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Dollar General (DG): A few points to note ahead of the Q4 earnings report
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Vladimir Putin has already LOST the Ukraine war says top US general as elite Russian unit wiped out for third time
VLADIMIR Putin’s has already lost the war in Ukraine, America’s top general has said.
General Mark Milley said the Russians were “paying an enormous price on the battlefield” as an elite unit has now been wiped out for the the third time in the Ukraine war.
A picture showing Russian tanks destroyed after an attack near Vuhledar[/caption]
General Mark Milley said Russia has already lost the Ukraine war[/caption]
Ukrainian troops stationed in Vuhledar have been under intense fire since January[/caption]
The aftermath of heavy bombing in the region[/caption]
The huge loss of Russian troops happened during their attempted siege of Vuhledar, a strategic hamlet in Donetsk.
The elite 155th naval infantry were obliterated like “turkeys in a shooting range” as it stormed the mining town, trying to seize the high ground.
General Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a NATO meeting: “Russia has lost.
“They’ve lost strategically, operationally and tactically and they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield
“Until Putin ends his war of choice, the international community will continue to support Ukraine with the equipment and capabilities it needs.”
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin echoed the view that the Russians were throwing troops into the meat grinder.
“We see Russia introducing a number of new troops to the battlefield.
“Many of those troops are ill-trained and ill-equipped, and so their casualty rate has been really high.”
Colonel Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, a Ukrainian military spokesman, said: “The 155th brigade already had to be restaffed three times.
“And now almost the entire brigade has been destroyed.
“The first time after Irpin and Bucha; the second time they were defeated near Donetsk – they recovered again.
“And now almost the entire brigade has already been destroyed near Vuhledar.”
The fighting around Vuhledar has seen one of the heaviest concentrated military losses the Kremlin has suffered since the war began on February 24.
According to POLITICO, the marine brigade of 5,000 men was wiped out.
Russian forces were reportedly losing 150 to 300 marines a day since the planned offensive began in January.
Ukrainian officials claimed the swathe of enemy troops were killed, wounded or captured.
The catastrophic losses come just days after footage emerged of 31 Russian vehicles being blitzed as they encroached the region.
The total carnage and tactical failures were lambasted by Russian hardliners.
Igor Girkin, a Russian former intelligence officer, called for public show trials to punish incompetent generals responsible for the battlefield embarrassments.
Girkin said: “Some of them are complete cretins – all the mistakes that were made before, were repeated.”
During the battle, Ukrainians held higher ground and were able to pick off the marines.
Girkin described the scene “like turkeys in a shooting range”.
The mining town, home to 14,000 people before the war, sits on high ground close to the only rail link between Crimea and Donetsk.
It was fortified with Ukrainian artillery after withstanding three months of attacks from the Spetsnaz special forces, armoured battalions and infantry troops.
The heaviest waves of assault came last week, leading to the bloodbath of marines.
Evgeny Nazarenko, a spokesman for one of the Ukrainian units involved, said the Russian advances were easily spotted from high-rise buildings where they were positioned.
He said: “We are at the top and they are at the bottom.
“They are perfectly visible.”
Ukrainian forces also published a video of Russian troops piling up on the battlefield as they approached Vuhledar from open fields.
During the video, a Ukrainian gunner can be heard saying: “Go make a cemetery.
“Gosh, the first column went there and blew up and then the second one went exactly the same route.”
Tom Cooper, a military historian who has studied the battle, described Vuhledar as “a big, tall fortress in the middle of an empty, flat desert”.
The shameful defeat comes just days after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said his troops had control of the area.
Kyiv’s Defence Ministry responded with a video showing the destruction of a Russian military column in the area.
The footage showed Russian tanks driving into minefields, bombs destroying armoured vehicles, panic-stricken troops and bodies of soldiers strewn across the ground.
Ukrainian officials claimed the majority of the losses were from the Pacific Fleet’s 155th Marine Brigade, based at Vladivostok.
The 155th became infamous for looting around Kyiv last year.
The brigade was nicknamed Russia’s “unhappiest” unit after suffering heavy losses in several failed attacks.
Russian eastern commander, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, was blamed for the mass casualties.
A group of hardline military bloggers and media channels close to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin have launched an online tirade slamming Muradov.
One social media channel linked to Wagner threatened Muradov with assassination after calling him a “sissy b****”.
Another blogger with half a million followers demanded public trials “to punish officers, especially high-ranking officers, who over and over again demonstrate failures on the battlefield”.
The chronic failures in Vuhledar has damaged Putin’s bravado, who has repeatedly claimed a massive “new offensive” is coming in weeks to coincide with the first anniversary of the war.
The Kremlin is believed to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, thousands of tanks, and hundreds of warplanes preparing for the new assault.
Putin has also ordered that by next month his troops should fully occupy the Donetsk region.
Currently, half of the city is under Russian control.
