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

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*UK Military Intelligence: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Has Largely Stalled on All Fronts.
*UK Military Intelligence: Russian Forces Have Made Minimal Progress on Land, Sea or Air in Recent Days and They Continue to Suffer Heavy Losses.
*Gazprom: Thursday Gas Transit via Ukraine at 94.6MCM/DAY.
*ECB’s Villeroy: Ukraine War Will Lead to Higher Inflation and Smaller Growth
*ECB’s Villeroy: The Ukraine War Does Not Justify Return to Whatever It Takes-Style Policies.
*ECB’s Villeroy: The Ukraine War Will Cost the French Economy Roughly 1% of Growth.
*ECB’s Villeroy: There Is No Risk of Recession at the Moment from the Ukraine War Even Amongst High Uncertainty.

*Russia’s Medvedev Says (Former PM): Russia Has the Capacity to Put All Its Enemies in Their Place
*Russian Defence Ministry Says It Has Hit a Military Depot in Rivne Region in Western Ukraine – IFX
*China Will Continue Normal Economic Relations with Russia and Ukraine.
*China Commerce Ministry, on Impact of U.S. Sanctions Against Russia on China Firms, Says Will Safeguard the Normal Trade Interests and Legitimate Rights of Chinese Companies
*China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao: NATO Has Escalated the Ukraine Situation with Supply of Weapons.
*China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao: NATO’s Expansion Is Directly Linked to the Ukraine Crisis.


*Ukraine’s President Zelensky: Ukraine Will Join the EU.
*Some Holders of Russian Sovereign Dollar-Bonds Have Still Not Received Coupon Payments Due on Wednesday – Source
*Russian Foreign Ministry Says Talks with Ukraine Continue via Video Link, Sides Discuss Military, Political and Humanitarian Issues
*Ukraine Asks Japan for Satellite Data amid Russian Invasion – Nikkei
*UAE Foreign Min. Nahyan, in Moscow: We Are Keen to Cooperate on Energy Security.
*Ukraine Has Essentially Stalled the Russian Advance – Pentagon
*ECB’s President Lagarde: Russian Invasion Has Cast Shadow over Europe
*ECB’s President Lagarde: The ECB Will Safeguard Financial & Price Stability.
*ECB’s President Lagarde: The War Could Cause the Start of New Inflationary Trends.
https://twitter.com/ReutersGMF/status/1504381092656136195

*Italy Considering Blocking Export of Raw Materials – Deputy Industry Minister
*Norway Government to Present Fiscal Package on Friday to Handle Impact from Ukraine Crisis -Public Broadcaster NRK Citing Sources
*OECD: Ukraine Crisis Could Cut 1% off Global Growth This Year – RTRS
https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-oecd-economy/ukraine-crisis-could-cut-1-off-global-growth-this-year-oecd-idUSL2N2VK0N6

*Kremlin Says: The United States Has Long Bombed Civilians and Used Nuclear Weapons in Japan at the End of WW2 – So the U.S. President Has No Right to Lecture Russia
*Kremlin: There Cannot Be a Default as Russia Has the Funds.
*Kremlin, on External Debt: It Is Not Clear What the West Will Do, but, Russia Said from the Start That We Would Do Everything to Prevent a Default.
*The Kremlin Claims That a Clear-Cut Agreement with Ukraine Could Put an End to the Crisis Quickly.
*Kremlin Asked About the FT Report on Progress in Peace Talks, Kremlin: It Is Not Right – There Are Elements That Are Correct but on the Whole It Is Not True.
*Kremlin Says Reports of Major Progress in Ukraine Talks ‘Wrong’
*Kremlin: We Expect Ukraine to Participate Actively in the Talks.
*Kremlin: Our Conditions for a Peace Agreement Are Crystal Clear.
*Kremlin: Putin Is a Very Wise and Cultured International Figure So Biden’s Comments About Him Being a ‘War Criminal’ Are Unforgivable
*Kremlin: Our Delegations Are Putting Colossal Energy into Peace Talks with Ukraine – More than Ukraine.

*Ukraine Presidential Adviser Says President’s Position Is Unchanged: Ukraine’s Borders as of 1991 Must Be Recognised
https://twitter.com/dlacalle_IA/status/1504401229165867010

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*Russia Says Air Defence Systems for Ukraine Would Destabilise Situation – RTRS
*UK Defence Minister Wallace: We Will Deploy Sky Sabre Missile System in Poland, Along with 100 Troops

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-air-defence-systems-ukraine-would-destabilise-situation-2022-03-17/
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-p...issile-defense-system-in-poland-says-minister
https://twitter.com/sima_kotecha/status/1504407628369305601 - 'Much more kit to come - Ben Wallace confirms Britain providing Starstreak - fastest short-range surface-to-air system in world. And US supplying Switchblade drones, hundreds of anti-aircraft weapons & thousands of anti-armour systems.'


