Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[SalarHaqq]

911 was planned by Bin Laden in Afghanistan. Afghanistan had become center of anti western terrorism

According to the US regime itself. Which hardly qualifies as "proof", considering that this regime specializes in lying to the public.

 

[Apollon]

According to the US regime itself. Which hardly qualifies as "proof", considering that this regime specializes in lying to the public.

Mullah Omar said bin Laden is his guest. You claim now mullah Omar was part of ZS regime? A bold theory.

 

[Hack-Hook]

The sea blockage imposed by Russian army hinders Ukraine to export 25 million ton grains. Which causes high food prices and potentially can inflict huge famine in developing countries.
G7 trying to find a way to break Russia blockade.

G7-Außenminister: G7 wollen russische Hafenblockade in der Ukraine brechen

Beim Treffen der G7-Außenminister hat Annalena Baerbock vor einer globalen Ernährungskrise gewarnt. Zur ukrainischen Forderung nach Kampfjets äußerte sie sich skeptisch.

www.zeit.de

Annalena Baerbock beim G7-Außenministertreffen© Janine Schmitz/imago images

Nonsense they can export it the exact way they import weapons

 

[Wood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1525433050926030850

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Nobody in Germany misses Merkel. Her time as chancellor were a desaster

And you are just a commoner in Greece who is so dependent on EU loans to survive thinks you understand what the Germans are thinking.



The Greek who spend their time daydreaming about philosophy and impractical ideas like the playful cricket in Summer unlike the Germans who are more resourceful and down to earth folks. The German ants understands they need gas to survive the winter.

 

[mulj]

When you are running out of arguments a bit of racism always helps.

I am "white" person myself.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

Russians are protecting their borders and you criticize them.

NATO was protecting nothing in the Afghanistan war and you want your country join them.

All wars have collateral civilian damage, but this war is neccesary for Russia security.

Afghanistan NATO war was not necessary for NATO security.

It was just a free crime, a way to train their troops and test weapons under the lie of 911 attacks. And you want your country join to such evil organization under the pretext of Russian evilness .

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and has been attacking ever since. It is not protecting borders. It is a War of Agression and as such illegal.
There is no room in International Law for invading another country to secure borders.
Russia has acknowledged 1997 that all sovereign countries have the right to join whatever alliance they care for.

Al-Qaeda with support from their Afghan allies attacked the United States in 2001. It is a War of Self-Defense.
NATO as allies to the United States have a legal right to support their ally in a war of self-defense.

Afghanistan refused to close down the Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, which is required by laws of neutrality.
You simply are not aware or care about International Law.

I am "white" person myself.

Then You are a white person incapable of producing a video that supports the claim or show that Palestinians or Taliban handle their own war crimes.

 

[Apollon]

Did he also claim this Bin Laden person planned the terrorist attacks in question? I doubt it.

Bin Laden did claim that on video.


I agree that this was not well planned. Unfortunately it was a time where bullshit humanists ruled the west. They should just have flattened city by city until Afghanistan executed bin Laden life on TV and be done with it.


Believe it or not, majority in West has zero interest in nation building projects in places like Afghanistan. I dont care what they do there as long its no danger for us.

Nonsense they can export it the exact way they import weapons

Thats what is done now. Shipment through baltic harbours.

 

[mulj]

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and has been attacking ever since. It is not protecting borders. It is a War of Agression and as such illegal.
There is no room in International Law for invading another country to secure borders.
Russia has acknowledged 1997 that all sovereign countries have the right to join whatever alliance they care for.

Al-Qaeda with support from their Afghan allies attacked the United States in 2001. It is a War of Self-Defense.
NATO as allies to the United States have a legal right to support their


Then You are a white person incapable of producing a video that supports the claim or show that Palestinians or Taliban handle their own war crimes.

Then you are idiot who needs videos to acknowledge that settlers in palestine and western coalition around the wider regions comitted war crimes on regular basys.
But to indukge your idiotic request check the drone attack when USA run away from Kabul airport in last days.

 

[Oldman1]

They are, most likely MLRS, but as I point out before I left for Ukraine, once they signed the deal with BAe, there are always possibility for HIMARS and with US is backing the purchase, they will probably transfer a few HIMARS from the Marine and buy them from BAe themselves to replace it.

