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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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[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (87 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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[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] anoncpc@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Kyivpost, propaganda rag.

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Then. Just. Fucking. LEAVE!

[–] matchphoenix@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If only the little man at the big table didn’t have such a Napoleon complex

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[–] st33lb0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Russia allready lost. They just keep ignoring it

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, do you still feel this way?

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[–] Tester@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (56 children)

I think many people are forgetting that the larger army, vastly outnumbering Ukrainian resources in numbers, has not won a victory since the beginning of the invasion. And only presents a problem because the 2 countries cannot reliably use air power to overcome 1st WW trench warfare. Russia has defenses, but no ability to move forward. They are just trying to hold on to what they took in those first few months and are very slowly failing at that. If Ukraine can keep going, supported by the West, Russia will lose. I do not think Russia will use nukes -- any use of a nuke is basically on Russia's own land -- according to them -- and will affect them as much as Ukraine. But the question of ending the war is an interesting one. Do we see Russia continuing the war if they lose most of their ill-gotten territorial gains? What happens to those insecure areas? Are people going to rebuild, i.e. invest scarce resources in unstable areas? Or will they just become dead zones, DMZ borders?

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Are you still of the opinion that Russia is slowly losing its position and is incapable of moving forward?

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

how's this analysis working out for ya?

[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ukraine can keep going, supported by the West, Russia will lose.

You have a whole entire counteroffensive that shows the exact opposite.

Also

has not won a victory since the beginning of the invasion.

Have you taken a look at a map of the current situation? That's just straight up bullshit

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't be mean to them, they're manifesting victory and you're harshing the energy.

[–] Flaps@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Don't be mean to them

I know you're being sarcastic but no, they don't deserve being talked to nicely. All these bloodthirsty libs are happy to dance on the graves of thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians because of some vague notion of the west being 'the good guys', gladly ignoring history but being incredibly smug in their ignorance. We provide sources, walls of text to explain where we're coming from, only for them to ignore all the work and effort we put in and go back to their fuckin bubble to complain about how we're 'tankies' and pat each other on the back for being anti-amperialist NATO lovers, lacking either the knowledge or the ideological spine to see the absolute hypocrisy in what they're doing. Or the smug reddit tier comment saying 'I ain't reading all that' because they need spend a fucking minute reading the thoughts of someone better informed than them.

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