Looks like the UK is now considering sending armoured vehicles to Ukraine as per the Times:
The Mastiff (from the US Cougar family) and Jackal vehicle types have been mentioned:
Putin banned russian visas to»unfriendly» countries a few days ago and EU is also working on similar bans on russians wanted schengen visas,some countries have allready banned anyone with a russian passport from entering.
Just ban anyone from getting visa,problem solved.
Let them live in their stoneage country and enjoy everyone hating them isolated from the rest of the world.
They can threat as many as they like then
"Now, whether Leninavan is a combat air base is another matter entirely. Looking at the satellite imagery, I'm not so sure about that"
This is Rostov on Don (Central) Military Airport, home of the the 30th Independent Transport Composite Aviation Regiment and HQ of the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, formerly the 546th Army Air Force Base.
Only light maintenance done there, there are also regular (every couple of years) air shows held here and a lot of relics on static display.
With Daily and wallice etc did Ming give his opinion.?
This #Gostomel twitter thread should required viewing for Mick and Clare, and this ugly beach:
As well as the members of the German parliament and government having trouble finding enough motivation to really stop buying Russian gas and oil.
Warning, it contains lots of horrifying and graphic images that would be put to a war crime tribunal and at sizes larger than thumbnails. The worst I have seen so far.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gostomel?src=hashtag_click
Medvedev won’t care two whits about that. It certainly won’t be any child of his who will be blown up by a Portuguese weapon, either defensive or offensive. So much for cause and effect.
1945 all over again. We should have guessed that the Russian army would be a bunch of thugs and savages once they got into Ukraine - they haven't changed a jot.
Interesting piece on Alexander Dugin, the alleged brain child behind the annexation of Crimea, and often called Putin’s brain:-
I won't shed a tear. What is disturbing is that a lot of Russian officials sound exactly like Zhirinovsky these days.
Looks like that cat is telling reporters how he took out the ruined Russian tank behind them 😸
Slava Ukraini Kat!
Click to see full image 😄
Think your missing the point there.
UK rail companies showing their support for Ukraine.
DB Cargo's 66099 which was painted last week:-
And GBRf"s 66708 done this week and appropriately named "Слава Україні Glory to Ukraine":-
if a boardie states on here that RU POW are apparently being salvagly mistreated then Putin can refer to it to justify any action. That’s the problem with surmising , suggesting , speculating, opinionating , etc on here
Last time a US land lease programme was launched was to help Russia during WW2 I believe:-
Looks like its not only in Ukraine Russians are killings civilians
Wagner group have been accused of killing 300 civilians in Mali as well
They have also been part of human rights violations in Central African Republic.
These are the boys Putin is sending to Ukraine now.
They take time to have real effects and I see no issue with EU countries looking to arrange for alternatives before cutting themselves off from Russian oil or gas. As we've seen in recent days that will happen.
The Ukrainians cannot commit war crimes, everything and anything they do is squarely in the self defence bracket.
The invading criminals lost all privileges when they started raping and executing infants.
If you have a problem with that, then go fúck yourself.
Uh maybe… if so, it’s borne out of frustration and a bad sleep pattern.
I would encourage him to formally make the complaint in person... to the Hague.
The Ukraine foreign minister was in the media this morning saying any weapon used by Ukraine within Ukraine is a defensive weapon and should be provided. Great point, I think that was mentioned on here a couple of days ago... by me - maybe he's reading boards.ie. 🤗
@thomil
Thank you so much again for taking the time for that reply.
As I said, i don't have a clue what I do be looking at so it's fascinating to hear/learn from someone who does.
Looked at Engel there and leninavan certainly does look like a poor relation.
And I wouldn't have even known it existed except for seeing the flight out on flight radar.
Likewise with seeing National guard aircraft flying towards Kursk the other day.
The image for there seems to be from 2019 with more fighters.
I presume the activity (probably normal and nothing exciting) I'm seeing with these is due to their proximity to Ukraine.
Anything that happens to any Russian in Ukraine is completely deserved.
You can see the love/respect Putrid has for Silvio there - another shyster.
But you see thats different. They're Russians and therefore ok nazis according to Putin.
I can't believe the cnut hasn't been taken out by someone there yet. He's a dead man walking eitherway.
Looks like lots of purchasing of Rubles going on.
in the short-term, it might look like the RUB is holding up impressively. But they are actually burning their reserves (the ones that aren't frozen) to support it. In the long term, they will run out of reserves and artificial price supports.
I saw a couple of exiled Russian oligarchs that got into Putin's bad-books and had been talking with media in the last while about what the situation in the Kremlin is like.
The one fella they were interviewing suggested that talk of oligarchs putting pressure on Putin was misguided, and that Putin himself is essentially a dictator with final say on all matters, regardless of what his wealthy buddies say.
There is no real process to remove him from power, and I suspect he knows that Plan A for many is to simply end him. So I wouldn't be surprised if he retained some of his best trained and loyal troops / agents to function as a protection detail. Going with the whole Nazi comparisons, he'd probably do similar to Hitler and have multipule layers of defence units to protect himself.
I feel that the only ways we'll see the end of him are:
A) He actually is terminally ill, and will just die eventually.
B) An internal defection that results in him being shot / blown up (as had happened with Hitler a couple of times)
C) A military coup by a fed up army who then cut him off or turn their artillery on his house one night.
Or, I dunno, he's visited by 3 Ghosts in the middle of the night, sees the error of his way and the next morning ends the war saying "My bad, sorry, I was being a bastard, we'll pull out. I was having bad week, and you know yourself some days you can feel extra murder-y. Here...I'll pay for the damage and even give Crimea back."
Probably not though...
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