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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1350 on: January 26, 2025, 05:27:18 pm »
Gloating over their deaths. Sick.

Let me know when there's any outrage for Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian POWs, beheading their corpses, and planting their heads on spikes for the cameras.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1351 on: January 26, 2025, 05:54:20 pm »
Feigning Retreat, Ukrainian Troops Lured Attacking Russians Into A Devastating HIMARS Ambush

The ambush in Kursk helps explain Russia’s high casualties in the oblast.

David Axe  |  Jan 25, 2025  |  09:41pm EST



225th Assault Battalion capture

Feigning defeat and retreat, soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s 225th Assault Battalion lured a large Russian force into a trap in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast on or just before Thursday.

As the overconfident Russians surged forward into a treeline just outside the village of Sverdlikovo, possibly believing they were finally about to take control of the long-contested village, a Ukrainian High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System rocket launcher took aim from potentially tens of miles away.

As a Ukrainian drone observed, an M30/31 rocket scattered scores of grenade-sized bomblets across the treeline. “The strike destroyed a significant part of the enemy’s manpower, and our groups returned to complete the clearing of the territory,” the 225th Assault Battalion reported.

The Thursday ambush, the result of careful coordination between the battalion headquarters and its front-line companies and an adjacent artillery brigade, helps explain why Russian and North Korean casualties have been so high in the three months since the 60,000-strong Russian-led army in Kursk redoubled its efforts to eject 20,000 Ukrainian troops from the 250-square-mile salient they have occupied in Kursk since August.  .  .  .

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/01/25/feigning-retreat-ukrainian-troops-lured-attacking-russians-into-a-devastating-himars-ambush/
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1352 on: January 26, 2025, 06:09:04 pm »
They were invaders who targeted civilian hospitals, schools, playgrounds, apartments, and even pedestrians. They earned what they received.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1353 on: January 26, 2025, 08:21:09 pm »
There is plenty of outrage for it, haven't seen it though, so thanks(?) for the tip. I'm well aware that russia has committed numerous war crimes and needs to be held accountable. The individual soldier? The conscript? I don't know, but each side does a good job with their propaganda. I'm sure there's plenty of fingers to point.
War isn't sport, or a damn video game. But you all seem to take a perverse pleasure in seeing people maimed and killed.
And now, the bloodlust is reaching a feverish pitch. Watching russian and ukes being killed isn't enough, we must put more fresh meat into the grinder.
Neocons wanting, no, demanding that we put our sons and daughters in the middle of it.
In a word, eff that.
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« Reply #1354 on: January 26, 2025, 08:46:14 pm »
There is plenty of outrage for it, haven't seen it though, so thanks(?) for the tip. I'm well aware that russia has committed numerous war crimes and needs to be held accountable. The individual soldier? The conscript? I don't know, but each side does a good job with their propaganda. I'm sure there's plenty of fingers to point.
War isn't sport, or a damn video game. But you all seem to take a perverse pleasure in seeing people maimed and killed.
And now, the bloodlust is reaching a feverish pitch. Watching russian and ukes being killed isn't enough, we must put more fresh meat into the grinder.
Neocons wanting, no, demanding that we put our sons and daughters in the middle of it.
In a word, eff that.


Yes, I take a, as you call it, perverse pleasure in seeing evil people getting their just desserts.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1355 on: January 26, 2025, 08:46:40 pm »
There is plenty of outrage for it, haven't seen it though, so thanks(?) for the tip. I'm well aware that russia has committed numerous war crimes and needs to be held accountable. The individual soldier? The conscript? I don't know, but each side does a good job with their propaganda. I'm sure there's plenty of fingers to point.
War isn't sport, or a damn video game. But you all seem to take a perverse pleasure in seeing people maimed and killed.
And now, the bloodlust is reaching a feverish pitch. Watching russian and ukes being killed isn't enough, we must put more fresh meat into the grinder.
Neocons wanting, no, demanding that we put our sons and daughters in the middle of it.
In a word, eff that.

When has the USA ever prevented a war by doing nothing to prevent the war?
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1356 on: January 26, 2025, 09:15:57 pm »

Neocons wanting, no, demanding that we put our sons and daughters in the middle of it.


