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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost the most important airplane in Belarus
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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia lost the most important airplane in Belarus
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ARTICLE
On Ukraine front, civilians cling on as troops repel Russia
The town of Vuhledar has become one of the deadliest hot spots on the largely static front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces that stretches hundreds of kilometers (miles) in eastern Ukraine
ByMSTYSLAV CHERNOV and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press
February 26, 2023, 7:47 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukraine-front-civilians-cling-troops-repel-russia-97473167
On Ukraine front, civilians cling on as troops repel Russia
The town of Vuhledar has become one of the deadliest hot spots on the largely static front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces that stretches hundreds of kilometers (miles) in eastern Ukraine
VUHLEDAR, Ukraine — The murky water oh so slowly trickles from the filthy drainpipe into her grimy container — the ticking seconds ramping up the risk that Emilia Budskaya could lose life or limb to Russian artillery strikes torturing her front-line town in eastern Ukraine.
Gaping gashes from shrapnel in the courtyard walls around her testify to the dangers of venturing outside — exposed and without the body armor that Ukrainian soldiers defending Vuhledar wear when they emerge from their bunkers.
But Budskaya and her daughter need water to cling on and survive, to eke out another day in the ruins.
And so they wait — tick, tick, tick — for the container to fill, for Budskaya to then pour the water into plastic bottles and — tick, tick, tick — for her to then start the process again until their bottles are filled.
Picking their way through the debris and mud, they carry their bounty back to the dark basement that now passes for their home.
“We have no water, nothing,” Budskaya says. “I’m getting rain water to wash dishes and hands.”
On the largely static front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces that stretches over hundreds of kilometers (miles), from the Black Sea in the south to Ukraine’s northeastern border with Russia, Vuhledar has become one of the deadliest hot spots.
It has joined Bakhmut, Marinka and other cities and towns, particularly in fiercely contested eastern Ukraine, as evidence of a grinding and destructive war of attrition, as well as symbols of fierce Ukrainian resistance.
By defending their ruins, Ukrainian forces are slowing costly Russian offensive efforts to extend Moscow’s control over the entirety of eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region. It became Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revised target for conquest after his forces were beaten back from the capital, Kyiv, and northern Ukraine in the invasion’s opening stage a year ago.
Ukrainian soldiers are paying a heavy price, too, but say their sacrifices are wearing down waves of troops and equipment that Moscow is throwing into battle.
In Bakhmut, a soldier who allowed himself to be identified only by his war name, “Expert,” said the pulverized city in the Donbas’ Donetsk region “has become a stronghold “ for Ukraine.
“See what they have done to it?” he said of Russian forces that have been pounding Bakhmut for months, slowly inching forward with heavy casualties to capture a prize that, if it falls, might allow Moscow to argue that the invasion is making progress.
“And this is not the only city,” the soldier, who fights in a Ukrainian rapid response unit, added. “I wish they would break their teeth trying to chew it.”
Battlefields around Vuhledar, southwest of Bakhmut and also in the Donetsk region, bear witness to the precious equipment and manpower that Russia is expending, with little territorial gain. Tanks and other armored fighting vehicles blown up by mines or stopped in their tracks by Ukrainian strikes are clumped together on the blasted, cratered terrain.
Although Russia has seized most of the Luhansk region that also forms part of the Donbas, the adjacent Donetsk region remains roughly divided between Ukrainian and Russian control.
Ukraine’s military said Sunday that Russian assaults in the east remain concentrated on Bakhmut and other objectives.
Russian forces include mercenaries of the notorious Wagner Group, a private military company that has recruited fighters from prisons and tossed them into combat, with high casualty rates. Its millionaire owner with longtime links to Putin, former convicted felon Yevgeny Prigozhin, said Saturday that his fighters had advanced into a settlement on Bakhmut’s northern outskirts. The Ukrainian military disputed that claim, saying Russian forces were repelled.
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko reported three civilians killed and four wounded in Russian strikes on Saturday. Vuhledar and its surroundings were also intensely shelled, he said. Further along the front line, in the southern Kherson region also split between Ukrainian and Russian control, Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin reported two civilians killed and seven injured in 78 Russian strikes on the region on Saturday.
