International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V7

[A Lurker]

Patrick talking to some residents of the Donbass region. The people in this region have been shelled on almost a daily basis since 2014 when the democratically elected President was removed by the West. Eight years!

One of the reasons Russia went in to the Ukraine was because around 100,000 Ukrainian personnel, including the Nazi batallions such as the Azov, were gathering on the outskirts of Donbass to ethnically cleanse the area of Russian speaking residents of the Donbass.
They were liberating these people. Stopping a mass slaughter of people who see Russia as the Motherland.

Get fucked Vlad.

 

[Zinger]

A Ray of Sunshine in a world of darkness.

Posts like this make the argument for a “love” button.

This almost makes me want to forgive him for everything he's done.

 

[A Lurker]

You should get along fine with this guy ^
You both seem to be rocking the weak-man/appeasement attitude.
"If you we just give him what he wants again, perhaps this time he'll stop"
Poor bloke probably had the best of intentions (as you might have), in the eyes of predators it's just going to be a seen as a sign of weakness.

Home boys more akin to lord Halifax.

AKA a fifth columnist (allegedly)

 

[A Lurker]

This almost makes me want to forgive him for everything.

Voice of an angel.

Maybe this is why the chuds in this thread keep posting obvious Russian propaganda?

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Got this in my YT recommendations. The man is brilliant.

impressive.
what a performance.

 

[SandisLL]

According to Zaluzny...Russian Federation now had deNazified muslims mosque in Severodontesk.
De Nazification is in progress according to schedule from Kremlin....

 

[Zinger]

Russian hackers have been hitting various Lithuanian government websites hard because of the Kaliningrad stuff that has been going on recently.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/politics/lithuania-cyber-attack-pro-russian-group/index.html

Response from Lithuanian Railways- Russian hacker community, go fuck yourselves.

 

[SandisLL]

Ohh, looks that Lituania had simply implemented sanctions pressed by Germany and France & Benilux..
Lithuania is Eurozone country and full EU member....so...ofc can't go against ECB, EP or Euro Commision....or EC. .
While they also are FULL NATO member country.
Unlike Ukraine...

 

[LangfordBarrow]

Edit. Apparently the 5.56 round bouncing was an old rumor, I always heard it perpetuated when shooting on ranges and always believed it.

https://www.quora.com/I-ve-heard-th...al-on-impact-What-are-some-more-lethal-rounds

I don't think it's bouncing but tumbling.

 

[SandisLL]

Hackers stuff mainly is cheap shit like': rent botntets networks and pay to load known add.. ..with requests xxxxxxxxx per minute.
Etc. Usually.

 

[AWilder]

Patrick talking to some residents of the Donbass region. The people in this region have been shelled on almost a daily basis since 2014 when the democratically elected President was removed by the West. Eight years!

One of the reasons Russia went in to the Ukraine was because around 100,000 Ukrainian personnel, including the Nazi batallions such as the Azov, were gathering on the outskirts of Donbass to ethnically cleanse the area of Russian speaking residents of the Donbass.
They were liberating these people. Stopping a mass slaughter of people who see Russia as the Motherland.

 

[SandisLL]

Ha ha ha.
We soon will see next Nazi propaganda from Kremlin and their buds- Nazists....

 

[SandisLL]

IAEA.
Inspection in Zaporozya Nuclear Power Plant today isn't possible to do because it is physically controlled by...some forces....

Remote monitoring equipment check up isn't confirmed..
Power plant de facto is deNazified and vuala....

 

[Videer]

Clock has been successfully turned back.



I am sure they'll find a pensioner or two to cheer for the cameras.

 

[SandisLL]

Lukashenko today is yelling that he does have missiles ( Smerch, Polonez and SCUD + Thocka ) and soon will get from Putin Iskander missiles.
He locked in prison some random dudes, for example director and accountant from devby media....
Etc " internal enemies ".

 

[PEB]

Clock has been successfully turned back.



I am sure they'll find a pensioner or two to cheer for the cameras.

 

[PEB]

Some Russians are finally figuring it out about Putin.

"
In a city where nearly everyone speaks Russian instead of Estonian and faces social pressure to stick with their ethnic group, Ms. Larchenko is unusual in her willingness to state openly that she no longer sees Russia as a force for good but as an aggressor.

That so few Russians in Estonia’s free and democratic society are ready to do this is perhaps an indicator of how difficult any change of heart will be for people in Russia, where open criticism of the war is a criminal offense."

"Sergey Tsvetkov, a Russian critic of the Kremlin who fled to Narva from Saint Petersburg in 2014 and now aids refugees from Ukraine, said he was disappointed that so few ethnic Russians in Estonia had spoken out against the war."
"
But, he added, “people are now starting to think a bit more — most have not changed their minds, but they are having doubts” about Russia’s rationale for invading Ukraine, principally its claim that Ukraine has been overrun by fascists and needs to be “liberated.”
"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/world/europe/estonia-russia-war-putin.html

https://www.today.com/news/ukrainian-refugees-celebrate-4th-july-us-rcna36458

 

[LHWBelt]

- Ukraine lost first line of defense in Donbass after more than two months of fighting in the towns of that line (both sides had heavy losses). They are expected to withdraw all their left troops in Lysichansk by the end of week. War in the slightly tighter second line of defense from Siversk down to Bakhmut might not start immediately as russians and lpr/dpr are exhausted from constant non-stop fighting and they might want to rest, consolidate and replenish before going to an offensive again

- other fronts have minor mostly insignificant (tactical) changes

- russians made a decision to finally leave Snake Island after very interesting battles in that region in May and June (worthy of making a movie/documentary in the future). Odessa can breathe better now, at least for a while

- exchange of POW continues to happen which is the good news

Thanks. I genuinely appreciate the breakdown as I care about the war but things have come up and I haven't followed much lately.

 

[PHATV]

I have been absent for at least a version or so, but hearing rumors and rumblings that the Ukrainians are selling the arms, including stingers. Has it been brought up/discussed here? Again, just chatter at this point but I was curious if it has been discussed here. Seemed inevitable from the start to me, but...
Without going back through a version and a half, I figured I'd ask.

 

[ferrisjso]

Something that needs to be brought up is how large Ukraine is and how 4 months isn't a huge amount of time for a military campaign that's acheived what it has. Russians have totally seized 2 provinces(Kherson and Luhansk) most of a third(Donetsk) and about half of an additional 2(Kharkov and Zaporizinha). This is about half the land east of the Dneiper River(about 100k square miles) which is probably as far as Russia is willing to go. Ukraine controls 4 provinces east of the Dnieper and parts of 2 of those could have been held if Russia didn't abandon all their northern gains when they failed to quickly take Kiev .

Also unlike WW2 which was a great power there's just a lot less combatants in the field. And in WW2 after the Soviets seized the momentum at Kursk(in Russia but close to Ukraine)it took about six months for the Soviets to get from the Donbass to taking Kiev(via the east not north). This is when the Ukrainian locals were on the Soviets side and the Nazis were freefalling with a lot of other fronts. The Russians perforamcne isn't bad.