Will Russia start fighting, destroying and executing fascists?

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In the past few months, the rhetoric of our military-political leadership has been taken over by a certain collective Chernomyrdin, who over and over again gives out more and more surrealistic pearls. "Security guarantees", "red lines", "goodwill gesture" and "decision-making centers" are already cast in granite and burned red-hot in front of our eyes, ears and hearts.

And yesterday, on September 16, speaking at the SCO summit, President Putin personally issued a whole pack of fresh memes. “We are tolerant of strikes on infrastructure”, “we made a couple of warning strikes”, “we will see how the Ukrainian offensive ends” and Modi’s almost in the ear of the Indian Prime Minister “we will try to finish all this as soon as possible”. And, according to the already established "tradition", these statements turned out to be not only incredibly strong, but also extremely timely.



This is not our method!


Just on September 16, there was a massive sabotage attack against the Republics, the liberated territories and the Russian Federation itself. At night, the enemy not only fired at the settlement of Valuiki in the Belgorod region, depriving the neighborhood of power supply, but also tried to poke a bayonet into the state border. The lightly armed units of the Border Service were able to hold back the onslaught of the Nazis on armored vehicles until reinforcements arrived, then the enemy was driven back.

The main blow was struck already in the afternoon. A bomb explosion in the building of the Prosecutor General's Office of the LPR claimed the lives of the Republic's Prosecutor General Gorenko and his deputy Steglenko. In Berdyansk, the car of the Boyko spouses, who worked in the military-civilian administration of the city, was blown up, both died. Finally, it was only by a miracle that the head of the VGA Stremousov survived the shelling of the Kherson administration with the HIMARS MLRS.

A very “suitable” background for reassuring statements about everything going according to plan. It is after such blessings in the air that courage rises in the enemy and panic among our morally unstable comrades. It is difficult to imagine the degree of anxiety that is now in the Kherson region and the liberated part of Zaporozhye: people had not yet managed to move away from the “planned regrouping” when enemy shells began to fall on them.

The enemy is well aware of the unhealthy atmosphere and is trying to finish off and break the spirit of the population. The death of the military-civilian administration (and the missile strike was delivered at the time of the meeting and was clearly aimed at destroying not only Stremousov, but the maximum number of pro-Russian officials) could raise a real panic in Kherson. There is no doubt that attempts to “remove” key Russian supporters will continue, as will “just” shelling and terrorist attacks, which create a much greater resonance in the “gunpowder-smelling” cities of the South than in Donetsk, which is constantly under fire.

Against the backdrop of a seriously complicated operational situation on the fronts, the question of the reaction to the fascist terror in the rear is no longer just standing up or sticking out - it literally climbs in the face. Judging by what Putin said in Samarkand, the version of “distorted reports” is completely untenable: he is fully aware of what is happening in the combat zone. The version about hopes to “negotiate” with the West is also untenable: after all, this same West has been openly saying for several months that it will be satisfied only with unconditional surrender, the dismemberment of Russia - and, most importantly, the transfer of Putin himself and his inner circle from easy chairs to electric chair. Not to see this, not to understand can only be an idiot in the medical sense. Has the Commander-in-Chief really fallen into insanity and will soon begin, following the example of his American colleague, to publicly deal with an invisible friend?

Or again, as in February, we are talking about the formation of some kind of "collective responsibility" - let's say, but on what scale? It is no longer individual radical bloggers and city lunatics, not anonymous fighters and commanders on the line of contact who daily see the “art” of the Nazis and risk their own heads, who speak of the need to “wet in the toilet,” and, therefore, speak on emotions. The question of equivalent retribution is already being raised in the federal media, by individual heads of regions (starting, of course, with Kadyrov), the State Duma - not to ask, but to find out when we will start?

What intensity of brutality in society, what percentage of brutalized will be considered sufficient?

Do you know what "retribution" is?!


On September 14, Zelensky heroically wound up in the “de-occupied” Izyum, talked with his “de-occupier cyborgs”, turned around in front of the cameras and returned to his native command bunker completely intact. The sworn "partners" and ordinary units of the yellow-blakyt biomass took this voyage with great enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, in the city itself and in other territories we have lost, filtration and cleansing continues. Ukrainian officialdom speaks of 7 thousand verified persons and 16 “collaborators” identified among them. Local Russian patriots report on the organization of natural camps and torture chambers, and it doesn't seem to me that they are exaggerating. The “trans-Ukrainians”, who were sitting quietly, raised their heads and happily surrendered to the SBU not only those who really collaborated with the CAA, but also their personal enemies, simply “to the heap”.

