Former U.S. Commander Urges Ukrainian Authorities to Take Back Control of Crimea Before Donbass

February 28 2023

The Ukrainian army must regain control of Crimea before it takes the Donbass. A similar call was made by the former commander of US forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges.

According to the American retired military leader, as long as the Russian army has the ability to lift missile-carrying aircraft into the air from the territory of Crimea, Drones and as long as a fleet can operate from the Black Sea, Ukraine will be in danger, which will prevent it from rebuilding its economy.

Hodges also added that Ukraine is deprived of the opportunity to use ports in Mariupol and Odessa due to the threat of attacks from the Russian Black Sea fleet. It is also noted that, contrary to the opinion of a number of politicians and military analysts, Hodges does not consider the hypothetical military campaign of the Ukrainian army to seize Crimea impossible.

The American general stressed that in order to carry out an attack on the Crimea, Western countries need to transfer a significant amount of weapons to Kyiv, including long-range missiles capable of hitting the Kerch bridge. According to Hodges, the Ukrainian army needs to isolate Crimea by destroying the main communications with mainland Russia, and then proceed to seize the peninsula.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier that the Ukrainian army was preparing a military operation to seize Crimea. But, according to US President Joe Biden, "the process of Ukraine's return of Crimea may be delayed."

Author:: Maxim Svetlyshev
Photos used:: Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea

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Amateur 28 February 2023 09: 55
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The Ukrainian army must regain control of Crimea before it takes the Donbass. A similar call was made by the former commander of US forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges.

The dog barks, the wind wears
(Folk wisdom)
1. Cheshire 28 February 2023 10: 06
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  The dog barks, the wind wears
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  Yeah, that's how we sucked through the strike on the Crimean bridge, and even now this approach constantly backfires on us. I hope that the stated strategy is already being analyzed and its own counter-strategy is being built.
  1. Arzoo 28 February 2023 10: 25
    
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    We have only one counter-strategy - to deplete the mobilization potential of Ukraine. We have nothing more to offer. Therefore, we will give them the opportunity to attack and we will prepare the defense.
    1. Cheshire 28 February 2023 16: 27
      
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      Offhand. Nobody canceled active defense, placement of additional. reconnaissance equipment, long-range artillery, reserves in shock-prone directions. It is also easy to strengthen the security and air defense of the bridge.
2. belovvladimir 28 February 2023 16: 53
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  No, he just moved his head, so the dying nonsense went, the agony, so to speak!
K._2 28 February 2023 09: 56
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Well, Americans with Svidomites can bomb the Crimean bridge with rockets, but it is inefficient for us to bomb bridges across the Dnieper with rockets. Yes, they would not have left a living place there for a long time if they wanted to ...
1. fuel oil 28 February 2023 10: 21
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  The main thing is to believe in "inefficiency" and tell fairy tales to the layman. Remember the way out of Kherson. They will blow up the Kakhovka reservoir and flood everything downstream, so you need to go from the high bank to the low one ... And the Antonov bridge? Yu.Bug, the Dnieper do not affect the supply of the "most ancient inhabitants of the planet"! The bridge across Zatoka? The same situation. the volume of explosives through several customs and inspection points is possible, moreover, blow up during the movement of our train with oil products, too, please ... but of course we are not able to do anything like that. because of the traders and contractors of all stripes from "London and Paris".
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    The guys are fighting for Russia. Who are you fighting for? Have you ever served in the army? Can you imagine the outfit of forces and means for the destruction of bridges ?. On the Krymchsky bridge, the mass of explosives was somewhere around 20 tons, so what? Bridge stopped working?
    I saw how they dismantled a not at all large road bridge made of Soviet-built concrete of the 50s of the last century. They were supposed to be demolished in 3 days according to the standard and estimate. Disassembled for about a week and a half. But this is a small bridge at the junction. Even for undermining it would take about a ton of explosives.
2. Arzoo 28 February 2023 10: 22
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  Alas, we do not have so many missiles. There were about 100 hits on the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson, and we took it and drove over it, in the end. There are about 30 bridges across the Dnieper. And the reason for this is the INF Treaty that we once signed with the United States. If we had enough land-based ballistic missiles, the situation would be different.
3. DymOk_v_dYmke 28 February 2023 11: 16
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  Yes, they would not have left a living place there for a long time if they wanted to ...
  
  And if allowed.
Aerodrome 28 February 2023 09: 56
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Former U.S. Commander Urges Ukrainian Authorities to Take Back Control of Crimea Before Donbass
Well, not all "former" normal ones, as is commonly believed, this one never came out of an army coma.
1. Labrador 28 February 2023 10: 27
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  It's not about the coma, it's about interests. This is what they wetly dream about. Something that can give them a head start.
2. Nyrobsky 28 February 2023 11: 21
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  Former U.S. Commander Urges Ukrainian Authorities to Take Back Control of Crimea Before Donbass
  Well, not all "former" normal ones, as is commonly believed, this one never came out of an army coma.
  
