Posted on 03/13/2023 4:05:09 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has awarded the Hero of Ukraine to a soldier whose execution by machine gun fire was filmed by Russian forces.
The soldier was identified as Oleksandr Igorevich Matsievskyi by Ukraine’s security services after speculation about his identity followed the publishing of the grim video that captured his death.
In his nightly address, Zelenskiy said Matsievskyi had become a symbol of resistance to the Ukrainian people.
“Today I conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine upon Oleksandr Matsievskyi, a soldier,” he said. “A man whom all Ukrainians will know. A man who will be remembered for ever. For his bravery, for his confidence in Ukraine and for his ‘Glory to Ukraine!’”
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That looks phony. When do Biden, Mitch and Graham get their “Hero of Ukraine” medals?
The video doesn’t look phony.
Just like the Jan 6th clown committee videos didn’t look phony, but they were manipulated to create a lie,
Don’t you have to be a tranny to get an award? Maybe that’s only in the U.S...?
No, the execution looks authentic, and it seems they know who the soldier was.
“”Don’t you have to be a tranny to get an award? Maybe that’s only in the U.S...?””
An American Green Beret was just awarded the Medal of Honor 10 days ago, why you call him a “tranny”, I don’t know.
Why you are saying I called him a tranny I don’t know.
First off..I asked in the form of a question.
And second you must not be able discern when someone is being sarcastic?
“”Don’t you have to be a tranny to get an award? Maybe that’s only in the U.S...?””
Read your childish statement, and he is in the U.S.
yeah, well.... a lot of good that award will do him
The Putin fan bois are a visceral bunch this morning.
Aside from each other, no one listens to them. Yet they yap like the little Yorkie that lives next door to me.
You say you were being sarcastic. I don’t think you were. You were trying to be an edgy Russian. Perhaps your comrades think it was amusing.
I know some folks with V devices on their Bronze stars…and a silver star winner. Trust me, those “trannies” might have something to say about your comment. But, I imagine they would prefer to educate you with their fists and boots.
Being recognized for one’s courage is a good thing among warriors, and frequently that courage is revealed in the dying.
The situation on the ground is pretty straightforward. The Wagner Group is advancing on all fronts around Bakhmut and has fire control of key roads the Ukrainians need for resupply. Warming temperatures are turning the fields to the west of Bakhmut into mud, making vehicle access or egress very difficult for Ukrainian forces. The Wagner Group, with massive support from the Russian Army’s logistics command, has a decided advantage in artillery, shells, rockets, Anti-Tank Guided Missiles, medical support, food, electronic warfare and man power. ###
Russia’s defense industry is running full tilt and is producing the artillery shells, tanks, missiles and planes that Russia requires to destroy the Ukrainian military. Ukraine, even with Western support, has no answer for this.
Update on conflict in Ukraine for March 13, 2023;
- Bakhmut continues to be encircled by Russian forces;
- The Western media is reporting conflicting claims by Ukraine and Russia regarding steep losses inflicted on opposing sides;
- The West claims Ukraine is inflicting huge losses on Russian forces and that Bakhmut has little strategic value;
- The Western media, however, also admits Ukraine is outgunned between 3:1 to 4:1 in terms of artillery and despite claims that Russia has lost 20,000-30,000 troops around Bakhmut alone, the BBC’s own project verifying Russian losses says as of March 2023 Russia’s 1 year total losses stand at 16,000;
- A counteroffensive by Ukraine may lead to temporary gains, just as in Aleppo, Syria in 2016, however the fundamentals leading to Bakhmut’s encirclement have not been addressed, therefore any gains risk being reversed;
- A Ukrainian counteroffensive on any major scale will divert troops meant for Kiev’s spring offensive, diminishing the combat potential of other upcoming offensives;
- Poland’s military build-up is being hyped by the Western media, however Polish ambitions would see the creation of a military force roughly the size of Ukraine’s military at the beginning of 2022;
- Poland’s build-up will take years to complete
Again?
Stalingrad, Berlin, Bakhmut. One of these is not like the other. Everything is fake and Potemkin in Putin’s Russia.
It obvious, too, that guns were pointed at the POW when he told his Russian Nazi murderers to go DIAF. This man’s courage in the face of evil is something that the Kremlin buttsniffers will never understand. And that’s why they hate him.
Like whatever.
K,tough guy...or,you know some tough guys?
My remark was actually a sarcastic reference to the trannies who have gotten awards lately..like the dude from south America.
You kma..over and out.
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