Posted on 10/06/2022 6:25:59 AM PDT by dennisw
Comes after 48 hours of blistering offensives that have been captured on film and seen for the first time
Kyiv's men have also made gains in the north and east, as they push from Kharkiv and Donetsk into Luhansk Troops can be seen storming across fields in American-made Humvees, taking Russian fire as they advance
Ukraine has pushed Russia back by 12 miles in the south as dramatic footage reveals the blistering pace of attacks that have sent Putin's men fleeing for their lives.
Videos taken in Kherson in recent days show Ukrainian forces storming Russian defences in American-made Humvees under artillery fire, and soldiers advancing en masse across fields in the face of the retreating enemy.
Ukraine's offensive in Kherson - which has been grinding on for more than two months - entered a 'new phase' on October 2 with Kyiv's men advancing 12 miles down the Inhulets and Dnipro rivers, Britain's MoD said today.
Meanwhile more footage shows Ukrainian soldiers fighting near the city of Lyman, in the north of the country, which fell to Kyiv's men at the weekend - exposing other Russian positions in the Donbas to further attacks.
The slew of video was posted online by pro-Ukraine accounts after weeks of near-total silence from the frontlines as troops carried out their attacks against Russia.
But now, as they take territory and capture dozens of towns, footage documenting their battlefield heroics has been released.
Two particularly dramatic pieces of footage show American-made Humvees leading a charge across fields in Kherson as Russian artillery shells drop around them.
Navigating between shell-holes and what appear to be destroyed or abandoned Russian vehicles, the Humvees reach a tree-line and unload dozens of troops who then continue the attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Prigozhin-Kadyrov terrorist alliance forming against Russian Ministry of Defence (Shoigu).
Wagner PMC owner Prigozhin said he fully supports Kadyrov.
https://twitter.com/search?q=Prigozhin%20Kadyrov&src=typed_query&f=top
^^^^^^ Prigozhin and Kadyrov are plotting to oust Putin and Shoigu (my take)
Daily Mail!!!
Chris Pleasance!!
The Zeeper Daily Double!!!!
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1577983807839506433
Stremousov - Shoigu should shoot himself.
When you post articles could you please include a couple sentences attacking the article’s source?
Since the pro-Russian posters always do that anyway, and since the attack always seems to say the same thing, it would save everyone time.
lols..... It would save the Vlad Putin wing of Free Republic some time and effort. You cannot take the UK Daily Mail at 100%. I take it at 80% accuracy for this invasion of Ukraine
Good, that means they don’t need billions more of taxpayer dollars. Time to start defunding those crooks.
At first, no one could imagine that the Russo-Ukrainian war could begin. And yet it began. And now, no one can imagine how it will end. And yet end it will.
War is ultimately about politics. That Ukraine is winning on the battlefield matters because Ukraine is exerting pressure on Russian politics. Tyrants such as Putin exert a certain fascination, because they give the impression that they can do what they like. This is not true, of course; and their regimes are deceptively brittle. The war ends when Ukrainian military victories alter Russian political realities, a process which I believe has begun.
Unconfirmed rumors from Kherson: all school kids to be “evacuated” to holiday camps deeper into Russian held territory.
There is precedent: In Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia, school summer camps across borders have been a thing for years and in east Ukraine dozens of parents did send their kids to camp as planned before the SMO.
Those parents are still waiting for their kids to be returned. And bear in mind, those were mostly pro Russian parents, or Ukrainian parents prepared to give Russia the benefit of the doubt. After all, they wouldn’t abduct the kids from the families they were fighting for... Would they?
Unscheduled school bus trips from Kherson to Crimea without parental permission would take that kind of behavior to a whole new level. Any talk of child abduction and trafficking would have to be updated if Russian separatists start doing it on an industrial scale. If it does happen and it’s sanctioned by Moscow then Russia is copying Boko Haram.
State sponsor of terrorism.
If anyone wonders why there are Russian Ukrainians who were pro separatist 5 years ago, fighting on Ukraine’s side, ask yourself which side you’d be fighting on if the state did that not just to your kids but to all the kids in the school.
—”Since the pro-Russian posters always do that anyway, and since the attack always seems to say the same thing, it would save everyone time.”
