Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510368608031019009

 

[The SC]

The fiercest battles against the remnants of the Azov battalion in Mariupol, Ukraine

 

[JX-1]

Surprisingly, the Russians have even managed to be pushed back.

 

[Paul2]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510117089306152966

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510117186731487236

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510117337411854338

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510117623673016322

Russian forces have been defeated on the Kyiv/Chernihiv and Sumy fronts

I have no idea why they went to Sumy in the first place, instead of using these forces on Kharkiv, while fully knowing that Sumy will not be able to relieve Kharkiv.

That small town, and a few garrisons there ate like a whole army division.

 

[Wood]

Seems like we can expect some good news

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1992268427642161

Russian paratroopers who demonstrated courage and heroism during the special military operation to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics were presented with state awards.

The awarding ceremony was held in Kiev region at a temporary deployment point of an Airborne Troops unit.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
@mod_russia_en

MoD Russia, [4/2/2022 11:04 AM]

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=5801906976491406

 

[jhungary]

relations with Russia, including a promise to Ukraine to join NATO, the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Friday.

“I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West," he said in an interview aired on the TF1 television channel. "There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."

West made mistake in promising Ukraine NATO membership: Borrell

The West has made a number of mistakes in relations with Russia, including a promise to Ukraine to join NATO, the European Union's foreign policy...

www.google.com

Now that the United States is afraid of starting World War III, why did it promise Ukraine to join NATO? The best way for the United States to ensure the security of Ukraine is to make Ukraine unsafe.

First of all, US endorsing NATO membership does not mean anything, NATO is not a referral organisation in the sense you will get it if you are referred, to join NATO, you will need to have all 30 member agree on it, which make US "endorsement" pointless. US president can endorse someone to apply for NATO membership (Which is that someone's right if that someone is a head of state, not Russia) that does not mean that someone will get NATO membership.

Second of all, NATO membership were never on the table for Ukraine. The history of Ukrainian NATO membership is basically a non-starter. They were rejected twice, in 2008 and in 2014/2015 (by Joe Biden himself acting as VP.) There are 3 stages for applying NATO membership is Individual Membership Plan, then Intensified Dialogue with NATO and finally Membership Action Plan.

Ukraine has none of these 3 stages done, and was not considered as "Aspirant Member" by NATO. On the contrary, Kosovo and Georgia are in different stages of NATO membership application, both were considered as "Aspirant Member" of NATO.

In fact, Russia have used the same threat on Georgia and this is probably more realistic than in Ukraine, because Georgia are simply waiting on their MAP, the last stage.

Russia says Georgia's entry to NATO could lead to war

From RIA Novosti: Russia’s foreign minister has warned of a repetition of its 2008 war with Georgia if the South Caucasus state joins NATO.

www.atlanticcouncil.org

On the other hand, I can almost certain that had NATO accepted Ukraine NATO membership in 2008 or 2014, there will not be a war now.

Beside, this is not about 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

MoD Russia, [4/2/2022 2:24 AM]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=505126414559599

Russian servicemen delivered humanitarian aid to Izyum, Kharkov region, for the first time

️ Accompanied by the Military Police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, humanitarian aid of over 45 tonnes was delivered to residents of the city and its surroundings who had been waiting for this relief aid for several days, being without communication, light, drinking water and basic necessities.

️ As a result of incessant shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions, Izyum residents and their small children are forced to hide in basements, bomb shelters and makeshift hiding places. For this reason, they are afraid to go out to buy food.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianAid
@mod_russia

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Leader of neo-nazi Azov Battalion reportedly killed in Ukraine​

March 28, 2022 8:50 AM CDT BY STEVE SWEENEY AND JOHN WOJCIK

Azov Battalion leader Artyom Murakhovsky reportedly killed. Courtesy Morning Star.

Neo-Nazi forces from the notorious Azov Battalion were said to have suffered a heavy defeat in Ukraine on Thursday as fierce fighting continues.
The Donetsk People’s Republic militia claimed to have killed one of the fascist unit’s leaders, Artyom Murakhovsky, during a battle in the city of Avdiivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.
The battalion was also said to have suffered its biggest losses since the Russian invasion began on February 24 in the besieged Black Sea port city of Mariupol.
The Azov Battalion has its headquarters in the city, which it has been defending from Russian troops.

Members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion hold a torchlit rally in Kiev. | Efrem Lukatsky / AP
Prior to the war, the neo-nazi regiment had been training locals in Mariupol as part of a citizen’s militia, exercises which received widespread coverage in mainstream Western media.
Most, however, failed to explain that the soldiers photographed showing “babushkas” how to use combat rifles were in fact fascists responsible for horrific crimes in the Donbass region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “special operation” aimed at the denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine.
Western countries have poured scorn on Mr. Putin’s claims, with governments and media organizations, including the BBC in Europe, and almost all major media in the U.S., downplaying the influence of fascist forces in Ukraine.
Discussion regarding the influence of the far right there is often dismissed as “pro-Putin propaganda.”

