Donbass, Donetsk, Pokrovsk,~~The Fighting-~A President Shows His Real Face~
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| Five civilians killed, 13 injured in Russian shelling of Donetsk region |
| Donesk Then |
Introduction on my own words with sources of Wikipedia and the latest news by Independent.
The description here are for the most part at least 1-2 months old, No secrets are being printed.
First I most start with what the latest news from Washington, very troubling news.
As everyone can see The President of the U.S. was for Ukraine one day and the next day he was for Putin saying the most incredible things: Ukraine started the war. What against it self??.
No time have been more worrisome for me about Ukraine that I am now. Now the biggest nation backing Ukraine has gone to the other side, But Im not surprised because that is The Donald. He doesn't have a word or decency.. He changed his mind in 24 hrs. He called the U.S. dead vets suckers because they die.
In Donalds world nobody dies, they go to jail and they cheat each other but because he can cheat better than anyone he sees himself coming on top because there is no one else but Trump. I do trust the military and just wonder how long they will take the humiliations by Trump. Let me tell you a story about my life to explain how I feel about these events.
My mom used to say to anyone that would listen when people will talk about how different my hair was, black with a red or blond birthmark in the middle of my head. My skin was different than the rest of the family.
She would say this boy did not want to be born. He would stick his head out and would go back in. She said I did that several times. This was a home birth like with her previous 11 before me. I can understand now why I did not want to be born. If I was to see some human like Trump, I would not be part of the human race. That's how I feel now, seeing my people put this monster in power. I guess they are not my people. This Is not my nation for the next four years, it's how I feel.
Russias Principal aim is to recapture Donbass. But Ukraine have sent some of their best. The most decorated tank crews you find it here.Still The Russians Control the bombing here
"Tankers are the older Cousins of infantry" a soldier said.
The tank shoots and lay a smoke screen and gets the hell out of there. They know the Ruskies can pinpoint from where the missiles came and they will retaliate within minutes.
The Donbas or Donbass is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. The majority of the Donbas is occupied by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The word Donbas is a portmanteau formed from "Donets Basin", an abbreviation of "Donets Coal Basin"
The Russian army has destroy this city. These area according to Wikipedia is 20,541 mi.
However the very poor and elderly are still in the city hiding from the bombing in the ruins coming from the Russians. No children here but the school which has no windows and missing many walls till has a piano and the piano teacher Irinag still plays the piano during the day. I guess she imagines the children can still hear her. The old people cry reminiscing what this town was and how it was demolished by Russia.But the Russians know there are Ukrainians soldiers here and they keep the mortals and bombs coming at no particular intervals.
What this brigade of foot soldier is doing is to occupy the trenches and stop the Russian advance.
To hear the story of these soldiers young or old can make most people cry, like me.
One talks then that the war would end soon but the war went on for 2 yrs more and counting.
"The conflict split the Donbas into Ukrainian-held territory, constituting about two-thirds of the region, and separatist-held territory, constituting about one-third. The region remained this way for years until Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022".
Donesk Now
Deaths
"In late November 2024, based on all previous estimates of Ukrainian military casualties, The Economist estimated Ukrainian losses at between 60,000 and 100,000 killed and 400,000 wounded."
Is this worth it for the man in Russia?
Donesk was taken by the Russians and installed what they called a provisional government . But these people were not happy with that. They went into the street and told the Ruskies to go. They were beaten and some taken away to never be seen again.Eventually they were liberated and they met the soldiers on the street with flowers and flags of Ukraine.
This how The Russians did it
A few months later, in October, after Yulia and her mother had fled 150 miles to the “alien” town of Kamianse in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian forces captured Selydove.
“I cannot possibly convey to you the amount of grief Russia has caused my family,” says Yulia.
She and her mother are desperate to go home. There are few jobs around in Kamianse, and the 45-year-old says she is “struggling to make a living”. There is little recourse to financial support. She is away from all her friends. She is finding it difficult to look after her mother, too.
