BREAKING: INVASION HAS BEGUN..... Putin's "3-day war"... NOW... 1 YEAR 338 DAYS ...WAGNER HEAD SAYS GROUP STANDING DOWN AFTER CLAIMS OF DEAL

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
These two haven’t been on the same page for a minute…

One saying fuck Kherson offensive, let’s keep Donbas. Kherson can wait, if we hold Donbas we’d look pretty good.

while the other saying nope Kherson, it is…
Donbas is over,


Same shit happened around LizzieChance and SeveralDonunts

big z(political wise) thought it was kool to send reinforcements into and encirclement

while little z(military wise) wanted to retreat and enforce Seversk and backmood

Plenty Ukrainians we’re able to escape but not like they wanted to…
there was a shit load of them that didn’t make it…

an unconfirmed number was something like 5k dead. This was done in a 3 week period.

but anyways this the telegram post


Believe it or not;
⚡️⚡️ ⚡️#Inside
Our source in the Presidential Office said that today Zelensky demanded that Zaluzhny continue preparing the #Battle_for_Kherson operation and launch a counteroffensive before August 24. The President separately in his address emphasized that the previous decisions of the rate must be implemented by everyone.


Claims ukrainian “insider”
 

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
3 vessels with Ukrainian corn left the ports of Odessa.

They carry 58 thousand tons of grain to Turkey, Great Britain and Ireland.

On the eve of the first cargo ship with corn from Ukraine departed from the port of Istanbul to Lebanon.

There he was examined for the presence of contraband.
 

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
Guess this supposedly A demonstration of when the Russians bombed the prison

 

HeathCliff

Rising Star
BGOL Investor
Well the notion is, Ukraine has been eliminating Russia’s armory depots in the region and crippling its ability to reinforce themselves for thousands of miles. This is all compounding the logistical challenges Russia is facing right now. Unless their Chinese, Iranian or N. Korean buddies do a massive air drop for them within the next coming weeks, I could see this getting uglier for them. They literally can’t move, been sitting ducks for weeks.
100,000 North Korean soldiers could be sent to bolster Putin’s forces fighting Ukraine
An army of soldiers from one of the world’s most authoritarian nations could be sent to bolster Vladimir Putin’s forces fighting in Ukraine.


:lol:
I called it :lol: :lol:
 

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
this dude here… President Z have no shame

He begs for us Americans to keep sending funds over there…

he don’t want to listen to his military leaders

Dude was upset with UN for considering investigating the prison strike. It pissed him off that Russia presented the idea to the UN.

Now he’s doing this…

Zelensky Makes Public Plea to China's Xi Jinping After Calls Unanswered







By John Feng On 8/04/22 at 5:21 AM EDT
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukrainehas urged China to reorient its position on Russia and use its political and economic clout to help bring an end to the ongoing war in his country.

In an interview with Hong Kong's South China Morning Post published on Thursday—his first with an Asian news outlet—Zelensky said he had sought a direct line to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, since the Russian invasion began more than 160 days ago.

"I would like to talk directly. I had one conversation with [President] Xi Jinping that was a year ago," he told the Post's Amy Chew. "Since the beginning of the large-scale aggression on February 24, we have asked officially for a conversation, but we (haven't had) any conversation with Chinaeven though I believe that would be helpful."



Best of Newsweek via email
An adviser to the Ukrainian leader told Newsweek's David Brennan as early as March that Kyiv was expecting talks between Zelensky and Xi "to take place very soon." The call never happened.

Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has spoken with his opposite number in China at least twice since February 24, according to readouts published by Moscow and Beijing.

They included one conversation less than 24 hours later, after which the Russian Embassy in Beijing said Xi had expressed his "respect" for Putin's decision to attack Ukraine. After they spoke again in June, the Kremlin said the Chinese leader endorsed"the legitimacy of Russia's actions to protect fundamental national interests."

The UN Human Rights Office said on Monday that at least 5,327 civilians had been killed and a further 7,257 injured since the war began. Meanwhile, a rolling tally by the UN Refugee Agency showed more than 6.3 million Ukrainians had fled the country as of August 3.

Zelensky is asking Beijing to be more sympathetic to its plight.

"The Russians are the invaders...this is a war on our territory, they came to invade. China, as a big and powerful country, could come down and sort of put the Russian Federation [in] a certain place," he was quoted as saying. "Of course, I would really like China to review its attitude towards the Russian Federation."

Xi and Putin cemented their geostrategic partnership in the weeks before the invasion began; Beijing and Moscow—comprising two-fifths of the UN Security Council's permanent members—view one another as complementary advocates of an international order free of Western liberal influence in general and American leadership in particular.

Zelensky, 44, believes the Chinese leadership understands that the economic upheaval caused by Putin's war won't benefit Beijing either.

