Relax, brah
Relax Brah
4 Russian fighter jets violated Swedish airspace earlier.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1499098844398858252?s=20&t=KELKT-6VYZFjKbNZRG56eg
It's not.
Nuclear war is imminent.
Russian kit ending up on eBay apparently. I hope the buyers check it's running!
I think the MiG-21 were produced up until the 1980s. Not sure how old the Romanian birds are, but I do know that they were extensively upgraded to the LanceR standard in the late 1990s. Updated radar, avionics, compatibility with what was at the time the latest generation of air-to-air missiles, helmet mounted targeting & sight system based on Israeli designs, most of the instruments replaced by two MFDs, so a pretty substantial upgrade.
It was claimed the people killed were visiting the memorial site. They certainly weren't on a family outing to a "legitimate target" TV tower. The only thing monstrous in the sutuation is bombing innocent civilians, and no-one is saying otherwise.
Reports Russia expected to introduce martial law within the country maybe from Friday.
The Russian Federation Council is set to hold an unscheduled meeting on Friday, leading to widespread speculation in Moscow that the country might impose martial law.
The introduction of martial law would give the authorities sweeping powers to limit freedom of movement and freedom of speech. Martial law has been introduced in modern Russia.
Tatyana Stanovaya, a prominent Russian political analyst and founder of R.Politik on Wednesday evening tweeted that introducing a martial law would be a “logical scenario.”
“The proclamation of martial law will allow the authorities to introduce military censorship, to increase the secrecy of the state’s activities and the actions of local bodies.”
With the introduction of martial law, the powers of elected bodies, local authorities and officials are automatically extended.
I'm sure it could be arranged 😈
That's not what the quoted post said, not sure why you are trying to imply otherwise
It would break EU sanctions. Ireland is in the EU. Breaking sanctions = illegal no?
Absolute tossers
Agreed.
So is the memorial more important than the civilians who died in the attack? That seems monstrous to me.
Some light bed time reading ...
An insightful assessment made in January.
It's the location of the tower more than the tower itself that's the issue. It's right beside the site of, and a memorial to, the massacre of Babi Yar, where over 33,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis over the mere space of two days in 1941. Firing missiles at a target a few metres from the place a major war crime occurred is not a good move. It's reported that the memorial area itself was damaged. There's some suggestion the people killed were visiting the memorial site.
Was thinking just the same myself. Use seized Russian money to pay for the destruction they have caused.
My best-friend is Romanian. She advised me to drop supplies to the Moldova stores
Good thread, but the point about Irish leasing companies being "criminally liable" if they don't end the leases is rubbish, unless of course Ireland make it a criminal offence to do so, which we have not.
The willingness of some to totally dispense with any critical thinking and swallow the Kremlin propaganda machine hook line and sinker is mind boggling. Essentially when you read the comments of those being taken in by this on here it amounts to “Ukraine and the west aren’t perfect, therefore who are we to question the invasion”
That was my first thought too. Why are they still flying Mig-21s? 🤔 RIP.
They are having trouble in Ukraine where WW2 weapons are a sizable part of the armament.
There was 2 Ukrainian army men on patrol, one had a scopped rifle, a Mosin Nagant, a very old bolt action model, if it had seen action in WW1, you wouldn't be surprised. Considered a fantastic rifle but you get my point.
I have to admit I find it hard to understand the outrage over the attack on the TV tower. Didn't NATO airstrike a Serbian TV station killing a dozen civilians? Doesn't the US attack pretty much every civilian infrastructure (electricity, water, gas, oil, media) it can during its interventions? No war crime charges were ever brought in those cases. So isn't hitting enemy media just the norm?
So the Russians said it would not be an occupation, but they're setting up a military administration...i.e occupation.
The socialists seem to be terrified they will end up supporting the same side as the US military, massacres in Ukraine are no reason to blemish the socialist cred.
The Mig was over land and had reported bad weather, looks like an accident.
Looks like the MiG was doing a patrol over the region in orange below, Dobrogea and was over the Black Sea at the time of the incident.
If this Zhirinovsky story is true then NATO had better get ready to roll.
He has also called for forcibly retaking Alaska from the US.
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