Russia Declares War on Ukraine<<MOD WARNING>>

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    Of note, minute mark 6:15

     
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    Great Confederate flag carski....you certainly dont disappoint.....Russkis were never creative....much easier to steal others history.:)
    08c[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]
     
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    Ukrainian MP: When the Russians come, "that's when you get a gun and you learn how to shoot it"
    Kira Rudik, a member of Ukraine's parliament, had been going about daily life just a few days ago, holding meetings and discussing legislation even as the threat of a Russian invasion loomed.

    "And then one day, you just know they're coming," said Rudik, speaking to CNN from the capital city Kyiv. "And then you have to do something. And that's when you get a gun and then you learn how to shoot it."
    Rudik posted a photo of herself holding a gun on Twitter late Friday, captioned: "Our women will protect our soil the same way as our men." The post has since circulated widely online, with more than 91,000 likes on Twitter.

    "It was super unusual and super crazy for myself to understand and realize that I'm holding a gun and I'm ready to bear arms, and I'm ready to go and shoot other human beings," Rudik said early Saturday. "And the reason for that change was because Russian soldiers are coming to Kyiv and Russian soldiers are trying to take what is actually not theirs."

    She and her family are now hiding in a bomb shelter as heavy fighting intensifies, with explosions heard and seen in the city in the early hours of Saturday.

    But, she added, "We are actually fighting them very, very hard ... (Putin) underestimated the readiness of our army, and he underestimated that on every step of the way of his soldiers, they were given really hard resistance."

    "People are arming themselves. People are fighting them for every inch of our soil," she said. "We are not leaving because this is our city. This is our country."

    I learn to use #Kalashnikov and prepare to bear arms. It sounds surreal as just a few days ago it would never come to my mind. Our #women will protect our soil the same way as our #men. Go #Ukraine! pic.twitter.com/UbF4JRGlcy

    — Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) February 25, 2022


    Live updates: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-25-22/index.html
     
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    This Russian operation, it should be noted, in no way resembles the "shock and awe" rained down on Baghdad in 2003.

    No doubt there are more Russians dying as a result of this restraint. For instance, Russia could have just had the defenders of Donbas back up a kilometer and then obliterated the contact line and all those within it. Tactics like that could have been used on all fronts and this would be over with by now.
     
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    For the uneducated

    "It's a red flag with a blue Saint Andrew's cross. The flag of the Russian Navy. Of the Navy, which played a prominent military role in the emergence and establishment of the historical Novorossiya."
     
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    The flag is so little known because it was so often under water.
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    During the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Baltic Fleet is nearly destroyed at the Battle of Tsushima Strait. The decisive defeat, in which only 10 of 45 Russian warships escaped to safety, convinced Russian leaders that further resistance against Japan’s imperial designs for East Asia was hopeless. On February 8, 1904, following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launched a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China. It was the first major battle of the 20th century, and the Russian fleet was decimated. During the subsequent war, Japan won a series of decisive victories over the Russians, who underestimated the military potential of its non-Western opponent.


     
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    Ukrainian military says a Russian tank destroyed in western Kyiv
    From Tim Lister in Kyiv

    The Ukrainian military has given its first account of explosions that rocked western Kyiv in the early hours of Saturday morning.

    The Military Law Enforcement Service of Ukraine said that country's the military "destroyed a column of equipment of the occupiers" in the Beresteiska district in Kyiv.

    "According to preliminary information, it is about 2 cars, 2 trucks with ammunition, and also with the help of NLAW anti-tank missiles an enemy tank was destroyed," said the service.
    CNN has not been able to independently verify this account.

    The United Kingdom supplied NLAW anti-tank missiles to Ukraine in the weeks before Russia invaded.​

    Live updates: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-25-22/index.html
     
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    Russians failed to take Kyiv!
    Слава Ураїні!

    RUCK FUSSIA! :machinegun:
     
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    I don't know how many were trying, but it sounds like a lot more are on the way.
     
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    :salute: Vive la résistance! :machinegun:
     
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    If you want to know what Trump said, do the research. What are you afraid of?
    Trump really lost the election because the majority did not want him as President anymore. That would make sense to anyone and that includes you,
     
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    The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is putting his life on the line for this attack. God only knows whether he'll live or die.
     
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    Don't worry. That b'stard will skip out of the country just like the Shah did when he realized that his treachery was no longer tolerable to his own people.

    When the smoke has cleared the Ukrainis will be kissing and embracing Russian soldiers as liberators just as the Italians did when the allies defeated Mussolini.
     
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    That is exactly what the Donetsk and Luhansk residents are doing .....
    [​IMG] ... resisting the fascist Zelensky.[​IMG]
     
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    They literally tried to take Kyiv today and failed! That’s big!
    They also kicked out Russians from major cities!
     
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    It certainly does look that way. I don't think there is any doubt about it.
     
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    Damn, I have a feeling Ukraine will retake Donbas! And, possibly, Crimea!
     
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    Russians are not Americans. When confronted with stiff opposition the Americans piss their trousers and cry, "wee! wee! wee!" all the way home. Russians will fight. :fight:
     
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    Go to bed now. When you wake up and look out your window you'll see Ukraine honouring its new flag:
    :truce:
     
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    "Skirmishes reported on the edge of the city suggested that small Russian units were probing Ukrainian defenses to clear a path for the main forces."​

    https://news.yahoo.com/russia-presses-invasion-outskirts-ukrainian-054136506.html

    The real battle is still on the way.
     
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    Which brings me to the point that our US navy could easily sink 95-95% of the russki fleet while taking minimal losses, and our navy could do it in 3-4 days.

    And perhaps we will do just that.
     
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    Zelensky: "We are not putting down arms"
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    (Office of the President of Ukraine)
    In a new video posted to Twitter on Saturday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied any reports of Ukraine laying down its arms, in a post titled "Do not believe the fakes."

    "I am here. We are not putting down arms. We will be defending our country, because our weapon is truth, and our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will defend all of this," he said.
    "That is it. That's all I wanted to tell you. Glory to Ukraine."
    In a separate tweet that morning, he added that he had just spoken with French President Emmanuel Macron. "Weapons and equipment from our partners are on the way to Ukraine," he wrote. "The anti-war coalition is working!"​

    https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-26-22/index.html

    Puck Futin. No one is about to surrender to that Nazi bastard.
     
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    Thingamabob: "When you wake up and look out your window you'll see Ukraine honouring its new flag"
    :truce:

    Who you gonna' believe? A wealthy, corrupt, thieving, anti-Democracy, Nazi politician or an honest, average guy like me?
     
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    Protests in Russia are stepping up as well.

     
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    Thanks. Always good to see the other point of view.

    I wonder how many people watching the TV at home are aware of this:

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