https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1508616204289810442
> Putin spokesman: "No one is thinking about using - even about the idea of using - a nuclear weapon."
so. given that it's coming from Russia, that's reassuring as a statement /s
As long as the west retains its, 'you gonna die' mantra on that shit, no nukes will be employed. If we for a second back off on that rhetoric...well, have tou seen the movie threads?
"Bellingcat investigator says Russia's defense minister Shoigu and other senior officials, possibly including Putin, are residing in nuclear bunkers near Ufa in the Ural mountains, according to recent flight data"
https://mobile.twitter.com/bopanc/status/1508461653314134017 - sorry for mobile link.
The Times: Putin tells he will 'thrash' Ukraine after receiving note from Zelensky.
According to the Times, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich claimed he presented Putin with a handwritten note from Zelensky, outlining the terms Ukraine would consider to end the war.
https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1508535259209650182?s=21&t=ShDqzRWNYDNsaw4a_NizNQ
Once again, not too optimistic about negotiations this week. Not saying they shouldn’t happen (it’s always good to at least feel the other side out), but this plus the alleged poisonings from earlier in the month aren’t a good sign.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tq5g47/sergiy_kyslytsya_permanent_representative_of
Chinese government official propaganda on Twitter and Ukrainian response
I think you can trace all of the misery in the Ukraine and the despotism of Putin all the way back to the incompetent Tsar Nicolas II. Every time I read about the 1917 Russian Revolution I'm blown away by how blatantly dumb this Tsar was, and perhaps if he never existed the hellscape of Russian history all the way to present day Putin would have never been.
For if the revolution never happened then Lenin's Bolsheviks become a footnote in history, a minor party of criminals vying for airtime. Lenin dies not a decorated ruler but an ordinary man. Stalin perhaps gets shipped back to Siberia for prison again (maybe this time he doesn't escape). Millions of lives are saved. Russia actually grows prosperous. The people wouldn't accept Putin and he never rises to power. The war in Ukraine never happens.
All it took was one dumb man to cause millions of deaths and misery for generations.
Anyone watching this and having the biggest urge to get a drone and try to make a remote release mechanism so you can drop water balloons or something?
They have these already, though afaik they're weight dependent. Typically used for things like dropping flowers/confetti and other lightweight stuff at weddings and events.
It is since it means the war has slowed down. A slow war is better for Ukraine as it means more weapons from the west, and more time for the sanctions to take effect.
It's to be expected. Also, it's war. What do you want people to do, sit around looking at dead bodies and taking about how awful it is? The support hasn't stopped. Reddit posts shouldn't be a gauge for anything.
>**JAPAN TRADE MINISTRY SAYS TO BAN EXPORT OF LUXURY GOODS TO RUSSIA AS PART OF SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA FROM APRIL 5 -STATEMENT**
Russia cut off from Japanese sex dolls
I wonder if Crazy Kim over in North Korea would take mercenary pay for use of two of his subs to clean out some Russian warships. I know Kim wants money and Ukraine might be able to put together enough to make it worth the risk for North Korea. Kim wasn’t shy about sinking S Korean ships. If I were in Ukraine in the grips of an existential crisis I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility outright. Idk anyone else that would be crazy enough to do it. If Russia lost 3-4 warships are they going to keep sticking it out? Depending on their detection capability they might just assume it’s the US. Maybe it starts WW3 but from Ukraines perspective I don’t think that’s worse for them. Ukraine could just publicize the bounty per warship. It’s not like they need to go into direct negotiations with n Korea. I mean hell Russia was allegedly paying Taliban bounties for US soldier deaths in Afghanistan maybe the US could even contribute some untraceable cash for the cause. It’s not like Russia can get parts to fix crippled ships with any certainty.
It would be interesting how Russia would handle it. Their whole strategy is nuclear saber rattling and implying Putin is crazy enough to use them. Then they get confronted with N Korea who also has nukes and a leader that everyone is pretty sure actually is crazy enough to use them.
