Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[Catfish]

Moldovia should join Romania..

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...9728fa4595daf0

[Jimbuna]

90% of population was evacuated from big cities of Luhansk region, - Haidai

The Russian occupiers continue preparations for the "referendum" despite the small number of residents in the occupied towns and villages.

This was announced by the head of the Luhansk RMA, Serhii Haidai, Censor.NET reports.

According to him, the occupiers are not preparing for the heating season in the occupied territories of the region, but actively demonstrate their care for the population with free bread, hot lunches that will be distributed in Severodonetsk, and the opportunity to take a shower once every three months.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by August

I remember something like that too Markus, something along the lines that the Russian Federation allows the Baltic states to be in NATO although they are rightfully Russian property. Similar spiel as their rhetoric on Ukraine.

You right He never said it directly. Furthermore I suddenly remembered something with the Russian Dumas had invalidated Lithuania's independence
So me start searching and found this

"We are the successors of the USSR. We have the right to annul the decisions of the Soviet Union which are essential for us here and now," Yevgeny Fyodorov, the Russian MP who tabled the bill, told Russian daily Komsomolskaya pravda at the time.

https://euobserver.com/world/155227

This step by the Russian Dumas, isn't this a hint ?

Markus

[Skybird]

FOCUS writes:



According to " Bloomberg ", European intelligence officers have already reported arms shipments across the Bosporus strait. According to the report, a commercial ship sanctioned by the U.S. is said to have sailed from the Syrian port of Tartus to Russia. On board: military vehicles for Vladimir Putin.

The voyage of the "Sparta 2" to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk shows how the Kremlin is struggling to find new weapons and what difficulties the Kremlin leader is in with regard to the defense industry. It is unclear exactly which war vehicles are involved. However, at least eleven vehicles are believed to have been unloaded at the port. This is shown by satellite images available to intelligence officials, according to "Bloomberg."

Explosive: NATO member Turkey could have been involved in the transport, at least passively, since the weapons shipment was not stopped. Ankara had closed the Bosporus shortly after the start of the war on February 24, but only for warships. Merchant ships are allowed to pass through the strait. A Turkish official pointed out that such shipments would only be investigated if there were suspicions of wrongdoing, "Bloomberg" reported.
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One crow doesn't scratch out another crow's eye. I refuse to rule out Turkey delivering drones to Russia. Erdoghan can be trusted with any betrayal of the West.

[mapuc]

The Ukrainian is mocking the Russian vacation guest in Crimea

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1557621932429819907

Unless they want an unpleasantly hot summer break, we advise our valued russian guests not to visit Ukrainian Crimea.

Because no amount of sunscreen will protect them from the hazardous effects of smoking in unauthorised areas.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Warning: This article contains graphic images and descriptions of sexual abuse and violence

Ex-inmates reveal details of Russia prison rape scandal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62465043

[Jimbuna]

Ukraine war: Predicting Russia's next step in Ukraine

Neither Russia nor Ukraine is likely to achieve any decisive military action in Ukraine this year, the UK's head of military intelligence has told the BBC.

Speaking in a rare public interview, Lt Gen Sir Jim Hockenhull also said he had been keeping a very close eye on Russia's potential use of nuclear weapons.

On 23 February this year, Gen Hockenhull had been working late into the night. He cycled home at midnight, and went to bed at about 01:00.

He got a phone call an hour later saying there had been some odd indicators of activity on the Ukrainian border, so he got back on his bicycle and returned to work.

The confirmation came that Russia had indeed invaded its neighbour.

Minutes later, and still in the early hours of the morning, he was briefing Britain's prime minister and defence secretary on the beginning of Europe's biggest armed conflict since World War Two.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62520743

[Skybird]

https://www.economist.com/europe/202...to-nuclear-war


Or as an alternative title: The 101 of sleepwalking.


The problem is that there are apparently no alternative figures to Putin who are more moderate than he is. If that would have been the case, one could hope that in case of an escalation threatening Russia's mere existence these figures would launch a coup and remove Putin from power. But it seems the league of wonderful Russian gentleman likely to replace him are at least as nuts and criminal and brutal as Putin is.



My way would be to put Ukraine under the prteciton of the West'S nuclear umbrella, malkign it clear that any nuclear attack against Ukraine would be reacted to like a nuclear attackl on NATO, and to increase massively the military aid for Ukraine to kill more Russian invaders in shorter time.



I would also consider to give ukraine the means to strike nuclear powerplants inside Russia, so that Ukraine can demand Russia to give up the military hijacking of Ukrainian powerplants by threatening to attack not Saporischschia, but Russian nuclear powerplants ifd the Russian do leave Saporischschia. Crazy, you say? Welcome to playing against the Russians. Without such determination I fear we all will lose this war. And then its onyl a question of time before the next Russian invasion. Georgia maybe. The Baltic. Poland.



Putin plays scared chicken. Lets set course to frontally hit him, press the pedal to the metal and throw away the steering wheel. Then we will see how determined he really is. Even a psychopath seeks to survive as lopng as he sees the chance, else he cannot continue to play his viscous games.

[Jimbuna]

Ukraine says it has taken out vital bridge in occupied Kherson

Ukraine says it has taken out another bridge that is vital for Russian forces occupying the southern Kherson region.

It says the bridge on the dam at Nova Kakhovka - which it has attacked before - is now impassable. The claim has not been independently verified.

It comes just weeks after the key Antonivsky Bridge was put out of action by Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine is waging a counter-offensive towards Kherson city, which Russia captured in the early days of the war.

