Posted on 03/11/2022 1:40:58 PM PST by FarCenter
Towns and villages in the Kherson region, under occupation by Russian troops since the first days of the war, have been completely isolated. The behavior of the Russian soldiers has left many citizens puzzled.
Despite the occupation, people across the Kherson region have been coming out to protest the presence of Russian troops
"We are not giving up, we are part of Ukraine!"
This defiant phrase rings out daily in the streets of towns and villages of the Kherson region. The area in southern Ukraine has effectively been under Russian occupation since the first days of the war against Ukraine. But people in the city of Kherson, and in Nova Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Hola Prystan, Skadovsk, Oleshky, Henichesk, Novotroitske and Chaplynka, have been peacefully protesting against the presence of Russian troops, saying they weren't invited and should just leave.
"We had another rally yesterday. More than 5,000 people came, all carrying blue and yellow flags," said Yevhen Ryshchuk, the mayor of Oleshky. "People sang the anthem and signed appeals to the US president and European heads of state, asking them to close the airspace over Ukraine."
The situation is similar in all these towns and villages. They've been encircled by Russian troops who, for the most part, control the roads in and out but stay outside. The only exception is Nova Kakhovka, which stretches along both banks of the Dnieper River and is home to a hydroelectric power plant. There, Russian troops can be seen on the streets of the city center.
The Ukrainian flag continues to fly in every municipality, where the authorities are still taking care of local concerns.
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The Ukraine Army should publicly state that they are costing all their AK rounds in pig fat .
Show video of them doing it , in Kiev.
Sounds like the Russians are avoiding all civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction.
Man, sounds like that Russian occupation is really brutal and totalitarian.
But but we were assured that all Russians were murdering rapists.
I sympathize with them, but unfortunately Trump cannot help them right now.
Just FYI - Kherson has about 290,000 people.
Article says the Russians are too afraid to enter Oleshky.
For Your Interest: This (German) report indicates that support for the Russians is very low, even in an overwhelmingly Russian speaking area of the Ukraine.
Mariupol is 95% Russian speaking, and is probably taking the worst beating from the Russian forces, of anywhere in the Ukraine.
“Sounds like the Russians are avoiding all civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction.”
You are NOT permitted to say that here, or the Bidenistas will label you as a puppet of Putin.
They are afraid of Mr. Molotov and Mr. Headshot.
Well played lol...
Again, we can’t believe anything coming from either side.
Just imagine you were in parts of occupied France during 1944, and imagine getting the Allied propaganda from one side and German propaganda from another-—or worse, put yourself somewhere on the East Front of German occupied territory.
“we can’t believe anything coming from either side.” (regarding sympathies of the ethnic Russian/Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine)
I did mention that this was a German report, rather than Ukrainian or Russian.
But as we look across all reports, no one is claiming that Russian tanks have been met with flowers, as liberators - not even Pravda. Ukrainians are not flocking to volunteer to serve with the Russians, even in the previously occupied areas of Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea. They have been drafting guys in Luhansk and Donetsk.
Russian aggression has sped and steeled self identification as Ukrainian first among those ethnically and linguistically Russian - since 2014, and dramatically since March 24th.
Mariupol is overwhelmingly ethnic Russian, and 95% Russian speaking. They refuse to surrender to Russian forces, despite enduring the worst of any major city (widespread outages of water, electricity, heat and communications over the last week; and artillery into civilian areas about every 30 minutes). Kharkiv, the second biggest city in the Country, is only about 25 miles from the Russian border, is predominantly Russian, and defiantly resists, as does Sumy. Kherson in the South (not predominantly Russian) is the only major City to surrender.
Freeper Zhang Fei anecdotally reported that among his own extended family, a member in Eastern Ukraine who was formerly strongly Russian in self identification, has shifted strongly in reaction to the bombing.
Perhaps the Russians could re-kindle Russian self identification (or at least sullen submission) after a period of repression and media control, but the facts on the ground now are a surge in Ukrainian patriotism and a hostility toward Russian aggression. Bombing does that to a population, after they get over the initial terror and buckle down to it.
No doubt, but still, I don’t believe anything from either side.
And the Germans def have a side in this.
“the Germans def have a side in this.”
I think it may have been a Strategic surprise to Putin, how strongly Germany has turned on Russia.
The election of student Marxist leader and student anti-NATO activist Olaf Scholz in Germany was probably expected to put Germany even more onto the Russian side in a conflict. But instead, they have pulled out stops that have been in place since WWII, sending lethal weapons into a conflict, and suddenly ramping up their Defense spending to 2% of GDP (their NATO commitment) after decades of failing to do so. They also suddenly seem to be undertaking a serious effort to reduce their dependency on Russian coal, oil and gas.
Some speculate that many Western Leftists (like Scholz) who used to be loyal to Moscow, are increasingly patronized by, and indebted to, Leftist Western billionaires like George Soros and Klaus Schwab, both of whom support the Ukrainian side.
It must be a real blow to Putin, who is a fluent German speaker, and was a Germany specialist in his KGB days.
Hi.
The Ukraines in occupied territory should be kind to the armored units.
And bake them cakes. Ever been to a Ukrainian bakery? Delicious.
Fill the pastries with Ex Lax.
When the tankers come out to poop, shoot them.
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Welcome to FR.
Is it cold where you are?
5.56mm
Hamtramck? But the bakeries are mostly halal now.
Dunno. I don’t see Puting finding any of this a “surprise.”
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