Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "Ukraine 'Lost' 66,000 Troops, 7,600 Weapons In Counteroffensive; Big Reveal By Russia's Shoigu" video.
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There wasn't any realistic deal in Turkey.
Johnson said this to his own parliament: "There is absolutely no sign that Russia wants to reach a deal with Ukraine, and it could not be trusted even if one was on offer," Boris Johnson has told the Commons.
And he was right, Russia had broken all the agreements so far, including Minsk. The former prime minister warned against a "land for peace" deal, and said he doubted Volodymyr Zelensky or any Ukrainian government would agree to any such compromise.
Putin are lying about signing a peace deal: People are sharing a video of Putin showing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa a document, claiming that Russia signed a peace agreement with Ukraine in the spring of 2022! This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created by Vladimir Putin himself, and propagated by his supporters to diminish support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia.
- On 7 April 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Moscow rejected a draft peace deal from Ukraine, saying that it contained “unacceptable” elements that deviated from proposals that both sides’ negotiators had earlier agreed on.
- July 19 : Dmitry Medvedev said that “Russia will achieve all its goals. There will be peace – on our terms”
- On September 14, 2022, Reuters reported that Vladimir Putin rejected a provisional deal, in which Ukraine agreed to stay out of NATO. His own chief envoy on Ukraine, Dmitry Kozak, told him that the deal would remove the need for Russia to pursue a large-scale occupation of Ukraine, and recommended that Putin adopt the peace deal. However, PUTIN DECIDED TO REJECT the provisional peace agreement Kozak hammered out with the Ukrainians, and pressed ahead with his “special military operation”.
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albinvega7008 Businessinsider:
As recounted in the interview, Bennett visited Russia a few months before the war, where he then relayed to Putin a request from Zelenskyy to meet. "They're Nazis, they're warmongers, I won't meet him," Putin responded, in Bennett's telling.
After the war began in February 2022, Bennett said he tried again to work as an intermediary between Putin and Zelensky, acknowledging that his primary interest was his own country's security.
In the weeks following the invasion, Bennett said he spoke with both Putin and Zelenskyy, and even made a secret trip to Moscow, in an effort to negotiate an end to the conflict. At the time, Zelenskyy himself noted that the Israeli prime minister was "trying to find a way of holding talks," a fact for which "we are grateful."
"It's unsure there was any deal to be made". "At the time I gave it roughly a 50% chance. Americans felt chances were way lower. Hard to tell who was right."
He continued: "It's not sure such a deal was desirable. At the time I thought so, but only time will tell."
In the interview, Bennett himself notes that IT WAS NOT the US, France, or Germany that put an end to any peace talks. Rather, it was RUSSIA SLAUGHTERING hundreds of civilians in a town outside the Ukrainian capital, a war crime discovered just about a month after the full-scale invasion began.
"The Bucha massacre, once that happened, I said: 'It's over,'" Bennett recalled.
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Aljazeera: In leaked phone calls, Russian soldiers appear angry at losses in Ukraine
Excerpts released by Kyiv of phone calls placed in early July appear to show Russian troops complaining.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive was in its second month when Andrey, a Russian soldier, called his wife to say his unit was taking heavy casualties. They were so badly equipped, he said, it felt like the Soviet forces in World War II.
“They are f*****g us up,” Andrey said by telephone on July 12, comparing the onslaught to the worst moments of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. “No f*****g ammunition, nothing … Shall we use our fingers as bayonets?”
While Russia has so far largely stemmed Ukraine’s military campaign and made some modest territorial gains of its own in places, the soldiers in the intercepts complain that their units have suffered from heavy losses, a lack of munitions, proper training and equipment, as well as poor morale.
N. Melvin, director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence and security think tank headquartered in London, said the calls appeared to confirm some Russian forces were thrown into defensive operations with little preparation and were sustaining high casualties, sowing tensions between soldiers and commanders.
In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the military had to learn from and fix the problems it had experienced in Ukraine, promising to provide the army with whatever it needed. Reuters reported this month that Russia has doubled its defence spending target this year to more than $100bn – a third of all public expenditure.
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@jimmyc974 ...... The emails were initially thought to be the work of a lone FSB officer, but it is now believed several people contributed to the leak.
‘We issued reports that at minimum about 2,000 trained civilians in every major city in Ukraine were ready to overthrow Zelensky,’ the source said.
‘And that at least 5,000 civilians were prepared to come out with flags against Zelensky on the beck-and-call of Russia.’
Wind of Change then explains that the FSB thought that once Zelensky had been overthrown, the Ukrainians would then fight amongst themselves to win Putin’s favour.
‘Do you want a laugh?,’ says the source.
‘We were expected to be the arbitrators for crowning Ukrainian politicians who were supposed to start tearing each other apart competing for the right to be called aligned with Russia.’
Russian troops came within 19 miles of Kyiv but were defeated around April last year, forcing the Kremlin to refocus their efforts on the east of the country.
Experts have put the Russian failure to secure victory on a range of things including poor intelligence, equipment and tactics.
According to Winds of Change, nobody among the Russian leadership had a backup plan ready in case they failed to take the Ukrainian capital.
‘“What if it doesn’t work?” This question was left unanswered when they planned to take Kiev in three days,’ they said.
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bjornsjostrom3800 GDP (2022), bn USD:
1. USA: 25,462.70 billion USD
2. China: 17,963.20
Euro Area: 14.041,00
3. Japan: 4,231.10
4. Germany: 4,072.00 (GDP is projected to be 4121.00 USD Billion in 2024 and 4199.00 USD Billion in 2025)
5. India: 3,385.10
6. UK: 3,070.70
7. France: 2,782.90
8. Russia: 2,240.40 (GDP is projected to be 2290.00 USD Billion in 2024 and 2308.00 USD Billion in 2025)
9. Canada: 2,139.80
10. Italy: 2,010.40
GDP per capita, bn USD:
1. Norway: 106,149
5. USA: 76,399
9. Canada: 54,966
18. Germany: 48,432
19. UK: 45,850
20. France: 40,964
21. Italy: 34,158
22. Japan: 33.815
30. RUSSIA: 15,607
33. China: 12,724
48. India: 2,389
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