Russian forces have been making steady gains in eastern Ukraine since taking the strategic Donetsk city of Avdiivka last month as Ukraine’s war effort continues to falter.
According to Russian Defense Ministry estimates, it took Russian troops four months to advance 5.6 miles through Donetsk before taking Avdiivka. In the last three weeks, Russian forces have already advanced three miles west of the city.
Russia was expected to be able to start gaining territory more rapidly once Avdiivka was taken if it could keep up the momentum. Ukrainian soldiers on the front are facing severe manpower and weapons shortages, but Ukrainian leadership vows the fight will continue.
Russia has also started hitting US-made Abrams tanks on the battlefield, and Russia’s TASS news agency reported Wednesday that three have been destroyed so far. The US pledged a total of 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to get Germany to sign off on the delivery of its Leopard tanks. Ukraine took heavy armor losses during last year’s counteroffensive.
Despite the bleak situation, Ukraine’s new ground forces commander, Oleksandr Pavliuk, insisted that Ukrainian forces will be able to “stabilize” the situation and “do everything possible to prepare the troops for more active actions and to seize the initiative.”
Pavliuk took the position as the ground forces commander after his predecessor, Oleksandr Syrskyi, was promoted to Ukrainian commander-in-chief following the sacking of Valery Zaluzhny. Syrskyi is not well-liked among Ukrainian soldiers and earned himself a nickname as the “butcher” for his willingness to get Ukrainians killed.
Ukraine is also struggling to maintain the support of its Western backers as Congress still hasn’t approved the $61 billion President Biden is seeking to fuel the bloody proxy war for another year. Some staunch supporters of the proxy war in the US, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), have admitted Ukraine has no chance of winning.
When Russia still can’t guarantee security for Donetsk city, after all of this time, it is unlikely to attempt the much larger goal of controlling Kharkiv or Odessa.. It is doing well with neutralizing the villages, though..
This war isn’t being fought with small arms and hand-to-hand combat. No one can “guarantee security” for places within range of opposition weapons systems.
Exactly and if the nukes start going off, no city on earth can be guaranteed security.
NUKES!!!!!!
Not true.
If there’s a nuclear war it’ll be because your dumbass president started it, once he starts it, the US will respond. Russia will get a few pickles out but it will then get quickly vaporized and unable to fire anymore.
Putin knows this and this is why he won’t start it.
Just admit Joey Biden and POS obama are as done Ukraine. Put a fork in them the are over done!
Lots of interesting variables there, starting with whether Biden will actually stay in the presidential race, if so whether he will win a second term, and if so whether he will die or resign during that second term, or finish it.
If he does stay in, and if he does win, and if he serves his full second term, he will indeed likely be exactly “as done as” Ukraine as of January 19, 2029, and more done than Ukraine as of the day after that. Maybe he’ll take a trip to Odessa the week before, just to rub Putin’s nose in it. If Putin is still around.
Yeah it does seem a bit like Biden is slipping mentally, but if Trump lost his mind how would we be able to tell the difference? Prep a nice gero psych ward for them to share I say.
Ukrainian army needs minimum 20 000 fresh cannon fodder + $10 billion worth of modern weapons and ammunition per month for surviving until next winter. Also it badly needs military specialists from NATO countries. UK, France, Germany and Poland are okay about sending to Ukraine more of their troops; they only worry a bit about Russian response.
The public opinion in Europe definitely doesn’t like this gamble. Galloway, Le Pen, Wagenknecht and other anti-escalation European politicians are doing very well despite the ferocious corporate media efforts to stop them.
To sum it up, one may safely predict that Ukrainian army will not collapse at least until next autumn. NATO will not allow that to happen. Then much will depend upon Washington. In any case this war is going to be more and more expensive for NATO. We are lucky if can avoid the nuclear version.
What’s your source for this absurd claim?
None i bet because you only repeat Russian Propaganda.
Odessa is Russian and a crown jewel soon the be liberated from the Joey Biden /POS obama fantasist!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/mar/05/ukraine-releases-footage-appearing-to-show-sinking-of-russian-warship-near-occupied-crimea-video
Russia Lost Another $65 Million Dollar Warship, Russian Pilots have Mutinied, Avdiivka Front has Stabilized
America had no chance of winning in Vietnam that didn`t stop them sending young soldiers to continue fighting for a lost cause for years .
