Posted on 04/20/2024 9:54:50 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Today, We Received a Decision – the U.S. Assistance, Which Will Be Felt by Both the Warriors on the Frontline, and the Cities and Villages Suffering from Russian Terror – Address by the President 20 April 2024 - 21:30
Dear Ukrainians!
From early morning today, various regions of our country have been experiencing air alerts and Russian strikes. From the east to the south... Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk regions, Kherson and the region, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. Missiles, drone strikes, artillery. There is a lot of destruction — houses, port infrastructure, and energy facilities. There are casualties and, unfortunately, fatalities.
My condolences to their families and loved ones. Throughout the day, our air defense system was in action, there were responses to Russian strikes, the rescuers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and all the services performed their duties.
But this day is still a little different. Today, we received the long-awaited decision: the American support package we've been fighting for so hard. And it is a very significant package that will be felt by both our warriors on the frontline and our cities and villages suffering from Russian terror. The U.S. House of Representatives voted today.
I thank everyone who supported our package – this is a life-saving decision. I am grateful personally to Speaker Mike Johnson, to all American hearts who, like us in Ukraine, feel that Russian evil definitely should not prevail. I hope that the package will be considered in the U.S. Senate and submitted to President Biden’s desk quickly enough.
We appreciate every manifestation of support for our state and independence, for our people, and for our lives that Russia wants to bury in ruins. America has shown its leadership from the very first days of this war. And this kind of American leadership is crucial for the maintenance of an international order in the world based on rules and predictability of life for all nations. We will certainly use American support to strengthen both our nations and bring a just end to this war closer – a war that Putin must lose.
And I thank the entire Ukrainian team, everyone who works and does everything to bring this outcome closer. I thank all the representatives of our state, all our diplomats who are working to increase the support for Ukraine, all the representatives of the public sector, every volunteer, all the friends of Ukraine. I am grateful to my team. The world unites for Ukraine when Ukrainians unite for independence.
And today I would like to honor those of our people who have shown their best in the aftermath of the Russian strikes over the week – helping people, protecting lives. These are the employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, our medical workers, police officers. Everyone who works on the scene after the hits. Everyone who rescues people from under the rubble, stops fires, and saves the injured. Thank you all!
I would like to mention some of them in particular... Dnipro: Denys Mikheyev, Artem Serha, Dmytro Nikolayenko – these guys are from the State Emergency Service. Vitaliy Arkhypov – an emergency doctor in the Dnipro region, Yevhen Holitsyn – an emergency feldsher. I would also like to mention the police officers: Oleksiy Bondarenko and Vitaliy Andriyanov. Thank you! Karyna Kolisnychenko – a dog handler from the Pavlohrad search and rescue unit. Thank you for every life saved.
Odesa, SES: Yuriy Sukhorukov, Vitaliy Telehus and Artem Kopechynskyi. Thank you, guys!
Chernihiv: Artem Lysenko – a firefighter, Vadym Avramenko and Maksym Zhylko – also employees of the SES in the region, as well as police officers Andriy Vovk and Bohdan Tkachuk. Thank you! I am also grateful to Natalia Nosenok, a nurse who really cares about people and helps them.
I am grateful to everyone who cares about Ukrainians, about life in our country, about their city, their community, about our entire country! And I am especially thankful to each of our warriors. To all those who destroy the Russian occupier, who hold the frontline and thus preserve Ukraine on the world map. We are doing everything to ensure that our warriors have as many opportunities as possible so that this war ends as soon as possible on our terms, Ukrainian terms.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4KyoB6dNo&t=1s
Their support of the leftist war machine on this site is sickening.
If it hurts America, they love it.
If it hurts America, they love it.
I remember when this site was fun. 99% of the posters were friendly and 99.9% were pro-America Conservatives.
Now it's like wading through a cesspool...anti-America, anti-Christian, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, globalist, neocon, foreigners, leftists...
Thank God for the FReepers who love God and this country and what it stands for. It's a pleasure chatting with them.
“bloodthirsty warmonger”
False accusation.
Each of us have freedom of thought and of expression.
I am not here to dictate and impose my point of view on others.
Let us respect that we each share mutual freedom of thought and of expression regardless of our differing viewpoints.
“She’s so transparent.”
WOW! How ironic...
I believe you are ‘so transparent.’
>>>>Each of us have freedom of thought and of expression.
