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In Trumps case, the truth won’t set him free, but the US justice system might?Quote:
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All the former Soviet satellite countries are scared of trump being re-elected
A good reason why Poland is arming itself to the teeth.Quote:
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Trump's plan just that: Trump's plan.Quote:
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(Strokes chin knowingly)
:scratchchin:
Cy the sage purrfect,any photo evidence?Quote:
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The Europeans will do exactly what the US tells them to do.Quote:
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Amen
(and they do not like it :) )
While Ukraine waits for the F-16, Russia bombs airfields far from the front
Several Ukrainian air bases far from the front have recently been subjected to missile attac
Video published July 2 by the Russian Ministry of Defense allegedly shows the attack on the air base in Myrgorod in Ukraine. It has not been possible for DR to verify the authenticity of the video, but Ukrainian sources confirm that the attack has taken place.
(sorry, I can't post the video here, Helge)
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Thomas Prakash
Mens Ukraine venter pa F-16, bomber Rusland flypladser langt fra fronten | Udland | DR
F-16 planes from Denmark and the Netherlands, among others, will soon be on their way to Ukraine, but lately Russia has been busy targeting the Ukrainian airfields that will be used by the planes from the Western donor countries.
Over the past week, Russia has carried out at least three missile attacks on Ukrainian airfields, all of which are located about 100 kilometers from the front, writes the Ukrainian media, Kyiv Independent.
Russia has also published several videos purportedly showing the attacks.
Wants to show that they are not afraid of Ukrainian F-16 planes
According to the former Ukrainian officer, Viktor Kevliuk, who is now a researcher at the Center for Defense Studies in Kyiv, Russia has a clear purpose in publishing the videos.
"The goal is to show that they have the ability to destroy planes and that they are not afraid of the F-16," he said.
According to Russia's Ministry of Defense, five Su-27 fighter jets that were parked in the open air near Myrhorod have been destroyed and damaged.
The figures have not been confirmed from the Ukrainian side.
- There are some casualties, but not as many as the enemy claims. Russia has been attacking airfields all along, says the former spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ihnat, in connection with the attack.
Read also: Ukrainian pilot learns to fly F-16 in Denmark: We look forward to fighting in these planes in Ukraine
Trying to mislead
On the internet, several pro-Ukrainian military bloggers speculate that it may be end-of-life planes that are not airworthy, or fake planes, so-called decoys.
"The Air Force is doing everything it can to counter and mislead the enemy, including the use of 'decoys'," said former Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat.
Russia also claims that it has destroyed a Mi-24 helicopter at an airfield in Poltava and a Mig-29 fighter jet at an airfield near the city of Kryvyi Rih.
This has not been confirmed from the Ukrainian side, and the current spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force has not wanted to comment on any casualties, writes the Kyiv Independent.
What particularly worries the Ukrainians, however, is that Russia has allegedly been able to film the airfields from drones that, without being shot down, have been able to pinpoint any targets for the Russian missiles.
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Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft at the base in Myrhorod in February 2022. (Photo: © STR, Ritzau Scanpix)
'We can't protect everything'
The problem is that Ukraine does not have enough air defense systems to simultaneously protect the cities, power plants, factories and other critical infrastructure, as well as airfields.
"We can't protect everything at the same time," said defense analyst and former Ukranian officer Viktor Kevliuk.
In addition, there is a lack of secured hangars at the Ukrainian air bases.
According to the American think tank, the Institute for the Study of War, the Russian drones and missiles continue to overwhelm and penetrate the Ukrainian air defenses.
The commander of Ukraine's 96th Infantry Regiment. Air defense brigade Serhii Yaremenko says that this is partly due to the fact that the Russians have become better at adjusting their tactics and that they are increasingly equipping their drones with equipment to avoid detection on radar.
Denmark has donated 19 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and Ukrainian pilots and aircraft mechanics have been in Denmark to be trained to fly and service them.
Lonely principal at empty school in Ukraine: 'I call them the lost generation'
Ukraine's schoolchildren have frightening memories in their luggage and three years of teaching on the computer.
