BSH1 MEMORiAL PROFiLE PiC PiCK of the WEEK No. 40- STAND with UKRAINE

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Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city
By JON GAMBRELL and ADAM SCHRECK
October 1, 2022 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city that it had been using as a front-line hub. It was the latest victory for the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered the Kremlin.

Russia’s withdrawal from Lyman complicates its internationally vilified declaration just a day earlier that it had annexed four regions of Ukraine — an area that includes Lyman. Taking the city paves the way for Ukrainian troops to potentially push further into land that Moscow now illegally claims as its own.

“The Ukrainian flag is already in Lyman, Donetsk region. Fighting is still going on there. But there is no trace of any pseudo-referendum there,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address Saturday.

He was referring to “referendums” that Russia held at gunpoint in the four regions before annexing them — Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
The fighting comes at a pivotal moment in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war. Facing Ukrainian gains on the battlefield — which he frames as a U.S.-orchestrated effort to destroy Russia — Putin this week heightened threats of nuclear force and used his most aggressive, anti-Western rhetoric to date.

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed to have inflicted damage on Ukrainian forces in battling to hold Lyman, but said outnumbered Russian troops were withdrawn to more favorable positions. Ukrainian forces moved into the city, and Zelenskyy’s chief of staff posted photos of a Ukrainian flag being hoisted on the town’s outskirts.

Lyman had been an important link in the Russian front line for ground communications and logistics. Located 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, it’s in the Donetsk region near the border with Luhansk, two regions that Russia annexed Friday.

Ukrainian forces have retaken vast swaths of territory in a counteroffensive that started in September. They have pushed Russian forces out of the Kharkiv area and moved east across the Oskil River.

Moscow’s withdrawal from Lyman prompted immediate criticism from some Russian officials. The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, blamed the retreat, without evidence, on one Russian general being “covered up for by higher-up leaders in the General Staff.” He called for “more drastic measures.”

Meanwhile, on the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula, the governor of the city of Sevastopol announced an emergency situation at an airfield there. Explosions and huge billows of smoke could be seen by beachgoers in the Russian-held resort. Authorities said a plane rolled off the runway at the Belbek airfield, and said ammunition on board had caught fire.

Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 in violation of international law.

Russian bombardment has intensified in recent days as Moscow moved swiftly with its latest annexation and ordered a mass mobilization at home to bolster its forces. The Russian call-up has proven unpopular at home, prompting tens of thousands of Russian men to flee the country.

Zelenskyy and his military have vowed to keep fighting to liberate the regions that Putin claimed to have annexed Friday, and other Russian-occupied areas.
Ukrainian authorities accused Russian forces of targeting two humanitarian convoys in recent days, killing dozens of civilians.

The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, said 24 civilians were killed in an attack this week on a convoy trying to flee the Kupiansk district. He called it “сruelty that can’t be justified.” He said 13 children and a pregnant woman were among the dead.

“The Russians fired at civilians almost at point-blank range,” Syniehubov wrote on Telegram.

The Security Service of Ukraine, the secret police force known by the acronym SBU, posted photographs of the attacked convoy. At least one truck appeared to have been blown up, with burned corpses in what remained of its truck bed. Another vehicle at the front of the convoy was torched. Bodies lay on the side of the road or still inside vehicles that were pockmarked with bullet holes.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its rockets destroyed Ukrainian military targets in the area but has not commented on accusations that it targeted fleeing civilians. Russian troops have retreated from much of the Kharkiv region but continue to shell the area.

And a Russian strike in the Zaporizhzhia region’s capital killed 31 people and wounded 88, Ukrainian officials said. The British Defense Ministry said the Russians “almost certainly” struck a humanitarian convoy there with S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Russian-installed officials in Zaporizhzhia blamed Ukrainian forces but gave no evidence.

In other developments, in an apparent attempt to secure Moscow’s hold on the newly annexed territory, Russian forces seized the director-general of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ihor Murashov, on Friday, according to the Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom.

Energoatom said Russian troops stopped Murashov’s car, blindfolded him and took him to an undisclosed location.

Russia did not comment on the report. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Russia told it that “the director-general of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was temporarily detained to answer questions.”

The Vienna-based IAEA said it “has been actively seeking clarifications and hopes for a prompt and satisfactory resolution of this matter.”

The power plant has been caught in the crossfire of the war. Ukrainian technicians continued running it after Russian troops seized the power station, and its last reactor was shut down in September as a precautionary measure amid ongoing shelling nearby.

In other fighting reported Saturday, four people were killed by Russian shelling Friday in the Donetsk region, governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said. The Russian army struck the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv twice overnight, once with drones and the second time with missiles, according to the regional governor.

Russia now claims sovereignty over 15% of Ukraine in what NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called “the largest attempted annexation of European territory by force since the Second World War.”

