Nestle, in good old swiss money grubbing tradition, has refused to pull out of Russia. Do they ever have form for this sickening behaviour. Ghastly company
It will only take people in the west boycotting Nestle or supermarkets dropping their products to bring them to sense.
A few social media campaigns about companies still doing business in Russia will cause a lot of western customers to think twice.
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Zod?🤔
He was trying to float that Zelensky was an illegitimate president, groomed and installed by shadowy Western forces (probably the CIA in his very active birdbox). Never mind the facts that the State Department didn't know what to do with Zelensky when he was elected, and up until Zelensky's campaign started gathering pace were expecting to be dealing with Poroshenko after the ballots were counted.
Do not click on the following link if you're not willing to see the graphic results of a cruise missile attack on the human body: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/raketattack-i-morse-levande-och-doda--gravs-ut-ur-ruinerna/
A barracks in Mykolaiv was hit early this morning with reports of dozens dead. The pictures are awful.
Perhaps the most depressing part about this is the same barracks (or one very close to it) was hit over a week ago with 8 dead and yet they still continued to use it to sleep and gather in.
Maybe I'm missing something but surely they should be avoiding large multi-storey buildings to house large numbers of soldiers? I really hope they'll do something to prevent such significant losses from any single attack in future.
That's not a well looking Putin. Heavily medicated.
His claims about genocide in the Donbass are absolute lies by the way. Nobody has ever taken them seriously. It's true that around 3000 civilians were killed in eight years, but that was nearly all as a result of fighting between the separatists and the Ukrainians. The Russian spoofers have never offered any evidence of genocide in the region.
Thats all well and good, but Ukraine has to prevail as an independent entity first.
I guess it could also be used to fund the war effort as easily as it could rebuilding after the war.
Can also show that those whose assets are seized are gone forever, so lifting sanctions/seizures are not within any negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. i.e. Puta fucked the oligarchs!
Let's hope they were asleep when this happened and they didn't know a thing at all before it hit them.
They lost a lot in that 1 attack if he is right on the amount who died.
The numbers I've seen are from 40-49 dead but I haven't seen anything definitive anywhere.
I still can't understand why they were all packed in together at a known military barracks.
True so I suppose some of the money could be used to help fund Ukraine's war effort in the meantime. But about time this has been brought up. It is Russia who is destroying the towns and cities of Ukraine so only right that Putin's enablers pay for it with their seized assets and money.
True. Its ports are huge. Its rail network is extensive, which begs the question, are trains running from Russia, through Poland ( the Suwalki gap) into Kaliningrad?
It would be crucial to close the borders between Kaliningrad and its surrounding countries and **** down its rail network. There are currently huge amounts of personnel and equipment being own into what will be a back door to further escalation.
As an exercise, open Google earth and go to a street view or street pic around any of its air bases and ports. It's an eye opener. Very poor infrastructure outside the major centres, but huge port facilities with almost the entire Baltic Fleet tied up. ( a month ago).
An excellent point on military hardware in general. One that a few of us forget.
If anyone has ever been to RIAT or Filton, you would of seen the incredible amount of support equipment needed for certain military hardware, from the simplest trainer jets to the smallest radar systems. Its not a case of RTFM and sure we're grand lads!
I think Less is probably more in Ukraine’s case. However, my main priority would be knocking out the artillery. It's russias only strength and a way must be found to strike them. Artillery shells are cheap and the Russians have millions of them..
I have to say, I've been advocating for NATO not to get involved all along, but now, seeing what is unfolding, and especially now that NATO has had weeks to place their assets where they need them to be, ( just look at the US air and Naval assets alone in place in almost every country around Ukraine), that an air to ground sweep over one night consisting of SEAD followed by ground attack aircraft to deal with the artillery, would end Russias war in one foul swoop. Sure, Russia will strike back conventionally, but I don't believe that they will go Nuclear. Strong Relationships exist between generals in Russia and the US through back channels built up over years. If NATO has any guarantees from generals in Russia that they will not obey a nuclear order, then NATO must act now.
I wonder of a Europe-wide poll was conducted, how many of us would agree with a NATO sweep of Ukraine. Up to yesterday, I would have said no. Now, its a yes.
And finally, why the hell are trains still running from Russia to Kaliningrad through the Suwalki gap? That's just plain stupidity.
They'll back him. They need to blame someone, and it will be the West.
A depressing report this morning about the barracks attack yesterday morning; 80+ confirmed dead and they’re still working through the rubble.
They actually look possessed with madness.
I say they were thinking Russia is more attacking in the east and became complacent.
”what about our own” 😂😂😂
More like 4000 civilians dead, with 12-13000 dead overall in that clusterfúck, very roughly split between both sides and like you said the result of fighting between the two groups with some old ethnic scores being settled thrown in. Add in open warfare at times with heavy weapons, minefields all over the place, even trench warfare, with kidnappings and "disappeared" and blocking of humanitarian aid. The Troubles in Northern Ireland turned up to eleven, on cocaine.
By 2016 nearly half a million Ukrainians had fled to somewhere else in Ukraine and nearly a million left Ukraine entirely. So if there's talk of "genocide", or ethnic cleansing of an area it's pretty clear the Ukrainians aren't very good at it, if it's nearly a million and a half of them that are doing the leaving. On the Russian side three quarters of million fled to Russia or Belarus, presumably seperatists, or more on the Russian side anyway given their chosen destinations*. Neither side's hands are bloodless in that shítshow, but it's abundantly clear that Russia's are the more bloody.
*though this was before this Russian invasion and given the often close familial relationships between Ukrainians and Russians, those people may have had no particular affiliations at all and simply wanted to get the hell out of Dodge and went to relatives or friends in Russia. Far less of a language and cultural barrier too. Long before all this crap the country most Ukrainians went to was Russia. Since this invasion those fleeing to Russia are the minority.
What about da homeless….
IMHO it's too lazy and simplistic, even dangerous to label putin batshít crazy. Russian propaganda paints Zelenskyy as a drug addicted CIA backed facist and fool and see where that got them. As for religion, if we downed a short every time an American politician mentioned Gaaawd at a rally, we'd be comatose in five minutes. 😁 Never mind that US political rallies are total cringefests. Now Russian state propaganda is even more cringeworthy and daftly clumsy to our eyes, but it has clearly worked and worked for a very long time. And putin is using that well honed state machinery to preach to his subjects.
He knows he has to. Clearly, or at least to my eye, he's realised he needed to put on a public, more "homely" face, rather than the recent images of their czar in throne rooms at the end of very long tables, scowling. Either sanctions or news from the front is already coming home to roost, or he knows damn well it will so he's trying to head that off at the pass.
We can go back and forth about what the Average Russian(tm) really thinks and believes and what they support, but one of the few people that have an actual handle on that is putin. His very reign and indeed life depends on knowing and he has an enormous state apparatus to tell him.
Germany and the Netherlands are sending Patriot systems to Slovakia in response to a request from NATO. This comes on the back of Slovakia having offered their S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine.
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