Now your comment started {where have all the flowers gone} rolling around in my head along with Pete Seegers Waist deep in the big Muddy.Bob Dylans Masters of War deserves a hoot.
That’s what I say about Russia too. 🤷🏽♂️
Right, but the war wasn’t being fought on US soil, there was no risk that a loss would result in loss of wealth or power, and the MIC was making bank every month.
Ukraine, on the other hand, is being wrecked.
More like: No one thought Vietnam had any chance of winning but they kept fighting. (THAT’S the comparison you should’ve made but you ignore reality in your support of Russia.)
If I were a Ukrainian and were pushed to fight for Zelensky on the front, I would certainly keep one clean white underwear to hold up on a stick and run across to the Russians in surrender. Dear Ukrainians, please don’t fight ’till the last Ukrainian. It’s a very bad idea. Besides, who are you fighting for? Nuland retired. She’s not waiting. She gave up on you already. …Oh, wait. Sorry. I meant to say Russia is stupid and evil.
DRINK!
Surrendering to Russians is a good way to get killed. They are not the take prisoners and treat them nicely bunch.
You might be Russian so you want Ukrainians to surrender but if they surrender, they won’t have a country anymore.
See, they have a reason to fight for and it is not Zelensky, it’s called identity, something you obviously know very little about.
If Putin wants to take Ukraine, he needs to continue sacrificing hundreds of thousands of his men for many yearsto come.
So if I were a Russian soldier, I would just go home and not die for Putin’s ego war.
You dipsh!t can continue coming here and ask for Ukraine to surrender, but it won’t happen. Instead, you should ask for your Russian soldiers to return home and stop dying for nothing.
Compared to the rates of the advances of the Soviet Army against the much more formidable German army in WW2, these rates are microscopic. Stalin’s army would have been in Poland by now. Why?
Here are three reasons Russia is not advancing more rapidly:
1) Russia is not attempting to take over the entire territory of Ukraine, so it is not waging a territorial war. Large advances are not expected.
2) Russia is reducing the strength of the Ukrainian army by attrition, minimizing Russian casualties. This does not require large advances.
3) Both (1) and (2).
4) Russia has no interest in a hot war with NATO that could trigger The Last Very Bad Thing. And it is well aware that it’s wise not to make sudden moves near crazy people.
Also possibly the Russian Federation troops are, occasionally, unlike the Red Army, permitted at least one step backward as needed.
Or:
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ukraine-war-who-is-winning-moscow-military-economy-2024-3
“Russia is not attempting to take over the entire territory of Ukraine” Not yet, give them time.
You argument is delusional and unfortunately contradicted by your leaders over at the Kremlin as they want to take all of Ukraine and move beyond if they can.
And BTW, Russia is taking insanely amount of casualties. So take your BS elsewhere, you are not fooling anyone here but your fellow Puint Lovers.
Really shove your BS “Russia is minimizing casualties.” How dare you saying such thing when it is no secret Russia is killing hundreds of its men daily.
https://youtu.be/hMTw5f_UFpo?si=0O2DnueRivoEeHZT
Because it’s not ‘Total War’, yet.
Ukraine prepares strike force for counteroffensive as front lines stabilize
Ukraine is creating a strike force for a counteroffensive campaign this year. The current task for the Ukrainian military is to stabilize the front line, maximize the destruction of enemy forces, and seize the initiative, said the Commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Pavlyuk. The troops needing recuperation will be reorganized to form the necessary group for future counter-attacks.
The Commander also spoke of Russia’s attempts to capture as much territory as possible ahead of what is termed Putin’s “re-election” in Russia, with all forces being thrown into the effort.
The front-line hotspots remain in the Avdiivka area, Chasiv Yar, and the Terny vector towards Lyman. In all these areas, the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) are holding a firm defense, inflicting heavy losses on the opponent, the general said.
https://www.uawire.org/kyiv-ukraine-prepares-strike-force-for-counter-offensive-as-front-lines-stabilize
https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-force-russian-air-activity-125656444.html
Slava Ukraini!
I’m sure he said all that. Unfortunately, that’s mostly wishful thinking. The “troops needing recuperation” average 43 years in age; They are more in need of retirement facilities.
