A Ukranian soldier asks: "While they were playing with our aid-Did you know we were dying out here"

[kpete]

A Ukrainian soldier asked @ChristopherJM, "While they were playing with our aid, I wonder, did they know we were dying out here?”

In fact, if the war had never erupted in the first place, there might not even be an impeachment inquiry. At the heart of the matter is the question of whether Trump froze the latest package of US security aid for Ukraine to pressure the country’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, into investigating Trump’s political rival and the unfounded theory that Kyiv — not Moscow — had interfered in the 2016 election.

The aid freeze was overturned in September, but the damage had already been done. For Moscow, it had signaled that it still has the upper hand in the war and in peace negotiations being pushed by Zelensky. For Kyiv, it had a chilling effect that spread through the Ukrainian capital, where stunned officials began questioning their longtime ally’s commitment.

That chill also spread to the Donbas trenches, where soldiers like Stas said many of their comrades had been killed while the aid was being held up.

“While they were playing with our aid, I wonder, did they know we were dying out here?” asked Oleksandr, a sergeant in the 14th Mechanized Brigade who goes by the call sign “kuvyrok,” or “somersault.” As we crept through trenches outside the village of Krymske, 40 miles northwest of Stas’s position, careful to keep our heads down and out of Russian snipers’ sights, Oleksandr said at least two soldiers were killed at the position over the summer.

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/ukraine-in-hot-war-impeachment

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1. K and R Thank You for posting...

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2. Republicans didn't care about the Kurds. . .

Republicans didn't care about immigrant children being locked up in fucked up camps . . .

and more . . . .

Hopefully enough of us can get this MFer and his cronies plus Republicans out.

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Been heading down this path since Reagan.

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