Ukraine war mega thread

[bsnub]

The Ukrainians created the Neptune missile and have had it in service for a year already.

The Ukrainians actually manufacture a lot of sophisticated military equipment that is (was) used by Russia.

[helge]

I know that knowledge isn't your first language, so there you go

You think you can lay claim to the intellectual high ground?

Only compared to you

While the word régime originates as a synonym for any type of government, modern usage has given it a negative connotation, implying an authoritarian government or dictatorship.

Ofcourse I'm 'implying'

Merely covered my tracks

[bsnub]

Only compared to you

You are one of the most blinkered lemmings on this forum. You have a tendency to post incomprehensible gibberish, and it has been pointed out by multiple other posters. Intellectually, I run rings around you.

[helge]

Intellectually, I run rings around you.

So that's why you post like Dizzy Miss Lizzy !

Nah, you are an intellectual floor painter.

Have fun in your corners

[bsnub]

So that's why you post like Dizzy Miss Lizzy !

So feel free to quote some of my posts and your pathetic attempts to troll me? I ignore most of them because they are weak sauce and a waste of my time. Your butt hurt is strong.

Nah, you are an intellectual floor painter.

Have fun in your corners

That is all you got? Sad little troll. I have squashed bigger insects than you on this forum.

[helge]

I have squashed bigger insects than you on this forum.

Yeah
Squash away, big shot

This is the news thread, I believe

Will be deleted soonish anyway

[bsnub]

Will be deleted soonish anyway

Indeed, it will. The squash is already completed.

[bsnub]

[HermantheGerman]

According to Ukrainian information, the "Moskva" is said to have already sunk. “Where is the “Moskva”? 'She drowned,'" Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Oleksiy Arestovych wrote on Twitter. The governor of the region around the port city of Odessa, Maxim Marchenko, previously said in an online post that the ship had been hit by two Ukrainian Neptun cruise missiles. However, he did not provide any evidence. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Latvian Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Artis Pabriks compared the possible loss of the Moskva to the loss of the German battleship Bismarck in World War II. It is no wonder that Russia is ashamed to inform its public "about the successful strike against the flagship and Russia's imperial thinking," Pabriks wrote.

Hope its true!

Now lets send a few missiles to Ramzan Kadyrov & Family and hope that the whole Caucasus region stands up and fight against Russian scum.

[nidhogg]

^ That will be a severe blow. Probably a good thing that it was a Ukraine made missile that bought it low.

[bsnub]

Probably a good thing that it was a Ukraine made missile that bought it low.

They say it was Ukrainian, but was it?

They are described as the best anti-ship missiles ever, and the UK is about to send its harpoon missiles to Ukraine to help combat Russian warships.

The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile developed and manufactured by Boeing Defence.

The UK will send the Harpoon missiles in a bid to break the Russian navy’s siege of Black Sea ports.

Fitted with a 500lb high explosive blast warhead, the system is carried by 600 Nato warships and 180 submarines around the world.

The 15ft missiles are accurate to a range of 80 miles.

Harpoon missile can be put on trucks alongside a relatively simple command-and-control apparatus.

Because they are easy to move, they make the perfect fit for the Ukrainian military.

While the Harpoon missiles are older technology, they’re not currently in use by the Russian military.

And giving Ukraine access to these missiles means the US and its allies wont have to send more secretive weaponry, with concerns they might fall into the hands of Russia.




Black Sea blockade

Russia has blockaded crucial seaports in Ukraine with warships.

Up to 300 ships have been stopped by Russian forces from departing the Black Sea, leaving one of the key global trade routes for grain virtually blocked.

The fertile region is known as “the world’s breadbasket.”

British newspaper The Guardian reported that several other ships have been struck since the invasion began on February 24, including from Bangladesh and Estonia, which killed one person.
Russia blames the stoppage on the high risk of mines, which it said had been laid by the Ukrainian Navy.

UK to send "game changer" anti-ship harpoon missiles to Ukraine.

[David48atTD]

And giving Ukraine access to these missiles means the US and its allies wont have to send more secretive weaponry, with concerns they might fall into the hands of Russia.

Yes, I read the UK were pulling the more 'sensitive components' out of some of the vehicles being sent to Ukraine.

