Posted on 08/06/2022 8:20:12 PM PDT by dennisw
The Turkish drone making mincemeat of Putin's army: Bayraktar TB2 is so loved by Ukraine's soldiers that they sing folk songs about it while Russians have announced a £800 reward for any that are shot down
Ukrainian soldiers have fallen in love with the Bayraktar TB-2 drone system Turkey-made flying missile launcher has obliterated ten of Putin's helicopters
And in play since just after the war began, they helped keep Kyiv from conquest Bayraktar is proving so effective that Russia now offering £800 to destroy them
View comments It's not often that a weapons system inspires a hit viral folk song, especially one with lyrics that talk of destroying ‘inventory’ and ‘Russian tankmen hiding in the bushes’, but then it is hard to underestimate the appeal of the Bayraktar TB-2.
For ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this Turkish aerial drone has proved to be one of the biggest ‘hits’ of the war – at least for the Ukrainians. Since February, the Bayraktar, which costs in the region of one to two million dollars, has obliterated an astonishing amount of Russian equipment, including ten helicopters, thirteen surface-to-air missile systems, seven armoured vehicles, twenty-seven other vehicles, six naval vessels, and numerous other targets such as command posts and fuel dumps.
Little wonder then, that the technology has become a vital component in the war against Putin’s forces, as it scouts terrain and identifies targets before carrying out precision strikes using laser-guided weaponry.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What do you even pretend to know about Ukraine? Have you been there? Have you been to the Donbas? Have you traveled in Russia? Have you studied the long term Russian genocide against Ukraine? Can you do anything besides call names?
What is suicidal about NATO countries supplying arms that kill Russian invaders, something they have been doing for a long time?
....articles that almost nobody reads.
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That’s the reason for all the photos. Some used more than once per article.
"Turkey Agrees To Pay For Russian Gas In Rubles"
Russia would never agree to sell gas to Turkey while Turkey was selling drones to Ukraine.
Did Turkey quit selling drones to Ukraine?
I have to issue a retraction. It looks like Turkey was selling drones to Ukraine which really irked the Russians.
Go to the 9 minute, 30 second mark in the following link:
Turkey Was Selling Drones to Ukraine
I still maintain the DailyMail.com has a habit of seriously overhyping their headlines as clickbait.
And why is Ukraine getting their butts kicked.
“You support genocide against beautiful and innocent people.”
What genocide? There are no mass killings of anyone.
You don’t seem to be paying much attention to the drone issue and I’m not going somewhere to watch a video for you.
The Russians have been replacing Ukrainians since Lenin’s time. There was a peak in the 1930s under Stalin (it continued way beyond the Hololomor years) and there is a peak now. When the so-called “separatist” movement started in the Donbas it was conducted by Russian operatives using plata or plomo bribes, threats, murder, and disappearances. The very same families that had extended family members sent to Solovki near the artic circle in the ‘30s suffered threats and/or murders in 2014. Many had to leave the Donbas while certain activists and patriotic Ukrainians were “disappeared” in the Latin American dirty war sense of the word. If you really believe there is no mass killings then why has the size of the Alchevsk cemetery expanded so much within the last few years? Sure, some were killed in combat but the forceful conscription of young lads by the “separatists” leads to under-trained and counter-motivated men being killed or maimed either in combat or as punishment for desertion. Russian speakers in the Donbas are usually not ethnic Russians and thousands are fighting the Russians. In many small agricultural villages in Lugansk region, Ukrainian is still spoken in spite of the long-term efforts to eradicate it. My wife is from Alchevsk and Russian is her first language. She hates the Russians and the Mafia-style separatists. In many of the occupied areas the Russians are still busy moving in their own people including teachers in their replacement of Ukrainians and Ukrainian culture.
“The Russians have been replacing Ukrainians since Lenin’s time. “
I stopped reading right there since that is the biggest bunch of BS. The Ukraine didn’t even exist then.
How ignorant can you be? Are you saying there were no Ukrainians then? There was no Ukrainian language? I guess you think there was no pograms against Jews because Jews in Ukraine were not an independent Jewish nation. Maybe if you didn’t stop reading all the time you wouldn’t be so illiterate.
“How ignorant can you be?”
Far less stupid and ignorant as you. You don’t know the first thing about the Ukraine but want to defend it like it was a long standing nation that is never was.
So you would have been a Tory in 1776 because the 13 colonies had never been an independent country. I’ve traveled Russia, Ukraine, and even the Donbas. How do you pretend to know about it?
You are the Tory, Sunshine. You’re going along with the established and corrupt King. You are supporting Biden and the other homosexuals, pedophiles, criminals, money launderers, etc.
You are going with Obama who promised Russia more “flexibility”. You are going with Hillary who pushed US uranium through to Russia. You are going with pedophile Putin and his murderous invasion.
According to your about page, you’ve never set foot in Ukraine yet you arrogantly talk down to me about it. My family and friends there are great people who desire freedom. You are dangerously close minded.
Here is a thread about Turkish/Ukraine cooperation on new weapons systems.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4085031/posts
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