Azov Battalion leader Artyom Murakhovsky reportedly killed. Courtesy Morning Star.

Neo-Nazi forces from the notorious Azov Battalion were said to have suffered a heavy defeat in Ukraine on Thursday as fierce fighting continues.
The Donetsk People’s Republic militia claimed to have killed one of the fascist unit’s leaders, Artyom Murakhovsky, during a battle in the city of Avdiivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.
The battalion was also said to have suffered its biggest losses since the Russian invasion began on February 24 in the besieged Black Sea port city of Mariupol.
The Azov Battalion has its headquarters in the city, which it has been defending from Russian troops.

Members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion hold a torchlit rally in Kiev. | Efrem Lukatsky / AP
Prior to the war, the neo-nazi regiment had been training locals in Mariupol as part of a citizen’s militia, exercises which received widespread coverage in mainstream Western media.
Most, however, failed to explain that the soldiers photographed showing “babushkas” how to use combat rifles were in fact fascists responsible for horrific crimes in the Donbass region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “special operation” aimed at the denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine.
Western countries have poured scorn on Mr. Putin’s claims, with governments and media organizations, including the BBC in Europe, and almost all major media in the U.S., downplaying the influence of fascist forces in Ukraine.
Discussion regarding the influence of the far right there is often dismissed as “pro-Putin propaganda.”
The Azov Battalion, which was integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2014 following the Maidan coup, has links to far-right organizations abroad, including in Germany, which has seen a resurgence in neo-nazi activity, with fascists having infiltrated the country’s police and armed forces.
The Azov Battalion-led forces and other right-wing extremists in the Ukrainian army, acting in the name of the Ukraine government, are so numerous in the East that they were able to kill 15,000 Russian-speaking civilians there since 2014. The bloody war Ukrainians everywhere in the country are experiencing now has actually gone on for a long time with death and destruction coming at the hands not of Russia, but of right-wing Ukrainians. Russians, incredulous when they heard reports that Putin had invaded Ukraine, would say things like “We don’t believe it. It’s only Ukrainians killing Ukrainians.”

Members of Ukraine’s ‘Territorial Defense Forces,’ armed groups formed out of right-wing ‘volunteers,’ train close to Kiev on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. Ukrainian President Zelensky is encouraging fascist groups to arm themselves more heavily. | Efrem Lukatsky / AP
The West, led by the United States working with Ukrainian allies, has given power to the extreme right in Ukraine, just as they gave power to the right-wing fundamentalists in Afghanistan in the last century. At best, they hoped that by working with the neo-fascists to stage the 2014 coup in Kiev and by allowing them to kill off 15,000 in the east they would be able to weaken opposition to their rule and consolidate their control of the entire country, making it easier to bring Ukraine into the European Union, which, as it does with its poorer members such as Portugal and Greece, would thoroughly exploit them to the benefit of wealthy capitalists, particularly those In Germany.
The problem with trying to make opportunistic use of fascists to gain economic control over a country is that one often creates Frankenstein monsters.

Neo-Nazi forces from the notorious Azov Battalion were said to have suffered a heavy defeat in Ukraine on Thursday as fierce fighting continues.

The Donetsk People’s Republic militia claimed to have killed one of the fascist unit’s leaders, Artyom Murakhovsky, during a battle in the city of Avdiivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.
The battalion was also said to have suffered its biggest losses since the Russian invasion began on February 24 in the besieged Black Sea port city of Mariupol.
The Azov Battalion has its headquarters in the city, which it has been defending from Russian troops.

Members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion hold a torchlit rally in Kiev. | Efrem Lukatsky / AP
Prior to the war, the neo-nazi regiment had been training locals in Mariupol as part of a citizen’s militia, exercises which received widespread coverage in mainstream Western media.
Most, however, failed to explain that the soldiers photographed showing “babushkas” how to use combat rifles were in fact fascists responsible for horrific crimes in the Donbass region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “special operation” aimed at the denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine.
Western countries have poured scorn on Mr. Putin’s claims, with governments and media organizations, including the BBC in Europe, and almost all major media in the U.S., downplaying the influence of fascist forces in Ukraine.
Discussion regarding the influence of the far right there is often dismissed as “pro-Putin propaganda.”
The Azov Battalion, which was integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2014 following the Maidan coup, has links to far-right organizations abroad, including in Germany, which has seen a resurgence in neo-nazi activity, with fascists having infiltrated the country’s police and armed forces.
The Azov Battalion-led forces and other right-wing extremists in the Ukrainian army, acting in the name of the Ukraine government, are so numerous in the East that they were able to kill 15,000 Russian-speaking civilians there since 2014. The bloody war Ukrainians everywhere in the country are experiencing now has actually gone on for a long time with death and destruction coming at the hands not of Russia, but of right-wing Ukrainians. Russians, incredulous when they heard reports that Putin had invaded Ukraine, would say things like “We don’t believe it. It’s only Ukrainians killing Ukrainians.”

