‘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.

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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.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    153·
    1 year ago

    Russia also has allies in China and India

    Press X to doubt.

    Pentagon said last year in a press briefing that Russia could keep up this war for 40 years at current rate.

    Could you link that? It goes against everything I’ve read and I can’t find it myself.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      293·
      1 year ago

      Press X to doubt.

      India ramping up trade in oil and gas with Russia while refusing to even offer the most milquetoast condemnation of Russia’s invasion on the world stage haven’t clued you in?

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        81·
        1 year ago

        Call me when they do more than not get involved.

        India and China are fair-weather friends to Russia. India is also an increasingly close fair-weather friend of the West. Both the West and India see themselves as adversaries with China.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            11·
            1 year ago

            So you think the neutral action would be an embargo, then? Buying gas at a heavy discount doesn’t seem very political to me, or to the Western leaders for that matter.