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Cubalabloo:
Anyone who feels Ukraine is making progress in this war should be left with his falacy!

The Zelensky's clowns on NL believe Ukraine has won.

Akacollins7:
I thought the comedian is winning? Or was it on social media

He has started begging for weapons again.
The comedian don suffer yet him never get sense.

Fall of city after weeks of street fighting transforms the battlefield in the east of Ukraine to Moscow’s advantage.


Russian forces have fully occupied Severodonetsk, the mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city said, confirming Ukraine’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month after weeks of fighting to hold the strategic town and latest symbol of Ukrainian resistance.

Russian missiles also rained down on western, northern and southern parts of the country on Saturday as Europe’s biggest land conflict since World War II enters its fifth month.

The fall of Severodonetsk – once home to more than 100,000 people, and now reduced to a wasteland of rubble by Russian artillery – is Moscow’s biggest victory since capturing the port of Mariupol last month.

The fall of the city transforms the battlefield in the east of Ukraine where Moscow’s huge advantage in firepower had until now yielded only slow gains.

“The city is now under the full occupation of Russia,” the city’s Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk said on national television. He said anyone left behind could no longer reach Ukrainian-held territory, as the city was effectively cut off.

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Ukrainian attempt to turn the city’s Azot chemical plant into another centre of resistance had been thwarted.

“As a result of successful offensive operations, units of the people’s militia of the LPR [Luhansk People’s Republic], with the support of Russian troops … completely liberated the cities of Severodonetsk and Borivske,” he said.

‘Tactical regrouping’

The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency described the fall of the city as a means for Ukrainian forces to regroup from Severodonetsk to higher ground in neighbouring Lysychansk.

“The activities happening in the area of Severodonetsk are a tactical regrouping of our troops. This is a withdrawal to advantageous positions to obtain a tactical advantage,” said Kyrylo Budanov, head of Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

“Russia is using the tactic … it used in Mariupol: wiping the city from the face of the earth,” he said.

“Given the conditions, holding the defence in the ruins and open fields is no longer possible. So the Ukrainian forces are leaving for higher ground to continue the defence operations.”

Russian forces have fully occupied Severodonetsk, the mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city said, confirming Ukraine’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month after weeks of fighting to hold the strategic town and latest symbol of Ukrainian resistance.

Russian missiles also rained down on western, northern and southern parts of the country on Saturday as Europe’s biggest land conflict since World War II enters its fifth month.

The fall of Severodonetsk – once home to more than 100,000 people, and now reduced to a wasteland of rubble by Russian artillery – is Moscow’s biggest victory since capturing the port of Mariupol last month.

The fall of the city transforms the battlefield in the east of Ukraine where Moscow’s huge advantage in firepower had until now yielded only slow gains.

“The city is now under the full occupation of Russia,” the city’s Mayor Oleksandr Stryuk said on national television. He said anyone left behind could no longer reach Ukrainian-held territory, as the city was effectively cut off.

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Ukrainian attempt to turn the city’s Azot chemical plant into another centre of resistance had been thwarted.

“As a result of successful offensive operations, units of the people’s militia of the LPR [Luhansk People’s Republic], with the support of Russian troops … completely liberated the cities of Severodonetsk and Borivske,” he said.

‘Tactical regrouping’

The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency described the fall of the city as a means for Ukrainian forces to regroup from Severodonetsk to higher ground in neighbouring Lysychansk.

“The activities happening in the area of Severodonetsk are a tactical regrouping of our troops. This is a withdrawal to advantageous positions to obtain a tactical advantage,” said Kyrylo Budanov, head of Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

“Russia is using the tactic … it used in Mariupol: wiping the city from the face of the earth,” he said.

“Given the conditions, holding the defence in the ruins and open fields is no longer possible. So the Ukrainian forces are leaving for higher ground to continue the defence operations.”

Russia will now be hoping to press on and seize more ground on the opposite bank of the Siverskyi Donets river where Severodonetsk’s twin city Lysychansk is located.

Ukraine will also hope that the price Moscow paid to capture the ruins of Severodonetsk will leave Russia’s forces vulnerable to a counterattack in coming weeks.

Lysychansk and Severodonetsk have been the focal point of Russian offensives aimed at capturing all of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and destroying the Ukrainian military defending it – the most capable and battle-hardened segment of the country’s armed forces.

The two cities and surrounding areas are the last major pockets of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk province, 95 percent of which is under Russian and local separatist control. Russians and separatist forces also control about half of Donetsk, the second province in the Donbas.

