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.”
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Ukraine war: Tears of relief and joy in Kherson as Ukrainians oppressed by Russian troops cling to their liberators https://t.co/aVoD5YOl47— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 12, 2022
“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.”
LOL. Sounds like a copycat Nazi propaganda from 1945.
Ex-Russian MP claims Russian partisans responsible for Moscow car bomb
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 21 Aug 2022 | Luke Harding
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4087303/posts
Luke Hard-on is a fabulist clown.
as McGruff wrote: The British press has become a joke.
The author of this hitpiece, Luke Harding, is a grifting journoclown.
The EU is kicking Russia’s butt!
Next up — conquering Crimea.
Good find!
Entire UK is a joke. I trust nothing coming out of there.
And is Saint McGruff to Zeepers.
Wonder what happens in Ukraine if/when the foreign money and military gear dries up?
Asian grooming gangs everywhere, and if you talk about it, you end up targeted by UK law enfarcement.
What is it supposed to be?
Its amazing that after Ukrainian ferocious defense of their country, some are still trying to portray the russians as 'liberators'.
Hundreds of protesters take to streets of Russian-occupied Kherson against plans to turn southern city into breakaway republic-13 March 2022
You bet. Ukes have not been systematically killing and raping in the east at all.
True evil empire. If you’d look into economic data they are also a banana republic in a making. I think they are so invested into the Ukraine mess and the regime change in Russia because they want the return of the 1990s when all the Russian economy belonged to 7 people, their assets registered and taxed in UK.
I bet they declared everyone who isn’t going to show up a “collaborator”.
The Russian crimes in the Donbas go way beyond what the world knows according to my family and friends in the Donbas.
Yes, and publicly nailing a little boy to a cross...
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