Putin cancels annual year-end news conference for 1st time in a decade amid setbacks in Ukraine

[ESay]

That threat is eliminated as long as US proxies hold Bakhmut which won't be much longer.

'The Bakhmut Meat Grinder': Russian Troops Are Pummeling This Donbas City. It's Unclear Why.

"Bakhmut now appears to be the only place along the Donbas front lines where Russian troops are actively and aggressively on the offensive, officials and experts said.

"Military experts say taking Bakhmut would allow Russia to disrupt Ukraine's supply lines but also open the door for a future offensive on Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, two bigger cities with more industry and rail access."

You do understand that you map is outdated, right? The area to the north and north-east is now liberated from the Russian army.

Bakhmut is the only way now for Russian advance, after loosing Izum and Lyman, and of course the Russians will try to use it. How this works out, the time will show.

Overall, I have few doubts that the Putin regime will try another one attempt of a big offensive in the spring.

 

[georgephillip]

No, the POSPOTUS and CIA puppet may also have something to do with it.

Russia Warns of 'Consequences' If US Missiles Go to Ukraine

Russia: US air defense systems could be targets in Ukraine

Russia's Foreign Ministry warned Thursday that if the U.S. delivers sophisticated air defense systems to Ukraine, those systems and any crews that accompany them would be a “legitimate target” for the Russian military, a blunt threat that was quickly rejected by Washington. The exchange of...

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"Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a weekly briefing that the U.S. had 'effectively become a party' to the war in Ukraine, following reports that it will provide Kyiv with Patriot surface-to-air missiles, the most advanced the West has yet offered to help repel Russian aerial attacks."

If it's true 90 trained people are required to employ the Patriot system, does that mean Americans will be fighting in Ukraine this winter?

 

[georgephillip]

Overall, I have few doubts that the Putin regime will try another one attempt of a big offensive in the spring.

I doubt he will wait until spring to launch major offensives on three axes one of which will sever the supply lines from Poland which feed the Ukrainian defense.

 

[Litwin]

 

[toomuchtime_]

I doubt he will wait until spring to launch major offensives on three axes one of which will sever the supply lines from Poland which feed the Ukrainian defense.

Only in their wildest dreams. The Russians can bomb western Ukraine, but there is no way they can move troops there from where they are. The Russian offensive has already begun and it is in the northeast, and the Ukrainian offensive will take place in the south, and is presently setting conditions for a two-pronged assault across the Dnipro and this will take them into Crimea.

 

[ESay]

I doubt he will wait until spring to launch major offensives on three axes one of which will sever the supply lines from Poland which feed the Ukrainian defense.

The time will show. Anyway, I think that offensives on three axes is fantasy, especially the one in the direction of Poland.

 

[georgephillip]

Only in their wildest dreams. The Russians can bomb western Ukraine, but there is no way they can move troops there from where they are. The Russian offensive has already begun and it is in the northeast, and the Ukrainian offensive will take place in the south, and is presently setting conditions for a two-pronged assault across the Dnipro and this will take them into Crimea.

A Russian ground assault on western Ukraine will launch from the north:

The next question becomes how will the US respond?

The Stage Is Set For US Combat Troops In Ukraine – OpEd

"Secret communications between national security advisor Jake Sullivan and the former Russian ambassador to Washington, Yuri Yushakov, and the former head of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, suggest that Sullivan warned his Russian counterparts that the US would not allow Russia to settle the conflict on its own terms, but would take whatever steps were needed to prevent a decisive Russian victory. Check out this excerpt from another interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor:.."

 

[toomuchtime_]

A Russian ground assault on western Ukraine will launch from the north:

The next question becomes how will the US respond?

The Stage Is Set For US Combat Troops In Ukraine – OpEd

"Secret communications between national security advisor Jake Sullivan and the former Russian ambassador to Washington, Yuri Yushakov, and the former head of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, suggest that Sullivan warned his Russian counterparts that the US would not allow Russia to settle the conflict on its own terms, but would take whatever steps were needed to prevent a decisive Russian victory. Check out this excerpt from another interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor:.."

It would have to come from Belarus, and that would require Russian troops to occupy Belarus and Ukraine has been prepared for an attack out of Belarus for months. If Putin were foolish enough to try it, it would just turn into another humiliation for Russia.

 

[georgephillip]

It would have to come from Belarus, and that would require Russian troops to occupy Belarus and Ukraine has been prepared for an attack out of Belarus for months. If Putin were foolish enough to try it, it would just turn into another humiliation for Russia.

Ukraine was prepared for an attack of Mariupol; how did that end for Zelensky's Nazis? There are currently tens of thousands of Russian troop with heat, fuel, and ammunition preparing to cut off NATO supply lines originating in Poland. The Ukrainian army you are referring to no longer exists, condemning Ukraine to join Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq as the latest victim of America's wars of choice.

Future Defense Visions

"Predictably, NATO’s European members, which bear the brunt of the war’s impact on their societies and economies, are growing more disenchanted with Washington’s Ukrainian proxy war.

"European populations are openly questioning the veracity of claims in the press about the Russian state and American aims in Europe.

"The influx of millions of refugees from Ukraine, along with a combination of trade disputes, profiteering from U.S. arms sales, and high energy prices risks turning European public opinion against both Washington’s war and NATO."

