BREAKING: INVASION HAS BEGUN..... Putin's "3-day war"... NOW... 1 YEAR 338 DAYS ...WAGNER HEAD SAYS GROUP STANDING DOWN AFTER CLAIMS OF DEAL
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I was hoping that someone was gonna post a video from inside..... I want to see something of the aftermath when authorities arrived.... see them scraping pieces of him offa the ceiling and walls..... FUCK that bitch
sidebar: I'm just mad cause he probably felt no pain
I was hoping that someone was gonna post a video from inside..... I want to see something of the aftermath when authorities arrived.... see them scraping pieces of him offa the ceiling and walls..... FUCK that bitch
sidebar: I'm just mad cause he probably felt no pain
In an hourlong interview ahead of a European diplomatic mission to Beijing, China’s ambassador to the European Union said that critics had misinterpreted his country’s relationship with Russia, and suggested their ties may not be as limitless as their leaders once declared.
“I know people are fixated on the presidential call,” Mr. Fu said. “The fact that President Xi is not speaking to Zelensky does not signify that China is on the side of Russia on the Ukrainian issue.”
Just three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine Presidents Vladimir V. Putin and Xi Jinping signed a joint statement declaring “no limits” to their countries’ friendship. But Mr. Fu said China was not on Russia’s side on the war and that some people “deliberately misinterpret this because there’s the so-called ‘no limit’ friendship or relationship.”
He added, “‘No limit’ is nothing but rhetoric.”
Mr. Fu said that China had not provided military assistance to Russia, nor recognized its efforts to annex Ukrainian territories, including Crimea and the Donbas.
China’s Ambassador to the E.U. Tries to Distance Beijing From Moscow (Published 2023)
The ambassador, Fu Cong, said China was not on Russia’s side in the war in Ukraine. “‘No limit’ is nothing but rhetoric,” he said, referring to a statement from last year about the countries’ relationship.
China is not about to let Russia bring them down too...
In an hourlong interview ahead of a European diplomatic mission to Beijing, China’s ambassador to the European Union said that critics had misinterpreted his country’s relationship with Russia, and suggested their ties may not be as limitless as their leaders once declared.
“I know people are fixated on the presidential call,” Mr. Fu said. “The fact that President Xi is not speaking to Zelensky does not signify that China is on the side of Russia on the Ukrainian issue.”
Just three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine Presidents Vladimir V. Putin and Xi Jinping signed a joint statement declaring “no limits” to their countries’ friendship. But Mr. Fu said China was not on Russia’s side on the war and that some people “deliberately misinterpret this because there’s the so-called ‘no limit’ friendship or relationship.”
He added, “‘No limit’ is nothing but rhetoric.”
Mr. Fu said that China had not provided military assistance to Russia, nor recognized its efforts to annex Ukrainian territories, including Crimea and the Donbas.
China’s Ambassador to the E.U. Tries to Distance Beijing From Moscow (Published 2023)
The ambassador, Fu Cong, said China was not on Russia’s side in the war in Ukraine. “‘No limit’ is nothing but rhetoric,” he said, referring to a statement from last year about the countries’ relationship.www.nytimes.com
China is not about to let Russia bring them down too...
Good thing you posted the NYT article cause some people
don’t take it as “real news” unless it comes from a Main Stream Media “source.” Meanwhile they don’t police themselves when they spread easily disprovable lies, propaganda and make unrealistic predictions.
Good thing you posted the NYT article cause some people
What about this from Reuters? Is this real news?
Ukraine trains 40,000 storm brigade troops for counter-offensive
CHERKASY REGION, Ukraine, April 5 (Reuters) - More than a year into Russia's full-scale invasion, Aleks, a translator with no prior military experience, was advancing through forest with rifle raised, training to ambush enemy forces in one of Ukraine's newest military units.
Border of Steel is one of eight new storm brigades totalling 40,000 soldiers that Ukraine wants to use during a counter-offensive against Russian occupiers in coming weeks or months.
"I want the war to be over as soon as possible and I hope the strike brigade will make it happen a lot faster," Aleks told Reuters at a training facility in a secret location in Ukraine.
He declined to give his surname for security reasons.
The units have benefited from an aggressive recruiting campaign on social media and billboards with the aim of attracting highly motivated volunteers.
The drive comes as Kyiv may face growing challenges recruiting new troops.
Its forces have been weathering a Russian onslaught for months in towns like Bakhmut in the east, where thousands of soldiers have died. Kyiv does not disclose its military losses.
The new brigades, drafted by the Interior Ministry, will fight alongside regular army units bolstered by new Western battle tanks and thousands of fresh troops trained by allied armies outside Ukraine.
The brigades have catchy names: Hurricane, Spartan, Chervona Kalyna, Frontier, Rage, Azov and Kara Dag, a mountain in Crimea.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko told Reuters he believed Ukraine still had considerable mobilisation potential and that his recruits included women, people with no military experience and former police officers and servicemen.
