Russia has revealed that the goal of its invasion of Ukraine is to take "full control" over southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region. The announcement by a top military official marks the first time Russia admitted it was fighting to establish a land corridor through Ukrainian territory connecting Russia to Crimea, the peninsula it annexed in 2014. "Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, which began literally two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine. This will provide a land corridor to Crimea," Maj. Gen. Rustam Minnekaev, the acting commander of Russia's Central Military District, said according to TASS, a Russian state news agency. #CNN #News
Wish all Ukrainian defeats the invaders. Deep condolences to innocent people who were dead in Ukraine. RIP
Whom do you call invaders? Polish, American, Russian, Hungarian? You have no idea what was happining for last 30 years in Ukraine. This country is a failed state. At least 4 countries in the world are instrested in the docomposition of Ukraine for security and safety reasons.
They’re not even “planning” anything
‘US goal is an endless war,
not a successful war’
Who got rich of arming Ukraine and the Taliban/ Afghanistan?
Hasn’t US military-industrial complex
quietly made billions of dollars from arm sales
while the US/EU taxpayers footed the bill?
The US not only paid US soldiers to go over there
but they also paid the Afghan soldiers MORE than US soldiers
to fight there?
Total cost was 2.26 trillion dollars
300 million dollars per day
spent on this war for 20 years.
800 billion direct war fighting
269 billion US veterans
85 billion train the Afghan army
5 billion a year per in aid for Afghanistan
750 million for the Afghan soldier payroll
So the US finds that it was cheaper
to pay the Afghan army
then actually send US soldiers there.
@Great Time lol in 2 months the Russians war on Ukraine has cost Russia far more already .the two conflicts are not even comparable dude
@Mark Jokerberg yeah right .Russia is hurt and it will only get worse for Russia .how many Russian people have lost their jobs from foreign companies no longer doing business in Russia ?there would be thousands of Russians who would disagree with you mate
Maybe It might be a good idea for Europe to help Moldova clean up Transnistria for Russians and In that way close Russia’s plan to fight its way through Ukraine.
@Вадим Че in transnistria, which is a pile of putin’s faces, people loves moldavian blood, ukrainian, georgian, any NATO member’s blood. there is a word for such people, it starts by NA and has ZI on a latter. Guess it
‘US goal is an endless war,
not a successful war’
Who got rich of arming Ukraine and the Taliban/ Afghanistan?
Hasn’t US military-industrial complex
quietly made billions of dollars from arm sales
while the US/EU taxpayers footed the bill?
The US not only paid US soldiers to go over there
but they also paid the Afghan soldiers MORE than US soldiers
to fight there?
Total cost was 2.26 trillion dollars
300 million dollars per day
spent on this war for 20 years.
800 billion direct war fighting
269 billion US veterans
85 billion train the Afghan army
5 billion a year per in aid for Afghanistan
750 million for the Afghan soldier payroll
So the US finds that it was cheaper
to pay the Afghan army
then actually send US soldiers there.
Moldova can’t do it on their own, even if we drown them in weapons. Their military is very small, and very very poorly trained. Their only hope is if another country directly helps them with troops.
I just can’t believe they went public with that goal. To date they’ve dramatically hedged their publicly stated goals to protect themselves from visible failure. It is hard to see them reaching and taking Odessa.
@Daly Close no they really aren’t
As I repeatedly say, NATO has not moved east, it is the East that has moved west.
Questions for the Russian people and for all those who support Putin/Russia. (People from the Middle East and Africa).
If Russia is a “good guy” and the West are bad guys, then why do the Eastern countries (former states/countries of the Soviet Union) want to be part of NATO?
@HippieBippie all you people acting like this never happened is because nobody even read it on nato site Itself. You can actually youtube what that agreement was about with additional info. It will tell exactly what I been saying the whole time.
That agreement you can see it for youself on the nato/onan site.
Nato clearly lied about never expanding.
