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Yes, from Newsweek- absolute commie rag. Feeling isolated?
It was an OPINION piece you retard.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
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Originally Posted by sabang
Putin is having his ass handed to him on a plate.
Mint press is propaganda horseshit and does not belong in the news thread. Complete trash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_NewsQuote:
MintPress News (MPN) is an American far-left[1][2][3][4] news website founded and edited by Mnar Adley (née, Muhawesh) which was launched in January 2012.[5] It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues. Editorially, MintPress News supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the governments of Russia, Iran, and Syria.[6][7] It opposes the governments of Israel and Saudi Arabia,[8] and reports geopolitical events from an anti-Western perspective.[9] In one contentious article, MintPress News falsely asserted that the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria was perpetrated by rebel groups rather than by the Syrian government.[7]
Described as a conspiratorial website,[10][11] MintPress News publishes disinformation and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, according to researchers at Rutgers University and others.[12][13] MintPress News was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization.[14] The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-Russian propaganda.[13] A report from New Knowledge includes MintPress News as part of the "Russian web of disinformation,"[15][16] and the site has published fake authors attributed to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency.[17]
The source of MintPress News's funding remains unknown.[7] MintPress News is headquartered in Minnesota, United States.[18]
Well, that won't take long ... there wasn't any :chitown:Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
This from the simian who thinks TASS, RT and Pravda are trustworthy news sources.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
:rofl:
https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/statu...03059773046787Quote:
196.8% in favor of Kaliningrad joining Czech Republic. Historic result
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From Darth Putin...
https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/st...64398389968896Quote:
Day 224 of my 3 day war. Russian army is holding the line. It's just that the "line" keeps moving towards Russia. I remain a master strategist.
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The noose is tightening on Kherson. Dudchany is liberated.
:chitown:
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Originally Posted by pickel
Confusion in the ranks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
Your link:Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
01:01, 16-Jun-2022
UN war crimes inquiry collects evidence in Bucha and Irpin
"It spent 10 days touring towns and villages in the north of the country, "
"Russia denies that it is targeting civilians and that claims of executions of civilians and mass graves are fake news. So the United Nations sent an independent commission of inquiry to Ukraine to see for itself if war crimes had been committed."
"Accusations of Russian soldiers sexually abusing or raping Ukrainians have been dismissed as fake news by authorities in Moscow. Dzumhur said further research and verification was needed."
"Before coming to Ukraine the Commission informed Russia of the visit and asked for its cooperation but has not had a reply. They say they will try again."
UN war crimes inquiry collects evidence in Bucha and Irpin - CGTN
[/QUOTE]No confirmation of Russians being present.
Or as our TD source would say:
Your second link:Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
Findings of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine
23 September 2022
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Originally Posted by bsnub
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Originally Posted by bsnub
Or as our TD source would say:Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
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Originally Posted by bsnub
Hardly unbiased:
The investigators "sources":
"brave survivors, government officials, and other witnesses
hear even more harrowing stories
Ukrainian government and Ukrainian civil society"
Russian perpetrators or .... ?Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
Russian perpetrators or .... ?Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
or as our TD source would say:
No confirmation of Russians being present.Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
Very weak case.
23 Sep, 16:43Quote:
Originally Posted by David48atTD
About 1,000 observers are working at referendum in DPR — local CEC
DONETSK, September 23. /TASS/.
"Almost 1,000 observers are present at a referendum on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) joining Russia on Friday, according to information by the republic’s Central Election Committee (CEC).According to data posted on the DPR’s Information Ministry’s page on the VKontakte social network, the republic has a total of more than 1.5 mln voters with 946 observers monitoring the vote while there are no international observers.
The leadership of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as well as the liberated Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions announced a decision on Tuesday to hold referendums on joining Russia. All the four regions will hold the vote on September 23-27."
About 1,000 observers are working at referendum in DPR — local CEC - Russian Politics & Diplomacy - TASS
Dudchany to Kherson, Only 124 km to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
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They should be called "referendumbs" since you have to be fucking dumb to take them seriously.
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That article talks about Ukrainian partisans killing traitors
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Originally Posted by OhOh
So basicly the Night of long knives then.Quote:
Originally Posted by pickel
A carte blanche to settle old scores.
