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Russian forces likely seized Bakhmut center, threaten supply lines
NY Post ^ | 04/07/2023 | Olivia Land

Posted on 04/07/2023 12:30:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Russian forces have likely seized the center of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut, where they are threatening an essential supply route for Ukrainian forces in the west, British intelligence said Friday.

The eastern city is one of the last urban areas of Donetsk that has withstood Russian incursion. Now mostly reduced to rubble, the city center has been the focus of intense fighting for months.

“Ukraine’s key 0506 supply route to the west of the town is likely severely threatened,” the British intelligence update warned.

Ukrainian military expert Vladyslav Selezniov previously said that forces will have to retreat if the ability to get supplies in and wounded soldiers out is further compromised.

“The situation is difficult, the enemy is concentrating maximum efforts to capture Bakhmut. However [Ukraine] is suffering serious losses and not reaching strategic success,” Eastern Military Command spokesperson Serhiy Cherevatyi told Reuters.

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Zelensky is going to need more ASAP (S)
1 posted on 04/07/2023 12:30:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Question: How can Bakhmut be a serious vital supply line when it’s been surrounded on three sides by Russians for months?

Asking for a friend…


2 posted on 04/07/2023 12:36:26 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This feat is even more impressive in that Russia is out of ammunition and is using tanks from the 1940s.


3 posted on 04/07/2023 12:36:38 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our resident Ukraine Propaganda Thread Poster will not like this news.


4 posted on 04/07/2023 12:51:33 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: tennmountainman
Our resident Ukraine Propaganda Thread Poster will not like this news.

The poster uses two different screen names. The giveaways are:

Under both names, the poster spells Russia “Ruzzia.”

The poster also repeatedly posts to themselves under the original post.

The poster also likes to randomly type words in ALLCAPS.

5 posted on 04/07/2023 1:01:34 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: thegagline

The feat is pathetic considering that Russia has been trying to capture Bakhmut for 8 months, and in that time advanced barely 20 miles.

During the same time the Russians lost kherson and thousands of square miles east of kharkiv.

Pretty pathetic for the alleged 2nd strongest military in the world versus Ukraine.


6 posted on 04/07/2023 1:10:30 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

How many billions has the US flushed down the toilet in this war.

My bet it that the US has spent more funds than Russia.


7 posted on 04/07/2023 1:12:30 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: thegagline

>>>This feat is even more impressive in that Russia is out of ammunition and is using tanks from the 1940s.<<<

Don’t forget that Ukraine has been winning this war for the better part of a year too! I’m sure the purported Ukrainian counter offensive to take back Crimea will happen any day now!

LMAO at all you Ukraine lovers. You should be like me. IDGAF who wins this war. It’s not in America’s interest either way.


8 posted on 04/07/2023 1:21:13 PM PDT by BJ1
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To: cgbg

Of course XiJinBiden has spent a lot more US wealth than Russia has. Mrs. ‘Hairy Dancer’ needs to sock away a few more billions into the Swiss bank accounts. Those Paris shopping trips really dig into the budget!


9 posted on 04/07/2023 1:21:34 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: BJ1

What is in our interest is the weakening of Russia’s military power and the strengthening of NATO and the West’s military power and unity, and both of those are exceeding far beyond what was thought possible 14 months ago.

We are reaching a much better positioning for the future China threat.


10 posted on 04/07/2023 1:29:19 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And soon they’ll get to know the pain of rooting out/assaulting dug-in, modern forces.

They will burn through men and equipment as the Russians did.


11 posted on 04/07/2023 1:29:20 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Magnum44
Question: How can Bakhmut be a serious vital supply line when it’s been surrounded on three sides by Russians for months?

It was only vital for the Russians to lure Ukrainians to there death.

Some things are just not a mystery.

12 posted on 04/07/2023 1:33:40 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

their


13 posted on 04/07/2023 1:36:29 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: ansel12

“We are reaching a much better positioning for the future China threat.”

By depleting resources and political will.

Yep.

Only a neocon could think this is how you position to fight China.

Laughable idiocy.


14 posted on 04/07/2023 1:37:35 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: thegagline

It is indeed miraculous.Our Lady of Russia is watching over them.


15 posted on 04/07/2023 1:39:10 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: ansel12
We are reaching a much better positioning for the future China threat.

That must be why we gave up untold fortunes worth of military hardware in Afghanistan and munitions in Ukraine.   We are better positioned for the Chinese takeover.

16 posted on 04/07/2023 1:41:15 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: ansel12

B.S.


17 posted on 04/07/2023 1:41:32 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: ansel12

With Milley and Austin in charge? LOL.
Those 2 could not even withdraw from Afghan without getting our solders killed.


18 posted on 04/07/2023 1:44:19 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: Mariner

However or whoever or whenever the West fights China, it will need NATO and the American military better prepared, and better armed, with a reinvigorated weapons-producing West and greater awareness and unity on military issues, and a lessened Russian threat.

All that is happening, and even under the liberals in control, it is still happening to a degree.


19 posted on 04/07/2023 1:48:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: higgmeister; tennmountainman

Look at your posts, they have nothing to do with what I posted, I posted what is actually happening now.


20 posted on 04/07/2023 1:50:49 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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