On a Russian Talk Show, Retired Colonel Stuns Colleagues by Saying Invasion Isn't Going Well

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Source: Yahoo News

A military analyst on one of Russian state television’s most popular networks left his fellow panelists in stunned silence Monday when he said that the conflict in Ukraine was deteriorating for Russia, giving the kind of honest assessment that is virtually banished from the official airwaves.

“The situation for us will clearly get worse,” Mikhail M. Khodaryonok, a retired colonel and a conservative columnist on military affairs, said during the “60 Minutes” talk-show program on the Rossiya network.

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The problems that Khodaryonok referred to, sometimes obliquely, included low morale, the array of Western countries aligned against Russia and the amount of fighters and matériel that Ukraine was assembling.

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George Custer may have had similar thoughts.

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. Oh no. . .truth slipped into Russia propaganda. Someone will be black bagged

[relayerbob]

2. He's already been back on

Explaining how well the Russians are doing. Clearly changing his message. Was that or the gulag, I suppose.

[C Moon]

4. We'll have to wait and see how long they let him live.

[3auld6phart]

3. Good

that he didn’t call it a n illegal invasion. Other wise he would
have Pukin suffering a stroke. And the Colonel off to a Gulag
in Siberia. Ukraine stay strong .

[Omaha Steve]

5. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

Way over 12 hour old limit.

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