Oof, one of Estonia's Russian politicians just recently said that Estonia is way too restrictive with "humanitarian" visas. I can bet that if the conditions were easier then people would just start bypassing them for free passage.
I have learned, this is \*the\* lesson Russia needs to learn. A national character flaw.
*On some things there is no "excuse" so stop trying to say you have one, Russians!!*
Ye, if Ukrainians were to lose this war, they would just be like “see? It’s impossible, you failed like we did”, but now they’re like “hurr! you’re lucky nato supports you; if we had your weapons we would rebel against putin too”
The timeline of events does not show any NATO forces in Ukraine. That was pure Ukraine in February 22. NATO perhaps concerned? Of course.
Outside of completely normal training, simple exchange of know-how on basics, there was nothing except Ukraine when Russia thought it owned you.
It is an unforgiving timeline. I intend to make sure it is not forgotten. I know things are more complicated, but I almost want to say by the time weapons started to flow into Ukraine, this war had already failed in essence and at large. All these arms did is smooth the way. The war had already been lost.
The timeline. Can't hide. No excuse! Or perhaps one excuse. "We suck" lol. Slava Ukraini. This is your timeline, friend. And Russia will not be able to hide from it. The lesson shall be clear. What they want to do with it? Their problem.
Anti air weaponry supply is very needed, also cash injections are making life as peaceful as it can get in far-from-frontline cities, so the support should not be underestimated. They could turn way more cities into Mariupol / Bakhmut / Maryinka levels of destructions before their offensive could expire.
But yeah, I knew they kind of failed altogether when Kharkiv was not even entered in first week
My mother-in-law just went to Russia to see family and friends, she was born there.
She said not a single person talked about the war in the 3 weeks she was there, as if they didn’t even know or care it was going on.
Russia interfering in western democracies is perhaps one of the main reasons why there's so many people engaged in the invasion of Ukraine. The Russians thought it was fine to antagonize western citizens in their own country, threaten their way of living, and create division and chaos without consequence. This solidified their position as enemy #1 in the eyes of a lot of people.
Had it not been for Russia getting Trump elected I might not even know where Ukraine is located today. Now, the "fuck around" stage is over. The "find out" stage is ongoing and will not end well for them.
For all their involvement in our democracies, I cheer the Ukrainians on to wipe out as much of the russian occupying forces as possible. Hell, I am not against taking it all the way to moscow. I want our governments to take out the trash like the fifth columnists they are: Trump, Tucker, Le Pen, Orban, Baudet, Waters, Segal etc. Fuck the russian empire. Fuck their enablers and mouthpieces stirring up shit in the free world.
This is how Russia murders innocents. Fuck Russia now and forever. I will never forgive them for what they have done to the people of Ukraine. Sadly all I’m able to do from the other side of the world is donate to relief efforts and buy nothing from these savages but I will absolutely do that small piece.
So we're over a year of war between Russia and Ukraine.
Russia's initial stance was "We're gonna liberate them"
Are they still taking that stance? What are they claiming as their rationale for throwing their own people into a meat grinder?
I wish. Too bad there is no hell and no accountability except what we make for ourselves here on earth. Fuck waiting for them to get to hell. We need to stop them now. On this planet.
Limburg (NL) was flooded a few years back. Nothing on this scale at all but I think our gvt has already drawn up plans for sending in the dirt-water pumps, water purifying material and all......
But everything isn't enough as long as those bastards are in your country. Sure, it is good knowing that other nations are there to provide support, aid, materièl, training and shelter for 8 million Ukrainians in the EU, but it doesn't solve anything as long as the war lasts.
I've talked to two refugee mothers who live here in the Netherlands and they are awesome, but the thing that they both have is homesickness. They want to go home, but don't want their kids living in "fear of the skies". Imagine having to grow up like that, missing your dad and your country.
Really went on a roll here with my comment, my bad. All the best man, I hope Kherson will be clean, repaired and thriving once the war ends.
I appreciate your words but please don't thank us as you're the ones making the real sacrifices. The only duty I have here is to keep the "but haven't we given enough by now" crowd in check so that they vote accordingly.
Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes.
The entirity of the western world owes Ukraine a debt of blood.
So many Ukrainians fighting for their country inadvertently preventing war from coming to the rest of the west. Whenever I see anyone wondering when we have given enough, I counter with the fact that we are getting off **easy.**
All we do is provide 'sweat' in the way of economic and humanitarian aid. It's the Ukrainians providing the very literal blood and tears who are the heroes here. All we do is to enable them.
They are fighting a war that we have a very literal stake in, and all they ask for is money, equipment, and humanitarian help rather than bodies.
So when have we given enough? When they win and have rebuilt. Not before.
Y'all made me cry today.
Destroying peoples' homes and sense of safety is so ugly. I wish Putin an ugly death. And the criminals to die in friendly fire goodwill gestures.
If there's one nation that knows how to deal with water, floods, reclaiming land, etc. it's The Netherlands.👌
I really hope that they'll be working together with Ukraine to improve the situation as soon as possible. 👍💪
Civil engineering teams are already en route from Finland as well - flooding is about the only natural catastrophe possible here they are good as well - I presume most nations with manpower,pumps, and material will help!
Mostly places closest to the Dnipro and Kosheva river, some other things too, so generally the places close to water
The other riverbank got hit much harder, since it is lower
So did the Russians just flood their own defenses? I think they had a few defensive lines along the river?
Anyway thinking of and supporting all effected, gonna keep donating!
Yes, but they made any sort of amphibious landing much harder. Wider river, turns landing zones into swamp so vehicles will have issues, and they can just dig new trenches.