I know you care so much about war crimes, so please guide me to the conventions, which condone this.
I'm sure that you are aware of the percentage of the remaining populace in the annexted regions, who are not unfriendly towards the occupiers, could be substantial.
Traitors ? Kill them ? Ethnic Cleansing ?
This happens in wars and conflict, but there is no reason for keyboard warriors to condone these crimes.
And yes; I'm aware that Russia has primitives, who think exactly like you
Yep, the germans did that in the Ukraine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
What is the percentage helge? Do you think it's 97% like the referendum claims?Quote:
Originally Posted by helge
Anyways, the local populace aren't part of the command and control structure, such as the "appointed" officials who were collaborators and got their cars blown up.
Does Denmark have heroes that were partisans in WW2, who blew up or shot collaborators? Maybe you should go piss on their graves instead of arguing for arguments sake.
Don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by pickel
Haven't Kiev told you yet ?
'97%' kind of tells me that there only was a 'Yes' box to tick.Quote:
Originally Posted by pickel
And referendrum ? Let me be polite here: A bit flawed, wouldn't you say ?
You can't hold an election or vote under those conditions, so I don't give 5 pots of cold piss for that one.
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Originally Posted by pickel
Some who were informers for Gestapo were liquidated/shot. Maybe a few collaborators too (have to look that up).
Some were transported to Sweden and interned there.
Most liquidated had their case reviewed by the Freedom Counsel or such.
Several was innocent.
There has been a lot of criticisme of the killings.
The Resistance mostly blew infrastructure and factories
There was no Night of the Long Knives, allthough the usual mob wanted it.
They more or less had to settle with scissors and spit ( many girls who had german boyfriend, got a somewhat shorter haircut )
Small fish got the harshest punishment, as always.
The "cooperating" politicians got of without a scratch as did most profiteers.
Volunteers in the Waffen SS got prison
German-Danish collaborators belonging to the minority in southern Jutland got off lightly.
Happy ?
And no; I don't piss on "heroes" graves (and what is a hero anyway ?)
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Originally Posted by pickel
Why do you post in this thread then ?
Don't tell me you wish to "save" Sabang ?
:bananaman:
Lot's of Bla Bla, but still an interesting take on the War.
Why Russian Defenses collapse
499,254 views Premiered Oct 4, 2022 Why do Russian defense collapse on the front lines in Ukraine? In this video we look at various factors that plague the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine.
Why Russian Defenses collapse - YouTube
'Let Them Feel The Force Of Their Own Weapon': Ukrainians Fire Captured Russian Artillery
191,504 views Oct 6, 2022 The Ukrainian Army's 93rd Mechanized Brigade is using a captured self-propelled howitzer, a 2S5 Giatsint-S, to hit back against Moscow's forces with their own shells. Several were captured after the retreat by Russian troops from the Kharkiv region during a sweeping Ukrainian counteroffensive.
'Let Them Feel The Force Of Their Own Weapon': Ukrainians Fire Captured Russian Artillery - YouTube
Being the forums official contrarian Helge is only doing his job.Quote:
Originally Posted by pickel
Of course the referendum results were not 97 percent. Considering the number of people who have left already and the fact that what was left were Soviet era folks, I would not be surprised if the referendum results heavily supported the proposal.
As PH reminds us, we should maintain a balanced view. A few battles won does not mean the war is won.
Good coverage from Bsnub which I do appreciate.
If our estalished boneheads would try to clean up their presentations the forum would be a healthier place. The name calling is juvenile and a real turn off.
Putin Makes Chechnya’s Kadyrov an Army General
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Wednesday he was granted a top rank in Russia's army, just as Moscow's forces suffer a series of defeats in Ukraine.
The 46-year-old Chechen leader — one of the most outspoken voices in Russia backing Putin's Ukraine offensive — said it was a "huge honor" for him.
Kadyrov, a former warlord who rules Chechnya with widespread violations of human rights, said Putin had "personally" informed him of the decision.
"The President of Russia awarded me the rank of colonel general," Kadyrov said on Telegram. "This is a promotion for me."
