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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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Have the taps on your tap dancing shoes worn out yet?
“Have the taps on your tap dancing shoes worn out yet?”
LOL!
No need. I don’t have your energy :)
Bravo. Join the club.
She’s also getting 100% free copy doing it on Jim’s web site.
And that's where your ignorance shows, because you assume the people that are against wasting billions of dollars, and military equipment to fight another proxy war with Russia, are Putin groupies. You show your immaturity by labeling people, when you don't know anything about any of us, or have even bothered to ask. You childishly assume that we are rooting for Putin. We aren't. Try accepting the fact that there are American Citizens on FR that have lived through many proxy wars with Russia, and China, all of which, since the Korean War have never ended successfully, or ever made the United States a better, safer place. These proxy wars have only wasted lives, money, and military equipment, and the only ones that got anything out of them, were the individuals that rely on war, to keep their pockets full with investments in the military industrial complex.
Thank God! I'd hate to see how much more useless propaganda you could clog this site with.
>God Bless Jim in that he was being respectful and he used the word ‘’appreciated’’. A polite and socially appropriate thing to do. In a manner of speaking asking of the person being addressed if they would be considerate.<
Yes, he’s a Prince among men.
“God Bless Jim in that he was being respectful and he used the word “appreciated.”
Yes, he’s a Prince among men.
Absolutely.
We finally agree :D
>“God Bless Jim in that he was being respectful and he used the word “appreciated.”
Yes, he’s a Prince among men.
Absolutely.
We finally agree :D<
Don’t use my posts as a means to suck up to Jim. You do it more than enough on your own.
My gosh, you’re so transparent.
“Don’t use my posts as a means to suck up to Jim. You do it more than enough on your own.”
You are mirroring again! LOL
No, there are Putin Russia loyalists. Fervid and extreme.
Eg. https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4213726/posts?page=27#27
Psycho stuff.
But you didn't make that clear in your original comment. You lumped all of us in the same category. That's what happens when you decide to label people. If you're going to claim people are "Putin Russia loyalists," provide their screen names so they at least have the opportunity to respond to your claims. Otherwise, your claims are worthless.
>“Don’t use my posts as a means to suck up to Jim. You do it more than enough on your own.”
You are mirroring again! LOL<
Spare me your psychoanalysis.
I thought about making a list a while back but thought no.
The same ones support Chicoms and Iran usually, too.
“ You lumped all of us in the same category. ”
I’m curious why would you think you’re in that category or be mistaken to be?
Zeepers aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer.
They have a rule that goes like this: If you don’t worship at the altar of Zelensky you’re automatically a Russian troll bot, a Putin-puffer, a Putinista, a muscovian, etc.
Numerous Freepers have tried to explain to them that that rule doesn’t apply to a vast majority of us.
Some of us don’t care who wins, some of us object to funding the Zelensky/Biden Money Laundering Operation, some of us don’t want the US meddling in the affairs of other countries, whatever. But zeepers just can’t grasp this.
They just continue pointing fingers and shooting off their mouths, with no proof whatsoever. That’s why you’ll never see a list of who they consider to be “Putin Russia loyalists”.
>No, there are Putin Russia loyalists. Fervid and extreme.
Eg. https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4213726/posts?page=27#27
Psycho stuff.<
Ganeemead’s prayer for Ukraine is unhinged, but have you ever followed zeeper speedyintexas’ threads? He makes ganeemead look sane and he’s got a fan club who urges him on. His thread got pulled last week and he hasn’t posted since.
And how about zeeper meganc? Her tagline is (Ruzzians aren’t people. ) She writes some of the most evil posts I’ve seen on FR. She dehumanizes people and wishes certain FReepers dead.
Because I've been called a Putin troll on Ukraine threads, simply by stating the reasons I mentioned in my comment to you at #86 on this thread.
Read post 76.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4214814/posts?page=76#76
Jon’s exactly right.
A pathetic mess.
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