Posted on 02/26/2022 3:23:46 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rallied his people, but in a worrying sign for Ukraine, video from Russia’s Western border with Ukraine showed TOS-1 heavy flamethrower tanks moving towards its neighbour. The tanks are capable of firing high-power thermobaric weapons – dubbed the ‘father of all bombs’.
This is right up there with “remember the Alamo” legend that created the state of Texas, and the “let’s roll!” uttered by Todd Beamer on doomed airliner Flight 93 on 9/11, as civilians decided to give their lives fighting Islamic terrorists. Yesterday, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, responding to a United States offer to be airlifted to safety, simply said “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo”. And with that, the Ukraine people have rallied to stage a truly impressive fight against the feared Russian army of Vladimir Putin. But is it enough?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have started out as a comedian who got elected president of Ukraine, but no one is laughing now as one of the greatest displays of bravery in recent memory is on full display. And yes, Ukrainian soldiers have killed over 3,500 of Putin’s storm troopers, and captured another 200, something no one saw coming. But are we to believe that Vladimir Putin has spent the last 21 years planning the invasion of Ukraine just to lose it in a week? Something tells me that Putin is about to up the ante, and do something truly horrific. Please keep the brave Ukrainian people in your prayers this weekend, and join us for our Sunday Service where we will pray for them as a church family.
If Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Kyiv can hold off the Russian advance on Kyiv for 10 days, the Kremlin may have to enter negotiations FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: The head of Britain’s MI6 Secret Intelligence Service has said be believes Russia’s war in Ukraine will prove ‘unwinnable’ because President Vladimir Putin will never attain political victory over the country’s people.
Richard Moore, the chief of MI6, wrote how a report suggesting Putin’s forces will ultimately fail in Ukraine because it underestimated its neighbour’s military strength and fierce determination ‘makes sense to me’. The article Moor, 58, was reacting to was penned by Lawrence Freedman, the Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London.
In the article titled ‘A Reckless Gamble’, Professor Freedman said Putin had ‘become obsessed with Ukraine, and prone to outrageous theories which appear as pretexts for war but which may also reflect his views.’ He wrote that victory for Moscow does not come in the form of a successful invasion that overthrows Ukraine’s government, but with winning over the people of Ukraine. This, the professor writes, is something Russia does not have the strength for.
‘EVEN IF THE GOVERNMENT LOSES CONTROL OF THE CAPITAL AND IS FORCED TO FLEE, AND THE COMMAND SYSTEMS FOR UKRAINIAN FORCES START TO BREAK DOWN, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT RUSSIA HAS WON THE WAR,’ HE WROTE.
In an unusual move for the chief of MI6, Moor shared the article with his over 130,000 Twitter followers, writing: ‘Fascinating. Makes sense to me.’
In a rebuke of Putin’s human rights record, Moor also wrote around the same time in a separate tweet: ‘With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard-won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights.’ Moor’s endorsement of the article came as other intelligence sources claimed Putin’s war with Ukraine is not going to plan due to Kremlin ‘overconfidence’, poor tactical planning, and ‘shock’ at the fierce resistance put up by brave Ukrainians fighting for their nation’s survival.
Dramatic video on Saturday showed a destroyed Russian convoy with Z-markings near Kherson in the south of the country on the third day of fighting after Ukraine’s army held control of Kyiv and last night successfully repelled Russian advances on the capital.
In addition to the video of the destroyed convoy, another video purportedly showed the destruction of a 20-vehicle Russia military column in Kharkiv. Images of the carnage is the snow – from which it is suspected there were no survivors – appear to show Putin’s invasion suffering brutal losses. Kyiv’s defence ministry has so far put Russia’s losses at around 2,800 troops, 80 tanks, 516 armoured vehicles, and 10 airplanes and seven helicopters so far.
The Russian army has now been ordered to broaden its advance ‘from all directions’, with Kyiv residents braced Saturday for another night sheltering underground, as Russian troops closed in on the capital and skirmishes were reported on the outskirts. However, a senior US defence officials claimed Russia is facing more resistance than Moscow anticipated in its invasion of Ukraine, and appears to have lost some of its momentum. Professor Freedman’s article backed this theory. He wrote: ‘Despite the superiority of Russian forces they made less progress than might have been expected on the first day of the war when they had the advantages of tactical surprise and potentially overwhelming numbers.
‘THE UKRAINIANS DEMONSTRATED A SPIRITED RESISTANCE AND IMPOSED CASUALTIES ON THE INVADERS,’ HE ADDED.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military is asking people to remove the names of streets, cities and villages from road signs in their regions in order to ‘confuse and disorient the enemy’. In a tweet, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said: ‘We will do everything possible to clear Ukraine of the Russian occupier as soon as possible!’.
A sign over a part of the Boryspil highway triumphantly declared: ‘Russian warship, go f**k yourself!’, in reference to the killing of a small group of Ukrainian border guards stationed at Snake Island off the coast of Ukraine after they refused to surrender to Kremlin forces. Estonia’s former defence chief Riho Terras has now claimed that Putin’s war is not going to plan because Russia is fast running out of money and weapons, and will have to enter negotiations with Volodymyr Zelensky’s government if Kyiv holds off the Russians for 10 days.
