Ukraine

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Alexey Navalny
@navalny
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1/14 How an ordinary Russian TV viewer (one of whom I currently am) sees it.

I learned about the monstrous events in Bucha yesterday morning from the news that Russia was convening the UN Security Council in connection with the massacre by Ukrainian Nazis in Bucha.
2/14 In the evening, the Channel One anchor explained everything. And I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears:
3/14 "NATO has been preparing he provocation in Bucha for a long time and at the highest level. It is also confirmed by the fact that President Biden called Putin a "butcher" not long ago”.
4/14 “Listen how consonant the English word "butcher" and the name of the city "Bucha" are. This is how the Western audience was subconsciously prepared for this provocation."
5/14 I'm telling you, the monstrosity of lies on federal channels is unimaginable. And, unfortunately, so is its persuasiveness for those who have no access to alternative information.
6/14 My point is that Putin's propaganda has long ceased to be a tool. They are actual warmongers and have become a party in their own right.
7/14 The endlessly squealing anchors and their "experts" are revving up their fury and have long since surpassed the military in their aggressiveness.
8/14 They demand a war to the bitter end, storming Kyiv, bombing Lviv. Even the prospect of a nuclear war does not scare them. They mop up the floor with their fellow Putinists on live television if they as much as hint at the fact that peace talks are a good thing.
9/14 It's such a disgusting uroboros. Politics is a propaganda snake biting its own tail. Propagandists create the kind of public opinion that no longer simply allows Putin to commit war crimes, but demands them of him.
10/14 Warmongers should be treated as war criminals. From the editors-in-chief to the talk show hosts to the news editors, all of this Thousand Hills Radio should be sanctioned now and tried someday.
11/14 I would also like to remind you that the National Media Group, which owns the lion's share of this lie machine, no doubt belongs to Putin personally, which is why it is even formally headed by Putin's mistress Alina Kabaeva (see our investigation "Palace for Putin").
12/14 Most drastic measures should be taken to make the work of these Goebbels heirs more difficult. From a complete ban on the supply and service of equipment, to searching for their assets in the West (which undoubtedly exist) and putting them on visa blacklists
13/14 The monstrous atrocities in Bucha, Irpin and other Ukraininan cities were committed not only by those who tied the hands of peaceful people behind their backs, not only by those who shot them in the back of the head.
14/14 But also by those who stood by and whispered: "Come on, shoot, give us some nice material for our late-night TV show

[McD]

A lot of what has been said and demonstrated on this thread is truly horrifying and distressing, it’s indescribable how even evil humans can be.


just wanted to say thanks to Stairway for their efforts in the information being shared, and I hope you are not being traumatised by what you’re seeing


also thanks to Hibrandenberg for the really insightful detail about how Germany’s national psyche and approach has driven their responses on many levels

[Smartie]

I've just been watching the press conference that the White House press sec has been giving.

It's amazing how much better she comes over than the last couple of presidents ever have.

[Stairway 2 7]

A lot of what has been said and demonstrated on this thread is truly horrifying and distressing, it’s indescribable how even evil humans can be.


just wanted to say thanks to Stairway for their efforts in the information being shared, and I hope you are not being traumatised by what you’re seeing


also thanks to Hibrandenberg for the really insightful detail about how Germany’s national psyche and approach has driven their responses on many levels

It's no bother just copying and pasting really. Found it difficult sleeping on Sunday night after seeing everything from Bucha coming through, but sure everyone was just as horrified

[WhileTheChief..]

Alexey Navalny
@navalny

Just noticed he recently had an extra 9 years added to his sentence, for contempt of court charges!

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https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1511425069372817410

James Longman
@JamesAALongman
THREAD from Bucha.
Abc news

We met Mykola. He and his wife spent a month living in the cellar of his apartment building. When the Russians arrived, they killed all the men below 50. He’s 53. He told us this shaking with the trauma of it. They gave him 20 minutes to bury his friends.

Three graves sit just opposite his apartment block. Each marked with a wooden plank and a religious icon attached. He wanted to give them whatever dignity he could. ‘But it’s too shallow,’ he says, almost apologetically. ‘I just wanted to protect them from the dogs

Two of them were shot in front of him. Another had a grenade thrown at him. His body parts sat on the ground for days, until at last he was allowed to gather them, put them in a bag, and bury them. One of these graves is smaller than the others

Russians asked for documentation when they got there. Anything in your papers that made them think you were a threat, and you were dead. He said they made the men strip off, looking for tattoos. Perhaps military tattoos

Russians squatted in their apartments. The regular front rooms of innocent Ukrainian families, turned into the wartime dormitories of drunk, violent thugs. A mess of blankets and old food and contempt

We went to the mass grave satellite images have seen near the church. We saw bags of bodies dumped on top of other victims who were either wrapped in sheets or nothing at all

Brave locals went out to collect the dead from the street during the occupation. We were told there could be as many as 90 people in these graves. This whole town is a crime scene

But a final bit of hope. Aid trucks made it to Bucha today. And residents came out to sing after they made their deliveries. Ludmilla, in blue, is a particular ray of light. Joy

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Larisa Brown
@larisamlbrown
Ukrainian soldiers turned up in droves to receive UK training on anti-tank weapons in the days before the invasion, British troops have told
@thetimes

In some cases treble the number of troops expected would turn up for the two-day course near Lviv, in western Ukraine - they were all trained

UK troops also reveal the extent of the training mission for the first time. They trained Ukrainian soldiers in counter-sniper techniques, how to defend against heavy artillery and how to fight in urban battles in locations across the country

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-training-key-to-ukraines-determined-professional-resistance-hcg2bh9fs

WAR IN UKRAINE
British training key to Ukraine’s ‘determined, professional’ resistance

[Oscar T Grouch]

I've just been watching the press conference that the White House press sec has been giving.

It's amazing how much better she comes over than the last couple of presidents ever have.

Psaki is a breath of fresh air and best of all competent at her job. The bar has been so low for this position for years so it’s nice to see it raised again.

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Psaki is a breath of fresh air and best of all competent at her job. The bar has been so low for this position for years so it’s nice to see it raised again.

Noticed Republicans are slight favourites to win the next election 5/6. tTrump favourite for election and 3/1 compared to next favourites Biden 5/1 next De Santos at 6/1 which might be just as bad. Quite unbelievable and depressing. More positive is Macron 1/5, although a right wing prick its better than Le Pen

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
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The #Dutch government has arrested 14 yachts belonging to #Russians, NOS reports.

12 of the yachts are still under construction, two others are in the country for maintenance

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Jennifer Rankin
@JenniferMerode
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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the EU has given €35bn to Vladimir Putin in energy payments since the start of the war, compared to €1bn given to Ukraine in arms and weapons

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https://twitter.com/eskelinen_antti/status/1511604470286675974

@eskelinen_antti
Drone video of trenches excavated by #Russia`ns in the #Chernobyl radiation area.

[Keith_M]

Irony from isreal

Barak Ravid
@BarakRavid
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BREAKING: Israeli foreign minister Lapid accuses Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine: “The images and testimony from Ukraine are horrific. Russian forces committed war crimes against a defenseless civilian population. I strongly condemn these war crimes


Some irony from the country that made a deal with Putin so they could remove Jewish citizens from the Ukraine.

[Smartie]

https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1511629396523864067?cxt=HHwWhsC-vau7sfopAAAA

[stu in nottingham]

https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1511629396523864067?cxt=HHwWhsC-vau7sfopAAAA

Italian-style 'house warming'.

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@KraftTea
Leonid Nevzlin, fmr. exec of Russian oil co. Yukos, gave an interview saying Russian Def. Min. Shoigu traveled to N. Korea & China, begging for missiles which Russia has run out of & can't replace, due to 70-80% foreign parts.
China refused to meet w/ him!

[Ozyhibby]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czech-republic-sends-tanks-ukraine-czech-tv-reports-2022-04-05/

Czech tanks are in.[emoji106][emoji122]


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[Ozyhibby]

Jennifer Rankin
@JenniferMerode
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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the EU has given €35bn to Vladimir Putin in energy payments since the start of the war, compared to €1bn given to Ukraine in arms and weapons

That’s a disgrace.


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[Smartie]

That’s a disgrace.


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I don't think this whole situation tips the other way until the EU/ German oil and gas situation tips the other way.

Not suggesting for a second that it's an easy one for them but they need to find a solution to this, quickly.

[ronaldo7]

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1511668285665906691

Ukrainian family scheme a "complete mess".

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@UAWeapons
#Ukraine: 2 days ago, the Operational Command "East" of the Ukrainian Army posted video that claimed to show "over 40" Russian vehicles destroyed by Ukrainian Artillery fire on a Russian rear base.

We did not publish it, as we couldn't verify the claim or the target. However

It actually turns out that this claim was legitimate, with at least 35 vehicles totally destroyed or damaged; mostly supply or fuel trucks, but with BMP/T-72 variant also. This is a serious blow.

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
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Pope Francis condemns 'massacre of #Bucha', describes town as 'martyred'

Pope Francis has condemned “the massacre of Bucha” and held up a #Ukrainian flag sent from the town at his weekly audience in the #Vatican’s auditorium

[Ozyhibby]

https://alexmassie.substack.com/p/the-debatable-land-17-ukraine-needs?utm_source=twitter&s=r

Worth a read.


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[stoneyburn hibs]

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1511668285665906691

Ukrainian family scheme a "complete mess".

Quite simply a hollow gesture.
I've had 2 emails since registering to host,both saying nothing really apart from an acknowledgment.

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Cremating bodies, unbelievable

Alex thomson
@alextomo
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Credible reports of Russians using mobile cremation trucks to dispose of civilian bodies (and thus potential war crime evidence) in Mariupol. Reports say they’re using separatists from Donbas to do the work

Ukrainian soldier at checkpoint this morning. “Where you from?” “Britain.” “Britain? Give my love to Boris.” Those anti tank missiles have gone down quite well

Meanwhile we have a special report detailing evidence of potential Russian war crimes in a completely new part of Ukraine away from Kyiv. Coming up on tonight’s
@Channel4News
at 7 on 4. Details later on here

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked Orban during today’s presser which side he considers the aggressor.

Orban:

“It’s obvious, there’s a war in Ukraine, the Russians have attacked Ukraine. Russians are the aggressors. This is the EU position & Hungary also holds that position

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
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Anti-war protest at the #German Embassy in #Vilnius

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[Ozyhibby]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/liz-truss-announces-uk-asset-freeze-against-russias-biggest-bank?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1649258554

The end of the year???
Putin gets his money’s worth out the Tories, that’s for sure.[emoji35]


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[grunt]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/liz-truss-announces-uk-asset-freeze-against-russias-biggest-bank?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1649258554

The end of the year???
Putin gets his money’s worth out the Tories, that’s for sure.[emoji35]

LOL. And that's only the coal and oil. The pledge to end the import of Russian gas is "as soon as possible thereafter".

i.e. Never

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Class. George Galloway is greeting that twitter have added Russia state affiliated media to his profile. They have done this for everyone working for RT.

George Galloway
@georgegalloway
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Russia state-affiliated media
Dear
@TwitterSupport
I am not “Russian State Affiliated media”. I work for NO #Russian media. I have 400,000 followers. I’m the leader of a British political party and spent nearly 30 years in the British parliament. If you do not remove this designation I will take legal action

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Class. George Galloway is greeting that twitter have added Russia state affiliated media to his profile. They have done this for everyone working for RT.

George Galloway
@georgegalloway
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46m

Russia state-affiliated media
Dear
@TwitterSupport
I am not “Russian State Affiliated media”. I work for NO #Russian media. I have 400,000 followers. I’m the leader of a British political party and spent nearly 30 years in the British parliament. If you do not remove this designation I will take legal action

He's actually just deleted the rt reference from his profile because everyone kept putting screenshots of it in the reply to his tweet.
25761

[grunt]

The UK Government "Homes for Ukraine" scheme:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/homes-for-ukraine-refugee-britain-hosts


A policy of indifference to the plight of Ukrainian refugees would be morally repugnant, but honest. Millions fleeing the criminal butchery of Vladimir Putin’s army would be told that they were not welcome in Britain and should seek sanctuary elsewhere.

That is not the UK government line. Instead, something more insidious has taken shape – a device for mixing the desperation of displaced people with hospitality offered by the British public, and feeding both into a bureaucratic mangle so every drop of uncertainty and dread can be wrung out. That is the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Making pain from generosity is an innovation in nastiness that no single Whitehall department could achieve. It takes a special failure of collaboration involving Michael Gove’s Levelling Up department, Priti Patel’s Home Office and the special ingredient – Boris Johnson’s delinquent inattention to detail.

The scheme was launched on 14 March after Downing Street realised that public opinion was appalled by the absence of a fast track for Ukrainian refugees. Gove told MPs that British people, having “opened their hearts”, would also “open their homes”. But Patel held the keys.

By the end of the month, 32,200 applications had been made, and only 4,700 visas issued. Those numbers describe the contours of a bottleneck. They cannot convey what happens inside the bottle, the desperate lives pressed against its glass edges, the slow suffocation of promises, the frightened look back at scenes of cold-blooded massacre and other atrocities in a homeland under threat of genocide.

