Posted on 09/07/2022 9:28:15 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
SOUTHERN UKRAINE — In dimly lit hospital rooms in southern Ukraine, soldiers with severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, mangled hands and shattered joints recounted the lopsided disadvantages their units faced in the early days of a new offensive to expel Russian forces from the strategic city of Kherson.
The soldiers said they lacked the artillery needed to dislodge Russia’s entrenched forces and described a yawning technology gap with their better-equipped adversaries. The interviews provided some of the first direct accounts of a push to retake captured territory that is so sensitive, Ukrainian military commanders have barred reporters from visiting the front lines.
“They used everything on us,” said Denys, a 33-year-old Ukrainian soldier whose unit fell back from a Russian-held village after a lengthy barrage of cluster bombs, phosphorous munitions and mortars. “Who can survive an attack for five hours like that?” he said.
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Ping, Thanks!
What happened to the HIMARS?
Joe Biden and Zelensky keep sending Ukrainian youth as cannon fodder when they ought to sue for peace and salvage what’s left.
meatgrinder...
Apparently St. HIMARS failed to report for duty.
We keep doubling down hoping Ukraine will eventually win a hand. It’s beyond criminal what we snd NATO have done.
I suspect it's an unnecessary meatgrinder.
Biden’s betting Socialist with someone else’s lives.
The Compost is pro-war/WEF establishment swamp-rag.
The Uke adventurists have fk’d themselves and everyone else into a bad corner and will try to save face or escalate.
There’s a good chance the people behind this get dragged through the streets - especially if people’s kids start starving over winter.
All over some corrupt Euro-s***hole.
Probably just a flesh wound. Get back to the fight.
“American soldiers reveal steep toll of Normandy landing.”
What happened to the HIMARS?
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Due to inclusivity requirements, they all had to be swapped out for HERARS; and they’re waiting for replacements.
The soldiers said they lacked the artillery needed to dislodge Russia’s entrenched forces and described a yawning technology gap with their better-equipped adversaries."
Wow, someone is going to get in trouble for leaking this. Everyone knows the Russians are losing and the Ukes are shooting Migs out of the sky with rifles and the entire Russian army is retreating. /s
I wonder if it has ever dawned on those in control of the Washington Post that a very high percentage of Americans, given their long history of lying, don’t believe a damn thing they say!
I mean, you attempt to read some of their articles and find yourself laughing at the obvious fact that the writer of the article actually is oblivious to the fact that millions of us won’t even read his headline, much less his article, because we’ve already written off the W.P. totally as nothing but a gaggle of youthful liberal/marxist/liars.
Ukrainian grannies were knocking out migs with pickles before...
Without air superiority, there’s no “counteroffensive” - this is a mass suicide event. I have to wonder if the soldiers actually expressed optimism for a win or if was just Zuckerganda.
You can only trust Compost when they are reporting opposite to the globalist narrative. If this keeps up the globalists will put American boots on the ground.
Thoughts from the pro-Ukraine War contingent? The Washing Post has been a cheerleader of this war and it isn’t looking to good even from their perspective.
Should we send another $50 billion?
Maybe you are just uniformed, but at the moment in the Kherson area the Ukrainians have a high degree of air superiority. That's because they have been able to destroy S300 and S400 systems with NATO provided missiles and the HIMARS rocket artillery systems.
That's why Ukraine has twice been able to hit the headquarters of the Russian Navy is Crimea with a propeller driven drone. That's also why they are able to run drone attacks nightly on the Kherson front.
It is also why they are now able to use MI-24 gunships in direct attack mode against Russians in the Kherson area.
Recently the people complaining about losses and the desperate nature of their situation have been speaking Russian, not Ukrainian.
Like the guys shown in this video
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