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Ukraine's tactic of targeting supply lines has worked well, especially during the first five to 10 days of the war. This was partially down to Ukrainian tactics and partially down to how Russia was operating, during the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear. – Thomas Bullock	Found on CNN 2 years ago
During the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear. – Thomas Bullock	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The United States is prepared to defend every inch of NATO territory. The United States takes seriously that an attack against one is an attack against all. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’m sure you’re aware that the Russian propaganda groups [are] already putting out there all kinds of information about how they’ve uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to release biological weapons in the country, with NATO’s coordination, if there is a biological or chemical weapon incident or attack inside of Ukraine, is there any doubt in your mind that 100% it would be the Russians that would be behind it? – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In order to attack a well-prepared position, you need to prepare and mobilize a LOT of troops, that never happened, because we would have had to mobilize roughly 200,000 people, form attack groups. This is such a huge logistical exercise that it is simply impossible to hide. – Mark Savchuk	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The SPLC leadership’s own history is one of racism, misogyny and spreading hate, including an extremist attack on the Family Research Center, the notion that haters of the truth can be fit judges of who is or is not a ‘hater’ is preposterous, and the sooner people stop taking these far-left loons seriously the better. – Don Woodsmall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They would rather buy oil from our adversaries who will actually use that money to attack American interests than pump oil and gas here, which would actually put more money in the American economy and actually make us more energy independent. – Jim Carafano	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Theywould rather buy oil from our adversarieswho will actually use that money to attack American interests than pump oil and gas here, which would actually put more money in the American economy and actually make us more energy independent. – Jim Carafano	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is no doubt, no doubt, that the United States and every NATO ally will meet our Article V commitments, which says, an attack on one is an attack on all. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These were innocent, peaceful civilians in a nation that had shown no aggression, subjected to an unjustifiable and unprovoked attack by Russian military forces, since 1989 Kharkiv has been a sister city to Cincinnati and residents have exchanged ideas, educational opportunities and collaborative projects on culture, medicine and human rights. – Aftab Pureval	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We, the Russian people, are against the war Putin has unleashed. We don’t support this war, it is being waged not on our behalf, i know that right now many of you feel desperation, helplessness, shame over Vladimir Putin’s attack on the friendly nation of Ukraine. But I urge you not to despair. – Marina Litvinovich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The pattern of indiscriminate attacks amounts to a war crime just as a deliberate attack is, so if these are confirmed after investigation – and of course, we don't have those investigations yet – they could be war crimes. – Leonard Rubenstein	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The law is very simple and clear and goes back 150 years that it's illegal to attack a hospital, a patient, medical staff, in fact, they're war crimes. – Leonard Rubenstein	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There were two children, I believe, who were killed and two others and six injured because of the explosive force of the bomb, the law is very simple and clear and goes back 150 years that it's illegal to attack a hospital, a patient, medical staff. – Leonard Rubenstein	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Russian tanks, equipped with thermal imagery, are shooting at the atomic blocks. They know what they are shooting at. They've been preparing for this( attack). – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The events that have unfolded in Ukraine are devastating. There is no place in this world for this kind of unjust attack on humanity. – Mila Kunis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The appearance of at least one image of a rocket booster section lends credence to this having been a rocket attack. – Dan Kaszeta	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Amidst all the attention on the massive conventional war that's taking place in Ukraine, a cyberwar started before the conventional attack, it would be still taking place now. – Paul Kolbe	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My thought listening to the response was the speeches were inverted. Joe Biden knew exactly what Republicans were going to say about him, joe Biden speech rebutted everything she said. And, but, that is the line of attack. Glenn Youngkin used it, in Glenn Youngkin view, to great effect. And you're right, that's the speech they'll give all year. – Nicolle Wallace	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is no doubt, no doubt, that the United States and every NATO ally will meet our Article IV commitments, which says, an attack on one is an attack on all. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When the Russians fight a war, they fight as a ‘whole of nation’ and they attack the adversary as a ‘whole of nation,’ as well. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As the defender tends to know the terrain and friendly disposition better than the attacker – the defender has the advantage, this same rule applies for attack helicopters, but the weather can be worse.To some degree, it depends on crew proficiency and terrain awareness systems on the aircraft. – San Clemente	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Further, they must have GPS-guided weapons to achieve any hope of accuracy, the defender may also employ GPS jamming and other electronic defensive measures to mitigate the accuracy of enemy air attack.This does not, of course, preclude the attacker from bombing with less than desired discrimination. – San Clemente	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Everything [is] not so bad as it was several hours ago when Putin's troops attacked the civilians in our city, right now we are – it looks OK, but we are waiting [for] a new attack anyway in several hours. – Vladimir Dubinin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Ukraine's tactic of targeting supply lines has worked well, especially during the first five to 10 days of the war. This was partially down to Ukrainian tactics and partially down to how Russia was operating, during the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear.

