Posted on 09/09/2022 7:38:30 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian soldiers are being welcomed as heroes by gleeful residents who have lived under Russian occupation for months, as Kyiv continues to retake dozens of settlements from the clutches of Vladimir Putin's forces.
Videos and pictures have emerged showing troops standing victoriously on top of Russian flags in the liberated city Balakliia, while others have been shown in footage discovering the burnt out wreckages of enemy tanks.
The images come as swiftly advancing Ukrainian troops were bearing down on the main railway supplying Moscow's forces in the east on Friday, after the sudden collapse of a section of the Russian front-line - caused the most dramatic shift in the war's momentum since its early weeks.
In a video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops had 'liberated dozens of settlements' and reclaimed more than 385 square miles of territory in the east and south in the past week alone.
Zelensky posted a video in which Ukrainian soldiers said they had captured the eastern town of Balakliia, which lies along a stretch of front stretching south of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city.
In one clip from the city, a Ukrainian flag can be seen flying on a roof. At the foot of the flag pole, three Ukrainian soldiers - reportedly from the Kraken Special Branch - pose with their weapons, standing or crouching on top of a Russian flag that has been pulled down.
Another Ukrainian soldier was pictured posing on the steps of what appears to be a government building. The soldier, holding his weapon on the air, is beaming from ear-to-ear. At his feet, a Russian tri-colour and red Soviet Union flag both lie in tatters. Above him, the yellow and blue of a Ukrainian flag can be seen flying on the building.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Pictures are worth a thousand words.....for PR purposes.
The real truth:
“We lost five people for every one they did,” said Ihor, a 30-year-old platoon commander...
Russia’s Orlan drones exposed Ukrainian positions from more than a kilometer above their heads, they said, an altitude that meant they never heard the buzz of the aircraft tracking their movements.
Russian tanks emerged from newly built cement fortifications to blast infantry with large-caliber artillery, the wounded Ukrainian soldiers said. The vehicles would then shrink back beneath the concrete shelters, shielded from mortar and rocket fire.
Counter-battery radar systems automatically detected and located Ukrainians who were targeting the Russians with projectiles, unleashing a barrage of artillery fire in response.
Russian hacking tools hijacked the drones of Ukrainian operators, who saw their aircraft drift away helplessly behind enemy lines.”
‘Wounded Ukrainian soldiers reveal steep toll of Kherson offensive’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/07/ukraine-kherson-offensive-casualties-ammunition/
NATO doesn’t have much time until winter comes. The first frost hit a couple days ago in Donetsk.
Kherson front not going well, also Ukies will be unable to take Crimea and the original DPR/LPR areas if they don’t have direct Western intervention. If they get it, though, Ukraine and NATO should take Sochi and the entire Black sea coast from the Russians and liberate Belarus as well. And also remove the CCP from China (make Tibet and Uiyghar independent), restore the Shah to Iran, and reunify Korea.
Ukrainian lives are meaningless to Neocons and Nazi supporters. Bet.
I’ve never predicted how the war will go, or insisted that reports are false just because I don’t like them.
But you childish Ukrainian blood lust haters are disgusting.
Your script has been flipped for months.
I guess Putin will fight to the last Russian to “liberate” Ukraine.
How much blood and treasure will Russia pour into Ukraine?
All these dying Russians and for nothing but a paychotic leader and inept generals, many of whom are now dead.
Russia could be a peaceful prosperous country embraced by Europe. Instead it sold its soul to the nazis and red Chinese and its Syrian Muslim warlords and North Korean communist nazis.
The Ukrainians for sure will make Russia pay with blood even if it takes a hundred years.
Want a tissue, William?
I’m so proud of the Ukrainians. It must feel so good to exterminate Russian invaders.
No use them to cry for Putin and his dead lackeys.
The ZelenskyyIdiot Neo-Nazi Regime needs them more, as does his Neo-Nazi supporters......
And some sunflower oil.
😂😂
When gays offer me a tissue, I run.
Like a Russian soldier to his grave in Ukraine.
The sunflowers are watered with Russian blood.
You have The Ukraine.
Your post clearly demonstrates your ability to type and use English alphabet letters to form words. Your skills are amazing!
You keep posting the same edited crap without the final statements from the wounded Ukrainian soldiers who are determined to get back in the fight:
Ihor said he is eager to return to the front line as soon as he heals. “My people are there. How can I leave them?” he said.
However bloody the fight, the Ukrainian soldiers said they saw no alternative.
“If we don’t stop them, they’re going to just rape and murder our people like they did everywhere else,” said Oleksandr’s roommate in the hospital, a 49-year-old conscripted soldier who asked to be called by his nickname, “Pinochet.”
Pinochet said his knee was shattered by shrapnel from a mortar that was fired after a drone spotted him in the counteroffensive. He said that while Ukrainian casualties are significant, the side that wages an offensive always loses more soldiers.
“There’s nothing we can do about it,” Pinochet said. “And we can still win.”
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