About 4.2 million refugees have fled Ukraine, with a further 6.5 million internally displaced. One is supposed to be staying with my family in Brighton. We made contact via friends of friends. As sponsors, we helped apply for a visa. The case is now suspended in an administrative void with thousands of others. Just to reach that stage requires navigating an online system that could be the hardest level in a Kafka-themed video game. And you need a computer and a stable internet connection, which are not always available to refugees.

We send what reassurance we can into the blackout, to faces made pale by the light of a phone screen and by fear of Russian missiles. What to say? There is a good news story about the system as it is meant to work. Then there is reality, gleaned from conversations with MPs, charities, local government and Whitehall officials.

There are delays at every junction. Documents uploaded online seem not to be appearing in the UK visa service database. Those applications aren’t even in limbo. They are in the antechamber before limbo. Once across the threshold they enter the “hostile environment” – the notorious Home Office apparatus for limiting numbers of people entering Britain. I am assured that this machine is being repurposed to maximise permissions for Ukrainians, but the infrastructure of rejection is not easily reassembled.

The department’s watchword is security, which means presuming that anyone crossing the border without a British passport is up to no good – fraud, espionage, terrorism. Visas can only be issued once the relevant checks are carried out using a limited number of specialised computers. It all takes time. Desperate mothers and traumatised children are not above suspicion.

The default to mistrust is hardly new. Fear of admitting jihadist interlopers stalks the processing of Syrian and Afghan asylum claims. Even in the second world war, some Jewish refugees from the Third Reich were interned in British prisons because they were citizens of Germany or Austria. The extreme unlikelihood of Jews harbouring secret allegiance to Hitler was not taken into account.

Meanwhile, the rest of Whitehall is grappling with the fierce complexity of an open-ended refugee settlement programme that was just a website when Gove declared it open. British sponsors finding their own matches with Ukrainian refugees is just phase one. The scheme will then be expanded “rapidly” to include charities, churches and community groups.

That upscaling process is happening mostly in circumvention of the Home Office, deemed more an obstacle than a partner. Mobilising the goodwill and spare rooms of the British public was a neat idea in theory that gets untidy on inspection of practicalities. The task falls mostly to local councils, which have to worry about host suitability, standards of accommodation, school places for children who might also need support for trauma. There will be pressure on services that are already rationed by budget cuts.

Refugee charities worry about what happens to new arrivals whose sponsors are disqualified or pull out. What happens when support payments for hosts expire after six months? Already there is a problem of bogus sponsorship by human traffickers and other predators using the government’s vague promise of welcome as cover to harvest victims for exploitation. Such are the gaps in ministerial thinking that civil servants, councillors and voluntary groups are frantically trying to plug. Privately, they say the scheme is more gap than substance – a Potemkin policy launched to dispel bad headlines, with nothing behind it. “Not thought-through” is the phrase I keep hearing.

In other words, the policy for Ukrainian refugees is exactly like every other policy of Johnson’s government. There was a moment of political urgency, a humanitarian crisis that stirred the nation’s conscience. Alarm bells rang in Downing Street, where public opinion must serve as proxy for conscience. The prime minister wanted the ringing to stop. A plan was hatched; not so much a plan as an idea. Barely an idea; a slogan: “Homes for Ukraine”.

Then someone has to deliver the plan. The rhetoric must somehow be lifted off the page, propped up in three dimensions, spread across departments, filled with resources. By then the news caravan has moved on and Downing Street’s focus is elsewhere.

Johnson is clearly enjoying his status as a friend of Ukraine. The emergency has lifted his spirits by relegating domestic scandal down the news running order. But the prime minister’s friendships are always lopsided. He is interested in the rugged soldierly face of war and the new-edition “Boris” action figure in khaki. The complex long-term needs of refugees are less his thing. They can be someone else’s problem, which he sees as a problem solved.

Except these are people’s lives, their hopes. The pledges that have been made to them come not from ministers but from ordinary citizens who are trying to do a decent thing and thought, naively, that the government could help. Now they feel like accomplices in a grotesque hoax of unfathomable cruelty. It is not news that Johnson lets people down. It is one of the constants of his career. Everyone is betrayed in the end. But, with help from an incompetent cabinet, he has outdone himself with the offer to make Britain a place of sanctuary to Ukrainian refugees. Having run out of his own pledges to break, he has stooped to purloining promises from the public and breaking those too.

[WhileTheChief..]

Drivetime today reporting that Scotland exports approx £59m worth of goods to Russia annually, half of which is whisky.

We should be banning all exports to them, no matter the impact felt at home.

[Smartie]

Drivetime today reporting that Scotland exports approx £59m worth of goods to Russia annually, half of which is whisky.

We should be banning all exports to them, no matter the impact felt at home.

You are, of course, correct.

Although the British commercial activities that should be being reined in a bit should not stop there.

[Ozyhibby]

Drivetime today reporting that Scotland exports approx £59m worth of goods to Russia annually, half of which is whisky.

We should be banning all exports to them, no matter the impact felt at home.

Johnson is going to keep doing the absolute minimum.


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[WhileTheChief..]

If it was me that owned a business selling widgets to Russia, I'd have stopped it long ago.

On an individual basis, why don't these business owners just think , "damn, we gotta stop doing this right away and figure out how to deal with it later".

These aren't multi-national corporations with shareholders. They're SMEs that can make instant decisions.

Does it really take government to tell them?

[Just Alf]

Drivetime today reporting that Scotland exports approx £59m worth of goods to Russia annually, half of which is whisky.

We should be banning all exports to them, no matter the impact felt at home.Indeed, they did say all the major whusky producers had stopped, didn't hear the bit about the small-time producers though.

[Just Alf]

If it was me that owned a business selling widgets to Russia, I'd have stopped it long ago.

On an individual basis, why don't these business owners just think , "damn, we gotta stop doing this right away and figure out how to deal with it later".

These aren't multi-national corporations with shareholders. They're SMEs that can make instant decisions.

Does it really take government to tell them?Agreed, it really shouldn't... hopefully as the public learns of who's still selling to Russia they'll vote by spending elsewhere.

[Ozyhibby]

I would think small producers just sell on to big international wholesalers who do the exporting for them? Either way, all business with Russia needs to stop and it’s a disgrace that the Tories can’t see this.


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[Smartie]

If it was me that owned a business selling widgets to Russia, I'd have stopped it long ago.

On an individual basis, why don't these business owners just think , "damn, we gotta stop doing this right away and figure out how to deal with it later".

These aren't multi-national corporations with shareholders. They're SMEs that can make instant decisions.

Does it really take government to tell them?

It's probably a bit simplistic to suggest it boils down to people just choosing to flog a few extra widgets to Russia in the name of pure greed, or for a bit of icing on a cake. Companies will be needing to evaluate the damage that pulling out of that market will do to them.

Obviously you'd like to think that playing an ongoing role in funding genocide would crystallise thoughts somewhat and make people do the right thing.

But I'm prepared to give some folk the benefit of the doubt - to an extent - as they face what must be very difficult decisions to make. Some might not wish to press the self destruct button immediately.

I appreciate that as a Tory tens of millions of pounds is probably pocket change to you :wink:, but losing that business might pose an existential threat to some companies, lead to significant job losses etc.

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/calibreobscura/status/1511752907930181646?s=21&t=iXq8QBjTRcyHvoXkrTcOkQ

How is this still possible? New kit getting through to Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol?


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[WhileTheChief..]

It's probably a bit simplistic to suggest it boils down to people just choosing to flog a few extra widgets to Russia in the name of pure greed, or for a bit of icing on a cake. Companies will be needing to evaluate the damage that pulling out of that market will do to them.

Obviously you'd like to think that playing an ongoing role in funding genocide would crystallise thoughts somewhat and make people do the right thing.

But I'm prepared to give some folk the benefit of the doubt - to an extent - as they face what must be very difficult decisions to make. Some might not wish to press the self destruct button immediately.

I appreciate that as a Tory tens of millions of pounds is probably pocket change to you :wink:, but losing that business might pose an existential threat to some companies, lead to significant job losses etc.

I don’t imagine there being many Scottish companies that rely on a sizeable chunk of their turnover coming from Russia?

Barrs stopped exporting Irn Bru immediately I think.

If, for example, Tunnocks are still exporting Caramel Wafers to Russia, they could easily stop. The bad publicity alone would prob cost more than the loss of a bit of trade to Russia.

I’m only using Tunnocks as an example that came to mind. It’s in no way a slight on them!

[Stairway 2 7]

https://twitter.com/calibreobscura/status/1511752907930181646?s=21&t=iXq8QBjTRcyHvoXkrTcOkQ

How is this still possible? New kit getting through to Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol?


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Apparently there is a route that is being jammed that helicopters can fly in. Can take so many tons in and 60 injured soldiers out each time. They keep changing the route thanks to satellite info from nato

[Jack]

Johnson is going to keep doing the absolute minimum.


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While waving his arms around saying, sorry lying about how much more we're doing than anyone else.

[Smartie]

I don’t imagine there being many Scottish companies that rely on a sizeable chunk of their turnover coming from Russia?

Barrs stopped exporting Irn Bru immediately I think.

If, for example, Tunnocks are still exporting Caramel Wafers to Russia, they could easily stop. The bad publicity alone would prob cost more than the loss of a bit of trade to Russia.

I’m only using Tunnocks as an example that came to mind. It’s in no way a slight on them!

I'd have thought that doing any sort of trade in Russia right now would be brand suicide - therefore anyone choosing to continue trading would have to have a pretty desperate case for doing so.

I'm often surprised by the business links Scots will have in pretty obscure areas though. My job involves working with the public and you'll speak to people from all sorts of walks of life. You might have bands from yesteryear who have largely been forgotten here but who retain a hardcore following in a peculiar corner of the globe, meaning that there is still great demand for the band to tour there. Then there are specifics to certain parts of the world, some companies have very strong links to particular areas. I guess those oligarchs will enjoy their whisky.

So I have sympathy to companies for maybe not immediately making rash moves that would clearly cause themselves harm.

I have no sympathy for companies who can watch what has unfolded and not feel any sort of impetus to make a very necessary change now though.

[Kato]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/liz-truss-announces-uk-asset-freeze-against-russias-biggest-bank?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1649258554

The end of the year???
Putin gets his money’s worth out the Tories, that’s for sure.[emoji35]


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThe Govt designated dozens of individuals and companies for sanctions but I have zero faith they followed through on most of them.

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[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1511667812137377804?s=21&t=iXq8QBjTRcyHvoXkrTcOkQ

He’s not wrong.


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[Stairway 2 7]

Slovenian prime minister just tweeted this oft

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[stu in nottingham]

No stranger to a controversial opinion or two.

Matt Le Tissier 'steps aside' from ambassador role at Southampton (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61009245)

[Stairway 2 7]

No stranger to a controversial opinion or two.

Matt Le Tissier 'steps aside' from ambassador role at Southampton (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61009245)






Good player absolute tosser. Antivax, Pro Russia, trump, world is flat nutter

[Kato]

He's actually just deleted the rt reference from his profile because everyone kept putting screenshots of it in the reply to his tweet.
25761Russian backed MPs next.

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[McD]

Not sure if anyone has seen it, I walked into a supermarket this evening on the way home from work, to see the front page of (I think) the mirror, with the picture of the back of a 2 year old girl, who’s mother had written her daughter’s name, date of birth and other details on her wee girl’s back, in case they got separated trying to evacuate, so that her daughter would be able to be identified and taken care of. Was fighting tears looking at it and tbh still am as I think about it.

truly horrific what is going on and continues to go on

[JimBHibees]

The UK Government "Homes for Ukraine" scheme:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/homes-for-ukraine-refugee-britain-hosts

Thanks for sharing that there is an absolutely ridiculous truth vacuum at the minute meant in this country.

[Stairway 2 7]

When are we going to stop this. They need all the weapons they ask for and today


https://www.spiegel.de/politik/butscha-soldaten-besprachen-graeueltaten-gegen-zivilisten-ueber-funk-a-9e01662c-aa7e-4828-bf6f-f662d9b6164e?d=1649315458&sara_ecid=app_upd_903PVrz5TZlGJuLWLqJDVijRko558t&sara_ecid=soci_upd_KsBF0AFjflf0DZCxpPYDCQgO1dEMph

Mathieu von Rohr
@mathieuvonrohr
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1h
#breaking: German intelligence has intercepted radio transmissions from Russian military officers in which murders of civilians in Butscha were discussed. Some of them are said to be related to specific corpses photographed in Bucha.
@derspiegel

The BND intercepts suggest that these were neither random acts nor the actions of individual soldiers who got out of hand. Rather, the material reportedly suggests that the soldiers were talking about the atrocities as if they were talking about their everyday lives

These BND findings indicate that killings of civilians have become part of the Russian military's usual actions, according to Berlin sources, possibly part of a clear strategy [to] spread fear and terror among the civilian population and to stifle resistance.

