The War in the Ukraine

Who Will Win

  • Ukraine

    Votes: 2 28.6%

  • Russia

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Nato

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • The West

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • America

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Right

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wrong

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Good

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Evil

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Putin

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Zelensky

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • God

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Prigozhin

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Chechnya

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Trump

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
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güero said:
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Miscalculation fears rise after Russian fighter jet collides with US drone over Black Sea

US accuses Russia of ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ intercept of MQ-9 Reaper drone over waters west of Crimea
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Ok… To me downing a 32m drone with some flight maneuvers and a fuel dump seems fairly competent and professional? Eg a lot more competent and professional than downing a 10$ hobby weather balloon with an air-to-air missile?
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The Top Gun video with the Russian Maverick was just released.
 
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Has Ukraine made a big mistake by refusing to retreat from Bakhmut?

A growing number of Western military analysts argue that the situation in the eastern city has deteriorated to the point that defending it may now be more costly than it is worth.
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“'Ukrainians should have pulled back weeks ago,' defense analyst Konrad Muzyka, the director of Rochan Consulting, based in Poland, which specializes in Russia and Belarus, told NBC News.

'It just doesn’t make sense to defend the city right now,' said Muzyka, who recently visited the area with colleagues."
 
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Ukraine will remember who backed us - foreign minister

Ukraine's foreign minister tells the BBC nations that don't back Ukraine will be held to account.
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"'If anyone in the world thinks that the way this or that country behaved - or treated Ukraine at the darkest moment of its history - will not be taken into account in building future relations, these people just don't know how diplomacy works,' he said.

'War is a time when you have to make a choice. And every choice has been recorded.'"

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"And that involves building the strongest possible coalition of support, an alliance that he feels does not include the Pope. Mr Kuleba said it was not for him but for God to judge the Holy Father but, he said: 'We deeply regret that the Pope has not found an opportunity to visit Ukraine since the beginning of the war.'"

Go away Pope.
 
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International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin over alleged Ukraine war crimes

The court said Friday that the Russian leader is responsible for overseeing the forced deportation of children. The Kremlin has previously denied the accusation.
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If he happens to be travelling to a G20 or BRIC summit, is anyone actually going to arrest the man who has control over more nuclear weapons than the rest of the world combined?

"Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin welcomed the decision on Twitter. 'Over 16,000 incidents of forcible deportation of children are investigated in Ukraine,' he said. 'We fear the real numbers may be higher.'"


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These ones seem pretty happy to be liberated in Mauripol.
 
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Japanese and Chinese leaders visit opposing capitals in Ukraine war

Both leaders are on strategic foreign visits on opposing sides of the conflict.
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"Given events in Moscow, the optics and timing of Mr Kishida's parallel trip is remarkable. So what can we read into it?

It is rare for a Japanese leader to make an unannounced foreign trip and Mr Kishida is the first to visit a country in conflict since World War Two."

...uhh, you started the war.
 
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Ukraine says Russian missiles destroyed in Crimea

If confirmed, the strike suggests Ukraine's capacity to deploy drones has increased.
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"The 'mysterious' explosions destroyed Russian Kalibr-NK cruise missiles, intended for use by Russia's Black Sea Fleet, Ukrainian defence intelligence said. Kailbr missiles have been widely used in attacks on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure in recent months."

Oh Kalibr. I hope the Chinese delegation brought over some tens of millions to cover this.
 
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No Ukraine offensive without more weapons – Zelensky

There has been talk for some weeks of Ukraine launching a spring offensive against Russian forces.
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"Please stop asking experts questions about a counter-offensive on the air, please stop writing blogs and posts on this topic, please stop publicly discussing the military plans of our army."

Practise censorship
 
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A Muslim minority loyal to Ukraine bears the brunt of Russia’s crackdown in Crimea

The Tatars consider the peninsula their historic homeland and made up 12 percent of the area’s population of 2 million before Moscow illegally annexed it nine years ago.
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"Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk’s office also announced last month that Kyiv intended to start training personnel for law enforcement agencies and other public servants for the peninsula once it is liberated. And 64% of Ukrainians support the liberation of the whole of Ukraine, including Crimea, according to a recent poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology."

Crimea? Might be a premature?
 
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No Ukraine offensive without more weapons – Zelensky

There has been talk for some weeks of Ukraine launching a spring offensive against Russian forces.
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"He told a Japanese newspaper he would not send his troops to the frontlines without more tanks, artillery and Himars rocket launchers."

Whew - it's not my country. Only one country has Himars.
 
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Russian spies more effective than army, say experts

Russia's intelligence services have had more success in Ukraine than its army, says a top think tank.
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"'It is evident,' says the report, 'that the Russian special services managed to recruit a large agent network in Ukraine prior to the invasion and that much of the support apparatus has remained viable after the invasion, providing a steady stream of human intelligence to Russian forces.'"

"The FSB, says Mr Watling, assessed that they only needed to control 8% of the population in order to subdue an area."

8% of the population remaining after the place is pummeled into ruins or 8% of the pre-war population?
 
New Wagner recruiting video showed up on Russian porn sites. .