The rank of colonel general is the third-highest command rank in the Russian military hierarchy.
Kadyrov's appointment to the rank came as the Ukrainian army pushed back Moscow's forces in areas that the Kremlin proclaimed to be "Russian forever."
The Chechen leader said he would do "everything to end the special military operation quickly" — using the Kremlin's term for its Ukraine campaign.
Chechen units — including Kadyrov's own militia with a sinister reputation, the "Kadyrovtsi" — are fighting alongside regular Russian forces in Ukraine.
Kadyrov has thrown his full backing behind Putin's campaign, regularly calling for the most drastic tactics to be used in Ukraine.
This week he called on Moscow to use low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine after Russian troops were forced to retreat from the town of Lyman.
He then said he was sending three of his teenage sons — aged 14, 15 and 16 — to the front.
Putin Confident Front Will 'Stabilize' Despite Ukrainian Advances - The Moscow Times
Oh shut up whining, you boring bastard.Quote:
Originally Posted by russellsimpson
Russian President Vladimir Putin's newly mobilized recruits are likely to provide "only human speed bumps" for the Armed Forces of Ukraine amid the ongoing southern counteroffensive, a retired Australian general said Wednesday.
"The Russian Army do not appear to have an answer to what the Ukrainians are doing to them," tweeted Mick Ryan, a defense analyst and retired Australian general, referring to an offensive by Ukraine's army that has forced Russia to retreat from several positions in the Kherson region.
The counteroffensive began in early September and has gained momentum in recent days. The recent successes follow Kyiv swiftly recapturing swathes of territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region this month.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the Ukrainian military liberated eight more settlements in the Kherson region that had been occupied by Russian troops—Lyubimovka, Kreshchenovka, Zolotaya Balka, Belyaevka, Ukrainka, Bolshaya, Malaya Aleksandrovka, and Davydov Brod.
Russia, meanwhile, is counting on the arrival of some of the 300,000 Russians whose mobilization was recently ordered by Putin to turn around its military fortunes in Ukraine.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that 200,000 had been enlisted into the army since Putin's call for 300,000 reservists and ex-military personnel with "certain military specialties and relevant experience."
Ryan suggested in a Twitter thread that the incoming mobilized troops are unlikely to make a difference in the Ukraine war, which began on February 24.
"We are seeing cascading failures which are likely to continue for a while yet," Ryan wrote. "The injection of mobilised troops is likely to provide only human speed bumps for the Ukrainians."
Ryan said Russia has not seen "such a terrible series of reverses on the battlefield" since the initial part of Operation Barbarossa in World War II.
"And with large numbers of troops stuck west of the Dnipro, the days ahead could get much worse for them yet," he added.
The former general assessed that Ukraine owes its current successes on the battlefield to both dedicated and situational reserves that it had likely allocated for planned offensives, as well as a skill for exploiting opportunities.
"Creating these required a good appreciation of risk, deception, operational security and logistic stockpiling," he wrote.
"The Ukrainians have fought a superior recon battle. A senior military officer, during our Kyiv visit, confirmed the Russians were poor at tactical recon," he added. "This is an essential part of preventing surprise and recognizing enemy weaknesses to exploit."
Ryan also credited the courage of Ukrainians in close combat and the "lack of purpose" among Russian soldiers as being central to Ukraine's success in recapturing so much of its territory in the past several weeks.
In March, Kherson became the first major city to be seized by Putin's troops.
Joel Hickman, the deputy director of the Transatlantic Defense and Security program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), told Newsweek that he also doesn't believe the mobilization of 300,000 recruits will have a strategic impact on the outcome of the Ukraine war.
Hickman said that even when the 300,000 target is reached, at the expense of many more people fleeing Russia to avoid being conscripted, these men will not be recently trained, combat-ready or highly motivated —"three essential attributes that Ukrainian forces have in abundance."
"We've seen how Russia has failed to provide sufficient command and control and logistics support for its forces currently in Ukraine; the additional 300,000 could therefore put enormous strain on their ability to sustain these forces for a prolonged period of time. It will also take time to integrate them into existing Russian formations," Hickman said.