Perfectly sensible.

"UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News the Ukrainian military would get Mastiff heavily armoured patrol vehicles, which weigh 23 tonnes and carry eight troops and two crew.It is understood they will be stripped of sensitive equipment and could help mount offensive operations close to Russian lines."

Ukraine war: UK sending armoured vehicles for first time as Zelenskyy demands 'firm response' to Kramatorsk railway blast | World News | Sky News


They look like something out of a Mad Max movie.

[OhOh]

Because jailing, poisoning, and murdering the opposition is more effective?

SPLATTERING innocents men, woman and children, gets your adrenalin going more effectively Wo Ha, Woo Ha, WOOO Ha ....

Found it ...

Your linked video, presumably your "evidence", does not show any missile hitting the Russian ship.

[bsnub]

SPLATTERING innocents men, woman and children, gets your adrenalin going more effectively Wo Ha, Woo Ha, WOOO Ha ....

You fucking buffoon, the war crimes in Ukraine are far worse than anything we have seen in any conflict zone that the US ever operated in. You are clearly triggered by the massive losses that your shitbag "lord" has taken in the last 24 hours. Losing a massive battle cruiser is a devastation.

[David48atTD]

Your linked video, presumably your "evidence", does not show any missile hitting the Russian ship.

Never said that there is video of it.

The clip is purely to showcase the ship which has been hit/sunk.

This is the only clip I've seen of what is reported as the ship being hit.



For me, no conclusive evidence, hence I didn't post it.

[bsnub]

For me, no conclusive evidence, hence I didn't post it.

Give it some time. It just happened. The Russians already conceded that they had to abandon ship.

[David48atTD]

If you watch one video about proving/disproving the videos about this war, I warmly recommend this one.

They make me look like an Amateur!


Putin's propaganda playbook shows how an army of fake fact-checkers is sowing doubt and confusion

"The enemies of truth on the internet are going to use every tool at their disposal."



All the commentary is here

[OhOh]

The Russians already conceded that they had to abandon ship.

Russian warship ‘seriously damaged’ by explosion – military

Missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ was evacuated after an alleged “ammunition explosion” incident

13 Apr, 2022 23:06

"The entire crew of the missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ was evacuated after an ammunition explosion caused by a fire, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a brief statement on Wednesday night, as quoted by multiple Russian news agencies, including RIA, TASS and Interfax.
The cruiser suffered “serious damage,” the Russian military reportedly said, adding that the cause of the fire was under investigation. The Defense Ministry, however, has yet to confirm the incident on its official website, or share further details."

DDOS-GUARD

Available immediately, or subsequent to, a professional inspection.

The choice is yours.

[David48atTD]

Given how good satellite imagery is these days, unless it's spotted in a Russian Port over the next few days, it would have to be assumed as 'lost' ... SUNK

[harrybarracuda]

How embarrassing for Puffy Putin. He must be wondering how he could have been so badly misled by his own military.
A few glowing tea parties planned I fancy.

[sabang]

The health official says he’s not sure if the world really treats white and black lives equally

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has shared his frustration that conflicts in other parts of the world, including his home country of Ethiopia, don’t get as much attention internationally as the events in Ukraine.

“I don’t know if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives,” he said during a virtual press conference on Wednesday.

The crisis in Ukraine deserves attention as “it impacts the whole world,” he acknowledged, but added that “even a fraction of it isn’t being given to Tigray [in Ethiopia], Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria and the rest. A fraction.”

“I need to be blunt and honest that the world is not treating the human race the same way. Some are more equal than others. And when I say this, it pains me. Because I see it. Very difficult to accept but it’s happening,” the WHO boss pointed out.


The Russian military operation in Ukraine has been topping headlines everywhere around the globe for almost two months. It prompted the US, EU and their allies to slap draconian sanctions on Moscow and organize deliveries of weapons and humanitarian aid to Kiev. Numerous international brands – from Apple to McDonald’s – have also suspended their operations in Russia.

Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that in his home country of Ethiopia, “in effect, the siege by the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces” of the breakaway region of Tigray continues.

People in Tigray are at risk of starvation due to not getting enough humanitarian aid and are treated harshly by their opponents, he pointed out. “People are being burned alive... because of their ethnicity... without any crime.”


