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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(122,701 posts)
Sun May 4, 2025, 07:13 PM May 4

Putin says Russia has the strength to finish Ukraine operation

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons.

Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe's biggest ground conflict since World War Two and the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed or injured and U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the "bloodbath" that his administration casts as a proxy war between the United States and Russia.

In a film by state television about Putin's quarter of a century as Russia's paramount leader entitled "Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 years", Putin was asked by a reporter about the risk of nuclear escalation from the Ukraine war.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-hopes-no-nuclear-075316595.html

Okay Moscow Bob

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Putin says Russia has the strength to finish Ukraine operation (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 4 OP
The Russian military may control 1/5th of Ukraine, but Vogon_Glory May 4 #1
Threatening nukes again. Irish_Dem May 4 #2
Putin is whistling past the graveyard CanonRay May 4 #3
Putin has destroyed the Russian military LetMyPeopleVote May 4 #4

Vogon_Glory

(9,819 posts)
1. The Russian military may control 1/5th of Ukraine, but
Sun May 4, 2025, 07:22 PM
May 4

they don’t control the rest of it. The Ukrainians are fighting fiercely, far harder than the previous Afghan government did against the Taliban and the post-Saddam Iraqi government did against ISIS insurgents. They aren’t going to roll over and play dead. The Russians are taking a LOT of casualties—far more than the US lost in Vietnam. I’d say that Vladimir Vladimirovich’s claims are: exaggerated.

CanonRay

(15,256 posts)
3. Putin is whistling past the graveyard
Sun May 4, 2025, 07:35 PM
May 4

His untrained troops are attacking in Ladas and motorcycles over minefields and getting slaughtered. Ukraine is chipping away at Russian infrastructure and bases. And oil, the lifeblood of the Russian military, is plunging.

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