Thin, timid identification crosses on the enemy military technology, as they were in the early days of the "Izyum counteroffensive", turned into bold "beam crosses" straight from 1939, and in the yard, by the way, September. This is rather a purely utilitarian metamorphosis, but some field designers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine go even further and paint "corner crosses" of the 1943-44 model. for complete authenticity. The foreign press, not without pleasure, compares the Ukrainian "invaders" with the brave Nazi warriors.

However, a huge part of the Ukrainian population - too. Especially for him, a new trendy little thing appeared in stores - no, not just another spinner, but an “orc in a bag”, which is a set of plastic human bones in a translucent package, which, apparently, depicts a body bag. Obviously, this is just a “patriotically” renamed decor for the now fashionable Halloween, but the retailer’s thinking goes along the channel already beaten by “fried separa” and similar “brands”. Judging by the number of piled bags, this “art object” is in demand (if they didn’t take it, they wouldn’t be offered in such volumes), especially since the manufacturer probably transfers a certain percentage of the income from these “toys” to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , or at least promises - and the real "hulks" are only happy to help their "defenders".

Looking at all this yellow-blaky brown, Russian society is no longer snarling through its teeth, but very loudly yelling: how long?! How long will the bloody clown and his henchmen trample the surface of the planet? Until what "for the time being, for the time being" the Russian Federation will allow fashion to "nightmare" its citizens? Whom does she hope to reason with her "precautionary" blows?

I remember how Stremousov himself took a caught Ukrainian spotter in August to look at the results of his work: a private house burned to the ground, in which an entire family died. "Zaukrainets" sobbed, clutched his head... Do you think it was out of shame? - no, from fear that they would kill him now, which should have been done. Unfortunately, they didn’t finish him off, and now he, young and handsome, is waiting for the most humane trial in the world - and who needs him here, why feed a XNUMX% enemy, a fascist in civilian clothes, who helped the fascists in uniform kill seven people?

Practice shows that the bloodthirsty Kyiv geeks are completely insolent, and the yellow-Blakyt biomass is impenetrably irresponsible and stupid. That is why, by the way, the “warning” strikes brought them to a real hysteria: they say, howling “what are we for ?!” was heard even from orbit. It is characteristic that the Russians from the territories occupied by the fascist bastard (and I am not only talking about the vicinity of Izyum) met these same blows with enthusiasm and wrote back to our military commissars: “We will suffer without light and without water, just don’t stop, beat this carrion to the victorious!

With those who do not understand humanly, one can - and should - speak in a language they can understand. The only adequate response to the yellow-blue terror can only be an equivalent white-blue-red terror.

Rather than shame the same caught spotters and saboteurs, it is more effective to simply hand them over to grateful fellow citizens: after a dozen have been torn to pieces with bare hands, the rest will think. Rather than judging captured foreign "mercenaries" (it is already obvious that they are undercover personnel), it is more effective to simply hang them with a sign in the appropriate language attached to their belly: "it will happen to everyone." How to incline the top of the Kyiv regime to “negotiations” (what kind of negotiations, about what ?!) is more effective to spray on fine minced meat, and repeat this operation until there are no more people who want to sign up for hetmans of all Ukraine.

As for Ukraine itself, all the grounds have already been revealed to bomb it into a pastoral state before the arrival of the Muscovite occupiers - when there were only huts with thatched roofs. There should be no indulgence towards the Zhovto-Blakit fauna that has nurtured the terrorist regime, which is its flesh and blood - this is not a “fraternal people”, this is an alien life form that has enslaved part of the Russians and the Russian land, speaking an ugly language and worshiping bloody idols. It must be deprived of all the benefits of civilization: light, gas, water, food, rest, sleep; you need to make her flee in horror to where she already wants to go - to smelly unwashed Europe, where she belongs. After the victory, we will restore everything that was destroyed, but for now, the so-called Ukraine should become literally a black hole in the universe.

