RUSSIA EVACUATES BELGOROD, HUGE BATTLES! Breaking Ukraine War News With The Enforcer (Day 755)

Youtube.com ^ | 3-19-2024 10:00 p.m. EDT | The Enforcer

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

ARTICLE

Factbox-UN report documents Russian rights abuses in occupied Ukraine
Reuters
3=20=2024 9:00 a.m. EDT

KYIV (Reuters) - The UN’s Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) has released its first comprehensive report on the situation in the territories of Ukraine occupied since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

Although the U.N. did not have access to Russian-occupied areas, the report was based on 2,319 remote and in-person interviews with witnesses and victims.

“Many people living under occupation have endured intimidation and repression, facing a constant threat of violence, detention, and punishment,” the report concluded, adding that in these cases nobody had been held accountable.

Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations that its forces have committed atrocities during the invasion, which it claims is a “special military operation”.

KILLINGS

The report said its investigators had verified the executions of 26 civilians, including two children, on the spot, for instance during house searches, as well as the killing of a further 30 civilians during detention. Most executions were committed between March and May 2022, it said.

TORTURE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE

The report said torture in places of detention was widespread.

“OHCHR received credible and reliable accounts regarding the treatment of 171 civilian detainees and found that 90% of them had been tortured or ill-treated,” it said.
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[linMcHlp]

Russia War Crimes Caught on Camera

25 Feb 2022, Russian's moved into Hostomel. They took up positions around the 'Fora' supermarket. From here they set an ambush attacking 12 vehicles. The ambush reportedly resulted in the death of 11 and wounding of 15 civilian's.

Supermarket CCTV cameras recorded the incidents. The Russians were aware of the cameras but did not expect any accountability for their crimes. Hostomel', Kyiv Oblast. (25 Feb 2022) [Geo Confirmed, LOC: 50.555047, 30.274444] [Video]

CCTV cameras on a house captured the escape of a civilian after he crashed his vehicle when attacked. Hostomel', Kyiv Oblast. (25 Feb 2022) [Geo Confirmed, LOC escaping man: (1.42-1.45) 50.555610, 30.272216; LOC vehicle: 50.554811, 30.273095] [Video]

Supermarket CCTV footage of the moment Russian military open fire on a civilian vehicle (BMW) resulting in the occupants death. Hostomel', Kyiv Oblast. (25 Feb 2022) [Geo Confirmed, LOC: 50.554559, 30.274823] [Video]

Several more vehicles and people were attacked.

The entire series of documented incidents, of Russians shooting at passing cars and killing people, is in the following YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tue16Q49U

March 16, 2022 - Hundreds of Ukrainians killed in Russian artillery strike upon the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre.

2022 Kharkiv Offensive - HIMARS [surprise] - pushed Russians back and exposed locations of Ukrainians who had been imprisoned and tortured - most often in small basements. [IMHO, some of these events were ad hoc - but done under an impression of orders given, rather than direct orders.]

Satellite images show civilian deaths in Ukraine town while it was in Russian hands - April 5, 2022

April 5 (Reuters) - Satellite images taken weeks ago of the town of Bucha in Ukraine show bodies of civilians on a street, a private U.S. company said, undercutting the Russian government's claims that Ukrainian forces caused the deaths or that the scene was staged.

Maxar Technologies provided nine images taken of Bucha on March 18, 19 and 31 to Reuters. At least four of the images appear to show bodies on one of the town's roads, Yablonska Street. The city was occupied by Russian forces until about March 30.

Russia's Butchers of Bucha brigade has already suffered 'heavy losses' in Donbas amid claims Putin sent them to their deaths so they could never give evidence at war crimes trial - April 27, 2022

April 27 (Daily Mail) - The Russian brigade accused of carrying out heinous war crimes against helpless civilians in Bucha has reportedly been attacked by Ukrainian drones and suffered 'heavy losses' in the Donbas, amid claims Vladimir Putin wants them to 'disappear'.

Soldiers of the 64th Motorised Rifle Brigade of the 35th All-Russian Army, who Ukrainian authorities named as those responsible for torturing, raping and executing civilians on the outskirts of Kyiv, withdrew last month to Belarus and then Russia.