But the bloody conflict, which has been underway since 2020 after the federal government launched a military operation against the rebel separatist group, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), just doesn’t seem to interest the international community too much, according to the official.

“I hope the world comes back to its senses and treats all human life equally… because every life is precious,” he insisted.

It’s not the first time that Adhanom Ghebreyesus has sounded the alarm over inequality on a global scale.

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, he slammed wealthy nations for hoarding vaccines for themselves and leaving poorer countries empty handed. Such behavior wasn’t just unfair, but also counterproductive in terms of tackling the spread of the virus, he said.

WHO boss calls out double standards over Ukraine — RT World News

Nigger wid' attitood.

[sabang]

The New York Times is naming and shaming Ukrainian men who've fled the country rather than stay and kill Russians for Washington, because it was illegal for men of military age to leave, and because their countrymen are angry at them, and because it's the New York Times.

They shamed Vova Klever, who said, "Violence is not my weapon."

They shamed Volodymyr Danuliv, age 50, who said, "I can’t shoot Russian people."

They shamed another Volodymyr, surname withheld, who said, "Look at me. I wear glasses. I am 46. I don’t look like a classic fighter, some Rambo who can fight Russian troops.”

And to those men I can only say, I love you.

I love you Vova Klever, outed by a trusted friend and made a pariah on Ukrainian social media. I love you Volodymyr Danuliv, who refuses to shoot Russians because you have Russians in your family. I love you other Volodymyr, surname withheld, sipping your beer in shame because you shirked your patriotic duty.

Hold your heads high, beautiful draft dodgers, for you are the real heroes of this story. I raise my glass to you tonight.

I raise my glass to all draft dodgers, who chose to run and hide rather than kill and be killed for some rich asshole's power agendas. Who chose the condemnation and scorn of an insane society which praises mass murder and elevates sociopaths. Who chose excommunication from the death cult over bloodshed for geostrategic domination and Raytheon profit margins.

I hope you live long lives full of laughter and tears, full of love and loss, full of drunken nights that go too late and surly mornings that start too early, and all the other delicious gooey nectar that life is made of.

I hope you experience lots of beauty. I hope you make lots of beauty. I hope you read good books. I hope you dance in supermarkets. I hope you have lots of sex and I hope you find and lose religion. I hope you fall in love often and have at least one excruciating but liberating divorce.

I hope you drink deeply from the river of life, because there are many who never got to (you know that better than anyone). I hope you know fear and I hope you know fearlessness. I hope you set aside your armor so you can let someone all the way in. I hope you learn to open your chests and love with reckless abandon, and I hope you learn to cry easily as all real men do.

Here's to you, oh Vova and Volodymyrs, who chose to bail the fuck out of there rather than pay the ultimate price in a stupid proxy war for US unipolar hegemony. Who chose to spend their lives with their eyes sparkling babies and breasts rather than dead-eyed haunted with blood and splattered Russian faces. Who chose to live for something rather than to die for nothing.

There are no war heroes. There are only war victims. Here's to everyone, ever, who throughout the ages has chosen not to be made one. I raise my glass to your lives, and to your hidden yet radiant dignity. Please know that at least one pair of eyes sees your beauty.

Oh yeah, and fuck The New York Times.

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-all-draft-dodgers?s=w

[harrybarracuda]

Has the Moskva sunk yet?

[sabang]

Dunno, but makes little difference- it was on fire and evacuated as confirmed by RT. So unserviceable, and better off sunk so as not to be a navigational hazard.

You can subscribe to dear Catty if you want on Substack 'arry. Give you that nice daily Hate session you so much need to keep going.

[harrybarracuda]

Dunno, but makes little difference- it was on fire and evacuated as confirmed by RT. So unserviceable, and better off sunk so as not to be a navigational hazard.

You can subscribe to dear Catty if you want on Substack 'arry. Give you that nice daily Hate session you so much need to keep going.

It's amazing how your little mind thinks people should care about all the propaganda bollocks you spend all day feverishly searching.

The truth is no-one listens to it except you and the other three wanketeers.

Has the Moskva sunk yet?

Ooooo Puffy will be raging.