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Ukraine says scores of Russians killed in Kherson fighting
Reuters ^ | 7/30/2022 | Max Hunder and Pavel Polityuk

Posted on 07/30/2022 7:11:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

The Ukrainian military said on Saturday it had killed scores of Russian soldiers and destroyed two ammunition dumps in fighting in the Kherson region, the focus of Kyiv's counter-offensive in the south and a key link in Moscow's supply lines.

Rail traffic to Kherson over the Dnipro River had been cut, the military's southern command said, potentially further isolating Russian forces west of the river from supplies in occupied Crimea and the east.

Defence and intelligence officials from Britain, which has been one of Ukraine's staunchest allies in the West since Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion, portrayed Russian forces as struggling to maintain momentum.

Ukraine has used Western-supplied long-range missile systems to badly damage three bridges across the Dnipro in recent weeks, cutting off Kherson city and - in the assessment of British defence officials - leaving Russia's 49th Army stationed on the west bank of the river highly vulnerable.

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


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To: cranked

Russia is running out of ethic fodder to send to die in Ukraine. What will Putin do?


21 posted on 07/30/2022 7:39:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Monterrosa-24
From my friends and family there

What are you doing here?

Why not join your family in the fight??

22 posted on 07/30/2022 7:39:37 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: LS

Including Russia already losing 142% of their generals…


23 posted on 07/30/2022 7:40:07 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: cranked

Sounds like Cranked is the propagandist. According to Elon Musk, Putin’s true net worth is 200 billion (not million). If Zelensky was so corrupt, why didn’t he take the ride out at the beginning of the war? Why is he still working and taking risks? Is your anti-Semitism showing?


24 posted on 07/30/2022 7:41:10 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Looks like you need to repost the map of all the occupied Ukrainian territory lost by invading Russians.


25 posted on 07/30/2022 7:41:45 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: marcusmaximus

What will Putin do, oh my.
As Trump would say: Win. Winning!


26 posted on 07/30/2022 7:42:03 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked
The charge across the open steppe near Kherson, into the massed Russian artillery, will be GLORIOUS.

Zel will take a break from his online Cayman Islands banking app to do a slow golf clap for his brave cannon fodder.

27 posted on 07/30/2022 7:42:10 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Yeah.

Heard reports this morning that the Ukrainians are being hammered so hard by the Russian artillery in those open steppe areas in and around Kherson that they are 1) taking horrendous losses and 2) some Ukrainian units are retreating due to the mass Russian artillery onslaught.


28 posted on 07/30/2022 7:44:48 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

Putin: “Need….more….Buryats…” LOL!


29 posted on 07/30/2022 7:47:16 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Don Corleone
Europe better get off of their dead asses or Putin will be marching up the boulevards of Paris in short order.

Your terms are acceptable.

30 posted on 07/30/2022 7:47:39 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: marcusmaximus

The media is making big claims about Kherson but the front-lines have barely changed since the Battle of Mariupol six weeks ago.


31 posted on 07/30/2022 7:49:41 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
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To: marcusmaximus

Ukrainians need more Javelins with dead batteries, more worthless artillery, more tanks, more planes and helicopters, and more manpower. And ZelenskyyIdiot needs more money given the US has already given Ukraine and ZelenskyyIdiot more money than the ENTIRE Russian military budget for 2021. Did I miss anything, Marcus?


32 posted on 07/30/2022 7:49:54 AM PDT by cranked
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To: marcusmaximus
Very interesting. If Russia takes more of those HIMARS, game-changing strikes they'll occupy 100% of Zelensky the clown's land.

Red = Russia losing!

Way to lose, Putin!

33 posted on 07/30/2022 7:54:58 AM PDT by icclearly
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To: cranked
Ukrainians need more Javelins with dead batteries, more worthless artillery, more tanks, more planes and helicopters, and more manpower. And ZelenskyyIdiot needs more money given the US has already given Ukraine and ZelenskyyIdiot more money than the ENTIRE Russian military budget for 2021. Did I miss anything, Marcus?

