Russia escalates shelling as massive 40-mile
convoy heads towards Kyiv
New York Post,
by
Patrick Reilly
Original Article
Posted By: Lets Go Brandon,
3/1/2022 8:25:34 AM
Russian forces stepped up their offensive early Tuesday with bombs raining down on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, as a 40-mile-long convoy of tanks and other military equipment forges forward towards Kyiv.
“Daylight rises again over Ukraine. Kyiv still stands,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said around 6:30 a.m. local time Tuesday morning, after another night of heavy bombings.
“The Warriors continue to stand for their country and freedom. Glory to Ukraine.”
By 7 a.m. air sirens sounded again.
Zelensky said he believes Russia is trying to force Ukraine into surrendering by ramping up the shelling across Ukraine following a peace summit
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PCMM 3/1/2022 8:44:25 AM (No. 1086526)
Sorry, but Ukraine is not our friend. Am beginning to think that The Swamp is about to get their asses kicked. The Ukraine is Joe’s friend and I despise all of Joe’s friends. Period. (See impeachment #1)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
garyhope 3/1/2022 8:47:15 AM (No. 1086530)
Hey Russia,....Hey Poo Tin,.....
The whole world is watching.
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Shelling. Something I've never understood about the way our military interprets the rules of war. The artillery guys get to lob HE rounds into a town, miss their mark by blocks (ballistics is not an exact science), kill dozens of innocents, adjust a click or two, and fire again. Happened all the time during Iraqi Freedom. No consequences, yet we send brave infantrymen to prison for making split-second decisions that result in the death of a not-proven-guilty civilian.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rinktum 3/1/2022 8:51:12 AM (No. 1086539)
Maybe I am being fanciful, but I have to wonder what is in all those trucks. Are they empty? Is this a head fake? Or is Putin actually going to go into Ukraine and commit heinous acts of violence with the world watching? If so, he is not doing himself any good. He is coming off like a nut job, in the manner of Kim Jung-un? He is making himself a pariah to the West. Maybe he is, as rumor has it, having serious mental issues, or maybe he is actually just an evil man who believes his time has come and he is going to go for it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/1/2022 9:08:28 AM (No. 1086581)
If you watched “Winter on Fire,” you’ll see the Ukrainian people in a different light. They want to break off from Russian influence and join with Europe.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Geoman 3/1/2022 9:16:40 AM (No. 1086594)
My old Naval Aviator heart beats harder and faster thinking about how I'd like to roll in on that convoy, and I'm probably not alone.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/1/2022 9:54:14 AM (No. 1086650)
Can't help but think if Ukraine was sufficiently armed, Russia wouldn't stand a chance.
Next few weeks will be make or break time for Ukraine. What would it take to stop a 40-mile-long convoy? I'm guessing enough disabled vehicles might bring the whole thing to a screeching halt.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
PageTurner 3/1/2022 9:54:27 AM (No. 1086651)
I hope they can dig pits and fill them with manure and mud and stuff.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chillijilli 3/1/2022 10:17:57 AM (No. 1086680)
Something makes no sense whatsoever. If Putin wanted to, I'm sure by now he could've taken out Zelensky or any of his inner circle with drones. Or he could've captured or arrested him.
Why do we have to go through all of these theatrics?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TLCary 3/1/2022 10:49:28 AM (No. 1086705)
Escalation of force: start trying to take it cheap with little loss of life they ramp it up until you eventually take it with as little cost as possible. Ukraine is radically outgunned and it's too late to change that in time, even if the world decided to - which they haven't. Putin is a bad guy; as corrupt as a Biden and as cruel as Fauci in an orphanage, (though there is no way Putin's death count will ever eclipse Fauci's). But Putin is not stupid. He is accomplishing his task in a way that keeps Europe paying him for petroleum (at over $100/barrel) every day, and not one Ukrainian ally is supporting them in combat. Who would start a war, attacking Russia AFTER they annex Ukraine and add them to the Russian map (again)? Invade a nuclear Russia? This war is costing Putin a small fraction of the value of the military equipment Biden gifted the Taliban. Ponder that.
And Putin's cash flow from the West is at an all-time high. Ponder that. Putin is savvy, and being evil and wrong doesn't change that one bit. The spin from the people who are financially supporting his attack is stupid.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 3/1/2022 11:01:01 AM (No. 1086724)
Oh for a dozen A-10s with all wing stations full and the 30 mm gun magazine fully loaded.
Saddam's boys got a taste of that on the Highway of Death. And they made it worse for themselves by mining the roadsides so that if they turned off the road to get out of the line of carnage from above, they ran into carnage from below - of their own making.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/1/2022 11:16:32 AM (No. 1086757)
Remember this when the Russians try to get frisky. They are a second-tier military power unable to project much beyond their borders. Yeah, they have nukes, which are a weapon of desperation, not domination. They also have inadequate equipment and logistical lines that quickly fail to deliver the goods. The warmongers, today's ersatz Pattons, want to go to war with them. To what end? We ought to be fighting to save democracy here in the USA, doncha think?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Birddog 3/1/2022 11:34:14 AM (No. 1086779)
Above freezing most days...and nights...for the next week. That means MUD anywhere off of paved roads. Bridges, over passes, even small ones, bottleneck this ready made Traffic Jam. Any disabled vehicle from any cause slows or stops dozens(hundreds) behind it.Small arms fire into soft sided trucks packed with troops is "Demoralizing" to say the least, larger caliber .50bmg can stop the motors, and even a miss that passes through the "cargo" men/munitions/fuel is something very "Dramatic" to those nearby.
Yeah Putin has 150,000 or so soldiers he can march in there...against 14MILLION armed Ukraines, that can grab up Russians weapons being delivered TO them in every truck they can take. He is fighting "Comanches" now...people that know the land, the terrain, that HIS people do not.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Phantomll 3/1/2022 11:49:02 AM (No. 1086801)
Target rich environment!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 3/1/2022 12:01:09 PM (No. 1086815)
I am no kind of expert on infantry tactics, but it doesn't seem like a long, thin line of vehicles is a good formation for defensive purposes. Seems like endless flanks to be attacked, and knock out a few vehicles at the front and then a few at the back, and the road is blocked, and on those narrow roads, and muddy farm fields all around....not much of a place to "circle the wagons" if attacked. Seems like a suicidal 'formation', but I may be totally wrong.
As I said, I am not an expert, armchair or otherwise, in this land warfare stuff. Any trained former infantry or armor folks care to comment? Is this long convoy just asking for a huge attack or is this somehow a good formation and strong for fighting?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/1/2022 2:14:51 PM (No. 1086926)
How many low yield tactical nuclear weapons would it have taken, to eliminate the threat?
Where is General Curtis LeMay when we need him? Harry Truman?
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