Obviously, there are those who want to say: “we are not like that, we play by the rules, we are kind!” The current situation once again shows that the road to defeat and, further, to hell is paved with a humane attitude towards the enemy who has dehumanized himself. Such an enemy must be intimidated, hounded, defeated and destroyed, any - for him - at a cost.
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  1. +19
    17 September 2022 13: 40
    Putin correctly said that he was not going to occupy Ukraine. But Russia must win on the battlefield. And get surrender. And there is simply no other option. Otherwise, it is a defeat and an internal catastrophe. Putin's rating will fall as rapidly as the flight of the elite Russian army from Izyum. And he will get a kick in the ass from his own and turn into rags. He wanted to be a taxi driver - and his dream will come true. If will pull rubber.
    Why is the SVO half a year and continue to shell Donetsk? That is, they protect the soldiers, but there are no civilians?
    Then why all this hemorrhoids?
    1. -3
      17 September 2022 21: 58
      In short, all this hemorrhoids in order to divert the attention of the electorate from the accumulating and aggravating internal problems.

      "Little victorious war" is an expression that is traditionally used in Russian to refer to a diversionary war. First used in January 1904 by Vyacheslav Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior and chief of gendarmes in relation to the impending war with Japan.
    2. +3
      18 September 2022 01: 07
      It is not necessary to occupy, You just need to borrow and clear from the Nazis and other stars and stripes. This is our land.
    3. +1
      18 September 2022 12: 16
      Is it possible to occupy your land, according to history, what is your assessment?
  2. +8
    17 September 2022 14: 27
    It should have been done yesterday \to put it mildly\ . Doubts, however - for the sake of a halo over the head, allow the "red lines" to be violated? Yes, such statements are worthless \1050 Chinese pre..\! Loses respect-authority. Let him wash and clean his eyes / ears, and not only for himself. "You can enter history, but you can get into trouble" but I can't!
  3. -4
    17 September 2022 14: 43
    And what about the corrector? He is a soldier, he has the order of the commander. If he refuses, they will immediately shoot him, the Ukrainians have an order with this. You can still present something personal to a sniper, saboteur, foreign mercenary, but it is stupid for an ordinary Ukrainian artilleryman. Even the Germans did not just kill captured soldiers. (Of course, with the exception of Jews and communists, but this is different). Why does the author promote reprisals against them? This is idiotic. And without that, a lot of things need to change
    1. +2
      17 September 2022 19: 22
      it's time for you to go to church, lad, hymn-singer!
    2. +6
      17 September 2022 22: 39
      what a soldier!! There, civilian slickers were directed at the neighbors, I would have learned the background for a start.
  4. +9
    17 September 2022 15: 48
    Where did the author see "dirty, unwashed Europe"? No need. And about the fact that the patience of the Russian people is coming to an end in this stupid SVO, he is right. For the first time in the last more or less 20 years of the government of the GDP, there is a feeling that he no longer listens to the people's concept of justice and that the authorities are obfuscating something incomprehensibly. Probably the West threatened him so strongly and so plausibly (we will not know about it) that his hands were tied in this unfortunate operation: he wants to, but he can’t. Therefore, there are no decisions, no orders.
    1. +1
      17 September 2022 18: 10
      take a weapon and attack! there is nothing here from the couch about the people rumble! people's avenger...
    2. +4
      17 September 2022 19: 25
      muddy he was muddy and remained, all his activity is haggling with friends!
    3. +2
