Россия invades Україна | UPDATE (27 June 2024) - US/Israel in talks to supply 8 Patriot systems to Ukraine

[Chairslinger]

2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Or we can look forward to a conspiracy about how a Fox reporter was "mysteriously" wounded in Ukraine. Hmm, what are the US and Ukrainian governments trying to hide from patriotic Fox reporters?

 

 

Apparently this is the same guy that brushed back Pirro and Gutfield on air over stupid comments about the war. 

 

Almost garentee the Fox News actors are standing around the proverbial water cooler making jokes about how it's a shame the Russians aren't a better shot right now.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

ISW analysis for 14 March 2022:

 

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 14 | Institute for the Study of War

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Russian forces made small territorial gains in Luhansk Oblast on March 14 but did not conduct any major attacks toward Kyiv or in northeastern Ukraine. Russian forces continue to assemble reinforcements and attempt to improve logistical support in both

 

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Russian forces made small territorial gains in Luhansk Oblast on March 14 but did not conduct any major attacks toward Kyiv or in northeastern Ukraine. Russian forces continue to assemble reinforcements and attempt to improve logistical support in both the Kyiv and southern operational directions. Ongoing Russian efforts to replace combat losses with both Russian replacements and non-Russian sources, including Syrian fighters and the Wagner Group, are unlikely to enable Russia to resume major offensive operations within the coming week.

 

Key Takeaways

• Russian forces conducted several limited attacks northwest of Kyiv on March 14, unsuccessfully attempting to bridge the Irpin River.
• Russian forces did not conduct offensive operations east of Kyiv and continued to prioritize improving logistics and reinforcing combat units.
• The continued ability of Ukrainian forces to carry out successful local counterattacks around Kharkiv indicates that Russian forces are unlikely to successfully bypass Kharkiv from the southeast to advance toward Dnipro and Zaporizhia in the near term.
• Russian and proxy forces continue to achieve slow but steady territorial gains in Donetsk Oblast after initial failures in the first week of the Russian invasion.
• Ukrainian forces halted resumed Russian attacks from Kherson toward Mykolayiv and Kryvyi Rih on March 14.
• Russia will likely deploy small units of Syrian fighters to Ukraine within the week and is confirmed to have deployed private military company (PMC) forces.
• Russian and Belarusian forces increased their activity near the Ukrainian border in the last 24 hours in a likely effort to pin down Ukrainian forces but likely do not have the capability to open a new axis of advance into western Ukraine.
• Russia and China deny that Russia seeks military aid from China and claimed that Russia does not need additional military support to complete its objectives in Ukraine.

 

 

[PaladinSolo]

Surely giving all the money for food to Putin's chef will work out gloriously!

[Jwheel86]

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

5 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said:

 

 

 

That's a complete and total extrapolation of what Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo actually told CNBC:

 

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Asked if the Biden administration would meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's demands to close international waterways for Russia and to implement a full trade embargo against Moscow, Adeyemo said the United States would take actions consistent with Zelenskiy's goals, but declined to be specific.

 

"So you’re going to see us continue to put pressure on the Russian economy to stop their ability to project power. We’re going to continue to go after Russian elites in order to take away resources from President Putin," Adeyemo said.

 

"And then we’re going to use export controls to degrade their ability to project power into the future, all of which are consistent with what President Zelenskiy has been asking us to do," Adeyemo added.

 

 

[Jwheel86]

2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

That's a complete and total extrapolation of what Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo actually told CNBC:

 

 

 

Well that's disappointing. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL 

 

Michael Tracey has gotten into a Twitter feud with Strategy Badger.

 

 

And naturally...

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

A Tale of Two Refugees:

 

Two Refugees, Both on Poland’s Border. But Worlds Apart. - The New York Times

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A young man fleeing war in Sudan and a young woman evacuating Ukraine crossed into Poland at the same time. They had very different experiences.

 

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Albagir plans to apply for asylum in Germany, which has a reputation of being generous to all refugees, and finish his studies. He speaks Arabic, English and some Russian and wears gold rimmed specs and has a neat beard. He dreams of becoming a doctor and writing a book about what he just experienced. He said he still can’t believe educated people from relatively prosperous countries would treat people in need this way.

 

One of the men with him, named Sheikh, couldn’t speak English, so he typed a message into his phone and hit play.

 

The phone’s robotic voice intoned: “All of Europe says that there are rights for every human being and we did not see that.”

 

When asked if he believed racism was a factor in how they were treated, Albagir did not hesitate.

 

“Yeah, so much,” he said. “Only racism.”

 

 

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When her hosts were asked if they would take in African or Middle Eastern refugees, Ms. Poterek said, “Yes, but we had no opportunity.”

 

But Ms. Poterek said it would be “easier” to host Ukrainians because they shared a culture. For refugees from Arab countries and Africa, she asked, “What would I cook for them?”’

 

Last Thursday, Mr. Poterek spoke to a friend about finding Ms. Maslova a job as a translator.

 

That same afternoon, Albagir and the others made it to a safe house in Warsaw. Once again, they were told not to step outside.

 

 

 

More horrifying stories of the treatment of those with the "wrong" skin color:

 

Black siblings ‘beaten and racially abused by border guards’ while fleeing Ukraine

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Exclusive: Princess Radjabu, a 27-year-old student based in the US, communicated with her siblings throughout their journey

 

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Princess Radjabu, a 27-year-old student based in the US, communicated with her siblings throughout their journey and became increasingly concerned for their wellbeing as early accounts of racial discrimination emerged on Twitter.

 

“I was alarmed and warned them that it seems this situation is becoming about race - something that they didn’t believe until they reached the border,” she told The Independent.

 

“When I learned from them what happened, I was determined to speak out because people seem to be disbelieving accounts of how Black people are being treated.

