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By employing SF in this way, the coalition was able to oust the Taliban with the minimum of ground troops whilst fostering a positive relationship with the indigenous friendly forces. We see him presenting an engraved sledgehammer to a group of Russian volunteers, in celebration of the murder by his men, with the same weapon, of a Syrian deserter in 2017 and a Russian man, himself a murderer, deemed disloyal this year. We see him pacing up and down a Russian prison yard, one hand in his pocket, carefully framed by the camera in a horseshoe of black-uniformed convicts hundreds strong, offering them redemption or death if they sign up to join the assault on Ukraine.
There have been moving Ukrainian videos of the liberation of small villages, with families standing by their wooden fences, waving and weeping as the army BTR drives by. A video showing soldiers tearing down the enemy flag and hoisting their own over the administrative building of this or that town has become the authorised marker of progress and retreat. A tour of the aftermath of a battle is another standard; soldiers rifle through the burned-out carcass of an armoured vehicle, flipping through passports, pushing aside piles of ration packs, or showing the viewer a captured piece of enemy equipment.
It is around 47 minutes after the 9-liner radio call for medical evacuation was called and only five minutes since the US Black Hawk helicopter took off from Camp Bastion to medevac Mark. They lay down a smokescreen and are forced to carry him without a stretcher. At approximately 8.50am, the troops decide to try and get Mark back to the nearby patrol base (PB) from Compound One. They are still under intense fire and will have to cross a canal, and run over open ground with the injured men (another soldier was shot in the ankle, but survived) to enter the patrol base. The fabrications of 2014 continued when on 14 July, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over the Donbas, killing all 298 passengers and crew. According to a Dutch-led investigation, it was destroyed by an air-to-ground rocket fired by the Russian Army’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade that had moved into the rebel held area, then returned to Russia after the unintended mishap.
Russia’s act of aggression has been conducted under the gaze of the world’s media, which Putin’s minions have found difficult to jam or block. The Russian tactical goal remains to control Ukraine by separating its pro-Western government from the population, hence the importance of the cities. President Zelensky declared martial law, ordered mobilization of all men between 18 and 60 and appealed to the wider world for help. Thousands started making Molotov cocktails, so deadly to attacking tanks more than 80 years ago. In some ways this war is anachronistic, with a Russian armoured train being filmed moving supplies forward. On 1 March, Belarus predictably entered the war on Russia’s side with such timing, that it is assumed President Lukashenko was merely following a script Vladimir Putin had written months earlier.
There’s the field interrogation of captured prisoners – filthy, cold, bruised and often injured, sometimes blindfolded and on their knees, mumbling name, rank and serial number through dry, swollen lips. There’s hour after hour of grim, exhausted looking troops bouncing along on the roofs of armoured vehicles, suddenly smiling at the camera and sounding their horns, the streets behind them stumps of concrete where houses used to be. Soldiers hunker down in the windowless shell of an apartment in a ruined city, darting out to shoot at something and running back. A soldier is in a muddy foxhole, shooting at an enemy the viewer can’t see. Bullets from the invisible enemy tear up the parapet as the soldier flinches.
Seizing Kherson and the canal would solve Crimea’s water issues, while a thrust from Belarus towards Kyiv might also necessitate taking the rail junction at Chemikiv. In 2015, Russian General Andrey Kartapolev outlined a multistage approach to modern conflict, beginning by pressuring the enemy politically, economically and through information warfare, spreading dissatisfaction and supporting armed opposition detachments. This, he argued, should be followed by intensifying diplomatic pressure then full-scale war to establish full control over the “state-victim”. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services.
As he moves, he leaves a trail of blood that stands out clearly against some broken chunks of polystyrene. A second soldier comes into view, too busy firing down the hall to help his comrade. In the age when TV news was dominant, from the 1960s to the early 2000s, we were used to two strands of news authority, the official and the sceptical. On the official side were stage-managed audio-visual moments, speeches, parades, press conferences, summit meetings; when there was a war, there was state-sanctioned footage.
As previously reported, Shane shared photos of the aftermath of the attack, which levelled a bridge and destroyed a church and school. Determined Shane Matthew came out of retirement to travel to Ukraine and has so far helped to train more than 500 Ukrainians, who are ‘fighting like the Taliban on steroids’ to resist Vladimr Putin’s bogged-down Russian invasion force. I think its just too far for them to target with enough accuracy to take it out completely. I think his tally was something over 200 tanks before he was got by a tyro who had only fired 5 rounds in practice and never before in anger.
The conflict has also seen geopolitical realities upended overnight, from the assumption that countries with McDonalds do not go to war, to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline being axed. Germany, in particular, has shifted its stance from its previous pacificist approach to international relations, by announcing it would boost it defence spending to 4% to meet and even exceed NATO commitments. The Security Service of Ukraine's regional headquarters is just one of a number of buildings which have been damaged or destroyed in the ongoing attack, with residents in the country urged to seek shelter to avoid the missiles flying overhead. Isaac arrived in Ukraine in mid-March 2022 to volunteer in a newly formed International Legion. The Legion was started by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Feb. 24, 2022 in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to engage international soldiers volunteering to fight. The volunteers sign contracts with Ukraine’s Armed Forces and become a part of Ukraine’s military.