Posted on 09/24/2023 12:07:48 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the five hundred seventy seventh day of the war.
Day 577: Sep 23
Today, there are a lot of positive updates from the Tokmak direction.
Recently, Russian sources reported that in the aftermath of continued offensive operations, Ukrainian forces cut off a crucial supply road between Novoprokopivka and Verbove. However, Ukrainians did not achieve it by focusing on this area directly, rather, the collapse of the Russian defense happened as a consequence of their defeats around Verbove.
Previously, I told you that Ukrainians concentrated their efforts on clearing all major fortifications located on the second line of defense and that the operation was successful, and they opened virtually complete access to the village. After that, Ukrainians proceeded to widen the corridor by shaving off the Russian defense line. Gradually, Ukrainians advanced by up to 1 km and pushed Russians away from the positions that covered their supply road between Verbove and Novoprokopivka.
What this means is that now Russians cannot redeploy their forces as quickly between the two directions and have to make a long detour. On top of that, such changes also allowed Ukrainians to protect the flanks of the attack group around Novoprokopivka. Ukrainians immediately leveraged the obtained benefits and suddenly shifted their focus from Verbove to Novoprokopivka.
Here, Ukrainians already set the proper conditions for the attack because, even according to Russian sources, Ukrainians cleared all tree lines northeast of the settlement, which means that there is only one field that separates Ukrainians from the village, and Ukrainians also established total control over all fortifications north of Novoprokopivka.
Ukrainian fighters released footage showing how they conducted powerful artillery preparation on the Russian positions on the contact line. Ukrainian artillery crews also released footage of advanced counter-battery duels showing how Ukrainian multiple-launch rocket system M270 (which is the same as HIMARS but has twice as many rockets) hunts down Russian Uragans.
Next, Ukrainians conducted an assault from the north and attacked Russian positions on the northern outskirts of the village. The attack was swift because the closest Ukrainian positions are just 400 meters away from the houses in Novoprokopivka. The attack has driven Russians away from the outer dozen of houses, and now this part of the village is in the grey zone.
Russian forces tried to conduct a counterattack and rolled out their tanks to fire at Ukrainians in the shelters with high-explosive shells. Unfortunately for the Russians, the tank either exploded on a mine or got hit with an anti-tank missile, and the crew abandoned the tank and ran away. Ukrainian drone operators finished the job by dropping a mine inside the Russian tank and causing an explosion.
Russian analysts expressed their discontent about the fact that most Russian equipment never gets evacuated from the front and instead is promptly destroyed by Ukrainians or by Russians themselves if the piece of equipment is modern, like T-90 tanks. Moreover, Russian analysts raised the question of why Russians do not make sure that all damaged and abandoned Ukrainian equipment is destroyed.
The discussions were caused by the recently released footage of the evacuated Leopard tank that got immobilized by a mine at the beginning of summer. The first video with this tank was published on 15 June. The intact tank stood in one place for more than 3 months and 9 days, and after the contact line shifted south and allowed to evacuate it, Ukrainians got back one more Leopard.
Overall, Ukrainians advanced by more than 1 km along the main line of defense, cut a Russian supply road, split them into 2 groups, secured their flanks, and conducted the first assault on Novoprokopivka. As a result, Russians were driven out of the northern part of the village and were unable to restore control in their counterattack. The attacks are expected to intensify as Russian fighters reported that Ukrainians are gradually deploying additional forces to the contact line.
Blablablabla more silly insults and utter bullshit from a rabid Youkazoid.
A question for you Dingus: Why are you so madly in love with Youcrayne, a child trafficking center, a money laundering mecca for scumbag politicians, a place rife with neo-Nazi militias, an organ-harvesting hell, a place with a hyper-corrupt government filled with grifting dirtbags making bank off the backs of beleagured US taxpayers? Why are you so in love with what is, by far, one of the most corrupt nations in Europe - one headed by a phony, grifting, gay-dancing, B-grade actor scumbag who recommends demonic filth like Maria Abramovic to ambassadorships?
Why are you in alignment with 75% of leftists when it comes to shoveling US money into that sinkhole but against the 75% of US conservatives who are against that?
Folks who don’t mind making blood money.
NOTE:
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Right. So they shouldn’t need our (U.S. taxpayers) continuous injections of billions of dollars.
Yup.....a good ‘get it off your chest’ site.
“Yup.....a good ‘get it off your chest’ site.”
Well, Free Republic goal is to develop discussion of issues.
Yet, the FR site does serve that purpose for filled with such anger & aggression they must direct unprovoked hostility at others. Hmmm, kind of like the Putin invasion of Ukraine, LOL
Today is Sunday must go, must go.
What is keeping Putin from dropping the “big one” on Kiev and ending this war tomorrow?
does the “great military mind” realize Russia “invading” isn’t the problem?
a big part of the problem is Ukraine govt is evil, corrupt. Taking all sorts of “helps” including huge amounts from USA and equipment, and then squandering the money and things on themselves more so than on matters of the country.
Ukranians should be fighting their own govt corruption, not just blame Russia.