The material is also said to show that members of Russian mercenary troops such as "Wagner Group" were significantly involved in the atrocities. The latter had already attracted attention for their particular cruelty during their deployment in Syria

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Even a date would be good. But either way in a couple of years the west won't be buying Russian oil and gas. Russias economy and army are going to be a fraction of what they were and for what

NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

An #oil embargo is not part of the fifth package of #EU sanctions against #Russia.

This was stated by Head of the European Diplomacy Josep #Borrell. He added that the EU foreign ministers will discuss the ban on Russian oil supplies on April 11.

[lapsedhibee]

When are we going to stop this. They need all the weapons they ask for and today


Tobias Ellwood spoke on TV last night about the need to stop pussyfooting about with semantic distinctions between defensive and offensive weapons. UK is already sending lethal weapons to Ukraine, is already in the war, do it properly and now was his message.

[Stairway 2 7]

Tobias Ellwood spoke on TV last night about the need to stop pussyfooting about with semantic distinctions between defensive and offensive weapons. UK is already sending lethal weapons to Ukraine, is already in the war, do it properly and now was his message.

Indeed we can't send a plane because that is attacking, but we can send missles, nlaws, drones with missles, guns and grenades ect. They said they couldn't send tanks bit the Czechs have just sent dozens and nothing is happening to them, probably as Russia has all its troops fighting a war. I think nato would rather just use Ukrainians as fodder and go for Russia in a few months when it's almost spent

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

For the first time since WW2, the U.S. Senate approved a lend-lease bill for #Ukraine.

It will allow #Kyiv to receive weapons and equipment under an accelerated program. During World War II, the Lend-Lease was adopted to help the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition

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max seddon
@maxseddon
·
2h
Zelensky says failing to provide more weapons and toughen sanctions on Russia would equate to giving Moscow “permission to begin a new bloody wave in the Donbas

max seddon
@maxseddon
·
2h
The horrific news of massacres in towns like Bucha has effectively derailed peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, Erdogan's top advisor tells
@laurapitel
and
@cornishft
.

And Russia wants sanctions relief as part of any potential deal


In Turkey's strongest condemnation of the atrocities, Ibrahim Kalin said they "make it more difficult for the negotiations to continue as before . . . these are really horrible, completely unacceptable, inhumane actions and whoever has done that should be brought to justice


Kalin says sanctions work: "They suffered a lot of losses there [in Ukraine], but the economic losses are beginning to have an impact on the overall economic situation and policy thinking."

Russia wants them lifted. "That’s the only way they will probably make concessions

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·
3h
The U.S. will be able to identify the #Russian units that committed atrocities in #Bucha, #CNN quoted a U.S. official as saying:

"Locating those involved is now an extremely important priority for U.S. intelligence agencies

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
8h
The U.S. has approved another shipment of Javelin anti-tank missile systems for Ukraine worth USD 100 million.

It’s estimated to be between 800-1000 Javelins.

The Biden administration took the decision in the face of an imminent massive Russian offensive in the Donbas

[Kato]

Informative thread on Ukrainian nazi groups and how their influence and size is exaggerated in the West and weaponized by Russia.

https://twitter.com/mariamposts/status/1511995713135443969?t=a7zVtQOkrykrssDmzEDi4Q&s=19

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Ragıp Soylu
@ragipsoylu
·
NEW: UK plans to send armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including protected patrol vehicles, such as the Mastiff, or vehicles like the Jackal, which can be used for a recon

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The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
· 57m
⚡️ Zelensky, European Commission President to meet on April 8.

Zelensky's meeting with Ursula von der Leyen will take place in Kyiv, Zelensky's spokesman Serhiy Nikiforov said on April 7.

[Stairway 2 7]

😆 bad language

https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1511979502133563400

A Russian ship that sought to refuel off of Spain ran into a bit of an issue.

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Guy Elster
@guyelster
·

The Kremlin: “Western supply of more weapons to #Ukraine does not contribute to the success of the negotiations and will have a negative impact on it”

Lavrov says #Ukraine has presented Russia a new draft agreement yesterday that is far from what was agreed during the talks in Turkey, claims the West "controls and dictates" Kyiv decisions

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MilitaryLand.net
@Militarylandnet
·
Presidential adviser O. Arestovych about #Mariupol: We provide direct and indirect support. Our helicopters successfully delivered ammo and evacuated wounded from the city. Our SF units work behind enemy lines, recently damaged a railway connecting Crimea and Melitopol.

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
1h
“A new era is about to begin,”

says PM Viktor Orbán, as he hints at a potential Hungarian foreign policy change regarding Russia amidst a changed international landscape

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
2m
BREAKING:

The Finnish government $President will add their amendments to a crucial defense policy report scheduled for April 14.

Finland will prepare for NATO membership & the application might be sent in at the end of this month instead of by late May as previously planned

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·
13m
Australia to supply Bushmaster armored personnel carriers to #Ukraine

This was announced by #Australian Foreign Minister Maris Paine at a meeting with foreign ministers of #NATO countries in #Brussels

[DH1875]

Informative thread on Ukrainian nazi groups and how their influence and size is exaggerated in the West and weaponized by Russia.

https://twitter.com/mariamposts/status/1511995713135443969?t=a7zVtQOkrykrssDmzEDi4Q&s=19

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Ross Kemp done a programme a few years ago on the far right in Ukraine and he spends half of it with the Azov Battalion. Quite an interesting watch to be fare, especially considering now whats happened since he made it.

[PeeJay]

What Happened on Day 42 of the War in Ukraine - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/06/world/ukraine-russia-war-news?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur#russia-pows-ukraine-executed)

Reports in the NYT claiming Ukrainians killing captured Russian soldiers gratuitously! - Shooting injured people lying defenceless on the ground and then saying they are not humans is unacceptable in my book ... no matter where they come from

Putin's Ministry of Truth and Ministry of Peace will end up putting this news to "good use" to demonstrate what his people are up against ...

[Stairway 2 7]

What Happened on Day 42 of the War in Ukraine - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/06/world/ukraine-russia-war-news?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur#russia-pows-ukraine-executed)

Reports in the NYT claiming Ukrainians killing captured Russian soldiers gratuitously! - Shooting injured people lying defenceless on the ground and then saying they are not humans is unacceptable in my book ... no matter where they come from

Putin's Ministry of Truth and Ministry of Peace will end up putting this news to "good use" to demonstrate what his people are up against ...
There's going to be horrible incidents on both sides of war . It's disgusting but if that's as far as Russia went there wouldn't be world outcry. It was the ordered mass killing of civilians that has shook the world. War is grotesque and death is horrible, but this was caused by Putin's invasion of a sovereign nation. If he pisses off back to Russia then the horror will end

[Hibrandenburg]

What Happened on Day 42 of the War in Ukraine - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/06/world/ukraine-russia-war-news?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur#russia-pows-ukraine-executed)

Reports in the NYT claiming Ukrainians killing captured Russian soldiers gratuitously! - Shooting injured people lying defenceless on the ground and then saying they are not humans is unacceptable in my book ... no matter where they come from

Putin's Ministry of Truth and Ministry of Peace will end up putting this news to "good use" to demonstrate what his people are up against ...I was listening to a report on Deutschlandfunk about this and they concluded that the videos they had analysed appeared to be genuine.

If true then it will make the Germans even more squeamish about supplying weapons to a war zone.

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[Stairway 2 7]

I was listening to a report on Deutschlandfunk about this and they concluded that the videos they had analysed appeared to be genuine.

If true then it will make the Germans even more squeamish about supplying weapons to a war zone.

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Why a country is being invaded and a genocide is happening. If they are put off because something that has literally happened in every war then they are too eager to be swayed

[Stairway 2 7]

Looks like Finland will be off limits to vlad

Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
·
Events now moving fast in Helsinki: @iltalehti_fi reports Finland may apply to join NATO before the end of this month. twitter.com/iltalehti_fi/s…

[Hibrandenburg]

Why a country is being invaded and a genocide is happening. If they are put off because something that has literally happened in every war then they are too eager to be swayedAye, it's as simple as that right enough. :rolleyes:

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[PeeJay]

There's going to be horrible incidents on both sides of war . It's disgusting but if that's as far as Russia went there wouldn't be world outcry. It was the ordered mass killing of civilians that has shook the world. War is grotesque and death is horrible, but this was caused by Putin's invasion of a sovereign nation. If he pisses off back to Russia then the horror will end


You are right, of course - however, I just think "we" have to be better than that ...

[Stairway 2 7]

You are right, of course - however, I just think "we" have to be better than that ...

Definitely. You could put conditions on getting weapons that crimes must be prosecuted or something I suppose. Mind we can't even prosecute from bloody Sunday so..

[Hibernian Verse]

Looks like Finland will be off limits to vlad

Jeremy Cliffe
@JeremyCliffe
·
Events now moving fast in Helsinki: @iltalehti_fi reports Finland may apply to join NATO before the end of this month. twitter.com/iltalehti_fi/s…

Wouldn't be surprised if he tries to move troops to the Finnish border now.

[Stairway 2 7]

Wouldn't be surprised if he tries to move troops to the Finnish border now.

Almost all active troops are in or around Ukraine, he'd not be able to handle another war so far away. If he'd swept Ukraine he'd definitely place them on the border. Instead probably 10% of his army was killed in a month and many more injured

[Smartie]

Mark Austin is interviewing Dmitry Peskov on Sky News right now.

Very interesting watch, to see someone so close to Putin being interviewed in this way.

[Ozyhibby]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220407/cbd711ed4765c96462caf76c2a6e8b5b.jpg

Russia voted off the UN human rights council today. Interesting to see who is supporting who.


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[Stairway 2 7]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220407/cbd711ed4765c96462caf76c2a6e8b5b.jpg

Russia voted off the UN human rights council today. Interesting to see who is supporting who.


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Hungary Serbia and isreal voting for are the big shocks

[Ozyhibby]

What Happened on Day 42 of the War in Ukraine - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/06/world/ukraine-russia-war-news?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur#russia-pows-ukraine-executed)

Reports in the NYT claiming Ukrainians killing captured Russian soldiers gratuitously! - Shooting injured people lying defenceless on the ground and then saying they are not humans is unacceptable in my book ... no matter where they come from

Putin's Ministry of Truth and Ministry of Peace will end up putting this news to "good use" to demonstrate what his people are up against ...

Almost certainly these soldier will be arrested in the coming days. Ukraine needs to abide by Geneva convention. This does nothing but harm Ukraine. It only makes Russian troops fight harder because they are afraid to surrender. Ukraine will make a very public show of the arrest of these men.
I think I read somewhere that they are Georgians?


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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
17m
“My agenda is very simple, it has only three items on it. Weapons, weapons & weapons.”

Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba made a plea today at the NATO foreign ministers summit for allies to continue to provide weapons ahead of the Battle of Donbas

[Stairway 2 7]

Almost certainly these soldier will be arrested in the coming days. Ukraine needs to abide by Geneva convention. This does nothing but harm Ukraine. It only makes Russian troops fight harder because they are afraid to surrender. Ukraine will make a very public show of the arrest of these men.
I think I read somewhere that they are Georgians?


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Yeah one of them was a security guard to the ex Georgian president

[Ozyhibby]

Hungary Serbia and isreal voting for are the big shocks

There are very few democracies coming out in favour of Russia. Will be interesting to see how long India holds its position? I guess it depends how informed their population is. South Africa as well.


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Paul Ronzheimer
@ronzheimer
·
EXCLUSIVE: We found a couple in Bucha who were being hunted down by Russian soldiers, apparently because relatives are in the army. „Soldiers had lists“, they told us. Russians came to the house six times, shot, threw grenades. Mykhola and Viktoria hid in the attic. @bild

[Just Alf]

Almost certainly these soldier will be arrested in the coming days. Ukraine needs to abide by Geneva convention. This does nothing but harm Ukraine. It only makes Russian troops fight harder because they are afraid to surrender. Ukraine will make a very public show of the arrest of these men.
I think I read somewhere that they are Georgians?


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYeah, BBC think they've identified him but won't name him as its not 100% confirmed.

Heard a Ukrainian being interviewed on radio and was asked about this at the end of the interview, she admitted seeing it (the video) and basically said their government needs to do all it can to bring them to justice... what a difference compared to similar questions asked of Russians.

[PeeJay]

Hungary Serbia and isreal voting for are the big shocks


Yet Hungary's Orban - according to reports here in German newspapers - has stated that he is prepared to pay for gas and oil in Russian rubbles - despite what the EU actually agreed not to do ...

[Stairway 2 7]

Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone
·
KREMLIN SPOKESMAN SAYS WE ARE SEEING LARGE NUMBERS OF CASUALTIES AMONG TROOPS IN UKRAINE, IT'S A TRAGEDY - IFX

[Stairway 2 7]

Yet Hungary's Orban - according to reports here in German newspapers - has stated that he is prepared to pay for gas and oil in Russian rubbles - despite what the EU actually agreed not to do ...