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Principal Petro Kovalenko misses the students at the school in the village of Korolivka, west of Kyiv. The school does not have a bomb shelter, so the teaching takes place online. In the third year, first because of corona, then because of war. - Children may not think about it, but the time they lose will never come back. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
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Brita Kvist Hansen - Kyiv
Ensom rektor pa tom skole i Ukraine: '''Jeg kalder dem den tabte generation''' | Udland | DR
- The school does not have a basement and therefore no bomb shelter, explains principal Petro Kovalenko.
He sits all alone at the school in his small office in the village of Korolivka, 60 kilometers west of Kyiv. The children only come by briefly every ten days.
We have driven out to areas that were severely destroyed at the beginning of the war in 2022.
Some villages were occupied by the Russians, others, like Korolivka, were in a gray area with constant attacks.
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The school in Korolivka is empty most of the time. Broken windows have been replaced and the painter has been by, but the school has no bomb shelter, so the children are on the computer from home. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
The school in Korolivka has new windows and seems to be ready to receive students.
But the children are basically only taught on the computer.
- Three years, says the rector, holding three fingers in the air. With corona and war, it has been three years since the children went to school properly.
- The academic level has fallen a lot. We try to support them, but it's a bit like giving a patient artificial respiration.
He is worried about both the academic aspects and how the children are doing in general.
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Like the children, the principal is also on the computer himself. Here he shows some of the damage caused to the school by the battles against the Russians. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hanen)
"The war experiences are a huge stress for them. I see the fear in their eyes.
- I myself have experienced several attacks up close and seen people who had been killed, including children. And the students have experienced something similar, he says.
Lost time will never come back
It also hurts him to see children lose the community, everything you learn from others about finding your place, amused that your self-esteem grows.
"Children may not think of it that way, but the time they lose will never come back.
The principal does not seem to want to let us go, even though the interview ends.
He wants to show the school's memorial wall to a student from the school who has been killed in an explosion when he wanted to take a closer look at what turned out to be a piece of unexploded ammunition at his home.
And we are also going right past the school's local history museum with a washtub and embroidered shirts. There are hardly many guests here at the moment.
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The school in Korolivka, west of Kyiv, like many other Ukrainian schools, has its own small local history museum. But not many guests at the moment. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
One of the school's graduating students is 17-year-old Viktoria Lysakova. She is sad about her schooling.
- For me, the atmosphere in the class is very important, she says from the computer screen.
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Viktoria thinks she has missed out on a lot with three years of distance learning. -The atmosphere in the classroom is important to me. And she meets her friends mostly on the phone now. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
- Everything we had together and sports and party days, it's just gone.
In the past, there were also many children who played outside on weekends. It's stopped, we're mostly on the phone, says Viktoria.
However, she was just allowed to come by for the end of school before the holidays.
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Viktoria's graduation at the school in Korolivka. "Glory be to the heroes" is written on the school wall.
She talks calmly and almost registeringly about the war and the violent experiences.
She and her mother did not go to bomb shelters for the most part.
"We had the attitude that if it happens, it happens that a missile hits.
She describes one of the explosions, which was so powerful that she saw the wall of the house being pressed in.
- I got so used to those explosions.
- If I hear the sound of a drone now, I think back to what it was like, but I try not to.
And when you ask her what she dreams of, she first answers that all Ukrainians just dream of the war ending.
But yourself, Viktoria, didn't you dream of anything before 2022?
- I would like to have my own business and a big house and a car. But I can also do without it all.
Mines on the roadside
On the side of the road on the trip between Korolivka and the neighboring town of Andriivka, small sticks, red and white, stick up in the grass at the edge of the ditch. They warn of the danger of mines. Somewhere there is a burnt-out car along the road.
The official from the area's office of education, youth and sports, Iryna Voloshcheno, says that many houses are still uninhabitable. Instead, white temporary container houses stand on the site.
"The Russians burned many of the houses before they left the area," Iryna said.
Iryna explains that there is also a great psychological healing process for the children from the villages in the area.
"They were afraid to be without their parents, afraid to go outside because of unexploded ordnance, and afraid to go to the basement. We have spent many hours as a teacher and psychologist helping them.
Now it's summer vacation, and it's long, from June to the end of August.
- But there will be extra hours for those who need it, says Iryna.
