Yeah of @Loafing Oaf dont you know? According to @correct horse battery staple I'm chief Putinbot who also has a direct line to Putin so you should trust my judgement on it. He won't invade NATO/EU members.
I mostly read forums without posting. The reason why I am posting now is to ask people to look closely at the information they are presented with. It is due to the fact that information warfare is also part of this war.
Regarding civilian casualties and bombing of civilian buildings: as I heard there are NATO planes or surveillance drones closely watching at what is happening in Ukraine from the Black Sea, Poland, and probably other NATO countries nearby. Then there must be some radars observing any missile launches and things like that. I ask myself why BBC/CNN do not publish this kind of information. Probably we will see it eventually documenting "Russian atrocities".
A civilian with a gun pointing at soldiers is arguably a civilian. At least, I doubt that soldiers will consider them that way. There is nothing wrong with giving weapons to anyone who wants it, however, we have already seen reports of friendly fire when an Israeli man was killed by mistake. Then Ukraine also released some of its prisoners, in particular people who were fighting in Donbass:
Additionally, Ruslan Onyschenko, former commander of the Tornado Battalion, has appealed for release for combat duty, along with Semen Semenchenko, a former member of the Donbas Battalion
At least, that is what was reported on Ukrainian site (not sure if it is a Russian propaganda): pravda com ua /eng/news/2022/02/27/7326457/
To understand who those people are, you can google for 'Tornado Battalion'.
Or here is an excerpt from a document from Global Rights Compliance LLP "The enforcemeng of international humanitarian law in Ukraine" as of November 2016 (sorry, cannot post links yet)
I just cite some of their "accomplishments" on page 57:
In particular, according to the allegations advanced by the Chief military prosecutor of Ukraine, Mr.
Matios, Mr. Onishcenko (the commander of the “Tornado” Company) created the illegal armed
formation and between January and April 2015 encouraged his subordinates to commit especially
grave crimes, including the illegal detention of the local population, murder, torture and sexual
violence. This is alleged to have included detaining at least ten people, and torturing, electrocuting,
beating, raping and killing some of the men and sexually abusing a woman.295 Apparently, several
of the crimes were videotaped. 296 On the face of the available evidence, there is no explanation nor
any immediately apparent reason that would explain or justify the absence of war crimes charges
(including wilful killing/murder,297 torture, 298 cruel treatment, 299 inhuman treatment,300 causing great
That is the way people in some of the parts of Eastern Ukraine, Donbass, were treated in 2014-2015. Probably they have their own reasons to love Russia protecting them against those Ukrainian war criminals. Most likely not all Ukrainians fighting in Donbass were like that.
How those people are going to behave in a current situation remains to be seen. It is also worrying that those people were not charged with war crime charges per this report - I wonder if there was any outcry in Western media about it.
In the end, the war will end. I did not cross a border between Ukraine and its neighbours, hopefully, it is well secured. Otherwise, some of the weapons might be used in Europe.
That's what the worry is, that Putin will turn much of Ukraine into Grozny, especially if this conflict continues
If he can't "win", then he can turn it into ash and take some future peace deal after it's decimated.
Piss-poor planning, as well as one of the unescapable truths of war. Every military offensive will eventually run out of steam and be brought to a halt by a combination of the need for rest, maintenance, and reaching the limits of its supply chain. Clausewitz coined the term "Culminating Point" for this point when the friction of war overtakes the ability of an attacker to make any more process. I have a feeling that, for all their massive numbers and violence, the Russian army may be reaching the culminating point of its own offensive, or indeed may already have reached it in points.
Given the ongoing issues on the Russian side, there is now a real chance that the Ukrainians might still pull of a victory by the skin of their teeth, simply due to the Russian invasion force falling apart. It's not massive, but the chance is there. In a leak about a meeting between Putin and a number of oligarchs, it was mentioned that they might be able to sustain the attack for ten days. This looks more and more like it could be the case. Whatever the facts will be, the next couple of days will both bring a resolution and be absolute hell for the pople on the ground, I'm afraid.
They hit the Holocaust monument behind the tower and that family. Funny denazification operation attacking monuments like that and killing civilians.
