Ukraine war mega thread

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The quote starts ... "According to the Russian Sputnik News Agency"

ho is YC News? "YCNews established in November 2015 under PeopleDailynews."

Who is the PeopleDailynews. People's Daily Online focuses on China news, China society, China military, Chinese culture, China travel guide, China politics, foreign affairs (you get the idea)

That is why he needs his own doghouse thread so all of his crap can get dumped in there.

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Ukraine War’s Geographic Reality: Russia Has Seized Much of the East - The New York Times

Not saying the article is wrong, it just sits behind a paywall.

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Back in actual reality, the Russians attempted another river crossing today and lost another entire battalion of men and equipment. Here is your daily battlefield update...

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Not saying the article is wrong, it just sits behind a paywall.

He posted a fake headline to the article that had nothing to do with the actual article itself.

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Not saying the article is wrong, it just sits behind a paywall.

It's the NYT. I've reached my free article limit unfortunately, so can't copy it here. Just Google the Title, and you will see it has also been published in several other Newspapers. You will also quickly see what bullshit snubby is spruiking, but we expect that. I suppose he will be calling the NYT a commie propaganda rag next.

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POKROVSK, UKRAINE (NYTIMES) - Russia's nearly three-month-old invasion of neighbouring Ukraine has been punctuated by flawed planning, poor intelligence, barbarity and wanton destruction.

But obscured in the daily fighting is the geographic reality that Russia has made gains on the ground.

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday (May 10) that its forces in eastern Ukraine had advanced to the border between Donetsk and Luhansk, the two Russian-speaking provinces where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukraine's army for eight years.

The ministry's assertion, if confirmed, strengthens the prospect that Russia could soon gain complete control over the region, known as the Donbas, compared with one-third of it before the Feb 24 invasion.

That is a far cry from what appeared to be the grand ambitions of President Vladimir Putin of Russia when he launched the invasion: quick and easy seizure of vast swaths of Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv, the overthrow of a hostile government and a replacement with unquestioned fealty that would ensure Ukraine's subservience.

Nonetheless, the Donbas seizure, combined with the Russian invasion's early success in seizing parts of southern Ukraine adjoining the Crimean peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, gives the Kremlin enormous leverage in any future negotiation to halt the conflict.

And the Russians enjoy the added advantage of naval dominance in the Black Sea, the only maritime route for Ukrainian trade, which they have paralysed with an embargo that could eventually starve Ukraine economically and is already contributing to a global grain shortage.

For the past several weeks, Ukrainian and Russian troops have been engaged in a gruelling attrition, often fighting fiercely over small areas, as one village falls into Russian hands on one day, only to be retaken by the Ukrainians a few days later.

"The Russians aren't winning and the Ukrainians aren't winning, and we're at a bit of a stalemate here," said Lieutenant-General Scott Berrier, director of the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency.

Still, Russia has all but achieved one of its primary objectives: seizing a land bridge connecting Russian territory to the Crimean peninsula.

When Mr Putin ordered the invasion, some of his military's most skilled fighters poured out of Crimea and southern Russia, quickly seizing a ribbon of Ukrainian territory along the Sea of Azov. The last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in this area, at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, has been whittled to a few hundred hungry troops now confined mostly to bunkers.

But efforts by Russian forces to expand and fortify the land bridge have been complicated by Ukrainian forces deployed along an east-west front that undulates through sprawling fields of wheat and occasionally engulfs villages and towns.

It is in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk where fighting is the fiercest.

At the main hospital in Kramatorsk, a city in Donetsk, ambulances stream in day and night, carrying soldiers wounded at the front, who describe being pinned down by near constant shelling.

Russian forces now control about 80 per cent of the Donbas, according to Ukrainian officials, and have concentrated their efforts on a pocket of Ukrainian-held territory with Kramatorsk at its centre.

All around the city, the booms of distant fighting can be heard at all hours, and heavy smoke hangs like a morning fog. Almost daily, Russian forces launch rocket attacks and airstrikes on the city itself, but the most punishing violence is reserved for those places in range of Russian artillery.

About 62 miles (100km) northeast of Kramatorsk is Severodonetsk, where Russian artillery, parked about 5 or 6 miles outside the city, rarely relents, making it difficult for the 15,000 or so residents who remain to venture above ground.

Russia's Black Sea blockade of Ukraine has not diminished the Kremlin's desire to gain control of Odesa, the most important Ukrainian port, which has been subjected to several aerial attacks. In the latest, Russian forces fired seven missiles, striking a shopping mall and a consumer goods warehouse and killing at least one person and wounding several more, Ukrainian officials said.

The strike came only hours after European Council President Charles Michel had visited Odesa, where he was forced to take cover in a bomb shelter because of another attack.

Mr Michel, who met with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal of Ukraine, criticised Russia for strangling Ukrainian grain exports that feed people around the world.

"I saw silos full of grain, wheat and corn ready for export," Mr Michel said in a statement. "This badly needed food is stranded because of the Russian war and blockade of Black Sea ports, causing dramatic consequences for vulnerable countries."

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the international community to pressure Russia to lift the blockade.

"For the first time in decades there is no usual movement of the merchant fleet, no usual port functioning in Odesa," he said in an overnight address. "Probably, this has never happened in Odesa since World War II."




Ukraine war's geographic reality: Russia has seized much of the east | The Straits Times

Able to get it through the Straits Times. Bullshit e'hh snubby?

He posted a fake headline to the article that had nothing to do with the actual article itself.

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^ any chance you might re-format it for readability?

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Any chance you might look again, good sir?

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Any chance you might look again, good sir?

Much better

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Russia says (insert giggle)

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Able to get it through the Straits Times. Bullshit e'hh snubby

The original headline that you posted was bullshit, and you know it.

