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libertybele · « **Reply #1250 on:** June 19, 2022, 01:00:40 am »

US Harpoon missiles destroyed a heavily-armed Russian vessel in the Black Sea, say Ukraine's military

Ukrainian military officials have said they struck the Russian Navy's Vasiliy Bekh tugboat in the Black Sea using two Harpoon missiles supplied by the US.

The action marks the first time Ukraine has announced it has destroyed a Russian vessel with Western-supplied armaments.

On Friday, the attack was announced on Ukraine's Armed Forces Strategic Communications Directorate's Telegram channel. It published a video purporting to show the anti-ship missile blowing up the vessel. Insider could not independently verify the footage.................

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-harpoon-missiles-destroyed-heavily-175229244.html

sneakypete · « **Reply #1251 on:** June 19, 2022, 02:31:22 am »

The thing that ALWAYS fries my fritters about this crap is that it is ALWAYS the innocents that die,in AND out of uniform,and the SOB's on the ego trips that start them seem to always get off and live in pensions that make them wealthy.

It's past time for the leaders to do a little dying. Do you hear me,Pooty-Poot?

Hoodat · « **Reply #1252 on:** June 19, 2022, 06:56:21 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on June 19, 2022, 02:31:22 am

The thing that ALWAYS fries my fritters about this crap is that it is ALWAYS the innocents that die,in AND out of uniform

It is even worse when civilians are being purposely targeted.

sneakypete · « **Reply #1253 on:** June 19, 2022, 08:25:12 pm »

Quote from: Hoodat on June 19, 2022, 06:56:21 pm

It is even worse when civilians are being purposely targeted.

@Hoodat

I disagree. A soldier is nothing more than a civilian in uniform,who is following the orders of his superiors.

They ain't made in some "soldier factory."

libertybele · « **Reply #1254 on:** June 20, 2022, 01:34:38 am »

NATO's chief has it wrong!!! The U.S.A. cannot afford to keep throwing billions of $$$ at this war.

Ukraine war could last for years, warns Nato chief

The West must prepare to continue supporting Ukraine in a war lasting for years, Nato's chief has warned.

Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the costs of war were high, but the price of letting Moscow achieve its military goals was even greater.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also warned of a longer-term conflict.

And in a stark warning, the newly appointed head of the British Army said the UK and allies needed to be capable of winning a ground war with Russia.

Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, who started the job last week, said in an internal message seen by the BBC: "Russia's invasion of Ukraine underlines our core purpose - to protect the UK and to be ready to fight and win wars on land - and reinforces the requirement to deter Russian aggression with the threat of force."

Mr Stoltenberg and Mr Johnson said sending more weapons would make a victory for Ukraine more likely............

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61856144

Hoodat · « **Reply #1255 on:** June 20, 2022, 01:40:00 am »

Quote from: libertybele on June 20, 2022, 01:34:38 am

Ukraine war could last for years, warns Nato chief

Only if Biden gets his way.

Hoodat · « **Reply #1256 on:** June 20, 2022, 03:28:45 am »

My apologies for the rough translation. The appointed head of the Kherson occupation government was assassinated by Kherson locals.

У Херсоні підірвали автівку начальника колонії, який перейшов на бік росіян

РОМАН ПЕТРЕНКО — СУБОТА, 18 ЧЕРВНЯ 2022, 13:36

On Admiral Senyavin Avenue in Kherson, the car of the collaborator and head of the correctional colony Evgeny Sobolev exploded, the occupiers say that this is the work of "Ukrainian partisans".

Media write that the explosive device, which was attached to a tree, detonated on the car. The driver is still alive.

The Russian military announced the terrorist attack of Ukrainian partisans. . .

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/06/18/7353239/

Kamaji · « **Reply #1257 on:** June 20, 2022, 10:07:45 am »

Quote from: Hoodat on June 20, 2022, 03:28:45 am

My apologies for the rough translation. The appointed head of the Kherson occupation government was assassinated by Kherson locals.

