New York Times: Life in Ukraine’s Trenches: Gearing Up for a Spring Offensive
In a thicket of trees between two vast farm fields, a plywood trapdoor built into the forest floor opened to reveal stairs leading underground.
Inside was a subterranean bunker, cut into the black earth, where Ukrainian troops from a mortar unit awaited coordinates for their next target. The men squeezed past one another down a shoulder-width dirt corridor lit with LED strips, staring at tablet computers showing a live drone feed of the terrain outside. Blast waves from artillery shells and rockets shook the bunker, and a radio crackled with a warning of incoming Russian helicopters.
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Update #1: Ukraine could launch its offensive against Russia any moment. Here's what's waiting (CNN)
Update #2: Ukraine signals counteroffensive is near: What to know about the coming fight (The Hill)
WNU Editor: The West is getting impatient. It looks like they are pushing Ukraine to start their counteroffensive sooner rather than later .... Ukraine has received 98% of promised combat vehicles: NATO chief (Al Jazeera).
This will be it for Ukraine. When the news reports start coming in that this offensive is failing, I go on a doomsday shopping spree. Everyone here knows this will only lead to direct NATO involvement.
ReplyDeleteIf not when
DeleteI have a hard time to understand that. What is the goal? If unrealistic what is the point? NATO involvement will only freeze the war and what next? Bizarre.
ReplyDeleteIt’s called Russophobia. The hatred these NATO countries have for Russia is greater than their ability to reason. think of it as NATO being a bunch of Progressive Liberals and Russia being Donald Trump. Can you picture the insanity now?
DeleteTrump is the man
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the Russians will do some targeted assassinations of the western politicians & civil servants who started this war in 2014. Uniformed London policemen ran with PM Sunaks car last week just like the US Secret Service do with the presidents car. That has never been done before. Who's after him?
ReplyDeleteThey don’t have the skill or ability … they are losing to a country 1/10 its size lol… stop paying Russian soldiers in vodka and they may improve.
DeleteRussia is indeed Trump! dictator Putin and butt boy Trump
ReplyDeleteRussia could just stop the war.
ReplyDeleteNo they can’t. Anyone with two of more brain cells to rub together can see that this war was brought to Russia by the west. The day the United states stops funding this conflict will be the day negotiations to end this conflict begin.
Delete7 59. yep they could. But if they did, you think the ukies would just stop and go home?
ReplyDeleteNo, the Neocon progressive blob West wants this war, it needs this war.
No stopping, only death
If Russia just stop the war and converted to defensive mode the Ukies will eventually stop. Leave Ukraine, that's it.
DeleteBe not afraid for your own sake peace of mind.
Is there anybody can attest that Russia is benefiting this war? It is all lost, war is too expensive. damn it is useless and worthless.
Ukraine started the war? right. They got invaded and so they began the war. low IQ comment.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s low IQ is that you can’t seem to understand that this war started when the US invaded and toppled the Ukrainian government in 2014 and installed one of their cronies that allowed them to use Ukraine as a launching pad for hostilities against Russia. Low low IQ. Figure it out, the information is there for you to discover. Hint: you won’t find it on CNN or MSNBC.
DeleteYour eating the Russian propaganda like it’s your last meal.. lol
DeleteWould you like some freedom fries with your NBC?
Deletewhat the fuck is a launching pad against Russia? Did Ukraine launch missiles against Russia? stop bs. Russia invaded. Prove otherwise.
ReplyDeleteHow did Zelensky come to power? Why did he want to join NATO so bad knowing it would provoke Russia. Why is trying to ethnically cleanse everything Russian out of Ukraine all the while trying to reacquire territories that are 90%+ Russian? Could it be that these decisions are not his own and that he is taking orders from NATO?
DeleteAll Russian propaganda… but then that’s all the Russians get which should tell u everything u need to know… kind of like Germany during WW2…
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ReplyDeleteWorking the weekend shift again are we?
Hope all is well in Hanover.
Try not to gaslight everyone today with your "Russia started the war" or "Russia invaded screed" blob type narratives.
It really is getting tiresome reading that mythical version of history. It is just naturally too simplistic even for one at your level of work, and the sad part is, .....you know it.
The Russians had no choice. NATO on the border, Donbass full of ethnic Russians being attacked and over 14,000 killed. Sevastopol , home to the 3rd largest fleet in the Country being possibly taken away.
And a lot more. The Russians repeatedly warned us, and our blobber neocon friends did not care because they wanted this war.
Nope, as a bully you can push people around only so long before someone fights back. And the Russians chose to fight.
So now here you are, on the side of Hillary, Graham, McConnel, Wray, Miley and the rest of the lying Blob: working for the Blob and defending the Blob narrative. How is that working for You? And how do you look yourself in the mirror each day?
Do you realize how much your personal credibility is lacking and that your whole political outlook has lost all legitimacy?
Now after all that
Tell us now, oh defender of the blob, once again , as was said many times in years past........how "We are winning in Afghanistan."
And then tell us, after lying to us all those years, Why we should believe you now?
Have a great day.
BTW did you get your STEP increase this year? Hope so.
Well put, thank-you
DeleteRussia did invade and start this war then got their asses kicked and u mad and crying…
ReplyDelete11:47 an 11 43
ReplyDeleteSo informative. Do you do this full time or is it only your day job? CNN has a place for you or
you would fit nicely as a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant/Coordinator.
There is where your true talents are.
Get on the Job site and apply now.
It may even be an upgrade to GS-6!!
plain and simple: Russian forces invaded Ukraine. No matter how they felt, how many Russian speaking people lived in Ukraine, Russia military invaded with a full force to conquer the entire nation. Prove otherwise and cut the crap about a NATO this or that threat. Invasion is an invasion of a sovereign nation.
ReplyDeleteIt’s that kind of brainless black and white level of seeing things that’s going to get us all nuked. A pickle with your CBC sandwich it is.
DeleteDid 12:25 move from baseline?
ReplyDeleteThe worlds most dangerous job is to be 4th crew member in an ancient Soviet tank T54/55/62 nobody knows how to operate. You've had zero training. Your team has zero training. The platoon and its company has zero training. Here come the Ukrainians trained, rested and motivated to kill. It's very similar to Gulf War 1 kids.
ReplyDeleteTake it easy on the drugs.
DeleteWilliam Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan.
ReplyDeleteThe Biden administration and little girls goes together like peas and carrots. There’s a few on here who fully support that.
DeleteGot an Epstein syndrome. Fact: Epstein had a lot of inside stuff in wealth management and money things and those interests were also attractive to a lot of well-known people. Perhaps your fixation on little girls and Epstein's side hustle distracts you from larger issues.
ReplyDeletethis is a full account of what took place just prior to a full scale invasion by Russia into Ukraine.If you think Russia was NOT fully involved in invading Ukraine then read the details that led up to that invasion:
ReplyDeletePath to war in Ukraine was laid in months of plans, warnings | AP News
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ReplyDelete12:25
ReplyDeletegreat.
The you fully condemn the American invasion of Mexico during the Mexican American war. You condemn The American invasions of Nicaragua, Haiti , Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama Somalia, Bosnia , Iraq and Afghanistan?
No you don't?
The Americans had good reasons to invade?
Well there you go bud. Your simplistic bullshit that having valid reasons to invade is not justification for doing so is just hypocritical bull shit just because it is the Russians and not the United States.
But if you are saying any and all invasions are wrong and violence is not a solution for any conflict, then I salute you. You truly are a follower of Christ and deserve to inherit the earth.