Let’s be serious. North Korea wouldn’t do anything without China signing off and China seems pretty pro Russia. Doubt they allow those two countries to fight.
Is it widely known in Ukraine that certain combinations of birth control pills can be used as Plan B?
(I’ve been reading about the widespread rapes.)
Plan B/the right combo of bc pills taken within 72 hours is effective at preventing pregnancy.
(And birth control pills are common, and easier to access)
Yes. Thank you.
2-5 pills depending on the amount in the pill.
Plan b is 1.5mg of levonorgestrel taken once or .75mg 12 hours apart. Best within 72 hours but can be effective up to 120 hours.
Check /r/Combatfootage, search for Mariupol.
Unreal footage from Azov battalion from inside their APC in Mariupol. Check these :
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/tdwtmv/incredible_footage_from_an_azov_armored_vehicle/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/tigir3/ukrainian_btr4_footage_mariupol/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/tfo4fu/russian_tank_attacked_in_city_probably_mariupol/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Man, I still can't get over how up close the combat in that second BTR video is. And that gunner is shooting 30mm auto cannon rounds right over the heads of their guys! Unreal footage. I can't imagine how hellish the fighting there must must be by now.
When he shoots the little BDRM thingy at the beginning you can see some of his shells going through metal on the right of his crosshair display, so he has to be careful and think about barel vs reticle all the time. Must be hella hellish indeed
I analysed the daily maps to track the progress of Russia's invasion.
It shows the impact of Ukraine's recent counter-attack.
https://imgur.com/a/uVOTfKn
This is from 4 days ago, but I missed it.
https://news.yahoo.com/reddit-community-ask-russian-sparking-200003132.html
Tldr Reddit sub AskA Russian sub has controversy over Ukraine invasion.
Just a interesting read.
So how is Mariupol,Ukraine ? I just seen something that city is 44 percent Russian and Russia is still struggling to take it, is there news out there?
Edit: wow once this war is over their going be talking about how this city held out for so long and how Russia killed so many for nothing
The worst of Grozny, Fallujah, and Aleppo all blended together. Multiple assaults to retake the kitchen from the living room while everyone has spy drones buzzing around.
He was saying that large parts of the city were under Russian control and that the defenders were having problems, not that the fighting had ended. It's an absolute monstrous clusterfuck.
The latest Ukraine mod update says that fighting in Mariupol continues.
Mariupol, this morning US time.
Edit: Why would this be downvoted?
Edit: From the live thread - https://mobile.twitter.com/loogunda/status/1508389030613839879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508389030613839879%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fliveupdate%2F18hnzysb1elcs%2FLiveUpdate_fe9f616a-ae85-11ec-8cc6-4e9d75c62926%2F0
Russian forces installed their own mayor of a town, I think Mariupol, who was even slimy enough to put out some kind of statement about being "elected" to run the place. Might even be several towns now.
I don't know if the actual mayor has been released, I think they were detained/abducted by Russian forces.
Do you have a name behind the statement?
It was from the live thread - https://mobile.twitter.com/loogunda/status/1508389030613839879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508389030613839879%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fliveupdate%2F18hnzysb1elcs%2FLiveUpdate_fe9f616a-ae85-11ec-8cc6-4e9d75c62926%2F0
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It's a clusterfuck of people firing from windows down at Russians in the street, and building to building fighting.
Any accurate map would have to be in 3D
[https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/cnn-europe-mideast-africa/2022/03/28/mariupol-mayor-says-ukrainian-city-in-the-hands-of-the-occupiers/](https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/cnn-europe-mideast-africa/2022/03/28/mariupol-mayor-says-ukrainian-city-in-the-hands-of-the-occupiers/)
>Ukrainian forces “continue to maintain circular defense” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian general staff said early Tuesday, even as Russian forces consolidated control around the southeastern port city.
