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[General/Chat] Donestk Interational Airport and Donestk city are about to be taken by Ukraine.
Freerepublic.com ^ | September 10, 2020 | Widget Jr.

Posted on 09/10/2022 7:11:28 PM PDT by Widget Jr

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To: Owen

The very points you make testify to the usefulness of drones. Satellites can only sometimes provide real time intelligence just after a pass?). For artillery spotting for instance satellites are only good for static targets.

Drones can observe real time. For moving or at least mobile targets they are invaluable, for counterbattery and other tactical purposes.


41 posted on 09/10/2022 9:35:45 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Widget Jr

As you say, US/WEF/NWO drives Russia back.
Ukraine can’t do shiite by itself.


42 posted on 09/10/2022 9:44:19 PM PDT by A strike (LGBFJRoberts)
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To: A strike

Ukraine does heaps by itself. Their extended Fabian tactics brought them to this month’s position where the could launch offensives. It is Ukrainians who sweat out barrages. It is Ukrainians who creep up on BMPs and take them out with simple RPGs. You should give valor its due.


43 posted on 09/10/2022 9:59:06 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: Cronos

Post #29. The Kadyrov Chechens have a bad reputation. Now they are a “Tik Tok Battalion” making videos pretending to fighting off ambushes by bushes, literally.


44 posted on 09/10/2022 10:01:15 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0)
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To: Widget Jr

We’ll see. Ukrainian units were chasing hysterical herds of Russians in that direction.


45 posted on 09/10/2022 11:18:17 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: dp0622

Me? I’m enjoying the good guys kicking the living crap out of the bad guys here and making people lose their mud over it. Russia along with North Korea and China are major threats to Japan out here and I’d say somewhere in the vicinity of 90% of the Japanese people are supporting Ukraine, and they’re going to be very happy to see Putin removed from power hopefully


46 posted on 09/10/2022 11:34:10 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The best snow on the earth is in Utah. Bar none)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I’ll add that the separatists “can’t do Shiite” by themselves either.


47 posted on 09/11/2022 12:29:41 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Widget Jr

While I’d prefer to see such a result quickly, I suspect we’ll see a lot of ebbs and flows, and this war could go on for a few years. That unless the West really ups the quantities of HIMARS and guided artillery, including some heavier munitions here and there, too, like the ATACMS. Plus some aircraft and ability to drop spans on major bridges.


48 posted on 09/11/2022 12:36:06 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Widget Jr

We need to send more. All.


49 posted on 09/11/2022 3:46:13 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Widget Jr

With Ukrainian low orbit satellites providing continuous real time images of all Russia troop movements, Ukrainian AWACs providing around the clock tracking of all Russian aircraft and the Ukrainian NSA monitoring all Russian electronic communications, it just goes to show how a fourth-rate military, with the unlimited aid of the most advanced weaponry available and first-rate command and control (CENTCOM) can hold off and maybe even defeat a second-rate military. /s


50 posted on 09/11/2022 5:57:56 AM PDT by bruoz
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To: Widget Jr

At this point when I read FR, I look at the posters’ names before the article titles. That way I can skip past the 20-25% of threads that are about Ukraine/Russia. Those 20-25% threads are all posted by a handful of people.


51 posted on 09/11/2022 6:53:13 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Pollard

You seem to post a lot on Ukraine/Russia threads and even post Ukraine/Russia threads yourself.


52 posted on 09/11/2022 10:34:03 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

I might post a thread once every week or two and post a single comment in a thread. It’s all day, every day for some people though. Some days 12 out of 20 threads on the home page are U/R threads.

FR features red, white and blue and the American flag but if some people had their way, it would be changed to blue and yellow and the Ukraine flag right now.


53 posted on 09/11/2022 11:23:21 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Pollard

A lot of freepers are interested in our troops in Europe, national security, the military, the biggest European war since WWII, Russia invading Europe, our NATO alliance, our modern weapons, energy issues, European leftists groups like the Greens, and European politics and economics, Russian warships being sunk in the Black Sea, all kinds of things.

It would be bizarre if this wasn’t a huge deal on FR.

Some people are very knowledgeable about this Russian invasion and deeply interested in it, and very good at finding information and updates on it, I’m sure glad they are working to keep us informed.


54 posted on 09/11/2022 11:36:43 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: bruoz
I see what you did there.   
55 posted on 09/11/2022 7:34:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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