Post by BykerHow about we nuke the Kremlin?
How 'bout we note that most missile paths between Russia and the USA go
over Canada, and that's where they'll intercept.
The Canucks won't do shit, fearful of becoming targets themselves...
Trudeau has been thanked many times by Zelensky for helping Ukraine. Glad the Ruskies are being pushed back.
Zelensky is doing a great job defending his country glad America is thinking of sending Ukraine Patriot missiles. I totally support what Trudeau has done on the Ukraine file.
Glad war crimes trials are being planned.
Every day America brings by air more weapons to Ukraine so they can kill the invaders the rapists the Russian killers. Deport all Russian citizens from the Free World. LONG LIVE FREE AND DEMOCRATIC UKRAINE. Keep protesting against Putin in Ukraine, Russia and the Free World. SANCTIONS!! BOYCOTT Die all Russian military in Ukraine and the Middle East. Ukranian commandos destroy the Gazprom pipeline in Russia. (Greg: The pipeline was wrecked underwater somehow. I wonder who gave them that idea? https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ceo-says-gazprom-may-need-replace-big-part-nord-stream-tass-2022-10-13/ The only thing the E.U. and Russia agree on is that it was deliberately done.) WHORERUSSIA IS EVIL AND DISEASED. Glad the Moskva sank. God Bless the 20k foreign volunteer fighters in Ukraine. https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/canadian-veteran-killed-fighting-in-eastern-ukraine.html Way to go Biden for sending the advanced surface to air system to Ukraine the G7 announced they will support Ukraine for as long as necessary what happened to those MIG's Ukraine wanted? Way to go for sending more stingers. Glad Snake Island is again free of Russian soldiers.
Canadian Veteran Killed Fighting in Eastern Ukraine R.I.P. This Hero Soldier Who Died Fighting For Foreigners Freedom.
By Kyiv Post. Published Nov. 9 at 5:36 pm
Joseph Hildebrand, pictured with his partner Carissa and their daughter Jovi, died in Ukraine as a volunteer soldier. (Submitted by Carissa Hildebrand)
A farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, who had served two tours in Afghanistan, has reportedly died while fighting in Ukraine according to his family members.
On Nov. 6, Joseph Hildebrand died in the frontline city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region. According to a source in the battalion, his unit of foreign fighters had carried out a successful assault mission in the city, though several other members had suffered minor injuries.
While transporting their wounded to a frontline medical facility, the unit came under Russian artillery fire, killing Joseph and one other foreign combatant. However, sources indicate that their exact cause of death is unknown.
According to Joseph’s family, the remaining survivors contacted them with the news and that they are now protecting the bodies alongside their Ukrainian colleagues in hostile territory until plans can be made to remove them.
Joseph’s brother Jake spoke from his mother’s house near the Saskatchewan village of Herbert, saying: “We’re all here together at the farm, trying to get more information.”
“I’m 35 years old and I have to make arrangements for my brother’s body. This is as bad as it gets,” he added.
The Donetsk region’s besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was the location of a mission carried out by a dozen soldiers, some of whom were Ukrainian and others from South America, Jake claimed.
The city has reportedly been under increased attack from a number of directions by Russian forces over the past few days, according to news reports. The surviving 12,000 residents have gone more than two months without access to water, electricity, or gas.
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Carissa Hildebrand, Joseph’s partner and mother of their 13-year-old daughter, said Joseph voluntarily left Canada on June 11 to assist Ukraine in its conflict.
“We literally couldn’t handle what was going on and wanted to help,” she stated.
However, Carissa said she was confused about her husband’s decision to go to war.
She also spoke of how she received a call on Nov. 6 around 7:40 a.m. Central Time Zone (CST).
“I answered it and it was somebody on his team,” Carissa said, adding that the caller informed her that Joseph had been killed in an assault.
“He was killed pulling other guys out that were injured,” she stated. “That’s exactly who he is. The most selfless man I’ve ever known.”
Jake said that his brother wanted to provide assistance in Ukraine despite the family not having close ties to the country. He praised his brother Joseph for joining the Canadian military and serving two tours in Afghanistan, calling him “incredibly brave.” In addition to participating in combat, he trained Afghan forces, Jake added.
Joseph’s cousin Carl said: “He just made up his mind and went,” adding that Joseph cherished his time with his family and was “extremely hardworking.”
Joseph’s former team member in Afghanistan, Sergio Aburto, referred to “Hildy” as a true warrior and someone who could be trusted in perilous circumstances. As members of an operational mentoring and liaison team, they travelled abroad between 2009 and 2010 as a small group.