How many weapons are the French, Germans, and Poles sending to Ukraine?

34 posted on 07/30/2022 7:54:59 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
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To: cranked

Here’s info on the Polish tanks. No doubt many will end up in Ukraine sooner or later like the hundreds of tanks already sent by Poland to Ukraine. Cheers.

The purchases will occur in two stages. The aircraft and vehicles delivered as part of the first stage will be manufactured in South Korea, which will rapidly fill gaps left by the transfer of equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and accelerate the modernisation process amid the increased threat posed by Russia. The equipment procured during the second stage will be partially or entirely manufactured and assembled in Poland to the Polish specification, and the first stage equipment will also then be “Polonized” and upgraded to the Polish specification.

The first stage will consist of:

180 K2 tanks – Deliveries starting later this year.
48 K9 self-propelled howitzers – Deliveries starting later this year, with them being built to the Polish spec from the beginning.
12 FA-50 Block 10 aircraft – Delivered in mid-2023.
The second stage will consist of:

820 K2PL tanks – Built in Poland.
Accompanying engineering support and bridging vehicles – Delivered from South Korea.
> 600 K9PL – Deliveries starting in 2024, production moving to Poland in 2026.
36 FA-50 Block 20 aircraft – Built in South Korea but with a service centre being built in Poland in 2026. The Block 20 aircraft will include AESA radars, Sniper targeting pods and Link 16 tactical data link and will be armed with AIM-9X missiles with the option for AIM-120 AMRAAMS to be integrated later.
In addition to the Korean systems, Poland is already acquiring 250 new M1 Abrams tanks of the SEPv3 standard in addition to 116 older M1A1s from US Army stocks, with plans to later upgrade the 116 to the SEPv3 standard.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/poland-splashes-out-on-korean-arms-due-to-invasion-of-ukraine/


35 posted on 07/30/2022 7:55:22 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

To be honest, not entirely sure (given I have not bothered to search/research such) on counts and have not seen a complete list of equipment/weaponry that has been sent to Ukraine by the French, Germans, and Poles or the US, for that matter. My apologies.


36 posted on 07/30/2022 7:59:31 AM PDT by cranked
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To: LS
How is this possible? Hoax News has told us that the Russkies already lost their entire army in Ukraine 2x over.

This unhinged Ukie cheerleading reaction on FR was what the Media puppeteers were trying to provoke on the Right with the RussiaRussiaRussia allegations against Trump.

Their Media machine still works - they just have to make sure that The Narrative is semi-believable.

37 posted on 07/30/2022 8:00:04 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Putin’s puppet leadership and political party fled Kherson city 2 weeks ago and are hiding like rats in Nova Kakhovka which had a nice HIMARS visit last night. Putin knows it’s over in Kherson.


38 posted on 07/30/2022 8:05:44 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Just ran across this tho:
‘German weapons failing in Ukraine – media’
https://www.rt.com/news/559864-german-artillery-fail-ukraine/

I know the Javelins the US sent were largely sent with dead batteries and lots have been sold or are being sold on the black market. I think there are several threads on that within FR itself.

The only thing that might be helping the Ukrainians are the HIMARs but there is ongoing debate surrounding their efficacy on the battlefield other than blowing up munitions depots and a bridge attack, which can be repaired because the warheads on the HIMARs are not enough to take out the bridge pylons. At any rate, the Russians are building 1-3 pontoon bridges and looking to repair the bridge.


39 posted on 07/30/2022 8:05:51 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

Hillary’s “The Russians stole the election” gambit is leading the left into the same Cold War space once occupied by Joe McCarthy and still occupied by maybe 10% of feudalist Freepers, not yet smacked awake by the fact that the Internet changes EVERYTHING.


40 posted on 07/30/2022 8:21:28 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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