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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: rktman

And the mines are you condemning Russia for the millions of mines they have laid 1-3 percent fail to detonate but the mines are laid to purposely wait to go off.
The idea that this about children dying died feb 24 2022 (actually 2014)and the Putin is responsible


101 posted on 07/21/2023 7:28:14 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: CFW

Oops!

“ Powerful explosion 00:04 in Zhytomyr region after the missile strike is published by Ukrainian sources.

‘Strike drone-kamikaze “Geran” on the warehouse of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zhytomyr region a few days ago.’

It looks like a lot of damage and ammunition depot with cluster munition being hit”

From twitter


102 posted on 07/21/2023 7:29:05 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: ConservativeInPA

War is hell.


103 posted on 07/21/2023 8:04:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! )
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To: ConservativeInPA

Wars take on a life ot there own, that is why war is so terrible.


104 posted on 07/21/2023 8:05:40 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

One can find Putin speeches on YouTube even.


105 posted on 07/21/2023 8:06:40 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: ConservativeInPA

They can’t win, but they won’t lose.


106 posted on 07/21/2023 8:07:11 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! )
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To: MeganC; 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.”

Bad analogy. It was the Russian nationals that were being raped and murdered, burned alive and beat to death with metal rods those who were able to jump out of the windows while being shot at by the police. All the wile, VICTORIA NULAND was passing out cookies to the bloodthirsty crowds.

Was documented in “UKRAINE ON FIRE”. One would think that after 911, Americans would have been ready to go to war against UKRAINE for what they did.


107 posted on 07/21/2023 8:32:16 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Reverend Wright

Your real problem is that a vast number of the American people are perverted, or brainwashed into approving of them through group dynamics (or demonic influence, choose your poison). This is a social problem, that is the root of many others. This is not due to any conspiracy.

This has nothing to do with Ukraine and international power politics.


108 posted on 07/21/2023 8:40:19 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Huskrrrr

My son asked me a simple question, “Are they really in a war dad?” He then asked, “what is the last actual war footage you’ve seen? All I hear are reports, with no video.”

War and death are ugly. To keep people “standing with Ukraine’ they need to shield the supporting public from those images and the realities of war.

Omission is their strategy.

Now, with the addition of cluster bombs, we act as an aggressor; every one of those bombs that kills a Russian has a gift-tag on it: To Ukraine from America.

This is not cool. Be ready.


109 posted on 07/21/2023 8:44:35 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: ConservativeInPA
The Russians will just up the ante.

They already did that with their use of artillery-sown minefields. Those are not substantially different from cluster bombs in effects.

You want to see horrors, watch the Russian videos of Ukraine troops trapped and dying in those minefields. Cluster bombs against the Russians are an inevitable response from Ukraine.

The affected areas will remain lethal hazards for decades.

This will continue to escalate until one side or the other runs out of men. I expect that will be the Ukraine that gives up. A war of attrition does not work in their favor.

What a terrible waste of lives.

110 posted on 07/21/2023 8:59:54 PM PDT by flamberge (Everybody is going to hate it when we all play by the same "rules".)
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To: Grampa Dave; Boomer

Psaki wasn’t saying that cluster bombs are a war crime, but that claims of Russia using them against civilians can potentially be a war crime.

“Q Thanks, Jen. There are reports of illegal cluster bombs and vacuum bombs being used by the Russians. If that’s true, what is the next step of this administration? And is there a red line for how much violence will be tolerated against civilians in this manner that’s illegal and potentially a war crime?

MS. PSAKI: It is — it would be. I don’t have any confirmation of that. We have seen the reports. If that were true, it would potentially be a war crime.
Obviously, there are a range of international fora that would assess that. So, certainly, we would look to that to be a part of that conversation.”


111 posted on 07/21/2023 9:01:45 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Bshaw

There is a vast amount of video on YouTube, twitter, telegram, and various persons sites. The real violent stuff I’d not allowed on YouTube but is out there.

Heck, you will find lots even on Sky and BBC.

If that all us not your go-to for war news, then you are deliberately avoiding it.


112 posted on 07/21/2023 9:02:53 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

“American people are perverted, or brainwashed into approving of them through group dynamics (or demonic influence, choose your poison).”


The same Globohomo elites who have done this to their own populations, desire to do the same to every nation on earth - including Russia.

The same perverted elites who support worldwide Imperialism of LGBTQ+ also support the war against Russia - in part because Russia rejects LGBTQ+ as well as mass third world immigration.

The idea that the Globalist American Empire (the GAE) is outraged by Russia invading a sovereign country, or severing off a province by force, is nonsense, given their history in Iraq and Kosovo.

They are Hypocritical Globohomo Degeneration Imperialists, and Russia is the only one standing against them.

Go Putin !


113 posted on 07/21/2023 9:58:00 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: CFW
I know some people will say "Well this is war" but I really am not comfortable with this.

I guarantee: If you were a Ukrainian mother whose child's kindergarten had been rocket-bombed by Putin's Russia, you'd feel a lot more "comfortable."

Unless we were promoting some type of peace deal, we should have stayed far away.

But we (the Collective West) did promote a peace deal: Russia withdraws all of its invasion troops and goes home, and the war stops.

But instead, Putin chooses to continue his invasion.

Regards,

114 posted on 07/21/2023 10:16:10 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ansel12

You’re trying way too hard. How long have you been working for biden and zelensky?


115 posted on 07/21/2023 10:40:13 PM PDT by Boomer (The biden regime / identity politics is a clear and present threat to this constitutional republic.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

No, it’s an accurate description. You must fit the bill then too and it’s your back handed insult.


116 posted on 07/22/2023 3:22:23 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: Boomer

LOL, don’t be so dedicated to lying and spreading false information.


117 posted on 07/22/2023 5:22:21 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MeganC

Amen. Pootie should be cluster bombed


118 posted on 07/22/2023 7:12:54 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: CFW

If we had not gotten involved, Russia would be in Poland, past Germany & the Baltics, and working toward the UK.

The rest of your comment shows how little you have been paying attention


119 posted on 07/22/2023 7:16:09 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Reverend Wright

Oh Putin is going alright ... straight to hell.


120 posted on 07/22/2023 7:18:10 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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