https://archive.li/Z0m5m

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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    11 months ago

    No. That’s a reductionist take.

    “Can we have some weapons to defend ourselves?”

    "No! That’d make us evil. You should just die. "

    Oh a hexbear. … You lot only have overly simplistic takes.

    • CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      You should just die

      Yes, rip bozos

      My eternal grief for the hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukrainians pressed into the meatgrinder by their Nazi overlords, eternal death to the genocidal Kiev regime and their campaign of extermination against their own country’s citizens of Russian descent for eight years

      CW: literally, unfathomably vile

      The Ukrainian fascist soldiers are offering you cans of ‘Separatist Baby Meat’!

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        11 months ago

        You realize the people in those photos are Russian citizens and connected to Wagner PMC, right? Identify each of them for us and prove you know what the hell you’re posting. Anyone can post a picture of a Nazi flag and say “See? SEE!??”

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            11 months ago

            I’m sure no Russian would ever got a Ukrainian flash for propaganda. /s

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              11 months ago

              Do you enjoy carrying water for literal fascists?

              Reposting the same link as in my other comment, just because it so perfectly demonstrates how stupid and/or disingenuous it is to think that the near infinite written and photographic examples of Ukraine’s love of nazi iconography is actually a Russian false flag attempt:

              https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1662026001627.webm

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              11 months ago

              Ukraine good, Russia bad. It follows that these Ukrainians doing bad stuff are in fact Russians.

              It’s a non-falsifiable orthodoxy that turns evidence on its head until it fits the pre-conceived narrative.

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          You realize the people in those photos are Russian citizens and connected to Wagner PMC, right?

          Uh yea gonna need you to identify these Russian citizens in those pro bandera, ukraine flag waving marches here.

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            11 months ago

            Uh yeah gonna need the person claiming the photos are legit to post some proof. Burden of proof is on the presenter. That was my comment that you replied to. Since you can’t, we can assume you are arguing in bad faith and have nothing to contribute

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      11 months ago

      Oh a hexbear. … You lot only have overly simplistic takes.

      When we respond to blatant ignorance with carefully chosen wording, backing up our position with citations and links, and calmly explaining the nuance of complex geopolitical realities, we get accused of “always throwing walls of text at people.” When we answer that same ignorance with short and pithy responses, we “only have simplistic takes.”

      parenti-hands

      There’s no winning with you simple-minded dronies, but I guess there never is when one side can just make shit up that fits their vibes-based outlook on the world.

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          11 months ago

          What are you even asking for? What do you want citations on? As I made very clear with quoted text, I was responding to a claim about everyone on the hexbear instance.

          Do you want citations and careful wording that hexbear people use citations and careful wording? Or do you want citations and careful wording about something specific having to do with the topic of the OP? In either case, just read the comments from hexbear users all over this thread.

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            11 months ago

            You’re claiming that you argue from a valid point of citing your arguments, and presented zero citation. The person the replied to needed no citations for their argument because they presented ideas, not facts. You’re raging trying to tell people to cite things but you’re sitting in your tower without presenting citations. You’re a ragebait clown 🤡

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          11 months ago

          But they’re from hexbear, that means they’re always right duh

          /s