He added that veterans of the Canadian Forces, who served alongside Joseph, have banded together in an effort to give him a proper military funeral and to support his family following his passing.
Mr Aburto asserted that men like Joseph, who wish to fight for humanity, do not receive support from their home nation if or when they do so.
“I just hope he went out the way he wanted to go and, to me, if he was going to pass in this lifetime it would have been in combat,” he stated. “But it’s sad because now, is his family going to get taken care of? God, no, because you’re going over there almost like mercenaries but with good intention.”
https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/canadian-veteran-killed-fighting-in-eastern-ukraine.html
Honour his sacrifice today.
24 days after the CDN volunteer soldiers death Bakhmut is still free.
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE
Russian Soldiers Are Freezing To Death In Eastern Ukraine
David AxeForbes Staff
I write about ships, planes, tanks, drones, missiles and satellites.
Nov 27, 2022,08:00am EST
Russians huddle in a trench as a drone bomb explodes among them.VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
The Ukrainian army has deployed some of its best brigades to eastern Ukraine, including the 92nd and 93rd Mechanized Brigades and the 1st Presidential Brigade.
But these elite Ukrainian formations might not be the biggest killer of Russian troops in the east. Under-trained, under-supplied and ambivalently led, Russians in the region are freezing to death by the dozen.
Shocking videos that have circulated online in recent weeks tell a tragic story. The videos, shot by the Ukrainian brigades’ hovering drones, depict Russians in the late stages of hypothermia, so cold and sick that they barely react when the drones drop lethal improvised bombs on them.
Thomas Theiner, an ex-soldier who currently is a filmmaker in Kyiv, predicted winter “would kill more Russian soldiers than Ukraine ever could.” He may have been right.
Winters in Ukraine start wet and cold then get colder and drier. Eastern Ukraine still is in the wet-cold phase—and it’s brutal. Deep mud mires armored vehicles. Daytime temperatures hover around freezing and during the night they dip closer to zero degrees Fahrenheit.
With preparation, sound leadership and reliable logistics, the conditions are survivable. Soldiers bundle up, sleep in roofed, heated trenches with floors, frequently change their wet socks and eat twice as much as they would on warm days. When they get sick, they evacuate to the rear for rest.
The problem for the Russian army is that more and more of its troops are untrained draftees. Officers aren’t leading from the front. And Russian logistics are strained by nonstop Ukrainian bombardment. Starving draftees with no gloves or good boots are huddling in shallow, unheated trenches while their officers squat in abandoned houses potentially miles away, unaware or uncaring as their soldiers succumb to the elements.
When you’re wet, hungry and exposed to the nighttime cold, it doesn’t take long for hypothermia to set in. One bad night is enough. Even moderate hypothermia can cause confusion, decreased reflexes and loss of motor skills in sufferers.
Which explains the drone massacre that’s been playing out lately over contested eastern towns such as Svatove, Pavlivka and Bakhmut. Hypothermic Russian troops aren’t even trying to flee when Ukraine’s bomb-armed quadcopter drones buzz overhead. The soldiers barely flinch when a bomb explodes in their fighting position.
Suicides evidently are on the rise. One especially gut-wrenching video depicts a Russian combatant in scrape outside Bakhmut trying to shoot himself in the chest as a Ukrainian drone watches from directly overhead. The Russian’s ungloved right hand is blue with cold, and he struggles to pull the trigger.
The video feed cuts. When we see the Russian again, he apparently has succeeded in killing himself. He doesn’t move when the drone’s bomb explodes beside him.
It’s hard to say for sure how many Russians have died of the cold. But it’s worth noting that just one Russian marine unit, the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, reportedly lost as many as 500 killed and 400 wounded in just the last three months fighting around Pavlivka. That’s potentially half the brigade’s original strength.
A nearly one-to-one killed-to-wounded ratio—one to three is normal—speaks to the collapse of Russian leadership ... and to the cold. Wounded troops, lying exposed to the elements, are dying before anyone bothers to rescue them.
Expect many, many more Russians to freeze to death as the weather gets worse. As the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. noted on Saturday, temperatures are forecasted to drop throughout Ukraine over the next week.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/11/27/russian-soldiers-are-freezing-to-death-in-eastern-ukraine/?sh=5f4f8ed54254 Has pics of these Russian invaders cowering from the drone bombs.
Kill the Ruskie invaders!