"The destruction of the road bridge of the Nova Kakhovka dam was ensured, with the result that it was taken out of operation," the Ukrainian army's Operational Command South posted to Facebook.

In a daily intelligence update, UK defence officials said Ukrainian precision strikes were likely to have made the road crossing over the Dnieper River "unusable for heavy military vehicles". Nova Kakhovka lies about 55km (34 miles) north-east of Kherson.

Russian forces had only succeeded in making superficial repairs to the main Antonivsky Bridge, the officials said, which Western military sources said was "completely unusable" after a Himars artillery rocket attack last month.

The main rail bridge near Kherson was also further damaged last week, the UK update said.

"Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the bridges, they will remain a key vulnerability," the UK defence ministry said.

It added that thousands of Russian troops west of the river were now "almost certainly reliant on just two pontoon ferry crossing points" for ground resupplies.

Military analysts say there is a growing risk of the troops being cut off from the rest of main Russian occupying forces.

The attack is part of a Ukrainian effort to isolate Russian troops, with the ultimate goal of recapturing the entire region.

If it proves successful the ambitious campaign would provide a boost for Kyiv by retaking from Russia the only regional capital it has so far captured since the invasion in February.

Kherson, which had a population of about 290,000 before the war, is currently administered by Moscow-backed officials.

Last month, Russia said its military focus was no longer only on eastern Ukraine but on its southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia too.

According to Russia's Tass news agency, officials in Kherson city have started moving forward with plans to hold a referendum on formally joining Russia.

The US has accused Russia of preparing to annex parts of occupied Ukraine illegally.

But Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukrainian minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories, said this week that any referendum held in occupied-regions would never be internationally recognised.

She also advised Ukrainians remaining in Russian-held areas to evacuate, adding that 5,300 people had left the Kherson region in the last five days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62533670

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by August

I remember something like that too Markus, something along the lines that the Russian Federation allows the Baltic states to be in NATO although they are rightfully Russian property. Similar spiel as their rhetoric on Ukraine.

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that had been signed between Nazi Germany and the USSR immediately before the outbreak of World War II. That is the spiel... call it megalomania.

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Ukraine says it has taken out vital bridge in occupied Kherson

Ukraine says it has taken out another bridge that is vital for Russian forces occupying the southern Kherson region.

It says the bridge on the dam at Nova Kakhovka - which it has attacked before - is now impassable. The claim has not been independently verified.

It comes just weeks after the key Antonivsky Bridge was put out of action by Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine is waging a counter-offensive towards Kherson city, which Russia captured in the early days of the war.

"The destruction of the road bridge of the Nova Kakhovka dam was ensured, with the result that it was taken out of operation," the Ukrainian army's Operational Command South posted to Facebook.

In a daily intelligence update, UK defence officials said Ukrainian precision strikes were likely to have made the road crossing over the Dnieper River "unusable for heavy military vehicles". Nova Kakhovka lies about 55km (34 miles) north-east of Kherson.

Russian forces had only succeeded in making superficial repairs to the main Antonivsky Bridge, the officials said, which Western military sources said was "completely unusable" after a Himars artillery rocket attack last month.

The main rail bridge near Kherson was also further damaged last week, the UK update said.

"Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the bridges, they will remain a key vulnerability," the UK defence ministry said.

It added that thousands of Russian troops west of the river were now "almost certainly reliant on just two pontoon ferry crossing points" for ground resupplies.

Military analysts say there is a growing risk of the troops being cut off from the rest of main Russian occupying forces.

The attack is part of a Ukrainian effort to isolate Russian troops, with the ultimate goal of recapturing the entire region.

If it proves successful the ambitious campaign would provide a boost for Kyiv by retaking from Russia the only regional capital it has so far captured since the invasion in February.

Kherson, which had a population of about 290,000 before the war, is currently administered by Moscow-backed officials.

Last month, Russia said its military focus was no longer only on eastern Ukraine but on its southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia too.

According to Russia's Tass news agency, officials in Kherson city have started moving forward with plans to hold a referendum on formally joining Russia.

The US has accused Russia of preparing to annex parts of occupied Ukraine illegally.

But Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukrainian minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories, said this week that any referendum held in occupied-regions would never be internationally recognised.

She also advised Ukrainians remaining in Russian-held areas to evacuate, adding that 5,300 people had left the Kherson region in the last five days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62533670

Military leadership of the Russian occupying forces in southern Ukraine have moved their posts to the left [eastern] bank of the Dnipro river.

[August]

Originally Posted by Dargo

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that had been signed between Nazi Germany and the USSR immediately before the outbreak of World War II. That is the spiel... call it megalomania.

Actually it goes back before that. Al those territories were once ruled by the Russian Czarist empire. Poland, Finland and Sweden too. Putin wants a return to this.

[mapuc]

Somebody should tell him that his army is in terrible shape, any dream of recreating great Russia empire will not come true. Not with the army he has today.

Markus

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by August

Actually it goes back before that. Al those territories were once ruled by the Russian Czarist empire. Poland, Finland and Sweden too. Putin wants a return to this.

Before that they were Baltic Dominions of the Swedish Empire

[August]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Somebody should tell him that his army is in terrible shape, any dream of recreating great Russia empire will not come true. Not with the army he has today.

Markus

Yep, but I imagine that telling him something like that would probably earn you a one way ticket to Siberia. Guess that is an inherent problem for tyrants. Everybody around them is just too scared to tell them when they have a bad idea.