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Russia loses its EIGHTH colonel after fierce fighting in Kharkiv as Putin continues to lose high-ranking officers amid faltering invasion
Daily Mail ^ | 3/30/2022 | Jack Newman

Posted on 03/30/2022 6:31:27 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

An eighth Russian colonel has been killed in Ukraine in another devastating blow to Vladimir Putin's faltering invasion which has seen the loss of many high-ranking officers.

Kyiv said it had 'eliminated' Colonel Denis Kurilo, commander of the 200th separate motorised rifle brigade, who led Russia's bloody assault in Kharkiv where he was killed in battle.

The brigade had suffered massive losses in the fierce fighting, the Ukrainian army's press office said.

A picture of Kurilo was shared with a red X through it to announce his death.

Two battalion groups in the 200th brigade were destroyed, with a staggering loss of 1,500 servicemen, Ukraine has claimed.

The colonel is the latest in a long line of slain Russian military leaders, which experts say betray the Kremlin's blundering tactics in the brutal invasion.

It has also been revealed today that Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Dormidontov was killed last week as his funeral was held in Russia today.

A source in the Tatarstan region of Russia said: 'Commander of the rocket artillery division, Lt-Col Dmitry Pavlovich Dormidontov, died while on duty,' said an account.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloodthirstyneocons; putin; russia; ukraine; war; warporn
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To: alexander_busek

Ukrainian woman gang-raped by drunk Russian soldiers as her son wept https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10662723/Ukrainian-woman-gang-raped-drunk-Russian-soldiers-four-year-old-son-wept.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead


41 posted on 03/30/2022 7:23:21 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: ScottinVA

Zelenski was on the cusp of invading Lugansk and Donbas. He had the troops the material, and his neo-Nazi militias ready to go in April. It was all set up and he was weeks away from rolling in. Putin beat him to the party and saved 8 million ethnic Russians from ethnic cleansing. If truth matters you’ll be on Telegram. Go look at proud, brave Ukrainian soldiers publicly disemboweling and castrating handcuffed Russian POWs in the Kharkov public square and tell me again how you’re on the right side. if lies are more comforting, keep on consuming neocon and liberal propaganda.


42 posted on 03/30/2022 7:36:04 AM PDT by Antioch (Benedikt Gott Geschickt)
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To: rrrod
Ukrainian woman gang-raped by drunk Russian soldiers as her son wept

No need to address that to me, specifically. I have no doubt that all manner of atrocities are being committed by the invaders.

Regards,

43 posted on 03/30/2022 7:44:40 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

My mistake. Was sending it to a Putinista.


44 posted on 03/30/2022 7:51:01 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

That is a valid point. Part of the lesson of this whole mess is the remarkable weakness of Russia, which is the result of its incompetent governance and corruption. The Eastern European countries alone probably could easily beat Russia in its present state, much less the whole of NATO (plus Sweden and Finland, who are itching to join). The US is not needed, not even for nuclear MAD.


45 posted on 03/30/2022 7:58:12 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

i agree


46 posted on 03/30/2022 7:58:14 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Antioch

Oh, is this the latest party line?


47 posted on 03/30/2022 7:59:13 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: marcusmaximus

Listening to this while reading:
https://youtu.be/rY0WxgSXdEE


48 posted on 03/30/2022 7:59:40 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: JonPreston

REEEE! There are no deaths! Russia is winning! Russian troops are falling back because they are so tired of winning! REEEEE!!!!


49 posted on 03/30/2022 8:01:05 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: AAABEST

REEEE!!! Russia is strong! Russia is winning the hearts and minds of the people it’s bombing! REEEEEE!!!!


50 posted on 03/30/2022 8:02:43 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

Why do they send their high ranking officers to the front of the fighting? Do they have no autonomy for their lower officers to carry out the directives?


51 posted on 03/30/2022 8:02:52 AM PDT by pas
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To: marcusmaximus

So, one wonders, will the next, the second Putin ordered assault be made by the first team that was not committed to the battle or to the second team that is all that is remaining?


52 posted on 03/30/2022 8:03:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: bert

It will be made by rebuilt units consisting largely of raw recruits using forty year old equipment pulled from the rusty reserve parks - those that can still be made to run.


53 posted on 03/30/2022 8:08:51 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

ya’ll sure like that homo-erotic stuff


54 posted on 03/30/2022 8:09:23 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Antioch

Tovarich, if you actually believe that Ukraine was going to invade the Russian puppet states in the Donbas, I have a bridge that I can sell to you at a very reasonable price.


55 posted on 03/30/2022 8:17:56 AM PDT by Salohcin
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To: buwaya

That’s my thought except there is Napolean.

At the battle of Waterloo and elsewhere he kept his best regiment to guard himself and to be committed last to save the day

But then, Putin is no Napolean


56 posted on 03/30/2022 8:25:38 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: Rebelbase

I can hear this picture. Lol


57 posted on 03/30/2022 8:28:53 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: marcusmaximus

Celluar system maintenance workers; a most important position in the FREE UKRAINE.


58 posted on 03/30/2022 8:44:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Antioch

First off, there was NO had plans to invade those two regions, just assumptions. Second, if that were the case, tell me how preparing to liberate occupied territory in Ukraine poses a threat to Russia’s territorial integrity.

There is NO justification for Putin invading Ukraine…none.


59 posted on 03/30/2022 9:04:39 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Nothing Zelensky supposedly (no proof of it) planned for Donbas affected Russia’s territorial integrity.


60 posted on 03/30/2022 9:06:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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