Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments
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If you want countries to reject association with US, directly or indirectly, you have to let countries know how horrible is the US, from how many countries the US invaded to no universal healthcare to guns and so on.
Here is the list of current NATO members...
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If we look at the year of entries, it begs the question of why these NEWER countries joined NATO given how horrible is the US, the leader of the alliance. So often, we get a list of countries that the US invaded as to why no one should deal with US. So am asking you that have you campaigned to inform countries all over the world as to how many countries the US invaded?
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Yeah about that...
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Ukraine's Chief Rabbi condemns violence, says 3 missiles have hit a sacred memorial in Kyiv
From CNN's Tim Lister in Kyiv
Emergency crews respond to the scene of an airstrike near Kyiv's TV tower on March 1. The nearby Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site was also hit during the attack. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Moshe Reuven Azman, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, has condemned the missile attack close to the Babyn Yar memorial in Kyiv, saying three missiles hit the area.
"War crimes are taking place here," he said in a video statement on his Facebook page.
"The Russian army, which fought the fascists in 1941, is bombing the civilians of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa. Just now the Babyn Yar was shelled. Three missiles hit the place."
"Babyn Yar - this is symbolic. Babyn Yar is a place where 200,000 innocent elderly, women and kids lie," he added.
Between 1941 and 1943, the Nazis shot tens of thousands of people at Babyn Yar, including almost the entire Jewish population of Kyiv, according to the memorial's official website.
"I’m constantly receiving calls from Jews, not just Jews, Ukrainians and Russians from all over Kyiv asking for help," the Rabbi said.
"They need humanitarian aid. Every day I’m trying to help. The elderly [are] calling saying they don’t have the necessary medicines, mothers [are] calling saying they don’t have food for kids, they are suffering from the shelling."
Azman's Facebook video continued with the Rabbi pledging to no longer keep quiet amid the violence.
"I’ve kept silent for a long time, I will not anymore. I address you, dear Russians, dear Jews, everybody who’s not indifferent: those, who silently agree with what’s happening or those who stay indifferent - are complicit in this military crime. crime against humanity. I’m only saying what I see. I’m not afraid to die. I could never imagine in my worst nightmare that I could die under Russian shelling."
סיירתי באתר ההנצחה בבאבי יאר. שום דבר לא נפגע שם אתמול
האוקראינים דיווחו כי אתר ההנצחה לעשרות אלפי הנרצחים בשואה ניזוק על ידי הרוסים, אבל אחרי סיור ברגל אני יכול לומר - זה לא תואם את המציאות. הפגיעה הקרובה ביותר לבאבי יאר הייתה במגדל התקשורת, וגם הוא עצמו לא ניזוק - פרט לפגיעות קטנות של רסיסים. רון בן ישי מדווח מקייב
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I'm on a telegram group of foreign volunteers and they all complain of the same mistreatment, especially Americans in recent days as they claim they have been getting harassed - I shared the news story about the Brit who went there and never got any weapons and returned it was essentially a suicide mission going up against tanks with your bare fists.
This is a warning for all those combat chasers who don't understand the realities of war or operating in a crisis/disaster zone which is what Ukraine is. You don't have supply lines, you can't speak the language, many don't have local currency, many don't even has basic gear you would take on deployment.
In post #19251 on this thread I explained this in great detail - I will share that post here too:
A few things to digest here really since we are on the subject:
1. Ukraine should focus on arming and. Developing it’s national volunteers into reserves and whilst they lack any real resemblance of a military that’s not to say you can’t branch people out based on previous life skills ie mechanics, electricians and plumbers (make good sappers), drivers, anyone with comms experience slap them on radios and BTS maintainance - Russians have been taking our repeater towers and BTS and shot themselves in the foot since they are using short range Moto’s and Baofengs.
2. Foreign volunteers should only be accepted if they are ex military with add on skills such as sappers, medics, SF types - the rest of the Call of Duty types should be thanked and advised to go back home( and I’ll explain why I feel this way).
