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‘Everything is burning’: Cluster bombs rain down on Russian troops in Ukraine
Washington Examiner ^ | 7/21/23 | Jamie McIntyre

Posted on 07/21/2023 4:28:30 PM PDT by CFW

‘EVERYTHING IS BURNING’: United States-provided cluster munitions made their debut on the battlefields of Ukraine this week, with Ukrainian commanders reporting they are making a difference as efforts continue to break through Russian defenses.

“We have gotten some initial feedback from the Ukrainians, and they're using them quite effectively,’ NSC spokesman John Kirby said in a White House briefing. “They're using them appropriately … and they are actually having an impact on Russia's defensive formations and Russia's defensive maneuvering.”

Intercepted messages posted on Twitter by a pro-Ukrainian media platform indicate the controversial weapons are having a psychological impact on entrenched front-line Russian troops. “At the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are demolishing our positions in the Bakhmut direction with cluster munitions,” one message says. “The counter-battery fight does not work. Everything is burning all around. The men are holding on, waiting for aviation. The General Staff has not yet handed over cluster bombs and rockets with cluster munitions to our guys for answers. It remains only to believe in our guys and our pilots."

Kirby described the current level of fighting as “pretty vicious,” and said Ukraine admits its counteroffensive is “not going as far or as fast on a daily basis as they would like.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clusterbombs; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; globalistpropaganda; jamiemcintyre; russia; ruzzia; ruzzians; sovietunion; ukraine; us; ussr; war; warcrime
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To: MNDude

I think so too.

Linda would be out there leading the way.

Biden would be saying “they’re just bluffing”.


81 posted on 07/21/2023 5:58:27 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: jpp113

Yes.


82 posted on 07/21/2023 6:00:11 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MTBobcat

Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked underage girls to…nobody!
It’s amazing how that is possible.


83 posted on 07/21/2023 6:02:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ConservativeInPA
The Russians will just up the ante. Wait and see how they respond. It’s not going to be pretty.

Putin's already threatened to use tactical nukes and he's got lots of them. The woke idiots at the Pentagon and the Big Woke idiot in the White House are slow-walking us into WW III. And I agree, it's not going to be pretty.

84 posted on 07/21/2023 6:08:28 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx

the diversity

drag queen nato

death spiral war

thanks obombobots


85 posted on 07/21/2023 6:13:16 PM PDT by Firehath
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To: CFW

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/10/turkey-cold-war-cluster-bombs-ukraine/


86 posted on 07/21/2023 6:15:04 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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ya mean like...


87 posted on 07/21/2023 6:22:29 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: EEGator

They will be true change agents in the battles. The Ukes will need to c-130s et al to drop the very biggest bombs.
Like the MOAB that they should get too.


88 posted on 07/21/2023 6:27:02 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: desertsolitaire

Followed by Tsar Bomba 2.

Everyone has gone crazy.


89 posted on 07/21/2023 6:29:47 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Chode

That’s thermite, not cluster bombs.


90 posted on 07/21/2023 6:35:39 PM PDT by null and void (Intelligence has limits, while gullibility doesn't. ~ SunkenCiv)
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To: null and void

it’s a dispersed munition...


91 posted on 07/21/2023 6:36:56 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: MeganC

When Ukraine is gone, things will be fine. The sooner the better.


92 posted on 07/21/2023 6:39:38 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: CFW

Nobody cared when we dropped cluster bombs on Serbian CIVILIANS.

Leftovers are still taking a leg off a random unfortunate Serb.

This is what the US empire does...bomb and kill.


93 posted on 07/21/2023 6:40:17 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: napscoordinator

Kinda like us in Syria illegally and stealing oil.


94 posted on 07/21/2023 6:42:39 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: CFW

Well, maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll retaliate with their own cluster bombs dropped in DC and kill all the swamp bastards! Honestly, I wouldn’t even shed a tear. I would celebrate with candy in the streets! That’s how much the DC area is despised by American people. They have all the establishments there the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA Congress Senate presidency etc….go for a Russia do it! And if Russia doesn’t do it, China, you have our blessing! Anyways, our country is so done.


95 posted on 07/21/2023 6:46:04 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: buwaya

True, but war is the history of mankind.
Better we should avoid horrors on all sides.


96 posted on 07/21/2023 6:50:13 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
understand the root causes as to why Russia invaded in the first place.

Because it is what Russians do. Always, and forever, Amen. Better to have the Ukes spill their blood to stop them between the Dnieper and the Don, than to spill American blood stopping them between the Vistula and the Neman.

97 posted on 07/21/2023 6:58:31 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: buwaya
The British didn't have anything else to send, that's the point ! The whole of "NATO" is a paper tiger of de-industrialized economies that has no ability to sustain a peer war. A "gigantic" GDP of vapourware and bullsh!t as well as a military age population of whining trannys, femmes and F@GGOTS. These people are not even in the same league compared to what we have seen from the Russians and the Ukrainians.
98 posted on 07/21/2023 7:07:34 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: KeyLargo

“Biden is a War criminal”

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A post that begins with such a line gets worldwide attention.


99 posted on 07/21/2023 7:11:22 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

You may be in Pennsylvania, but not much of a conservative.

A conservative would be clever enough to make their point without puerile name-calling.


100 posted on 07/21/2023 7:19:11 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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