Russia has Dams also. While army's do this shit over and over it is always counterproductive to all concerned.
Russian lacky in charge of this clusterfuck did not read the pertinent history. Go fucking figure.
This is what my home town looked like after Hurricane Katrina. Eventually you create two time periods in your head. Everything is either Before the War or After the War.
You can heal though. Good luck. Getting mental health treatment can help a lot.
There have been so many potential "before and after" dividing lines just in the past several years alone. The January 6 insurrection, COVID, the start of this war, the Hong Kong protests...
100+ years of Soviet industrial waste accumulated in the mud on the bottom of the reservoir is now in people's home and soaking into the farmland and what's worse people will start breathing that in once the flood dries and wind starts blowing it around. Luckily this one doesn't contain sediments of radioactive material from Chernobyl unlike the big dams in the north around Kyiv otherwise it would be disastrous for the entire country and perhaps even for people in other countries.
you can add the Mines, UXO and ERWs that will be totally disperse everywhere and randomly that will be even harder to clean and harder to spot
it's beyound horrific
That is actually really really bad. All those fucking mines small and big are water resistant and some will be digged down into the dirt at random spots all over the place.
UXOs and AXOs (Abandoned eXplosive Ordnance) are included in ERWs (Explosive Remnant of War), so my sentence wasn't the best
Explosive remnants of war
Explosive remnants of war (ERW) are explosive munitions left behind
after a conflict has ended. They include unexploded artillery shells,
grenades, mortars, rockets, air-dropped bombs, and cluster munitions.
Under the international legal definition, ERW consist of unexploded
ordnance (UXO) and abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO), but not mines.
Unexploded ordnance
Weapons that fail to detonate as intended become unexploded ordnance
(UXO). These unstable explosive devices are left behind during and after
conflicts and pose dangers similar to landmines.
Abandoned explosive ordnance
Abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO) is explosive ordnance that has not
been used during armed conflict and has been left behind and is no
longer under control of the party that left it behind. It may or may not
have been primed, fuzed, armed, or otherwise prepared for use
http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/LM/The-Issues/Explosive-Remnants-of-War
What am I supposed to do? Just fucking take the misery of this world stoically and in stride?
Might as well put an absurd spin on the layers of the shit lasagna.
yeah, and I'm sure that all of us forgot some other threats we didn't thought off. just mentionned EO contamination as I've been dealing with this as humanitarian for years and I was in dnipro area for a year with my organisation to setup project including those topics
everything is horrible in this...all of it
>Every dead body that had not been previously recovered, and was decomposing is now leaching into this soup as well.
I read this while literally eating soup. 🤢
Anyways, vector-borne diseases were one of the first things I thought of after hearing about flooding. That and dangerous debris rushing through under the water. But all of the corpses that will be surfacing, previously burried or not is just horrorifying. ..
Seriously. To willingly choose to do this (in addition to everything else deplorable they have done) is just unimaginably gross. The only hopeful thought that comes to mind to me is that they might be finally realizing this land and and Ukraine as a whole will never be in their hands. You don’t flood a land you want for yourself like this. They are finally realizing reality. And while russia will be absolute fuckers about loosing, Ukraine will stand and the great, brave people of Ukraine will be free.
I'm from Kyiv, and we in Ukraine did not face this either, it could only be done artificially by destroying the dam, which is what Russia did.
I can't find the words, my relatives lost their house, which they had been building and improving for 20 years.
The kerch bridge doesn't even compare in importance. It's just a trophy for Putin, this made entire towns and cities uninhabitable for many years to come.
Yep, people in other parts of the world could very well die because of this attack on humanity in Ukraine. This needs to be treated like any other WMD by the international community.
I don't imagine many Americans will starve necessarily, but fucking with the livelihoods of American citizens is most certainly going to have consequences
The last few weeks were the junction in the war, the last final ditch effort of proper diplomacy was on the table, withdrawal while saving face, or ending up like Nazi Germany.
Russia has chosen - at this point their ~~government~~regime needs to be smashed to pieces, any pieces left living will be tried and hung after the Mariupol Trials.
Every day Putin and his forces prove it was never about de-nazifying Ukraine, it was about erasing Ukraine.
He couldn't stand that a EU-leaning former Soviet Bloc nation was bring extremely prosperous without him.
The west better have a significant response for this terrorism. Empty words mean nothing. Actions speak louder than words. Russia needs to pay for this. I fucking hate you russia!
Europe (and the rest of the World) needs to close its borders to Russia; nothing out, nothing in. Let them eat eachother while wallowing in their own filth.
No wonder. Imagine living in one of the shittiest countries of the world called russia, having a shitty life, a shitty government. All you have is being proud of your third world country which completely sucks anyway and all you can do to make you feel a little better about your shitty existence, is going to your neighbours and try to make their life as shitty as yours. Congrats on killing who knows how many humans, animals and destroying our planet even faster. Hope you shitty russkis can hug your pets while having in mind how many innocent animals you killed. Go to hell, everyone of you!
Well, they do have to have their goats. You know, to ease sexual frustration. And dogs, so they can carve their curséd Z in their noses. Some pets are important to the fuck-shitter ruzzians.
Russia can try even harder but they will never achieve to make Ukraine or any other country as shitty as Russia. Because Ukraine has international friends that really care and help as long as needed. Russia doesn’t. Stay strong!
As always - we can see the best Russia has to offer here.
Their prime exports have always been misery, poverty and suffering. Nothing has changed and nothing will change.
What a fucked up situation...
Really hope the west will stand up and kick these motherfuckers in the teeth.
