#the_ukraine_situation

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copper monolith
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But Russia would never commit war crimes : )

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Ukrainians protesting the now 6 months occupation of their town Snigurivchan, and the referendum https://vxtwitter.com/go2the5dogs/status/1573233041669033986?s=20&t=hPFlfvCbY-FJn4C0m9xRNQ

Снігурівчане, ви титани. Мітинг проти референдуму і русні. Півроку окупації

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I've posted a few vids posted by Russians themselves participating in it too

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I just dont know how to react to that except with disgust

copper monolith
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He looks like a dark souls npc

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he was a pro-kremlin ukrainian politician who fought on the russian side during this war

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him and a few other russian soldiers were exchanged for around 200 Azovstal defenders

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there are images emerging of some of those defenders being very malnourished and one, who used to be a musician, having a deformed arm and needing surgery

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obviously won't post those here

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Understandable

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mobilization is going very well!!!

copper monolith
# copper monolith https://vxtwitter.com/wartranslated/status/1573247133448376320?s=20&t=hPFlfvCbY-...

@wartranslated I think you made mistake in translation of the most important part. I think he is not saying "2 nedeli do podgotovki" (2 weeks untill training). He is saying "2 nedeli dop podgotovki" (2 weeks of supplementery training). dop = dopołnitelnoy. And after 2 weeks formation of units.

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Here are the “referendums” in eastern Ukraine, folks. Russian occupation forces literally coming to people’s doors, guns in hand, and collecting “votes.” I have had morning shits with more democratic legitimacy.

↘️ Quoting IanMatveev (@ian_matveev)

Надомное голосование уровень "оккупация". Первым идет член избирательной комиссии с правом реша...

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RUSSIA TODAY: One of our contacts describes her reservist son stacking up on supplies in his apartment with intention staying inside and not opening door to anybody until mobilization is over. He still intends to work as an IT specialist via VPN! Similar horror stories abound.

@RussianSpaceWeb This one kinda sucks.

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@copper monolith could you translate this? Google is not helpful

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this is very grim what the fuck

copper monolith
# nocturne osprey https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1573319508663889921?s=19 https://twit...

Yura:
Subpoena has been received by people working at:
*Khrunichev (Moscow, defence contractors who are making Angara)
*VNIIEM (Moscow, electronics for rockets and nuclear power stations
*Energomash (Himki, engines for RD-170/180 and 191 for Angara)
*Progress (Samara, Soyuz rockets and spy sats, 80% of launches for the defence ministry)

  • Piliugina (main control systems)

In other words, almost all subsidiaries, even if military, are still getting subpoenas.
Protection from mobilisation only if fully employed.
For candidates for science there's no protection.
Protection for those with children - only for those, who have 4 or more children.

So mainly they take those, who are over 35 years old, have kids, mortgage, wife, there's nowhere to run or hide.

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had issues trying to figure out how to translate the listed subsidiaries

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but they're all Roscosmos'

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yikes

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and thank you

copper monolith
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ебать лол

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A freshly recruited alco-battalion in Sakhalin prepares for deployment to the front

In the video (amidst lots of obscenities) they say they're on their way to a short stint of training in Kamchatka before heading to Ukraine

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beyond parody

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“There is a choice: you go & kill innocent people or you go to jail. I’d better lead my life abroad.” We talk to one man who’s decided to leave Russia because of the military call-up. Our latest report for @BBCNews Producer @BBCWillVernon Cameras @AntonChicherov @LizaVereykina

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Yesterday I spoke to a woman from the ethnic minority region of Buryatia.

Her husband - a father of five with no military experience - had been bombarded with phone calls from local officials saying they were coming to give him conscription papers.

https://t.co/Qb3fmcql1n

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Today President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented the Golden Star order to the family of the dead border guard Ihor Dashko

The officer died on April 9 during the battles for Mariupol. He was seriously wounded and in order not to be captured and to prevent the enemy from capturing the radio station, he blew himself up with a grenade. His last words on the radio were "Glory to Ukraine!".

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I've got a few Ukrainian refugees at my work, one became my coworker and talked about how she got out of Kyiv, and another person who works on the other side of the shopping centre who's from Mariupol, and how that lady would hide in a basement for a month

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Interesting
I haven’t seen a singular refugee here, but it really is interesting

copper monolith
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what country do you live in?

gusty tendon
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Murica

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Specifically Arizona

copper monolith
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most of the refugees have gone to nearby countries, here in Lithuania we have gotten over 66k

gusty tendon
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I’d expect that

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Bit hard to get to Arizona from Ukraine

copper monolith
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yeah, an entire ocean and 2 continents

gusty tendon
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I’d be surprised and worried if we got a massive influx of refugees

gusty tendon
copper monolith
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you've got op geographical location, ain't nobody's gonna go through an ocean

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yeah no embed on desktop either

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just a concurrent stats page for Ukrainian war refugees

gusty tendon
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I’ll have a read

copper monolith
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well, >99% of those refugees are Ukrainian

gusty tendon
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The rest are Russian, I’m assuming?

copper monolith
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unsure, unlikely to have them called like that

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especially now that visa travel for "tourists" are no longer given out to Russians

gusty tendon
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I haven’t really reading news about the war

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I stopped following a month ago

copper monolith
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keep up with this thread then

gusty tendon
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My data is mostly outdated, and I haven’t been readings this thread either

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Who’s winning

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earlier this month, Ukraine had an amazing counter offensive in Kharkiv, liberating almost all of it, while Russians just fled and left a shit tonne of equipment and ammo, which will def be used against them now

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Russia is holding a sham referendum in occupied territories to make them part of Russia, but obviously the votes will mostly be fake, and others are forced to sign under gunpoint

gusty tendon
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Oh wow

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That really is interesting

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Thanks Val

copper monolith
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Putler also signed a "partial" mobilisation, and 300k men from across the country are gonna be sent to the meatgrinder

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some source says the plan may go to up to 1 million people

gusty tendon
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This is getting out of hand

copper monolith
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either way, many thousands of young men are fleeing the country

gusty tendon
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He’s desperate

copper monolith
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it's quite a terrible time to live in that country

gusty tendon
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Hopefully Ukraine wins and gets rebuilt

copper monolith
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it must

gusty tendon
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Or at least gets a ceasefire

copper monolith
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ceasefire, unsure about that now

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saying Ukrainians are pissed would be quite an understatement, they will not stop fighting until they get every inch of their land back

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including Crimea

gusty tendon
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Pushing into Russia is a no go obviously

copper monolith
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more heavy weaponry like tanks and MLRS would be very appreciated and speed up their progress

gusty tendon
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I heard that the air war was pretty stagnant

copper monolith
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both sides have competent AA systems, and just today yet another Russian attack helicopter was blown up

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so there's no air superiority on either side

gusty tendon
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Shame
(The air superiority, not the heli crash)

copper monolith
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thank u u stupid idiots

gusty tendon
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Jesus Christ

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The incompetency

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I will now comedy

copper monolith
# copper monolith in the last 2 days, over 15832 Russians gone through the Finnish border https://...

⚡️Finland to introduce entry visa restrictions for Russians.

The decision was made on Sept. 23 by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto.

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The move is a response to the mobilization and annexation of Ukrainian territories announced by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. It seeks to prevent "serious damage to Finland's international position.”

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Mobilisation is worrying many Russians. But not Vera: “I’d be much happier if my son got wounded fighting in Ukraine than die of alcoholism here,” she tells me. Our latest report from Moscow as the draft continues. Producer @BBCWillVernon Cameras @AntonChicherov @LizaVereykina

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these aren't even Ukraine soldiers

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and 5 children were also buried there

gusty tendon
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Wtf

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22 of the 447 were actual soldiers

gusty tendon
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Sickening

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but regardless, I'm not surprised if almost all of them were civvies

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this is just another Bucha

paper cedar
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215 women and 194 men is just uhm well probably literally civilians

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my god

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this is just more than just fucked up

steel jasper
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oh yeah

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huh, almost all of them were civvies

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jeez

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Казахи очень неохотно сдают квартиры русским. А те, кто всё-таки готов поселить их у себя, задают проверочный вопрос: "Крым чей?".

