Russia - threadbanned users in OP

That precision action added 25 to the days tally.

What would be the international response if Zalensky was assinated or was very seriously injured from a hit quad attack - but survived. Would that change the whole dynamic of the war? Eg would Putin then become a legit target for assignation. Ie tit for tat. And would other countries get more involved - directly /indirectly?

I am not too sure. It was the solution in the past where quantity was quality. That was then BUT this is now. Will your typical Russian willingly go to the meat grinder for the sake of the motherland as was the case in the past. I expect that most Russians are much more aware of what’s going on, the hippo a y that’s out there , the level of corruption is much better understood, the level of poverty that’s there and can now be avoided by a fairer distribution of wealth All this new information is there THANKS to the internet/ mobile phone. Also a lot of Ru getting a lot of reports from the front. , etc, etc, etc.

All Ru do not need a mobile to become aware of what’s really going on / what’s out there. Their friends, family , etc, will tell them.

Should be shared as widely as possible by our resident Russians in Ireland back to the motherland.

That's exactly the point, Russian citizens are no technological fools, they have and use much the same digital technology as the rest of us. They may be able to force some into military units but that will getting exponentially harder.

Those mobilised to date have mostly come from far flung rural areas, prisons etc. I suspect the Russian population's stomach for feeding their young men to the meat grinder is more likely to change (and the young men themselves are more likely to organise and resist) as the mobilisations have to start conscripting those from more developed urban areas like St Petersburg, Moscow etc.

My mother's travelled fairly extensively in Russia and according to her (and others I've spoken to who've travelled around Russia), while those urban centres that tourists tend to visit are modern societies not too dissimilar to our own, once you get out into the rural hinterlands, it's like travelling back in time to rural Ireland of the 40s or 50s.

Yeah, but Hitler had Goebbels as his minister for propaganda, obviously Putins minister Surkov is not un the same class.....he would start avoiding high windows, or drinking cups of tea,,,

We're approaching endgame here. putler can only go through so many waves of human meat before he runs out of fighting men.

Most of the original orc invasion force was destroyed and now putler is rapidly burning through the 300k conscripted mobiks. He needs to raise a new force now so it will be ready in 1-2 months time when the rest of the 300k mobiks are dead or in hospital. The third batch of mobiks will be old men and kids and it will be the last. They will be slaughtered in even greater numbers than those that came before them.

Very soon there is going to be a collapse on the Russian front and it will be like Kharkiv all over again.

Awkward moment on Russian state TV as someone touches on the truth

Using human wave attacks against Ukraine shows just how desperate a position putler and the orcs are in.

It won't last long.

This claim from very pro Russian channels

Lads on the Ukrainian subreddits say this source is very pro Russian but has been accurate in the past.

Wonder will tomorrow be a formal declaration of war?

Going to do some more digging.

You would expect it to be declared a war and full mobilization, war economy.

All in .

You certainly don’t make me doubt my preconceived maybe bigotted notion that Aussies are inherently racist. Was genuinely shocked at some of the comments I heard when I lived for a while on the Sunshine Coast.

i dont think you really have any idea about German, Austrian, Swiss culture which is completely different from Australian (and Irish). The way you express yourself on here would be considered extremely ill-mannered in Switzerland. Not everything is black and white it’s more nuanced. Swiss people don’t generally take unilateral absolute positions on things. There’s generally interminable discussion followed by a consensus where no-one really gets all their own way. Less time posting and more time acquiring some culture.

Yes, I'm sure I read that declaration of war against Ukraine would give him a whole raft of new powers, including the ability to mobilise millions of ordinary Russian citizens if he felt like it.

Apparently those 600 were herded into the building to listen to Putin's speech.