Posted on 04/05/2022 8:59:58 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
The Russian departure was part of a planned withdrawal announced by Moscow a week ago but it ended in a chaotic and bloody retreat after a fierce tank battle last Thursday, said soldiers and volunteers who took part, and residents of the town.
On Monday Ukrainian soldiers were piling the bodies of dead Russian soldiers into a trailer pulled by an army jeep. The soldiers were killed when a Ukrainian tank sneaked close to the entrance of the town and opened fire on the Russian checkpoint guarding the main intersection, according to soldiers and volunteers who took part.
“It’s the first lot we have picked up,” said Sr. Sgt. Andreiy Soroka, 38. “Nine and a half bodies,” he said matter-of-factly.
Four of the men had died in the armored personnel carrier blown up by a Ukrainian tank, he said. Others among the dead Russian soldiers were a captain found in a nearby building, and an 18-year-old conscript in the garden of a house who had been shot, Sergeant Soroka said.
A destroyed tank and armored vehicle on the road were leftovers of the battle, when a Ukrainian tank opened fire on the Russian vehicles. They were the tail end of the Russian presence, which had begun packing and leaving the town a day earlier.
Russian troops had suffered a major defeat days earlier in the town of Lukyanivka, and had failed to retake that town, said the commander of a volunteer battalion, Oleksiy Serediuk. “They were disappointed and they started moving out of several places,” he said of the Russian troops. That led the Ukrainian army command to pursue the retreating army, he said.
“The military command made a very smart decision, first to make their withdrawal a chaotic rout and second to cut their escape route.”
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Kill the invaders
“The soldiers were killed when a Ukrainian tank sneaked close to the entrance of the town and opened fire on the Russian checkpoint guarding the main intersection”
Somebody has watched Kelly’s Heroes.
FTA: “The military command made a very smart decision, first to make their withdrawal a chaotic rout and second to cut their escape route.”
Sound logic, and a good tactic.
The NY Times? When is the last time they were an honest broker? Seriously, point us to any article over the last 4-5 years that was truthful?
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Ukraine ping
Unlike Hitler at Stalingrad, Putin chose to withdraw his troops before they ran out of supplies and were completely destroyed. The extent to which the Ukrainians were able to destroy or capture Russian equipment will lessen the load on what is likely to be a southern drive by the Russians to deprive Ukraine of a coast line.
Moscow Biden has trumpeted the allocation of $2.3b in equipment. Mark Hertling, Democrat general and mouthpiece, put out the number as if this was some big deal.
https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1510240926110732289
An allocated number could be delivered a decade later. Or not delivered, ever, after a Russian victory. We spent something like $25b on Afghan operations annually, with fighter jets and choppers providing air cover for Afghan Army units.
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-10/54219-oco_spending.pdf
Moscow Joe is slow-walking the aid. Ukrainians are fighting a high-intensity war with a major power, and Moscow Joe is allocating aid to be provided at leisure. Meanwhile, we funded the Afghans lavishly to fight a two-bit enemy (the Taliban) engaged in desultory guerilla warfare that killed maybe a thousand combatants on both sides a month. The Ukrainians have killed over 15,000 Russians in a month. That takes a lot of ammo and equipment which gets used up or destroyed by the enemy. Modern warfare isn’t like its ancient counterpart - the weapons aren’t swords and spears that merely have to be cleaned off and sharpened to get more use out of them.
Moscow Joe was paid by Putin through Burisma, which is owned by one of Putin’s cronies, Zlochevsky, who left Ukraine along with Putin’s puppet, Yanukovich, after the Maidan Revolution.
I gotta hand it to Putin - he might not be the greatest war planner, but he made sure Trump was up to his eyeballs in alligators for the entire length of his tenure. Igor Danchenko, the guy who was arrested over his role in fabricating the Steele dossier, is Russian. He appears to be a Russian agent planted by Putin inside the Democratic party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Danchenko
One of the ways you discredit your enemy is by planting evidence that suggests he is your paid agent. That was Danchenko’s assignment within the Democratic party - to help stick it to Trump.
The NY Times? When is the last time they were an honest broker? Seriously, point us to any article over the last 4-5 years that was truthful?
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Here we go. Everything is a lie unless It’s something a pro-Putin posts it
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Your turn. Point us to any NY Times article over the last 4-5 years that was truthful?
[The NY Times? When is the last time they were an honest broker? Seriously, point us to any article over the last 4-5 years that was truthful?]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
Some of these publications come highly recommended by Henry Ford, titan of American industry and an honest and trustworthy man, if ever one existed. I trust him with the while truth, nothing but the truth. You should, too.
KTA
The media has almost zero credibility...the Putinistas have no credibility.
Where exactly have you found credibility? Any credibility at all.
Now they’re from to have drag queen parades through the streets.
And teach their children how to “transition” at 4 years old. Don’t do what you’re told and no more money from the queer crazy Biden administration.
Both Mariupol Frontlines Under Fire Special Report. Russia - Ukraine War (Video and interviews from location)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtLFT2sbBg
Thanks Zhang Fei.
It’s the only way to be sure they don’t come back.
Woof! Woof!
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