The school became the headquarters of the Russians
The war has affected schools very differently.
While the school in Korolivka lacks a basement but was not damaged much, the school in the neighboring town of Andriivka is much more destroyed.
Because here the Russians moved in and had their headquarters during the more than a month-long occupation.
When the first locals could look inside, they were greeted by the sight of a razed building.
"It was terrible, the windows were broken, everything was lying between each other, chairs, books," says one of the school's teachers, Lyubov Opanasenko, who was one of the first to enter the school.
- And in the basement there was garbage and excrement everywhere, she says.
The Russians had stolen a lot of things from houses in the village, televisions, among other things. What they didn't bring, they smashed. When the school's employees were finally able to access the basement, they drove away ten loads of waste.
Since then, the Norwegian Refugee Council has helped to restore the school.
But there is still great destruction, including a hole in the schoolyard after shelling.
In a storage room, the Russians had set up a prison, says Leonid Khomenko, the school's principal.
"Here they placed men from the village, interrogated them and beat them and subjected them to torture.
- They had cold water poured over their feet and placed outside in ten degrees of frost, says the principal.
'I think I cried for a year'
Teacher Lyubov Opanasenko stayed in the village during the Russian occupation because she had to take care of her brother, who was paralyzed. He died during the occupation, and the family buried him in the garden.
- I have received psychological help. I think I cried for a whole year. It helped, she says.
- I think the children eventually forget some of what they have experienced.
It may seem surreal to visit the school, because on the ground floor the rooms are still filled with holes from attacks, but the basement has been renovated with white walls and new furniture, and a generator is ready to take over if the power is cut off, which regularly happens.
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The basement was the Russians' hangout during the occupation at the beginning of the war in 2022. Ten loads of garbage were driven away when the Ukrainians regained control of the village. Now there are classrooms in the basement. If the air raid siren sounds, the children can continue the lessons. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
Two of Lyubov's students, Oleksandra Sivach, 14, and Vitalina Kybukevich, 15, would rather sit up in the light in their old classroom, but mostly they are just happy to be at school.
"I don't think the Russians will come back," Oleksandra said.
And if it should draw up, then her family has made a decision.
- Then we will leave Ukraine.
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Oleksandra Sivach, 14, and Vitalina Kybukevich, 15, are allowed to come up into the daylight from the basement while DR is visiting. "I don't think the Russians will come back," Oleksandra said. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
They have both been in the city when the Russians came and also during the occupation.
- We could hear the tanks driving into the city. And then there was a chat group on Viber, where people who could see the main street wrote how many there were.
- I didn't really understand what was happening.
Other family members went to the family's house, so it ended up that they were 24 hiding in the basement.
- We thought we were safe. But we wouldn't be if the Russians came to our house.
The two girls seem smiling and cheerful as they sit here. If it weren't for the destruction at the school, you'd think they'd be talking about a movie they'd seen a long time ago.
But part of the story is not expressed in anything other than a few words from Vitalina.
- What has the war changed? She repeats the very general question.
-All. They killed my father. I can't say more about that.
Later, her teacher says that her father and a neighbor were tied up and shot by the Russians.
Kharkiv builds schools underground
While the front has moved far away from the Kyiv region, it is quite present in the eastern part of the country.
The Kharkiv region close to the border with Russia is constantly under attack and regular education is virtually impossible.
But the local authorities are trying to get as many children as possible to safety underground. Among other things, in the Kharkiv metro. Only just over 3,400 of over 200,000 school-age children have this opportunity so far.
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A missile hit the school in Ljubotin in the Kharkiv region. Now the students have moved underground into a large unified classroom. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
But in the city of Ljubotin in the Kharkiv region, a brand new school building has just opened.
Between the large red-brick buildings, where a corner has been smashed after an attack, lies the top of the new basement school.
The concrete and steel walls create a noise from groups of children who have Ukrainian, math, drawing and creative play at the same time.
- We are in a front area with frequent air alarms, and the children feel it, says teacher Valentina Kuchma.
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Dasja and Polina, both 11 years old, with their teacher Valentina in front of the new school, which is built as a large shelter in the middle of the school grounds in the city of Ljubotin, west of Kharkiv. They will also spend part of the long summer holiday here. But there is no complaint about it, because they belong to a very small part of the children in the Kharkiv region, who can physically come to school and there are no ordinary holiday plans either, (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
Polina, 11, remembers some of the things that have scared her the most.
