Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion

Simbo said:
wsj journo's are just full on spastic aren't they? I mean, maybe they were wrong, but believing a dodgy looking Russian clip 100% and immediately criticizing Ukraine with it. Give me a break.
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What's the connection to cerebral palsy here?
 
VorZakone said:
What are you talking about? Trofimov has been an excellent journalist to follow for this war.
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But he is right. He can be the best journalist, still it doesn't look good criticizing Ukrainian intelligence based on a russian dodgy few second clip. At least wait a bit for more information or more evidence before you make that statement. It just feels like a" I want to call them out first" scenario.
 

Russian media continue to release strange evidence about Nikolayevich being alive. The easiest thing to prove he is alive would be to record an interview with him, where he talks about the attack on their HQ. So why don't they do it? They didn't, or better said couldn't hide the attack itself, so that can't be the reason.
I still believe he got at least injured to a point where they don't want to show him to the public. Or he is really dead and they're simply not ready to announce it without looking weak or for whatever reason.
 
Iranian kamikaze drones used in the latest attacks on Ukrainian cities are filled with European components, according to a secret document sent by Kyiv to its western allies in which it appeals for long-range missiles to attack production sites in Russia, Iran and Syria.
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Russia’s Wagner troops are back on the battlefield, Ukraine says

“Wagner as an organization was finished in Bakhmut. Now their more fortunate soldiers are sent to Africa, where there’s more money. The less fortunate ones are back to Ukraine.”

He added that Ukrainian wiretapping and reconnaissance had been used to confirm that former Wagner forces were back on the Donbas battlefield, but warned, “We know everything about them.”
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https://www.politico.eu/article/rus...d&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
 
It’s 5.5m long and 1.5m high. It’s very fast, it can deliver a payload of 320 kilograms for a radius of 450 nautical miles. And the line of the water is not so high. So it’s very difficult to detect it in the water. Also, this drone can be used not only as a chemical hazard to hit the target, it could work in the swarms for different purposes.
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VorZakone said:
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This tweet is wrong and the MoD is right. The 25th is a newly formed formation, it did not exist at the beginning of the counter offensive and it is likely not as well trained as it should be before joining the battlefield. Deploying them now proves that Russia has a lack of well trained troops at the moment.
 
Raoul said:
Some terrific debates in this thread in recent pages.
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I wonder if this will trigger a bit more discussion here: https://archive.ph/MqvEq

Quite a long article about who blew up NordStream last year. Lots of details in it, but tl;dr: it seems to be most likely that it was Ukrainian special forces who destroyed this shared Russian-German asset.

So much about "it was the Russians, who else?"
 
stefan92 said:
I wonder if this will trigger a bit more discussion here: https://archive.ph/MqvEq

Quite a long article about who blew up NordStream last year. Lots of details in it, but tl;dr: it seems to be most likely that it was Ukrainian special forces who destroyed this shared Russian-German asset.

So much about "it was the Russians, who else?"
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I was always of the impression it was the US so Russia could no longer threaten to turn off the gas. For me it was always the us or Ukraine. Russia had nothing to win from it.
 
Gehrman said:
I was always of the impression it was the US so Russia could no longer threaten to turn off the gas. For me it was always the us or Ukraine. Russia had nothing to win from it.
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I think its unlikely its the US, unless they made it look like it was the Ukrainians. Either way, rather awkward now, If it turns out it was sanctioned from the very top.
 
stefan92 said:
I wonder if this will trigger a bit more discussion here: https://archive.ph/MqvEq

Quite a long article about who blew up NordStream last year. Lots of details in it, but tl;dr: it seems to be most likely that it was Ukrainian special forces who destroyed this shared Russian-German asset.

So much about "it was the Russians, who else?"
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If it was the Ukrainians then they need to be held to task for it. I'm not sure if there is a definitive answer on who did it though (is there?) given that any nation state involved would obviously deny it.
 
If it indeed was the Ukraine we should thank them. They’ve done more to fight our dependance on Russian resources than our government ever did.
 
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