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# copper monolith actual footage, holy fuck https://fxtwitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/15733427240...

Enerhodar, The first day of the pseudo-referendum. In the video, we see three collaborators, accompanied with two armed soldiers.

People tell how an armed Russian military man poked a piece of paper with the barrel of a machine gun and eloquently showed where exactly to tick.

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It is obvious that the Ukrainian Enerhodar is not happy with such "guests". Empty streets. Locked apartments.
At the same time, information is already coming from those who were not lucky enough to meet with the "commission" in person.

This is the "democratic" choice in the occupied territory according to the occupiers themselves.

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several kilos of makeup to look fancy in the state sponsored tick tock post

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"Putin...has thrust himself more directly into strategic planning for the war in Ukraine in recent weeks...including rejecting requests from his commanders on the ground that they be allowed to retreat from the vital southern city of Kherson"
https://t.co/PVmVzvkGRc

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"Senior Russian officers repeatedly questioned the early plans for the war...particularly an initial stage that envisioned a quick strike on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. The Russian officers believed Mr. Putin was going to war with insufficient troops and weaponry,"

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Русня начинает выводить свои подготовленные части из Лимана

Об этом пишут пропагандисты. Оставляют мобиков с оккупированных территорий и других орков для удержания позиций.

Ждем официальную информацию.

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cops and rosgvardia were beaten the fuck up by mobilized men https://fxtwitter.com/omsk_ogo/status/1573589085016494082?s=20&t=mz7foYNsMppP2_2UPZdCWg

В Омской области мобилизованные избили полицейских и росгвардейцев 😱

В посёлке Большеречье в ответ на хамство и грубость при принудительной отправке на фронт мобилизованные схватили нескольких полицейских и объявили, что те поедут умирать в окопы вместе с ними.

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Russian company being smug about their high production of body bags, video presented almost like an ad https://vxtwitter.com/nevedimka123/status/1573633677413818369?t=JvRQ6FGq9nFOxi2PxuDDjg&s=19

📢РФ збільшила виробництво мішків для трупів через оголошення часткової мобілізації.

Вони кажуть, що готові повністю підтримати прохання уряду не лише про 300 тисяч мобілізованих, а й про 25 мільйонів😎😎😎

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Finally: partial mobilisation of bodybags

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Graffiti in St Petersburg:

"To start with you were indifferent to politics and now you're cannon fodder"

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It sounds even starker in Russian, where cannon fodder is literally "cannon meat"

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Absolute scenes at an airfield in Russia's Far East where one man mobilised to fight in Ukraine was so drunk that he reportedly fell asleep in the long grass next to the runway

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17 year old teen invented a drone system that searches for mines https://vxtwitter.com/CurrentTimeTv/status/1573552816269967360?t=DE0GwzM4TuBa2EpjcUiFIg&s=19

17-летний украинец Игорь Клименко разработал дрон-миноискатель. Такие аппараты позволят разминировать территории быстрее и безопаснее для жизней саперов. За это изобретение он получил премию в размере $100 000

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copper monolith
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Lets here what ghengis khan has to say

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for about 3 shots before disintegrating

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3 shots is all what whoever uses is it gonna get to shoot

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at most

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Tho I gotta say that myth about it being put into sand and mud and shooting right afterwards is a myth, or maybe an exaggeration

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you gotta clean out the gun, particularly the barrel, breech and such before it works

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Yrp

copper monolith
copper monolith
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Oof

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OOF

paper cedar
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Wait what does that exactly mean?

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Does that mean that China won't like support Russia?

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China quietly want Russia to win (while also being baffled by all their failures) because then they'd be more likely to somehow invade Taiwan

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they're gaging how the world is with the Ukraine invasion before trying out Taiwan

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September is tied with May, but September had all 12 happen within the last 3 days, while in May the 12 happened days apart!

copper monolith
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I was almost sad that the guy's going into the meat grinder, before he used the anti-ukrainian slur

copper monolith
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Nice. Good to know at least one side cares about ethics.

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As long as this is followed, its a practical move, as well as ethical

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low morale poorly equipped russian soldiers, if given the chance to surrender and recieve at least tolerable and safe treatment in ukraine till the wars over

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I'm sure more then a few would take it

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I wonder if it would be easier or safer to just join and almost immediately surrender than to try to flee Russia and dodge the draft.

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to be fair, the former is still highly dangerous

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hell you could be training at an arms depot 50miles from the front and get sniped by a missile that blows up the whole bade

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A 51-year old in Volgograd was mobilized even though he doesn’t have combat experience, is deaf in one ear, has poor eyesight, and herniated discs. Despite this, he was sent to training without a medical examination.
https://t.me/bazabazon/13403

He was allowed to go home after Baza’s post. 2/
https://t.co/OwMuYxKLYa

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Sniper rifle (human for scale)

copper monolith
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What ammo dump

copper monolith
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Goodnight #Ukraine. Getting ready to launch a devastating attack on 🇺🇦, Russia's conscripts are undergoing a rigorous training regime. Much of the training involves premature running 😂.

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copper monolith
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There are some unconfirmed reports that this bald fuck will ban men from leaving the country

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It is reported that in the photo, the border service of Kazakhstan detained Russians trying to illegally cross the border.

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Russians who are subject to mobilization and who are not released from the Russian Federation, crossed the border illegally

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⚡️ Podolyak: Russian mobilization in Crimea aims to cleanse disloyal population.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the President’s Office, said that the forced mass conscription of Crimean Tatars in Crimea is “a real ethnic genocide and an enormous tragedy for the entire nation.”

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copper monolith
# copper monolith There are some unconfirmed reports that this bald fuck will ban men from leaving...
The Kyiv Independent

According to Russian media outlet Meduza, the ban will come into effect after the end of sham "referenda" in the four occupied regions of Ukraine. The news outlet cited two sources in the Kremlin saying that the most likely date

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that's Luhansk region

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oh

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well damn

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cant wait to be able to say that later i guess

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yee

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I saw that val 😔 posting space in the wrong channel

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Meanwhile in Russia: see for yourself how clips of Tucker Carlson are being used on Kremlin-controlled state TV for their war propaganda, as well as anti-American and genocidal anti-Ukrainian messaging.

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Women in Makhachkala, Dagestan are protesting against the war and mobilization:

"Russia is on the territory of another country... We're not blind! No to war!"

https://twitter.com/SobolLubov/status/1574039341785092101?s=20&t=QhluzjjNpsuIZe6bRgN8qg

↘️ Quoting Соболь Любовь (@SobolLubov)

«Россия находится на территории чужого государства», «...

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gusty tendon
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Wait what

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I don’t speak Estonian, but is that the PM

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yes

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I’m speechless

copper monolith
leaden grove
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This is hilarious

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Also, isn’t it NATO or did they change the name?

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I don’t agree with all her views but Kallas is a good politician imo

copper monolith
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Oh no, NAFO has nothing to do with NATO

gusty tendon
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Then what’s NAFO

leaden grove
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NAFO is more like a joke

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People make those unique avatars for themselves, and the community is generally aligned with NATO, but it‘s just a volunteering thing

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Most of their activities are online but some people also collect donations and stuff

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NAFO's a movement fighting Russian propaganda online

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As for NATO, Estonia has been a NATO member since 2004 if I remember correctly

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Fun fact!

gusty tendon
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There‘s currently a snap exercise going on in Estonia which scared a lot of people because it was announced on the same day as the Russian mobilisation

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So rather unfortunate timing

gusty tendon
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Very

leaden grove
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People were/are very on edge because there were special broadcasts before every programme and everything

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It‘s an annual exercise that involves calling up around 2,500 reservists for a week-long exercise with no prior warning

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It‘s called Okas 2022 (aka Needle 2022)

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There‘s also the Siil (Hedgehog) exercise in spring

copper monolith
# copper monolith https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1574082959178506241?s=20&t=ho4GLhlRVPCN...