NYT concedes Russian operation in Ukraine is inexorably gaining upper hand. Some US military analysts have begun advising Ukraine's mentors that war is lost & Kiev must sue for peace NOW - or else... One hell of an "information war", isn't it?

Remember this crock of shit? You seem to have a short memory. I guess that has something to do with being a lemming.

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First we had terminators and now Zadira's. Russia really is desperate to be rolling out this crap. It is a funny point with all the propaganda they are pushing they only have like ten terminators in total. So I wonder how many "lazers" they have. The Ukrainians already captured their most advanced secret air defense system, the Barnaul-T. Which they promptly handed off to the US.

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Couple of take aways for this vid.

From the music, I expected Darth Vader to appear at any minute!

Interesting that Turkey has blocked access for some Russian ships to transverse the Bosphorus Strait due to the Montreux convention.

I hope that Chef has a new frypan!

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I had no idea you were so stupid snubby. I will try to be slower with you from now on. Major Face Palm. I am cringing here, but it has to be done if only to put you out of your misery-

NYT concedes Russian operation in Ukraine is inexorably gaining upper hand. Some US military analysts have begun advising Ukraine's mentors that war is lost & Kiev must sue for peace NOW - or else... One hell of an "information war", isn't it?

�� Imagine a shock of clowns believing MSM for months now how “Russia is losing" ��

Ukraine War’s Geographic Reality: Russia Has Seized Much of the East - The New York Times

The top line is commentary from a poster on the website Quora. It is also a Link, if you click on it it should work for you(?). It refers to the NYT article, which is linked at the bottom. As it is behind a paywall, I was also able to link to it (the NYT article) via the Straits Times (that is Singapore's main English language newspaper, in case you didn't know). Sigh.

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You really are an utter imbecile for posting crap like that to begin with, but I think that almost everyone on this forum would agree that you are a clown, and your track record speaks for itself.

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So the NYT article is "crap like that" to snubby. And I am the clown. Sigh.
Here is something else to get you triggered, it refers to your Azov heroes-


Now that Russians have destroyed their homes, are pro-Russians from Mariulpol happy? Do they still support the Russian invasion and occupation of their city?






Alex Korolev

The surrendered commander of Azov had to be taken away under heavy guard in an armored car. Residents of the city threatened to lynch him.

And of course it's all true. As your propaganda tells. Mariupol people are very grateful to Azov for the 8-year hell. They were very happy when the creatures in uniform with the "wolf hook" chevron abducted, killed, robbed, raped them. Almost every Mariupol citizen dreamed of getting into the wonderful "Library" at the Mariupol airport, and then into the lime pit.




Erase how happy the people of Mariupol look after visiting the "Library" - the secret prison of Azov at the Mariupol airport. I wish everyone who supports Azov to experience the same indescribable happiness.

And of course, with the start of the special operation, Mariupol residents gladly provided their houses for firing positions, agreed to be a meat shield, and even targets for Ukrainian snipers when they tried to get water or cook food on a fire. Democratic heroes need to train in marksmanship!

Hundreds of natives of Mariupol who stormed the city as part of the "Vostok" and other units of the DPR, of course, did everything to cause as much harm as possible to their city, their families, friends, neighbors, former classmates. And the neo-Nazis for whom the inhabitants of the city are "Russians" and "separs", that is, worse than animals, did everything to save them. Everything happened as your propaganda says.

For those who want to know at least a piece of the truth, I recommend the telegram channel of Maxim Grigoriev, an employee of the Donetsk human rights organization Fair Defence. There is about a thousandth part of what Mariupol residents tell - something for which there was time to translate into English.






I doubt Mariupol will ever be part of "Ukraine" again.

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^ I wouldn't call a Quora Blog post news.

Plus the Author Alex Korolev served in the Russian Airborne Troops - VDV (1994-1999)

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So the NYT article is "crap like that" to snubby.

The article was not crap you imbecile, but it did fail to point out that all that territory was taken very early on in the war and the Russians were mostly unopposed. Things are vastly different now.

And I am the clown.

You most definitely are a clown and the crap you posted above is proof of that. Then there are your shit predictions...

I doubt Mariupol will ever be part of "Ukraine" again.

First you got the fact that this war would never happen wrong, and now you are already back at it with another shit prediction. Some people never learn.

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I wouldn't call a Quora Blog post news.

Neither is it in the News thread. You can find all sorts of opinion on Quora. It's a refreshing change from the old echo chamber.

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You can find all sorts of opinion on Quora. It's a refreshing change from the old echo chamber.

It is one of the few places that you have found that will support your shit narrative, which in and of itself is based on Russian state propaganda.

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Hot off the presses...

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On a different note ...

Russia dominates nuclear power supply chains — and the West needs to prepare now to be independent in the future



Key Points

• Russia is a dominant player in global supply chains of nuclear reactor technology, as is detailed by a new paper published Monday from Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
• There were 439 nuclear reactors in operation around the globe in 2021, and 38 of them were in Russia, an additional 42 were made with Russian nuclear reactor technology, and 15 more under construction at the end of 2021 were being built with Russian technology.
• Russia owned 40% of the total uranium conversion infrastructure in the world in 2020, and 46% of the total uranium enrichment capacity in the world in 2018, according to the report.

Russia dominates global nuclear reactor and fuel supply chains

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We might want to catch up a bit in space technology too. Vlad won't let us hitch a ride to the Space station any more, and after we refused to co-operate with them, the Chinese just built their own and had it orbiting in less than ten years.

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We might want to catch up a bit in space technology too. Vlad won't let us hitch a ride to the Space station any more, and after we refused to co-operate with them, the Chinese just built their own and had it orbiting in less than ten years.

They need that hard currency, so it might still be an option.