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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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[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] danisth@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

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

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 40 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".

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it was only that it wouldn't be an issue, but many comments here are pushing Putin's propaganda by trying to legitimate manipulated referendums and cherry-picking colateral damages of Ukrainian self-defense or Ukrainian extremists to try to inverse the burden of guilt. I don't know if they actually support Putin or if they are just blinded by their hate of the West, but the end result is that they do help carry Putin's propaganda and its fascist oligarc dictatorship.

[-] Flaps@hexbear.net 37 points 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.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Everything you say about Russia is true, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a proxy war where US is trying to weaken Russia. You can just be against a senseless war that's killing hundreds of thousands of people and destroying lives of millions more. Anybody who is even minimally engaging with reality can see that this war will only end one way. What the west is doing is prolonging it without changing the outcome. People of Ukraine are being cynically thrown into a meat grinder so that US can score a win in a geopolitical chess game with Russia.