Posted on 01/26/2022 9:31:01 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A Ukrainian mother-of-three has armed herself with a powerful hunting rifle, vowing to “fight for Kiev” amid fears of a Russian invasion.
“As a mother I do not want my children to inherit Ukraine’s problems, or have these threats passed on to them. It is better that I deal with this now,” Mariana Zhaglo, 52, told the Times of London in her Kiev kitchen, where she posed with the high-caliber weapon.
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Must have never shot any thing bigger with one.
Properly placed it well kill things a lot larger then varmints.
As long as she takes out just one before she is taken out.
“It is an overly robust AR-15 variant...”
I get a little confused when I see a picture of an advertising piece with both a bipod and a barrel grip with a scope attached. This thing’s got more modifications than a stryker.
wy69
What’s weird is that you’re using propaganda from a country where truth tellers routinely get shot in the head in order to pretend the article didn’t identify her membership, and weird that the Russians were neurotic enough to write propaganda on this to begin with.
I know, that's what the Taliban said.
That's also why no American should bother to own a firearm. They'll just get killed by the police or military with their better armed and equipped teams if the citizens ever need to fight against some entity trying to take over our nation.
That's been true for a long time. That's why we are still a part of the Commonwealth, and Prince Harry will be leading us soon.
Needs to get one of those three hundred eighty caliber handguns.
To be fair, 5.56 NATO will accept both, safely. Wylde is just optimized for both.
Looks like Rock River Arms had something to do with it.
A Ukrainian AR.
Not "high powered", but sufficient and there should be plenty of ammo available.
Well there is an “enemy at the gates”
People in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand suffer for their freedom of speech through various forms of cancellation, fines and even imprisonment.
People in the “Five Eyes” countries have a controlled media that dishes out government propaganda which has been thoroughly illustrated during COVID.
Preaching about the wrongs of Russia real as many of them may be reminds me that the Western nations have freedom and propaganda problems right now that need to be fixed.
So will a 22 Hornet or 22 LR for that matter.
Did read it. Also read this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/world/europe/ukraine-military-russia-invasion.html
They do not have the resources, the manning and a group of quick trained people trying to defend their city will not get it done. And they admit it. So that one woman trying to defend her family will not make a difference and people should understand they don’t have a chance unless the UN sends in active troops to an open combat. Then get ready for WW III.
wy69
Wars are not won based on what happens to individuals, but their collective effort and results. The brave guys who were the first out of the boats at Normandy and were dead five minutes later didn't make much of a difference either. But their sacrifice contributed to victory.
Maybe the only thing a single woman in Ukraine will achieve is killing one Russian, or like many guys on Omaha beach she'll just die in the battle. But they're ready to fight. And that may make the Russian leadership temper their plans.
Putin has to weigh the possibility that his invasion fails, or is very costly, or leads to unexpected outcomes. He knows what the Taliban and other Afghans did to the Russians, and he knows that explaining to Russian wives and mothers that their kids died in Ukraine won't help necessarily help him.
Did you see this???
Maria Zakharova of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted yesterday that Mariana Zhaglo is an actual member of the terrtiorial defense forces of Ukraine not just a citizen taking up arms to defend Ukraine.
Known deer to be killed by all three.
TDF.
“Zhaglo, a marketing researcher, spent the equivalent of $1,300 on the Zbroyar Z-15 carbine, which she learned how to use by attending a two-week sniper’s course.
The armed mom, a member of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, also shelled out more than $1,100 on a helmet, snow camouflage, flak jacket, ammo pouches, boots and a British army surplus uniform.
“I have got pickles and tins of fish, chicken and ham stashed beside the kitchen table, and lots and lots of ammunition,” Zhaglo told the Times.”
She supplies her own weapon, ammo, food, uniform and her training consisted of a two week course. This sound like a organized fighting force? Not against the Russian army. Sounds more like a group of vigilantes. They may be right, but their going to get hammered and the Ukraine government knows it.
wy69
Like the Sons of Liberty?
Rather die trying than kneeling down and getting it in the back of the head....
“And that may make the Russian leadership temper their plans.”
Not a lot, if any. The Russians have already weighed the possibility of local resistance. They can go into a city as big as Kiev and almost treat it like a police enforcement possibly using tear gas. The Russians do not have a protective mask that does a good job with tear gas and the PMK-3 was first issued to their army in 2014. Not the TDF. Unless she found a mask and has a new set of filters, she is helpless as the old ones have deteriorated by now. Plus as she is not a member of anything that resembles a formattable force to a trained and postured and well armed Russian army, they probably have very few of the masks anyway.
“reading only literally”
Don’t read into this article that they are a fighting force. They aren’t if they are being required to supply their own weapons, uniform, and food at their expense. The men at Normandy were a trained force of 156,000 men and were well armed, to go into 50 miles of beach with plans that were generated over a couple of years.
Initially, a plan called “Operation Sledgehammer” called for an Allied invasion of ports in northwest France as early as 1943, but Roosevelt and Churchill decided to invade Northern Africa first and attack Europe’s “soft underbelly” through Italy. A year before the actual attack at Normandy. The TDF takes a whole two weeks to train their “soldiers.”
According to the D-Day Center, the invasion, officially called “Operation Overlord,” combined the forces of 156,115 U.S., British and Canadian troops, 6,939 ships and landing vessels, and 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders that delivered airborne troops.
The Allies used fake radio transmissions, double agents, and even a “phantom army,” commanded by American General George Patton, to throw Germany off the scent.
Since Operation Overlord was launched from England, the U.S. military had to ship 7 million tons of supplies to the staging area, including 450,000 tons of ammunition.
This is not the TDF and comparing the two is not even close. The TDF will not be a problem and are going to take more casualties than the allies at Normandy if they resist. This is not a war Russia is fighting. For them it is an armed intervention to recover lost territory. And using an attack force to cause destruction of property and people of over 3 million, is not outside their capacity. The Ukrainians are toast if they are depending on the TDF.
wy69
The size of Ukraine’s armed forces, which maintains a 255,000 man force, is the third-largest in Europe after the Russian and French Armed Forces.
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