      17 September 2022 22: 40
      laughing first time, huh? How quickly everyone forgot about the pension.
  5. -1
    17 September 2022 18: 01
    tolerate!!! All of the above are not red lines, it will be red when the guarantor gets bald, and then at first the Foreign Ministry, represented by the genius of diplomacy, Mr. Lavrov, will express very deep concern
  6. -3
    17 September 2022 18: 08
    you, the author, why are you carrying all this blizzard? Like give you power and you beat everyone in a week? or if you give ruzhzho and 3 days is enough?
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  8. 0
    17 September 2022 19: 03
    It is clear that Putin is waiting for the strengthening of combat capability and especially the defense of the country, Russia was not sufficiently prepared for this special operation, which dragged on for a longer period than expected and absorbed a lot of human and especially material resources. , seeing the situation, Putin decided that TIME was needed to strengthen the country's defense capability and successfully continue the operation! and I hope I'm not mistaken.
    1. +2
      17 September 2022 19: 23
      wrong!
    2. +8
      17 September 2022 22: 43
      where do you get these from?? Ukram took 8 years to prepare, and ours is still waiting for this gain. To successfully complete the operation, we needed a normal plan and speed. Time plays for crests.
  9. +2
    17 September 2022 19: 27
    It seems to me that the army will take power and control of the country into their own hands, and the Americans are already howling, the military junta will come and their fifth column in the Russian government and their dreams of dividing Russia into uluses!
  10. +2
    17 September 2022 19: 27
    Avdiivka is located 30 km from Donetsk, but for 7 months it has not been stopped. I even know why. The president needs a scary picture - look how they are killing the people of Donetsk, that's why we are doing the NWO. At the same time, there is a reason for all the men of the Donetsk region to rake in to the front - their own people (from Russia) don’t really want to fight, so the Donetsk and Luhansk residents take the rap.
    1. +2
      17 September 2022 23: 13
      didn't you go nuts, my friend? How many of these Ukrainian men are there (there are about 100 in total, how many of them are Russians is unknown, but there are many of them), and how many of our children are in uniform? More - 150 thousand. This Russian war became our war, and I have a feeling that I will also have to go there ...
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  12. +9
    17 September 2022 20: 28
    I put the author, with respect to his certainly suffered emotional outburst, a solid four with a plus! Despite the seeming bloodlust and angry exaggeration, there is no exaggeration. No bloodlust either. Zelya is a clown? Yes, bloodthirsty. Are they mocking, exterminating all sympathizers? - Yes, even abroad they try to beat. Are they eager to wipe everything Russian off the face of the earth? - Still how, they even promote, and - just think - they reproach the Germans for Russophilia))
    I think the article sounds like a normal healthy defensive reaction. It sounds in me, and in many of our compatriots and in many understanding people: - if ours are beaten, then something must be done, right?
  13. +9
    17 September 2022 20: 55
    The West openly wants to bring Putin to The Hague, and divide the country into pieces. Therefore, the present complacency is unproductive here. It is better to act as Alexander Nevsky, Peter the Great or Stalin would have acted in such a case.
    I hope there is no need to explain how they would act?
    1. -6
      17 September 2022 22: 22
      They forgot Ivan IV the Terrible, who conducted a successful NVO against Novgorod the Great in 1569-1570.
      Nevsky received a label to reign in the Horde.
      Peter from the Prut campaign barely carried his legs.
      To Stalin, the White Finns showed where the crayfish hibernate.

