International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V10

[lsa]

Russian forces 'recruiting female prisoners' to help in war
Russian forces are recruiting convicted women from penal colonies in occupied regions of Ukraine to help in their war effort, according to a report by the Ukrainian military.

In its intelligence report, the military said that Russian forces were trying to "replenish" their army."


It said: "In order to replenish the losses in manpower, the enemy is trying to attract convicted women to participate in hostilities.

"Over the course of a week, the occupiers recruited about 50 people from the women's correctional colony of the city of Snizhne in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.

"It is also known that they were sent to the territory of the Russian Federation for training."

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-...tougher-12541713?postid=5376848#liveblog-body

 

[AWilder]

Good opinion piece by Zizek. He's a great writer even if you don't agree with him on every point.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/03/what-i-don-t-want-is-western-triumphalism

 

[Rholk]

 

[aries]

One from biggest logical evidence that russia does have very huge losses is this logic chain ...:
1. Appears that to hire next batches with mercenaries and to do partial reservists mobilisation they sadly doesn't have problems..
2. Still they allowed wagner to hire guys from prisons.
It is very important evidence that losses are really huge.

Why?
Bad and crazy, Russia still had 77 years long flowchart in society :
to keep ex convicts as far from weapons as it is possible.

If you had criminal record, almost impossible to get even job as a cleaner in police etc....

Now reality is that people are released from prisons and they issue them.....automatic weapons, grenades, machine guns and mortars.
Something like this was unbelievable in january 2022 th....

I agree, all the indicators are that Russia are desperate for more bodies to throw into the meat grinder I mean 'Special Operation' which would signify huge losses.

 

[aries]

Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of Russia’s private Wagner Group says fierce fighting is taking place in Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut, dismissing Russian media reports that Ukrainian forces were retreating from the city.
Bakhmut is “increasingly isolated”, the British ministry of defence says, adding that over the last week, Russian soldiers have continued to make “small advances”.
Ukrainian local officials say two Russian missiles hit the city of Kharkiv in the northeast, striking a residential building.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revoked the citizenship of several former influential politicians in the latest step to “cleanse” Ukraine of pro-Russian influences.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/2/5/russia-ukraine-live-news-wagner-battle-for-bakhmut

Still fighting at Bakhmut. I wonder what the human toll will be by the end of this.

Bakhmut is ‘increasingly isolated’: British intelligence
The British ministry of defence says Russian forces have made, over the last week, “small advances in its attempts to encircle” Bakhmut which is now “increasingly isolated”.

In its daily bulletin, the ministry also said that two main roads into the city “are likely now both threatened by direct fire” due to Russian soldiers advancing.

“Earlier in the week, Wagner paramilitary forces highly likely seized a subordinate route which links Bakhmut to the town of Siversk,” it said.

“While multiple alternative cross-country supply routes remain available to Ukrainian forces, Bakhmut is increasingly isolated,” it added

Get those fucking tanks there as fast as possible.

 

[Rob Battisti]

I do find it wild how inept the Russian military is.

 

[aries]

That's what so many russian shills don't seem to understand .They worry about their "tax dollar" or "escalation" , but dont realize Russia needs to be stopped now. Should Russia have grabbed all of UKR like they thought they could have then what would have been next? They are already threatening Moldova and Poland would be on high alert form now on that's why they are all in against Russia because they know they could be next.

Russia got free reign to do what they wanted in Syria because Putin cleverly gave Obama an out (lied to his face) and we all know how that ended. Yes the 'West' (let's be honest primarily America) have made a really bad hash of things regarding militarily interfering in foreign politics: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya e.t.c. but the absolutely ruthless lack of value Russians appear to place in human life which they demonstrated in 'liberating' Syria really made a mark on even the most hawkish of western observers. The Russians have absolutely no regard for human suffering, be it their own troop's or completely innocent civilians. And they don't even pretend to care what the rest of the world thinks about their actions. Geneva conventions = soft western pussies.

 

[PEB]

I did not realize how many Sherdoggers lived in Colorado.

 

[aries]

Russian forces 'recruiting female prisoners' to help in war
Russian forces are recruiting convicted women from penal colonies in occupied regions of Ukraine to help in their war effort, according to a report by the Ukrainian military.

