Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[nangyale]

How do you know it has been orchestrated by Russians?

Simply. By looking at his propagandist's manual.

 

[Wood]

It's Push and Pull. Both side traded ground, Russia is not in a position to cross the river to Mykolaiv

But then so does the Ukraine to do the opposite, hence you are going to see pushes here and there from both side and artillery exchange in Kherson region until the Russian Eastern Offensive has stalled. Well, they have a pretty good defensive position outside Mykolaiv.

As I said on the other post, it looks like the Ukrainian are making the Eastern Offensive priority as they are the centre of Gravity in the whole situation, now that Mariupol has fallen, there aren't any meaningful reason to try to push Russia off Southern zone now, may as well just devote more troop in the East to try and push the Russian back there.

After the successful defence of Kharkiv, I thought Ukraine may want to recover some of its lost coastline. Why do you think that the defense of East is more important? Most of Donbass was occupied even before the invasion in February

Of course they learn when the West gave them 3 month worth of reprieve on weapon supplies to Ukraine.


As I said many times here, the worst thing for Ukrainians is Russians going on for proper defensive.



Ukraine already have 2 divisions of relatively well prepared reserves in Kiyv, and Lviv, the mystery for me why they are waiting so long to push them forward.


On top of that, there are at least 50 thousand territorials in Western Ukraine now doing completely nothing. That's more than the number of infantrmen in UK army.


The number of light infantry for frontline combat is low across Western armies in relation to specialists. Ukraine is a reverse of that, tons of people who are trained to fight in the field, but very few specialists, or support.

I can only think that Ukraine would have kept their reserves back because they may not have logistics necessary to push everyone at the same time. Or perhaps they are holding people as fall back if Russia decides to escalate with Indonesian unconventional weapons

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1528494854657003525

Russian losses now at 3,800

 

[Tornado23]

I wonder when this war is over, if the Russians are able to take, hold and ultimately create the DPR and LPR, in Donbass, will there be a volatile LOC like situation on the border between the 2 countries like you see between Pakistan and India? Or is the LOC and its... Events are unique only to Pakistan and India.... A literal war being fought on a border, but dubbed as a CFV or skirmish

 

[Foinikas]

Simply. By looking at his propagandist's manual.

That doesn't prove that it's fake.

 

[sammuel]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1528714672895049730

More nonsense from from you.

Do you have even one source that confirms this report ?

Well stated! We have too many hasbara shills in this forum, hiding behind US, Ukrainian, French, German, Swedish, and Polish flags.

Only the Somali pirate can be trusted !



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[Hamartia Antidote]

Well stated! We have too many hasbara shills in this forum, hiding behind US, Ukrainian, French, German, Swedish, and Polish flags.

Can you just stick with your reporting and leave out your dumb accusations.

 

[Sineva]

Theres really nothing quite as nasty as watching good old [bad old] western hypocrisy and racism in action......

Occupied Palestine Is as Entitled to the World’s Solidarity as Occupied Ukraine​

By Branko Marcetic

We could soon see another brutal Israeli war on Palestinians after this weekend’s shocking attacks on Ramadan worshippers by Israeli forces. Yet the Western solidarity that’s rightly been forthcoming for Ukraine is now nowhere to be seen.
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/palestine-israel-occupation-solidarity-ukraine-russia-al-aqsa-mosque
This past weekend, the armed forces of an occupying power engaged in another round of brutal repression of the neighboring people they are subjugating, attacking unarmed civilians with everything from tear gas to live ammunition, and clearly committing war crimes. In this case, however, the abusive belligerent happens to be a Western ally.
A year after Israel’s bloody raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque mushroomed into an eleven-day-long war on the Gaza Strip, the world appears to be looking at an extremely violent case of déjà vu. Over Easter weekend, Israeli forces again raided the structure, firing live rounds and stun grenades into the mosque, storming the prayer hall, and indiscriminately beating protesters, worshippers, and other civilians. The attacks left more than a hundred fifty injured on Friday alone, including journalists and paramedics.
The Israeli attacks were sparked after worshippers, bristling at the presence of Israeli snipers and other forces as they went to worship and anticipating a raid, began putting up wooden roadblocks and firing firecrackers at the troops. As part of an agreement made after the 1967 war, the compound — whose location is of religious significance to all three Abrahamic faiths — is under the management of the Jordanian government, which accused Israel of “illegal provocative measures” for letting Jewish worshippers on the site after its crackdown, an act even an Israeli judge ruled was illegal last year. It’s also worth noting that attacks on cultural sites and places of worship are strictly forbidden under international law.



