Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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'Russia’s Putin Bids to Outnumber Ukrainian Troops Five to One in Donbas Region' — The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...number-ukraine-troops-donbas-region-wtnzws0ks

 

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*Russian Energy Minister: Ready To Sell Oil And Oil Products To Friendly Countries 'In Any Price Range' — IFX
*Russian Energy Minister: Prices In Range Of $80-$150 Barrel Possible — IFX

 

[uber soldat]

'Russia’s Putin Bids to Outnumber Ukrainian Troops Five to One in Donbas Region' — The Times

Is that in deaths? Because if so he's doing a pretty damn amazing job so far.

 

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Bunch of RAF Lockheed C-130J Hercules up over the UK with some interesting names - JUKEBOX1 and 2, etc.

Bit of an odd flight path lol

 

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*Russian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs: Moscow Believes That The Threat Of Chemical Terrorism From Ukrainian Nationalists And Ukrainian Soldiers Is Completely Real
*Russian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs: The Kyiv Authorities Are Planning To Carry Out Chemical Provocations In The Donbas Region, And Do Not Rule Out Another Terrorist Attack On Companies Producing Toxic Substances
*Russian Embassy In The U.S: There Is No Evidence To Support Russia's Possible Use Of Chemical Weapons In Ukraine
*Russian Embassy In The U.S: The Russian Armed Forces Have No Combat Agents Because Russia Destroyed All Chemical Weapons Stockpiles In 2017
*Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow Does Not Rule Out The Possibility Of Nuclear Material Being Shipped To Ukraine From A Third Country

*Russian Ambassador To Greece Maslov: Russia-Greece Relations No Longer Exist, And It Is Difficult To Say How Long It Will Take For Bilateral Relations To Recover

*US Envoy Kerry Calls For Renewables Push, Says Putin Cannot Control Wind, Sun
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...ays-putin-cannot-control-wind-sun-2022-04-13/

*Top Oil Merchant Vitol Will Stop Trading Russian Crude — BBG
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...chant-says-it-will-stop-trading-russian-crude

 

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*China’s Jan-March Overall Trade With Russia Rises 28% to $38.2bn
*Russia Local TV Channel Says 1,000 Marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Voluntarily Surrendered in Mariupol
*Pres. Zelensky Offered Russia to Exchange Medvedchuk For Captured Ukrainians

 

[Mrwong]

Russia can't sustain this war, nor can they occupy their gains long term even if they do take the Dombass.

The red line has been drawn, the west will not lift the sanctions as long as they remain in Ukrain.

They got a pass on the Crimea but this time it's different and the sanctions will eventually suffocate them.

Right now they have the oil and gas to bring in their blood money but for how long?

With the west now actively looking for other sources to stop the reliance of their oil and gas the much needed funds will be cut in half.

The russian population will suffer and there is only so much suffering they can take, there will be a breaking point.

It's all "for mother Russia" just now but the Russians have to a certain extent being been living a western life, with their designer goods, Iphones and PC's and now thats all gone.

Theres also the elite, oiligachs, again they can take it for now but again for how long? When will they use the power and influence (money) to turn this around.

There is a lot of kinks inthe Russian armour, it only takes one to break.

80% of Russia land has been annex over the last 300 years. This what Russians do, they invade then annex the land. We need to keep sanctions up until they collapse and we can then say return the land you stole.

This is the only way , the West have been to kind on Russia.

I have always said Russian and China have been playing a long term tactic to destroy the west. The cold war has never ended but just developed.

The West have been to easy on both countries and it is the west fault China have become to big, unfortunately if they do not do anything now then we are heading for ww3 in the next 25 years.

 

[D.P.]

In case you haven't been paying attention, quite a lot of things Joe has said has had to be walked back by the White House saying he didn't mean it

It wasn't walked back, it sas clarified, and Biden went straight back and repeated the same things. He isn't cowering behind carefully scripted PC designed npt to insult Putin - he says it as he sees it and days what we all think. Putin should not be in power and is causing war crimes and genocide.
Pretending that isn't the case because ylu doo want to upset Putinbis just pathetic. At least Biden has the backbone to be honest a d stand up to the Dictator, unlike Trump who was scared out of his mind from Putin and could never bring himself to condemn Putin, instead scting as Putin's little lapdog

 

