International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V15

[Badr Hari]

Not a single person killed.

More than 20 dead. Unfortunately three kids died only in Moscow, two of them less than 3 year olds. (The duration of the latest full scale invasion)

War is hell. Hopefully both sides will agree to the at least temporary ceasefire and will respect it.

 

[pugilistico]

Not a chance. Putin will literally get coup'd and tossed out a window if he stops the war.

I have a hard time believing Russia would honor a ceasefire. Russia's economy is going collapse if this war ends.

It's a shame Ukraine would have to concede the land Russia stole from them, but if Russia collapses, Ukraine might be able to take it back.

The biggest shame for me is that those Ukrainian kids who were kidnapped by the Russians, the women and young girls who have been gang raped, the civilians who have been tortured and killed will never see justice.

 

[San Marino]

Time to see if this 30 day ceasefire goes through.

Nope.

Putin unwilling to compromise on Ukraine, sets maximalist demands​

MSN

‘No military solution’ to war in Ukraine, Marco Rubio says ahead of peace talks​

MSN

 

[San Marino]

More than 20 dead. Unfortunately three kids died only in Moscow, two of them less than 3 year olds. (The duration of the latest full scale invasion).

3 killed by debris (adult males) at meat warehouse, 17 others injured.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-launches-drone-attacks-targeting-moscow-russia-says-2025-03-11/

 

[Strychnine]

 

[San Marino]

I'm pretty sure Putin will accept. He knows this isn't some ploy. Trump is serious about getting this done.

Not a chance. Putin will literally get coup'd and tossed out a window if he stops the war.

Russia is wining. They won't be stopping now after losing 700,000+ soldiers in 3 years of war. They will take more territory on the east front before it is all said and done. Putin will most likely draw out the peace process for another 3 to 6 months.

 

[San Marino]

Russia's economy is going collapse if this war ends.

No, I don't think it will. Why would it?

 

[Strychnine]

Russia CAN'T stop without ALL of Ukraine or Putin's screwed.

 

[San Marino]

The biggest shame for me is that those Ukrainian kids who were kidnapped by the Russians, the women and young girls who have been gang raped, the civilians who have been tortured and killed will never see justice.

Agreed.
This is what happens when Uncle Joe allowed Putin to have a 'small' incursion into Ukraine and Europe sat idly by.
Germany went through the same thing after WWII.

 

[curryjunkie]

Sarcastic clapping....

 

[SandisLL]

For current frontline activities nothing had changed. Everything like month ago : they are increasing pressure and each day and night attempting to move forward.

 

[pugilistico]

Another video of a Russian soldier shooting his comrade. Very different attitude from our "no man left behind" mindset. Theirs is like "In Soviet Russia, comrade kills you! Alcohol is for drinking, not disinfecting wounds."

 

[pugilistico]

Vance's cousin, who fought in the frontlines in the war, talking about his perspective.
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In other news, the Ukrainian troops threatened with encirclement are slowly pulling out it seems. But otherwise things are back to "normal" with US aid continuing.

 

[PEB]

If Elon lips are moving he is lying

"
The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated by “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country.” In a post on Telegram, a pro-Palestinian group known as Dark Storm Team took credit for the attacks within a few hours. Later on Monday, though, Musk claimed in an interview on Fox Business Network that the attacks had come from Ukrainian IP addresses.

Web traffic analysis experts who tracked the incident on Monday were quick to emphasize that the type of attacks X seemed to face—distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks—are launched by a coordinated army of computers, or a “botnet,” pummeling a target with junk traffic in an attempt to overwhelm and take down its systems. Botnets are typically dispersed around the world, generating traffic with geographically diverse IP addresses, and they can include mechanisms that make it harder to determine where they are controlled from."

 

[SandisLL]

EC is discussing about tariffs for import from U.S.

looks they doesn't live in dreamland.
One from targets might be motorbikes, Alcohol, etc...and a lot of other things....long lists.

Alco import from U.S to EU mainly is mainstream average price range stuff....customers easily might replace this with something else.
While import in U.S from Europe usually is niche production for ppl loving to show that they does have money. For these if will be 2x more expensive, it will not change anything.

Interestingly Urzula didn't had included Canada in new import tariffs project...

 

[SandisLL]

If Elon lips are moving he is lying

"
The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated by “either a large, coordinated group and/or a country.” In a post on Telegram, a pro-Palestinian group known as Dark Storm Team took credit for the attacks within a few hours. Later on Monday, though, Musk claimed in an interview on Fox Business Network that the attacks had come from Ukrainian IP addresses.

Web traffic analysis experts who tracked the incident on Monday were quick to emphasize that the type of attacks X seemed to face—distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks—are launched by a coordinated army of computers, or a “botnet,” pummeling a target with junk traffic in an attempt to overwhelm and take down its systems. Botnets are typically dispersed around the world, generating traffic with geographically diverse IP addresses, and they can include mechanisms that make it harder to determine where they are controlled from."

Plus botnets usually are created by usage of end user devices in manner where they doesn't have clue that their end users devices are used. Why to pay if you can not pay...

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Average high level hacker had started his interest about computing since early teens- teens years, does have skills, not in rare case better than average MSc with 5 + years experience, not rare cases does even have such level formal education with good marks....

There ofc is easy to tell IP like holy word for random while high level ppl in this field are 30+ y.o and had been obsessed with hacking since early teen years.... Yes, not rare cases also does have good formal education.

 

[Kassitus]

Not a chance. Putin will literally get coup'd and tossed out a window if he stops the war.

Why is that exactly?

 

[Kassitus]

Russia is wining. They won't be stopping now after losing 700,000+ soldiers in 3 years of war. They will take more territory on the east front before it is all said and done. Putin will most likely draw out the peace process for another 3 to 6 months.

At a snails pace though. Wouldnt society benefit more by having less of its young men wiped out?

 

[Cole train]

Why is that exactly?

Makes him look weak, big no no in russia

 

[SandisLL]

Then there ofc will be territorial concessions but for average Joe doesn't makes sense will coal mines own Ukrainian, some aziz or rinat or misha. Average employee still will work from salary till next salary and in debts...this is normal order plus stuff they will sell will be sold where $ more will be paid. Ofc for elite gubbermint better to have more areas where to get their %...this all.

Nothing in general will change.