Posted on 02/03/2024 10:24:37 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
VIDEO: WAR COMMENTARY SUMMATION 02 Feb: Ukrainians CONDUCT A SUCCESSFUL COUNTER ATTACK. Russian Gains REDUCED TO ZERO. War in Ukraine Explained Reporting from Ukraine 463K subscribers 2-2-2024 5:00 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh5ecYbONTs
I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the seven-hundred-ninth day of the war.
Day 709: Feb 02
Today, there are a lot of updates about the battle near Vuhledar.
But first of all, more information became available about the combined strike on Crimea. Russian sources reported that Ukrainians tricked the Russian air defense system by first launching decoy rockets. Once the Russian air defense started shooting them down and revealed their positions, Ukrainians launched anti-radar HARM rockets. These rockets are designed to pick up signals from working radars and destroy them, so Russians basically had to either switch the radars off or take a risk and try to intercept these rockets before they destroy the radars. For Ukrainians, it did not matter what Russians decided to do – the air defense was busy, creating a perfect opportunity to launch Storm Shadow missiles. Ukrainian Air Force Spokesman stated that based on the eulogies of Russian soldiers and other reports, at least 3 aircraft and 2 facilities with personnel were destroyed, including Russian general Oleksandr Tatarenko. Moreover, Ukrainians conducted a simultaneous marine drone strike on the Russian Fleet. As a result, 3 drones successfully hit a Russian missile carrier, which promptly went to the bottom of the sea. Such a massive and successful combined strike caused huge discontent in the Russian media space. Russian analysts criticized the overpraised S-400 air defense systems that were supposed to create an iron dome above Crimea and the continuous failure to protect the radars as well as military objects.
Another point of concern for the Russian analysts became the disastrous Russian offensive operation near Vuhledar. Vuhledar became notorious a long time ago because multiple Russian brigades were completely annihilated here, achieving zero territorial gains. In the most recent offensive operation, Russian forces tried to implement a new plan and bypass Vuhledar from the north. In order to achieve this goal, the main target became Novomykhailivka.
The operation started from demining the fields and attacking Ukrainian strongpoints around the settlement. At first, Russian forces managed to achieve some success on the southern flank, and the main reason for such a big jump was the lack of strongpoints. As you can see, there is a small river going through the settlements, creating several lines of swamps between the fields. Ukrainians had a series of small unit-size defenses in the tree lines, however, the main defense belt was located right in front of the village – more precisely, 2 farms, a cemetery, and main road intersections.
By leveraging 3 settlements under their control, Russian forces were launching one mechanized attack after another from all sides, forcing Ukrainians to withdraw to the main defense belt. Russian sources reported that the battle for Novomykhailivka had started as Russians reached the outskirts. Since Russian forces on the northern flank were substantially lagging behind, the only way to collapse Ukrainian defense was by penetrating the settlement from the south and cutting off supplies. Geolocated footage showed that Russians managed to take control of several strongpoints and get a foothold, and started preparing to storm the settlement.
Despite devastating shelling and the use of heavy thermobaric systems, Russians failed to undermine the Ukrainian defense, and Russian forces on the outskirts were slowly killed. Once the garrison was liquidated, Ukrainian fighters from the 79th Airmobile Brigade conducted a powerful second wave of counterattacks and pushed the front line back by more than 2 kilometers, forcing Russians to start the whole operation from scratch.
The only positions that Russians managed to maintain were south of the swamp. Russian forces decided to leverage the natural obstacle in the form of the swamp as a shield against possible Ukrainian flank attacks and expand westward. Russians created a powerful assault unit consisting of 4 tanks, 10 armored fighting vehicles, and around 150 soldiers and launched an attack. Unfortunately for Russians, Ukrainians ambushed the column with drones.
Geolocated footage shows that Russian forces sustained about a company’s worth of heavy armored vehicle losses during assaults in the area. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that only in this attack Russian forces lost 2 tanks and 7 armored fighting vehicles.
