Posted on 09/28/2023 6:37:26 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine is ready for Major Attack on the South | Ruzzia in Panic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXP8vvJDjAo
The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 23rd September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]
https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-577-summary/
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
https://militaryland.net/maps/
Oh damn! That's gonna leave a mark. . .
One of the reasons I never trust anything posted on the internet by people I don't personally know, or who post under aliases, is that they can and often do weave tall tales about themselves. I think you just demolished one of those tales.
Bingo.
There’s one troll here who keeps talking about his “Ukraine family” while he lives in the comfort of his home in the American South. He doesn’t seem to care enough to evacuate them or go over and fight.
BTW, has there been one warmongering troll who has stepped up to go over there and fight ? I’ve asked every last one of them and they manage to have every single excuse in the book to avoid going. If it matters so much to them, they wouldn’t be typing away on a computer. Keyboard Kommando Kowards.
You sure like your communist sophistry. What makes you think my family in Ukraine would want to leave?
If I were a Communist/Globalist, I’d be backing Zelensky.
I understand you don’t want to move your wife’s family from the Ukraine. Why is that ? Don’t you care for their safety ? Unless they’re nowhere near the action. Quite bizarre.
Krystol = Kristol.
They are patriotic. That is a concept you would not understand. Civilians and military alike have a part to play on defeating the criminal invaders.
Now you can grandstand with another one of your haughty Pharisee prayers.
And Billy-Boi has gone back to the Demonrats and its Pedophile Diaper-wearing standard bearer.
A corrupt state that has existed for just 32 years with one execrable leader after another. Patriotism for a state that’s worth saving is one thing, but it’s suicidal for one that isn’t. I guess you wouldn’t understand that.
But, hey, if that excuse works for not wanting to bring your wife’s family from there, that’s on you. I’m thinking you don’t want them in Alabama.
You say you’re not a communist but YOU support the return of communist symbols to the temporarily occupied areas and naming plazas after Lenin. YOU support the brutal invasions of the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine and the constant threats against Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland.
I didn’t make anything up. It is being reported all over the place.
Maybe not where you are at, but it is happening.
Morale high? I do not believe that for a minute.
If I were a Communist, I’d be ecstatic with the globalist agenda. I’d be all in for the Zelensky regime, for Soros, and for the Pedophile degenerate in the White House. In other words, I’d be a Demonrat.
In Ukraine, Russia's invasion triggered a patriotic impulse, but some Ukrainians are refusing to fight despite societal pressures and warnings from authorities cracking down on draft evaders amid a difficult counteroffensive.I wonder what method Denys, the vlogger, and your primary source for your daily propaganda threads, used to escape to Switzerland, Reverend Mother? He strikes me as more of a "bribe someone to get bogus paperwork" type than an "escape through a hole in the border fence" type.Ivan Ishchenko volunteered to fight against invading Russian troops, but after a month of combat, he was willing to pay thousands of euros and risk prison to flee the front.
"Before I went to war, I thought I was a superhero. But all heroism ends when people see [war] with their own eyes and realise that they don't belong there," Ishchenko said.
"I saw someone being shot near his spleen; the pain was crazy. Then I saw a severed head. It all built up... I didn't want to see anything else."
So, one day Ishchenko abandoned his position without warning anyone except his mother and fled Ukraine.
He managed to leave the country despite a ban on the departure of all men aged between 18 and 60.
The 30-year-old paid €4,600 ($5000) for a government-plated car to escort him to a forest on the border with Hungary.
He then escaped through a hole in the fence and ran.
"The scariest moment was back then when I left Ukraine and fled on foot," he said.
Ishchenko is not the only one, since the beginning of the war, authorities have detained 13,600 people trying to cross the border outside of checkpoints,
State Border Guard spokesman Andriy Demchenko said. Another 6,100, most of them fighting-age men, have been caught when attempting to leave with forged documents, Demchenko said.
'Everyone knows'
Evaders and deserters face years in prison if caught after a new law passed in January toughening the punishments.
Amid a struggling counteroffensive, Kyiv is cracking down on corruption schemes that allow men to avoid the army.
All top officials in charge of conscription have been fired in recent weeks, and investigators said they had "uncovered large-scale corruption schemes in almost all regions of the country."
Ivan, a 24-year-old who declined to give his last name due to legal concerns, said that "everyone knows there are opportunities" for avoiding service.
"Everybody has friends or acquaintances who can offer options," he said.
In May, Ivan spent €4,600 on a medical certificate that exempted him from service and allowed him out of Ukraine.
He is not proud of his actions, saying "It all felt wrong and disturbing".
To avoid breaking the law, some men left before turning 18 and never came back after the war began.
Bogdan Marynenko's family pushed him to leave for Poland in August 2022, two days before his 18th birthday.
His father is fighting and Marynenko has been working on construction sites to provide for his family.
"If something were to happen to my father, I remain the only support system for my mother and sisters," said the now 19-year-old, who wore oversized streetwear and sunglasses.
'Not in vain'
Yevgen Kuruch was on a bus from Belgium to Ukraine without phone credit when the driver announced the war had started.
The 38-year-old reserve officer knew he would be among the first mobilised if he went back.
So he got off the bus in Warsaw, the last scheduled stop before Ukraine, went to the nearest McDonalds, connected to the wifi and called his wife and parents.
They insisted he stay in Poland, as sirens sounded in his hometown of Odesa.
"I understand that I have a duty to defend my country," Kuruch said.
"At the same time, I understand that my family also needs me.
"Above all, I must take care of them" he concluded.
He began working as a taxi driver in Warsaw, where his wife, his 8-year-old daughter Anastasia and 5-year-old son Kirill joined him.
Kuruch recalled tense encounters with several Ukrainian women that he drove through the Polish capital.
"I have been told 'our husbands are at the front, they are fighting, and you cowards are staying here? You're hiding behind our husbands' backs'."
Many families have been separated since the war began as women and children fled to safety abroad.
Polish statistics show that out of nearly a million Ukrainians registered in Poland, one out of two is a child while women make up 77 per cent of the adult population under protection.
"I understand it's a painful subject for them... If I see this brings conflict, I just stop talking and try to simply bring the passenger wherever they need," Kuruch said.
He usually turns to his family for reassurance.
"Looking at them, I draw strength and realise that what I am doing now is not in vain."
I don't fault anyone who makes the choice to avoid fighting in the war. That's a very personal choice. I do find it revolting that having made the choice he has to avoud fighting for Ukraine Denys's new career is grifting on pro-Ukraine war propaganda. It's really a bit much.
Glenn Greenwald who posted a link to the above article on his Twitter account made an interesting observation:
Zelensky is fighting with a conscript, not a volunteer, army. More and more Ukrainian men are desperately trying to flee the country because they now realize that Western psychopaths like this want to use them as cannon fodder for their own selfish ends.
https://communities.win/c/Funny/p/17r9fv4ZZT/nazi-appreciation-ceremony/c
Well that certainly explains a lot...
Apparently you do, because here you are.
Case in point...The Press United United Internation, a pro-Russian re-posting blog (probably a FSB front) based in Delhi, India, which suspiciously sounds a lot like United Press International, aka UPI.
I think she posts it for those of us who do want to read it.
I assume you have a scroll button and can move on at will...
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