There is a very real risk we could see Israel fight yet another “war” on Gaza — a somewhat misleading term, since the vast imbalance in military capability means such wars tend to be one-sided affairs where Israel simply pummels Gaza indiscriminately from the sky. Two of Israel’s last four wars against Gaza have been launched during Ramadan, including last year’s, which began with virtually identical violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, before turning into a bombing campaign that killed nearly two-hundred Palestinian civilians. We could end up in the same place now, as protests and violence intensifies, especially with Palestinian militants now seeming to resume rocket attacks on Israel, which had been on pause for months.
The current violence is the result of a confluence of factors. A spate of terrorist attacks against Israelis that left fourteen dead, including, most prominently, a shooting in a Tel Aviv nightclub at the start of April, spurred Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett to give his armed forces “full freedom of action” to “defeat the terror.” This led in turn to a spate of killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces. Bennett, not unlike his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu when he ordered the same kinds of raids last year, is in a tough position politically right now, having just lost his parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, Israeli extremists threatened in the lead-up to the day to carry out an animal sacrifice on the grounds, violating the ban on Jewish worship at the site.
But the deeper cause of the current violence is the same broad factor that led to last year’s Israeli raids: Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and its gradual theft of Palestinian land. The Tel Aviv nightclub shooter came from the occupied West Bank, and his attack was preceded by an uptick in settler violence.

A Staggering Double Standard​

While Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is its own unique outrage, it can’t go unremarked upon how stark the difference is in how the West has responded to these events, and the response and policy prescriptions we’re hearing when it comes to the war in Ukraine.
Since Russia’s invasion, Western officials and commentators have started sounding curiously like Noam Chomsky: they’ve denounced violations of international law and territorial sovereignty, thrown around terms like imperialism and war of aggression, bewailed a supposed tendency to draw a false equivalency between the aggressor and their victims or to falsely blame both sides for violence, made widespread accusations of war crimes, and devoted an unprecedented amount of airtime to the invasion.
In this climate, there’s been virtually no limit to the action this state of affairs is held to demand from the West, even at the risk of a wider conflict between nuclear powers and an assortment of potential long-term ripple effects: such action includes massive quantities of arms shipments and providing logistical, intelligence, and other military support to defeat Russia, to unprecedented sanctions for collectively punishing the Russian population and private censure against ordinary Russians who had nothing to do with the war. A shocking number of voices have called for the West to not just begin directly fighting a war against Russia, but to be comfortable with the idea of a nuclear exchange with the country, along with publicly and privately spelling out a strategy of regime change.
These are, needless to say, risky and potentially disastrous ideas. But it’s notable that amid this sudden upsurge of armed solidarity with the victims of imperialistic military occupation, virtually no one is calling to offer Palestinians even an iota of the same kind of support. (This is, for the most part, just as well: if the Western world suddenly abandoned the long-standing consensus for a negotiated settlement to the conflict and began instead giving Palestinians Ukraine-like backing to fight a war of resistance against Israel, it would very likely trigger a brutal military response against the Palestinians, while causing massive loss of life on both sides, while at worst running the risk of a nuclear standoff).
But it’s not just that reckless military options are, thankfully, off the table. Even the solidarity so quickly and correctly offered to Ukrainians is missing from this latest attack on Palestinians, for whose suffering all the suddenly popular rhetoric about territorial sovereignty, agency, imperialism, and war crimes has simply evaporated.
As always, Western officials have shied away from so much as calling out the aggressor in this situation, with the US state department and the EU foreign policy chief calling on “both sides” or “all sides” to act with restraint. See if you can find anything that UK officials, some of the most gung ho when it comes to puffing their chests out against Russia, have said about Israel’s actions this past weekend. Western media, meanwhile, has reverted to the same style of coverage that usually prevails when it comes to Israel’s actions: simply talking about nebulous “clashes” that ascribe no blame or agency to anyone involved them, and treating the violence and crimes disproportionately carried out by Israel’s occupying forces as if it were weather.
We would be rightly outraged if Western officials and the press treated Moscow’s invasion like this, but outside of some pockets of the mainstream press and vanishingly few progressive lawmakers, there seems to be no real push for moral and intellectual consistency on this issue when it concerns a Western ally. The invasion of Ukraine could have been a teachable moment, for the Western public to apply its lessons to the violations carried out and supported by their own governments, and to ensure justice everywhere. As it stands, it looks like these lessons will only apply when it concerns those countries our officials consider enemies.

