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Ukraine’s Powerful 82nd Brigade, Once Held In Reserve, Has Finally Joined The Counteroffensive
Forbes ^ | August `15, 2023 | David Axe

Posted on 08/21/2023 12:47:40 PM PDT by kiryandil

The Ukrainian air assault forces finally have deployed their most powerful unit. The 2,000-person 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which is stacked with Marder and Stryker fighting vehicles and Challenger 2 tanks, rolled into action around Robotyne, in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast, apparently in the last few days.

The deployment is good and bad news for Kyiv’s long-anticipated counteroffensive, which kicked off with a series of coordinated assaults across southern and eastern Ukraine starting on June 4.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: 82ndairassault; 82ndbrigade; davidaxe; powerful; russia; ukraine; war
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To: kiryandil

Steiner! Steiner has arrived!


41 posted on 08/21/2023 2:25:26 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: tlozo; JonPreston; BobL
A bookkeeper who only posts one side of a ledger is either crooked, a propagandist - or both.  
42 posted on 08/21/2023 2:25:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: silverleaf

43 posted on 08/21/2023 2:26:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

It's going to get worse before it gets better but...

The implosion will be glorious.

44 posted on 08/21/2023 2:36:51 PM PDT by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
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To: kiryandil

Panic is stronk in that one.


45 posted on 08/21/2023 2:43:54 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: kiryandil

Forbes. Really?


46 posted on 08/21/2023 2:46:24 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: kiryandil

Hitler plans to help Ukraine defeat Russia

https://youtu.be/nDsN1Nz6Q5I


47 posted on 08/21/2023 2:50:29 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

They are sending in the immortals!


48 posted on 08/21/2023 2:50:39 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: PIF
you wrote: Here’s an article for your perusal:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166577/posts

Mein Gott!! Are you so soft that you've been OFFENDED by a decades-old Bugs Bunny meme [Top THAT, Lollobrigida!]?

You need smelling salts? A fainting couch? Some pearls to clutch?

49 posted on 08/21/2023 2:51:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: FlyingEagle
I'm mocking David Axe of Forbes, who apparently got this fbrigade bombed five times in one day due to the information he released.

David Axe is a Friend of The Ukraine®.

50 posted on 08/21/2023 2:53:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: cabojoe

It’s gonna be one angry week when the collapse comes.


51 posted on 08/21/2023 2:55:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Yes. The Forbes article is obvious CIA propaganda. I know your point of view and appreciate it. Thank you.


52 posted on 08/21/2023 2:57:24 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: silverleaf
We have a new nickname for Vlod the Impaled:

Mein Failüre


53 posted on 08/21/2023 3:00:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: DuncanWaring

I believe “J.Peiper” might be more in line for this occasion.


54 posted on 08/21/2023 3:05:28 PM PDT by thescourged1
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To: kiryandil

They’re dead, Jim.


55 posted on 08/21/2023 3:07:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: BenLurkin

True!


56 posted on 08/21/2023 3:18:54 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: thescourged1; DuncanWaring
SS-Standartenführer Peiper was a pretty cool guy in the first couple of days of the Ardennes offensive, until the Pervitin kicked in...

We won't address the Blowtorch Battalion stuff on the Eastern Front.   

57 posted on 08/21/2023 7:58:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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