Posted on 03/03/2022 4:27:04 AM PST by sevinufnine
Ukrainian Pres. Zelensky claims morale of Putin's Russian forces is deteriorating in a powerful address adding his forces have so-far killed 9,000 invaders, a claim disputed by Moscow. He also said his country had thwarted Russia's sneaky plans, and he was proud of the heroic resistance to Moscow's shocking invasion. "We are a nation that broke the enemy's plans in a week. Plans written for years: sneaky, full of hatred for our country, our people. Our military, our border guards, our territorial defense, even ordinary farmers capture the Russian military every day. All the captives say only one thing: they do not know why they are here. Despite the fact there are dozens of times more than them the morale of the enemy is constantly deteriorating." Zelensky also accused Russian troops of looting out of desperation for food and supplies. He said Ukrainian civilians had driven Putin's soldiers out of grocery stores as they searched for food. "These are not warriors of the superpower, these are confused children who were used." Earlier on Wednesday, a video of a Russian soldier breaking down in tears as he spoke to his mother on the phone after surrendering to Ukrainians went viral. The footage showed a young fighter from Putin's forces being comforted by a group of women after throwing down his weapon. One of the women tells him everything his OK while patting him on the back. He is then seen drinking tea and eating a pasty as another woman offers him a phone. The young prisoner of war blows kisses as his mother answers and bursts into tears as soon as he sees her. Another women is heard speaking to her down the phone saying, "Natasha, God be with you. We will call you later. He is alive and healthy."
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Intercepted radio messages indicate troops are disobeying orders from Moscow to shell Ukrainian towns, and complaining about running out of food and fuel.
The video came after other footage showed Russian prisoners of war weeping and claiming they had no idea they were being sent into a warzone rather than to act as peacekeepers.
Captured men said they had no idea they were being sent to invade Ukraine and were used like 'cannon fodder' by commanders who threw them into battle against 'peaceful people defending their territory' after Vladimir Putin's forces took heavy losses in the opening days of the conflict.
'This is not our war. Mothers and wives, collect your husbands. There is no need to be here,' an injured soldier sat in front of a Ukrainian flag was filmed saying. Other footage showed handcuffed Russian prisoner crying, while saying: 'They don't even pick up the corpses, there are no funerals'.
Ukraine on Wednesday invited the worried mothers of Russian troops captured on the battlefield to come and collect their sons, in Kyiv's latest apparent attempt to embarrass Moscow after opening a telephone hotline for Russian parents to find out if their sons are among the dead or captured.
In this ‘fog of war’ it’s hard to know who or what to believe!
These are the true faces of Putin’s “army” of warriors. Scared boys who want to fight in Ukraine about as much as jumping out of a plane without a working parachute.
Whats the over/under for the number of days till Putin is hanging by piano wire from a lampost in Red Square? 5?
Speaking of confused and scared...where is Zelensky and why isn’t he putting a stop to this war?
In separate video posted on Telegram showed soldiers saying they were ‘demoralised’ when they realised they were being sent to fight in Ukraine. ‘We were told we would be enemies of the state and because it’s wartime, we might even be shot if we refused. We were thrown in as cannon fodder’
The propaganda is getting deep.
The big TELL on this was Russia bringing in portable crematoriums. Putin had to LIE to his people to pull off his meglomaniac stunt.
Btw, These guys are not Russian. I watched a video of them. It was kind of strange - they sounded like hostages. ‘I’m being treated very well’.
All of a sudden, now we believe the media too?
There are rumors from folks who are distributing aid to the Ukrainians that the Russian Soldiers have been told that this is an exercise, and that they are totally confused. Folks are being pressed for bribes when traveling through the Russian lines because the Russian Soldiers brought no provisions with them and are not being resupplied. The theory (as relayed to helpers trying to get provisions to the Ukrainians have been told), was that the Soldiers were told that the Ukrainians supported a change from Zelenskyy and that they would lay down their arms to the Russians. Thus, they were never intended to be resupplied after 3 days. They might be starving as much as the Ukrainians. It reminds one of the mistake that Hitler made when he invaded Russia during Operation Barbarossa. The offensive was supposed to be over in a week, so no winter clothes were provided. So many Germans died from freezing to death.
Yes, and I posted a quote from one of the captured boys saying they were told they’d be shot if they didn’t go and fight once they realized it was real war. God help all of them over there. The innocents in Ukraine, and the boy soldiers Putin is forcing to fight that have no desire for anything but go home and see their mothers and fathers.
Lets see:
Russians take Kherson
Ukraine air defense downs Su-30 near Kyiv
Ukraine claims Russian losses of:
9000 troops
30 planes
31 helicopters
217 tanks
90 artillery pieces
900 armored personnel carriers
42 mlrs
2 boats
374 cars
60 fuel trucks
3 uav
11 anti-aircraft
not much of a change from yesterday... about 3,000 more troops, 6 tanks, 5 artillery, 38 apc, 2 mlrs, 19 cars, 2 anti aircraft.
President Z. claims defenses are holding
Kherson under de factor Russian control since 2nd
EU to consider removing Belarus from SWIFT
Biden wants to give them $10billion
Moody’s cuts Russian rating to junk
Not much else from the Kyiv independent this morning.
Do you believe the media on this?
All of a sudden? No, but I believe the videos that are going viral on Twitter and YouTube being posted by the citizens of Ukraine. What those women did for that boy showing him TRUE love, as Christ would have us do, will change his heart for the rest of his live. Don’t believe it? Then there is something wrong there. that’s why I posted this. The way those women treated the “enemy” was other-worldly in a good way.
Yes everything has to be taken with a grain of salt, the POWs could be told what to say. But I would tend to believe more than disbelief
Berlin has approved a shipment of 2,700 Soviet-era "Strela" missiles to Ukraine, according to government sources cited by news agencies
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