On patrol in Vuhledar’s ruins, hurrying down muddy paths to take cover behind pockmarked walls, Ukrainian soldiers said their fight was larger than for control of the city.
“We fight for our children, for our fellow Ukrainians, for our nation,” said a marine with the war name “Moryak.”
“Because I think what Russia is doing now is genocide of Ukrainians. And Ukrainians don’t have another option but to win.”
In other developments Sunday:
— Marking the anniversary of Russia’s occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed confidence the peninsula’s return to Ukrainian control would be part of an end to the war.
“This is our land. Our people. Our history. We will return the Ukrainian flag to every corner of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price repeated Sunday that “the United States does not and never will recognize Russia’s purported annexation of the peninsula. Crimea is Ukraine.”
Asked whether the United States would support a Ukrainian military effort to retake Crimea, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union”: “What ultimately happens with Crimea in the context of this war and a settlement of this war is something for the Ukrainians to determine, with the support of the United States.”
The Ukrainian military said Sunday that Russian forces were building fortifications in Crimea to strengthen their defense, allegedly bringing 150 Russian conscripts from Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, close to the Ural mountains, to perform engineering work.
— Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Farhan bin Faisal visited Kyiv to sign an agreement under which Riyadh will provide humanitarian aid and financing for purchases of oil derivatives purchases. “We hope this helps ease the suffering of the Ukrainian people during this humanitarian crisis,” he said of the agreement that is worth $400 million.
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John Leicester in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Elise Morton in London contributed to this report.
Hey Denys dosey doe.
You better get busy. Your slipping.
VIDEOS
1. 26 Feb: Russians BREACH THE LAST DEFENSE LINE Around Bakhmut | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
2-26-2023 7:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-X8Zaev5o4
2. Russians Fleeing Putin’s War Reach the US-Mexico Border
VICE News
8.43M subscribers
Feb 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fz1przuo0c
Since the start of Putin’s invasion in Ukraine, thousands of Russian men and families have fled, the majority escaping Russia’s military draft. Many are making their way to Mexico where they spend weeks on end waiting to enter the United States and claim asylum.
3. Ukrainian resolve to hold Bakhmut | World News | TVP World
TVP World [TVP is a Polish public broadcast service]
289K subscribers
Feb 26, 2023 5:30 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnjr7t8rmk
Hmmmm… enquiring minds want to know if it would be an ACT OF WAR AGAINST POLAND if Belarus would conduct a drone attack on a UKRAINIAN AIRPLANE PARKED ON A POLISH AIRFIELD?
Well, would it be?
Think of the money that could be made in a WIDER WAR. Just sayin’.
Perhaps God wants us to pray for Putin’s invasion?
ARTICLE
“Inside Zelensky’s war rooms: Ukrainian president reveals underground bunker in Kyiv where he is holed up away from family as he shows off his wartime wardrobe, single bed below flat screen TV and bust of Winston Churchill on his desk”
By Elizabeth Haigh
Published: 07:57 EST, 26 February 2023 | Updated: 15:55 EST, 26 February 2023
Ukrainian President Zelensky has given an insight into his top-secret war rooms inside a bunker in Kyiv where he has lived for the past year to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
In an interview with Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Komarov, Zelensky showed Ukrainians around the small space where he makes vital decisions, holds crunch meetings and telephones heads of state from all around the world.
Recalling the first hours of the war, Zelensky described rushing to his war rooms after being informed of Putin’s invasion in the early hours of February 24, 2022.
He left immediately, without even waking his wife: ‘I love my family, but for me as president, being here was the priority.’
In a documentary project by Mr Komarov titled ‘Year’, footage from the president’s base included a tour of Zelensky’s bedroom, hidden wardrobe and office space.
On his desk lie models of planes and a photograph of him and his wife Olena, along with their two children, as well as a bust of wartime leader Winston Churchill.
His office is also bedecked in models of tanks and a Ukrainian flag.
Showing Mr Komarov a large room complete with tables and chairs, President Zelensky shared his initial memories and thoughts with the Ukrainian people.
