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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief July 14th (updated)
2022-07-15
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 22:31 In Kharkov, on the lower and upper floors of multi-storey residential buildings (Vladislav Zubenko St.), militants of the nationalist battalion "Kraken" equipped strongholds and ammunition depots, placed MLRS and armored vehicles in the yards, local residents are forbidden to leave their apartments, and all their attempts evacuate to safe areas on their own are strictly suppressed21:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made a number of statements.

- Ukrainians plan to blow up a bridge across the Volcha River in the Dnepropetrovsk region in order to accuse the RF Armed Forces of indiscriminate strikes;

- In the residential buildings of Kharkov, the militants of the national battalion "Kraken" equipped ammunition depots, and placed armored vehicles and MLRS in the yards;

- Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices force mobilized to refuse a medical examination.

21:08 Air raid alert sounds in the east of Ukraine.

21:06 Ukrainian drones attacked the Bryansk region. The governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that there were no victims or injured, and that civilian objects were not damaged. The glazing and outer skin of the building were damaged at the gas station. Operational services carry out all necessary activities.

20:19 In Poltava, the monument to Peter I was doused with paint and written "occupier". The monument was erected back in 1849 on the site of the house where the Russian Tsar stayed on the second day after the Battle of Poltava.

20:18 From Odessa, they report that they have begun to remove the fences from the monument to Catherine II. Obviously, they will also be demolished. It is worth recalling that Odessa was founded by Catherine's decree of May 27 (June 7), 1794 as the westernmost city of the newly acquired territory of the Russian Empire - Novorossia.

18:52 Serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complains that in Western Ukraine no one cares about the war.

"I came to Western Ukraine and they asked me how your war is going."

"How dumb do you have to be to think this is someone else’s war!?"

It seems that the inhabitants of Western Ukraine are increasingly concerned about the question - "Is this their war?". However, not out of humanism, but because of the mobilization and strikes on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in their regions.

18:04 Relatives of servicemen of the 24th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Lviv are asking to hold the command accountable. They also accuse the Ukrainian military leadership of neglecting the lives and health of their subordinates, the lack of modern weapons and the cases when their husbands had to go with machine guns alone against tanks and aircraft. In response to inquiries about the fate of their relatives, the command simply replies, copy-pasting the same text that the servicemen allegedly went missing.

17:00 In the Vasilyevsky district of the Zaporozhye region earned new mobile operator K-Telecom

15:55 Putin signed a law on granting veteran status to civilians participating in a special operation in Ukraine.

15:55 Arestovich: "Tonight the Armed Forces of Ukraine will ask them for Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Kharkiv."

15:54 A referendum on the entry of the Zaporozhye region into Russia will be held in early autumn, presumably in the first half of September, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration, said.

15:15 Vladimir Putin signed a law criminalizing calls for action against Russia's security and participation in hostilities against it.

14:57 In the Slavic direction fighters of the Allied forces captured a large batch of APU ammunition and a rare German machine gun Maschinengewehr 42. You should also pay attention to .223 Remington hunting cartridges with holes for increasing damage
(AKA hollowpoints)
and grenades for the American AGS MK19.

13:53 Aviation of the Russian Federation struck at the deployment point of the 97th Battalion of the 60th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zaporozhye, 30 nationalists were destroyed.

13:52 The Russian Aerospace Forces hit the deployment point of the battalion of the 14th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with foreign mercenaries, 43 militants were destroyed, about 170 were injured.

13:52 Russian air defense systems intercepted two Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles and six MLRS shells in the Kherson region.

13:52 Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a result of the strikes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the points of deployment of their units amounted to up to a thousand people and 100 pieces of equipment.

13:51 More than two hundred militants of the Kraken national formation refused to carry out the order of the command to advance to the Kramatorsk region.

13:51 An artillery platoon of M-777 howitzers was destroyed from the Russian Federation at firing positions in the Kharkiv region.

13:51 The Russian Armed Forces "Caliber" destroyed military vehicles of the MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the high-voltage equipment plant in Zaporozhye.

13:51 Among the militants of the Ukrainian national formations, conflicts and clashes with the use of weapons have become more frequent.

13:50 The most powerful Tornadoes and Hurricanes destroy positions of the Armed Forces.

12:50 Amazed military unit in Gaisin, Vinnytsia region.