The first NASAMS System has been delivered to Ukraine 🇺🇦

The NASAMS is made by USA 🇺🇸 and Norway 🇳🇴, the system protects Washington D.C, and is the first Advanced NATO Air Defense System delivered to Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Rumours are starting to come in that Ukraine is breaking through the defenses near Lyman. Keep in mind this is twitter, so the reliability is questionable. https://twitter.com/mhmck/status/1574098775605477376?s=20&t=gBOJfhyL6BV2-SeGPiwfQg

The russian fascist invaders have made a fatal decision to defend Lyman at all costs.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are engaged in offensives to trap the rashists in Lyman and liberate the north of Luhansk region.

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And with kupiansk being contested rn, there is a chance Ukraine might be able to make a bunch of advances towards svatove

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I know a few trusted sources I tend to post here

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Speaking of which, another day, another twitter doomscroll

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Already have spicy vids in my feed

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Ya know, this is a bit random and off topic, but I kinda feel bad for the Wagner pizza brand. Must suck to also have a mercenary company with the same name

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They can't stop taking Ls holy fuck

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Yeah, and rip everyone with the name Wagner, now it's associated with the nazi Russian group

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I remember similar stories from people named Isis or the corona beer brand

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What if hurricane Taya kills 500 thousand in the US

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# copper monolith Just saw the vid of him doing it, just walks up behind the commander and shoots ...

#Russia A shooting was reported at a military recruitment office in the Irkutsk region. The head of the recruitment commission was wounded. It happened in the city of Ust-Ilimsk. This video shows the aftermath. There is a video of the actual shooting, too: a man shots from a gun

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A protest was held in Lubmin, Germany yesterday.

It’s the location where Nord Stream 2 reaches German land.

Russian Germans and their supporters demanded the pipeline to be opened.

3 Ukrainian women showed up to counter-protest and were attacked.

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⚡️ CBS: Zelensky believes Putin isn’t bluffing about nuclear threats.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons “could be a reality.” He added that Putin “wants to scare the whole world” with nuclear blackmail.

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“I don’t think he’s bluffing. I think the world is deterring it and containing his threat,” Zelensky said in an interview with CBS. “We need to keep putting pressure on him and not allow him to continue.”

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⚡️ After Putin's nuclear threats, Japan stops exporting chemical weapons goods to Russia.

The Japanese government has banned the export of materials that could be used for chemical weapons production to 21 Russian organizations, including science laboratories, AP reported.

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"As the world's only country to have suffered nuclear attacks, we strongly demand that the threat or use of nuclear weapons by Russia should never happen," said Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno.

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Мужик подогнал свою машину к зданию призывной комиссии и стал бросать коктейли Молотова. Выгорело 100 м².
Урюпинск. Волгоградская область. Россия. 26.09. 2022

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Russians: um Ukrainians put their armour and tech in side and next to schools and homes
Also Russians: https://vxtwitter.com/SarahAshtonLV/status/1574104640278372359?t=bhtY0ioVmpZ4pqeX6SLi7A&s=19

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO 🚨🚨🚨🚨

In Vovchansk, Ukraine the Russian terrorists put their armored personnel carrier and military check points between a church and a playground.

Retweet to show Amnesty International who the war criminals are.

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⚡️ Kazakhstan won't recognize Russia's pseudo-referendums in Ukraine.

Kazakhstan has no intention of recognizing Russia's sham referendums in Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, according to Aibek Smadiyarov, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry spokesman.

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According to Smadiyarov, Kazakhstan respects other countries' "territorial integrity, sovereign equality, and peaceful coexistence."

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Russia sphere of infliemce 📉

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What a stupid tweeter as well

Retweet to show Amnesty International who the war criminals are.

Amnesty has, since before the war started, been extensively documenting and reporting russian war crimes

the SOLE PINNED TWEET on their twitter is an extensive breakdown and documentation, then condemnation, of russian war crimes In the war

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To believe Amnesty does not care about russian war criminals is either to be absurdly naive, or actively acting in bad faith

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prob the latter

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A post from the start of the war

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I still absolutely cannot believe these absolutely brainless takes

split aurora
fossil horizon
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But people didn't seem to notice and still spew hatred on them

split aurora
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I mean, it's not supposed. They pointed out real and factual instances of violations of the laws of war, and produced a balanced and fair article about it.

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It wasn't really balanced tho

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There made some very questionnable claims

split aurora
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Such as?

fossil horizon
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Well it kinda sounds like they were just complaining about Ukrainians engaging in urban warfare which is an amazingly naive take given the situation. Not only is urban warfare NOT a warcrime in itself but also Ukrainian desperate defense in the early days of the war saved many cities from Russian borderline genocidal occupation. Also the part about soldiers hiding in schools and hospitals has been questionned A LOT from what I've seen with said buldings being most often previously evacuated.
Finally there is a problem with the way their report is structured. Adding a few lines in the end saying that it's still Russia's fault is not enough and it gave Putin free propaganda ammo and an occasion to shift the blame away

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Oh and also following the backclash the head of Ukrainian branch of Amnesty resigned citing general ignorance and disregard of the higher ups so there is that too

split aurora
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I....

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This is just all factually incorrect.

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[I am typing up a full response]

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The report is not complaining about "Ukrainians engaging in urban warfare"
Under the laws of war, reasonable action must be taken to avoid urban properties, where there are possible alternatives.

The report goes on to mention Most residential areas where soldiers located themselves were kilometres away from front lines. Viable alternatives were available that would not endanger civilians – such as military bases or densely wooded areas nearby, or other structures further away from residential areas.
This clearly states that the issue is Ukrainian soldiers occupying residential area's for military use in area's where suitable alternatives were available, and these were not area's on the frontlines.
The report further notes
In the cases it documented, Amnesty International is not aware that the Ukrainian military who located themselves in civilian structures in residential areas asked or assisted civilians to evacuate nearby buildings
Militaries, when occupying a resident area, should always try to their upmost to clear civilians away from the area, this is ESPECIALLY the case if these are not at the front line, and where there is reasonable alternative.

While, yes, there is not a specific law against this, the report never claims it is in violation of the laws of war. Rather it states these actions are partaking in a failure to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians.

International law does, however requires all parties to a conflict to avoid locating, to the maximum extent feasible, military objectives within or near densely populated areas.
The locating of military forces, away from the front, in residential area's, when feasible alternatives where available, show a clear violation of these requirements.

This was not just "in the early days of the war", as amnesty documented in early july
In early July, a farm worker was injured when Russian forces struck an agricultural warehouse in the Mykolaiv area. Hours after the strike, Amnesty International researchers witnessed the presence of Ukrainian military personnel and vehicles in the grain storage area, and witnesses confirmed that the military had been using the warehouse, located across the road from a farm where civilians are living and working.

Or, on the 18th May,


Three residents told Amnesty International that before the strike, Ukrainian forces had been using a building across the street from the bombed building, and that two military trucks were parked in front of another house that was damaged when the missile hit. Amnesty International researchers found signs of military presence in and outside the building, including sandbags and black plastic sheeting covering the windows, as well as new US-made trauma first aid equipment.```

The use of hospitals for military purposes is **illegal**, regardless of if they have been prior evacuated. It is a violation of international law in every and all cases.

