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Ukrainians Criticize Zelenskyy Over Withholding Invasion Warnings
Newsmax ^ | August 19, 2022 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 08/19/2022 2:04:14 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being criticized by some in his country after he said in an interview this week that he held back details of the United States' warnings about Russia's impending invasion because he feared people would flee the country and its economy would collapse.

"Honestly, my hair stood on end when I read what [Zelenskyy] said about evacuation," journalist Bogdan Butkevich wrote on his Facebook page, reports The Washington Post. "How can a person who has Mariupol, Bucha, and Kherson on his conscience say that an evacuation would have overwhelmed the country? He didn't want to put the country on a military footing because he was afraid of losing power."

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Some Ukrainians interpreted his comments to mean he'd chosen to protect the country's economy rather than its people...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenews; sovietnavypatriot
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Newsmax trying to switch sides and rehabilitate their credibility.
1 posted on 08/19/2022 2:04:14 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

The media has to readjust the narrative because the Ukrainian army is on its last legs. (Despite our media pretending otherwise). Seems they are about to dump Zelensky and make him the fall guy, probably for corruption. But the war will continue nevertheless...


2 posted on 08/19/2022 2:18:35 PM PDT by jimwatx
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The media has to readjust the narrative because the Ukrainian army is on its last legs.

Looks that way to me as well.

3 posted on 08/19/2022 2:24:52 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot
""How can a person who has Mariupol, Bucha, and Kherson on his conscience say that an evacuation would have overwhelmed the country? He didn't want to put the country on a military footing because he was afraid of losing power."

Zelensky afraid of losing power ? Say it ain't so ! But he does have that nice Vanity Fair spread going for him as the bodies of his countrymen pile up deep and high.

4 posted on 08/19/2022 2:38:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: JonPreston

*ping*

We need to assemble a ping list for refuting the globalist propaganda bimbo eruptions on FR.


5 posted on 08/19/2022 2:39:14 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Navy Patriot

It’s been said the Ukrainian government didn’t do an evacuation because it would clog the roads the army needed to use. That sounds like a reasonable explanation, I don’t know if it’s 100% true.


6 posted on 08/19/2022 2:45:05 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Navy Patriot

This can not be true. Every source on YouTube clearly states that Russia is on its last legs with defeat after defeat, any gains are just small advances that cost thousands of solders with many refusing to fight. The new weapons are blowing up railroads and ammunition dumps each day and hour. The Crimea Ukraine’s are rising up and blowing up Russian Air Force planes in air bases, starting fires, and helping to liberate their land from Putin and his thugs. No, Russia has waged a war of disinformation—that they are winning the war. If they are winning—why are they asking for help from North Korea! No, it will be over in a month—with a Ukraine Victory! All America need do is send more weapons and money.


7 posted on 08/19/2022 2:48:54 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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“This can not be true. Every source on YouTube clearly states that Russia is on its last legs with defeat after defeat, any gains are just small advances that cost thousands of solders with many refusing to fight.”

My favorites are the Bhagdad Bob threads here where the FR Europeans all reinforce each others fantasies of Russia getting creamed, having no heating, having no food, and Ukraine on the march to Moscow.


8 posted on 08/19/2022 2:59:18 PM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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It’s been said the Ukrainian government didn’t do an evacuation because it would clog the roads the army needed to use.

Interestingly, the Russians did do an evacuation of Donbas using roads East, and the latest Russian Evacuation was yesterday.

The earliest Russian Evacuation of Civilians I can find is from the LPR February 18, 2022.

They have been almost daily since then.

9 posted on 08/19/2022 3:04:32 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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How can a person who has Mariupol, Bucha, and Kherson on his conscience...

Are you sure Z has a conscience?

10 posted on 08/19/2022 3:12:05 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

You can add me


11 posted on 08/19/2022 3:13:35 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: jimwatx

No..they wont make him the fall guy.

Here is what will happen.

The Bandera groups will kill him because he is worth more as a martyr than alive.
Then the whole of the Ukraine explodes as there are several radical factions in that country that will fight for power. The military is to weak to fight it all off.

The result will be that “WE” will have to send in our military to stop the whole cluster eff and that is when there will be cross fighting our military and the Russians.
Whether it be by accident of otherwise..wont matter.


12 posted on 08/19/2022 3:15:06 PM PDT by crz
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To: Navy Patriot
It seems more likely that they are sharing the CIA talking points from the Washington Post. The US intelligence establishment was totally wrong in their assessment of the Russian military.

They are trying to make it look like everyone else was as wrong as they were, but it won't work. We all know that the DOD, CIA, and State Department had no idea about Russia's actual military ability, which is very little.

They thought Ukraine would fall in 72 hours, but months later Russia is mired in a war they will ultimately lose.

Russia was never a threat to NATO, the US government is just clueless.

13 posted on 08/19/2022 3:22:15 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: packagingguy
It’s been said the Ukrainian government didn’t do an evacuation because it would clog the roads

Evacuations don't work. Many people refuse to leave even combat zones. Roads full of civilians just end up being death traps. The Russians killed many civilians trying to evacuate, how would putting more civilians on the roads to be killed be a smart idea?

14 posted on 08/19/2022 3:25:59 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Navy Patriot

He sold that out for power. Just like our Demonrats and RINOs. Well, sold their souls.


15 posted on 08/19/2022 4:01:38 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: JonPreston

Yes, sir.


16 posted on 08/19/2022 4:01:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: freeandfreezing; All
Ah yes, glorious NATO:

NATO and the Trafficking of Women

Bosnia: The United Nations, human trafficking and prostitution

Child sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers

17 posted on 08/19/2022 4:04:09 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: jimwatx

They will never do that, as he has way too much information on “The Big Guy”. What they are more likely to do is assassinate him making it appear to be the Russians who did it, while sending a clear and strong message to anyone contemplating blowing the whistle on Biden.


18 posted on 08/19/2022 4:23:15 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: crz
Never. The Bidiots should be impeached for trying to start WWIII.

Poland military might try to take over the NW part that used to belong to them. The rest of the Ukraininan rump state after Donbas is gone would be a UN / EUnuch protectorate similar to what happened to Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

19 posted on 08/19/2022 4:47:11 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Navy Patriot

There are dozens, if not hundred of deficient minds on this site that support this guy.

It’s like the Twilight Zone.


20 posted on 08/19/2022 4:50:40 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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