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Russian Forces starting to lose vehicles by the dozen in the Kherson area.
@Sierra__Alpha ^ | 3/21/2022 | @Sierra__Alpha

Posted on 03/21/2022 1:11:04 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Russian Forces starting to lose vehicles by the dozen in the Kherson area.

Expect fighting to intensify there over the coming days.

Ukrainan forces are sat around 35 Kilometres from Kherson city centre as of now, most of that distance is open area.

Reports of Ukrainian Air Force Ground Attack aircraft operating in the area earlier today is 100% something to note.

If they can make a push South with integrated Close Air Support from Su-24s/25s, Ukrainian Forces will find themselves in a good position.

Satellite images have also confirmed that Russian helicopters have been redeployed by land from Kherson Airport, but unclear if Russian ground units are still using it as a Forward Operating Base

Interestingly enough it seems to be Ukrainian Marines leading the offensive toward Kherson.

But as I said, 35km of open area isn't ideal at all.

Worth noting that Ukrainian especially Marines and SF have a superior nighttime fighting capability.

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KEYWORDS: chechens; chechnya; counterattack; kherson; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; takebackkherson; ukraine; war; zottherussiantrolls
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To: C210N

“Nope, I cannot support the likes of Soros, Romney, HRC, bidEn, bush, kerry, pelosi, obama, macron, greta, castreau, Clowns In America, nor the MSM.“

Why reflexively be for or against something based on what they may think?
If they say that eating dog manure is unhealthy, I won’t automatically say eating dog poop is a good thing.

I don’t need them to set my agenda.


41 posted on 03/21/2022 2:02:35 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (remorse)
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To: Covenantor
There are videos of several Russian helicopters being towed away from the airport...obviously not in flying condition...truly odd to see them not on transporters by running on landing gear.....

Speculation I saw about that was Russian transport was in a hurry to get outta Dodge before receiving fire, and they probably slowed to a crawl once out of artillery range to delay any return trip.

42 posted on 03/21/2022 2:03:12 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: freeandfreezing
So far the Ukrainian government has done a pretty good job of reigning in their citizens.

I see posts online with people tut tutting about collaborators and looters being cling-wrapped to utility poles and some whipped.

That's pretty mild treatment in this situation.

43 posted on 03/21/2022 2:06:19 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: McGavin999

Understand. I’m old enough.

I was bamboozled too way back then. We’ve been lied to too often, and it’s becoming more obvious to an increasing number of People and citizens alike.


44 posted on 03/21/2022 2:11:43 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: C210N

Wow, sorry you were so easily fooled, it explains a lot.


45 posted on 03/21/2022 2:14:43 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: escapefromboston

“Great. Now don’t have to give Ukraine any more money or weapons”

I once met a man who ran out of fuel on the side of the road. He explained to me that his car was cruising along at 60 and since it was running fine he felt no need to put more fuel in.

Oh wait, I never met anyone like that because no one would be so dumb to believe that was how things work.


46 posted on 03/21/2022 2:18:18 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Bravo! Completely agree. So sick of people saying the bad guys support it, therefore it must be bad. they (Soros, MSM etc) probably support it for all the wrong reasons, but that doesnt mean there are no good reasons to support Ukraine! Some people on FR just arent thinking these days!


47 posted on 03/21/2022 2:20:56 PM PDT by boxlunch (10th Amendmt: nullification or Texit? PS We're in a hot war: globalists, CCP, media, Dems, RINOs)
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To: PIF
We do have a dog - grain.

You mustn't point that out to the Putin good/Ukraine bad proponents.

But, the material goods are not even being considered by those that only think about war is bad, and Zelenskyy bad.
48 posted on 03/21/2022 2:21:02 PM PDT by adorno
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To: pierrem15

“I suspect the Russians withdrew units from around Nikolayev and Kherson to support the assault on Mariupol. So the Ukrainians have made gains in both areas.”

Yes the Russians are not so dumb that they are not learning from their mistakes. Attacking on six fronts left Russia at a disadvantage on all of them.

Now they are concentrating everything in the east where they can have numerical superiority over the Ukrainians.


49 posted on 03/21/2022 2:22:43 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: C210N

US Department of State Dispatch, January, 1994
The US-Russia-Ukraine Trilateral Statement and Annex were signed on 14 January, 1994 in Moscow by Presidents Clinton, Yeltsin and Kravchuk. The Statement and Annex:

provided for the transfer of all nuclear weapons on the territory of Ukraine to Russia for dismantlement;
specified prompt compensation by Russia to Ukraine for the highly-enriched uranium in the transferred weapons;
provided for security assurances by the US, Russia and United Kingdom to
Ukraine on Ukraine’s accession to the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state; and
reaffirmed the US commitment to assist the safe and secure dismantlement of nuclear forces through the Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) program.