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She’s okay with pedophiles.
Their sources are just as dubious as hers. And pretty much every internet source has some financial interest: It’s why they exist in the first place (it’s just that some are more blatant than others). So, take both with a grain of salt and do your own research. And apply some logic and history to work out your own conclusions.
Jim told this woman to stop this and she or who ever this person is just keeps on banging the war drum here and using his site to do it.
If she’s so enamored of this bs let her get her own site or blog or better yet hop on a plane and join the fight.
The point is this Alex, the owner and operator of this web site personally asked this woman to stop doing this and she continues to ignore his polite requests.
Does it not occur to you or her that Jim has been very ill these recent years and yet he politely asks this inconsiderate woman to desist and she refuses.
Here’s a radical thought: How about she gets her own blog or web site instead ‘’piggybacking’’ off Jim’s?
Regards.
It looks like Mumsie has gained some new flying monkeys in Speedy’s absence.
They’re sort of pathetically clinging to Speedy’s thread from a week ago, but there aren’t enough tasty-looking ankles to nip at over there now.
Amen. Ask him why securing Ukraine’s border is so vital to our national interests while ignoring our own and he clams right up.
“Jim told this woman to stop this and she or who ever this person is just keeps on banging the war drum here and using his site to do it.”
My recollection is that JR did NOT ask her to stop the threads, but only to stop using a Ukrainian slogan or prayer.
And, if you don’t like her threads, just ignore them.
But, I bet you DO like reading the posts on her threads that disagree with her or attack her. So, you DO get something out of them, even if just vicariously.
You’re taking all this way too seriously: You’ll end up clutching the widow maker or stroking out.
Nothing she posts is going to affect you personally; so don’t take her posts personally.
I agree with all your points although...
“Do I like the current government of Ukraine? Nope. Not one little bit.”
Whether we like their government or not is completely beside the point. It’s a wartime government in a country that’s two years into fighting against an invasion.
Didn’t the USA’s leaders “grift” for support from the French and others to support its independence from Britain?
Did the USA ask Russia to pay back all the money the USA spent on it in World War 2? Or was it just us soppy Brits and Europeans who agreed to pay it back with interest?
When Bush/Cheney invoked NATO Article 5 after 9/11 and got support from over 20 other countries INCLUDING Ukraine, perhaps we should’ve told the grifting sod to sling his hook because we had more important stuff to deal with. Perhaps we should’ve agreed to help, but sent him a big fat bill with a 30 year repayment plan.
I’m not going to criticise a wartime government for not acting like it’s governing in peacetime. Even Churchill’s government during World War 2 deviated from peacetime norms, and grifted like there’s no tomorrow.
Russia chose to invade, Ukraine has an inalienable moral right to choose to fight back, and “grifting” is entirely fine under those circumstances.
It’s exactly what the USA would’ve done in its place, and it’s what Britain did in World War 2.
It’s up to the USA to decide which causes to back, and for how long, and by how much. But don’t criticise a country or its leader or its government for “grifting” while it’s being invaded, because that’s exactly what any government that puts the defense of its people first SHOULD do.
“But don’t criticise a country or its leader or its government for “grifting” while it’s being invaded…”
Except it is grift when they’re buying yachts and hundreds of millions of dollars are literally vanishing without a shred of accountability.
It ain’t 1939 and what the American taxpayer is being forced literally at gun point to do doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to Lend/Lease.
It’s way past time for Europe to clean up their own backyard. You’ve been pushing this crap off on us for 50 years at least. We have our own problems to deal with and we have can’t afford to pay for your ridiculous welfare states any longer.
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And yet you and your ilk, repeated flaunt Jim’s rules of posing and behavior and on many occasions challenged to have comments removed
On one hand you cry the sanctity of this platform, and then claim “moderators” are in the tank for folks like Mom
Despicable? Pot calling…..