  He has a loser syndrome in which NATO, looking at the Crimea, only drooled.
dmi.pris1 28 February 2023 10: 02
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Provocateur. That's all you need to know about this gentleman.
Mouse 28 February 2023 10: 11
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he has phantom pains, that the Crimea has floated away from under his nose ....
megadeth 28 February 2023 10: 13
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The Ukrainian army must regain control of Crimea before it takes the Donbass. A similar call was made by the former commander of US forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges.
Maybe it’s already enough for VO, to quote crazy, old American ones who move troops that they don’t have. Then it would be better, some of our generals in the reserve would be quoted, who have almost torn Poland with the entire NATO bloc to a fascist cross ... GDP (VGK RF Armed Forces) made it clear that we will go down and _____ (you know this) the whole ukrofascist herd ...
I dare to_notice_ 28 February 2023 10: 16
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This special would command our SVO, his (SVO) goals were achieved long ago.
He said what each of us knows: the destruction of the transport and logistics infrastructure, the destruction of the air defense system and communications - that's where to start.
By the way, it was precisely this difference between the American military and ours that Ritter pointed out at the very beginning.
If our people do not do this, then ... either they cannot, or they are not allowed.
That is why this operation will go down in history under the name "Strange".
Lumberjack_2 28 February 2023 10: 16
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Let them remember the history of Crimea for a start! Russians (in the understanding of the multinational people of Russia) will die, but Crimea will not be surrendered! It was, is and will be! And so let them dream, but sitting at home and on the push)
gmss 28 February 2023 10: 22
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a real american boot!

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BIABIA 28 February 2023 10: 26
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Our generalissimos are preparing for the parade, they are driving equipment there, we have no time for the Crimea ...
Arzoo 28 February 2023 10: 30
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In principle, they will not be able to take the Donbass. This requires a huge amount of assault infantry, which the Ukrainians do not have and will not have in the foreseeable future.
Danila Rastorguev 28 February 2023 10: 34
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The Anglo-Saxons idolize water because all their profitable colonies, like those of Dr. Greece must have good ports.
I would be surprised if he offered to capture the Moon before Donbass ...
1. DymOk_v_dYmke 28 February 2023 11: 23
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  The Anglo-Saxons idolize water because all their profitable colonies, like those of Dr. Greece must have good ports.
  
  Russia once helped one of the former colonies of the Anglo-Saxons to gain freedom.
  Now we're paying.
Mavrikiy 28 February 2023 10: 39
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Hodges also addedthat Ukraine is deprived of the opportunity to use ports in Mariupol and Odessa because of the threat of attacks from the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
He was in a coma and they let him out? It's time to bring it back.
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The main task of the Americans is the creation of a Crimean Tatar state in Crimea, in the image and likeness of Kosovo. They have been implementing this solution since 2004. But having received in 2014 on the nose, they can’t calm down in any way. Crimea is the main task of the United States, this can only be done by the hands of Ukrainians, so they will climb to the last, there are no options - either we have them, or they have us. But Ukrainians still cannot understand (the people) that Ukrainian Crimea will never be.
1. KCA 28 February 2023 11: 28
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  And how many Tatars or Krymchak Jews are in Crimea in relation to Russians? 1 in 1000 or 10? And all of them are ready to create their own state, having rape crops and a crop of peaches and apricots as income? Maybe they are noble shipbuilders?
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    And how many Tatars or Krymchak Jews are in Crimea in relation to Russians? 1 in 1000 or 10? And all of them are ready to create their own state, having rape crops and a crop of peaches and apricots as income? Maybe they are noble shipbuilders?
    
    What is produced in Kosovo, the Americans do not care about the well-being of the Crimean Tatars, they need land for bases, and the fact that there are fewer of them than everyone else is not an indicator, they are perfectly organized, have combat cells, I hope they had, so there is no need here about production.
Uprun 28 February 2023 10: 44
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It seems to be already "grandfather", but "wet dreams" never leave ....
Mol_18 28 February 2023 10: 52
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Because after the loss of Crimea, as the Russian leadership will explain to the people, the loss of Crimea will simply end the war by signing humiliating peace treaties, which I hope will not happen. The main thing is that an echeloned defense line be built throughout the entire area of a possible breakthrough, from pillboxes, Ropov and other defensive structures, and it is desirable to increase the number of aircraft and helicopters so that the Vsu offensive fails and bogs down.
opuonmed 28 February 2023 11: 23
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it's time for the Russian Federation to use scorched earth tactics in ukrrr otherwise they will really move to the Russian Federation
2 Level Advisor 28 February 2023 12: 04
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Publish also my opinion of "Admiral VO": I call on the Armed Forces of Ukraine - to surrender !!! in terms of influencing the situation, my opinion has no more weight than this "retired general" ... well, or someone else with VO - who is better suited ..
tihonmarine 28 February 2023 13: 13
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The American general stressed that in order to carry out an attack on Crimea, Western countries need to transfer a significant amount of weapons to Kyiv, including long-range missiles.

This is just a pretext for Europe and the United States to fork out for armaments of the ukrovermacht, when the Europeans are no longer able to supply weapons in the quantity in which they supplied a couple of months ago.
Although not only a general, but any major in the US Army knows that Ruina will not see the Crimea as his ears, covered with saucepans.
MauZerR 28 February 2023 15: 12
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Quote: Arzoo
We have only one counter-strategy - to deplete the mobilization potential of Ukraine. We have nothing more to offer. Therefore, we will give them the opportunity to attack and we will prepare the defense.

What to deplete? By your population? "women still give birth"? They don’t give birth, the country has been in a demographic hole since the 90s, with the current rate of "negative growth" of the population of a million a year.
Fizik13 28 February 2023 19: 10
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Former U.S. Commander Urges Ukrainian Authorities to Take Back Control of Crimea Before Donbass

I wonder if he is in Ukraine or in Ukraine, or maybe he is far from Ukraine, which is why he is so brave?