itzdrk Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 13 hours ago, ICTChris said: ISIS-K have claimed the attack, saying they were attacking Christians. ISIS-K is the ISIS affiliate in Central Asia, mainly focused in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, as well as some former Soviet republics in the area. Earlier this year they claimed the bombing at the tomb of Iranian general Soleimani. Not sure they’ve ever attacked so far outside their home area before. Reports are that at least some of the attackers managed to escape. Makes sense, ISIS is in Ingushetia. Probably a revenge attack. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 10 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I hope anti Russia Chechens fighting with Ukraine weren't involved. Russia will probably claim they were anyway. It'll be whoever Russia say it is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 16 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: I wouldn’t worry about it. The Darth Putin account is one of the worst on twitter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 (edited) On 17/03/2024 at 20:29, doulikefish said: Putin got 87.8 % of the vote ....honest On 17/03/2024 at 20:32, Melanius Mullarkey said: What was the turnout? 225% or something. 87.8% of that would be quite impressive... Edited March 23 by Jacksgranda messed up 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 (edited) Death toll has gone up to more than 150. Russia claiming to have either killed or capture the attackers. ISIS outlets have released video of the attack, complete with extreme violence, knife attacks etc. There’s also a video of one of the captured attackers being tortured - special police hold him down and cut off his ear which is then force fed to him. One of the rifles used has been identified as an updated AK12, the most modern Kalashnikov variant. For all the schizoid pro Russian weirdos who have attributed attacks by everyone from Hamas to Mexican cartels to Ukrainian weapons sold on the black markets turns out its highly likely that the weapons used in this attack have been sourced from Russian forces. Edited March 23 by ICTChris 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Ukraine launched a large scale missile attack on Sevastopol last night, with two landing ships and several communication centres hit. An oil depot in Crimea was also hit. Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian oil facilities within Russia itself in the last few weeks, using newly constructed kamikaze drones that appear to be at least partly a reverse engineering of the Shahed drones. At the same time as this, Russia have stepped up attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, with several dams hit, power facilities also damaged. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbykdy Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Poland saying it's airspace has been violated by an attack over Lviv, ffs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Don't IS usually insist upon suicide attacks? I get the feeling the four of them are going to wish they had based on the pictures from their court appearance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 There's video of the Russians cutting off one guy's ear and trying to make him eat it. Also wiring up another one's balls to a car battery. Expect they'll say whatever they've been told to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 9 hours ago, Alert Mongoose said: Don't IS usually insist upon suicide attacks? I get the feeling the four of them are going to wish they had based on the pictures from their court appearance. This is what I find weird that they didn't even try and go down in the normal blaze of glory they just gave up ....very strange 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 9 hours ago, Newbornbairn said: There's video of the Russians cutting off one guy's ear and trying to make him eat it. Also wiring up another one's balls to a car battery. Expect they'll say whatever they've been told to. Whilst I cannot claim do be au fait with the standard operating procedures as applied by the local constabulary, I can't help but feel that a degree of non-compliance might be reasonably assumed. No doubt the truth will out when their PIRC equivalent complete their findings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 10 hours ago, Newbornbairn said: There's video of the Russians cutting off one guy's ear and trying to make him eat it. Also wiring up another one's balls to a car battery. Expect they'll say whatever they've been told to. Mike Tyson has entered the chat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 There is an incredible documentary shown tonight on BBC2; Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods. It’s on iPlayer too. It follows a squad of soldiers defending the front line and they eventually get rotated and relieved back home, but not before 66/99 suffer bad injuries and 10 are killed. So many young men and woman living and dying to protect a railway line, they’ll be mentally scarred for life, if not physically destroyed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 IS claimed they were responsible for the attack, which is odd because they have pretty much left mainland Russia alone. It's possible as revenge for Syria but you'd think they would have done it at the time, like the attacks on France and the UK during the gulf war. The attackers that IS said were responsible are apparently the same ones Russia paraded today. I don't suppose anyone in Russia will think the Russian authorities went overboard with interrogation. It is good optics for them, caught swiftly, got a kicking. I am struggling with why they are still alive though, normally this is about Martyrdom for the cause, why would they commit this atrocity, set the building on fire and leg it for the Ukrainian border? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Farter Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 I think the claim they were heading for the Ukrainian border is false. Its certainly unevidenced. It'd have made little sense as that's an extremely tightly-controlled border currently due to the war. It wouldn't have been a wise choice for the fleeing perpetrators of a massacre. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 (edited) 1 hour ago, diegomarahenry said: IS claimed they were responsible for the attack, which is odd because they have pretty much left mainland Russia alone. It's IS-Khorasan who claimed responsibility. Traditionally Khorosan includes Tajikistan, something ridiculous like a third of Tajik men work in Russia, mainly Moscow (a lot of them have a family in Moscow and another back home). It was Tajik men who were captured. That's not to say it wasn't some false flag. Just that a lot of Central Asian men are radicalised, and Moscow would be a pretty obvious target for them. Radicalised Muslims have conducted bombings in Moscow multiple times already this century. Edited March 26 by DiegoDiego 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68728096 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 I feel bad for this war. Nobody gives a toss about it now. It’s all about the Middle East. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Farter Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 France has overtaken Russia as the second largest arms exporter. USA have also hoovered up some of that lost Russian business to extend their "lead" further. This is mostly down to India changing who they buy arms from, switching more to France in place of Russia. Russia still sells a huge amount of oil to India and other nations but this reduction in their arms exports will hit their economy. (source article: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-overtake-russia-world-weapons-exporter/). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Obviously a technical malfunction, as Russia stated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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