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Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Army Pushed Ruzzains in Donbass | A new air bomb in Belgorod
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Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Army Pushed Ruzzains in Donbass | A new air bomb in Belgorod
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ARTICLE
‘They’ll kill me if I come back’: Abduction, torture become routine in Russian-occupied Melitopol
by Alexander Query
April 22, 2023
https://kyivindependent.com/theyll-kill-me-if-i-come-back-abduction-torture-become-routine-in-russian-occupied-melitopol/
Melitopol residents have become accustomed to the disappearance of their neighbors and relatives since the beginning of Russia’s invasion. The residents have been living in fear of being kidnapped and disappear in one of the city’s “basements” over a “talk” since the city fell to Russians in March 2022.
Maryna didn’t need to see the faces of the soldiers who had kidnapped her.
Even though they put a woven bag on her head, she already knew some of them by voice.
They had come to her house before, to ask questions about the residence and “stuff their faces” with apples she had sitting on her windowsill.
When they demanded $1,000 to allow her to keep the old car she and her husband used to drive on her farm, she agreed, thinking they would leave her alone after that.
Except, they didn’t. Seven soldiers, who used to roam her village near Melitopol, came knocking at her door that one September morning.
She already knew where they would take her. She never hid her pro-Ukrainian stance, she told the Kyiv Independent months later, in the city of Zaporizhzhia.
“If they don’t like someone, they just take this person into a car and abduct them,” she said. “Your relatives will never know what happened to you.”
The Russian soldiers took her to a small, disgusting cell in a former pre-trial detention center in Melitopol for a “talk,” as they put it.
“One was asking the questions, and the other beat me,” she recalled. She was beaten whenever her answers didn’t suit the interrogators or when she replied in Ukrainian.
“They threatened to break my nose, beat me on the floor, and hand me over to the Chechen soldiers for ’entertainment,” she said.
She was beaten three times over the span of 22 days before being released in a prisoner exchange on Sept. 27. The Russian troops filmed one of these beatings.
Maryna’s story is just one of many similar accounts from occupied Melitopol — a city ruled by fear, where Russians behave with impunity and can throw anyone into a torture chamber at any moment.
Owning hryvnias, speaking Ukrainian, or having the Ukrainian mobile e-government app Dia on their phone could land Melitopol residents in one of the city’s “basements” for a “talk,” meaning interrogation under torture.
Anyone refusing Russia’s forced conscription, ongoing in Russian-occupied regions, can also end up in a cell, beaten, shocked with electricity, and severely injured, locals told the Kyiv Independent.
Ever since Russian forces captured Melitopol in March 2022, residents of the southern city of Zaporizhzhia Oblast have grown accustomed to “disappearances” that often take place in broad daylight.
“They can simply come to your house without saying where they take you or why,” Maryna said. “And it’s a very common thing.” Over 1,000 people have been abducted since Melitopol fell to Russians, its exiled mayor, Ivan Fedorov, told the Kyiv Independent. It’s his estimate based on his sources in the city.
He, too, had been abducted early on. However, his case was so widely publicized that he was swapped in a prisoner exchange in March 2022. He now works from an office in Zaporizhzhia, the regional capital.
Over 500 people are still missing, he said. “But it’s hard to count because everyone’s afraid to talk about it.”
A CITY RULED BY FEAR
Fedorov estimated that nearly two-thirds of the 150,000 residents who used to live in the city before the invasion left. Some 50,000-60,000 locals stayed, while others came to take the vacant flats and houses. Those who left were replaced by people who once lived in occupied Donetsk Oblast, including Mariupol, and “a lot of Russians,” said the mayor.
The city, located between Kherson and Mariupol, several kilometers north of the Black Sea coast, was also turned into a heavily fortified military base since its capture.
Melitopol was declared the so-called capital of the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on March 19, following Russia’s sham referendums in occupied parts of the oblast at the end of September 2022.
Fake referendums were also held in occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson oblasts. The checkpoints between Russian-occupied territories and Ukraine have been closed since December, forcing people to go through Russia to escape the occupation. As in all occupied territories, Russian rubles replaced Ukrainian hryvnias as the main currency. It’s forbidden to speak Ukrainian, and a Russian curriculum replaced the Ukrainian one in schools.
