Posted on 05/30/2022 12:11:24 PM PDT by Mariner
KYIV, May 30 (Reuters) - Russian troops have entered the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, according to the regional governor, who described fierce fighting on Monday over the ruins of a city that has become the focus of Moscow's offensive.
The European Union has sought to make Moscow pay a heavy price for invading Ukraine, but leaders arriving for a summit acknowledged they were unlikely to pass a new round of sanctions yet, having failed to agree to ban imports of Russian oil.
Russia has concentrated its firepower on the last major population centre still held by Ukrainian forces in the eastern Luhansk province, in a push to achieve one of President Vladimir Putin's stated objectives after three months of war.
Incessant shelling has left Ukrainian forces defending ruins in Sievierodonetsk, but their refusal to withdraw has slowed the wider Russian offensive across the Donbas region. Luhansk region governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russian troops had advanced into the city's southeastern and northeastern fringes.
The Russians "use the same tactics over and over again. They shell for several hours - for three, four, five hours - in a row and then attack", Gaidai said.
"Those who attack die. Then shelling and attack follow again, and so on until they break through somewhere."
With temperatures rising, he said there was a "terrible smell of death" on the outskirts of the city.
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It’s over.
You really are a Pooty-poot apologist.
It’s over? Check in again in October when it’s still raging.
Ukrainians are making Russia pay....I admire them
But I don’t want my tax dollars going to them all the same. But what choice do I have.
Shoo, Neocon
It's a damn shame you don't admire American citizens at our Southern border begging for help.
With temperatures rising, he said there was a “terrible smell of death” on the outskirts of the city.
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❗️🇬🇧🇺🇦Battle for Severodonetsk: the situation as of 20:00 on May 30, 2022
After the complete mopping up of Rubizhne and the capture of the settlements of Vovevodovka, Shchedrishchevo and Metelkino on the outskirts of Severodonetsk , units of the Russian Armed Forces and the NM of the LPR began to storm the city. Now the battles are going directly in the building.
▪️In the eastern part of the city, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are completely knocked out of the high-rise buildings in the square between the Stroiteley Highway, Cosmonauts Avenue and Novikov Street.
▪️In the north, units of the Allied Forces occupied areas near the Stroiteley Highway, including the hospital on Yegorova Street, the Mir Hotel and the bus station. There is an advance along Chemists Street towards the city center.
▪️Parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hold the central regions of Severodonetsk and the industrial zone of the Azot plant.
▪️The supply of the APU group is difficult due to the destruction of overpasses across the Seversky Donets. The Pavlogradsky Bridge was hit by the Russian Armed Forces, the Yubileiny Bridge was badly damaged and is under fire, and the Leninsky Bridge is in disrepair and is not suitable for the passage of heavy equipment.
▪️The motivation of most units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city is at a low level. Riots break out from time to time, entire units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense leave the front line for the near rear.
So far, everything is going to the point that the resistance of the Ukrainian troops in the battles for Severodonetsk will not be as fierce as in Mariupol.
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Video shows Russian solider giving middle finger to Ukrainian drone before being blown up
https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/russian-solider-gives-middle-finger-to-ukrainian-drone-video/
Can’t get much solider than that...
The only reason America is at the brink of WWIII with Russia is Hillary Clinton. When that sinks in to Freepers’ brains, maybe there will be hope for America.
“So far, everything is going to the point that the resistance of the Ukrainian troops in the battles for Severodonetsk will not be as fierce as in Mariupol.”
Mariupol was the cornerstone in the east.
Everything east of the Dnieper is now at risk. And Odessa is next.
If it is still going on in October, that just means more dead and more destruction of Ukraine.
By October Russia will build new rail lines to ferry artillery shells to the front.
People don’t realize that there is almost no fight left in the Ukrainian troops that are forced to be there; forced to stay there and completely overwhelmed by superior manpower and weapons.
This was posted yesterday:
https://t.me/s/sashakots/33179
Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting secret negotiations with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the burial of their dead. And about surrender. Negotiations were crowned with success, according to Grouping “O”. Read the details.
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⚡️Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting secret negotiations with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the burial of their dead. And about surrender. The negotiations were successful. The “O” group reports:
“I will not repeat that this has already become the norm for the Kiev regime and they operate on the principle: “no body, no business.” I want to talk about something else here.
I tried to write this post for a long time, something kept stopping me. Probably did not want one of its participants to repeat the fate of Sergei Lapko (company commander who received a term for showing the plight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
So, after the liberation of another settlement from the Nazis in the Donetsk region, we went to the enemy command (fortunately, intelligence works well and their call signs with the frequencies on which they work are well known to us) and offered them to pick up the bodies of their dead comrades, naturally with a complete cessation fire from our side and unimpeded passage of the car to the designated place.
After a short conversation, they received a categorical refusal and a request not to disturb them anymore on this occasion (this is a literary language, there was a long stream of obscene expressions). Toward evening they were all buried. (I’m not attaching a photo, I’ll explain further).
In the middle of the night, they come to me on the radio from the checkpoint and ask me to urgently arrive. Understanding nothing, I am undermined, I leave for the post. On the spot, they tell me that a fighter came from the other side, calls your call sign, said he will only talk to you. I go into the room, a young guy is sitting, the uniform is dirty, shabby. Showed documents. And he began to say: “I’m the commander of a platoon of those boys whose bodies you proposed to take today, I couldn’t get on the radio, my own people would be immediately decided. Bury my soldiers, please, and tell me where, I will tell their relatives the location. The command flatly refuses inform families about the dead and wounded, so as not to cause panic among relatives. We are now called up only because otherwise we will go to jail, and here we can’t retreat, cadre or nationalists are behind us, we will get a bullet from them.
He told how they were prepared in training before being sent to the front end. “For two weeks we studied the charters, 30 parthorons for shooting training and on the road.” All his words were confirmed by photographs. He says: “Fortunately, they don’t take away phones, we record everything.”
They talked for a long time, spoke about the mood in the units: “everything is sad, everyone is afraid, and those who are in front and those who are behind.” But he came not only with this request. “My main task,” he continued, “is to save the lives of my fighters. Tell me how we can surrender. We don’t want to fight for the oligarchs who are sitting abroad and our corrupt government! Why is it possible for Azov, but not for us?” .
After receiving all the instructions, he left, left with the hope that his remaining subordinates would remain alive. A day later, after the start of the assault on the next settlement, the platoon of this commander surrendered in full force, as he promised. Now their lives are not in danger.
Summing up, I want to ask only one question. When will the population of Ukraine realize that their president, a drug addict and boy-loving Arestovich, does not care about the lives of the citizens of his country!? They calmly surrendered the Azov in Mariupol, declaring that this was an evacuation, and they will continue to do so. Until the last Ukrainian... I wanted to briefly, but it didn’t quite work out.”
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⚡️Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting secret negotiations with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on
You’re a pathetic propagandist.
This is a civil war.
It will be fought to a stalemate.
Russia cannot afford to hold Ukraine.
They can initially blow the heck out of it,
but they won’t be able to control it.
These people remember the Holodomor.
“..They shell for several hours - for three, four, five hours - in a row and then attack”, Gaidai said.
“Those who attack die. Then shelling and attack follow again, and so on until they break through somewhere.”..
Hasn’t this tactic been used as a common means of warfare historically by all armies engaged in the fight???
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