Comments by "Graeme Peters" (@graemepeters5717) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1. The Ukrainian Army has proven its ability. Its ability to invade into Russian territory, using forest tracks instead of main routes to avoid contact, in an area not defended by combat troops, only border guards and territorial defence units. Zelensky has proven that he is capable of accelerating the demilitarisation of Ukraine by 20%, losing more than 12,200 UA troops plus 871 armoured vehicles in the Kursk area alone! Combined with the more than 60,000 troops the UA is losing each month in the SMO, 16,215 last week, 2,175 yesterday, 'it should all be over by Xmas'! The only Russian soil UA troops will be taking is what is on the soles of their boots - in their body-bags!
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  2. Yesterday, Russia added yet another 1,100 UA troops to the demilitarised and denazified scoreboard. Monday, it added 1,200+ and almost every one on the last 10 days has been 1,000+. For months the rate was 650-850 per day. Russia seems to have increased the pace!
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  3. Would that be BEFORE Donbas was given to Ukraine? In which case Russia's border would move west!
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  4. Another clown who doesn't know that the 3 day/72 hour comment was by General Mark Millie, not any Russian!
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  5. The "liberation" or " recapture" of Kherson City must rank alongside other Ukrainian achievements like the liberation/recapture of Snake Island. Another one gained because Russia gave it back! It's hard to gather a proper crowd when the city is almost deserted! The Russians only left behind 'non-functional' vehicles - that was also in the statement! The Russians shot down or diverted ALL the UA missiles! The UA will not even try to cross the Dnipro River! General Milley is already saying that Ukraine has already achieved all it is likely to, so they should negotiate now. What, no mention of Pavlovka?! Or even Polovikin! Hawk air-defence systems, the ones the Americans stopped using 20 years ago. The Yanks are dusting off 4 converted pick-ups: Avenger = Stinger from the back of a pick-up. Range 5km! - to add to Ukraine's credit card bill. However, they need to refurbish the Hawk missiles (because they don't work anymore). As yet the US hasn't even arranged a contract for a company to do the repairs! So, likely to arrive sometime next year.. All these systems - Hawk, Avenger, NASAM, etc are way below the capabilities of the S300s Ukraine has lost, and which weren't enough anyway. Enough 155mm rounds to last 3.5 days and 1.75 days of 120mm rounds! Humvees, designed for desert warfare! Note no quantity given for HIMARS missiles! The US admits it can't keep up with the UA loss rate. However, Russia had 6 years to stockpile ammunition, and supply is from NEXT DOOR! Russia is starting to deploy an extra 318,000 mobilized troops, 80,000 new volunteers, has another 10,000 waiting in Belarus, has 900 aircraft parked just inside Russia. Where are Ukraine's reinforcements? The demilitarization continues with another big score yesterday! In Kupyansk direction, two enemy battalion tactical groups made attempts to attack Russian units towards Vladimirovka and Kuzemovka (Lugansk People's Republic). Comprehensive firepower operation has resulted in halting and driving the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) back to their initial positions. Moreover, one company tactical group of the AFU has been neutralised near Peschanoye (Kharkov region). The enemy has lost a total of over 160 personnel, six tanks, and nine armoured fighting vehicles in the abovementioned direction. In Krasny Liman direction, intensive action of Russian forces have resulted in the prevention of attacks intended to be launched by four company tactical groups of the AFU towards Svatovo, Ploshchanka, Makeyevka and Chervonopopovka (Lugansk People's Republic). Attacks launched by Russian artillery and Army Aviation have resulted in the elimination of over 190 Ukrainian personnel, 1 tank, six armoured fighting vehicles, and five motor vehicles. In South Donetsk direction, foreign mercenaries attempted to halt the advance of Russian forces by counterattacks towards Stepnoye, Vladimirovka and Pavlovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Operation of artillery and Army Aviation has resulted in the elimination of over 85 militants, seven armoured fighting vehicles, and two pickups. Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery have neutralised four AFU command posts near Gavrilovka, Aleksandrovka (Kherson region), Zhovtnevoye (Nikolayev region) and Cherneshchina (Kharkov region), as well as 58 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 236 areas. Two U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 and AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery warfare radars have been destroyed near Lozovaya (Kharkov region) and Zelyonaya Dolina (Donetsk People's Republic). One ordnance depot of 44th Artillery Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Varvarovka (Zaporozhye region). One armament and hardware depot has been destroyed near Peschanoye (Kharkov region). Within the counterbattery warfare, one battery of U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery systems has been neutralised near Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region). Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down one Mi-8 helicopter of Ukrainian Air Force near Yasnaya Polyana (Zaporozhye region). Air defence facilities have shot down six unmanned aerial vehicles near Novaya Tarasovka (Kharkov region), Petrovskoye, Kirillovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chistopolye (Zaporozhye region). Moreover, three rocket-propelled projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha multiple-launch rocket systems have been intercepted near Novaya Kakhovka, Novaya Mayachka (Kherson region) and Volnovakha (Donetsk People's Republic).
