‘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.

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ukraine has lost. They are not getting their separatist regions back.

    Their choices are to keep fighting, which will not change this outcome, or negotiate an end to the war so they can stop dying and start rebuilding. Their negotiating position will only weaken as the war continues absent some one-in-a-million stroke of luck.

    This isn’t “I kick you and you don’t defend yourself.” It’s “I kick you, you defend yourself, lose, and choose to either walk away or keep getting beaten up.” And that’s not even digging into the actual causes of the war, which are nowhere near as clear cut as Russia one day waking up and deciding to attack out of the blue.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      0·
      1 year ago

      Ukraine has lost. They are not getting their separatist regions back.

      [citation needed].

      In any case Ukrainians disagree with you and keep on fighting. Heck even if Russia occupied all of Ukraine they’d keep on fighting. It’s not in your hands whether they fight or not, and their motive is just, so why not help them? Because you’re a defeatist? Come on.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        In any case Ukrainians disagree with you and keep on fighting

        Yeah, that’s why they’ve been kidnapping people to the front lines, because the Ukranian people want to fight so much. That’s why they conscripted prison inmates and forbid any man undder 60 from leaving when the war broke out, right. Because of all that popular will to fight.

      • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ukraine has lost. They are not getting their separatist regions back.

        [citation needed].

        Points at the utter failure of the joke of a counteroffensive to even breach Russia’s first line of defense after months of hype about retaking Crimea

        In any case Ukrainians disagree with you and keep on fighting.

        You mean the ones forced to fight because they were kidnapped off the street and will be shot if they try to leave? Or the fascists that are in charge?

        Heck even if Russia occupied all of Ukraine they’d keep on fighting.

        Part of the reason why Russia does not want to occupy all of Ukraine.

        It’s not in your hands whether they fight or not,

        Nor yours, but it is in the hands of NATO leadership who have stymied peace negotiations at every opportunity.

        and their motive is just

        [citation needed]

        so why not help them?

        Why would we want to help people get forced into a meat grinder?