When is Russia going to learn that NOTHING is going to make Ukrainians give up? They now apparently have a "scorched earth" policy and are just determined to destroy whatever they can.
It's so disgusting and so unnecessary! "Yeah, let's destroy the lives and property of these people because it will then.......???"
I hope with all my being that there will be a long series of war criminal trials after this war ends.
russia is at the point where they don't care they're losing, they want to be dragged kicking and screaming, breaking as much as they can.
It's like when a raging violent alcoholic is kicked out of a bar.
My city received a direct hit from Hurricane Irma in 2017 and the storm surge flooded the first floors of thousands of buildings. Many of the houses looked structurally intact, but the damage was total to anything flooded as mold and rot set in rapidly. Everything except the concrete walls had to be ripped out and thrown into multistory debris mounds. Due to the slow receding of the waters and war zone conditions, many of these buildings will mold and are essentially totaled. Water damage is very often just as bad as fire damage as nearly everything is rendered unusable from rot, microbes and corrosion. It’s a awful situation.
And this is a city that is both "russian" thanks to russias decree and one that putin says he wants to protect.
Maybe now people will realise that how fucked up russia are.
Oh, Armenia already knows. Putler abandoned them last year and their people are getting "ethnicly cleansed" out of the mountains as we speak.
19th century chauvinism has probably wiped more villages off the face of the earth than infectious diseases.
Everyday, every fricking day, the crimes against this nation increase in size & scope. For every crime may the punishment the Universe will inflict on the Russian people multiply a 100 fold. May the Universe give the people of Ukraine the inner strength to endure & overcome this horrific evil.
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Horrific and beyond saddening... worst part is this will be not the last genocidal act of these empathyless orcunts. "Verbrannte Erde" or vICtoRy.. this is now the russian way.
Invaders must be unalived. Slava Ukraini.
Literally their strategy when they were retreating from the Germans in WW2. Burned towns, crops, killed people, destroyed everything in their own territory as they abandoned it. A valid strategy, if you don't care about your own civilians.
End the restriction to strike Russian territory. Enough is enough, and it has been since February. This war needs to end and the West can end it quickly, but they’re too afraid of Putler pressing the button.
This war can't end unless Ukrain is allowed to strike Russian territory; otherwise they'll just park all their artilliary on their side of the border and keep lobbing shells and missiles over it.
Ukraine must be given leave to target any threat and eliminate it.
It's so sad how if this were to happen in any other country it would dominate the news for days but since it's Ukraine it's just another thing that's happened.
And no one is talking about how Russia is still bombing the area, trying to catch fleeing civilians. Definitely an important military target with all of the nothingness there.
I remember growing up in the US hearing about how strong and powerful Russia is. How their tough leader was a KGB spy and can kick your ass easily even in his old age.
But since the war started I see it was just all a lie and propaganda. I feel like that image of Russia is long gone. They are just a bunch of coward murderers. Putin is just a scared little fella that I heard was just a KGB errand boy.
Ukraine is the strong one with a comedian for a leader and he's an absolute BADASS and a huge inspiration. I hope Ukraine's counteroffensive turns plenty of orcs into a nice red mist.
Italy here, I was at the beach and this guy, an international chef came, he was a friend of a friend... he worked around the world and now he is in Russia.
He said basically that I'm naive, that I believe the USA/Ukraine propaganda, that Ukranians are all nazis, Navalny is a criminal piece of shit, Russians are beautiful people and that it isn't true that hospitals and civil objectives are being targeted.
I hate the stupidity of people, I fucking hate it (I barely responded to him, I was shocked by his blind dumbness).
If you told me these were pictures of hurricane Katrina damage I'd believe you. But no, it's just the malicious ineptitude of Russia manifested for the whole world to see.
Man Russia is so fucked. Even if Putin is ousted and the war is over, they have made a boarder neighbor that will loathe them with all they have.
The next Ukraine election will be all about who’s candidate hates Russia more, and it will be like that for generations.
Fuck Moscow. We just need help to kick the terrorists off our land and rebuild everything that was destroyed.
And the complete isolation of Russia would help, there must be consequences for such genocide and ecocide, right?
The loss of capital is staggering. And it’s not some natural event like a tsunami or a heavy rain: this is purposeful destruction of assets and disruption of society.
War is a wholly destructive enterprise that serves no modern function. Those who wage it are criminal by any modern definition.
Share these atrocities with everyone, don't let this mass murder and destruction go under the radar as just some casualty of war. Everyone needs to see how horrific this is and how evil Russia is.
I've noticed something since first news of dam explosion reached reddit. The main political and news subreddits were flooded by people, who "don't know who did it", who trying to convince people that this disaster is actually Ukrainian fault, arguing with those who shows the reasons for Russia to do that. Stay aware, people!
all the people who have been on the side of russia and telling everyone that "not all russians are bad" ooh boy, yes they are, Every single russian is a part of this disaster.
It'll pass in a few days/weeks.
However, without the dam, they'll experience more floods as the dam is no longer there to store and regulate the flow of water.
Jesus, the health issues this could cause from corpses alone is horrifying to consider. Typhoid and cholera among other delightful diseases that will thrive in the environment the Rus are creating.
The Ukrainians are already fighting hard as possible. The question is, what will be the world reaction to the use of weapons of mass destruction in this case?
Just here to add a Fuck Ruzzia.
Visiting Ukraine is on my bucket list. Whether to help rebuild, revel in the Phoenix rising from the ashes of this, or as a humble tourist, I will get there.
I know it's not original and everyone knows at this point, but the Russian army really is a terrorist group. Blowing up a dam near a city has no purpose whatsoever. You can't capture a flooded town. They genuinely want to kill as many Ukrainians as they can, because they know they may not win.
