Russian reshuffle puts top general in charge of faltering Ukraine invasion

Sad news

They only put the last schmuck in charge in October. Putin seems to want someone to shield him from responsibility and shame (though he seems to have little of that otherwise he would have shrivelled up by now) who isn't totally incompetent too. Let's see.

There is a positive dynamic in progress," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

'Positive dynamic'? the Kremlin are like the Pentagon in their ability to create euphemisms. No mention of 'collateral damage"?

With reports of many leading Russians falling from tall buildings and others dying mysteriously , a phenomonon called 'sudden Russian death syndrome', I wonder if Putin is once again trying to rival Stalin by killing off his own people. see:, "Great Purge" and "1941 Red Army Purge", and for more on Stalin's murders see: Holodomor

Let's not rush, let's wait for official statements. There is a positive dynamic in progress," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

‘Even the Kremlin are hesitating to confirm the “victory”?, Taking the word of Yevgeny Prigozhin a man who served 9years in prison himself for robbery, what he says may not actually be the truth.

I know everyone except outright idiots know about the flagrant double standards and outright tyranny

Or maybe that was the world then, and this is the world now.

Sorry about that. Boo hoo yeah?

Ukrainain have to win,or they will never be a part of the EU,who would accept a country , involved in a civil war,with a bunch of unsettled problem,they be either have to give the Donbass and Crimea to Russia or liberate them, Zelensky is a NATO stalker ,want to be a part of something,when nobody wants you

The net of underground tunnels is so widespread! That there is even a football field, concert halls there under ground! tank hangars and polygons! Yes, evidement it is not a very important place:))))))Tout a fait clear!!! Usual Russian incompetence:))))

faltering Ukraine invasion

Faltering was 8 months ago.

nearly a year after this military operation began, I think the word failed would be more appropriate now

 This is a massive win for the separatists.

you mean the invaders

just leave Ukrainians to vote for whomever they wanted 

they did just that - overwhelmingly in favour of zelenski.

but Putin didn’t like that did he.

@sven

you can get off your communist soap box now

Another replacement of an incapable general?

Going at this pace PUTAin will run out of all and any supply!

Also, please let me correct this sentence:

*"The whole city is littered with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers," said Prigozhin".*

*"The whole city is littered with the corpses of RuSSian marauders," said Prigozhin*".

That's what you get when you send untrained, under-equipped, unmotivated troops to the front!

Ukraine prevails!

Been reported that Germany, the UK , France, and the U.S. are about to deliver heavy battle tanks to the the Ukrainian theater which will be greatly helpful, the next threshold is Fighter Jets, then NATO direct involvement.

Make NO MISTAKE about it Putin is not backing down and so is Ukraine, let the chips fall where that may.

Russian reshuffle puts top general in charge of faltering Ukraine invasion

So that super fat retired general who gets paid in vodka?

According to Ukraine propaganda months ago, he was the only Russian general who had not been killed already.

2020, you have such a mess in your head. Excuse me, please...it's sad....I only can advise u to come to Donetsk....and u will understand a lot...I am sure that u even don't know the word Donetsk...your media doesn't write about it..

want to be a part of something,when nobody wants you

Once again yrral is the sound made by a gnat with two right wings

I see. And do you believe the "open" Russian media?

2020, you have such a mess in your head. Excuse me, please...it's sad....I only can advise u to come to Donetsk....and u will understand a lot...I am sure that u even don't know the word Donetsk...your media doesn't write about it..

I see. And do you believe the "open" Russian media? Not more and not less than media of the collective west. Why RT is prohibited all.over the west? Which Russian media is permitted chez vous?

Faltering? More than 20% of what was Ukraine is now Russia including almost all of the culturally and linguistically Russian areas that Russia is going to keep. Ukrainian forces facing an 8 to 1 casualty rate around Bakhmut, Russia putting more troops into the battle, Ukraine running short. Ukraine's air force virtually eliminated. If there is one side faltering at present, it isn't Russia.

Kuku,we have a free press in the US,their nothing stopping Russian from having their, Russian American are not persecuted in the US,this is a Japanese news site,they are not free as an American news site

Mr Kippling

8 to 1 casualty rate?

Oh, I got it - 8 dead RuSSian marauders for 1 Ukrainian defender (if at all).

Sending those aggresors one wave after the other, one wave on top of the other.

Cannon fodder sent to the meat grinder, all they are.

Quite an achievement. Always said it: PUTAin is such a great genius.

So much winning!

A new commander, outsourcing the war to a private militia of convicted criminals because the regular milia too incompetent.

32k dead in the last 2 months.

Hospitals in Russia overflowing with wounded.

