Russian troops advance in Ukraine as Kyiv runs low on air defenses

[NoWokeBloke]

This site really does have some impressively stupid posters with far to much confidence in themselves.

I don't call them shitlibs for nothing!

 

[MitchLL]

Republicans don't like Ukraine/Zelenske because they blame him for Trump's first impeachment.

Notice how I had to specify "first impeachment"?

 

[Tom Paris]

Republicans will bear the blame if Putin wins, and the west will be forced into WWIII to stop his next conquests. Deplorable does not begin to describe their irresponsibility. Their cowardice and betrayal are beyond reprehensible:

As Ukrainian officials plead for more Western arms and a U.S. aid package remains stalled in Congress, Russia is advancing on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, seizing new territory and intensifying attacks to capture the town of Chasiv Yar and others in the Donetsk region.

Away from the front line, Ukraine’s dwindling air defense capabilities are showing vulnerabilities, as more Russian missiles and drones are able to hit targets such as critical infrastructure facilities.

Outside Kyiv — considered Ukraine’s best-protected city — the largest power plant serving the capital was destroyed Thursday, stoking concerns that Ukraine might be running out of surface-to-air missiles to counter the Russian airstrikes.
“We need air defense systems and other defense assistance, not just turning a blind eye and having lengthy discussions,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.


For months, Ukrainian military personnel have described the battlefield situation as dire due to a shortage of weapons and soldiers amid a renewed Russian offensive. They have reported increased Russian bombardment using guided air bombs, dropped from their planes onto Ukrainian military positions.



With resources running low, this assault in eastern Ukraine could threaten larger towns and cities such as Kostiantynivka, just west of Chasiv Yar — potentially advancing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal of seizing the entire Donetsk region, which he has already declared, illegally, to be annexed by Russia.

Chasiv Yar — west of the city of Bakhmut, which Russia’s Wagner mercenaries captured and occupied nearly a year ago — is now the new focus of Moscow’s forces, commanders fighting in the area said.
“They systematically try to advance,” said a deputy battalion commander in the 24th Separate Assault Battalion, better known as Aidar. The Washington Post agreed to identify the commander by his call sign, Chichen, in keeping with Ukrainian military protocol.

“We now see, due to their assaults, a large number of [Russian] armored vehicles knocked out on the outskirts,” Chichen said, adding that on Friday morning, some 20 units of heavy equipment were part of the Russian assault.


“Literally six months ago, this did not happen here,” he said. “Now there is a lot of burned-out

Ukraine’s worsening battlefield situation has coincided with Republicans in Congress blocking, for more than six months, $60 billion in security aid for Ukraine proposed by President Biden. During that time, Russia has regained the offensive initiative, initially by overtaking the town of Avdiivka in February.

Moscow’s forces have continued to advance past Avdiivka in the southern part of the Donetsk region. And on a separate axis, they are now encroaching on Chasiv Yar — a two-pronged attack.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials are concerned that Russia is preparing to mobilize hundreds of thousands more soldiers for another potential offensive in the northeast, toward Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Kharkiv in recent weeks has been pummeled repeatedly by missiles, and strikes on energy infrastructure have disrupted electrical service.


Elsewhere in the southeast, Ukrainian forces have been fighting to maintain the few gains they made during a counteroffensive last summer, towns such as Robotyne, south of the city of Zaporizhzhia.



Ukrainian and Western officials have warned that without the U.S. support — particularly in providing air defense and artillery ammunition — Ukraine’s defense along the front line could crumble
Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the top U.S. general overseeing military operations in Europe, warned U.S. lawmakers this week that Russia is expected to hold a 10-1 advantage on artillery shells “within weeks.”
Oleksander, a Ukrainian battalion commander fighting on the left flank of Chasiv Yar, said Russians are now assaulting the town directly as well as other villages at its edges. He spoke on the condition that only his first name be used because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

In recent days, the Russians had reached the outskirts of the town, he said, and he predicted that if Ukraine does not withdraw from Chasiv Yar the end of the month, fighting will probably already be taking place in the town’s center.

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MAGA thinks it’s funny. Russian toys.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

I don't call them shitlibs for nothing!

My opinion is not a partisan one, clearly I belong in the grouping as well.

 

[billanole]

We are 2+ years in now? With zero end game strategy... but yeah.. it's the Republicans for not just sending blank checks.

Remind me again which side has people activily cheating for hamas?


How much money do we need to send foe Ukraine to win? A trillion dollars get it done? Or do they spend that and then tell us they need more?

If russkie takes Ukraine, you will find out how much money it takes to stop pootie.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

If Republicans didn't pull the plug then this might be over already. But here we are so quit crying about how it's taking too long when your side is the reason it has taken so long. And a trillion dollars is worth it to not have to fight WWIII. This isn't Iraq where we engaged in a crappy war of choice with no clear goal to accomplish rather than oil or something. This is to remove Russia from Ukraine. Something we could achieve if the traitors you keep voting for would just get out of the way.

Pull the plug?

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Remember how tough MAGAland is about Iran though? On a scale of threats to America, Iran ranks somewhere in the "LOL" region.

 

[MichaelKeller99]

We were in Iraq and Afghanistan for close to two decades. Those were Republican started wars so right wingers never were concerned about “end game” or cost.

Uhh, the ‘left’ wing of the UniParty gave their blessing to the clusterf*#k(s) in Iraq and Afghanistan. Your revisionist history needs reviving.