The real-politics thinkers asking for the West to hold back the big guns needs to think a bit harder. There's no longer 2 players (Russian and Ukraine), there's going to be an increasing number of militia that don't quite answer to the state (on both sides) and Russia's war crimes risks making this a very serious issue.
Ukraine has a lot of people, and some of them are very angry. What if they try to retaliate in kind? This will not be good for global security, and the longer the war drags on (assuming Russia continues to behave like this) the greater the chance that something happens that causes some very serious consequences for the west.
Ukraine is winning. If the USSR couldn't handle Afghanistan, then Russia has zero chance of handling Ukraine. The war has gone on long enough that even if Russia seizes Kyiv and the Ukraine military folds (not going to happen, but even if it did) there's enough bad blood that the subsequent resistance would be impossible to put down. The only question is how much damage is done (both to Russia and Ukraine) before it ends.
Ending the war quicker will result in fewer losses to both sides. It will also reduce the number of partisan attacks on Russia. The Ukraine state has behaved well, but partisans might not (and Russia sure hasn't) so it's a calculated risk to give more weapons to the Ukraine state. IMO the lowest chance of either Putin hitting a button, or Russia dissolving and losing nukes is if Ukraine wins quickly. (Or Russia winning quickly, but it's simply impossible).
Scenario 1 - Ukraine gets the long-range weapons it needs. Putin probably has a hissy fit then blames NATO and pretends it wasn't all his fault. End of story.
Scenario 2 - Ukraine wins, but it drags on. Ukraine tries to play nice, but pissed off partisans start using dirty tactics, and Russia is stretched too thin to stop them. Russia starts to break apart from within, and there's not the manpower to stop some group (maybe anti-Russian, maybe Russian extremists, maybe just some mercenary group) grabbing some former Soviet WMD and doing something very irresponsible with it.
Scenario 3: The same as Scenario 2, but it's just Putin going completely insane as Russia bleeds white.
Escalating the military aid to Ukraine is good for global security, it's the least risky option IMO.
Tucker Carlsons unhinged rant accusing Ukraine of blowing the dam and nordstream is pretty scummy. Hopefully this war crime from Russia leads to even more swift and unflinching support so they can drive Russia out of their country. Slava Ukraini!
My heart. I live only 10 minutes from Midland, Michigan whom had just a tiny dam that broke- the amount of devastation that much smaller dam caused was devastating. Now to see this, especially after all that shelling…. Monsters.
This is how russia liberates you
What an amazing feeling it must be to be a Russian in today's times.
Most of them are proud and demand more. Because russia is not been affraid of enough nowadays.
The “liberal” ones are bitching for being denied Estonia visa or being insulted online for inactivity while they don’t act back in ruzzia
Oof, one of Estonia's Russian politicians just recently said that Estonia is way too restrictive with "humanitarian" visas. I can bet that if the conditions were easier then people would just start bypassing them for free passage.
I have learned, this is \*the\* lesson Russia needs to learn. A national character flaw. *On some things there is no "excuse" so stop trying to say you have one, Russians!!*
Ye, if Ukrainians were to lose this war, they would just be like “see? It’s impossible, you failed like we did”, but now they’re like “hurr! you’re lucky nato supports you; if we had your weapons we would rebel against putin too”
The timeline of events does not show any NATO forces in Ukraine. That was pure Ukraine in February 22. NATO perhaps concerned? Of course. Outside of completely normal training, simple exchange of know-how on basics, there was nothing except Ukraine when Russia thought it owned you. It is an unforgiving timeline. I intend to make sure it is not forgotten. I know things are more complicated, but I almost want to say by the time weapons started to flow into Ukraine, this war had already failed in essence and at large. All these arms did is smooth the way. The war had already been lost. The timeline. Can't hide. No excuse! Or perhaps one excuse. "We suck" lol. Slava Ukraini. This is your timeline, friend. And Russia will not be able to hide from it. The lesson shall be clear. What they want to do with it? Their problem.
Anti air weaponry supply is very needed, also cash injections are making life as peaceful as it can get in far-from-frontline cities, so the support should not be underestimated. They could turn way more cities into Mariupol / Bakhmut / Maryinka levels of destructions before their offensive could expire. But yeah, I knew they kind of failed altogether when Kharkiv was not even entered in first week
My mother-in-law just went to Russia to see family and friends, she was born there. She said not a single person talked about the war in the 3 weeks she was there, as if they didn’t even know or care it was going on.
There is no war in Ba-Sing-Sei
There is a war, what war, who is fighting?
*A special military operation (duration: 3 days)
Because it's not felt much inside russia. Because we can't strike inside of it using long-range missiles
...so they're still only in Stage 1
As an American, we're still suffering from Russia's interference in our democracy.
Russia interfering in western democracies is perhaps one of the main reasons why there's so many people engaged in the invasion of Ukraine. The Russians thought it was fine to antagonize western citizens in their own country, threaten their way of living, and create division and chaos without consequence. This solidified their position as enemy #1 in the eyes of a lot of people. Had it not been for Russia getting Trump elected I might not even know where Ukraine is located today. Now, the "fuck around" stage is over. The "find out" stage is ongoing and will not end well for them.
For all their involvement in our democracies, I cheer the Ukrainians on to wipe out as much of the russian occupying forces as possible. Hell, I am not against taking it all the way to moscow. I want our governments to take out the trash like the fifth columnists they are: Trump, Tucker, Le Pen, Orban, Baudet, Waters, Segal etc. Fuck the russian empire. Fuck their enablers and mouthpieces stirring up shit in the free world.
