This is why the Russians are attacking journalists and trying to destroy their data.
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This is why the Russians are attacking journalists and trying to destroy their data.
why fight tanks when you can just fight what makes them move. Brilliant
So IF war crimes have been proven to have been committed, HOW does one get Vlad the Impaler into court?
Top this if you can boys.
What's a general major in the Russian military? Is that just a general? Because reports are coming out that a 2nd Russian general has been killed.
This is not Valeri Gerasimov by the way.
This is not Valeri Gerasimov by the way.
That should convince him to hurry up visas. More votes come GE
Russia have slowed down with this?
Fierce resistance by Ukraine and logistical problems have slowed it down, yes. The current consensus is that their assumptions and expectations were laughably optimistic.
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More than likely, the only way Putin would be tried before the ICCJ is at the conclusion of the war. The example given by the experts is that of how the sanctions in Bosnia held until after the war and the sanctions remained until war criminals were surrendered to authorities. Russia is obvious NOT Bosnia, but that's the current line of thinking.
First, he has to be toppled by the masses or by a new government, and then he gets transferred to The Hague. That is how Slobodan Milosevic was sent there from Serbia after being found of guilty of other crimes in his own country.
Any chance something like this going on? That Generals are telling Putin, everything is okay, just minor hiccups.
I've read that Putin is very isolated, not even having a smartphone.
@harms do you think something like this is possible?
It is apparently the lowest of the 4 general ranks, so a 1-star. It is not in itself an indicator of military failure for any single general to be killed, or even a handful. Killing generals is also not an effective way in itself to win a war. It is more relevant if it is as part of effectively destroying (at least partially) the units that they command. Broader losses of experienced personnel at every leadership level, from NCOs through mid-level and general Officers, do reduce an army's ability to fight effectively.
It's a 1 star general, according to Wikipedia, equivalent to a Brigadier General in the US or UK.
I think in all armies General Major is a two star general. Typically has a few thousand people under their command.
Seeing this is hearthbroken. Part of me doesn't want to live anymore. People are just animals!
Now Bellingcat also reporting it.
We were one of the few to send them lethal aid before the invasion happened, I think for all our ills as a country our intelligence services seem pretty on point.
A general shouldn't die, I mean, if he dies maybe it's because he was too far ahead, like the one who died a few days ago from a sniper shot when he stood in front of a convoy to try to organize chaos.
I've been thinking that, if Ukraine survives this as a free and democratic nation and the Russian troops leave, I could go there for a few weeks and do whatever I can to help in ways that don't really need me to understand the Ukrainian language - e.g. help to cart away rubble, or clean up stuff, or help cook food.
Is this a good idea or would I just be an unwanted distraction?
Is this a good idea or would I just be an unwanted distraction?
I assume he moved to a different location after this, and they evacuated the entire building? I imagine the Russians are going to easily figure out where that is, and send a missile at it.
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Nobody here can tell you for sure. The worry is, as you say, that you would be an unwarranted distraction. Like some of those guys on Reddit who are living out their own hero fantasies, by just going to... whatever, and taking plenty of selfies and putting them on social media. One guy was wearing a Canadian flag badge, and a "medic" badge, despite the fact that he had zero military experience and zero medical experience. He'd done a few hours of some kind of course, or something.
Maybe they would need help with manual labour? It's unclear how else you could personally help now. If you weren't from Britain, you could feasibly help transport refugees to your country (as some Norwegians are doing right now). Or contact the government if you're at all able to house refugees or help them in some other way, but again I don't know how that's going to work for Brits.
I'd see if there are any aid organizations or local Ukrainian organizations that you could contact, and just ask them what you can do.
I don't think they care about where they are evacuated... The Russian army are running out of time and want to carpet bomb the resistance in Mariupol & Kharkiv (maybe more), and that would be easier to do once the civilians are supposedly evacuated.
The truth is you can never evacuate an entire population and bombing civilians will always be a War crime. We are facing an Aleppo/Grozny scenario.
Don't have to be a professer to know that but its still nice to hear.I'd reached the same conclusion a few days ago. Putin wants to bring back the glory of the Soviet Union but all he's going to end up with is the Soviet economy.