Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

You'd be wondering is the trade war that Trump implemented, a kremlin plan to make the kremlin seem like reliable partners for business. Putin wants russia back in the trading world and what better way than have Trump make a trading war with China and Europe and have trump sell doing business with russia as a way out of this self inflicted mire. Trump voters are halfway in thinking about russia being something to follow anyway. Trump showed his hand when they didn't put tariffs on Russia like they did China and Europe and the rest of the world.

Krasnov is making the US into Belarus.

20 times the size? Population less that 4 times the size of Ukraine!

Anyway Ukraine will continue to get US equipment from the EU by the back door.

Amid continued failures to achieve its strategic objectives on the battlefield, russian forces have increasingly resorted to the use of chemical agents against Ukrainian troops. Reports from the Zaporizhzhia region, particularly near the village of Shcherbaky, point to a growing number of incidents involving munitions containing poisonous substances, according to the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine.

Particularly, russian forces have been deploying the RG-Vo grenades, an abbreviation of the russian term for hand grenade – poisonous substance. These munitions are reportedly dropped from drones onto the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The chemical agents used in these attacks target the respiratory system and mucous membranes. Prolonged exposure without adequate protective equipment can be fatal. Ukrainian officials have confirmed that the use of these weapons has already resulted in casualties among Ukrainian service members.

I was told they issued the wrong grenades, all's good.

Gas masks? Very little, perhaps use similar in return?

"Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, attacked a number of facilities in the Kursk region associated with war criminals involved in the missile attack on the city of Sumy on April 13, 2025 and in other war crimes against the people of Ukraine."

Details: In particular, the permanent deployment point of the 448th missile brigade of the Russian occupiers was hit, and a secondary detonation of ammunition was recorded. The results of the strike are being clarified.

Hope there was a lot of destruction, though I doubt they will manage 35 dead and 117 injured.

Putin uses trump to sabotage the G7 countries condemning Putin's terrorist attack on palm sunday.

Trump maintains Putin is great. The upside down world of trump and taking the 100 tons of russian gold.

Judas Trump.

This was mentioned on the Ukraine Daily Telegraph podcast the other day for anyone that listens to it, apparently the scum are using chloropicrin gas (tear gas) which, although doesn't necessarily cause burns or injuries, is a severe irritant to the eyes and respiratory system. This then has the effect of flushing Ukrainian troops out of bunkers/trenches etc where they are much more vulnerable to attack.

They did mention that the British supplied 30k gas masks (hopefully more from them and/or other states) so fingers crossed Ukr troops are better equipped to deal with it.

Report that the armed forces of Ukraine are taking action against putin's terrorists responsible for recent attacks on Ukrainian civilians.

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukrainian-lyutyi-drone-strike-hits-iskander-missile-base-in-russia-s-ivanovo-region/

Trumpistan - Ukraine is Europes problem, Europe should defend itself

Europe - OK starts to help even more and reboots its domestic industries

Trumpistan - Declares economic war on their best allies including Europe, shows disrespect, threathens annexation

Europe etc - Ok old man

Trumpistan - Whaaa why you helping Ukraine and not buying our crap defence equipment that can be disabled and turned into expensive bricks when you most need it?

Europe - rolls eyes, points at Ukraine trying to purchase equipment from US

Some good news. Small bit of progress. If they can just keep picking away at the Russians while stalling or preventing that upcoming Russian offensive.

Has Trump stopped all aid or is he in the process of stopping aid to Ukraine? Hard to know with all of the noise.

Germany just delivered 30 PAC3 missiles for Ukraine's Patriot systems.

Russia will consider any strike with German Taurus missiles against Russian targets as a "direct participation" of Germany in the conflict in Ukraine, the spokeswoman for Moscow's diplomacy indicated, in the context in which Berlin signals that it could supply this weapon to Kyiv, Agerpres and AFP report.

"A strike with these missiles against Russian facilities (...) will be considered as a direct participation of Germany in hostilities alongside the Kyiv regime, with all the consequences that this entails," Maria Zakharova warned, quoted by Russian news agencies.

According to the spokeswoman, "the actual launch of these cruise missiles is impossible without the direct assistance of the military of the Bundeswehr," the German army.

The Kremlin already denounced on Monday a risk of "escalation" if Germany supplies Taurus missiles to Ukraine, after future Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was open to this gesture in the event of an agreement with the Europeans, which his predecessor Olaf Scholz permanently refused.

Russia had already warned the West when they supplied Kyiv with American ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles.

Someones terrified. We can't defeat Ukraine so we'll trigger article 5 and drag NATO and it's vastly superior airpower into the war, because that's a real winning strategy.

Ukraine making the Russians pay for Sumy

Suggestions online it's all part of a new massive Russian offensive, but so far it's been an absolute disaster