“If Ukraine were to regain control, we would go back,” she says. “Even if there was no electricity or water, we would go back in an instant, because we miss our home.”
can Ukraine achieve this? It has been on the back foot for a year in Donetsk, outnumbered and often outgunned. A Ukrainian attack on the Russian border region of Kursk last August dealt a blow to Putin, but it did not force his army to divert its advancing troops in Donetsk up to the border, as had been hoped.
Now, Selydove faces the stark possibility of being trapped behind a more permanently frozen front line.
Against the backdrop of US president Donald Trump reopening communication with Putin in the name of stopping the war, Russia’s forces are continuing to advance the front line deeper into Ukraine in the knowledge that Kyiv will be forced to cede at least some of the territory the Kremlin’s troops have captured.
The jewel in this attack is Pokrovsk, some 10 miles beyond Selydove. It is a linchpin of the region’s defences, sitting on key logistics lines supplying the wider area, and its loss could open up Donetsk to further Russian attacks.
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| Volodymyr and Mykola Radko were playing on the swings when the missiles struck (Provided by Yulia Checheta) |
“Everyone who I cared about was all the same in the vicinity,” Yulia says. “And we didn’t have anywhere to go.”
But that changed the day Volodymyr and Mykola were killed. It was 28 May 2024, the day Vladimir Putin’s army, which he says he sent there to protect Russian-speakers, killed Yulia’s Russian-speaking family.
A few months later, in October, after Yulia and her mother had fled 150 miles to the “alien” town of Kamianse in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian forces captured Selydove.
“I cannot possibly convey to you the amount of grief Russia has caused my family,” says Yulia.
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| You can see how these areas are divided between the Russians coming to take them back and Ukraine doing the same |
She and her mother are desperate to go home. There are few jobs around in Kamianse, and the 45-year-old says she is “struggling to make a living”. There is little recourse to financial support. She is away from all her friends. She is finding it difficult to look after her mother, too.
[[Independent Magazine, the source]]
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Between 5,000 and 7,000 civilians, most of whom are elderly or disabled, remain in Pokrovsk from a pre-war population of 60,000. They survive in freezing, unlit basements with no electricity, living off humanitarian aid, at the mercy of relentless Russian glide-bomb and drone attacks.
Like Yulia, they do not want to leave, because their whole lives are in Pokrovsk.
Nonetheless, a mass exodus began last summer when, in one month, the population dropped from 48,000 to just 16,000, according to local officials. It was the same month that Russia advanced at its quickest pace since the start of the full-scale invasion. When The Independent visited the city during that period, the sound of explosions was constant.
Last month, the Russians began marching up the city’s left flank, taking the town of Kotlyne just a few miles away. It is the last stop on the railway line connecting the city to the safety of the unoccupied regions to the west. Its capture amounted to the loss of a key supply line.
The Centre for Defence Strategies, a Ukrainian security think tank, says the Russians have begun attempting to “advance along the railway line”.
The capture of Kotlyne also brought the Russians closer to one of the last remaining highways into Pokrovsk – the E50, a couple of miles to the north – the loss of which would significantly complicate Ukrainian logistics.
Pokrovsk’s encirclement is a mirror image of what happened to Selydove five months ago, when it was surrounded from east to west before being taken over.
Any vehicles coming into Pokrovsk, whether military or civilian, are being targeted by Russian drones. A 28-year-old British medic, Edward “Eddy” Scott, recently lost his left arm and leg after a drone hit his van while he was driving into the city.
I will stop here. The purpose of this posting is to g is to impress upon my readers what is going on and pressure has to be put on The Donald. He is not a fearless man, he is just a bully. You just need to find his soft spot and hitting right there, he will back-off because he doesn't care which direction he goes as long as he is on top. Now he is after Ukraine minerals and rich metals such as aluminum etc.Not because he wants it for the U.S. but because it will make him the richest man in the world. He wants to top the demented Elon, when Trump brings him down it will be funny more than anything else.Instead of Casin os and real sestate which he was awful , he would be into rich minerals. Nice racket?
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