How and why is the US on the wrong side every time. we can’t blame the CIA for all the wrongs we have done and paid for. it is an unspeakable amount of financial resources that have been pissed away over the years in Korea,VietNam,Iraq twice and now Ukraine and Israel. I must mention the governments that we have overthrown in Iran,Guatamala,Chile Nicaragua. Tghey are so numerous one can not name them all. Boy it is great to be an American.Where would our culture and society be is things were run from a humanistic point of view instead of wars being the only choice?
Here’s a handy little guide. I printed it off and use it as a bookmark specifically for my copy of 1984. 😉
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca920fa389bda9e6d313c8dfa7f7a5f31c7d26e171bb2490bdbf5e592bf0c901.jpg
Post the chart showing all the countries the US has provided assistance to (disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping, space exploration, security cooperation, science, medical, climate, etc). The list goes on.
Show me that list, you fcking Hypocrite.
Let’s look at this list of Nazis recruited by the USA instead.
Key recruits
Aeronautics and rocketry
Many engineers had been involved with the V-2 in Peenemünde, and 127 of them eventually entered the U.S. through Operation Paperclip. They were also known as the Von Braun Group.[3]
Hans Amtmann[4]
Herbert Axster
Erich Ball[5]
Oscar Bauschinger[6]
Hermann Beduerftig[7]
Rudi Beichel[8]
Anton Beier[9]
Herbert Bergeler[10]
Rudi Berndt, expert in parachute development[11]
Magnus von Braun
Wernher von Braun
Ernst Czerlinsky
Theodor Buchhold [de]
Walter Burose[12]
Adolf Busemann
GN Constan[13]
Werner Dahm[14]
Konrad Dannenberg[3]
Kurt H. Debus
Gerd De Beek[15]
Walter Dornberger – head of rocket programme
Gerhard Drawe[16]
Friedrich Duerr[17]
Ernst R. G. Eckert
Rudolph Edse [de][18]
Otto Eisenhardt[19]
Krafft Arnold Ehricke
Alfred Finzel[20]
Edward Fischel[21]
Karl Fleischer[22]
Anton Flettner
Anselm Franz
Herbert Fuhrmann[23]
Ernst Geissler
Werner Gengelbach[24]
Dieter Grau
Hans Gruene[25]
Herbert Guendel[26]
Fritz Haber[27]
Heinz Haber
Karl Hager[28]
Guenther Haukohl[29]
Walter Häussermann
Karl Heimburg[30]
Emil Hellebrand[31]
Gerhard B. Heller[32]
Bruno Helm[33]
Rudolf Hermann[34]
Bruno Heusinger[35][36]
Hans Hueter[37]
Guenther Hintze[38]
Sighard F. Hoerner
Kurt Hohenemser
Oscar Holderer
Helmut Horn[39]
Hans Henning Hosenthien [de], Director of Flight Dynamics, Marshall Space Flight Center[40]
Dieter Huzel[41]
Walter Jacobi
Erich Kaschig[42]
Ernst Klauss[43]
Theodore Knacke[44]
Siegfried Knemeyer
Heinz-Hermann Koelle
Gustav Kroll[45]
Willi Kuberg[46]
Werner Kuers[47]
Hermann Kurzweg[48]
Hermann Lange[49]
Hans Lindenberg[50]
Hans Lindenmayer[51]
Alexander Martin Lippisch – aeronautical engineer
Robert Lusser
Hans Maus[52]
Helmut Merk[53]
Joseph Michel[54]
Hans Milde[55]
Heinz Millinger[56]
Rudolf Minning[57]
William Mrazek[58]
Erich W. Neubert[59]
Hans von Ohain (designer of German jet engines)
Robert Paetz[60]
Hans Palaoro[61]
Kurt Patt[62]
Hans Paul[63]
Fritz Pauli[64]
Arnold Peter[65]
Helmuth Pfaff[66]
Theodor Poppel[67][68]
Werner Rosinski[69]
Heinrich Rothe[70]
Friedrich von Saurma [de]
Martin Schilling[71]
Helmut Schlitt[72]
Albert Schuler[73]
Walter Schwidetzky[74]
Ernst Steinhoff
Wolfgang Steurer[75]
Heinrich Struck
Ernst Stuhlinger[76]
Bernhard Tessmann
Adolf Thiel
Georg von Tiesenhausen
Werner Tiller[77]
JG Tschinkel[78]
Arthur Urbanski[79]
Fritz Vandersee[80]
Richard Vogt
