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

[Chomper Higgot]

4 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

My brain works fine thanks and I have an opinion of the situation which I have made clear in pass posts. 

I agree with many people like Peter Hitches.

But not too keen to agree with Ukrainians fighting for the liberty of their own country.

[RJRS1301]

Perhaps his doctors need to work out if it the alleged use of steroids which have caused this aggression or not.

 

[Kwasaki]

Just now, Chomper Higgot said:

But not too keen to agree with Ukrainians fighting for the liberty of their own country.

Over emotional suicide,  live to solve the future later there's no country coming to help them. 

[sammieuk1]

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

Yeah is it crazy and so odd to want to saves lives on both sides so just keep giving Ukraine arms to prolong the slaughter that make sense doesn't it. 

It makes a bit more sense when someone is firing rockets and shells into your house????  

[jollyhangmon]

Here the exposure of foreign banks in russia summed up per country as of last September, some will not be particularly amused I'd reckon ...

 

1.  Italy

2. France

3. Austria

4. USofA

5. Japan

 

 

https://stats.bis.org/statx/srs/table/b4?c=RU&f=pdf

 

... on the other hand russian Sberbank closes down in Europe, good riddance.

That might hurt your average savings customer in mostly former soviet union member states where several smaller institutes have been taken over by Sberbank over about the last decade ... depends on the local consumer protection in that regard, if any.

Can only hope that they also had a lot of dosh loaned out there, 555 ...

 

Oh, btw. closing down everywhere but Switzerland, hollarehdulliöhhh ... now, where will tovarish Vladovaz have his secret 'little' bug out bank account one might wonder ...?!

Hello? Switzerland?

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

There's a health aspect to this unfolding tragedy also, as per Johns Hopkins March 3 COVID update:

 

"The WHO warned on February 27 the country [Ukraine] has dangerously low supplies of medical oxygen, a key tool in treating people hospitalized with COVID-19 and other diseases. The agency announced its first shipment of medical aid for Ukraine will arrive in Poland today, but details about last-mile delivery to Ukrainians in need remain unclear."

 

Meanwhile, the WHO under WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus, in its statement about the situation (Russia's invasion of Ukraine) "avoided naming Russia as an aggressor during their press conference, instead focusing on calls to stop attacks on civilians and medical institutions."

 

Ghebreyesus' WHO, back to its old China-COVID tricks, ever deferring to autocracies...  So, the United Nations can/did condemn Russia's invasion, but the WHO won't.

 

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/COVID-19-Updates---March-3--2022.html?soid=1107826135286&aid=Eaxshkc7nZg

 

 

 

 

 

[onthedarkside]

Please stop with posting the various trolling and made-up images of Putin.

 

Yes, he's a dictator who has invaded Ukraine. But this is a news forum topic, and posting those types of images is just trolling, in violation of forum rules.

 

[coolcarer]

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

My brain works fine thanks and I have an opinion of the situation which I have made clear in pass posts. 

I agree with many people like Peter Hitches.

You have made it clear, an unprovoked invasion can proceed unabated with disregard to international law. If his was allowed to happen the world would be owned by just one dictator.

 

Fighting for your home, family, culture and way of life is not suicide in the eyes of those who fight. It is fighting for the freedom you deserve. A basic human right.

[Kwasaki]

51 minutes ago, coolcarer said:

You have made it clear, an unprovoked invasion can proceed unabated with disregard to international law. If his was allowed to happen the world would be owned by just one dictator.

 

Fighting for your home, family, culture and way of life is not suicide in the eyes of those who fight. It is fighting for the freedom you deserve. A basic human right.

I've made it clear I do not support Putin and I don't want Russians to throw their lives away anymore than I want the Ukrainian people throw their lives away. 

As for home I guess agree as old as I am I would fight for Thailand as it my home but I wouldn't fight for the UK. 

[coolcarer]

13 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

I've made it clear I do not support Putin and I don't want Russians to throw their lives away anymore than I want the Ukrainian people throw their lives away. 

As for home I guess agree as old as I am I would fight for Thailand as it my home but I wouldn't fight for the UK. 

Let me remind you what you said. It’s not about both sides it’s about Putin stopping now and nothing else. Your opinion is about stopping arms to Ukraine to stop the fight. Get it now Vlad?

 

“Yeah is it crazy and so odd to want to saves lives on both sides so just keep giving Ukraine arms to prolong the slaughter that make sense doesn't it. “

 

[rudi49jr]

4 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Yeah is it crazy and so odd to want to saves lives on both sides so just keep giving Ukraine arms to prolong the slaughter that make sense doesn't it. 

Don’t you think the best way to save lives on both sides would have been for Russia not to have invaded Ukraine in the first place? That would have saved the thousands of lives lost so far, don’t you think? And don’t you think the best way to save further loss of lives on both sides would be for the Russians to stop their illegal invasion and retreat back to their own country. I can guarantee you that would save many lives, on both sides, as you seem to be so keen on emphasizing.

[rudi49jr]

Looks like Putin means business. Such a nice guy…..

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-survives-three-assassination-attempts-in-days-xnstdfdfc
 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-survived-3-assassination-attempts-in-last-week-report-2803158
 

 

[farmerjo]

5 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

I suspect as a hero who led from the front lines despite not getting the support he needed from the west in terms of enough military aid.

 

We already know how Putin will be remembered...........

I would say a leader who believed in the west and put his people to the sword over false promises.

He has been asking for a no fly zone,next time he might choose his friends differently.

[Jingthing]

34 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

Looks like Putin means business. Such a nice guy…..

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-survives-three-assassination-attempts-in-days-xnstdfdfc
 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-survived-3-assassination-attempts-in-last-week-report-2803158
 

 

War criminal.