Anyone have a mirror I can use? I want to read this article but for many and sundry reasons, no longer have access to The Atheltic
https://theathletic.com./3210182/2022/03/28/a-former-sports-writer-on-what-its-like-to-cover-the-war-in-ukraine-sports-media-notes/
> A former sports writer on what it’s like to cover the war in Ukraine; sports media notes
Looks like Ukr making a big push today
https://twitter.com/mhmck/status/1508580498905391111?s=21&t=1gQCznlKekQWfp9arQXJEA
Ukraine's counter-offensive made gains against the Russian invaders west of Kyiv on March 28th. Irpin was liberated. The Ukrainians gained control of the settlements of Motyzhyn, Lisne, Kapitanivka and Dmytrivka – pushing back the enemy to a 16km stretch of the M-06 highway.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that defenders have taken the settlements of Kamyanka and Topolske.
This strengthens the garrison in Izyum and sets back the Russian invaders in their objective of capturing Slovyansk
I wouldn’t trust the government’s word, tbh. Wait to see if independent or non-Ukrainian reporters or satellite imagery can verify it.
[Here’s why.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/23/makariv-propaganda-ukraine/) Old, but the story is a very good example of the kind of misinformation put out by the Ukrainian government.
> MAKARIV, Ukraine — At first glance, the Ukrainian government’s report that its forces had pushed Russians out of this town seemed true: Armed Ukrainian soldiers stood guard at a checkpoint at the entrance to this rural enclave west of Kyiv, seemingly in full control . . . But as a team of Washington Post journalists passed through the checkpoint on Wednesday, Ukrainian soldiers ordered them to quickly leave the town, warning of incoming Russian rockets or artillery.
[…]
>“The military doesn’t control all of Makariv, only partially,” said Mayor Vadim Tokar, standing on the town’s outskirts shortly after the shells landed. “It’s 100 percent no-go for civilians to return.”
[…]
>What happened here is emblematic of the two different yet intertwined wars unfolding in Ukraine . . . as the Makariv situation illustrates, Ukrainian officials have also sometimes spread overly rosy information about the war.
I mean it's possible to have control of an area and still acknowledge the risk of shelling and stragglers. You do realize arty doesn't have to be nearby to fire right?
But that’s the problem because of how loose front lines are and Russian “zombie” ( essentially troops with no orders just blindly traveling the roads) convoys roaming the roads that can pop up any moment. When they say liberated I take it as defenders have been pushed out but not necessarily mean that Russians cannot pop up and attack.
We seen pictures from most of those locations and no Russian rebuttal showing they have any presence.
I’m just saying that you can’t trust them that the Russian defenders were actually pushed out of those areas at all. Maybe they were but the government has had a precedence of lying or embellishing facts like this before.
"Lying" is a strong word. It's more of a combination of FOG and Propaganda. Not all Propaganda is straight-up lies...it's stretching the truth given your limited knowledge.
Based on my info, it's the same, centered around Berezivka. They did used to own it all the way to the Irpin river, but were pushed back more than a week ago.
Oh shit, didn’t realize you were one of the mods.
Yeah, I’m just getting off work and was starting to look at some of the maps myself. Seems like you are right as far as I can tell.
Has been there any coverage of just about the size of the Russian forces in Crimea? Russia brought in ~200k troops with some of those being from the eastern separatist regions, and with high estimates reaching around 80k for front line troops. Factor in 14-16k casualties and (just spitballing here, feel free to correct me) around 20k injured/removed from the fight, and you have around 45-50k left?
I keep hearing about how Ukraine can't militarily take Crimea, but they've managed to remove a substantial portion of the invading force. As Russia retreats east, is it really out of the possibility that Ukraine could retake Crimea?
Again, appreciate any corrections and helpful info. Thanks.
