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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[–] crowsby@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad to see that incessant and pervasive whataboutism is welcome in the Fediverse. I was afraid for a few weeks that I had left it behind with Reddit but clearly that's not the case.

[–] ebenixo@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody can that's the problem

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukraine will.

[–] ebenixo@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will lose a generation to a war of the military industrial complex 's making for nothing but enriching the military industrial complex.

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org -5 points 1 year ago

Russia may not be able to win, but it's got enough nukes to make sure everyone loses.

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