Posted on 05/14/2025 4:02:32 AM PDT by McGruff
COUNTERING PUTIN’S LIES
By Jay R. Mandle
https://www.democracymatters.org/money_on_my_mind/countering-putins-lies<<<<
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"REVEREND"-mommy, why is it your sources are always leftist? Is it because you're a democrat?
>>>>Stupid Ukrainian Woman really needs stop copy/pasting the same inane word salad over and over. That’s blatant spamming.
I believe the owner of this site has said more than once that less propaganda would be appreciated. I believe at least one Mod has advised to STOP SPAMMING.<<<<
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TRUTH! Stupid Ukrainian Woman has been warned.
Respectfully, this is America. Christian America. Our history does not include ‘GLory’ to anyone other than to God. All Glory to God.
Less propaganda would be appreciated.
43 posted on 12/2/2023, 11:36:05 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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As I said, less propaganda would be appreciated.
48 posted on 12/2/2023, 9:50:52 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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KNOCK OFF THE SPAMMING!
148 posted on 2/29/2024, 11:11:27 AM by Sidebar Moderator
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>>>>What even is she trying to say here? 😂🤣 She posts nonstop Ukrainian agitprop, but maybe gets confused and tries to post Russian agitprop too? It’s all Slavic, I guess.<<<<
English is NOT her first language...FUR SURE, TOTALLY.
My guess is outright obnoxiousness.
❗️Russian delegation arrives in Istanbul for talks with Kiev representatives, source tells Sputnik
— The talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul will be held in the Turkish president’s office, as in 2022.
🇹🇷 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not meet with the Russian and Ukrainian delegations, but will instead meet with the head of the Kiev regime, Zelensky, in Ankara.
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VIDEO: POWs Survive a Toxic Gas Ambush
FOOTAGE: Ukrainian POWs Survive a Toxic Gas Ambush, Break Free, and Kill All Russian Captors!
RFU News — Reporting from Ukraine
661K subscribers
May 13,2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQo8k-K_mA
I am Ukrainian. On this channel I will give you the latest news about the war in Ukraine.
“Today, there is interesting news from the Zaporizhia direction.
Here, a Ukrainian clearing operation almost turned into a disaster when Russian paratroopers committed yet another war crime. What followed was a dramatic and daring rescue mission that showcased the coordination and resilience of Ukraine’s special forces.
The Ukrainian operation began as a standard preventive and sabotage raid, aimed at preempting Russian attempts to establish forward positions and conduct close-range reconnaissance on Ukrainian defenses. Such missions, often spearheaded by elite units like Artan from the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence, involve precise collaboration between drone operators and ground teams, and typically aim not only to eliminate threats but also to capture Russian soldiers for intelligence gathering.
This mission focused on a suspected Russian observation point near the village of Stepove, where Ukrainian drone surveillance has detected enemy movement. Drone operators identified three Russian paratroopers from the 247th Air Assault Regiment taking cover in the ruins of an old structure. Initial drone strikes forced the Russian troops to relocate, creating confusion and inflicting damage. As the enemy regrouped, three Artan special purpose unit operatives, with callsigns Ketsa, Anubis, and Klyuchyk, moved in to finish the job and secure prisoners.
However, the situation took an unexpected turn. During close combat, the Russian paratroopers deployed an unknown chemical agent, incapacitating all three Ukrainian soldiers and taking them as prisoners of war. The use of such a substance is a clear violation of international conventions and has turned the mission into crisis mode. With the Ukrainians struggling due to the poisonous attack, the Russians began retreating across open terrain, hauling them toward a settlement under Russian control.
Fortunately, the Ukrainian drone operators were still observing. The open terrain gave them a clear line of sight, and the withdrawal path became a kill zone. As the Russian group reached their first point of cover, Ukrainian FPV drones struck with precision. One Russian paratrooper was neutralized instantly. Amid the chaos, Ukrainian soldier Ketsa managed to break free and crawl to a nearby destroyed building, hiding while still suffering from chemical burns.
Later, he recalled that he waited for the right moment before slipping away to find and wait for what would happen. He also shared that his chest was burning from the Russian gas but still felt incredibly relieved when the Ukrainian FPV drones arrived, signaling that they had not been left behind.
Drone operators continued their assault, and a second Russian was eliminated shortly afterward. The third attempted to take cover under an abandoned truck but was hunted down and killed by a final precise FPV drone strike.
With the area momentarily secured, a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone approached the two remaining Ukrainians, with call signs Anubis and Klyuchyk, delivering instructions from their unit commander. Under guidance from the drone team, the two soldiers navigated back through hostile territory, evading detection. Ketsa, who had gone hiding alone, waited until after nightfall to make his way back, finally reaching Ukrainian lines hours later.