You know it won’t end at transnistria. If successful, the will invade Moldova and go from there.
We were tipped off on this a month ago when Lukashenko was on TV showing the battle map. Russia can take it by pummeling each major city along the way, but what would they really gain? Nobody wants to be the king of ruins. Rebuilding the areas would be costly and the personnel would be under constant attack by the Ukrainian forces around the perimeter. While it’s better to have the land bridge, the supply lines are long and vulnerable. Though they might landlock Ukraine, the Russians will pay a high price in men and materiel to try keeping it. Avoiding a long war of attrition would require augmenting the forces in Belarus, Crimea, and Donbas to push into Kiev again along three fronts. Russia simply does not have the trained manpower to do that. If they try, we’ll see another CF convoy on three sides getting chewed up. If they dig in, they’ll be slowly bled by the influx of supplies from the west. Either way, it’ll be ugly.
@MC Travel2 lol delusional
Of course they want the ports for themselves and to deny port access to Ukraine. That’s military objectives 101.
Yeah – makes sense. Why did this fact elude all the “experts” on MSM? They were banging on about Putin’s failure to take Kiev. In hindsight, Putin didn’t want Kiev.
But the orchestrated “western ” media was focused on Kyiv. lmao
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” -Dr. Albert Einstein
“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet” – Dr. Albert Einstein
@Bald Skull yea but we haven’t had a nuclear war
@Dracula’s Traphouse Who had to have known what, and what are your sources of that claim?
So basically, thus far, Peter Zeihan has been right about everything. Great.
There are still people who believe they are here to “liberate” local populations, that conveniently happen to live on territories that connect this and that strategic locations ?
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@Lets Go Brandon At least you had the common sense to not deny it.
These areas also just so happen to have a lot of oil and gas.
Why medical bills in the US are so expensive and out of control?
Medical bills are reported
to be the number one cause of US bankruptcies.
Over 2 million people are adversely affected by their medical expenses.
It’s an open secret in America
that calling for an ambulance
can be a financial gamble because of surprise bills.
There’s no way for patients to know
how much an ambulance will cost
before they get inside the vehicle,
and the final bill can be thousands of dollars with and without insurance.
The US spends about twice as much on health care
than other large and wealthy countries do.
But the US health care system is not as effective
when it comes to controlling costs
compared to systems in other countries.
And it’s a cure driven system, not a prevention driven system.
The US spends more per person on health care
than other high income countries,
but still has a lower life expectancy.
‘We have poor outcomes relative to other countries.
We pay twice as much as any other country,
we pay more and get less.’
They can make ambitious plans but they cannot make an infantry that wants to fight.
@Great Time This dude goes around copy pasting stuff like this everywhere regardless of relavance. Probably a bot.
@Daly Close Maybe you are the one who cannot handle the truth.
Instead of making false accusation against someone
if they don’t agree with you,
come up with some facts –
if you think you have something to say here.
And stop stalking people, will you?
@Great Time what you’re saying is just completely irrelevant. It doesn’t even matter if it is true or not. There is no evidence in your comments that you even watch the videos your commenting on.
Surely I can’t be the only one that sees him playing connect the dots with former Soviet Republics, this has been his life’s goal since 1991, phase 3 will be invading Moldova, and I have said for years that they should have reunited with Romania, now it’s too late
moldova is a poor nation no military it would be a bad idea for unification
@priest of Ronald alt how can they join nato with no army loool
@Adrian A nope you didn’t want to reunification in 1994 as your then president clearly denied. I understand why he didn’t do, but your head of state rejected this opportunity when the president of Moldova went to Bucharest for that matter only.
I feel like I’m watching “NFL Today” it’s so weird how we discuss War and strategic tactics and of course being a vet I am used to briefs, but these War “Pre-game” shows are kind of weird.
@Tom jenner Most weapons sent will not even make the front line in Ukraine. They are being siphoned off to the black market or being taken out by Russian military. Long journey from Poland to Donbass and Russia got that covered.