That's a damned lie.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1357 on: January 26, 2025, 10:38:45 pm »
That's a damned lie.

Sounds like Free Republic, doesn't it?
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1358 on: January 26, 2025, 10:43:16 pm »
There is plenty of outrage for it, haven't seen it though, so thanks(?) for the tip. I'm well aware that russia has committed numerous war crimes and needs to be held accountable. The individual soldier? The conscript? I don't know, but each side does a good job with their propaganda. I'm sure there's plenty of fingers to point.
War isn't sport, or a damn video game. But you all seem to take a perverse pleasure in seeing people maimed and killed.

There are a lot of videos that I purposely do not post here, @SZonian .  Primarily the drone attacks on individuals or anything with gore (including the heads on spikes).  I make it a point of limiting content to attacks on hard targets such as tanks, MRLSs, artillery, trucks, and APCs.  I got some criticism awhile back for some grenades dropped on soldiers, and I have made it a point to keep combat videos focused on ground tactics and operations.

I don't take pleasure in seeing anyone killed.  I just wish Russia would pack up and go home and stop their attacks on Ukrainian schools, malls, and apartments.  And in the case of Kherson, Russian drone attacks on individual civilians.


And now, the bloodlust is reaching a feverish pitch. Watching russian and ukes being killed isn't enough, we must put more fresh meat into the grinder.

You'll have to take that up with Putin.  He is literally sending squads of soldier on crutches to storm Ukrainian positions.


Neocons wanting, no, demanding that we put our sons and daughters in the middle of it.
In a word, eff that.

I don't know who's calling for that.  Even Zelenskiy's comments a few days ago were taken out of context.  Hostilities would have to cease first.  Then we can decide whether to honor Ukraine's entry into the EU and eventually NATO.  They never had that option when Biden or Obama was running the show.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1359 on: January 26, 2025, 10:46:45 pm »
Now for some real outrage:


Video footage appears to show Russians killing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers

Nick Paton Walsh, Kostya Gak, Victoria Butenko and Muhammad Darwish  |  September 6, 2024

CNN
- The troops emerge and stagger into the middle of the dusty track, then onto their knees, their hands placed on their heads. Seconds later, the Ukrainian drone footage shows, they lie face down, motionless, dust trailing nearby.

Video obtained exclusively by CNN, filmed during fighting late August near the embattled city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, shows an apparent execution by Russian troops of three surrendering Ukrainians, after their trench was overrun.

The incident, described by a Ukrainian official who asked for some details to be withheld to protect the identity of the unit, is part of a pattern of apparent executions, seemingly increasing in pace this year.

Ukrainian defense intelligence sources have given CNN a list of 15 cases since November, most supported by drone video or audio intercepts, in which they say surrendering Ukrainian troops were killed by the Russians on the front lines, rather than being taken prisoner.  .  .

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/europe/video-russia-surrendering-ukrainian-soldiers-killed-intl-cmd/index.html
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1360 on: January 26, 2025, 10:55:24 pm »
It's not he who votes that counts.  It's he who counts the votes.


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« Reply #1361 on: January 26, 2025, 10:58:32 pm »
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« Reply #1362 on: January 26, 2025, 11:01:44 pm »
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« Reply #1364 on: January 26, 2025, 11:23:00 pm »
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« Reply #1365 on: January 26, 2025, 11:23:53 pm »
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« Reply #1366 on: January 26, 2025, 11:24:28 pm »
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1368 on: January 27, 2025, 06:09:51 am »
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European Commission stated that Lukashenko's "elections" are fictitious and don't have legitimacy.

Just like Putin's "elections."

And Russian pilots are just crazy reckless, probably reinforced with Vodka.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1369 on: January 27, 2025, 09:48:06 am »
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« Reply #1370 on: January 27, 2025, 09:53:03 am »
And Russian pilots are just crazy reckless, probably reinforced with Vodka.

Many years ago, I got to debrief 2 ruzzian pilots who had defected.

They did not speak highly of their fellow pilots.

I'm guessing that they now live in Wisconsin and speak with a Finnish accent.

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