[BroJoeK]

bimboeruption: "This thread is brought to you by the Ministry of Propaganda of Ukraine."

With many unfiltered responses directly from the information sewer pipes of the Kremlin's Ministry for Agitation and Propaganda.

[BroJoeK]

elpadre: "I have read on several other sites and internet news that Russia continues a slow advance all along the line.
Ukraine had several counter attacks on Russian election day that were not successful.
But, who knows the truth??"

There are several good sources for daily updates which show on detailed maps exactly where battles were fought and ground won or lost.
They all say pretty much the same things.

1. Ukraine's total territory, including Crimea, is around 233,000 square miles .
   For comparison, Texas is 261,000 land square miles and its population roughly the same as Ukraine's.

2. At the peak of Russian successes in early 2022, they occupied around 62,000 square miles of Ukraine territory.
   For comparison, depending on the map, the Texas Panhandle region can stretch to 60,000 square miles.

3. Later in 2022, Ukrainians liberated about half of what Russians had taken, or nearly 30,000 square miles, about the size of South Carolina, or Maine.
   Or, if you prefer: the Texas Hill Country is around 31,000 square miles.

4. This leaves Russia with around 33,000 square miles of Ukrainian territory (14%) and Ukrainians with the remaining 200,000 (86%).

5. Since 2022, very little ground has changed hands either way, but the net-net favors Russia by around 250 square miles, including perhaps 50 square miles recently won around Avdiivka.
   For comparisons, New York City totals around 300 land square miles and the Bronx is 42 square miles -- though of course, Ukraine's front line is almost 100% rural farmland or bombed out shells of previous towns.

According to Ukrainians, never verified by Russian officials, all of Russia's gains since 2022 have come by using "Meat Wave" assaults against dug-in Ukrainian positions, which typically cost Russia 10 casualties for every one Ukrainian and can produce daily casualty totals for Russia of 1,000 and more.

One result is that Russian casualties now total well over 400,000 according to Ukrainians.
Ukrainian casualties are said to be 1/3 of Russia's overall.

So, Big Picture:
Russia's population is around 100 million Russians plus another 45 million non-Russians, while Ukraine's population is down to maybe 37 million, plus another seven million refugees, according to some.
Others would say those are exaggerated.

A huge problem for Ukraine is that most of the "Russians" manning Russia's bloody Meat Wave assaults are not actually Russians, but rather poor non-Russians or Russian criminals released from jail.

Very recently Wikipedia increased its report on the size of Ukraine's military from just under one million total, including reserves, to now over three million, roughly matching Russia's.
We can only guess how realistic such numbers are, but what they suggest is that Ukrainian mobilization is now approaching something resembling US mobilization levels during the Second World War.
During that war, the Old Soviets were twice as mobilized as we were, but today Vlad the Invader's Russia is less than half as mobilized as is Ukraine.

That is something I'm certain Vlad hopes to correct, now that his "reelection" show is completed.

As of today, nobody knows where, exactly, is the breaking point for either peoples, but I suspect and hope that Ukrainians are tougher.

Others here obviously disagree, some not so politely.

[BroJoeK]

bimboeruption: "Question: Who gets happy when human beings are slaughtered?
Answer: Zeepers"

Question: Which side is cheering on rapists and murderers?
Answer: pro-RuZZians

[blitz128]

I believe that Putin by necessity has limited the exposure of ethnic Russians to his smo meat waves, if this continues much longer that will not be an option. Then perhaps tuckers “most beautiful city” might have a change of “heart”

[BroJoeK]

Forward the Light Brigade: "Worry not Comrade.
A Russian and Ukraine “Baby Boom” is coming after the war is done.
This always happens after a war. especially for the winners."

I've also wondered about that, but two things.

1. Post WWII Baby Booms seem more related to economic circumstances than to winners vs. losers.
   Countries which were better-off had bigger baby booms.

2. Today's baby-busts are not related to economics at all, but rather to something in the culture which drives young women to avoid childbearing.
   I don't see an end of the Ukraine war as having any effect at all on the underlying culture.