I’ve already made my position on foreign fighters very clear in a previous post but I strongly feel that the mixed messages from politicians in the west and the soft cuddly messages from the Ukrainians are misleading.
Here is why, judging by some of the videos of volunteers on telegram and elsewhere there are two categories of volunteers joining the Ukrainian foreign legion:
1. Ex military with plenty of experience and seasoned vets
2. Complete greenhorns who don’t have a clue what they are doing.
Whilst I have explained my concern for combat chasers and disgruntled vets in my previous post and the need to risk manage them post their return - for now I am more concerned about those who’s only introduction to combat are movies and video games.
To those people who fall into the second category I would like to say the following:
Firstly ask yourself why you are going? Is it for the right reasons?
Pre travel:
Documents:
- Research where you are going: medical issues there and other associated risks such as the fact that Ukraine is dealing with Multiple Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.
- Have you had your teeth checked (dentists won’t be available)
- Checked you have all your shots (heb b etc)
- Had a full once over from a doctor to ensure you are fit and well and your sciatica or asthma isn’t going to flare up in the middle of nowhere.
Equipment:
- have you got all your docs (Poland requires all non Schengen country travellers to have a passport no older than 10 years with a minimum of 6 months validity remaining from the point of entry to the day of your return)
- Have you applied for the correct visa(s) - polish visas are incredibly confusing (I should know I’ve been there).
- Flights: Open return/one way or flex?
- Flash money??
- PCR tests = Poland still needs them.
- Are you vaccinated - if you’re not fully vaccinated (2 shots and a booster) you will be refused entry or required to undergo a 10 day quarantine at your own expense?
- Have you made a will ( yes because there is a high chance you will die)
- Have you taken photographs of your face and profile and any tattoos and shared these wit your family or trusted contact
- Have you discussed proof of life safe word with trusted contact or family member back home
- Have you kept your medical history and immunisation record with you on a usb/phone/paper?
- Have you considered a big out plan and how you will extract yourself should things go wrong (and they will).
- Insurance? People ignore this.
- Research where you are going- route and mode of transport- have a travel plan of some sort
- Write down your blood type and any allergies on the rear of your helmet or on your body armour
Comms: do you have a phone - did you wipe it or get a burner phone
PPE & Clothing:
- Will your sim work in that part of the world?
- Satcoms or SPOT terminal? do you have or can you afford a sat phone or similar terminal?
- Radios: Ukrainians are asking volunteers to bring their own FRS or UHF radio - can you travel from your country of origin with one and so you know how to use it?
PPE:
- The Ukrainians have expressly stressed that all foreign volunteers are to bring their own PPE (helmet- body armour/ PC etc) so with that in mind:
- Do you have the right Clothing for inclement weather including decent thermal layers ?
- How about Weather resistant outers?
- High quality boots: did you break them in?
- Socks & underwear (never leave for a remote place with most enough socks and underwear)
- ear muffs
- Cover/lid (hat) a good quality thinsulate beanie hat is a minimum.
- Stockings (yes this works)
- Woollen or insulated gloves
- Neoprene or shooting gloves
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- Once again can you afford body armour - do you know what level of protection you need or the cut of the inserts/plates? I’ve seen a lot of folks on Twitter with steel plate in their carriers - if volunteers are going out and they try to save money do they know the difference between anti spall armour and steel plates that can spall?
- Helmets: do you go for a ASB style helmet to protect your noggin from bumps or are you going to invest in a ballistic helmet?
*Transport: does your country permit the carriage of such equipment in hold luggage?
Food:
- Eye and Ear Protection: this is basic stuff but again do you have it?
- Leather gloves / riggers gloves - at least 2 pairs
- Respirators: do you carry one or do you not? Do you know how to use it and take care of it?
- If not the minimum should be a few n95 and partical masks in case you need to help in search and rescue after an explosion or building collapse - also useful when helping in human remain retrieval.
if all you are taking with your is that plate carrier and helmet from eBay and a positive smile you are in for a rude awakening.