Yeah last week he said as they get 100% from Russia they will do as they say. The only positive is its too small to prop the rubble. But Orban was always pro Russia. So for him today to say they will change attitude towards Russia going forward and then voting them off the council is big. He's no good guy, just sees a losing bet

[Smartie]

Yeah last week he said as they get 100% from Russia they will do as they say. The only positive is its too small to prop the rubble. But Orban was always pro Russia. So for him today to say they will change attitude towards Russia going forward and then voting them off the council is big. He's no good guy, just sees a losing bet

Very mixed messages from Hungary at the moment, I don't know what to make of them.

Most worrying thing from today is some of the polling coming out of France. Le Pen winning there would be a catastrophe.

[Radium]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220407/cbd711ed4765c96462caf76c2a6e8b5b.jpg

Russia voted off the UN human rights council today. Interesting to see who is supporting who.


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We have to be careful and realise that this is a European war. Many parts of the world are ambivalent or simply not bothered. Yemen has been raised a couple of times with many of us nowhere near informed on the situation: horrible comparison but our ambivalence around the horrors of that conflict are how others see Ukraine.

Also have to remember that Russian media is still broadcasting to the rest of the world.

Decent discussion on the rest is politics podcast with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell

https://open.spotify.com/episode/70PRmBVXnLj3jh8RWFdpQu?si=poQFRX_yTWSRy7MGNlmt9w&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A1Ysx8g1Iw42gESAtegrFaH


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Very mixed messages from Hungary at the moment, I don't know what to make of them.

Most worrying thing from today is some of the polling coming out of France. Le Pen winning there would be a catastrophe.

He's still a right wing ball bag, he's just trying to move to the winning side the west. Bookies have Macron 1/5 Le Pen 7/2, hope they are right, even though Macron is also a right wing ball bag

[Stairway 2 7]

We have to be careful and realise that this is a European war. Many parts of the world are ambivalent or simply not bothered. Yemen has been raised a couple of times with many of us nowhere near informed on the situation: horrible comparison but our ambivalence around the horrors of that conflict are how others see Ukraine.

Also have to remember that Russian media is still broadcasting to the rest of the world.

Decent discussion on the rest is politics podcast with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell

https://open.spotify.com/episode/70PRmBVXnLj3jh8RWFdpQu?si=poQFRX_yTWSRy7MGNlmt9w&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A1Ysx8g1Iw42gESAtegrFaH


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Abstentions like Yemen are fine, voting against less so. No sure if I could handle listening to a podcast with they two tbh

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

After the majority of countries voted for the exclusion of the #Russian Federation from the #UN Human Rights Council, Russia announced that it was withdrawing from the council ahead of schedule and this would happen today.

[Radium]

Abstentions like Yemen are fine, voting against less so. No sure if I could handle listening to a podcast with they two tbh

The podcast highlights embedded Russian journalists who are telling the world that their troops didn’t commit the atrocities and that the UK has helped stage them.

There’s plenty that you have posted to counter that but people elsewhere will need to be interested enough to find it.

Couple of decades of projected power and targeted disruption in the’West’ leaving Russia in not as bad a situation as we might think despite their horrific attacks on Ukraine and its people


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[Stairway 2 7]

The world is a connected place now every celebrity, footballer and pop star ect is sharing pro Ukraine symbols and articles. The people of know what's happening. That's why Putin blocked Facebook, twitter and YouTube, because it's showing the truth. He can't block it in other nations.

But even something like navalnys documentary on Putin's secret Palace, was watched online by a third of Russians. Although it was banned in Russia people are savvy now, particularly the younger generation.

Russias reputation is in tatters. Bombed out the security Council, army and economy decimated

[Stairway 2 7]

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/04/ukraine-russian-forces-extrajudicially-executing-civilians-in-apparent-war-crimes-new-testimony/

New today, our latest from Ukraine - we've verified additional cases of executions in Bucha & Kyiv suburbs.
To the deniers: we interviewed witnesses weeks ago, before we could corroborate their cases w/ video, & we have the electronic receipts to prove it.

[Radium]

The world is a connected place now every celebrity, footballer and pop star ect is sharing pro Ukraine symbols and articles. The people of know what's happening. That's why Putin blocked Facebook, twitter and YouTube, because it's showing the truth. He can't block it in other nations.

But even something like navalnys documentary on Putin's secret Palace, was watched online by a third of Russians. Although it was banned in Russia people are savvy now, particularly the younger generation.

Russias reputation is in tatters. Bombed out the security Council, army and economy decimated

Look at the yellow and red on the vote, African countries, the Middle East, SEAsia. Mexico and Brazil in the Americas. India and China who account for 2.8 billion people.

The relationship with European countries will change but don’t count on it changing across the world.


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[Stairway 2 7]

Look at the yellow and red on the vote, African countries, the Middle East, SEAsia. Mexico and Brazil in the Americas. India and China who account for 2.8 billion people.

The relationship with European countries will change but don’t count on it changing across the world.


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Yellow is just an abstain which is fair enough. Reds are pretty much dictatorships, it doesn't matter what the people think. It's a big move banning from the council, China won't want it because it could effect them when they go for Taiwan.

In the earlier vote condemning the war and asking for Russian retreat only Russia, Belarus, Syria, North Korea and Eritrea voted against. Says it all.

[Stairway 2 7]

European Parliament votes to stop buying Russian fuel. Although European parliamentary votes aren't binding or something so pointless

Guy Verhofstadt
@guyverhofstadt
·
BREAKING - European Parliament want immediate and full fossil fuel embargo !

No gas, no oil, no coal…

NO European money for Putin’s army

[cabbageandribs1875]

Yellow is just an abstain which is fair enough. Reds are pretty much dictatorships, it doesn't matter what the people think. It's a big move banning from the council, China won't want it because it could effect them when they go for Taiwan.

In the earlier vote condemning the war and asking for Russian retreat only Russia, Belarus, Syria, North Korea and Eritrea voted against. Says it all.


one can only hope democracies around the world already have forward planning ready for when(not IF) China does attack Taiwan/elsewhere

as much as i detest Trump i did agree with one of his policies, his tougher stance against China


and talking about the Chinese, more threats from them today re Taiwan China warns of ‘strong measures’ if US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan (msn.com) (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/china-warns-of-strong-measures-if-us-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-visits-taiwan/ar-AAVYnMo?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b13a6b850ba644e9b04b320c668d0b69)

the same crap Putrid has been coming out with re Ukraine

[Stairway 2 7]

BREAKING: Situation in Borodianka near Kyiv is "much more horrific" than in Bucha, says Ukrainian President Zelensky -
@AFP

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1512252155398402048?s=21&t=1E1Z0c5NJHuDXfnimHxxPw

Shame.


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[Stairway 2 7]

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1512252155398402048?s=21&t=1E1Z0c5NJHuDXfnimHxxPw

Shame.


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**** bag. Might make vlad even more paranoid about covid. The long tables are going to become record breaking

[DaveF]

Read that the Russian currency is now back to its pre war level. Are sanctions really working or is there financial magic underway to keep it afloat?

[Stairway 2 7]

Read that the Russian currency is now back to its pre war level. Are sanctions really working or is there financial magic underway to keep it afloat?

It's went from 140 to the dollar down to 80 in the last 4 weeks, all their efforts have brought it back to what it was. But it's false as no one will buy it and the can't exchange it so won't get a good reading until that changes. Economy has contracted to the lowest point in 30 years. The main thing is its only just over a month, this isn't sustainable.

[Renfrew_Hibby]

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1512252155398402048?s=21&t=1E1Z0c5NJHuDXfnimHxxPw

Shame.


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Notorious far right ****bag, much loved in Russia. Putin really respected him and what he had to say.

[Ozyhibby]

Read that the Russian currency is now back to its pre war level. Are sanctions really working or is there financial magic underway to keep it afloat?

Russians are propping it up massively by restricting trading. It won’t last.


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[PeeJay]

Russians are propping it up massively by restricting trading. It won’t last.


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Don't think the rouble will "crash" as long as Russia remains able to export its gas and oil.. paid for by us in euros and dollars and exchanged for roubles by Russian banks not affected by the Swift ban, i.e. those involved in energy payments ...

[Stairway 2 7]

Brilliant

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1512382632591515648


Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
SCOOP & BREAKING NEWS:

Slovakia has now delivered its S-300 long-range SAM missile defense system to UA!

Days ago, Visegrad24 received this video of the transfer from a railway worker but didn’t publish it since it wasn’t public news

The secret move lasted two days.

It’s no surprise that the news became public now since Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger is visiting President Zelensky in Kyiv today.

Slovakia only had one S-300 battery (4 launchers) so they sent everything they had to Ukraine.

S-300can deny wide areas and force planes to fly low to avoid the radar, which in turn exposes them to MANPADS.

The radar range is 300km and the missile range is 150km.

Ukraine will be fed live intelligence from the US and NATO allies on the position of Russian planes

[Stairway 2 7]

Jesus christ brutal. Humanitarian corridor agreed, thousands clearly line up at the station. Russia bomb it to instill fear.

max seddon
@maxseddon
·

The Russian special operation to liberate the Russian speakers of the Donbas continues apace

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1512364144267337737


Christopher Miller
@ChristopherJM
Warning: graphic. Horrific images & reports from Kramatorsk train station where state railway company board chairman Oleksandr Kamyshin says more than 30 people killed, 100+ others injured in a Russian rocket attack. 1000s of civilians fleeing the Donbas were there

At least one Tochka-U rocket struck the Kramatorsk train station, according to Oleksandr Kamyshin of the state railway company. He said the attacked damaged infrastructure and forced the station closed. Nearby Slovyansk just a few km north is still working

Zelensky commented on the Kramatorsk attack on Telegram: “Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, [Russian forces] are cynically destroying the civilian population. This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop

EU High Rep for Foreign Affairs and P of
@EU_Commission
condemns Russian attack on Kramatorsk train station, as he himself is on a train to Kyiv in a big gesture of support for Ukraine

Josep Borrell Fontelles
@JosepBorrellF
· 4h
I strongly condemn this morning’s indiscriminate attack against a train station in #Kramatorsk by Russia, which killed dozens of people and left many more wounded. This is yet another attempt to close escape routes for those fleeing this unjustified war and cause human suffering

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1512370346669785091

This was how Kramatorsk train station looked before the Russian rocket attacked. Crowds of civilians, including children, scrambling to flee the Donbas as Putin’s forces bear down on the eastern region

Just like with MH17, pro-Kremlin bloggers posted footage of what they said was a Russian attack on Kramatorsk – then deleted them once the civilian toll was clear https://theins.ru/news/250117

Death toll in Kramatorsk appears to be rising. Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) spox Artem Dekhtiarenko wrote on Facebook 39 people killed including four children. State railway company board chairman Kamyshin confirmed in an update on Telegram at least two children killed

Kramatorsk’s mayor also said about 4,000 people were at the train station when the Russian attack occurred

a
@DmytroKuleba

Russians knew that the train station in Kramatorsk was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated. Yet they stroke it with a ballistic missile, killing at least 30 and injuring at least a hundred people. This was a deliberate slaughter. We will bring each war criminal to justice

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
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2h
#German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier calls for a war crimes tribunal against #Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

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@visegrad24
·

Yesterday, Russia bombed the railway tracks leading out of Kramatorsk, which is about to be besieged.

The tracks were repaired over the night & even more people gathered at the Kramatorsk Railway Station today.

So the Russian decided to strike the refugees today.

Barbarians

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Oliver Carroll
@olliecarroll
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The missile that landed in Kramatorsk railway station had the words за детей “for the children” written on side. Messed up and likely indicative of parallel reality Russian propaganda is creating

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/kmartynov/status/1512320051575205888?s=21&t=suqtDiOOWiTREJadixjFSw

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220408/aa433ed16a3e3301a4a46e8dd16149c3.jpg
Translation of drunk Russian spokeswoman.


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Aged well this

George Galloway
@georgegalloway

Russia state-affiliated media

Y’all said #Russia was about to invade #Ukraine. I told you it wasn’t. You were wrong. I was right. Again. Show some bloody humility. Especially if they’re not even paying you to act like an idiot.
5:54 PM · Feb 14, 2022

[Kato]

https://twitter.com/kmartynov/status/1512320051575205888?s=21&t=suqtDiOOWiTREJadixjFSw

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220408/aa433ed16a3e3301a4a46e8dd16149c3.jpg
Translation of drunk Russian spokeswoman.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkAbsolute weirdos. The upscale in xenophobia in recent years is for inadequate like this.

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Ursula von der Leyen
@vonderleyen
·
The missile attack this morning on a train station used for evacuations of civilians in Ukraine is despicable.

I am appalled by the loss of life and I will offer personally my condolences to President @ZelenskyyUa

My thoughts are with the families of the victims

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Hugo Gye
@HugoGye
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PM says 🇬🇧 will send another £100m of high-grade equipment to 🇺🇦 inc more Starstreak missiles, 800 anti-tank missiles, precision munitions capable of "lingering in the sky", plus extra helmets, body armour and night vision

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Breaking News | FinancialJuice
@Financialjuice1
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RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: WE TOLD UKRAINE THAT BELARUS SHOULD BECOME A STATE THAT PROVIDES SECURITY GUARANTEES TO UKRAINE

[Ryan91]

https://twitter.com/kmartynov/status/1512320051575205888?s=21&t=suqtDiOOWiTREJadixjFSw

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220408/aa433ed16a3e3301a4a46e8dd16149c3.jpg
Translation of drunk Russian spokeswoman.


