by Michael Snyder
The conflict in Ukraine has reached such a dangerous phase. For several months, the front lines in Ukraine were relatively stable, and that was a good thing because it meant that both sides were less likely to make really desperate moves. But now Russian forces are making a major breakthrough. The Ukrainians had poured countless troops into Bakhmut in an all-out attempt to keep the city, and they were able to successfully hold it for months. But now Russian forces have almost entirely encircled Bakhmut, and once Bakhmut falls there is going to be nothing but flat terrain between the Russians and the Dnieper River. If Russian forces actually reach the Dnieper River, the Ukrainians are going to become extremely desperate, and it is likely that they may try something extremely stupid in a desperate attempt to pull western forces into the war.
It is being reported that Bakhmut is now “operationally encircled” by Russian forces, and it appears that most of the Ukrainian troops that are still there will be completely trapped…Some 10,000 to 20,000 troops comprising the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut are now trapped. Reports say that the city is operationally encircled with diminishing chance of a breakout.
There aren’t many places to hide in Bakhmut at this point.
As you can see from this drone footage, the city has been almost entirely flattened by artillery…
https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1629746036771274752
That footage looks like it could have been pulled out of a post-apocalyptic disaster film.
But that really is Bakhmut.
I don’t even have sufficient words to describe how horrific the battle for Bakhmut has been.
The Ukrainians just kept pouring more men and more women into a losing cause, and one American that has been fighting on the front lines says that the average life expectancy for a Ukrainian sent to Bakhmut “is only around four hours”…As winter weather fades and spring approaches, military experts are speculating a renewed offensive from Russian forces. Frontlines shifted to Bakhmut—a city in eastern Ukraine—in July 2022, and according to former U.S. Marine Troy Offenbecker, the scene is grisly.
Offenbecker, who is fighting in Ukraine’s International Legion comprised of foreign soldiers, told ABC News that when a Ukrainian soldier fights on the frontlines in Bakhmut, their life expectancy is only around four hours.But this is what the foreign policy establishment in Washington D.C. wanted.
They wanted to fight to the last Ukrainian, and that is exactly what is happening.
Once Bakhmut falls, it is likely that the Ukrainians will attempt to establish a new line of defense around Kramatorsk and Seversk…After months of predictions of Ukraine retreating from Bakhmut it appears the moment is nigh. One of the key unanswered questions is how many Ukrainian soldiers will be captured and how many will escape. Regardless, this will mark another phase for Russia in its Ukrainian campaign to demilitarize and denazify. Ukraine’s next line of defense to the west (Kramatorsk and Seversk) is problematic because it sits in low ground and will be more vulnerable to Russian artillery.
But Kramatorsk and Seversk will be much more difficult to defend than Bakhmut was.
Once the Russians are able to move on from Bakhmut, what they will find is “a lot of open country and not much to prevent a Russian advance all the way to the Dnieper River”…To the west of Bakhmut is a lot of open country and not much to prevent a Russian advance all the way to the Dnieper River. There is no hard evidence yet that the Ukrainian army has prepared a second line of defense.
This means the way may be open for a possible major offensive by Russian forces. Whether that will happen and what Russia’s goals are remain to be seen.This is one of the reasons why the Ukrainians were so determined to hold Bakhmut.
If Russian tanks start rolling all the way to the Dnieper River, it is going to become obvious to the entire world that Ukraine is losing.
And at that point the Ukrainians will become very desperate.
But they just won’t roll over and give up. I expect that eventually there will be some sort of a major “event” that will be intended to force the western powers to become direct participants in the war.
Of course U.S. officials are already pledging “unconditional support” for Ukraine, and more aid has just been announced.
The grand total that we have already given Ukraine is close to 200 billion dollars, and that figure is only going to go higher in the months ahead.
In addition, the U.S. has already taken in 271,000 Ukrainian refugees…More than 271,000 Ukrainian refugees have been admitted to the United States since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began one year ago, according to the Department of Homeland Security, far above President Joe Biden’s stated goal of admitting 100,000.
Just over two-fifths, or more than 117,000, of those who were admitted came via the Biden administration’s “Uniting for Ukraine” program, which allows Americans to sponsor Ukrainians to prove that they will be financially supported in the U.S. DHS, which administers the program, said more than 200,000 Americans came forward as sponsors.Sadly, this is just the beginning.
biden, thankfully is losing his war against Russia. It is time to end this charade.
You’re a traitor to your own nation, and the supporter of a murderous totalitarian bastard who’s supported by the Chinese Communist Party.
Who said we support Putin? Only your television.
We want the war to end that means defunding the Nazi Comedian sending his young men to die.
biden, thankfully is losing his war against Russia. It is time to end this charade
Ukraine lost this war a long time ago.
Those fighting on Ukrainian soil are up to something, and we’re not quite sure why.
Reminder to all of you to double-down on “Russia is evil” and “Ukraine is noble” while watching a young girl being bound and tortured by Azov Ukrainian Nazis…
Real heroes, those Ukrainians…
Have you seen photos of what Putin has done to Ukrainian women and children? It’s worse than the public humiliation of a collaborator.
Ukrainian military dead: 150,000
Wounded: about 250,000
Combine Russian, Belarusian, and Wagner casualties?
Max number figured at 18,000.
Russia is winning. As they had been from the start
America’s plan for Putin regime.e change has failed, as his approval rating is about 80%
The number Russian troops and contracted mercenaries killed or wounded in Ukraine exceeds 200,000.
Incorrect. It’s only about 18,000.
You’re being lied to, son.
More like you’re the one lying.
Russian casualties are minimal.
The dead and wounded for Ukraine and number almost half a million.