 

[georgephillip]

"The coming offensive phase of the conflict will provide a glimpse of the new Russian force that is emerging and its future capabilities.

"At this writing, 540,000 Russian combat forces are assembled in Southern Ukraine, Western Russia, and Belarus.

"The numbers continue to grow, but the numbers already include 1,000 rocket artillery systems, thousands of tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones, plus 5,000 armored fighting vehicles, including at least 1,500 tanks, hundreds of manned fixed-wing attack aircraft, helicopters, and bombers.

"This new force has little in common with the Russian army that intervened 9 months ago on February 24, 2022."

Future Defense Visions

 

[toomuchtime_]

Ukraine was prepared for an attack of Mariupol; how did that end for Zelensky's Nazis? There are currently tens of thousands of Russian troop with heat, fuel, and ammunition preparing to cut off NATO supply lines originating in Poland. The Ukrainian army you are referring to no longer exists, condemning Ukraine to join Vietnam, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq as the latest victim of America's wars of choice.

Future Defense Visions

"Predictably, NATO’s European members, which bear the brunt of the war’s impact on their societies and economies, are growing more disenchanted with Washington’s Ukrainian proxy war.

"European populations are openly questioning the veracity of claims in the press about the Russian state and American aims in Europe.

"The influx of millions of refugees from Ukraine, along with a combination of trade disputes, profiteering from U.S. arms sales, and high energy prices risks turning European public opinion against both Washington’s war and NATO."

Mariupol is practically on the Russian border so the supply issue was not a factor, but Poland is all the way across the country and the Polish border is over 300 miles long, so you are describing a pipe dream, not a real strategy.

 

[ESay]

Mariupol is practically on the Russian border so the supply issue was not a factor, but Poland is all the way across the country and the Polish border is over 300 miles long, so you are describing a pipe dream, not a real strategy.

He is assuming that Russian troops will get there from Belarus.

 

[toomuchtime_]

He is assuming that Russian troops will get there from Belarus.

I know, but that means moving a massive army all across Belarus to the Polish border and then trying to control the 300-mile-long polish border to try to cut off supplies from the West. So far the Russian army has had no success fighting anywhere that is not very close to the Russian border, and they are struggling there. The Russian offensive is going to be in the northeast because that is the only place where they can reliably resupply their troops.

 

[georgephillip]

Mariupol is practically on the Russian border so the supply issue was not a factor, but Poland is all the way across the country and the Polish border is over 300 miles long, so you are describing a pipe dream, not a real strategy.

Less of a pipe dream than imagining the Nazis retaking Mariupol or Crimea.

Russia will sever the rail and road links used to transport weapons eastward long enough for hundreds of thousands of rested troops with plenty of fuel, food, heat, and ammunition to end the NATO threat on their western border.

 

[ESay]

I know, but that means moving a massive army all across Belarus to the Polish border and then trying to control the 300-mile-long polish border to try to cut off supplies from the West. So far the Russian army has had no success fighting anywhere that is not very close to the Russian border, and they are struggling there. The Russian offensive is going to be in the northeast because that is the only place where they can reliably resupply their troops.

And they will have to go through Ukrainian Polesje in Volyn and Rivne oblasts. This region is filled with forests, small rivers and marshes.

I think they will try from two directions - sout-east and north-east.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Less of a pipe dream than imagining the Nazis retaking Mariupol or Crimea.

Russia will sever the rail and road links used to transport weapons eastward long enough for hundreds of thousands of rested troops with plenty of fuel, food, heat, and ammunition to end the NATO threat on their western border.

You're just being silly. Both the military and political leadership in the US are convinced Ukraine can retake Crimea, some think it can be done by August, and no one believes Russia can fight anywhere but close to its border.

 

[Sunni Man]

Both the military and political leadership in the US are convinced Ukraine can retake Crimea, some think it can be done by August,

Ukraine doesn't have a Chinaman's chance of retaking Crimea. ..
By the month of August the conman Zelensky will have fled the country and Ukraine will be totally under Russian control.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Ukraine doesn't have a Chinaman's chance of retaking Crimea. ..
By the month of August the conman Zelensky will have fled the country and Ukraine will be totally under Russian control.

Sober up.

 

[georgephillip]

You're just being silly. Both the military and political leadership in the US are convinced Ukraine can retake Crimea, some think it can be done by August, and no one believes Russia can fight anywhere but close to its border.

Has it occurred to you those claiming Ukraine can defeat Russia are lying?
How does Ukraine defeat an opponent capable of firing ten times more artillery shells a day than the US proxy, has unlimited fuel and ammunition, 540,000 troop poised to strike along 3 axes, 5000 armored fighting vehicles, and at least 1500 tanks?

 

[Sunni Man]

Even pro western media like CNN and MSNBC have reported for several days about massive missile strikes all over Ukraine.
CNN has also reported that in last 24 hours the Russians for the first time in the war. Sent several of their large heavy bombers over targets in Ukraine and flattened them.
Big heavy bombers are slow moving.
Their presence in the sky over Ukraine shows there isn't any Ukrainian air force left to stop them, and no functioning air defense to shoot the bombers down.