The returning fighters didn’t come back empty-handed. Along with enemy weapons taken as trophies, they brought back critical intelligence collected during the mission. All three are now undergoing treatment for chemical burns but are in stable condition. The unit commander underlined the importance of this event for the fighting spirit of his unit and praised the work of his soldiers.
Overall, this event is a vivid example of how dynamic frontline operations can rapidly shift. Even a well-planned raid can turn dangerous, especially when the enemies use banned methods like chemical weapons. Yet Ukraine’s ability to rapidly adapt, coordinate across units, and act decisively prevented a potential disaster. What could have become a tragic loss instead turned into a remarkable success - a battlefield rescue executed in real time, under fire, with precision and grit.”
2. Today, there are a lot of important updates from the Pokrovsk direction.
MAY 13,2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7nyMqD8yvE
Here, a Russian mechanized column barely cleared its staging area before Ukrainian incendiary drones swooped immediately to engage them. The strike caught the vehicles in the open, setting equipment and fuel ablaze in mere minutes before the assault had even started.
The goal of the Russian forces in this area is to establish a foothold in Myrnograd to initiate large-scale urban combat in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad agglomeration. This is because the southern part of Myrnohrad is distant and detached from the core part of the city, where the bulk of Ukrainian forces are stationed, making it more vulnerable to Russian assaults.
To establish a foothold in Myrnohrad the Russians decided to accumulate forces in Hrodivka from which they would launch a direct mechanized assault towards the town. This is enabled by a 5 kilometer section of a paved asphalt road between Hrodivka and Myrnohrad, allowing the Russian tanks and BMPs to utilize their full speed to reach the city and dismount stormtroopers for urban fighting quickly.
The main tactical disadvantages of the Russian forces in this area is the industrial zone of the nearby coal mine in the southern part of Myrnohrad, which includes high-rise buildings of mineshaft elevators that provide fortified concrete observation points that overlook the Russian route of attack. Additionally, two elevated terrikons in the area allow for additional observation points to overlook all Russian movements around Myrnohrad, together with firing positions.
Forward Ukrainian positions in the fields before the city include two powerful strongholds built in 2015 and heavily reinforced with concrete bunkers, trenches, and dugouts overlooking the Hrodivka road. Any Russian advance along this route faces deadly ATGM fire from these fortifications. To compound the threat, Ukrainian engineers have scattered anti-tank mines across the road, forcing Russian units to slow and use mine rollers on their lead vehicles, which exposes them further to Ukrainian strikes.
To properly advance and evade Ukrainian fire the Russians would need to maneuver across the fields; however, the Ukrainians anticipated this and built a network of anti-tank ditches and dragon teeth across the fields, effectively turning the Russian road of attack into a killzone. This means that the Russians would be forced to attack Myrnohrad by driving slowly along the paved road and deactivating anti-tank mines, since the surrounding fields are covered with anti-tank ditches and dragon teeth, while the Ukrainians positioned at the terrikon, industrial zone, and trench strongholds have a firing solution on them.
Geolocated combat footage from the area reveals how a Russian mechanized platoon, consisting of a tank and two BMPs, was immediately detected by the Ukrainian forces stationed at observation points as soon as they left Hrodivka and exposed themselves on the road. The lead tank was equipped with a mine roller, with the rest of the convoy moving slowly, meaning that Ukrainians detected them within minutes. As the Russians just started their assault and were not yet within range of Ukrainian soldiers at trenches and terrikon that are armed with ATGM, the Ukrainian FPV drone operators immediately reacted and struck the Russian vehicles engines, effectively immobilizing them.
This led to a panic among Russian soldiers in the convoy as they thought that they would advance faster if they moved on foot rather than vehicles, only to expose themselves to Ukrainian FPV drones right after leaving their tanks and BMPs, leading to quick eliminations, while others fled to the rear. This left the Russian vehicles abandoned and damaged, but at risk of possible recovery by the nearby Russian forces, so the Ukrainian drone operators targeted open hatches left by the Russian vehicle crews with incendiary drone-dropped grenades that finished them off and blew them up.
Overall, the Russians launched a poorly calculated assault that almost completely ignored the strong networks of fortifications made by the Ukrainians, which forced the Russians in a narrow kill zone where the Ukrainians destroyed an entire mechanized platoon in minutes. This assault is direct result of the intensification of Russian assaults across the Pokrovsk direction, and it is the first Russian mechanized assault here after months of stalemate near Myrnohrad, meaning that attacks here will continue shortly.
I posted it to you and your pathetic boo-hoo victimhood.