No. Ireland is quite specific that no combat operations are to be sortied from Irish territory. It's a policy which dates back to WW2, where those involved in combat operations who ended up in Ireland were interned, but those who were just trying to get from A to B were sent back home. This is why, for example, all those generals who crashed near Athenry managed to return home to the US to finish the war (And not minor ones either, you had the head of US Armored Force, the Head of US Army R&D, and a couple of others) even while other Allied pilots were cooling their heels in the K-Lines in the Curragh.
In theory, yes. The German backlogs in May 1940 were far longer, and that was a far, far less motorised force than the modern Russian military.
I think people are forgetting the definition of 'defeat', by the way. It merely means "Stop the enemy from achieving his objectives". 'Destroy' is a different definition, and much more difficult to accomplish.
You're assuming he's an entirely rational actor in the full of his mental and physical health.
It's a highly fluid dynamic situation with multiple parties involved, in a perfect world maybe, but in reality I'd say it's next to impossible to have anything set in stone until it is. I think so far they've been surprisingly coordinated, the EU alone is 27 countries, all with different interests and foreign relationships. Complex stuff.
Apparently Russia Today will off the air later today across Europe according to it's distribution company in Luxembourg.
Any attack on NATO or EU is a war against nuclear powers = mutually assured destruction. The maths on that are quite clear, even to Vladimir Putin.
Yeah there is a rabid hatred for the Russian state in Poland, centuries of brutality will do that.
I have the feeling NATO are a bit more involved than we like to think as well
Russia also will not attack NATO or EU either.
You keep saying this like it was 1+1 = 2.
A lot of people were just as adamant Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine. Nobody knows his mind.
Looks like another Grozny in Chechnya in 1999
The Poles I'm fairly certain are providing them. Ukrainian pilots were in Poland over the weekend, and I think you can take the "we can neither confirm or deny" statement as a read that Poland are doing more than they would like to be made public. Talking to Polish friends, their blood is seriously up about the invasion and that sentiment seems to be nationwide. It's a diplomatic and security tightrope all these countries are walking and not everything will be put out there for public consumption.
Sounds more like some people in NATO have had stern words along the lines of " what the **** do you think you are doing ? "
Maybe a good idea to get everything sorted before making an announcement and building the hopes of 40 million people that are under attack.
Its Transnistria - the break away pro russian Moldovan region -
Putin threatened to hold countries responsible for the use of donated arms a few days ago, that and the fact that Ukrainian airforce doesnt have much left in facilities/russian air superiority probably weighed in.
No surprise there. It sounded a bit rushed and not thought out when it broke the other night.
He's this centurys Mussolini, the slow cousin who keeps f*cking up the war effort
Solovyov, the interviewer, is a big mate of Putins. He has nothing to fear. Same man has had his 2 multi-million villas in Italy seized until - whenever
Great to see someone laughing right in the face of Lukashenko
It was an idea put forward. They changed their mind. This happens all the time. I suspect further analysis showed it was too risky in terms of the jets themselves being shot down by Russian fighters and/or the possibility of escalating the conflict.
Eh it's not just possible, it's obvious.
Their JustEat app is blocked. I mean where would you expect 150k troops to eat?
The 4 sectors on the map mirror the old historical regions (Central, Eastern, Western, Southern).
See map on bottom right at this link
Historical regions in present-day Ukraine - Wikipedia
Two rocket attacks and not one hits the actual target, the TV tower, instead bombing the cemetary and killing five civilians. The Russian command must have their faces in their hands when their Master is not looking at them. And then the rest of the army on the highway without sufficient supplies still, so cannot commit to the invasion. When are they going to cut their losses and advance the 'negotiations' so that they basically reset the clock to Minsk?
Edit: one missile hit the base of the tower and will have damaged it, while another hit the control room nearby.
Yeah looks like more false promises
Looks like Kharkiv getting pounded again
It’s funny, the word “agreement” - the world has had lots of “agreements” with Russia until a few days ago- how has it gone so horribly wrong in such a small space of time? Russia is obviously capable of “agreement” but is choosing now not to agree to anything.
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