A great deal is riding on the counter-offensive for Kyiv.
A bungled and bloody attempt to seize back territory from Russian forces could dim optimism among key Western backers and push them to encourage Kyiv to seek negotiations with Moscow.
Ukraine beat back Russian forces from Kyiv last year before liberating swathes of the northeast and of the southern Kherson region. But Russian forces still occupy tracts of the east, the strategically important south and the Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine trains 40,000 storm brigade troops for counter-offensive
More than a year into Russia's full-scale invasion, Aleks, a translator with no prior military experience, was advancing through forest with rifle raised, training to ambush enemy forces in one of Ukraine's newest military units.
Nukka please.... you think that makes a difference to the dolts that regurgitate Russian propaganda like @babygwirl18 ?Good thing you posted the NYT article cause some people
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Bad video game AI.
Russia’s Ruble Slides on Capital-Flight Fears
The currency’s selloff illustrates how traders are on edge as Russia’s economy struggles
The Russian ruble fell Thursday to its lowest level in a year as Moscow’s weakening oil revenues and fears over capital flight weigh on the currency.
The ruble was recently down 1.7% against the U.S. dollar and was on track for its lowest closing level since April 21, 2022, with 81.6 rubles buying $1. The currency has fallen 4.4% this week against the dollar and 5.2% against the euro. The ruble’s weakness runs counter to a broader trend among global currencies, which have gained against the dollar in recent weeks.
www.wsj.com
The currency’s selloff illustrates how traders are on edge as Russia’s economy struggles
The Russian ruble fell Thursday to its lowest level in a year as Moscow’s weakening oil revenues and fears over capital flight weigh on the currency.
The ruble was recently down 1.7% against the U.S. dollar and was on track for its lowest closing level since April 21, 2022, with 81.6 rubles buying $1. The currency has fallen 4.4% this week against the dollar and 5.2% against the euro. The ruble’s weakness runs counter to a broader trend among global currencies, which have gained against the dollar in recent weeks.
Russia’s Ruble Slides on Capital-Flight Fears
The currency’s selloff illustrates how traders are on edge as Russia’s economy struggles with an evaporating oil-and-gas windfall.
www.wsj.com
How Russia’s Offensive Ran Aground
After months of pouring soldiers into eastern Ukraine, Russia’s progress essentially adds up to this: three small settlements and part of the city of Bakhmut, a high-profile battlefield with limited strategic value.
A breakthrough for Russia appears increasingly unlikely. Regardless of the outcome in the fierce battle of Bakhmut, Moscow’s inability to gain substantial ground in the Donbas shows how little its offensive has achieved and how much its military has struggled to efficiently capture urban areas throughout the war.
After mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops, Russia is no longer severely understaffed, as it was in the fall, when it lost large parts of the northeast in a surprise Ukrainian counteroffensive.
But even with more troops and firepower, Russia has, at best, only managed to inch forward, encountering well-prepared Ukrainian positions, protected by basements and buildings, with defensive lines heavily fortified from nearly a decade of fighting.
Russia has struggled to make gains because it had barely stablized itself after its losses in the fall before launching its winter offensive, Michael Kofman, the director of Russia studies at CNA, a research institute in Virginia, told the “War on the Rocks” podcast last month.
“The Russian military doesn’t have the force quality,” Mr. Kofman said. “It doesn’t necessarily seem to have the ammunition either. And it can’t replace junior leadership in such a short amount of time.”
Russia’s grinding advances in Bakhmut have been led by the Wagner private military company, which recruited tens of thousands of convicts from Russian prisons in exchange for the promise of freedom.
The prolonged and bloody fight for Bakhmut has depleted Wagner’s supply of prisoner recruits, according to Ukrainian officials, forcing it to use more of its professional recruits. Military analysts are skeptical that Russia could repeat its strategy of near-suicidal prisoner assaults that it has used in Bakhmut on any future Ukrainian cities.
www.nytimes.com
After months of pouring soldiers into eastern Ukraine, Russia’s progress essentially adds up to this: three small settlements and part of the city of Bakhmut, a high-profile battlefield with limited strategic value.
A breakthrough for Russia appears increasingly unlikely. Regardless of the outcome in the fierce battle of Bakhmut, Moscow’s inability to gain substantial ground in the Donbas shows how little its offensive has achieved and how much its military has struggled to efficiently capture urban areas throughout the war.
After mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops, Russia is no longer severely understaffed, as it was in the fall, when it lost large parts of the northeast in a surprise Ukrainian counteroffensive.
But even with more troops and firepower, Russia has, at best, only managed to inch forward, encountering well-prepared Ukrainian positions, protected by basements and buildings, with defensive lines heavily fortified from nearly a decade of fighting.
Russia has struggled to make gains because it had barely stablized itself after its losses in the fall before launching its winter offensive, Michael Kofman, the director of Russia studies at CNA, a research institute in Virginia, told the “War on the Rocks” podcast last month.