11:59 The results of the attack on the depot of the Kharkov metro.The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to use civilian infrastructure to concentrate military equipment.

11:58 There is information about attacks on Ternopil and the region.

10:56 Over Odessa flies "Caliber".

10:56 Local residents report explosions in Kherson.

09:44 The environmental situation in Mariupol has improved recently, since metallurgical enterprises are not currently operating in the city, all the talk of the Ukrainian media about the disaster is fiction, said the mayor of Mariupol Konstantin Ivashchenko.

09:06 Representatives of the Committee for Youth Policy and Tourism of the Zaporizhia Regional State Administration, together with the leadership of sports schools in Melitopol, held a meeting with young athletes. The meeting concerned the introduction in the liberated territories of the All-Russian physical culture and sports complex "Ready for Labor and Defense" (GTO) - the normative basis for the physical education of the country's population, aimed at the development of mass sports.

07:44 There were about 10 arrivals in Nikolaev. The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked school number 51. Ukrainian units were quartered in this school. One of the arrivals was at the hotel where the command staff lived.

05:41 Nikolaev rocket strikes were carried out from Kherson. Columns of smoke rise from the site of the explosion above the city.

0:36 The main events of the past day on July 13, 2022:

- Kharkiv direction. A DRG from the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was sent to the Dementievka area. During the fighting, five militants were eliminated, another ten were captured. In the area of ​​the Great Passages, Cossack Lopan and Tsupovka, the enemy tried to inflict fire damage on our units, but had no significant success and was forced to retreat.

-Slavic direction. Our troops advanced along the Barvenkovo-Slavyansk highway, which in fact means the beginning of fighting in the vicinity of Slavyansk itself. Heavy fighting continues for Seversk. In the Barvenkovo ​​area, a Ukrainian Su-25 was shot down in an air battle.

- On the Donetsk sector of the front, a Su-24 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down in Novoukrainka, which is not far from Ugledar. The counter-battery fight with the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues in Avdiivka. Russian troops came close to Bakhmut (Artemovsk).

- In the southern direction - on the territory of the shipbuilding plant in Nikolaev, more than 350 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 20 units of military equipment from the reserve of the operational-tactical group "Kakhovka" were destroyed. A Ukrainian MiG-29 was shot down in the Mykolaiv region. Also in the sky over Melitopol, a Ukrainian reconnaissance and strike drone was shot down, carrying a charge to bombard the liberated peaceful city.

- "Arrivals" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At night, Ukrainian militants launched a massive strike from the MLRS on the military air defense unit in Luhansk, which ensures the security of the city. In the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, two civilians were killed and one wounded.

- Calibration of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Strikes were noted today near Odessa, in the Zaporozhye region, the Kyiv region (Bila Tserkva) in the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration and in Konstantinovka. In the evening, a cluster of APU equipment was calibrated at a ceramic factory near Karachun in Slavyansk.

Posted by:badanov

#61  *We are discussing whether or not Ukraine needs to be "denazified." That is all.

@badanov: If she's truly a mod, she's doing a really shitty job of it. She's trying to hijack the thread. Really bad behavior.
Posted by: Harcourt Panda1278   2022-07-15 23:58  

#60  The title of the thread makes it clear that this is a discussion about "denazification". We don't give a shit about your idiosyncratic concerns. We are discussing whether or not you crave it needs to be "denazified." That is all.

STOP HIJACKING THE THREAD. Go post your rants about fertility rates on another thread. Thank you.
Posted by: Harcourt Panda1278   2022-07-15 23:55  

#59  A) She is a mod.
B) Use of the royal "we" is common in journalism
c) Stop being a douche.
Posted by: badanov   2022-07-15 23:54  

#58  Also dispense with your ridiculous, pompous use of "we"
Posted by: Harcourt Panda1278   2022-07-15 23:48  

#57  Please stop trying to hijack the thread.
Posted by: Harcourt Panda1278   2022-07-15 23:46  

#56  Please stop trying to hihack the thread. Really shitty behavior from someone who calls herself a mod.
Posted by: Harcourt Panda1278   2022-07-15 23:45  

#55  A view of Putibs amazing speech that reiterates, almost word for word, what the traditional conservative right in the West has been saying for years about the woke / green / globohomo bullshit... this is from Florida, from the wonderful anti-COVIDian litigation lawyer Jeff Childers

Posted by: Zorba Johnson4792   2022-07-15 23:43  

#54   To the earlier poster's point: please stop hijacking the thread with all the natalist bullshit.

