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Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for September 23, 2022:
- Russia to mobilize 300,000 in addition to 150,000 already involved in
operations in Ukraine;
Yes, it can’t win with 150,000 troops
- Russian Ministry of Defense announces nearly 6,000 Russian dead, 61,000
Ukrainian dead plus another 49,000 Ukrainians injured;
- Russian MoD claims Ukraine has mobilized 300,000 itself, losing 100,000
meaning it now faces some 450,000 Russian forces in the coming weeks and
months;
Yes, Russia always cites accurate numbers. They are the most transparent dictatorship in the world.
- Referendums in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Lugansk to join the Russian Federation means future operations will significantly expand in intensity, quantity, and quality;
- This major escalation follows two very expensive offensives launched by
Ukraine in what appears to have been an “all or nothing” move;
And who were these offensives launched against? Russia? That is the first I hear of that perspective from the Russian propaganda machine.
Yes, well we know differently don’t we Russia has been winning this stalemated expansionist war for 8 years now.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014.
The invasion has likely resulted in tens of thousands of dead on both sides and caused Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II,[12][13] with around 7.4 million Ukrainians fleeing the country[14][15] and a third of the population displaced.[16][17] Russia experienced its greatest economic and political emigration since the 1917 October Revolution as Russians fled the Putin regime.[18] The war has also caused global food shortages.[19][20]
Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, which consists of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, sparking a regional war.[21][22] In March 2021, Russia began a large military build-up along its border with Ukraine, amassing up to 190,000 troops and their equipment.
Despite the build-up, denials of plans to invade or attack Ukraine were issued by various Russian government officials up to the day before the invasion.[26] In a televised address shortly before the invasion, Russian president Vladimir Putin espoused irredentist views,[27] challenged Ukraine’s right to statehood,[28][29] and falsely[30] claimed Ukraine was governed by neo-Nazis who persecuted the ethnic Russian minority.[31]
On 21 February 2022, Russia recognised the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, two self-proclaimed breakaway quasi-states in the Donbas.[32] The next day, the Federation Council of Russia authorised the use of military force, and Russian troops promptly advanced into both territories.[33]
So who is the “invader” of a sovereign country?
