[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)

[ukpolska]

I don't know how I've not seen this to date, it is an emotional watch. I've still some left to watch, but thought to share in case anyone has not seen it. Trailer below:

If anyone wants to watch this then here is a link but make sure you have AdBlock installed.

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I know people from Mariupol who live here in Warsaw and have been told that they will lose their homes having fled from the Russians.
They have received a letter from the local Russian authority in Mariupol that they need to return within a certain time limit to prove that the property is theirs otherwise they will lose their businesses and homes that they spent 30 years building.
They also received confirmation that they would be allowed to go back to the West after they do this, but none of them, rightly, trust the Russians there.
Somehow, I don't blame them.

 

[raymondo]

If anyone wants to watch this then here is a link but make sure you have AdBlock installed.

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I know people from Mariupol who live here in Warsaw and have been told that they will lose their homes having fled from the Russians.
They have received a letter from the local Russian authority in Mariupol that they need to return within a certain time limit to prove that the property is theirs otherwise they will lose their businesses and homes that they spent 30 years building.
They also received confirmation that they would be allowed to go back to the West after they do this, but none of them, rightly, trust the Russians there.
Somehow, I don't blame them.

Yes, I've read that on another channel recently. As you say, the only thing you can trust about the Russian authorities is that they will lie.
Very sad - whether one stayed or escaped, so many lives destroyed in different ways.

 

[Eric the meek]

Surely we can't blame/credit Ukraine for every single fire within Russia...?

Did they also start the one outside St Mary's last weekend? #ohwhenthesaintsgomarchingintocrimea

Well, perhaps not every single fire within Russia, no. Just the ones that degrade Russian capability in their war.

But the cold, hard fact is, Russia is having the most extraordinary run of bad luck of late. We've had oil depots, gas pipelines, railway bridges, railway tunnels, armaments factories, substations, warehouses, planes, ships, arms depots, tanks, drones, missiles, missile launchers, assorted military vehicles, and even the factory making the A50 spy planes going up in flames, just after Russia announced it was going to replace one the A50s that was recently shot down! Just how unlucky can Russia be?

 

[Eric the meek]

It's been a busy night in Russia:

First, two separate drone attacks on a fuel tank at Oryol, south of Moscow, and at the Kstovo fuel and energy complex at Nizhny Novogorod, 420 km east of Moscow.

Ukraine-Russia war: Latest updates

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Then, fire fights along the Ukraine-Russia border, including what looks like a tank with a.......European flag? (No, I don't know either).



Also, explosions in Kursk and Belgorod, both close-ish to the Ukraine border:

 

[raymondo]

It's been a busy night in Russia:

First, two separate drone attacks on a fuel tank at Oryol, south of Moscow, and at the Kstovo fuel and energy complex at Nizhny Novogorod, 420 km east of Moscow.

Ukraine-Russia war: Latest updates

Follow this live page for all the latest on the Ukraine-Russia war.

news.sky.com

Then, fire fights along the Ukraine-Russia border, including what looks like a tank with a.......European flag? (No, I don't know either).



Also, explosions in Kursk and Belgorod, both close-ish to the Ukraine border:

Very busy ...and nice to see the EU Army getting involved directly .

 

[peterward]

Very busy ...and nice to see the EU Army getting involved directly .

Macron driving, playing Napoleon!

 

[portslade seagull]

Checking Ukraine Defence it looks like three different Russian legions have attacked simultaneously in different regions with others being reported

 

[raymondo]

Macron driving, playing Napoleon!

Stoltenberg will not be amused!

 

[Eric the meek]

Macron driving, playing Napoleon!

In the replies below that tweet showing the tank, they are discussing the Siberian battalion.

 

[peterward]

 

[raymondo]

In the replies below that tweet showing the tank, they are discussing the Siberian battalion.

I saw an article a few weeks back of a (relatively small) number of Russians from Siberia that had formed a group (battalion might be too strong a word) and joined with the Freedom of Russia guys in Ukraine.

 

[raymondo]

The impact of a few drones is remarkable - will have to be a repeat target when repaired. Russia doesn't have enough air defense for their whole country - Ukraine 'just' needs to develop longer range drones to keep up the pressure.

 

[Eric the meek]

Russia recently banned all gasoline exports for 6 months from March 1st. The implication of course, is that Russia needs to keep all its gasoline production for domestic and war purposes.

All the more reason to target fuel depots etc.

Russia bans gasoline exports for 6 months from March 1

Russia on Tuesday ordered a six-month ban on gasoline exports from March 1 to keep prices stable amid rising demand from consumers and farmers and to allow for maintenance of refineries in the world's second largest oil exporter.

www.reuters.com

 

[peterward]

The impact of a few drones is remarkable - will have to be a repeat target when repaired. Russia doesn't have enough air defense for their whole country - Ukraine 'just' needs to develop longer range drones to keep up the pressure.

Agree, it's the most obvious target, refineries and transit pipes.

 

[raymondo]

Checking Ukraine Defence it looks like three different Russian legions have attacked simultaneously in different regions with others being reported

I can't find details online - not doubting you, just wondering where you saw it - thanks

 

[Eric the meek]

It wasn't so long ago that Russia was holding Europe to ransom, threatening to cut off oil and gas supplies.

Well, now Russia knows what it feels like.

Slowly, its energy infrastructure is being strangled, its production capacity steadily reduced, its routes to the consumers (in this case other Russians, domestic and military), slowly being closed off. While it was once a huge asset for Russia, its vastness has now become a liability. It can't defend it.

Every day that we see attacks by Ukraine/partisans/SBU special forces/whoever else it might be, deep inside Russia, on the supply routes to the front lines in Ukraine, Russia's ability to service its own war is further degraded.

 

[Eric the meek]

And there's more, this time from Anton Gerashchenko.......

A Russian military cargo plane IL-76? has crashed at Ivanovo, north east of Moscow:



SU-27 fighter shot down in Belgorod (unconfirmed)



Power plant St Petersburg on fire



Edit: I'll try to get his name right in future - Gerashchenko

 

[raymondo]

And there's more, this time from Anton Gerashchenko.......

A Russian military cargo plane IL-76? has crashed at Ivanovo, north east of Moscow:



SU-27 fighter shot down in Belgorod (unconfirmed)



Power plant St Petersburg on fire



Edit: I'll try to get his name right in future - Gerashchenko

I can hardly keep up today

 

[Nobby]

What strikes me is the huge increase in attacks on Russian installations.

Nato explicitly told Ukraine that no weapons should be used for attacks on Russia itself.

But just maybe after the Republican, Papal, Trumpian, Orban stuff blocking more aid and urging a white flag, the Ukrainians are trying to force the Russians and the West's hand by escalating big time.

Maybe it's a last throw of the dice for Ukraine.
And maybe the West will wake up

 

[Bodian]

What strikes me is the huge increase in attacks on Russian installations.

Nato explicitly told Ukraine that no weapons should be used for attacks on Russia itself.

But just maybe after the Republican, Papal, Trumpian, Orban stuff blocking more aid and urging a white flag, the Ukrainians are trying to force the Russians and the West's hand by escalating big time.

Maybe it's a last throw of the dice for Ukraine.
And maybe the West will wake up

What attacks? I thought it was all discarded cigarettes?

Maybe NATO will conveniently believe the Russina propaganda on this one!!