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Looking like commanders are retreating in Donetsk - makes a lot of sense why die needlessly if you are overwhelmed and have lost you best units to Kursk, and the war may finally be coming to some sort of conclusion. The land is broken, the remaining inhabitants are likely pro-Russian , have an armistice - allow both sides to beleive they have won, then build massiven defeces and re-arm. It works both ways. But to the last Ukrainian isn't a policy. Ukaraine can hold it's head up high they haven't lost morally and they have forged a new albeit smaller nation state and the world can move on and best of all the killing stops and we can go back to discussing the cheapest beer and breakfasts in Pattaya.I'm afraid this isn't  the Lord of the Rings and Sauron doen't die or at least not yet.

 

 

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One source of information I follow on Ukraine is Willy OAM, an aussie soldier with an inoperable brain tumour who served in Afghanistan and volunteered in Ukraine. Now back home he reports on the war through his Telegram and YT channels. Though he’s in principle pro Ukraine given that he fought on their side, his reporting is most definitely neutral, showing successes and failures of both sides as they happen. In addition, he’s got a wealth of contacts in other foreign volunteer fighters there on the ground. He sifts through all Telegram channels, war mappers,… and does an excellent job distinguishing fact from fiction. All the other channels on Telegram and YT are biased and in effect propaganda. The pro Russian channels only report Russian successes and Ukrainians striking civilian targets and vice versa for the pro Ukrainian channels. Willy OAM is the place to be if you want to have a rough idea of what’s really happening in this war. That and Redditt.

 

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Running out of fire retardant foam, in the strongest economy on earth?

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57 minutes ago, balo said:

Norwegian and Danish F-16's are now performing active missions and have been used successfully, also inside Russian territory. Reports of the missions have been classified ,  few details are coming out. 

Unfortunate then that you can't prove that. If true it's as good as a declaration of war.

I'm reading that as saying Norwegian and Danish pilots are flying them, but if you didn't mean that best you had said so. If they are being flown by Ukrainian pilots they are Ukrainian planes.

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15 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Looking like commanders are retreating in Donetsk - makes a lot of sense why die needlessly if you are overwhelmed and have lost you best units to Kursk, and the war may finally be coming to some sort of conclusion. The land is broken, the remaining inhabitants are likely pro-Russian , have an armistice - allow both sides to beleive they have won, then build massiven defeces and re-arm. It works both ways. But to the last Ukrainian isn't a policy. Ukaraine can hold it's head up high they haven't lost morally and they have forged a new albeit smaller nation state and the world can move on and best of all the killing stops and we can go back to discussing the cheapest beer and breakfasts in Pattaya.I'm afraid this isn't  the Lord of the Rings and Sauron doen't die or at least not yet.

 

 

One wonders if it's an attempt to draw the Russians into a trap by pursuing the retreating Ukrainians beyond their supply lines. Wouldn't be the first time a victory turned into a defeat by falling for that one

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Ukrainian troops keep killing civilians in Kursk. Civilian casualties on the rise.

 

"More than 30 civilians killed in Ukraine’s Russia incursion

 

More than 30 civilians have been killed and 140 injured in Russia’s Kursk region since Ukraine’s incursion two weeks ago, medical services said on Wednesday.

 

“As of the morning of August 21, 31 people have been confirmed dead as a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the Kursk region,” a spokesman for the medical services told official Russian news agency TASS.

 

Another “143 have received injuries of varying severity. Of these, 79 people have been hospitalized, including four children,” it added.

On Tuesday, Russian authorities had reported 17 dead and more than 140 wounded as a result of the Ukrainian offensive.

 

https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2024-08-21/more-than-30-civilians-killed-in-ukraines-russia-incursion/

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2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Yea right, says Russian health authorities, do you know how many civilians were slaughtered and massacred by Russians in Ukraine?

 

You do know a civilian is a civilian, whether they're Ukrainian or Russian? What makes a Ukrainian civilian death worse than a Russian civilian death?

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3 hours ago, Cameroni said:

Ukrainian troops keep killing civilians in Kursk. Civilian casualties on the rise.

 

"More than 30 civilians killed in Ukraine’s Russia incursion

 

More than 30 civilians have been killed and 140 injured in Russia’s Kursk region since Ukraine’s incursion two weeks ago, medical services said on Wednesday.

 

“As of the morning of August 21, 31 people have been confirmed dead as a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the Kursk region,” a spokesman for the medical services told official Russian news agency TASS.

 

Another “143 have received injuries of varying severity. Of these, 79 people have been hospitalized, including four children,” it added.

On Tuesday, Russian authorities had reported 17 dead and more than 140 wounded as a result of the Ukrainian offensive.

 

https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2024-08-21/more-than-30-civilians-killed-in-ukraines-russia-incursion/

There is collateral damage and then there are war crimes, guess which side commits which.

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