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‘They ran away like goats’: Ukrainian villagers celebrate liberation in Kherson region from Russian occupation
The Guardian ^ | 12 November 2022 | Luke Harding

Posted on 11/12/2022 10:21:13 AM PST by Cronos

At 5am on Wednesday Serhii Melnikov heard a noise outside. The Russian soldiers who were living in the house opposite – were packing up to leave. They had occupied the village of Mylove in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region for eight months. Now they were off, as part of a humiliating pull-out from the right-bank of the Dnipro river.

“Vladimir Putin said Russia would be here for ever. In the end they left in five minutes and ran away like goats,Putin wanted to kill us. He’s ended up destroying his own country. Russia’s retreat from Kherson is an enormous failure.”

...The last moments of occupation were tinged with vindictiveness. On their way out Russian troops blew up the village’s school and nursery buildings, where they had lived, and brought down the radio tower. They detonated Mylove’s crossing over a tributary of the Dnipro, and other pieces of infrastructure.

Ukrainian special forces swept in on Thursday night. By Friday morning residents had put out blue-and-yellow flags and were celebrating their first hours of freedom.

..Melnikov said the village was originally home to 1,000 people. Between 300 and 400 stayed after the Russian takeover. He said: “We asked them why they had come. They replied: ‘To make your lives better.’ By the time they exited we had gone back in time 30 years. We now have no electricity, gas or water. Everyone is broke and there are no jobs. Instead of waging war, Putin could have fixed the roads and hospitals in his own country.”

“I was here from the beginning until the end. What amazed me is how many of Putin’s warriors seemed unfamiliar with toilets and asphalt roads. They arrived saying we were Nazis. By the time they left it was clear to everyone they were the Nazis. They destroyed everything.”

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


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“I was here from the beginning until the end. What amazed me is how many of Putin’s warriors seemed unfamiliar with toilets and asphalt roads. They arrived saying we were Nazis. By the time they left it was clear to everyone they were the Nazis. They destroyed everything.”
1 posted on 11/12/2022 10:21:13 AM PST by Cronos
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2 posted on 11/12/2022 10:33:18 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Why don’t you watch some of them multiple videos of Ukrainian civilians cheering and celebrating their army liberating them from the russian fascists.

And the GFY


3 posted on 11/12/2022 10:35:38 AM PST by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: Cronos

4 posted on 11/12/2022 10:35:49 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat and stay on the plantation!)
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To: lump in the melting pot
Why don’t you watch some of them multiple videos of Ukrainian civilians cheering and celebrating their army liberating them from the russian fascists.

I've seen Ukrainians cheering both sides in different videos. And?

And the GFY

Hmmmmm.....

You sound very butt hurt and should fill out the long form.

Please feel free to write extra information on the reverse side.


5 posted on 11/12/2022 10:40:29 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: lump in the melting pot

Why don’t you watch all those videos of villagers welcoming their Russian liberators? Two way street.


6 posted on 11/12/2022 10:40:38 AM PST by Bulwyf
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Post some. Never found any


7 posted on 11/12/2022 10:42:36 AM PST by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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Why don’t you watch all those videos

LOL, like a video of a Grandma from the liberated Kherson region, waiting for Ukrainian soldiers and giving them ammo so they could beat some russians.

Ukrainian Grandma Welcomes Ukrainian Soldiers With Ammo

Soldier: Here look what granny gathered for us!

Grandma: Here! See? Beat them katzaps(slur for russians)

Soldier2: look, look how they greet us on our motherland!

Soldier: thank you, thank you, we’ll bring you some food when we drive by tomorrow, I promise

8 posted on 11/12/2022 10:53:31 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; Bulwyf
Ukrainian special forces swept in on Thursday night. By Friday morning residents had put out blue-and-yellow flags and were celebrating their first hours of freedom.

By Friday evening, the Azov torturers/murderers had arrived, and were rounding up "collaborators" for "special treatment" - especially the comely young women of the village...

9 posted on 11/12/2022 10:57:44 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Cronos

Goats? The goats I know would give you a headbutt if you attacked them.


10 posted on 11/12/2022 10:57:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Though they normally attack others and run away if chased


11 posted on 11/12/2022 10:59:42 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

You say you’ve seen them cheering both sides????!!!! When the Russian troops arrived, they were met with jeers and protests in spite of the danger. The crowds surrounded Russian military vehicles chanting “GO HOME, GO HOME, GO HOME...” Now the Russian pigs and apes have gone. Glory to God !!! Glory to Ukriane !!! Death to the invaders !!!


12 posted on 11/12/2022 11:03:49 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: Monterrosa-24

If you only watch propaganda from one side, you limit yourself.
I’ve learned not to believe either side’s propaganda.


13 posted on 11/12/2022 11:05:15 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

One side spends the big bucks on propaganda. That is Putin’s side. I prefer to get the truth from my family and friends in the Donbas and across the Ukraine.


14 posted on 11/12/2022 11:07:39 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: kiryandil; aMorePerfectUnion; Bulwyf

Actually the Nazis are fighting in Putin’s army.

Excerpts from the article

“The first enemy troops stationed in Mylove were Russian proxies from the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the DNR. Their Armenian-born commander was sacked for illicitly selling petrol allocated for his vehicles. “The next lot were worse. They broke into shops and homes, looking for alcohol. They said they wanted booze and girls. They were dirty, unkempt, and frequently drunk,” Melnikov said. “Like tramps. They stole everything they could.”

Those are your Nazi Russians


15 posted on 11/12/2022 11:09:34 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: Cronos

“Do not disparage our goats”


16 posted on 11/12/2022 11:09:42 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Cronos

The British press has become a joke.


17 posted on 11/12/2022 11:10:03 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Nope. These are facts about how the Nazi Russians left Kherson, with their tails between their legs


18 posted on 11/12/2022 11:11:53 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: Cronos
Those are your Nazi Russians

Now do Ukrainian Nazis.

For extra credit, list their war crimes against Poland, which were never held accountable for.

Hideous crimes against humanity.

19 posted on 11/12/2022 11:12:47 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Cronos

Spent enough time in Ukraine to feel no sympathy for it. Some good people there, but it’s simply a tool of the globalists and the NWO. Anyone cheering for Ukraine might as well cheer for digital ID, death of cash and one world religion.


20 posted on 11/12/2022 11:17:47 AM PST by Bulwyf
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