Posted on 05/21/2022 9:37:11 AM PDT by Kazan
Nothing is going to change that. And, the people in Kherson and the areas the Russians are in are fine with being under Russian control. Those areas a filled with ethnic Russians that have been persecuted and targeted for eight years.
The only question that remains is whether or not Ukraine will surrender and save Odessa and some access to the Black Sea. If it doesn't, then Ukraine will be rump state and landlocked country, completely dependent on US and Europe handouts.
By force? With guns?! Some of those civilians were dragged into the steel mill and held hostage.
There are multiple videos online with interviews with civilians saying the Azovs were using them as human shields and trying to kill them if they escaped. That is a FACT.
Mariupol was the Azov nazi HQ. Other then block to block infantry rifle fights, where the nazis are free to fire back with heavy weapons, how else are you supposed to liberate it?
You have a childlike view of how a war looks.
Essentially, your view seems to be that ANY kind of attack on the nazi HQ was mean or unfair. As to the civilians, the Russians were evacuating them wholesale through corridors leading to safety in Russia. Azov and Kiev insisted on
“humanitarian corridors” to the east. Those were refused because they were nothing more than rescue routes to evacuate Azov or resupply them.
The 4th Reich lost this battle, just like Paulus at Stalingrad. They got surrounded and captured.
The Hobbits and wizards have been shelling the Donbass for 8 years. I would say it’s their way of war. The even refused Zelenskys direct order to pull back heavy weapons from their positions. It was to his face, on video. Even Zelensky helplessly said “I am the President, you can’t talk to me that way”.
But they did. Right Sector, Svoboda and their Azov guys run the country.
Did you imagine the Azov Battalion just woke up one day in their steel plant bunker and found themselves surrounded?
What 🤡🌎 do you live in?
I have no idea who/ what Right Sector is. Svoboda means freedom, Azov are Spec Ops.
Russian military says it destroys Western arms consignment in Ukraine
11h ago
LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian military said on Saturday it had destroyed a major consignment of Western arms in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, using sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles.
The defence ministry said in a statement the strike took out “a large batch of weapons and military equipment delivered from the USA and European countries” and intended for Ukrainian troops in the eastern Donbas region where the fighting is concentrated.
Reuters could not independently verify the report, which also said Russian missiles had struck fuel storage facilities near Odesa on the Black Sea coast and shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and 14 drones.
In its latest update on the war, which Russia calls a “special military operation”, the defence ministry also said Russia had struck numerous Ukrainian command posts.
The West has stepped up weapons supplies to Ukraine since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion and Russia’s military is trying to intercept and destroy them. Moscow says Western arms deliveries for Kyiv, and the imposition of drastic sanctions against the Russian economy, amount to a “proxy war” by the United States and its allies.
(Reporting by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Frances Kerry)
FISH ON!!!
You are busy promoting propaganda so ridiculous that nobody but fools falls for it.
And then explain to us all how a lightly armed infantry fighting group destroyed all those buildings. What weapons did they use?
Your propaganda talking points don't make any sense at all.
Only in the world of Russian propaganda. Why don't you find us a video of someone telling that story who is not under Russian control.
Here is a video where civilians explain how they were forced to make a propaganda video by Russian troops.
“Russian troops did not have to do that if there were just pockets of “Nazi” resistance in neighborhoods.”
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Ridiculous. It’s the same argument in the Battle of Manila when the pounded the city to root out the Japs before entering. Cities can easily be rebuilt.
jetme on the Pundit repudiates the phone Freepers pushing the CIA narrative......
I am American but I travel to Ukraine a lot, sometimes spending 5 months a year there now that I am retired. I have been to Donetsk, Lugansk and Mariupol many times and have many friends who live or lived in the Donbass region. I am fully aware of the attacks that the Ukraine military (especially Azov Battalion) have done on the civilian population of Donbass and what they have done in Mariupol. The Russians are NOT “the bad guys” in the Donbass region. The Russian are doing the right thing. I am pleasantly surprised to see that the Gateway Pundit is absolutely correct and telling the truth on this - you will not find that in any other western media. I would like to thank you for spreading the truth to Americans and especially to conservatives. And by the way the $40 billion dollar package that the US Senate just voted to send to Ukraine was wrong and stupid. It will only prolong the war and see many more Ukrainians killed. Zellensky is a US puppet and is only interested in increasing his personal wealth and fame. The longer this war continues the more Ukrainians will be displaced and dead. The US Government has been CONNED.
jetme on the Pundit repudiates the phony Freepers pushing the CIA narrative......
I am American but I travel to Ukraine a lot, sometimes spending 5 months a year there now that I am retired. I have been to Donetsk, Lugansk and Mariupol many times and have many friends who live or lived in the Donbass region. I am fully aware of the attacks that the Ukraine military (especially Azov Battalion) have done on the civilian population of Donbass and what they have done in Mariupol. The Russians are NOT “the bad guys” in the Donbass region. The Russian are doing the right thing. I am pleasantly surprised to see that the Gateway Pundit is absolutely correct and telling the truth on this - you will not find that in any other western media. I would like to thank you for spreading the truth to Americans and especially to conservatives. And by the way the $40 billion dollar package that the US Senate just voted to send to Ukraine was wrong and stupid. It will only prolong the war and see many more Ukrainians killed. Zellensky is a US puppet and is only interested in increasing his personal wealth and fame. The longer this war continues the more Ukrainians will be displaced and dead. The US Government has been CONNED.
Your source is "jetme on the Pundit" which you posted without even a link to the original source and you think that somehow that is useful information. What's next, a quote from 4-chan or an old recording of the Art Bell show?
Don't you think video from the conflict with first person testimony is more likely to be useful than the opinion of some person who says they have visited Ukraine?
Jetme wrote "Zellensky is a US puppet and is only interested in increasing his personal wealth and fame."
How would "jetme" possibly know what President Zelensky thinks and how he makes decisions? How exactly would "jetme" have learned that? One second of critical thinking would tell you that "jetme" could not possibly know that, and he/she/or it is just making up some opinion, or repeating the talking points that somebody else made up.
It is amazing the nonsense that gets posted now. I suppose you think that the destruction of the World Trade Center was no big deal. If "cities can be easily rebuilt" then why was everyone so upset about a couple of office towers getting knocked down?
Did it ever occur to you that people actually lived in those buildings in Mariupol that got shelled and bombed?
“It is amazing the nonsense that gets posted now. I suppose you think that the destruction of the World Trade Center was no big deal.”
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if you’re comparing the WTC to Mariupol, then who’s spouting nonsense between us? LOL
The Russian idiots here would tell you those weren’t people. They were Nazis.
Only in Russian propaganda fantasy world. In the real world it was a city full of people who worked, laughed, and lived together. Until the Russians destroyed it, killing thousands of the very people they claimed they were freeing from the "Nazis".
And the Azov battalion was no more a "Nazi" enterprise than the US Marine Corps. is.
Why don't you read what a Jewish publication has to say about what the Azov battalion is today.
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