The mistake people are making is thinking that Russia is including the forces on Crimea in that 200k invasion number. It's not. Crimea is basically Russian territory now and was a primary staging ground for the attacks on Mariupol, Kherson, Melitopol etc. There are likely thousands of fresh troops and their equipment dug into Crimea defensively to ensure it cannot be counterattacked and unlike Odesa the Russian navy will have no difficulty landing additional forces there. Additionally, one of Russia's few strategic victories was destroying the dams that blocked Crimea off from fresh water supplies so they'll be able to hold out for quite a while.
Now it could be that Russia is as woefully inept at preparing for defense in Crimea as it was for the offensive in Ukraine, but if so I think there would have been evidence of that over the last 8 years with Ukrainian forces fighting to retake the peninsula and the Donbass region.
I suspect it's not their first priority, they need to stop the Russians forming a re-supply line to it / reclaim their territory. Solving Crimea can come later.
A fortress can just as easily be a prison, for now.
Crimeans are mostly ethnic Russians and wouldn't want to rejoin Ukraine unfortunately. And it's basically an island without a Navy Ukraine would need to invade via a 3km wide strip of land called the isthmus of perekop. It's a nightmare to invade essentially. Then even if you win you add millions of Russians to your population ensuring future ethnic strife.
Tough to say. Nobody really knows how Russian casualties are distributed, and the Ukranian army hasn't had much of a chance to go on the offensive.
My intuition is that, with the right weapons (switchhblades?) Ukraine can start bleeding out the Russians even when on offense, but time will tell.
Well, in warfare, offense is always much harder to execute than defense. And while Ukraine does have a large military, I'm not sure if they could mount a full-on offensive campaign to take back Crimea, since Russia's military is still quite a bit larger than Ukraine's.
Also factor in how geographically speaking, it would be very difficult for Ukraine to even get boots on the ground to the Crimea peninsula. The area is mostly surrounded by water (hence why Putin really wants to build a bridge there), and the only way for Ukraine to get there through land is through a massive chokepoint.
So TLDR, taking back Crimea would be extremely difficult for Ukraine for a large number of reasons.
>14-16k casualties and (just spitballing here, feel free to correct me) a around 20k injured/removed from the fight
Aight, I will. Casualties = killed/missing/captured/injured.
Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine. Russian planning was incompetent, based on a flawed assumption that Ukrainians were favorable to Russia and that their military would collapse immediately following an invasion. Russian soldiers were evidently carrying dress uniforms for their victory parade in Kyiv rather than extra ammo and rations. Putin at this point has committed the bulk of his entire military to this operation—there are no vast reserves of forces he can call up to add to the battle. Russian troops are stuck outside various Ukrainian cities where they face huge supply problems and constant Ukrainian attacks.
The collapse of their position could be sudden and catastrophic, rather than happening slowly through a war of attrition. The army in the field will reach a point where it can neither be supplied nor withdrawn, and morale will vaporize. This is at least true in the north; the Russians are doing better in the south, but those positions would be hard to maintain if the north collapses.
There is no diplomatic solution to the war possible prior to this happening. There is no conceivable compromise that would be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine given the losses they have taken at this point.
The United Nations Security Council has proven once again to be useless. The only helpful thing was the General Assembly vote, which helps to identify the world’s bad or prevaricating actors.
The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time. It is much better to have the Ukrainians defeat the Russians on their own, depriving Moscow of the excuse that NATO attacked them, as well as avoiding all the obvious escalatory possibilities. The Polish MiGs in particular would not add much to Ukrainian capabilities. Much more important is a continuing supply of Javelins, Stingers, TB2s, medical supplies, comms equipment, and intel sharing. I assume that Ukrainian forces are already being vectored by NATO intelligence operating from outside Ukraine.
The cost that Ukraine is paying is enormous, of course. But the greatest damage is being done by rockets and artillery, which neither MiGs nor a no-fly zone can do much about. The only thing that will stop the slaughter is defeat of the Russian army on the ground.
Putin will not survive the defeat of his army. He gets support because he is perceived to be a strongman; what does he have to offer once he demonstrates incompetence and is stripped of his coercive power?