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  6.  @dpelpal  ESPO dropped 2.7%, Socol dropped 0.26% However, West Texas dropped 3.35%. So worse for the US than Russia!
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  7.  @pavanshetty9806  It's not just gravity. Airflow also drags the gear down.
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  8. The Ukrainian Army has proven its ability. Its ability to invade into Russian territory, using forest tracks instead of main routes to avoid contact, in an area not defended by combat troops, only border guards and territorial defence units. Zelensky has proven that he is capable of accelerating the demilitarisation of Ukraine by 20%, losing more than 12,200 UA troops plus 871 armoured vehicles in the Kursk area alone! Combined with the more than 60,000 troops the UA is losing each month in the SMO, 16,215 last week, 2,175 yesterday, 'it should all be over by Xmas'! The only Russian soil UA troops will be taking is what is on the soles of their boots - in their body-bags!
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  9. Just as well Russia is using artillery and aerial superiority instead of your infantry theory!
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  10. On 1st Feb 2022, Liz Truss flew to Kiev and proudly announced the delivery of British weapons, the training of 22,000 Ukrainian troops and giving £88m to Kiev - 3 weeks BEFORE Russia entered Ukraine!
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  11. So, according to this woman, before 2014, 67% of Crimeans wanted to remain part of Ukraine. But after the overthrow of the elected Government in Kiev by the neo-nazis, with politicians chosen by the likes of Victoria Nuland, they wanted to join the Russian Federation instead! Why did Crimea need access to water? Because the Kiev Government had shut off the water supply to the Crimean canal! She wants Crimea de-occupied. Does she mean to evict all the ethnic-Russians who live there? Note that Kiev also shut off the water supply to Donbas and leafletted the people 'we want the land not you'!
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  12. Zelensky has realised how effective Sparta is at destroying his army! Sparta finds where his troops are hiding and gives the positions to the artillery! Another 1,955 UA troops were added to the demilitarised scoreboard today, on top of 1,800+ yesterday, 2,300+ the day before and 2,000+ the day before that! The UA won't survive until the end of the year!
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  13. ALL NATO countries have to agree on Ukraine joining! Many do not agree! Did the US have any say on Soviet missiles in Cuba?
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  14. They are for deployment in Kursk i.e. on Russian territory! Do try to keep up!
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  15.  @SLOWLYdoesit1  Ignoring the 400 sq km Russia has recently gained, you obviously weren't paying attention on 24th Feb '22, when Putin stated the SMO is not about territorial gain! Besides Russia would not want western Ukraine - it's full of nationalists!
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  16.  @MartinLundström-l4v  So, how did he remain in power for 18 years before the war?
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  17.  @SLOWLYdoesit1  Which part of demilitarisation and denazification didn't you understand?
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  18.  @mindbomb9341  Did Ukraine sign the Minsk Agreements? Did Zelensky refuse to honour them? Did he send a task force to 'take back Donbas'? Wasn't that WHY Russia stepped in to stop it?
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  19. It did not impact a concrete wall! That is the mud bank beyond the end of the runway but many yards before the wall, the other side of which is a public road!
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  20. So where will you get your cobalt, chrome, copper, gold, lead, manganese, nickel, platinum, tungsten, vanadium, and zinc - just to name metals? You might also think about corn and wheat!
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  21.  @MrSketchydave69  What makes you think I am pro-Russian. Maybe I'm just anti-Ukrainian!
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  22.  @connclissmann6514  Just sharing the good news!
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  23.  @lokensicarius9347  This week's total - 13,820!!!
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  24.  @MrSketchydave69  This week's demilitarised total - 13,820!!!
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  25.  @wandeling127  That "economic dwarf" is now the 5th largest! Isolated - apart from BRICS, OPEC+, SCO, OSCE, CIS, CSTO, EAEU, Iran N. Korea, etc!
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  26.  @illbeV.  6th largest GDP PPP according to IMF, 4th largest according to World Bank! Spain national debt 109% of GDP, Russia 14.6%, Germany 62.4%, China 24%
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  27.  @illbeV.  GDP PPP! You do know what Purchase Power Parity is don't you?
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  28.  @illbeV.  You're clearly not going to accept that Russia is not "an isolated, economic dwarf"!
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  29.  @graeme9114  Is England a dictatorship?
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  30.  @aA-ye1cf  Do you want to give me a clue as to what you're questioning?
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  31.  @Markymarkcy  Single inverted commas might have suggested that, however, I used quotation marks, as they were the words used by the little green man. 115,000 of the remaining population (almost all of it) were evacuated to the east. The only dregs were the UA supporters. Yes, Russia CHOSE to remove the troops from the west bank a) because of the increasing difficulty of resupply and b) because of the risk of the dam failing with the increased shelling from the UA. The point being the area was not 'recaptured', nor 'liberated' any more than when the UA moved into the areas around Kharkov or Snake Island after the Russians moved out. Never been to UA nor Russia. Only learned enough Russian for interrogations with the Armed Forces.
