Posted on 08/09/2024 1:40:27 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
THIS is the moment a devastating Ukrainian missile bombardment killed 400 of Vladimir Putin's soldiers inside Russia.
The footage shows HIMARS pounding a convoy and Russian troops sprinting for their lives near Rylsk, in the Kursk region.
Putin's war machine was rushing to halt a surprise Ukrainian offensive launched two days ago into Russia, reports say.
Ukraine's brave strike across the border has caught the Russians off-guard and captured a number of villages miles into the country.
New black and white footage of the strike shows explosions mushrooming one after the other as HIMARS missiles hit the column of stationary trucks.
Around 14 vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition were destroyed in the strike.
Soldiers can be seen jumping out of trucks and vehicles at the front of the column can be seen fleeing the onslaught.
Reports claim 400 of Putin's best were killed inside their own country in the bold hit.
Earlier, footage of the burnt out column littered with decaying bodies was published to social media by a person driving past.
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I find it really hard to understand why we have the same people posting stories, over and over again, about the plight of Ukraine on this site.
What is their purpose?
Do they think there is someone left on Free Republic who does not know about this war?
Ukraine History
1. UKRAINE HISTORY
“The surprise German invasion of the U.S.S.R. began on June 22, 1941. The Soviets, during their hasty retreat, shot their political prisoners and, whenever possible, evacuated personnel, dismantled and removed industrial plants, and conducted a scorched-earth policy—blowing up buildings and installations, destroying crops and food reserves, and flooding mines. Almost four million people were evacuated east of the Urals for the duration of the war. The Germans moved swiftly, however, and by the end of November VIRTUALLY ALL OF UKRAINE WAS UNDER NAZI CONTROL.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Nazi-occupation-of-Soviet-Ukraine
Initially, the Germans were greeted as liberators by SOME of the Ukrainian populace. In Galicia especially, there had long been a widespread belief that Germany, as the avowed enemy of Poland and the U.S.S.R., was the Ukrainians’ natural ally for the attainment of their independence.
The illusion was quickly shattered.
In the occupied territories, the Nazis sought to implement their “racial” policies. In the fall of 1941 began the mass killings of Jews that continued through 1944. An estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews perished, and over 800,000 were displaced to the east; at Baby Yar (Ukrainian: Babyn Yar) in Kyiv, nearly 34,000 were killed in just the first two days of massacre in the city. [See also Holocaust: The Einsatzgruppen.]
In the Reichskommissariat, ruthlessly administered by Erich Koch, Ukrainians were slated for servitude. The collective farms, whose dissolution was the fervent hope of the peasantry, were left intact, industry was allowed to deteriorate, and the cities were deprived of foodstuffs as all available resources were directed to support the German war effort. Some 2.2 million people were taken from Ukraine to Germany as slave labourers (Ostarbeiter, or “eastern workers”). Cultural activities were repressed, and education was limited to the elementary level.
Under such conditions of brutality, Ukrainian political activity, predicated originally on cooperation with the Germans, increasingly turned to underground organizational work and resistance. The OUN groups that streamed eastward in 1941 were soon subjected by the German authorities to repressive measures, including execution, so they propagated their nationalist views clandestinely and, through their contact with the local population, began to revise their ideology in a more democratic, pluralist direction.”
MORE HISTORY
Ukraine rates the 4th in the number of people recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during the Holocaust.
The history of the Jews in Ukraine goes back over a thousand years. Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus’ (late 9th to mid-13th century). Some of the most important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, rose either fully or to an extensive degree in the territory of modern Ukraine. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes the third-largest in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world.
In the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920), Yiddish was declared a state language, along with Ukrainian and Russian. At that time, the Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency in this same period, between 1917 and 1920.[12] Before World War II, slightly less than one-third of Ukraine’s urban population consisted of Jews; they were the largest national minority in Ukraine.
Total civilian losses during World War II and the German occupation of Ukraine are estimated at seven million. More than one million Jews were shot and killed by the Einsatzgruppen [paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass-murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.]
As ordered by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Wehrmacht cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen, providing logistical support for their operations, and participated in the mass murders. Historian Raul Hilberg estimates that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen, related agencies, and foreign auxiliary personnel murdered more than two million people, including 1.3 million of the 5.5 to 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
After the close of World War II, 24 senior leaders of the Einsatzgruppen were prosecuted in the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947–48, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
2. Russian Roulette in Ukraine -2014
VICE News
113 video dispatches
6,420,708 views [Last updated on Jan 8, 2019]
VICE New brings you on-the-ground coverage of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss&list=PLw613M86o5o5zqF6WJR8zuC7Uwyv76h7R&index=1
3. Russia’s Brutal Strategy: An analysis of more than 1,000 photos found that Russia has used hundreds of weapons in Ukraine that are widely banned by international treaties.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/19/world/europe/ukraine-munitions-war-crimes.html?action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&state=default&module=styln-russia-ukraine&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc
4. EXCELLENT ARTICLE
Finnish Intelligence Officer Explains the Russian Mindset
Jon Gabriel, Ed.
April 4, 2022
3016
https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/
https://the-culture-shocks.blogspot.com/2022/03/evaluation-of-russia-by-finish.html
On December 8, 1991, Ukrainian President Kravchuk (second from left), Belarusian Supreme Soviet Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich (third from left), and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (second from right) signed a declaration that "the Soviet Union as a geopolitical reality [and] a subject of international law has CEASED TO EXIST."
The Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR on 24 August 1991.
[Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
• In view of the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine in connection with the state coup in the USSR on August 19, 1991,
• Continuing the thousand-year tradition of state development in Ukraine,
• Proceeding from the right of a nation to self-determination in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and other international legal documents, and
• Implementing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic solemnly declares the Independence of Ukraine and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state – UKRAINE.
The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
From this day forward, only the Constitution and laws of Ukraine are valid on the territory of Ukraine.
This act becomes effective at the moment of its approval.
— Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, August 24, 1991]
The Act reestablished Ukraine’s state independence from the Soviet Union. The declaration was affirmed by a majority of Ukrainians in all regions of Ukraine by an independence referendum on 1 December, followed by international recognition starting on the following day. Ukrainian independence led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union by 26 December 1991.
Jumping from thread to thread to post your propaganda must wear you out.
Biden wants you to know that he and Dr. Jill are deeply indebted to you for your help in keeping their Biden/Zelensky Laundromat in business.
PS. Dr. Jill is as much of DOCTOR as you are a REVEREND.
You admire me?
Not necessary.
I am just a sinner saved by Grace.
“ You admire me?”
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I see you’re talking/responding to Biden now. You globalists have much in common.
>>>>You admire me?
Not necessary.
I am just a sinner saved by Grace.<<<<
Where did you get the notion that I admire you?
BTW, God hates white washed sepulchres.
Yep, jumping from thread to thread, polluting FR with her nonstop propaganda, even though Jim has asked her more than once to back off.
Blah, blah, blah, Ukraine, yakkety-yak, Ukraine, Ukraine, blah, blah, blah…yeesh, these people are tiresome. And boring.
A more persuasive reason for Putin's actions is to be found in Russian revanchism after losing the Cold War and suffering the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin's academic thesis for his doctorate as a KGB officer projected a recovery of Russian power based on renewed state control of the media and major industries, especially oil and gas. These would expand the Russian state's economic power in relation to NATO and Western Europe.
The next step would be to use the vast new flow of revenue to the Russian state to spend heavily to rebuild their military along modern lines. This was seen as key to facilitating the recovery of territory and influence lost to Russia due to the collapse of the USSR. The ultimate goal was to reassemble the USSR as a combination of subservient states and allies to the extent of the old Warsaw Pact, with Ukraine nominally independent but under de facto Russian control.
I recall first reading of this when Putin emerged as Yeltsin's KGB installed successor. My immediate reaction proved sadly correct: if that was Putin's plan, it would lead Russia into new conflict with the US and Western Europe. And that is exactly what has happened.
“I see you’re talking/responding to Biden now. You globalists have much in common.”
Check it out: meme created by Bimboeruption. So, apparently, she is the “globalists” talking/responding to Biden.
“My problem with that analysis is that Putin’s actions far exceed the claimed cause of trying to protect Russian speaking Ukrainians in Donbas. Seizing Crimea from Ukraine and later invading the entire country and trying to seize Kiev are an attack on Ukraine’s existence as a sovereign nation in violation of express Russian treaty guarantees.”
I completely agree with your comment & analysis.
Thank you.
Crimea also had a referendum for independence in 2014. Many ppl died at the hands of Poroshenko’s thugs when Kiev refused to honor the results and Ukrainian troops started shooting at citizens in the main square and then set a govt building on fire with ppl inside. Neither side is honorable in this war.
You’re a sinner because you want this war to continue no matter the cost instead of working for peace. BOTH sides need to put their weapons down.
>>>>Check it out: meme created by Bimboeruption. So, apparently, she is the “globalists” talking/responding to Biden.<<<<
You post plenty of memes about Putin, mommy. So apparently you’re a Russian responding to Putin.
????
DUH.
Nice try mommy.
Please read comment to understand context comment:
“I see you’re talking/responding to Biden now.
You globalists have much in common.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4257431/posts?page=67#67
My response:
“I see you’re talking/responding to Biden now. You globalists have much in common.”
Check it out: this meme created by Bimboeruption.
So, apparently, she is the “globalists” talking/responding to Biden.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4257431/posts?page=71#71
I did not generate memes regarding putin nor am I the one “talking/responding to Biden.”
Amen to that.
It’s all about the money to these people. They have no sympathy for all of the grievous suffering endured by regular citizens on both sides of this.
“But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.
For there is no distinction; all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God. They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus”
Romans 3:21-24
VIDEO
Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Strikes with new Forces | Ahmat Soldiers Encircled and Surrender
Denys Davydov
838K subscribers
8-12-2024 7:00a.m. EDT
17:56 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvBjMDbai60
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“It’s kind of interesting to see those arguing between the Russian command and Ahmad. Even now, there is just a
light movement of Ukrainian Army into the Russian territory they start to disagree on something they start to
blame each other.
Actually, it creates the good perspectives for the possible
future operations in Russia. There is no Unity even among the Russian forces... which is great!
Ukrainian defense forces have eliminated the total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 11.08.24 are approximately:
• personnel - about 590,920 (+1,220) people,
• tanks - 8447 (+6) units,
• armored combat vehicles - 16363 (+13) units,
• artillery systems - 16663 (+58) units,
• MLRS - 1143 (+0) units,
• air defense equipment - 918 (+0) units,
• aircraft - 366 (+0) units,
• helicopters - 328 (+1) units,
• UAVs of operational-tactical level - 13399 (+27),
• cruise missiles - 2425 (+0),
• ships/boats - 28 (+0) units,
• submarines - 1 (+0) units,
• automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22524 (+71) units,
• special equipment - 2800 (+11).
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