M270 tho, there are excessive storage when the Marine ditched them and going for HIMARS. Which mean we would have some store, don't know how many there are but it could well be into high double digit, while it is not likely the US will transfer all M270 to Ukraine, but a handful of Battery would be likely, maybe less than 20 (3 batteries)


M109 Paladin have been talked of, i don't know if they will be transfer, US had around 1000 (A mix bag of A6 and A7) but I doubt if they transfer it to Ukraine will be of anything like you said. Maybe 90-100 like the M777, taking away 10% of US stock is a lot, we depends heavily on them as well.

Well whatever they can give them, it would help hit Kupiansk as well as well as Melitopol which I mentioned before, providing air support as well as bringing in supplies. Maybe even collaborate with Ukraine building their own truck type HIMARS system since they have Grads and Smerch so they know how to build them perhaps. Also good time for them to rebuild their war factories in safer areas like in Western and Middle of Ukraine and hidden well. I've seen videos of them building their own body armor and repairing capture Russian vehicles. Maybe they can still build their own helmets and small arms. I know they have that bullpup rifle. But in any case whatever number of body armor and helmets they need to equip the hundreds of thousands of Territorial troops and other units to make up the shortage by the West.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1525000769979678720

Even 100 Paladins would help and should send in the older M198 howitzers to compensate for low number of Paladins. With hundreds of M198s, it could provide the artillery support from moon shape frontline from Kherson to Kharkiv. Not to mention provide M113 APCs with 120mm mortars, lots of mortars for long range. Also provide American type DJI drones, I heard China is helping the Russians tracking the usage of drones by the Ukrainians. Need to give Ukrainians the materials to build their own drones.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1525485548588122118

 

[Oldman1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1525032212164497408

Looks like the LNR/DNR troops are being abandoned by Russia. Can't leave to go home in Donbas region, and can't be allowed to go deep in Russia so they are on the Russian/Ukrainian border. These are the troops that retreated from Kharkiv in case you curious.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

There are various videos of US troops firing at unarmed peaceful civilians. Here just two examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/afghanistan-drone-strike-video.html

There is also video proof of Australian soldiers executing unarmed civilians at close range in Afghanistan.

Moreover there is plenty of non-audiovisual evidence that zionist and US troops massacred significant amounts of ordinary civilians. The nature of the proof isn't exactly relevant in this regard.

By contrast, there is no video proving that Russian forces committed such a crime during the ongoing conflict.



It is one of many symptoms thereof.



Not necessarily. Token US soldiers reporting crimes likely are the exception which confirms the rule.

The unedited video.

which shows that the guys were armed to the teeth.

A part of the unedited video.

another part of the unedited video.

As for the Afghanistan video, the Americans, after a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, saw a lorry being loaded with what was suspected to be explosives, and attacked.
Typically such attacks are run through lawyers that determine an estimated military value.
Since a bomb this size would kill many hundreds of innocent civilians the estimated value was high.
It turned out that the ”explosives” were water containers.
To be a war crime, there must be intent.
Noone seriously believes that if the US Army got a call saying that civilians are loading water bottles in a pickup, the US would respond with a drone strike.

It does not appear to be beyond the Russians, considering how they bomb food stores.

 

[Shakuni Mama]

Believe it or not, majority in West has zero interest in nation building projects in places like Afghanistan. I dont care what they do there as long its no danger for us.

What contribution did Greece ever made to build a country ? Your country itself is bailed out by EU many times and here you are riding on high horse as you are the savior of humanity.

 

[PakFactor]

Ukraine Is in Worse Shape than You Think​

Opinion by Suriya Jayanti - 5h ago

It has been said that, given how massively Ukrainian troops were believed be outmatched early in Russia’s invasion, not losing the war is itself a form of victory for Ukraine. The difference between expectations and the surprising resilience of Ukraine’s military makes it easy to misinterpret the current situation in Ukraine’s favor. But not winning is still not winning. Ukraine is in far worse shape than commonly believed and needs, and will continue to need, a staggering amount of aid and support to actually win.

