They’ve had constant C-17s flying shit into Poland since the war started. It would take mere days to transport all this stuff once it is in one place. Those planes are gigantic.
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For sure it is an additional political consideration to attack the territory of the country that isn't the main aggressor. Militarily, if there are critical supply depots or connections in Belarus from which the Russian forces north of Kyiv are getting supplied from, then those would also be targets of value. That said, Ukraine has shown limited ability and/or willingness to conduct such strikes on the supply lines even within Russia, so I agree it would be unlikely that they would be striking them in Belarus. Just not impossible.
As long as he has his fingers crossed behind his back when he apologizes than that's fine
Or start pounding the table with their shoes.
That would be my interpretation, but who knows with those maniacs
Keep in mind that this is all small handheld stuff. You don't need any big trucks or other special devices, you can transport that with basically everything.
Not sure of the provenance of the claims.
Russians won't track them coming from Poland and attack these convoys?
My point is why make these announcements? It's so redundant at that point with so many countries promising ant tank weapons etc.
Just ship them out quietly or western Ukraine becomes a huge target.
What has provoked these comments from Putin? Is just about the odd ballerina that has defected, or the one or two oligarchs living in the West who have criticised the war? Or is there something more going on that we don't yet know about?
They would like to try to anyways. But the point is, you don't need to drive in a big convoy to distribute this weapons and the Russians won't be able to attack every truck crossing the border and driving somewhere through Ukraine. So it's quite safe to transport those through their own country. As long as they are driving through their own land they don't have any need to form convoys.
And you can be sure Russian intelligence would get to know about those deliveries anyway. While we have seen an exceptional case of filtering out unwanted negative information while moving reports through the ranks and therefore an epic failure to assess the strategic situation, that doesn't mean that such tactical information would go unnoticed. So at this point publicly announcing it is essentially just PR and propaganda, a show of support for the Ukrainian people.
Tough to stop a flood.
Sonic boom makes much more sense, unless I've missed images/videos of actual explosions?
Nothing almost one hour after the event, I think it's pretty safe to assume nothing exploded in Belarus.
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Considering the hoops some in this thread have tried jumping through, you'd be surprised.
Fareed Zakaria just said according to his sources, the Russians have lowered their demands for a ceasefire, which suggests they're feeling the pressure.
#Putin speaks of a special action in #Ukraine that is not aimed at civilians. However, a drone filmed a few kilometers west of Kyiv how a civilian was shot dead by apparently Russian soldiers. #ZDFfrontal exclusive, more about the war 9:15 p.m. @ZDF
At this stage I'd imagine the Russians are becoming increasingly eager for peace talks. In another 3 weeks, at the current rate of attrition, around half of their total invasion force will be out of action. If they try taking major cities, it'll be way more than half.
Russia will pull in other countries on its side, I have no doubt that Putin will go further yet.
Maybe. If the Belarus military want to go down with a sinking ship ...
@AFP: Biden used the phrase "war criminal" to describe Putin for the first time today, and then deepened his attack, tweeting that Putin was "inflicting appalling devastation and horror on Ukraine -- bombing apartment buildings and maternity wards"
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Much of this stuff will also be coming in car boots and the like. You can stack a fair few boxed weapons inside with the back seat folded flat. Impossible to track it all. Impossible to stop.
A tweet from Christo Grozev:
The last hospital in Mariupol, by the Associated Press. All others were bombed out by Russia. People doctors can't save are lined up in the basement, including infants. It's the most heart wrenching footage of this war.
There is a two minute video showing how the dead and the dying are being laid out in the building's basement. I am not even sure they have the morphine to ease their passing.
The last hospital in Mariupol, by the Associated Press. All others were bombed out by Russia. People doctors can't save are lined up in the basement, including infants. It's the most heart wrenching footage of this war.
There is a two minute video showing how the dead and the dying are being laid out in the building's basement. I am not even sure they have the morphine to ease their passing.
Yes, I agree with all that, sorry if I didn't express it well.
Also, I think literal is the way these texts should be read, cause it would be very undesirable for a multination military agreement to be ambiguous. That won't stop some people from trying creative interpretations, but that can't have been the intention of the language. So my use of 'literal' wasn't meant negatively.
@spectatorindex: BREAKING: Panama's government says three Panama-flagged ships have been hit by Russian missiles in the Black Sea since the start of the war, with one of them sunk.
This asshole woulda spoken out against aid to Britain in 1940.
‘Our enemies & our frenemies’
Feck that cnut. But not literally.
Except officials are claiming it was military exercises, which means explosions. All a bit strange.
That asshole would have been a devout admirer of Hitler.
Neo-fascists band together, as ever. The alt-right Trumpian cultists hate democracy in the USA as much as they applaud Putin for trying to crush democracy in Ukraine.
Indeed.
Unsurprisingly, she only supports war when it’s against her own government
“In an interview with gun activist Chris Dorr on October 27, 2020, a week before election day, Greene told viewers: "the only way you get your freedoms back is it's earned with the price of blood."
Definitely not literally [shudders]
Quite right. She’d absolutely goose step into dictatorship to save democracy from the Democrats.
Seems to be something going on in Belarus, apparently Lavrov's plane just turned around mid flight to China to go back west.
Certainly not the militia groups she’s been associated with
Insane that a country would have military exercises next door to an active conflict.