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Fighting in Bakhmut ‘very tough,’ Zelensky says
The Hill ^ | 03-14-2023 | JULIA SHAPERO

Posted on 03/14/2023 9:41:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday night that fighting in Bakhmut and throughout eastern Ukraine remains “very tough.”

“It is very tough in the east, very painful,” Zelensky said in his nightly address to the Ukrainian people. “We need to destroy the enemy’s military might, and we will. Bilohorivka and Maryinka, Avdiivka and Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Kamyanka — and all other places where our future is being decided. Where our future, the future of all Ukrainians, is being fought for.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bakhmut; fighting; tough; zelensky
Wait, he is getting billions of dollars from us, weapons, tanks, and maybe jets... I thought he had this all figured out.. (S)
1 posted on 03/14/2023 9:41:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, when we were doing it, we had a slogan. “War Is Hell.” Trying to keep the wetbacks out of the Rio Grande is what is “tough”.


2 posted on 03/14/2023 9:44:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe the FDIC could give Zelenskysky more money. After covering the 95% of SVB depositors that were previously uninsured, obviously FDIC has money to burn.


3 posted on 03/14/2023 9:44:31 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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Is he personally in the trenches taking fire? Didn’t think so. He’s still cashing our checks and scouting Swiss villas to retire in.


4 posted on 03/14/2023 9:44:50 AM PDT by BipolarBob (The rumor has not been confirmed until the FBI officially denies it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Always remember: Ukraine is winning. Russian casualties are very high and unsustainable. Putin will be forced out of office. The Ukrainian counteroffensive is coming. Crimea will be liberated. F-16s will be needed to defeat Russia.


5 posted on 03/14/2023 9:53:00 AM PDT by kabar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another MSM lie everyone should understand: Ukraine is not fighting Russia. NATO is fighting Russia, using Ukraine soldiers on Ukraine territory

Ukraine has used up its Soviet-era weapons and is now almost exclusively fighting with NATO weapons.

NATO/US soldiers/contractors are operating the most advanced systems (like HIMARS)

After a year, all USA’s satellite and electronic surveillance assets have been brought to bear and are integrated into Ukraine military command. Its why people like William Burns and Merrick Garland are now regularly visiting Ukraine.

This is a HUGE advantage for Ukraine, and probably the only one they have left. Russia can not make a large move in Ukraine without it being seen. So Russia will simply opt for the low-level, slow, grinding approach.


6 posted on 03/14/2023 9:53:21 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Getting tough means send more cash.


7 posted on 03/14/2023 10:01:06 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: blackdog

And eventually American kids.


8 posted on 03/14/2023 10:10:24 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: PGR88

Concur.


9 posted on 03/14/2023 10:15:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: PGR88

NATO is fighting Russia in Ukraine, although NATO isn’t there?

NATO and American troops are fighting in Ukraine?

Ukraine has no more Russian/Soviet tanks or artillery or weapons left?

All of America’s satellite and electronic surveillance assets are integrated into Ukrainian military command?

You make up some interesting fake facts.


10 posted on 03/14/2023 10:21:30 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: mrmeyer

Woke hoards won’t be of much use.


11 posted on 03/14/2023 10:23:16 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: ansel12

And you are willfully blind

But I understand - your propaganda forces you to deny the obvious.


12 posted on 03/14/2023 10:26:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Blind would be your making things up and angrily clinging to wild self-created lies.


13 posted on 03/14/2023 10:36:52 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: blackdog

When is the madness ever going to end ?

More billions, more armaments, more death, all for a war that will eventually be settled by an armistice.

Unless, of course, a nuclear holocaust intrudes first.


14 posted on 03/14/2023 10:47:39 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: BrexitBen

Quite the inventory clearance operation. Sort of like Benghazi on a global scale.


15 posted on 03/14/2023 11:10:03 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: BrexitBen

just like the battered french fried French

1870 - 6 mos French / German - prussian War

forced into an armistice

lose territory

pay 10m Franks reparations


16 posted on 03/14/2023 11:15:04 AM PDT by Firehath
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I heard it is very tough and painful walking in 4” heels.


17 posted on 03/14/2023 12:05:21 PM PDT by bgill
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To: ChicagoConservative27
just slowly closing an envelopment... and moving on the the next one. The Russians did this in WW2, earlier in Mariopol and it's just a way for a big army to grind down a smaller army. Attack along a front to lock them in place. Punch through less defended territory very wide of active combat, out of range of artillery and go around the active fighting and slowly cut off the logistics (rail/roads/canals/bridges.. etc) by putting them in range of artillery/missles. Making the supply roads unusable...

In that way they attack a flank, cut off supplies/men/reinforcements etc... then Always leave a corridor to offer escape, then rinse and repeat.

From the video I've seen, the Wagner or someone is punching into the city and localizing Uke defenders. Then just calling in arillery and missles to level the buildings, trenches or whatever shelter/breastworks or defensive position they have and pulverize it with artillery...then repeat reconnaissance in force, make contact, then call in artillery.

But we KNOW the Russians can't win... want to know why?

Look at all the videos of the actual combat, in the fields, trenches, roads and cities....they aren't using women!!!! They are so f@#king patriarchal and misogynistic that their strengths are weakened by Soviets lack of diversity. I bet that the wokesters, the administration and all the little weasels in DC are aching for a female led rangers battalion or unit to kick some Ruskie a##.

18 posted on 03/14/2023 1:20:47 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitantes <p><b><i></I></B><P> <img src="">)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“So Russia will simply opt for the low-level, slow, grinding approach.”

Just read that Russia’s women prisoners are being sent into the Bakhmut fray.


19 posted on 03/14/2023 3:03:29 PM PDT by Does so ("Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency...)
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