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The Russians simply walked in, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv tell BBC
BBC ^ | May 12, 2024 | Jonathan Beale

Posted on 05/12/2024 7:56:13 AM PDT by McGruff

Denys Yaroslavskyi is angry.

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“There was no first line of defence. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields” he says.

He shows me video from a drone feed taken a few days ago of small columns of Russian troops simply walking across the border, unopposed.

He says officials had claimed that defences were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defences simply weren’t there. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal”.

Everyone knew that this incursion was likely to happen. Both Ukrainian and Western intelligence knew Russia had been building forces across the border – with estimates of it massing up to 30,000 troops.

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To: Svartalfiar; Kazan
Russia can't match the West's manufacturing capability.

Say what?

Russia is getting all the washing machine circuit boards and shovels it needs from China, under the table.  

81 posted on 05/13/2024 7:42:12 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Allegra

heh


82 posted on 05/13/2024 7:45:22 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: McGruff

The Russians simply walked into the grey zone - a strip of land no side can hold. This one was many km from the UKR main defense line.


83 posted on 05/13/2024 8:28:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Kazan

Brainless?
Russia has one aircraft carrier, and I don’t think it can even fly helicopters, much less aircraft.
Does Russia even have a stealth aircraft? The -57 has what, ten built, and are any actually been used?
Sure, Russia has capacity, but their capabilities are on the very low end. Russia is known for butt loads of cheap crap, not high-tech advanced stuff.

Ukraine is a half-proxy war. We’ve given them a bit of help, but not very seriously (despite the massive amounts of wasted tax dollars), and what Ukraine really needs is more manpower, that’s trained on the fancy stuff. If NATO (these US) actually got seriously involved, Russia would be out in no time.


84 posted on 05/13/2024 5:35:31 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar
Russia has one aircraft carrier

What in hell are you babbling about?

85 posted on 05/14/2024 10:16:54 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Svartalfiar
Russia has one aircraft carrier

Who the hell cares? Has that made any difference whatsoever in the proxy war in Ukraine?

Gee, that's proof that Russia isn't planning to invade this country?!

86 posted on 05/14/2024 10:22:12 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan
Russia has one aircraft carrier

What in hell are you babbling about?


Um, the Admiral Kutsnetsov(?) You know, the one that runs on coal, needs a tugboat to accompany it on deployments outside the harbor, caught on fire a couple times? They do still have it, right?
87 posted on 05/15/2024 10:49:13 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Kazan
Russia has one aircraft carrier

Who the hell cares? Has that made any difference whatsoever in the proxy war in Ukraine?

Gee, that's proof that Russia isn't planning to invade this country?!


Um, Ukraine is irrelevant here, Russia can't even get their carrier anywhere near Ukraine. You said Russia has better manufacturing capability than these US. Russia can barely build obsolete vehicles, nothing compared to US technology. We definitely have much better capabilities than y'all. It's not even a contest.

What is proof that Russia isn't planning to invade which country? What does that have to to with manufacturing capacity or capability?
88 posted on 05/15/2024 10:57:45 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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