Posted on 05/17/2024 10:58:49 AM PDT by MeganC
Kyiv says it has had some success pushing back against a renewed Russian offensive, but Ukraine's defences are in dire need of resupply.
A massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea early Friday caused power cutoffs in the city of Sevastopol and set a refinery ablaze in southern Russia, Russian authorities said.
The drone raids marked an attempt to strike back during Moscow's renewed offensive in northeastern Ukraine, which has added to the pressure on outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces as they await delayed deliveries of crucial Western weapons and ammunition.
Ukraine has not commented on the attack nor claimed responsibility for it.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its air defences downed 51 Ukrainian drones over Crimea, another 44 over the Krasnodar region and six over the Belgorod region. It also said Russian warplanes and patrol boats had destroyed six sea drones in the Black Sea.
Moscow's claims could not be independently verified.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, which is the main base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet, said the drone attack damaged the city's power plant. He said it could take a day to fully restore energy supplies and warned residents that power would be cut to parts of the city.
"Communal services are doing their best to restore the power system as quickly as possible," he said in a statement.
Razvozhayev also announced that schools in the city would be closed temporarily.
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“That’s a creative way to admit Ukraine is losing.”
That may be, but it’s for damned sure that Russia isn’t winning.
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Your response is so lame. You accuse me of not caring about American problems because I care about Ukraine. You claim Americans have less freedom than Russians. I was at the January 6th Stop the Steal rally because I care. I was not arrested because I was not in Russia.
I also care about Ukrainian children that are murdered everyday by the evil forces in that you support.
You write that Putin was “legitimately” elected over and over and over again and shrug off his murders of Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny. Those men had the guts to oppose a criminal dictatorship that you cowardly support. Putin ramming through changes to the constitution make all his elections illegitimate since then. You really are a limp-twisted coward.
But, you're delusional enough to think the Russians are losing?
Zelesnky has banned opposition parties and media outlets, imprisoned opposition leaders and dissents, is forcing conscripts to the frontlines to die against the will, cancelled elections and has destroyed churches.
And, oh, Ukraine was the epicenter of neo-Nazism in the world before the war began.
Stop pretending like you give a hoot freedom or democracy.
Then, why aren't YOU more concerned about the pro-life political prisoners in THIS country instead whatever fantasies you have about what is going on in Russia?
If you care more about the eroding freedom in this country, then deport yourself back to El Salvador.
“So, Russia annexed 40,000 square miles of what used to be Ukraine….”
Under what legal authority exactly?
And it’s only cost you half your navy and several tens of thousands of dead Russians.
Not sure that math works well for you.
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Your only debate technique is to repeat Moscow lies about Ukraine. There are few countries less Nazi-like than Ukraine. Russia is the one that sends armored columns against smaller countries like the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine. You are simply mentally ill or a liar or both.
One reason that the one-time-zone country out fights the eleven-time-zone country (WHAT A HUMILIATION FOR PUTIN!!!) is that Ukrainians do care about freedom and Russian slave soldiers just want to get drunk and go home.
Russia, year in and year out, has among the highest abortion rates in the world, the highest child trafficking rate, and now has among its last allies:
China
North Korea
Hamas
Iran
What makes you think I don’t support pro-life causes in America. Do you think we are restricted to single issues like you hideous criminal Russian trolls?
“So, Russia annexed 40,000 square miles of what used to be Ukraine..”
So that’s about 3-5 dead or wounded Russians per square mile.
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All the Russian death numbers you're clinging to are made up.
Even the BBC only estimates 85,000 causalities on the Russian side. The majority of those causalities were those fighting on behalf of the LPR, DPR and from the Chechens and Wagner group.
Only someone with sick, perverse mind, however, doesn't care how many Ukrainians die or if Ukraine is destroy so long as Russians are dying.
You're as sick an SOB as Lindsey Graham.
Um, the abortion rate been dropping in Russia for the past decade while blue state here have legalized abortion until birth.
And, never mind that marriage in Russia is between a man and a woman. Or that sex changes are illegal, PERIOD, there. Drag Queen story hour and all LGBT propaganda is against the law.
Russia is infinitely a more Christian and socially conservative country than this one is.
Oh, it's also got a 13% flat tax rate.
So, glad you bought all that up, though, so I could kick your ass and expose how ignorant you are of Russia.
Your hatred and obsession with Russia, while ignoring the moral rot in this country, is sickening.
I wish we could send you to El Salvador PERMANENTLY. You're as much the problem as any leftist.
“Even the BBC only estimates 85,000 causalities on the Russian side.”
Assuming that’s true it’s 2 dead Russians for every square mile. Ukraine is roughly 230,000 square miles. Thats 460,000 dead Russians to take all of Ukraine.
Not that I’m philosophically opposed to half a million dead Russians or anything. It just seems an awfully high price to pay. And after 2 years you still haven’t achieved your objective.
So there’s that.
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You are the one who admits you know nothing of Ukraine from personal experience. You hate Ukraine and you must hate Russia too to support its return to Soviet thinking and a dictatorship while brave Russians oppose Putin.
