Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025

[frank83628]

On 3/20/2025 at 2:52 PM, rabas said:

 

Textbook Russian propaganda—top to bottom deflection from their illegal grab, militarization, and reckless endangerment of Europe’s biggest nuclear plant. Ukraine shelling it? Sure, and they blew up their own dam too, right? Meanwhile, the IAEA’s just thrilled with the chaos.

Just like Russia blew up their own Nordstream pipelines🤔

[kwonitoy]

Same speech writers apparently 

[kwonitoy]

[thaibeachlovers]

22 hours ago, rabas said:

A good reminder to pro Putin laughing all way posters what despot Putin is really about. 

 

He greatly upped his civilian kill while saying he wanted peace. Latest of many examples:

 

Anything new to add, or just recycling the same old propaganda?

 

Meanwhile back in the real world........

[frank83628]

9 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

Same speech writers apparently 

Trump is stating the facts, zelensky was going to the talks in April 22, Boris Johnson flew out and put a stop to it. AUK&US told zelenkey they'd back him and to keep fighting, never expecting Trump to win the election.

You had 3 yrs of MSM lies under Biden, now you're hearing the truth but your brain won't accept it.

[Bkk Brian]

The terrorists in action yesterday attacking civilians with drones

 

Russian forces attacked civilians in Kherson with a drone while they were restoring a building. Another deliberate strike on innocent people just trying to rebuild.

 

[zmisha]

12 hours ago, kwonitoy said:

Same speech writers apparently 

Agree. The same for sure. However, there are two possible options: the speechwriter supports Russia or the speechwriter supports the USA.
All these nice people on Russian TV - they seem to say pro-Russian things. However, they say anything about Trump (mostly good things) 10 times more often than about Putin. As a result, a large number of Russians have an unconscious conviction that their real president is the American president - and they should listen to him and not to Putin.

[Digitalbanana]

[frank83628]

On 3/24/2025 at 9:41 AM, Bkk Brian said:

The terrorists in action yesterday attacking civilians with drones

 

Russian forces attacked civilians in Kherson with a drone while they were restoring a building. Another deliberate strike on innocent people just trying to rebuild.

 

So did someone just happen to be filming that building for no apparent reason and just happened to catch a russian drone strike?

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, frank83628 said:

So did someone just happen to be filming that building for no apparent reason and just happened to catch a russian drone strike?

mmmmm, can't get down to that level of logic to explain, sorry. You need to work that one out yourself. 

[rabas]

NEW: As Ukraine steps up  attacks on Russian military and energy infrastructure, Putin strives for mass civilian casualties. One of several new attacks on civilians and children:

 

[Bkk Brian]

Not new, from last month. February 20 2025  but for those who fail to acknowledge that Russians themselves film their own war crimes. Here they are in their glory doing exactly that.

 

'Film me!’: Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs point to a policy | FT Film

https://www.ft.com/video/cffdbfff-8bc3-4f9b-824c-b37c848f2cb4

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=619232557560059

[rabas]

On 3/24/2025 at 11:29 AM, Digitalbanana said:

 

Unfair, they gave Jesus 9 months to comeback and a peace deal just 7 days?

 

But the anti Christ wanted Ukraine in 3 days, now well into his 4th year and still "winning" as Russia's economy continues to die. Removing Putin would help everyone including Russians.  

[Mavideol]

the guy with principles and integrity was standing up to the moron without any integrity, respect or principles, that's a point that he couldn't understand

 

Zelensky on Trump-Vance meeting: ‘What I wanted to show were my values’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelensky-trump-vance-meeting-wanted-185859232.html

 

[Mavideol]

things are going from bad to worse in Russia's economy, last resort they have to sell state assets, maybe not a lot of countries have money to buy oil & gas

Russian economy meltdown continues as Kremlin forced to sell state assets

 

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/russian-economy-meltdown-continues-as-kremlin-forced-to-sell-state-assets/ar-AA1ByC2p?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=49ac53ee0daa4bd9a909bd3d2bbb5d0a&ei=63

[thaibeachlovers]

On 3/24/2025 at 3:41 PM, Bkk Brian said:

The terrorists in action yesterday attacking civilians with drones

 

Russian forces attacked civilians in Kherson with a drone while they were restoring a building. Another deliberate strike on innocent people just trying to rebuild.

 

I've said it before, but if Ukraine keeps attacking Russia with drones they can expect a reply they don't like.

Zelensky knows that, but keeps attacking Russia ( even when the end is not far off )- what a numptie!

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, rabas said:

 

Unfair, they gave Jesus 9 months to comeback and a peace deal just 7 days?

 

But the anti Christ wanted Ukraine in 3 days, now well into his 4th year and still "winning" as Russia's economy continues to die. Removing Putin would help everyone including Russians.  

the anti Christ

 

Aw, a cute name for Putin . Never mind that he doesn't fit any of the criteria for being the anti Christ.

Keep 'em coming, we need more cute on here.

[problemfarang]

First beer tonight...

Time to forget the front.. hello bangkok

[Bkk Brian]

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I've said it before, but if Ukraine keeps attacking Russia with drones they can expect a reply they don't like.

