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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on April 22, 2022, 04:48:16 PM
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..still has not gone the way as that one idiot on here predicted...Wh at an EPIC FAIL of a human being (AGAIN).. :idiot2: ;D
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Russia confirms casualties after missile cruiser sank last week - RIA
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DAYAM....!!!
"Russian troops in Ukraine have suffered as many deaths as the entire 9-year Afghan war that contributed to the USSR's collapse"...
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"Second Russian Warship Struck by Ukraine"
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Russia faced yet another military setback this week, as reports said that one of the country's most advanced tanks in service, the T-90M, was destroyed just days after it was deployed to Ukraine.
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"Britain says Russia has lost a third of its forces in Ukraine"
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Ukraine collects Russian dead as war rages
At a rail yard outside Kyiv, corpses are being stacked into a refrigerated train. They are Russian soldiers, their bodies collected from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, now set for the long journey back to their families. It's a matter of Ukraine strictly adhering to international humanitarian law, says chief civilian-military liaison officer Volodymyr Lyamzin. He reported that there were several hundred bodies in the refrigerator train, and several such trains at the rail yard. While there are no reliable estimates of Russia's losses, such scenes could signify the price President Vladimir Putin is paying since ordering the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Fierce Ukrainian resistance, which military analysts say Putin and his generals failed to anticipate, has slowed and in some places reversed Russian advances. Russian forces have been driven away from the second largest city Kharkiv
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He’s a shameless butthead. ;D ;D
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Yep, and THAT GUY has been one for "YEARRRSSS"... ;D
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Russia Loses ‘Entire Battalion’ on Blown Up Bridge, Says Ukraine
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Uh oh....that's one tough "ant"... ???:
On a Russian Talk Show, Retired Colonel Stuns Colleagues by Saying Invasion Isn't Going Well
A military analyst on one of Russian state television’s most popular networks left his fellow panelists in stunned silence Monday when he said that the conflict in Ukraine was deteriorating for Russia, giving the kind of honest assessment that is virtually banished from the official airwaves.
“The situation for us will clearly get worse,” Mikhail M. Khodaryonok, a retired colonel and a conservative columnist on military affairs, said during the “60 Minutes” talk-show program on the Rossiya network.
It was a rare moment of frank analysis in a country where criticizing the war effort can result in a prison sentence and broadcasters have generally adhered to the Kremlin’s talking points.
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The first phase of the war in Ukraine was largely a failure for Russia. The second phase is not going very well either.
After failing to capture Kyiv and oust Ukraine’s government, Vladimir Putin and his advisers turned to a less ambitious goal. They are trying to capture the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Russian troops do control large parts of Donbas and have made some recent progress. But it has been modest, and Ukraine has also retaken some strategically important territory.
“Russia’s Donbas offensive has certainly not been as dramatic in terms of gains as we thought it might be,” said Michael Schwirtz, a New York Times correspondent who has been covering the war from the front lines in Ukraine.
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Putin is losing his grip on power and top Russian security officials think the Ukraine war is 'lost,' expert says
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Is it already over, that was less than three months ago since invasion. US couldn’t contain Afghanistan for 20+ years and US was fighting goat farmers with ak47 as the butthead put it.
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That must be one tough "ant".... Either that or THAT GUY is just WRONG as usual..and I'm picking the latter....;D ;D ;D
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After 3 months of war, life in Russia has profoundly changed
When Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, war seemed far away from Russian territory. Yet within days the conflict came home — not with cruise missiles and mortars but in the form of unprecedented and unexpectedly extensive volleys of sanctions by Western governments and economic punishment by corporations.
Three months after the Feb. 24 invasion, many ordinary Russians are reeling from those blows to their livelihoods and emotions. Moscow’s vast shopping malls have turned into eerie expanses of shuttered storefronts once occupied by Western retailers.
McDonald’s — whose opening in Russia in 1990 was a cultural phenomenon, a shiny modern convenience coming to a dreary country ground down by limited choices — pulled out of Russia entirely in response to its invasion of Ukraine. IKEA, the epitome of affordable modern comforts, suspended operations. Tens of thousands of once-secure jobs are now suddenly in question in a very short time.