He said: ‘It’s very difficult to remember all the details. I got a call that it all had started.
‘We woke up with my wife, my family, my son, my daughter [asleep]. I definitely thought about waking the kids up, packing up everyone.
‘To tell the kids what is happening, that the war had started. They are adults, they must understand what’s happening.
‘I left very fast. I love my family, but for me as president, being here was the priority.’
He added his family then joined him hours later after security forces decided it was too dangerous for them to remain separate from Zelensky.
Zelensky then showed the journalist his official office, where he has made the vast majority of his videos sharing updates on the war and asking for help from western nations.
He spoke to 27 national leaders on the morning of February 24, Zelesnky told Mr Komarov, sitting in his desk chair next to the phone he has so often been pictured using.
Zelensky said he did not have time to consider the impact of the war upon his marriage or separation from family: ‘We didn’t have tome for such romance, because we’ve been kind of busy.’
He continued: ‘The only thing I remember I was thinking about [after the invasion] was this office, the phones, the team I have to gather now.’
As well as ample office space, Zelensky’s war rooms are complete with a wardrobe filled almost exclusively with khaki and war-time clothing.
Zelensky has not been seen in a suit since the beginning of the invasion, but does have the one he last wore as war broke out tucked safely away in the wardrobe.
It is otherwise filled by clothes in various shades of green and black, with military-style boots at the bottom.
Describing the moment he changed into his war-time outfit, Zelensky said: ‘Internally, at that moment, all of us had already changed.
‘Everything had changed. Life had changed. And it was impossible to return to what was before.’
He added he has kept his last-worn suit as a ‘symbol’: ‘We will win soon, so we will wear suits again.’
The footage shows Zelensky’s small bedroom, complete with a single bed and sink.
He said: ‘I live here. This is my home. I have lived here for a year.’
Zelensky continues to reside at the heart of his country despite being warned by security forces to leave for his own safety.
‘I was told to pack up, because I was a target, that they have to do everything they can to get me to a safe place.
‘I didn’t think about what might happen, about myself. This is not about bravery.
‘I thought about the consequences of my leaving and what would happen. The responsibility is on me.
If I leave, no-one will ask afterwards about who suggested it. There will be only the result: you have abandoned your state.
‘I think [that is] betrayal.’
He has more than three million subscribers to his YouTube channel as he seeks to continue reporting from throughout the country.
Ukraine continues to launch a staunch defense of its territory with the assistance of military equipment from western nations.
Good point. It would be similar to launching missiles from Polish airspace, or permitting Ukrainians to transit Polish territory to attack Russia from Poland.
Ah, wait, that’s what Belorussia has already permitted Russia to do.
A very small Stalingrad, but there have been several others in this war already. Severodonetsk, Mariupol, etc.
The media has turned Bahkmut into a “Stalingrad” but in reality it is of little strategic value and the Ukrainians are making a mistake by staying in place getting the crap shelled out of them.
VIDEOS
1. “One year of war: Key moments in Russia’s invasion in Ukraine”
Daily Mail
2-26-2023
VIDEO https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11795009/Zelenskys-war-rooms-Ukrainian-president-reveals-bunker-wartime-wardrobe-bust-Churchill.html#v-6568631699740343637
2. Russian equipment was hit, those sheltering in houses subjected to fire - battle on Bakhmut streets
Kanal13
1.45M subscribers
2-26-2023 7:00 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTf3FWwDCLw
“ Bakhmut sounds like Stalingrad all over again.”
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Maybe a micro-mini Stalingrad. In any case, I understand that the Ukrainians got all their experienced “regular” army troops out of Bakhmut and replaced them with lesser numbers of “territorial” cannon fodder units… probably stuffed with as many conscripted ethnic Russians as they could round up.
Ukraine about to lose most important Bakhmut and possibly 5000 troops next week.....as the encirclement progresses.
After so many months of trying to take Bakhmut, only so they can say that they took something.
Map
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1630008690253103105?s=20
That’s about the 47th grand encirclement Putinists have been touting since Mariupol.
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