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New York Times archive 7-7-2025 Some excerpts full article at link. Ukrainian Troops Struggle to Hold the Line on the Eastern Front https://archive.ph/L7TsF#selection-497.0-497.63 Kyiv is defending Kostiantynivka from Russian drone attacks. The embattled city is a gateway to Ukraine’s last major defense in the Donetsk region. The city stands directly in the path of Russia’s summer offensive in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, which has seen Moscow’s troops make some of their biggest monthly territorial gains since 2022. Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Donetsk. But to seize the rest of the region, it must take urban centers still under Ukraine’s control and vital to its army logistics. That makes Kostiantynivka a prime target. The city is the southern gateway to a chain of cities that form Ukraine’s last major defensive belt in Donetsk. Should it fall, nearly all cities farther north would come within range of Russian drones. It would bring Moscow closer to its long-sought goal of seizing all of Donetsk.  Either way, Ukrainian soldiers say Russia’s expanded drone strike capacity gives it an edge it did not have during previous assaults. “Before, they could hit targets within two or three kilometers,” or less than two miles, said the commander of the unit operating crewless vehicles in the 93rd Brigade, who asked to be identified by only his first name, Oleksandr, according to military protocol. “Now, they’re striking every 10 to 20 minutes at a consistent range of 15 kilometers from the front line. Everything within that 15-kilometer zone is being destroyed.” Russian strikes around Kostiantynivka are so constant that Ukrainian troops avoid leaving their underground shelters altogether. “We joke that going to the bathroom is practically a heroic act now,” said Mykola, a Ukrainian serviceman fighting southeast of the city, who asked to be identified by only his first name, according to military protocol. Full article at link _________________________ | |||
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Zelensky should have agreed to a peace deal when he had the chance and still had something to save. He's going to FAFO that it's all gone. Ukraine has already lost a generation of men. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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The cost of idealism and ego. Just a damned waste. ______________________________________________ "If the truth shall kill them, let them die.” Endeavoring to master the subtle art of the grapefruit spoon. | |||
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The MSM is under reporting what motivates the Ukrainians to continue fighting. The Russians have abducted over 20,000 Ukrainian children. They are among the biggest child abductors in history. The Russian motive for the abductions vary from attempting to Russify the children to "re-educating" the chiidren to return to Ukraine as Russian soldiers to kill their fellow Ukrainians. Some were trafficked in the criminal sex trade. That's just the half of it. Russian soldiers have looted civilian households for anything of value. The Russian soldiers are not penalized by their superiors for this. Then of course there is the deliberate targeting of civilians with their drones and other munitions. Then of course there is the fact that Ukrainian prisoners are routinely tortured by their Russian captors. The hatred of the average Ukrainian for the Russians is probably not appreciated in the West. https://medicine.yale.edu/news...f-ukraines-children/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.or...hildren-is-genocide/ https://www.theguardian.com/wo...-abduction-war-crime https://understandingwar.org/b...g-ukrainian-children | |||
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Ukraine SBU Colonel Executed in Broad Daylight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPlH6QqWGmQ _________________________ | |||
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I believe FAFO is the correct phrase here. Putin literally killed a dude by injecting him with Polonium, did they really think he would let the drone attack on some of his most important bombers slide? The KGB did, and likely does, wet work better than anyone in the world, the US included. The person orchestrating such an embarrassing, yet fairly irrelevant towards the Ukraine conflict attack, damn sure better be confident that they’re going to effect the outcome of the war, or else they’re going to get smoked. That’s pretty much what happened here. The longer this conflict goes on, the less sympathetic I am, and the more I feel that the leaders of both sides are being a bunch of pig headed, stubborn fools that care more about themselves than their countrymen. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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Fwiw, interesting reactions from Hegseth and Ratcliffe to PDJT’s statement of continued support of providing weapons to Ukraine - https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1943874108439081122 __________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." | |||
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