These people are at war and food & water among other things will be scarce - the last thing they need is some well intentioned lemon to turn up and become another mouth to feed - be self sufficient.
With that in mind it is important to remember the survival rules of threes:
For food the minimum emergency food supply you should take is 72 hours in your grab bag and another 2 weeks supply in your tab/ruck. This sounds like a lot but in reality it isn’t and you can just buy dried food or expensive MREs it’s up to your choice and budget.
- 3 minutes without air
- 3 hours without shelter (in harsh climate)
- 3 days without water
- 3 weeks without food
Water: waterborne diseases can really do a number on your system - so either consider a filter straw system or get a few boxes of coffee filters - a decent rugged canteen and a shit ton of aqua tabs - know how to use them.
(In an emergency you can also take water from the cistern of a toilet flush- although you will want to purify and filter the water first).
a few sachets of instant coffee/tea/chock milk and juice mix
Tools:
Shelter:
- E-Tool (Shovel) for digging - if you don’t know how valuable this is - you really shouldn’t be going in the first place.
- Knife: any full tang knife is your best friend/ failing that get a decent leather man.
- Glow sticks? Need them? Get a set including IR
- Fire starter kit or similar kit (poor man’s version is to get a waterproof container and store two or three lighters and matchboxes inside)
- Paracord 50 meters
- Flagging table /survey tape (orange)- can be used to mark our UXO /Hazard (but unless people know what they are looking for may be useless).
- Compass & map (topographic)
- Handheld GPS terminal
- Sharpie pens
- Chalk
- Notepad and pens(pencils)
- Spare batteries
- Flashlight or headlamp
- Elephant tape (duct tape)
- Signal mirror and whistle
Hygiene:
- Sleeping bag
- Ground mat
- Bivvy sheet
- Extra paracord 50m
Medical(self):
- Paper roll or wet wipes (obvious)
- Wash kit and tooth brush
- Talcum powder - perf non perfumed
- Roll on deodorant
- Nail clippers
Good to have;
- IFAK: Individual first aid kit with NP airway
- Chetosan or similar hemostatic dressing
- Tourniquet x 2
- Sterile syringes /w needles (multiple gauges)
- Spare combat dressing or gauze and rolls
- Blunt tip scissors or EMT shares
- Forceps
- Chest seal (if trained)
- Decompression kit (if trained)
- SAM split or similar portable split
- Salt sachets or hydration tabs
- ORS sachets 2 weeks supply
- Laxatives
- Calcium Tablets
- Broad spectrum antibiotic
- Oral pain relief : Paracetamol
- Anti inflammatory : Ibuprofen
- lidocaine cream or spray
- A small packet of cloves or clove oil (excellent temporary pain relief for damaged teeth or cavities and also is an excellent field antibiotic)
- Anti Septic cream or powder
- Anti fungal powder
- Insect repellant
- Anti bite kit
- Personal medication min x 2 months supply with prescription included
- Spare spectacles in case with prescription written inside case
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- Wind up or battery radio: world band ones are good to keep up with the news
- Book: pack a book with you - it can be anything that helps keep you sane and during the periods where it is “HURRY UP AND WAIT”.
- Cigarettes - get local ones even if you don’t smoke as you can use these to barter with especially at checkpoints or with locals
- Chocolate- great morale booster and also can use to barter with
As you can see this is a lot of kit and this is just personal stuff you would be expected to have on you to be moderately self reliant for a short period of time.
Now add to this skill at arms training, map and compass, field craft, being able to identify potential UXOs and basic principles of soldiering - all the basic bread and butter stuff and you can quickly see why letting these young and old well intentioned volunteers join an active war zone is a very bad idea.
Add to this the language barrier - only 18% of Ukrainians can speak English- this can prose a serious problem during combat where comms is key.
It’s not just turn up in some eBay tactical gear, grab a gun and yell up yours putin. I seriously worry about them.