У Херсоні підірвали автівку начальника колонії, який перейшов на бік росіян

РОМАН ПЕТРЕНКО — СУБОТА, 18 ЧЕРВНЯ 2022, 13:36

On Admiral Senyavin Avenue in Kherson, the car of the collaborator and head of the correctional colony Evgeny Sobolev exploded, the occupiers say that this is the work of "Ukrainian partisans".

Media write that the explosive device, which was attached to a tree, detonated on the car. The driver is still alive.

The Russian military announced the terrorist attack of Ukrainian partisans. . .

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/06/18/7353239/

Kamaji · « **Reply #1258 on:** June 20, 2022, 12:47:30 pm »

Ukrainians blast Russian tank and two armoured vehicles with US-donated M777 howitzer as 'fierce battles' rage for eastern city of Severodonetsk

By WALTER FINCH FOR MAILONLINE
18 June 2022

Western-made weapons are starting to tell on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine as US-donated howitzers obliterate Russian tanks in the raging battle for Severodonetsk.

A video released by Ukraine's military shows artillery fire destroying a tank and two BMP infantry fighting vehicles as deadly precise shells rain in on them from up to 25 miles away.

Artillerymen of the 81st Airmobile Brigade were operating the US-donated, British-built M777 howitzer on the front lines around the eastern city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region.

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Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10929841/Ukrainians-blast-Russian-tanks-donated-M777-howitzer-fierce-battles-rage-east.html

Hoodat · « **Reply #1259 on:** June 20, 2022, 12:58:20 pm »

Russia blockading Ukrainian grain is a 'real war crime' - EU

2 hours ago

Russia's blockade of millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain is a "real war crime", says EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

"It is inconceivable - one cannot imagine that millions of tonnes of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world people are suffering hunger," Mr Borrell said.

"We call on Russia to deblockade the [Ukrainian] ports."

EU foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis.

Western countries have demanded Russia stop blockading Ukraine's Black Sea ports and allow vast stores of grain to reach world markets.

The blockade has sparked warnings that tens of millions of people are at risk of famine and sent food prices soaring. . .

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61864049

Hoodat · « **Reply #1260 on:** June 20, 2022, 01:07:45 pm »

'We need serious equipment and more tanks', says commander defending Severodonetsk

The commander of Ukraine's Svoboda or Freedom Battalion says "Russian tanks are hitting us from a distance of two kilometres and hiding behind buildings".

John Sparks, Lysychansk | 17 June 2022 23:22, UK

It's dark in the bunker and the air is thick with smoke.

There is not much room to move around with wooden crates full of weapons and cigarettes stacked in every available space.

The living conditions are hardly ideal but the commander of Ukraine's Svoboda or Freedom Battalion does not seem worried.

His name is Petro Kuzyk, a former politician and environmental activist who is now helping to lead the defence of the city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. . . .

. . . "We need serious equipment and need more tanks," he adds. "At the moment, we're getting equipment for infantry soldiers. As a result, we have to fight a guerrilla war."

He offers a critique of his arsenal - that it is not big or powerful enough.

"The (British) NLAW destroys a tank from a distance of 400 metres," he says.

"The (US) Javelin doesn't work in a city where you have a lot of debris. You need field conditions. But Russian tanks are hitting us from a distance of two kilometres and hiding behind buildings.

"To destroy them we have to ambush them under constant artillery fire. It means constant losses." . .

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-we-need-serious-equipment-and-more-tanks-says-commander-defending-severodonetsk-12635951

bilo · « **Reply #1261 on:** June 20, 2022, 03:02:10 pm »

Quote from: Hoodat on June 20, 2022, 03:28:45 am

My apologies for the rough translation. The appointed head of the Kherson occupation government was assassinated by Kherson locals.

У Херсоні підірвали автівку начальника колонії, який перейшов на бік росіян

РОМАН ПЕТРЕНКО — СУБОТА, 18 ЧЕРВНЯ 2022, 13:36

On Admiral Senyavin Avenue in Kherson, the car of the collaborator and head of the correctional colony Evgeny Sobolev exploded, the occupiers say that this is the work of "Ukrainian partisans".