 

“But I was also worried about what to tell my parents who have been so worried about. Why are the guards acting like criminals and racially abusing Black people including my siblings while the world is saying ‘pray for Ukraine’?”

 

 

The Ukrainian ambassador to the UK came up with a utterly fantastic solution:

 

Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK addresses racist abuse of Black and Asian refugees

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Vadym Prystaiko told a select committee that he is aware of the scourge of bigotry at Ukraine’s borders and admitted that “problems arise” when foreigners appear to be prioritised for evacuation.

 

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"It has been raised many times. Ukraine is a very homogenic society and not many people with different races on the streets. Foreigners do stick out of the crowd (but) it doesn’t mean we are racist,” Mr Prystaiko told the committee.

 

“We don’t want it to happen...Problems arise when young foreigners are prioritised over women and children of Ukrainian citizenship who are trying to get on the same trains.

 

“Maybe we will put all foreigners in some other place so they won’t be visible and there won’t be conflict with Ukrainians trying to flee in the same direction. This is something that has to be taken care of and we will be doing it."

 

 

 

I don't post these stories to diminish the atrocity that Russia is perpetuating in Ukraine, but Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian government bear moral culpability for not condemning or taking positive steps to end these repulsive actions of Ukrainian border guards and other official personnel more vigorously.  If anything, their failure to do so essentially hands a propaganda victory for Moscow in the Global South.

[Air_Delivery]

@Commissar SFLUFAN What was Michael Tracey's username on IGN?

[CayceG]

And to add to the "Ukraine does war stuff too" pile, Ukrainian forces have launched a Tochka ballistic missile strike on DNR forces. The single missile carried cluster munitions. I don't know the target, but the missile detonated in Donetsk city, killing over 20 people. The videos are something I won't be reposting. Suffice it to say, civilians are bearing the brunt of this war. 

 

Civilians suffer. Soldiers suffer. The people responsible never do. 

[CitizenVectron]

 

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

9 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

@Commissar SFLUFAN What was Michael Tracey's username on IGN?

Bbsrock1

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

 

[silentbob]

6 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

 

 

So either it’s gonna get destroyed by a drone soon or it becomes a Ukrainian farmers newest farm equipment. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

19 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

@Commissar SFLUFAN What was Michael Tracey's username on IGN?

 

I really don't remember

[Ricofoley]

 

Is this plausible?

[Jason]

 

[PaladinSolo]

 

[ThreePi]

8 hours ago, Ricofoley said:

 

Is this plausible?

 

Probably just means more indiscriminate bombing/shelling going forward.

[CitizenVectron]

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Jomini's "intelligence briefing" for 14 March 2022:

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Another report of how swimmingly things are going for Ukraine's "foreign legion"

 

Foreign fighters in Ukraine await weapons in chaos of war - ABC News

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They are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine

 

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Jericho Skye, 26, a Montana native who served in the U.S. Army military police, was relieved he based himself in Kyiv, the capital, far from the attack in the west, all the more so because he was awaiting weapons at a makeshift base. He keeps alive hope that arms soon will be distributed and his belief that Ukrainians are doing their best in a dire situation.

 

“We’re pretty upset that we’re in the middle of a combat zone with small arms fire on the road, bombs being dropped almost every day and we haven’t been given our weapons yet just because of bureaucracy and paperwork,” he said.

 

Skye spoke in a telephone call from Paris from what he described as a makeshift collection post for foreign fighters in Kyiv, which he reached last week, making his way there a day after arriving in Ukraine.

 

“This is my first war,” Skye said. He came to Ukraine “to help protect,” not “do logistics,” he said, motivated by images of innocent civilians being targeted. And when he “saw no other countries were going to be able to reinforce Ukrainian troops, I felt a moral obligation to join the fighting,” he added.

 

 

[LazyPiranha]

Can someone give me the tl;dr on if and how war tourism or whatever the hell you want to call it is legal or if it’s actually legal at all?

[mclumber1]

 

[CitizenVectron]

 

[CitizenVectron]

 

[CitizenVectron]

Yet again the Ukrainians somehow managed to strike the Russian airfield at Kherson:

 

 

There are other photos of a huge fire at the base, but no official confirmation of how many aircraft were destroyed.

[CitizenVectron]

Scattered reports from eastern Ukraine that the Russians have begun their move to encircle the main Ukrainian forces in Donbas by moving up from Mariupol and down from Kharkiv. If they do this, as many as 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers (at least that many were there at some point, though maybe not now) will be cut off from the rest of the country.

[CitizenVectron]

Russian ships allegedly launching attacks on the Odessa area:

 

 

[CitizenVectron]

From my understanding, Odessa is heavily defended, with both the beaches mined and the Ukrainian army having a large presence.

[SuperSpreader]

10 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

From my understanding, Odessa is heavily defended, with both the beaches mined and the Ukrainian army having a large presence.

 

I hope they mined the landings. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

31 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Scattered reports from eastern Ukraine that the Russians have begun their move to encircle the main Ukrainian forces in Donbas by moving up from Mariupol and down from Kharkiv. If they do this, as many as 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers (at least that many were there at some point, though maybe not now) will be cut off from the rest of the country.

 

And this was pretty much always every analyst's greatest fear in regard to the "slow and steady" advance of the Russian forces.  They haven't been really making any "dramatic" forward progress, but have been nibbling away just enough to make encirclement of Ukrainian forces a real possiblity.

 

Encirclement is very much a traditional Soviet military practice:

 

Pocket (military) - Wikipedia

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[CitizenVectron]

So pathetic to see the right wing slobbering over Daddy Putin and blaming the west for Russian imperialism:

 

 

[PaladinSolo]

When Kilmeade is the voice of reason....

[CitizenVectron]