However, amnesty documented it on multiple occasions

```Amnesty International researchers witnessed Ukrainian forces using hospitals as de facto military bases in five locations. In two towns, dozens of soldiers were resting, milling about, and eating meals in hospitals. In another town, soldiers were firing from near the hospital.```
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A Russian air strike on 28 April injured two employees at a medical laboratory in a suburb of Kharkiv after Ukrainian forces had set up a base in the compound.

There is no blanket international ban on Schools, however, there is a legal obligation to avoid using schools that are near houses or apartment buildings full of civilians, putting these lives at risk, unless there is a compelling military need.

And, if there is such a need, they have a requirement to warn, and assist civilian evacuation. Amnesty state that it does not appear to have happened, but it is important to note they do not word this definitively.

Ukraine is a participant in the Safe Schools International Declaration, which states they can only use evacuated schools when there is no possible alternative

Also, as for the point about the structure. As well as the long section at the bottom, the article notes Four other times about Russia's war crimes, including a hyperlink to their full report on Ukraine, including 64 Articles, almost all covering Russian war crimes

An article pointing out Ukranian war crimes, after the Ukrainian military refused to talk and co-operate with amnesty international is not "propaganda".
Ukraine has as much requirement to fair treatment and Human Rights as any other nation does. The laws of war and the rights of civilians must always be respected. You do not get to ignore the laws just because you are the defenders. No man is above the law.
Yes, some actors were spinning this as propaganda, however They will do that regardless of what you say. People have been pointing out the russian embassy in London as an example of "This tweet allowing pro-Russian propaganda", however they USED PHOTO EDITING TO FABRICATE THE REPORT. By the time the report has already been photo edited to remove certain words and fabricate details.... can you really say the report is at fault???? They would have spinner propaganda completely irrespective of what you said, it's how bad faith actors work. If I used inspect element to change your message, I could not then use that fabricated screenshot as evidence to this servers mods, because it was fabricated by me, and not a real thing being shown.

While it is regrettable that the Ukrainian Branch resigned, I do not particularly believe this to be negative. If they are unwilling to stand by and defend human rights when it is their own flag being blamed, perhaps they should not be tasked with human rights, when they place those second to the colour of a cloth flag being waived by those who violate them.

The Washington post report contains factual inaccuracies and mis-truths from the Ukrainian writer, however there are some good points made, particularly about the failure to follow established protocol from the Amnesty International Office.

No man, woman, or otherwise, is above the law. We all have a duty to protect the innocent, irregardless of context. Ukraine, like Russia, or China, or the USA, or Syria or Iraq or ANY NATION INVOLVED IN CONFLICT, has a sworn duty to protect civilians and the innocents, and when they fail to do that, unbiased human rights defenders have a duty to call them out on their failings, such that they may improve their ways.

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# split aurora The report is not complaining about "Ukrainians engaging in urban warfare" Under...

Most residential areas where soldiers located themselves were kilometres away from front lines. Viable alternatives were available that would not endanger civilians – such as military bases or densely wooded areas nearby, or other structures further away from residential areas.
As far as I know the AI don't have experts on military strategy in their team so this claim is at best an opinion

In the cases it documented, Amnesty International is not aware that the Ukrainian military who located themselves in civilian structures in residential areas asked or assisted civilians to evacuate nearby buildings

Well this claim is nothing more than argument from ignorance. Especially since we DO know that Ukrainian government has been encouraging general evacuation, and if we believe Oksana Pokalchuk the AI team has made insufficient effort to gather such information

The locating of military forces, away from the front, in residential area's, when feasible alternatives where available, show a clear violation of these requirements.
What alternatives are you talking about? Russians are attacking cities not empty pieces of land or "dense forests". I didn't find the example they cited convincing

This was not just "in the early days of the war"
I do not think these examples are proof of Ukrainian tendency to put civilians in danger. They should also be disputed on a cade by case basis instead of being universally condemned. It is highly debatable whether these actions represent a direct danger to civilians considering Russia's policy of indiscriminate bombardment and many other factors

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The use of hospitals for military purposes is illegal, regardless of if they have been prior evacuated. It is a violation of international law in every and all cases.
As far as I know this is factually incorrect. https://genevasolutions.news/peace-humanitarian/ukraine-is-targeting-hospitals-always-a-war-crime
Hospitals used this way do lose their protected status and can be attacked as a normal target tho but if they were evacuated previously there is no direct endangerment of civilians

Black smoke rising over a grey sky. The images on social media all look the same. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, web users, several NGOs as well as the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, have claimed there have been airstrikes hitting hospitals or their surroundings.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal C...

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And, if there is such a need, they have a requirement to warn, and assist civilian evacuation. Amnesty state that it does not appear to have happened, but it is important to note they do not word this definitively.
As I already said. Their effort in procuring this information is highly debatable

Also, as for the point about the structure. As well as the long section at the bottom, the article notes Four other times about Russia's war crimes, including a hyperlink to their full report on Ukraine, including 64 Articles, almost all covering Russian war crimes
Well yes they do this all the while keeping an inflammatory headline and an easily manipulatable (is that a real word?) text.

An article pointing out Ukranian war crimes, after the Ukrainian military refused to talk and co-operate with amnesty international is not "propaganda".
The AI has made no proof of supposed Ukrainian uncooperativness and if we trusk Oksana this was a result of their bad communication as well as a the mere 3-day long delay between their accusation s and the publication of their article.

Ukraine has as much requirement to fair treatment and Human Rights as any other nation does. The laws of war and the rights of civilians must always be respected. You do not get to ignore the laws just because you are the defenders. No man is above the law. Yes, some actors were spinning this as propaganda, however They will do that regardless of what you say...
I do agree that the outrage was stupidly disproportional but I think the article was written in a very naive way and was particularly easy to manipulate. Blatant lies are easily disputed and ignored. Cherrypicking of quotes is much harder to debunk and dismiss

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While it is regrettable that the Ukrainian Branch resigned, I do not particularly believe this to be negative. If they are unwilling to stand by and defend human rights when it is their own flag being blamed, perhaps they should not be tasked with human rights, when they place those second to the colour of a cloth flag being waived by those who violate them.
Excuse me what? Did you read what they had to say? You do realize people's opinions on moral issues differ right? I feel like you are describing a nationalistic maniac instead of acperson who disagrees with the methodology and approach of their higher ups...

however there are some good points made, particularly about the failure to follow established protocol from the Amnesty International Office.
Why do you defend this report then if you yourself agree that it has methodological problems? I am honestly confused here. If even parts of what Oksana said are true this whole article is undermined.

No man, woman, or otherwise, is above the law. We all have a duty to protect the innocent, irregardless of context. Ukraine, like Russia, or China, or the USA, or Syria or Iraq or ANY NATION INVOLVED IN CONFLICT, has a sworn duty to protect civilians and the innocents, and when they fail to do that, unbiased human rights defenders have a duty to call them out on their failings, such that they may improve their ways.
Yes I 100% agree but we need to be careful not to fall for the "both sides" fallacy. Yes Ukraine has not been perfect. Nobody is. Yes their situation does not justify any missteps. Publishing a half-assed report is not a solution tho. If anything they should be much more meticulous in their study. If anything they've actually made the situation worse since now other reports of endangered civilians will be seen through the lense of this cathastrophical study

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These images are starting to appear on twitterr

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I'll wait for better confirmation, but it does seem Kupyansk has been liberated

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ablobglarezoom I wish there was another country Edward could be in

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Why now ablobglarezoom

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He's okay with living in a country currently in acting out several different genocides in the name of its own imperialism

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Shit sucks man

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Yeah

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I mean we know the justice system here isn't exactly known to be fair, I wish he could just have political asylum somewhere else but there's not to many places that won't just instantly send him back to the US

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I'm more worried that they are gonna use him as leverage to make a deal with the US

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like stop the sanctions and we will send him back

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because I mean if he does have Russian citizenship technically that is possible - _-

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not a great situation to be in

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since also he can't even speak out against the war or about anything because they will just tell him they are gonna send him back to the US

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there's no way Russia is doing thing because they are finally allowing him to live there as a political asylum seeker

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ofc it can just be coincidence but just seems pretty sus it happens now after Ukraine is pushing more

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they can go fuck themselves with their new conditions

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if he moves literally anywhere else he'll be sent to america

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likely tortured/"extensively interrogated" and will rot in a cell for decades

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its a shame he can't go anywhere else, but not his fault

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Also worth knowing he moved to Russia in 2013

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before the conflict in donbass or the annexation of crimea

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I wish he could be literally anywhere else, but I'm not gonna blame a man for what was out of his control

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I think it’s possible that Russia is only giving him citizenship right now just so that they can draft him. Maybe not likely, but I think there’s a chance that’s the case.

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I doubt it

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he's worth far more alive then as a single soldier

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he's still an incredibly gifted mind when it comes to intelligence and computer systems

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😭

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I had literally never heard of that person until today

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Snowden never planned to stay in russia

