"Kiev Bob" is here to explain.
Posted on 01/14/2023 8:40:49 AM PST by Salohcin
Ukraine reported a fresh wave of attacks on key infrastructure facilities on Saturday, a day after Russia claimed to have captured the ravaged eastern town of Soledar following a long battle.
Victory in Soledar would be a rare achievement for Moscow after an embarrassing series of military setbacks — although Kyiv insisted fighting was still ongoing in the city on Saturday.
Ukrainian infrastructure once again came under fire on Saturday as winter deepened, officials said.
"Today, the enemy fired at energy facilities again," energy company Ukrenergo said, adding that it was working on "eliminating the consequences" of the strikes.
In Kyiv, Ukrainian officials reported strikes on a power facility and a fire broke out in a warehouse after fragments of a rocket fell, though there were no casualties reported.
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, "the enemy launched another missile attack on critical infrastructure and industrial facilities," governor Oleg Synegubov said.
There could be emergency power cuts in the city of Kharkiv, the second largest in Ukraine, and in the surrounding region, Synegubov warned.
Russian attacks killed three people on Friday, the deputy head of the presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.
The fate of Soledar, a salt mining town in the Donetsk region that Russia finally claimed to have captured on Friday, remains unclear, after regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian television that Ukrainian forces still "controlled" the town on Saturday.
Kyrylenko conceded that the "battles continue in and outside of the town" and described the months-long fight for control of Soledar and nearby Bakhmut as the "hottest" spots on the frontline.
Both sides have conceded heavy losses in the battle for the town, with Moscow desperate to sell any win back home after repeated humiliations and Ukraine determined to hold — and win back — ground.
On an icy road near Soledar on Saturday, AFP journalists saw Ukrainian medics tending to the wounded brought from the nearby frontline. Bloodied helmets, bullet-proof vests and pieces of uniform were discarded on the side of the road after being cut from corpses.
The health workers were "here to help the living", said a 31-year-old medic who identified himself as Vadim. Two men, one with a bandaged head, and another with an injured leg and carried on a stretcher, were quickly helped into a waiting ambulance.
The wounded were usually taken to stabilization points before being transferred to hospital, Vadim explained.
Another medic bent over one of the wounded men's vest, collecting the remaining bullets.
"Things are consistently difficult," said Vadim, but "the Ukrainians are keeping their positions."
"Kiev Bob" is here to explain.
It makes you wonder what US led former state of Ukraine is hiding in Bakhmut.
The rapid response team is in action again. Its comforting to know that you are still there and have not been sent to the front.
excerpted from moonofalabama post:
“..Soledar direction situation as of 13.00 January 13
In the Soledar sector, the assault detachments of the PMC “Wagner” are clearing the quarters and underground communications on the western outskirts of Soledar. Today, Wagner entered the territory of the urban-type settlement of Sol and established control over the depot of the railway station of the same name.
▪️In the north-west of Soledar, active battles are taking place on the southern outskirts of Krasnaya Gora and in Paraskovievka near the Bakhmutka River. After the liberation of the railway station Sol, the village of Blagodatnoye was actually cut off from the supply lines from Seversk and Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
▪️The surviving members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Soledar and its environs are spreading information about huge losses in manpower due to command errors. In one of the brigades in the company of the formation, only 30 people remained, and in the battalion of 24 OMBR out of 300, only 100 fighters survived.
Fighting continues in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and its suburbs. After the liberation of Opytnoe by PMC Wagner, position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city is deteriorating....”
But, since they are so desperate to keep Soledar and Bakhmat, it is conclusively proof that when those cities DO fall under Russia control, it will be devastating to the Ukrainian war efforts. So, any spin that comes out otherwise, will be utter bulls#t.
And, the Ukrainians aren't even facing the Russian military in Soledar and Bakhmat. They are losing, on the ground, to the Wagner group.
"Gigantic work has been done in Soledar," he said.
Peskov, however, stopped short of confirming a claim by Wagner Group owner Yevgeny Prigozhin, who boasted about capturing Soledar on Wednesday.
"There is still a lot to be done and it's too early to stop and rub our hands, the main work is still ahead," he said in a conference call with reporters.
Do you really expect open ground being Soledar and Bakhmut? The Ukrainians have had months to prepare secondary defensive positions.
That is an interesting spin you have about the Wagner Group. They are fully equipped and supplied by the Russian military and recruited from inside Russia. They are just as much part of the Russian military as the Waffen SS was part of the Nazi German military.
The way it really is, is anyone who believes the Ukrainians AND/OR the Russians are even more stupid.
This war is a bloody, horrific stalemate, and both sides are bleeding over things that don't have to happen. The Russians have proven their military to be inept, corrupt and completely undeserving of the crown of "World's second fearsome military" that almost every historian called them before February.
Ukraine, on the other hand, is draining our own US Treasury and their own people's lives in the stubborn obstinacy to just let the Donbass go.
The Donbass people, some claim, want to belong to Russia.
Fine, then stop the fighting, remove troops, set up a peacekeeping force (India's army, trusted by both Russia and the USA) and have the UN (not Russia, LOL) conduct a referendum. Ukraine and Russia would have to abide by it.
You may call it stupid, but this is a positive way to end the bloodshed--except for Ukrainians who want all "their" land back, and Russians who really want to completely swallow the Ukraine.
As the Rolling Stones once sang, "You can't always get what you want, but sometimes, you get what you need."
you’ve really been hitting the vodka hard today, eh, kiry?
how many bottles was it today? the Kremlin has been giving you the good stuff more and more now, right?
You have an interesting solution, but I fear that it would end up looking very similar to our “Bleeding Kansas” if actually attempted.
Moscow times is always good for a laugh!
