But better hurry before it's too late.
Posted on 06/26/2022 1:45:29 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Smoke billows from a residential building following explosions in Kyiv on June 26. Several explosions rocked the west of the Ukrainian capital in the early hours, with at least two residential buildings struck, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
A suspected Russian missile attack on a residential neighborhood in the Ukrainian capital injured at least five people early on June 26, trapping some residents under the rubble and sparking a fire in a nine-story apartment building.
The bombardment of Kyiv came as Ukraine's defense forces battled to regroup after the loss of a strategic town to Russian forces on the front lines hundreds of kilometers to the southeast, where some of the most intense fighting is raging four months into Russia's full-scale invasion. Live Briefing: Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko went to the scene in one of the city's historic northern neighborhoods, known as the Shevchenko district, where at least two buildings were affected by the early morning explosions.
The Shevchenko neighborhood hosts universities, galleries and other cultural businesses, and restaurants.
Klitschko initially said some victims were already in the hospital but others were still trapped under rubble. Rescuers "pulled out a 7-year-old girl," he said.
"She is alive," Klitschko said, and "now they're trying to rescue her mother."
Later, the commander of Ukraine's national police force, Ihor Klymenko, said on television that at least five people had been injured by a missile striking their building.
Klitschko called it an attempt by Russia to "intimidate Ukrainians" ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid on June 28-30. G7 leaders are also gathering near Munich on June 26 to discuss pro-Ukraine measures.
Some 600 kilometers to the southeast, Ukrainian forces said a day earlier that they had made a "tactical withdrawal" from the city of Syevyerodonetsk in a blow that could shape the fighting in the east.
But President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed in his nighttime video address that Ukraine would eventually retake the cities it has lost since Russia's all-out invasion began on February 24.
Zelenskiy said the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II had taken a heavy toll on Ukrainians and their defenders but spoke of eventually winning the war.
"We don't have a sense of how long it will last, how many more blows, losses, and efforts will be needed before we see victory is on the horizon," Zelenskiy said.
Zelenskiy is due to remotely address a gathering in the German region of Bavaria of leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized countries on June 27 to urge further international support for Ukraine's defense.
On June 25, Ukraine's military said defense forces had withdrawn from Syevyerodonetsk after weeks of intense battles to fight from higher ground in nearby Lysychansk, across the Siverskiy Donets River.
Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said his forces were carrying out a "tactical regrouping" by pulling its forces out of Syevyerodonetsk.
Syevyerodonetsk, a city in the Luhansk district of around 100,000 residents before the war, has been devastated as Russian forces sought to concentrate gains in the two eastern districts known collectively as the Donbas.
RUSSIAN ADVANCES IN EASTERN UKRAINE
Russia-backed separatists have swaths of that region since Russia annexed Crimea and helped kick off the eastern Ukrainian fighting in 2014.
Meanwhile, fears mounted of a widening war since Ukrainian officials reported "massive bombardment" from rockets "fired from the territory of Belarus and from the air" and Moscow said it would provide Belarus with an advanced missile system.
In Belarus, strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka's dependence on Moscow has increased since a crackdown over protests that began when he claimed a sixth presidential term in flawed elections two years ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised meeting with Lukashenka on June 25 that Moscow plans within months to supply Belarus with Iskander-M missile systems, a nuclear-capable, mobile guided-missile system with a range of up to 500 kilometers.
"Today's strike is directly linked to Kremlin efforts to pull Belarus as a co-belligerent into the war in Ukraine," the Ukrainian intelligence service said of the missiles launched from Russian warplanes over Belarusian territory.
Lukashenka allowed thousands of Russian troops to stage attacks on Ukraine from the earliest stage of the invasion.
A representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, Vadym Skibitskiy, told RBC-Ukraine on June 25 that Belarus is maintaining 4,000-6,000 of its own troops near the Ukrainian border.
He estimated that Russia has around 1,500 of its troops in Belarus to help with air, special forces, and missile components of the invasion.
Russian scum...
There’s got to be a way to make them stop
Multi million $ bounties on the heads of both Putin and Lukashenka.
Make them fear , who would like to become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams...
Oh the horror.
War is hell?