"There was an attack close to my mother's work, and I didn't know where she was.
Therefore, the school works to calm the children and strengthen everything they have lost due to the online teaching.
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Valentina is trying to catch the attention of the little ones in the Kharkiv region's new school underground. (Photo: © Brita Kvist Hansen)
Valentina instructs the little ones in a game where they have to mime their friend's facial expressions to the next in line.
- We train the children's ability to gain control over their emotions and their ability to work together, says Valentina Kuchma.
The maths lesson begins with the teacher showing the children a picture of a battery and asking the students how much energy their own internal battery has.
The teaching will continue throughout the summer holidays. Nikita, 14, has no other plans, but there's something he really misses.
- Before the war, I played football every single day.
School is running again, but football has been cancelled indefinitely.
An international team of investigators say they have tracked down eight Ukrainian children, believed to have been abducted during Russia's invasion.
More than 60 detectives used digital open source techniques to trace the missing children who are understood to have appeared in Russian propaganda.
Experts from 23 countries joined forces at Europol's headquarters in The Hague.
They used advanced facial recognition to find recent images of the children online.
As investigators are unable to travel to Russia or Belarus, geolocation experts analysed photos and videos and used satellite data to determine where they were taken.
Network data analysis was then able to establish whether multiple children were in the same location.
Detectives at the EU's police agency are not revealing either the identities or the whereabouts of the eight children who've been tracked down using open source intelligence, citing potential risks to their safety.
Ukrainian police will inform the relatives and possibly open a criminal investigation. However, Ukraine's liaison for Europol said the ultimate goal was "to bring our children home to their families".
The government in Kyiv estimates that at least 19,500 Ukrainian children have been deported and forcibly displaced from their homes to Russia and Russian-occupied territories since the full scale invasion began in February 2022, and of those only 388 have returned home.
The exact figure is unclear, and where they are is mostly unknown. The BBC has compiled evidence from many children who said they were separated from parents, were not allowed to go home or call their relatives.
In 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the alleged unlawful deportation of children.
Russia denies the accusation and says it has protected vulnerable children by moving them from a war zone for their own safety.
Maria Lvova-Belova talks of "rescuing" Ukrainian children and has repeatedly argued that they are free to go home.
She says some 730,000 children have been brought to Russia, most of them with their parents or other relatives, and that 2,000 children were evacuated from Ukrainian orphanages, although she makes no mention of forcible displacement.
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These children who were deported to Russia took part in a recreational camp in western Ukraine this month
Researchers from Yale University in the US mapped the deportation system and found that children were often placed in re-education camps or psychiatric hospitals.
Russian authorities have made it easier to adopt a Ukrainian child, change their name and issue them with a Russian passport.
The BBC reported last year on the gruelling journeys of Ukrainians to find their children who had been moved deep into Russia.
Humanitarian organisation Save Ukraine has managed to rescue at least 95 kidnapped Ukrainian children and will receive the international Four Freedoms Award in the Netherlands in recognition of its achievements.
This month18 Ukrainian children who were transferred to Russia and then returned home took part in a recreational camp in Irshava in the Zakarpattia region of western Ukraine, organised by a foundation set up by a Ukrainian billionaire.
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Ukrainian children recount horrors of being kidnapped by Russian soldiers
https://www.cbsnews.com/assets/show/...-square-32.svgBy Margaret Brennan, Richard Escobedo
Updated on: February 27, 2024 / 7:44 PM EST / CBS News
It's been almost two years since Sasha Radchuck, then 11, pleaded with Russian soldiers not to separate him from his mother at what was called a "filtration camp" in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine, where they had both been forcibly resettled after being forced from their home in besieged Mariupol.
He still talks of his mother in the present tense, but hasn't seen or spoken to her since April 2022.
"My mom is very beautiful," he said through a translator. "To every son, his mom is the best and most beautiful. For me, my mom is the best."
