Posted on 12/25/2024 4:16:21 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Many Ukrainians were celebrating without heat or power after Russia launched a Christmas Day assault on the country’s energy infrastructure, an act that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned as “inhuman.”
“Today, Putin deliberately chose Christmas for an attack. What could be more inhuman,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X early Wednesday. "Every Russian massive strike takes time to prepare. It is never a spontaneous decision. It is a conscious choice not only of targets, but also of time and date."
Over 70 Russian missiles and more than a hundred drones targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, with Ukrainian forces successfully shooting down more than 50 missiles and a significant number of drones, Zelenskyy added in his post.
Zelenskyy also said that the “targeted attack” on the energy sector caused outages in several regions, including Kyiv, and emphasized that Russian forces “continue to fight for a blackout in Ukraine.”
“Russian evil will not break Ukraine and will not distort Christmas,” he said.
Russia's defense ministry confirmed the attacks.
“This morning, Russia's Armed Forces carried out a massive strike with long-range precision weapons and strike drones on critical energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine that ensure the operation of the military-industrial complex," the ministry said in its daily briefing on Telegram.
“The strike’s objective was achieved. All facilities were hit,” it added.
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Ah, yes. McNamara’s morons...
AMEN!
Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎄
Did that trigger you zeeper? Facts are facts even if they hurt your thin skin.
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Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men * with whom He is pleased*.
What’s that tell you about the Ukraine?
Oh Tidings of Comfort and Joy, Troll.
I’m not a Zeeper doofus.
lol missed that one
Zelensky is Jewish. Is he even aware that the vast majority of his countrymen celebrate Christmas on January 7th?
At any rate, Christmas in the former Soviet states is not celebrated the way it is celebrated here. In Ukraine and Russia, New Year's Eve is the big day for gift giving, families, and feasts. Christmas is far more modest.
How could he not be? It's not like here, where you could go for a whole year without meeting one Eastern Orthodox person.
Something about that idea seems OK to me...
has FR devolved so far?
or is it a symptom of general growth in ignorance in the general population?
does EVERY country in the world celebrate christmas the same day (even the non-christian ones that had ‘christmas day attacks’ also today?)
Let’s say for arguments sake because Putin “celebrates”
Christmas on the 7th of January and therefore to him the 25th is just another day. He does understand that other Christians including some of the ones he attacked today do recognize the 25th as Christmas.
To your question yes I believe most Christians celebrate the 25th as Christmas
Gee, there are many things to condemn the little homosexual deep state actor playing presidental dictator.
How about we start with his complicity with Biden and those who Impeached Trump the first and second time around?
How about we start with the fact that Zelinski’s main benafactor behind the scenes is a NAZI and leading one at that in Ukraine.
Since the little Facist has cancelled elections, and refuses any elections even after he arrested or disappeared all the non-NAZI political opposition. He is a thug of the first order.
The Russians could takeout the entire electric grid at any time.
In fact, since they are going to be smeared anyway, it's what they should do.
If Ukrainian doesn't like that, they can surrender.
The Russians tried to prevent this war with the Minsk Accords, which Ukraine signed and reneged on.
The Russians tried ending the war in Turkey in March of 2022 before we and Boris Johnson intervened and killed a deal that had been struck.
At least five times fewer than Zelensky has sent to their deaths.
Ukraine is closer to being the Soviet Union than modern-day Russia, which has had a 13% flat tax rate and spent billions building churches.
It's US that has been or been closer to being all that than modern-day Russia.
And, there isn't a more tyrannical hellhole in Europe than Ukraine.
Zelensky has banned opposition media and parties, imprisoned opposition leaders, cancelled elections, destroyed churches and rounded up unwilling conscripts and sent them to their deaths.
“ It’s US that has been or been closer to being all that than modern-day Russia.
And, there isn’t a more tyrannical hellhole in Europe than Ukraine.
Zelensky has banned opposition media and parties, imprisoned opposition leaders, cancelled elections, destroyed churches and rounded up unwilling conscripts and sent them to their deaths.”
Ah Kazan good to hear from you., your comments are always enlightening.
Your point about the US has some merit. Under the xiden administration there has been a serious degradation of liberty and freedom, but that is about to change. Saying somehow it is worse than Putin’s Russia is a stretch.
Almost spit my coffee out reading your next part about Zelensky…., replace Zelensky with Putin and you are almost correct. There was no opposition parties in Russia to ban, the media is state controlled, and imprisonment of opposition, perhaps but Zelensky would be an amateur compared to Putin. As for destroying churches, banning Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine doesn’t compared to Putin literally destroying over 700 churches in Ukraine.
Your election comment also made me chuckle, yes he did, the country was invaded, so true he did, let’s compare that to Russia’s “election”where there was no opposition and then there were the referendum “elections “
In the Ukrainian oblasts, run by the Russians,’counted by the Russians, and only included those parts of the oblasts occupied by the Russians. I guess for a Russian that would seem fair and proper😂
Again thanks for the reply, that really made my morning
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