Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $76,741
94%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 94%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: putinspantsdown

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Russia evacuates 11,000 people from Belgorod border district, TASS says

    08/12/2024 3:11:02 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 16 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 8/12/2024 | Reuters
    Eleven thousand people have been evacuated from Krasnaya Yaruga district in Russia's Belgorod region, state news agency TASS reported on Monday. The regional governor said earlier that evacuations had begun due to "enemy activity on the border". Belgorod is next to the Kursk region where Ukrainian forces broke across into Russia in a major incursion that started last Tuesday.
  • Ukrainian troops now up to 30km inside Russia, Moscow says

    08/11/2024 5:56:59 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 75 replies
    BBC News.com ^ | August 11, 2024 | Matt Murphy
    Ukrainian troops have advanced up to 30km inside Russia, in what has become the deepest and most significant incursion since Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russia's defence ministry said its forces had engaged Ukrainian troops near the villages of Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez, as the offensive in the Kursk region entered a sixth day. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Kyiv of "intimidating the peaceful population of Russia". (snip) While Ukrainian-backed sabotage groups have launched intermittent cross-border incursions, the Kursk offensive marks the biggest co-ordinated attack on Russian territory by Kyiv's conventional forces. “We are...