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Ukraine Invasion Day 379: Russia might capture a city they have completely demolished [1]
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Date: 2023-03-08
Cheers & Jeers: Russian propagandist Skabeyeva says that some restaurants in Great Britain started serving squirrels because of the food shortage in the country. She implies that all the money went towards weapons for Ukraine, and now Britons must eat squirrels. Similarly Kevin McCarthy stays home worried about providing blank checks for Ukraine or is he worried that MTG will abuse her post as Speaker pro tempore, because vision-impaired squirrels find nuts eventually. Red Squirrel!
A Russian state TV host suggested this week that people in the UK are being forced to eat squirrels because their country is spending so much money on military aid to Ukraine. in Britain, grey squirrels are an invasive species, so it's cheap protein AND responsible environmental stewardship to eat them. "Today it was revealed that some restaurants in once-Great Britain will be serving squirrels," Olga Skabayeva said on Russian news show "60 Minutes," per a translation by Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko. "In view of the fact that there are plenty of animals in the parks, so why not eat them, bearing in mind the food shortage [in the UK]," Skabayeva said in the video. She added: "They [the UK] are not backing down from the decision to help [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, to supply weapons. That is, they will eat squirrels, but still supply howitzers." www.msn.com/...
Russian strikes hit a series of Ukrainian regions early on Thursday, including the Black Sea port of Odesa and Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, knocking out power to several areas, Reuters reported, citing regional officials. The governor of Odesa region, Maksym Marchenko, said on Telegram that a mass missile attack had hit an energy facility in the port city, triggering power cuts. Residential areas had also been hit, but no casualties were reported. Kharkiv region governor Oleh Synehubov said the city and region had been hit by 15 strikes, with targets including infrastructure. Other strikes were reported in the central city of Dnipro and regions throughout the country. www.theguardian.com/...
x Russia’s Halfway to Hell Strategy
Why Putin Has Not Yet Launched a Total War in Ukraine
By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
March 6, 2023
https://t.co/VI7BEcrMRA — John Hallam (@johnhallam2001) March 9, 2023
Igor Girkin
https://t.co/unSsIGKiC6
x BREAKING:
A few minutes ago, Russia fired an additional wave of cruise missiles from the Black Sea over Moldovan air space and toward cities in Western Ukraine, near the border with Poland. pic.twitter.com/O0vtxyy8h8 — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 9, 2023
x ⚡️ WAR IN #UKRAINE - MAR 7
No new additions from Oryx's @Rebel44CZ today (lower ratios due to 🇷🇺 duplicates cleanup)
VISUALLY CONFIRMED:
3.12x losses to date ⬇
2.73x since 🇺🇦 counteroffensive (Aug 29) ⬇
3.72x 30-day average ⬇
📈
https://t.co/MI963KXAdm pic.twitter.com/B0VVVhSuqY — Ragnar Gudmundsson 🇮🇸🇺🇦
[email protected] (@ragnarbjartur) March 8, 2023
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has been forced to use more of its professional recruits in Bakhmut to replace its depleted supply of enlisted prisoners, who are perishing by the thousands in the longest battle of the war, a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday. The claim suggested that Ukraine sees an opportunity, despite the heavy casualties it has suffered in the eastern city, to exhaust Wagner’s nearly suicidal prisoner assaults, which Ukraine’s commanders regard as one of Russia’s most effective tactics. “This is their last stand,” Col. Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for Ukraine’s eastern group of forces, told Radio Liberty in an interview, referring to Wagner’s forces in Bakhmut, where Russia and Ukraine’s vicious, monthslong struggle has left thousands of soldiers dead and the city in rubble. Ukrainian officials have claimed that nearly 30,000 of Wagner’s 50,000 troops have deserted or been killed or wounded, many around Bakhmut. That number could not be independently verified, and Ukraine has not disclosed its own losses in the region. Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, claimed on Tuesday that Ukraine had lost more than 11,000 troops in February. www.nytimes.com/... ISW experts note that the town is not inherently significant from an operational or strategic point of view, but the capture of Bakhmut is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for Russia's further advance in Donetsk Oblast. However, Russian forces have already suffered such heavy losses in the battle for the settlement that their offensive is likely to culminate after they capture it — if not before, ISW said. Thus, even the loss of Bakhmut should not pose a serious operational or strategic problem for Ukraine, as previously confirmed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. english.nv.ua/…
x The Crowds in the Central Square have now been dispersed by the Riot Police; the Protests appear to be dying down for Tonight but are almost guaranteed to begin again Tomorrow Night. pic.twitter.com/LbcHGt3oRU — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 8, 2023
x Protests against the adoption of the draft law on “foreign agents” continue in Georgia for the second day; Russian troops continue to storm Bakhmut; Ukraine denies involvement in the explosions at Nord Stream. We have collected the key news for today.
https://t.co/1iAm0q7K2R — Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) March 8, 2023
Fox News cut out comments by former President Donald Trump in which he said he would have considered letting Russia have parts of Ukraine as part of a peace deal between the nations
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