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:crazy:

Suppose it just goes to show just how totally unhinged some of Putin's mouthpieces are

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Euromaidan Press
@EuromaidanPress
·
1h
Russian Army did not allow Ukrainian humanitarian convoy to enter besieged Melitopol; moreover, they confiscated cargo together with trucks& buses on 8 Apr

Ppl in Melitopol will not only not receive food & medicine, they can't leave city - mayor

[H18 SFR]

Euromaidan Press
@EuromaidanPress
·
1h
Russian Army did not allow Ukrainian humanitarian convoy to enter besieged Melitopol; moreover, they confiscated cargo together with trucks& buses on 8 Apr

Ppl in Melitopol will not only not receive food & medicine, they can't leave city - mayor

The sooner the Ukrainian army starts horsing them again the better.

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Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
@IAPonomarenko
·

50 killed at the railway station in Kramatorsk.
Russia fired a missile at a facility full of civilians getting evacuated from war.
Just because it can.
And because we don’t have enough means to make Russia stop firing missiles against us

Ted Lieu
@tedlieu
·
1h
Cluster munitions aren’t designed to destroy railway stations. They are designed to cause mass casualties. This Russian strike is another horrific war crime.

The US and NATO must send Ukraine the air assets it has requested to crush Russian forces so this doesn’t keep happening

[Kato]

:crazy:

Suppose it just goes to show just how totally unhinged some of Putin's mouthpieces areThese are commonly held views. Millions of Russians share them. If you live in a country where hatred of foreigners is normalised finding people like this isn't too hard.

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Ursula von der Leyen
@vonderleyen
·
The missile attack this morning on a train station used for evacuations of civilians in Ukraine is despicable.

I am appalled by the loss of life and I will offer personally my condolences to President @ZelenskyyUa

My thoughts are with the families of the victims

“Personally offer my condolences”… who does she think she is. I’m sure that will soothe the heartache for Zelensky.

Don’t offer your condolences, just sort out getting European gas and oil from elsewhere and shove it right up Putin.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Reading the survivor stories of rape and murder (of kids) are absolutely ****ing horrific. It breaks your heart

[Ozyhibby]

“Personally offer my condolences”… who does she think she is. I’m sure that will soothe the heartache for Zelensky.

Don’t offer your condolences, just sort out getting European gas and oil from elsewhere and shove it right up Putin.

The oil and Gas is obviously important but the EU have frozen many multiples of the money that has been sent Russia.


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https://mobile.twitter.com/adegrandpre/status/1512541832990896136

Andrew deGrandpré
@adegrandpre
Ukraine says it has about 7,000 unclaimed Russian corpses in morgues & refrigerated rail cars.

Officials say Kyiv's figure of 18,600 Russian dead was based on battlefield reports & intercepted military communications

“Russian or not Russian, we treated the bodies with dignity.”

Noting: Pentagon today said some Russian units are "almost completely devastated," estimating that up to 20% of the force mobilized for invasion has been lost — with some units eroded past their breaking point

“It’s unclear if they will ever be reformed” https://washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/

“It’s cheaper to report them as ‘missing in action’” — Valentina Melnikova, Soldiers’ Mothers Committee

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visegrad24
The final count is in from Makariv.

132 bodies of civilians who died from bullet wounds have been found in Makariv. Some in mass graves, others on streets and in basements.

40% of buildings in the town of 15 000 have been destroyed beyond repair - Mayor Vadym Tokar

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@DefenceHQ
·
2h
The UK has announced further military aid for #Ukraine:

✅ Over 800 more NLAW anti-tank missiles
✅ More Javelin anti-tank systems
✅ More Starstreak air defence systems
✅ More equipment including helmets, armour and night vision goggles

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Tom Bateman
@tombateman
1. Civilians who escaped Mariupol in recent days have described the growing desperation in the besieged city, including accounts of bodies buried in shallow graves, looting by Chechen fighters, and starving residents being killed when they venture out of shelters to find water

The evacuee's accounts to the BBC are emerging as they reach the town of #Zaporizhzhia which is acting as a hub for refugees. They have risked journeys through Russian and Ukrainian lines that the Red Cross describes as an evacuation "from hell

In one aid facility was Yuliia, her two daughters and her mum Tatiana. They said many people having to remain in #Mariupol’s basements and obliterated apartment buildings are "the incapacitated" - a reference to elderly and disabled people

She said: "When we were in Mariupol, Chechens were looting. They were taking people's gold. It was becoming really dangerous, we heard they were raping women. I was frightened for my kids and I realised we had to get them out in any way possible

Anna, escaped to Berdyansk 50 miles away. She said "Mariupol is a graveyard now. All the neighbourhoods are covered in the graves of civilians. It was terrifying… Not everybody got out. We have relatives… we don't know if they are alive or not

Mariupol is a graveyard': Evacuees recount terror of Russian assault

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61035565

[WhileTheChief..]

Decent podcast here discussing Russia's objectives and problems it faces...

https://youtu.be/UwPMtmuuVNw

[Ozyhibby]

Decent podcast here discussing Russia's objectives and problems it faces...

https://youtu.be/UwPMtmuuVNw

Interesting listen, although even though it’s only two weeks old it already seems wildly out of date when they are talking about the war in Ukraine.


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Christo Grozev
@christogrozev
·

Russia shuts down Human Rights Watch
@hrw
, Amnesty International
@amnesty
and another 13 human rights foundations. https://minjust.gov.ru/ru/events/48807.

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

EU obliges trucks from Russia and Belarus to leave their territory by April 16

Due to the new #European sanctions, trucks from #Russia and #Belarus are prohibited from entering the #EU territory

[Ozyhibby]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/firms-will-go-bust-germany-prepares-for-a-future-without-russian-gas?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1649510206


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[Lendo]

Boris Johnson currently in Kyiv meeting Zelensky. I’m not one to give the PM credit for anything but that’s a nice show of solidarity with Ukraine.

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Deborah Haynes
@haynesdeborah
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BREAKING: The UK said it will send 120 armoured vehicles + new anti-ship missile systems to support Ukraine's armed forces.
Announcement made after talks in Kyiv between @BorisJohnson & @ZelenskyyUa. The UK PM made his first visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded

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Ragıp Soylu
@ragipsoylu
·

NEW: Russia’s first default in a century looks all but inevitable now: Bloomberg

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https://mobile.twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1512857510226583557



@ZelenskyyUa
:
We do our best to make our next meeting with
@BorisJohnson
already under the peaceful Ukrainian sky

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https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-to-fast-track-adoption-of-deported-ukraine-orphans-kyiv-officials-2022-4?r=US&IR=T

Russia to fast-track adoptions of Ukrainian children 'forcibly deported' after their parents were killed by Putin's troops, authorities say

Ukrainian officials say more than 121,000 children have been forcibly deported to Russia.

Russia is changing legislation to allow for the fast-tracked adoption of these children, they allege.

The Ukrainian Presidential Advisor on Children's Rights accused Russia of violating UN laws.

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Thomas C. Theiner🇮🇹
@noclador
·
23m
🇺🇦 agreed with 🇩🇪 industry to buy 100 Marder IFVs.
@Bundeskanzler
@OlafScholz
vetoed it.

🇺🇦 agreed with 🇩🇪 industry to buy 50 Gepard AAVs.
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz vetoed it.

🇺🇦 agreed with 🇩🇪 industry to buy 100 modern SPHs.
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, will veto it on Monday.

[SaulGoodman]

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-to-fast-track-adoption-of-deported-ukraine-orphans-kyiv-officials-2022-4?r=US&IR=T

Russia to fast-track adoptions of Ukrainian children 'forcibly deported' after their parents were killed by Putin's troops, authorities say

Ukrainian officials say more than 121,000 children have been forcibly deported to Russia.

Russia is changing legislation to allow for the fast-tracked adoption of these children, they allege.

The Ukrainian Presidential Advisor on Children's Rights accused Russia of violating UN laws.

So Genocide then?

[Hibrandenburg]

Germany has now welcomed over 320 000 Ukrainian refugees and will give them the same support as unemployed German nationals. This means not only will they receive the same benefits but also the same assistance in looking for work for the duration of their stay.

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[cabbageandribs1875]

Latvians getting worried Putrid invades them next, this article was last month ‘It will be us next’: Latvians denounce Russian aggression, help Ukrainian refugees — and some even join the war | The Star (https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2022/03/15/it-will-be-us-next-latvians-denounce-russian-aggression-help-ukrainian-refugees-and-some-even-join-the-war.html) and now the Kremlin is calling them 'neo-Nazi's' Kremlin rants against Baltic 'neo-Nazi' state in chilling echo of Moscow's threats to Ukraine | Daily Mail Online (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10703253/Kremlin-rants-against-Baltic-neo-Nazi-state-chilling-echo-Moscows-threats-Ukraine.html)




meanwhile Sergei Beseda: Russia's FSB General Moved to Notorious Moscow Prison as Putin Widens Crackdown over Intelligence Failure (ibtimes.sg) (https://www.ibtimes.sg/sergei-beseda-russias-fsb-general-moved-notorious-moscow-prison-putin-widens-crackdown-over-63883)

Russia's top FSB General Sergei Beseda has been moved to a high-security jail in Moscow as President Vladimir Putin is widening the crackdown on officials over failed intelligence reports.
Beseda, 68, was previously put under house arrest and the move came as Putin is carrying out a purge in the secret service of his country that had advised that civilians in Ukraine would welcome the invasion of the Russian soldiers.

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Irina opened her jacket... there was nothing to bandage... her abdomen & intestines had been shot through." "My mum crawled with us a little more. I kept turning & saying, 'Mum, crawl, please, please'. She said, 'Yes, yes'. & then died. Chernihiv #Ukraine

https://bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61036880

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Ragıp Soylu
@ragipsoylu
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NEW: Total UK aid to Ukraine announced today and yesterday;

• 120 armoured vehicles and new anti-ship missiles
• $130m worth of Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles, 800 anti-tank missiles, and high-tech loitering munitions for precision strikes
• $500 million in World Bank

@ragipsoylu
Zelensky calls on West to 'follow example' of UK on military aid to Ukraine — AFP

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Stewart McDonald MP
@StewartMcDonald
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Those who swallowed and repeated the Kremlin’s line about ‘legitimate security concerns’ should look at that baby’s pram - surrounded by blood, death and destruction - and hang their heads in shame. I never want to hear these charlatans speak again
25772

[makaveli1875]

Stewart McDonald MP
@StewartMcDonald
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Those who swallowed and repeated the Kremlin’s line about ‘legitimate security concerns’ should look at that baby’s pram - surrounded by blood, death and destruction - and hang their heads in shame. I never want to hear these charlatans speak again
25772

I honestly think in the years to come the NATO , European and American leaders involved are going to be asking themselves how the **** they allowed this to happen . They all knew what was coming , they’ve all seen Grozny and Aleppo . They all know how the Russian military operate . Yet they sat back and watched Russia March in and lay siege while butchering massive numbers civilians for no reason other than they were Ukrainians .

[Hibrandenburg]

I honestly think in the years to come the NATO , European and American leaders involved are going to be asking themselves how the **** they allowed this to happen . They all knew what was coming , they’ve all seen Grozny and Aleppo . They all know how the Russian military operate . Yet they sat back and watched Russia March in and lay siege while butchering massive numbers civilians for no reason other than they were Ukrainians .I honestly think in years to come the NATO, European and American leaders will realise that pointing the finger at each other was counterproductive and whataboutery that deflected from the real and only aggressor Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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[Ozyhibby]

I honestly think in years to come the NATO, European and American leaders will realise that pointing the finger at each other was counterproductive and whataboutery that deflected from the real and only aggressor Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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Nobody has clean hands here. Uk has done well on providing weaponry (I’d argue this is most important part) but terribly on sanctions and refugees. EU has done well on refugees but awful on Gas sanctions. It has also done better on individual sanctions.
US is doing well on weaponry but can still do a lot more. Everyone needs to stop blocking heavier weaponry.
I think it’s fair for us all to point out where others are not pulling their weight.


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[Hibrandenburg]

Nobody has clean hands here. Uk has done well on providing weaponry (I’d argue this is most important part) but terribly on sanctions and refugees. EU has done well on refugees but awful on Gas sanctions. It has also done better on individual sanctions.
US is doing well on weaponry but can still do a lot more. Everyone needs to stop blocking heavier weaponry.
I think it’s fair for us all to point out where others are not pulling their weight.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI'd argue that only Russia and their accomplices have dirty hands here. Sure everybody could do more but they all have restrictions as to what they can do for different reasons, some more valid than others. It doesn't change the fact that there is only one person responsible for the barbaric scenes we're witnessing in Ukraine and the anti Russian coalition blaming each other for our failings is only deflecting from that. Rather than criticising what we're all doing wrong we should be supporting each other doing what we can, anything else is going to weaken the coalition and strengthen Putin's hand.



