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‘Everything is burning’: Cluster bombs rain down on Russian troops in Ukraine
Washington Examiner ^ | 7/21/23 | Jamie McIntyre

Posted on 07/21/2023 4:28:30 PM PDT by CFW

‘EVERYTHING IS BURNING’: United States-provided cluster munitions made their debut on the battlefields of Ukraine this week, with Ukrainian commanders reporting they are making a difference as efforts continue to break through Russian defenses.

“We have gotten some initial feedback from the Ukrainians, and they're using them quite effectively,’ NSC spokesman John Kirby said in a White House briefing. “They're using them appropriately … and they are actually having an impact on Russia's defensive formations and Russia's defensive maneuvering.”

Intercepted messages posted on Twitter by a pro-Ukrainian media platform indicate the controversial weapons are having a psychological impact on entrenched front-line Russian troops. “At the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are demolishing our positions in the Bakhmut direction with cluster munitions,” one message says. “The counter-battery fight does not work. Everything is burning all around. The men are holding on, waiting for aviation. The General Staff has not yet handed over cluster bombs and rockets with cluster munitions to our guys for answers. It remains only to believe in our guys and our pilots."

Kirby described the current level of fighting as “pretty vicious,” and said Ukraine admits its counteroffensive is “not going as far or as fast on a daily basis as they would like.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clusterbombs; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; globalistpropaganda; jamiemcintyre; russia; ruzzia; ruzzians; sovietunion; ukraine; us; ussr; war; warcrime
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To: Huskrrrr

“Iran is circling Israel, China is preparing to invade Taiwan, Cyber attacks coming, but hey...Biden’s got this.”

If it weren’t for the fact that it’s not yet time for Armageddon (too many prophecies yet unfulfilled)...

I might be worried. Then again... the Bible never stated that America even existed up to or during the battle of Armageddon. I’m back to worrying. America hating ghouls like Soros are probably cackling and toasting to their impending achievements somewhere right now.


41 posted on 07/21/2023 5:04:29 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Prince of Space

+1


42 posted on 07/21/2023 5:04:32 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: CFW

When we run out of cluster bombs and the Ukrainians run out of soldiers, Biden will send voluntary troops to that nation.

“I need volunteers for Ukraine! YOU! AND YOU! AND YOU will volunteer! Is that Clear!”

And every one says...”SIR, YES SIR!”


43 posted on 07/21/2023 5:05:16 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: buwaya

They are down to conscripts and war fighting aged males are in hiding. If they had a professional army they would have their own weapons and know how to use them. Their troops do not know tactics and do not have experience working together in a coordinated manner. Every time we give them weapons, the weapons are destroyed, whether Bradleys. Abrams or Panthers.


44 posted on 07/21/2023 5:05:19 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: kiryandil

Because it was just last year we were righteously accusing the Russians of war crimes for doing what we’re now doing.


45 posted on 07/21/2023 5:05:27 PM PDT by silverleaf (It's not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: CodeToad

“OK, so you might also think, then, that women should no longer fight rapists and just lay back and enjoy it so no more women get hurt.”

I was raped at sixteen and I carry a .45 every single day. None of that is a secret.


46 posted on 07/21/2023 5:05:33 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: buwaya

Ukranians have been firing shells including cluster into Donetsk since 2014.


47 posted on 07/21/2023 5:05:42 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: EEGator

So, you posted something on the same topic on different thread. 😂👍. Some folkx have no clue what occurred in Austen when the rooskis were there.


48 posted on 07/21/2023 5:06:51 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Do you moronic Ukrainian butt-smoochers not realize that Russia has the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal and ICBMs?
And you can bet their nuclear weapons are always in top shape, and not gone to pot like our weapons.”

I honestly think if Russia dropped millions of paper leaflets on all cities in USA that stated “The next drop will be nukes” the neocons would be screaming all the louder how we must prove we will not stand down to Russia.


49 posted on 07/21/2023 5:08:22 PM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your Trump shared a post on soci it all begins to make sense)
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To: Reverend Wright

The Ukrainians barely have any DU-capable tanks. They have @30 Leopard IIs, few of which have even been at the front. How then has whomevers stockpile of NATO 120mm been used up?

I suspect you are relating your own fantasies.

And, being Leopards, they probably aren’t even set up to use American DU.


50 posted on 07/21/2023 5:10:12 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: CFW

Most of America will regret this move. Just wait…


51 posted on 07/21/2023 5:12:02 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Russia could use Napalm.


52 posted on 07/21/2023 5:12:10 PM PDT by Revel
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To: MeganC

Well then, obviously you are a danger to yourself and others, and should “denazify” yourself. And should anyone threaten you again, you should “negotiate” unarmed.

That’s pretty much what the Putinists are about.


53 posted on 07/21/2023 5:13:07 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: silverleaf; All

Yup. Civilians will be blown up when walking through the field s where cluster munitions were dropped.


54 posted on 07/21/2023 5:13:31 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: buwaya

You ‘re misreading post #3 which was sarcasm.

Now do us both a favor and stop writing to me for a few days. Thank you.


55 posted on 07/21/2023 5:18:03 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: ConservativeInPA

You are making a great many heroic assumptions. I toast your great courage!

Ukraine had armaments pre-war, quite a lot in fact, in proportion to its size. A thousand tanks is a great number by NATO standards. But there was a limit to all that. They are fighting a great power after all. And they weren’t a very rich country in the first place.

I think you need to do a great deal more research.


56 posted on 07/21/2023 5:19:17 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: MNDude

“And you can bet their nuclear weapons are always in top shape,”

LOL that’s funny


57 posted on 07/21/2023 5:19:21 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Cobra64

The first ones to regret the move will be the Ukes...ever seen pictures of what happened to Grozny, Chechnya?


58 posted on 07/21/2023 5:20:03 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: buwaya

Uh...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-is-the-uranium-based-ammunition-the-uk-is-sending-to-ukraine


59 posted on 07/21/2023 5:20:24 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

That’s for the British 120mm, which is not the same as the US or Nato 120mm. The British gun has a rifled barrel. And the British have delivered exactly 14 tanks.


60 posted on 07/21/2023 5:26:49 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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