      I hope there is no need to explain how they would act?

      You could explain this if you were possessed by the spirits of these long-dead characters, but materialist historians, to whom I consider myself, argue that this is unrealistic laughing
      1. +2
        17 September 2022 23: 19
        Stalin achieved the desired result. And Vyborg and Ladoga are ours.
        1. -4
          18 September 2022 09: 42
          At the cost of life 125.000 thousand soldiers of the Red Army.
          Of course, your ancestors were not among them. If there were, you would talk differently about the "desired result".
    2. -1
      18 September 2022 09: 51
      General mobilization, defiantly bringing the strategic forces to full combat readiness!
  14. +4
    17 September 2022 21: 31
    Quote: Bulanov
    ... It is better to act as Alexander Nevsky, Peter the Great or Stalin would have acted in such a case.
    I hope there is no need to explain how they would act?

    But isn’t it clear in 22 years that Putin is not the person who acts, he sits back and waits, at best he reacts to the situation and then in such a way that he can always roll back, he proved with all his activities that he does not know how to win
  15. +2
    17 September 2022 22: 18
    Again another explanation. They go with the flow.

    But in real life, either there is a CSP (like the May decrees, import substitution, 2000 Armats), or there is no CSP. (... no, but you hold on). In any case, not a single golden baby was harmed...
  16. +3
    17 September 2022 23: 18
    Bandera prepared by the CIA and MI6. It's worse than fascism. It must be eradicated throughout Ukraine. Nothing else is given. Otherwise, the betrayal and collapse of Russia.
  17. +4
    18 September 2022 00: 53
    Apparently the West has something that they hold the Kremlin by the throat. Twitch a little, the noose is compressed. They are afraid to start actual actions at the end of this operation. Or maybe that Russia has no strength. Everything was smashed, broken and sent away from the robbed people. They remember well what happened before the civil war, what happened after the civil war. And for this they hate Lenin, they hate Stalin and they hate the people who broke the neck of Hitler and his accomplices. The authorities hate the people to horror. It is not in their interests to give weapons, because weapons can be directed towards those who robbed the people, there is a very great fear and understanding that this is dangerous. They don't trust the people. After all, the people are sheared like a sheep, and the sheep does not care who shears it. But it happens that the sheep huddle in a circle and then the wolves are afraid.
  18. -2
    18 September 2022 01: 25
    I advise all critics of the GDP and our army to take their time with conclusions and assessment of events. The most interesting thing is happening now not at the front and completely unnoticed if you don’t know where to look. These events caused a very violent and painful reaction from the world behind the scenes. The USA is just a tool in their hands .If someone thinks that mattresses are an independent state, let them stop with this delusion.
  19. -3
    18 September 2022 04: 00
    the Ukrainians themselves will execute the Nazis when they realize what hell they have brought their country to.

    It is violence, assassinations of politicians and the like that the West wants to get from Russia. They need this in order to have a basis for the demonization of Russia, without which the cold war against Russia is impossible. They need the image of a threat in the face of Russia in order to motivate their population to endure the impending crisis.

    Let's kill the Nazis, let's calibrate Zelensky, turn off the lights on Ukraine - all this is exactly what the Western elites need, so that the people would believe them and see Russia as a threat. Hence the terrorist attacks of the Kyiv regime at the direction of the CIA, hence the shelling of civilians by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    Do not give in to emotions, but think with your brains. You can kill the Nazis at the front, if anyone really needs it.

    Russia is winning the battle for concepts, the world sees more and more evil in the West, sees their real essence. It remains to win the battle for the thoughts of the population of the WEST. It is not an easy choice for the leadership of Russia now - it is necessary to satisfy the huge demand of the patriotic camp, which demands blood, demands to smear dill on the wall.

    They already received it in full, NWO is not a warning, this is a specific answer to all Ukrainian Nazis. Their country is turning into hell, they themselves are already sick of their own hatred and madness. They are dying by the thousands at the front, the economy is shattered to smithereens. And the Kyiv regime is to blame for this, and the West is the customer. The Ukrainian people themselves must come to an understanding of this and draw conclusions.
    1. Roy
      +1
      18 September 2022 11: 59
      The Ukrainian people themselves must come to an understanding...
      So far, the Ukrainian people understand that they "liberated" the Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkov regions. And he also understands that the Kherson region and Crimea with Donbass will soon be liberated. This is what they understand today.
  20. +6
    18 September 2022 07: 35
    How many more red lines must crests cross in order for an order to be given a tough response. Otherwise, it becomes ridiculous from their warnings.
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  22. 0
    18 September 2022 12: 27
    The question is not idle: either we will start fighting or evacuate Bnelgorod and Kursk, and then something else. Saving the enemy and his infrastructure will not lead to anything else.
  23. +2
    18 September 2022 13: 03
    The article is correct. Here I read your comments, the editorials of Pravda, Izvestia or Soviet Russia immediately come to mind. Everything is in the spirit of Mr. Suslov's attitudes and his entire propaganda machine. You are looking at the root. All these Shoigu, Gerasimovs, Lavrovs and other Swedes are all Putin's sixes, they themselves do not decide anything. It's all about our Supreme. He reminds me of Trotsky with his idea of ​​permanent war - no war, no peace. Here, one commentator correctly poses the question: the West has taken Putin and his camarilla by the throat. After all, there is stolen loot, families, children, real estate of our entire establishment (officials, deputies, oligarchs, governors, etc.). That's why they fired a cannon and look. What will they say in Washington? London, Paris and Brussels. Either we fight or we don't. And to watch how Putin and his entourage dance the polka butterfly in front of the West is already sickening. Platomu all questions to the Kremlin - UNTIL?
  24. 0
    18 September 2022 13: 40
    Quote: trampoline instructor
    At the cost of life 125.000 thousand soldiers of the Red Army.
    Of course, your ancestors were not among them. If there were, you would talk differently about the "desired result".

