Posted on 05/21/2023 7:36:53 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Bakhmut may become a Rat trap for Wagner | No way to run | Positive scenario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fxJoNEx2l8
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Invasion Day 452– Summary May 21, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-452-summary/
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In contrast, Ukraine has the benefit of NATO doctrine, training, and weapons and experience in fighting the Russians. With Western tanks and IFVs (infantry fighting vehicles) now arriving in significant numbers along with other weapons, Ukraine has the potential to drive deep into Russian lines and recover a considerable portion of its territory and inflict heavy casualties on the Russians.
It ‘may,’ but most likely ‘will not.’
Great minds think alike, don't they?
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UKRAINIAN PATRIOT SAYS BAKHMUT WAS A TRAP - RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY DEFEATED
My view: Ukraine does not have the necessary abundance of mobility-in-depth with which to drive deep into Russian lines.
With so much anti-vehicle (missile-type) weaponry at Russia’s disposal, very difficult to extend columns without advancing on both flanks, with troops.
Ukraine sorely needs more vehicles that mount one of:
- rocket tube launchers
- recoilless rifle
- SPG-9”
with which, Ukkraine may broadly suppress Russian positions.
Ukraine simply does not have the logistics trains, with which to support its offense ambitions.
You’re quite a character.
CHILD TRAFFICKING
How Ukraine Returns Children ‘Deported’ by Russia - Part 1
Kiev Post [Exclusive Interview Kidnapped Kids]
Tatyana Popova
https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/17248
On March 21, a group of 17 children from the Kherson and Kharkiv regions who were taken to Russia or deep into the occupied territories last year were finally reunited with their families in Ukraine. The Kyiv Post’s special correspondent, Tatiana Popova, had the opportunity to speak with them.
During the autumn of 2022, children from the occupied regions were sent to children’s camps located within Crimea under the guise of a “vacation.” The occupation authorities assured parents that their children would be returned within 10-14 days, but this promise was never fulfilled.
“You’re quite a character”
Thanks. Nice to be appreciated :)
“You’re quite a character”
Thanks. Nice to be appreciated :)
It could also snow in hell.
Stop trying to kill all the Ukrainians. Sue for peace.
VIDEO WITH COMMENTARY
21 May: Russians Set A NEW BAR FOR THE MOST DISASTROUS ATTACK | War in Ukraine Explained
Reporting from Ukraine
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5-21-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_uBkaurCLo
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I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the four hundred and fifty second day of the war.
Day 452: May 21
Today there are a lot of updates from the Avdiivka direction. Here, over the last week, Russian forces conducted a series of massive assaults. They used a huge number of tanks and armored fighting vehicles to reinforce up to 4 full assault squads. Russians concentrated most of their efforts in the southern direction, and their main goal was to widen the bridgehead simultaneously in 2 directions: towards Pervomaiske and Nevelske.
Ukrainians started noticing the accumulation of forces and gradual intensification of actions already 10 days ago. Russians were relocating their equipment through Pisky via a very convenient highway.
Shortly after that, Russian forces conducted a probing attack south of Nevelse to see whether Ukrainians improved their defense in this region. However, the Russian tank was destroyed already on the approach by getting hit by anti-tank missiles from two sides. The double explosion did not give a chance to the crew to survive. Judging by the trajectory, both missiles came somewhere from Nevelse. This small settlement and fortifications around it are located on a hill, which gives Ukrainian fighters the ability to control the whole region, including the distant flanks. So, any armored vehicle that gets within the range of 5 km immediately becomes a possible target.
That is why recently, Russians decided to make a frontal tank assault precisely on the Ukrainian position on the hill. The biggest problem for Russians was that all Ukrainian units in this region had all sorts of anti-tank weaponry. It didn’t take long for the first tank to be taken out. Judging by the horizontal trajectory of the missile, it looks like Ukrainians destroyed this tank with ATGM Stuhna-P. Less than a minute later, the second tank got destroyed as well, and this time clearly with Javelin that was launched from a very short distance.
After making sure that frontal attacks continued not to work, Russians decided to develop a new tactic. Two days ago, Russians started using the local geography to their advantage. This time, Russian forces sent their tanks through the gully, meaning that they were out of sight of most, if not all, Ukrainian ATMG crews. The goal of the attack was to clear the tree line south of Pervomaiske and set conditions for a much easier advancement through the settlement. However, other aspects of the plan were very strange.
Russians decided to send at least 20 troops to approach the first target by foot along the tree lines; 1 tank and 3 armored vehicles to simultaneously attack the second Ukrainian position from the gully; and at least 1 tank was left in the rear to provide cover. The attack went terribly wrong.
Ukrainian drone operators quickly passed the coordinates of the tank in the rear to the ATGM crews around Nevelske. The ATGM crews responded extremely timely and destroyed the Russian tank before the assault units even reached their targets. Without the cover from the tank, Ukrainian fighters on the first line of defense could easily target the assault units that consisted entirely of troops and very quickly killed everyone from machine guns and artillery.
By the time the Russian armor emerged from the gully and started approaching the second Ukrainian position, the fighters in the first position were fully available. As a result, the Russian armored assault unit got caught in the cross fire and destroyed before it even reached their target as well. Such an attack cost Russians at least 5 pieces of heavy equipment and up to 40 troops. It is unclear whether such a disastrous attack was a result of poor planning or misunderstanding of the plan.
The timing was extremely off, and the troops that got stuck in the middle of the field were doomed the moment they lost cover. The heavy losses of tanks and armored vehicles in this direction that continue to accumulate month after month are significantly degrading Russian forces. This is an extremely good sign for Ukrainians because, as the Ukrainian Eastern Grouping of Forces Spokesperson recently reiterated, the main objective of the Ukrainian defensive operation in the east is to exhaust Russian forces in the area, and, so far, Ukrainians are very successful in achieving this goal.
I was never antiwar as a kid. I hated peaceniks, and Smedley Butler was baffling to me. But man, you get older and see how the world works. They are just straight out murdering all these kids who would never have had a fistfight with each other before, and it is all to protect the corrupt crap Biden and his leftist cronies had going on in that country.
If you laid out 150,000 patriotic Ukrainian kids, whatever young patriotic guys Russia has lost, maybe 200,000 if you want to use what Ukraine would probably say - is keeping Ukraine under the control of Soros and Biden worth all those hundreds of thousands of brave, selfless, patriotic young guys, who would never have fought otherwise? You are literally culling the population for cowards, sheep, and the lower moral classes by killing the cream of the crop, all for politicians.
Just terrible. Give the whole thing to Putin if you have to. Just no more of these freaking drone videos of the best on both sides getting killed.
Igor "Strelkov" Girkin forwarded this text (Screenshot 1) from Sergey Rusov, who is a political ally of Girkin. The title is: A pyrrhic victory On a side note, it is always remarkable to see when well-knows fascists and anti-Semites like those two guys speak of others and call them "Nazis". 
Source: https://t.me/sergeyrusov/41 #Bakhmut #Donetsk #Ukraine
Who is Wagner going to run from? The Ukranians are the one running backwards.
According to the US government, the Ukraine has a child trafficking problem. The region is ‘tier 2’ instead of ‘tier 1’ with other 1st world nations because it is more legally tolerant of trafficking.
So naturally, you’re here telling us that Russia has child management failures - it’s never anything wrong in the Ukraine, right? Always RUssia Russia Russia - this is a repeat of the Trump administration in which the MSM bombarded us with Russia Russia Russia for years, and it was all a lie.
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