"... signs of actual, on the ground progress were elusive. Ukrainian forces have been unable to demonstrate they control villages or towns previously held by the Russian army."
"The deputy police chief of Irpin, Oleksandr Bogai, said Russian soldiers were still in the town, occupying several districts and fighting Ukrainian forces. That is essentially the same situation that has persisted for nearly the entire month of the war."
In Makariv, another battleground town to the west of Kyiv that Ukrainian officials claimed to have recaptured this week, the fighting was also ongoing, Vadym Tokar, the mayor, said in a telephone interview."
"'I don’t understand where this nonsense came from,' he [Mayor Tokar] said of reports his town had been liberated. 'It is not true. We have shelling and we have Russian tanks shooting into the town right now.'"
One other piece of information, on Izium in the east, the status of which is unclear: "Russian forces have continued to make advances in eastern Ukraine, where its military claimed on Thursday to have captured Izyum, a provincial town in the Kharkiv region." twitter.com/billroggio/status/1507345141492862977
95% of the coverage by the mainstream media of the Iraq war was faked. Some was distorted but a majority of it was just made up out of thin air to fit their narratives. Why would it be any different now? If anything it is worse.
Wait what ? But they were boasting about it They said they drove them away They lied ? Again ?
Jaxon Rodriguez
This is called damage control. First you toss outlandish stories that get morons all riled up, then they take over and then you quietly admit it was all lies so down the line when anybody has criticism they can just say “but we admitted those were lies, problem?” Journos must hang, as always.
>Lol that mountain fortress is james bond super villian tier!
I think that was posted on Time magazine when they were on the hunt for him after 9/11. Made him into Dr. Doom in order to scare the American pubic and justify the failed war in Afghanistan.
Henry Walker
That the NYT isn't shrilly squealing about Ukrainian victories is astonishing, considering they regularly cosign anything a politician tells them. Fuck them.
Gabriel Jones
Ukrainian MOD report where fights are still going on, like Irpin. That's literally some journo not paying attention and getting confused.
>russian tanks shooting into the russian held town what did he mean by that?
Nolan Adams
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Lucas Cook
he had to say the russians were doing something bad
Isaac Perez
The NYT has put out more than a couple articles over the past week that oddly resembled actual journalism, they were still partisan horseshit, but a huge change of rhetoric from the past several years. Things must be REALLY bad there lol I hope they collapse so bad.
The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war.
Meanwhile, Western corporate media, depending almost exclusively on Ukrainian sources, report that Russia is losing the war, with its military offensive “stalled,” and in frustration has deliberately targeted civilians and flattened cities.
Biden has bought into this part of the story, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.” He has also said that Russia is planning a “false flag” chemical attack to pin on Ukraine.
But on Tuesday, the Pentagon took the bold step of leaking two stories to reporters that contradict those tales. “Russia’s conduct in the brutal war tells a different story than the widely accepted view that Vladimir Putin is intent on demolishing Ukraine and inflicting maximum civilian damage—and it reveals the Russian leader’s strategic balancing act,” reported Newsweek in an article entitled, “Putin’s Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He’s Holding Back. Here’s Why.”
Thomas Carter
Cope. Wingardium leviosa doesn't work on Russian aircraft you dumbass
Ayden Price
Interesting. I just assumed the pentagon was in lock-step with the state department on this (as usual).
When's the last war where we had accurate reporting of what's happening on the ground, not constant THEY'RE WINNING!!! propaganda that lasts for months
Robert Kelly
Ohnonononono uke-cucks, we got too cocky
Carson Howard
The whole thing is stupid taunting Putin that he isnt winning enough. He could “NATO” Ukraine down in a week - carpet bomb and roll tanks (they have 12,000). The buildings would look like Syria and hundreds of thousands would die.
He said he doesnt want that and is proving it. The Ukrainians are hiding amongst civilians, so it is a slow process to basically go door to door. It takes time and you will lose soldiers doing it this way.
We are witnessing the first real pushback against the New World Order ever.