The provisions of the Trilateral Statement and Annex are being implemented. When they were signed, there were some 1900 strategic nuclear warheads in Ukraine, most of which were on SS-19 and SS-24 ICBMs targeted at the US. As of June 1, there are none. (In addition, in 1991-92, some 2500 tactical nuclear weapons were transferred from Ukraine to Russia.) There were far more nuclear warheads on the territory of Ukraine than in any country other than the United States or Russia.

Russia is dismantling the removed nuclear warheads and has provided Ukraine compensation for the strategic nuclear warheads in the form of fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants in Ukraine. These fuel rods are being delivered according to a schedule agreed to by Russia and Ukraine.

On December 5, 1994, Ukraine acceded to the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state. On that same date, the US, Russia and United Kingdom provided security assurances to Ukraine, and the START
I Treaty also entered into force.


50 posted on 03/21/2022 2:24:17 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: pierrem15

Perhaps the same thing with the amphibious troops that were sitting in ships off Odesa. A Russian naval infantryman was captured near Mariupol.

It may be that the Russian ships that were off the coast of Odesa in anticipation of an amphibious landing later seen in port in Crimea, off-loaded their troops which were added to the land forces.

thread from the Conflict Intelligence Team:
https://twitter.com/CITeam_en/status/1505932684547219457

1. Russian military ships off the coast of Odesa are shelling the city.

Fears of a naval landing have persisted since before the invasion, the plans seen in both Western maps and revealed Russian ones.

But does Russia still have the landing force?

2.Per Ukrainian publication @Graty_me, the Crimea-based 810th Naval Infantry Brigade did conduct a minor landing near Kherson, after which many servicemen refused to go into Ukraine.

Those refusals were confirmed by a prisoner from the unit.

3. Interestingly, he was taken prisoner near Mariupol.

This, together with videos and photographs of marine-type APCs in the area, suggests that the Crimea marines are indeed fighting on land in Ukraine.

4. Other Russian marine units like the 155th Brigade from Vladivostok and 336th Brigade from Kaliningrad were also involved in the pre-invasion build-up, but captured papers and a killed serviceman indicate they are also fighting on land in Ukraine.

5. Thus, a Russian naval landing requires either transferring other Naval Infantry brigades to the border, pulling out the ones battered in the current fighting, or assembling a ragtag invasion force from various smaller and leftover units.

6. Even if Russia had the forces for a naval landing, analysts and Odesa’s authorities believe that it is only viable as part of a combined operation when/if a Russian land force reaches Odesa (which is a prospect that is growing more distant)

7. Given all of the above, we assess the prospects of a naval landing in Odesa highly unlikely, even though not impossible.

We will still continue monitoring this situation closely.


51 posted on 03/21/2022 2:25:08 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: boxlunch

“Some people on FR just arent thinking these days!“

Yep.
Or if a planet killing asteroid is headed for earth. And we know it, it’s not just a theory.
Soros says we should should send one of Elon Musks spaceships up with a nuclear warhead to try and deflect it so it doesn’t hit earth .
Will I automatically be against that?
No.


52 posted on 03/21/2022 2:26:43 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (remorse)
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To: Meet the New Boss

I’ll add this: A map captured from a Russian officer (with OCR’d labels added), it looks like there was an amphibious landing planned for Ochakov southeast of Odesa that didn’t happen

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOZBOp8XsBIld-0?format=jpg&name=4096x4096


53 posted on 03/21/2022 2:36:08 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: escapefromboston

“Now don’t have to give Ukraine any more money or weapons”

Nope... we can be on the side of good this time around and help the Ukrainians repel the orcs. The Ukes won’t submit to having their wives and children raped this time around.


54 posted on 03/21/2022 2:38:13 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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To: marcusmaximus
@Sierra__Alpha

@Bravo_Sierra

55 posted on 03/21/2022 2:43:46 PM PDT by McGruff (It's America First, stupid.)
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To: McGruff
Russian Forces starting to lose vehicles by the dozen in the Kherson area.

I use my tank fob when I lose my vehicles.

56 posted on 03/21/2022 2:47:16 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: boxlunch
Bravo! Completely agree. So sick of people saying the bad guys support it, therefore it must be bad. they (Soros, MSM etc) probably support it for all the wrong reasons, but that doesnt mean there are no good reasons to support Ukraine! Some people on FR just arent thinking these days!

Yup. The bad guys (Soros, MSM, etc) want to control Ukraine. But that doesn't mean that they are in full control of Ukraine. And it doesn't mean that the 44 million people of Ukraine should accept an invasion from Putin.

We've got a bad guy problem here in the US that is worse than in Ukraine. Yet who here would settle for Putin invading our country?

57 posted on 03/21/2022 2:51:43 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ScottinVA

Sounds like a waste of money we don’t have.


58 posted on 03/21/2022 2:59:31 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: BiglyCommentary

The US should supply whatever is needed till Vlad’s head is impaled on a spike in the center square of Kherson.

Agreed!!!


59 posted on 03/21/2022 3:02:35 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: freeandfreezing

Many doesn’t mean many freepers. I’ve been on this board for 20y…you assumed wrong.


60 posted on 03/21/2022 3:18:15 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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