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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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To: Dogbert41

Next to a Bolsevik KGB thug, I don’t think so


41 posted on 03/12/2022 1:48:37 PM PST by vmirog91 (Burn Commies burn)
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To: Dogbert41

So you are saying the Russians are the good guys? I stand with Ukraine. The government may be corrupt but we fight for the Ukrainian people. The US government is corrupt but if the Russians invaded the US who would you fight for?


42 posted on 03/12/2022 2:21:42 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: alexander_busek

Just means the Russians fired artillery in the general direction of the snipers who could have long gone by the timethe artillery started shooting.


43 posted on 03/12/2022 2:46:44 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: EEGator

Not saying start WW3 but Neon is difficult to produce and is a byproduct of steel manufacturing. In case you have not noticed we don’t do much of that in this country anymore. This is where we are now, we have sent our heavy manufacturing overseas and a vital 21st century byproduct of that manufacturing now is in control of foreign governments, two of which are very unfriendly to the US. If we do not have neon, it is very difficult to manufacture microchips, no microchips = no computers, no phones, no modern appliances, cars or electronics. No advanced weaponry, guidance or avionics to defend ourselves. There are strategic reasons Russia is invading Ukraine and control of neon is one. My point is that this whole Ukraine is corrupt, likes Soros and did not back Trump so Screw them, is such a simplistic and frankly childish argument. Despite Ukraines numerous flaws and problems, there are important, vital reasons why it is in our national interest to see It remain a sovereign nation that trades with the west.


44 posted on 03/12/2022 3:28:18 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

must be lots of bamboozled idiots who want to die for Soros.
I’m sure the EU will be happy to spend US tacpayer dollars for weapons until the last Ukranian is dead.


45 posted on 03/12/2022 3:39:40 PM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

For an alleged Reagan fan to be swallowing wholesale the propaganda coming from the former KGB guy running Russia is...surprising.


46 posted on 03/12/2022 4:05:57 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

not as bad as those swallowing the NYT,WaPo and MSM propaganda which has led them to cheering for Soros,Biden, Obama, and Asov Neo-Nazi terrorists who are the real evil-doers.


47 posted on 03/12/2022 4:18:47 PM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

No, actually, I think it is still worse.


48 posted on 03/12/2022 4:31:59 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: SVTCobra03


So you are saying the Russians are the good guys? I stand with Ukraine. The government may be corrupt but we fight for the Ukrainian people. The US government is corrupt but if the Russians invaded the US who would you fight for?”

We ARE being invaded. And our rulers are aiding them.


49 posted on 03/12/2022 5:39:19 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Hungering and thirsting for Righteousness...)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I went to the Soviet Union. Have you? Putin is a thug.


50 posted on 03/12/2022 5:40:49 PM PST by vmirog91 (Burn Commies burn)
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