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The movements on both sides is in relation to the Kharkiv counter offensive.

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(Excluding Scott Ritter or Gonzalo Lira who are just making things up.)

1 posted on 05/15/2022 9:10:55 AM PDT by Widget Jr
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I don’t believe Russia or Ukraine, or us. We’ll probably never learn the real truth. First casualty in war, is always the truth.


2 posted on 05/15/2022 9:12:59 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Meanwhile, the numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border of the USA and being admitted by the US government is increasing daily.........


3 posted on 05/15/2022 9:14:37 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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🙄


4 posted on 05/15/2022 9:15:11 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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ping


7 posted on 05/15/2022 9:20:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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“Excluding Scott Ritter or Gonzalo Lira who are just making things up.”

There’s propaganda coming from both sides, but from what I’ve seen, there’s way more of it coming from the pro-Ukraine side. And why would Lloyd Austin call for Russia-Ukraine cease-fire in talk with Sergei Shoigu if Ukraine was winning it? Sorry not buying it.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/lloyd-austin-wants-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-in-sergei-shoigu-call/


13 posted on 05/15/2022 9:22:19 AM PDT by jimwatx
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Two powerful empires want the Ukraine for their own.

The Russian Empire, and the EU’s Fourth Reich.

Let the two of them fight for it.

The USA needs to walk away from the Urkaine as fast as possible.


14 posted on 05/15/2022 9:22:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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I am hoping that word gets back to all young army age men in Russia. That Ukraine is a meat grinder and that you are Putin’s greatest fool to be sent there. I can see tens and tens of thousands of Russian men finding a way to dodge Putin’s shitshow. Thus neutralizing the Russian army, due to lack of war mongering patriotism.

If we are lucky, this can all stop when Pooty Toot comes off the oncologist’s operating table, functioning like a Zombie.


16 posted on 05/15/2022 9:23:37 AM PDT by dennisw
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What about Mariupol?


19 posted on 05/15/2022 9:28:50 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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If Russia’s military gets defeated and so much of it destroyed, Russia may start to look like a good bet for China to invade. With waves of millions of soldiers.

Just like predicted in the Bible.


20 posted on 05/15/2022 9:30:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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BS - Russia has not even mobilized it's assets. The reason for the slow down in Ukraine is that the Russian military totally miscalculated what it would take to win in Ukraine. They came in with too little to win a blitz and now things are bogged down. Both sides are mobilizing and re equipping for operations in the summer. The sane people of the world need to shut this down before a mobilized Russian army collides with a Ukraine army resupplied with hi tech western weapons. Things are about to get ugly fast.
23 posted on 05/15/2022 9:40:00 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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Ukraine winning the “war”???

Great! They don’t need the 40 billion.


25 posted on 05/15/2022 9:41:04 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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Russia has been exposed as a toothless bear lol


27 posted on 05/15/2022 9:42:41 AM PDT by italianquaker
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This is a guess and the 1/3’rd is 1/3rd of what Ivan deployed, not in total.


38 posted on 05/15/2022 9:56:39 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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This is good news so the war is almost over, they don’t need our $40 billion.


42 posted on 05/15/2022 10:15:48 AM PDT by packagingguy
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It would be helpful if we could get some additional Ukraine
military news from people who are not part of the Ukraine military cheerleading squad.


45 posted on 05/15/2022 10:27:40 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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ROFL - thats funny.
just because msm denies all russian breakthru’s and advances don’t mean it’s not happening daily but some can put head in sand and be ignorant.(unfortunately those are the trolls who have been posting a lot of this BS)
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“One of the bloodiest battlefields in Eastern Ukraine remains the Izyum area in the Kharkiv region. The Russian-led forces have established an important stronghold in the town and continue to expand their control zone in two main directions: to the south-east towards the cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk as well as to the south-west towards the town of Barvenkovo, which was turned into the main stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the region. In turn, Ukrainian forces continue their attempts to counter-attack the Russian grouping to the west of Izyum.

So far, the Russian-led forces managed to take control over the village of Dolgenkoe in the south-eastern direction.

On May 14th, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported an offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the direction of Bogorodichnoye and Krasnopolye. The villages are located about 6 and 12 kilometers south of Dolgenkoe. So far, no confirmation of the Russian control over the villages was reported. On May 15th, a counterattack of the Ukrainian units was repelled near Dolgenkoe.

The Russian control over the villages of Krasnopolye, Dolyna and Bogorodichnoe will cut the road leading to the west to the town of Svyatogorsk where Ukrainian units remain. Amid the Russian advance, the AFU grouping in the town risks being surrounded in the coming days.

To the south-west of Izyum, the clashes reached the Barvenkovo area, the large stronghold of Ukrainian forces. On May 15, clashes were reported on the south-eastern outskirts of the town in the village of Gusarovka. The Russian offensive is carried out from the village of Kurulki. So far, the clashes continue in the villages on the outskirts, while Barvenkovo remains under the AFU control. The advance of the Russian-led forces to Barvenkovo from the south-eastern directions cuts one of the roads heading from Barvenkovo to Slavyansk.

In their turn, Ukrainian forces continue their attempts to cross the Seversky Donets River near the village of Protopovka to the west of Izyum and counterattack the flank of Russian forces advancing towards Slavyansk. The first attempts of counterattacks by the AFU units in the region were reported more than a week ago. So far, they have not led to any success.

The Russian positions were strengthened after the Russian troops took control over the village of Velikaya Kamishevaha located nearby, from where they could attack Ukrainian units on the left bank of the Seversky Donets River.

One of the Ukrainian attempts to cross the river was thwarted on May 14th, when the ponton crossing was destroyed by the Russian artillery. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of the destruction of the pontoon crossing of the AFU.

The front lines in the area of Izyum remain one of the main battlefields of the war in Ukraine. The recent successes of the AFU near the city of Kharkiv allow to transfer more forces from the region to support the counter offensive near Izyum. However, the AFU are yet to slow down the advance of the Russian-led forces aimed at surrounding of the cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.”


47 posted on 05/15/2022 10:29:34 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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Who believes Russia has lost 60,000 men in Ukraine?


56 posted on 05/15/2022 10:44:16 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Righhht....


82 posted on 05/15/2022 11:21:48 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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Having been jaded by Vietnam I searched the internet for “Ukraine drugs prostitution”. Try it. You will find out why certain western interests don’t mind you dying to secure Ukraine.


111 posted on 05/15/2022 2:26:38 PM PDT by nagant
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I watched part of a PBS interview with token fake conservative David Gerkin a couple nights ago. Gerkin was praising “the greatest generation” for making everything perfect and lambasting baby boomers for everything that leftists like Gerkin actually screwed up.

It occurred to me that, besides everything else gained in World War II, the most significant gains were the spoils of war. Gerkin was attacking baby boomers for not wasting our lives to bring him more free stuff. And Gerkin is p!ssed that people are not jumping into Ukraine to bring him more spoils.


112 posted on 05/15/2022 2:42:08 PM PDT by nagant
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