Those who stayed behind are afraid to talk to strangers “because it’s too dangerous,” Melitopol residents who asked to remain anonymous told the Kyiv Independent through their friends and relatives who left the city. Maryna keeps in contact with her relatives in the occupied city, which is why she knows about it, despite the spotty internet and Russians constantly checking phones.
Anastasia, another refugee from Melitopol who fled last summer but still has relatives in the city, had a very similar description of what it’s like. She calls her parents on the phone and makes sure to stick to the most trite, innocuous topics to avoid putting them in danger. Her parents didn’t buy Russian sim cards because Russians monitor them. The couple doesn’t take their phones outside.
“My parents are depressed, the prices are crazy, and it’s impossible to live there,” but they have no choice, she said. “They’re old, and they keep an eye on our flat in case someone wants to take it.”
Collaborators often tell Russians which flats are free when the residents flee to Ukrainian-controlled territories, Anastasia said.
“Some people used to walk around in Ukrainian vyshyvankas (a national embroidered shirt), but they turned into collaborators somehow,” she said.
While Fedorov was still in captivity in March 2022, Russians placed a local to head the occupation administration — Halyna Danylchenko, a close aide to a local pro-Russian politician once a member of parliament from the now defunct pro-Russian Party of Regions and now the puppet governor of the occupied part of the oblast.
She released a video calling on people to welcome Russian rule.
“Our main task right now is to adapt to the new reality so that we can begin to live in a new way,” she said.
But not everyone is ready for the “new way.” While some residents collaborate with the occupiers, most of them “sit in silence, waiting for (Ukrainian) victory,” Anastasia said. People are too scared to talk to each other, Maryna said, “because they don’t know each other’s real views.”
“Today, they support you, and tomorrow they’ll rat you out,” just for a house or a flat, she said.
Russians use vacated houses and apartments to reward collaborators, said Sasha, another resident who had to flee Russian torture. Some troops go as far as taking entire nearby villages, telling residents they have “one day to pack up and leave,” Fedorov said. They use the empty houses to quarter their troops or the soldiers’ families brought in from Russia.
“They call it ‘nationalization,” Fedorov said.
RAPE
Despite the new arrivals, the city’s streets are deserted. Locals, especially young girls, avoid walking alone.
At the beginning of the summer of 2022, the body of a 14-year-old girl was found in a local park, Anastasia and Maryna recalled. The girl was allegedly raped and killed. Her body was dumped on the grass.
The Kyiv Independent couldn’t independently verify this story, and neither could Fedorov.
Soon after, another 13-year-old girl was kidnapped, Maryna said. “They secretly snatched her,” she said.
Russians brought her back two days later. Her parents told everyone nothing happened, “but she was obviously not fine,” Maryna recalled. She believes Russian soldiers threatened their parents, making them too afraid to speak to their close relatives about what had been done to their daughter.
Fedorov also recalled the story of a 17-year-old walking in the city when three Russian soldiers tried to kidnap her in broad daylight. She ran and left for Zaporizhzhia the same day.
“She escaped by miracle,” Fedorov said.
TORTURE CHAMBERS
Russian torture chambers are harder to hide than the alleged rape and murder in Melitopol.
At least five detention centers and torture chambers are scattered throughout the city, according to Maryna and Fedorov, the mayor.
“Some are rougher than others; some are just detention centers where they keep people in the cold or starve them,” Maryna said. She indicated a few places, including a garage and Melitopol’s police station with “cages” where “many men and women are kept.”
“They torture people in (these) garages,” she said.
Maryna said she was held in a 2.5-by-3-meter cell in a pre-trial detention center, with a 28-year-old woman caught putting up leaflets saying “Melitopol is Ukraine.” They were fed once per day.
“The toilet was broken, everything was leaking out,” she recalled.
“The smell was terrible because of the sewage puddle on the floor,” where she had to sleep without a mattress for the first two days.
“There were hundreds of flies in the cell,” she said.
Loud Russian music, including the anthem and rap about suicide, blasted from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., she said. “It was difficult to even talk to each other.”
Roughly 15 people were held there, she estimated, after an evening when the electricity cut out and she could finally talk to people in neighboring cells.
During the interrogations, she understood that the Russians looked into her Telegram chats because they saw she had told her daughter about trucks carrying Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles she had spotted on the way to Zaporizhzhia.
