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Ukraine ‘kills up to 400 troops’ IN RUSSIA as HIMARS strike wipes out column in devastating attack on Putin’s doorstep
Sun UK ^ | 8/9/2024 | Georgie English

Posted on 08/09/2024 5:40:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

A DEVASTATING Ukrainian blitz has reportedly left up to 400 of Vladimir Putin's troops dead in a huge HIMARS missile strike.

Shocking images show an entire military column packed with soldiers in the Russian region of Kursk moments after it was blasted - with bodies pilling up on the road and inside of the burnt out service trucks.

Around 14 burnt out military vehicles all loaded with weapons and ammunition were struck in the blast.

The horrific convoy of exploded trucks covers well over 100ft of road.

Footage taken from locals driving past shows several trucks flipped on their side as others were left crushed with their wheels sent flying off.

The shocked civilians can be heard saying: "How many men?"

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: georgieenglish; kursk; kurskoffensive; russia
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1 posted on 08/09/2024 5:40:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Zelensky was supposed to care about the public and Putin’s hits on the power grid/heat/water/light was intended to drive him to negotiate for the good of his people.
By now the world knows Zelensky doesn’t care about ‘his people’ and millions have left the cold, dark, waterless housing to become refugees in foreign countries, many will never return. Men abroad are being pressured to return to the Ukraine to fight and die even though NATO is quietly admitting their proxy cannot defeat Putin.
But what YOU want to talk about, is how much money Putin gave Russians (not enough etc.)
It’s to the point where when you post I know you’re just running a distraction and I look for news you want to distract from.


2 posted on 08/09/2024 5:46:57 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: marcusmaximus

Direct link to video with translation
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29779760/ukraine-kills-troops-russia-himars-strike-column/amp/


3 posted on 08/09/2024 5:47:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ransomnote

Zelensky was supposed to care about the public and Putin’s hits on the power grid/heat/water/light was intended to drive him to negotiate for the good of his people.

Suck it up. Stop whining.


4 posted on 08/09/2024 5:48:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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5 posted on 08/09/2024 6:00:48 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: marcusmaximus

The Chinese have duly noted that the conventional Russian military are inept paper tigers.


6 posted on 08/09/2024 6:06:12 AM PDT by allendale
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To: marcusmaximus

It isn’t Ukraine doing this, it’s the Biden regime.

Ukraine is just a proxy for the globohomo’s in Washington DC and Brussels to take out their primary roadblock to world domination. It will not work. Even if you kill Putin, Russia will remain strong.

PS: The guy that comes after Putin will be even more ruthless against the west.


7 posted on 08/09/2024 6:06:50 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Nothing in that video suggests a “massive HIMARS attack”. Burned vehicle is one thing, but no cratering, road is perfectly fine and none of the vehicle are blown apart...


8 posted on 08/09/2024 6:09:39 AM PDT by Trinity5
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To: Trinity5

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9 posted on 08/09/2024 6:15:49 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Well, Biden did give him permission to use HIMARS inside Russia so this move was inevitable. This war will go on as long as Afghanistan. Plenty of profits to go around meanwhile, the Islamic invasion of Europe continues unabated as Slavs fight and kill each other. Pathetic.


10 posted on 08/09/2024 6:15:56 AM PDT by montag813
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To: ransomnote

People that aren’t cowards would rather scorch the earth and die than surrender. Even if the fight seems hopeless you inflict as much pain on the enemy as possible and die as a warrior. Not a damn sniffling surrendermonkey watching your enemy take everything.

Your roll over defeatist attitude is why the Nazis almost conquered Europe


11 posted on 08/09/2024 6:22:07 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: marcusmaximus
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12 posted on 08/09/2024 6:23:10 AM PDT by ANKE69 ( ✌️ 🇺🇲)
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To: marcusmaximus

They captured a lot that surrender d also


13 posted on 08/09/2024 6:26:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: marcusmaximus

Didn’t they train on proper spacing? Don’t want to be bunched up.


14 posted on 08/09/2024 6:38:16 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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Another question is do the Russians focus on night operations and movements? Depending on surveillance capabilities of Ukraine but thinking traveling at night/blackout conditions would be better than in broad daylight.


15 posted on 08/09/2024 6:43:32 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: allendale

“The Chinese have duly noted that the conventional Russian military are inept paper tigers.”

Indeed, and the Chinese want Siberia back!


16 posted on 08/09/2024 6:46:27 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Trinity5
Nothing in that video suggests a “massive HIMARS attack”. Burned vehicle is one thing, but no cratering, road is perfectly fine and none of the vehicle are blown apart...

I noticed that also. Not alot of debris. Cluster munitions would make the are off limits.

17 posted on 08/09/2024 6:51:58 AM PDT by McGruff (Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: HombreSecreto
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No, no. Why would they?

18 posted on 08/09/2024 6:55:32 AM PDT by Brellium (The environment is of upmost importance, without trees where will we hang Moscovites?)
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19 posted on 08/09/2024 7:00:55 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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To: Trinity5

If the HIMARS missiles were cluster munitions there would be no craters. Nor would vehicles be blown apart, unless a hit set off a sufficiently large secondary explosion. As it was the hits just set some of them on fire. The video does show dead bodies. I would say a couple of dozen, but who knows how many of the killed were off the road or in the trucks.

I’d say the convoy was stopped and the men may have been getting off, some of them, when the convoy was hit with cluster munitions. There would have been many more wounded than killed. The other Russians on the road probably evacuated them in the night.

I doubt the 400 number of killed. There arent enough trucks for that. And that does not account for the likely wounded either. Though there may well have been more trucks loaded with men that were hit and suffered casualties, but were still in running condition.

If they had been in armored vehicles, even light armor like BTRs, there would probably have been many fewer casualties. Its a question why they were being transported on trucks, on an objective highway (that the Ukrainians want to cut) so close to enemy units.


20 posted on 08/09/2024 7:15:57 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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