I wonder how the 20 bakers killed muskovite narrative is aging
So clever by half they are
>That said, it is clear some here reject one side…and given senile Joes narratives from day one/it is a no brainer Russia will “win”…..so beware there are no winners in war, only those that lose the least, this I can testify to.<
Anyone who thought Russia would lose doesn’t know history or geography.
Yes, there are winners in war: The corrupt politicians/oligarchs and MIC.
Can't speak for anyone else here, but:
The overwhelming majority of FReepers who stand with Ukraine do so not because they have any personal affection, ties, or allegiance to Ukraine.
We likewise have little special interest in or fondness for, say, Finland, Estonia, or Georgia.
Rather, we adhere to the sober assessment that Putin's Russia is a military threat to the United States (after all: It's nukes are aimed chiefly at us), and that Putin's invasions of sovereign nations at its borders cannot be allowed to go unpunished.
It's as simple as that.
Regards,
No one here - certainly not anyone supporting aid to Ukraine in defending herself against a tyrant like Putin - has ever said that America's southern border should be ignored.
That's a despicable canard.
Regards,
Russia and Iran are allies. Iran provides attack drones to Putin, and the Houthis, among other things. Houthis are attacking shipping, including US ships, using the Suez Canal which carries 15% of world shipping and 30 or 40% of all container shipping. An Iranian military group fighting in Iraq just killed 3 American soldiers. The attacks on shipping are one of the causes of supply chain problems and higher costs for many necessary American supplies. So, yes, Russia is hurting us by its use of Iran’s troublemaking ability, including the death of Americans.
“...Putin’s Russia is a military threat to the United States (after all: Its nukes are aimed chiefly at us), and that Putin’s invasions of sovereign nations at its borders cannot be allowed to go unpunished...”
There is also the factor that if Russia takes more land and resources, it simply enriches our enemy and Russia becomes an even greater threat to us. It is in our interest to see that Russia does not trample smaller nations and absorb them.
As a nation that cares about the lives of innocent people, America also has a humanitarian interest in stopping Russian genocide against the Ukrainian people and their culture.
Despicable canard’’? Really? That’s pretty low. I don’t know who you mean by ‘’boys’’ but not with any ‘’boys’’ if you mean neo Cons or Putin stooges, or an agenda here other than America first. America. My home. With Trump re elected.
I don’t care for Eastern Europe’s two dysfunctional Lords of the Flies Putin and Zelensky. Seeing billions of my tax dollars funding a blood bath I don’t support and YES, damn it! Watching as the people from 163 different countries are literally walking across my countries southern and northern border.
Lots of them from Russia. And China. And all of Latin America and a good part of sub Saharan Africa. Military age males. Coming here with the intent to do what?
And my concern for the safety of my country is a non sequitur?.
Could you please be a little clearer?
If you are saying, "The pitiful performance of and general incompetence displayed by Putin's conventional forces in invading Ukraine justifies our doubting the security and effectiveness of Russia's nuclear forces," then I heartily agree!
Putin's adventurism has done nothing to enhance Russia's security (if that what this was all about). On the contrary, Putin's unprovoked invasion of a free and sovereign nation bordering his own has almost guaranteed that that nation will eventually enter into NATO's fold. Further, Finland and Sweden - two long-time hold-outs - have now also acceded to NATO, thus more than doubling NATO's border with Russia, bottling up the Baltic Sea, and totally isolating the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
With the exception of rogue states like North Korea and Iran, the World has reacted with nothing but disgust towards Putin's war-mongering.
Russia's naval presence in the Black Sea has been effectively cancelled. Russia has alienated any friends it may have once had on its borders. Putin will go down in the history books as having totally isolated Russia on the world stage, weakened its military strength, lessened its geopolitical influence, and ruined its international image.
Almost two years into his "Special Military Operation," and he has nothing but humiliation, defeat, and death to show for it.
Bravo, Putin! [spits]
Regards,
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