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That's what I thought.
How many people need to die and how much infrastructure needs to be destroyed?
What would a negotiated peace treaty look like in your opinion?
That's what I thought.
How many people need to die and how much infrastructure needs to be destroyed?
That's what I thought.
How many people need to die and how much infrastructure needs to be destroyed?
No more death and destruction.What would a negotiated peace treaty look like in your opinion?
Lmao yeah ten planes in ten days is a good thing! I agree!There’s only been proof of 2 shot down and one confirmed to be by the friendly fire.
Keep believing this garbage, 10 planes shot down but the number of bombs dropped by the planes just keeps increasing daily.
One would think if the Ukrainians were so successful with their air defense Russians would stop their sorties and reconsider their tactics.
If anything, Russia increasing their plane strikes because the Ukrainian air defense lacking ammunition dearly and keeps getting destroying thus making the skies available
So much freedom in Russia...Prominent Russian human rights activist Oleg Orlov gets 2 1/2 years in prison for criticizing war
BY ELISE MORTON
Updated 9:39 AM BRT, February 27, 2024
A veteran human rights campaigner who criticized the war in Ukraine was convicted Tuesday by a Moscow court of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian military and sentenced to 2½ years in prison.
Oleg Orlov, 70, co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, had rejected the case against him as politically motivated, saying in his closing statement: “I don’t regret anything and I don’t repent anything.” He also denounced the war again.
Orlov was handcuffed and taken into custody after the verdict, concluding a retrial in which he earlier was convicted and fined. Underscoring the low tolerance for criticism of the war by the government of President Vladimir Putin, the prosecution had appealed, seeking a harsher punishment.
The prosecution claimed that Orlov was motivated to write the anti-war article by hostility toward “traditional Russian spiritual, moral and patriotic values” and hatred of the military, according to the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona.
In a statement, Memorial called Orlov’s sentence “an attempt to drown out the voice of the human rights movement in Russia and any criticism of the state.” It vowed to continue its work.
The verdict drew a crowd of dozens of supporters, including 18 Western diplomats, Mediazona reported.
“I am alarmed and concerned by today’s outcome. Oleg Orlov has personally fought for the rights of Russians for more than 45 years,” U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy said in a statement. “In previous times, his efforts have been awarded at the highest levels. In today’s Russia he is being locked away for them.”
In October 2023, a Moscow court had convicted Orlov and fined him 150,000 rubles (about $1,500 at the time), a significantly milder punishment when compared to the long prison terms others have received for criticizing the war.
Both the defense and the prosecution appealed, and a higher court voided the fine, sending the case back to the prosecutors. The new trial began earlier this month, another step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent that the Kremlin ratcheted up after sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Also on Tuesday, a court in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s largely Muslim republic of Chechnya, sentenced a man to 3 1/2 years in prison for publicly burning a Quran in front of a mosque. The Russian state news agency Tass reported that Nikita Zhuravel admitted he did so on the instructions of Ukrainian special services in return for a payment.
In September 2023, Chechnya’s authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a video of his son appearing to beat Zhuravel in detention. Kadyrov praised his son for “defending his religion.”
Tuesday also marked the ninth anniversary of the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition figure. The 55-year-old former deputy prime minister was shot to death as he walked along a bridge adjacent to the Kremlin on the night of Feb. 27, 2015.
A makeshift memorial on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge where Nemtsov was slain still draws mourners who leave bouquets of flowers. His death was a blow to the political opposition, as was the death in prison this month of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
An officer in the security forces of the Kremlin-backed Kadyrov was sentenced to 20 years for firing the shots that killed Nemtsov. Four other men were sentenced to 11 to 19 years for their involvement.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-orlov-nobel-sentenced-8539517d8b2c846706607584ba5f9bbb
https://granvida.today/
This 10 in 10 is for idiots like you to believeLmao yeah ten planes in ten days is a good thing! I agree!
Name calling already, what a grown up.This 10 in 10 is for idiots like you to believe
You’re a bright one, aren’t you ?US had nukes 4 years earlier than Rus. Why they didnt used the opportunity. Everything would be long over
US had nukes 4 years earlier than Rus. Why they didnt used the opportunity. Everything would be long over
King George was a cuckWhy didn't the British get serious and crush your silly little rebellion in 1776?
