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The Russian commander of the “Vostok” Battalion fighting in southern Ukraine said on Thursday that Ukraine will not be defeated and suggested that Russia freeze the war along current frontlines.

Alexander Khodakovsky made the candid concession yesterday on his Telegram channel after Russian forces, including his own troops, were devastatingly defeated by Ukrainian marines earlier this week at Urozhaine in the Zaporizhzhia-Donetsk regional border area.

“Can we bring down Ukraine militarily? Now and in the near future, no,” Khodakovsky, a former official of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, said yesterday.

“When I talk to myself about our destiny in this war, I mean that we will not crawl forward, like the [Ukrainians], turning everything into [destroyed] Bakhmuts in our path. And, I do not foresee the easy occupation of cities,” he said.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (68 children)

RT was banned first day of the war due to links to the kremlin and propaganda. Wouldn't want people influenced by propaganda, of course! This is the west! We're free thinkers! Now let me see how the war is going in the non-biased Kyiv Post.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Browsing through top posts, and damn this didn't age very well lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And none of the libs have learned a thing. They're busy gushing over the claim that 90 percent of Russia's army has been destroyed, and all the previous claims of imminent victory have been memory holed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Then. Just. Fucking. LEAVE!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kyivpost, propaganda rag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to know what the smartest guy in the US military thinks, read this

(Assuming, of course, that you don't consider the Marine Corps Gazette to be Russian propaganda)


Ukraine is on its fourth army, which has been badly mauled in a counterattack lasting two months with gains measured in single digit miles and casualties in the tens of thousands.


This is who they were sending to the front in APRIL LAST YEAR

Old men and boys


But at least Russia's out of missiles!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That gazette article was a breathe of fresh air. So novel to read a stark, bare bones, and honest account of how the war has played out. Until “the brutality inherent to Leninism” I forgot I was reading a USMC rag.

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