@SkOz Well not everyone in the media says that, but most do, sure. Not sure what your point is. What evidence is there that any of that isn’t true?
@Tom jenner Hello 👋 how are you doing today?
Notice how Odesa now has only one s. Traditionally in English it’s had 2. They keep changing spellings all of a sudden to reflect the Ukrainian spelling even though before this all happened, they had no problem using the traditional Russian spelling
In Russian, double consonants (even though they aren’t that common) are pronounced a little longer than singular ones like the two k’s in “bookkeeper” or the two t’s in “about time”. “Одесса” is pronounced “udyes sah”.
😠 Hi ҉ ҉ Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCia8JwD-qU
mejores 😠
2 (elecciones ) 9.5/0
3( culturales ) 9.3/10
Son unos de los mejores conciertos
, no puede ir pero de tan solo verlos
desde pantalla, se que estuvo
Sorprendente . .;
Hmm…I didn’t know you could re-label a failure as a “Phase.”
It sounds so much better to say that “I’m now initiating Phase 2 Of My Love Life,” than it does to just say “After the divorce, I’ve accepted that I’m destined to die alone.”
The question,,who’s making the money from war ?
@David H And let’s not forget Hitler himself. He was shot during a failed uprising, prosecuted for treason, and then sent to prison. Most people would have given up, calling it a failure. But not Hitler. He persevered and saw the upside of things, turning a failure into a triumph, quite literally. Never underestimate a positive eoutlook.
@2Hot2Handle yep, absolutely right. Goodness is a SEPARATE attribute than perseverence. They are not related – neither directly nor inversely. Thank you for the data point.
Just for the random record: Bianna is herself from Moldova. She grew up there as a native Russian speaker. Her grandparents having swapped their native Yiddish for Russian. Hearing her name and pronounce all those toponyms like an outsider (an American) sounds so off-key to me. But of course she has lived her adult life in the US and is now a top-notch journalist, and a good one at that.
If America was to invade Ukraine, it would have faced difficulties too.
Look how long America has been in Iraq , Afghanistan and others countries to still loose its wars.
It’s not easy to invade cities , but deserts are more open and easier to invade, yet America LOST.
Russia didn’t even use its air power and other powerful weapons to attack Ukraine, many Russian soldiers didn’t even know they were going to war against Ukraine.
As far as civilian casualties Russia has given them notice to vacate, but they chose to stay and not leave, they even helped Ukrainian military with phone apps to give them Russian positions.
There, the truth being told that you wouldn’t here on American media.
and still being flooded with hi tech weapons and mercenaries and now f16 planes…america has never faced this kind of enemy
I would say the problem the US had in Iraq and Afghanistan was not the original invasion, but occupying it. The United States was able to almost completely overthrow the Iraqi government in 42 days. Granted, Ukraine has much better funding than Iraq did, but I think the War in Ukraine shows more the failings of the Russian military.
Americans do not need to invade Ukraine. In Eastern Europe they have russian troops for this purpose.
This is the most “build the aircraft as your flying” moment I’ve ever seen
What do you think war is?
@thE ghσşt True that. You either have the ability to adapt on the fly to changing conditions or you lose. Russia is proving they have that ability even while their enemy is being fed millions of dollars in top of the line US military grade equipment.
Russia sent troops to the finland and japan borders, has forces in syria and along the entire ukranian border.
While Ukraine keeps getting supplies and volunteers – Russia wouldnt manage to hold that territory without risking going low on manpower and weapons against “an attack from NATO forces”…..
Also the sanctions that wont let them re-arm easilly…
😠 Hi SapphiR3 Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCia8JwD-qU
mejores 😠
2 (elecciones ) 9.5/0
3( culturales ) 9.3/10
Son unos de los mejores conciertos
, no puede ir pero de tan solo verlos
desde pantalla, se que estuvo
Sorprendente . .;