re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Only Russia can stop the war. China can’t.

Now China can come and be the broker here, they could give Putin an exit, but they can’t stop the war.

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Now China can come and be the broker here, they could give Putin an exit, but they can’t stop the war.

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There won't be peace so long as the possibility for Ukranian victory remains.

We will string them along with a carrot on a stick until our own purposes have been served, as well we should.

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I'm just curious as to how long Ukraine can sustain itself with personnel and supplies. NATO is exhausting their stockpiles and doesn't appear to be transitioning into wartime production. Hell, the Bundeswehr can't properly equip their own men right now. Those supplies will dwindle even further with a sustained offensive as will Ukraine's supply of soldiers. I'm also curious as to what is considered a victory at the end of a Ukrainian offensive.

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Hidden in the bowels of an unmarked building, set well back from the fighting, a command center directing operations in the city of Bakhmut was high-tech and humming. Soldiers monitored video screens with live feeds of destroyed buildings and a cratered battlefield.

Six weeks after coming to help defend Bakhmut, the men of the Adam Tactical Group, one of Ukraine’s most effective battle units, were quietly confident they had turned the tide against Russian troops trying to encircle and capture it.

“The enemy exhausted all its reserves,” the commander, Col. Yevhen Mezhevikin, 40, said on Tuesday, straddling a chair as artillery, air defense and intelligence-gathering teams worked around him.

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But now, Colonel Mezhevikin said, the Russian assaults have slowed and the imminent threat of encirclement has been thwarted. “The density of assaults dropped by several times,” he said. “Before, they could assault in all directions simultaneously and in groups of not less than 20, 30 or 40 people, but gradually it is dying down.”

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Colonel Mezhevikin said that he was confident that Ukrainian forces could keep holding the city and push Russian troops back farther. If the Ukrainians hold their recent gains, the battles of the last month at Bakhmut could prove a turning point in Ukraine’s defense against Russia, not only stalling the latest Russian offensive but also in setting themselves up to deliver a knockout blow, he said.

Fresh Ukrainian attack brigades were completing training, he said. “We are holding the enemy here for a bit more, and let them knock them back,” he said, referring to the new troops.

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On the city’s northern and southern flanks, where Russian troops had tried to encircle Bakhmut in a pincers movement, the Russians were coming up against Ukraine’s most motivated units and no longer had momentum, he said.

“When they try to reinforce their units, to rotate, they are being destroyed at the very start,” he added.
The center of Bakhmut, however, remained a hot spot where Russian troops were still attacking with significant force, the commander said: “All that’s left for them is to try to advance through the city, because the buildings protect them from fire.”

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Speaking of what may happen on the streets of Russia when Wagner convicts returning home from the front… Ivan Rossomahin, who was in prison for murder, returned home and has been arrested for murder after terrorizing his village for several days. The link is an English Twitter thread with 3 interviews of concerned citizens in Russian.

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No doubt there are a lot of unknowns, but one thing we do know is that if driven Western capitalism will outdo socialist Russia production.

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I think supplies, and weapons are a big question mark for both sides. Getting gear is important and getting it ftom the rear to the front is important also. Abd most important is having motivated troops to fight.

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