Woldemar Voigt, designer of Messerschmitt P.1101
Werner Voss[81]
Theodor Vowe[82]
Herbert A. Wagner
Hermann Rudolf Wagner[83]
Hermann Weidner[84]
Walter Fritz Wiesemann[85]
Philipp Wolfgang Zettler-Seidel[86]
Architecture
Heinz Hilten[87]
Hannes Luehrsen[88]
Electronics – including guidance systems, radar and satellites
Wilhelm Angele [de][89]
Ernst Baars [de]
Josef Boehm[90]
Hans Fichtner
Hans Friedrich[91]
Eduard Gerber[92]
Georg Goubau [de]
Walter Haeussermann
Otto Heinrich Hirschler [de][93][94]
Otto Hoberg[95]
Rudolf Hoelker[96]
Hans Hollmann
Helmut Hölzer
Helmut Horn
Wilhelm Jungert[97]
Horst Kedesdy[98]
Georg (“George”) Emil Knausenberger
Heinz-Hermann Koelle
Max Kramer
Hubert E. Kroh[99]
Hermann H. Kurzweg [100]
Kurt Lehovec
Kurt Lindner[101]
Alexander Martin Lippisch
JW Muehlner[102]
Fritz Mueller[103]
William Mrazek
Hans R. Palaoro
Johannes Plendl
Fritz Karl Preikschat
Eberhard Rees
Gerhard Reisig[104]
Georg Rickhey[105]
Werner Rosinski [106]
Ludwig Roth
Arthur Rudolph
Walter Schwidetzky[107]
Harry Ruppe[108]
Friedrich von Saurma
William August Schulze[109]
Heinz Schlicke
Werner Sieber[110]
Othmar Stuetzer[111]
Albin Wittmann[112]
Hugo Woerdemann[113]
Albert Zeiler[114]
Hans K. Ziegler
Helmut Zoike
Material Science (high temperature)
Klaus Scheufelen[115]
Rudolf Schlidt[116]
Medicine – including biological weapons, chemical weapons, and space medicine
Theodor Benzinger [de]
Kurt Blome[117]
Rudolf Brill
Konrad Johannes Karl Büttner
Paul Anton Cibis
Fritz Laves
Richard Lindenberg
Ulrich Cameron Luft [de]
Walter Schreiber
Hubertus Strughold
Hans Georg Clamann
Erich Traub
Physics
Gunter Guttein
Willibald Jentschke
Gerhard Schwesinger[118]
Gottfried Wehner
Helmut Weickmann[119]
Friedwardt Winterberg
Chemistry and Chemical engineering
Helmut Pichler
Leonard Alberts
Ernst Donath
Josef Guymer[120]
Hans Schappert
Max Josenhaus
Kurt Bretschneider[120]
Erich Frese
Hypocrisy…..hmmm.
Let’s take space exploration and a bit of medical for example…..
Up to WWII, the Germans and to a lesser extent, the USSR, had the world’s leading rocket programs.
The USA, well, not so much.
Enter Operation Paperclip. The USA needs a rocket/space program, so they recruit German Nazis scientists and engineers, grant them asylum (instead of serving justice) and have them develop the US space program because they didn’t have the brain trust.
There were a lot of Nazis engineers, scientists, etc. brought over not solely for the the space program, but in other fields of research.
It’s worth noting that that Nazi experts in the fields of medicine, biological weapons, chemical weapons, and space medicine were also ‘recruited’, granted immunity and given citizenship.
I recall that these people did a lot of real nasty stuff to innocent civilians (Jews, Roma, Slavs). Who cares about that though?
Right?
“Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these Germans were former members and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party.[1][2]
This effort was led by Werner Von Braun commandant of the Nazi Rocket Program.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83a9b7ccc86b8de10aeaaf745b59c2056d5337842c0c78118a1c9d6fef329ef8.png
“How and why is the US on the wrong side every time” Because you are anti-US no what they do you will convince yourself that the US wrong. This not a hard one to figure out.
Let’s see you justify US interventions halfway across the world against countries that pose no security threat against us. We’re all waiting, smart guy.
