Russian State Media: Ukraine tells EU leaders: Prepare for War. P. 2902 One Year Since the Invasion: A Re-cap

Maybe email your buddies, Putin and Lukashenko.

This ain't the place.


You could go over to the Putin-puffer maeg-thread

Oh right.

It's gone.

Makin' dinner.

Meatloaf, spinach salad, rice and corn soup.


BRB

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MTB,
Don't let the putin shills get under your skin, they're deluded.
Wish they'd spend a fortnight over there and open their eyes to the reality of what a repressive government actually is.

When your country is all fuched up...as ours is, in my opinion... it is tempting to think, "What if we had a benevolent strong man?"



But dictators don't -- in fact can't remain "benevolent"...even if they do start out that way.

And very few do.

Churchill was right about our democratic western systems...the worst systems ever...except for all the others.

Metallurgical plant is on fire in Russia's Novokuznetsk:


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A compilation of war news from various sources today.

Turkey is preparing for war with Hellenism and now siding with Russia, the plan is to flood Europe with tens of thousands of refugees from Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Palestine. Their destination will be Germany through Greece.

The news is Russia will officially declare war on the Ukraine on the 30th September after accepting the referendum vote (which we all know how that will go) and join the 4 regions of Ukraine into Russia.

Analysts say Moscow will likely use one or more "tactical" nuclear bombs or nuclear warhead bombs.

Mark Cancian, a military expert at the CSIS International Security Program in Washington, said Russia would likely not use nuclear weapons on the front line. Holding 20 miles (32 km) of land could require 20 small nuclear bombs, small gains for the enormous risks of introducing nuclear weapons and nuclear fallout.
"Using just one will not be enough ," Cancian said.

With Iran now supplying Russia with state of the art drones Russia have not delayed in using them with Odesa under heavy attack since early morning as the Russian Army bombards military targets with Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones (codenamed "Geran-2") accompanied by Iranian Mohajer-6 UAVs to provide additional targeting information.

Russian air force and missile forces are bombarding the Nikolaev-Kherson front, areas where the Ukrainians are recording the heaviest losses with reports of over 700 Ukrainians killed in just the last 24 hours and in addition, another 300 killed by a rocket attack on a temporary mercenary deployment site near the village of Kalinovka in the Nikolaev region.

Paratroopers of the Russian 76th Airborne Division eliminated a phalanx of NATO YPR-756 APCs as Ukrainian casualties in the Pravdino region northwest of Kherson shock.

According to information the Ukrainian forces were trapped and lost at least 20 tanks. Ukrainians panicked and circled to avoid being hit by Russian drones.

Then we assembled the 56th Airborne Regiment of the Russians. In the fighting, over 120 Ukrainians were killed and 5 captured, while in addition to the 20 tanks, the Ukrainians also lost 13 armored vehicles.

With so much propaganda its hard to know what of the above is fact or fiction, what I do know is it’s not getting any better soon for either side.

I'm in full agreement with you.

I think the referendums are about Russia legally being able to send conscripts to the front without having to change the designation of the action from SMO. There are plenty of currently active and somewhat trained conscripts available and the recently mobilized will backfill for them.

The threat of nukes is secondary in their shorter term plans to try and turn the tide back in their favor.

You are right. The new conscripts can't legally be sent out of the country without an actual declaration of WAR by the DUMA.


The special operation is -- at least not yet -- a WAR.


Hence the annexations and the "mobilization" go together.


Russia has good laws but a bad -- and dishonest -- "leader".

I guess using drones is better to direct these types of munitions than less accurate types of artillery, but still, war is brutal.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1574119397991612418

https://twitter.com/_/status/1574110634026930178

My point is that Russia already has a sizable amount of conscripts already serving. These men are already trained and there have been reports of them moving towards Ukraine from eastern Russia already. They will be the first wave of new meat for the fronts to help shore up existing but degraded units,
The other aspect will be Russian casualties going forward. The Russians have relied on their Ukrainian “allies” and Wagner to take the brunt of the grinding type action. Both of these groups have practically exhausted their ability to replenish their forces so now official Russian soldiers will start taking higher casualties as a result.

Yes, most likely.

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Russian Orthodox Church argues that sacrificing life in war against Ukraine «washes away sins.»

Daniel Stewart - 32m ago



The highest representative of the Orthodox Church in Russia, Patriarch Kirill, has maintained in a sermon this Sunday that the sacrifice "in the fulfillment of military duty" in the war against Ukraine "washes away all sins."




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Bullshit

Russian Orthodox Church argues that sacrificing life in war against Ukraine «washes away sins.»

Daniel Stewart - 32m ago



The highest representative of the Orthodox Church in Russia, Patriarch Kirill, has maintained in a sermon this Sunday that the sacrifice "in the fulfillment of military duty" in the war against Ukraine "washes away all sins."




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Insanity

Blasphemy

Shades of the crusades, into the later middle ages. How "very old school" Catholic of the Russian church.

DEUS VULT

As a Catholic even we grew out of that shit hundreds of years ago.

I know. That's why the time frame reference, but it was still going on in the late 1600's/early 1700's at least.

Didn't mean it for a Catholic slam. I just find it (fill in the word) of the Russian church with their opinion of Rome.


ETA: I think the word I was looking for was "disingenuous".

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Yes we most certainly did

I didn't make my point very well. Sorry guys, no disrespect intended.

My disrespect is directed towards the ROC.

I think that attitude was still present during the religious wars...on both sides...but I think westerners as a whole have risen above that since the Peace of Westphalia.

We don't believe God forgives sins for killing other people.

Both Catholics and mainstream Protestants would consider that absurd at best and essentially blasphemous.