Here we go again-Ukraine once again

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The Ivan Khurs reconnaissance ship attacked by ukrainian drones in international waters in the Black Sea

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Black-Sea.html

[Jimbuna]

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the discussion of Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance among allies is still ongoing, and what the outcome of the summit in Vilnius will be, no one can say atm.

What is being stated though is the fact that Ukraine will not be allowed to join in the middle of a war.

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(Translated from a Danish article)

A drone strike against the Kremlin in early May was likely orchestrated by one of Ukraine's special military or intelligence units.

According to the newspaper The New York Times, this is the assessment of US intelligence services.

The US intelligence services do not know exactly which unit carried out the attack. It is also unclear whether President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his government knew about the operation.

Several US officials believe that Zelenskyj was not informed about the attack.

According to The New York Times, the American intelligence services have reached their preliminary conclusion partly through intercepted communications. Here, Russian officials have blamed Ukraine for the attack.

Through other intercepted communications, Ukrainian officials have also said they believe their country is responsible for the attack.

The attack was carried out on Wednesday, May 3, with two drones causing damage to the Kremlin.

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[Jimbuna]

It is being reported that three Russian hypersonic missile scientists have been arrested on suspicion of treason and will go on trial next week.

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

The difference between the Russian and the ukrainian army is set very early. This text really made me feel sad for some reason. Written in March.

Russian children in elementary school classes dance in military uniforms. They take apart rapid-fire rifles as fast as they can and then put them back together. The children don't mind. They don't care. They hear the song "I am a Russian!". They are taught to raise their hands in the air at the words "I am Russian." The children don't mind. They don't care.

"They did the same thing to us in the Soviet Union," Lena says. "But we didn't go to the slaughter. These children did."
Rumors persist that the Ukrainian counteroffensive will begin in late April. It is supposed to start in the south, in the Zaporizhia region. Since everyone is talking about it openly, this cannot be true, of course. The Russians know it very well. Their intelligence reports that Ukrainian troops are concentrated in the south as well as in the north. That means there could be a second front as well. The counteroffensive will again start in the Kharkiv region and continue towards Luhansk.

Those who sympathize with the Russians are already bringing their families to Russia, in the south as well as in the north, just in case. Everyone is sure that there will be an offensive, but until the last minute we will not know which of the chess pieces will be set in motion first. It is expected that the first move will be unexpected.
There is a big difference between all the previous offensives of the Ukrainian army and what will happen in April. Because the counteroffensive could liberate territories that have been controlled by the Russians for nine years. Nine years. In that time, children have been born and raised who do not know what Ukraine is. They can only associate the word "Ukrainian" with Nazis crucifying babies on billboards or killing bullfinches because their plumage has the colors of the Russian flag.

In the so-called Luhansk People's Republic, two local boys have erected a play roadblock near their home and now guard it zealously. One of them is nine or ten years old, the other a few years younger.

They have put a lot of work into their project. The younger one carries a large Kalashnikov (almost as big as he is) that was very neatly and precisely cut from a piece of cardboard. The rifle is painted in camouflage green, which is already slightly faded. At first there was a Russian flag painted on the butt of the rifle, but now the flag is worn off. The magazine is wrapped with colored insulating tape, red, white and blue - the Russian national colors. The boy wears another Russian flag on his hat.

Their faces look like the faces of ideal soldiers in an ideal Russian front photo. Short-haired, floppy-eared, identical as dumplings, not in the least burdened with intelligence. Not the slightest doubt in their blue eyes. Joyfully they obey every order, even an idiotic one. They may be good tractor drivers, prison guards, or else perfect cannon fodder. But neither doctors nor scientists nor teachers. They will never paint pictures or write books.

They are full of energy. They have surrounded a horrible, probably stinking rotten barn with camouflage netting, put some car tires nearby and written, "Stop. Control." They're wearing dirty clothes and muddy boots. But everything around them is dirty and muddy, too. On the roof of the creepy barn flutter the flags of Russia, the Republic of Luhansk and some other unidentified flags.

Change of scene: a Ukrainian village in the Kiev region. And here, too, two local boys have erected a play roadblock near their house and are now guarding it zealously. One of them is about eight years old, the other is a few years younger.

