Russia - threadbanned users in OP

"Who will stop them"?

The British don't even have the codes to their own Poseidons and Polaris missiles. Do you think that Ukraine will just cobble together a nuclear bomb?

Where are they going to test it? Where are they going to get the uranium, the technology to enrich said uranium?

If America won't allow Japan or South Korea or Australia or even Canada or Mexico or all those countries like Estonia and Poland that are supposed to be attacked by Russia, to have nuclear weapons, why would they just let Ukraine have them?

Far too slowly to be of any significance. Putin will be "voted" in for another term this spring, a few brave citizens will protest and be arrested, the other 100+ million will shrug and mope on as usual

Can't see trump coming back successfully for round2. Yes there are certainly a diehard cohort that will vote him in, but a huge part of his success in the original election was people voting AGAINST Hilary Clinton. I've seen it in colleagues, friends and family over in the US, where they hated her so much they voted for Trump and are disgusted with what happened as a result. I think Biden, regardless of the inevitable dirt the media dig up on him, comes across as more of a moderate and palatable candidate that many would vote for happily on the democrat side

"Prediction, Ukraine have one more offensive in it,"

You have made this prediction before. I don't agree that Ukraine is happy to make the same mistake as putin and send thousands of their people to their deaths attacking prepared defensive lines. Ukraine has the committed support of the EU and NATO while putin has a heavily sanctioned economy limping along with the help of North Korea and Iran. putin is still able to make massively expensive attacks with most missiles his forces launch being intercepted and non military targets being hit at huge cost to his arms production capacity in urban areas in Ukraine but arms production in Ukraine is increasing and EU and NATO based arms producers are building up their capacities to make the weapons to deal with putin's terrorist state over the longer term. putin's war is only getting more expensive for him and unlike you I don't think time is on his side. The armed forces of Ukraine can just continue to make staying in their country a crippling expense for putin until he has no choice but to retreat.

I would think another counter is unlikely unless they get much better fire power.I have no idea what the losses are for Ukraine but they must be big and it looks like with the way things have stalled somewhat that they need to be prepared for a couple of years at this rate.Dispite all the optimism that Putin will come undone all the line there is no real sign of that yet.

Yeah, if the Russians are saying the plane had POWs onboard, then it probably didn't. And what are the chances that Ukraine just happened to shoot down the one plane that carried their own soldiers? I mean, it could happen, but..

Ukraine is now saying that there was a prisoner exchange scheduled and are now investigating

The British don't have any Poseidon or Polaris missiles. The UK's nuclear deterrent is 4 Trident (Vanguard class) submarines, 3 of which are always at sea.

And they do have the codes to those.

Yeah I'd be very surprised if it turns out that 65 Ukrainian POW's were on board a coveted IL-76 flight that had supposedly recently flew by Iran:

These are military transport planes. It's really hard to imagine they'd be wasting precious cargo space on one of these things for a POW exchange when historically these exchanges have been done by regular wheeled passenger buses. Especially when the plane was on the way OUT of Ukraine at time of crash.

It's just much simpler to imagine Russia lying to:

• Paint Ukraine as the bad guys at a critical moment when further military aid to Ukraine is stuck in limbo. Give the russian apologists a talking point they can bash away at.
• Grant themselves plausible deniability to either execute some POW's or explain away how they tortured,neglected and abused 65 POWs to death.
• Act as a deterrent to Ukrainian air defense given the absolute blinder they've been playing recently, multiple ultra-high value air kills in the past month.

I also wouldn't put it past Russia to actually use POW's or civilians as meatshields for their military cargo planes. I mean Ukraine can't exactly allow Russia to supply missiles or suicide drones for free because Russia might be comitting war crimes. They'd never get another win if they had to sidestep every warcrime Russia was willing to perform in order to attack.

But I guess we'll see. I just wish western media wouldn't keep using Russian sources to report headlines. Or at least HEAVILY caveat such reportings. Reader beware these sources are Russian in origin and have a low factual accuracy metric.

Yep, russia lies

What flightnumber was the one that crashed today ?

I geolocated the crash site and the plane was ineed flying away from Belgorod

50.85315333838182, 37.35957308446829 is the location of where the video was taken from ... filming in a northerly direction