Medvedchuk was on the lamb from financing terrorism charges in Ukrainian territory and acts of treason to the Ukrainian state. The man is a Putin asset within the borders of Ukraine. F*ck him.
It might be hard for someone that has drunk Putin's cool aid, but from a long term strategic point of view Russia is headed for global insignificance.
This whole invasion was a plea to 'look at us! we're still big boys'.
Of course, as you can see this has been an embarrassing failure.
What's your plan yourself - you seem young - will you stay in Russia or try to emigrate for a modicum of a decent life?
And you have tested these mining sites and the follow up processing of uranium ore and followed the trail and measured the radioactivity and its effects on the environment?
That would be silly, no need to bring strife to your life, bashing a window in wont change anything either. The best way to defeat your enemy is to out perform them and slowly freeze them out, no need to be reactionary. Over the next decade Russian standard of living will deteriorate and we will barely spare them a thought, like a child in the bold corner.
"In Russia, more than 100 servicemen from the 200th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, which has already fought in Ukraine, have refused to continue participating in the "special operation."
Which team - such results."
I hope thats just the tip of an iceberg of such problems.
Agree but bogs aren't the place either. There's more than enough commercial roofspace to provide as much solar as we want except there's always some septic fcuk who only cares about money, doesn't control the roofspace and so wants to cover the finest of land in concrete bollards and our simpletons in kildare Street are happy enough once they get a kickback.
Some species handle radiation better than others. Children who got cancer and birth defects didn't do so well as birds and shrubs.
World bank has forecast that the Russian economy will contract up to 11% this year. To put that in perspective, economies contracted around 3% as a result of the pandemic in 2020.
98 percent of Mariupol was occupied weeks ago. Thousands of Ukraine fighters got pushed back to areas closer to the port that was not occupied. The surprise so many soldiers on the Ukraine side are still alive.
Ukraine has basically left the city to defend itself. Cant fly in food or ammunition or use the highways/roads to get to the city. Russian forces have cut it all off. It is not a new Stalingrad.
CNN marks here where the last surviving Ukraine forces are at. It's a fortress but it is shame if Russia destroys it, become could be used later for employment. Can see the Russians are in almost full control of the city.
Cant escape unless they want to swim and yes they are fighting but it's just a matter of time till that location falls and Russia takes the entire city... Elite Ukrainian marines are surrendered ( hundreds if not thousands, last week) the defensives are collapsing. All is left is men who are willing to die for the cause. They are low on fuel, ammunition, and all the essentials. They annoy the Russian army for a while still but its game over. It's possible civilians are there with the soldiers of the Ukrainian army.
They brought in hundreds of civilian vehicles after suffering mass Loses in military convoys they are Also stealing vehicles from locals too
But yet they are still killing orcs
A handful of dedicated Elite troops hold holding up the 'mighty' Russian army. Would be funny if it wasn't tragic.
Imagine if Russia had such dedicated elite troops!
And every Russian soldier they take out is one less scum on the earth.
300mW?
My phone uses more than 300 milli Watts. 😂
Even if they were "Big M" (Mega), they'd still be a long way short of the 5GW peak when the wind doesn't blow on a winter's evening.
"It's a fortress but it is shame if Russia destroys it, become could be used later for employment"
Yeah future employment is a key concern in a city 80% destroyed in a brutal invasion by a totalitarian occupier with countless numbers of civilians butchered.
Strategy for Mariupol: Kill an orc, eat his liver and kidneys, take his ammo, kill another orc...etc
Allegedly 15,000 to 25,000 Ukrainian fighters were stationed around Mariupol’ before the war. So if there are only a few thousand soldiers taken prisoner. Ukraine has suffered mass casualties that are not willing to admit yet.
Any back up to that ? That would be a huge part of the Ukranian army? So, unless you've some proof...
Also, where is the Russian administration's admission of massive losses? Or do you agree with your betters you should be treated like mushrooms, and kept in the dark?
Maybe, but you are a well known Putin supporter on this forum, so am a wee bit sceptical on these figures
A few thousand Mariupol defenders have been taken prisoner according to which source? Taking bets the original source on that is the Ru MOD or similar..
This great Russian advance doesn't seem to be happening yet, I'm beginning to wonder if we are just watching a stalemate, I'll come back in a month we will still be talking about Mariupol, that I was led to believe was basically captured weeks ago.
Russia needs to do something for the May 9th celebration, after that they'll likely slink back to Moscow.
The Russians have convinced themselves and supporters like cheerful s and CQD that they were fighting 25,000 Mariupol defenders.
If there were 25,000 in the AZOV they'd likely have encircled Moscow by now 🤣
Alleged as I said. I doubt the Ukrainian government, will reveal the true figure of defenders since there are mercenaries from foreign countries among them. Since you guys trust all western sources they claim Russians attacked the city with a force of 15,000 to 20,000 men ( some estimates as high as 30,000). Why would Russia attack a city with such a large army if there were just a few thousand defenders?
I would suspect Mariupol will fall any day now, but have been saying that for weeks.
As for Donbas, it's been raining most of this week. Russians are pushing in some areas, Ukrainians in others. Unless something dramatic happens, it's currently going at WW1 speed.
The usual vile stuff from the Kremlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Naval_Infantry
We had a video of them surrendering in Mariupol unless you believe it all fake?
If anyone is still in any doubt about whether this is terrorism and genocide, they are either pathetically ignorant or wilfully inhumane.
I allege Putin dresses up as a pig and grunts for truffles at the feet of Ukranian POWs.
As for mercenaries, didn't Putin beg for African and Syrian mercenaries... they told them they'd love to, but... were washing their hair. Sucks to have no friends... Russian can't even buy friends, but... that's the Ruble for you. 😅
For urban war the attacker needs 5 to 1 to succeed.
I think if you put it to Putin that invading Ukraine has destroyed relations with the West, he'll just shrug his soldiers and say, '...good...'.
Unfortunately the only weapon Ukraine has capable of reaching those kinds of targets are the Tochka-U with a maximum range of about 185km. It's also not clear how many they might have left at this stage; it was thought they had around 500 missiles at the start of the war.
It is possible that the Neptune could have been modified for potential land attack capabilities; but the fact they have only just managed a launch against a naval target would suggest it's unlikely to be ready for that role (even if they had sufficient launchers and missiles).
They could try another air-based attack such as the helicopter sortie against Belgorod but as you pointed out a military airfield will have local anti-aircraft coverage making it something akin to a suicide mission.
So then you're left with some sort of SoF or paramilitary action; and given the fact Russia is such an authoritarian nightmare I presume such an action would be very difficult to pull off.
Or I suppose the West could provide some medium to long-range strike capability but I suspect that would be the least likely of all the possibilities.
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