Apologies if off topic but just home from a week in Tenerife. Russian family beside us every day at the pool. Mom, Dad, 15 year old son and 12 year old son. The 15 year old was constantly trying (to our 4 minds, drown his younger brother). He kept holding him under water, thumping him, stretching his arms etc. A lady next to us, from Manchester, was, like us, watching in horror and spoke to the lifeguard, who spoke to the unconcerned parents. The Life Guard told us that this was typical behaviour from Russian guests at their hotel. So @technocrat, you are correct. Russia is a nation of disgusting savages.
Not familiar with him, but he has a lot of complaints in the Irish Times I see.
To quote him: “because of its overwhelming superior firepower, Russia is winning a war that Ukraine cannot but lose, irrespective of the amount of western military aid or ‘wonder weapons’ it receives” and that as “there is no sign the Kremlin’s war machine is running out of steam . . . Ukraine has little or no hope of recovering lost territories”.
In July last year.
We need to get this imbecile off the air. Only an idiot could think that either side are dying at a rate of 8:1 in this war.
When Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland during WW2, the kill ratio was about 3.5:1 against Poland.
When the British (armed with guns and canon) invaded the Zulu Kingdom (armed with spears), the killed ratio was about 3.5:1 against the Zulu's.
Those were two completely lob-sided wars, are we really to believe that a more finely balance war has a death rate over twice that in favour of the other side?
Indeed, so I looked around and also found it mentioned on a Russian site also. Along with a copy of a report which mentions assault and sexual assault on an NTV. Indeed, could be fake, but will see if any further mentions of it
https://pikabu-ru.translate.goog/story/v_melitopole_iznasilovali_zhurnalistku_i_izbili_operatora_kanala_ntv_9899793?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
Pro commie shill thinks it's all NATOs fault and regularly appears on RTE pushing his false narrative.
Bradleys on the way .
That Geoffrey Roberts guy claiming Russian has taken about 100K casualties with 20k of those dead, while Ukraine has 150K dead and several hundred thousand wounded, seems actually scared to me tbh, he seems to think the west needs to surrender and agree to Putler's demands before we're all destroyed.
People pay good money to go to Uni in Cork to listen to this Russian asset and puffed up spoofer?
Story sounds about as plausible as the Ukrainian mobilization document quoted here just before this, i.e. not very.
More proof if STILL needed that Russia is a nation of disgusting savages!
Wouldnt be surprised at all by these savages
And then there is Thales in France,selling thermal-imaging fire control system to Russia,thats crucial for their tanks.
Imaging their tanks not having it?It would be another desert storm for Ukraine now ,if they didnt.
It's horrendous, if these guys are walking up to a Russian journalist, assaulting her team, raping her - dread to think what they are doing to local women.
Bucha and Borodyanka were liberated after a month and a half, these other areas have been occupied for much longer.
Can we imagine what these scum are doing to the general population under their sick control.
Probably sanctioned by Putin himself.
(NTV always had an independent view of Putin till it was taken over by Gazprom and even still since the invasion some in the station fled the country for fear.)
Speaking of tanks all over again, this sounds all too familiar, but the tanks saga eventually had a happy ending, so here's hoping history repeats that bit.
Poland is ready to transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in coordination with NATO, - Mateusz Morawiecki.
"In this matter, we will act in full coordination with other NATO countries and the United States," the Polish Prime Minister said.
He also added that Poland's military spending this year will reach 4% of GDP, which may be the highest percentage among all NATO countries.
I can't decide whether to upvote or not. That is utterly disgusting and should not have happened to her, if it's true.
So a silent upvote for the post but none for what happened. Hope someone shoots them.
In Ulyanivka, near occupied Skadovsk, an ammunition depot was destroyed after three "arrivals," military journalist Andriy Tsaplienko reports
The night before, it was loaded with "mobikas" ammunition all night.
Looks like Ukraine did a good job levelling the mobik equipment playing field. On hearing that some mobiks only got an ice filled trench and a single rifle, but that another lot got a whole pile of fresh weapons, ammo and warm sleeping bags, they fixed this terrible injustice. Now no mobik need feel jealous of another.
But why aren't the cheering us we liberated them from the CIA gay junta and brought them into the bussoms of mother Russia
If this story is true (and it's starting to look that way), it's a reminder that people living under occupation must be in another form of hell
This is Faqued up ....
Another article discussing origins of "Western" components popping up in Russian/Iranian military equipment, missiles and drones [taken from RTE Website European Public Service broadcaster sections]. We are observing another unexpected side product and downside of the long orgy of globalisation during this conflict.
“It can be assumed that Russia and Iran are procuring such goods via third countries. These purchases for illegitimate military purposes are often made by front companies,” said a SECO spokesperson.
They said one of the biggest problems is that there are often no controls or insufficient measures in place at the foreign production sites, where Swiss law does not apply.
[On 3rd parties aiding Russia] Chinese satellite/space company sanctioned by the US recently over claimed sale of imagery to Russia (Wagner) to aid their war effort. More of this happening would be good IMO.
If Putin doesn't want to do it, there are a few Boards posters I could recommend or at least two Irish MEPs who'd do it on a second's notice
⚡️Визначальним theater in this war is Crimea. The government of Ukraine realizes that it cannot accept Russia's continued control over Crimea, says former U.S. Commander in Europe General Ben Hodges.
In his opinion, Ukraine "will not be safe and will not be able to rebuild its economy as long as Russia keeps Crimea."
"Over the next few months, Ukraine will create the conditions for the final liberation of Crimea," the general emphasized.
According to him, Ukraine will need long-range precision weapons, such as ATACMS, to liberate Crimea.
"The transfer of weapons that can deprive Russia of any hiding place after its missile and air strikes will allow Ukraine to make Crimea unusable for the Russians," Hodges said.
He added that the liberation of Crimea would also require isolating the peninsula from Russia and destroying the Kerch Bridge.
Not that anyone was suggesting that the Orcs should get away with hanging on to Crimea...
What is the source for this and why is it in English?
The same picture was posted a few weeks back, with a different date. Seems possible notices like that are posted around Kyiv, after all mobilisation was declared when Russia invaded.
Allegedly the original, it's from Ukrainian officials so take with a big pinch of salt of course.
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We're making the exact same mistakes as we did with tanks all over again.
The current rate of attrition in the Ukraine Air Force is not sustainable. It's not a case of if, it's a case of when they start to run out of combat aircraft.
There is going to be a considerable lead time in sourcing, preparing, shipping and training of Western aircraft and crews.
If they announced F16's today, how long before they in active service doing missions, one year doesn't sound like a ludicrous estimate.
He said no to Abrams too.
Because when you run images through Google translate and it does it's ocr that is what it ends up like.
Could be BS, might be not.
But I think the ransom style of notes is how the Google and Microsoft translators show the converted language over the original. Doesnt look pretty, but usually somewhat accurate and transcribing, regardless if the document is true or not.
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