Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[beijingwalker]

I have noticed one thing from the past 2 days, most Russian convoys moving without any air cover... a serious lack of planning esp in the modern battlefield.

How do you know they don't have air cover? how many Russian military vehicles have been destroyed by Ukrainian airforce so far?

 

[Iron Shrappenel]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498365850839138313

OMG did they molotov the guy who was towing the ifv

 

[beijingwalker]

When you know there'll be no threat from the sky you'll choose the easiest and quickist route to move your troops, that was exactly what Russia did, in a war, time and how quickly you can get to some key positions before your enemy is everything .

 

[jhungary]

I hope and wish the sanctions will not hurt Russia too much and they can manage them, otherwise if it comes to a point where due to sanctions Russia become on verge of collapse, it will not result in regime change, it will result in Russia nuking the EU, US and UK with everything they got. They may also get destroyed in return but they will not go down without destroying all their enemies.

Well, I don't know, but as far as the sanction goes, that is the idea of how this is going to end until the West lifted it.

I mean, there are no other way because effectively the west is taken away the Russian currency....

 

[LeGenD]

Zelensky vs Putin: who’s winning the PR battle?

As Russian bombs fell across Ukraine, the contrast between the leaders of the warring nations could not be starker.

www.scmp.com

 

[RescueRanger]

If the timestamps are correct on these tweets it has taken the Russians 3 days to get all that hardware from Sergiyev (Russian) to Ivankiv (Ukraine) +/- 1 day due to nature of satellite imagery.

 

[jhungary]

More Hellducks and Co.

The Tu-95 is only a cruise missile carrier now.

Look, it's I don't give a damn because I have not served a day in my life

LOL I wonder what has been hitting Kyiv?

You DO KNOW airstrike can mean both missile strike and bomb run, it's not like there is a rule somewhere when you call in airstrike, it have to drop bomb......

 

[RescueRanger]

I have noticed one thing from the past 2 days, most Russian convoys moving without any air cover... a serious lack of planning esp in the modern battlefield.

That is what perplexes me, why move all that vulnerable equipment like it's the 1940's?

 

[Thinker3]

Well, I don't know, but as far as the sanction goes, that is the idea of how this is going to end until the West lifted it.

I mean, there are no other way because effectively the west is taken away the Russian currency....

When Putin ordered his Nuclear forces to be ready he cited two reasons one of them being sanctions. Russia is not Iran, North Korea, or Venezuela, what will happen if a person who has many enemies is brought to a point where he will have to commit suicide? how will that person commit suicide? he will take his gun and kill as many enemies as he can before he dies. The biggest mistake west has done and is doing is that they are treating Russia as an ordinary country, which Russia is not.

 

[beijingwalker]

That is what perplexes me, why move all that vulnerable equipment like it's the 1940's?

Cause they knew there'll be no Ukrainian air force in the sky, Russia commanders are not idiots as western media portrayed. How many Russian military assets were destroyed by "Ukrainian airforce" so far? None.

 

[Elias MC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498371175705108483

 

[terry5]

Nigeria condemns treatment of Africans trying to flee Ukraine​

Government says citizens are being denied entry into Poland amid growing reports of discrimination

• Russia-Ukraine crisis – live news

Emmanuel Akinwotu and Weronika Strzyżyńska
Mon 28 Feb 2022 17.46 GMT



The Nigerian government has condemned the treatment of thousands of its students and citizens fleeing the war in Ukraine, amid growing concerns that African students are facing discrimination by security officials and being denied entry into Poland.
A deluge of reports and footage posted on social media in the past week has shown acts of discrimination and violence against African, Asian and Caribbean citizens – many of them studying in Ukraine – while fleeing Ukrainian cities and at some of the country’s border posts

They are among hundreds of thousands of people trying to escape the country as civilian casualties and destruction mount.

More than half a million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began last week, according to the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR.

The Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, said on Monday: “All who flee a conflict situation have the same right to safe passage under UN convention and the colour of their passport or their skin should make no difference,” citing reports that Ukrainian police had obstructed Nigerians.

“From video evidence, first-hand reports, and from those in contact with ... Nigerian consular officials, there have been unfortunate reports of Ukrainian police and security personnel refusing to allow Nigerians to board buses and trains heading towards Ukraine-Poland border,” he said.

“One group of Nigerian students having been repeatedly refused entry into Poland have concluded they have no choice but to travel again across Ukraine and attempt to exit the country via the border with Hungary.”

Nigeria’s special adviser to the president on diaspora affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said: “Africans are being denied entry through the Ukrainian borders. The minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has taken this up with the Ukrainian ambassador. Our people who want to leave must be allowed to.”

Amid chaotic and emotional scenes at Ukraine’s borders with Poland, as well as Romania and Belarus, where a number of African governments have advised citizens to head to, the treatment of African and Asian people has caused outrage.

Many African students have condemned the difficulties they have faced trying to escape the conflict, reporting hostility from security forces, ordinary Ukrainians and border staff.

Samuel George, a 22-year-old Nigerian software engineering student, drove from Kyiv, along with four of his friends, fellow students from Nigeria and South Africa, to the Polish border. Queues of cars full of people trying to leave spanned 31 miles (50km) to the border. Yet when some men who were in the queue noticed they were Africans, he said, they stopped their vehicle.

“They immediately saw that the Ukrainians could pass but when they realised we weren’t Ukrainians they stopped it. They told us we couldn’t move forward and wouldn’t let us join the queue,” George said.

When they tried to defy them, he said the men attacked and vandalised their windscreen. “They demanded $500 – we begged and negotiated to pay $100. We had to leave the car and trek. We were walking for almost five hours to the border with Poland. One of us was sick. The temperature was freezing, it was so tough

Nigeria condemns treatment of Africans trying to flee Ukraine

Government says citizens’ access to Polish border impeded amid growing reports of discrimination

www.theguardian.com

 

[Vergennes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498372584882249729

 

[Elias MC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498373952217010177

 

[jhungary]

When Putin ordered his Nuclear forces to be ready he cited two reasons one of them being sanctions. Russia is not Iran, North Korea, or Venezuela, what will happen if a person who has many enemies is brought to a point where he will have to commit suicide? how will that person commit suicide? he will take his gun and kill as many enemies as he can before he dies. The biggest mistake west has done and is doing is that they are treating Russia as an ordinary country, which Russia is not.

Again, I am not saying that you are wrong.

I am saying this is the current Economic Sanction going to lead. I mean unless I am mistaken something, this is what the West is trying to do, maybe they want to trigger a nuclear attack? I don't know, but what I do know is the current sanction is to taking Russian Currency away, I mean, there are no other effect other than making Russian Bank failed to raise money.

Again, or am I missing something here?