[farmerjo]

20 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

War criminal.

What does that mean?

As far as i can see it takes years to prove from the ICC and the UN are only good for humanitarian aid.

The world needs a reset in the rules,there pathetic.

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, farmerjo said:

What does that mean?

As far as i can see it takes years to prove from the ICC and the UN are only good for humanitarian aid.

The world needs a reset in the rules,there pathetic.

The ICC, whose jurisdiction Russia doesn't recognise, has gone to Ukraine to investigate war crimes now. There's obviously some prima facie evidence thy occurred. We've all seen it on TV.

 

[rudi49jr]

4 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

What does that mean?

As far as i can see it takes years to prove from the ICC and the UN are only good for humanitarian aid.

The world needs a reset in the rules,there pathetic.

What kind of reset would that be? The kind that Putin is in the process of executing? 

[ozimoron]

State media repeat Beijing’s position that the United States and its European allies are to blame for the Ukraine war because they failed to respond to Russian concerns that its democratic neighbor should be barred from joining NATO, the Western military alliance.

 

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-china-seeks-to-unify-public-support-1a0fbda7db0554ca40569470fa48db6c

[ozimoron]

...reports coming out of Ukraine that Russian soldiers are sabotaging their own vehicles because they don't want to take part in the invasion is a bad omen for Vladimir Putin.

 

https://www.rawstory.com/vladmir-putin-nightmare/

[Bkk Brian]

18 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

What does that mean?

As far as i can see it takes years to prove from the ICC and the UN are only good for humanitarian aid.

The world needs a reset in the rules,there pathetic.

It means what it says, war criminal.

 

The UN security Council meeting was vetoed by Russia as a result they voted on Sunday to call for a rare emergency special session of the 193-member UN General Assembly on Russia’s invasion. Only 10 such emergency special sessions of the General Assembly have been convened since 1950.

 

That text gives the Assembly the power to take up matters of international peace and security when the Security Council is unable to act because of the lack of unanimity among its five veto-wielding permanent members. The result of that vote we already know, demand that Russia end ‘aggression against Ukraine’

 

The ICC, International Criminal Court team have already headed to Ukraine for the war crimes investigation. Plenty of evidence with the cluster bombs and residential shelling, some urban area's look like Syria.

 

So there is bureaucracy but what do you expect when 193 member nations have to get together quickly but they have moved fast, probably faster than ever before.

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, farmerjo said:

I would say a leader who believed in the west and put his people to the sword over false promises.

He has been asking for a no fly zone,next time he might choose his friends differently.

Nato was clear from the beginning that they could not enforce a no fly zone, the risk of all out WW3 being far too great especially when the madman upped the anti by putting the nukes on high alert level.

 

Its a very difficult debate to say whether they should enforce one.

[rudi49jr]

1 hour ago, rudi49jr said:

Looks like Putin means business. Such a nice guy…..

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zelensky-survives-three-assassination-attempts-in-days-xnstdfdfc
 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-survived-3-assassination-attempts-in-last-week-report-2803158
 

 

Not entirely sure if this is true, but apparently FSB operatives who don’t agree with Putin’s invasion, foiled these plans by informing Ukrainian intelligence agencies of all three upcoming attempts. So Putin may be dealing with a fifth column in his own intelligence community. Wouldn’t that be something.

[Hummin]

36 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Nato was clear from the beginning that they could not enforce a no fly zone, the risk of all out WW3 being far too great especially when the madman upped the anti by putting the nukes on high alert level.

 

Its a very difficult debate to say whether they should enforce one.

Im positive Nato will intervene at some point. Just listen to Stoltenberg whole speach today, and you will understand there is more to the words he say that have ben carefully chosen for him. 
 

 

[sammieuk1]

Thought firing a missile into a nuclear plant might galvanize NATO but its like a rabbit in the headlights again as this terrorist thug rampages through a civilized country ???? 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, farmerjo said:

What does that mean?

As far as i can see it takes years to prove from the ICC and the UN are only good for humanitarian aid.

The world needs a reset in the rules,there pathetic.

You know what it means.

[Yellowtail]

10 hours ago, farmerjo said:

What does that mean?

As far as i can see it takes years to prove from the ICC and the UN are only good for humanitarian aid.

The world needs a reset in the rules,there pathetic.

They are not even good for that, unless you consider spending ten dollars to deliver fifty-cents in aid good. 

[Chomper Higgot]

10 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

Not entirely sure if this is true, but apparently FSB operatives who don’t agree with Putin’s invasion, foiled these plans by informing Ukrainian intelligence agencies of all three upcoming attempts. So Putin may be dealing with a fifth column in his own intelligence community. Wouldn’t that be something.

The existence of such a ‘5th Column’ is debatable, but it’s a debate Putin cannot afford to engage in.

 

A number of special forces units have been exposed, captured and killed.

 

This will be big screen stuff feeding Putin’s already demonstrated paranoia.

 

Enjoy.

[Chomper Higgot]

36 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

They are not even good for that, unless you consider spending ten dollars to deliver fifty-cents in aid good. 

Unfounded nonsense.

 

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/133843435

[tgw]

Russian death squads fire at civilians:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/british-journalists-shot-by-russian-saboteur-death-squad

 

[Bkk Brian]

10 minutes ago, tgw said:

Russian death squads fire at civilians:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/british-journalists-shot-by-russian-saboteur-death-squad

 

The link in that article takes you to the Sky News video of the actual incident where the UK Sky news journalists were ambushed and shot. Scary stuff and very lucky to be rescued and alive.

 

"On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale of the mayhem and violence as Russia's invasion enters a new and deadlier phase."

https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-teams-harrowing-account-of-their-violent-ambush-in-ukraine-this-week-12557585