{"id":1714964,"date":"2022-10-28T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714964"},"modified":"2022-10-28T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T14:34:12","slug":"putins-new-ukraine-strategy-looks-like-a-giant-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putins-new-ukraine-strategy-looks-like-a-giant-war-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s New Ukraine Strategy Looks Like a Giant War Crime"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fputins-new-ukraine-strategy-looks-like-a-giant-war-crime%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=1714964&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Russia-17-e1648725753911.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Russia Allegedly Using Soldiers As \u201cCannon Fodder\u201d In Kherson:<\/strong> As Russian forces attempt to maintain control over occupied territories in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/russia-seems-to-be-in-retreat-everywhere-in-ukraine\/\">Kherson<\/a>, Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence claims that newly recruited Russian troops are being used as \u201ccannon fodder\u201d to reinforce lines of defense in the \u201cannexed\u201d region of Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Major Gen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/putins-ukraine-disaster-could-russia-run-out-of-missiles\/\">Kyrylo Budanov<\/a>, the head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency, Russian forces are simultaneously attempting to reinforce the region while also removing its \u201coccupied administration\u201d from the area in anticipation of heightened military conflict in the region.\n<\/p>\n<p>The use of Russian soldiers as cannon fodder is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/mobilised-russians-cannon-fodder-create-200618848.html\">not a new concept<\/a>. Troops recruited by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/08\/putin-is-angry-ukraine-uses-himars-to-destroy-wagner-headquarters\/\">Wagner Group<\/a>, a private military contractor frequently used by the Kremlin to assist its military in overseas operations, have been described as cannon fodder frequently throughout the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Andriy Yusov, an official representing the Ukrainian military intelligence agency HUR, told Ukrainian TV recently that the Wagner Group was deliberately using untrained soldiers as cannon fodder to provide cover during Russian military operations in Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see that it is being used as \u2018cannon fodder,\u2019\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polskieradio.pl\/395\/9766\/Artykul\/3060486,Russian-mercenaries-used-as-%E2%80%98cannon-fodder%E2%80%99-in-Ukraine-officials\">Yusov said,<\/a> adding that the troops being lured into combat were made up of convicts, including many convicts who suffer from diseases like HIV or Hepatitis C.<\/p>\n<p>Budanov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-news-10-26-22\">told CNN<\/a> that Russian forces are \u201ctrying to remove and take with them all the remains of their so-called \u2018occupied administration\u2019 from Kherson city and surrounding areas.\u2019\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, though, Budanov explained how Russian forces are \u201cbringing into Kherson some new \u2018cannon fodder\u2019 from the newly mobilized Russian soldiers, getting ready for street fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ukraine: Is the Battle for Kherson Coming?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The news comes after weeks of talk of a possible Russian retreat in Kherson in anticipation of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/is-russia-getting-ready-to-destroy-a-massive-dam-in-ukraine\/\">battle for Kherson<\/a>.\u201d Ukrainian forces are understood to be preparing a new assault on the region, which led the Russian administration to advise as many as 60,000 civilians to leave the region last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>Just days ago, Ukraine\u2019s Major-General Budanov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/10\/24\/russia-planning-major-battle-kherson-despite-creating-illusion\/\">told Ukrainska Pravda<\/a> that Russian forces are deliberately drawing the Ukrainian army into urban combat in the city of Kherson, and stated that the military is not following the civilians and administration leaders out of the region.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not leaving right now. They are preparing to defend,\u201d Budanov said. \u201cThey are creating the illusion that all is lost. Yet at the same time, they are moving new military units in.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian official also accused Russian forces of looting Kherson and using the evacuation of civilians as cover.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack Buckby is a British author, counter-extremism researcher, and journalist based in New York. Reporting on the U.K., Europe, and the U.S., he works to analyze and understand left-wing and right-wing radicalization, and reports on Western governments\u2019 approaches to the pressing issues of today. His books and research papers explore these themes and propose pragmatic solutions to our increasingly polarized society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia Allegedly Using Soldiers As \u201cCannon Fodder\u201d In Kherson: As Russian forces attempt to maintain control over occupied territories in Kherson, Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence claims that newly recruited Russian troops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1714967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}