Zelensky knows that, but keeps attacking Russia ( even when the end is not far off )- what a numptie!

Lame attempt to justify Russian war crimes against civilians repairing a roof because you warned about retaliation that will not be liked. Great example of how morally corrupt you really are.

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@frank83628 yet another troll post has been removed, yet another of your posts that offers nothing to the topic of discussion other than deflect a credible link. Once more and you will also be removed yet again.

[Hakuna Matata]

Further considerations on the significance of the U.S.-Russia-Ukraine agreement on a maritime cease-fire.

 

The most important prompt for reconsidering the maritime cease-fire agreement lies in the terms set by the Russians for its implementation, namely a long list of the sanctions, financial and otherwise, relating to Russian farming, fishing and fertilizers which the U.S. must lift before the cease-fire comes into effect.

Interestingly, The Financial Times actually took the time to examine the demanded sanctions relief and put out some highly relevant figures showing that the sanctions have not prevented the Russians from finding alternative export routes and other work-arounds to continue their export earnings from food and fertilizer products. Indeed, as they cite, “Russian fertilizer exports hit a record 40mn tons last year and are expected to increase by up to 5 per cent in 2025….” They omit to say that news of the maritime cease-fire instantly caused the prices on global fertilizer markets to fall by 4%. Nor do they tell us who has really suffered from the restrictions imposed on the Russian fertilizer industry:  European and other world farmers and global consumers due to lower crop yields and higher food prices.

Indeed, thanks to work-arounds the Russian remained all this time the world’s biggest grain exporters, but the work-arounds distorted global trade flows and added to prices everywhere.
Nonetheless, true to their disposition to fault the Russians at every turn, for what they do and for what they do not do, the FT concludes that the real purpose of the Russian negotiators was not to free up trade in farm, fish and fertilizer products but to roll back Western sanctions generally, to create ‘holes in the western sanctions regime,’ rather than to boost exports.

I freely admit that they have a point. And yet there is more to the story than they put out. They do not mention the requirement that Russia now be given sanction-free access to acquire agricultural machinery and equipment needed by the fishing and fertilizer industries.

Over the past three years of sanctions, Russian producers of agricultural machinery such as harvesters, tractors and the like have stepped up their product assortment to fill gaps left by the departing U.S. and other Western manufacturers.  Through parallel trading via third countries like Turkey, the Russians have procured spare parts for previously purchased Western equipment.  But this has greatly complicated operations and led to production shortfalls versus what could have been achieved in normal times. Once implemented, the removal of sanctions surely will lead directly to a reentry into the Russian market of John Deere, FMC and other American manufacturers, resulting both in greater U.S. exports to Russia and greater efficiency for the Russian operators in the domain.

Last night’s Vladimir Solovyov show added several further considerations on the subject worth repeating here. One is that the single biggest beneficiary of the removal of sanctions on Russian agricultural exports will be…China.  After all, China alone accounts for half of all Russian export sales of grains. Supplies will henceforth be greater and prices, lower.  The U.S. itself will also benefit, they say, because lower global food prices also mean lower food prices domestically in the USA, which is good for the Trump administration in its fight against inflation.

Panelists on the show called attention to the greater credibility that the USA now has in the Kremlin following the conclusion of the agreement on a maritime cease-fire in its assumed role of honest broker or intermediary. The visuals of the talks in Riyadh suggest that U.S. negotiators were going back and forth between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in the same hotel to help them arrive at a deal.  The reality, say the panelists, is that all negotiations were between the U.S. and Russian teams. They reached agreements and then the U.S. team took their decision to the Ukrainians and imposed it on them, like it or not. This, per the Russians, is the only way that an eventual peace treaty can be achieved.
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Now let us look at one aspect of the Trump administration’s foreign policy initiatives that no one is talking about: their impact on U.S. military equipment sales abroad.  The widely held assumption is that this administration like all of its predecessors is beholden to the military industrial complex for delivering votes of the Congressmen it controls on any given piece of legislation.

Yet, the steps to end the war in Ukraine that we see the Trump Team pursuing in such haste, will turn off the spigot of weaponry to Kiev and work against the sales projections of the arms manufacturers.

It is less obvious but more relevant that all of the uncertainty that Team Trump has caused and aggravated in Europe over its reliability as a defense shield works directly against the interests of U.S. arms manufacturers. We see this in the ongoing discussions in Germany about breaking their contract for purchase of the F-35 multipurpose jets. While Europeans are now allocating hundreds of billions of euros for procurement of defense equipment, the emphasis is on placing orders with European defense suppliers, not Americans. The Europeans have belatedly come to see that the U.S. can at any moment withhold its approval for use of its military hardware in any given planned military operation. Or it can cut off supplies of spare parts, thus rendering the expensive acquisitions useless. While the nuclear warheads stored in European bases turn these countries into targets for Russian attack, their use against Russia depends entirely on the mood of Washington at any given moment. These facts were always present, but the possibility of U.S, reneging on its defense obligations never seriously existed before the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House.