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He planned to go to Ecuador via Russia and Cuba

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but america cancelled his passport

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Maybe now he's a Russian citizen he can get a Russian passport,, but that's wishful thinking

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Ecuador might not host him but Cuba probably will

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Anyways I somehow doubt Russia is granting him citizenship “out of the kindness of their heart”, I’m pretty sure there’s some other motivation.

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Cuba is a damn sight better place to Be in then russia

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The west did everything they could to stop Snowden moving west

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The president of Bolivias plane was forced to land in Austria, after Italy, France and Spain all closed their airspace to it, believing Snowden on board

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The man was stuck between a rock and a hard place

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though doesn't express it often, for very obvious reasons

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he almost certainly does not want to live there, but is stuck between a rock and a hard place

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yeah I mean all Russia has to do is say get out

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yup

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and, even if russia allowed him to do so, trying to attempt a flight to South America would be dangerous as fuck

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ofc I hope they are just awarding him his political asylum, since thats his right in the UN's Universal Decleration of Human Rights....but Russia hasn't had to best track record for international law lately

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I don't put it beyond the United States to ground that jet by any means necessary

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legal or otherwise

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he would need to fly out of a airport, on a airline, over countries, and to a place that wouldn't send him tot he US

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he was offered asylum in 4 South American countries

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he should just be allowed to go there...but we also know the US doesn't have an amazing track record on following International Law either

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Four countries offered Snowden permanent asylum: Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Venezuela

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Given Ecuador kicked Assange out, I have a feeling that would be rescinded

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Bolivia would probably be his best shot

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isn't ecuador a north american country?

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no

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south

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oh wait I'm thinking of something else XD

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well Nicaragua is north american

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no planes fly from Russia to any of those countries

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He'd have to go via Cuba

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The US had kept up an illegal blockade of Cuba for 60years

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I doubt they'd show Snowdens plane any more respect for the law

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Nicaragua is in central america which is part of North America

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even to this day the US Navy heavily blockades cuba

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almost all goods are restricted from entering and leaving

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even the nato and 5 eyes countries

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condemn it

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I mean it's not like Cuba is doing anything

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like to us I mean

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This is giving me deja vu 🤔

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Our favourite clown might make a comeback https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1574646757845356547?s=20&t=R8n-Y8qh5E0cytnG1HWUsg @copper monolith @nocturne osprey @solid adder

Vedomosti reports that Russia is planning on creating a new Crimean Federal District that would include occupied Crimea, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk. Dmitry Rogozin is the likely candidate to serve as its presidential envoy.
https://t.co/qax5nwOHHU

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huh

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may he get HIMARS'd

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Jeeez

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I knew it was bad but not THIS bad

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wow

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fucking grim

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lmfao TAMPOS

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I want to remind you that A- tampons won't help like compress bandages when it comes to stopping bleeding, like at all, any other notion is a holywood myth

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and that B-most chest injuries can't be helped on the field and the best you can do is seal the chest cavity so the person can atleast breath.

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they're fucked is the conclusion

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this is even if this is real, which I somewhat hope it isn't

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well it seems real

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the translation is accurate

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Unironic btw

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Cuz sure that's how that works

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They're advancing backwards straight to Kyiv

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I don't understand.

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# buoyant sundial I don't understand.

Ok, try hitting your head against a wall a few times, and then start listening to russian propaganda 24/7. It will eventually start making sense, trust me.

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I really hope you're not speaking from firsthand experience. But I really don't understand... Are they claiming that they're advancing, or are they actually advancing?

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Nah, this person is just a delusional russian apologist

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How would they even have those plans though

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Because they're an idiot on twitter

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In whatever their delusion is, how would they have ever managed to learn of Russia's military plans?

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They asked nicely facepalm

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I try to give the benefit of the doubt to as many people as possible... But in this case, I really can't. These people have no excuse for their... behavior? And much of this is paradoxical, so... Nonsense like that just makes my brain feel pain.

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Y'all seen this around Lyman?

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refusing to listen to that which goes against their worldview and then making things up to maintain their worldview

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considering their pfp is a Soviet emblem I'm not surprised lmao

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Are Ukrainians really going over the lake?

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feels like a dead trap if they fail

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but genius if they conquer quick enough and have enough boats for supplies

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I‘m surprised there‘s nothing on Nordstream here yet

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Swedish and Danish police and intelligence services are investigating in cooperation with Norway and Germany

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very based kazakhstan

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"Most of them are forced to leave because of the hopeless situation. We must take care of them" blobheart now that's how a nation in the global community should act

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I wouldn't find it that hard to larp as Russians either once you know the language

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that's mostly what I meant

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yeah it's unfortunately highly unlikely that that video is fake

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Bruh, all of the sham referendums have "over 90%"

They should at least try to make them look believable

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# leaden grove I‘m surprised there‘s nothing on Nordstream here yet

The most plausible motive so far for the sabotage, and it's almost certainly sabotage, on the Nord Stream pipelines is the Kremlin doubling down on putting as much energy price pressure on Europe as possible to destabilise the EU and reduce support for Ukraine; whilst also removing the arguments for doves in Putin's inner circle to push for de-escalation and returning Russia to an energy supplier of Europe.
Another potentially plausible theory is the sabotage of the pipeline is a way for Russian gas suppliers to bypass the cost of breaking contractual obligations due to unforeseeable circumstances.
I struggle to see any other nation or entity who would benefit or dare risk its reputation on getting caught using such underhanded tactics.

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Given how no other nation would have any particular benifit, and given they already stopped pumping fuel to the EU, the Puntin doubling down against the pressure for war to end so they can start selling oil again seems to be one of the more likely theories

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The fact it happened right next to the maritime borders of Sweden and Denmark is worrying too, although Denmark‘s PM said that this doesn’t constitute an attack against Denmark‘s territory

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gas leak under water

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jesus

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Apparently according to the vote the Russians had in Kherson, 97% of people voted to become Russian.

That’s very realistic 😍

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so true

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According to the RIA, 98.4% of people in Luhanks also reported they would like to join Russia

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And in Zaporizhia, an additional 93.1% of people said the same

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Idk about y'all. But something tells me these votes were rigged

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Russia being fascist??? Never

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To anyone who read a single page in a history book about it, not surprising

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Most people don’t know about it though

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Even though it reads like a description of current events, I‘ve met very few people here who are aware of this

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Nah, surely the people must REALLY want to join Russia. Why else would nearly 100% of the population not only participate in the election, but also vote for the people who attacked and destroyed their cities and homes? 😍😍😍

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Russia has NEVER rigged their votes in one way to get the result they wanted. NEVER. EVER. They would NEVER do that, because that would be so mean.

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of course not

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fucking dumbass

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Didn't russians go into the war with the assumption that everyone from Ukraine were "weak farmers" or something like that? I feel like I heard some kind of propaganda about that.

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Not breaking but thought it was interesting

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can't wait to hear about how a russian sub was detected in the area prior to the sabotage