Why don’t you post the names and evidence of the FReepers you are accusing of being Russian Communists.
You should also ping the FReepers you are accusing and Mr. Robinson.
The ball in your court now.
Either show the evidence or shut your lying mouth.
When a malignant narcissist's schemess fall apart or they get "called out" on their gaslighting bullshit one of the "tells" of their narcissistic collapse is that they start repeating their laughable lies again and again and again, louder and louder and louder. Another "tell" is that their speech and writing patterns become disjointed, clunky and clumsy, just like FakeRev's.
Witness the horrible self destruction - it's like a white dwarf star collapsing in on itself as it becomes a black hole.
One of the best descriptions ever made of these sick creatures was by Steinbeck in "East Of Eden" in his character Kate Trask. Worth a look.
“Why don’t you post the names and evidence of the FReepers you are accusing of being Russian Communists.”
I accuse no one.
Some individuals may self-identify.
CORRECTION: I have not labeled any FReeper.
Malignant narcissism is just a common term or theoretical “personality disorder.” NPD is a sub-type of personality disorders.
True, individuals with NPD [narcissistic personality disorder] have a decreased ability to have empathy for the feelings of others.
IMO, I have never met any Freeper that would correctly be identified with NPD or as a “Malignant narcissist.”
Some Freepers may self-identify with the “Russian Agitprop” technique working to:
(1) AGITATE among the people who were NOT Communists
(2) PROMOTE propaganda (political work among communist members.
It is true, some Freepers do not want to participate in discussions, but rather choose to function as disruptors, detractors haters and harassers.
However, I have personally have not assigned such labels to any Freeper. Instead, I suggest for others to discern for themselves the disruptors, detractors haters and harassers by their repetitive meme/comment behavior.
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ARTICLE
Trump downplays Putin decision to skip Istanbul talks with Zelenskyy: President Donald Trump says he’s not surprised that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a no-show for anticipated peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey this week
THE ATLANTIC JOURNAL - CONSTITUTION
By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI
5-15-2025 5:29 a.m. EDT
https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/trump-downplays-putin-decision-to-skip-istanbul-talks-with-zelenskyy/C6GQAERVCREMLP76VN2MRHK6KU/
“DOHA, Qatar (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he was not surprised that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a no-show for anticipated peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey this week.”
ARTICLE
Putin skips the direct Ukraine peace talks that he suggested as chaos reigns in Turkey: The last-minute naming of a junior Russian delegation dashed President Trump’s hopes of a three-way meeting involving Putin and Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy.
NBC NEWS
By Keir Simmons and Mithil Aggarwal
5-15-2025 6:21 a.m. EDT
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/putin-trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-peace-turkey-istanbul-ankara-rcna206961
ISTANBUL —
“Confusion swirled around high-stakes peace talks between Russia and Ukraine called for by Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday, as the Kremlin confirmed that Putin himself would be skipping the negotiations.
The chaos over the start date, location, and whether either side would even participate made for chaotic scenes in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, Antalya and Istanbul — outside whose Ottoman-era Dolmabahçe Palace some 200 journalists and crew were massed with no clear idea of when talks would get underway.
A confusing back-and-forth between Kyiv, Moscow and the Trump administration dashed the U.S. president’s hopes of a three-way meeting involving Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.” Excerpt
ARTICLE
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy arrives in Turkey for peace talks but Putin is absent
www.wsbtv.com
By MEHMET GUZEL, HANNA ARGIROVA and SUZAN FRASER
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 am EDT
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/world/ukraines-zelenskyy/ME5KCDTEZNBFDFWUAWQ5IT2YJE/
“ANKARA, Turkey — (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t show up Thursday for proposed direct peace talks in Turkey with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was waiting for Putin in the capital Ankara after challenging him to face-to-face discussions on ending their countries’ more than three-year war.
With Putin absent, the Russian delegation was in Istanbul and it wasn’t clear whether the sides would meet for their first talks since March 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor the previous month.
Zelenskyy said the Russian delegation appeared to be merely “decorative.” Speaking at the airport in the Turkish capital, Ankara, he said the next steps for talks would be decided after his upcoming meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Putin’s absence punctured hopes of a breakthrough in peace efforts given a push in recent months by the Trump administration and Western European leaders. It also raised the prospect of intensified international sanctions on Russia that have been threatened by the U.S. and European leaders.
“Now, after three years of immense suffering, there is finally a window of opportunity,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a NATO meeting taking place separately in Turkey. “The talks ... hopefully may open a new chapter.”
The war of attrition has killed tens of thousands of soldiers and more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the U.N., and continues along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line. Russian forces are also preparing to launch a fresh military offensive, Ukrainian government and Western military analysts say.” Excerpt
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