– Thomas Bullock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During the first couple of days of the war, Russian forces appear to have prioritized rushing forward to secure objectives quickly. This means they weren't advancing as a coherent front line, securing territory as they go. This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia's advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on unsecured roads in the rear.

– Thomas Bullock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The United States is prepared to defend every inch of NATO territory. The United States takes seriously that an attack against one is an attack against all.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m sure you’re aware that the Russian propaganda groups [are] already putting out there all kinds of information about how they’ve uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to release biological weapons in the country, with NATO’s coordination, if there is a biological or chemical weapon incident or attack inside of Ukraine, is there any doubt in your mind that 100% it would be the Russians that would be behind it?

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In order to attack a well-prepared position, you need to prepare and mobilize a LOT of troops, that never happened, because we would have had to mobilize roughly 200,000 people, form attack groups. This is such a huge logistical exercise that it is simply impossible to hide.

– Mark Savchuk

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The SPLC leadership’s own history is one of racism, misogyny and spreading hate, including an extremist attack on the Family Research Center, the notion that haters of the truth can be fit judges of who is or is not a ‘hater’ is preposterous, and the sooner people stop taking these far-left loons seriously the better.

– Don Woodsmall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They would rather buy oil from our adversaries who will actually use that money to attack American interests than pump oil and gas here, which would actually put more money in the American economy and actually make us more energy independent.

– Jim Carafano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Theywould rather buy oil from our adversarieswho will actually use that money to attack American interests than pump oil and gas here, which would actually put more money in the American economy and actually make us more energy independent.

– Jim Carafano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is no doubt, no doubt, that the United States and every NATO ally will meet our Article V commitments, which says, an attack on one is an attack on all.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These were innocent, peaceful civilians in a nation that had shown no aggression, subjected to an unjustifiable and unprovoked attack by Russian military forces, since 1989 Kharkiv has been a sister city to Cincinnati and residents have exchanged ideas, educational opportunities and collaborative projects on culture, medicine and human rights.

– Aftab Pureval

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We, the Russian people, are against the war Putin has unleashed. We don’t support this war, it is being waged not on our behalf, i know that right now many of you feel desperation, helplessness, shame over Vladimir Putin’s attack on the friendly nation of Ukraine. But I urge you not to despair.

– Marina Litvinovich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The pattern of indiscriminate attacks amounts to a war crime just as a deliberate attack is, so if these are confirmed after investigation – and of course, we don't have those investigations yet – they could be war crimes.

– Leonard Rubenstein

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The law is very simple and clear and goes back 150 years that it's illegal to attack a hospital, a patient, medical staff, in fact, they're war crimes.

– Leonard Rubenstein

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There were two children, I believe, who were killed and two others and six injured because of the explosive force of the bomb, the law is very simple and clear and goes back 150 years that it's illegal to attack a hospital, a patient, medical staff.

– Leonard Rubenstein

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russian tanks, equipped with thermal imagery, are shooting at the atomic blocks. They know what they are shooting at. They've been preparing for this( attack).

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The events that have unfolded in Ukraine are devastating. There is no place in this world for this kind of unjust attack on humanity.

– Mila Kunis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The appearance of at least one image of a rocket booster section lends credence to this having been a rocket attack.

– Dan Kaszeta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Amidst all the attention on the massive conventional war that's taking place in Ukraine, a cyberwar started before the conventional attack, it would be still taking place now.

– Paul Kolbe

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My thought listening to the response was the speeches were inverted. Joe Biden knew exactly what Republicans were going to say about him, joe Biden speech rebutted everything she said. And, but, that is the line of attack. Glenn Youngkin used it, in Glenn Youngkin view, to great effect. And you're right, that's the speech they'll give all year.

– Nicolle Wallace

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is no doubt, no doubt, that the United States and every NATO ally will meet our Article IV commitments, which says, an attack on one is an attack on all.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the Russians fight a war, they fight as a ‘whole of nation’ and they attack the adversary as a ‘whole of nation,’ as well.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the defender tends to know the terrain and friendly disposition better than the attacker – the defender has the advantage, this same rule applies for attack helicopters, but the weather can be worse.To some degree, it depends on crew proficiency and terrain awareness systems on the aircraft.

– San Clemente

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Further, they must have GPS-guided weapons to achieve any hope of accuracy, the defender may also employ GPS jamming and other electronic defensive measures to mitigate the accuracy of enemy air attack.This does not, of course, preclude the attacker from bombing with less than desired discrimination.

– San Clemente

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everything [is] not so bad as it was several hours ago when Putin's troops attacked the civilians in our city, right now we are – it looks OK, but we are waiting [for] a new attack anyway in several hours.

– Vladimir Dubinin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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