‘We Cannot Win’ Says Top Russian Commander Alexander Khodakovsky
www.kyivpost.com
The leader of the Russian battalion defeated at liberated Urozhaine calls for “freezing the front” after his unreinforced troops were devastated in a rout.

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.

  • DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml
    42·
    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!??”

      • SeaJ@lemm.ee
        11·
        11 months ago

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

        • InappropriateEmote [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          151·
          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

        • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          131·
          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.

    • Flaps [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml
        13·
        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