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.
I thought it looked familiar!
They are winning as they are still independent. Devastated but independent. As opposed to devastated and erased off the map.
As it turns out the actual Russian fired missile went right into the military factory as targeted. What hit a part of the previously hit house was a missile defense drone that Ukraine fired to blow up the missiles. That’s the downside to missile defense drones...they may engage one of the missiles but the debris can end up on civilian structures.
Russia Ministry of Defense
Fake : Russian Armed Forces attacked civilian targets in Kiev.
Truth : Ukrainian sources speak exclusively of a strike on a residential nine-story building. However, they do not indicate that it is precisely behind this house that the Artem defense plant is located, which produces air-to-air guided missiles and artillery shells. The photo shows what flew in the shops of the plant.
It was he, as an object of military infrastructure, that was the target, and it was already struck in April. Then the Ukrainian media also talked about a strike on a residential building - absolutely according to the same scheme as this time.
The facts of damage to the plant indicate that the strike was aimed precisely at Artem, and an air defense missile hit the nine-story building, as it happened, for example, in Odessaor in Kiev .
Channels publish videos of an air defense missile falling into residential areas. The photo with the destruction of the house shows that the damage is not only from above, but also from below the residential building, which also confirms the version of the fall. At the same time, the MO missile hits exactly the workshops of the Artem plant.
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Thanks for the explanation!
Putin is doing God’s work.
Russia is cleaning up the human trafficking, secret US Bolabs that have been creating viruses.
The deep State hates this because Ukraine has been their golden goose that laid the golden eggs. Of course, the media and deep state will shill for Ukraine.
I guess you’re correct. I can’t remember which general stated that in war a victory and a loss look very similar.
https://readovka.news/news/102188
Russia will own all of eastern Ukraine and all of the Black Sea coastline.
The Russians will tolerate any kind of insurgency. Nor will the American people tolerate wasting billions of dollars being spent on an insurgency, let alone sanctions that are hurting us far more than Russia or a hot war with Russia that will kill Americans.
Time to go pound sand or take a cold shower if any of that bothers the neocons, Deep Staters and Russophobes here.
“propaganda has been spot on both for Russian propaganda.rom the Russian government and from the pro-Russian telegram channels and they are growing exponentially as a result.”
This Russian propaganda channel grows not for truth, but for a propaganda choice. Cathi, you are a relatively new freeper. Cronos is a very wise poster/commenter & adds to discussion by giving a balanced perspective.
Russian Human Trafficking:
1- The Russian Connection: How Russia Became a Leader in the
World’s Human Trafficking MarketWorld’s Human Trafficking M
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6299&context=etd
2- Human Trafficking: The Secret to Putin’s Economy
25.Nov.2020
https://hir.harvard.edu/putin-and-human-trafficking/
3- The War Against Human Trafficking in Russia
https://www.borgenmagazine.com/war-human-trafficking-in-russia/
4- 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report: Russia
https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-trafficking-in-persons-report-2/russia/
“The Government of Russia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so”
5-’WORST HUMAN TRAFFICKERS’ Include RUSSIA, Belarus, Iran, Turkmenistan
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-belarus-iran-turkmenistan-human-traffickers-report/29326302.html
6- WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IS THE TRAFFICKER: STATE-SPONSORED TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS:
The 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report includes the following 11 governments with a documented “policy or pattern” of human trafficking, trafficking in government-funded programs, forced labor in government-affiliated medical services or other sectors, sexual slavery in government camps, or the employment or recruitment of child soldiers:
Afghanistan
Burma
China
Cuba
Eritrea
Korea, North
Iran
RUSSIA [***RANKS TIER 3]
South Sudan
Syria
Turkmenista
“They don’t want communism back; they just want an ethnonationalist Rashist empire with Russia in charge and Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Georgia, Khazakstan, Chechnya, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania etc. under its yoke.”
I was unfamiliar with the term Rashist sodid a little research:
RASHIST
The term rashist means Russian-fascist: combines both: Russian & fascism. In Ukraine, rashist describes followers of Putin expansionist ideology in this 21st century Russian government.