    It's true! You continue to hammer "on the clave" without adjustments .... Aren't you tired?

    And I will once again note that there is nothing easier and simpler than to win the biggest War in History.

    It is only necessary to stupidly lay hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the ground and put them all in the Gulag. And how it will trample how trample! .... There will be both Victory and the second economy of the World .....

    It is only in other countries that the most talented leaders win wars and create an industry. And among individuals like you, everything is simple! And you don’t need to think at all and you don’t need brains ....
    1. -3
      18 September 2022 14: 36
      You continue to hammer "on the clave" without adjustments .... Aren't you tired?

      I don’t hammer the keyboard, but gently press it, as they taught me to press the trigger.

      The USSR won the war on the so-called Eastern Front. As you know, 2 MV consisted of many theaters of operations, and the Eastern Front was one of many. But in general, the entire anti-Hitler coalition won the war. You fix it in your ushatanny motsk.

      It is only necessary to stupidly lay hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the ground and put them all in the Gulag. And how it will trample how trample!

      I didn’t put anyone anywhere, and I didn’t mention the Gulag at all. You take care.

      Yes, yes, after the victory and the second world economy was December 1991.
      Nothing is easy for me. I try to see a colorful picture, not black and white.
      1. -1
        22 September 2022 09: 14
        It is immediately clear that you are from Ukraine ... Therefore, the picture you see is not multi-colored, but yellow-block with brown spots, as you were taught. One thing pleases, soon there will be very few like you.
  25. +1
    18 September 2022 17: 40
    Quote: trampoline instructor
    You continue to hammer "on the clave" without adjustments .... Aren't you tired?

    I don’t hammer the keyboard, but gently press it, as they taught me to press the trigger. I only make quiet sounds like "pst", which are nervously reacted by local woodpeckers of a brownish hue, of which you are also one.

    The USSR won the war on the so-called Eastern Front. As you know, 2 MV consisted of many theaters of operations, and the Eastern Front was one of many. But in general, the entire anti-Hitler coalition won the war. You fix it in your ushatanny motsk.

    It is only necessary to stupidly lay hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the ground and put them all in the Gulag. And how it will trample how trample!

    I didn’t put anyone anywhere, and I didn’t mention the Gulag at all. You take care.

    Yes, yes, after the victory and the second world economy was December 1991.
    Nothing is easy for me. I try to see a colorful picture, not black and white.

    Not ... but .... You are delirious. Re-read your writings again and you will understand, I just stated that everything is complicated and does not come down primitively to mountains of corpses of killed soldiers of the Red Army ...

    I didn't mention anything about the picture. Fit it in your ratty mocca.

    As for the fact that you can win on the Eastern Front and create conditions for the opening of the Western through your own many thousands of losses, and not talentedly organized hostilities, you are delirious again. First, compare the length of the front line in the East and in the Western theater of operations, and then be sure to consult a psychiatrist.

    I strongly suspect that 1991 came “later” precisely because a stream of smelly footcloths from remote villages poured into the cities of the USSR in the 70s, swallowing up everything reasonable and civilized .... Were these not your ancestors?
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  26. 0
    19 September 2022 21: 42
    Once started not a fig in politics to play. Wet everything you have.
  27. 0
    20 September 2022 15: 30
    It’s also not clear to me why Kyiv, Lvov, Uzhgorod, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa are still flourishing ....?
    1. 0
      22 September 2022 09: 20
      Maybe it's time. No matter how they say it, Putin did not unleash wars and pulled to the last. He does not like and does not want wars. And to be honest, Russia has never lived better than under Putin, it happened! Indeed, the time has come to act. Of course, a lot of things suffer from his unwillingness to bring down the kr about in earlier. But ... apparently the time has come. Russia is quite capable of destroying Ukraine, because this is what everyone wanted so much. Will the Russians regret it? Probably not! We have been asked for a long time. Order?
  28. 0
    22 September 2022 11: 27
    We save those who are on the other front line, but sacrificing civilians in the liberated territories. All superiority was lost while they touted their failed tactics with constant retreats.