There are a number of pictures of males with clearly bound hands laying dead in piles and randomly strewn around the streets. So some of them were surely summarily executed; not even from a distance in some kind of fear but intentionally shooting a bound and unarmed man. Utterly despicable.
Edit to add there’s no indication on any of these bodies that they were combatants: no blue or yellow bands, no olive green or camouflage patterns, no protective equipment of any kind.
One of, what 17,000 or so such letters:-
Video on average life inside Kyiv at the moment
That sounds somewhat unbelievable
Reports that the Russians wont be able to fight a similar war to this one for decades, they will become a paper tiger with Nukes as their only deterrent, this could be a good time for revolutions throughout the republics of the RF, watch this space
You'd think they'd make some effort to clear the bodies. Must ha\ve no concern at all for 'international opinion'...
If you have nukes you're not a paper tiger. They carry a vastly greater threat than any amount of conventional weaponry.
You mean aside from the images we're seeing of people in civilian clothing lying dead in the streets; some of whom appear to have their hands bound? There are pictures in this thread too; and they do appear to be almost exclusively men.
Putin has no concern about international opinion and it seems his allies have nothing to say as well he will spin whatever to his own people and sadly a lot of them swallow anything they are told .
I suspect many of them revel in how they're perceived; thinking they're "hard men" or that Russia is so powerful everyone should cower in fear etc. etc. When you want to be feared I suspect you don't care about civilians being executed or tortured or whatever.
I think it's fairly clear at this stage that this kind of behaviour is endemic in the Russian Armed Forces: mindless bombing of any and all civilian infrastructure, looting and pillaging, desecration of memorials and graves, intentionally attacking unarmed civilians, summary executions, etc.
The only places this isn't happening are those who surrendered wholesale to Russia without a fight early during the invasion: namely Kherson and Melitopol that I can name off the top of my head. In those areas it's much more targeted and "well-mannered" repression; FSB raids and arrests, dispersing crowds with concussion grenades and tear gas, arresting and replacing senior civil servants etc. Although the flip side is that we probably just don't have good visibility into everything that's going on in those areas.
You would think so, but a prolonged war against Ukraine is totally uncharted territory for him. This is not just a localised conflict confined to a small disputed region on Russia's borders - the country is literally at war with its next door neighbour of 40m people. This is going to get more and more unsettling for the Russian public as the weeks move on. There is nothing remotely normal about any of it.
Looking at that 1420 channel on Youtube, opinions in Russia are a mixture of being apolitical, thinking the war is bad but not wanting to speak out, and following the government line about it being a special operation. This would only be a small sample of the population, but it doesn't fill me with confidence that the people are going to rise against Putin any time soon. Maybe one day, but there is not unlimited time for it to happen. Every day the war is prosecuted, there's a lot of needless suffering taking place.
Why could the Poles not give the migs to Ukraine directly or just sell them to a third party who would the sell to the Ukrainians.
I won't be buying and Kerry or Kingspan products. Kerry is day to day. Kingspan not so much but it will be in my mind.
I may as well send them an email. Better than nothing. **** them pricks.
But we're talking something like 10,000 men
Because the Polish don't actually want to give the MiGs to Ukraine. It was a bit of theatre so Poland could show its support for Ukraine; or in the worst case the US would have taken ownership of the MiGs and then supplied them directly to Ukraine. However I'm pretty sure Poland knew (as everyone else knew) that the US had zero intention of giving planes to Ukraine.
It appears there is little chance of the general populatation doing anything best chance i feel are the people just below him with help from the rich guys .Also if he suffered some big military defeats i mean big ones it might prompt the army to look for a way out and that most likely is getting rid of PUTIN .
Kerry sold most of their consumer businesses last year so unfortunately have very few supermarket products left.
There now mainly a global ingredients company that supply other food manufacturers.
They supposedly do have an 'ethics' code but might need to be reminded of that:
That will help you to vote with your wallet when doing the shopping
Not sure that information ^^ is up to date.
If this isn't a literal rout I don't know what is. What appears to be dozens of Russian soldiers stripped off their equipment and left their "spoils of war" so they could swim across a river and complete their "tactical retreat". It doesn't state exactly where but presumably the Kyiv region somewhere near the Belarus border:
Yes, they'll be weaker but more dangerous at the same time.
A further devolution into separate nations would be a highly desirable. This fiasco was a product of Soviet Union thinking.
Like coming across Roanoke
Yes, I agree there is probably not going to be any major uprising against Putin. But nonetheless, a lengthy war against Ukraine is going to be very unsettling for the public. Anxiety levels will be through the roof if this goes on for months, with Russia still a pariah state and the international sanctions still in place. People will be asking themselves 'How on earth is this ever going to end?'.
Yeah, after this, I wouldn't mind seeing Russia breaking up into smaller states. Looking at a map, however, and looking how the demographics across Russia break down, it's hard to see how it works in places. The Caucuses are the most plausible in the sense that they've been a troublesome region in Russia for a long time, and those republics are all grouped together, too. On the other hand, other republics throughout the Russian federation are just surrounded by Russia proper. They're a bit like Indian reservations. Becoming truly independent would still see them trapped inside Russia. And not only that, but in some of these republics, the ethnic group for which the republic was created are now a minority, so there might not even be the political will to go independent.
It would also stand to reason that in a post-FSR world, the streamlined Russian state would be competing with Turkey for influence in the Caucuses and with China for influence in Siberia. Something they wouldn't have had to worry about before, so it's more of a headache.
But as I say, I wouldn't mind seeing a Russia broken up. It's just not as straightforward a proposal as the fall of the Soviet Union.
Indeed, suppose it was figured the Six Counties were a bit small of an entity and they'd take in Donegal, Cavan & Monaghan to make a real Ulster. What would our Republic be able to do about it? Sh*t all, apart from terrorism wrought on the ordinary people up there.
Likewise if Russia or China decided that wee Ireland would be a nice backdoor entry to Europe. We ain't no members of any defensive pact so the answer to us would have the same as Ukraine is getting.
If that turns out to be true and is verified then surely NATO has to take some action.
Jaysus. If you are replying to post 48 on page 2 ....... good luck with catching up on all the other 34,900+ posts 😯
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