I have traveled in both Russia and Ukraine. Russia has drag queens, pedophiles, prostitution, hammer and sickle flags, drunks, more drunks, a military economy, North Korea for its closest ally, and a quarter century dictatorship from the horrid little leprechaun who bemoans the loss of the Soviet Union and seeks a Neo-Soviet state. The 13 percent flat tax means nothing since the oligarchs have special deals.
Your hatred of Ukraine stems from your hatred of freedom. You gloat when Ukraine’s Liberty Plaza is renamed Lenin Plaza and you gloat when the hammer and sickle flag advances into another Ukrainian mill town at the cost of ten thousand Russian lives. Leftist support the little KGB dictator. Brave Russians and conservatives oppose him.
What sort of Christian country would invade the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine to steal land, resources, and people and cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands? You are Bolshevik scum.
It WAS the heart of neo-Nazism before the war began. Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator, is considered Ukraine's modern-day founding father.
Ukraine absolutely WAS considered the most corrupt nation in Europe before this war began.
Zelenksy HAS banned opposition media and outlawed opposition parties. He has imprisoned opposition leaders and dissents. His government arrested and murdered American citizen Gonazalo Lira. He has destroyed churches and cancelled elections.
Ukraine is a sh$t hole of country and got worse after we fomented the illegal coup and installed a puppet government there in 2014. That allowed jackals like George Soros and the Bidens to suck money out of Ukraine.
Russia has drag queen story hour? You might want to find me some evidence of that. Russia has been scalded by the Western media for its anti-LGBT laws. So, you're full of crap.
Russia has popular drag queens but I never said anything about story hour. But good try at again misrepresenting what I wrote. But there is no shortage of homosexuals and pedophiles in Russia.
You wrote, “Ukraine absolutely was considered the most corrupt nation in Europe before this war began.” Russia was considered more corrupt but it is mostly outside of Europe. Since the war began, everyone can see that Russia is fundamentally corrupt as only it and its allies like North Korea and Iran can be.
You wrote that Ukraine has banned opposition parties but there are opposition parties in Ukraine. Only Russian fronts are banned.
Soros again? He has his money everywhere. He is scum just like Kazan and Putin. Ukraine is not Soros. You just ignore the Russian attacks on Ukrainian homes and abject murder of Ukrainians by Russians because you are a paid stooge. But you are a criminal accomplice to Russian crimes. Do you love the hammer and sickle flag as much as the rest of Neo-Soviet Russia?
You know from personal experience? I might believe that.
The point is that Russia has stick laws prohibiting the promotion of the LGBT agenda. No drag queen story hours. No gay marriage. No gay pride parades. Homosexuality isn't being promoted on TV and the media.
That's why Franklin Graham said this:
“Isn’t it sad, though, that America’s own morality has fallen so far that on this issue—protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda—Russia’s standard is higher than our own?”
Ukraine, on the other hand, is absolutely promoting the LGBT agenda non-stop thanks to the illegal coup we fomented there in 2014.
And, you're okay with that and, incredibly, believe Ukraine is a democracy?
I despise the communist party in this country, but we haven't banned it. Free countries don't ban political parties.
Soros, YOU IDIOT, was voted the second most influential person in Ukraine before the war began.
Soros fingerprints were all over the illegal coup we fomented in 2014 and the puppet government we installed afterward.
For someone that claims to have been to Ukraine and knows something about, you're painfully ignorant about what has and is going on there.
Soros, globalists and the WEF ARE THE ENEMY of the people of this country and the West, far more so than Russia. And, the enemy of my enemy (Russia) is my friend.
What in hell are you babbling about?
Russia is one of the best-run countries in the world.
Under Putin, Russia has implemented a 13% flat tax rate, something conservatives can only dream of doing here. It's spent billions in recent years building churches. It has passed laws banning the promotion of the LGBT agenda. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Sex changes are banned, period. It has rejected the green agenda and continues to use and export fossil fuels.
It is so arrogant of you to tell Ukrainians about what is really happening in their country. My family’s perspective comes from Alchevsk in the Donbas but I have extended family and friends across Ukraine.
You know NOTHING about stupid Soros or Maidan or the fake separatist movement or ANYTHING except Moscow’s lies. If you would travel Ukraine you would not be so ignorant. You support a murderous invasion that reduces towns to waste so they can be deNazified!!!! The Russian loot, rape, and murder yet you call Ukrainians Nazis. You are clinically insane. What sort of Nazi country elects a Jewish president and then fights under his leadership pulling off one of the biggest military upsets in all history?
You act as though Stalin is less evil than Hitler and even though most Ukrainians fought against the Germans it is hardly surprising that some saw the Germans as a way out from Stalin’s heal. You said, “the enemy of my enemy is my enemy is my friend.” So why should it surprise you that some Ukrainians and other subjugated people under the USSR saw the German invasion as a way out from Stalin’s terror.
You claim that Russia is a well-run country. It cannot handle its eleven time zones, yet it covets its well-run neighbors land, resources, and people. Just what was the excuses again for invading the Republic of Georgia? Oh yeah, it was over 100 times smaller than Russia.
Why couldn’t gigantic Russia take over Ukraine in the first week of the war? It is because Russia with every advantage cannot organize anything except getting their own troops slaughtered.
Ukrainians are a beautiful people, and you support the Russian genocide against them. That is the undeniable fact.
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