Now 13 and since reunited with his grandmother, Sasha is urging world leaders to press Russia to stop its practice of what the International Criminal Court deemed to be "unlawful deportation" -- a legal term for stealing children amid war.
https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hu...6e467de5ddfb8#IIya Matvienko, Kira Obedinska and Sasha Radchuck.CBS NEWS"I go around the world to tell about my mom," he said. "So maybe someone in the U.S. can hear me and help find her."
Sasha is not alone. Ilya Matvienko, 11, and 14-year-old Kira Obedinska faced similar horrors in Ukraine. The trio told leaders at the United Nations in New York last week that Russian soldiers took them captive after the siege of Mairupol, and had planned to send them to live with Russian families.
But they count themselves lucky, and are just three of 388 that have been reunited with loved ones. According to an estimate from the Ukrainian government, there are nearly 30,000 kids that have been forcibly removed or deported from their homes.
Russia, for its part, claims it is rescuing children as a humanitarian gesture. Maria Lvova-Belova, the head of what Russia calls its children's rights program claims 700,000 kids have been taken in on a humanitarian basis.
Russian state TV has broadcast images of Vladimir Putin and children it claims were "rescued" by soldiers from Mariupol. But Ukraine's government argues that Russia's plan is to erase Ukrainian identity — first it creates orphans, then it steals them.
Ilya was just 9 years old when he became an orphan. He watched his mother die from a shrapnel wound to the head. A neighbor buried her in the backyard. Ilya was also hit by the shrapnel and his leg was badly wounded. Traumatized and unable to walk, he said Russian soldiers took him to a hospital where he was operated on without anesthesia. Yet amid the trauma, his doctors coached him to praise Russia.
https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hu...6e467de5ddfb8#Testifying before the U.N.CBS NEWS"You must say, not glory to Ukraine, but glory to Russia," Ilya said his doctors told him.
Ilya's grandmother told CBS News that she spotted her grandson in a Russian propaganda video, speaking from a hospital bed, and described a complex network of people who helped her get him back.
Kira's grandfather said that after his son died in a bombing, he feared he'd never see Kira again. The 14-year-old described to CBS News the painful details of hiding in underground shelters and trying to survive the warzone.
Kira, Ilya and Sasha's grandparents shared details of how they came to rescue the children, and mentioned receiving some Ukrainian government help but CBS News cannot independently confirm those details. The government in Kyiv claims the details are classified.
Ukraine's government is urging these children to share with the public what happened to them. The children were accompanied to the U.S. by Daria Herasymchuk, Ukraine's Presidential Commission for Children's Rights and Child Rehabilitation.
https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hu...6e467de5ddfb8#U.N. testimonyCBS NEWSTheir visit to the U.S., coordinated with the Ukrainian government, was sponsored by Builders Ukraine, a U.S.-based non-profit. It partnered with BlueCheck and TAPS to launch the Courage Project, which is seeking signatures for a petition demanding the release of stolen Ukrainian children.
Ilya said he wants other countries to know the reality of what is happening in Ukraine, "that it's not a fairytale, that's really happening."
Stealing children in times of war — "forced deportation" as the International Criminal Court calls it — is a war crime. The act of deporation and transfer can, in some cases constitute a crime against humanity and a component act of genocide.
In 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants for both Putin and Lvova-Belova.
Nathaniel Raymond is the executive director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which leads a U.S. government-funded initiative to track down Ukraine's stolen children, and says he's seen evidence of Russia giving some older children military training.
"We have not yet seen evidence of the children being deployed in combat," he said. "But we have seen systematic efforts to turn them into soldiers."
Raymond compared taking children to use of a nuclear weapon — one of the most destructive and dangerous acts imaginable, and warned of the dangerous precedent that could be set if Russia is not stopped.
"It gives the green light to children being abducted in the wars of tomorrow," Raymond said. "It says that the international community will not stop kidnappers."
But sources told us that in recent months it has gotten harder to get kids back; and now with U.S. financial support for Ukraine's war effort in question, it may also imperil international recovery efforts.
https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hu...6e467de5ddfb8#Ilya Matvienko, Kira Obedinska and Sasha Radchuck.CBS NEWSThe children also met with U.S. officials during their visit to Washington. The State Department told CBS News that the U.S. government's assessment is that there is "a systemic nature to Russia's deportation system and efforts to obstruct the return of Ukraine's children."
