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A Ukrainian Town Deals Russia One of the War’s Most Decisive Routs
WSJ ^ | 16-MAR-2022 | Yaroslav Trofimov

Posted on 03/16/2022 9:29:59 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

A Kalashnikov rifle slung over his shoulder, Voznesensk’s funeral director, Mykhailo Sokurenko, spent this Tuesday driving through fields and forests, picking up dead Russian soldiers and taking them to a freezer railway car piled with Russian bodies—the casualties of one of the most comprehensive routs President Vladimir Putin’s forces have suffered since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian survivors of the Voznesensk battle left behind nearly 30 of their 43 tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, multiple-rocket launchers and trucks, as well as a downed Mi-24 attack helicopter, according to Ukrainian officials in the city. The helicopter’s remnants and some pieces of burned-out Russian armor were still scattered around Voznesensk on Tuesday.

Russian forces retreated more than 40 miles to the southeast, where other Ukrainian units have continued pounding them. Some dispersed in nearby forests, where local officials said 10 soldiers have been captured.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; chechens; chechnya; letsyouandthemfight; putin; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; ukrainianfodder; voznesensk; war; zottherussiantrolls
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“Everyone is united against the common enemy,” said Voznesensk’s 32-year-old mayor, Yevheni Velichko, a former real-estate developer turned wartime commander, who, like other local officials, moves around with a gun. “We are defending our own land. We are at home.”
1 posted on 03/16/2022 9:29:59 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Read EVERYTHING from the MSM with a grain of salt.

I consider this conflict a complete blackout.


2 posted on 03/16/2022 9:31:17 AM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Read EVERYTHING from the MSM with a grain of salt.

I consider this conflict a complete blackout.


3 posted on 03/16/2022 9:31:20 AM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Well when the fake media starts showing videos of the alleged route, I hope the fake dead soldiers don’t move under the body bags before the video is terminated.


4 posted on 03/16/2022 9:32:21 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I’d love to read that article but it’s behind a paywall.

Good news though.


5 posted on 03/16/2022 9:32:33 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Can’t help but to have tremendous respect for these patriots. Fighting the most vile terrorists on earth.


6 posted on 03/16/2022 9:32:52 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I have a hard time believing this stuff. it sounds like propaganda from the CIA. This conflict is over for all practical purposes.

https://youtu.be/_Iw0m-Pc08Q


7 posted on 03/16/2022 9:33:14 AM PDT by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: Beave Meister

I don’t know how the US news media can expect us to believe a damn thing they say on this Ukraine thing, being such obvious government propagandists on virtually every other issue over the past decade, including Russian election collusion.


8 posted on 03/16/2022 9:37:38 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SpeedyInTexas

full article from wsj:

https://archive.ph/ivAFX


9 posted on 03/16/2022 9:39:29 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: fwdude

Occupation maps tend to be somewhat more credible, and possibly informative. This article has a dynamic one:

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-mapped-the-story-so-far-in-maps-and-charts-12564145

But about 95% of everything I read seems to have an agenda.


10 posted on 03/16/2022 9:39:45 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

The Russians are pulling troops and armor from the areas they took from Georgia and transferring them to Ukraine. They’ll deploy their entire ground force by the end of this.


11 posted on 03/16/2022 9:39:55 AM PDT by chemical_boy
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To: fwdude

The Voznesensk story is fairly well corroborated even by a couple of .ru sites.

Seems the Russian forces were indeed bloodied in the town and then they pulled back. I’d bet money the town will be reduced by an artillery siege.

So yes the Ukes drove the Russians back.

I don’t expect that situation to hold.


12 posted on 03/16/2022 9:44:37 AM PDT by MercyFlush (I don't follow the science. I follow the money. )
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To: rrrod

Russians……most vile terrorists on earth? Really?

More vile than folks that will skin you alive for not being a Muslim?

More vile than the cartels flooding this country and Fentanyl, killing Americans by the 1000s?

More vile than what gangs like MS13is doing to the country?

Amazing how easily folks succumb to the propaganda?


13 posted on 03/16/2022 9:44:52 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Beave Meister

Hal Turner has been saying that it is over and the Russians kicked their butts. For about 3 weeks now.


14 posted on 03/16/2022 9:46:27 AM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: chemical_boy

“They’ll deploy their entire ground force by the end of this.”

Doubtful. You can’t commit your entire army to foreign adventures when you need it to repress your own domestic slaves.


15 posted on 03/16/2022 9:46:44 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: rrrod

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)


16 posted on 03/16/2022 9:47:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Beave Meister

I can believe it, they conscript these suckers and they didn’t even know that they were going to ukraine


17 posted on 03/16/2022 9:48:12 AM PDT by dila813
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To: Beave Meister

The fact Russia didn’t rack up a quick victory is telling.


18 posted on 03/16/2022 9:48:24 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: beef

Steve Harriigan on Fox said the same yesterday

And he hates Putin

He returned from war zone saying Uke armed forces were flattened

People have no clue the real truth ....including me

I do not trust western media at all


19 posted on 03/16/2022 9:50:40 AM PDT by wardaddy (Free Republic has gone insane but it's fun)
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To: fwdude

I believe almost nothing I’m being told about this conflict.


20 posted on 03/16/2022 9:50:54 AM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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