▶Latest >Russia has asked China for military help and aid, US officials say, Russia denies it >Ukraine says 140,000 civilians have been evacuated from some front line locations >30 Russian missiles were fired at a military training base, near the border Poland, killing foreign volunteers >"Russia diluting international deployments in Armenia & Nagorno-Karabakh to reinforce operations in Ukraine, pulling additional forces from far east" - ISW >Putin reportedly fired several generals & arrested FSB officers in internal purge >Ukrainian forces kill the commander of Russia’s 29th Combined Arms Army, the third general killed so far >Putin orders Instagram to be blocked in Russia, 80m Russians use Instagram >Kremlin approves plan to send 16,000 arab "volunteers" to fight in Ukraine >US warns Russia could be planning a chemical or biological attack >Maternity hospital in Mariupol badly damaged in Russian airstrike, 3 dead, 1 a child >Russia accuses US of conducting bio-warfare research in Ukrainian labs, US denies it. >Major General Vitaliy Gerasimov, of Russia’s 41st Combined Arms Army, eliminated by Ukraine's military intelligence operators >Kherson & Melitopol only major cities under Russian control, large protests in both cities
>I spoke to "Karl," an Estonian expert on Russia's military, for an update on the situation in Ukraine. Karl's observations follow. >No significant developments over the weekend. The frontline around Kyiv remains similar. Ukraine has regained 70% of Irpin or the little that has remained of it. In some areas there is a tiny advance of Russian units >Regarding the south: Ukrainians have control over some parts of Volnovokha but not all. Russia still controls the eastern parts of it. Russia remains roughly in the same positions around Mykolaiv, and actively attacks Severodonetsk >As the weather has improved, there are fears of a Russian landing in Odessa. Allegedly Russian ships are back near Odessa but this time a bit farther away >If Russia doesn't have access to Odessa from the land (it hasn't been able to destroy air and naval defence) it would be risky to try a landing with ships. Ukraine would destroy the ships. >Finding a compromise between Ukraine and Russia is still hopeless. Russia's minimum would be full control of the two "people's republics" and land access to Crimea >Ukraine won't go for that unless Kyiv is in real danger of falling. Every day that the war continues brings Russia's minimum demands lower >Reports are that Russian troops have started digging trenches. This indicates positional warfare. Russians are "very far" from encircling Kyiv. This encirclement would need to be 300km long and very tightly sealed >Possibility of a more intensive attack from the Russian side in the next 2-3 days but still nothing to suggest it would break the balance. Russian goals would be to get Kyiv, Kharkiv or cut off Ukraine from the sea (Odessa). I can't see them getting success with any of this >Morale, which we have heard so much about, is continuing to fall. Reports of Russian troops surrendering for food and self-inflicted injuries to get out of the war
>I'm watching it literally right now lmao Not really.
>Dude seem to imply that being friends with Russia and protected by it is "annexation" because why would anyone be friends with Russia otherwise Listen, when you join the EU, you get proportional representation in the parliament, you get your country leader at the council able to vote and even block the vote of other EU leader, you get to place your own guys at the commission and veto any candidate at the presidency of the commission if you do'nt like it. And once you enter, you can Veto any new country candidacy if you don't like it.
Tell me what kind of prerogative you get if you join the PUTIN STRUNK alliance?
>Totally unlike with the US and its "allies" If you enter the NATO, you also get to veto any military operation if you do'nt like it (see Iraq)
no one would go to war for Putin. We have already sent several flights of humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Hunter Watson
>Even if China promises equipment, it would be a question of months not weeks to happen. That said, the U.S. is very concerned about China's decisions. Revealing the info about Russia's request goes in line with U.S. tactics in the case: reveal to hinder or stop from happening. > FSB lacks resources to control occupied areas (Kherson). FSB needs their manpower to repress back home. > It's noteworthy that it was the counter-intel FSB (5th Service) that was tasked with foreign intelligence regarding Ukraine (and not the SVR, GRU). The heads of service under home arrest are close to 70 years old. > In a Western agencies you wouldn't find people older than 55 in respective positions. The same gang has been there for 25 years. It doesn't make the system work any better.
Eli Sanders
>Tell me what kind of prerogative you get if you join the PUTIN STRUNK alliance? You get Colonel rank for your tribe chief youtu.be/1JNtiO7nhmo
Isaiah Evans
>Ukraine would destroy the ships. So we can assume Russia will try to do that
Parker Butler
Yeah, we know and we still sanction you. that we are ready deprive ourselves of that should tell you a lot of how much of a shitfest Putin has committed to push us to do that.
that was my point.
Luke Cox
>front window cover isn't even closed They are very confident aren't they
EVERY VATNIC IN THIS THREAD MUST POST HIS WRISTS. IT'S FOR SCIENCE. DO IT.
Angel Cook
Even if Azerbaijan didn't have enough gas, there's also Turkmenistan. The problem was alway Russia controlling Armenia and invading Georgia to prevent pipes from being built.