Hickman noted that as Ukraine is rapidly retaking territory in the east and south and as its troops continue to target Russian re-supply lines, Russia will have a very difficult time absorbing the additional forces into its existing command and control structures.
"It could get very messy for them," he added.
Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-appointed military-civilian regional administration in Kherson, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday that the Russian army is preparing to strike back at Ukrainian troops in the region.
Newsweek has contacted Russia's foreign ministry and Ryan for additional comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-mobi...herson-1749074
Hooray. We finally agree on something.Quote:
Originally Posted by helge
As for the work of partisans, let's remember they are working underground in occupied territory. They don't have the mechanisms to arrest collaborators, try them, and put them in jail. So, since it is wartime, they blow up their cars, or shoot them instead. It's entirely your choice to agree with those methods or not, but it won't change how partisans in any war operate.
Rivers At Their Backs And Ukrainian Brigades Closing In, A Lot Of Russian Troops Might Need To Learn To Swim
Russia is fucked...
Russian paratroopers are fleeing their positions in a critical sector of the front in southern Ukraine. While at least one Ukrainian brigade chases after the Russians, other Ukrainian formations are cutting across the Russians’ likely avenue of retreat.
For the umpteenth time in Russia’s eight-month-old wider war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are in a position to surround a significant number of demoralized Russian troops. When the Ukrainians last enveloped a Russian force, around the eastern town of Lyman last week, potentially hundreds of Russians and Ukrainian separatists died.
To avoid getting trapped, the Russian paratroopers—part of Russia’s 49th Combined Arms Army—soon might face a choice. Either ford the Inhulets River on the western edge of the sector, or the Dnipro River on the southern edge.
Considering how adept the Ukrainian army has become at dropping bridges and destroying river lodgments, both options are unhappy ones for the Russians. It’s possible “the entire 49th CAA will have to find a way … to swim,” quipped Tom Cooper, an author and independent expert on the Russian military.
Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive has been months in the making. As far back as the spring, Ukrainian rocketeers, gunners and saboteurs began targeting bridges, railroads, supply dumps and command centers in and around Russian-occupied Kherson, a strategic port on the Black Sea. The deep strikes on logistics and command isolated and weakened the 49th CAA even as the Kremlin shifted forces from the east to the south in a desperate bid to shore up defenses around Kherson.
Ukrainian brigades meanwhile attacked across the Inhulets River northeast of Kherson, securing a lodgment on the left bank outside the Russian-held town of Davydiv Brid. Four months later in late August, Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive began in earnest.
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It took a few weeks, but the Ukrainians in recent days finally picked up momentum in the south. The 17th Tank Brigade is advancing toward the outskirts of Kherson. The 35th Marine Brigade is advancing toward Davydiv Brid. And the 128th Mountain Brigade and 60th Infantry Brigade are rolling along the Dnipro River.
Pay particular attention to the 35th Marine Brigade and 128th Mountain Brigade. The 128th is chasing the Russians southwest toward Kherson while the 35th cuts southeast from the Inhulets toward the Dnipro. If the 35th arrives at the Dnipro before the Russians can cross the brigade’s axis of advance, the Russians will be cut off—with the 128th’s tanks at their backs.
“They are going to end up with a much bigger encirclement than I thought originally,” commented Mike Martin, a fellow at the Department of War Studies at King's College in London.
There are two ways out for the Russians. One—ford the Inhulets and reach Kherson city to join the rest of the 49th CAA. Two—cross the Dnipro at Nova Kakhovka. The former would be a brief reprieve, as Ukrainian brigades including the 17th Tank now are bringing Kherson city into artillery range. The latter amounts to quitting the battlefield, for now.
And to be clear, either way out is a perilous one. River-crossings are complex and dangerous even when no one’s shooting at you. The Russians might have to cross the Inhulets or Dnipro while the Ukrainians are dropping artillery and rockets on their heads.
It’s still possible for the Russian army to escape the encirclement forming east of Kherson. But the escape could be a bloody one that further weakens the 49th CAA.
Rivers At Their Backs And Ukrainian Brigades Closing In, A Lot Of Russian Troops Might Need To Learn To Swim