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I remember when that was big news a few years ago of a sub being detected near Sweden

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we won with nearly all of the 13% of the population voting yes, time to annex 😎

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Until recently, russians have been enjoying the “Squid Game" series on @netflix
After russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Netflix left the russian market, but "Squid Game" remains.
@squidgame

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Azov SSO video showing destroyed Russian vehicles from the Kharkiv offensive. They say they cleared the towns of Izbytske, Ternova, Starytsya, and Varvarivka. They claims they destroyed 3 BMP-2, 2 BMP-3, and 2 T-80 tanks and captured a BMP-2 and MT-LB.
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Lukashenko is advising Putin not to worry about those fleeing mobilization:

"Let them run, they are traitors of their motherland anyway. They will ask to come back anyway. All who ran away from me are asking to come back!"

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yeah, and as the air gets colder, it'll be worse

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atm it's still 10 to 20 in the north-western side of the border, but north and north-east it's already below 0

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# copper monolith https://vxtwitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1575168725955018752?s=20&t=S4AlTA86YH68WX...
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Sergei Shoigu visited a base where Western Military District mobilized men are undergoing training. He was escorted by Colonel General Ivan Buvaltsev Chief of Main Directorate for Combat Training and Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov.
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Somehow, THIS is the most terrifying tweet I’ve seen from this war.

Russian children’s affairs czar, Maria Lvova-Belova: “When we brought 30 kids from Mariupol to Moscow, they were saying bad things about Putin and singing the Ukrainian anthem. We will work on this”

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Уполномоченная по правам ребенка в РФ Мария Львова-Белова: когда мы 30 детей из Мариуполя привезли в Подмосковье, они негативно отзывались о Путине, говорили гадости, пели гимн Украины; мы это исправим.

Прочтите ещё раз.
Вот так выглядит нацизм.

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You’d always thinks “No chance they would use nuclear weapons, they wouldn’t” but then I said the same thing about invading Ukraine

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Only time will tell our fate

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Not this again, The Russian leadership is woefully incompetent but it's never going to use a tactical nuclear warhead of any kind without Russian soil being encroached upon first - and no the Ukrainians don't have plans to push onto Russian soil since it would undermine the legitimacy of their defensive war. Putin himself implied in his recent speech that nuclear weapons would only be used in reciprocate, amongst the baseless claims of Western nuclear blackmail and the "I'm not bluffin'". Note also the Russians won't follow through on their threat if the Ukrainians liberate the recently illegally annexed territory in Crimea or the Donbass either. No one respects claims fabricated from the sham referendums not even the Russians.
There are many reasons why this conflict is extremely unlikely to escalate in such a manner - and by all means look through the arguments put forth in this chat back in march. I'm too tired to list them exhaustively.
This nuclear annihilation rhetoric is being spouted by loud mouthed Russian pundits trying to be as outrageous and bravado as possible who don't hold any real power in Russia.
Seriously don't listen to them, unless you enjoy a good laugh.

IMO If any nation is potentially going to start a pointless nuclear conflict it would be Pakistan.
Please don't fan the fearmongering flames it just causes a lot of unnecessary anxiety for people, while forwarding Russia's power projection.

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My bet is on israel to lob the first nuke in anger

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the first nuclear war will the the last nuclear war this world will ever encounter

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it will ever devolve into nukes, all of it is saber rattling

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NEW: Russian military leadership has likely failed to set information conditions for the potential defeat of Russian forces in #Lyman despite increasingly concerned discourse among Russian milbloggers regarding its potential envelopment by Ukrainian forces https://t.co/PgxSbjvRL6

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2/ Russian milbloggers and prominent military correspondents claimed that Ukrainian troops advanced west, north, and northeast of #Lyman and are working to complete the envelopment of Russian troops in Lyman and along the northern bank of the Siverskyi Donets River in this area.

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3/ The collapse of the Lyman pocket will likely be highly consequential to the Russian grouping in northern Donetsk & western Luhansk oblasts & may allow Ukrainian troops to threaten Russian positions along the western Luhansk Oblast border & in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk area.

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Китайская ILRS («Международная Научная Лунная Станция»), которая в РФ называется «Российско-Китайская база на Луне» больше нигде официально не упоминает РФ как участника

Теперь партнёрами Китая по лунной базе названы Германия, Швеция, Нидерланды и Саудовская Аравия

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#Ukraine: For the 1st time the AFU deployed an ancient but powerful M-240 240mm mortar, which was adopted by the USSR in 1950.

Interestingly, the M-240 was not previously known to be in Ukrainian long-term storage, however a mortar of this type was displayed in a museum in Kyiv.

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Nevertheless, it is known that Ukraine's arsenals contained an impressive amount of 240mm ammunition, including standard HE bombs & even rare rocket-assisted projectiles such as 3F2, cluster 3O8 & guided 3F5.
Though many have been disposed of, some remain and are now used.

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Все упускают главный вывод, который следует из начала мобилизации.
Путин не хотел ее объявлять, тянул до последнего. То, что он ее объявил, означает, что ВСУ перемололи всю российскую группировку и все резервы. Ни половину, ни две трети, а всю. Целиком и полностью.
Слава Украине!

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One of my defence sources in Moscow told me that Putin had three options after Kharkiv: Retreat, mobilize or use nukes

He opted to mobilize, which suggests that tactical nuclear weapons use might not be imminent

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U.S. assessments show that the risk of nuclear weapons use is elevated but still not probable

Likely because the use of a nuke would mean an admission that the conventional war was lost or because of concerns that it might trigger Article 5 at a time when Russia is caught cold

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Even though Ukraine is not a NATO member state, an Article 5 trigger is still possible because of radioactive fall-out

A bordering country to Ukraine, likely Poland, could invoke Article 5. A similar logic might apply to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear disaster, but its less clear-cut

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Meanwhile in Russia: every state TV program is feasting on Tucker Carlson's accusations that the Biden administration is somehow involved in causing the Nord Stream damage. Military expert loved Tucker's idea about cutting undersea internet cables & said, "Sure, why not?" Watch:

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A Ukranian sniper team targets a Russian armored vehicle with a Snipex Alligator 14.5×114mm anti-materiel rifle.

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I'm fairly sure the Russian vehicle is an MT-LB or some derivative. The MT-LB has anywhere between 7-14mm of steel armor, which the Alligator should be able to penetrate at range.

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Christ there are videos of this

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⚡️ Politico: US asks China, India to convince Putin not to use nuclear weapons.

The. U.S. officials are urging countries of the Pacific region to put pressure on Putin and communicate to him that the use of nuclear weapons will have a harsh response, Politico reports.

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"We'd made the point in a number of conversations with countries in the Indo-Pacific region – ally, partner, or otherwise – of the importance of speaking with one voice against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine," an unnamed senior State Department official told Politico.

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lol

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It did the job it was suppose to, sadly that is the last mine it will ever clear

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📢5-та Слобожанська бригада Нацгвардії України оглядає знищену російську техніку🔥💪🇺🇦

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Recent combat seems to indicate that direct tank engagements aren't always the norm, and indirect HE fire can disable or even destroy more advanced tank platforms.

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The HE one is a bit interesting

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I’ve almost never been killed by arty in WT, so I’ve been mostly brushing aside its anti armor capabilities

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I need more data than just a statement, but this is really interesting to me

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A drafted friend of a friend of a friend received this from Voenkomant today. Things they suggest soldiers to BUY before joining the army. They also recommend taking 15-20.000 Roubles of personal funds with themselves (about an average monthly salary in the region)

@Lanabi_la_Lova @AlexanderGerko It reads like a school hike packing list

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please

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Yes yes I know

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That was just a minor thing I brushed aside

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I only know Russian but like... I can probably understand more than half this song lmao, although I kinda have to guess on a few words

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HE from tanks is seldom used against other heavily armored AFVs

copper monolith
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yeah same

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What is this, medieval Europe? Where every soldier had to provide their own equipment

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medical Europe

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Autocorrect

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lmao

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lmao

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WT is more realistic than that, but yeah, it was really my primer into armored warfare

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It isn’t that realistic

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the funny thing about War Thunder for me is that people have leaked classified information about vehicles to tell the developers that they're unrealistic

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It’s very frustrating

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Terrible game

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Let’s leave WT

copper monolith
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I’m gonna try to find some stats for tank losses due to arty and HE

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If I find any that isn’t obsolete, I’ll post it here

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Olena Bila, wife of Azovstal Defender Viacheslav spent last months waiting - for her husband to come back from 🇷🇺 captivity, & their baby to arrive.

Her husband was exchanged. He is going through rehabilitation and should be home soon.

All the best to them!

📹: @suspilne_news

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Damn, finding any accurate sourced data is pretty hard

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but it's not really meant to get kills purely due to how inaccurate it tends to be

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its real purposes destroying infrastructure and morale

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but here's the kicker, ever since the war started we've been flooded with videos of the ukrainians pinpointing certain chokepoints the Russians use

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I just underestimated them

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it's not like just choosing an area you can't see and blowing it up

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yeah the Ukrainians have been doing these constant incredibly precise barrages alot

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it's pretty much been redefining artillery

gusty tendon
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The mood of Russia's top propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov in this clip can be summed up as "Hello darkness, my old friend." He demands some victories and complains that people are running away from Russia. He also sighs. A lot.

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HE shells are less effective and have been slowly phased out in the 70s with the development of composite armor which helps reduce shockwaves, reduce doesn’t mean eliminate however

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Honestly, a realistic video game would include the tank sitting in a tree line concealed for hours till it gets an order to move, gets destroyed, or finds a target, at that point it shoots a single round and more than likely retreats, modern warfare is a mess of the second you are spotted, you can and will be hit

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Gm NAFO

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To summarize, several Russian telegram channels are warning that the battle in Lyman is at a critical point and that Ukraine is advancing from the north and southeast. Possible that the pocket collapses tonight or tomorrow, which would overshadow the annexation announcement.

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It also sounds unlikely that Russia will be able to conduct a withdrawal without heavy losses.

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Of course, Russia is already facing a manpower problem and a lack of reserves in the Donbas. If it loses the forces in the Lyman pocket, that could lead to further advances by Ukraine deeper into the Donbas.

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And almost 60k casualties, that's like what, half of the forces at the very beginning?

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at the beginning it was 150k

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Yesterday, Russia's missile attack on Dnipro killed a family of four: 2 children, their mother, and grandmother.

Their dog was photographed today sitting on the ruins of their house. It was then taken to a vet clinic and got treatment.

(I don't know the artist, unfortunately.)

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The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, has absolutely lost it with Derbent's draft officers after they drove around with megaphones telling every man in the city to turn up at the conscription centre

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Man's fucking pissed

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Gonna ruin someone's annexation announcement

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На световом панно кинотеатра "Октябрь" на Новом Арбате крутят фейковую рекламу концертного тура Аллы Пугачевой по городам Донбасса — так ее троллят после антивоенных высказываний. Сегодня Пугачева уехала в Израиль вместе с детьми.

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In an intercepted call between a Russian soldier and his mother, she reveals her discontent with the fact that it is mostly the bordering, provincial towns, and villages that see mass mobilisation, while large cities like Moscow are untouched.

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I thought it said Sweden is Ukraine at first lmfao

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Fuck it, why not

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Kremlin bringing in a big crowd to show support for today’s annexations. A lot of convoys of buses heading by the Kremlin already. Employees of state companies have also been told to attend.

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Dozens of men clutching identical army ponchos getting off minibuses headed for Red Square for annexation event. Hundreds of riot police out, police and military vehicles in front of the Bolshoy Theater. In other words, everything as it always is.

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@leaden grovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ob8DUi7jPQ

Включайте Дождь в 15:00 мск!

Владимир Путин подписал указы о признании независимости и суверенитета украинских Херсонской и Запорожской областей. Большая часть этих регионов Украины оккупирована российскими войсками. Сегодня, как ожидается, Путин подпишет документы об их аннексии - включении в состав России. Признание их как независимых государ...

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lets see if this prick once again takes 12 hours again

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hm, won't actually be late I guess, the room is full of lawmakers and other important people

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oh hey, the tick tock man himself, Kadyrov, is there in Moscow and sitting next to it's mayor

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he is 10 mins late

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Uhuh

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oh no

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he's coming

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My mum's watching UK Column downstairs and they're talking about the referendums
I didn't stick around to hear what they were saying but considering everything I already know about them it's almost certainly pro-Russia

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tf is UK column

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is it like GB news

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aka far right bullshit

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I think so

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I looked up one of the hosts once and found out that he's a friend of Alex Jones

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i am indeed falling asleep

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Same

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I‘m making lunch with this in the background

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oh thank god the woman is talking over him

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what an incompetent joke of a government

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are you telling me the russian government is incompetent and a joke?

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Interesting

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Putin now acknowledges that the war started in 2014

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Yet he urges Ukraine to give up and enter negotiations

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I'm so glad they failed miserably

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He also vows to defend the "new citizens"

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Putin presents the "terrible 90s" as a contrast to the current age in which Russia is returning to greatness

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just came back after I went to make lunch for dad, I see he's still talking about nothingness

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Yep

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Y U P

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Now he‘s just ranting about how the US colonises and enslaves countries… the irony

copper monolith
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Like if it‘s just the currently occupied areas or everything

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@ non russian speakers, thread of what this humanoid is talking about https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1575822859662159873

Putin begins his speech. He starts talking about the "votes" to join Russia in Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine.

"The people have made their choice [...] this is the will of millions."

Thus follows what was called "thunderous applause" in the USSR.

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like

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no fecker watches them

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lol

leaden grove
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Truly a moment when speaking Russian comes in handy

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good

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and the bigger names like Andrew Neil have left

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@copper monolith what the hell is he talking about now, I zoned out for a sec

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I'm struggling to pay attention

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its honestly amazing

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he's very talented at making a large speech completely full of bullshit

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It really is

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Big words with no meaning

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Why are we talking about Hiroshima now??

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Bro

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all the things he's saying the West did, he's literally doing the same right now at this very moment in Ukraine

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Yeah

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And the Soviet Union pulled a lot of shit too

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Like he mentions the bombing of Dresden, but not the Soviet bombing of Tallinn

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"the listening of Putin's speech should've been done with a psychiatrist, not a political analysist" TRUE

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Haha just heard that too

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and the mass raping of Berlin's women

leaden grove
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what_is_a_siberian_front.jpg

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"it feels like he's gonna announce a war with the US instead of the annexations"

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he is literally schizo posting on Russian state tv

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smh that's the job of ur propagandist

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looking at the watch waiting for him to get to the fucking point already

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fuuck I shouldn't listen to this schizo vent on 2 large cups of coffee

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OH MY GOD

copper monolith
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????????

leaden grove
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😭

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WHAT DO TRANS PEOPLE HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING

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WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

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Now he‘s talking about gender

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"Do we really want to have parent 1 and parent 2 instead of mum and dad?"

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if I didn't care about my monitor I'd punch it so hard

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satanism

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satanism = west, russia = hesus

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I feel bad for future history students

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Imagine having to analyse this in class

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This is basically the first Information Age war

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oh thank god he's ending it

leaden grove
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thank god it's over

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holy fuck what as schizo shitpost

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thunderous applause

copper monolith
# copper monolith @ non russian speakers, thread of what this humanoid is talking about https://tw...

Putin says southeastern Ukraine is actually part of Russia because the Russian state's predecessors ruled it, it was part of the Russian empire, and because the USSR fought to free it from the Nazis in World War II.

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this is just

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what the fuck am I listening to

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Bullshit

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That’s what

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lol holy fuck Dozd's stream was at over quarter of a million viewers by the end

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Amazing

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shitshow time

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my brain melted