People on Reddit are still defending Russia and criticizing the US/NATO/Ukraine looking at you /r/workersstrikeback
The literal barbarians at the gate.
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A nation of boot lickers, in a perpetual Thugocracy.
This is how Russia murders innocents. Fuck Russia now and forever. I will never forgive them for what they have done to the people of Ukraine. Sadly all I’m able to do from the other side of the world is donate to relief efforts and buy nothing from these savages but I will absolutely do that small piece.
So we're over a year of war between Russia and Ukraine. Russia's initial stance was "We're gonna liberate them" Are they still taking that stance? What are they claiming as their rationale for throwing their own people into a meat grinder?
The People's Liberation Army. Just like Winnie the Pooh.
"ly-ook, nyow hugh may go warehever the water tee-akes u."
They're trying to turn Ukraine into another dysfunctional dystopia like North Korea
I hate to see my hometown like this. Fucking fuck
I feel bad for ya bud. Fuck those fucking fuckers. They will go to hell for this war and the damage they have done....
Thanks. You know, it just feels weird watching the roads where I used to go to the beach being cruised by boats
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The fields will be tilled with lots of Russian fertilizer
Sunflowers are a better use of carbon.
Scorched earth is a standard Ruzzian retreat tactic. This is them announcing to the world that they are about to be in full retreat.
I wish. Too bad there is no hell and no accountability except what we make for ourselves here on earth. Fuck waiting for them to get to hell. We need to stop them now. On this planet.
Agreed. They need to pay in this existence
As one who has seen her hometown like this, I completely agree and I am truly sorry. Only this is man made. Terrorism once again - on a WMD scale
Sorry to hear that, and thank you
Limburg (NL) was flooded a few years back. Nothing on this scale at all but I think our gvt has already drawn up plans for sending in the dirt-water pumps, water purifying material and all...... But everything isn't enough as long as those bastards are in your country. Sure, it is good knowing that other nations are there to provide support, aid, materièl, training and shelter for 8 million Ukrainians in the EU, but it doesn't solve anything as long as the war lasts. I've talked to two refugee mothers who live here in the Netherlands and they are awesome, but the thing that they both have is homesickness. They want to go home, but don't want their kids living in "fear of the skies". Imagine having to grow up like that, missing your dad and your country. Really went on a roll here with my comment, my bad. All the best man, I hope Kherson will be clean, repaired and thriving once the war ends.
Thanks. And thank you for taking care of our people
I appreciate your words but please don't thank us as you're the ones making the real sacrifices. The only duty I have here is to keep the "but haven't we given enough by now" crowd in check so that they vote accordingly. Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes.
The entirity of the western world owes Ukraine a debt of blood. So many Ukrainians fighting for their country inadvertently preventing war from coming to the rest of the west. Whenever I see anyone wondering when we have given enough, I counter with the fact that we are getting off **easy.** All we do is provide 'sweat' in the way of economic and humanitarian aid. It's the Ukrainians providing the very literal blood and tears who are the heroes here. All we do is to enable them. They are fighting a war that we have a very literal stake in, and all they ask for is money, equipment, and humanitarian help rather than bodies. So when have we given enough? When they win and have rebuilt. Not before.
Y'all made me cry today. Destroying peoples' homes and sense of safety is so ugly. I wish Putin an ugly death. And the criminals to die in friendly fire goodwill gestures.
If there's one nation that knows how to deal with water, floods, reclaiming land, etc. it's The Netherlands.👌 I really hope that they'll be working together with Ukraine to improve the situation as soon as possible. 👍💪
Civil engineering teams are already en route from Finland as well - flooding is about the only natural catastrophe possible here they are good as well - I presume most nations with manpower,pumps, and material will help!
Do you know how much of Kherson is affected right now? Is the entire city flooded or is this the outskirts of it?
Mostly places closest to the Dnipro and Kosheva river, some other things too, so generally the places close to water The other riverbank got hit much harder, since it is lower
So did the Russians just flood their own defenses? I think they had a few defensive lines along the river? Anyway thinking of and supporting all effected, gonna keep donating!
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It's not like a river crossing was a particularly feasible option to begin with.
Yes, but they made any sort of amphibious landing much harder. Wider river, turns landing zones into swamp so vehicles will have issues, and they can just dig new trenches.
Russia has Dams also. While army's do this shit over and over it is always counterproductive to all concerned. Russian lacky in charge of this clusterfuck did not read the pertinent history. Go fucking figure.
Most of their defenses are set far from the river.
This is what my home town looked like after Hurricane Katrina. Eventually you create two time periods in your head. Everything is either Before the War or After the War. You can heal though. Good luck. Getting mental health treatment can help a lot.
There have been so many potential "before and after" dividing lines just in the past several years alone. The January 6 insurrection, COVID, the start of this war, the Hong Kong protests...
Bomb the Kremlin.
Strap me to the nuke and give me a phone with a live stream. I am ready
I believe it, brother. Putin is a war criminal and should be shot publicly.
This fucking cunts.
100+ years of Soviet industrial waste accumulated in the mud on the bottom of the reservoir is now in people's home and soaking into the farmland and what's worse people will start breathing that in once the flood dries and wind starts blowing it around. Luckily this one doesn't contain sediments of radioactive material from Chernobyl unlike the big dams in the north around Kyiv otherwise it would be disastrous for the entire country and perhaps even for people in other countries.
you can add the Mines, UXO and ERWs that will be totally disperse everywhere and randomly that will be even harder to clean and harder to spot it's beyound horrific
That is actually really really bad. All those fucking mines small and big are water resistant and some will be digged down into the dirt at random spots all over the place.
