He's doing an incredibly bad job if that's the case. The West is totally united.
If I’m not mistaken, a few videos now have shown convoy vehicles are being towed by a leading vehicle. If that is the case they must have serious supply shortages.
I didn't forget it - I just don't want to repeat what I posted yesterday :-)
Important to be conscious of the level of propaganda involved in war ,talk two days ago of two thousand Russian soldiers having been killed, no one seriously believes that is accurate
How well supported the Ukrainians are will be exaggerated, they have help but ultimately are fighting alone
Yeah it looks like the Russians really believe them...
I say it would be refused but you just don't know. I think his bluff won't be called tho if he uses 1 and threatens to use more. Let's hope he doesnt.
The summary of the German Olaf Scholz suggests that EU is facing the biggest shift since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Targets are all Russian oligarch assets, all Russian banks, criminal investigation against Putin, cutting of Russian gas supplies, ramping up military. Germany was for the last 30 years the strongest Russia friend in the EU, but that has changed over last 3 days.
Poland is calling to close the gas pipe Nord Stream 1 and scrap Nord Strean 2 telling that it's not gas inside those pipes but billions of euros that are use to finance the war.
Poland declared to provide as much food and supplies to the poeple waiting in the border queues as Ukraine can distribute.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Interior Affairs opened a web page for Russian families with details of Russian soldiers killed in the war. The page will provide scans of documents to allow verification.
Russian soldiers mobile phones were confiscated before the operation to make sure the information about the situation are not flowing back to Russia.
Italy joined the list of countries that closed their air space for Russia planes.
According to the UN, 368,000 refugees have now fled the Ukraine.
Very considerate of the Russians to keep slowly driving columns of vehicles into cities and parking them up to be destroyed. It’s like they are dropping old vehicles to a recycling centre.
Fair play to him. He's no Paul Gogarty though
Don't forget the medical train.
It will be bringing back both wonded soldiers and civilians.
It will be running constantly
You're speaking about Putin casually using nuclear weapons, as if he's in a vacuum - by himself, without any other consideration.
But in reality, behind the scenes as we speak, at the highest level discussions are ongoing between all sides. Including with China and others.
The Russian Military elite understand, too, the real-world consequences of even a single nuclear strike. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this request by Putin (though unlikely) was refused.
That's a big worry of mine, as well. I have to think Putin or one of his advisors is scheming a way to create huge diversion in the West right now.
This Ukrainian MP is sick of Russian politician's nonsense:
I just searched Kharkiv on twitter, hundreds of sources.
Fair balls to the train driver
That's not botox, it's papier mache painted flesh colour 🤐
Interesting how this will play out.
If Russia starts to pull its forces out of Ukraine will the Ukrainian military try and retake Crimea, Donbass region etc. back from Russia and liberate all their land while Russia is weak.
If more supplies keep pouring from West Ukraine from Europe and abroad would Putin I wonder use some sort of nuclear device to destroy some place over there that is a staging post for arms etc. and warn the west in regards to arms etc. been sent in he is willing to use them even more on Ukraine and abroad. I say that would get the international community to stop supplying arms etc. then as they would be afraid after he used a nuclear device already he would then, that's the only way I can see arms etc. stop coming into Ukraine. Otherwise there just going to keep pouring into Ukraine from the west and add pain heaped upon pain on the Russian military.
There will be 2 trains per day entering Ukraine with humanitarian aid and taking back refugees. First train came back to Poland today.
Source?
Kharkiv battle a resounding Ukrainian victory, Russian forces retreated, lots of armour abandoned.
Hopefully the shock at the invasion doesn’t start to fade away and the world starts to move on to a different story and the pressure on Putin eases.
It is worth doing as a symbolic gesture. The whole world should condemn this vicious war in every way possible.
Maybe he's discovered some sercet power source that's artificially preserving his 'youth'
I'd say you're underestimating it there with "minor"
They will probably bring in some form of capital controls
That is why I wondered if the poster was mixing up Kaliningrad
Shannon is closed to them.
They can't fly westward.
Links with Cuba are broken.
You already can do that, though? There's a bridge from mainland Russia to Crimea. Isn't it over that very bridge that Russian tanks rolled in 2014?
I mean, yeah, it would be handier to have other avenues to Crimea as well, but I don't see how it's worth waging a war over it.
We may start to see minor bank runs in Russia tomorrow. The Central bk is talking it up, but that's just show, they are under considerable strain.
This is what Putin looked like in 2010, before/after mass Botox.
One can only imagine how degraded he would have looked today if not for the Botox (and how malfunctioned his innards are presumed to be).