The term “Rashist” is used by Ukrainian officials and media to identify members of the Russian Armed Forces. Also, the use of the St George yellow & black ribbon in the form of letter Z is also associated with Rashism comparable to the fascist swastika (called zwastika)
Simply, this term “Rashist” is used by scholars, politicians and writers to describe the political ideology and social practices under Vladimir Putin. This term Rashist refers to Russian military expansionism or as a label for describing the Russian undemocratic system and cult of Putin with ultra-nationalism.
Rashism is used to represent the base of the Russian idea for their “special national mission”:
1- Moscow as the third Rome and expansionism;
2- Anti-Westernism supporting the regaining ‘Imperial lands’ thru conquest.
” God’s work”....right
u r mental
Shame on you. Even for you this is a low. To deliberately misstate someone’s quoted words to imply the exact opposite of what they stated is that the “balance” you spoke of as in balancing truth with lies?
I wrote, “Russian INFORMATION, not propaganda has been spot on both from the Russian government and from the pro-Russian telegram channels and they are growing exponentially as a result. They have been excellent sources of getting at the truth.”
And you turn that into quoting me as saying this...the exact opposite of what I wrote.
“propaganda has been spot on both for Russian propaganda.rom the Russian government and from the pro-Russian telegram channels and they are growing exponentially as a result.”
I’m embarrassed for you. You don’t even attempt to be truthful which I suppose is why you are a big fan of Cronos.
You started this thread with a false propaganda post which is typical for you.
“Russia is cleaning up the human trafficking”
While (by its own admission) trafficking thousands of captured Ukrainian children, dragging into Russia, dispersing them, and putting them into a highly opaque adoption system. Unless one thinks child trafficking on an industrial scale is not “human trafficking” at all, that’s quite an inconsistency.
I suppose it’s’cleaner’, in much the same way Naxi Germany”cleaned up” genocide by industrialising it.
“Secret US Bolabs that have been creating viruses.”
The ones Russia built were secret? Or the ones built by Big Pharma that weren’t secret? Where do you think novichok came from? A RUSSIAN biolab. Is it safely stored in biolabs? Yes, but it’s also being used for assassinations and convert ops.
Same old story of Russian cognitive dissonance, It’s protesting about biolabs with dangerous things in them THAT AREN’T BEING USED IN HOSTILE ACTIONS while using its own biolabs to make stuff that they’ve been actively deploying in the field for nearly 20 years.
Yeah! Right! Whenever Russia clutches its pearls, it’s all about theur paranoia based on self-projection.
Here’s how they think: “If we were in their shoes and if those hiolabs were ours, we’d have had no moral qualms about using those labs to commit a massive biological or chemical attack YEARS AGO, so our risk assessment is based on, what if our enemies ever decided to be as barbaric as we already are?”
Saying Putin’s doing God’s work on these actually quite pathetic areas of low ambition is from the same intellectual train of thought as, Hitler gave the world cheap family cars and autobahns, long range rocketry and the foundation of space exploration.
Russia has turned into a third world country hell bent on invading all its neighbors BUT BUT BUT like a stopped clock is guaranteed to tell the right tome at least twice a day.
In much the same way that a Mafia hitman’s guaranteed to be making all the right pious noises in church on Sundays while committing mortal sins on the other six days of the week, Russia is guaranteed to be on the right side of a good Christian moral argument when it’s expedient but it has no problem acting like the Antichrist if THAT is expedient.
Right now Russia is spending time and energy on being Antichristian 23 hours of the day while playing the good Christian one hour a day for the cameras.
Liberal governments are no different. It’s thf nature of Realpolitik.
Difference is, we conservatives don’t usually approve of our governments being that cynical and amoral.
Russian conservatives do approve of it though, just as American liberals do.
Putin is better compared to Stalin.
Putin is, however, taking things straight out of Nazi Germany’s playbook — saying he is going into a neighbouring country “to protect his ethnic folks”, while at the same time attacking the neighbour’s capital. Then claiming he is “defending” himself from a far weaker neighbour that isn’t threatening him.
Putin has a 22 year dictatorship and has been slowly expanding his territory - with South Ossetia, Crimea, DPR/LPR and now the rest of Donbas.
Minsk accords came later - after Russia had already reneged on it’s 1994 promise to protect Ukraine’s territorial integrity
It is Russia not pushing for ground. They are taking out the Ukraine soldiers with ease. Some of you think this is a conquest. If Russia wanted to, they could march to London with ease.
So you side with Deep State. Typical neocon.
Go pound sand
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