Posted on 08/28/2014 7:36:36 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
KIEV, Ukraine Russian forces in two armored columns captured a key southeastern coastal town near the Russian border Thursday after Ukrainian forces retreated in the face of superior firepower, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.
The two Russian columns, including tanks and armored fighting vehicles, entered the town of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov after a battle in which Ukrainian army positions came under fire from Grad rockets launched from Russian territory, according to the spokesman, Col. Andriy Lysenko.
Our border servicemen and guardsmen retreated as they did not have heavy equipment, Lysenko said in a statement.
Ukrainian authorities have denounced the latest fighting as a Russian invasion of their territory, intended to prop up pro-Moscow separatists who have been losing ground to Ukrainian forces and to open a second front in the southeastern corner of Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said earlier that Ukrainian troops were battling combined Russian and separatist forces on a new southern front around Novoazovsk, about eight miles west of the Russian border. The Ukrainian military also said Russian troops were increasing surveillance from northern Crimea, the autonomous Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in March.
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That's a fact, Russkie? And if people don't want to be part of Ukraine, then they can move to Russia. The Commies and other separatist types can't force their will over the majority of people in the East and South.
Its one of those unpopular colonial wars thats hemorrhaging him support and already calls for his resignation are being heard in Kiev.
Sure it is you Putinist slimeball. I always like how you goobers are full of "facts" about how much Ukraine wants to be enslaved and have their country chopped up to bits.
I know you're a Russkie troll since you're reversing the situation. Russian mothers are currently asking to know where their kids are, because the Russkies are burying their dead even without names and acknowledgment of how they actually died.
Shut up Russkie! Nobody wants to know your "facts" when you are not even man enough to source yourself. You know we will laugh at you when you link to a Russkie state propaganda network or a terrorist twitter feed.
I read a report about two injured Ukrainian officers who exploded themselves with grenades, killing some Russkie soldiers, when they were about to be captured. I have a suspicion that Ukrainians are going to give it a good try, regardless of what some surrender-monkey Paultard and Russkie thinks they should do.
Shut up Russkie, it is a bilingual country even as diverse as the United States. The first person to die on the Maidan was from Afghanistan. Jews, and former soldiers of the IDF, were fighting side by side the eeeevil "Nazi" Right Sector groups in the Maidan and some of them are currently fighting against the Russians. Russians themselves participated in the Maidan. The Russian language itself is spoken in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine.
Just because you speak Russian doesn't make you one of those congenital slave Muscovites.
All the evidence, from every poll conducted by both local and international organizations, shows that separatism, even as of April, was supported by a minority of people. Your buddy Strelkov has openly complained about how little enthusiasm and help he is getting from the local, and more than half of the dead have not been natives of Ukraine, but folks sent from Russia.
This is a tired lie that Ukraine is divided by "language" and that everyone who speaks Russian must want to be the slave of the Kremlin.
Yes it looks very different, you Russkie propagandist:
Red went to Poroshenko. Green to his opponent. Grey is the only place where elections did not take place.
“Shut up Russkie!”
Is this Free Republic, or the Yahoo forums???
Shut up Russkie! You are a nasty lying Putinist who has the moral standing of dog poo.
“Families want to know where their kids are, that they havent heard from in weeks.”
You mean wives and mothers of those hundreds missing Russian soldiers ?
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