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

[Firestar_3x]

That's not a confirmation. They're just repeating the reports. Or rather, they've confirmed that there are reports but they haven't confirmed the accuracy of those reports.

I don't think the BBC posts news unless either confirmed, or a very high probability of being accurate.

 

[robfosters]

The UN have urged the UK not to match women and children with single men.

Is that not discriminatory against well meaning men offering a place of refuge?

 

[dlockers]

The UN have urged the UK not to match women and children with single men.

Is that not discriminatory against well meaning men offering a place of refuge?

Come on Rob...

 

[robfosters]

Come on Rob...

It’s tarring us all with the same brush. We’re sing,e men, so were automatically sex offenders

 

[VincentHanna]

It’s tarring us all with the same brush. We’re sing,e men, so were automatically sex offenders

Come on.

It makes sense not to put vulnerable women and children, with single men.

Even if 99 of those men are just being nice, there could be 1 that has ulterior motives.

 

[Hotwired]

Coz before we had less.
Early = less = bad fighty.
So later = more = better fighty = more win.

Would a picture help?

Christ there’s lots of stuff I’m wrong on… but the re armament programme before 1940 was generally thought of as a good thing to win the subsequent war.

A picture can't describe your thinking that appeasement helped win the war.

We’ll it bought us time to rearm and eventually win the war. So yeah… beats the alternative.
How is the CSE coming along?

You do know it was the fella Chamberlain who declared war. Quite ballsey for an appeaser.

We lost vast amounts of equipment to germany after losing france and were in no position to go back at all. If we weren't on an island we'd have been run over too.

Appeasement wasn't worth spit in the grand scheme of how the war actually ended up being won.

 

[Dis86]

Come on.

It makes sense not to put vulnerable women and children, with single men.

Even if 99 of those men are just being nice, there could be 1 that has ulterior motives.

Even if 99 Muslims aren't terrorists there could be that 1 that has ulterior motives...

 

[dowie]

Come on.

It makes sense not to put vulnerable women and children, with single men.

Even if 99 of those men are just being nice, there could be 1 that has ulterior motives.

Exactly, but if you use that logic in other situations re: males and vulnerable women you'd risk being called a bigot these days, but that's perhaps for another GD thread.

I'm sure there are more than enough families etc.. offering to take in Ukrainian refugees, the issue doesn't seem to be the UN ruling out single men for some but rather the inability of the bureaucrats in the UK to process the paperwork efficiently enough.

 

[Hotwired]

Even if 99 Muslims aren't terrorists there could be that 1 that has ulterior motives...

A fair few ocuk members would agree.

 

[woppy101]

The UN have urged the UK not to match women and children with single men.

Is that not discriminatory against well meaning men offering a place of refuge?

Come on Rob...

It’s tarring us all with the same brush. We’re sing,e men, so were automatically sex offenders

TBH, it’s absolutely asking for trouble, but the UN should be saying that about the rest of Europe also, as there are reports of women that have fled being raped and forced into prostitution

 

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Spoiler: *EU Warns Putin’s Roubles-For-Gas Demand Would Breach Sanctions — BBG

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-13/eu-warns-putin-s-rubles-for-gas-demand-would-breach-sanctions

 

[dowie]

Allegedly some substance to the ship story, intercepted SOS signals, apparently initially in morse:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1514360217911406600

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1514363675745869826

 

[bingham67]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1514343602352279552

 

[Freddie1980]

The Russian military has threatened to strike Ukraine's command centres in the capital, Kyiv, if there are continued attacks on its territory.

"We are seeing Ukrainian troops' attempts to carry out sabotage and strike Russian territory," the Russian defence ministry claimed in its regular evening briefing.

"If such cases continue, the Russian armed forces will strike decision-making centres, including in Kyiv," it added.

From the BBC

Not a specific reference to the reports of damage to railways in Belgrod earlier today but does give credence to it.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Allegedly some substance to the ship story, intercepted SOS signals, apparently initially in morse:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1514360217911406600

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1514363675745869826

Well the Black sea fleet has just grown significantly, unfortunately the additional vessels are bright orange and unarmed.

 

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*US Mulls Sending a High-Level Official to Kyiv — Politico via BBG
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/13/us-visit-zelenskyy-kyiv-00025050

 

[Minusorange]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1514378082660069379

Looks like the Moskva reports are true if Tass are reporting it

 

[Rroff]

Seems like Ukraine running offensive ops tonight aimed at pre-emptive action against the expected assault in the east in an attempt to put the Russians on the back foot.

 

[dowie]

Well the Black sea fleet has just grown significantly, unfortunately the additional vessels are bright orange and unarmed.

Russia now reporting it "it was a fire"

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1514380525368225793

 

[Firestar_3x]

Russia now reporting it "it was a fire"

Must have left the chip pan on.

Interesting article in Forbes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...skva-dominates-the-black-sea/?sh=5fd93c0b75e5

It’s not clear how many Neptunes it might take to punch through Moskva’s defenses

Not too many as it turns out, tbh the people onboard the ship probably never expected to get hit.

Wonder if Ukraine can somehow capitalise on the loss of fleet air cover.