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The Russians simply walked in, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv tell BBC
BBC ^ | May 12, 2024 | Jonathan Beale

Posted on 05/12/2024 7:56:13 AM PDT by McGruff

Denys Yaroslavskyi is angry.

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“There was no first line of defence. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields” he says.

He shows me video from a drone feed taken a few days ago of small columns of Russian troops simply walking across the border, unopposed.

He says officials had claimed that defences were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defences simply weren’t there. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal”.

Everyone knew that this incursion was likely to happen. Both Ukrainian and Western intelligence knew Russia had been building forces across the border – with estimates of it massing up to 30,000 troops.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine; War
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To: McGruff

21 posted on 05/12/2024 8:50:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Nextrush

Don’t even need /sarc tags any more.


22 posted on 05/12/2024 8:51:31 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: janetjanet998

If this article is true or at least partially true, then if you are a Ukranian Soldier risking your life, what is your motivation, yes, it’s your country, if your leaders are stealing the money and not spending it on defense, then what’s the purpose.

Again, if this true, you could see Ukrainian Soldiers quitting and leaving the front.


23 posted on 05/12/2024 8:51:34 AM PDT by srmanuel
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Maybe we should change zeepers to Jokers

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'Ukraine Duped West': Top NATO Ally's Big Attack On Zelensky's 'Corrupt Mafia State'

24 posted on 05/12/2024 8:56:23 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: McGruff

Hey you grifting, thieving little Ukrainian weasel. You were just sent $65 billion of my taxes dollars. What did you do with it you little prick?


25 posted on 05/12/2024 8:59:26 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Karl Spooner

But we were assured that Ukraine was “winning” as well as “advancing on all fronts” and that Russia was lame and dumb, elbow cancer etc.
At least, that’s what the daily propaganda posters were saying.


26 posted on 05/12/2024 9:02:21 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: TangoLimaSierra

This might not end well.

This might well not end.

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Both are true when it comes to anything that Biden touches.


27 posted on 05/12/2024 9:02:25 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: McGruff

What was evident from day one is coming to fruition. Poor Ukraine, a betrayed plaything for larger powers. Horrible.


28 posted on 05/12/2024 9:04:16 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: McGruff

Surprised that Russia has not done this sooner.
This indicates that they are sure the zukraine hasn’t the manpower to cover all points and potential points of attack.

Saw reports some time ago that the zukraine has been warning those who went to escape this debacle had either get back to fight or their families will suffer.


29 posted on 05/12/2024 9:21:14 AM PDT by crz
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To: McGruff
officials had claimed that defenses were being built at huge cost,

well let’s examine the situation, 10% for the Big Guy, additional payments to others such as President of Ukraine, hire the company building California’s high speed rail, address environmental issues (more shake down payments), so understandable that the huge cost defenses were not finished……. Guess we need to throw more money at the problem.

Question with all the billions and billions of dollars we poured into Ukraine, would we have won with the following plan. Tell the Russian troops to surrender, collect a million dollars to live anywhere in the World. The latest 65 billion dollars would have removed 65,000 Russian troops from the field!

The USA has spent about 175 billion dollars, so that leaves a lot of money for the crooked politicians and even buy off thousands of more Russian troops. Easy solution.

30 posted on 05/12/2024 9:27:50 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: McGruff
Send more troops to Bakhmut!/s
31 posted on 05/12/2024 9:30:55 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: Lockbox

officials had claimed that defenses were being built at huge cost,
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New Ukrainian line of defense now up

No way the Russians can advance any further :)
https://twitter.com/JamesPorrazzo/status/1789690143231639911/photo/1


32 posted on 05/12/2024 9:32:41 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: McGruff

You can tell how things are going in Ukraine by noting which commenters here have disappeared.


33 posted on 05/12/2024 9:34:28 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: McGruff
The Russians simply walked in, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv tell BBC

Yep, all the Uke Nazi Grift of American Taxpayer Dollars went to Zelensky's pockets (minus Biden's 10%), and none of it got down to the sucker Ukes in the trenches, so they just gave Zelensky what he was paying for: Nothing.

34 posted on 05/12/2024 9:36:16 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: icclearly

This will end well, when the war is over with a Russian Victory and a deal is struck. The Ukrainian rich will fly out to the South of France with their gold bars. And Russia will get more land at the “Peace Table” (should be called the piece table). Ukraine will be re-built, no WW III, and a bunch of new monuments to the dead and graveyards. Putin will get his statue in Crimea, to stand next to Catherine the Great. All will be happy——for a while.


35 posted on 05/12/2024 9:39:00 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell)
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To: C210N
No Matter, just quickens the final and inevitable collapse of the fiat dollar, whose intrinsic value is exactly 0. No more, no less.

You are correct, ... Tragically.

The US Government should have kept the Dollar Strong and Sacred for the benefit of all Americans and the preservation of the Legacy American Way, Self Sufficiency, Merit and Success.

36 posted on 05/12/2024 9:43:42 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Ukraine will be re-built, no WW III, and a bunch of new monuments to the dead and graveyards. Putin will get his statue in Crimea, to stand next to Catherine the Great. All will be happy——for a while.

I can be wrong but I think the war will end after 2025. We'll know who's the POTUS. Ukraine will be forced to agree to a ceasefire. Russia will accept NATO troops in Kyiv.

37 posted on 05/12/2024 9:46:19 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump will simply tell Ukraine to suspend hostilities immediately or continue to fight without US support. The fact that NATO’s combined airlift and transport is 90% US merely drives home the point that the EU have never been full partners in NATO.

Trump does not care if the Democrats and Rino’s lose their investments in Ukraine... the fact that they have worked to strip him of his freedom and wealth thru lawfare is going to be a swift lesson in warfare waged from the Office of the President. The Federal Reserve, Blackrock, and the DNC/Rino’s will be without finances to stop the next republican president in 2028.


39 posted on 05/12/2024 9:52:14 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: higgmeister
we could start using /z or /jb , they could be the new sarcasm.
After all one's a clown and the other's a buffoon.
40 posted on 05/12/2024 9:54:14 AM PDT by Waverunner
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