Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

The fact is that the whole world would be unspeakably better off without Russia or Putin. He's just a murderous thugand worse.

The vast bulk of advances are in Donestk which continues to undermine the wisdom of the Kursk operation which is diverting manpower and equipment.

You should clearly write when it is your opinion. The sentence above is a clear example of that.

Don’t you think the Ukrainian manpower and equipment there is not keeping Russia’s manpower and equipment busy as well?

I see a certain OP posting fake concerns when Russia advances few hundred meters but weirdly enough, nothing much about Kursk. So it makes me think that Russian are not having great success there.

Membership of the EU was the main target for Ukraine, remember Yanukovich got elected on a platform of closer relations with the EU? But then Putin stepped in and put a stop to it,and Ukrainians took to the streets to protest about it, and called for new elections. No mention of NATO at that point, which came 6 mths after the invasion, when Ukraine made an official request for membership which was turned down because a state of war existed. If Putin had never existed, and after he's dead and gone, the world will be a much quieter and peacefull place, All that has happened in Ukraine, all the death and destruction is purely and 100% Vladimin Vladimirovich Putin's fault.

The situation with the Russian Federation is that given free choices, they would all vote for Independence,. Something that Putin is well aware of, and terrified by, hence the vicious crack downs on Chechnya, Georgia and more recently Ukraine. And now, his empire is tottering on the brink, with Kazakhstan firing the first shots in what will develop into a rush of republics declaring their independence.

Everything I write is my opinion. I very rarely quote text from a source and when I do I wrap it in quote tags.

The point about manpower and Kursk should be obvious to most people. If you've stationed troops there then they are not on the frontline that is the most "fluid".

Sure, no problem!! In Georgia, to increase the ethnic Russian population, he issued Russian passports to all and sundry, no matter where they were from, thereby massively increasing the Russian nrs, for when he staged an invasion to "rescue them". The same thing happened in Donbass etc.Its Putins Standard Operating Practice ( SOP)

In Luhansk and Donetsk the ethnic Russian population doesn't reach 40%. Ukrainians are the majority. It's always been the go-to excuse. Crimea is the only clear majority ethnic Russian region in Ukraine.

The point about manpower and Kursk should be obvious to most people. If you've stationed troops there then they are not on the frontline that is the most "fluid".

What doesn’t seem obvious apparently is the Russians in Kursk would be in Ukraine. I don’t see why Ukraine manpower would be more useful in Ukraine than they are in Kursk. It is not football. You don’t get home advantage.

I would say better keep Kursk so they destroy their own country instead of Ukraine.

The Guardian says that Georgescu has described Codreanu and Antonescu as national heroes.

WTF seriously? Another one of these "ah sure the Nazis were great really" fan boys?

Russia would be big fans of Antonescu given the whole Operation Barbarossa thing. Israel even more so given the whole 400,000 victims of genocide. What is wrong with people. They'll be saying Ceaușescu was just misunderstood next.

And Georgia are quite far along the line already with the whole Abkhazia and South Ossetia situations. I wonder how many of those Russians who fled the war to Georgia remain there, and will they start getting "invites" to visit the Donbass?.

Ho hum…

Correct. 191000 were deported in 1944.

''Nearly 8,000 Crimean Tatars died during the deportation, and tens of thousands subsequently perished due to the harsh living conditions in which they were forced to live during their exile''.-Wikipedia

Repression of the tartars has increased since the Russians annexed the Crimea.