Media write that the explosive device, which was attached to a tree, detonated on the car. The driver is still alive.

The Russian military announced the terrorist attack of Ukrainian partisans. . .

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/06/18/7353239/

Hopefully the Ukrainians will be able to continue these attacks behind enemy lines. The Russians are supposedly transporting large numbers of Ukrainians to parts unknown in Russia. I'm sure part of this is to send a message to those left behind that they better comply with the new order or face the same treatment.

Hoodat · « **Reply #1262 on:** June 20, 2022, 08:54:29 pm »

Ukraine hits oil Crimean drilling platforms, pro-Russian regional head says

June 20, 2022 | 8:06 AM EDT

June 20 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces attacked drilling platforms in the Black Sea owned by a Crimean oil and gas company, the pro-Russian head of the annexed peninsula said on Monday, giving no details of what weapons were used.

Three people were wounded and a search was under way for seven workers from the Chernomorneftegaz energy company, Sergei Askyonov, the Russian-installed head of Crimea, said in a post on Telegram.

Crimean officials said work on three drilling platforms had been suspended after the hit, with fires reported.

Reuters was unable to immediately verify the reports. Ukraine's military declined to comment. . .

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-hits-oil-crimean-drilling-platforms-pro-russian-regional-head-says-2022-06-20/

Hoodat · « **Reply #1263 on:** June 21, 2022, 01:59:59 pm »

Russian journalist's Nobel medal sells for $103.5m

5 hours ago

The Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal for $103.5m (£84m).

Dmitry Muratov said all the money from the sale would go to help refugees from the war in Ukraine.

Muratov was co-awarded the peace prize in 2021 for defending freedom of expression in Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61879343

I hope that the person with the highest bid returns the medal to Muratov once the war is over.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1264 on:** June 21, 2022, 02:00:45 pm »

Quote from: Hoodat on June 21, 2022, 01:59:59 pm

Russian journalist's Nobel medal sells for $103.5m

5 hours ago

The Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal for $103.5m (£84m).

Dmitry Muratov said all the money from the sale would go to help refugees from the war in Ukraine.

Muratov was co-awarded the peace prize in 2021 for defending freedom of expression in Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61879343

I hope that the person with the highest bid returns the medal to Muratov once the war is over.

Must be one of the first times a Nobel Peace Prize was good for something.

Right_in_Virginia · « **Reply #1265 on:** June 21, 2022, 02:39:37 pm »

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sneakypete · « **Reply #1266 on:** June 21, 2022, 03:51:59 pm »

Quote from: Hoodat on June 21, 2022, 01:59:59 pm

Russian journalist's Nobel medal sells for $103.5m

5 hours ago

The Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal for $103.5m (£84m).

Dmitry Muratov said all the money from the sale would go to help refugees from the war in Ukraine.

Muratov was co-awarded the peace prize in 2021 for defending freedom of expression in Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61879343

I hope that the person with the highest bid returns the medal to Muratov once the war is over.

@Hoodat

WOW! A public official,from freaking RUSSIA of all places,dares to stand up for truth in public,and even uses his own fortune to help those in another nation survive while trying to become free.

About 95 percent of the US Congress and Senate need to bow their heads in shame because not a single damn one of them have the sense of personal honor of this man in Russia.

Hoodat · « **Reply #1267 on:** June 21, 2022, 04:39:54 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on June 21, 2022, 03:51:59 pm

@Hoodat

WOW! A public official,from freaking RUSSIA of all places,dares to stand up for truth in public,and even uses his own fortune to help those in another nation survive while trying to become free.

About 95 percent of the US Congress and Senate need to bow their heads in shame because not a single damn one of them have the sense of personal honor of this man in Russia.

Yep.

Hoodat · « **Reply #1268 on:** June 21, 2022, 05:42:04 pm »

Checkpoints, Disappearances, Interrogations: Life In Occupied Kherson

Olga SHYLENKO | June 21, 2022

Alyona Lapchuk spent weeks looking for her husband before she found out he was dead when his body turned up in a river in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson.

