Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[mapuc]

What we didn't hear or wasn't translated from Russian was Putin who said...our 3 days special operation is going well here on it's 74th day.

Markus

[Skybird]

It goes so well that they opted for extending it, so to enjoy it longer.

[Catfish]

DW has put a video of chancellor Scholz' speech online, translated in english

[Rockstar]

@21:11 because Ukraine created coronavirus!

[Catfish]

This is unbelievably sad

[Skybird]

Brainwashing complete - hang it up to dry. The wicked power of demagoguery hijacking the media. True regarding Putin. True regarding certain other, Western politicians and in other, domestic contexts.

[Jimbuna]

Russia continues to lay siege to the Azovstal steelworks.

The sprawling industrial site is still the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol - with more than 1,000 fighters and more than 100 civilians still estimated to be inside.

Citing the devastation in Mariupol, the United Nations has said Ukraine's civilian death toll is "probably much higher" than the nationwide figure of 3,381 it's been reporting.

The UN also says some 8 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced within their country.

The US has warned that Russia is preparing for a long war - and that victory in the prized Donbas region in the east may not spell an end to the offensive.

Western nations have blamed Russia for a hacking an important satellite communications provider as it invaded - which knocked out internet coverage in Ukraine and beyond. Moscow has previously denied such claims.

Germany's foreign minister has become the highest-ranking official from her country to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded in February.

[Jimbuna]

[les green01]

Anybody noticed the Russia victory day had a band playing and showing old slides and one slide was Bonnie and Clyde

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by les green01

Anybody noticed the Russia victory day had a band playing and showing old slides and one slide was Bonnie and Clyde

No, but I did see some of the other results of the big screen at the parade getting hacked.

[Jimbuna]

The UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has arrived in Sweden for the start of a 24-hour trip where he will also visit Finland.

Johnson will meet the leaders of both nations - as they consider whether to join Nato - and discuss Europe's response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Since the invasion of Ukraine, support for joining the Nato alliance has increased in both Sweden and Finland - despite their long history of military neutrality.

Johnson is scheduled to give a news conference in each country, before returning to the UK.

Previously, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance would welcome Finland and Sweden with "open arms" and there would be minimal delay in processing their membership.

I wish this bumbling oaf would keep his nose out of other peoples business.

[Jimbuna]

UK PM Boris Johnson is visiting Sweden then Finland to discuss the Ukraine war as the two countries consider joining the Nato defence alliance.

New security declarations are being signed with both countries, with Johnson pledging UK support should their militaries come under attack.

Russia has warned there will be consequences if they join Nato, whose members see an attack on one as an attack on all.

But both Sweden and Finland - which have a long history of wartime neutrality - have seen public support for joining Nato grow since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, pro-Russian authorities in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, will ask President Putin for the region to become part of Russia, state news agencies report.

And Ukraine says it will redirect the flow of natural gas to avoid a key eastern transit point from Russia to Europe.

[mapuc]

Vladimir Putin could view the prospect of defeat in Ukraine as an existential threat to his regime, potentially triggering his resort to using a nuclear weapon, the top US intelligence official has warned.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e-avril-haines

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[Jimbuna]

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