Where are the actual war corespondents ww2 and Nam had them they traveled with troops, they seem to be MIA, like the ghost of Kiev, the guys that gave the finger to the Russians on the island. Zelensky shut down all opposing media just like the NAZIs in WW2. You dont speak of the bombings and death in the Donbas before Putins invasion thousands of civilians were slaughtered by the Ukrainian Nazis.

Now it sounds like the fool has droned Belsarus he is hell bent on provoking a 3rd world war, That bombing in Poland didnt work.
Ukrainian civilian casualties are at about 10,000.
That’s less than the Donbas Genocide committed by War Criminal Zelenskyy
During WW II Russia had major problems with Finland
Putin is only one military setback in Ukraine away from a coup in the Kremlin.
Unfounded
His approval rating is at 80%.
The West’s plan to induce a regime change in Russia has failed miserably.
Sure. You can trust polls taken in Russia. Why shouldn’t you?
I trust them more than I trust Western media polls.
Just hang it up, Greg
Cute pigs in your bullshit propaganda narratives are all dead.
Russia is grinding away and taking Ukraine.
That’s the truth.
That’s because you’re stupid.
It’s over Greg. Take your deflated balloon and go home.
I watched American Media assist in bringing an election, assist in fbi-led coups against our legally elected president Donald Trump, and I watched them kill hundreds of thousands of people by lying about ivermectin.
They are the American equivalent of the Russian state-run propaganda at this point
12 minutes ago – Rupert Murdoch admits Fox News stars ‘endorsed’ bogus election fraud claims
Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are part of the uniparty narrative.
They are as much of an enemy as George Soros and CNN. We saw that clearly on election night 2020.
Thanks for the reminder.
Biden was installed illegally off the heels of a released pandemic and a rigged election.
He is not our president and he never will be.
Trump continues to be America’s de facto leader. As he said, he would get peace with Russia within 24 hours.
No sane American wants this war.
biden, thankfully is losing his war against Russia. It is time to end this charade
Ukrainian military dead: 150,000
Wounded: about 250,000
Combine Russian, Belarusian, and Wagner casualties?
Max number figured at 18,000.
Russia is winning. As they had been from the start
America’s plan for Putin regime.e change has failed, as his approval rating is about 80%
Not even the head of Wagner Group would buy your bullshit. Wagner alone has had an estimated 30,000 casualties, with 9,000 KIA. He blames it on ammunition shortages.
Nah. The Western Propaganda machine is losing.
Ukrainian military is getting slaughtered, and Russia is just getting started.
No one wants this war, and Americans won’t stand for it.
It’s funny that the regime-state media in the US is bent on pushing these lies about casualties, always saying “Russia is losing” and “Putin did this alone.”
The illegal US Biden Regime sought to take out Putin. It’s part of the one-world-gov grift, because he’s been planning on a dust up with the US for years. They prepared for the sanctions.
Now their economy is even better than before, and they are selling oil to India and China in more volume than the EU.
WTF are you idiots doing? This is going to end the US, because you’re literally giving these people reasons to attack us.
Luckily actual world-events don’t care the lies you post, son.
Just hang it up.
The IS wrecked Germany in their batshit crazy plan to use propaganda…. PROPAGANDA… Against the original masters of propaganda, Russia.
A bunch of clowns.
The Zelenskyy regime is doomed.
Meanwhile, a Trump-appointed judge in Texas is likely to issue a ruling that will end access to abortion pills across America. The GOP is going to be swept away in 2024. They didn’t learn a damn thing from their collapsed 2022 “red wave”.
Meanwhile, Russia’s economy is doing better than it was before the war started and the sanctions.
Better.
They are selling their fossil fuels to India and China and are making more money doing it.
Stop deflecting to your dumbass abortion and Trump b.s.
You treasonous pigs are starting world war III and we’re not going to let you.
It’s quite enjoyable to watch this leftist coup fizzling out before it even got any real steam.
It seems American democracy is stronger than the Deep States totalitarianism
From the guy that says America is a totalitarian police state, Trump is really president, people too poor to pay taxes shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and Social Security and Medicare should be abolished…
The Biden dictatorship has now paid 40% more to Ukraine than what the entire Russian military budget is… and Russia’s in an active war.
Biden and his puppet masters should be much more worried about their OWN regime change then Putin’s.
Americans have had enough.
The corrupt cabal of people who control our government would rather start world war III than save face and admit their plan to remove Putin failed.
The Russian economy is doing better NOW than it was before the war and the sanctions.
They’ve replaced the Lost business from Germany and the enu due to the United States blowing up the Nord stream pipeline with customers in India and China.
They are selling more fossil fuel now than they were to the EU.
Whoops.
Whatever this imposter Biden is doing it’s literally galvanizing countries in the world to oppose and go to war with the United States of America.
It needs to stop now
02/17/23 – Murphy: The Republicans Lifting Up Putin Are the Same Ones Trying to Destroy Democracy
Destroying democracy is rigging elections, like you people do.
I don’t know how you idiots think this ends, but it’s not going to go the way you plan.
Trump and the rest of us want peace and prosperity, and that’s “against democracy???”
The Deep State fools and their Uniparty pawns will be lucky to make it through this war that they are starting.
What’s become clear through this bullshit, Biden/NATO-induced war is that Trump will be President in 2024.
He’s the only logical choice. Biden is a enemy combatant, as is the deep state who installed him.
DeSantis and most of the GOP are the same as Democrats.
Normal Americans reject it all.
We will elect Trump, and fight to maintain a clean election and the existence of our democracy.
I’m completely open to a BETTER candidate than Trump, if either the Dem or GOP will offer one.
I WILL vote for the best person to do the job, not for someone to line the pockets of Pfizer, Medicare providers, and Black Rock.
F*ck you globalist pigs, greg.
F*ck you.
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