Countdown to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

mellowyellow said:
A recent survey conducted by the Ukrainian research company Active Group shows that 86.6% of Russians support the idea of launching an attack on a country of the European Union, including Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/03...ntial-military-attack-on-eu-countries-survey/

Could this be his end game?
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There's a new law in Russia that says you can get up to 15 years in prison for dissension. I don't think we should put much stock in any polling of the Russian people right now.
 

mellowyellow said:
NATO estimates that between 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war. By way of comparison, Russia lost about 15,000 troops over 10 years in Afghanistan. The estimate was based on information from Ukrainian authorities and what Russia released intentionally or not….

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...enskiy-as-he-decries-constant-bombing-of-city
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The sad thing is, a lot of those Russian soldiers had no idea what their mission was until the invasion began and were lied to about Ukraine's hostilities. They were told that Ukraine was an imminent danger to Russia and was going to attack, so Russia had to attack them first for national security.

Many of the Russian soldiers were in the military purely as a way to survive under Putin's oppressive regime and had absolutely no ill will towards the Ukrainian people. Their families, on the other hand, may have a bit of ill will towards Putin once the corpses start arriving home. Given Putin's character, he'll probably make the dead soldiers families' pay for the burials.
 
mellowyellow said:
Russia is secretly transporting its dead and wounded soldiers to Belarus to disguise the true number of casualties in Ukraine, reports say. Eyewitnesses told RadioFreeEurope that the morgue in Mazyr, Belarus, is overflowing with corpses and that wounded Russian troops are flooding the area's hospitals. One eyewitness told the outlet that he had seen many "black sacks" being loaded from military ambulances onto Russian railway cars.
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Reports on today's news have the death count of Russian soldiers at 15,000. I doubt that Putin cares.
 

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Smoke rises after shelling near a seaport in Berdyansk, Ukraine, on March 24. (AP)

The port of Berdyansk in southern Ukraine was rocked by a series of heavy explosions soon after dawn on Thursday. Several Russian ships had been unloading military equipment at Berdyansk in recent days, according to reports from the port by Russian media outlets.

The Ukrainian armed forces said that, besides destroying the Orsk, "two more ships were damaged. A 3,000-ton fuel tank was also destroyed. The fire spread to the enemy's ammunition depot. Details of the damage inflicted on the occupier are being clarified."
 
Source: Zelenskyy's video address, including inter alia address to Russians

Verbatim: "We are doing everything to end this war. And when we succeed - it will happen without a doubt - you will be sure of at least one thing: your children will no longer be sent to die on our land, on our territory. Therefore, you, the citizens of Russia, should also be interested in peace." "Save your sons from the war. Tell the truth about the war. And if you can leave Russia to avoid paying your taxes sustaining the war, do it. "

"Isn't that nonsense? Your state collects taxes from you to make you poorer, to isolate you from the world, to make it easier to control you, and to make it easier to send you to war to die."
 
Informative from an insider citizen. Great command over language and motivations at deeper levels, entertaining incl some good laughs at media.

Watch This Russian Journalist and Former Politician Predict the Outcome in Ukraine Back in April 2021

 
My thoughts always go to the animals in any terrible situation, and especially in this tragic war.
Different organizations and groups are trying to save as many dogs as they can .. This tears at my heart.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/hero-vet-braves-ukraine-battle-zone-to-rescue-animals/

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-60593791

They have a Zoo in Ukraine too, and some of the animals have been transported out of the country.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/simba-the-lion-wolf-safely-evacuated-from-war-torn-ukraine/
 
Bonnie said:
My thoughts always go to the animals in any terrible situation, and especially in this tragic war.
Different organizations and groups are trying to save as many dogs as they can .. This tears at my heart.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/21/hero-vet-braves-ukraine-battle-zone-to-rescue-animals/

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-60593791

They have a Zoo in Ukraine too, and some of the animals have been transported out of the country.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/simba-the-lion-wolf-safely-evacuated-from-war-torn-ukraine/
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I feel bad about the animals too Bonnie, I had heard about that Zoo. Bless all the good people helping these desperate Ukrainians and their pets. I can't imagine going through what they are. :( Here's a Ukrainian woman fleeing with her dog and two cats, my heart goes out to all these people. Hoping soon this genocide by Putin comes to a halt and they cant get back to their normal life there. Russia/Putin needs to pay for all the destruction his senseless war has cause Ukraine, I won't hold my breath though.

