TxRover Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: Here's the Bakhmut building blow up Moderately effective way to discourage capturing a building via assault. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/18/india-russia-talks-free-trade-agreement-deal-ukraine Quote In a development likely to add to tensions in Washington, London and EU capitals, Russia and India’s trade ministers said on Monday the two countries were in talks to strike a free trade deal. Two sovereign states on the other side of the world doing a trade deal and the usual suspects are buckling themselves. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 (edited) This is really just Twitter shite and translates into very little of material consequence. Perhaps a minor amount of extra private donations are solicited off the back of these videos but that'll be it. It's really just fan service for Americans. Anyway, the top right of the screen for the duration of that video clip features the flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, who were abbreviated as UPA. The UPA, Ukrainian nationalists, spent the 1940s murdering as many innocent people as they could. Among their victims were the Poles of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia with between 50 000 and 100 000 of them slaughtered by the UPA in 1943 - 1945. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia Quote Most of the victims were women and children. Many of the Polish victims, regardless of age or gender, were tortured before being killed; some of the methods included rape, dismemberment or immolation, among others. My principle is that all responsibility for the reaction of the invaded to their invasion rests with the invaders. So in this case, Russia and their invasion is entirely to blame for the resurrection of such historical sentiments among the people they've invaded. It's a very stupid look for that U24 group, though. All the comradely greetings of Slava Ukraini look a bit daft when there's a flag there honouring the massacres of Polish women and children. It remains a sore point between Poland and Ukraine with the former ruling the massacres as genocide to the latter's disagreement. Edited April 19, 2023 by FreedomFarter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Report on activity of Russian 'ghost' ships, which are registerd as fishing or research vessels but appear to be military in nature. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65309687 One of the vessels entered the Moray Firth last year and sailed to within 30 miles of RAF Lossiemouth. Here is the photo of one of the crew of the 'underwater research' vessel, seems like a pretty normal looking researcher. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Confessions of a Wagner 'soldier'. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/wagner-mercenary-admits-tossing-grenades-at-injured-ukrainian-pows 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Ukrainian defence minister has confirmed that Patriot missile batteries are now in Ukraine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Footage of an engagement on the outskirts of Bakhmut. I'll put it in spoilers as there is footage that could be upsetting or NSFW but it's just insane to watch, Ukrainian troops fighting off an attempt to storm their position, almost hand-to-hand fighting, shooting enemies feet away from them. It's a cliche to say it's like WWI but it really is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Nederlander Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 4 hours ago, ICTChris said: Report on activity of Russian 'ghost' ships, which are registerd as fishing or research vessels but appear to be military in nature. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65309687 One of the vessels entered the Moray Firth last year and sailed to within 30 miles of RAF Lossiemouth. Here is the photo of one of the crew of the 'underwater research' vessel, seems like a pretty normal looking researcher. Back in my Navy days any trip up North would see us escorted by fishing boats that were covered in more aerials than the BT Tower - they'd pick up anything that went overboard including our rubbish which back in those days just got chucked over the side Would've been mostly empty beer cans tbf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 6 hours ago, welshbairn said: Confessions of a Wagner 'soldier'. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/wagner-mercenary-admits-tossing-grenades-at-injured-ukrainian-pows I hope that testimony gets widely read. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 Those pesky,Wagnerians, up to no good again? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hillonearth Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 10 hours ago, welshbairn said: Confessions of a Wagner 'soldier'. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/wagner-mercenary-admits-tossing-grenades-at-injured-ukrainian-pows One of the less cheery entries in the series TBH 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 A NASA satellite re-entered the atmosphere tonight, in of all places Kyiv. This is what it looked like 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Like something out of Starship Troopers: come and join a human wave attack at Bakhmut and get vivisected by Ukrainian machine gun fire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 42 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: Like something out of Starship Troopers: come and join a human wave attack at Bakhmut and get vivisected by Ukrainian machine gun fire. Aye, but you get £500 a week, 3-4 times the average wage! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 On 19/04/2023 at 11:35, welshbairn said: Confessions of a Wagner 'soldier'. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/wagner-mercenary-admits-tossing-grenades-at-injured-ukrainian-pows It's unsurprising that they've recruited brutes who are brutalised even more and behave brutishly. The Russians don't seem to realise that rather than merely terrifying their opponents into submission,it just motivates them to fight harder and more desperately than they otherwise might 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 38 minutes ago, highlandcowden said: It's unsurprising that they've recruited brutes who are brutalised even more and behave brutishly. The Russians don't seem to realise that rather than merely terrifying their opponents into submission,it just motivates them to fight harder and more desperately than they otherwise might After the War ends those brutes which survive will be walking Russia's streets. Hm! Wise move or not for ordinary Russian folk? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superwell87 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Russian war plane accidently bombs Russian city. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65344370 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 Signs that UAF have started offensive operations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 16 minutes ago, superwell87 said: Russian war plane accidently bombs Russian city. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65344370 A Russian Air Force spokesmen said "this is the one thing we didn't want to happen". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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