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Ukraine’s New Foreign Legion Takes the Fight to Russian Forces
WSJ ^ | 12-MAR-2022 | Brett Forrest

Posted on 03/12/2022 10:11:16 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas

Irakli Okruashvili, a former defense minister of Georgia, last week joined a Ukrainian foreign-fighter regiment created to face down the Russian invasion in a hurry. Three days later, he and a group of countrymen, former special-forces soldiers, made contact with Russian troops north of Kyiv.

With a U.S.-supplied .50-caliber Barrett M99 single-shot anti-armor precision rifle, the Georgian unit disabled two Russian armed vehicles, Mr. Okruashvili said, before falling under a sustained reply from 152-millimeter howitzer cannons.

After several hours, Ukrainian planes bombed the Russian artillery positions, silencing them.

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KEYWORDS: foreignlegion; georgia; russia; ukraine
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Spain 1936 all over again.
1 posted on 03/12/2022 10:11:16 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Whatever anyone says the Ukes are fighting hard against Rasputin.


2 posted on 03/12/2022 10:13:54 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: HighSierra5

Not to worry. Russia is also bringing in mercenaries.


3 posted on 03/12/2022 10:16:14 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: BenLurkin

Yup. This is a nice little addition reminesent of the medieval fight between eastern Europe and the Muslim hoards.


4 posted on 03/12/2022 10:23:11 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Ukraine needs you.

5 posted on 03/12/2022 10:23:19 AM PST by McGruff (A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“Spain 1936 all over again.”

Some comparison is appropriate, at least as far as foreign fighters on both sides.


6 posted on 03/12/2022 10:29:45 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: HighSierra5

“Whatever anyone says the Ukes are fighting hard against Rasputin.”

They are indeed.


7 posted on 03/12/2022 10:30:15 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Now the war will be reduced to supply fighting. Russia loses this if they cannot get heavy Chinese manufacturing support.


8 posted on 03/12/2022 10:38:12 AM PST by Bayard
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To: ought-six

Another comparison to the Spanish civil war of 36 is the introduction of new military hardware. This is where the ME109 monoplane was first used in combat just like the Turk drone. Shoulder fired anti aircraft and anti armor weapons aren’t new, but they have been upgraded with devastating affect. The modern infantryman has been reborn.


9 posted on 03/12/2022 10:39:22 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
With a U.S.-supplied .50-caliber Barrett M99 single-shot anti-armor precision rifle, the Georgian unit disabled two Russian armed armored vehicles, Mr. Okruashvili said, before falling under a sustained reply from 152-millimeter howitzer cannons.

Is that what the author intended to write?

Regards,

10 posted on 03/12/2022 10:42:17 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

American Deep State, the Democrats, the controlled opposition, NATO, and the EU, along with the corrupt Ukes are the bad guys in this mess. But with a gov controlled media, the people will never see it, as more and more opposing views are being shut down.


11 posted on 03/12/2022 10:44:09 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Hungering and thirsting for Righteousness...)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Speedy is all excited that might be able to save some of his neo-Nazi friends in the Azov battalion.


12 posted on 03/12/2022 10:56:26 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Dogbert41

How did Trump put it in that debate ... “Wrong”


13 posted on 03/12/2022 11:03:37 AM PST by hawkaw
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“After several hours, Ukrainian planes bombed the Russian artillery positions, silencing them.”

LOL, Ghost of Kiev back in the skies again!


14 posted on 03/12/2022 11:13:43 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: McGruff

American socialist volunteers supported the wrong guys in the Spanish Civil War also.


15 posted on 03/12/2022 11:14:58 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Kazan

I hope the Azov battalion kills every Invader they can find.


16 posted on 03/12/2022 11:16:35 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: Dogbert41
But with a gov controlled media, the people will never see it, as more and more opposing views are being shut down.

All of the accounts I followed after the 2016 and 2020 elections have been deplatformed on social media.

All of the accounts I followed for information about COVID have been deplatformed on social media.

All of the accounts I followed during the summer of "mostly peaceful protests" have been deplatformed on social media.

All of the accounts I'm currently following for news about the fighting in Ukraine are being deplatformed on social media.

I guess I keep picking the wrong side.

17 posted on 03/12/2022 11:18:48 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: hawkaw

Well go ahead then! Be my guest! Go fight for Ukraine! Go protect the bio-weapons labs, go protect “the Big Guy’s cut”. What are you doing waisting your time here???


18 posted on 03/12/2022 11:19:24 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Hungering and thirsting for Righteousness...)
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To: DownInFlames

And the Stuka.


19 posted on 03/12/2022 11:23:48 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: BenLurkin
Not to worry. Russia is also bringing in mercenaries.

I'd put a lot of money on the Ukrainian foreign volunteers being much more effective than whomever Putin brings in. The Ukes are going to get a lot of bored western ex-special ops types and other combat veterans.

20 posted on 03/12/2022 11:25:35 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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