"It's a very powerful state. It's a powerful economy...So (it) can politically, economically influence Russia," Zelensky told the Post.

"I'm confident, I'm sure that without the Chinese market for the Russian Federation, Russia would be feeling complete economic isolation," he said. "That's something that China can do—to limit the trade (with Russia) until the war is over."




Zelensky and Xi last spoke in 2021. In early January this year, the two leaders exchanged pleasantries via Telegram to mark 30 years of formal bilateral ties between the two countries. According a readout published by the Chinese Foreign Ministry at the time, Xi told Zelensky their countries enjoyed "deepening political mutual trust."

"I attach great importance to the development of China-Ukraine strategic partnership," the Chinese leader said, describing the relationship as "mature, stable and resilient." Three weeks later, Beijing publicly sided with the Kremlin against NATO for the first time.
 

zod16

Rising Star
BGOL Investor
It is always hilarious when the russian propaganda accounts take off the mask... :smh: :lol:



I wonder what could be happening? :rolleyes::lol:
 

blackbull1970

The Black Bastard
Platinum Member
Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack

A look inside the Russian assault on Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, told by displaced families, civilians caught in the fight and first responders.

 

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
In the 'gray zone' outside Kherson, Ukraine's soldiers pay a terrible price
Brian MannAugust 6, 20227:01 AM ET


NEAR KHERSON, Ukraine — On a hot summer afternoon, NPR was interviewing soldiers near the front lines northeast of Kherson, when something happened that shows how perilous this sprawling combat zone can be.

Two Ukrainian fighters, who identified themselves only by their first names, Viktor and Serhiy, said they had detected a Russian drone overhead.

We were in a dense stand of forest, sheltered by the tree canopy. But the drone was apparently watching our location, possibly sharing our position with Russian artillery or other units.

"It's hovering above us as we speak," Viktor said. "It's nearby, while we are here. It's gonna fly away and then we can go back."

It was a terrifying moment. For the first time, we felt some part of the fear experienced every day by thousands of Ukrainian soldiers since Russia's invasion.

We would soon learn that in this deadly place, which some Ukrainians call "the gray zone," danger can come in many forms.

The effort to retake Kherson is Ukraine's first major counter-offensive against Russia
That morning, NPR's team set out from Kryvyi Rih, a fortified Ukrainian city in the east that often comes under Russian missile fire.



Our goal was to meet and talk to soldiers taking part in the first major counter-offensive against Russia: an effort to retake the strategic transport hub of Kherson.

Our first stop was an abandoned factory where a burly man with a dense black beard waited in the back of a Ukrainian army ambulance. Calling himself "Doc," he thumped the medical supplies strapped to his body armor. "I carry everything I need on me," he said.

Like many Ukrainian soldiers, Doc agreed to be interviewed only if NPR would use a nickname.


A Ukrainian field medic who identified himself as "Doc" waited to care for soldiers injured on the front lines. Soon after this photo was taken, Doc would help care for NPR's team.
Brian Mann/Brian Mann/NPR
On this day, he was waiting. There were no patients at this hour, only the distant rumble of Russian tank fire. Doc said when wounded soldiers do come to this rendezvous point, they're often in "a very bad state," injured by the enemy's fearsome artillery.

"We need to quickly give them injections, stabilize them," he said.

From this remote outpost, the wounded are then rushed in his ambulance or other vehicles to military hospitals for further care.

According to British and U.S. intelligence reports, fighting at the Kherson front in southern Ukraine along the Dnipro River is already intense and brutal. For the first time, the Ukrainian army is trying to retake a major city, one occupied by Russia since the early days of the invasion.



Much of the fighting is being done by soldiers who were civilians not too long ago.

Asked what he expects to happen as Ukraine's first major counteroffensive pushes toward Kherson, Doc shrugged and gestured at the waiting stretchers.

"Definitely there will be more casualties," he said.

Why Kherson matters
A victory here could change the trajectory of the war.

It would demonstrate Ukraine's capacity to wield high-tech Western artillery effectively, while using ground troops to take and hold key territory.

Losing Kherson, a key bridge crossing and regional government center on the Dnipro River, would also strike a major blow to Moscow's official narrative that the war is a "limited" military operation, which Russia still claims to be winning.

A short drive from the ambulance station brought us closer to active fighting. The thump of Russian tank fire sounded more often, like a distant summer thunderstorm.

Even Ukrainian soldiers who've been fighting here for months say the "gray zone" is a vast, confusing place. It stretches in a rough arc from war-torn villages on the outskirts of Kryvyi Rih, roughly 100 miles north of Kherson, to Mykolaiv, a city near the Black Sea.