“The Russian military doesn’t have the force quality,” Mr. Kofman said. “It doesn’t necessarily seem to have the ammunition either. And it can’t replace junior leadership in such a short amount of time.”
Russia’s grinding advances in Bakhmut have been led by the Wagner private military company, which recruited tens of thousands of convicts from Russian prisons in exchange for the promise of freedom.
The prolonged and bloody fight for Bakhmut has depleted Wagner’s supply of prisoner recruits, according to Ukrainian officials, forcing it to use more of its professional recruits. Military analysts are skeptical that Russia could repeat its strategy of near-suicidal prisoner assaults that it has used in Bakhmut on any future Ukrainian cities.
How Russia’s Offensive Ran Aground (Published 2023)
Whatever happens in Bakhmut, a once-ambitious winter offensive never really went anywhere.
Damn he beat me to itHow Russia’s Offensive Ran Aground
After months of pouring soldiers into eastern Ukraine, Russia’s progress essentially adds up to this: three small settlements and part of the city of Bakhmut, a high-profile battlefield with limited strategic value.
A breakthrough for Russia appears increasingly unlikely. Regardless of the outcome in the fierce battle of Bakhmut, Moscow’s inability to gain substantial ground in the Donbas shows how little its offensive has achieved and how much its military has struggled to efficiently capture urban areas throughout the war.
After mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops, Russia is no longer severely understaffed, as it was in the fall, when it lost large parts of the northeast in a surprise Ukrainian counteroffensive.
But even with more troops and firepower, Russia has, at best, only managed to inch forward, encountering well-prepared Ukrainian positions, protected by basements and buildings, with defensive lines heavily fortified from nearly a decade of fighting.
Russia has struggled to make gains because it had barely stablized itself after its losses in the fall before launching its winter offensive, Michael Kofman, the director of Russia studies at CNA, a research institute in Virginia, told the “War on the Rocks” podcast last month.
“The Russian military doesn’t have the force quality,” Mr. Kofman said. “It doesn’t necessarily seem to have the ammunition either. And it can’t replace junior leadership in such a short amount of time.”
Russia’s grinding advances in Bakhmut have been led by the Wagner private military company, which recruited tens of thousands of convicts from Russian prisons in exchange for the promise of freedom.
The prolonged and bloody fight for Bakhmut has depleted Wagner’s supply of prisoner recruits, according to Ukrainian officials, forcing it to use more of its professional recruits. Military analysts are skeptical that Russia could repeat its strategy of near-suicidal prisoner assaults that it has used in Bakhmut on any future Ukrainian cities.
How Russia’s Offensive Ran Aground (Published 2023)
Whatever happens in Bakhmut, a once-ambitious winter offensive never really went anywhere.
I am sure this will be resolved quickly and in an amicable way
but it's the same god
Patriarch Kirill is head of the Russian Orthodox church. Of course he is also a former KGB agent worth billions from the import and sale of cigs/liqs
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the church received official privileges including the right to import duty-free alcohol and tobacco. In 1995, the Nikolo-Ugreshky Monastery, which is directly subordinated to the patriarchate, earned $350 million from the sale of alcohol. The patriarchate's department of foreign church relations, which Kirill ran, earned $75 million from the sale of tobacco. But the patriarchate reported an annual budget in 1995-1996 of only $2 million. Kirill's personal wealth was estimated by the Moscow News in 2006 to be $4 billion.
Putin Runs The Russian State--And The Russian Church Too
The Orthodox patriarchate is a bulwark of autocracy.
www.forbes.com
other russian orthodox priests
Word on the street is Ukraine is looking to begin their Spring Counteroffensive mid April - Beginning of May. Main objective is to take Melitpol. We shall see.
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Patriarch Kirill is head of the Russian Orthodox church. Of course he is also a former KGB agent worth billions from the import and sale of cigs/liqs
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the church received official privileges including the right to import duty-free alcohol and tobacco. In 1995, the Nikolo-Ugreshky Monastery, which is directly subordinated to the patriarchate, earned $350 million from the sale of alcohol. The patriarchate's department of foreign church relations, which Kirill ran, earned $75 million from the sale of tobacco. But the patriarchate reported an annual budget in 1995-1996 of only $2 million. Kirill's personal wealth was estimated by the Moscow News in 2006 to be $4 billion.
Putin Runs The Russian State--And The Russian Church Too
The Orthodox patriarchate is a bulwark of autocracy.
other russian orthodox priests
damn i guess being a russian priest is more fun than being a catholic one
Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
www.nytimes.com
The KIA figures are horrific for Russia so of course russia and its sycophants do their usual
The best quality version of the of original leak I found. I personally think this may have been intentional ahead of the counteroffensive:
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation (Published 2023)
Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.
The KIA figures are horrific for Russia so of course russia and its sycophants do their usual
The best quality version of the of original leak I found. I personally think this may have been intentional ahead of the counteroffensive:
I mean lets be honest here, will it really even matter? It ain't like Russia got the arsenal, military personnel or wherewithal to do anything about it
