They’ve rail guns for years… super sonic ones? Any source?
Vladimir Putin said that the plan for a special military operation in Ukraine is not subject to adjustment
"The General Staff makes operational decisions in the course of the operation, considers something to be the key, the main goal, and the main goal is the liberation of the entire territory of Donbass," the Russian President told reporters on Friday.
According to him, this work continues, despite "these counteroffensive attempts (of Ukraine)".
"Our offensive operations in the Donbas itself do not stop, they are going at a slow pace (...), the Russian army is occupying new and new territories," the president stressed.
“I draw your attention to the fact that we are not fighting with a full army. We are fighting only with part of the Russian army, a contract part,” Putin said.
He noted: "We are not in a hurry in this part, but by and large, in essence, there are no changes."
Latest from Vlad. Don't think I've ever heard him specifically spell out a war aim in this way.
East Kupyansk fully under Ukraine control according to Russian sources.
Who is responsible for the 'spin' to which you refer? Not the Ukrainian government then?
So this is what West meddling in this conflict has brought on so far: fewer mass burial sites with tortured soldiers and civilians. Without the western help the Russians would have advanced more, killed and tortured more soldiers and civilians. Think about it next time you get the urge to blame NATO and US for anything.
Looks like the mass graves discovered in Izyum contain the bodies of tortured Ukrainian soldiers.
At Least we can agree more war committed against Ukrainians have been uncovered
Its just a hunch, but something tells me your time here will be limited, as are your contributions.
He's right. The US are already testing naval rail-guns.
Russian President Vladimir #Poutine during his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Russia will do everything to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible, but Kiev refuses to negotiate.
It's all Kyiv's fault.
When you know what your on about let me know and then I’ll consider it.
Ah look,another fresh account supporting Putin the great, his genocide, and new soviet union
Does Prigozhin pay you well
Did I mention Zelensky or his press conference in any post today 🤔, No I did not 🤷♂️
And yet again I have to remind you. If you really do struggle to interact in a civil manner then do not post at all, or I will remove your posting privileges
Not wanting to derail the thread here but the correct measure of the impact of COVID is the number of excess deaths. Year over year deaths, the excess indicates the impact of COVID without the noise of correct tagging. This assumes that COVID is the dominant public health issue during the period which I hope we can all agree on.
I would say desperation is the motive. They could hit something that would do some damage hopefully. That damage civilian or military is irrelevant for them, they just want some achievement to point at to deflect and hopefully increase morale (from their perspective). It's encouraging that they feel so desperate.
He also said there would be more details tomorrow, which I think means they definitely have evidence of war crimes, and are now dotting i's and crossing t's before going public.
I'd offer you a spade, but your mouth is managing just fine on it's own. You know, when the top of the hole is above your head, you're allowed to stop.
just people speaking out of both sides of their mouths
Zelensky didn't actually accuse Russia of war crimes in his TV address last night. He simply said that a mass grave had been discovered in Izyum, that authorities were investigating and observed that the Russians leave death and destruction everywhere they go (a fair and accurate observation about the fascist regime).
The mud doesn't last until Spring. It will be frozen by December. The Germans launched Operation Winter Storm on the 12th of December in 1942.
But they are!! That is one of Ukraine's strategies and rightfully so. To keep feeding stories to European media, so as to keep their situation at or near the top of the news cycle. It's nothing to do with Russian strategy to simply recognise this and take it into account.
Again with the spin. The reports of the graves sites were made before the report of the discovery of bodies bound and buried which is what people were “edgelording”. This is withdrawn not mass grave sites story.
The media have turned this story from a war buriel site into a mass grave akin to Srebrenica, this may yet be found but so far no.
Have to agree, winter will be more difficult for all. But who is the most motivated to suffer a bit and continue to press - no doubt about that answer. Cut and target the supply lines to Russian forces and they could really suffer. This is likely the focus of current Ukrainian strategy, to get positions where they can constrict supplies in the next 2-3 months and make life as miserable as possible for Russian military.
All we have to do is to stick on an extra jumper or jacket.
Well they like to mix things up with people accidentally falling out windows or falling overboard on a yacht...
I think its a certainty that this runs into next year but maybe not too long into next year. People have mentioned about winter slowing the Ukrainians as the lands surrounding the roads become a quagmire of mud. And whilst that may be true its also true for the russians. They have shown themselves incapable of any sort of logistical capabilities in almost perfect conditions and that going to fall off a cliff in the coming month. So we'll see a situation where we have cold, wet and hungry russians holed up in one position, unable to move around and unable to get supplies.
These positions will be easy to find for an army with the drone technology available to the Ukrainians. I would fully expect that they are also adapting drones to carry infra red and night vision cameras which is something the Russians won't have. So death from the skies either directly from the drones or targeted info sent to the various long range rocket systems being employed could come day or night. The psychological effect of this cannot be underestimated. It won't matter how many bodies the Russians will have packed behind the frontlines when they are mentally breaking day by day. And sending in these hundreds of prisoners, many of whom will already have psychological issues or borderline personalities could add interesting fuel to the fire. Armies all over the west put their forces through all types of psychological pressures such as hell weeks to see how they react before sending them to the front. The Russians are gathering people who certainly wouldn't pass those tests and sending them anyway.
Not really.
Because someone didn't fact check their story,
They found and are currently investigating a mass grave containing 400+ people
Russian video posted on Telegram will warm your hearts. Russian police fighting with a Wagner soldier in a hotel. Wagnerite says “Do you know who I am?” before getting the **** kicked out of him 😆
https://t.co/Cqd3fyUZex
That’s what I said 🤷♂️
All I'm suggesting is to suspend judgement for the moment and wait till verification arrives. Reports of bodies with hands tied would indicate murders carried out after occupation - how many of these are there and percentage? Do we know much of the initial takeover of Izyum, did it just capitulate to Russian forces or was there preliminary shelling and a battle? This would explain casualties that needed to be buried and crosses erected etc.
It's easy to say Bucha#2 and easy for Ukraine to hint at that for the PR. If anyone thinks they wouldn't exploit such a find, they're naive.
But it may or may not be the case. Of course any citizens and soldiers killed are due to Russian invasion but there is a degree of difference between those killed in battle and those hunted down and killed afterwards.
A mass grave in on itself is not a war crime. There was plenty of mass graves dug during the pandemic etc.... It's how the people died dictates if it's a war crime.
If those in the graves died from Russian shelling, murdered etc.... That's a war crime.
And it doesn't have to be all/most etc... Each one could be a war crime.
Just because they may be individually buried with a cross does not omit the war crime.
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