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.

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the Kiev coup regime was concerned about aggression, they could have simply not done eight years of ethnic cleansing in the Donbas and ignored a ceasefire🤷‍♂️

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there any OSCE election monitor results you want to back up your "coup regieme" claim?

Also, the breakaway Russian puppet states were the ones to break the ceasefires.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Google Operation Aerodynamic, i'm not gonna spoonfeed you information you'll just petulantly spit out to preserve your protofascist worldview.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Must've been a colossal failure, what with Svoboda having exactly one seat in the Rada.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago