Posted on 05/10/2024 3:33:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russian forces have attacked across the Ukrainian border to the north of Kharkiv in a potential effort to open a new front in the war and intensify the pressure on Ukraine’s second city.
Ukraine’s defence ministry said there had been “an attempt by the enemy to break through our defence line using armoured vehicles” at about 5am on Friday near the town of Vovchansk, and the initial attacks had been repelled.
There were also reports of fighting in the border villages of Strilecha, Pylna and Borysivka farther west, and that Russian forces had advanced by about 1km around Vovchansk, though these could not be confirmed.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said his country’s forces had been ready for the attack. “Ukraine met them there with troops – brigades and artillery,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv, though he warned that Russia could send more troops to support its fresh attack.
The influential Russian military blogger Rybar described the attack as a “reconnaissance in force” rather than a full-scale assault, and described the battle zone as being expanded to “a depth of 2-3km” in some border areas. Attacks were aimed at Ukrainian artillery points to weaken defences, the blogger added.
Russia has been gradually intensifying military operations around Kharkiv over the past month, taking advantage of limited Ukrainian air defences to bomb in and around the city in an attempt to persuade more of its 1.3 million residents to flee and turn it into an increasingly depopulated grey zone.
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You are a worthless waste of time for any American.
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Have you looked into the mirror? Our Founding Fathers warned against getting involved in foreign wars…..their warning goes unheeded as America descends into deeper bankruptcy, decline, and world “ irrelevance”.
Carry on war cheerleaders, the BRICS Summit is approaching, their Summit is another nail in our coffin.
US aid has arrived and being put to good use in the Adiiivka direction. Bradleys are being rushed into service still sporting desert camouflage paint scheme.
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You have a short memory, Marioupol, Bakmut, Avidivka, a miserably failed “ offensive”, western equipment getting crushed and hauled back to Moscow as war trophies. Your Hopium is commendable, but misplaced as we are witnessing.
Do you also believe in Unicorns?
A few items destroyed items hauled away does not a victory make.
But, you Russian trolls latch onto anything you can to distort the picture, wherein conservative estimates put the number of your dead friends at 150,000, with more each day, as meat assaults continue all along your invasion front line.
Your hero and idol, Vladimir Vladimirovich, is in over his head, sacrificing the men of Russia to his dream of conquest, while running out of male workers at home, causing Russia’s industrial base to crumble even further.
Yeah I can look in the mirror because I’m not anti-American I don’t hate my own country and I haven’t bought into a bunch of moronic rants like you have if you’re even a legitimate American here.
First of all no one has proposed involving American troops in a foreign war in Europe at this time. We are trying to prevent the need to become involved in foreign wars.
I wouldn’t dismiss the advice of George Washington but the time for an attack from Europe has changed from a period of months to a period of minutes.
Besides which you Russian cheerleading isolationist anti Americans are a truly obnoxious and offensive bunch.
You know nothing or you play along with people who are out to harm America and you act like you can predict the future and really know what’s going on in this world.
Which of you idiots was it that said it would be great if Washington DC is vaporized was that you just the other day.
Certainly it was one of you pernicious bunch.
Yes. Looks like it’s just a diversion for now.
The Russians are forcing Kyiv to spread out their troops to defend the 620-mile front. They’re probing for weaknesses.
That’s the strategy but it works both ways. Also the Ukrainians depend more on drones than men.
The Russians will be forced to negotiate by now because they do not have the same capability that we have to mass produce.
But the MIC is not interested in that. They'll like the war to last another 10 years.
You know nothing or you play along with people who are out to harm America and you act like you can predict the future and really know what’s going on in this world.
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“ Predicting the future” accurately often involves nothing more than examining simple facts and truths. My “ Prediction” is Russia achieves their stated goals ( a win) and the collective West loses ( Crimea and the five ethnic Russian provinces remain a part of the Russian Federation).
Every thing else is just a by-product of war….as for “ harming America”, senile Joe is accomplishing just that every day, much more than Russia could ever achieve.
Yes, the obvious conclusion is America is becoming irrelevant, and self inflicted.
You are irrelevant. Duh.
But you anti American Putin lovers are a truly obnoxious bunch.
Love how you confidently stated that predicting the future is so simple.
What an idiot.
I don’t think we can mass produce them. They need the cheap drones that come from China. We can’t make them like that. They should cost $1000 or less. We can’t make anything for less than $200,000. If we had to fight WWII with our current manufacturing base, we’d lose.
Depends on who's in charge. If Elon Musk gets full power to do what we need to do, we'll win the war.
The only difference between WW2 era and today is that everything is so much more automated.
But you're right, it does not matter. Because the political will is not there at this moment.
Estimates are that the ratio between Russian and Ukrainian casualties has been around 2.5:1.
All one needs to know is that the Russians have the advantage in manpower, artillery and shells. According to the Ukrainians, the Russians have an advantage in shells of 10:1. It takes a special kind of Baghdad Bob to claim the side with a 10:1 shell deficit is inflicting the most casualties at a 2.5:1 ratio.
“ The Russian economy grew by 5.4% during the first quarter of 2024. The US grew by 1.6%, the EU by 0% while China grew 5.3%. ”
Very easy to see the immediate future, if you know where to look…..western MSM will not report this.
Let me help you, watch the upcoming Brics Summit, you to then can become an accurate “forecaster”.
You are failing to take into account that it is the Russians who are assaulting across open ground against intrenched defensive positions. In the meantime the Ukrainians are remaining in the protective positions in the trenches. It is not just a question of artillery duels. There are plenty of videos that show the Russian casualties. A knowledge of trench warfare in WWI would support the conclusion of higher casualties among the attacking Russians.
…….record amounts of Gold purchases by ALL Central banks have been recorded…why?
“ BRICS countries such as Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa are buying gold in preparation for the collapse of the dollar and maybe to speed up its collapse. The group plans to provide an alternative to the dollar based upon the currencies of all five countries,”
BIS has ruled Gold becomes a tier one asset in 2023. NO paper gold contracts- only the real thing…..seems paper and debt instruments are no longer being accepted as collateral in the world finance industry.
Do you have a point?
Russia is a nothingburger economy, whether it grows or not.
China, coming from a position of extreme poverty, has been growing for years.
You want a view of the future? INDIA is surpassing China in population, is a nuclear power and regional rival to China.
You don’t know about the FABs which changed everything and every single NATO fortified city has now fallen in a span of 4 months. Backmut fell earlier, but Russia has made it a point to crush every single one and they did between February and 7 May.
You don’t know about the FABs which changed everything and every single NATO fortified city has now fallen in a span of 4 months. Backmut fell earlier, but Russia has made it a point to crush every single one and they did between February and 7 May. The FAB 500 - 3000 lbs have increased the the value of the Rubles er ah Rubble.
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