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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] 140 points 1 year ago (46 children)

Then. Just. Fucking. LEAVE!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (124 children)

Why do posters from Hexbear defend Russia so much? They're not communist. If anything, they're right wing.

Putin has a government allied with Russian business oligarchs and the support of the Russian Orthodox Church. He promotes the military as heroes. He cultivates a cult of personality. He personally controls billions of dollars. That's textbook Fascism.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Criticizing this article isn’t the same as supporting Russia lol.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

I swear someone could claim like "Russia is controlled by an army of demons" and if someone from Hexbear was like "actually that is not true you should stick to the realm of fact in your criticisms of Russia" posters you'd still get like "WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING RUSSIA? DONT YOU KNOW RUSSIA ISNT COMMUNIST".

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're not communist

Wait, I'm ootl what happened?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nowhere do I voice support for Russia. It's that any nuance with regard to the Ukraine conflict is seen as 'defending russia', which you've just proven, again.

Edit: nvm, you're that asshole that used the Sartre quote about anti-semitism to justify your anti-communism. You don't want to learn. Almost as if you're a bot

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

You don't have to support Russia to question the validity of news sources...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (31 children)

Pointing out blatant untruths, being anti-war and wanting accurate reporting rather that copium meant to inspire more people to thrown themselves to a pointless death is checks notes russian propaganda?
You would've supported the invasion of Iraq

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (112 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?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (42 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

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (32 children)

has not won a victory since the beginning of the invasion

Gotta have a highly specific definition of "victory" to say something like this

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (51 children)

Imagine linking kyivpost as if it's a credible source. Might as well link an article from Weekly World News next.

edit: I love how downvotes immediately come in when you point out the obvious, as long as the article says what people want to hear they all of a sudden stop caring about credible sources

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is that the 'newspaper' that invented the ghost of kyiv?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (132 children)

It is a proxy war against America. You don't win those. You just set yourself up a good position and dig in. America gets bored and leaves and then you can pick over what is left of what was destroyed. So you don't win, you just wait for America to forfeit.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The entire world (with a few exceptions) is fighting a proxy war against Russia via Ukraine. Of course you can't win, that's the whole idea.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

What do you mean, the Ghost of Kiev repelled the invasion

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 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] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the brutality inherent to Leninism”

sicko-wistful

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“We can [though] enter a phase that is most unfavorable for Ukraine in its ‘independent’ state: a phase of neither peace nor war. We could be in this phase if, instead of the special military operation, the [currently occupied] territories were recognized and officially taken under guardianship. But it would require a completely different twist of history,” Khodakovsky said.

I find it consistently amazing and hilarious that Russian strategic leadership appears entirely incapable of recognizing that they can’t simply dictate geopolitics, warfare, and international borders to external parties. Ukraine - and to a lesser degree, its allies - get a vote too, and they’re not going to be “freezing” anything for the foreseeable future.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

"Freezing the war along the current frontlines" is victory for Russia?? They already control all the territory they claim. I guess at this point Ukraine is starting to define winning as mere survival.

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