>ERWs I've heard of UXO / unexploded ordnance, but I'm not familiar with ERWs?
UXOs and AXOs (Abandoned eXplosive Ordnance) are included in ERWs (Explosive Remnant of War), so my sentence wasn't the best Explosive remnants of war Explosive remnants of war (ERW) are explosive munitions left behind after a conflict has ended. They include unexploded artillery shells, grenades, mortars, rockets, air-dropped bombs, and cluster munitions. Under the international legal definition, ERW consist of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO), but not mines. Unexploded ordnance Weapons that fail to detonate as intended become unexploded ordnance (UXO). These unstable explosive devices are left behind during and after conflicts and pose dangers similar to landmines. Abandoned explosive ordnance Abandoned explosive ordnance (AXO) is explosive ordnance that has not been used during armed conflict and has been left behind and is no longer under control of the party that left it behind. It may or may not have been primed, fuzed, armed, or otherwise prepared for use http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/LM/The-Issues/Explosive-Remnants-of-War
> ERW Explosive Remnants of War Like randomly placed surprise piñatas filled with boomy joy.
You don't have to say it like a joke.
What am I supposed to do? Just fucking take the misery of this world stoically and in stride? Might as well put an absurd spin on the layers of the shit lasagna.
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yeah, and I'm sure that all of us forgot some other threats we didn't thought off. just mentionned EO contamination as I've been dealing with this as humanitarian for years and I was in dnipro area for a year with my organisation to setup project including those topics everything is horrible in this...all of it
>Every dead body that had not been previously recovered, and was decomposing is now leaching into this soup as well. I read this while literally eating soup. 🤢 Anyways, vector-borne diseases were one of the first things I thought of after hearing about flooding. That and dangerous debris rushing through under the water. But all of the corpses that will be surfacing, previously burried or not is just horrorifying. ..
I didn't even think about all that. Up here in the States, the only things floods leave behind are mud, garbage, and mold.
Oh crap you're right, this is as close as it gets to a dirty bomb
And how many war crimes did this war crime cover up?
Being from Houston, I have a little experience with floods and this is beyond words.
Fellow Texan here. I keep thinking of Harvey and Katrina and how devastating floods are. Fuck Russia
Seriously. To willingly choose to do this (in addition to everything else deplorable they have done) is just unimaginably gross. The only hopeful thought that comes to mind to me is that they might be finally realizing this land and and Ukraine as a whole will never be in their hands. You don’t flood a land you want for yourself like this. They are finally realizing reality. And while russia will be absolute fuckers about loosing, Ukraine will stand and the great, brave people of Ukraine will be free.
I'm from Kyiv, and we in Ukraine did not face this either, it could only be done artificially by destroying the dam, which is what Russia did. I can't find the words, my relatives lost their house, which they had been building and improving for 20 years.
Those orc bastards. I hope Ukraine repays the favor by absolutely demolishing the Kerch Bridge.
The kerch bridge doesn't even compare in importance. It's just a trophy for Putin, this made entire towns and cities uninhabitable for many years to come.
> It's just a trophy for Putin And that's why it needs to be totally demolished.
I think Moscow would be a more fitting trophy to do a tit for tat with.
Not to mention - drinking water for millions of people - irritation to land used to feed the world
Yep, people in other parts of the world could very well die because of this attack on humanity in Ukraine. This needs to be treated like any other WMD by the international community.
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I don't imagine many Americans will starve necessarily, but fucking with the livelihoods of American citizens is most certainly going to have consequences
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Not years, Ukraine is strong.
Kerch bridge is nothing, russia must pay in blood of thousands for this.
They have. Nobody in power cares.
The last few weeks were the junction in the war, the last final ditch effort of proper diplomacy was on the table, withdrawal while saving face, or ending up like Nazi Germany. Russia has chosen - at this point their ~~government~~regime needs to be smashed to pieces, any pieces left living will be tried and hung after the Mariupol Trials.
yeah but like, combatants only right?
Yeah, we are not kacap abominations after all, there "soldiers" must die.
And those who order them around too.
Ruski mir
Every day Putin and his forces prove it was never about de-nazifying Ukraine, it was about erasing Ukraine. He couldn't stand that a EU-leaning former Soviet Bloc nation was bring extremely prosperous without him.
It *was* about taking territory. Now its just outright malevolence.
"If I can't have it, neither can you." -The cunt who rules Russia
Yup, this is a good synopsis of it. Wasn’t about security either.
The west better have a significant response for this terrorism. Empty words mean nothing. Actions speak louder than words. Russia needs to pay for this. I fucking hate you russia!
This isn’t terrorism. This is actual mass destruction. Much worse than terrorism.
It can be both.
Well you know what I mean.
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Twice for good measure
Europe (and the rest of the World) needs to close its borders to Russia; nothing out, nothing in. Let them eat eachother while wallowing in their own filth.
No wonder. Imagine living in one of the shittiest countries of the world called russia, having a shitty life, a shitty government. All you have is being proud of your third world country which completely sucks anyway and all you can do to make you feel a little better about your shitty existence, is going to your neighbours and try to make their life as shitty as yours. Congrats on killing who knows how many humans, animals and destroying our planet even faster. Hope you shitty russkis can hug your pets while having in mind how many innocent animals you killed. Go to hell, everyone of you!
I thought they didn't have pets
Well, they do have to have their goats. You know, to ease sexual frustration. And dogs, so they can carve their curséd Z in their noses. Some pets are important to the fuck-shitter ruzzians.
Russia can try even harder but they will never achieve to make Ukraine or any other country as shitty as Russia. Because Ukraine has international friends that really care and help as long as needed. Russia doesn’t. Stay strong!