I am not here to dictate and impose my point of view on others.
Let us respect that we each share mutual freedom of thought and of expression regardless of our differing viewpoints.<<<<
You repeat yourself ad nauseam, copying and pasting the same phrases over and over.
Is it because the Ukrainian Ministry of Propaganda provides you with a script?
Each of us have freedom of thought and of expression.
I am not here to dictate and impose my point of view on others.
Let us respect that we each share mutual freedom of thought and of expression regardless of our differing views.
Can the gray rock be far behind? 😄
ARTICLE
US House Speaker changed his mind on Ukraine aid after reviewing intelligence and reports of Russian war crimes
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA
Ivanna Kostina, KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Sunday, 21 April 2024
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/21/7452278/
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, reportedly changed his mind about aid for Ukraine – following months of refusing to vote on the Ukraine aid bill without also implementing measures to secure the US southern border – after reviewing intelligence and reports of Russian war crimes.
SOURCE: The New York Times (NYT)
DETAILS:
“For weeks after the Senate passed a sprawling aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, Speaker Mike Johnson agonised over whether and how the House would take up funding legislation that would almost certainly infuriate the right wing of his party and could cost him his job,” the NYT wrote.
Johnson met with top national security officials, including CIA Director William Burns, in the Oval Office to discuss classified intelligence and held numerous meetings with groups of Republicans from different districts to understand their voters’ attitudes toward funding Ukraine.
Finally, when his plan to work with Democrats to clear the way for aiding Ukraine met with opposition from ultraconservative Republicans who threatened to depose him, Johnson, an evangelical Christian, “knelt and prayed for guidance”, according to the NYT.
“I want to be on the right side of history,” Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, recalled Speaker Johnson saying.
Johnson’s decision to risk his speakership to push the US$95 billion foreign aid bill through the House on Saturday was the culmination of what the NYT described as Johnson’s “remarkable personal and political arc”.
“History judges us for what we do,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol last week. “This is a critical time right now. I could make a selfish decision and do something that’s different. But I’m doing here what I believe to be the right thing. I think providing lethal aid to Ukraine right now is critically important.”
Johnson attributed his change of mind in part to the intelligence briefings he received.
“I really do believe the intel,” Johnson said. “I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed. I think he might go to the Baltics next. I think he might have a showdown with Poland or one of our NATO allies.”
People familiar with the discussions told the NYT that one of the most impactful briefings took place in February 2024 in the Oval Office, when congressional leaders met with US President Joe Biden to discuss government funding and aid for Ukraine. During the meeting, Burns and other top national security officials sought to convince Johnson that Ukraine was rapidly running out of ammunition, and that if Ukrainian air defences were no longer reinforced by American weaponry, the consequences would be dire.
Convinced that they would come around to his way of thinking, Johnson repeatedly urged Republicans who opposed funding Ukraine to receive the same intelligence briefings.
Johnson was also struck by the stories he heard in meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others about the suffering and misery Russian forces have unleashed across Ukraine. This tugged at Johnson’s “sense of Christian faith”.
During a meeting with select lawmakers, Johnson “made it pretty clear that if we didn’t get this done in April, that it could be too late for Ukraine,” Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, said.
BACKROUND:
On 20 April, the US House of Representatives approved a bill to provide about $61 billion in military aid for Ukraine, with 311 representatives voting in favour of the bill and 112 against.
• The bill will now be submitted to the Senate as an amendment to the Senate bill on foreign aid, HR.815, which was passed in February. This should simplify the procedure for approving the package in the Senate.
• US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that US senators will come out of recess to vote on aid to Ukraine on Tuesday 23 April.
• US President Joe Biden has promised to sign the approved aid bill.
ARTICLE
Fire broke out in Russia’s Moscow Oblast
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA
Olha Hlushchenko
Monday, 22 April 2024, 00:10
Fire have broke out in Moscow Oblast, Russia has engulfed an area of 1,200 sq. m.
SOURCE:
Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations
DETAILS:
After 23:30, they reported fire in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast, which had broken out in a production building.
Early reports estimate that the fire covers an area of 1,200 sq. m.
A fire in Moscow Oblast. Photo: Prosecutor's Office of the Moscow Region Fire have broke out in Moscow Oblast, Russia has engulfed an area of 1,200 sq. m.
There is no underground market for Patriot missiles, 155mm shells, GMLRS rockets, etc.
