Posted on 02/24/2022 10:04:56 PM PST by Morgana
A CNN reporter covering the war in Ukraine was caught in the middle of a firefight on live television between Russian special forces and Ukrainian defenders at an essential airfield just outside of Kyiv.
Russian and Ukrainian soldiers exchanged gunfire in a battle for control of Hostomel (Gostomel) airfield, a cargo airport near Kyiv, minutes after CNN's Matthew Chance began speaking to Russian soldiers he first believed were Ukrainians.
Russian special forces had descended on the air base in order to establish a bridgehead to bring in more troops and take over the airport.
Chance, shocked to learn he was speaking to Russian airborne troops, found himself in the middle of a counterattack from Ukrainian solders.
Footage shows Chance and a colleague, both wearing bulletproof vests with the 'press,' crouching against a wall as a car pulled up and several others from his team swooped in so the group could evade the firefight.
The airborne units are considered elite forces, specially selected for their skill and ability to parachute in during the initial attack.
They attacked and seized the Hostomel (Gostomel) airfield early Thursday and Ukraine's leadership vowed to take it back, according to Agence France-Presse.
'The enemy paratroopers in Hostomel have been blocked, and troops have received an order to destroy them,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address.
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You can say Let’s Go Brandon!
I was hoping for a happy ending.
Trying to figure out a bounty.
THAT was dramatic boojit !
Has Putin swallowed too much of his own propaganda? Why send a few hundred of your elite forces to an airport where they will be cut off and overrun?
It would be as if we opened the Iraq War by sending Delta Force on a mission of no great benefit where they were likely to be wiped out.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1497078711903997988?
11:19 PM · Feb 24, 2022
[Latest from Ukraine’s General Staff: Hostomel airport controlled by Kyiv forces. Heavy fighting including Russian armor NW of the capital; bridge over Teteriv River destroyed to stop Russian advance. Ukrainian air defense system prevented two air strikes on Kyiv after 4am.]
not much of a war zone if the attackers aren’t securing / killing everyone that isn’t them
What is the purpose of the highly reflective badges on the green camo?
yup
Some interesting videos at the link.
Looks like the most boring battle ever.
Reminds me of the scene from Sleeper with the defective cannon.
Ukraine can fight back.
But they are going to lose.
People get so aroused every time they kill a Russian.
Bad news. there’s a lot more Russians where that one came from.
And tanks and jets and missiles...
BREAKING: Russia’s forces have entered the Obolon district in Kyiv, where the Ukrainian military is currently fighting them. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry ask residents not to leave their house and prepare Molotov cocktails. The district is approximately 10 km from central Kyiv.
I looked up the location on Gewgle Maps, and it also shows up as Antonov International Airport. Gewgle Maps says that it’s temporarily closed.
Ya think?
I can’t imagine trying to fight a war and suddenly having an idiot reporter pop up in the midst of my unit. If he did anything at all to distract from the task at hand I think he’d be getting the next bullet to end the distraction. No way would I let some CNN moron endanger my life by getting in the way.
I remember the footage of Wolf Blitzer? and another reporter reporting from Iraq, one donning a helmet, in front of a “hotel” in Iraq, 2 palm trees, are sound effects, and then finding out it was a fake backdrop with potted palms.
Thinking the same.
Found it..
https://youtu.be/jTWY14eyMFg
My people tell me that the Russians bombed Borispol Airport, the main airport for Kiev. A cargo airport would be necessary.
Panic buying has emptied all grocery stores, and there is no gasoline available. The roads running west towards Poland and Hungary are jammed and nothing is moving.
This is quite the mess.
At the 1:35 mark it looks like the guy is smoking a joint
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