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[Ozyhibby]

https://mobile.twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1512857510226583557



@ZelenskyyUa
:
We do our best to make our next meeting with
@BorisJohnson
already under the peaceful Ukrainian sky

Don’t think he’s ever done a walkabout like that in Scotland?


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Velina Tchakarova
@vtchakarova
·
The Czech Republic has delivered tanks, multiple-rocket launchers, howitzers and infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine among military shipments that have reached hundreds of millions of dollars and will continue

[Moulin Yarns]

Don’t think he’s ever done a walkabout like that in Scotland?


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I think he did, but it was through the back door of Bute House and round the garden until he made his way to his official car parked at the back, off St Colme Street.

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/samramani2/status/1513149328524820480?s=21&t=Tpa1ljsFPW8XX8FOWOIesg
We’ll done Lithuania.


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@BasedPoland2
·
🇵🇱🇺🇦 Poland will send 100 T-72 tanks to Ukraine

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1512143938114756619?s=21&t=Tpa1ljsFPW8XX8FOWOIesg
Belarus about to default now as well. Lukashenko might not last much longer. He’s been relying on Putin’s military to keep him in power. They might be a bit distracted just now.


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https://mobile.twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1513135291627970560


Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
@IAPonomarenko
Russia has drastically reduced the use of its air power in Ukraine, especially when it comes to close air support, attack helicopters.
The effect is here.
Apparently, we now have a documented kill with the Starstreak MANPAD by Ukraine’s 95th Airborne.
An Orlan UAV is down

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

❗️#Slovakia is negotiating with #Ukraine on the supply of "Zuzana" howitzers of Slovak production and possibility to supply MiG-29 fighters, which are in service with the #Slovak Air Force

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1513057985387450372?s=21&t=Tpa1ljsFPW8XX8FOWOIesg

Good indication they know they are getting their ***** kicked.


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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
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According to open data, 4 #Belarusian volunteer formations with a total number of up to 500 people are already fighting on the side of #Ukraine. At the moment, this is the largest national contingent in the international legion of Ukraine

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max seddon
@maxseddon
·

I know what you’re thinking. What is American actor, reincarnated 17th century Tibetan Buddhist lama, and Russian diplomat Steven Seagal up to?

Well, here he is celebrating his birthday in Moscow with top Russian propagandist Vladimir Soloviev and RT editor Margarita Simonyan

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Defence of Ukraine
@DefenceU

·
It will be 20,000 soon! Stay tuned

[Bristolhibby]

Nobody has clean hands here. Uk has done well on providing weaponry (I’d argue this is most important part) but terribly on sanctions and refugees. EU has done well on refugees but awful on Gas sanctions. It has also done better on individual sanctions.
US is doing well on weaponry but can still do a lot more. Everyone needs to stop blocking heavier weaponry.
I think it’s fair for us all to point out where others are not pulling their weight.


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Yea, what happened to those Polish mig 29s? The Poles wanted America to broker the deal then The Americans pulled back.

They are sitting there ready for the Ukrainian Air Force to use.

J

[Smartie]

Yea, what happened to those Polish mig 29s? The Poles wanted America to broker the deal then The Americans pulled back.

They are sitting there ready for the Ukrainian Air Force to use.

J

Possibly not entirely unrelated to Ozy’s most recent post on this thread.

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
1h
BREAKING:

Another mass grave has been discovered near Kyiv.

50 civilians shot by Russian troops have been found near a road leading to the village of Buzovaya.

In the village itself, another mass grave with dozens of bodies has been found

[cabbageandribs1875]

China makes semi-secret delivery of missiles to Serbia (msn.com) (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/china-makes-semi-secret-delivery-of-missiles-to-serbia/ar-AAW3LSV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=49000333739c4b23afbe42065755801d)


(https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/there-is-now-an-embarrassment-of-riches-to-bring-this-entitled-tory-party-down/ar-AAW50A3?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=49000333739c4b23afbe42065755801d)Media and military experts said Sunday that six Chinese Air Force Y-20 transport planes landed at Belgrade's civilian airport early Saturday, reportedly carrying HQ-22 surface-to-air missile systems for the Serbian military.
The Chinese cargo planes with military markings were pictured at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla airport. Serbia's defense ministry did not immediately respond to AP’s request for comment.

i see elsewhere China have accelerated work on building over a hundred+ missle silo's

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Uk needs to get it's act together and agree to stop oil now. Apparently its only Germany and Hungary not wanting to in Europe although Hungary is swaying. Everyone in Europe will have a monetary cost but manageable. Many now saying it will stop Russia in months


Full embargo on oil could stop war - ex-Putin aide
By Jonathan Josephs
Business reporter, BBC News

A "real embargo" on Russian energy by Western countries could stop war in Ukraine, President Putin's former chief economic adviser has suggested.

Dr Andrei Illarionov said Russia "did not take seriously" other countries' threats to reduce their energy usage.

Despite trying to reduce its reliance on Russian sources, Europe is continuing to buy oil and gas.

Last year, soaring prices meant oil and gas revenues accounted for 36% of Russia's government spending.

Much of that income comes from the European Union, which imports about 40% of its gas and 27% of its oil from Russia.

This week, its top diplomat Josep Borrell said "a billion [euros] is what we pay Putin every day for the energy he supplies us

Dr Illarionov said if Western countries "would try to implement a real embargo on oil and gas exports from Russia... I would bet that probably within a month or two, Russian military operations in Ukraine, probably will be ceased, will be stopped".

"It's one of the very effective instruments still in the possession of the Western countries," he added

While the oil and gas trade has continued during the conflict, widespread sanctions mean that a lot of other economic activity has stopped, many foreign companies have pulled out and exports have been disrupted.

One recent survey by Russia's own central bank even forecasts the economy will shrink by 8% this year, while the International Institute of Finance says it could fall by as much as 15%.

Dr Illarionov suggested that President Putin was prepared to endure a hit to the economy that shows where his priorities lie.

"His territorial ambitions, his imperial ambitions, are much more important than anything else, including the livelihood of the Russian population and of the financial situation in the country... even the financial state of the his government," he said

Last week, amid tensions with Europe over how gas would be paid for, President Putin said that "key indicators" of the health of the Russian economy include the "creation of jobs, the reduction of poverty and inequality, the improvement of the quality of life of people, the availability of goods and services".

World Bank figures suggest that almost 20 million Russians live in poverty.

President Putin has, in recent years, pledged to halve that number.

Now Dr Illarionov said "we'll see probably doubling the number of those people, maybe even tripling" as the economy struggles

The Moscow-based think tank, the Centre for Strategic Research, estimated two million jobs could be lost this year as the unemployment rate rises from a record low.

Those concerns are shared by Vladimir Milov, who is a former Russian deputy energy minister, but is now part of Alexei Navalny's Russia of the Future opposition party.

"Many people are concerned about losing their jobs, I think it's just that the majority does not really realise the severity of the economic situation," he said.

Inflation, which has already risen to 15.7% because of the war, means people might stop spending money on things such as gyms and meals in restaurants and "that's bad news for a lot of small businesses", said Mr Milov.

Some basic food items such as sugar, onions and cabbages have risen in price by more than 40% since the start of this year.

Mr Milov said any noticeable falls in living standards would help his party's cause as an opposition.

"We have been explaining to people all along [that] Putin's policy would lead Russia into a catastrophe, including a complete social and economic catastrophe, including [a] deterioration of living standards that we haven't seen in decades," he said.

"I have to say that comes at an extremely high price. We would prefer not to see what is happening today

However Mr Milov, who fled to Lithuania last year, thinks it will take time for falling living standards to translate to political change.

"Russia is a country with big inertia in society, and a lot of fear instigated by the authorities. Specifically people really are very much afraid of protesting because right now they can end up in jail for a long, long time for doing that".

He added: "But I would say [that within a] few months [of] real deep economic trouble, that we haven't seen in 30 years, it will change the mood of the society. More people will start to speak out loudly

President Putin's former adviser Dr Andrei Illarionov, who now lives in the United States, said a change of government is inevitable "sooner or later".

He said "it is absolutely impossible to have any positive future for Russia, with the current political regime".

Under President Putin, he suggested, "there is no way that country might be integrated back into the international relations, in the world economy".

You can watch Dr Andrei Illarionov and Vladimir Milov's interviews on Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst this weekend

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

The #Russian Ecological Society requests the Ministry of Justice to recognize
@Greenpeace
and the
@WWF
as foreign agents

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·

Finland and Sweden set to join Nato as soon as summer - The Times

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·
2h
According to
@bellingcat
journalist
@christogrozev
Putin is conducting purges in the #FSB.

About 150 officers who reported unreliable information about the real state of affairs in #Ukraine have been fired or arrested. Among them is also colonel general Sergei Beseda

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Cliff Levy
@cliffordlevy
·

"I now call it the road of death.”
On a highway near Kyiv, as many as 50 bodies were found — civilians who had tried to escape danger.
“Some were burned,” an official said. “Others had their hands tied. Others were shot in the head outside their cars

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/10/world/ukraine-russia-war-news#dozens-of-bodies-have-been-found-on-a-highway-to-kyiv-a-local-official-says

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

#Czech Republic will support a maximum tightening of #EU sanctions against #Russia, said Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský

[Stairway 2 7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1513484063167991808


Michael A. Horowitz
@michaelh992
Harrowing video filmed by Chechen in Mariupol. Listen in the background, a woman screams, then a shot is fired and the screams stop

[Renfrew_Hibby]

NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

The #Russian Ecological Society requests the Ministry of Justice to recognize
@Greenpeace
and the
@WWF
as foreign agents

What is it with like this? So an ecological society isn't on board with the aims of Greenpeace or the WWF?
Are they refusing to work with their fellow scientists at say a Siberian tiger sanctuary or on polar warming
research in the Arctic seas?
Absolute madness, blanket brainwashing across the board.

[Stairway 2 7]

This is pretty much why they are joining this summer. Although Finland has a very modern army that Russia wouldn't dare attack after Ukraine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61066503

Russia warns Sweden and Finland against Nato membership

[Stairway 2 7]

30% of Russian army gone in over a month

Mark Urban
@MarkUrban01
· 32m
The number of Russian battalion tactical groups (700-1k soldiers each) rendered combat ineffective in the Ukraine war so far has been reassessed at 37-38 according to a western officials, leaving 90 operational. That suggests heavier losses than previously thought

Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
·
17m
IMO, this is a low range estimate

[Stairway 2 7]

Mathieu von Rohr
@mathieuvonrohr

Chancellor Scholz apparently wants to prevent traffic light politicians from traveling to Kyiv:

"Scholz, the brakeman? Internally, Greens complain that he is putting pressure on them not to visit Kyiv.
During visits there is a 'delaying tactic by the Social Democrats', it is said.

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513564129214320641?s=21&t=kZdy5VSoM-e1NbRNAlfmLw

Russia defaults.


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[Stairway 2 7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1513268100547985413

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
This video shows why Eastern Europeans have been so frustrated for years with Western Europeans who just don’t understand what Russia is & how it works.

Irish MEP tells a Bulgarian MEP in the European Parliament that peace can only come through diplomacy

[Stairway 2 7]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513564129214320641?s=21&t=kZdy5VSoM-e1NbRNAlfmLw

Russia defaults.


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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna23873

The financial ratings agency S&P Global has deemed Russia to be in "selective default" on some of its foreign debt after it tried to pay its latest obligations in rubles.

Because of U.S. government sanctions, the agency said, investors lack the ability to convert the rubles into dollars. S&P had already warned that any payment in a currency different from the one in which the debt was sold would be considered a failure to pay

Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department blocked Russia's ability to pay debt using dollar reserves held in U.S. banks. A Treasury spokesperson told Reuters that the action was aimed at forcing Russia to draw down its domestic dollar reserves in a bid to further curtail the country's spending on its war against Ukraine.

Russia must choose between draining remaining valuable dollar reserves or new revenue coming in, or default,” the spokesperson said.

The country hasn’t defaulted on its foreign debt since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918.

A Russian Finance Ministry spokesman said it considered its obligations fulfilled via the rubles payment. But S&P indicated that ongoing sanctions pressure would limit the ability of Russia to pay its debts.

“Sanctions on Russia are likely to be further increased in the coming weeks, hampering Russia’s willingness and technical abilities to honor the terms and conditions of its obligations to foreign debt holders,” it said

[Stairway 2 7]

NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

#Huawei removed #VTB Online, #Promsvyazbank and Otkritie Bank apps from its AppGallery

[Stairway 2 7]

Zeke Miller
@ZekeJMiller
·

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Mariupol’s mayor tells The Associated Press that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of the city

[The Tubs]

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1513268100547985413

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
This video shows why Eastern Europeans have been so frustrated for years with Western Europeans who just don’t understand what Russia is & how it works.

Irish MEP tells a Bulgarian MEP in the European Parliament that peace can only come through diplomacy


I haven’t watched it, but at the end of the day the Irish MEP is right. We aren’t going to see external regime change or, hopefully, a full-scale superpower war. It’s just unfortunate geography, some may argue like Scotland-England or US-the rest of the Americas to the south.