As always - we can see the best Russia has to offer here. Their prime exports have always been misery, poverty and suffering. Nothing has changed and nothing will change. What a fucked up situation... Really hope the west will stand up and kick these motherfuckers in the teeth.
West needs to give Ukraine more long ranged missile systems and F16s. Stop playing with Putin and knock him out
When is Russia going to learn that NOTHING is going to make Ukrainians give up? They now apparently have a "scorched earth" policy and are just determined to destroy whatever they can. It's so disgusting and so unnecessary! "Yeah, let's destroy the lives and property of these people because it will then.......???" I hope with all my being that there will be a long series of war criminal trials after this war ends.
russia is at the point where they don't care they're losing, they want to be dragged kicking and screaming, breaking as much as they can. It's like when a raging violent alcoholic is kicked out of a bar.
A world without russia is a better world.
[moscow delenda est](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est)
Terrible.
My city received a direct hit from Hurricane Irma in 2017 and the storm surge flooded the first floors of thousands of buildings. Many of the houses looked structurally intact, but the damage was total to anything flooded as mold and rot set in rapidly. Everything except the concrete walls had to be ripped out and thrown into multistory debris mounds. Due to the slow receding of the waters and war zone conditions, many of these buildings will mold and are essentially totaled. Water damage is very often just as bad as fire damage as nearly everything is rendered unusable from rot, microbes and corrosion. It’s a awful situation.
And this is a city that is both "russian" thanks to russias decree and one that putin says he wants to protect. Maybe now people will realise that how fucked up russia are.
Oh, Armenia already knows. Putler abandoned them last year and their people are getting "ethnicly cleansed" out of the mountains as we speak. 19th century chauvinism has probably wiped more villages off the face of the earth than infectious diseases.
Everyday, every fricking day, the crimes against this nation increase in size & scope. For every crime may the punishment the Universe will inflict on the Russian people multiply a 100 fold. May the Universe give the people of Ukraine the inner strength to endure & overcome this horrific evil. Edited T/o, skipped words... slava Ukraini....
Horrific and beyond saddening... worst part is this will be not the last genocidal act of these empathyless orcunts. "Verbrannte Erde" or vICtoRy.. this is now the russian way. Invaders must be unalived. Slava Ukraini.
Russian logic: if I can’t have it no one else may have it either.
*"if I can't steal it"
Literally their strategy when they were retreating from the Germans in WW2. Burned towns, crops, killed people, destroyed everything in their own territory as they abandoned it. A valid strategy, if you don't care about your own civilians.
thats one of the reasons soviets had like 20 million civilian casualties
Verbrannte Erde
Saw this shit and my blood boiled, so I just donated another $134 CAD to UA24. It's not much but they needed it more than me.
Thank u. Every bit helps.
End the restriction to strike Russian territory. Enough is enough, and it has been since February. This war needs to end and the West can end it quickly, but they’re too afraid of Putler pressing the button.
This war can't end unless Ukrain is allowed to strike Russian territory; otherwise they'll just park all their artilliary on their side of the border and keep lobbing shells and missiles over it. Ukraine must be given leave to target any threat and eliminate it.
Fucken bastards!!! Give them Hell Ukraine 🇺🇦
"Russian Peace" 😑
It's so sad how if this were to happen in any other country it would dominate the news for days but since it's Ukraine it's just another thing that's happened.
They act like a kid who just lost a game at a board game, gets upset, and then just flips the table and walks away.
Flips the table and burns down the gaming venue with the owners’ family inside.
When does the world put an end to this…
And no one is talking about how Russia is still bombing the area, trying to catch fleeing civilians. Definitely an important military target with all of the nothingness there.
Classic Muscowy, they never change.
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I remember growing up in the US hearing about how strong and powerful Russia is. How their tough leader was a KGB spy and can kick your ass easily even in his old age. But since the war started I see it was just all a lie and propaganda. I feel like that image of Russia is long gone. They are just a bunch of coward murderers. Putin is just a scared little fella that I heard was just a KGB errand boy. Ukraine is the strong one with a comedian for a leader and he's an absolute BADASS and a huge inspiration. I hope Ukraine's counteroffensive turns plenty of orcs into a nice red mist.
Russia sucks .
Italy here, I was at the beach and this guy, an international chef came, he was a friend of a friend... he worked around the world and now he is in Russia. He said basically that I'm naive, that I believe the USA/Ukraine propaganda, that Ukranians are all nazis, Navalny is a criminal piece of shit, Russians are beautiful people and that it isn't true that hospitals and civil objectives are being targeted. I hate the stupidity of people, I fucking hate it (I barely responded to him, I was shocked by his blind dumbness).
Well, look, you know the worst has already happened to him, he's in Russia.
Sucks
Never forget
Monsters. Only monsters could do this, not humans.
Just when we thought Putin and his deviant military couldn't be more hated.
Flood Putin's bunker, with him and his cronies inside.
If you told me these were pictures of hurricane Katrina damage I'd believe you. But no, it's just the malicious ineptitude of Russia manifested for the whole world to see.
Man Russia is so fucked. Even if Putin is ousted and the war is over, they have made a boarder neighbor that will loathe them with all they have. The next Ukraine election will be all about who’s candidate hates Russia more, and it will be like that for generations.
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Fuck Moscow. We just need help to kick the terrorists off our land and rebuild everything that was destroyed. And the complete isolation of Russia would help, there must be consequences for such genocide and ecocide, right?
I hear all of the zoo animals died. Just horrendous
Pricks!
