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    The Ukrainian military demonstrated its prowess once again on Wednesday, when satellite images showed dozens of Russian tanks and armored vehicles destroyed after failing to cross the Donets River. The episode cost the Russian military an entire battalion – the latest sign that Russia’s pivot to eastern Ukraine is not working as planned.

    “Recently, I have accomplished a mission which made huge impact on Russian losses and completely screwed up their plans to encircle Lysychansk,” a Ukrainian military engineer calling himself Max wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, giving a blow-by-blow account of how his company pretty much wiped out an entire Russian battalion a few days previously.

    The satellite photos of its aftermath have been a sensation around the world. They show tanks, armored vehicles and other Russian military equipment destroyed and abandoned on the banks of the Donets River, which runs through eastern Ukraine from the Kharkiv region to the Donbas. The photos suggest the Russians lost between 25 and 30 armored vehicles in this operation.

    https://www.rawstory.com/ukraine-riv...up-to-scratch/

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    The Ukrainian military demonstrated its prowess once again on Wednesday, when satellite images showed dozens of Russian tanks and armored vehicles destroyed after failing to cross the Donets River. The episode cost the Russian military an entire battalion – the latest sign that Russia’s pivot to eastern Ukraine is not working as planned.

    “Recently, I have accomplished a mission which made huge impact on Russian losses and completely screwed up their plans to encircle Lysychansk,” a Ukrainian military engineer calling himself Max wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, giving a blow-by-blow account of how his company pretty much wiped out an entire Russian battalion a few days previously.

    The satellite photos of its aftermath have been a sensation around the world. They show tanks, armored vehicles and other Russian military equipment destroyed and abandoned on the banks of the Donets River, which runs through eastern Ukraine from the Kharkiv region to the Donbas. The photos suggest the Russians lost between 25 and 30 armored vehicles in this operation.

    https://www.rawstory.com/ukraine-riv...up-to-scratch/
    This is not Russia winning the war.
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
    Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
    Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."

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    I wish the Raw Story article had more images.
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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    The Ukrainian military demonstrated its prowess once again on Wednesday, when satellite images showed dozens of Russian tanks and armored vehicles destroyed after failing to cross the Donets River. The episode cost the Russian military an entire battalion – the latest sign that Russia’s pivot to eastern Ukraine is not working as planned.

    “Recently, I have accomplished a mission which made huge impact on Russian losses and completely screwed up their plans to encircle Lysychansk,” a Ukrainian military engineer calling himself Max wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, giving a blow-by-blow account of how his company pretty much wiped out an entire Russian battalion a few days previously.

    The satellite photos of its aftermath have been a sensation around the world. They show tanks, armored vehicles and other Russian military equipment destroyed and abandoned on the banks of the Donets River, which runs through eastern Ukraine from the Kharkiv region to the Donbas. The photos suggest the Russians lost between 25 and 30 armored vehicles in this operation.

    https://www.rawstory.com/ukraine-riv...up-to-scratch/
    It's tragic that Russian conscripts are paying the price for Putin's hubris.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I wish the Raw Story article had more images.
    I have no doubt that, when this is over, there will be tons of video footage of Russians getting their asses kicked.
    God bless America and those who defend our Constitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    It's tragic that Russian conscripts are paying the price for Putin's hubris.

    There’s more reports of Russian officers refusing to follow orders from Moscow.

    I’m still curious about who shot up the Russian oil depot last month. My money is still on it being Russian Hinds, not Ukrainian.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    It's tragic that Russian conscripts are paying the price for Putin's hubris.
    They are so young, and not properly trained.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    They are so young, and not properly trained.
    ..or properly equipped and not properly supplied. Some of the atrocities are from starving, freezing soldiers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    There’s more reports of Russian officers refusing to follow orders from Moscow.

    I’m still curious about who shot up the Russian oil depot last month. My money is still on it being Russian Hinds, not Ukrainian.
    Did it cause significant damage?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    They are so young, and not properly trained.
    I wish that they would not show their dead bodies (or anyone's) on the news. Those are someone's children, brothers/sisters, fathers/mothers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I wish that they would not show their dead bodies (or anyone's) on the news. Those are someone's children, brothers/sisters, fathers/mothers.
    Russian parents, brothers/sisters, wives and children are being lied to daily by Putin’s television and radio. As tragic as those pictures are, the only information Russian parents are receiving are from the free countries of the West.

    The West is also the only countries declaring the Russians to be committing atrocities and mass murder.

    Would citizens of the Allies have believed the atrocities committed by the Axis powers if the pictures of those atrocities were not shown to the public? There are Holocaust deniers today who don’t believe the evidence. The Putin cocksuckers on JPP are denying the Russian atrocities despite the evidence to the contrary. Sane, honest people accept the evidence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Did it cause significant damage?
    Putin says it was destroyed. The oddity is that, AFAIK, the Ukrainians never declared responsibility. There’s very little news on it too except from when it first happened. Russians may be shitty on the offensive but they are pretty good on the defensive. For two Ukrainian Hinds to penetrate one of the world’s foremost air defense systems is quite a feat and something for Zelensky to crow about if true. The fact he didn’t indicates to me the Russians are lying in order to cover up the fact it was rebellious Russian pilots shooting it up to slow fuel to their forces in Ukraine. No fuel, not advances.

    The world may have to wait until the war is over to find out the truth.

    https://www.militarytimes.com/flashp...-city-reports/
    A pair of Ukraine’s Mi-24 “Hind” helicopters have reportedly made a daring raid more than 20 miles into Russia, destroying an oil depot in the southern city of Belgorod on Friday, according to Russian officials and open source reports.
    The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, accused Ukraine of carrying out the attack in a Telegram post, Reuters reported. He said that the two helicopters entered Russia flying at low altitude, presumably to evade air defenses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    Russian parents, brothers/sisters, wives and children are being lied to daily by Putin’s television and radio. As tragic as those pictures are, the only information Russian parents are receiving are from the free countries of the West.

    The West is also the only countries declaring the Russians to be committing atrocities and mass murder.

    Would citizens of the Allies have believed the atrocities committed by the Axis powers if the pictures of those atrocities were not shown to the public? There are Holocaust deniers today who don’t believe the evidence. The Putin cocksuckers on JPP are denying the Russian atrocities despite the evidence to the contrary. Sane, honest people accept the evidence.
    That's different than the news showing some person lying dead on the road, then quickly moving on to a story about the price of food or the Pope's birthday. It's not informative; it's exploitive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    That's different than the news showing some person lying dead on the road, then quickly moving on to a story about the price of food or the Pope's birthday. It's not informative; it's exploitive.
    It’s a business.
    God bless America and those who defend our Constitution.

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