Speaking by phone to an AFP journalist in Europe, Lapchuk said her husband Vitaliy had gone missing after he was interrogated by Russian troops in Kherson, their hometown near Moscow-annexed Crimea.

The city in southern Ukraine, which had 300,000 inhabitants before the war, fell into Russian hands barely a week into the invasion and has since been virtually cut off from the outside world.

When the fighting began, Vitaliy Lapchuk, 48, was working in Kyiv and he rushed back home to join the city's territorial defence.

And on March 27, some three weeks after it fell, he simply disappeared.

Lapchuk, 54, said she repeatedly tried to call him but he never answered.

"I called again and again. Suddenly, the calls started being rejected, and I realised we had a problem," she told AFP from the safety of a new location inside Ukraine-held territory, without saying where.

Hours later, three cars marked with the letter Z -- the symbol used by Russian troops in Ukraine -- stopped outside her home and she went out to the gate.

The soldiers pulled her husband out of one of the cars, but she almost didn't recognise him because his face was drenched in blood.

Entering the house at gunpoint, they removed phones and laptops. All her husband was able to say to her was that they had promised him they "wouldn't lay a hand on the family".

Then they put a bag over the head of their eldest son, who is 34, and did the same to her and her husband.

"I will never forget the look on Vitaliy's face when those bags were put over our heads," she said.

"I never saw my husband's face again."

After being questioned, she says they were dumped under a bridge and when they took off the bags, she and her son were alone.

For more than two months, they heard nothing.

Then on June 9, she was told some fishermen had found his body at the bottom of a river, his feet weighed down with a rock. . . .

https://www.barrons.com/news/checkpoints-disappearances-interrogations-life-in-occupied-kherson-01655794207

Hoodat · « **Reply #1269 on:** June 21, 2022, 05:50:44 pm »

Ukrainian Military Pushed Back Invaders From First Line Of Defense In Kherson Region

Даша Зубкова | 20 JUNE 2022, MONDAY, 14:37

The Ukrainian military pushed back the Russian invaders from the first line of defense in Kherson region. Now the enemy is fortifying on the second and third lines of defense. This was stated by the adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Serhii Khlan, Espresso reports.
Thus, Khlan reported that the invaders were gaining a foothold on the coast of the Inhulets river.

"The Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered accurate strikes on the warehouses located in the rear. In Nova Kakhovka, there was a precise hit on the enemy's ammunition depots 3 times in a row. Near Sofiyevka, near the village of Davydiv Brid, there were counteroffensive actions. There, the enemy is gaining a foothold on the coast of the Inhulets river," he said.

According to him, in Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had an advantage over the Russian military.

"Along the entire front line, we had an advantage for 2 weeks. This was coordinated together with the partisan movement, which is intensifying in the occupied Kherson region and operating together with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. . .

https://ukranews.com/en/news/864024-ukrainian-military-pushed-back-invaders-from-first-line-of-defense-in-kherson-region

Due to lack of heavy equipment, Ukraine is beginning to adopt guerilla tactics against Russia. Again, we could have been providing such training and assistance since Feb. But no.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1270 on:** June 22, 2022, 01:10:04 pm »

Ukraine deals 'significant' blow to Putin's Black Sea forces after pounding Snake Island garrison - as British intelligence outlines Russia's 'extraordinary' losses during invasion

By JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE
22 June 2022

Ukraine has claimed a 'significant' victory against Putin's Black Sea forces after pounding the Russian garrison on the strategic Snake Island.

The southern operational command said it had 'aimed strikes with the use of various forces' on the island, causing major losses to Kremlin troops.

Satellite images show the damage wrought by Kyiv forces, with burning vegetation and a tower destroyed in the fight for the island.

The Russian Pantsir anti-aircraft system, a radar station and vehicles were all damaged in the attacks on the island which has been a major battleground throughout the war.

It is just the latest blow for Putin who has suffered 'extraordinary' losses with pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk losing 55 per cent of its troops, British intelligence said today.

The Ministry of Defence said Russia's outdated weapons and equipment have hampered their success, and the Kremlin will now have to deploy reserve units to the Donbas to make up for the losses.

