Russian troops are being ordered into a meat grinder

 Epoch Times:

The Russian campaign in Ukraine is stalled, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin proclaimed while suggesting that Moscow’s forces are continuing to take heavy losses.

“Their maneuver forces on the ground are essentially stalled,” Austin said Sunday during an appearance on CBS’ “Face The Nation,” which has “had the effect” of Russia moving their “forces into a wood chipper.”

“You know, the Ukrainians have continued to attrit his forces, and they’ve been very effective, using the equipment that we provided them, you know, and armor weapons and aircraft weapons,” he continued.

Other Western officials said that the conflict, which started Feb. 24, has morphed into a war of attrition as Russia starts to increasingly rely on bombarding cities. On Monday, Ukrainian government officials rejected a demand from Russia that troops in the besieged city of Mariupol lay down their arms along with other guarantees.

In a Monday morning update, the UK Ministry of Defense said Russian forces to the northeast are still stalled about 15 miles outside of Kyiv, the capital, and that forces advancing from the northwest have been blunted by Ukraine’s military.
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What should be clear by now is that the Ukrainians do not want to be part of Russia or ruled by Russia.  The Russian attempt to pound them into submission is not working and it looks like a broke Russia will only have a pile of rubble to rule if it continues its efforts at conquest.  Putin does not appear smart enough to see this yet.  Nor do the few rogue countries that support this war of aggression.  There are no scenes of Russian troops being greeted as liberators so far. 

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