Woman: OMG. No one has ever fucked me like that. Where did you learn to fuck like that?
Man: Wagner PMC.

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EU lashes out at China for support of Russia in Ukraine war

The European Union's foreign policy chief on Tuesday lashed out at China for its support of Russia amid the invasion of Ukraine and called it 'a blatant violation' of Beijing's United Nations commitments.
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"Macron and von der Leyen are set to warn China against sending weapons to Russia during talks with President Xi Jinping on Thursday.

'They agreed on the need to not deploy nuclear arms abroad,' Borrell said of the Moscow meeting. 'Some days later, Russia deployed tactical weapons, nuclear tactical weapons in Belarus,'"

It was not abroad. It was within the confines of the historic CCCP borders.
 

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Ukraine PM to visit Canada seeking ammunition, armoured vehicles ahead of counteroffensive

Denys Shmyhal hopeful Canada will provide additional military aid, despite lack of new funding in federal budget
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"Denys Shmyhal said in an interview that the Ukrainian government would also like the Canadian government to offer war risk insurance to Canadian companies investing in Ukraine as part of an effort to support rebuilding and foreign investment there."

My tax money already goes to self insuring (aka no insurance) pay outs for natural disasters. Why must it be used to guarantee an artificial conflict half way across the world? There is a reason why insurance companies have war and terrorism as an exclusion clause in policies.

"We will need additional support in war risk insurance because no investors will come to Ukraine if the governments of our partners will not support, and will not insure war risks in Ukraine."

"Mr. Shmyhal sought to assure Canadians that Ukraine has made important strides in combatting corruption as it undertakes reforms required of countries to join the European Union....

'I hope that for Canadian officials and Canadian people, it also will be important that despite the war, Ukraine has a great will to realize all the reforms and to be a European, civilized country with all European standards, rules, and most importantly values,' Mr. Shmyhal said, adding, 'We wouldn't like to be part of the Soviet Union or Russian Empire.'"

Ergo I need stuff and money and I need it now..
 
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Ukraine war: Who leaked top secret US documents - and why?

Almost 100 US defence department documents have been leaked - and it is unclear who will benefit.
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"On 4 March, following an argument about the war in Ukraine on a Discord server frequented by players of the computer game Minecraft, one user wrote 'here, have some leaked documents', before posting 10 of them."

Discord...Minecraft...leaked documents.

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France denies military presence in Ukraine

Leaked documents imply French soldiers are on the ground.
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"...one slide suggested that a small contingent of less than a hundred special operations personnel from NATO members France, America, Britain and Latvia were already active in Ukraine.”
 
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Ukraine’s air defences could soon run out of missiles, apparent Pentagon leak suggests

Documents dating from February suggest looming risk to Ukraine’s ability to protect troops and vital sites from Russian airpower
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“One of the documents, dated 23 February and marked ‘Secret’, outlines in detail how Ukraine’s Soviet-era S-300 air defence systems would be depleted by 2 May at the current usage rate. It is unclear if the usage rate has since changed.

The authenticity of the Pentagon documents has not been verified. In a statement on Sunday, the Pentagon said it was reviewing the validity of the photographed documents that “‘appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material’.

Ukraine’s Buk air defence systems, which it relies on along with the S-300 to protest vital sites from Russian air power, could run into trouble by mid-April, the New York Times reported, and air defences protecting troops on the front line could be ‘completely reduced‘ by 23 May.”
 

“The difficult fight against Russia has exhausted Ukraine’s troops and hardware, making every day the war drags on an advantage to the larger Russian military.
Ukrainian units are burning through historic levels of artillery ammunition and have begun rationing shells, according to soldiers. Artillerymen supporting operations in the embattled city of Bakhmut, for instance, have said their aging Soviet howitzers are less accurate than Western guns, requiring them to fire more and wear down their equipment faster. Soldiers are just as worn out, and Kyiv has reached deeper into its population to mobilize additional fighters, sometimes stopping men on the street to hand them draft papers.”
 
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Leaked Documents Reveal Depth of U.S. Spy Efforts and Russia’s Military Struggles

The information, exposed on social media sites, also shows that U.S. intelligence services are eavesdropping on important allies.
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"A trove of leaked Pentagon documents reveals how deeply Russia’s security and intelligence services have been penetrated by the United States, demonstrating Washington’s ability to warn Ukraine about planned strikes and providing an assessment of the strength of Moscow’s war machine."

"The United States has a clearer understanding of Russian military operations than it does of Ukrainian planning."

Time for KGB Putin to do some purges.
 
Even though we announced a budget that did not include any additional funding beyond what has already been declared for Ukraine...... I'm sure some Leopards will be discovered somewhere.
 
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Russia set to overhaul draft system, making it nearly impossible to avoid military conscription

The changes would help the Kremlin close loopholes that have helped thousands avoid the war in Ukraine.
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"Currently, Russian men have to be served with paper conscription notices, delivered in-person at a registered address or place of work. Some 300,000 men were recruited to fight in Ukraine last year. Russia has not said how many more men it might be seeking to mobilize."

Now you'll get an SMS text message geo-located to your closest enlistment office.
 
The supply lines to refurbish and repair are long for Ukraine.
 
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