by Martin Jay, The Unz Review:
I don’t think Putin would announce this unless it was actually happening.
The hohols are falling back.
RT:
Ukraine has stopped major offensive operations after realizing its forces could not win, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
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“Thanks to the courage and heroism of our soldiers and the readiness of commanders to repulse any aggressive actions against Russia, it seems to me that the enemy has no chance. They understand this, which is why they stopped,” Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin at the Kremlin.
The Ukrainian military launched its long-heralded offensive on June 4, using several brigades trained in the West and equipped with Leopard tanks and Bradley armored vehicles, among others.
“Oddly enough, it is a slow burn at the moment, because the enemy is sustaining serious personnel and equipment losses,” Putin said. “As of early this morning, our men had taken out 245 tanks and about 678 armored vehicles of various types, to say nothing of the enemy’s casualties, which are substantial.”
That’s good for that Dutch woman running the organ harvesting.
Zelensky is like “do we have any good news?” and his dudes are like “yeah, boss – organ industry is popping, big time.”
Kiev’s forces are currently in the process of rebuilding their brigades, which took serious losses, Putin explained, but fear that taking more casualties at this rate will eliminate the combat capability of not just their strategic reserve, but their entire military.
At this moment, Putin said, “offensive operations are not ongoing,” only elements of combat such as shelling and reconnaissance in force.
Retired general Andrey Kartapolov, who commanded the Russian expedition in Syria in 2016-17, has also estimated that Ukraine will exhaust its offensive capability by the end of June at this rate, with 40% of its force in the theater already rendered combat ineffective.
Putin’s comments came at the reception for the top cadets of Russian military academies and officer schools, also attended by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. The Russian president told the newly minted officers that Moscow was committed to providing the armed forces with all the weapons and supplies they needed.
Yeah, well. From what I’ve been hearing, people want Shoigu to be saying that.
But whatever.
It’s such a great feeling to watch the whole thing finally coming totally undone, after all these months.
It’s like 2016 all over again.
This was the long awaited “spring offensive,” and it makes sense they wouldn’t have enough men and equipment to make it to the end of the month. Based on what we’ve seen in the Telegram videos of the destruction, it seems like a month would be a stretch.
You can go check the big map sites – they’ve made effectively zero progress in the last three weeks. The abandoned villages they “captured” were forward positions that the Russians abandoned before they ever showed up.
Even Deepstate Maps, a Ukraine shill site that is skewed toward hohols, is showing that Russians are now on the offensive, and the Ukraine is incapable of holding these empty villages the media celebrated them capturing.