The capture of Severodonetsk is likely to be seen by Russia as vindication for its switch from its early, failed attempt at “lightning warfare” to a relentless, grinding offensive using massive artillery in the east.

The retreat from Severodonetsk also brings Moscow close to full control of Luhansk.

Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reporting from the capital Kyiv said the withdrawal from Severodonetsk leaves Ukrainian forces in control of just one remaining city in Luhansk.

“The big question now though is whether the Ukrainians can hold on to Luhansk. Having seemingly lost control of Severodonetsk, there is only one more city in the Luhansk region that the Ukrainian forces still control,” Stratford said.

“This is being described fundamentally as the, potentially, biggest defeat for Ukrainian forces since Mariupol last month,” he said.

Ukrainian officials said that they were pulling troops back from Severodonetsk to avoid being surrounded by the Russians, who had crossed the river in force in recent days and were advancing on Lysychansk on the opposite bank. Serhiy Haidai, governor of Luhansk, said Russian forces had attempted to enter and blockade Lysychansk.

Moscow says Luhansk and Donetsk, where it has backed uprisings since 2014, are independent countries, and has demanded Ukraine cede the entire territory of the two provinces to separatist administrations.

Missile strikes

Ukraine’s top general, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, wrote on the Telegram app on Saturday that newly arrived, US-supplied advanced HIMARS rocket systems were now deployed and hitting targets in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Elsewhere in Ukraine, governors of western and northern regions reported multiple missile attacks, indicating that Russia was not limiting its assault to eastern territories.

“48 cruise missiles. At night. Throughout whole Ukraine,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter. “Russia is still trying to intimidate Ukraine, cause panic and make people be afraid.”

The governor of Lviv region in western Ukraine, Maxim Kozytskyi, said in a video posted online that six missiles were fired from the Black Sea at the Yavoriv base near the border with Poland. Four hit the target but two were destroyed.

In the north, Vitaliy Bunechko, governor of the Zhytomyr region, said strikes on a military target killed at least one soldier, adding that nearly 10 missiles had been intercepted and destroyed.

In the south, Oleksandr Senkevych, mayor of Mykolaiv near the Black Sea, said five cruise missiles hit the city and nearby areas on Saturday.

The number of casualties is being clarified and there was no independent confirmation of the various reports.

‘Belarus as a co-belligerent’

In another potentially significant development, Ukraine said it had come under “massive bombardment” early on Saturday morning from neighbouring Belarus, a Russian ally not officially involved in the conflict.

Twenty rockets “fired from the territory of Belarus and from the air” targeted the village of Desna in the northern Chernigiv region, Ukraine’s northern military command said. It said infrastructure was hit, but no casualties had yet been reported.

“Today’s strike is directly linked to Kremlin efforts to pull Belarus as a co-belligerent into the war in Ukraine,” the Ukrainian intelligence service said.

Ukraine’s air command also said Russian long-range Tu-22 bombers were deployed from Belarus for the first time. Belarus hosts Russian military units and was used as a staging ground before Russia invaded Ukraine in February, but its own troops have not yet crossed the border.

On Saturday afternoon, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would send Belarus missiles able to carry nuclear warheads within months.

“We will transfer to Belarus Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which can use ballistic or cruise missiles, in their conventional and nuclear versions,” he said, as he met his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Saint Petersburg.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/25/fall-of-severodonetsk-is-russias-biggest-victory-since-mariupol

Cc: lalasticlala

joyandfaith:
Countries with poor human development indices should not have nukes. Nukes get can get to rogue hands.

They will be stationed there but the launch codes will be in the hands of the Russians likewise the nuclear chain of command and control belongs to Russia. That was what happened when the USSR placed nukes in Cuba during the crisis in 60's. Castro was not allowed to have the launch codes.

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Amayabor1:
We all have a right to our opinions. But if with all the provocations the US is meting out on China (as it regards Taiwan and the South China Sea) and China still can't do anything militarily, other than to rant, then China is afraid to dare you he US in a war.

So you want China to start a war? China does not even need that. It has been demonstarting that it will defend itself and interest. It has intecepted U.S poseidon spy planes over south china sea in the past and it is still doing that.

Two weeks ago Australia and Canada still protested that Chinese figher planes were harrasing their own fighter planes enforcing UN sanctions over North Korea.

Even U.S has complained in time past that China was targeting it figher planes with lasers. China does not need to start a war even U.S won't dare to start a war with China, they can harras each other, confront each other but they won't allow it to degenerate into a conflict cause it will be bad for both countries.

