Posted on 07/28/2024 11:16:51 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia may be proud of its military history and seamen – but Vladimir Putin looks like he would have preferred to be anywhere else during the nation’s state naval display on Sunday.
The Russian president hardly cracked a smile at this morning’s Grand Naval Parade in St Petersburg, a showcasing of around 200 ships and boats all part of the various fleets stationed in Russia’s second city.
During the event, he was seen looking bored and unbothered as he sailed across the city’s water and into the dock while fireworks exploded around him.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine has over the weekend continued to push on with drone attacks against targets located deep within Russian territory.
Recent blasts at an oil terminal in the eastern Kursk region are widely seen as taking something of the shine off today’s parade in St Petersburg, with Russia’s naval fleet in the Black Sea already rendered largely unoperational by repeat Ukrainian attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
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If it wasn’t about seizing territory why all the trouble of passing annexations for regions beyond the control of your troops?
no matter how many times the Russians tell you it's about killing the Ukrainian army.
Crazy what a failure that’s been considering you place it as the primary goal. The Ukrainians are going to come out the other side of this war with all kinds of ex-NATO kit that’s superior to the ex-Soviet trash they started the war with. They’ve just been given more F-16s than they had MiG-29s and Su-27s, and they’ll have an arsenal of available precision weapons for that platform.
From getting kicked out of Kherson to staring down NATO fighters from the Black Sea to the Arctic Circle! Could the Russians have screwed their strategic situation worse than this botched invasion, with the consequent grinding up of their army whilst adding members to NATO?
123 posted on 8/24/2023, 11:17:39 PM by Gunslingr3
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4177248/posts?page=123#123
The slinger of Buns was posting that pile of pony-plop to me a year ago, and he freaked out when I gainsaid him.
Heh! What a load of garbage he spews. I figured Bunslinger came here to rescue his French Ukrainian friend. Maybe Bunslinger is his fellow French Ukrainian?
I guess the froggies are a little out of sorts since once again France is being embarrassed on the global stage for their flaming depravity.
I notice this one ended his stupid post at #33 with the patented zeeper “LOL!”
These foreigners are annoying pests.
Check out post 38. Do you think Zelensky looks more feminine than Barry? I do.
😅🤣😂
Knowing the frogs, 🐸 that is exactly what they did!
They’re both disgusting.
Thank the good Lord above, that I didn’t have to see Obama in a skin tight latex outfit and high heels, (yet?). 🤢
It’s hilarious how zeepers find every excuse to convince themselves that this is completely normal and a-ok!
Zelensky and Sadik look like the “girls” in those cozy little couple-cuddle pics.
Barack has that typical arrogant, smug expression of his. They all disgust me. 🤢
Shouldn’t you ad UKIE to your screen name?
USA-FRANCE-UKIE
Btw, didn’t I tell you, that Paris is a dangerous s*thole?
Boy did the frogs 🐸 step into it with their disgusting homo show at the Olympic opening.
Regardless of the issue, you will always scream; Russia, Russia, Russia.....
It takes a year to go through under graduate pilot training. Then three months to go though Lead-in-fighter training. A month for Land, combat and water survival. One week for centrifuge training. At that point you would be able to begin F-16 training which takes 6 months. Once complete you go to an operational unit. The operational unit at that point begins seasoning training in all aspects of the aircraft capability. Depending on weather and other factors, your seasoning training may take an additional 4 to 6 months. After your seasoning training is complete, a pilot is awarded Combat Mission Ready (CMR) Status.
Nearly a year ago, and you're still a clown.
>>>>It’s hilarious how zeepers find every excuse to convince themselves that this is completely normal and a-ok!<<<<
Maybe they think it’s normal because they behave the same way.
>>>>Zelensky and Sadik look like the “girls” in those cozy little couple-cuddle pics.<<<<
They’re the ones wearing the butt plugs.
>>>>”Tell me two things, {yip! yip!} what was the date on that post, {yip! yap! yap!} and are the Russians still {grrowwwlll…yip!} kicked out of Kherson? {yip! yip! yap! yap!}”<<<<
Zeepers have three moods: Demanding, aggressive and grumpy.
Yep. They sure do a lot of quivering, yipping and yapping. Lil’ ankle-nippers.
Kiryandil,
Is it true the Russians are still kicked out of Kherson?
Is it true that (what remains of) the Black Sea fleet has fled their HQ in Sevastopol?
Have you posted any recent thoughts from Macgregor?
Well... apparently YOUR world view is that the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance gets their will though - by force. You do know that those 3 nations are allies, right? Historically speaking do you think that America is a friend of those 3 nations? The answer is NO.
THE ALLIANCE:
Russia = is Ultra Neo-Soviet
Iran = is Ultra Islamic
North Korea = is Ultra Communist
If you support any of these nations, you are de facto supporting the whole package - the three of them. That makes you an Islamo-Neo-Soviet-Communist supporter. I dont think that’s a good choice.
My world view is Ultra Conservative. That’s why I support Trump.
He is the President who has been the toughest on Russia and Iran, by far.
Trump is the one who initiated the whole concept of arming Ukraine and heavily sanctioning Russia.
Obama refused to arm Ukraine, remember?
Thus, you seem much closer to Obama´s world view. Your stance seems to be in direct opposition to the Trump administration’s anti Russia policies which started in 2016.
Why are you opposing Trump’s anti-russia policies?
What Krynky doink, Bunsplitter?
You and 0bama are America last, froggy.
Freepers like me and ANKE69 are America first.
July 27, 2024
17 servicemen of the 35th separate marine brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces voluntarily surrendered on islands in the Dnieper River delta in the Kherson region.
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They had to drink water out of the swamps - no supplies - no way out.
“They just abandoned us”
https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1817170221569905017
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