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[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)
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seagullwedgee
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- Aug 9, 2005
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I would absolutely loov-it, loov-it, if Russian air defences are suffering multiple, simultaneous major breaches and sustaining huge impact infrastructure losses.
Well, I suppose if you're going to occupy someone else's land, then this is to be expected.
This is on you Putin, you c**t.
This is on you Putin, you c**t.
Donetsk: Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city, officials say
Donetsk: Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city, officials say
Ukraine rejects accusations from the region's Moscow-installed leader that it was responsible.
www.bbc.co.uk
thejackal
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- Aug 24, 2020
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Well, I suppose if you're going to occupy someone else's land, then this is to be expected.
This is on you Putin, you c**t.
Donetsk: Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city, officials say
Donetsk: Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city, officials say
Ukraine rejects accusations from the region's Moscow-installed leader that it was responsible.www.bbc.co.uk
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this attack was carried out by Russia, with the aim of turning world opinion against Ukraine, and stop the flow of western weapons, which Russia regards as grossly unfair.
With no regard for the sanctity of human life, with murder, rape, torture and child abduction in their repertoire, accusing Ukraine of their own atrocities would just be a continuation of the behaviour that has characterised Russia so far.
All very tactical strikes too
Absolutely...we know they were proven to have bombed Moscow apartments years back to justify their invasion of Chechnya (IIRC ??).
- Aug 24, 2020
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I was reading the comments on this BBC report about the A-50 spy plane getting shot down:
One comment, from 'Itwasme' at 12:51 15 Jan reads:
'For a reconnaissance plane, they didn’t see that coming!'
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Ukraine says it shot down Russian A-50 spy plane
Army chief Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the air force had "destroyed" an A-50 radar detection aircraft.
www.bbc.co.uk
One comment, from 'Itwasme' at 12:51 15 Jan reads:
'For a reconnaissance plane, they didn’t see that coming!'
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Interesting update from Denys Davydov, especially first half of vlog. He covers:
- more detail on the oil terminal 'near' St Petersburg hit recently
- info on the oil tankers evacuated from the burning harbour and the next destination for one (Netherlands); he then talks about how Russian oil is still getting to the West
- update on the fighting near Avdiivka and the high relative losses for Russia versus Ukraine's
- info on Ukraine constructing their own defensive lines now near Donetsk Oblast front line, to protect from possible renewed attacks from Russia
- more detail on the oil terminal 'near' St Petersburg hit recently
- info on the oil tankers evacuated from the burning harbour and the next destination for one (Netherlands); he then talks about how Russian oil is still getting to the West
- update on the fighting near Avdiivka and the high relative losses for Russia versus Ukraine's
- info on Ukraine constructing their own defensive lines now near Donetsk Oblast front line, to protect from possible renewed attacks from Russia
- Aug 24, 2020
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beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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East Germany and Poland was never part of Soviet Union and i doubt Russian was spoken formally. the notion seems far fetched and i dont see any other claim about this law. there is something about Putin directing officals to document Russian assets abroad though. if Russians, Russian or Soviet state owns some assets or land abroad, i'm sure its properly registered and honoured in those states, unlike foreign assets in Russia.
The whole thing sounds like nonsense, but as far as the territories listed are concerned that list includes the territories once part of the Russian Empire, which did include large areas of Poland including Warsaw.
- Oct 20, 2022
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Definitely- but then Putin is more than ‘just’ an imperialist looking to restore the USSR, I think he sees himself as a Czar!
With a Polish Grandfather from Warsaw and an Austrian Grandmother born in Ukraine, my knowledge of Eastern European history isn’t as good as it should be but roughly speaking: Poland had independence in 1918 - that is, after fighting Russian Empire expansion and occupation from the 1700s (and Sweden’s) when Poland effectively became a de facto protectorate of the Russia Empire. The cultural identity of Poland was all but ‘ethically cleansed’ and Warsaw become the 3rd largest city in the Russian Empire. Germany moved into Warsaw at the outbreak of WW1 and pushed the Russian Army back but then left soon later in 1918 when Poland became independent. Russian troops moved back in to ‘liberate’ Warsaw from the Nazis in WW2 and occupied the partitioned areas of Warsaw and proclaimed Poland to be a republic under communist rule - that is, until the 1980s when Lech Walesa‘s Solidarity movement resulted in Poland becoming the first democratic country in the Soviet bloc with free elections. The rest is history.
Ukraine’s traumatic history is just as complicated - surrounded by countries/empires wanting to expand their territories, resulting in horrific massacres and repeated destruction of Ukranian infrastructure. My Grandmother was born in a part of Western Ukraine under Austrian rule until the collapse of Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918 when the family moved to Vienna - Like Poland, Ukranians have been subject to persecution throughout their history in the struggle for independence.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Ukrainians should be fighting so hard now to hang on to her sovereign territory - to suggest she concedes any of it to Russia’s illegal war and brutality, fails to understand the historical struggle of her people and how much blood, sweat and tears were shed to gain her current independence.
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Sirnormangall
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- Sep 21, 2017
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So, Russia calls a meeting of the UN Security Council to protest about the west supplying arms to Ukraine. You really couldn’t make it up!
Wives of reservists in rare protest in Russia........
'Send back our husbands' - Russian women in rare protest
A group of Russian women are making rare public demands for reservists to return from the front line.
www.bbc.co.uk
If only there was a really easy answer which would mean the west didn’t have to keep giving Ukraine weapons…
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