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Captured Severodonetsk 90% destroyed
2022-06-26
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] Russians do not hesitate to show such photos today, signing them "Severodonetsk is completely liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis"

Severodonetsk is completely occupied.

"After the withdrawal of units of our troops, the enemy is consolidated in the regional center of Severodonetsk and satellite villages: Sirotin, Voronovo and Borovskoye," head of the Lugansk regional military administration Sergei Gaidai said on Saturday evening, June 25. He noted that now it is possible to leave Severodonetsk only through the temporarily occupied territories.

"The Rashists establish their own rules in the city, appointed a "commandant", shoot propaganda stories with people leaving Azot's shelters. The city is 90% destroyed, it will be very difficult to survive there, the orcs will not be able to restore communications," Gaidai notes.

The head of the region added that "this is not for long, we will return our city, Severodonetsk is Ukraine."

The fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to move away from Severodonetsk, since there is no point in being in broken positions, Gaidai said yesterday . At the same time, in the morning and afternoon reports of the General Staff it was reported that the fighting for Severodonetsk was continuing. In the meantime, the defenders of Severodonetsk withdrew from the city to new, more fortified positions.

Earlier, Gaidai claimed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could recapture Severodonetsk, although this city has no special strategic significance.

Posted by:badanov

#9  I think the 90% destroyed is actual fact based on satellite imagery.

Shouldn't be 'opinion'
Posted by: lord garth   2022-06-26 18:33  

#8  *shrug* badanov has the spin, lies and other garbage from Russian and Ukrainian sources taken care of, so Skidmark and others are providing other sources to help us triangulate on what is actually happening.

As are our visitors, who really have no business being upset that we take everything they post under advisement as well.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-06-26 13:12  

#7  We see the "Skidmark" back to his usual tricks of posting spin, lies and other garbage from the British tabloids.

Nope. It's Skid have fun at your expense.
Posted by: badanov   2022-06-26 10:32  

#6  We see the "Skidmark" back to his usual tricks of posting spin, lies and other garbage from the British tabloids.

The war has been a total shitshow for the Ukrainians. Everything we were told was a lie. Lies from by Biden and Johnson's spin doctors, the propagandists at "Institute for the Study of War," the neocon wackos, Vindman and the other foreign agents ... all of it ridiculous lies.

Biden and his incompetent foreign policy crew have fucked up literally everything they've touched. Afghanistan fiasco. Border collapse. Oil policy facepalm. Pushing China and India closer to Russia. Sucking up to Venezuela and literally begging Mohammed Bin Salman for favors.

In Ukraine they took a bad situation and poured gasoline on the fire. Now they're actually depleting our own missile stocks for this total waste. Impeach this asshole. Overthrow Zelensky and hustle his little ass out to Miami.
Posted by: Billy Budd   2022-06-26 10:10  

#5  It beats totin' a Mosin, right J-P?
Posted by: Nero   2022-06-26 09:14  

#4  It's 1500 hrs Moscow time,
1400 hrs ZULU
Posted by: badanov   2022-06-26 09:08  

#3  Back on the timeclock JP?
If today is Sunday, in what time zone is it Monday?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-06-26 07:38  

#2  * an absurd theatrical show staged by the little comedian playing a T-shirted De Gaulle
Posted by: Jean-Paul   2022-06-26 03:30  

#1  Earlier, Gaidai claimed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could recapture Severodonetsk, although this city has no special strategic significance.

So typical of Zelensky and his handlers to waste their best troops in pointless last stands of no strategic value whatsoever. Their entire approach is focused on winning the propaganda war: every battle is to be portrayed as another Stalingrad; the struggle is between the forces of light & goodness and the forces of totalitarian darkness, the Shire vs the Orcs. All of it an absurd theater cal show staged by the little comedian playing a T-shirted De Gauls.

All throughout this farce the western peoples have been lied to repeatedly. Billions in aid have been squandered or stolen. Thousands have been killed.

This is the worst catastrophe since the Vietnam War. Even worse than Iraq. A total, crushing failure.
Posted by: Jean-Paul   2022-06-26 03:28  

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