What, exactly, might cause a new baby boom is a little beyond my imagination right now.

[BroJoeK]

Kazan: "Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Ukraine continues to lose more territory DAILY:"

Your pro-Russian cheer-leading notwithstanding, the facts remain that Russia's daily "wins" are a matter of acres, a few square miles at most, typically the next tree-lines, while Russia's losses per day amount to at least hundreds of men and dozens of vehicles.

The exchange rate in land seems to be something in the range of 1,000 Russian soldiers for every square mile they claw away from Ukrainians.
The exchange rate of personnel in Russian "Meat Wave" assaults is said by Ukrainians to be circa 10 Russians for every one Ukrainian.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

[BroJoeK]

moovova: "That’s crazy, isn’t it?
Those of us that are of a monotheistic bent laugh at previous polytheistic cultures.
God of War, God of Death, God of Fertility, Zeus, Apollo, Mercury, praying to the gods of rocks, trees, water?
And then we have the United Methodist Church.
Don’t get me wrong.
Folks can believe in whatever they want.
Just don’t demand or expect me to accept those beliefs.
Oh and, keep their hands off my kIds."

Worldtraveler once upon a time: "Agreed wholeheartedly."

Seriously??
Why are you guys babbling insane nonsense about the Methodist Church on a Russia-Ukraine War thread?

Sure, I understand what you're doing, and it's totally disgusting -- you want to link UMCRevMom@aol.com to the worst of the worst of modern culture and then argue that's why we have to let Vlad the Invader rape and murder whomever he wants in Ukraine.

I don't think our moderators would let me tell the truth about how loathsome your arguments are, sadly.

[House Atreides]

“… At the very least “the point” is that Russia is having to send troops and equipment to this area of the front which weakens other areas, at the most it shows to the Russian people that Putin can’t even defend actual Russian territory.…”
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Maybe it has escaped you that this has become just “yet another meat grinder” that Kyiv is feeding its dwindling availability of manpower into. Just sayin’.

[BroJoeK]

House Atreides: "Maybe it has escaped you that this has become just “yet another meat grinder” that Kyiv is feeding its dwindling availability of manpower into.
Just sayin’."

Ukraine's response to Russian "Meat Wave" assaults seems to be, to give ground slowly with the aim of exchanging:

1. 1,000 Russian casualties for every square mile Russia claws away.

2. 10 Russian casualties and four Russian vehicles for every one Ukrainian.

At least, that is the exchange-rate Ukrainians have reported, and I've seen nothing from other sources to contradict them.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Nice try, bubba. Not linking UMCRevMom as "Methodist" with anything to do with US foreign policy. Separate issues. This part of the thread was begun when she responded in her Comment # 5 to a question with, "I was ordained as a UMC clergy."

But thanks for calling the mess in the schismatic UMC travail in this time "the worst of the worst of modern culture."

[House Atreides]

Feel free to believe anything on the internet you desire to believe. And feel free to join Zelensky with YOUR own body and YOUR own finances. Just don’t make American taxpayers support you in YOUR fool’s errand.

[moovova]

LOL..you poor thing. You miss being the hall monitor in elementary school, right?

[moovova]

😎👍

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

“LOL..you poor thing. You miss being the hall monitor in elementary school, right?”

Wrong Freeper. Bimboeruption lays claims to be the hall monitor. LOL

[bimboeruption]

>Wrong Freeper. Bimboeruption lays claims to be the hall monitor. LOL<

There you go again, mommy. Talking about FReepers behind their backs.

How very CHRISTIAN of you.

If you have something to say about me, have the courage to include me in your post.

[bimboeruption]

The fact that her user name includes “UMC”, the abbreviation for United Methodist Church and “Rev” the abbreviation for Reverend, opens these topics up for discussion.

[moovova]

“Wrong Freeper. Bimboeruption lays claims to be the hall monitor. LOL”

Hall monitors are needed...as objects of ridicule. Bro and Bimbo are probably besties.

Uh oh...I forgot to include Bimbo in the “To” block above. Guess I’ll be receiving a wrist slap or maybe a demerit.