We love an underdog. We love a plucky little guy who beats the odds. It fuels hope for our ordinary selves and allows us to feel we are on the morally superior side. This is why Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed so successfully to the world. His defiance against the odds gave us someone to root for against a bully. While cheering on the scrappy, outmatched Ukrainians, we could also assuage some of our shame at leaving them—to whom we had made promises of protection, “security guarantees”—to die alone in the snow and the mud.

Unfortunately, Zelensky’s leadership and the outpouring of international military and humanitarian assistance it has elicited have not prevented a shocking level of destruction to Ukraine’s cities, economy, and society. The fact that Kyiv has not fallen and Russian troops have retreated to the east masks that Ukraine is in worse shape than portrayed in the media.

It is worth remembering that Ukraine has been fighting a Russian invasion since 2014. Between 2014 and February 2022, almost 10,000 were killed in the simmering war in the Donbas, but little or no military progress was made. Now, Ukraine is fighting with that same army in an expanded theater against a bigger opposing force. It is a testament to the pure valiance of its troops that Ukraine has managed since February 24 not only to hold its line but force the Russians into a retreat from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernigiv, and surrounding areas.

Nonetheless, Russia now controls significantly more Ukrainian territory than before February 24. Putin’s army holds Kherson, whatever is left of Mariupol, all the intervening territory, and now not only Luhansk and Donetsk but the entire Donbas Oblast. For example, whereas Ukrainian authorities controlled approximately 60% of Luhansk before the recent Russian invasion, now Russian forces control over 80% of the region. They also have about 70% of Zaporizhye region. Cumulatively, this accounts for an increase of Russian occupied territory from approximately 7%, including Crimea, before February more than double that now. Viewed this way, not losing looks a lot more like losing than winning.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense is not releasing combat casualty numbers to maintain morale, but experts believe it has lost at least 25,000 troops — up to 11,000 deaths and 18,000 wounded —since the February 24 invasion. Over two and a half months into the war, Ukraine’s losses are at least 10% of their now undoubtedly exhausted army of under 250,000. This is, however, many, many fewer than Russia’s casualties, believed to be over 35,000, and buttressed by an astonishing loss of weapons and equipment, such as tanks and warships.

Ukraine’s relative success is due in part to the weapons at least 31 western governments have been donating. The U.K. has sent anti-tank, anti-air, and anti-ship missiles, air defense systems, and other weapons; Slovakia the S-300 air defense system; the U.S. drones, howitzers, missiles, and anti-armor systems; and this is just a sampling. These weapons have allowed Ukraine to maximize its home field advantage, leverage its troops’ greater resolve, and exploit Russia’s military weaknesses and apparent lack of adequate planning and preparation. Without these donations, Kyiv may well have fallen by now.

While Ukraine is flush with weapons and other military supplies and equipment, however, Ministry of Defense officials and volunteer fighters are both quietly admitting that they lack the capacity to absorb so much aid. Much of the equipment and weaponry requires new training to be used. Even when that is available it takes time. Similarly, the influx of 16,000 or more foreign volunteer fighters would seem like a decisive boon, but in fact almost none of them had any military experience or training. They proved little more than extra mouths to feed in most cases, according to Ministry of Defense staff and some of the volunteer foreign special forces soldiers on the ground.

Economically, Ukraine is surviving, but only that. The sanctions on Russia that are expected to cause a less than 7% contraction in GDP compare rather unfavorably to the 45-50% GDP collapse Ukraine is facing. At least 25% of businesses are closed, although the number that have completely stopped has fallen from 32% in March to 17% in May. But a Black Sea blockade of Ukraine’s ports—Mariupol, Odesa, Kherson, and others—by Russia’s navy is preventing both the import of fuels to power the agricultural sector, and also the export of grain and other Ukrainian products. The inability to export is costing Ukraine’s economy $170 million per day. Meanwhile, Russia is targeting Ukrainian fuel storages, grain silos, and agricultural equipment warehouses, damaging already tattered supply chains. The power sector is facing default because so few Ukrainian citizens and companies are able to pay their electricity bills.

Not only is May a critical agricultural month, but it is when Naftogaz usually starts buying natural gas to store it for the cold Ukrainian winter. The state-owned energy giant was already in bad shape before the invasion, with the CEO asking the Ukrainian government for a $4.6 billion bailout in September 2021. Now, with very tight gas markets and no funds, it is unclear how the country can prepare for winter, when temperatures can fall to below 20 Fahrenheit. Adding to the prospect of a tragic 2022-2023 winter, most of Ukraine’s coal mines are in the Donbas, where Russia’s offensive continues.

