Russia-Ukraine War

Looks like they used Kinzhal missiles, they fly 10 times the speed of sound and manoeuvre, very hard to hit.

Targeting a children's hospital (after targeting the power-grid nonstop for weeks). They also went after Zelensky's home town. It's not just sheer brutality behind Russian attacks, it's the level of spite.

it’s notable that he is not visiting other countries that are at a ‘ crossroads’ and that what is happening /not happening in these countries have a bearing - in short and long term- has an effect on the Ru/UKr ‘Special Mission’ and world stability in general eg Georgia ,Sudan, Japan, North Korea, UK !, France, US, Moldova

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Think yours is a fairly accurate assessment. Terror bombing.

Utter scum behaviour by Russia and totally inexcusable, a warcrime. You should have also included those who defend Israel destroying hospitals yet now act horrified at this.

Peace was not given a chance 😂

It's pretty easy - don't invade another sovereign country that is of zero threat to you, and there's your peace right there.

Grade A gaslighting - essentially sucker punch someone, kick them when they're on the ground, and then just as they're getting up start banging on about "can't we all just be friends".

On the subject of the war crime of killing surrendering Russians / POWs. Like all categories of crime, there are greater and lesser crimes. Stealing a loaf of bread is a lesser crime than robbing a bank, which is a lesser crime than rape, which is a lesser crime than murder.

I'd argue that not only is killing surrendering troops (who are part of a genocidal invading force) a lesser crime than bombing a children's hospital, it's an unfortunate but inevitable reality of war.

Sometimes the order to "take no prisoners" has to be given in order to achieve a military objective. The heroes of D Day killed dozens if not hundreds of surrendering Germans on June 6th 1944 and we've just celebrated that event 100 years later.

The the UAF have shown such restraint and that such war crimes seem to be occurring at such low levels in their defence of their country is admirable. Would you give a scuttery shite about the Geneva convention if facing an army that had raped, killed and tortured members of your family? I'm fairly certain I wouldn't, I'd be doing anything I could to kill or maim the kunts.

Not only does the amount of this drivel we see lend weight to calls to expel or at the least severely restrict the activities of the Russian embassy in Ireland, I'd almost argue we should be looking at severing Russia's links to the internet. Presumably under such a dictatorial setup only a handful of connections to the WWW exist.

How difficult would it be to stop / censor all traffic in and out of Russia?

In siberian news for the morning.

"The main thing for the morning:
—Some parents of school graduates in Nalchik did not stand during the Russian anthem
— “Voenkor” apologized for calling the Chechen formations of “Akhmat” “Tiktokers” who hide behind conscripts
—Orban flew to China on a “peace mission”"

Makes a lot of sense. let Ukraine hit those fcking airbases!!

America and Europe have the ability to stop this.

Wouldn't be out of realms of possibility. One target in Ukraine is repeatedly hit owing to its strategic location of being the current president's birthplace.

Yes actually. You'll not be surprised to hear that he's claiming that it's a lie that the Russians attacked a children's hospital and that it was actually hit by Ukrainian defensive missiles.

He's not being very consistent though. In one post he claims that it was an S300. In another he claims it was a "NATO supplied NASAMS"

He also had this in one of his posts

Hard to tell if he's cynically lying or unbelievably deluded.

Was there condemnation from any of our elected reps?

Mick who? Clare who?

….no word because the world has moved on from these (no longer useful) idiots.

And strongly too...

"A state that commits war crimes by targeting sick children using hypersonic missiles has no interest in peace".

It's easy to find on the RTE news site...