Soledar is about 80-90% captured..
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Much of Ukraine is without power yet again.
Guess them Ruskies aren’t out of missiles yet?
this from CNN
Damage to power infrastructure from a wave of Russian missile strikes has led to emergency power outages in most regions across Ukraine, Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said.
“Today, the enemy attacked the country’s power generation facilities and power grids again,” Halushchenko said on Facebook. “There are attacks in Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions.”
“The next days will be difficult. Power engineers are already working to restore electricity supply.”
Projection.
Kazan “They are losing, on the ground, to the Wagner group.”
Seriously, how consistently wrong can you be?
14th Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4021188/posts?page=18#18
There is zero reason to believe Russia is going to invade any nation and take it over against its wil
13th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4029166/posts?page=8#8
Nonsense. There is no evidence Putin has any plans to invade and takeover countries against their will.
21st Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4031420/posts?page=48#48
The claim Russia is going to invade Ukraine has been nothing but propaganda from the start.
21st Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4031420/posts?page=49#49
Russia is not going to wage a brutal war with Ukraine. It’s been a lie from the start
24th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4032190/posts?page=28#28
Putin is assuring us he has no further territorial ambitions in Europe beyond this one little slice of Ukraine heavily populated by Russians
I have no doubt that’s true. There is no way Putin wants to fight a bloody war with Ukraine. He’d perfectly happy with water flow being restored to Crimea and sanctions to be removed from the Nord 2 pipeline.
28th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4033434/posts?page=22#22
The Russian invasion narrative is as fake as the Russian collusion narrative was
4th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4035208/posts?page=58#58
The Russian invasion narrative is as fake as the Russian collusion narrative was
19th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4039582/posts?page=112#112
You think Russia wants to invade nations in Eastern Europe and take them over against their will?
Why would he want to fight a series of bloody wars when Russia already has a declining population? Why would anyone think younger Russians, who are already complaining about mandatory military service, tolerate that? Why would he risk doing that and losing the ability to sell oil to Germany through the Nord 2 pipeline.
These kind of comments are ignorant. It’s 2022, not 1982.
19th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4039720/posts?page=29#29
So, given that, why would anyone in their right mind believe that Putin wants to start wars in Eastern Europe and take countries over against their will as millions of young Russians died in war?
22nd Feb https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4040557/posts?page=31#31
I’d rather see Russia annex Ukraine (which is has no desire to do) than see $5 a gallon gasoline.
7th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4027371/posts?page=65#65
I wish the Russians would have come in to rid the nation of the rioters in 2020.
28 Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4023391/posts?page=94#94
But, Russia and Putin are right-wing and with a greater Christian influence
28 Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4024707/posts?page=19#19
Russia is absolutely as free as the US and, freer, in many ways.
26 Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4023818/posts?page=70#70
stop pretending we’re any freer than Russia
22nd Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4031617/posts?page=67#67
I pay $4 for an IPTV that streams from Russia
28th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4033214/posts?page=21#21
I’d put up a welcome sign if Russia wants to invade the US
27th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4041997/posts?page=41#41
President Putin picked up his chips, completely cleaning our President out. Vladimir got everything he really wanted. He went all in. Consider what he has accomplished. Putin had already absorbed Georgia and Crimea back into Mother Russia. Soon he will complete the annexation of those Russian-leaning eastern provinces and maybe the whole of Ukraine.
20th July 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4079519/posts?page=96#96
Only someone completely ignorant of what is going on can’t find a daily map of the areas Russia controls and see how much ground the Russians have been gaining week by week.
12th October 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4099922/posts?page=24#24
EVERYTHING changes in 3 weeks as Putin amasses biggest force yet
14th October 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4100455/posts?page=3#3
Russian OWNS the air space has conclusively proven Ukraine’s air defense is non-existent this week.
26th October 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4103469/posts?page=23#23
It’s now well known that a newly-unified, Russian-Belarussian command is planning a winter offensive….. …..a “second front” against unprepared, largely unguarded areas in the Ukraine’s north. There may be some diversionary raids, but it’s understood that the most likely axis of advance is near the Polish border, south to Lutsk and then potentially to Lvov….. …..cutting off the main supply lines into the Ukraine….. …..without which all organized resistance by Ukrainian forces employing large modern weapons, would cease totally in as little as six weeks.
2nd November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4105258/posts?page=26#26
Ukraine’s military position will continue to erode in the coming weeks
4th November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4106075/posts?page=24#24
Russia will control Kherson both next week and for as long as any of us are alive.
8th November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4107078/posts?page=38#38
The Ukrainian military has for weeks tried probing attacks in the Kherson region. These had no significant results while the attacking units had high losses.
...Ukraine has for weeks had no success on the battle field.
..The campaign is misleading. Ukraine is losing the war badly
12th November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4108353/posts?page=27#27
“EVERYTHING changes in 4 weeks; this is Putin’s calm before the storm | Redacted with Clayton Morris
The ground in Ukraine will likely freeze in the next 4-7 weeks. When that happens, we will see everything change in Ukraine.”
Yes, you are projecting.
How’s your liver keeping?
My alcohol-free liver is doing much better than your vodka-pickled liver.
Maybe, but ask yourself whether the current “Bleeding” could be worse or better than 1858 Kansas.
I tend to think stopping the presently going on war would be beneficial to both sides’ peoples. Maybe not the people behind Kremlin or Keivan walls, or in Wash DC, London, Theran and Beijing, the WEF clubhouse or Davos, but for the people who actually are bleeding, a resounding “Yes!”
The rabid paroxysms continue today.
It appears Russia’s hired mercenaries are a far more formidable fighting force than anything the Russian military can produce. Russia a global superpower? Not so much, obviously.
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