U.S is even avoiding a war with Iran not to talk of China.

Amayabor1:
At least, we are on the same page as it regards the summary of the whole matter;

1. The US will defeat China in a war and if it comes at a great cost to the US, it means China will no longer exists on the world map.

2. China military is not at par with the US military.

I think that quite settles everything.

Both countries have what it takes to destroy each other so there would be no winner in such a war. Even in a conventional war where no nukes are deployed you can't predict such outcome I have learnt not to predict who wins or loses in a war. U.S is well armed and China is too.

God1000:
Russia will be wiped out completely, you don't threaten a nuclear armed country no matter how small it is

The whole of Europe will be devastated.

Lol

Missy89:
Junk.

They are no sea worthy jets for this elephant project

Really.

Simeonjoe1:
He's right you can't compare it to US made aircraft carriers. Operating a carrier is not only about the system, you'll also need an effective doctrine and personnel effectiveness which the US carriers operation far exceeded that of China. This is a lesson the US has learnt in sweet and blood over 70 decades.

Bro this new carrier is different from the old soviet copy they built o. This one has a catapult and advanced technology. You can see that it is a complete flat top like the U.S and france own. Chine is the third country to be using that After those two. And you mentioned in your post that China just had aircraft carriers for show and not for power projection lols. China does not need to be sailing its carriers around so as not to alarm countries.

It has said it is only inyerested in its territorial defence and I think China is trying to demonstrate that but I know in the near future we will see chinese carriers on the high seas to protect Chinese economic interest but for now they are not interested in sailing around.

Does anyone know if Access Bank has resumed dollar transaction on their Visa/Master Card?

seunny4lif:
Satan have giving up on Nigeria matter because Satan called unto God and Jesus to saved him from Nigeria leaders

Lols

sunboy:
I saw this kind of post coming… France is simply doing what Merkel would have done if she was still in power… which is making sure that the war remains in Ukraine if Ukraine want to continue fighting, and making sure that it doesn’t escalate to the rest of Europe.

It’s just common sense.

Lol. We are still saying the same thing. He has to humble himself so that the war won't escalate to the rest of Europe. Meanwhile they have failed in their effort to turn the tide against Russia the truth is steering at them in the face.

France don dey humble. Putin keeps grabbing them by the balls.

No. Let it end with javelin. Clowns

Another Russian ship just sank in Igbofam's dream. You go wake up from that dream shaa

JohnPortar:
Ancient of days, she still won't give you attention.
Now, move on.

Evidence that you are a pervert and irresponsible

https://www.nairaland.com/2278245/girlfriend-wants-abort-baby

Evidence that you are a SIMP
https://www.nairaland.com/2174043/beaten-girlfriend

These are all your topics. So who is seeking for ladies attention. Lol

JohnPortar:
Uncle Old man, she still won't fuzk you.

Take your maturity elsewhere.

Not everyone is a pervert like you. I have better thing to think about than sexual immorality and passing pleasure of sin.

Prayfortheworld:
Who you dy support no be to park paint full face

Anyways happy birthday
I'm obideint

Kids full this NL. She is not the reason for your miserable life. Get a life

He refused to participate in Zelensky's foolishness.

NATO will get tired of funding this war it's a matter of time.

saintokwuluora:
Na pee be that for second picture?

Lmao

ken6488:
So what was the reason for the war

The reason for the war is Zelensky's Stupidity. It will not be well with that comedian

Putin continues to grab them by the scrotum. He won't let go.

Na igbofam kill am in the dream today with cutlass
This igbofam guy na clown like Zelensky.

BritishNaija:
What has that got to do with the US Being the most powerful Military in the World? Is There a country US can not Fight alone and defeat in a conventional War?

How many countries has US fought alone and defeated in a conventional war. we need facts not assumptions. please lecture us Mr professor of intl politics

Anyway may be you are referring to Chad/Sudan. They can still win Sudan in a conventional war.

seunny4lif:
If Russia have 32K dead then Ukraine most be around 250K dead

Yesterday, he said Russia troops are killed at 100 Ukraine troops everyday
Today, he will say Russia troops is dying.
Tomorrow, he will demand USA and NATO must send more weapons because Russia troops are surrounding more Ukraine troops
Next tomorrow, he will tell Turkey, France, Germany and USA, that he want to negotiate with Russia.

I swear that Zelensky dey smoke nuclear weed.