The White House is reportedly considering forgiving Ukrainian sovereign debt, which would undoubtedly help Bankova (the Ukrainian White House equivalent). So too will, among other efforts, the €15 billion in debt securities the European Commission plans to issue to cover Ukraine’s next few months. However, this will not coax back the over six million mostly women and children who have fled Ukraine. If men were allowed to leave, the numbers would almost certainly be double.

Recent reports that 25,000-30,000 are returning daily to Ukraine from abroad are encouraging, but Ukraine faced a brain drain problem before the invasion. The poorest country in Europe, many citizens were already trying to leave. Before the war, Ukrainians were the third largest immigrant population in the E.U., behind only Morocco and Turkey. Now, the International Labor Agency estimates that 4.8 million jobs have been lost in Ukraine, which will rise to seven million if the war continues. And after many months of war, children will have settled in new schools abroad, mothers will be integrating in their new worlds, and both will be waiting for their husbands and fathers to join them. Some will return to Ukraine, of course, but many will prioritize their family’s comfort and children’s opportunities over the calls of patriotism.

Most troublingly, many Ukrainians still in their country have begun to wonder how it will rebuild itself. The war has torn the fabric of society. One mother in Poltava said she no longer trusts the neighbors she has lived next to for 40 years, people she considered to be family before the invasion. A young volunteer, formerly a civil society activist, described hunting for saboteurs, and how he has begun to see Russian sympathizers everywhere. Native Ukrainian speakers of Russian, who constitute at least a third of the population, are uncomfortable or even scared to use their mother tongue. Trust has been shattered, even while nationalism has been motivated. No matter how quickly Russia is beaten back, rebuilding communities will be a challenge.

The U.S. government decided in May to symbolically move some of its diplomatic staff back into Kyiv, partially reversing its rapid, defeatist withdrawal when it assumed Kyiv would fall within days. President Biden has even, finally, nominated a U.S. ambassador to Ukraine after more than a three-year leadership gap. The message this and E.U. gestures send is important. But despite our desire to see in outmatched Ukraine’s survival a tale of David beating Goliath, and to cheer ourselves for donating the slingshot, the country is seriously, dangerously weakened.

Ukraine needs more than symbols, and more than weapons. Not losing is not winning, and it will take a long and deep commitment by the western world to help Ukraine both win and then heal.

MSN

www.msn.com

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I thought it was a good read and gives a picture of some long-term issues. Another long-term issue I see would be man-power not equipment,

@RescueRanger @Wood

 

[SalarHaqq]

Bin Laden did claim that on video.

A grainy low-resolution video, and it's pretty much child's play for NATO intelligence agencies to stage a meeting with the participation of some Bin Laden doppelganger. Also in that video, the person alleged to be Bin Laden seems to be suggesting they had prior knowledge of the attacks, and that they conducted calculations about the death toll based on this knowledge. But their statements don't go further than that, in other words no confession of having masterminded these attacks.

In parallel, there are several statements attributed to Bin Laden in which he explicitly denies having played any role.

At any rate, none of it precludes the likes of the alleged 9-11 terrorists from having been manipulated by the US deep state. Western regimes have a well documented, extensive history of orchestrating false flags.

We also have statements like the following from US regime officials (in this case Donald Rumsfeld not long before the execution of the September 11, 2001 attacks):

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

I agree that this was not well planned.

Mighty US fell victim to not so well planned terrorist attacks?

Unfortunately it was a time where bullshit humanists ruled the west. They should just have flattened city by city until Afghanistan executed bin Laden life on TV and be done with it.

Believe it or not, majority in West has zero interest in nation building projects in places like Afghanistan. I dont care what they do there as long its no danger for us.

What the majority of their subjects think means nothing to the ruling oligarchy of western regimes, however to said oligarchy it was never about toppling dictators, nation-building, democracy or human rights indeed.

It was and is simply about destabilizing and balkanizing multiple nation-states along the so-called "arc of instability" (destabilized by NATO and the zionists, that is), as they expose in their own policy papers and other publications.