Sorry if digressed but this is a very sore subject for me.
The volunteer program is not 100% honest.
NATO wants to send elite soldiers to help Ukraine but disguised as "volunteers" from around the world.
These volunteers are divided by two, one is NATO forces and the other are idiots.
The ones who get weapons, even better than Ukraine forces are the NATO elite soldiers.
The idiots get nothing.
Not so surprising.
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Vladimir Putin has allegedly ordered the arrest of a top military chief
A top military chief has allegedly been arrested by the FSB on the orders of Vladimir Putin
euroweeklynews.com
It is being reported today, Thursday, March 17, that General Roman Gavrilov, has been detained. He was the deputy chief of one of the first units to enter Ukraine, the Rosgvardia, spearheading the whole ‘special operation’.
The beatings...I mean arrests...will continue until morale...I mean victories...improve.
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Speaking language means nothing. Chinese and Indians speaking English doesn't magically make them ethnic English. And Zelinski is also not ethnic Russian.
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סיירתי באתר ההנצחה בבאבי יאר. שום דבר לא נפגע שם אתמול
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אתר ההנצחה בבאבי יאר לא נפגע וגם לא ניזוק. אחרי סיור בכל רחבי האתר הגדול אני יכול לדווח בוודאות שאף אנדרטה לא ניזוקה ושום פצצה, טיל או פגז לא פגעה בשטח. הפגיעה הקרובה ביותר לבאבי יאר הייתה במתחם מגדל התקשורת והטלוויזיה של קייב, במרחק של כ-300 מטרים מהאנדרטה החדשה, ובמרחק של כקילומטר מהאנדרטה הישנה לנרצחי הטבח במלחמת העולם השנייה.
עשרות אלפי יהודים נרצחו כאן, הושלכו לערוץ הנחל ואחר כך נקברו. לאחרונה נבנה במקום, במימון יהודים עתירי ממון מרוסיה ומאוקראינה, אתר עצום ובו אנדרטה אחת גדולה עשויה ברוזנה והרבה אנדרטאות קטנות לזכר הנרצחים, כולל האוקראינים, שנרצחו בביצות באזור באבי יאר על ידי הנאצים ועוזריהם.
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היו אמנם שלושה טילים שפגעו במתחם שסביב מגדל התקשורת והסבו נזק למבני החברה המפעילה את האתר, אבל מגדל התקשורת עצמו לא ניזוק, חוץ מכמה פגיעות קטנות של רסיסים וכתמי עשן שחור, שאותן אפשר לראות על העמוד הראשי של מגדל התקשורת המאסיבי. הבניינים מסביב ניזוקו ושידורי רשתות הטלוויזיה האוקראיניות נפסקו לזמן קצר, כנראה בגלל ההדף שפגע באנטנות.
נראה שכוונת הרוסים הייתה לבצע פיגוע תודעתי שיגביר את חרדת תושבי קייב ואוקראינה כולה, אבל לא להרוס ממש את מגדל התקשורת שבנוי מקונסטרוקציות פלדה חזקות מאוד ועמידות. קשה גם לפגוע בדיוק במגדל כזה. המתחם שסביבו ספג שלושה טילים, כנראה טילי שיוט או טילי אוויר-קרקע ששוגרו ממטוסים שטסו מעל העננים. אנדריי, אחד משומרי המתקן, אמר לי ששניים מחבריו נפצעו ונלקחו לבית חולים.
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Go ahead. Make China angry and China sends 20,000 HJ-12 missiles to Russia to slaughter American and British volunteers in Ukraine.
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After the West has neutered Russia ... They are coming for China. Same playbook... But it would be Taiwan as bait. Let's see if the Chinese do any better.
This Ukraine fiasco has been a disaster for Russia. It will but them back at least 50 years unless there is an internal "Democracy" Orange Revolution by the CIA....
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America is no threat to China and Russia. China and Russia dominate The Old World. America has no foothold in The Old World. You can't dominate the world unless you can dominate The Old World.
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