In its intelligence report, the military said that Russian forces were trying to "replenish" their army."


It said: "In order to replenish the losses in manpower, the enemy is trying to attract convicted women to participate in hostilities.

"Over the course of a week, the occupiers recruited about 50 people from the women's correctional colony of the city of Snizhne in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.

"It is also known that they were sent to the territory of the Russian Federation for training."

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-...tougher-12541713?postid=5376848#liveblog-body

I'm sure none of them will be sexually abused by their own comrades. The Russian troops are known to be well above that sort of behaviour.

 

[JoeyJoeJoeJr]

Russia got free reign to do what they wanted in Syria because Putin cleverly gave Obama an out (lied to his face) and we all know how that ended. Yes the 'West' (let's be honest primarily America) have made a really bad hash of things regarding militarily interfering in foreign politics: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya e.t.c. but the absolutely ruthless lack of value Russians appear to place in human life which they demonstrated in 'liberating' Syria really made a mark on even the most hawkish of western observers. The Russians have absolutely no regard for human suffering, be it their own troop's or completely innocent civilians. And they don't even pretend to care what the rest of the world thinks about their actions. Geneva conventions = soft western pussies.

American bombings hit the wrong targets 90% of the time. Nobody kills more civilians than the US. When a report came out showing this, they put the guy who released it in prison.

 

[PEB]

Putin a man of his word lol.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the war’s first weeks, becoming one of the few Western leaders to meet President Vladimir Putin during the war in a snap trip to Moscow last March.

While Bennett’s mediation efforts appear to have done little to end the bloodshed that continues until today, his remarks, in an interview posted online late Saturday, shed light on the backroom diplomacy and urgent efforts that were underway to try to bring the conflict to a speedy conclusion in its early days.

In the five-hour interview, which touched on numerous other subjects, Bennett says he asked Putin about whether he intended to kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

 

[lsa]

American bombings hit the wrong targets 90% of the time. Nobody kills more civilians than the US. When a report came out showing this, they put the guy who released it in prison.

You of course has a source for this?

 

[Rholk]

You of course has a source for this?

I'm betting it's chatbot, perhaps the Starcraft forums

 

[lsa]

I'm betting it's chatbot, perhaps the Starcraft forums

I'll bet its his ass

 

[Terry Noonan]

I did not realize how many Sherdoggers lived in Colorado.

Violence missing from society is a double edged sword. Should catch a hook for that.

 

[phoenixikki]

What do you think happens if Russia wins? You think they won't threaten Lithuania, Moldova? How well disposed will they be to Poland? Fuckin moron

No point having a discussion with you since you're so emotional about it. Well, typical leftist I guess, all for diversity and shit but can't handle a different opinion at all.

 

[Ruthless Ryan]

I'm sure none of them will be sexually abused by their own comrades. The Russian troops are known to be well above that sort of behaviour.

Ya, what could possibly go wrong? It shows the slow bleed is working and the meatwall attacks and loses are adding up. These guys rape each other what chance does a woman have against these animals?

 

[Err]

I do find it wild how inept the Russian military is.

That’s what happens when you don’t have NCO’s.

 

[BlankaPresident]

Good opinion piece by Zizek. He's a great writer even if you don't agree with him on every point.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/03/what-i-don-t-want-is-western-triumphalism

Excellent reading. And one that will shock and/or piss off many of my leftist friends. Thank you for the link.

 

[SandisLL]

What do you think happens if Russia wins? You think they won't threaten Lithuania, Moldova? How well disposed will they be to Poland? Fuckin moron

Moldova with 0 doubts... Georgia ....
Then something next and I guess Azerbaijan cos gold mines , abundant natural gas and large good quality crude oil resources....

Moldova not only isn't EU or eurozone member, they also aren't in NATO and does have almost 0 foreign owned lands, companies and FDI type investments, mortgage owned by westerners or credits to private business issued by westerners etc.
So definitely west reaction will not be harsh...sorry.

Also Moldova's military financing and real condition is in shape when even the same Lithuania, Estonia and even Cyprus are technically capable to annex Moldova....alone without help from outside...

Moldova not only does have lovest GDP per capita net $ income in europe, they also in reality doesn't have even 1% GDP financing for military.
They have 0 chances even to resist attack IF some Slovenia or Albania will do this...
This reality.