On the surface, your suggestion sounds helpful, but most vatnicks have some reading comprehension issues and work best after multiple reinforcements on the topic, if at all.
If this article is even 80% accurate, it signals what may be coming soon. Putin, Medvedev, Kadyrov and others have repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons to protect “Russian” territory. If the Russian army is performing so poorly, and if Putin feels the heat from his inner circle to restore the credibility of the Army, then so-called tactical nukes may be on the near horizon. Once that genie is released, all bets are off. I wonder if the deep-thinkers in D.C., London and other places thought this through before entering into a proxy war with Russia and before funding a notably corrupt country with billions of dollars. Doubtful.
Of course, many Russian officers might think using nukes—even tactically—is just bad policy that will hurt Russia far more than help. That such actions might be the mark of Putin ultimate failure and will be a sign of his desperation.
In that case, orders won’t be followed.
In fact, I’ll bet plenty of Russian officers realize the disaster that the Ukraine invasion has become, and will be totally opposed to such measures, or even continuing to fight given the current situation. They might ask themselves; can we really win this? With or without nukes?
We shall see. I don’t want to risk it at all, but what can I do? Nothing. What will be will be.
I’m no fan of Putin, but what if the Russian regime is destabilized and someone even worse takes over? One strongman being replaced by another is more likely than some sane, peaceful, constitutional/democratic republic suddenly forming in Russia.
Good question, and one the ‘nation builders’ in the west have been entirely unconcerned with in recent years.
It appears to me that Russia is baiting Ukraine to take territory and then face the task of trying to take a city Russia holds, such as Kherson. If Ukaine wishes to oust Russia from Kherson it will have to mass forces necessary to conduct the block to block fighting that Russia did when it captured Mariupol. Remember that?
Even if this is not a Russian plan (i.e., baiting the Ukrainians) the outcome will be the same. Ukraine will have to conduct a frontal assault on the city of Kherson and, in order to do this, will have to mass troops and equipment that will be easy targets for Russian artillery, missiles and bombs. Ukraine has no military power to counter what Russia can unleash. So, if your panties are in a knot over “Russia losing territory”, I suggest you take a nap on the fainting couch and calm down.
With all the reported advances the media is citing for the Uke’s and the desertion of Russians, the Uke’s must now be on the outskirts of Moscow. Well, are they?
All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
Smolensk and Viasma soon fell
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel
Closer and closer to Moscow they come
Riding the wind like a bell
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill
Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads
Gluing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled with snow
And all that I ever was able to see
The fire in the air glowing red silhouetting the snow on the breeze
Ukraine ping
pif:[How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end?
Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you
Timothy Snyder 18 hr ago
At first, no one could imagine that the Russo-Ukrainian war could begin. And yet it began. And now, no one can imagine how it will end. And yet end it will.
War is ultimately about politics. That Ukraine is winning on the battlefield matters because Ukraine is exerting pressure on Russian politics. Tyrants such as Putin exert a certain fascination, because they give the impression that they can do what they like. This is not true, of course; and their regimes are deceptively brittle. The war ends when Ukrainian military victories alter Russian political realities, a process which I believe has begun.]
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/958828047
I have a feeling he cherry picks his history and engages excessively in wishful thinking.
All political leaders have tenures subject to challenges from underlings. The use of the word regime is deceptive. A single dictator’s reign is a regime by itself. A democratic regime spans the length of peaceful transitions of power, no matter how many leaders it went through. So Putin ‘s regime is brittle by definition - even if he rules until he dies a natural death in bed, aged 100, there’s no way he matches the 2 century plus tenure of the American republic.
The fact is Putin has outlasted 4 US presidents. His political longevity springs from a single source - he handcrafted the security services with which he imprisons or kills any credible challengers to his rule. Of course there are people looking to fill Putin’s seat. But unlike democratic leaders, he can physically remove them from contention.
The preponderance of reporting as of late seems to show progress of the Ukranians in fighting back Russian invaders, and real failings of the Russian war machine. Does this go against your preferred narrative? If not, why the hyperbole? No one thinks the ability or the goal of Ukraine is to invade Russia.
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