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Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk shopping area kills dozens, local officials say
The Guardian ^ | Jan 21, 2024 | Sam Jones

Posted on 01/21/2024 9:21:38 AM PST by McGruff

At least 25 people have been killed after Ukrainian forces shelled a busy suburban shopping area in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to local officials.

Alexei Kulemzin, the city’s Russian-installed mayor, said Ukrainian artillery had fired on a bustling district where shops and a market are located. Denis Pushilin, the Russian-appointed head of the Donetsk region, said emergency services were working at the scene, adding that a further 20 people, including two children, had been injured in the strike on the suburb of Tekstilshchik.

Pushilin said that the area had been hit by 155 mm and 152 mm calibre artillery, and that the shells had been fired from the direction of Kurakhove and Krasnohorivka to the west.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: falseflag; putinbots
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1 posted on 01/21/2024 9:21:38 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

The Zeepers will say this didn’t happen.
Or they’ll say they deserved it.


2 posted on 01/21/2024 9:24:31 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: McGruff

Russkies getting a taste of their own medicine.


3 posted on 01/21/2024 9:26:20 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: McGruff

This has got to give Team Uke Corruption members a warm, fuzzy feeling. I hope those were the “good” cluster bombs, if used.


4 posted on 01/21/2024 9:26:36 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Darksheare

People like to think everything is black and white, good or bad and wars are fought between barbarians and pious innocent freedom lovers.

Truth is it’s usually shades of gray.


5 posted on 01/21/2024 9:28:18 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Darksheare

Yes, they are already here.


6 posted on 01/21/2024 9:30:14 AM PST by dforest
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To: Darksheare

Is the media still chock full of footage of drones blowing up humans hiding in holes in the ground? Strange times indeed.


7 posted on 01/21/2024 9:35:34 AM PST by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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To: McGruff

I firmly believe in fighting to keep the enemy out of my country. I don’t believe in killing civilians!

Having said that I believe we need to use force to eject the millions of invaders in our country and to keep any more from entering.

Ukrainians are thugs.


8 posted on 01/21/2024 9:38:24 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: McGruff

Net result is that Russia will be even MORE determined to NEVER let the Neocons get control of Ukraine again.

Hard to see an upside for the Neocons in having Ukraine do this crap, but maybe it’s frustration, especially because their close in firing position, Avdiivka, is on the verge of being Liberated by Russia, so they won’t have it as a firing position soon.


9 posted on 01/21/2024 9:41:38 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: wetgundog
Russkies getting a taste of their own medicine.

Ukrainians are shelling their own city, Sherlock.

10 posted on 01/21/2024 9:43:51 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: McGruff

Being in the market place brings back memories of the snipers in the hills of Sarajevo who were picking off people as they shopped.


11 posted on 01/21/2024 9:51:51 AM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: Darksheare; dforest; ABStrauss; BobL

Funny, you never complained when Russia was bombing Ukrainian apartment buildings, schools, and playgrounds with kinetic missiles in the Fall of 2022 ... neither did Russia

So it must be OK then


12 posted on 01/21/2024 9:52:10 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: McGruff
Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk shopping area kills dozens...

Russia will just kill more Uke Nazis, French government supplied French Mercs and other Foreign supplied Foreign fighters, as Ukraine fights toward the killing of The Last Ukrainian Alive.

13 posted on 01/21/2024 9:52:17 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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Probably because Ukrainians lie a lot concerning what happens. They have been caught lying all the time.


14 posted on 01/21/2024 10:12:54 AM PST by dforest
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To: McGruff

Sounds like a war alright.


15 posted on 01/21/2024 10:22:54 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Darksheare; All

“The Zeepers will say this didn’t happen.
Or they’ll say they deserved it. “


More like Leftists who always argue:

“It’s not happening. And it is actually good that it is.”


16 posted on 01/21/2024 11:58:41 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: BobL

Ukraine has been deliberately shelling the civilian areas of Donetsk since 2014.

They have never been under any pressure from the NeoCons to stop.

On the contrary, when it becomes public, the Regime Media makes up stories of how Russia or the Breakaway Republics are shelling their own populations.

It’s tough though. The Russians have to attack on unfavorble terrain in order to push Ukraine out of artillery range.


17 posted on 01/21/2024 12:21:28 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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“It’s tough though. The Russians have to attack on unfavorble terrain in order to push Ukraine out of artillery range.”

But I suspect that the 2014 lines are the strongest - once Russia is clear of them, the resistance will be much less.


18 posted on 01/21/2024 12:26:43 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Reverend Wright

Reviving communism

In Russia is a deadly business

Liberals / their conservative bots

On the FR

Keep trying

Join their team

Gog usa

Magog nato

Rev 13


19 posted on 01/21/2024 12:32:11 PM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: Thank You Rush
Being in the market place brings back memories of the snipers in the hills of Sarajevo who were picking off people as they shopped.

There ya go... finally someone sees what this will end up like if people REALLY wanted to defeat the Soviet Union and NOT launder money. Every small weapons manufacturer, ammunition supplier/manufacturer, explosives/detonators, circuit/comms and food suppliers should flood Ukraine with aid, just abandon the front lines and let the Russians "take" as much as they want.... then bleed them to death with a million tiny cuts. All those men were wasted fighting the Russians and NATO war when all they needed to do was join the 21st century and bleed your enemy to death slowly.

What's frightening is that the US DOD thinks that having aircraft carriers, "F-16"s, drones, hyper-sonic missiles and lasers will win a "war"...when it takes a hard heart, true belief, courage and the willingness to kill and die for your cause..... one bullet at a time, one bomb at a time, one dead enemy at a time.

Our support for Taiwan should include massive training by our Green Berets on insurgency and evasion... but instead they'll waste money and men on missile batteries, shore defenses and high cost jets/ships... subs and overhead recon/intel may be the only useful tools we can provide...

20 posted on 01/21/2024 12:45:44 PM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 "deo duce ferro comitantes" <p><b></B><P> <img src="">)
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