Putin says Ukraine counteroffensive ‘has no chance’ of success



Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine’s counteroffensive has “no chance” of success during his keynote address to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. His comments come a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NBC News that reports from the front lines were “generally positive, but it’s very difficult.”

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21 comments

  1. When Putin says that you know Ukraine will be successful!

  2. Biden cant even put two sentences together lol..

  3. Ukraine military has shown there might putins lies won't work

  4. Its already been successful and theyve just started

  5. In WaPo article "On front lines of Ukraine counteroffensive, soldiers pay heavy price" by Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk, Ukrainian soldier described this last Zelenskyy offensive in this way: “There were fewer than 50 men in the unit, and 30 did not return — they were killed, wounded or captured by the enemy. All five of the unit’s armored vehicles were destroyed within the first hour. We were shelled with mortars from three sides. We couldn’t do anything.” In the first 10 days of this long-awaited offensive Zelenskyy managed to waste dozens of tanks (including cutting-edge German Leopard 2A6s) and hundreds of armored vehicles (including Bradley) along with 7 500 of hapless Ukrainian conscripts on the mine fields, hit by Russian artillery or anti-tank missiles without even getting to the first main line of Russian defense. Adding insult to injury Russians captured Leopard 2A6 and Bradley . Ukrainian army has always been poorly led and marred by political interference and pervasive corruption, but now when it lost almost all experienced soldiers every Zelenskyy operation turns into a wholesale slaughter of Ukrainian conscripts like in Bakhmut.

  6. Unconditional surrender is the only practical solution for Ukraine. Hitler's Germany also refused to admit defeat until Hitler killed himself, then Keitel signed unconditional surrender. Zelenskyy is running out of cannon fodder. WSJ is describing Zelenskyy mobilization in this way: "Mr. Zelensky in January introduced even harsher punishment for desertion and disobedience. A disabled person was drafted in western Ukraine and pronounced fit for service despite having no hands . Another died on the front lines within a month of mobilization after 10 days of training, according to his relatives." Zelenskyy is officially catching and forced conscripting even disabled . When such people are in the trenches let alone forced to go on the offensive, it means that the front can collapse at any moment. Zelenskyy's strategy reminds a strategy of one Austrian artist in 1945. Biden administration is urging Zelenskyy regime to start its last and most likely suicidal offensive because current situation is unsustainable. It would be difficult to convince republican congress to keep wasting hundreds of billions on this lost war.

  7. More botox than ever…

  8. Go Putin…Spank the US and their proxy puppet Zelensky, make an example of them not to try this proxy war nonsense elsewhere…!!!

  9. Putin the liar said Ukraine had no chance of success. Lol, he just confirmed the opposite. Thanks for that.

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  11. This is an elite war. Both Putin(powerful man) and Zelensky(rich man's son) war. It is not in the interest of common man on the street. People dying, injured and economy down. This war must stop. Peace now.

  12. Yet another Whopper by the De funked, Putin..

  13. He is right. This war is no longer one that can be won quickly. It is a war of attrition that favors Russia. 20 percent of Ukraine has already fled the country and that will only increase. They don't have the manpower to outlast Russia, and are completely dependent on the West for economic and military resources. Ukraine and the West were hoping Russia would give up quickly, but Putin is in this for however long it takes. He is going to take the entire country, even if it takes ten years.

  14. 🚩🚩🚩no matter what putitsays he will never stop and keep doing his so called attacks and if theres a deal to stop the war, PUTIN WILL NEVER STAND DOWN OR STOP THE WAR AND KEEP ATATCKINTTHE UKRAINE'S AMD TAKE THERE LAND…ASK THOSE QUESTIONS TO PUTIN 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🕵🏽🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗃️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️

  15. General Putin is up for a surprise..

  16. This criminal is just another liar like his puppet the Don, they don’t ever stop lying.

  17. Pffft Putin the Boy who cried wolf. He's exposed Russia's military failures and is made to look like a joke by a comedian turned President. He's done more for NATO than the West ever did.

  18. Hate to say it but if Russia wanted to they could turn Ukraine into a parking lot. They just wont do it because of the consequences that will follow and even if there were no consequences it would make the whole place Uninhabitable.

  19. When you are a narcissist and a dictator, and surround yourself with those who only tell you what you want to hear, you continue to live a distorted reality.