Ukrainian soldiers are turning to pickup trucks fitted with rocket launchers made in the U.S. to fight back against invading Russian forces. The “Banderamobiles” take their name from Stepan Bandera, the fiercely anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalist leader who fought for Ukrainian independence during the 1930s and ’40s.
A post on the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s Facebook page called the tricked-out Nissan trucks “an occupier’s nightmare.” Some of the pickups feature MK19 grenade launchers—first developed for use during the Vietnam War—that can fire a 40mm round up to an effective range of one mile. The weapon is still in use with U.S. Special Operations forces and has been mounted onto vehicles in previous conflicts, including by the British Special Air Service in the first Gulf War in 1991. Russian troops have also reportedly used mounted machine guns on pickup trucks since invading Ukraine in February. Read more at The Times of London.
In his 1986 novel “Red Storm Rising” Tom Clancy similarly envisioned a Soviet invasion of Germany being thwarted in part by heavy weaponry mounted on fast, maneuverable pickup trucks. (He also wrote of a jetliner being used in a kamikaze attack against the U.S. Capitol in “Debt of Honor” years before the 9/11 attacks.)
Amazing how the “Banderites” are now classified as “anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalist leader” when in fact Bandera was a full-fledged Nazi collaborater who murdered countless Jews, among others. Many of these Banderites are part of the Azov Battalion and videos show when ‘uncovered’ are found with Hitler tattoos, swastikas, and numerous other Nazi emblems all over their bodies. But there are “no” Nazis in Ukraine. Evidently this article is from the “Times of London” so it’s no surprise.
There are Nazis in America but that wouldn’t justify a Russian invasion of the US. Also, Charles Lindbergh and Charles Gibbons invented the the heart-lung machine, and they were Nazi sympathizers, but that doesn’t stop yidden from having heart surgery.
Pretty sure there are a lot more Nazis in Ukraine now
And how many RuSSian neo-nazi are now in Ukraine, raping, murdering and looting civilians? A few tattoos are an exception compared the to Fashistic Nazi mentality in Russia today. I take it you are a fully fledged member of Putin’s Troll-army. Hang your head in shame.
Since my mother’s family emigrated from Ukraine I’ve paid particular attention for the past 8-10 years. What we are hearing in the Western media is far from truthful. One can understand the situation today when Poroshenko took office. It was his rhetoric, and subsequent actions by Kiev, that has prompted Putin to speak of genocide. The Ukrainian National Guard had its ranks filled with Azov, Aidar and Right Sector radicals. They went into the Donbass and shelled hospitals, apartments and schools. There are plenty of documentaries after the EuroMaidan protests by journalists from Germany, France, Netherlands and the US, among others. They showed massive torch marches with “blood and soil” flags, which included many from all walks of life, from the old to the very young. Before these events the Ukrainians and ethnic Russians had little issues with each other. It was when the West became involved in the political landscape and began the Color Revolution and gradually the public turned against those ethnic Russians and wanted extermination. First it’s the ethnic Russians and Next it will be Jews, Again.