Members of Ukraine’s ‘Territorial Defense Forces,’ armed groups formed out of right-wing ‘volunteers,’ train close to Kiev on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. Ukrainian President Zelensky is encouraging fascist groups to arm themselves more heavily. | Efrem Lukatsky / AP
The West, led by the United States working with Ukrainian allies, has given power to the extreme right in Ukraine, just as they gave power to the right-wing fundamentalists in Afghanistan in the last century. At best, they hoped that by working with the neo-fascists to stage the 2014 coup in Kiev and by allowing them to kill off 15,000 in the east they would be able to weaken opposition to their rule and consolidate their control of the entire country, making it easier to bring Ukraine into the European Union, which, as it does with its poorer members such as Portugal and Greece, would thoroughly exploit them to the benefit of wealthy capitalists, particularly those In Germany.
The problem with trying to make opportunistic use of fascists to gain economic control over a country is that one often creates Frankenstein monsters.

A youngster points a weapon during a basic combat training for civilians, organized by the Special Forces Unit Azov, of Ukraine’s National Guard, in Mariupol, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 13, 2022. Vadim Ghirda|AP
Adding to this mess created by the U.S. capitalists working with their capitalist allies in Ukraine is the additional mess created by the capitalists in control of Russia when they decided to invade. The Russian action is being used by the extreme right to embolden both their own Ukrainian Nazis and ones coming in from overseas to help them.
According to the latest UN figures 1,081 civilians have been confirmed killed since the Russian invasion began nearly four weeks ago, although it said the death toll is much higher.
A mass grave was found in Mariupol, with the head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine Matilda Bogner saying a team was carrying out assessments.
“One mass grave we’ve been able to get satellite information on, and we estimate that one of those graves holds about 200 people,” she said.
The UN said it was also investigating alleged indiscriminate shelling in Donetsk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the beating of those perceived to be pro-Russian by the police.

 

[jhungary]

Am willing to go out on a limb and say that at this point, Russia is essentially defeated. Ukraine have been the near perfect example/executor of "The People's War", meaning not just on the physical battlefields but also on fronts that we never really considered, such as economics and finance. It does not mean that we can stop sending Ukraine military aids, but now given how creative the Ukrainians have been with what we sent so far, particularly the anti-tank weapons, as long as they get ways to remove Russian armor from the fight, the Ukrainian Army seems to be able to take on the Russian Army on their own.

At the early onset of the war, I have had a discussion with @Oldman1 about transferring tanks (Think I was talking about M60E3 Patton Egypt and Israel used) and that is what they needed for any counter offensive push, that's why now country like Germany and Poland are considering to transfer their armor to Ukraine. If I can even foresee a Counter Offensive back then (and I am by no mean a good battlefield reader) then that mean Russia being able to win this war is a foregone conclusion.

Russia is big, but then so is Ukraine, and from the early on set, we know this operation is a surgical strike or nothing type of operation, you simply don't put enough troop around the border to take on an entire country, And what military analyst are waiting on is whether or not the Russian have a plan B if this plan failed.

Another problem is whether or not Russia can hold what they have occupied, there are fierce fighting in Izyum even as Russia captured it on April 1. Defensive operation is statistic which grind down the mobility of the invasion force, it both sap their momentum and power to conduct further military operation. And as we are seeing Russian advance on Kyiv is being mopped up right now, that will undoubtedly release some combat power Ukraine left in reserved to do something else, also the formation of a fully trained TDF is near as we are into 5th weeks of war (It usually take 6-9 weeks) which mean there will be a serious influx of manpower on Ukrainian military, that is why the west is mulling sending Military vehicle to Ukraine right now, they have manpower to conduct a counter offensive. They just need tactical equipment.

 

[Wood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510210221444055043

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510210221444055043

And all these supposedly are stolen and originated from a warzone that is still raging.

very creative and imaginative.

But offers very little credence and hard to believe. Especially to those with a bit of commonsense.

 

[jhungary]

The Donbass theatre will be more difficult for Ukraine. The Russians will be defending their line there and the population may not be completely hostile to them as it was in the west

Russia want to control the entire donbas, they will not be in defensive, that's why the Russian is taking Izyum and try to take Mariupol. Doing so will flank both side of the Donbas defender.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510357335453040644