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I love this from Medvedev: "...Ukraine did not exist as a seoarate country before 1991. It was past of the Russian Empire". On that basis how many countries did not exist before some fairly recent dates? They were parts of the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese or other empires.

Yea, by his logic, Ireland still belongs to the UK. We did not exist until 1921.

Maybe not now, at this moment, but down the road? For sure Ukraine will join NATO, when the conditions are fulfilled. Same with the EU, and the EU will want a strong bulwark against any future Russian aggression. Russia can never be trusted again, ever, Not under any circumstances.

You really didn't think that response through did you.

You see unlike some posters here, I am not, nor do I consider myself to be, omniscient. Therefore I can make a prediction and also admit that I could be wrong, I'm surprised you find that a difficult concept to understand.

Also there is a difference between calling a person idiotic and calling something they said idiotic, again not a difficult concept to understand.

Finally, commenting on my saying "maybe they will, but I could be wrong" and you de facto calling me sensless and idiotic for it and in the very next line saying "none of us can predict the future" isn't that smart.

Have a Nice Day.

Alternatively, if you're not trying to predict the future, avoid using the word "will" so much.

Not that hard to understand either. Beats backtracking later

Ukraine will win this war.

ABSOLUTLY UNBELIEVABLE from Medvedev. Maybe it’s ok because , quiet often when a Russian says something they mean the opposite. The only problem with that strategy is that they never tell us which is it.

When the UK had 383,700 military deaths including from the colonies in all of WW2 just shows the magnitude of this calamity for russia

Oh would you ever shut up. What was cultured about Bloody Sunday or ballymurphy. I’m sick of you making the Brits out to be saints when it comes to Ireland. It’s fking nauseating. You’re not Irish and clearly don’t have a clue about the history. What was cultured about the Brits in Kenya in the 50s to the 1960s when they imprisoned 1m without trial. Burned people alive, stuck glass bottles in every orifice, tortured , killed on the spot etc. The head of the British in Kenya said they were acting like soviet Russia and nazi Germany and if they must sin they must sin quietly. Present day Britain isn’t on the same level as Russia obviously but I’m sick of you constantly making them out to be saints regarding Ireland . You wouldn’t like it people were making Russia out to be saints in Ukraine . Learn a bit of Irish and british history and stop talking absolute shite over and over. And British flags aren’t flying in 26 counties because Irish people fought for independence not because the British were sound and thought oh we will leave as you’re implying.

So it seems Ukraine thwarted an attempt to assassinate Zelensky that involved a Ukrainian traitor cooperating with the Russians (no direct link available, copied from the guardian):

Ukraine’s security service said on Monday it had detained an informer accused of helping Russia plot an attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as he visited a flood-hit region, according to AFP.

The SBU security service said the detained woman was gathering intelligence to try to find out Zelenskiy’s itinerary before his visit to the southern Mykolaiv region.

It published a blurred image of the woman being detained by masked officers in a kitchen, as well as some phone messages and handwritten notes about military activity.

On Telegram, Zelenskiy said that the head of the SBU had updated him about the “fight against traitors”.

The SBU said that Ukraine was aware of the plot ahead of time and had put in additional security measures during Zelenskiy’s visit. It alleged the suspect was helping Russia prepare a “massive airstrike on the Mykolaiv region”.

She was allegedly seeking data on the location of electronic warfare systems and warehouses with ammunition.

The SBU said its officers kept monitoring the suspect to get more information on her Russian handlers and her assignments. Officers then caught the woman “red-handed” as she attempted to pass intelligence data to Russian secret services, the SBU said.

It said the woman lived in the small southern town of Ochakiv in the Mykolaiv region and formerly worked in a store at a military base there. She allegedly photographed locations and tried to get information from personal contacts in the area.

She may face a charge of unauthorised dissemination of information about the movements of weapons and troops. If convicted, she could serve up to 12 years in prison.

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I'm inclined to cast a cool eye over the Russian losses stats as reported by Ukraine, it would be natural to overemphasise these a bit and underreport your own losses. But I would broadly accept them as being in that trajectory.

Whereas I would regard all reports from Russian sources on Ukr losses as unbridled propaganda full of untruths. Start even with the Russian ambassador in our own state, a completely untrustworthy liar.

19th century Britain was as authoritarian and oppressive and paranoid an empire as ever stalked the earth. Look up the peterloo massacre perpetrated in vicious paranoia against their own people not to mention the countless atrocities they carried out in their colonies. Including the horrific genocide that they were able to conveniently dress up as a famine in this country. They only ‘softened’ a bit in the 20 th century due to the losses in World War One and the rising influence of America who put them back in their box. But the British empire was as evil and rapacious an empire as ever existed and would be to this day if they could still get away with it.

Feigned concern..." Oh those poor Ukrainians, how dreadful !!! "

We don't know the context of the 'conversation'.

The tweet reporting this was deleted, which should tell you all that you need to know.