All to capture a salt mine.

Not happy about the loss, but this has the hallmarks of a last shot offensive like the Nazis in December of 44.

And I still think Ukraine is going to win this war.

Russia has already suffered a strategic defeat. It’s economy is about to fall off a cliff.

It has lost 50% of its combat power that cannot be replaced because it cannot get Western replacement technology and cannot produce it internally.

3 Front line armies destroyed.

NATO is not only United but expanded to its Northern flank.

Russia is going to lose this war and its Strategic position is irrevocably damaged.

Yrral, RT works in US as well? Russian journalists are not free chez vous... for every step out they should have a special permission...hardly u know about it.

To win, the invaders have to achieve some of their strategic objectives. Unless it has revised its goals to “Twice as many dead in 2 months as 10 years in Afghanistan”, it has achieved none of them.

The initiative, the popular support and the trend lines are with the UA.

"............Russia is going to lose this war and its Strategic position is irrevocably damaged.""" Quel delusion!!!! U copy it from a ukranian propagand manual??? Even if so!!!! Remember, that Russia has nuclear weapon! Remember: never NATO will win! Poor Ukraine is a mongrel

The only thing faltering is the free world’s altogether attempt to push back the Russians out of Ukraine with sanctions and delivery of weapons and ammo to the Ukrainians. That is what has failed so far. Almost a year after the conflict started a little more realistic view of the situation would help many here and there.

Poor logique on Soledar : who knows better Progozhin or Olena Garmash from Reuters? Soledar now may be clean from AFU, but the deep mines tunnels may keep a lot of ukranien militaries

Kuku, foreign reporters are allowed to report, without getting the US government approval,on what they report on, even if is about the government,the majority of Russian live in New York

Eastman - If Ukraine stops fighting, then there is a good chance that Ukraine will likely cease to exist as a nation. Their choice is basically to fight or die. I don't see them stopping. If they are going to die anyway, they might as well do it as a free people. They don't want to live under Russian rule.

Another Putin shuffle running out of generals who don't disappoint.

Faltering?

Faltering? No of course not, an invading army spending six months going in reverse while they throw thousands of enslaved prisoners into battle because so much of their regular army is now dead is a normal sign that a war of aggression is proceeding at a healthy pace. Just ask any Russian general.

Faltering invasion ???!!! according to the western media propaganda machine.

Faltering invasion ???!!! according to the western media propaganda machine.

...that and the fact that Russia has less territory and way more dead than when they started this war.

On a note of criticism for the West, I would really prefer if the US would use it's M-1 Abrams storage facilities (there are about 2,300 in storage) and send as many as can possibly be supported to the UA.

While obsolete for the American army, these would easily outclass anything Putins Minions field and could lead to a dynamic change in the war.

Same goes for the F-16s in storage. Teach the pilots to fly them, give them weapons and set them loose.

Stalin occasionaly replacing those incompetent generals by young and talented middle officers to complete the campaign. General Zhukov and General Konev were discovered from Stalin's reshuffling of commanding officers.

It's normal to move commanders around. Preparing for the next stage of the liberation of Ukraine requires a ground commander rather than an air-force commander.

Zhukov wasn't discovered by Stalin. He showed outstanding ability as a 19 year-old cavalry commander during the civil war and imperialist intervention. Then he routed the Japanese invasion of Mongolia (and small part of Siberia) where he was still stationed but not for long when the Nazis invaded.

“Faltering”?

one democratic nation is beating the entire might of USA, UK, NATO, G7, EU and tag along little puppy Australia. A nation of only 120 million people? Reunited four provinces and of course Crimea.

faultering?

It's normal to move commanders around. Ukraine requires a ground commander rather than an air-force commander.

Yeah, that’s not true, Eisenhower.

Nobody, I mean NOBODY changes commanders mid-stream unless something is very wrong.

But who am I to question the strategic genius of the mighty Russian “army”?

I mean, they’ve done such a bang-up job so far….

Poland wants its former Ukrainian western provinces back from Ukraine as well. That will be interesting.

“Faltering”?

Or “bumbling” “failing” “incompetent” “doomed”

Feel free to pick any one of those. They’re all equally applicable.

Or you could consult a Thesaurus if you cannot get your head around “faltering.”

one democratic nation is beating the entire might of USA, UK, NATO, G7, EU and tag along little puppy Australia. A nation of only 120 million people? 

Ah, so Russia has declared war against all of us now? And you expect this to make us like Russia now or something?

Also, Russia's population is about 144 million, not 120 million. Or are you just factoring them losing that many to account for the difference?

Raw Beer - by when do you see Russia finishing what they started and how far do you think they will go?