Nineteen months later the Russians are so desperately wishing your silly claim of “squandering” was true and that the Russian corruption didn’t have them using tanks from the 1950s and 60s.
Smells a little like stale boxed wine, a headache and bitterness to me. 😁
Do you realize how dumb that statement is?
Zelensky, a Jewish man, is elected over 3 other candidates by the people of Ukraine and you claim he and his party are Nazis.
Video of Zelensky meeting with Rabbis
Let me guess, you think the men in the video are Nazis because some Russian MOD guy told you so.
(1) His inability to actually ensure that whatever the "big one" is actually gets to Kiev.
(2) His military isn't that crazy, and killing him might be better than the consequences of launching the "big one".
(3) Putin isn't that crazy.
(4) NATO is likely to respond.
(5) Putin has to be 100% convinced that the Ukrainians really did give up every single one of their nuclear warheads. What happens if they kept one or two?
It operates its own store, of course, by passing with links to UASupporter.com. An example is found from a "merch" link to:
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That secondary site, UASupporter was registered in the US through GoDaddy LLC on April 27, 2022, and is privacy protected by a company in Tempe, Arizona. One learns: "All products are printed and shipped in the US, the EU, the UK, Canada, or Australia, depending on where the order was placed. In rare cases when a facility runs out of stock, to avoid delays, we may ship it from another country (but still from one that is listed above), which is why some products may incur customs fees."
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One also observes that RFU has replaced Denys "Baby Rabbits" Davydov for this "daily amen™" thread, at least for this time around.
Thanks for asking.
"Clinton Global Initiative launches humanitarian network for Ukraine" September 20, 2023
Source: https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/clinton-global-initiative-launches-humanitarian-network-for-ukraine
To paraphrase a movie script line, "I love the smell of money in the morning."
So to all of those “we are risking nuclear war” are FOS?
Like I keep saying there will never be a strategic nuclear first strike. There is no feasable scenaro where it would work.
24 Sep: Finally! Ukrainian Marders CROSS THE TRENCHES & BREAKTHROUGH Main Russian Line | Ukraine War
Divine Justice
184K subscribers
Sep 24, 2023 4:00 a.m. EDT
English, C.C. & Transcript available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPDj7n3-CiI
I saw that thread. Well, I don’t stop by the Q threads. It belongs to them.
INFORMATIVE ARTICLE
The report’s central conclusion is that the president has ample authority, under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or I.E.E.P.A., to transfer Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine.
“I.E.E.A.P.A. plainly states that the president can ‘investigate,’ ‘block,’ ‘regulate,’ ‘direct and compel,’ ‘nullify,’ ‘void’ and ‘prevent or prohibit’” the conveyance of property from one entity to another, Tribe and his colleagues write. “Those powers address conveyances of ‘any right, power or privilege’ with respect to property that a foreign country has an interest in and that is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.” Past presidents have used this authority before: George H.W. Bush froze Iraq’s assets in the United States after its invasion of Kuwait, and ultimately transferred them to the United Nations Compensation Commission for victims of Saddam Hussein’s aggression.
What about Russia’s “sovereign immunity,” the legal doctrine that a state is immune from the judgments or penalties of foreign courts? That’s one of the arguments sometimes trotted out against transferring Russia’s assets to Ukraine. It’s also irrelevant. “It’s a doctrine applicable only in judicial proceedings, not one designed to hamstring a country’s foreign policy as reflected in executive or legislative action,” Tribe wrote me in an email. “There is simply no basis for saying Russia can violate Ukraine’s sovereignty while invoking its own sovereignty as an inviolable shield.”
There is a well established doctrine in international law, Tribe’s report notes, of “countermeasures,” actions that might otherwise violate international law but are lawful “because the action is taken against another state for an internationally wrongful act.” The principle is simple: Violators of international law don’t get a veto over the penalties for their violations.
Finally, there is the argument that the United States could suffer long-term economic damage if other countries avoided parking their money here for fear it could be taken from them. I put that argument to Summers, who allowed that there was a risk of the United States acting unilaterally, without the coordination of European countries where most of Russia’s funds are currently frozen. “The idea is to do this multilaterally,” he told me. “If others didn’t, there might be a flight from the dollar. But if it is done by all the major currencies, where are people going to move their money?”
Summers is a powerful proponent of transferring funds to Ukraine. Not the least of his arguments is that the Rubicon has already been crossed. We’ve frozen Russia’s assets and declared Vladimir Putin a war criminal; it’s unthinkable that the money will ever be unfrozen except to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction. So why not get on with it now, when additional funding could hasten Ukraine’s victory, help its people as they are under fire, and send a potent message to the Kremlin and other would-be aggressors that the financial price of invasion is as countable as it is steep?
The Biden administration has compiled an honorable record of doing right by Ukraine — but generally comes around to it a bit late. Helping to defeat Russia with Russia’s own money is vital to that effort. The moral logic is compelling. The legal case is clear. And, as the bills add up, the political moment is now.
https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/19/how-to-make-russia-really-pay-for-invading-ukraine/
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