I'd forgotten about that... 
Posted on 11/19/2023 4:23:54 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia tries to Advance to Klishchiivka | Ukraine takes the ground too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7aa8asCAdk
Order of Battle Deep Dive – 110th Mechanized Brigade November 19, 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/order-of-battle-deep-dive-110th-mechanized-brigade/ 110th Mechanized Brigade is a mechanized brigade of Ukrainian Ground Forces, formed shortly after the Russian full-scale invasion. (Excerpt)
[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]
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VIDEO
76 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE KILLED IN A HIMARS ATTACK AFTER BEING USED AS A BAIT BY THEIR COMMAND | 2023
Warthog Defense
631K subscribers
11-19-2023
9:01 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6BygQXC988
ARTICLE
Zelenskyy commented on the return of the deported young man: There were many attempts to help him
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Sunday, 19 November 2023, 23:30
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/19/7429461/
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked everyone involved in the return home of Bohdan Yermokhin who was deported from the occupied city of Mariupol by the Russians; he turned 18 on 19 November.
SOURCE:
President’s evening address
QUOTE:
“Separately I would like to thank everyone whose concern and efficiency help us return to Ukraine children who were abducted from the occupied territory.
Today we managed to return to Ukraine Bohdan Yermokhin, a boy who was taken from Mariupol to Russia.
There were many attempts to help him. I am glad that everything worked out. I am grateful to the entire team working on the return of Ukrainian children – the Office, the Ombudsman, and our international partners, including UNICEF. I am especially grateful to Qatar for its effective mediation and assistance. Thank you!”
BACKGROUND:
-On Sunday, Bohdan Yermokhin, a teenager who had been deported from Russian-occupied Mariupol in southern Ukraine to the Russian Federation where he received a draft notice, returned to Ukraine.
-Russian occupation authorities deported Bohdan Yermokhin, then 16, from Mariupol in 2022. He was placed in a children’s health centre in Moscow Oblast.
-In July 2022, Bohdan was placed under the guardianship of Irina Rudnitskaya, a Chechen War veteran. Around that time, Bohdan sought help from a lawyer.
-With his 18th birthday approaching on 19 November 2023, Bohdan received a draft notice; he was told to report to a military enlistment office in Moscow Oblast on 19 December 2023.
-Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner, who is the subject of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant, claimed that Bohdan would be able to travel back to Ukraine in a week.
-In early November, Dmytro Lubinets reported that Ukraine had arranged to bring Bohdan back to Ukraine.
ARTICLE (Too funny!)
Kremlin sets up blogger school in occupied territories due to shortage of propagandists
Ukrainska Pravda
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Sunday, 19 November 2023, 22:52
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/19/7429459/
The Russians have opened a Kremlin-funded “blogger school” in the occupied territories of Ukraine’s south to overcome a shortage of propagandists.
SOURCE: National Resistance Center
QUOTE:
“The Russians are trying to overcome the shortage of ‘journalists’ in the temporarily occupied territories.
Most of the locals refuse to cooperate with the occupiers, and they are forced to bring in temporary workers from the Russian Federation to establish a propaganda system in the region. To solve this problem, the enemy is attempting to create ‘journalists’ from scratch.
To this end, the occupiers have opened a ‘school of bloggers’ financed by the Kremlin in the TOT [temporarily occupied territories – ed.]. The enemy hopes to find collaborators from among students in search of fame who will agree to CREATE propaganda content.”
DETAILS:
Ukraine’s National Resistance Center noted that propaganda is a crime, and anyone involved in working for the Russians will be held accountable.
Gee mommy, if you wouldn’t have assured me that I was important to you, I would have slashed my wrists.
I really hate it. Countless young men dead and gone. Families shattered, lived upended. Cities and towns destroyed.
And for what? The Biden crime family and their associates.
It’s sickening.
“Wow! what slander you spew.”
Others have proven how much money you rake in. I will oppose you and your warmongering crowd in any way I can.
It’s agiTprop.
If you’re going to misuse a word, at least learn how to spell it.
Just trying to help you learn.
If you’re going to misuse a word, at least learn how to spell it.
That’s a capital suggestion.
I'd forgotten about that...
So the diaper-filling pedo can creep on yet another 6-year-old girl.
“Get a life....Your own army has done or bad as worse than Putin. Hiroshima,...”
I might add, “Get a country.” Obviously you don’t consider the US your own country as you accuse mine of engaging in war against those who made a sneak attack on Hawaii, just as Putin made a sneak attack on Kiev, Ukraine. So quit using that phone identifier, “Seattle”. Obviously you don’t consider our US Army as any part of you or whatever country you actually do this propagandize for.
This may help:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
By John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
You may be “neither pro-Putin, a farmer-troll or a useful idiot detractor,” but you sure sound like someone who has serius “mommy” issues. Get your own head on straight, and stop attacking other women because of whatever your mommy did to you as a child. Obviously you would benefit from psychological counseling or maybe even psychiatric care.
Mega apologies for typo:
Try not to become another victim or perpetrator of Russian agitprop.
Originally, the label was a shortened form of the ‘Agitation and Propaganda Section of the Central Committee Secretariat of the Communist Party’ in the Soviet Union.
Agitprop is the use of political slogans and half-truths specifically used by the Marxism practiced by communists in the Soviet Union.
