta7
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24 posted on 01/11/2023 1:07:22 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: MeganC

Please open your mind. Messing with the Russians is stupid. I worked with many. They are mostly great people but do not cross them. They have an evil level of revenge in their souls but a blessed level of kindness to their friends. Smart, kind and mean as a snake. There is a side to them any rational man wants to be on. Of course you clutch pearls so why waste my time on your intellect.


25 posted on 01/11/2023 1:12:27 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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If Russia would stop invading their neighbors every few years then no one would need to ‘mess’ with them.


26 posted on 01/11/2023 1:48:55 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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Russia Declares “Full Control” Over Soledar In 1st Major Win In Months
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-declares-full-control-over-soledar-1st-major-win-months


27 posted on 01/13/2023 10:11:37 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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“they were storing stuff in that salt mine”

Nazi bio labs ?


28 posted on 01/14/2023 9:12:39 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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That’s 1 theory but another theory Is that they’re storing these advanced weapons they are getting from these other countries like the US and the UK


29 posted on 01/14/2023 3:24:01 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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you have progressed to ethnic slurs after your predictions for “the war to be over in 2 weeks” have been consistently wrong for the past 10 months.

Give up on your Russian dreams - you are supporting Putin’s Nazis


30 posted on 01/17/2023 3:20:45 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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