There are very few buyers, as they need the wherewithal to use these things, and more important, US technical support, or high-end Euro country tech support.
These arent RPGs.
Thanks for the communist propaganda. Read the bill
Well, first, I don't know what school you went to, but in the old days, schools used to teach that words like yours of "clown" are not arguments and will never persuade anyone of anything except your own clown-like nature, FRiend.
Second, it seems that unlike you, I've actually watched Joe Bloggs videos about Russia.
They all review data published by the Russian government itself.
How truthful is Russian government data?
Likely not so much, a fact which Joe Bloggs frequently acknowledges.
Russian government data is intended to put Russian numbers in the best possible light, and yet, sometimes they reveal perhaps more of the real truth than they intended.
In the case of Russia's reported growth in GDP, its own data shows the collapse of Russia's pre-war energy sector and the rapid growth of it's non-energy sectors.
What is Russia's non-energy sector?
There's only one that is growing rapidly, and that is defense spending, which according to Russia's own numbers has tripled since 2020 and is now around 40% of Russia's federal budget, or 9% of GDP.
This is the kind of reporting Joe Bloggs does, which may seem "clownish" to you, but perhaps, is that because you've been spending way too much time in the anti-Ukraine circus tent?
Or was, in, say 1995, when both Russia and Ukraine were ranked among the world's most corrupt countries.
NATO countries.
Aspirants include Ukraine, Georgia and Bosnia:
Corruption perceptions, red=most corrupt
Russians in Khabarovsk line up in "Z" formation
in 2022 to demonstrate their support for Putin's invasion of Ukraine
Drago: "I guess the “Z Man” thinks he has the Senate bought & paid for??"
First, it's curious how the letter "Z" was Russia's own symbol for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and yet our anti-Ukers have weaponized the "Z" symbol to mock Ukrainians with.
For Russians, their "Z" refers to "Za pobedy", meaning "for victory" in Ukraine.
In Ukrainian, "for victory" is transliterated to: "Za peremohu", though there is no record I can find of Ukrainians using that "Z" symbol for such purposes.
Russian 2022 mural in Yelabuga, with "Z" symbol
and the words, "Truth is With Us"
As for the US senate, you can fuhgeddaboudit, because the only man who's support for or against Ukraine matters right now is this one, and he does support US aid for Ukraine, last time I checked:
Of course you are sick, FRiend, you can't possibly not be sick after drinking Russian propaganda Koolaid from the Kremlin's disinformation sewer pipes.
That nonsense is intended to make you sick and the only way to get well again is to Stop Drinking It.
First and foremost, there is no connection -- none, zero, zip, nada, zilch connection -- between Ukraine aid and the US Southern Border.
That's because the fact is: Democrats don't care about Ukraine aid nearly as much as they care about keeping our borders open.
In other words, Democrats will happily blame defeat of Ukrainians on Republicans, rather than give up their own open-borders policies.
So you can never negotiate Democrats into closing our borders -- they won't do it, not now, not ever or for any reason.
The US borders will only be closed, and immigration laws enforced, when Democrats are defeated in, hopefully, the next election.
I'm saying, you can fuhgeddaboud weaponizing Ukraine aid to force Democrats to close the borders, they won't do it, period.
Second of all, surely you realize that calling Ukraine's Pres. Zelenskyy "sick" is simply you projecting your own cognitive dissonances onto him?
The truth is that Zelenskyy is doing the hero's job of leading the defense of his country against overwhelming numbers of Russian "meat wave" assault troops, tanks and heavy artillery.
So Zelenskyy may well feel desperate facing near-certain defeat, but his courage and skills are recognized around the world and he will be honored among heros, just as Vlad the Invader will be condemned among the great monsters of history.
All this you'd know perfectly well, and you'd feel perfectly well too, if you just stop drinking the Russian propaganda KoolAid, FRiend.
Drivelous balderdash.........
You worry about money when you should be concerned with life
LOL - an illiterate leftist attempting to wax philosophical. Thanks for the laugh.
But you’re not smart enough to post to me.
So don’t.
“Communist propaganda” based off of a cartoon? 😂 You zeepers sure are humorless drama queens.
You’re just mad because it pokes fun at Biden and Zelensky.
If you don’t like those two crooks being ridiculed, perhaps a conservative forum isn’t the place for you. Have a nice day, now.
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