The Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 Viewer)

[Unicron]

They are called astronauts.

I think you'll find those ones are called Cosmonauts.

 

[pete]

 

[magicbastarder]

the tweeter claims this is not the work of the ukranians, more likely internal anti-putin forces, due to the way russian media is handling it.
also this:

 

[magicbastarder]

 

[magicbastarder]

 

[Deadmanposting]

Nobody here believes the Russians attacked Ukraine because of their very real Nazi problem.

A lot of people keep bringing it up like it's relevant to Russian aggression though

When it's clearly not

But it is the Kremlin's major lie here, so it is helpful to see where people's sympathies lie, I suppose

 

[Deadmanposting]

Hard to know what's believable from these hacks - by its very nature, a lot of the information is impossible to verify
Thinking specifically here about the Ukrainian's IDing/doxing Russian military that were stationed in Bucha

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

 

[flashback]

Evidence some Ukrainian women raped before being killed, say doctors

Forensic specialists carrying out autopsies north of Kyiv say they ‘still have hundreds of bodies to examine’

www.theguardian.com

 

[nuke terrorist]

Evidence some Ukrainian women raped before being killed, say doctors

Forensic specialists carrying out autopsies north of Kyiv say they ‘still have hundreds of bodies to examine’

www.theguardian.com

and it happens in every war

 

[shitepipe]

and it happens in every war

True. Still worth reporting i would have thought

 

[Deadmanposting]

and it happens in every war

Happens in every war to some degree.
But when it's a weapon of war - sanctioned either explicitly or implicitly - it's a different matter.

What we are getting here - from all these reports - is an ongoing targeting of the civilian population for rape and murder.


RIA Novosti echoed Putin saying “Ukrainians are an artificial anti-Russian construct.”
The policy is that “Ukraine’s political elite must be eliminated.”
Ordinary Ukrainians are “passive Nazis” who “must experience all the horrors of war and absorb the experience as a historical lesson and atonement for their guilt.”
“De-Nazification will inevitably also be a de-Ukrainization,”
The aim being “total purification.”

Translation from

Hard to read de-Ukrainisation as anything other than genocide really.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

good read/analysis, as ever caveat emptor in terms of potential biases

Russia’s offensive in the Donbas can’t make up for its failure in Kyiv

How to understand the new phase in the Ukraine war — and why, in the big picture, Russia has probably already lost.

www.vox.com

 

[taubstumm]

good read/analysis, as ever caveat emptor in terms of potential biases

Russia’s offensive in the Donbas can’t make up for its failure in Kyiv

How to understand the new phase in the Ukraine war — and why, in the big picture, Russia has probably already lost.

www.vox.com

germany decided to send tanks today. seems like they’re convinced that they can actually defeat putin militarily, otherwise they wouldn’t risk doing it. but that also more-or-less implies that the whole of donbas will basically be on fire for the rest of the year at least. grim grim grim.

 

[taubstumm]

here’s the leak ahead of the official announcement. nato fans dancing in the street, etc

 

[JohnnyRaz]

germany decided to send tanks today. seems like they’re convinced that they can actually defeat putin militarily, otherwise they wouldn’t risk doing it. but that also more-or-less implies that the whole of donbas will basically be on fire for the rest of the year at least. grim grim grim.

The statement form Austin or Blinken (can't remember which) to the extent that they want to weaken Russia militarily was telling....

 

[taubstumm]

The statement form Austin or Blinken (can't remember which) to the extent that they want to weaken Russia militarily was telling....

yep, it seemed like a strategic shift of gears — moving from “let’s support ukraine” to “let’s destroy the russian army”

 

[Unicron]

here’s the leak ahead of the official announcement. nato fans dancing in the street, etc

How is this different to the supplying Ukraine that's been going on up to now? The tank killer rockets etc.

Or was that people like the Poles etc and Germany hasn't given any actual military aid yet?

 

[taubstumm]

How is this different to the supplying Ukraine that's been going on up to now? The tank killer rockets etc.

Or was that people like the Poles etc and Germany hasn't given any actual military aid yet?

up until now, germany has been *extremely* reluctant to give serious weapons to the ukrainians. so, while the US and UK (and poland and plenty of other countries) have been giving them rockets and stuff, the germans have basically been hanging back, desperate for any excuse to try to slow things down.

various reasons: german reliance on russian gas (now a sudden real serious problem), german war guilt (german weapons killing russian soldiers again), SPD commitment to “wandel durch handel” (“change through trade” — i.e., slowly reforming russia through the power of german economic ties), germany’s previous attempts to assert an semi-independent foreign policy separate from NATO (nord stream 2 — now dead — and other similar initiatives), and just generally not wanting a serious war that can escalate in very unpredictable ways

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I've been looking round for overall summaries of whats happening on the ground militarily.

this is very very detailed in places .

Institute for the Study of War

Russian forces conducted precision missile strikes against five Ukrainian railway stations in central and western Ukraine on April 25 in a likely effort to disrupt Ukrainian reinforcements to eastern Ukraine and Western aid shipments. A series of likely

www.understandingwar.org