Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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Opinion - Ukraine has begun its summer offensive — and now F-16s are coming into play — Evening Standard
With characteristic guile and misdirection, Ukraine appears to be executing the opening stages of its long-awaited summer offensive. The shaping operations have been going on for more than a week around Bakhmut.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Have a pinch of salt ready, but this sort of thing wouldn't surprise me, surely there must be an ever increasing number of Russian officials waking up to the fact the war is not going well, and it's pointless continuing with it?
TopCat
Putin fanboy
They use the term “likely” several times. Are these reports based on much?
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Hence me starting my post with 'Have a pinch of salt ready, but this sort of thing wouldn't surprise me...'
Surely even you can't be surprised by the idea that Russian officials are probably waking up to the shit they are in?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Checking both sides propaganda and going by vibes
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Another stunning one sentence contribution from you I see. Do you expect us to be able to actually answer that properly? "Yeah, it's all based on Uri who's a high level Kremlin source."
Read this and speculate away Defence Intelligence - Wikipedia
teqniq
DisMembered
Likely.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I would imagine the oligarchs are really starting to miss their nice houses and yachts too. My one* and his wife spent 100s of millions on houses and boats. Everything that could be was bespoke to their exact wishes, the boat is now gone forever and the houses are gathering dust. He's just one of many, there must be some internal pressure building.
*I worked on his house for quite some time. paid my mortgage for years, along with many others.
*I worked on his house for quite some time. paid my mortgage for years, along with many others.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Yossarian
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The situation in orcupied Mariupol:
A year after Russia’s takeover there were few signs of Ukrainian partisan activity, residents acknowledged. “I have not come across it. People are arrested and tortured and taken away,” one current resident said. Leaving the city was only possible via Russia – an expensive and risky journey. Russia’s FSB spy agency screened anyone who tried to exit, checking phones for signs of pro-Ukrainian activity.
“If they discover anything they will keep you. It’s not unusual for the FSB to interrogate people for eight, 10, even 16 hours,” one resident said.
www.theguardian.com
A year after Russia’s takeover there were few signs of Ukrainian partisan activity, residents acknowledged. “I have not come across it. People are arrested and tortured and taken away,” one current resident said. Leaving the city was only possible via Russia – an expensive and risky journey. Russia’s FSB spy agency screened anyone who tried to exit, checking phones for signs of pro-Ukrainian activity.
“If they discover anything they will keep you. It’s not unusual for the FSB to interrogate people for eight, 10, even 16 hours,” one resident said.
‘It’s like the USSR’: residents on life in Mariupol a year since Russian occupation
People tell Guardian of ‘primitive’ living standards, propaganda in schools and constant risk of arrest
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
We could all learn a thing or two from a man with facial hair like that.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Left me wondering what an upbeat version of the USSR would be likeThe situation in orcupied Mariupol:
A year after Russia’s takeover there were few signs of Ukrainian partisan activity, residents acknowledged. “I have not come across it. People are arrested and tortured and taken away,” one current resident said. Leaving the city was only possible via Russia – an expensive and risky journey. Russia’s FSB spy agency screened anyone who tried to exit, checking phones for signs of pro-Ukrainian activity.
“If they discover anything they will keep you. It’s not unusual for the FSB to interrogate people for eight, 10, even 16 hours,” one resident said.
‘It’s like the USSR’: residents on life in Mariupol a year since Russian occupation
People tell Guardian of ‘primitive’ living standards, propaganda in schools and constant risk of arrest
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Idi I Smotri with a disco soundtrack
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Just re reading Spike Milligan’s war memoirs. ( something always worth doing) he mentions that a 7.2 inch shell cost £40 - which is £2300 in todays money.
Is that about right for the cost today, for the shells we are sending by the pallet load? Seems like that would be in the right ball park?
Is that about right for the cost today, for the shells we are sending by the pallet load? Seems like that would be in the right ball park?
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a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
That.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I made several of my teachers cry.
Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
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LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Do you understand how to look at things on the internet?
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Had a lot of Ukrainian teachers did you?
strung out
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These posts aged well.
World leaders warn China and North Korea on nukes as Ukraine's Zelenskyy travels to G7 summit
Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies warned China and North Korea against building up their nuclear arsenals, pivoting to major northeast Asian crises ahead of the arrival later Saturday of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The focus on Asia at the Group of Seven summit comes...
apnews.com
The F-16 training is to be conducted in Europe and will likely begin in the coming weeks. But Biden told the leaders that decisions on when, how many, and who will provide the fourth-generation fighter jets for Ukraine to use in battle will be made in the months ahead while the training is underway.
Fez909
toilet expert
There's definitely more coming. Pentagon error overvalued US weapons aid to Ukraine by $3bn
we will see how well this post ages in "the coming months".These posts aged well.
World leaders warn China and North Korea on nukes as Ukraine's Zelenskyy travels to G7 summit
Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies warned China and North Korea against building up their nuclear arsenals, pivoting to major northeast Asian crises ahead of the arrival later Saturday of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The focus on Asia at the Group of Seven summit comes...
The F-16 training is to be conducted in Europe and will likely begin in the coming weeks. But Biden told the leaders that decisions on when, how many, and who will provide the fourth-generation fighter jets for Ukraine to use in battle will be made in the months ahead while the training is underway.
strung out
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Look forward to it. The takes from the 'realist' and 'anti-war' brigade on here have been pretty shocking so far, so I'll have to go some to be as bad as theirs.
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