You’re a bright one, aren’t you ?
Here’s alternative: start treating every non western country with respect and consider their security concerns. That solves everything
Yeah, thats exactly what happened. Even on Feb 24, Russia made an ultimatum to Zelensky to implement the Minsk accords that Ukraine SIGNED. He declined.Yeah, because it's working out so very well for Ukraine.
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Free speech didn't Putin say we have no real freedoms? Or was that Pucker Carlson?Prominent Russian human rights activist Oleg Orlov gets 2 1/2 years in prison for criticizing war
BY ELISE MORTON
Updated 9:39 AM BRT, February 27, 2024
A veteran human rights campaigner who criticized the war in Ukraine was convicted Tuesday by a Moscow court of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian military and sentenced to 2½ years in prison.
Oleg Orlov, 70, co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, had rejected the case against him as politically motivated, saying in his closing statement: “I don’t regret anything and I don’t repent anything.” He also denounced the war again.
Orlov was handcuffed and taken into custody after the verdict, concluding a retrial in which he earlier was convicted and fined. Underscoring the low tolerance for criticism of the war by the government of President Vladimir Putin, the prosecution had appealed, seeking a harsher punishment.
The prosecution claimed that Orlov was motivated to write the anti-war article by hostility toward “traditional Russian spiritual, moral and patriotic values” and hatred of the military, according to the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona.
In a statement, Memorial called Orlov’s sentence “an attempt to drown out the voice of the human rights movement in Russia and any criticism of the state.” It vowed to continue its work.
The verdict drew a crowd of dozens of supporters, including 18 Western diplomats, Mediazona reported.
“I am alarmed and concerned by today’s outcome. Oleg Orlov has personally fought for the rights of Russians for more than 45 years,” U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy said in a statement. “In previous times, his efforts have been awarded at the highest levels. In today’s Russia he is being locked away for them.”
In October 2023, a Moscow court had convicted Orlov and fined him 150,000 rubles (about $1,500 at the time), a significantly milder punishment when compared to the long prison terms others have received for criticizing the war.
Both the defense and the prosecution appealed, and a higher court voided the fine, sending the case back to the prosecutors. The new trial began earlier this month, another step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent that the Kremlin ratcheted up after sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Also on Tuesday, a court in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s largely Muslim republic of Chechnya, sentenced a man to 3 1/2 years in prison for publicly burning a Quran in front of a mosque. The Russian state news agency Tass reported that Nikita Zhuravel admitted he did so on the instructions of Ukrainian special services in return for a payment.
In September 2023, Chechnya’s authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a video of his son appearing to beat Zhuravel in detention. Kadyrov praised his son for “defending his religion.”
Tuesday also marked the ninth anniversary of the killing of Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition figure. The 55-year-old former deputy prime minister was shot to death as he walked along a bridge adjacent to the Kremlin on the night of Feb. 27, 2015.
A makeshift memorial on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge where Nemtsov was slain still draws mourners who leave bouquets of flowers. His death was a blow to the political opposition, as was the death in prison this month of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
An officer in the security forces of the Kremlin-backed Kadyrov was sentenced to 20 years for firing the shots that killed Nemtsov. Four other men were sentenced to 11 to 19 years for their involvement.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-orlov-nobel-sentenced-8539517d8b2c846706607584ba5f9bbb
https://granvida.today/
Try being worthy of respect rather than brain washed sheep under an Autocratic kleptocracy.You’re a bright one, aren’t you ?
Here’s alternative: start treating every non western country with respect and consider their security concerns. That solves everything
North Korea has shipped containers that could hold millions of artillery shells to Russia, a top South Korean official said, allowing President Vladimir Putin to maintain his assault on Ukraine as Kyiv’s stocks of ammunition dwindle
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South Korean Defense Minister Shin Wonsik told reporters that North Korea is estimated to have sent about 6,700 containers to Russia, accelerating the pace of shipments since Putin held a summit with Kim Jong Un in September, Yonhap News reported Tuesday. The containers could hold about 3 million rounds of 152 mm shells, Shin said.