Maryna’s husband and relatives came to look for her, but they were told that there “was no such thing” as a detention center there. Her cellmate was released after 45 days of captivity, but the Kyiv Independent couldn’t reach her at the time of the publication.
Inna, a local pro-Ukrainian activist, told investigative outlet Media Initiative that local occupation authorities had also put up some iron containers similar to those in seaports in the yard of the city’s administrative buildings. The container in which she was held was a windowless cube of 2-by-2 meters with two park benches, Inna said.
After days of beating and mistreatment, Maryna and Inna were released in the gray zone, between Russian and Ukrainian lines, with a bag on their heads before finally reaching freedom after a checkpoint near Vasylivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The checkpoint has been closed since December.
PARTISANS
The detention center was full of partisans, Maryna recalled. Some were there because they had been sharing the location of Russian depots with the Ukrainian Armed Forces. After a year of Russian abuse, resistance is growing, Maryna said. “In our village, some took down the Russian flag, and Russians came with dogs to look for partisans.”
In fact, the city is filled with people involved in underground resistance work, according to the former residents. “Russians are afraid,” Fedorov said.
As a result, paranoia reigns supreme, and Russian forces frantically search homes for weapons or explosives.
Explosions occur regularly in Melitopol, targeting local collaborators or reportedly destroying Russian military equipment and personnel. Moscow usually blames Ukraine for such incidents, while Kyiv doesn’t confirm it stands behind the explosions. Multiple explosions have been heard in the city in the past several weeks.
A car bomb went off on April 3 in the city, seriously wounding local collaborator Maksym Zubariev.
Following several explosions in the city on March 28, another prominent Russian collaborator, Vladimir Rogov, reported that a Ukrainian strike allegedly hit a railway depot.
“My parents hear a lot of explosions, the big ones are (the result of) Ukrainian strikes, the small ones are the work of local partisans,” Anastasia said. Melitopol is part of the land bridge that links Russia to the occupied Crimea, which makes it an obvious target for a Ukrainian potential counteroffensive in the south.
MOCK EXECUTION
Anyone who traveled to Ukrainian-controlled territory is a potential target for Russians, and Sasha learned it the hard way.
Unable to find a job in Zaporizhzhia, he had decided to return to occupied Melitopol to make ends meet. One day, he heard a knock at the door. Sasha opened it, thinking it was a neighbor. A bullet flew over his head. Three soldiers were standing in front of his door, laughing. They entered, grabbed him, and made him kneel before emptying a revolver but for one bullet. “And they spun the cylinder.” Three times they spun the cylinder, putting the muzzle on his head each time, he recalled, mimicking the sound of the spinning barrel.
“They were trying to get information, why did I come back, why did I leave the city,” he said.
“Just kids in their 20s, armed to the teeth,” he said. “Heroes.”
The last shot fired, but he managed to push the barrel away at the last moment. “Oh, you got lucky; you’re gonna live,” Sasha recalled one of them saying. He was taken into the basement of Melitopol’s police station. “I took some serious beatings,” he said. Sasha spent a day or so, sometimes being beaten every half-hour. He shared a small cell with around 10 people, hearing screams of people tortured in other cells.
“I told them, I can’t think, I can’t tell you something now, but I know a lot, let me go, and I’ll help (you),” he said.
“Either you come to us, or we come to you in two days,” they answered before almost breaking his leg.
He was let go and escaped the city on his bicycle before their return, fearing for his life.
“They will kill me if I come back,” Sasha told the Kyiv Independent.
FORCED CONSCRIPTION
Sasha still keeps in contact with his neighbors to check on his house, which is how he learned about the forced conscription in Melitopol. Men between 20 and 50 are subjected to forced conscription to Russia’s army to fight against Ukraine, even if they are Ukrainian. Locals who refuse conscription are tortured.
“What Ukraine? They think Melitopol is Russian,” Sasha said.
The first time one of his friends ignored his conscription paper, “they took him into a basement for three days.” The second time he ignored it, Russians tortured him for a week, and the third time, for a month.
“If you aren’t with us, you won’t be with anyone,” his jailors reportedly said before breaking his kneecap, disabling him.
In a bid to Russify the city by force, Russian soldiers recently resorted to forcing bed-ridden pensioners to get a Russian passport without their consent. In mid-April, some Russian soldiers, helped by a local collaborator, came to Maryna’s village and took a picture of an 87-year-old while he was too feeble to move. The intention was to give him a Russian passport. He died of a heart attack two days later, said Maryna. The Kyiv Independent couldn’t independently verify this story.