This is a discussion about the persistent influence of far-right extreme ethnocentrist and nationalist ideologies in Ukraine.


That may be what you are interested in discussing. We find the entire point overly Scholastic and unimportant. As it happens, the exact same could be said about Russia, with equal justification, so mentioning it at all, let alone going on about it for endless comments, is utterly, utterly boring.

And as others have said, counterproductive.

Instead of wasting your time being ineffective here, you should go home and make some babies with your wife so that the Russian people does not die out completely in the next two generations, leaving only the emigrants — primarily Russian Jews, as it happens — to carry on your culture.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-15 23:40  

#53  ^ ding ding ding!! We have a winnah!

Transcript of 7/7 speech -- read it all

Posted by: Kasimir   2022-07-15 23:35  

#52  The ruling classes of the Western countries, which are supranational and globalist in nature, realized that their policies are increasingly detached from reality, common sense and the truth, and they have started resorting to openly despotic methods.

The West, which once declared such principles of democracy as freedom of speech, pluralism and respect for dissenting opinions, has now degenerated into the opposite: totalitarianism. This includes censorship, media bans, and the arbitrary treatment of journalists and public figures.

I know who this is: V.V.P.
Putin!
Posted by: Winky McGurque8067   2022-07-15 23:16  

#51  My guess for #41 is Viktor Orban
Posted by: Heriberto the Florid9051   2022-07-15 23:10  

#50  Have a drink, Fookbeard.

Better still, have a stiff drink and read Lev Golinski's marvelous detailed article about the glorious history of collaboration in Ukraine.
Posted by: Guillibaldo Elmusock2857   2022-07-15 22:44  

#49   If only Ukraine would stop being a USA puppet, Vladimir Putin would not have been forced to invade Ukraine!

None of all this mass thievery, mass raping, mass murdering would have happened if not for the evil Americans!!!

Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 22:29  

#48  My guess about the author of the anti-globalist anti-liberal internationalist passage in #41 is Marine Le Pen.
Posted by: Thrinenter Ebbinerong4378   2022-07-15 22:27  

#47  To the earlier poster's point: please stop hijacking the thread with all the natalist bullshit.

This is a discussion about the persistent influence of far-right extreme ethnocentrist and nationalist ideologies in Ukraine.
Posted by: Thrinenter Ebbinerong4378   2022-07-15 22:25  

#46  Back on topic, Zelensky was never aligned with Ukraine's far right while running for office. He shifted hard right when it became clear that without far-right support he would have no power whatsoever.

After Biden came back into the White House the return of the Nuland-Sullivan cabal pushed Zelensky into a far more provocative and reactionary position beginning in March 2021.
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 21:21  

#45  Re the quiz in #41, that sounds like Victor Davis Hanson.

Please send a link to where I can 3D print my decoder ring.
Posted by: Wally Gator   2022-07-15 21:17  

#44  
Posted by: Phosh Cretch2920   2022-07-15 21:13  

#43  
Posted by: Phosh Cretch2920   2022-07-15 21:10  

#42  We have the Russian perspective and the Ukrainian perspective here, and our readers have the knowledge and experience to make their own judgements.

As for the Russians dying out — which is true — unfortunately at the current birthrate the Ukrainians are dying out as well. And, if the published numbers are true in both countries, at a slightly faster rate even before the current Russian effort to clear the land of Ukrainians. From the CIA World Factbook:

Russia:
median age: 40.3
population growth rate: -0.22% (shrinking, not growing)
total fertility rate: 1.6 children per woman

Ukraine (pre-invasion):
median age: 41.2
population growth rate: -0.5 (shrinking, not growing)
total fertility rate: 1.56 children per woman

In two generations, at the rate both countries are going, both countries will be empty, with nobody left to prevent the dwindling hordes from Africa and Middle East from wandering in. Not that they’ll stay, with no rich country to batten off (and no proper clothes for the bitter winters), but that won’t help the two wonderful peoples who won’t be there to see it.