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Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10940985/Ukraine-deals-significant-blow-Putins-Black-Sea-forces-pounding-Snake-Island-garrison.html

Kamaji · « **Reply #1271 on:** June 22, 2022, 01:11:51 pm »

Dramatic moment Ukrainian kamikaze drone ploughs in to major oil refinery inside Russian territory sparking huge fireball explosion

By WILL STEWART FOR MAILONLINE
22 June 2022

A Ukrainian kamikaze drone today ploughed in to a major oil refinery inside Russian territory, sparking a huge fireball explosion.

Footage shows the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying at a low-level height towards the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in the Rostov region, which borders Ukraine.

Video then shows the drone striking the oil refinery, causing a massive explosion which was heard ten miles away.

Flames engulfed the building and black smoke poured from the key strategic facilities, located some four miles from the pro-Putin puppet state Luhansk People's Republic in Ukraine.

Russian workers, who unwittingly filmed the drone strike, were heard laughing at the sight of the drone as it flew close to them - but they panicked and swore repeatedly after it struck the refinery, with one shouting 'f*****g run away'.

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Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10941085/Dramatic-moment-Ukrainian-kamikaze-drone-ploughs-major-oil-refinery-inside-Russian-territory.html

bilo · « **Reply #1272 on:** June 22, 2022, 03:33:28 pm »

Quote from: Hoodat on June 21, 2022, 05:42:04 pm

Checkpoints, Disappearances, Interrogations: Life In Occupied Kherson

Olga SHYLENKO | June 21, 2022

Alyona Lapchuk spent weeks looking for her husband before she found out he was dead when his body turned up in a river in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson.

Speaking by phone to an AFP journalist in Europe, Lapchuk said her husband Vitaliy had gone missing after he was interrogated by Russian troops in Kherson, their hometown near Moscow-annexed Crimea.

The city in southern Ukraine, which had 300,000 inhabitants before the war, fell into Russian hands barely a week into the invasion and has since been virtually cut off from the outside world.

When the fighting began, Vitaliy Lapchuk, 48, was working in Kyiv and he rushed back home to join the city's territorial defence.

And on March 27, some three weeks after it fell, he simply disappeared.

Lapchuk, 54, said she repeatedly tried to call him but he never answered.

"I called again and again. Suddenly, the calls started being rejected, and I realised we had a problem," she told AFP from the safety of a new location inside Ukraine-held territory, without saying where.

Hours later, three cars marked with the letter Z -- the symbol used by Russian troops in Ukraine -- stopped outside her home and she went out to the gate.

The soldiers pulled her husband out of one of the cars, but she almost didn't recognise him because his face was drenched in blood.

Entering the house at gunpoint, they removed phones and laptops. All her husband was able to say to her was that they had promised him they "wouldn't lay a hand on the family".

Then they put a bag over the head of their eldest son, who is 34, and did the same to her and her husband.

"I will never forget the look on Vitaliy's face when those bags were put over our heads," she said.

"I never saw my husband's face again."

After being questioned, she says they were dumped under a bridge and when they took off the bags, she and her son were alone.

For more than two months, they heard nothing.

Then on June 9, she was told some fishermen had found his body at the bottom of a river, his feet weighed down with a rock. . . .

https://www.barrons.com/news/checkpoints-disappearances-interrogations-life-in-occupied-kherson-01655794207

Sure sounds like the old USSR is back.

Anyone who doesn't want to see Russia defeated in Ukraine needs to have their head examined. The outcry shouldn't be about the amount of money being thrown around it should be about why isn't that money being used to procure weapons to kill the Russians.

Hoodat · « **Reply #1273 on:** June 22, 2022, 05:25:24 pm »

Quote from: bilo on June 22, 2022, 03:33:28 pm

The outcry shouldn't be about the amount of money being thrown around it should be about why isn't that money being used to procure weapons to kill the Russians.

Yep.

mountaineer · « **Reply #1274 on:** June 22, 2022, 10:29:16 pm »

Chinese state-sponsored media are taking offense at propaganda.

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