Fedorov can’t even start to imagine what Ukrainian forces will discover after the city’s liberation.
“It’s a pity, but it’s only after the liberation that we’ll know everything about all the torture and the killing,” Fedorov said.
“It will be a real tragedy.”
Molfar, a Ukrainian open-source intelligence (OSINT) group, contributed to this report by identifying where civilians were tortured in occupied Melitopol.
*** Note from the author:
ALEXANDER QUERY, the author of this story.
NOTENote: For this story, the Kyiv Independent talked to residents who recently left Russian-occupied Melitopol but still have family in the city. For their safety, we do not identify them by their full name.
Melitopol’s residents took a considerable risk talking to us, and those who escaped too, as their relatives still suffer under Russian occupation. At the Kyiv Independent, we try to bring you the voices of people like this with every security precaution, but we need your support to help us make them heard.
VIDEOS
1. Ukrainian Marines release video showing destruction of Russian tank
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Saturday, 22 April 2023, 23:46
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1911759979170783
The Ukrainian Navy has released a video showing Ukrainian Marines destroying a Russian tank.Source: Military Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Quote: “Ukrainian Marines have destroyed a Russian tank, which got on the guys’ nerves.
Following successful aerial reconnaissance and artillery operations”
2. Russians still cannot get out of Bakhmut swamp, they are losing significant forces
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
4-22-2023 8:30p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrT3UZGffbY
VIDEO WITH COMMENTARY
22 Apr: New Tactic. Russians Make SUICIDAL ATACKS TO CONFUSE UKRAINIANS | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
Apr 22, 2023 9:30p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRjeBuX3oI
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I am a Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the four hundred and twenty third day of the war.
Day 423: April 22
Today there are a lot of updates from the Donetsk region. Here, after suffering a series of defeats, Russians realized that Ukrainians already knew how Russians were going to attack them and started destroying Russian assault units already on the approach. In order to solve the problem, Russian forces started sending several assault units in suicidal attacks to divert Ukrainian attention and then sent a second group to hit the real target.
Last time I told you that Russian forces launched unsuccessful tank assaults north of Vodiane in an attempt to recapture an important strong point on a hill. I also told you that Ukrainians reinforced the units on the contact line with ATGMs, and Ukrainians started destroying Russian vehicles with supplies.
The freshest reports indicate that Ukrainians have doubled down on their efforts to destroy Russian forces before they even reach the front. If previously, we saw a lot of combat footage showing how Ukrainians destroyed Russian tanks and armor vehicles in front of Vodiane, then over the last week, Ukrainians have successfully increased the range of effective fire and started targeting Russian armor in Pisky, which is around 4 km away from the closest Ukrainian positions. Several days ago, Ukrainians filmed their preventative operation and showed how they successfully prevented a Russian assault near Vodiane by destroying one armored fighting vehicle and forcing the other one to turn around and flee.
A long series of defeats around Vodiane seem to have forced Russians to stop pushing in this direction, especially as they started having extreme problems with supplies due to the constant ATGM fire. Instead, Russians diverted their attention to Nevelske. Attacking Nevelske is not easy either – Russians have to cross vast fields under artillery, mortar, and ATGM fire. In previous isolated assaults, their tanks did not even reach the target. However, the supply lines of this group are quite safe, which is why the decision was made to increase the intensity of attacks in this direction.
It seems like Russians forces learned from their mistakes, developed a new plan of attack, and tricked Ukrainian forces. Previously, Russians were always attacking along the ravine. Such a tactic had its advantages and disadvantages. One the one hand, they successfully avoided crossfire because Ukrainians in Pervomaiske could not fire at them directly. On the other hand, it made it easier for the Ukrainians in Nevelske to destroy them because Nevelske is located in the highlands. In any case, the practice showed that the disadvantages outweighed the advantages because Russians were always destroyed by the approach.
However, this time, in addition to sending one assault unit into yet another suicidal attack, they suddenly opened a second line of attack from the south. Geolocated footage released by the Russian side showed that Russians used 2 tanks and several squads of infantry in their second line of attack. Each tank rapidly advanced along the tree line, suppressed Ukrainian fire, and paved the way for Russian infantry to engage. It looks like the first suicidal group drew the attention of all ATGM crews that operate on the hill in Nevelske, and while this first group was being hunted down and destroyed, the second group exploited the window of opportunity and safely used their tanks to achieve their goal.