Remind me again how many cities, towns and villages were leveled to the ground in WWII, Vietnam, Korea, etc.
Some of you need to get real.
Umm . . . how about getting rid of Biden and corporate warmonger Senators from both parties?? Or is it just coincidence that Ukraine only gets attacked when Joe Biden is in or near the White House??
Yes, what a great idea. Let’s start a nuclear WWIII over some shithole country.
And, after Putin and Lukashenka are killed, all Russians are peace loving unicorn riders…
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But better hurry before it's too late.
Ugh. Zelenskyy is a complete con man.
As usual, not quite he horror portrayed...:-)
“It means this: the house in Kiev, which was allegedly hit by a rocket today, is the same building in the residential complex “Lvovsky Kvartal”, which was hit by a rocket on April 29 . It was only then that the first floors of the high-rise building were smashed to the left, but now it hit the part on the right. After being hit on April 29, the house is empty. And because of the proximity to the plant “Artyom”, and because of the emergency state of the “candle”. On the first screen - a fragment of today’s video, filmed at the victim’s house. All other photos and videos were taken on April 29th.
That’s why there are no residents running around the yard. As for the rescued girl and her mother, this is most likely a production made in the best traditions of the White Helmets for further speculation.”
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“”Julia! These are residential complexes set up along the perimeter of the Artem factory and, most likely, this is the residential complex Lvovsky quarter on the streets of Glibochitskaya Tatarskaya or nearby. After the first strikes on the workshops of the factories, almost no one lives there, the neighboring office buildings are practically empty and partly stand without windows, as they expected repeated strikes on the vast territory of the Artyom plant on Lukyanovka ”
“There’s got to be a way to make them stop”
There is and it’s a plain as the nose on your face. Stop using Ukraine as a launching pad for US weapons aimed at Russia.
You’d be lucky to find one in ten thousand murikans who have even the slightest idea what Minsk II is.
Zelensky should head for the negotiating table .... before Russia demands an unconditional surrender.
Reality check for the indoctrinated...
Ukrainian soldier complaining that locals “on Ukrainian territory” are not very happy to see AFU soldiers and put up Zs instead. He’s sarcastic about “fighting for them” & is worried about locals giving up AFU positions to the Russians.
VIDEO: “So guys that’s what you get for fighting for your f__king people. You walk on Ukrainian territory and here people you know what they’re telling you? Here (He points to a wall with grafitti covered with Zs.) Z f__k, f__king Z.
And they are waiting (for the Russians) And they are supporting them. And they are waiting. That’s what we get, F__k. You don’t know what else. They would f__king flip on you.
It is called negotiating a peace agreement—something adults used to know how to do.
Nowadays the West just calls people names and howls at the moon.
The problem is that Russians today — not all, but a significant number - see the USSR as a Russian empire that was “stabbed in the back”.
Putin has played that up, with his constant story that the fall of the USSR was the greatest tragedy (according to him) of the 20th century.
They didn’t see that it fell due to economic collapse - just as the Germans in the 1920s didn’t see that their cause in 1918 was lost.
The Germans needed to be kicked right to the doors of their houses to realize that was was NOT the way.
Russians need to lose badly to kill Putin’s narrative.
I look at the potential of Russia and how Putin has squandered it over the past 22 years of his despotic rule and I shake my head.
Let's look at the progress of the war
That don't look like a Ukrainian collapse -- looks like a Russian collapse
Russian advances are all in pink. Initially, Russia claimed most of the Ukrainian northern border. By April 24, Russia has lost nearly all of it.
Now they are struggling and killing thousands of their young men for inches of ground in the Donbas. They aren't in any position to demand an unconditional surrender
You link to “Il Russo” - a Russian propaganda channel.
Perhaps you are the heavily indoctrinated one...
Ukraine had a negotiated agreement with Russian in 1994 in which Russia promised to protect Ukraine’s borders.
That was broken in 2014.
Then they broke it again.
Putin signified what he wanted when he sent paratroopers and an armoured column to capture Kyiv.
If you give him territory in Donbas today, then in a few years he will come back for more.
This is no difference than the munich conference — or do you think giving Nazi Germany the Sudentenland really stopped World war II?
If anything, it made it worse.
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