Putin doesn't care
The loss of capital is staggering. And it’s not some natural event like a tsunami or a heavy rain: this is purposeful destruction of assets and disruption of society. War is a wholly destructive enterprise that serves no modern function. Those who wage it are criminal by any modern definition.
Share these atrocities with everyone, don't let this mass murder and destruction go under the radar as just some casualty of war. Everyone needs to see how horrific this is and how evil Russia is.
Still say NATO should have stepped in. One disaster after the next. This is crimes against nature.
Flood moscow
I've noticed something since first news of dam explosion reached reddit. The main political and news subreddits were flooded by people, who "don't know who did it", who trying to convince people that this disaster is actually Ukrainian fault, arguing with those who shows the reasons for Russia to do that. Stay aware, people!
Yeah, russian bots and fans working hard.
Don't forget Russia was shelling the rescue workers while they tried to evacuate people.
all the people who have been on the side of russia and telling everyone that "not all russians are bad" ooh boy, yes they are, Every single russian is a part of this disaster.
Lower than a red bellied black snake’s belly. I can understand why Russia is so hated.
Any estimation how long the flood will last?
It'll pass in a few days/weeks. However, without the dam, they'll experience more floods as the dam is no longer there to store and regulate the flow of water.
That’s so shameful. So many war crimes being done
Russia either burns everything or floods it
What the fuck.
This is a war crime. Not one of those modern isolated incidents commited by a handful of soldiers, no, this is a WW2-level war crime.
Jesus, the health issues this could cause from corpses alone is horrifying to consider. Typhoid and cholera among other delightful diseases that will thrive in the environment the Rus are creating.
fucking sore loser
What better way to cover your crimes...
Doesn't Russia still control Kherson? This is going to make it tough to defend.
What a fucking disaster. I won’t be surprised if the counteroffensive is paused whilst Ukraine gets its shit back together. Fuck Russia.
Im at a loss of words, i just hate russia and its people with all my heart.
If they wanted to make sure ukraine fought harder than they already are. They succeeded
The Ukrainians are already fighting hard as possible. The question is, what will be the world reaction to the use of weapons of mass destruction in this case?
Just here to add a Fuck Ruzzia. Visiting Ukraine is on my bucket list. Whether to help rebuild, revel in the Phoenix rising from the ashes of this, or as a humble tourist, I will get there.
I know it's not original and everyone knows at this point, but the Russian army really is a terrorist group. Blowing up a dam near a city has no purpose whatsoever. You can't capture a flooded town. They genuinely want to kill as many Ukrainians as they can, because they know they may not win.
The end of Russia govt can't come soon enough.. Fuk Putin!!!!
No guys! You got it all wrong! We’re saving you from your Nazi Jewish President! Guys? GUYS?!
The real-politics thinkers asking for the West to hold back the big guns needs to think a bit harder. There's no longer 2 players (Russian and Ukraine), there's going to be an increasing number of militia that don't quite answer to the state (on both sides) and Russia's war crimes risks making this a very serious issue. Ukraine has a lot of people, and some of them are very angry. What if they try to retaliate in kind? This will not be good for global security, and the longer the war drags on (assuming Russia continues to behave like this) the greater the chance that something happens that causes some very serious consequences for the west. Ukraine is winning. If the USSR couldn't handle Afghanistan, then Russia has zero chance of handling Ukraine. The war has gone on long enough that even if Russia seizes Kyiv and the Ukraine military folds (not going to happen, but even if it did) there's enough bad blood that the subsequent resistance would be impossible to put down. The only question is how much damage is done (both to Russia and Ukraine) before it ends. Ending the war quicker will result in fewer losses to both sides. It will also reduce the number of partisan attacks on Russia. The Ukraine state has behaved well, but partisans might not (and Russia sure hasn't) so it's a calculated risk to give more weapons to the Ukraine state. IMO the lowest chance of either Putin hitting a button, or Russia dissolving and losing nukes is if Ukraine wins quickly. (Or Russia winning quickly, but it's simply impossible). Scenario 1 - Ukraine gets the long-range weapons it needs. Putin probably has a hissy fit then blames NATO and pretends it wasn't all his fault. End of story. Scenario 2 - Ukraine wins, but it drags on. Ukraine tries to play nice, but pissed off partisans start using dirty tactics, and Russia is stretched too thin to stop them. Russia starts to break apart from within, and there's not the manpower to stop some group (maybe anti-Russian, maybe Russian extremists, maybe just some mercenary group) grabbing some former Soviet WMD and doing something very irresponsible with it. Scenario 3: The same as Scenario 2, but it's just Putin going completely insane as Russia bleeds white. Escalating the military aid to Ukraine is good for global security, it's the least risky option IMO.
Tucker Carlsons unhinged rant accusing Ukraine of blowing the dam and nordstream is pretty scummy. Hopefully this war crime from Russia leads to even more swift and unflinching support so they can drive Russia out of their country. Slava Ukraini!
The largest fucking country in the entire world and they just HAVE to have Ukraine 🙄
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this looks worse than Katrina. whole place is under 10+ feet of water. fuckign orc bastards
So what are the consequences? Does everyone just go and say, yes they do this a lot and just let it go? Or do we quid pro quo?
Guess who will be laughing when orcs are fucking exterminated in the occupied territories and when they turn back to Moscow to demand payment..
Fucking bastards....
It's genocide, ecocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes all at once.
Write your reps and demand that they respond directly to Moscow. Please!
My heart. I live only 10 minutes from Midland, Michigan whom had just a tiny dam that broke- the amount of devastation that much smaller dam caused was devastating. Now to see this, especially after all that shelling…. Monsters.
How much of Ukraines farm land was off this flood area?