In the northern part of the region, Ukrainians managed to stabilize the situation. Ukrainian marines from the 36th Brigade continue destroying Russian concentrations of forces along the embankment. Judging by the combat footage, most of them are hiding in the remnants of the destroyed bridge, although some of them are establishing additional firing points. Ukrainian fighters from the 110th Mechanized Brigade continue curtailing Russian attempts at advancing toward Stepove. A lot of artillery strikes are conducted on their main bridgehead, which is in Kranshorivka.
Ukrainian President recently visited Avdiivka and awarded Ukrainian fighters for stopping the recent Russian offensive in the region. A lot of medals were received by soldiers from the 110th Mechanized Brigade, who were responsible for the hottest section of the front line and took the hardest hits. The soldiers, in turn, gifted the president with the patch of their Brigade.
ARTICLE
Stephen King suggests Elon Musk to transfer money for his blue checkmark to Prytula Charity Foundation
Ukrainska Pravda
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO —
Saturday, 22 April 2023, 21:16
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/22/7399034/
American writer Stephen King has proposed that Twitter owner Elon Musk transfer money spent on a blue check mark for verifying the writer’s page on the social network to Serhii Prytula’s Charity Fund [Prytula is a Ukrainian public and political figure, who since the beginning of the full-scale invasion focused on fundraising money for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – ed.]
SOURCE: King on Twitter
QUOTE: “I think Mr. Musk should give my blue check to charity. I recommend the Prytula Foundation, which provides lifesaving services in Ukraine. It’s only $8, so perhaps Mr. Musk could add a bit more.”
DETAILS: After Musk took over Twitter, the company introduced the “Twitter Blue” paid subscription. On 20 April, Twitter started to delete the blue verification checkmark of the users who haven’t subscribed to Twitter Blue, which costs USD$8 monthly. King wrote that his account stated he was subscribed for Twitter Blue, although this is not the case.
Then, Musk stated that he would personally pay for King’s blue checkmark, as well as the ones belonging to LeBron James and William Shatner in order to preserve the verification badge on their accounts.
PREVIOUSLY: Stephen King said in November 2022 that paying Twitter US$20 for verification, which is what Elon Musk wanted to charge Twitter users, was too much. Musk responded by saying that he has to pay the bills, started haggling, and eventually proposed an US$8 account verification charge.
Please pray for more dead Russian boys, right? I pray to my God that the warmongering DC globalists can be stopped from continuing their sabotage of a negotiated peace. I pray that this comes to pass so the tens of thousands of innocent young Ukrainian and Russian boys can stop being massacred for their globalist corruption.
VIDEOS
1. Spain and Portugal send tanks and armored personnel carriers to Ukraine
Kanal13
1.54M subscribers
4-22-2023 5:30p.m. DST4 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7jc3Z9URTo
2. FEAR OF EXPLOSION - RUSSIANS ARE EVACUATING 3000 PEOPLE FROM THEIR OWN CITY || 2023
Warthog Defense
504K subscribers
4-22-2023 8:00p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJVbzvq3-lg
Pray for ALL victims of Putin Invasion of Ukraine. Russian & Ukraine military and Ukraine civilians.
Pray for God’s protection for those protesting.
Pray that so many people show up to protests that prisons cannot hold them all.
Pray for Russian troops to lay down their arms, rather than continuous fighting.
Thousands of Russian troops have died.
Pray for people of Russia who have lost loved ones.
Pray that God would be near to those who are grieving.
MOST OF ALL... Pray that Putin will put the well-being of people before his political empire ambitions. Amen
May every single one these russian monsters reap what they have sown
May it be so!
ARTICLES
Russia attacks 5 communities in Sumy Oblast
Russian attack on Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast causes large fire
Ukrainska Pravda
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Saturday, 22 April 2023, 22:13
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/22/7399037/
Russian forces carried out an attack on the city of Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast late on Saturday, 22 April.
SOURCE: Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram; Ihor Terekhov, Kharkiv Mayor, on Telegram
QUOTE from Syniehubov: “Attention! Residents of Kharkiv and [Kharkiv] Oblast, the occupiers are carrying out new attacks! Please heed warning signals. Remain in shelters!”
