Posted on 05/11/2022 1:52:30 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine has driven Russian troops back to their own border near Kharkiv and now threatens supply lines into Donbas as Putin's army suffers another humiliating loss.
Commanders said late Tuesday they had recaptured four small towns to the north of Ukraine's second-largest city, with reports overnight suggesting they had pushed to within three miles of the Russian border.
If confirmed, it would put the city of Vovchans'k - a key supply hub linking Russia's Belgorod to its frontlines in Donbas - within artillery range, threatening to cut supply lines and hamper Putin's efforts to take the region.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's gas pipe operator announced that it will cut off a supply hub in a Russian-controlled part of Donbas which transports up to a third of its gas into Europe, starting today.
It marks the first time that pipelines carrying gas - the lifeblood of Russia's economy and vital source of funding for its military - have been affected by the war, which has now been grinding on for more than two months.
Gazprom, Russia's energy supplier, confirmed that the rate of gas flowing into Europe had fallen by around a quarter after supplies through the pipeline that Ukraine had threatened to cut fell to zero.
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Putin Explains Tummy Kiss
JULY 6, 2006
As the Russian president talks with Nikita for several seconds, he tugs at the boy’s shirt before finally lifting it up and kissing him on his bare stomach.
“He seemed to me very independent, very serious, but at the same time a boy is always vulnerable. He was very sweet. I’ll be honest: I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten, and that led to the gesture that I made. There was nothing behind it really,” Putin said, smiling.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/putin-explains-tummy-kiss/
Ex-KGB spy was killed because he claimed Putin was a pedophile
January 21, 2016
Vladimir Putin was furious when one of his former spies, Alexander Litvinenko, publicly called him a pedophile in 2006 — a slur that likely spurred the Russian leader to order the dissident’s assassination in London four months later, a British report concluded on Thursday.
Litvinenko, who had lived under asylum in Britain since 2000, after defecting from the FSB — the KGB’s successor agency — had ignited Putin’s outrage by claiming on a Russian-language Web site that the spy agency once possessed videotapes showing Putin “making sex with some underage boys.”
The gadfly dissident also recounted in his article Putin’s creepy behavior in one incident in 2006. As news cameras rolled in a tourist-crammed public square near the Kremlin, Putin lifted the shirt of a little boy and kissed him on the bare belly, explaining later, “I wanted to cuddle him like a kitten, and it came out in this gesture.”
“Nobody can understand why the Russian president did such a strange thing as kissing the stomach of an unfamiliar small boy,” Litvinenko noted in the article.
https://nypost.com/2016/01/21/murdered-ex-spy-accused-putin-of-pedophilia/
‘I wasn’t ticklish. It felt good’: How boy, five, described tummy kiss that sparked Putin paedophile claims - as Russian president said ‘I wanted to stroke him like a kitten’
1) Russia has departments of people paid to influence westerners though social media.
2) Free Republic has accounts that haven’t been used for years because their originators have died or lost interest.
3) Lots of people use week passwords.
I hope at least some of these posters are not real Freepers. I hate to think there are so many conservatives swallowing the Russian line.
Seems like Ukraine IS a dumpster fire for Col. Putin and that Ukraine didn’t roll over like the French tended to do, starting in September 1812.
“They got their money long before schedule, they got all their money,” President Trump said at a news conference in Davos, Switzerland.“Remember this, they got their money and they got it early,” President Trump said in a Fox Business interview."
Don't bring your weak shit, rube.
But you do you.
If anyone except for Putin or Biden assaulted that little boy like that, they would be thrown in prison for a long long time.
There are issues between what you want to believe and reality. That is your choice, not mine.
#15. I take it Ukraine’s improving strategic and tactical situations have your approval? 😈
The resistance to these Russian orcs will be the stuff of history books.
God bless Ukraine.
Like "snarling foaming rabid Cruz zealots"?
Like "obvious paid Cruz campaign serial article posters tend to wear"?
Do you know how long it took me to find your lameness and put it together? 90 seconds.
Yeah 'you did you' for certain, lamely trying to pwn Tedlims in 2016. LOL. You'd rather complain about me than the Putlims who have nothing to do with constitutional conservatism, and are kneepadding global communism; and more to the point, are actively attempting to destroy the mission statement of this website.
You're just another dumb Freeptard completely unaware that everything you've ever put on this website is an invitation to be punked. Own it.
Bullshit. What is this hatred you Putinistas have for Ukraine?
But then, I'm not a Fascist like you apparently are.
You're just another dumb Freeptard completely unaware that everything you've ever put on this website is an invitation to be punked. Own it.
BTW, child - I was an old hand on this site before you even thought of signing up.
You're just a wet-behind-the-ears FR Class of 2000 punk to Class of 97 guys like me.
So do us all a favor and put a sock in your Fascist threats.
The Russians Lost Nearly An Entire Battalion Trying To Cross A River In Eastern Ukraine
This was done by artillery, something the Ukes seem to be very practiced at.
Okay, Groomer.
You Bidenistas and Soros Puffers need to be banned. Funny how I only see the Bidenista locusts on the Ukraine threads, but not on other threads. You must be paid well.
Okay, Groomer. Grow the Hell up, Bidenista.
You should be reported for abuse.
Brandon and Hussein Obama are completely to blame for this mess. The Obama regime’s 2014 coup in Ukraine lit the match for the start of the Civil War in Eastern Ukraine.
Brandon stole the election and I cheer against him. In everything.
Simple thoughts for simple minded thermonuclear warmongers.
You are going to get what you are asking for.
You ain't gonna like it, and what will really suck for you is that you will know you earned it.
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