The Democrats' Support for Bush's War - FPIF

The capitulation of the Democratic Party’s congressional leadership to the Bush administration’s request for nearly $100 billion of unconditional supplementary government spending, primarily to support the war in Iraq, has led to outrage throughout the country. In the Senate, 37 of 49 Democrats...

fpif.org

It’s odd how people think Putin - who’s in his 20th year as president of Russia - is going to move against all of NATO as soon as he’s done with Ukraine. An army that is mired down in a two year occupation against a ragtag army of mercenaries and aging conscripts, entirely dependent on ‘donations’ from American taxpayers, is going to conquer all of Europe?

Do you people even read the bs you spew? There’s no bigger war-mongering (or hypocritical) country in the world than the US.

The US has been at war 225 out of 243 years since 1776 - The Transnational

Edward Kienholz, "Portable War Memorial," 1968 Sabir Shah April 14, 2022 The US Has Been at war for more than 92 percent of the time The American

transnational.live

 

[BioHawk]

I don't speak for the right.

Well amazingly they all say pretty much the same things you say.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Well amazingly they all say pretty much the same things you say.

No they don't. The neocons are in lockstep with you guys on this.

 

[bhawk24bob]

This should be one where the details and blame get sorted out later but right now, it's Europe's immediate ass on the line and all of the countries that like to spend money on everything but national defense need to be the ones stepping up to the plate. France, Britain, and a couple of the nordic countries seem to get it.

 

[sober_teacher]

No they don't. The neocons are in lockstep with you guys on this.

Who in DC would you consider to be a neocon? There don’t seem to be many traditional republicans left.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

The left which is radically up Bidens ass will blame Republicans...so???

Start from the top. Ukraine is where the blame lies. They didnt try and and harness extreme corruption, otherwise they would be EU. No war if that happened. Their military is suffering from current corruption.

Starr with high numbers of draft dodgers. They dont want to die for oligarchs Start with moms standing in the way of sons under 25 dying for oligarchs.

Start with Ukraine having a terrible military pre war. Start with ww2 and the far right siding with Germany. We fought Ukrainians in Normandy.
Start with the general population being afraid of Azov, Right Sector, and Svoboda.

Start there first.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

The left which is radically up Bidens ass will blame Republicans...so???

Start from the top. Ukraine is where the blame lies. They didnt try and and harness extreme corruption, otherwise they would be EU. No war if that happened. Their military is suffering from current corruption.

Starr with high numbers of draft dodgers. They dont want to die for oligarchs Start with moms standing in the way of sons under 25 dying for oligarchs.

Start with Ukraine having a terrible military pre war. Start with ww2 and the far right siding with Germany. We fought Ukrainians in Normandy.
Start with the general population being afraid of Azov, Right Sector, and Svoboda.

Start there first.

Nah, this is Putin's aggression, and it had no justification.

 

[seminole97]

Nah, this is Putin's aggression, and it had no justification.

Your error is conflating justification and motive.

OJ had motive, he didn't have justification.
Putin has a motive, he doesn't have justification.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

Nah, this is Putin's aggression, and it had no justification.

Your head is up Bidens ass. Of course its about Putin aggression. But its also about Ukraine. The mess wouldnt be here without other factors which are purely Ukrainian.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

Your head is up Bidens ass. Of course its about Putin aggression. But its also about Ukraine. The mess wouldnt be here without other factors which are purely Ukrainian.

It doesn't actually have anything to do with Biden and has been in motion since Bush 2 was in office. Maybe instead of worrying about where my head is located, you should glance around at your surroundings?

 

[fsu1jreed]

War of attrition. The Russians wrote the book on it.

NATO creep as well as getting involved in Ukrainian politics has its consequences.

And I'll say this one more time. Any person who thinks the U.S. should enter WW3 over a former soviet republic should have their heads examined.

Lmao

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

Lmao

You must be stupid.

 

[fsu1jreed]

Your head is up Bidens ass. Of course its about Putin aggression. But its also about Ukraine. The mess wouldnt be here without other factors which are purely Ukrainian.

You're in a cult, seek help

 

[fsu1jreed]

You must be stupid.

Lol, maybe, but you're fvcking gullible which is far worse

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

You're in a cult, seek help

Nice gaslight. You are still stupid with your head up Bidens ass.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

Lol, maybe, but you're fvcking gullible which is far worse

Im sure Ive lived in Ukraine longer than you. You arevstill stupid and incapable of dialog.

 

[fsu1jreed]

Nixe gaslight. You are still stupid with your head up Bidens ass.

Better than a piece of shit rapist traitor...but I don't expect piece of shit MAGA'S like you to use logic

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

Lol, maybe, but you're fvcking gullible which is far worse

And get your gullible head out of Bidens ass. Wag the dog.

 

[fsu1jreed]

Im sure Ive lived in Ukraine longer than you. You arevstill stupid and incapable of dialog.

Lmao..rich coming from MAGA

 

[BioHawk]

No they don't. The neocons are in lockstep with you guys on this.

Yeah, it's pretty sad when even the Bush warmongers are more sane than you people are.

 

[seminole97]

It doesn't actually have anything to do with Biden and has been in motion since Bush 2 was in office. Maybe instead of worrying about where my head is located, you should glance around at your surroundings?

You’re right the neocons have pushed this since Bush II.
Biden decided to festoon his cabinet with neocons.
Is there a foreign intervention Biden ever opposed?

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Yeah, it's pretty sad when even the Bush warmongers are more sane than you people are.

Just listen to yourself.