{"id":1369040,"date":"2022-03-10T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369040"},"modified":"2022-03-10T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:36:01","slug":"russias-trainwreck-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-trainwreck-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Trainwreck Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussias-trainwreck-invasion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369040&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/russias-war-in-ukraine-enters-the-hell-face-brutal-urban-warfare\/\">third week<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/01\/the-russian-military-4-myths-that-need-to-die\/\">Russian military<\/a> has become increasingly bogged down. None of Russia\u2019s primary objectives have yet been accomplished.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>And the more bogged down the military gets, the more the Russian military reverts to the tactics that it has used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/russia-bombed-syria-to-the-stone-age-will-putin-do-the-same-in-ukraine\/\">Syria<\/a> and elsewhere. They are indiscriminately bombing and shelling civilian areas, exacting a heavy toll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Putin Takes the War to Civilians\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, as the West warned that more attacks were coming against civilians, disaster struck. A Russian airstrike destroyed a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol. At least three people were killed, including at least one child and several more injured.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a report <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-2bed71c00916d44ea951c5809b446db3\"><span>from the Associated P<\/span><\/a><span>ress, the bomb crater in the courtyard of the hospital was two stories deep, as several blasts blew out windows and destroyed the front of one building. The shock wave was felt more than a mile away.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the graphic video and still photographs from the scene, the Russian government refused (at least initially) responsibility. Kremlin spokesman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/03\/10\/world\/ukraine-russia-war?name=styln-russia-ukraine&#038;region=TOP_BANNER&#038;block=storyline_menu_recirc&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=LegacyCollection&#038;variant=0_Control&#038;is_new=false\"><span>Dmitri Peskov<\/span><\/a><span> said Russia will look into the situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe will definitely ask our military because, of course, we don\u2019t have clear information on what happened there,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>One military official with knowledge of the situation told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/\"><span>19fortyfive.com<\/span><\/a><span> that Russian aircraft, leery of US-made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/death-by-stinger-how-russias-helicopters-are-getting-torched-in-ukraine\/\">Stinger missiles<\/a>, which have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/stinger-missiles-how-ukraine-could-take-down-russias-air-force\/\">exacted a heavy toll<\/a> on Russian aircraft are now flying above their range and dropping \u201cdumb bombs\u201d for high altitudes, which makes for very inaccurate, indiscriminate bombing.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Thursday Meeting In Turkey Accomplishes Little<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine met in face-to-face talks mediated by Turkey on Thursday in the first high-level contact between the two sides since Russia invaded Ukraine late last month.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Although Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/10\/top-russia-ukraine-diplomats-arrive-in-turkey-for-talks\"><span>Dmytro Kuleba <\/span><\/a><span>pushed for a 24-hour ceasefire, the Russians refused, while persisting with the fallacy that all of their \u201cspecial military operation\u201d plans have gone completely to plan.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe also talked on the ceasefire but no progress was accomplished on that,\u201d Kuleba said after the meeting. \u201cIt seems that there are other decision-makers for this matter in Russia,\u201d Kuleba added in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI made a simple proposal<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/top-russian-ukrainian-diplomats-meet-first-time-since-invasion-2022-03-10\/\"><span> to Minister Lavrov:<\/span><\/a><span> I can call my Ukrainian ministers, authorities, the president now and give you 100% assurances on security guarantees for humanitarian corridors,\u201d Kuleba said.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI asked him \u2018Can you do the same?\u2019 and he did not respond.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI want to repeat that Ukraine has not surrendered, does not surrender, and will not surrender,\u201d said Kuleba.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told Turkish newspapers that \u201cWe are not planning to attack other countries. We didn\u2019t attack Ukraine, either.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Russian Ministry of Defense Finally Admits Conscripts Involved in the Invasion<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The Russian president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/putins-chilling-goal-in-ukraine-turn-the-cities-to-ash-can-civilians-escape\/\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> has insisted that no conscripts have been used in the Ukrainian invasion, despite the fact that prisoners taken by the Ukrainian armed forces were clearly conscripts. On Wednesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) finally admitted that conscripts have been involved in the fighting.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>However, they have claimed that they were sent by mistake and then withdrawn. Defense Ministry spokesperson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/09\/europe\/russia-conscripts-fighting-ukraine-intl\/index.html\"><span>Igor Konashenkov<\/span><\/a><span> said, \u201cUnfortunately, several facts of the presence of conscripts in the units of the Russian armed forces involved in the conduct of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine were discovered.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Just a day earlier Putin addressed a \u201cWomen\u2019s Day\u201d event in Russia and assured mothers and wives of troops that no conscripts had been sent into Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI understand how you\u2019re worrying for your beloved ones \u2026 I emphasize that conscript soldiers are not participating in hostilities and will not participate in them,\u201d Putin said, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/putin-says-will-not-use-conscript-soldiers-ukraine-2022-03-07\/\"><span>according to Reuters<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cAnd there will be no additional call-up of reservists.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Konashenkov claimed Wednesday that Russian conscripts have been returned to Russia. \u201cAlmost all such servicemen have already been withdrawn to the territory of Russia,\u201d he said, but that may have been in part because of how poorly the conscript troops performed and had been led.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>Steve Balestrieri is a 1945 National Security Columnist. He has served as a US Army Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer before injuries forced his early separation. In addition to writing for <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/\"><i><span>19fortyfive.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, he has covered the NFL for <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/\"><i><span>PatsFans.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> for more than 10 years and his work was regularly featured in the <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered its third week and the Russian military has become increasingly bogged down. 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