[Ozyhibby]

I haven’t watched it, but at the end of the day the Irish MEP is right. We aren’t going to see external regime change or, hopefully, a full-scale superpower war. It’s just unfortunate geography, some may argue like Scotland-England or US-the rest of the Americas to the south.

You may just see Russia forced out of Ukraine by Ukrainians.


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[Stairway 2 7]

I haven’t watched it, but at the end of the day the Irish MEP is right. We aren’t going to see external regime change or, hopefully, a full-scale superpower war. It’s just unfortunate geography, some may argue like Scotland-England or US-the rest of the Americas to the south.

She's wrong in pretty much all she says. She says sanctions don't work they just affect the people, which is nonsense as Russia now can't replenish weapons. She says sending Ukraine weapons prolongs the war, well yeah I suppose as if no weapons sent Russia would have taken over by now. She says they need to sit down and talk. How do you talk with a liar and lunatic, who won't ceasefire whilst having talks. War is horrible, but if the people of Ukraine want freedom we should help them defend themselves from genocide

[The Tubs]

You may just see Russia forced out of Ukraine by Ukrainians.


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That would be excellent but would still leave Eastern Europe next to the current version of Russia.

[The Tubs]

She's wrong in pretty much all she says. She says sanctions don't work they just affect the people, which is nonsense as Russia now can't replenish weapons. She says sending Ukraine weapons prolongs the war, well yeah I suppose as if no weapons sent Russia would have taken over by now. She says they need to sit down and talk. How do you talk with a liar and lunatic, who won't ceasefire whilst having talks. War is horrible, but if the people of Ukraine want freedom we should help them defend themselves from genocide

She is.

[Stairway 2 7]

That would be excellent but would still leave Eastern Europe next to the current version of Russia.

Russia has lost almost a third of its army and vehicles in 47 days trying to take 1 nation. These losses will get worse and they have no way of replenishing heavy vehicles. Any nation is a lot less worried than it was, any nato nation isn't slightly scared. Finland will be joining in the next few months, but their modern army will feel ready on its own

[Smartie]

That would be excellent but would still leave Eastern Europe next to the current version of Russia.

There’s no amount of diplomacy that will change that though.

[The Tubs]

Stairway 2 7 and Smartie are both right and a North Korea-like situation may be coming but efforts like the Austrian one today really aren't a waste of time if — a big if — they make Putin think a little differently.

[Ozyhibby]

That would be excellent but would still leave Eastern Europe next to the current version of Russia.

The Russia of 6 weeks ago no longer exists. No matter what happens in Ukraine, massive change is on the way for Russia.


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[Stairway 2 7]

Stairway 2 7 and Smartie are both right and a North Korea-like situation may be coming but efforts like the Austrian one today really aren't a waste of time if — a big if — they make Putin think a little differently.

He had meetings with Macron and Scholz pre war and they came back like chamberlain saying he said he won't invade. He's had meetings with loads of leaders the last month and Ukraines. All the while he was committing genocide, massacre in Bucha flattening cities. In Syria he would ask for meetings when he wanted to regroup, then after he had them would flatten cities faster. He has to go or at least leave Ukraine and we should help arm him

[Stairway 2 7]

Emma Best 🏳️*🌈🏴
@NatSecGeek
·
NEW: #DDoSecrets has published over 700 GB of Russian government data, including over 500,000 emails. The largest dataset is the Ministry of Culture at 446 GB, which sets state policy regarding art, cinematography, archives, copyright, cultural heritage, and censorship

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·

Slovak Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď has said Slovakia is in talks with Ukraine about “the possibility of having damaged Ukrainian combat vehicles and T-72 or T-55 tanks come to our territory, and our military repair plants would repair them and send them back to Ukraine

[The Tubs]

The Russia of 6 weeks ago no longer exists. No matter what happens in Ukraine, massive change is on the way for Russia.


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Change, undoubtedly, but it's obviously impossible to say the nature of it. As they're self-sufficient in almost everything, I'd say North Korea plus. I suppose their biggest problem might be a continuing brain-drain.

[The Tubs]

He had meetings with Macron and Scholz pre war and they came back like chamberlain saying he said he won't invade. He's had meetings with loads of leaders the last month and Ukraines. All the while he was committing genocide, massacre in Bucha flattening cities. In Syria he would ask for meetings when he wanted to regroup, then after he had them would flatten cities faster. He has to go or at least leave Ukraine and we should help arm him

Munich was a negotiated settlement so the comparison isn't justified. Even Truss didn't say "peace in our time".

I haven't got the foggiest about who Nehammer is but, if the reports of him telling Putin a few truths are right, it must have been worth the effort regardless of the likelihood of any of them registering in Putin's brain.

I suppose that with the North Korea-type situation, things like extreme climate change are going to be even more guaranteed than they current are.

[Stairway 2 7]

People have been saying home truths all the way through, Macron has a weekly call. He still goes on and orders genocide. I'm unsure where you got the idea Russia is self sufficient. It massively depends on global trade. Shortages are being felt already. The people have also grew up in a global world unlike North Korea, they will take it for a few months.

And yes Russia has changed in more ways. It's army has been hammered and isn't feared anymore. Its economy knackered.

[Stairway 2 7]

Here we go, something is about to be found

Christo Grozev
@christogrozev
·

This is terribly foreboding

Russian Embassy, UK
@RussianEmbassy

Russia government organization
·
⚡ New staged provocations to accuse 🇷🇺Armed Forces of allegedly abusing 🇺🇦population are being prepared by the Kiev regime under the guidance of British intelligence services in #Sumy region.

👉 Read @mod_russia statement: https://facebook.com/RussianEmbassy/posts/384301360190005

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Hromadske Int.
@Hromadske
·
About an hour ago, Russian occupation forces used a poisonous substance of unknown origin against Ukrainian military and civilians in Mariupol, which was dropped from an enemy UAV. The victims have respiratory failure, vestibulo-atactic syndrome

[Ozyhibby]

Change, undoubtedly, but it's obviously impossible to say the nature of it. As they're self-sufficient in almost everything, I'd say North Korea plus. I suppose their biggest problem might be a continuing brain-drain.

Eh??? What is Russia self sufficient in apart from energy?


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[Stairway 2 7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1513268100547985413

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
This video shows why Eastern Europeans have been so frustrated for years with Western Europeans who just don’t understand what Russia is & how it works.

Irish MEP tells a Bulgarian MEP in the European Parliament that peace can only come through diplomacy

In the replies, from same MEP in January

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/russia-s-mobilisation-along-ukraine-border-is-clearly-defensive-wallace-and-daly-say-1.4786363

Russia’s mobilisation along Ukraine border is ‘clearly defensive’, Wallace and Daly say

Ms Daly and Mr Wallace have described the
European Parliament as being “anti-Russian”, while positions tabled on Russian issues by Mr Wallace have caused tensions within the Left group of which he is a member in the parliament.

Warning
Russia has sent more than 100,000 troops and much heavy weaponry towards Ukraine in recent weeks, and threatened to take “military-technical” action if Nato refuses to bar Ukraine and other eastern Europe states from joining the alliance and does not withdraw its forces from the region – demands that Washington calls “non-starters

However, Ms Daly, a Dublin MEP, has claimed there is “no evidence that Russia has any desire to invade Ukraine, it would be of no benefit to them”, adding that the Russian “mobilisation is clearly defensive”. She said Russian claims that their moves are defensive “stands up to scrutiny”, and that Russia was reacting in response to Nato pushing farther and farther towards its borders, and the arming of Ukraine by western powers. She said that “Russian involvement in Crimea has the clear support of the majority of the population in that area”, referring to the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by Russia in 2014.

[The Tubs]

People have been saying home truths all the way through, Macron has a weekly call. He still goes on and orders genocide. I'm unsure where you got the idea Russia is self sufficient. It massively depends on global trade. Shortages are being felt already. The people have also grew up in a global world unlike North Korea, they will take it for a few months.

And yes Russia has changed in more ways. It's army has been hammered and isn't feared anymore. Its economy knackered.

I'd try any angle possible to make a difference that doesn't mean making concessions.

As to self-sufficiency, do they not have enough food and fuel to more than meet their population's needs? I'd have to have an in-depth knowledge of the psyche of the general Russian population to understand what they need beyond that.

[cabbageandribs1875]

However, Ms Daly, a Dublin MEP, has claimed there is “no evidence that Russia has any desire to invade Ukraine, it would be of no benefit to them”, adding that the Russian “mobilisation is clearly defensive”. She said Russian claims that their moves are defensive “stands up to scrutiny”, and that Russia was reacting in response to Nato pushing farther and farther towards its borders, and the arming of Ukraine by western powers. She said that “Russian involvement in Crimea has the clear support of the majority of the population in that area”, referring to the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by Russia in 2014.


oh wow, has she been asked for her thoughts now ?

sorry if i've missed it further back


edit; no matter, found this MEP Clare Daly criticises EU sanctions against Russia and claims it is a ‘tool’ of NATO - Independent.ie (https://www.independent.ie/news/mep-clare-daly-criticises-eu-sanctions-against-russia-and-claims-it-is-a-tool-of-nato-41527697.html)
EU sanctions against Russia make her 'sick'

[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513598049251209222?s=21&t=kZdy5VSoM-e1NbRNAlfmLw
Chemical weapons?


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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513598049251209222?s=21&t=kZdy5VSoM-e1NbRNAlfmLw
Chemical weapons?


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Would be like them

[WhileTheChief..]

Change, undoubtedly, but it's obviously impossible to say the nature of it. As they're self-sufficient in almost everything, I'd say North Korea plus. I suppose their biggest problem might be a continuing brain-drain.

This is a huge problem for Russia.

Good podcast here on their demographics and the problems they face in future because of their policies of their past.


https://youtu.be/E6iLvQPQLNU

[Stairway 2 7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1513613158623154176

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
The moment a mother finds the body of her murdered son, thrown into a well by the Russians.

Up until then, she hoped he had just been kidnapped but that he was still alive.

This is what mothers experience daily in Ukraine.

Make sure the world sees it

[Stairway 2 7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1513539675927072773

Cliff Levy
@cliffordlevy

New York Times

Horrific cases of sexual violence by Russian troops in Bucha and other places: a group of women and girls were imprisoned in a basement of a house for 25 days.
Nine of them are now pregnant, Ukraine’s ombudswoman for human rights said

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Anonymous
@YourAnonNews
·

🇺🇦 Mariupol: Grave concern as multiple reports of Chemical Weapons use over besieged city following Russian state media RIA Novosti warnings and Putin's installation of Gen 'Butcher of Syria' Dvornikov - widely understood to have repeatedly used banned weapons on Allepo defenders

[Kato]

In the replies, from same MEP in January

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/russia-s-mobilisation-along-ukraine-border-is-clearly-defensive-wallace-and-daly-say-1.4786363

Russia’s mobilisation along Ukraine border is ‘clearly defensive’, Wallace and Daly say

Ms Daly and Mr Wallace have described the
European Parliament as being “anti-Russian”, while positions tabled on Russian issues by Mr Wallace have caused tensions within the Left group of which he is a member in the parliament.

Warning
Russia has sent more than 100,000 troops and much heavy weaponry towards Ukraine in recent weeks, and threatened to take “military-technical” action if Nato refuses to bar Ukraine and other eastern Europe states from joining the alliance and does not withdraw its forces from the region – demands that Washington calls “non-starters

However, Ms Daly, a Dublin MEP, has claimed there is “no evidence that Russia has any desire to invade Ukraine, it would be of no benefit to them”, adding that the Russian “mobilisation is clearly defensive”. She said Russian claims that their moves are defensive “stands up to scrutiny”, and that Russia was reacting in response to Nato pushing farther and farther towards its borders, and the arming of Ukraine by western powers. She said that “Russian involvement in Crimea has the clear support of the majority of the population in that area”, referring to the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by Russia in 2014.Another politician bought and paid for.

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Another politician bought and paid for.

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with friends like her etc

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Boris Ryvkin
@BRyvkin
·
Zelensky 60 minutes interview reveals an exasperated man at the limits of his endurance. He understands, but can only go so far in saying, why Biden is slow-walking aid and all of the divisions w/n NATO and the EU re: Ukraine at the moment. Not sure what will change it.

[Stairway 2 7]

Nika Melkozerova
@NikaMelkozerova
Mariupol could be saved only if Ukraine gets more really powerful weapons. Tanks, MIGs, more armour for our soldiers. Our people are dying there. Ffs, leaders of the free world would rather throw more money then give what Ukraine needs. #ArmUkraineNow

[Stairway 2 7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1513755890150739969

max seddon
@maxseddon
·
1h
Ukraine is hinting more and more strongly that the west isn’t doing enough for it to survive – to plug the deficit as well as fight on the battlefield. ⁦
@Jonthn_Wheatley
⁩ and ⁦
@hallbenjamin
⁩ interview finance minister Sergii Marchenko

[Stairway 2 7]

NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

#Italy concludes agreement to increase #gas imports from #Algeria by about 50%.

#Italian Prime Minister Mario #Draghi said during a visit to Algeria that the agreements reached were an important step in Italy's efforts to reduce its dependence on #Russian gas.

