On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, a day after Ukrainian forces withdrew from the city of Lysychansk, the last area they held in the region.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told Putin in a televised meeting that the “operation” in Luhansk was completed. Putin congratulated the Russian military on “liberating” the oblast and ordered military units that participated in the fighting to “rest, increase their combat capabilities.”
Russia is now focusing its offensive in eastern Ukraine on areas in the Donestk Oblast. Together, Luhansk and Donestk make up the region known as the Donbas, the capture of which has been a priority for Moscow since it invaded Ukraine, and more so since early April, when Russian forces withdrew from the northern areas near Kyiv and Chernihiv.
After the US-backed coup in Kyiv in 2014, separatists in the Donbas declared the Donestk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR). Fighting between the Ukrainian government and the separatists killed over 10,000 people between 2014 and February 24 of this year, when Russia invaded. Right before launching the offensive, Putin recognized the independence of the breakaway republics.
Good job Russia keep staking up the Ukrainian bodies.
Perhaps Zelensky will be one of the bodies in a few months.
Zelensky? The drug addict comedian who plays piano, with genitals,pants down to the ankles.
Russian disinformation campaign in action.
That news came from Russian State TV propaganda where they doctored videos of Z on his office desk with lines of cocaine to discredit his image. Zero proof that he is a drug addict.
But keep on spreading lies, it’s what Putin Lovers do.
See below for evidence then tell me more lies.
https://youtu.be/k0GNi90N5Vs
You go for the disinformation campaign by Zionist outfits. NYT, Washington post. CNN, ABC. NBC ABC etc and believe what they churn out as”News’. OK?Russins don’t indulge in disinformation.
Oh no, the masters of propaganda do not engage in disinformation ever!!!
The Russian motto is Deny, Deflect, Discredit (DDD). Always. I would appreciate it if just for once, only once, the Kremlin admits to at least one of their wrongdoings. Instead, they pull the ‚we are perfect saints that never make mistake’ card.
Zionists are used to doctoring videos and photo shopping. Not Russians
It may be complete bs but the narrative gains traction because Zelensky’s own statements resemble the distortions of a cokehead.
Based on that, half of us are cokeheads.
Well, maybe you, Don 😁
It’s his claim to fame, Thomas.
Thank you, Dave, especially for the last paragraph. It’s a truth that’s been hidden/suppressed in plain sight.
Yep. It’s amazing how the media talk about “Russia took Crimea and Lugansk and Donetsk declared independence” for years, without mentioning the little detail of the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian president right before that.
It’s like “Firefighters flood poor building with water!” without mentioning there is a fire.
It is not a fight between the defunct corrupt Ukraine lead by a drug addict porn comedian propped up by the Zionist West and Russia. It is a fight for a new world order, new order to free from the present state of decadent values, which Russia is leading from the forefront.Russia must win
Again, baseless drug addition claim.
You know for sure it is not baseless.
I know for sure it is baseless.
Do you have any evidence that is not from the Kremlin?
Look below in another one of my responses to you, proof of fabricated videos to discredit Z.
When they don’t have a good argument to dispute the facts, they fall back on personal attack.
Well said. It is a fight against the globalists, against their one world government, against their full spectrum dominance. It is a fight for a multi-polar world against the western hegemons who want to control it all and enslave all of us under their tyrannical rule. It is a fight for freedom. Yes, Russia must win.
Yep. Just recently, Biden adviser Brian Deese was asked what to tell Americans who face massively inflated gasoline prices, where a gallon can easily surpass $100:
“This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm.”
But “we” doesn’t include Deese with his big paycheck.
Also, inflation started before the war, and gas prices are increased much because of Biden’s regulations, and stopping the Keystone Pipeline. Forcing Europeans not to buy oil from Russia. Keeping up the sanctions against Iran.
Good news: Apparently the “liberal world order” isn’t bothered by Israel bombing Syria without a war declaration, Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen and blocking their ports for years with U.S. aid, or U.S./Kurdish occupation of Syria’s oil and wheat fields and northern water supplies. Nor is it bothered by the people starving in Afghanistan due to Biden’s sanctions. Or bothered by Zelensky banning 11 opposition parties, and using the Security and Defense Council to arrest people and illegally steal their money and assets.
There is no prospect of “victory” in this war, only defeat – for all.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
Peter, based on predictions of our near-future fight for mere survival, we might all be better off getting vaporized 😐
Russia advancing. Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, all of Lugansk, soon all of Donetsk. Having broken through in Sev, a lynchpin for the Kiev line, they are now inside the wall, so to speak.
Meanwhile, here’s the newspaper today:
“PUTIN shifts strategy.
Expert: May switch to defense.“
But I thought Russia was losing and on the brink of being humilated by Ukraine, according to the MSM and other Western sources.
Not over yet, this is the stalemate phase, neither side can really advance much without huge casualties. But Russias army has been hugely wounded in the process. So if the Russians want to believe that they have “won” sitting on a pile of depopulated rubble with half of their original army then great. Meanwhile they have an extra 500 miles of NATO border.
BBC has estimated Russian deaths twice. Its first estimate months back was in line with official Russian figures given later.
The BBC has now estimated 4000 Russian deaths. This was all reported by Alexander Mercouris. Meanwhile a close advisor to Zelensky has said in an interview with Axios that Ukraine is registering 200-500 soldiers dead per day with 500-800 more wounded. The war has gone on 120 days which means 120,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed or wounded.
Not surprising because the Russian forces are professional soldiers not ill-trained conscripts thrown into battle as fodder for Russian artillery.
Meanwhile Ukraine has lost 1/3 of its population to emigration, and its economy is in shambles.
Yes it sucks to be attacked by your neighbor.
Taking this sliver of land is not the victory, and not the point.
The damage done to the Ukraine Army was the point of doing it, and is the victory won.
Right now, Ukraine and the US are doing their very best to hide that damage and pretend none of this even happened.
It is however the only important story coming out of these events. Denial and hiding won’t change that.