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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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to who? If you read the article from U.S. military analysts posted elsewhere in this thread, not even they think that was the point of the early war thrust towards Kiev.

All I see is a chain of threads that go mostly nowhere. No, a wargame from 2002 is not relevant.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is the comment with the article I referred to.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Is it buried somewhere in the tiny print of the image of some magazine that somebody has highlighted all over?

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Had you bothered to read the article you'd see it's not talking about a 2002 war game, but the ongoing war in Ukraine.

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Man where the fuck is that forest, all I can see around here are a bunch of trees.