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  32.  @Markymarkcy  As I said, the UA shelling of the dam was an important consideration. The UA have been shelling the AREA for 8 months - without withdrawal. Any pro-Russian residents remaining would be risking retribution from the nationalists - as was seen in Bucha! The Russians blew up the road and rail on top of the dam. The damage to the lock was from UA shelling.
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  33. For the 4th day running, more than 1,000 UA troops have been added to the demilitarised and denazified scoreboard! On Monday, it was over 1,400!
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  34. Yet another1,835 UA troops were added to the demilitarised scoreboard today. This is in addition to the 2,100 added yesterday and the 1,800 added the day before. At this rate, the Ukrainian Army will cease to exist before the end of the year!
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  35. How is Ukraine 'defending itself'? These landmines are for use in Kursk, where the UA invaded Russian territory! Use to slow down the Russian Army kicking them out. Breedlove - who claimed 27 times that Russia had invaded Ukraine, but could never produce a single photo as proof! Russia's threats are not necessarily nuclear. The retaliation may be against the country from where these missiles were launched or from where they were supplied. There is not one shred of evidence of North Korean troops on the battlefield. The only evidence of their presence is in eastern Russia, 4,200 miles from Ukraine! Russia is trying to preserve international order by helping America's target countries to defend themselves against 'American rules based order'. How does the mutual cooperation by the countries in BRICS impose their will on the small? Does American hegemony, with the use of sanctions against countries that don't comply, represent the big imposing their will on the small? Every country has a voice at the United Nations' - unless the US vetoes the votes of the majority of countries e.g. a ceasefire in Gaza.
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  36. Total bullsh*t! When did Putin EVER threaten to "blast Ukraine with nuclear weapons"? When did he EVER threaten to "blast" anyone? Putin doesn't 'threaten'. He reminds the West that Russia HAS nuclear weapons and that Russia will defend its territory and people with any and all means at its disposal.
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  37. Detail an example of a 'threat'. When asked, like in this latest interview, he mentions that yes Russia has these weapons, yes they are technically ready for use, Russia's declared doctrine states when they would be used, but no-one is yet advocating their use. Which part is a 'threat'? @emm_arr 
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  38. More lies and propaganda. The F16s are not configured to carry large air to ground bombs or missiles. The air-frames are too old to perform that role or even air combat with Russian jets. Theirs is a surveillance role, testing electronic warfare systems and possibly shoot at drones or missiles - though it appears the wings or tail fell off one when it tried to evade an attack from an SU57!
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  39.  @billy2807  You said that RF has no say in Ukraine joining NATO. The US will want to locate American missiles there. I asked if the US accepted the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. This is one of the central reasons for the SMO! Where have you been, billy???
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  40.  @billy2807  That is one of the reasons WHY the Russian Army is IN Ukraine!
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  41.  @dannypembroke2372  Indeed - and numerous members are AGAINST Ukraine becoming a member!
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  42.  @billy2807  Of course I know about the application to join NATO. This is a war that Russia can't lose, because American/NATO missiles on Russia's border would be seen as an existential threat!
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  43.  @billy2807  Billy, just as with the Cuban crisis, when the US told Russia 'your not parking nuclear weapons on our doorstep', Russia does not want US nukes on theirs! NATO membership was only one of the issues - which had been pointed out numerous times since 2008! The other was to stop the UA from killing ethnic-Russians in Donbas. The greatest step towards world peace would be for the American Forces to go home - and stay there!
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  44. The usual nonsense propaganda! Russia has no desire to 'invade Europe' nor 'take over' the whole of Ukraine. The people of western Ukraine, especially around Kiev and Lvov are largely Galician nationalists, not ethnic-Russians. Putin specified on 24th February 2022 that the purpose of the Special Military Operation was to protect the people of Donbas, demilitarise Ukraine, and get recognition that Crimea had voted to join the Russian Federation - not territory gain! Russia makes a slow advance in eastern Ukraine as it demilitarises the UA. As to 'Russian imperialism' - "Anyone who doesn't love the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wishes to recreate the Soviet Union has no brain!" - Vladimir Putin.
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  45.  @ped7g  'Caecilius ist in atrium' - in the 70s Latin was taught in schools!
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  46. The average age of the mobilised troops was 35! @boink800 
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  47. Nonsense propaganda as usual! A tiny piece of Polish territory sticks out into Ukraine near Lvov. The missile flew 2,000 meters across it for 38 seconds. Missiles can't read maps! There was not time to launch an air-defence missile, which would have entered Ukrainian airspace, and so would have been active hostilities by NATO! The terrorists, who, like those who were offered money to attack polling stations, were recruited and bribed via Telegram. The exit route was via Belarus and was arranged from within Ukraine!
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  48. Russia has stated MANY times it is to disrupt the trains carrying weapons, ammunition and troops to the frontline. Also to disrupt the businesses manufacturing and repairing weapons for the Ukraine Army.
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  49. You've clearly never heard Russia quote those rules and laws at the United Nations. Russia abides by the rules, the US ignores them!
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  50. Many Russian troops left the Russian Army to go fight in Donbas. Putin cancelled the authorisation to sent Russian troops to Donbas in 2015! @soho2409 
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