The line of active combat between Ukrainian and Russian units shifts daily, as troops move through old industrial sites, half-abandoned villages, farm fields, winding rivers and dense forests.


Russian units are still punching back
Our next stop was a heavily damaged bunker and observation post that had to be abandoned recently because of incoming Russian artillery and missile fire.

"They started off by hitting us with BM-27 Uragan," Maj. Oleksandr Lytvynov said, referring to a powerful Soviet-era rocket launcher known as a "Hurricane."

"Then a missile hit this wall from the other side. When they hit us the second time, we made the decision to relocate."

Climbing down into to a bomb crater a dozen yards across, he laughed and said he was lucky to have survived. The Russians' aim was just a little off.

Before the war, Lytvynov - a man in his mid-50s - worked outside Ukraine as a chauffeur but like many Ukrainian men he returned home to fight. He told us he volunteered to escort us closer to the fighting because it was important for people to know what life is like for Ukrainian soldiers.

"Next location," he said, holding open the door to a battered SUV.

From this point forward, Ukraine's military required NPR's team to ride in their vehicles as part of a two-car convoy.

Mile by mile, the countryside looked ever more eerily empty - farm buildings pocked by artillery, fields and roads torn by bomb craters. As the cars bounced and jarred down rutted country lanes, Lytvynov told us through an interpreter it's easy to get lost here.

Soldiers in the gray zone face constant anxiety because of Russian spotter drones, snipers and artillery.

Lytvynov pointed to farm fields where the bronze-yellow wheat will go unharvested this year because of the ever-present danger.

A trench where Ukrainians held out against Russian tanks
After a 20-minute drive, the vehicles turned into a camouflaged parking area in a line of trees. Ukrainian soldiers manned this area during some of the fiercest weeks of fighting.

"Our company held and fought here, our grunts lived here, and this is still our fallback position," said a Ukrainian soldier who identified himself by his first name Viktor.

"There was a lot of incoming. We were hit by tanks and mortars."

On foot, Viktor led the way deeper into the trees, where his fellow soldiers had dug their trench roughly 10 feet deep into the raw earth, roofing it with logs cut from the nearby forest. It was a narrow space, cramped and claustrophobic.

He said troops were often stationed here for a month at a time.

"Of course it is scary when you are under fire," said another soldier, who identified himself as Serhiy. "These feelings differ from person to person. There are people who are scared, but we also have men able to overcome this feeling."

In recent weeks, Ukraine's army pushed the Russians back from this point. It's been a grudging, bitter fight. One officer interviewed by NPR compared the fighting here to what the U.S. encountered during some of the toughest battles of Vietnam.
Despite the risk and the hardship, these soldiers seemed confident Ukraine's counteroffensive to retake Kherson will succeed.

"We are moving forward and planning to move forward more," Viktor said. "Like that, bit by bit, we move."

A Russian drone and a death in the gray zone
But it was at this moment, as the soldiers spoke confidently of Ukraine's progress pushing Russia back, that the enemy drone appeared overhead. After a few minutes' anxious wait, the soldiers led NPR's team quickly back through the forest to the cars.

We scrambled into the vehicles and left in a rush. Lytvynov, the former chauffeur who volunteered to fight and serve as our escort, drove fast over the rutted road, gripping the SUV's steering wheel.

Then he suddenly lost control. The military SUV slewed into a wheat field and then over-corrected, veering into the woods and slamming against a tree. Two members of NPR's team were injured in the crash. Lytvynov was pronounced dead at the scene by the Ukrainian military.

Ukrainian soldiers and medics — including Doc, the field medic we met earlier in the day — would help evacuate us from the grey zone to a military hospital a safe distance away.

Later, Ukrainian authorities investigating the incident said they believed the accident occurred after the SUV came under attack by Russian mortars or artillery.

NPR's team didn't hear or see hostile fire. What we did observe firsthand is how swiftly things change in this confusing, often frightening combat zone. On a summer afternoon, a stretch of forest or farm field or a village road can turn deadly almost without warning.

We also saw the terrible price Ukrainian soldiers, like Oleksandr Lytvynov, are paying as they struggle to push Russia's army out of their territory.
 

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
Most of the Western military aid to Ukraine does not reach its final destinations in the country.

This is stated in the documentary of the American TV channel CBS.
 

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
:scared::hithead::hithead::roflmao::roflmao:

man if this true

France has run out of Caesar self-propelled guns because of Ukraine.

This is reported by the portal Аvia. pro Paris delivered 18 self-propelled guns to Kiev instead of the originally planned 10. Because of this, the French army was left without self-propelled guns.

The manufacturer declared its readiness to replenish 18 pieces of artillery, but only for 4-5 years.

Experts admitted that after such a serious supply, France will no longer help Ukrainians with weapons.
 
Top