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'Satellite Imagery Reveals Russian Forces Continue Moving Into Eastern Ukraine.' — The Kyiv Independent.
'Satellite Imagery Taken by Maxar Technologies From April 11 Shows Military Deployments Along the 14k-34 Highway & the Corridor Leading From Soloti & Valuyki in Western Russia Towards Ukraine.' — The Kyiv Independent.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1514103017016119297

 

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UK MoD - 'Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 13 April 2022'

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1514107625348210690

*Poland President's Advisor Kumoch: Polish President Is On His Way To Kyiv With The Presidents Of Estonia, Latvia And Lithuania

 

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*Poland President's Advisor Kumoch: Polish President Is On His Way To Kyiv With The Presidents Of Estonia, Latvia And Lithuania

*Office Of The Polish President: The Presidents Of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia And Estonia Have Arrived In Ukraine And Are On Their Way To Kyiv To Meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

*Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister: Not Possible To Open Humanitarian Corridors On Wednesday
*Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister: Occupying Forces Have Violated Ceasefire, Blocked Buses Which Makes Evacuating Civilians Dangerous
*Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister: We Will Work To Reopen Humanitarian Corridors As Soon As Possible
*Mayor Of Ukraine's Mariupol: More Than 100,000 People Remain In City Awaiting Evacuation

*Belarus President Lukashenko: (On The Integration Of Belarus Into Russia) President Putin And I Will Not Be Stupid Enough To Act In The Old Way
https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/14361887

*Russia's Gazprom Continues Shipping Gas To Europe Via Ukraine, Wednesday Volume At 66.3 Million Cubic Metres

 

[NickK]

channel in the solent for portsmouth

*China’s Jan-March Overall Trade With Russia Rises 28% to $38.2bn
*Pres. Zelensky Offered Russia to Exchange Medvedchuk For Captured Ukrainians

So that will be interesting - China propping up Russia's economy, and, when Putin says no to the exchange it will send a message internally within the Kremlin (and Putin can't be seen to negotiate with "terrorists").

 

[Malevolence]

https://www.flightradar24.com/JUICY23/2b7975be

Looks to be the tanker variant by the flightpath, but one can hope that it's Harvest HAWK.

 

[NickK]

*Belarus President Lukashenko: (On The Integration Of Belarus Into Russia) President Putin And I Will Not Be Stupid Enough To Act In The Old Way

The guy is a member of United Russia, so Belarus is part of Putin's russia. That statement obviously means negotiating the countries as a buffer zone - hence everyone knows the old buffers are now targets.

 

[NickK]

I suspect mandatory military service will be brought back as a way to ensure active troop volumes with a minimum of training are available. Perhaps we'll see that soon in the UK.

 

[Jono8]

I suspect mandatory military service will be brought back as a way to ensure active troop volumes with a minimum of training are available. Perhaps we'll see that soon in the UK.

We almost certainly won't see that in the UK unless we get involved in a large scale world war.

 

[edscdk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1513981454669254667

Sooo how long until the White House walks back on that comment about genocide ?

Russia will just say "even americans deny this is a war"

 

[Hagar]

I suspect mandatory military service will be brought back as a way to ensure active troop volumes with a minimum of training are available. Perhaps we'll see that soon in the UK.

In the CCF, (combined cadet force) at school, I learnt how to fire a Lee Enfield .303. However at nearly 70 I am unlikely to be in more than a home guard now. Side arms have evolved as well.

 

[Rroff]

I suspect mandatory military service will be brought back as a way to ensure active troop volumes with a minimum of training are available. Perhaps we'll see that soon in the UK.

We almost certainly won't see that in the UK unless we get involved in a large scale world war.

May not necessitate mandatory military service but depending how things pan out it may be wise to bolster our infantry and territorial capabilities just in case given how we've cut things to the bone.

Personally I think we are chancing it somewhat in terms of civil defence readiness as well, fortunately the strategic posture seems to have eased a bit but it could change rapidly.

 

[Custor]

I suspect mandatory military service will be brought back as a way to ensure active troop volumes with a minimum of training are available. Perhaps we'll see that soon in the UK.

Na. Overweight half trained gun fodder is the antithesis of the UK armed forces. We don’t have spare cash to play silly buggers with.
You the UK wants more soldiers, probably ought to stop cutting numbers.
I’m not sure you’d get many peeps wishing to increase the tax you pay either.