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Barty 11:28 Thu Sep 28
The war in Ukraine
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I miss the "is putin about to make a big mistake" thread
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Mike Oxsaw
7:54 Sat May 18
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What pork chop?
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Hammer and Pickle
7:40 Sat May 18
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Just enjoyed a very nice CLARET with this pork chop and young cabbage. I prefer a Burgundy or a Chianti with the lamb or goat. Why?
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Dwight Van Mann
7:36 Sat May 18
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Pickle, what wine do you drink with the mutton you get from your halal butcher?
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Hammer and Pickle
7:26 Sat May 18
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Fuck off and benight a Spud site, moron
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riosleftsock
7:21 Sat May 18
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BBC having to face reality
Russia could increase Ukraine attacks, says Zelensky
Teenagers look at smoke which rises after a Russian missile strike
IMAGE SOURCE,REUTERS
Image caption,
Thousands of people are said to have been evacuated from Kharkiv in just over a week
Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News
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3 hours ago
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia could increase its attacks in Ukraine's north east following its recent gains near the city of Kharkiv.
Russian troops have been trying to push forward as Ukraine’s outgunned forces attempt to shore up a weakened front line.
Mr Zelensky admitted that there were issues with military staffing and morale, saying a number of existing brigades were empty.
He also told the AFP news agency the country's air fleet was lacking and renewed calls for allies to send more air defence and fighter jets.
"Today we have about 25% of what we need to defend Ukraine," Mr Zelensky said of Ukraine's air capabilities.
"So that Russia does not have air superiority, our fleet should have 120 to 130 modern aircraft."
The US recently approved a new $61bn (£48bn) aid package for Ukraine, which includes military support.
Russian forces recently began a summer offensive, grabbing a number of villages on Ukraine's north-eastern frontier near Kharkiv - the country's second largest city.
Kharkiv's regional governor Oleg Synegubov said on Saturday that nearly 10,000 people have been forced to leave in just over a week.
"The situation is controlled by defenders of Ukraine," he added.
Polish Prime Minster Donald Tusk, meanwhile, has announced the country will spend over €2.3bn (£1.9bn) to fortify its eastern border against "potential enemies".
The border includes Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
A map of Kharkiv region
Mr Zelensky also told AFP more soldiers were desperately needed at the frontlines.
"There are a serious number of brigades, existing brigades, which, a large number of them, are empty. We need to do this so that the guys have a normal rotation. Then their morale will be improved."
A new mobilisation law aimed at addressing this came into force on Saturday.
Under the new rules, the age that people can be conscripted into the war has been lowered from 27 to 25 in an effort to boost recruit numbers.
The flood of volunteers Ukraine saw following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 has now dried up. Most of those who wanted to fight are either dead, injured or still stuck at the front waiting to be relieved by new recruits.
In February, Mr Zelensky announced that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed during Russia's full-scale invasion.
Typically, Ukrainian officials do not make casualty figures public, and other estimates are much higher.
BBC Russian, in a joint project with the Mediazona website, has established the deaths of more than 50,000 Russian soldiers. But it estimates the total number to be greater than that.
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Nutsin
6:08 Thu May 16
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Cheezy,
That is one possible outcome, not the most probable though.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:54 Wed May 15
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Bore off you intellectual spastic
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riosleftsock
9:48 Wed May 15
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I don't think Vovchansk has changed hands yet Gopnik, you're a bit over your skis on this.
Petr Pavel, Czech President is now calling for peace talks, compromise and an end to the war. He knows something.
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Hammer and Pickle
8:52 Wed May 15
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The Kremlin has been on the offensive all year but talk of major advances lacks detail. The main new theatre where Ukrainian forces have retreated is north of Kharkov with the town of Vovchansk changing hands as it is reduced to rubble. On the other hand, there can be no serious talk of any major strategic breakthrough; Kharkov is well defended and it is estimated a force of up to 200,000 strong would be needed to take and hold the city.
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Cheezey Bell-End
7:38 Wed May 15
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Putin doesn't have much to be emboldened by. Throwing away his country's future on a pointless war of conquest. Becoming economically and militarily dependent on others.
The reputation of his country in tatters . Just a matter of time before he gets a bullet behind the ear.
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Barty
7:07 Wed May 15
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up his trip to Kyiv, where he reaffirmed the Biden administration's support for Ukraine amid Russia's advances in the Kharkiv region. Blinken announced $2 billion in military financing for Ukraine and said much-needed ammunition and weapons are being rushed to the front lines.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will cancel all his upcoming international visits, his office announced Wednesday, as the beleaguered country grapples with a new Russian offensive.