Zelenskyy on Friday formally applied for NATO membership, upping the pressure on Western allies to defend Ukraine.

In Washington, President Joe Biden signed a bill that provides another infusion — more than $12.3 billion — in military and economic aid linked to the war in Ukraine.


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Biden is committed to fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Zelensky is committed to fighting Russia until the last American dollar.
Beep boop

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Biden is committed to fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Zelensky is committed to fighting Russia until the last American dollar.
Beep boop
Putin does not have a strategy to deal with the two.

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Nor does he need one.

Beep  boop.

With friends like Zelensky and Biden, who needs enemies?
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Biden is committed to fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Zelensky is committed to fighting Russia until the last American dollar.
Beep boop

Putin does not have a strategy to deal with the two.

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Nor does he need one.

Beep  boop.
Then why is Putin losing the war?
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With friends like Zelensky and Biden, who needs enemies?

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Beep  boop.

With friends like Zelensky and Biden, who needs enemies?
You should ask Putin that question.

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Biden is committed to fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Zelensky is committed to fighting Russia until the last American dollar.
Beep boop


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Biden is committed to fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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If you repeat it enough times Putin might believe you.

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Biden is committed to fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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If you repeat it enough times Putin might believe you.

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If you repeat it enough times Putin might believe you.


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Is that how you communicate when stressed?

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EXPLAINER: How important is a Russian retreat from Kherson?
By SAM MEDNICK@APNews

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Friday that Ukrainian flags were appearing “en masse and all over the place,” in the wake of Russia’s retreat from the southern region of Kherson, one of the four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed in September.

The months-long Ukrainian offensive to recapture the city of Kherson, the only provincial capital that has been under Russian control since the early days of the invasion, is coming to a head. The fall of the city would deal another humiliation to Moscow after a string of battlefield defeats and other setbacks.

Here’s a look at what is happening and why Kherson is such an important city for both sides.

WHY IS THE CITY SUCH A PRIZE?

Kherson, which had a prewar population of 280,000, is the only regional capital to be captured by Russian forces. The city and surrounding areas fell into Moscow’s hands in the opening days of the war as Russian troops quickly pushed their attack north from the Crimean Peninsula — the region illegally annexed by the Kremlin in 2014.

Its loss was a major blow to Ukraine because of its location on the Dnieper River near the mouth of the Black Sea, and its role as a major industrial center. Ukrainian resistance fighters have challenged Russian troops for control of the city ever since, with acts of sabotage and assassinations of Moscow-appointed officials.
Kherson also sits at a point where Ukraine can cut off fresh water from the Dnieper to Crimea. Kyiv blocked those vital supplies after the Crimean Peninsula’s annexation, and Putin mentioned the need to restore them as one reason behind his decision to invade Ukraine.
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?
In the last 24 hours, Ukrainian troops have made gains northwest, west and northeast of the city of Kherson, advancing up to 7 kilometers (4 miles) in some areas, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
“Russians have moved to positions they hope will be easier to defend. Ukraine will have to decide whether, when, and how to keep pushing,” said Olga Oliker, director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group. “But Ukraine seems on the verge of taking back ... and this is very good news for Mykolaiv, which Russia will now have a much harder time bombarding. It is a serious Ukrainian advance.”

WHAT HAVE THE UKRAINIAN TROOPS FOUND?

Kherson’s Ukrainian-appointed regional official, Serhii Khlan said as Russia pulled its troops from the western bank of the river that divides the region, they have left wreckage in their wake, destroying key infrastructure, including power facilities and bridges.

”It will all have to be reconstructed,” he said Friday at a video briefing. “While fleeing, they were blowing up everything, everything that could deter the (Ukrainian) advance.”

Khlan advised civilians to stay home and said the humanitarian situation was really complicated, with power supplies cut off and very limited communications.

WHAT DOES THE KREMLIN SAY?

The Kremlin remained defiant Friday, insisting that battlefield developments in the Kherson region in no way represented an embarrassment for Putin.

Fearing such a major Ukrainian counterattack, the Kremlin-installed regional administration in Kherson reportedly relocated at least 70,000 residents earlier this month.

WHAT WOULD LOSING KHERSON MEAN FOR RUSSIA?

A retreat from Kherson and other areas on the Dnieper’s west bank would shatter Russian hopes to press an offensive west to Mykolaiv and Odesa to cut off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea. Moscow had also hoped to build a land corridor to the separatist Transnistria region of Moldova, home to a major Russian military base.

“The loss of Kherson will turn all those southern dreams by the Kremlin into dust,” said Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov. “Kherson is a key to the entire southern region, which would allow Ukraine to target key supply routes for the Russian forces. Russians will try to retain control of it using all means.”

WHAT WOULD RECAPTURING KHERSON MEAN FOR UKRAINE?