Incidentally, the Jewish publication, The Forward makes much of its Jewishness, but really they are really boring, plain vanilla Socialists with a gloss of Manhattan — fine if you want to know what’s in the local theaters and art galleries, but otherwise even more parochial than the rest of New York City.

Finally, about David P. Goldman, the polymath who owns the Asia Times and writes columns for both its editorial page and P.J.Media as Spengler: after long writing on the subject in both publications, a decade ago he published How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) . The blurb explains:

Thanks to collapsing birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed self-extinction. The untold story is that birthrates in Muslim nations are declining faster than anywhere else — at a rate never before documented. Europe, even in its decline, may have the resources to support an aging population, if at a terrible economic and cultural cost. But in the impoverished Islamic world, an aging population means a civilization on the brink of total collapse — something Islamic terrorists know and fear. Muslim decline poses new threats to America, challenges we cannot even understand, much less face effectively, without a wholly new kind of political analysis that explains how desperate peoples and nations behave. In How Civilizations Die, David P. Goldman, author of the celebrated Spengler column read by intelligence organizations world wide, reveals how, almost unnoticed, massive shifts in global power are remaking our future.

So, gentlemen, if you wish Ukraine to survive, stop fighting on the internet and go make babies with your wives.

The same to the pro-Russia trolls who are doing the same. It will be a terrible thing when all we have of both your peoples is some YouTube videos of folk dancers, some math formulae, and a few translated books in our libraries because nobody remembers the original languages.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-15 20:58  

#41  Quick quiz: Who just spoke the following?
a. Kurt Schlichter
b. Marine Le Pen
c. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
d. Ron DeSantis
e. Viktor Orban
f. Victor Davis Hanson
g. V.V.P.

Take the test! Guess correctly and win a special Boris Badanov rantburg decoder ring!!

"Today, the West's ruling elites are raising the degree to which they manipulate the public consciousness right before our eyes. The ruling classes of the Western countries, which are supranational and globalist in nature, realized that their policies are increasingly detached from reality, common sense and the truth, and they have started resorting to openly despotic methods.

The West, which once declared such principles of democracy as freedom of speech, pluralism and respect for dissenting opinions, has now degenerated into the opposite: totalitarianism. This includes censorship, media bans, and the arbitrary treatment of journalists and public figures.

These kinds of prohibitions have been extended not only to the information space, but also to politics, culture, education, and art – to all spheres of public life in the Western countries. And, they are imposing this on the world; they are trying to impose this model, a model of totalitarian liberalism, including the notorious cancel culture of widespread bans.

However, the truth and reality is that the people in most of these countries do not want this life or this future, and really do not want the formal semblance of sovereignty, they want substantive, real sovereignty and are simply tired of kneeling, of humiliating themselves before those who consider themselves exceptional, and of serving their interests even to their own detriment.
Posted by: Omereck Sholuse2834   2022-07-15 20:47  

#40  Oh you have a dog in the fight, you're posting Russian pr on an American website. If you were neutral, you wouldn't post a Russian article titled "denazify campaign".

Fuck you.
Posted by: badanov   2022-07-15 19:38  

#39  "English is a second language, just like you."

You really should do an internship at Deutsche Welle. They'll pull together your fractured English tout de suite
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 19:25  

#38  Deutsche Welle's English edition shows a better command of English:

Ukraine's envoy to Germany irks Israeli, Polish governments with WWII comments - dw.com
Jul 1, 2022



Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 19:21  

#37   Oh you have a dog in the fight, you're posting Russian pr on an American website. If you were neutral, you wouldn't post a Russian article titled "denazify campaign".

They invaded a smaller neighbor, that's it.

Just FYI and all your American traitor friends, not only have Finland and Sweden been added to NATO, Ukraine is going to informally be a part of it.

The current DoD bill added $ 100 million just to train Ukrainian pilots on the US equipment. In a couple of years they'll have every piece of NATO equipment except F 35s.

For you Americans who side with Russia, you guys don't realize the USA owes Ukraine protection, we intimidated them to get rid of their nukes, otherwise we wouldn't have us a war right now.
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 19:20  

#36  Is there a native English speaker who can parse this word salad -- sans the usual stupid, lame sarcasm?