Russia is pushing into northeastern Ukraine after making major advances there over the past week – marking Moscow’s most significant gains since Ukrainian forces recaptured the Kharkiv region in 2022. More than 7,500 people have been evacuated from the region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. Putin will arrive in China emboldened by the survival of his wartime economy and Russia's advances in Ukraine.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-15-24/index.html
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Cheezey Bell-End
5:51 Tue May 14
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Prepared in what way? Have they prepared their cemeteries for a new influx of corpses? The ones that they bother collecting from the battlefield that is.
Russia have shown that they are in no way prepared for a war against the west in a non nuclear conflict.
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Barty
5:25 Tue May 14
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"Russia's acting foreign minister said the country was prepared if the West wanted to fight for Ukraine on the battlefield;"
Fucking hell
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Barty
5:23 Tue May 14
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"Putin reshuffle 'may hint he is preparing for future confrontation with Nato"
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-putin-russia-moscow-kremlin-shoigu-kharkiv-battlefield-12541713
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riosleftsock
11:16 Wed May 8
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Cheezey Bell-End 11:12 Wed May 8
LOLakov
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Cheezey Bell-End
11:14 Wed May 8
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I hope the would be assassins are dealt with severely to deter others.
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Cheezey Bell-End
11:12 Wed May 8
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Only in the sense that by acting as unpaid Russian assets, they are influencing people to vote in a certain way. And there are elections coming in the US and probably the UK. It has the opposite effect with me, but people who are less committed might fall for their bullshit.
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Mike Oxsaw
10:55 Wed May 8
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Posts & posters on here are "helping Putin to victory"?
Fucking hell! It's not only WHU are MASSIVE - WHO is too!!!
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mashed in maryland
10:18 Wed May 8
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"Two unnamed colonels from the Ukrainian State Security Department, the SBU — the main organization protecting top officials including Zelenskyy — were part of a group of covert agents helping Russia’s security service, the FSB, to plot the assassination, Kyiv said."
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-assassination-plot-arrest-ukrainian-state-security-department/
Wonder how much of this stuff happens all over the world that we never know about?
Also wonder what they offered them. You'd hope a colonel in the secret service would be literally impossible to bribe or subvert.
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Capitol Man
4:06 Wed May 8
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Jaan Kenbrovin 7:56 Mon May 6
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Talking of proxy wars - any line you won’t cross in you’re desire to hep Putin to victory?
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Barty
3:37 Wed May 8
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Russia may strike Britain's military facilities if London's threats materialize — MFA
Maria Zakharova described British Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s remark that London considered it legitimate for the Kiev regime to use British weapons for strikes on Russian territory as "something absolutely insane"
MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. Russia has the right to strike British facilities in Ukraine and outside that country, if London's threats Kiev may carry out attacks with British weapons on Russian territory materialize, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told TASS.
"If such a scenario is implemented, our country, Russia, reserves the right to respond accordingly, that is, to regard as targets British facilities located both in Ukraine and outside its borders: military facilities, weapons and so on," Zakharova said.
She described British Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s remark that London considered it legitimate for the Kiev regime to use British weapons for strikes on Russian territory as "something absolutely insane."
"This statement is not only illegitimate, but also illogical, because Britain itself stated literally the opposite not so long ago," Zakharova said.
"You remember how the controversy evolved. This statement first appeared in the news feed of a British news agency. Then, after staying there for two hours it was removed. The whole article with Cameron's statements was removed," Zakharova noted. "And a few hours later, apparently after some verbal battles that were going on, I'm sure, at Downing Street 10, at the Foreign Office and at headquarters of Reuters itself, it was decided not to sacrifice the reputation of the British news agency and but to publish the phrase that was actually pronounced."
"We reacted immediately. The appropriate reaction was presented to the world through diplomatic channels. The ambassador was summoned. In fact, Russia did not just summon him for a reprimand, but absolutely unambiguously responded to the British ambassador over the statements in question the way we did," Zakharova said.
On Monday, Britain's ambassador to Russia, Nigel Casey, had been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. A strong protest was expressed to him over Cameron's recent statement in an interview with Reuters about Ukraine's right to strike Russian territory with British weapons. Casey was warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes carried out with British weapons on Russian territory might be directed against any British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and elsewhere.
https://tass.com/politics/1785051#:~:text=Russia%20may%20strike,something%20absolutely%20insane%22
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