But that's where the similarity ends. The children are wearing real metal helmets that they got from the military. Their toy guns look just like real ones, and they are not old AK-47s, but modern NATO models. The children smile in a friendly way, their faces do not look like dumplings, but like yellow dandelions stretching towards the sun.

They are not at all camera shy, even if the younger one still finds it difficult to articulate longer sentences. They don't have military haircuts, and they wear clean, neat clothes.

Of course, this is all half true and half staged. But the children mirror the adults truthfully, they copy them exactly and without ulterior motives, and looking at them in this way, one can clearly see what the main difference between the Russian and Ukrainian armies is.

About the author

Of the war diaries written after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, those of Sergei Vladimirovich Gerasimov are among the most stirring and touching. They combine powers of observation and knowledge of human nature, empathy and imagination, a sense of the absurd and probing intelligence. Gerasimov was born in Kharkiv in 1964. He studied psychology and later wrote a psychology textbook for schools and scientific articles on cognitive activities. His literary ambitions have been for science fiction and poetry. Gerasimov and his wife live in the center of Kharkiv in an apartment on the third floor of a high-rise building. The first part of the diary has now been collected and published as a book under the title "Fire Panorama" by DTV.

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[Skybird]

Russia's army is adapting and improving. They learn.

https://www.economist.com/europe/202...he-battlefield

[Skybird]

The long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia's troops has begun, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mychaylo Podolyak. "The counteroffensive has been going on for days," he said in an interview on Italian television. "This is an intense war along a 1500-kilometer border. Our actions have already begun," Podoljak, an adviser to President Volodimir Selensky, added, according to the Italian translation.


At the same time, he denied that Kiev was involved in the attacks in Russia's Belgorod region.

[Jimbuna]

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has announced that its forces have started withdrawing from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

Yevgeny Prigozhin has vowed to transfer control of the city to the Russian army by 1 June, but Kyiv says it still controls pockets of the city.

He said his forces were ready to return if the Russian regular army proved unable to manage the situation.

[Jimbuna]

Well then. no big surprises here.

Belarus has agreed to allow Russia to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on its territory, a step Moscow said was driven by a 'sharp escalation of threats' towards both countries from the West.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu signed the agreement with his counterpart in Minsk today, allowing for the weapons to be stored on the territory, which borders Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...5a701339&ei=14

[Skybird]

Who is Denis Kapustin?


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It helps to support the Kremlin's narrative that they are fighting Nazis form Ukraine when indeed Nazis have attacked across the border near Belgorod.

Kiyv may not be in the position to be choosy, but maybe sometimes they better should choose a bit wiser nevertheless.

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Who is Denis Kapustin?


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It helps to support the Kremlin's narrative that they are fighting Nazis form Ukraine when indeed Nazis have attacked across the border near Belgorod.

Kiyv may not be in the position to be choosy, but maybe sometimes they better should choose a bit wiser nevertheless.

According to court documents, Aleksei Navalny now faces charges of creating an extremist group, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison; calls for extremism; creating a nonprofit organization that violates citizens' rights; financing extremism; involving a minor in criminal activities; terrorism; and rehabilitating Nazism. Wonder if these extreme right-wing ultra-nationalistic groups will be linked to Navalny, Russia also has Nazi units fighting Russian ideology is not far from fascism/Nazism the All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" says enough.

[Skybird]

Nawalny is not that innocent victim the Western media usually paint him as, but I strongly mistrust claims about him made by regime-loyal courts. They can be true, or not - but in any case they are brought up absolutely to the wishes and opportunistic interests of the regime.

Personally, I do not trust Navalny.

I also do not really trust Zelensky, btw.


Maybe I am paranoid. I mean I do not trust Microsoft, Google and Zuckerberg either.

[Jimbuna]

Yet another example of Russian war crimes - attacking civilians and their infrastructure.

At least one person has been killed and 15 injured, including two children, in a missile strike on a medical clinic in Dnipro in eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, confirmed the attack and said authorities were working to rescue others from the hospital.

He said all necessary authorities were involved in the clean up mission.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65720853

[Jimbuna]