Sarcasm is our mother tongue. English is a second language, just like you.
Posted by: badanov   2022-07-15 19:19  

#35  The discussion is about whether or not Ikraine's nationalists glorify their Nazi last.

yup
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-15 19:15  

#34  ;-)
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-15 19:09  

#33  "Forkbeards (plural) and the other trolls you may have truth behind their in-your-face lies"

Is there a native English speaker who can parse this word salad -- sans the usual stupid, lame sarcasm?
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 19:09  

#32  Forkbeards (plural) and the other trolls you may have truth behind their in-your-face lies and propaganda. You are winning no friends or gaining allies by being assholes and spitting on mods. Your own worst enemies, dicks
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-15 19:05  

#31  #28 "Badanov": Why are you being sarcastic about this?

Because I don't have a dawg in this fight, Fordbeard's protestations notwithstanding.
Posted by: badanov   2022-07-15 18:52  

#30  America's nazi fighting bona fides are ironclad. Your problem is with the beltway crowd, which is in America but not American, per se.

Don't put that on us here. We didn't vote for any of it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-15 18:51  

#29  As Spengler (David P Goldman) noted:

"Echo chamber-driven group-think has achieved a new dimension of control."
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 18:50  

#28  "Badanov": Why are you being sarcastic about this?

Perhaps it is because he can look down on the board and see your little gambit for what it is.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-07-15 18:48  

#27  ^ More stupid and feeble attempts at sarcasm. See my first response to your idiotic higher cartoon post, above.

Silence from "badanov".
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 18:47  

#26   Listen to average Russian, that culture is worse than ISIS culture, they're a dying out people group of nihilists.

You Russian sucks sit around discussing 1940 and the truth is regardless of ideology, all people have the right to be independent like the US was the UK.
https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1547639975524454400
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 18:46  

#25  You tell'em Karen Forkbeard! Way to sniff it out!

Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-07-15 18:45  

#24  So. Vindman's a nazi. I knew it. I just knew it...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-15 18:41  

#23  correction: "The discussion is about whether or not Ukraine's nationalists glorify their Nazi past"
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 18:37  

#22  with the color commentary.

Honest question to "badanov": You seem like a well-intentioned, serious person. The discussion is about whether or not Ikraine's nationalists glorify their Nazi last. Obviously, they do-- as evidenced by both Lev Golinkin's article with its dozens of links and impeccable sourcing and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe'a excellent study that I linked to above.

"Badanov": Why are you being sarcastic about this?

Are you trying to deny, or brush off, the tons of solid evidence about the widespread, fervent cult of Stepan Bandera in today's Ukraine?

If so, why? I'm genuinely curious as to why you retreat into sarcasm about such an important matter.

Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 18:35  

#21   I would remind all you Russian friends that Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine has not invaded any nation.

Now back to your 1940 Soviet Union/ Nazi discussions.
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 18:31  

#20  
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 18:27  

#19  Forkbeard with the play by play and Ukro Raus with the color commentary.

Not exactly Vern Lundquist
Posted by: badanov   2022-07-15 18:25  

#18  Lots of photos and links collected by this journalist at the Jewish publication, The Forward, of Ukraine's many monuments to their favorite Nazi collaborator, Bandera, who who oversaw the murder of over 800,000 Ukrainian Jews during the war.

from
Nazi Collaborator Monuments Around the World: Ukraine
By Lev Golinkin
The Forward
27 January 2021
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 18:23  

#17  An excellent study by the Berlin-based Polish historian quoted in the New York Times article:

Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is a research associate at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied cultural history at the Viadrina European University and wrote his doctoral dissertation about Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists at the Universität Hamburg. His dissertation is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader, and the first in-depth study of his political cult. Rossoliński-Liebe was a fellow of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Jewish Claims Conference, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 18:09  

#16  
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus    2022-07-15 18:05  

#15  
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-15 17:59  

#14  Bandera the Nazi is worshipped as a hero in Ukraine. They don't even try to hide it. This is well known in Poland and Germany and across East Central Europe. Only in the USA does anyone try to deny or suppress this obvious well-known fact.
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 17:58  

#13  from Spengler at the right-wing American site, PJMedia:

Yes, Ukraine Has a Nazi Problem, And Its Name Is Andriy Melnyk

Germany’s leading center-right newspaper Die Welt posted a banner headline at the top of its page last Friday evening just before Shabbat came in here in New York: “[Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrej] Melnyk’s statement trivializes the Holocaust.” In a radio interview last week, Melnyk compared Ukrainian Nazi leader Stephan Bandera to Robin Hood and vehemently denied—in the face of massive historical documentation—that Bandera had helped to murder 800,000 Ukrainian Jews during World War II. The Banderites also helped to murder between 40,000 and 100,000 Poles.