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Tish said:
What the Hell? Putin has just put a bid in to hold the European Football championships in the year 2028.
Has he completely lost his mind?

After threatening the West he wants to play football with the world.
Like anyone in the West or Europe will consider sending him Hostages.

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Yes, I truly believe he has lost his mind and any semblance of being in touch with reality. That's what isolationism and narcissism does to someone. :(
 
40 min. podcast from NPR public radio about some things that may have led up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. For those interested.

On a recent reporting trip to cover Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Time reporter Simon Shuster visited an air base on the Polish side of the Ukrainian-Polish border. Watching as U.S. planes brought in loads of weapons for Ukraine, Shuster felt like he was standing on the brink of something massive.

"What you see is basically a constant cycle of these enormous C-17 military cargo planes landing, unloading their cargo, taking off again, day and night," he says. "Standing there, there is a bit of a feeling in the pit of your stomach that we are on the edge of a really era-defining war. We're already in it."

Born in Moscow, Shuster immigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1989. He reported on the EU and the former Soviet Union for Time from 2013 to 2020 (he's now based in New York for Time) and has interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy three times. Shuster describes Zelenskyy's wartime leadership as a "lesson in courage."

Clearly, Russia was planning this war for a long time. Putin had this in mind, at least as a possibility for a long time. And what he did in imprisoning Navalny and banning his political organization was he essentially destroyed the main group, the main political leader who could mount an anti-war movement in Russia. He did that well before he launched this invasion. And we can't say for sure whether the two events were connected, but with hindsight, it does look like Putin was preparing the political field in Russia to prevent any kind of organized anti-war movement from arising once the invasion was underway.
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https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088480292/ukraine-russia-war-simon-shuster
 
Tish said:
What the Hell? Putin has just put a bid in to hold the European Football championships in the year 2028.
Has he completely lost his mind?

After threatening the West he wants to play football with the world.
Like anyone in the West or Europe will consider sending him Hostages.

Full Story
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He's a selfish tyrant, drunk with power, power that he finds himself slowly losing due to his brutal genocide in Ukraine. Most of these types are psycho.
 
Tish said:
What the Hell? Putin has just put a bid in to hold the European Football championships in the year 2028.
Has he completely lost his mind?

After threatening the West he wants to play football with the world.
Like anyone in the West or Europe will consider sending him Hostages.

Full Story
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I feel the man has lost his senses. I actually think he's become insane, something is very wrong with him...
 
hollydolly said:
Russian troops who have been captured by Ukrainian forces have urged their people to rise up against President Vladmir Putin as they tell the world of fellow soldiers being thrown in mass graves.

A group of Russian soldiers spoke out against their government during a press conference with news agency Interfax-Ukraine, telling fellow citizens to not 'look at the zombies.'

Alexei Zheleznyak, Mustafaev Mugsad, Igor Rudenko, Alexander Fomenko and others nearly wept as they told the press conference of their opposition to the Russian invasion, according to The Mirror.

Mr Zheleznyak, a soldier of the 34th separate motorized rifle brigade stationed in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic of Russia, told the conference he warned Putin he would never be able to send enough troops to Ukraine to take over.

see the video here... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eader-having-comrades-thrown-mass-graves.html
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I'm glad those soldiers have the gumption to speak up...the Russian people need to know the truth from sources they deem credible. The Ukrainian forces ain't no joke either! I continue to be amazed by their fortitude and am praying for all the Ukrainian people.
 
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