QUOTE from Terekhov: “Kharkiv is being attacked.”
DETAILS: Terekhov later added that a fire broke out at a civilian infrastructure facility in the Novobavarskyi district. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service workers have been deployed to the site of the attack. Information about casualties has yet to be confirmed.
Syniehubov said that the city of Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast came under Russian attack.
“According to early reports, enemy forces deployed S-300 missiles. The extent of destruction and the number of casualties have yet to be confirmed,” he said.
Head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration said that one of the Russian missiles struck a private residential neighbourhood in the village of Kotliary in the Kharkiv district.
A civilian infrastructure facility in the city of Kharkiv was also hit. Emergency response workers are extinguishing the fire that broke out after the Russian attack.
At least five other sites in Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast were struck as well.
VIDEOS
1. Secret Hero: Ukrainian Hero Soldier Single-Handedly Repelled The Russian Soldiers!
ANKA Daily News
418K subscribers
4-22-2023 9:00p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sa_egKTSBs
2. Whip of God is Punishing Russia! Ukraine is Burying Russian Army in Mud!
Baron Global
158K subscribers
4-22-2023 8:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCY5ksmiYig
The Russians invade and destroy whole cities, and you think that the "DC globalists" are the warmongers? Really? And what, in truth, are you praying for? A negotiated peace or a negotiated surrender? Peace will come when the Russians go home.
ARTICLE
Ukrainian defenders kill almost 700 Russians in a day
Roman Petrenko
Saturday, 22 April 2023, 08:29
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/22/7398971/
The Armed Forces of Ukraine killed another 680 Russian occupiers and destroyed dozens of pieces of equipment over the course of 21 April.
SOURCE: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook
DETAILS: Total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 22 April 2023 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]:
approximately 185,730 (+680) military personnel,
3,672 (+4) tanks,
7,130 (+4) armoured combat vehicles,
2,832 (+5) artillery systems,
539 (+0) multiple-launch rocket systems,
289 (+4) air defence systems,
308 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft,
293 (+0) helicopters,
2,398 (+4) operational-tactical UAVs,
911 (+0) cruise missiles,
18 (+0) ships/boats,
5,718 (+5) vehicles and tankers,
337 (+3) other vehicles and equipment.
Could Russia Breakup after Putin???? "The Soviet Union came apart because it overstretched itself and ran out of money and ideas. Local elites saw no benefit in remaining part of a bankrupt country. It fragmented along the administrative borders of the 15 republics that made up the giant country. Yet there was no reason why the process had to stop there. Indeed, many of Russia’s regions—including Siberia, Ural, Karelia and Tatarstan—declared their “sovereignty” at the time." https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/could-russia-breakup-after-putin.html
VIDEOS
1. Last minute development! Russian Soldiers Caught! Terrible Confessions of Captured Russian Soldiers!
Infinity
410K subscribers
4-22-2023 4:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUwoDMtBUTU
2. Kremlin Is Shocked By This News: There Is No Passage To The Russians On the Ukrainian War Map!
The Pioneer
317K subscribers
Apr 22, 2023 10:30 p.m. DST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9HpstBDh0U
“A soldier’s day on the battlefield is not like a day spent normally. Soldiers on the front line are always on their toes. Will there be an attack by an enemy that day or will there be an offensive against the enemy?
With all these things, everything can change for an army in one day. There are also such days when the Russian invaders suffer a lot of casualties in one day against the Ukrainian army.
Every day that the Russian invaders face the Ukrainian army costs them heavy losses! But sometimes, thanks to the organized offensive of the Ukrainian army, the Russian invaders go through hell! One of these hellish days took place in the regions where the fighting was almost non-stop!
The Russian invaders lost many military vehicles and many soldiers! Russian soldiers are no longer able to withstand these losses! Morale in Putin’s army is very low! We may hear more news about Russian soldiers giving up in the coming days! Let’s take a look at the apocalypse of the Russian invaders!
This time it was tanks and armored personnel carriers near the city of Vuhledar that caught by the Ukrainian army by surprise! Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, who heads the Tavria Tactical and Strategic Group, published footage of the moments when a Russian convoy traveling near Vuhledar was hit!
Amen.
So glad Russian forces are compassionate Christian just trying to deNaxify the place
The Greatest Gift - Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity,
But,love rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13 NKJV
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