Major industrial players including oil giants BP and Shell and automaker Renault walked away, despite their huge investments in Russia. Shell has estimated it will lose about $5 billion by trying to unload its Russian assets.
While the multinationals were leaving, thousands of Russians who had the economic means to do so were also fleeing, frightened by harsh new government moves connected to the war that they saw as a plunge into full totalitarianis m. Some young men may have also fled in fear that the Kremlin would impose a mandatory draft to feed its war machine.
But fleeing had become much harder than it once was — the European Union’s 27 nations, along with the United States and Canada had banned flights to and from Russia. The Estonian capital of Tallinn, once an easy long-weekend destination 90 minutes by air from Moscow, suddenly took at least 12 hours to reach on a route through Istanbul.
Even vicarious travel via the Internet and social media has narrowed for Russians. Russia in March banned Facebook and Instagram — although that can be circumvented by using VPNs — and shut access to foreign media websites, including the BBC, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
After Russian authorities passed a law calling for up to 15 years’ imprisonment for stories that include “fake news” about the war, many significant independent news media shut down or suspended operations. Those included the Ekho Moskvy radio station and Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper whose editor Dmitry Muratov shared the most recent Nobel Peace Prize.
The psychological cost of the repressions, restrictions and shrinking opportunities could be high on ordinary Russians, although difficult to measure. Although some public opinion polls in Russia suggest support for the Ukraine war is strong, the results are likely skewed by respondents who stay silent, wary of expressing their genuine views.
Andrei Kolesnikov of the Carnegie Moscow Center wrote in a commentary that Russian society right now is gripped by an “aggressive submission” and that the degradation of social ties could accelerate.
“The discussion gets broader and broader. You can call your compatriot — a fellow citizen, but one who happens to have a different opinion — a “traitor” and consider them an inferior kind of person. You can, like the most senior state officials, speculate freely and quite calmly on the prospects of nuclear war. (That’s) something that was certainly never permitted in Soviet times during Pax Atomica, when the two sides understood that the ensuing damage was completely unthinkable,” he wrote.
“Now that understanding is waning, and that is yet another sign of the anthropologica l disaster Russia is facing,” he said.
The economic consequences have yet to fully play out.
In the early days of the war, the Russian ruble lost half its value. But government efforts to shore it up have actually raised its value to higher than its level before the invasion.
But in terms of economic activity, “that’s a completely different story,” said Chris Weafer, a veteran Russia economy analyst at Macro-Advisory.
“We see deterioration in the economy now across a broad range of sectors. Companies are warning that they’re running out of inventories of spare parts. A lot of companies put their workers on part time work and others are warning to them they have to shut down entirely. So there’s a real fear that unemployment will rise during the summer months, that there will be a big drop in consumption and retail sales and investment,” he told The Associated Press.
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"UK says Russia suffers devastating losses among lower-ranked officers"
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"Tending Russia's Dead as They Pile Up in Ukraine"
the bags are stacked in a refrigerated train car in a secret location on the outskirts of Ukraine's second-largest city. A spry, elderly train worker spun open the vaultlike door to reveal the bloodied bags as the scent hung in the damp air.
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Russian units withdraw in Kharkiv Oblast after suffering losses, General Staff says
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100 plus days now...That's one tough "ant"... ??? ;D:
Ukrainian forces have retaken 20 small towns and villages in the south of the country, an official said on Thursday, as part of a counteroffensi ve at a time when Moscow is intensely focused on its offensive in the east.
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Ukraine says so many Russians were killed that the Russian army is storing dead soldiers in a meatpacking plant turned morgue
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"Pro-Kremlin Newspaper Posts Russian Death Toll Of Almost 10,000, Then Deletes It"
https://www.rferl.org/a/komsomolskaya-pravda-soldier-deaths/31764466.html (https://www.rferl.org/a/komsomolskaya-pravda-soldier-deaths/31764466.html)
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