Despite the ICC arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova, there is no unified international body that has attempted to negotiate the return of the children. Russia maintains veto power at the UN and finds willing international partners to help it defy isolation and sanctions.
Sophia Barkoff and Camilla Schick contributed reporting.
China and Belarus hold military exercise near border with Poland
OFRasmus Jungersen
China and Belarus have today begun joint military exercises close to the Polish border.
"The events taking place in the world are alarming, the situation is unsettled, therefore we will practice new forms and methods of carrying out tactical tasks," said Major General Vadim Denisenko, head of the Belarusian Special Operations Command.
The exercises, which are being termed "anti-terrorist exercises", will last until July 19 and will take place near the city of Brest in southwestern Belarus, writes Reuters.
"The joint training aims to improve the coordination skills of the participating troops and deepen practical cooperation between the two armies," the Chinese Ministry of Defense said.
Didn't see that one coming :)
Appropriate title for a guy who will lead another "Special Operation".Quote:
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Lots of terrorists in Poland that need to be eliminated. :rofl:
May be no need to visit Russia to meet the Russiams as many including Ukraaine, Crimea, Bornholm discovered they may visit you.I doubt Bornjolm can resist missiles from Kaliningrad , NATO membership will have little relevance in N nuclear winter that Nakhon Solvang in Esan may look more and more attractive.Quote:
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The deadline for registration in the Ukrainian military register expires today: 'You hear about men who have stayed indoors for a long time'
Ukraine is losing soldiers along the front. A new military register will secure new people.
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A potential recruit receives basic military training in the central part of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. There is a shortage of people along the front, and while the West can help with military hardware, it is Ukraine's own responsibility to ensure enough soldiers on the battlefield. (Photo: © Valentyn Ogirenko, Ritzau Scanpix)
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Frist for registrering i ukrainsk militaerregister udlober i dag: '''Man horer om maend, der har holdt sig indendors i lang tid''' | Udland | DR
If you want to win a war, there are two things in particular that are important to keep track of: You must have enough money, and you must have enough soldiers.
But the latter is struggling in war-torn Ukraine.
Therefore, the country has taken various measures in the attempt to mobilize both men and women for either the battlefield or administrative tasks in connection with the war against Russia.
One of the measures is a new, statutory military register, which Ukrainian civilians must have completed by today.Quote:
If I am summoned, I will not dodge. Then I go into military service.
MAXIN, UKRAINER
The intention was that the registration should be done electronically. But there have been problems with the technical aspects, and many have therefore contacted recruitment centers physically.
Not all of them, though.
Dima, whom DR has met in Kyiv, walks a long arc around the city's recruitment centers. Mobilization is a sensitive topic in Ukraine, and therefore the Ukrainians in this article speak on condition of anonymity.
"I will not take part in hostilities. Instead, I support with volunteer work. For example, I can dust up a generator and collect money, says Dima.
- I can be useful behind the front in that way.
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"We search, we find, we destroy" reads this poster from a Ukrainian drone battalion. The graphic and communicative tools have been put into use.
'I don't dodge'
Others, however, have accepted that a summons can land in their inbox or mailbox shortly.
- If I am called up, I do not dodge. Then I will go into military service, says Maxim.
Like many others, he cannot avoid seeing the special posters around Kyiv.
They come from different branches of the Ukrainian military, but they all have the same message: Join the army.
In the military register, which must be filled in today, the Ukrainians must enter a number of information. This will make it easier for the authorities to know who they are and where they are, so that the summons can be effective.
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Another recruitment poster in Kyiv. "Fight! Take revenge! Liberate," it says.
This can be information about age, education and address. Failure to meet the deadline risks fines. But there are also those who hide from the authorities and thus run the risk, says DR's reporter in Ukraine, Brita Kvist Hansen.
- You hear stories about men who have stayed indoors for a long time. They have done this, among other things, to avoid the recruitment that also takes place on the streets. For example, it could be a recruitment officer standing in front of a supermarket or a training center, she says.Quote:
For example, the police may be looking for you, and you may eventually be put in jail.