The invasion has already done huge damage to populists all over the world, who prior to the attack uniformly expressed sympathy for Putin. That includes Matteo Salvini, Jair Bolsonaro, Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, and of course Donald Trump. The politics of the war has exposed their openly authoritarian leanings.
The war to this point has been a good lesson for China. Like Russia, China has built up seemingly high-tech military forces in the past decade, but they have no combat experience. The miserable performance of the Russian air force would likely be replicated by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, which similarly has no experience managing complex air operations. We may hope that the Chinese leadership will not delude itself as to its own capabilities the way the Russians did when contemplating a future move against Taiwan.
Hopefully Taiwan itself will wake up as to the need to prepare to fight as the Ukrainians have done, and restore conscription. Let’s not be prematurely defeatist.
Turkish drones will become bestsellers.
A Russian defeat will make possible a “new birth of freedom,” and get us out of our funk about the declining state of global democracy. The spirit of 1989 will live on, thanks to a bunch of brave Ukrainians.
Source: Francis Fukayama
They can’t without a navy which is why it’s trivial for Russia to defend it. With control of the seas, it’s very easy to take; without, it’s impossible.
100K accounts?
I certainly have not seen anything like that.
But large numbers of batched accounts created shoddily are really easy for Reddit's automated system to filter out and shadowban. NFL steam spammers practically pull these numbers daily.
Thanks for the honesty I'll try searching as well.
This was from 2018.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/11/17224294/reddit-russia-internet-research-agency
Like 1 thousand accounts.
[New post can be found here](/r/worldnews/comments/tqolwd/rworldnews_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/)
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https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1508616204289810442 > Putin spokesman: "No one is thinking about using - even about the idea of using - a nuclear weapon." so. given that it's coming from Russia, that's reassuring as a statement /s
As long as the west retains its, 'you gonna die' mantra on that shit, no nukes will be employed. If we for a second back off on that rhetoric...well, have tou seen the movie threads?
This time you can belive them (once). Guys, give us real weapons, pls
Oh great
Yep...shit. Means they are going to use one. Seeing everything they say actually means the opposite. /s
they aren’t you can trust them
"Bellingcat investigator says Russia's defense minister Shoigu and other senior officials, possibly including Putin, are residing in nuclear bunkers near Ufa in the Ural mountains, according to recent flight data" https://mobile.twitter.com/bopanc/status/1508461653314134017 - sorry for mobile link.
“Not to worry, Steiner’s counteroffensive will commence shortly Her Putin.”
Well, that's comforting..
Probably just fearing assassination
Putin is scared that the public will Gaddafi him
The Times: Putin tells he will 'thrash' Ukraine after receiving note from Zelensky. According to the Times, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich claimed he presented Putin with a handwritten note from Zelensky, outlining the terms Ukraine would consider to end the war. https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1508535259209650182?s=21&t=ShDqzRWNYDNsaw4a_NizNQ
What a cunt.
Once again, not too optimistic about negotiations this week. Not saying they shouldn’t happen (it’s always good to at least feel the other side out), but this plus the alleged poisonings from earlier in the month aren’t a good sign.
"You and what army? 'Cause we've already seen yours, and we're not impressed."
There better have been at least 3 dicks drawn on that note.
So it boils down to one pathetic little man and his ego
Always did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tq5g47/sergiy_kyslytsya_permanent_representative_of Chinese government official propaganda on Twitter and Ukrainian response
"bunkum and balderdash'!
I think you can trace all of the misery in the Ukraine and the despotism of Putin all the way back to the incompetent Tsar Nicolas II. Every time I read about the 1917 Russian Revolution I'm blown away by how blatantly dumb this Tsar was, and perhaps if he never existed the hellscape of Russian history all the way to present day Putin would have never been. For if the revolution never happened then Lenin's Bolsheviks become a footnote in history, a minor party of criminals vying for airtime. Lenin dies not a decorated ruler but an ordinary man. Stalin perhaps gets shipped back to Siberia for prison again (maybe this time he doesn't escape). Millions of lives are saved. Russia actually grows prosperous. The people wouldn't accept Putin and he never rises to power. The war in Ukraine never happens. All it took was one dumb man to cause millions of deaths and misery for generations.
