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‘We Cannot Win’ Says Top Russian Commander (www.kyivpost.com)

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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] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ahh, reading comprehension, in some places truly a luxury.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you are welcome. Since you are asking for more people to die than less people to die, and you say it’s for peace. I’ve decided simplifying your long ass post for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm asking for less people to die:

It’s both the best option from a direct humanitarian POV by cutting the war short,

Because, you see, less people tend to die in a short war than in a long war.

Hence why I'm questioning your reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A short war with more intensive fighting. That's just throwing more people into the meat grinder.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Long-range systems can, *drumroll*, disable things from a distance. Right now Ukraine needs to get quite up and close and personal to overcome those lines. One of them incurs more casualties.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"To stop the meatgrinder we must meatgrind more people"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Indeed have you ever tried to stop a bulldozer you're not sitting in without risking spraining an ankle?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your metaphor of stopping a bulldozer by throwing people at it does not convey the point you think it does

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I'm talking about storming the cabin.