Posted on 06/21/2022 11:38:16 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Dramatic footage shows the moment a Russian colonel crashes in his helicopter after being hit with a Ukrainian missile.
Lt-Col Sergey Gundorov, 51, was struck near Volnovakha in the Donbas.
The military helicopter flew on after being hit with a portable surface-to-air missile.
His stricken Mi-35 touched the ground before cartwheeling over a narrow strip of woodland and crashing in a fireball in a field.
Flames and black smoke are seen from the explosion.
A second Russian helicopter is seen firing decoy flares and apparently escapes unscathed.
Gundorov is the 55th known Russian colonel to be killed in Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Also, Putin’s steroids-induced nosebleeds are getting worse...
What’s the Daily Fail’s Russian colonel obsession? Feels like they’re real hard up for daily “Ukraine’s winning” articles when they publish this stuff.
Biden fell off a bike on Saturday and it took a detail of SS hires to get his demented old azz off the ground. It was delightful viewing.
Lot’s of room for up and coming young officers.
Woot, more news from the blackhole called Ukraine!
We can clearly stop sending money and equipment since the Ukraine is killing it.
Back to our border…
Tell Putin to go back to Russia.
Hush, Demento.
The former CIA and intelligence bigwig Graham Fuller predicts a gloomy outcome of the U.S-Russia proxy war in Ukraine. Gloomy for Ukraine, the U.S. and Europe:
Contrary to Washington’s triumphalist pronouncements, Russia is winning the war, Ukraine has lost the war. Any longer-term damage to Russia is open to debate.
American sanctions against Russia have turned out to be far more devastating to Europe than to Russia. The global economy has slowed and many developing nations face serious food shortages and risk of broad starvation.
There are already deep cracks in the European façade of so-called “NATO unity.” Western Europe will increasingly rue the day that it blindly followed the American Pied Piper to war against Russia. Indeed, this is not a Ukrainian-Russian war but an American-Russian war fought by proxy to the last Ukrainian.
Contrary to optimistic declarations, NATO may in fact ultimately emerge weakened. Western Europeans will think long and hard about the wisdom and deep costs of provoking deeper long term confrontations with Russia or other “competitors”of the US.
Europe will sooner or later return to the purchase of inexpensive Russian energy. Russia lies on the doorstep and a natural economic relationship with Russia will possess overwhelming logic in the end.
Europe already perceives the US as a declining power with an erratic and hypocritical foreign policy “vision” premised upon the desperate need to preserve “American leadership” in the world. America’s willingness to go to war to this end is increasingly dangerous to others.
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Two weeks ago I wrote that the Ukrainians will soon reach a breaking point. Today's 'clobber list' by the Russia Ministry of Defense has an additional part about Ukrainian troop loses that supports that take:
Since May 19, during the month, only the 14th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU has lost 2,100 persons who resulted dead and wounded. Due to low moral and psychological conditions, 800 persons destined for replenishing the losses of this unit, refused to go to the operational area and accused officers of incompetence, bribery and cronyism in paying money allowance.
About 100 servicemen of a reconnaissance unit of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade have been relieved of combat duty and transported to Kremenchug for investigation.
A considerable part of the commanders of the 30th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU have abstracted themselves from managing their units and refuse to fulfil combat tasks. All kinds of pretexts are used for simulating illness. The majority of units have already been left without any officers.
A mechanized brigade has about 3,500 soldiers. In one month the Ukrainian 14th lost two third of its people. The replacements are not trained on mechanized equipment (tanks, APCs) that likely no longer exists and can only be used as unprotected infantry. It is no wonder that they reject to be send into a hopeless situation.
The Ukrainian leadership is still sending new units into the Lysichansk cauldron in the east. The Russians do not mind that. Their job is to "demilitarize" Ukraine. To enclose more troops in one swoop makes that easier.
LOL! The baited the pool with a little kid and the Sniffer-in-Chief couldn’t resist!!!
Your Propaganda seems to be hitting a Block Wall of late here on FreeRepublic.
Ouch. That had to hurt...
Nosebleeds now! LOL!
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