However, the Vuhledar fiasco has encouraged Kyiv to believe Moscow has failed to heal divisions among senior commanders.
Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms think-tank in Kyiv, told the Daily Mail: “This is a serious setback with huge losses from one brigade.
“If they continue to use their troops in this way, it could lead to a collapse of Russian military forces during their expected major offensive.”
Vuhledar is about 100 miles from Bakhmut, the epicentre of the war’s fiercest fighting for several months.
Both sides have sustained heavy losses there after Russia hurled vast numbers of conscripts and prisoner recruits into “the meat grinder”.
Ukraine officials claim 824 Russian soldiers are dying on average a day.
That is four times higher than rates seen last summer.
The British Ministry of Defence confirmed the figure as “likely accurate”.
Fierce Ukrainian soldier march towards Donetsk[/caption]
Aerial footage of Vuhledar[/caption]
Ukrainian gunners have been fending off Russian advances in the region[/caption]
The town has been totally destroyed as a result of the war[/caption]
Two Russian tanks stopped in their tracks[/caption]
Putin ‘plans to kill mercenary warlord who plotted coup against him with army chief General Armageddon’, insiders claim
VLADIMIR Putin plans to kill a mercenary warlord who was plotting a coup against him with army chief ‘General Armageddon’, it’s claimed.
The two plotted to put themselves in key positions of power, along with another warlord, to control the tyrant but now it’s alleged vengeful Putin now plans retribution.
Vladimir Putin was facing a coup from his inner circle[/caption]
Yevgeny Prighozin is the head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries[/caption]
Sergey Surovikin is nicknamed General Armageddon[/caption]
Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov was also in on the plot[/caption]
Details of the coup have been leaked to Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, who said the initial plotting began back in September.
It began around the time General Sergey Surovikin became the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, a position he held until last month.
Also plotting was Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries, and Ramzan Kadyrov notoriously brutal leader of the Chechen region, whose troops have been fighting in Ukraine.
Osechkin is the founder of Gulagu, which highlights abuses in Russian prisons, and also claims to have sources within the Kremlin and security services who have leaked him information.
He says Surovikin wanted to the Defence Minister, Prigozhin the head of the FSB security service and Kadyrov – notorious for inflicting medieval torture on opponents – the National Guard.
Prigozhin would use the army of convicts he’s recruited to achieve a breakthrough in the war to bolster his own power, he alleges.
The three would then use their positions to control Putin and direct the war, he says his sources have told him.
Prigozhin also wanted to control the FSB because he has “no political future in unless he’s able to destroy” the spy agency’s files on his criminal past.
The plot fizzled out when Prigozhin “unmasked himself” by publicly criticising the failure to protect the Kerch bridge from attack.
Now a vengeful Putin is plotting to have him killed, claims Osechkin.
He said “judging by the methods Putin uses, a purge is most likely awaiting him” and “I have no basis to think Prigozhin will survive until the end of this year”.
“He knows too much, he is complicit in too much and for Putin it is very important that he disappears forever and takes those secrets with him,” said Osechkin.
It comes as the Kremlin has now issued a directive to local media not to praise Surovikin and only mention him in “neutral” terms, a document leaked by former Russian MP Alexander Nevzorov shows,.
Prigozhin is not to be quoted and his recruitment of prisoners is not to be reported on, say the instructions.
The 56-year-old Surovikin cultivates a ruthless hardman image to go along with his nickname – sporting a shaved head and stern scowl.
He earned his chilling nickname for his bloody role in Syria when forces he commanded killed thousands of civilians.
But behind his image as a hard-nosed general is a “crook and a hustler” who has lined his bulging pockets with “blood-soaked” money, Russian anti-corruption campaigners say.
Former hotdog salesman Prigozhin has boasted he is turning thousands of convicted conscripts into cannibals.
Some of Russia’s most notorious criminals have signed up to join the Wagner group, in return for pardons.
Prigozhin, a former inmate himself, after assaulting and robbing a woman, has told recruits that they will become war heroes or killed as deserters.
A video released this week appears to show an execution with a sledgehammer of a Wagner mercenary – the second such footage to emerge.
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Vladimir Putin loses yet another high-ranking general in Ukraine war
VLADIMIR Putin has lost yet another general in the war in Ukraine, according to reports.
Major-General Dmitry Ulyanov, 44, had only recently returned to active service after retirement as a commander in Russia’s illegal invasion.
Major-General Dmitry Ulyanov, 44, was said to have died after coming under attack from a Ukrainian sabotage[/caption]
He was said to have died after coming under attack from a Ukrainian sabotage group this week.
Previously, Ulyanov was a top paratrooper and commander of the elite 98th Guards Airborne Division.
He went to the war as commander of a regiment of mobilised motorised infantrymen.
Ulyanov had earlier served as the Chief of Staff of the 7th Airborne Division.
He’s the first such high ranked commander to be killed for many months.
His death means Putin has now lost at least ten senior commanders.