According to American politicians, the major security threat for US is prosperous China. They think, US can be safe only when people on other continents live in poverty and misery. So far they succeeded only in plunging in poverty and misery half of American population but they are determined to pursue this policy.
Justifications, there are plenty.
But you have internet. Go search. You’ll be surprised by your own findings, smart guy.
Here’s one; sometimes the country’s government asks the US for security assistance so the country doesn’t collapse.
Give me an example and tell me how it justifies expending US taxpayer resources to serve the interests of a foreign nation.
If you need an example you are an idiot.
Countries have historically helped each other to improve prosperity.
Sorry, too much for you to comprehend.
BTW, Russia, China to name a few do that as well. Yes, using their tax payers money.
All you have are insults. You add nothing to the conversation. You only dodge and weave when someone asks you to justify your position. You’re a joke, Don Julio.
“How and why is the US on the wrong side every time”
63 years ago president Eisenhower warned about the danger which MIC oligarchy represents for US democracy. The situation deteriorated sharply after the collapse of USSR. Elected US politicians which by the time were already corrupted enough, made their ultimate choice to side with MIC oligarchy. That’s how so called neocons became the dominating political force and that’s how the antihuman, antidemocratic and unachievable plan for “Full Spectrum Dominance” appeared. The last 30 years US political elite was acting within the logic of this plan and even now when only really daft and mentally unhealthy people can believe in it’s success, they still carrying on with this plan.
You are full of it. You hate the US therefore you will not find anything that the US has ever done or is doing as something positive.
I’m sure you find everything Russia does as GREAT.
You are such a hypocrite. I hope you don’t live in the US cause that will confirm it.
Fcking Hypocrite.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-sitrep-the-slow-grind-new-bombs-calling-for-talks.html#more Ukraine might have some new defense lines, but the money to build them disappeared into a lot of pockets. Now there are no new defense lines where they need them. I don’t know how much that would help them at this point, anyway.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/06/russias-bad-luck-marine-brigade-is-riding-67-year-old-t-54-tanks-into-battle-and-getting-massacred-by-ukrainian-drones-and-missiles/?sh=7e1051cd6a00
Kremlin Propaganda.
das on the eastern front is looking good
A mile a week. Wow, that is fast.
How far do you usually advance in a week of ground fighting against a NATO-trained-equipped-funded-assisted opponent?
They’re taking their time, ok?
It’s more than that. 1.6 kilometers / week. Everybody over there has the Metric system, they dunno WTF a ‘quarter pounder’ is.
Russia Lost Another $65 Million Dollar Warship, Russian Pilots have Mutinied, Avdiivka Front has Stabilized, Russian Personnel Losses in February Highest Since Start of War
Love Jake Broe.
He would definitely be hated here for being objective.
Rashist Litter Scattered across Ukrainian Soil
https://ukrainetoday.org/rashist-litter-scattered-across-ukrainian-soil-video/
Minus 1,160 invaders, fifty armored fighting vehicles and 17 tanks: the General Staff of Ukraine announced enemy losses for the day
https://ukrainetoday.org/minus-1160-invaders-fifty-armored-fighting-vehicles-and-17-tanks-the-general-staff-announced-enemy-losses-per-day/
In Summer 1864 Grant fought the Wilderness Campaign. He lost each of the three battles, and gained little ground. It won the War for him. After his initial difficulties, Lincoln asked him what he planned to do next, and he famously wrote back, “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
How did this work? He ground the Confederate Army down past any recovery. Lee was left holding a line with remnants that could not fight nor run. No ammo, no horses, no replacement, finally no food.
That is how the Russians have fought in Donbass. It is awful. It works. It did for Grant.
Lucky for US in WW2, MacArthur and Patton did not believe strategy.
Russian forces make insignificant gains while paying a very high price for it.
They have been taking massive losses that wont be covered here.
Here’s one of thousands of videos showing Russian cannon fodders being annihilated or perhaps just making “steady” gains.
See, when Ukraine claims to have killed 500, 700, or a 1000 of Russian troops in one day. That’s because they have and they have the drone footage to back it up. Russia on the other hand, never have any proof.
Bring Russian soldiers home. No need to die for an insecure midget.
https://youtu.be/hMTw5f_UFpo?si=aeiuOBaxJv-TfV5Z