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Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for US arms
The Washington Post via Stars and Stripes ^ | May 29th, 2022 | By Siobhán O’Grady, Paul Sonne, Max Bearak and Anastacia Galouchka

Posted on 05/30/2022 1:42:46 PM PDT by Mariner

DONETSK OBLAST, Ukraine — The ambulances hurtled into the parking lot one after the other, each carrying wounded troops directly from the nearby front line. One young man stared straight ahead, his face swollen, his neck and back dripping with blood. Others lay silently under foil blankets.

Some stumbled out the back doors and collapsed into wheelchairs as staff rushed to push them inside. Nearby, bloodied cots sat propped against a tent and other wounded soldiers lingered about, their faces grim, their heads, arms or legs bandaged as the sound of outgoing artillery boomed across the sky.

About 10 wounded soldiers arrived at this hospital in eastern Ukraine in less than an hour Sunday morning — the latest military casualties as Ukraine forces, outgunned by Russia in the country’s east, continue to lose territory at a critical moment in the war.

Soldiers also helped one civilian woman with leg wounds out of a military ambulance.

The Washington Post is withholding the name and precise location of the hospital out of concerns from staff that it could be targeted by Russian forces.

“Seventy people from my battalion were injured in the last week,” said a soldier and ambulance driver just outside the hospital gates who identified himself only as Vlad, 29. “I lost too many friends; it’s hard for me. I don’t know how many. ... It’s getting worse every day.”

The night before, he said, the shelling was so loud he hardly got any sleep. “It’s all artillery bombing down,” he said. “All the wounded are coming from shrapnel. Most guys in the trenches haven’t even seen the enemy face-to-face.”

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


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To: Mariner

The goofy wanna be Ukes go around calling everyone Orcs. Makes me laugh at them. They are official.


81 posted on 05/30/2022 3:09:45 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Williams

I think I’ve learned which so called Americans will try to get us to divert our attention to a situation halfway across the world when indeed we’re already being attacked from within by the same goblins that have orchestrated the war in Ukraine.


82 posted on 05/30/2022 3:12:31 PM PDT by Kinzua (What have we allowed to happen?)
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To: Travis McGee

Once again with the inane comments that reflect your love of those kind, gentle, helpful, beloved Orcs who only kill civilians because they are known to be Nazis and take their children back to Mother Russia to be reared in a proper environment. Such saviors!


83 posted on 05/30/2022 3:13:05 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Ronald77

How are the Russians and Putin a threat to us?

Our border has been wide open for 2 years and we have ZERO idea of who is crossing it. We have no co trio over the fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth, etc etc coming over it.

There’s a scene in the movie, Traffic, where the snitch explains the process. Border Patrol finds one truck loaded with drugs, 10 more cross the border while they take pictures.

The meth and cocaine come from central/South America. Heroin and fentanyl from China and Asia. I don’t Russia in the equation


84 posted on 05/30/2022 3:20:51 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Delta 21

A d that’s exactly what they want you to believe. They being Schwab, Soros and the rest of the globalist puppet masters


85 posted on 05/30/2022 3:22:53 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Spok

A story on the FR said a third of the armaments sent to the Ukraine were already on the black market in Croatia


This gotta be fake; I’m sure I can still find a link to a story that says that a third is on the market in Albania.

Unless it is a different third, of course....


86 posted on 05/30/2022 3:28:03 PM PDT by mvonfr
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To: Thunder90

You need to stop lying. There is no more Soviet Union. I doubt Ukrainians would rather die. Speak for yourself.


87 posted on 05/30/2022 3:28:11 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Chunga85

Hence one of the many reasons Pres Trump took the trip to Vietnam, South Korea and India. Get those countries to take over what is made in China and starve the Beast.

Nope……Congress and the Globalists wouldn’t allow that.


88 posted on 05/30/2022 3:30:31 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Mariner

I’ve been lurking on these Ukraine threads for the last few months and I’d guess the most rabid anti-Russian posters are old Cold Warriors, probably in their 80s age-wise, who are still stuck in the 60’s Cold War. They are still fighting the Soviets while the rest of the world has moved on.

It’s like the old WWII vets who hated all things Japanese to the day they died because the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor. You’d never get one of them to admit that a Datsun, Toyota, or Honda was in any way superior to their Vega or Pinto. Admitting anything Japanese was good let alone buying from them was “un-American.”


89 posted on 05/30/2022 4:09:12 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

Outside of FR, the most rabid Anti-Russia folks are leftists who never forgave Russia for ending their beloved Soviet Union, and think the Fascists now run Russia.


90 posted on 05/30/2022 4:11:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

Citizens in Donbas and Luhansk have been hammered by Azov and Ukrop shelling far longer

Is that not newsworthy

Anyone care to compare death counts since it’s all the rage


91 posted on 05/30/2022 4:15:26 PM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: Kinzua

More kook talk while Russia and China eat your lunch.


92 posted on 05/30/2022 4:52:52 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Theo

The US is providing arms to Ukraine under a Lend-Lease agreement. Chatter from some of my friends at the five side funny farm is the US wants to lease a naval base at Crimea which will allow the US a permanent presense in the Black Sea.


93 posted on 05/30/2022 4:54:44 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce. ☭☭☭)
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To: wardaddy

“Citizens in Donbas and Luhansk have been hammered by Azov and Ukrop shelling far longer”

True.

But I think the scale of the Russian artillery alone is newsworthy.


94 posted on 05/30/2022 5:08:37 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Who bombs more innocents

No question who’s the culprit in the east

Russia we’ll it’s Russia

But has anyone looked at us

It’s not pretty either


95 posted on 05/30/2022 5:15:54 PM PDT by wardaddy (Where did all the same posters go......they cannot have all died ....could they ?)
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To: dforest

They don’t want to witness a repeat of the Holodomor, or be enslaved by Russia once again The Ukrainian SSR was slave to Russia and it was never envisioned that it would break up*.

*Anatoly Golitsyn has written that the Soviet Union’s demise was controlled, and there are plans to bring it back.


96 posted on 05/30/2022 5:49:51 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: MercyFlush

Perhaps we can also lease a base in Hong Kong as well once the British get it back. Taipei will do for now, though.


97 posted on 05/30/2022 5:51:00 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Thunder90

How do the British “get it back” when HK was just leased to them?


98 posted on 05/30/2022 5:51:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Williams

“What a bunch of immoral anti American jerks.”
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The Ukrainians in Sievierodonetsk are anti-American?


99 posted on 05/30/2022 6:07:57 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
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To: MercyFlush

Laughable. It’s been a Russian navy base since 1783. There isn’t enough force to push them out without hopefully getting DC nuked. We’d give up Norfolk sooner than they’d give up Crimea. Get serious for once.


100 posted on 05/30/2022 6:17:44 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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