My guess is Iran might be offering this Shahed 129 drone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahed_129
Apparently the best Iran have got, but also heavily based on cloned US & Israeli technology and suffers from limited range. The Russians would have to set up their control station pretty close to the front line if they want a wide range of targets for these. I get the feeling that Iran might end up laughing to the bank, while the Russians a stuck with piss-poor Predator-Drone look-alikes.
That Irish Times article is a disgrace.
Moscow spent years trying to implement the so-called Minsk Accord under which rebel Donbas would be reintegrated into Ukraine, providing there were guarantees of regional autonomy. These negotiations failed because Kyiv feared that Minsk’s implementation would preclude Ukrainian membership of Nato.
And then he writes:
there will be no peace, or even a ceasefire, if Ukraine does not agree to demilitarise and to eschew any ambition to join Nato.
So how does this Russian mouthpiece think Ukraine can have this: "Crucial to any peace deal would be guarantees of Ukraine’s future security"
Without NATO?
Russia has already violated Budapest and its security guarantees were shown to be worthless.
Russia did not implement Minsk, and has shown by its actions why Ukraine wanted NATO protection.
Article is a pack of lies dressed up in clever words.
I doubt if any ceasefire talk is on the agenda.
More likely a plea to Iran not to sell cut price oil and in return, we'll buy some military equipment from you.
Wouldn't it be ironic if he were blown from the sky by a BUK just like he did to those poor souls on the Malaysian airline flight.
I would disagree. I’d be very surprised if there is not a dialogue between the US, key European nations and zelensky about what an acceptable ceasefire would look like
I wouldn’t know. I would never have such a conversation. But I am comfortable enough with his views on that.
he was reporting on the mood in Moscow, which is very much to support the objective while turning a blind eye to the methods
Hopefully you're right.
Do you think he might try to capture the rest of the Donbas first though as a face saving exercise?
Ukrainian grain going via port on border with Romania
Germany sets out a time schedule
And Russia refusing to return leased planes, which means even if war stops no one will allow Russian airlines to fly (nvm giving them new ones)
I doubt Ukraine will take much notice, if any at all, of the Irish Times.
We should read this man's opinion and cast a sharp and cold eye over his position.
With corruption rife in Russia surely it would be easy enough to 'buy' the intel regarding Putins movements, plane type, time of departure, co-ordinates etc.
With that info they would be many willing volunteers to launch a surface to air missile to take the cnut out!
Yes, but this article will be used by the likes of Moscow Mick and Commie Clare to further their "cause".
The spat with Kazakhstan continues to grow, first time i am learning of the supposed explosion at the biggest oil field in Kazakhstan which followed the Russians blockading them
Send Borat to Russia to sort it all out.
Stalin read books so he is like me, a cultured person. lol. Roberts is a fantasist.
Strike Kills Nearly Every Deputy Commander in Russian Division: Ukraine (newsweek.com)
Interesting graph showing that the Russian media talking points on Ukraine come directly from Putin and the Kremlin. Whatever he decides the narrative in the press is going to be becomes the narrative.
So you discussed life in Russia at present without discussing the war! How weird/strange / unbelievable is that.
Very interesting if Iran starts funnelling alot weapons into this on side of Russia (or perhaps they may act as some semi-deniable conduit for China - could they actually produce all of this themselves unaided, if its "100s of drones"?) after European countries efforts at getting a nuclear agreement and ending the US sanctions + making workarounds for them!
I increasingly think the main problem leaders of these "regional power" countries of the former Third world who spent so many decades wailing about the evils of colonialism/neo colonialism and racism had with the set-up is that they were not the ones getting to occupy others, or wage their dirty proxy wars on someone else's turf!
What?
I’m not doing to discuss with my Russian friend and colleague, who is against the war, whether Russian solders raped Ukrainians ffs. we were talking about reactions in Moscow and what they think of Putin
I’m not doing to bother replying to you any more.
In error.
Who gives a crap about them? They're dead in the water come the next election and may as well retire gracefully beforehand. Pair of dickheads.
Anyone hear that lying towrag of a Russian ambassador to Ireland being interviewed on drivetime yesterday evening? Seeing as we're not going to expel him he should be taken out to the citywest Hotel or somewhere and let the Ukranian women there string him up!
I don’t know, i think marching this lot from embassy through Dublin streets naked with a bell ringing and constant “shame” chants has a better ring to it
In fairness to the guy interviewing him, I can't think of his name , he all but called him a lying bollix. I know the ambassador sounds nervous and talks like he's programmed but I got the sense from him that he knows it's only a matter of time before the game is up for Russia.
Re Wallace and Daly, not so sure : there's a long tradition of electing dickheads to the European Parliament, and some of them get re-elected. There is a sort of dickhead-protest vote out there.
One of the interviewer's questions was "Why are you here telling lies on behalf of Putin?".
Kurds would love to get the pair of them
How does this compare to the Turkish Bayraktar that Ukraine were using to great effect at the start of the war?
Lack of good candidates, mep is some gravy train.
We shouldn’t be surprised a Russophile spouting BS. But, let’s not forget some academics would struggle to tie their own shoelaces.
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