[Stairway 2 7]

The New York Times has done some unbelievable detective journalism is proving the Bucha massacre happened. In the internet and open satellite age, you can't hide war crimes or have to wait years for tribunals.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·
7h
Good map by
@nytimes
on the Bucha Massacre.

The Russians were murdering Ukrainian civilians all across town.
25776

[Stairway 2 7]

Absolutely brutal account

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61071243

Russian soldiers raped me and killed my husband'

[cabbageandribs1875]

Russia 'moves heavy military equipment towards Finnish border' - World News Day (https://www.worldnewsday.com/2022/04/12/russia-moves-heavy-military-equipment-towards-finnish-border/)

Russian heavy weapons including missile systems have been seen moving towards the border with Finland, hours after Russia warned its northern neighbour against joining NATO.
An unconfirmed video uploaded last night appears to show two Russian coastal defence missile systems moving along a road on the Russian side of the border that leads to Helsinki.

Recent opinions polls by a Finnish market research company put a whopping 84% of Fins as viewing Russia as a 'significant military threat', up by 25% on last year.
In response, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov euphemistically warned the move would 'not improve' the security situation in Europe, and Moscow lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov added more bluntly it would mean 'the destruction of the country'.

[Sylar]

Russia 'moves heavy military equipment towards Finnish border' - World News Day (https://www.worldnewsday.com/2022/04/12/russia-moves-heavy-military-equipment-towards-finnish-border/)

Russian heavy weapons including missile systems have been seen moving towards the border with Finland, hours after Russia warned its northern neighbour against joining NATO.
An unconfirmed video uploaded last night appears to show two Russian coastal defence missile systems moving along a road on the Russian side of the border that leads to Helsinki.

Recent opinions polls by a Finnish market research company put a whopping 84% of Fins as viewing Russia as a 'significant military threat', up by 25% on last year.
In response, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov euphemistically warned the move would 'not improve' the security situation in Europe, and Moscow lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov added more bluntly it would mean 'the destruction of the country'.



Surely it goes beyond sanctions if they start targetting Finland too...?

[Ozyhibby]

Russia 'moves heavy military equipment towards Finnish border' - World News Day (https://www.worldnewsday.com/2022/04/12/russia-moves-heavy-military-equipment-towards-finnish-border/)

Russian heavy weapons including missile systems have been seen moving towards the border with Finland, hours after Russia warned its northern neighbour against joining NATO.
An unconfirmed video uploaded last night appears to show two Russian coastal defence missile systems moving along a road on the Russian side of the border that leads to Helsinki.

Recent opinions polls by a Finnish market research company put a whopping 84% of Fins as viewing Russia as a 'significant military threat', up by 25% on last year.
In response, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov euphemistically warned the move would 'not improve' the security situation in Europe, and Moscow lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov added more bluntly it would mean 'the destruction of the country'.



Hopefully they move a whole load of tanks up there too. [emoji23]
The Finns would crush them.

I doubt it’s true though. I know there is plenty evidence of their stupidity so far but this would be taking it to new levels.


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[cabbageandribs1875]

Surely it goes beyond sanctions if they start targetting Finland too...?


stairway or ozy will know :greengrin


Hopefully they move a whole load of tanks up there too. [emoji23]
The Finns would crush them.

I doubt it’s true though. I know there is plenty evidence of their stupidity so far but this would be taking it to new levels.


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russia moving heavy equipment towards border with finland - Search (bing.com) (https://www.bing.com/search?q=russia+moving+heavy+equipment+towards+bor der+with+finland&form=ANNTH1&refig=f91a92222a5b4bc6973390232dba2a64&sp=1&qs=NWU&pq=russia+moving+heavy+equipment+towards+border+wi th+finland&sk=PRES1&sc=8-57&cvid=f91a92222a5b4bc6973390232dba2a64)

we can only hope so but more than a few outlets picking up the story, of course it could possibly all be coming from just the one main source, but...

Finland Joining NATO Means 'Destruction of Their Country': Russian Lawmaker (newsweek.com) (https://www.newsweek.com/russia-finland-dzhabarov-ukraine-stoltenberg-nato-retaliation-1695854)

Dzhabarov article from last week

[Stairway 2 7]

Finland has a very modern large army. Some of the most modern anti aircraft, tanks and jets. Russia is posturing, they just can't fight on another front right now. If they can't take Ukraine they can't take Finland and certainly not both at once. Once they join nato it's game over for Russian expansion there

[Ozyhibby]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220412/80a4137b27fe58957d7a2388dc2f9b5a.jpg

Seems a bit defensive? Probably should be looking for a way out.


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[Hibrandenburg]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220412/80a4137b27fe58957d7a2388dc2f9b5a.jpg

Seems a bit defensive? Probably should be looking for a way out.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkLooking at that photo he looks puffed up like popcorn. I don't think he has long for this world, one way or the other. Hope Satan has been preparing his welcoming committee.

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[Stairway 2 7]

Looking at that photo he looks puffed up like popcorn. I don't think he has long for this world, one way or the other. Hope Satan has been preparing his welcoming committee.

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Lots of talk of steroids and bellingcat reported a cancer specialist was visiting his home in sochi a number of times. Also squares with his huge fear of infection and covid, hence the massive tables and only a few people meeting him.

Would be a shame that he planned to go out with a restored user, instead he's ******g his nation.

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

#German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier planned to visit #Kyiv, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to meet him, the German newspaper Bild reported, citing sources in the #Ukrainian government

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·

#Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrīdu Šimonīte has arrived in #Kyiv. She met with #Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Schmigal

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Guy Elster
@guyelster
·

#Putin says Lukashenko provided him documents that revealing the "farce" that took place in #Bucha. He also claims that the situation today is more difficult than it had been during the Cold War

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NEXTA
@nexta_tv
·
Lukashenko said that what happened in #Bucha was a special operation of #Britain

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
·

Kadyrov’s Chechen soldiers are committing war crimes across Ukraine.

People are documenting their sick acts. It will be used as evidence against them in Nuremberg 2
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The Times
@thetimes
·
🔺 NEW: A “Stalinist” mass purge of Russian secret intelligence is under way after more than 100 agents were removed from their jobs and the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison https://thetimes.co.uk/article/putin

In a sign of President Putin’s fury over the failures of the invasion, about 150 Federal Security Bureau (FSB) officers have been dismissed, including some who have been arrested

All of those ousted were employees of the Fifth Service, a division set up in 1998, when Putin was director of the FSB, to carry out operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union with the aim of keeping them within Russia’s orbit

The service’s former chief, Sergei Beseda, 68, has been sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow after he was placed under house arrest last month.

The prison was used by the NKVD for interrogation and torture during Stalin’s Great Purge of the 1930s

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Thorsten Benner
@thorstenbenner
·
Steinmeier not looking happy having received news of 🇺🇦 blocking trip:
Says he wanted to send "strong signal of 🇪🇺 solidarity" alongside presidents of Baltics & Poland.
"I was ready but apparently (and I need to take note) this was not desired in Kyiv

[Ozyhibby]

Thorsten Benner
@thorstenbenner
·
Steinmeier not looking happy having received news of [emoji1255] blocking trip:
Says he wanted to send "strong signal of [emoji1099] solidarity" alongside presidents of Baltics & Poland.
"I was ready but apparently (and I need to take note) this was not desired in Kyiv

It’s clear that Germany is not doing enough. They need to decide which side they are on. If they can’t cut the Gas then they need to massively increase the military aid to Ukraine and stop constantly blocking it.


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[Hibrandenburg]

Thorsten Benner
@thorstenbenner
·
Steinmeier not looking happy having received news of [emoji1255] blocking trip:
Says he wanted to send "strong signal of [emoji1099] solidarity" alongside presidents of Baltics & Poland.
"I was ready but apparently (and I need to take note) this was not desired in KyivSnubbing the president of a country that has just provided you with €300 million worth of weaponry, taken in 320 million of your citizens and providing them the same support as their own citizens as well as airlifting your injured soldiers and providing treatment for them in Germany, probably isn't a politically astute move to make.

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[Ozyhibby]

Snubbing the president of a country that has just provided you with €300 million worth of weaponry, taken in 320 million of your citizens and providing them the same support as their own citizens as well as airlifting your injured soldiers and providing treatment for them in Germany, probably isn't a politically astute move to make.

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Sending nearly a billion € a day to Russia at the same time though. The fact is, when it comes down to it, Germany is sending a lot more to Russia than Ukraine. That’s inescapable.


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[Stairway 2 7]

Snubbing the president of a country that has just provided you with €300 million worth of weaponry, taken in 320 million of your citizens and providing them the same support as their own citizens as well as airlifting your injured soldiers and providing treatment for them in Germany, probably isn't a politically astute move to make.

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It's verging on funding a war. Multiple Russian specialists and economists have said the war is over in months if the oil sales stop. Its said it would be a smaller hit to Germany than covid. They can afford it. Germany said to Greece and Portugal to cut fast and get it over with on the financial crisis but won't do the same.

[Stairway 2 7]

Uk should take more immigrants and Germany should stop blocking the oil embargo

Erik Brynjolfsson
@erikbryn
An astonishing fact:

"Turning all the German nuclear reactors back on could approximately stop gas imports from Russia. Shutting the remaining ones down could increase the dependency on Russian gas by about 30%."

Tomas Pueyo 🇺🇦
@tomaspueyo
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Since the Bucha massacre was made public, Germany has paid ~$1.5B in gas to Russia

Yet 🇩🇪 will still close its nuclear power plants in 2022. Why? I dug up the details. Not pretty.

The only conclusion is that 🇩🇪 would rather kill nuclear than fight Putin & defend Ukraine

https://mobile.twitter.com/tomaspueyo/status/1513541283339513861

[The Tubs]

It's verging on funding a war. Multiple Russian specialists and economists have said the war is over in months if the oil sales stop. Its said it would be a smaller hit to Germany than covid. They can afford it. Germany said to Greece and Portugal to cut fast and get it over with on the financial crisis but won't do the same.

I think Greece had debts with German banks. Portugal, as far as I can remember, had a hole in its public accounts after propping up their banks and financing the debt became more expensive due to the risk of default/speculation. I don't remember Germany being directly involved like it was with Greece (obviously the ECB ≈ Bundesbank, however):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932014_Portuguese_financial_crisis

Looking back, it could be argued that the intervention helped the Portuguese reorganise.

[Hibrandenburg]

Sending nearly a billion € a day to Russia at the same time though. The fact is, when it comes down to it, Germany is sending a lot more to Russia than Ukraine. That’s inescapable.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkMight as well be monopoly money as the Russians will have trouble buying anything due to sanctions.

Germany has made itself dependent on Russian gas, that's a fact of life and despite their best efforts that's not going to change soon. Ushering in an economic depression to europes powerhouse would throw the rest of Europe under a bus too.

As I posted a few weeks ago, Germany has made some naive political decisions, but all for the right reasons. Asking Germany to change its anti-war philosophy would be like asking England to abolish the monarchy, it'll happen, just don't hold your breath.

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[Stairway 2 7]

Might as well be monopoly money as the Russians will have trouble buying anything due to sanctions.

Germany has made itself dependent on Russian gas, that's a fact of life and despite their best efforts that's not going to change soon. Ushering in an economic depression to europes powerhouse would throw the rest of Europe under a bus too.

As I posted a few weeks ago, Germany has made some naive political decisions, but all for the right reasons. Asking Germany to change its anti-war philosophy would be like asking England to abolish the monarchy, it'll happen, just don't hold your breath.

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The article from the 2 Russian ex ministers and the 2 Russian economists all said Russia would have to end the war in months with no oil money. It is almost 40% of their income.

The economists also said Germany could afford it, but don't want to

[Ozyhibby]

Might as well be monopoly money as the Russians will have trouble buying anything due to sanctions.

Germany has made itself dependent on Russian gas, that's a fact of life and despite their best efforts that's not going to change soon. Ushering in an economic depression to europes powerhouse would throw the rest of Europe under a bus too.

As I posted a few weeks ago, Germany has made some naive political decisions, but all for the right reasons. Asking Germany to change its anti-war philosophy would be like asking England to abolish the monarchy, it'll happen, just don't hold your breath.

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I agree that stopping the gas is very difficult but it should recognise that and make sure they are going the extra mile to help Ukraine in every other respect. It is falling way short of that. Ukraine needs weaponry that they are willing to pay for from German manufacturers and the German govt is blocking it. That’s a disgrace.
When you give one side of a conflict nearly a billion € a day and you block the other side from purchasing weapons then its easy to see why some might doubt their commitment.


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[Jack]

In less the a month the Russians will, or maybe won't, celebrate their Victory Day Parade commemorating the surrender of Nazi Germany.

I suspect it will be a bid subdued this year.

[Stairway 2 7]

In less the a month the Russians will, or maybe won't, celebrate their Victory Day Parade commemorating the surrender of Nazi Germany.

I suspect it will be a bid subdued this year.

The generals podium will be empty due to death and imprisonment. They should be proud of ww2 efforts, but it will be massacres they will be remembered for, for many many decades