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gonna need to splash some cold water on my face lol

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Why are they doing this?

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My face rn

fossil horizon
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It's like theater

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Alexander Kots:
▶️Lyman encircled, Yampil abandoned, Drobysheve falling
▶️Ukrainian sabotage-reconnaissance groups active along supply road to Svatove, parts of which under AFU artillery control
▶️Russia inexplicably wasting missiles and drones elsewhere.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1575718258451546112?t=O3F69Dr4U1epAlSIhN7wEA&s=...

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😑

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What's the point of just saying "I own this now" and signing random papers

gusty tendon
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I’m honestly just… the bullshit is fucking with me

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Litteraly no one believes them

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I am very confused

copper monolith
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the signing will just be more useful to attempt to make his people believe that their brothers and dads are dying for a "good cause"

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Argh it's so dumb it hurts

copper monolith
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Just why did this whole war begin again?

fossil horizon
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What’s the point of continuing it?

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That’s what makes the least sense

copper monolith
lilac sparrow
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Standing in the same room as Putin probably reduces your iq by 25% like it’s a fucking video game

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It's just an accident that Polish soldiers spoke German

gusty tendon
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Imagine how Facebook is reporting the war

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I don't want to imagina that

copper monolith
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It’s better to focus on his height then his bullshit

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W8 I just realized Putin made this territory into an NFT

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He has the paper that says he owns it but that's it

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Uh what did I miss?

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Brain melting time

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That’s what

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I read the text above quickly and seems like Putin had a very smooth brain talk

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It’s hypocrisy, and he keeps spewing it

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Thanks Val

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I'm so drinking tonight to recover my head lmao

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The West isn’t perfect, but this is absurd

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putin was quoting here

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from the new prime minister of Italy

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Oh lord

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fucking Italy

viral junco
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They took the L

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You love to see it

copper monolith
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its actually fucking funny how so many tankies claim that these countries want to liberate queer people or some shit

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ikr

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Pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in the Kremlin Grand Hall adds his commentary after Putin's speech:

"We'll conquer everyone, we'll kill everyone, we'll loot whoever we need to, and everything will be just as we like it."

↘️ Quoting Двач (@ru2ch)

«Всех победим, всех убьём, всех кого надо ограбим, всё будет как мы любим»

Боец батальона «...

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yet another shithead that rolls his Rs as bad as me

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# copper monolith https://fxtwitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1575850093995257856?s=20&t=bg0lnX069k4uI...

Meanwhile on RT's show "Beautiful Russia," propagandist argues that Russia shouldn't worry about the way events like Bucha are being perceived or covered in the West. Instead, he says, Russia should lay into that: "Yes, that's how we are... We'll show you even more. Fear us!"

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Only Turkey and Hungary are left to ratify Sweden and Finland’s nato membership

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Oh I was wondering how that was going, we haven't had anything on the Aussie news about it for a while

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"Khokhol" is an awful slur

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lore on the real life 40 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi74gPrn24Y

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The Russian soldier, who is not the sharpest tool in the box by his own mother's admission, tells her in this intercepted call how their unit's medic treats soldiers by putting crosses with "zelyonka" antiseptic (brilliant green) on the forehead of those who have complaints.

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For nearly seven months, the war in Ukraine was not really regarded as a genuine war by the Russian government. The fighting would be done not by a fully mobilised Russian force, but by regular units, mercen...

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fuck I'm so behind on his vids

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Independent TV

“Anglo-Saxon” powers blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, Vladimir Putin has alleged.

The Russian president directly accused “Anglo-Saxons” of sabotaging major underseas pipelines carrying Russian natural gas to the European Union.

“The sanctions were not enough for the Anglo-Saxons: they moved onto sabotage. It is hard to believe but it is a fa...

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????

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The Anglo-Saxons???

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Like… the medieval era Anglo-Saxons????

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Who does he claim ordered the attack, fucking King Æthelred?

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They've invested so much into causing unrest using groups that call themselves 'White Anglo-Saxon Protestants' that they legitimately believe the 'Anglo-Saxon' part is a term to describe certain nations...

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Although the face is censored and there's not much blood, a body's a body so I'm posting a screenshot instead

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⚡️ Russia vetoes UN resolution condemning illegal annexation of Ukrainian oblasts.

Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution, introduced by the U.S. and Albania, condemning Russia’s illegal annexation of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson oblasts.

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Of the 15 member states, 10 voted in favour, Russian opposed, while China, Gabon, India and Brazil abstained.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that the U.S. will now turn to the 193-member UN General Assembly to condemn Russia’s illegal annexation.

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Why is Gabon on that list

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I get China, India and (kinda) brazil

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But Gabon??

copper monolith
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It’s kinda like having North Korea as the head of the UN Conference on Disarmament (which it is)

stable girder
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No i know that gabon exists

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Im just confused as to why they would abstain

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I dont see the connection

copper monolith
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yeah unsure about that either

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Gabon did become the president of UNSC today for the month, so maybe they didn't want to vote in case Russia would veto their presidency too?

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there are 10 non-permanent seats

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Which are voted in for 2year terns

stable girder
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a lot of african states have been abstaining since the start of the war

stable girder
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why

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russia has a big influence on parts of the continent

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military, diplomatically and economically

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and the needs of local politics often overweighs international politics
(Not defending it, just saying how it is)

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Cant believe charlotte supports russia smh

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new hideous russian map

limber wagon
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ew

copper monolith
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too big

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Meanwhile OSM just prevented users from editing the border lol

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Not before someone tried though. They got banned

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tankies DansGame

limber wagon
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yeah

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it is literally tankie wikipedia

limber wagon
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omg that exists

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Reminds me of conservipedia, a wikipedia for conspiracy conservatives

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Or the incel wiki

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ProleWiki

The 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict is a proxy conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the latter of which is backed by the imperialist United States.
The conflict began with Russian military operations in 24 February 2022 with an incursion on Ukrainian-administered territory.
In 2014, the US installed a pro-Western government by lev...

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First sentence and its already gold

copper monolith
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prolewiki is such a shitshow lmao

limber wagon
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Horseshoe theory

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God damn, this article is yuuge

copper monolith
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why is that article in the mobile format

limber wagon
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idk, but its 220k characters long

copper monolith
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christ

limber wagon
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Damn, 1946 huh

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seems like it was an unfortunate plane landing, some ammunition blew up

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epic embed fail

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italy no longer getting russian fart

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I wonder how popular zelensky is in Ukraine rn

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I’m genuinely curious about his approval ratings

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they did certainly rise

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Last time I checked (which was like 4 months ago) it was crazy high like 80%

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They would have probably changed somewhat by now

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Ukrainians using a BMP-1 at a ballistic trajectory (with correction coming from a drone and Kropiva (Nettle) targeting software). Not the first time the Ukrainians have fired weapons guided by UAV, surprisingly effective.

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The BMP-1 fires either the OG-15V round with the OG-9MZ FRAG-HE grenade (first image) or the PG-15V High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) round (second image), both 73mm.

Seen here, footage from Eastern Ukraine, September 2022, a thermal imaging drone from KRAKEN, guides indirect tank fire towards Russian positions.

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groovy music warning for the 3rd post