Poland’s embassy to Berlin also denounced Melnyk’s statement.

Yet there was barely a peep in the American press—I found a single passing mention in the Washington Post and nothing elsewhere—and not a word from any American Jewish organization.

The incident was a top item in every major German news outlet, but unmentionable in the American media, not to mention polite company. Echo-chamber-driven group-think has achieved a new dimension of control.

Israel’s embassy to Germany had declared: “The statements of the Ukrainian Ambassador are a distortion of the historical facts, a trivialization of the Holocaust and an insult to those who were murdered by Bandera and his people. The statements of the ambassador undermine not only the values that we all treasure, but also undermine the brave fight of the Ukrainian people to live in peace and with democratic values.”

Holocaust denial is sadly endemic, but I can think of not a single instance in the past generation when a senior official of a Western-allied country—let alone one that will receive $70 billion in aid from the United States—openly and unashamedly defended a perpetrator of genocide against Jews. Yet that is what Ukraine’s Ambassador Andrej Melnyk did vehemently and without shame.
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 17:55  

#12  Ambassador Melnyk, is that you?

NYTimes on Ukraine's pro-Nazi emissary to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, who in Berlin of all places lavishly praised Ukraine's favorite Nazi, the mass murderer Stepan Bandera who is worshipped in Ukraine to this day:

"in Bandera’s native west, statues are erected in his honor; streets are named after him. Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, a Polish historian in Berlin, said that Ukraine “sooner or later will have to deal with Bandera.”

"Part of the reason Bandera remained so prominent, he said, was that even leading intellectuals refused to reconsider the history. “They don’t really want to open Ukrainian history to the history of the Holocaust, the history of fascism,” he said.

"To many Ukrainians, Mr. Melnyk’s views are uncontroversial: Bandera — who was assassinated in Munich by Soviet agents — is seen as an anti-Soviet freedom fighter who made difficult compromises in the fight for independence. They deny his Nazi collaboration by pointing out that Germany later interned him in a concentration camp over his independence efforts...."
Posted by: Ukro Nazis Raus   2022-07-15 17:48  

#11  I think someone totally misses the subtle sarcasm at work in the headline.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-15 17:11  

#10   No, Badanov is pushing Russian propaganda. You don't post titles such as "Russian denazification campaign" if you're an objective reporter.

Here's another victim of yesterday's attack on a Ukrainian school, hope you and Badanov love it, I bet you 2 wish you could see her cadaver about now:

Link

I really have better things to do than to correct your page breaking pasted links

Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 16:59  

#9  Highly recommended: How To Win Friends and Influence People.
Posted by: Matt   2022-07-15 16:59  

#8   Here Badanov, look what everyone thinks of Russia except your allies here who think Russia is just awesome:

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1548041935390052352/photo/1
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 16:50  

#7   More denazification by Badanov's Russian friends, hope all you Rantburg's Russian allies enjoy this, wish you could smell the decomposed flesh forever.

https://osce.usmission.gov/response-to-moscow-mechanism-report-on-ukraine/
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 15:49  

#6   Here's some more denazification for Badanov the paid Russian influence agent. If there is a God, these people are gonna come visit your soul less self at your judgment:

https://twitter.com/OTregub/status/1547960004430290954/photo/1

https://twitter.com/OTregub/status/1547960004430290954/photo/1
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-07-15 15:37  

#5  Don't threaten the Mods
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-15 14:08  

#4  Geez, Flater, killing the messenger much? All Badanov is doing is reporting news, and he has just a bit more credibility than you do
Posted by: Jay-Dubya   2022-07-15 12:57  

#3  
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651   2022-07-15 12:27  

#2  
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651   2022-07-15 12:15  

#1   Here's some denazification for you, Badonov. If you're in Ukraine, keep a watch over your shoulders:



Kindly learn how to internet so I don't have to correct the display of your personal invective towards me
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651   2022-07-15 11:26  

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