Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital

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[bannork]

British troops saying goodbye to the Ukrainians they've trained 

 

[bannork]

The beheading of a Ukrainian soldier.

Atrocious leadership or systemic barbarism to induce terror?

 

[Bkk Brian]

2 hours ago, bannork said:

The beheading of a Ukrainian soldier.

Atrocious leadership or systemic barbarism to induce terror?

 

Just what you'd expect from a country presiding over the UN Security Council. Another clear war crime.

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[Tug]

10 hours ago, bannork said:

The beheading of a Ukrainian soldier.

Atrocious leadership or systemic barbarism to induce terror?

 

Things like this tend to stiffen resistance as well as the resolve of Ukraines allies slava Ukraine ???????? 

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• Some 354,000 Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February last year, according to a trove of purported United States intelligence documents posted online that also warned the war could last well beyond 2023.
• Ukrainian officials condemned the Russian military after a video circulating on social media appeared to show the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner.

[Mavideol]

On 4/12/2023 at 4:04 PM, Bkk Brian said:

Just what you'd expect from a country presiding over the UN Security Council. Another clear war crime.

they should just dissolve that useless association or remove for life the 2 extremists with veto power, UN is outdated and doesn't fit the current world democracies, it's an advantage for totalitarian regimes

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Former top Kremlin economic advisor Sergei Guriev says Western sanctions are working but warned that the billions Putin still gets will be used to kill Ukrainians.
The Russian economist, who fled Moscow in 2013, says the price cap on Russian oil appears to be working, meaning less money for the Kremlin to buy military technology from third countries like India, China and Turkey. But while Russian technocrats are working to keep the economy afloat, “they help Putin to continue destroying Russia's future.”

Asked about whether Putin has changed his long-term goals, Guriev, now a professor at Sciences Po in Paris, says the president has always been corrupt: “He's not an empire builder - he's more of a palace builder.” 

 

(Apr 13, 2023 / 26 minutes, he touches plenty of topics, see respective chapters ...)

 

 

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[onthedarkside]

An unapproved video source with conspiracy theory claims from Hersh has been removed

[bannork]

A comprehensive analysis of likely scenarios this year and beyond.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraines-best-chance

[bannork]

Maybe it was the chance of rain, maybe it was the lack of available tanks, whatever.

 

[candide]

2 hours ago, bannork said:

A comprehensive analysis of likely scenarios this year and beyond.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraines-best-chance

Excellent article.

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[rudi49jr]

One very lucky Russian soldiers. Although I imagine he’s going to have quite a headache….

 

 

[rudi49jr]

More and more stories and testimonies coming out of Russian atrocities in Ukraine. This one is particularly disturbing because the perps show no remorse whatsoever while telling how they shot little kids through the head. Absolutely disgusting, nazi-behavior of a country claiming to have invaded Ukraine to de-nazify it. 

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

3 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

More and more stories and testimonies coming out of Russian atrocities in Ukraine. This one is particularly disturbing because the perps show no remorse whatsoever while telling how they shot little kids through the head. Absolutely disgusting, nazi-behavior of a country claiming to have invaded Ukraine to de-nazify it. 

 

 

Now also picked up by CNN

 

Two Russians claiming to be former Wagner commanders admit killing children and civilians in Ukraine

Two Russian men who claim to be former Wagner Group commanders have told a human rights activist that they killed children and civilians during their time in Ukraine.

The claims were made in video interviews with Gulagu.net, a human rights organization targeting corruption and torture in Russia.

In the video interviews posted online, former Russian convicts Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev – who were both pardoned by Russian presidential decrees last year, according to Gulagu.net – describe their actions in Ukraine, during Russia’s invasion.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/17/europe/wagner-commanders-russia-kill-children-intl-hnk/index.html

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1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Now also picked up by CNN

 

Two Russians claiming to be former Wagner commanders admit killing children and civilians in Ukraine

Two Russian men who claim to be former Wagner Group commanders have told a human rights activist that they killed children and civilians during their time in Ukraine.

The claims were made in video interviews with Gulagu.net, a human rights organization targeting corruption and torture in Russia.

In the video interviews posted online, former Russian convicts Azamat Uldarov and Alexey Savichev – who were both pardoned by Russian presidential decrees last year, according to Gulagu.net – describe their actions in Ukraine, during Russia’s invasion.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/17/europe/wagner-commanders-russia-kill-children-intl-hnk/index.html

Let's hope this all comes out when it's all over, and they are found and  prosecuted.

Including the ring leader Putin.

Nuremberg MK.II style....

[rudi49jr]

Apparently Prigozhin and his Wagner group are exploiting quite a few gold mines in Africa, including in Sudan. They smuggle the gold back to Russia to fund their war in Ukraine. Interesting article:

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/17/what-is-the-wagner-groups-role-in-sudan

 

It just goes to show that Prigozhin’s/Wagner’s only interests are money and power, and they will do literally anything to get it.

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6 hours ago, transam said:

Let's hope this all comes out when it's all over, and they are found and  prosecuted.

Including the ring leader Putin.

Nuremberg MK.II style....

it needs to come out before it's all over, so that we won't allow for it to be over too soon, so that Putin and the other criminals against humanity won't be allowed to keep any of what they hope to have gained.

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If only, hindsight is a wonderful thing but this one cost Ukraine, the West and thousands of Ukraine lives.

 

Clinton regrets persuading Ukraine to denuclearize in 1994

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said in an interview with RTÉ that he regrets persuading Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal.

“I feel a personal stake because I got them (Ukraine) to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” he said.

https://news.yahoo.com/clinton-regrets-persuading-ukraine-denuclearize-220402205.html

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[rudi49jr]

New recruitment video for the Russian army. Hilarious.

 

 

[rudi49jr]

Scarface Vlad: Putin spotted with mystery ‘prominent scar’ on his neck as rumours about ‘thyroid cancer battle’ swirl. 
 

Looks like a big Z on his throat to me. How appropriate. 
 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22086904/vladimir-putin-mystery-neck-scar-rumours-thyroid-cancer/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

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Troll post removed

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Blast leaves ‘huge’ crater in Russian city on Ukraine border

Blast leaves ‘huge’ crater in Russian city on Ukraine border | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

 

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