BRITA KVIST HANSEN, DR'S REPORTER I UKRAINE
But after today, when the deadline has passed, a military summons can now arrive in the inbox or mailbox.
- Then it is something more serious if you do not react to it. For example, the police can search for you, and you can eventually be put in prison, says Brita Kvist Hansen.
After today, it will be more serious if Ukrainians have not met the deadline:
Manpower problems along the front
It is not without reason that Ukraine is ramping up its recruitment plans. People along the front are badly needed. With almost daily attacks on Ukrainian soil and soldiers killed along the front, things can only go too slowly for President Zelensky.
- Zelenskyy constantly calls for arms help from outside, and Ukraine has often criticized that the help is not enough. But it is Ukraine's own responsibility that there are soldiers at the front to fight in the war, says Brita Kvist Hansen.
But the whole mobilization has in many ways been a messy affair, says DR's reporter in Ukraine. Some of the Ukrainian men that DR has spoken to have been frustrated that the systems across the authorities do not talk to each other.
- It does not exactly run smoothly when only 36 percent of the relevant people have had their information updated, says Brita Kvist Hansen.
Been so since the dawn of time along with superior tactics and strategies.Quote:
Originally Posted by helge
Even given the advantage defensive forces needed for success are far less than those needed for offense, the Ukraine doesn't have the population to stop Russia from eventually completely overrunning the Ukraine.
Putin can and will pour troops into the war with no particular care about heavy losses. The only way the west can defen'sd against this is to not only continue funding but augmenting Ukraine defensive forces with boots on the ground. As long as the west fears Putin will use nuclear weapons should they put boots on the ground the war will continue and the Ukraine will be bled dry.
Good summary.
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Originally Posted by Norton
Yes, but of what ?Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
Ukraine's government wants to raise taxes to be able to finance the military
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Nanna Nørby Hansen
For the first time since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022, the Ukrainian government will raise taxes.
In a draft amendment to the country's budget for 2024, according to Reuters, the government will increase defense spending by 495.3 billion hryvnia, equivalent to almost 81.5 billion kroner.(12 bill US or such, Helge) Part of the money must therefore come from tax increases.
The proposal is due to the fact that the need in the security and defense sector is growing in line with the war, Ukraine's Ministry of Finance writes in a statement, according to Reuters.
"To finance our resistance to Russia the aggressor, we can only rely on our own resources, and the most important ones are taxes and domestic loans. This will ensure our safety and bring victory closer," the statement reads.
The government's proposal must be adopted by parliament and signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before it can enter into force.
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Germany proposes to halve military aid to Ukraine
OFMarie Serup Skotte
Tyskland laegger op til at halvere militaerbistand til Ukraine | Udland | DR
At last week's NATO summit, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated that the country will stand side by side with Ukraine for as long as necessary. But when German Finance Minister Christian Lindner yesterday presented Germany's budget for 2025, he proposed halving German military support for Ukraine.
And that does not bring joy to Ukraine, says director of Think Tank Europe, Lykke Friis, in Deadline. The reason is Germany's economy because the country has for a period of time pursued an expansionary fiscal policy and exceeded the limit for how large the public debt can be.
- They lack the money. So they have to cut some places because this government does not want to change the debt brake. Therefore, they are closing the hole in their budget by cutting Ukraine support, among other things, she says.
If you look even further ahead, the German defense budget will also be slackened. As it looks now, Germany will not meet the NATO goal of spending two percent of the country's GDP on defense from 2028.
- They have been able to spend two percent of GDP on defense so far, but they are not in 2028, says Lykke Friis.
Is Germany – and other countries in Europe – losing patience with the war?
Of exactly what it says. Do you have some sort of reading comprehension illness?Quote:
Originally Posted by helge
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Originally Posted by Norton
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Originally Posted by Norton
"as long as the west fears that Putin will use nuclear weapons, they should put boots on the ground or the war will continue and Ukraine will be bled dry"
The West is never going to put boots on the ground. The war is almost over with the result being all but inevitable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norton
The West have fought to almost the last Ukrainian.
Still the West got a good look at Russian capabilities, so not too bad a result.
Although a major mistake, I agree. Putin will eventually make the entire Ukaine a part of the Russian empire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceman123