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The Ukrainian special forces unit that crushed Putin’s surprise advance
Telegraph UK Yahoo News ^ | 8/24/2025 | AUDREY MACALPINE

Posted on 08/24/2025 12:06:56 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: marcusmaximus
found themselves surrounded by the Azov Corps, one of Ukraine’s elite forces.


21 posted on 08/24/2025 1:14:44 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: POGO163; Allegra
Sarcasm does not help your side

My side is America, not some two-bit grifter or a re-purposed KGB guy.

22 posted on 08/24/2025 1:27:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Ukraine is adapting to the drone warfare so they will become less dependent on manpower.

It stuns me that the lying, Gaslighting Media still has the power to pull the wool over the eyes of its consumers, with so many alternatives available.

23 posted on 08/24/2025 1:37:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil
My side is America, not some two-bit grifter or a re-purposed KGB guy.

Zeepers think everybody is eastern European and they don’t seem to get that most Americans don’t have an emotional connection to this war. We can be more logical and objective because we don’t have Ukrainian, Russian, Slav or any eastern European heritage; we’re Americans.

Hey, POGO163, what was your previous FR handle? Do you still hate white, native born Americans? 😁

24 posted on 08/24/2025 1:43:56 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: POGO163

Meant to include you on Post 24.


25 posted on 08/24/2025 1:45:46 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: Menehune56

Yes, sorry.


26 posted on 08/24/2025 1:52:32 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can’t imagine Russia trusting Russophobic Brits spoiling for war with Russia…as “ peacekeepers”

Minsk didn’t work out so well with European “ monitors”


27 posted on 08/24/2025 2:14:41 PM PDT by silverleaf (M:“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: MinorityRepublican
When Putin’s military is exhausted then he’ll have to agree to the security guarantees.

According to Zeepers, this occurred more than 2 years ago as RuZZia! was forced to cannibalize dishwashers for electronic components, was out of missiles, ammunition, Putin was on the verge of death from 19 ailments, and almost 100 million RuZZians! had died. Also potatoes were extinct.

28 posted on 08/24/2025 2:21:15 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: All

1) I have heard no peacekeeper proposals that were not predicated on there being a ceasefire. None.

2) If there is no ceasefire, then all the discussion of peacekeepers would seem to have no point.

3) It looks pretty clear that there will be no unconditional ceasefire, and Ukraine will not accept the conditions under which Russia would allow a ceasefire.

And so, why is there any talk of peacekeepers?


29 posted on 08/24/2025 2:23:46 PM PDT by Owen
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
According to Zeepers, this occurred more than 2 years ago as RuZZia! was forced to cannibalize dishwashers for electronic components, was out of missiles, ammunition, Putin was on the verge of death from 19 ailments, and almost 100 million RuZZians! had died. Also potatoes were extinct.

The Russian Army revolted in 1917 or more recently, the Wagner Group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, marched on Moscow two years ago.

30 posted on 08/24/2025 2:33:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Russian army didn’t revolt in 1917 and the Wagner group isn’t affiliated with the Russian army


31 posted on 08/24/2025 2:36:28 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: kiryandil

They’d be better off sending them to Jita 4-4 for hookers and blow.


32 posted on 08/24/2025 3:05:22 PM PDT by Noumenon (Duty is as heavy as a mountain; death is as light as a feather. KTF)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You are funny.


33 posted on 08/24/2025 4:05:10 PM PDT by delta7
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To: marcusmaximus

You are funny. Three years ago St Z said he will kick out the Russians and reclaim Crimea….today he is crying for a freeze in the lines and a Ceasefire….

Did I say you and your cheerleaders you are funny?


34 posted on 08/24/2025 4:10:11 PM PDT by delta7
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To: marcusmaximus

Nazis killing Commies.

I’m totally okay with this.

Let’s hope both sides fight to the last man and those two manage somehow to kill each other.

L


35 posted on 08/24/2025 4:14:41 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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36 posted on 08/24/2025 6:21:27 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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37 posted on 08/24/2025 8:53:26 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: MinorityRepublican

If that’s the case, Putin really screwed his own pooch.

He may have gained some land, but he ends up with Euro troops right on that border, and Euro-NATO defense spending more than doubled. He could have easily forced a solution without invading Ukraine, in which Ukraine was allowed into NATO eventually, but, much as happened with the former East Germany, only Ukrainian troops would be in Ukraine, and no long range NATO weapons would be in Ukraine. To this day, the Baker promise to Goby has been kept: The only NATO troops in the former East Germany are Germans. Even more important, Euro-NATO would have stayed mired in complacency. I highly doubt it would have even made the 2% of GDP defense spending goal, while huge Russian oil and gas profits would have continued.


38 posted on 08/24/2025 9:33:09 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: marcusmaximus

Crushed.

And yet the front continually moves Westward.


39 posted on 08/24/2025 9:35:21 PM PDT by 13foxtrot
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To: MinorityRepublican

Russia has adapted too.

They plan an objective. Spend days/weeks FABing and droning any Ukr that peeks out of their holes.

Create a cauldron around 3/4s of the objective.

Then send in dozens of 4 man teams to clear the trenches and chase out UKR forces.

Rinse and repeat.


40 posted on 08/24/2025 9:39:12 PM PDT by 13foxtrot
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