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Putin humiliated again as Ukraine ambush 'forces chief commander to flee country'
Express UK ^ | 5.1.2022 | Oil Smith

Posted on 05/01/2022 3:46:57 PM PDT by libh8er

VLADIMIR PUTIN's war effort was dealt one of its biggest blows to date yesterday when a surprise Ukrainian ambush attack killed dozens of Russian reinforcement troops and reportedly forced one of the Kremlin's top military commanders to flee the country.

The devastating attack is a huge blow to the Kremlin after President Putin had personally sent General Gerasimov to rescue the stalled war ahead of the May 9 Victory Day parade. General Gerasimov, who is the chief of staff of the Russian army, had been sent to the region to take personal control of the all-out assault on the Donbas region.

Russia has shifted its focus from taking Kyiv to seizing territory in eastern Ukraine following a series of retreats.

Footage of the ambush near the city of Izium was later released by the Ukrainian military and shared widely online.

The video of the strikes shows a series of coordinated explosions, before smoke billows into the air.

The attack, in the key battleground region of Kharkiv, is understood to have targeted a senior Russian military planning command post.

The blasts left a "large number of causalities among senior Russian officers" according to a Ukrainian political advisor.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 05/01/2022 3:46:57 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

In other Ministry of Truth doublespeak news; war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.


2 posted on 05/01/2022 3:50:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Your bat-excrement crazy mental illness does not impose an obligation upon me to deny reality.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Waiting for the ‘Martians have a secret base on the dark side of the moon’ or ‘Elvis alive and well and living in Papua New Guinea Highlands: Cargo Cult’


3 posted on 05/01/2022 3:59:58 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s what we get when the MSM presstitutes band together as one, with one NWO Deep State Cabal narrative, while shutting out any other sources (like, f’rinstance, Russia’s RT news - not even on Telegram ATM).

Remember, at best we have two enemedias - AP and Reuters. And, I believe AP bought Reuters awhile ago. Unless it was the other way around.


4 posted on 05/01/2022 4:01:23 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: libh8er

Wow, Ukraine is playing a super intel game, they had to be ready and prepared ahead of time for this to work. No other explanation is possible.


5 posted on 05/01/2022 4:10:53 PM PDT by dila813
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To: libh8er

From what I gather, Gerasimov departed before the attack. It was a visit, not a relocation of the General and his staff. You don’t keep a 4-star and his staff in an active combat zone very long. Even the visit was a bit risky. Too bad they did’t get him. Pretty bad OPSEC by the Russians that Ukes knew of the visit.


6 posted on 05/01/2022 4:15:00 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: libh8er; All

Don’t you think if all these British tabloid reports were true they would be all over CNN, FNC and all the other US media outlets.


7 posted on 05/01/2022 4:47:58 PM PDT by McGruff (Not our circus, not our moneys)
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To: ETCM

UPDATE - Yesterday’s #Ukraine attack on the Rus. HQ in #Izium was designed to liquidate the high-value target - chief of Gen. Staff of RAF Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov. The Kremlin sent him to get a victory for the May 9 parade. Gerasimov was close to the blast but wounded.

https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/status/1520757617437683713


8 posted on 05/01/2022 4:48:16 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: libh8er

I thought all the generals were dead.


9 posted on 05/01/2022 4:56:18 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Here’s the video of the strike - the first hit to the building was said to be a precision arty round - this is where the Officers were gathered. The rest of the hits were MRLs that were said to take out troops, tanks and other vehicles bivouacked in the wooded areas.

Sorry about the facebook link but was only one I could find.

Higher definition video of MLRS strikes by Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade on a reported Russian command post in Zabavne near Izyum.
https://www.facebook.com/NGUmainpage/videos/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F-%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%83-%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%96%D0%B7%D1%8E%D0%BC%D1%81%D1%8C/335665631890682/


10 posted on 05/01/2022 4:58:53 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: libh8er

Must’ve been the Ghost of Kiev that done it!!


11 posted on 05/01/2022 6:23:24 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: libh8er

False.


12 posted on 05/01/2022 6:36:12 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: ETCM

Any possibility the report is false?


13 posted on 05/01/2022 9:55:14 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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14 posted on 05/02/2022 6:47:51 AM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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