For Ukraine, capturing Kherson would set the stage for reclaiming the Russia-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region and other areas in the south, and eventually pushing back into Crimea.

Reclaiming control of Kherson would also mean that Kyiv could again cut off water to Crimea.

“After the deoccupation of Kherson, the Russians will again have problems with fresh water in Crimea,” Zhdanov added.

WHAT WILL CHINA THINK?

Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta Center independent think tank, noted that controlling the Kherson region and other southern areas was a major prize for Russia and their loss would have painful consequences for Putin at home and abroad.

“If the Russians leave Kherson, the Kremlin will face another wave of fierce criticism of the military command and the authorities in general from ultra-patriotic circles,” Fesenko said, adding that the fall of the city would further demoralize Russia’s armed forces and possibly fuel opposition to the mobilization effort.

He also said China and India would see the fall of Kherson as a sign of Kremlin weakness.

“Putin will face reputational losses not only inside the country, but also in the eyes of China, and that could be particularly dangerous for the Kremlin,” Fesenko said.
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Follow all AP stories on the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine.




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Over 10,000 civilians killed with indiscriminate artillery. This is what Americans are suffering a recession for.


Funding a nation that broke the Minsk agreements just to resume killing civilians.

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CNN kicked out of Ukraine for accidentally catching  and filming Nazi salutes.

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Well no shit a Russian retreat is a victory, The major issue, though, is that this whole war is just a façade to test Clearview AI, which is designed to have real-time facial recognition and finding abilities at a moment's notice:

Do you honestly believe Russia, with the second-most-powerful nation in the world, is having difficulty with a country that can't even stop coups and doesn't even fund its own defenses? It's a joke war. It's all for show:

Check out the stats between Ukraine and Russia, it's no contest. Russia is leaps and bounds ahead of Ukraine in every possible metric:

Vladimir Putin and Peter Thiel, are all Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum:

Zelenskyy literally told the WEF that they should be stakeholders in Ukraine:

All three of them are working for the same organization. The war is a façade. It's to prepare Clearview AI to surveil the entire planet. And Musk is also a YLG and he is making Neuralink along with Microsoft, which is going to be implanted into everyone's brains:

Klaus Schwab on Neuralink:

And here's a WEF article on chipping people's brains and how to implement it:
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So MAGA, Putin, and Zelensky all work for the World Economic Forum and all are conspiring together to promote Ton-That's facial recognition software?  Are they worried about all the ten of millions of dollars that company lost in lawsuits in UK, France, Austrailia, Italy, etc and the requirement that remove all citizens from those countries from their database?  Since they don't seem to have a practicable means of removing, they have to either trash their present db or get sued of existence pretty quickly, right?

Why would a bunch of world leaders surrender all their power to one petty hacker dude?

Sounds like yet another in a long string of really kooky conspiracy theories from you, PC.
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So MAGA, Putin, and Zelensky all work for the World Economic Forum
Idk who MAGA is, but if you mean Trump I don't see any strong evidence he is on board.

Are they worried about all the ten of millions of dollars that company lost in lawsuits in UK, France, Austrailia, Italy, etc and the requirement that remove all citizens from those countries from their database?
No because it is temporary as they continue to centralize the world governments to work for them.

Why would a bunch of world leaders surrender all their power to one petty hacker dude?
You misunderstand how the WEF works. It is a collective group of about 200 people who infiltrate governments and economies to get what they want. They don't have a collective leadership, it is a group thing. They all negotiate for what they want and they then take over the world governments to get it.

Sounds like yet another in a long string of really kooky conspiracy theories from you, PC.
A conspiracy theory has no facts or logic to it. I have both. I mean, the WEF and their members have blatantly stated everything I have. I am not inventing anything. You can read the articles and watch the videos for yourself.
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So MAGA, Putin, and Zelensky all work for the World Economic Forum
Idk who MAGA is, but if you mean Trump I don't see any strong evidence he is on board.
  • Peter Thiel was one of Trump's closest advisors and Clearview's co-founder Richard Schwartz is one of Giuliani's closest poltical allies.  Ton-That was a major Trump contibutor with deep connection to right-wing pols, Mike Cernovich, etc.  Clearview loves Donald Trump.  Donald Trump loves Clearview.
You misunderstand how the WEF works. It is a collective group of about 200 people who infiltrate governments and economies to get what they want. They don't have a collective leadership, it is a group thing. They all negotiate for what they want and they then take over the world governments to get it.
  • Are they magic?  Why do governments give them what they want?  What do they want
A conspiracy theory has no facts or logic to it. I have both. I mean, the WEF and their members have blatantly stated everything I have. I am not inventing anything. You can read the articles and watch the videos for yourself.
  • The WEF claims they infiltrate governments to take over the world?  That is quite bold of them.

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