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‘Furious battles are underway’: Kursk residents call on Putin for help after Ukrainian incursion
CNN ^ | August 8, 2024 | Daria Tarasova, Jim Sciutto, Allegra Goodwin, Tim Lister, and Ivana Kottasová

Posted on 08/08/2024 6:02:00 PM PDT by Alter Kaker

Ukrainian forces are pushing further into the Kursk region of Russia, in a cross-border incursion that surprised even American officials, multiple US and Ukrainian officials tell CNN.

Ukrainian forces are comprised of a mix of Ukrainian regular and special operations units, unlike previous Ukrainian operations inside Russia that often involved undercover units and local sympathizers.

The intention, say US and Ukrainian officials, is multifaceted, in part to disrupt and demoralize Russian forces and in part to divert Russian forces away from other parts of the eastern front.

Russia claimed on Thursday to have halted a Ukrainian incursion into its territory, but later said that some battles are ongoing in the Kursk region. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, units of the “North” group of its forces, together with the Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB, “continue to destroy Ukrainian armed forces formations in the Sudzhensky and Korenevsky districts of the Kursk region, which are directly adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border.” CNN cannot independently verify these claims.

Kursk residents, who live in the Sudzhansky District, recorded a video address to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday asking for his help, saying he has been misinformed about the situation on the ground and the Russian Defense Ministry’s statements about things being under control are untrue.

The address was published on a local Telegram channel that is dedicated to covering the latest news out of the town of Sudzha in Kursk region, which has been under Ukrainian attack for several days.

“These lies enable the local residents to die. The Chief of the General staff recently told you that the situation is under control, but today huge furious battles are underway in the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts,” one of the residents said.

“Sudzha was attacked, turned into ruins in hours."

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To: Prince of Space

Nor did I.


81 posted on 08/08/2024 9:56:22 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: bimboeruption

Really suspicious that you take insults against Putin so personally. Almost like you feel an affinity for him. Pretty odd for someone who is ostensibly a patriot, or so I am assuming.


82 posted on 08/08/2024 9:58:13 PM PDT by Dat
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To: bimboeruption

Criticism of Vladimir Putin does not make one into a Chuck Schumer.

VP is a murderous psychotic pos enemy of the United States.

Chuck Schumer is a pos who can go F himself.

I don’t have to love the chaotic Shole called Russia in order to be a patriotic conservative American.


83 posted on 08/08/2024 10:01:40 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Prince of Space

Oh come on. Half of FR was certain this war would be over in a month, and it wasn’t the ones on Ukraine’s side. Putin’s brigades on FR have been so blindsided that it isn’t funny. Your comment is pretty much gaslighting.


84 posted on 08/08/2024 10:04:04 PM PDT by Dat
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To: phil00071

How about a link?


85 posted on 08/08/2024 10:50:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Karl Spooner

#Lukashenko on February, the 6th: If there would be war with #Ukraine, we would take it in 3-4 days!

Lukashenko 3-4 days after the start of the war with Ukraine: Please come and negotiate, we’re not getting anywhere.

https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1498185064617762816


86 posted on 08/08/2024 11:17:21 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: Who is John Galt?

If only Democrats actually cared about America and American citizens


87 posted on 08/09/2024 12:12:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Who is John Galt?
This is a joke, right?


88 posted on 08/09/2024 12:17:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: pigeoninthepark

That is crazy. Their country is being demolished, bit by bit, its population fleeing to safer environs and yet, these Western-inspired freaks and degenerates think its OK to waltz around in their clown costumes, wearing their feces-flecked, gross behaviors on their sleeves like a badge of honor. WTF?


89 posted on 08/09/2024 12:21:40 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: All

Putin: Crossing a border with hostile intent is one of the worst things I could imagine anyone doing, unless of course it’s me, then it’s okay, actually quite good. Very good in fact. I will award myself Order of Putin. I deserve it.


90 posted on 08/09/2024 1:21:31 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: Zhang Fei

and according to the Russians, HIMARS were used to destroy a column of Wagners: 100 dead and 112 wounded in clinics.

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1821804091112354156


91 posted on 08/09/2024 4:01:57 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Alter Kaker

“So much for Putin’s red lines. He looks weak before the whole world.”

As Trump said, he can end the war in 24 hours. I believe Ukraine went into Russia to take land that can be exchanged for Russia returning the land it took from Ukraine.

It is a brilliant strategy and I believe Trump had a hand in this.


92 posted on 08/09/2024 4:12:08 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Paging Dr. Bandy Lee. Dr. Lee please pick up the white courtesy phone.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

How about back to what they were prior to the Vicky Nuland color revolution?


93 posted on 08/09/2024 4:45:52 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Alter Kaker

Weak? He looks like a foolish leader who has no generals capable of fighting a war.

To allow the defenseless Kurst flank to be turned so easily is command failure at the highest level.


94 posted on 08/09/2024 4:52:49 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Alter Kaker
75,000 UKR troops. All the stuff about shortages of manpower & equipment was a deliberate ruse - to that end so was allowing the Russians to take more ground in the Donbas.

Video:
Russian mercenary Wagner reinforcements:
You can see in this video that under the first truck, the tarmac stained red. The other trucks still contain the bodies of the previously terrifying troops once known as Wagners.


HIMARed to Heaven: 100 dead and 120 hospitalized.
95 posted on 08/09/2024 5:01:56 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

I can’t think of anything more degenerate than mocking a people who have been attacked, and are fighting to survive.

Used to be only leftists talked like that.


96 posted on 08/09/2024 5:03:34 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I believe Ukraine went into Russia to take land that can be exchanged for Russia returning the land it took from Ukraine


Or its a prelude to taking back all the rest of UKR, since the UKR is planning to run a referendum in the seized territory: stay in Russia/join UKR. Just looking out for the regional native UKR speakers - what good for the goose in good for the gender.


97 posted on 08/09/2024 5:06:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Ukraine sent a thousand men in.


correction: 75,000


98 posted on 08/09/2024 5:08:02 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: dforest

Russian blogger: Kursk in 3 days!


99 posted on 08/09/2024 5:08:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rfp1234

UKR regulars, all 75,000 of them.


100 posted on 08/09/2024 5:09:35 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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