Putin with his neo-Nazi pal from the Wagner group
Yes the Finns destroyed the initial Russian tank columns and as they were help up they ran out of food and fuel. Will it happen here?
India is asking its nationals to leave Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv by Wednesday evening, based on information Indian authorities have received from Russia.
External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said Indian nationals have been advised to move to three safe zones nine miles away, the Associated Press reported.
Bagchi declined to give details about what information New Delhi had received from Russia, which is invading Ukraine.
Bagchi also said nearly 17,000 Indian nationals, mostly students, out of an estimated 20,000, have left Ukraine. India is trying to evacuate the rest to nearby countries.
Updated at 2.52pm GMT
Speaking of gulags, whomever placed this carpet down a while back is probably still situated there...
I would say at this stage putin has two choices. Either take a bottle of Vodka and a revolver into a room or he and his family are off to the gulags! Because he has fucked up his country and cost it billions.
That looks like the biggest civilian demonstration we've seen.
I have several Finnish friends, and they are all very proud of what they achieved in the "Winter War" when they stopped the Russian's. And to this day, and from an early age, Finlanders ( men and women) are encouraged to own and know how to use firearms. As one of my friends said, " Just in case the bastards ever think about coming back".....looks like their fears are well founded .
Grim stuff, more dark signs that Russia will try to turn Ukraine into Grozny
Honesty indeed, the Ukrainian people and their entire Parliament judged they their future and interests were more aligned with the west with an autocratic megalomaniac and his local puppet. The Ukrainians decided their own destiny and every election since as reconfirmed that that is their wish. And that's what bothered Putin.
I see there's a Turkish Army military plane climbing out of Rzeszow Airport close to the Ukrainian border. I doubt they are dropping off sweeties!
A key point is that Ukraine has been a democracy for years. Thinking that ethnic Russians in Ukraine would much rather live under the rule of Putin's police state (and where he can't be removed from power) would be rather naïve.
Same happened here to southern unionists after the black and tan terror.
Time will tell. I hope I'm wrong.
I really doubt that. He has gone too far to be trusted with anything like that again. (Why didn't he wait until the gas was flowing?)
Here you go:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEuropeanTree.svg :D
Ukrainian seems to be about as close to Russian as Spanish is to Portuguese. That is, close enough that they could verbally communicate without much difficulty, but far enough apart that a Russian speaker would still need lessons to become fluent.
Culturally, not a clue. Before world war 1, about a quarter of the Russian empire spoke Ukrainian. It was the second largest language after Russian. So one can guess, that they have some strong cultural overlaps. But it's a huge country. From the western most edge to the east is the same distance as Dublin to Berlin. How close are Dubliners and Berliners? :)
Cultures can and do vary dramatically even inside a country, if it's big enough.
I think it is. He's probably saying the lines phonetically, or just learned that much for the bit. If his English was that fluent, it would make you wonder why he spoke Ukrainian when addressing the EU. Yes, I'm fully aware that he shouldn't have to, but if you're making an impassioned address to foreigners and you can do it in their language, that's better than using an interpreter.
Listening to Liveline and all the Ukrainian contributors (including a woman in Mariopol) are ethnic Russians and speak Russian as their first language : and yet they regard Putin as an evil dictator and have no wish to live under his regime.
One gets the impression that the only place the Russians are welcome is among pro-Putin fanatics and nationalists in the Donbass.
Well considering Wallace, and this is publicly verified btw, took pension contributions from his own employees but didn't put the money into their pension schemes and still got elected probably makes him think he's untouchable.
I wish you were right, but I wouldn't underestimate the power of economic interests.
Wouldn't surprise me, 6 months or a year from now, to see Scholz and Putin shaking hands and talking about "a new chapter for their countries" as Nord Stream 2 is relaunched. And airlines will be back flying to and fro long before that.
Site where imperial Germany and Bolshevik Russia divided eastern Europe also at the treaty of Brest Litovsk.
That depends what you mean by ‘war’. That prediction is not that far from what I wrote. Their definition of war is ‘economically disruptive conflict’. It doesn’t necessarily mean an all Afghanistan style war.
Any time I visited ex-soviet installations while on holidays I noticed that the chairs were always the cold hard steel ones that would give you a numb ass after 10 minutes. Any of the residents of Orwell Road that are posting here able to let me know if the soviet style chairs are still in use, or have ye upgraded to more comfortable western office chairs?
Could be culturally significant if it's not down to security or logistics - Brest was the site of the first battle between the Soviets and Nazis in WW2
Ukrainian language is closer to Polish but this is due to Polish influencing Ukrainian big time during times when part of Ukraine was under Poland.
At the same time, many common words between Russian and Ukrainian, alphabet is practically the same and grammar is similar. So i'd say it's like Spanish and Portugeese. Then again, majority of Ukrainian speaking population is able to speak and understand Russian anyway. Apprx 30% of Ukrainian population is Russian speaking.
Culture wise it's like Irish to English, I'd say.
Hard to say for sure with the video quality, but it doesn't look like it. His lips look like he's speaking the words in English, although I'm no lip-reader and of course that doesn't preclude the possibility of dubbing.
You do realize that there are 40 Million Ukrainians there don't you? Where will they all go to?
Serious scrap value at least.
Damn those pesky Ukrainians for holding their president to what he promised. A better package from Russia. The Ukranians want to be in Europe. And when they peacefully protested they fired live rounds at protesters. Have a look at the documentary about it "Winter on fire" on Netflix. They overthrew a tyrant who used live ammunition on his own people.
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