Or they're simply moving into a new phase of the war and intending to start trying to encircle Kyiv more fully. It doesn't have to mean they're planning to do something crazy just yet.
Chemical weapons has been flagged by the UK and US for the last few days and warned of false flags in advance- they’ve been correct on many of their false flag predictions to date unfortunately
Whatever happens with this conflict, these guys are certainly marked targets.
It took me a while to realise that you probably thought I meant the "the rest of the world" by "their".
You use the term "anti-everything American" so you probably didn't notice that I called Putin a moron.
My opinion is obvious, within the context of my complete post
And Putin was laughing at him.
Lukashenko is the definition of the word useful idiot and he knows it.
Statement by Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defence, on the deliberate and cynical Russian provocation against the people of Belarus.
Putin and Lukashenko have planned an armed provocation against the people of Belarus in order to get Belarus involved in war against Ukraine.
At 14:40 two Russian planes have made a strike on Belarus while flying over the Ukrainian territory.
Russian planes Su have first bombarded Ukrainian territory and then made an air strike on Belarus.
This was recorded by the Dubrovytsya border control (Rivne region). This attack on Belarussian residential centers is a deliberate provocation!
He's not even popular in Belarus. Everyone knows he lost that election in 2020.
2 weeks in and we're still trying to work out what Russia's actual game plan is. What are they actually trying to achieve here?
One theory that could have some logic is that theyve accepted that Ukraine will join the EU. So they do a full on invasion, absolutely flatten the country, seek a surrender of Donbass & Luhansk and formally agree to Crimea. Then when that's all done the EU inherits a devastated Ukriane.
Either that, or he is trying to make Ukraine uninhabitable to seek the NATO buffer. A nuclear meltdown should do the job.
The folks in Odessa look hardy as ****. Out in the snow blizzards making piles of sandbags on the beach.
The Russians won't have it easy there.
They clearly expected that Ukraine would quickly collapse (like Afghanistan to the Taliban recently), but since that hasn't happened they just seem to be resorting to their default tactic of trying to surround cities and bombard them into submission. All the while smiling through gritted teeth and pretending this was the "plan" all along.
You must be talking about states within the EU and not the EU itself then because the EU has no military.
No EU member state is going to go it alone, break ranks and mount military action against Russia as it will inevitably then become a NATO issue because any EU member state with any decent military is a NATO member.
troops pulling back out of Kyiv.
Latest reports on CNN and Sky that they're still closing in
WoW! She really does seem to know what she is talking about.
I wonder does she have to take precautions from those unknown feckers fron the Putler embassy in the US.
So Ukraine has lost 53 tanks, but have captured (verified) 83 Russian tanks. They are actually up tanks.
I'm sure the Paschal will rush in to ensure the tax payer picks up the tab....again.
The farmers are are up 83 tanks.
More sanctions
The UN security council are currently meeting at Russia's request on their accusations of dastardly deeds of the United States in Ukraine 🧐
Good interview with a Russian journalist on Drivetime just now. People feel fearful but also powerless - the general feeling is that only the Russian elite will be able to do something about Putin, but nobody knows what that would be or if it will happen at all.
The farmers are up 83 tractors.
Classic Russian 'false flag' bullsh*t accusations of chemical weapons from Russia at the UN security council at the moment. The Albanian representative is shooting Russia down like the Ukrainians have been doing with Russas airforce since the start of this war
Why has it taken them over 2 weeks to do this? I bet there are still loads of resources not sanctioned that should be on Russia.
And take with a pinch of salt (we hope):-
If true, bugger
Some hand tremor on Putin around 36-37s mark. (Right hand.)
I presume it takes time to prepare/process certain controls and limits. Likewise I presume they keep some in reserve so they can still keep hitting Russia with new stuff (this stuff has much smaller impact than earlier sanctions)
The big one is oil/gas from the EU. Obviously we can't just cut it in one go but I believe EU is going to try and phase out almost 80% of it this year. Very tough to do though. We in Europe may have to grow some WW2 spirit and have a colder winter this year.
The Swiss already closed airspace to Russian aircraft, hard to know if this is reliable? The "in order to" just sounds like it means something else?
Switzerland in connection with the situation in Ukraine closes the sky for aircraft of the parties to the conflict and aircraft of other states in order to provide military support to the parties to the conflict
Edit: There is nothing from the Swiss Council with the exception of a planned closure of air space in the Davos region for any aircraft during a short period in May which has just been released so think that story is false.
Get your iodine tablets from a local pharmacy before they turn into the next face masks.
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