BULLSHIT BLINKEN: Ukraine Regained 50% of Territory Seized by Russia
Russia, in the meantime, says Ukraine lost 20,824 service members and 2,227 units of military equipment, including 10 German-supplied Leopards.
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Antony Blinken, the hapless U.S. secretary of state, said in an interview last week that Ukraine has managed to retake about 50 percent of its territory from Russia’s grasp —and reiterated the White House propaganda that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already failed.
“Now they’re [Ukrainians] in a very hard fight to take back more. These are still relatively early days of the counteroffensive. It is tough,” he told CNN.
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Blinken’s comments are in stark contrast to Putin’s analysis of the conflict. The Russian leader said Ukraine has failed despite receiving “colossal amounts of resources” from the West and “thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers.”
Putin said Ukraine has already lost tens of thousands of troops in attacks that he called “suicidal” against his heavily entrenched forces, and that Kyiv is simply running out of manpower, even after “total mobilization raids on Ukrainian cities and villages.”
The Russian president said the populations in European countries are slowly realizing that the war effort is an “endless waste of money and effort” for the “global hegemon across the ocean.”
Sergey Shoigu, the Russian defense minister, said Monday that Kyiv “is desperately throwing new forces in a bid to storm our positions,” according to RT, the Russian news outlet.
Shoigu said Ukraine lost 20,824 service members and 2,227 units of military equipment, including 10 German-supplied Leopard tanks, 11 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and 50 self-propelled guns from several Western countries, according to the report.
He said the Kyiv regime is now focused on terror attacks inside Russia.
TRENDPOST: Blinken justified his analysis that Russia lost by telling CNN that Putin’s objective was to “erase Ukraine from the map, to eliminate its independence, its sovereignty, to subsume it into Russia.”
That is just a blatant lie. Russia said that Ukraine was in violation of the Minsk agreement, and wanted to denazify Ukraine military that killed some 15,000 pro-Russian people in the separatist Donbass region and would not permit Kyiv to become a member of NATO. In that regard, Russia has achieved all its goals. And as for Kyiv’s counteroffensive, by all standards it is a costly loss.
Blinken said Russia has put in place strong defenses and it’s important to look at the big picture. He said the counteroffensive could take months—not weeks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that the counteroffensive has progressed slower than desired and placed blame on the lack of Western weapons earlier in the spring.
“We did have plans to start it in spring. But we didn’t, because, frankly, we had not enough munitions and armaments and not enough brigades properly trained in these weapons, still, more, that the training missions were held outside Ukraine. But, still, we started. And this is important,” Zelensky told CNN.
He said the delay allowed Russia’s forces to become more fortified.
“They had a lot of mines in our fields,” Zelensky said. “Because of that, a slower pace of our counteroffensive actions. We didn’t want to lose our people, our personnel. And our servicemen didn’t want to lose equipment because of that.”
And while the Western media and politicians claim Ukraine has gotten back some 50 percent of the land that Russia has occupied since the War began on 24 February 2022, that is counter to what Russia reports which say they lost some 2 percent of the 20 percent of Ukraine that they now control.