Russia - threadbanned users in OP

It's very unfortunate that Russia Today was showing a video of certain ship not too long ago.

The Russian justification for the attack is purely fictional, so it makes sense that any endings will be fictional as well.

Very telling how you describe what the Soviets did as an "intervention".

It is not a civil war.

You see this is the mindset of Putin who sees the Ukrainians as Russians and not some different ethnic group that would like to have their own state and control their own destiny.

How far did Dresden regress in a week or Hamburg?

See above.

He can destroy their cities, but it still won't be Afghanistan much as your may spout it trying to instill fear.

You will claim the Ukrainians should just give up, basically bend over and take a reaming from Putin.

Fooks sake what a sad and limited mindset that would forever lie down in the face of adversity.

"Human Rights Watch this week released a report after interviewing 32 civilians who had escaped the city.

"Mariupol residents have described a freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies and destroyed buildings," said Belkis Wille, senior crisis and conflict researcher with the organisation.

"And these are the lucky ones who were able to escape, leaving behind thousands who are cut off from the world in the besieged city.""

Being aware of what people are currently experiencing in Mariupol - freezing, no food, no electricity no water no communications - probably 1,100 women and children dead and buried in the shelter under the deliberately targeted theatre alone. Likely tens of thousand dead in total; having seen photos of the multiple mass graves:

Having seen the photos of the bombed maternity hospital and the poor woman on the stretcher, clutching the wound of her bleeding and ripped apart hip:

and having read of the outcome of that brain searing image:

"A pregnant woman who was injured when a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was bombed on Wednesday has died, along with her newborn baby, a surgeon who was treating her confirmed on Monday. 

The surgeon, Timur Marin, told Ukrainian television from Mariupol: "While she was being resuscitated and the anti-shock measures were being taken, we performed a caesarean section and took a child with no signs of life. The child's resuscitation for more than half an hour did not work. Resuscitation of the mother for half an hour or more -- without any results. They both died."...medics did not have time to get the woman's name before her husband and father came to retrieve her body, so she did not end up in one of Mariupol's mass graves."

And then I read about how you are concerned that 'innocent' Russians might suffer from sanctions and will Russian babies get their favourite formula or not, and my head is just spinning with the absolute WTF of cognitive dissonance.

I'm asking myself, is this person even slightly aware of what has been happening in Ukraine: the war crimes, the human suffering the kidnappings, the numerous rapes; like the 17 year old girl who didn't survive the Russian troops gang raping her, the troops shooting people so they can steal their food, the young woman who died in a car riddled with bullets as she was taking food to feed the dogs and cats in an animal shelter she used to work at because she didn't want them to suffer; the mass forced deportations to Russia?

The head of the administration of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, informed that the Russians had fired on their own positions. "In the morning, the Russian helicopter 'worked out' its own positions, destroying a huge number of personnel and military equipment of the occupation forces in Mala Rohani. It was these occupiers who constantly fired on the city of Kharkiv," he stressed.

As reported by The Washington Post, citing the Pentagon, over the last 7-10 days US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chief of Staff Mark Milley have tried to contact Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov. However, Russian military leaders are not making contact, it underlined.

He may be kidnapping these people to use as bargaining chips in the peace talks.

Biden is asked if Ukraine should agree to lose part of its territory in exchange for peace. - This is something that Ukraine will judge. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. I don't think they have to do something like that, but it is their decision, says the US President.

I don't know why so many people seem to be giving him a hard time.

He's just interested to know what exactly is being said to the Russian people; which is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to know. Especially if you're aware what you're viewing is likely to contain propaganda you're not likely to be convinced by it in any case.

I think it's also reasonable to question why media outlets are being banned outright in what is supposedly a free and democratic society; I mean it is precisely what Russia does and is actively doing.

The commanders of the two landing ships damaged by Ukrainian forces in Berdyansk are traitors to Ukraine, who in 2014 sided with the enemy, according to the Ukrainian Pravda, citing the Navy.

"This is what happens when you hire traitors. They are weak, in 2014 they did not resist and took 30 silver coins, and today, thanks to their 'professionalism', two more BDKs have lost their fighting ability. We address these two traitors: you have the only chance to clear conscience, it is better to sink your ships yourself, we will even give you a reward for it "- wrote the Navy.

Its still freely available on twitter unfortunately.

Just follow Lavrov or the Kremlin politburo for the very latest misinformation.