Recent example:
Comment #66 which is a delusion, fallacy from rxh4n1.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4198028/posts?page=66#66
With this new propaganda “blogger school” being set up on Ukraine territory, I wonder how many more Putin trolls will start showing up here at FR.
“I might add, “Get a country.” Obviously you don’t consider the US your own country as you accuse mine of engaging in war against those who made a sneak attack on Hawaii, just as Putin made a sneak attack on Kiev, Ukraine. So quit using that phone identifier, “Seattle”. Obviously you don’t consider our US Army as any part of you or whatever country you actually do this propagandize for.”
I certainly can appreciate your comment. His comment do tend to evoke Vidkun Quisling.
Well at least Biden is not running around kissing 7 year old boys on the belly like Putin has done.
VIDEO COMMENTARY
19 Nov: OOPS. Russian Tanks GET STUCK IN MUD in front of Ukrainians | War in Ukraine
Reporting from Ukraine
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11-20-2023 2:50 a.m. EST
5:06 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3SfF6Kmcns
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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 six-hundred-thirty-fourth day of the war.
Day 634: Nov 19
Today, there are a lot of updates from the Avdiivka direction.
Here, Russian forces continue pushing along three axes of attack. Even though most of the developments have been happening in the northern part of the region, this does not mean that the southern part of the region has been quiet. Actually, in some ways, the southern part of the region had even tougher battles.
The tactics of Ukrainian and Russian forces in the south turned out to be completely different from what we saw in the north. After Russian forces established control over Terrikon, Ukrainian fighters reported that Russians started to use infantry as their main force, not tanks, as we saw in the first days of the offensive operation. The reason why Russians started to refrain from using heavy equipment is twofold.
First of all, Russians cannot really accumulate heavy equipment close to the front, which is why Russian tanks and armored fighting vehicles had to travel more than 10 kilometers to get to the contact line. In most cases, this was enough for Ukrainian drone operators to detect and open fire at the approaching enemy units.
At some point, Ukrainian fighters reported that more than half of the tanks and armored fighting vehicles were damaged and destroyed before they reached the predetermined destination. So, the limits imposed by the logistics and Ukrainian artillery and drone strikes pushed Russians to limit their use of heavy equipment.
Secondly, after the contact line moved towards the railways, Terrikon, and the water reservoirs, using tanks and armored vehicles became complicated due to the local geography. Right now, according to Ukrainian reconnaissance teams, Russians only use armored personnel carriers to get the infantry to Krasnohorivka, and once the village is reached, Russian soldiers go to the contact line on foot.
The situation in the southern part of the region is completely different, and not even one attack is conducted without the support of heavy armor. Even though Russians basically have only one road for the deployment of forces, this road goes straight to Donetsk, so the Russian logistics here is fine. Apart from narrow bridges, from which Russians sometimes fall, there are no geographical obstacles either – just open fields. Unfortunately for Russians, open fields expose their assault units to Ukrainian drone operators.
Today, Ukrainian fighters from the fifty-third mechanized brigade released a video showing how a column consisting of at least 8 Russian tanks and armored fighting vehicles gets detected well in advance and suffers from precise fire, barely passing the village of Vodiane. As you can see, there is already a huge graveyard of Russian equipment in front of the settlement. This column turned out to be less lucky than usual because they got destroyed, never even reaching it.
But the biggest obstacle for Russian forces is Ukrainian minefields. Even when some enemy forces pass the death zone by leveraging the morning fog, getting to the second tree line proved to be virtually impossible. Moreover, Ukrainians understand that the only thing that can undermine their defense in this region is de-mining equipment, which is why it became a high-priority target. Footage released by Ukrainian fighters showed that multiple pieces of Russian de-mining equipment were destroyed in HIMARS strikes.
A captured Russian soldier said that due to the lack of UR-77, Russians resorted to using mine sweepers attached to the tanks.
The soldier said that he warned his commanders that, given the weather conditions, the tank would not be able to cross the field and that they were dooming the whole assault unit. However, they were sent anyway, the tank got stuck in the mud, the whole assault unit was forced to stop in the middle of the field, and almost everyone from the column got killed.
Recently, Russians once again started using kamikaze vehicles. Russians put hundreds of kilograms of explosives and directed it toward Ukrainian firing positions on the other side of the field. The tactic is quite dubious, as the vehicles have almost zero chance of getting across. And even though the explosion de-mines a section of the fields, Russian sources reported that Ukrainians mine them again by using RAAM shells for distant mining.
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ARTICLE
General Staff on situation on left bank of Kherson region: Occupiers started having problems, they were forced to transfer units from other directions
Censor.NET
20.11.23 09:19
https://censor.net/en/n3456559
On the left bank of the Kherson region, our soldiers act boldly and tactically competently, sometimes even defiantly. Problems began with the Russian occupiers.
This was stated by the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrii Kovalev during the telethon, Censor.NET informs with reference to RBC-Ukraine.
“The Russian occupiers have started having problems. As a result of heavy losses, they are forced to transfer units here from other directions,” he said.
Also, according to Kovalev, the significant losses of the occupying forces are due to the fact that the invaders are trying to knock out the Ukrainian soldiers from their occupied positions, from these bridgeheads.
“Almost every day, the enemy makes from 4 to 10 such attempts. The occupiers on the left bank of the Kherson region use the entire arsenal of weapons - from mortars to large-caliber artillery, rockets, weapons, and aviation. However, our soldiers act bravely and tactically competently, sometimes even defiantly,” he added.
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