Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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The Ukrainian artillery team was moving into position in the northern Donbas region, along the front line near Izium. The soldiers did not even have time to orient their guns before they were found by a Russian drone.
The first Russian 152 mm shells – fired by howitzers more than 10 miles away – landed near the Ukrainian guns. As the artillery team ran for safety, its vehicle was hit and set on fire.
The driver, badly wounded, veered straight into bushes as shells rained down. The survivors escaped on foot, across open fields.
Roman, a young artilleryman with a short patchy beard, recalled the events from a darkened military hospital room in Kramatorsk, his eyes glazed and an intravenous drip in his left arm, as he recovered from blast concussion. He gave only his first name, in keeping with Ukrainian military rules for wounded soldiers.
The biggest surprise for him? “That I am still alive here, after that shelling,” he says listlessly, closing his eyes and lying back on his bed.
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Russia has escalated its shelling in an apparent bid to advance on the eastern region both from the Izium axis in the north and up from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south. The pincers movement seeks to cut off some of Ukraine’s most battle-hardened forces ..
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In Roman’s unit the driver is dead, the commander is in intensive care, another artilleryman has shrapnel wounds, and the rest are concussed, like Roman.
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“Their artillery never, never stops,” says the deputy commander of Ukraine’s Donbas Battalion, a major who only gave the nickname Kot (Cat). He spoke in Sloviansk with a balaclava covering his face, as an air raid siren wailed across the city.
“They are changing their strategy, but it is still what we would expect from Russia,” says Major Kot. There are no more long, vulnerable columns: “They are sending recon units, then shell with artillery, and then send tanks,” he says. “If those tanks are destroyed, they send more tanks.”
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“We really have a lack of heavy artillery,” says Ukrainian Sgt. Viktor Davydov, still wired and speaking quickly of Ukraine’s needs, after returning to the town of Druzhkivka from the front, where he says Russian artillery strikes continue “24/7.”
“When Russia sends incoming 200 shells, we send back 10 shells,” says Sergeant Davydov, who wears sunglasses, a pistol on his thigh, and a skull shoulder patch in the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag.
His job is to take freshly mobilized men to the front “to show them not to be afraid,” and to teach them “how to dig in and make very effective defensive positions” to compensate for the firepower imbalance with Russia.
“I tell them that all they have to do is hold our line, and not retreat,” says Sergeant Davydov. The cost can be high. The sergeant recalls 10 recruits in late April being sent to him one night at 11 p.m. By 6 a.m. two were dead and three wounded by Russian artillery.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0504/Russian-war-s-Phase-2
-How-Ukraine-troops-adapt-giving-little-ground
Originally found in a larger article at https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraines-forces-are-told-to-hold
-the-line-where-russian-artillery-is-pulverizing-them.html
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KYIV, Ukraine, May 6 (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Friday there was compelling evidence that Russian troops had committed war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area outside Ukraine's capital in February and March.
Civilians also suffered abuses such as "reckless shootings and torture" at the hands of Russian forces during their failed onslaught on Kyiv in the early stages of the invasion launched by the Kremlin on Feb. 24, the rights group said in a report.
"These are not isolated incidents. These are very much part of a pattern wherever Russian forces were in control of a town or a village," Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's senior crisis response adviser, told a news conference in Kyiv.
Information collected by the group "can be used, hopefully, for holding the perpetrators to account, if not today, one day in the future", she said.
Russia, which calls its invasion a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and protect it from fascists, denies its forces committed abuses.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/amnesty-says-evidence-shows-russi
an-troops-committed-war-crimes-near-kyiv-2022-05-06/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Any "news" outfit that is going to look you straight in the face and tell you that men and women with mental issues are the opposite sex while their genitalia says otherwise and also tell you that you need to call people with other mental issues by their preferred non-male/female pronouns isn't going to be taken seriously on their opinions of war either.
Until the day that there is a little bit of sanity injected into the 2020's, everything they have to say about anything is sus.
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HRW made up gripping,detailed stories about Qaddafi's "crimes" which were entirely fictitious.
OPCW upper-ups rewrote a report to say that "Assad gassed his own people" and it wasn't until a technical whistleblower came forward that we heard THEY thought it was staged.
Ex MI6, the Justice Department and its minions in the FBI lied endlessly about Trump!Russia!collusion!
After all of these international community lies by government and NGO establishment, do you really think I give a rats ass what Amnesty International says?
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What happened to Sergei Lavrov? Foreign ministers come in one of two types: those who matter and those who don’t. Most foreign ministers do a lot of flying and cocktailing but never remap borders, ignite wars or end them. And when such dramas do happen, the foreign ministers are mostly supporting actors in someone else’s show.
But when Russian leaders turn to antisemitism, it means things are going bad, and are set to get worse.
In Russia there is a time-honored formula for changing the subject: talk about the Jews.
That is what the tsars did when they failed to give their people the opportunities and dignity that the era’s competing empires offered in abundance. That was the context in which one of antisemitism’s most notorious tools, the pogrom, was engineered by tsarist officials, and that’s how its literary companion, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was concocted by tsarist spooks.
The tsarist number was then repeated by the Soviet Union, in 1967.
Pressed to explain its Middle Eastern clients’ defeat and their Soviet-made equipment’s trouncing, the Kremlin launched a massive antisemitic assault through its vast network of print and broadcast media, all of which now depicted Israel as a colonialist bloodsucker, imperialist stooge and fascist scourge.
Today’s Kremlin is, fortunately, distant from that legacy. However, Lavrov’s quip to Italian TV that “the most ardent antisemites are usually Jews” and that Hitler was partly Jewish is a throwback to the mindset that drove it.
Judging by recent days’ commotion, Lavrov might think he actually changed the subject. Well that’s also what the tsars thought in their days, and the Communists in theirs, only to soon see that reality remained stubbornly unchanged, and grim.
In fact, the more the regime abused the Jews the more it lost control of events. That is why we know that just like the pogroms didn’t prevent tsarism’s downfall, and just like defaming Israel didn’t prevent Communism’s collapse, Lavrov’s antisemitic broadsides will not offset his Ukrainian defeat.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-706001
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Quote:Is that your answer to Russian war crimes? Denial that crimes were committed? Call everybody a liar? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responds: “All of these crimes will be answered, legally and quite practically – on the battlefield.”
Originally posted by SignyM:
After all of these international community lies by government NGO establishment, do you really think I give a rats ass what Amnesty International says?
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Nobody cares.
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SignyM:
After all of these international community lies by government NGO establishment, do you really think I give a rats ass what Amnesty International says?
SECOND: Is that your answer to alleged Russian war crimes?
Yep. Same as my answer to Saddam's ALLEGED "WMD", and Assad's ALLEGED "war crimes", and Qaddafi's ALLEGED "crimes against humanity" and Trump's ALLEGED "collusion" (whichever word or phrase you care to use.)
Maybe if you weren't such a sociopathic liar you'd have more respect for truth.
And maybe if you lived by truth (instead of the lies you tell yourself) you wouldn't be so fucked up in the head.
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From that thumbnail I think the most interesting thing going on in Ukraine is that puppet President* Z finally found a suit.
Guess he still can't find a shirt and tie to go along with it though, huh?
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