 

[nangyale]

That doesn't prove that it's fake.

Guess sarcasm is lost on you.

 

[jhungary]

After the successful defence of Kharkiv, I thought Ukraine may want to recover some of its lost coastline. Why do you think that the defense of East is more important? Most of Donbass was occupied even before the invasion in February


I can only think that Ukraine would have kept their reserves back because they may not have logistics necessary to push everyone at the same time. Or perhaps they are holding people as fall back if Russia decides to escalate with Indonesian unconventional weapons

As with Kyiv, Donbas is the center of gravity because the Russian have changed its objective from Capturing Kyiv (Well, demilitarise and denazifying Ukraine) to Capture and hold the entire Donbas along with a land Corridor toward Transnistria.

That would mean if the Ukrainian successfully defending Donbas, their entire operation felt apart. The Ukrainian have probably chosen the objective in the long haul (Like 5 to 10 years) instead of a quick recapture and then peace talk and trade ground for peace, seems like the Ukrainian wanted all Russian out, that may or may not be including Donbas and Crimea.

A few of the foreign fighter I've met in Ukraine have all gone to Donbas, which mean that was their main event at the moment.

The way I see it, Ukraine want to play the long game, zap the Russian will to fight, and eventually give up on the operation and just leave. Much like how US withdraw from Afghanistan.

 

[dBSPL]

Kazakhstan freezes the assets of Russian banks in Kazakhstan.

 

[jhungary]

How do you know it has been orchestrated by Russians?

Behind the Dutch Terror Threat Video: The St. Petersburg "Troll Factory" Connection - bellingcat

Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)At 13:30:09 GMT on 18 January 2016, a new YouTube channel called ПАТРИОТ (“Patriot”) uploaded its first video, titled (in Ukrainian) “Appeal of AZOV fighters to the Netherlands on a referendum about EU – Ukraine.” The video depicts six soldiers holding...

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Read the entire bellingcat report

First of all, this photo existed since 2016, also no unit in Ukraine wear Multicam in 2016....Multicam uniform is issued to selected Ukrainian unit (Mostly SF) since June 2017, IIRC Azov start showing Multicam sometime in 2018.

Ukrainian Spetnaz's Weapons and Gear May Show an American Touch

A key part of the fight against Russian-backed separatists, Ukraine's spetnaz starting to look more and more like their Western counterparts.

www.thedrive.com

 

[wahhab0202]

In case the Americans on the forum don't get it, that's not the Russian flag.

Hilarious

 

[jhungary]

Hilarious

Yeah, because it was a fake video......

I mean the quality of this fake job is laughable, I will probably ask for my money back if I was in charge of whoever work on the disinformation network....

 

[jhungary]