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Ukraine drone footage showing eleven direct Storm Shadow hits on the Russian command post for their Kursk counter-offensive operations. Despite Russia claiming to have destroyed all the Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft adapted to launch them, it appears at least six were used to launch these missiles. The accuracy is pretty amazing too, repeatedly landing on the same target, probably to ensure the underground command centre is penetrated and destroyed.

They brought in North Koreans, and now it turns out that the Russians are also conscripting Ukrainians from occupied territory to fight against their own country: "Russia has bolstered the ranks of its army with conscripts from the occupied territories of Ukraine, according to Russian state media. Recruits from the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were formally inducted at a ceremonial rally in Crimea last week, a Kremlin-controlled broadcaster reported, adding they will serve in occupied eastern Ukraine." Russia enlists more Ukrainians from occupied regions to fight their own country – POLITICO "Moscow-installed occupation administrations (in occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions) regularly posted announcements on Telegram channels, calling on the local population eligible for the military service to provide personal data and copies of IDs for "temporary registration" and subsequent conscription." Russia's autumn conscription: How many of the 133,000 draftees will end up in Ukraine? | Euronews And the same item states that, under Russian law, conscripts are not allowed to be sent to fight outside the country. However, they get around that by declaring the occupied regions are part of Russia, and by having conscripts sign contracts with the army, allowing them to be deployed anywhere. And, if you're conscripted, you don't even need to sign a contract to be given one: "... the main thing is that the practice of falsifying documents is very widely used. The contract is signed for the conscript (by recruiters who) put an 'x' in the signature box. The soldier finds out about it when he receives a bank card and documents about allowance..." Seems Putin is breaking his own country's laws (though when did he ever care about that), as well as international ones (ditto), in order to provide meat to the mincers. And his apologists keep trying to tell us he already has enough soldiers.

There's always one...

https://apnews.com/video/war-and-unrest-kyiv-ukraine-international-494558863b454a2bb95441c50f16f79a

Yes. Humanity will survive, just fine. Until Trump is sworn in.