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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[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (2 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!

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 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.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the brutality inherent to Leninism”

sicko-wistful

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

If you want a picture, imagine a spicy op-ed stamping on a trotskyist newspaper forever