'The Kremlin said on Thursday that many people in Russia were showing themselves to be "traitors" and pointed to those who were resigning from their jobs and leaving the country.'
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...re-showing-themselves-be-traitors-2022-03-17/
'Railways ground to a halt in many places across Poland on Thursday, disrupting an important means of transport for Ukrainian refugees after what the transport minister said was a traffic control system outage impacting several countries.'
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...h-railways-key-ukraine-exit-route-2022-03-17/
 
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it seems there's a lot of Russian Movement to a bunker

https://mobile.twitter.com/GDarkconrad/status/1504374496358187014

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...d429:0xb1a93bfd75ecbd70!8m2!3d54.255!4d58.102

could be a bluff, but the way Putin is talking about firing a missile on US soil as a threat and the false flag is Belarus could he claim that either west or Ukraine attacked Belarus?

He's attempting to stop the US president from attending EU discussions and probably attempting to influence negotiations by threatening the big red button. Either that or he has something planned by Russian operatives.

To summarise - if russia fails to get their negotiations, then russia are destroyed by mutually assured destruction.

Perhaps he's concerned that if Belarus (with Nuclear missiles) falls then suddenly he has has only one button to save his ass.
 
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'The map below is the latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 17 March 2022'

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https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1504412370445217792
 
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He's attempting to stop the US president from attending EU discussions and probably attempting to influence negotiations by threatening the big red button. Either that or he has something planned by Russian operatives.

To summarise - if russia fails to get their negotiations, then russia are destroyed by mutually assured destruction.

Perhaps he's concerned that if Belarus (with Nuclear missiles) falls then suddenly he has has only one button to save his ass.

Does Belarus have the wherewithal to arm and launch the presumably Soviet/Russian nukes it has possession of?
 
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it seems there's a lot of Russian Movement to a bunker

https://mobile.twitter.com/GDarkconrad/status/1504374496358187014

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...d429:0xb1a93bfd75ecbd70!8m2!3d54.255!4d58.102

could be a bluff, but the way Putin is talking about firing a missile on US soil as a threat and the false flag is Belarus could he claim that either west or Ukraine attacked Belarus?
I doubt he will jump to firing anything on NATO soil yet but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a nuclear test at some point. I guess he could attack a non-NATO country as well to try and send a message. However they don’t operate on western logic so who knows what they will do with their escalate to de-escalate methods. I think they know it would be game over if there was a strike on NATO so it couldn’t be escalated anymore than that. Unless he intends to test that. I feel it would be unlikely that there would be a response with nukes if there was an attack on an eastern block NATO member as long as there isn’t a ground invasion.
 
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Does Belarus have the wherewithal to arm and launch the presumably Soviet/Russian nukes it has possession of?
Don't doubt for a second he'll push it.

That's the concern, the question would be how. He has options other than a global nuke and that could be against Belarus or Ukraine. Simply close enough to the borders to make a point.

The concern I would have as Putin would be - given the Army's obvious syphoning of funds, who built the "nuclear proof" bunker?

The issue with Putin doing a "nuclear exercise" is that nobody believes it and thinks it will be come a "nuclear special operation against the neo-nazis". Which is what he wants. He is playing Russian roulette.
 
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Excuse my ignorance...however, all the calls of Putin being a War Criminal and this would need to be judged by Criminal International Criminal Court.

Is this anything other then just words and condemnation, obviously with the nature of the invasion and civilian strikes there is little argument against it. What is the process if bringing him before the court? Presumably there would need to be some sort of defeat of Russia/capture of Putin to be able to go anywhere? Who is enacting the "arrest"?
 
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I doubt he will jump to firing anything on NATO soil yet but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a nuclear test at some point. I guess he could attack a non-NATO country as well to try and send a message. However they don’t operate on western logic so who knows what they will do with their escalate to de-escalate methods. I think they know it would be game over if there was a strike on NATO so it couldn’t be escalated anymore than that. Unless he intends to test that. I feel it would be unlikely that there would be a response with nukes if there was an attack on an eastern block NATO member as long as there isn’t a ground invasion.

America's power would evaporate in an instant if the world saw them flinch.
 
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