Russia’s tyrant has allegedly convened a meeting with the oligarchs in a bunker in the Ural Mountains, at which it is claimed that he furiously vented that he thought the war would be ‘easy’ and ‘everything would be done in one to four days’. Citing Ukrainian intelligence sources, Terras claimed that the war is costing Russia around £15billion-per-day, and that they have rockets for three to four days at most, which they are using sparingly.
He claimed that Putin’s plan has relied on panicking the country, firing missiles at residential buildings ‘at random’ to ‘intimidate’ the Ukrainians, trigger mass army desertions, national surrender, and Zelensky’s flight from the country. Terras also alleged that Russian special operations have been near Kyiv since February 18, and had planned to swiftly seize the capital and install a puppet regime.
‘THE RUSSIANS ARE IN SHOCK OF THE FIERCE RESISTANCE THEY HAVE ENCOUNTERED. THE UKRAINIANS MUST AVOID PANIC! … UKRAINE MUST STAY STRONG AND WE MUST PROVIDE ASSISTANCE!’, HE WROTE ON TWITTER.
However, in a worrying sign for Ukraine, video from Russia’s Western border with Ukraine showed TOS-1 heavy flamethrower tanks moving towards its neighbour. The tanks are capable of firing high-power thermobaric weapons – dubbed the ‘father of all bombs’. In Russian, ‘TOS’ stands for ‘heavy flame thrower’. However, what the TOS-1 launches is perhaps even more frightening – fuel-air explosives (FAE) that cause a ‘wall of napalm’. As the bomb explodes, it scatters dust that ignites when it meets oxygen, causing the very air around it to appear as if it is bursting into flames.
Strangely that would include you since you proclaim they don't know, that would mean you surely must know what he won't do.
Nope, nice try asshole.
The idiocy of this LGBT+whatever reference from Moor is astounding...
why would Putin do that? he hasn’t even taken out their power plants, but some think he would use a MOB?
LOL
“I know a great deal about the Battle of Stalingrad, which is likely what you meant.”
I did not. And since you have never heard of the Siege of Leningrad, I’m in some doubt as to the depth of your knowledge of WWII battles.
Happened right here in 1860 and more people died in that little disagreement in any war in our history, so maybe you should rethink that.
Not that your argument doesn't have merit, but we will have to wait and see just how much.
If you think NATO will watch Putin start another Holdomor and do nothing you’re the one who’s delusional.
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If you think Europe will watch Putin start another Holdomor and do nothing you’re stupid.
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Now, now Hot, I didn't say I knew, you said you did.
Some fellow high up in British intel who apparently believes "LGBT+whatever" is important - guess it wouldn't be the first time...
;>)
Putin’s delusion is that he is the next tsar.
They know starvation works. It’s the obvious path to crushing victory over Kiev by the Russians. Cut them off. Force those fleeing civilians back into the city to increase food consumption.
***Russia tried that with the 1948 siege of Berlin with the Berlin airlift succeeding. There’s a possibility that the west could airlift the Ukes but it would be an enormous effort. I doubt we have the resolve.
57 states in the US per obambam
57 genders
57 Heinz varieties
24 hours in a day
24 beers in a case
24 th of February invasion date
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
> Putin’s delusion is that he is the next tsar. <
There is an old Russian saying: The first Russian tsar will be named Michael and the last Russian tsar will be named Michael.
Well, the first Romanov tsar was named Michael, and the last leader of the Soviet Union was named Michael (Gorbachev). Weird, huh?
Unfortunately for Putin, a “Tsar Vladimir” was not predicted.
LMAOOOoooo
But... but... don’t you like having a football team with the only stadium in the league that has it’s very own police station?
There are much cooler heads among his paid off and paying to him (resentfully am sure) who would like to be rid of this fossil from his original job as head of KGB in East Germany- Hq’d in... Dresden.
This fascination with returning to the “good old days of Stalin” is not supported with the many years since the Soviet fall of it’s own incompetence.
The Chernobyl route of assault reminded all Ukrainians and the whole world what disdain Putinites and oligarchs hold the people of Ukraine— to have utterly mis-managed a poor design graphite cooled reactor and let it lay waste to 100 miles circle around Chernobyl, and the drifting cloud destroying all of Lapland’s milk and dairy industry.
Now the SOB’s mercenaries drove through Chernobyl and churned up another “climate change” radioactive plume. Seriously. The answer cannot be to use NUKES on Ukraine. Putin will be surely stopped as he is nutso.
“ what’s the difference between a FOAB and a MOAB?”
Father or Mother of All Bombs. Father is bigger.
The 13 on Snake Island-— surrendered to the warship. But they are regarded as major heroes, like General Mcaulliffe.
Alcoholics on the order of 80-90% of the country. It explains their crude work ethic, brought on by near constant self-assessment as simpletons. There are notable exceptions in its history— the ones Stalin did not slaughter from the paranoia that his day’s as a spy for the Tsar’s secret police would be found out.
Pretty sure the Ukrainians remember the Holodomor—and the Stalinist NKVD that performed the removal of all seed stock, draft animals and farming equipment. They remember- and it is why they are fighting wild.
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