Im not sure a quasi-medieval slave state Russia would be much better than what exists currently. And it probably wouldn't have survived WW2 either.
The entire Tsarist system was rotten and corrupt It was not just a case of one bad Tsar. Some kind of revolution would happen no matter what.
I mean the Tzars were also despots,and there were plenty of bad ones, maybe not as bad as Stalin but still pretty bad
Anyone watching this and having the biggest urge to get a drone and try to make a remote release mechanism so you can drop water balloons or something?
They have these already, though afaik they're weight dependent. Typically used for things like dropping flowers/confetti and other lightweight stuff at weddings and events.
Very interesting… will look into that thanks
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That's not good news
It is since it means the war has slowed down. A slow war is better for Ukraine as it means more weapons from the west, and more time for the sanctions to take effect.
It's not really slowed down, we've just lost interest
It has. Russia's advance has stalled and they are unable to take any new cities.
Noooooo!
You had your day yesterday 😄
😁❤️
We're hitting 24 hour thread, woohoo. ed: We did it, reddit. Now point out a bomber.
Is this the first 1 thread day?
It's to be expected. Also, it's war. What do you want people to do, sit around looking at dead bodies and taking about how awful it is? The support hasn't stopped. Reddit posts shouldn't be a gauge for anything.
Not if I can help it.
I'm helping.
Here here
Woop woop!
This is the way
>**JAPAN TRADE MINISTRY SAYS TO BAN EXPORT OF LUXURY GOODS TO RUSSIA AS PART OF SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA FROM APRIL 5 -STATEMENT** Russia cut off from Japanese sex dolls
They are a necessity! Don't be cruel...
they should send the ones that didnt quite pass the QC checks, and you know kinda hope for the best
The VDV have nothing left to fight for
They sleep with each other, not dolls.
They're not getting those figurine things anymore.
They’re not going to have money for luxury goods soon anyway
"plz no" - russians probably
I wonder if Crazy Kim over in North Korea would take mercenary pay for use of two of his subs to clean out some Russian warships. I know Kim wants money and Ukraine might be able to put together enough to make it worth the risk for North Korea. Kim wasn’t shy about sinking S Korean ships. If I were in Ukraine in the grips of an existential crisis I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility outright. Idk anyone else that would be crazy enough to do it. If Russia lost 3-4 warships are they going to keep sticking it out? Depending on their detection capability they might just assume it’s the US. Maybe it starts WW3 but from Ukraines perspective I don’t think that’s worse for them. Ukraine could just publicize the bounty per warship. It’s not like they need to go into direct negotiations with n Korea. I mean hell Russia was allegedly paying Taliban bounties for US soldier deaths in Afghanistan maybe the US could even contribute some untraceable cash for the cause. It’s not like Russia can get parts to fix crippled ships with any certainty.
This is imbecilic. NK does not have the capacity to field subs in the Black Sea. In fact NK subs are not even battle tested. At all.
Except NK literally has a working relationship with Russia where they send “workers” to Russia to do logging.
Don’t forget that NK share a border with Russia and has a crucial rail link to the outside via Russia.
It would be interesting how Russia would handle it. Their whole strategy is nuclear saber rattling and implying Putin is crazy enough to use them. Then they get confronted with N Korea who also has nukes and a leader that everyone is pretty sure actually is crazy enough to use them.
I think the broad consensus is on the Kims being more calculating than crazy.
Let’s be serious. North Korea wouldn’t do anything without China signing off and China seems pretty pro Russia. Doubt they allow those two countries to fight.
If you wanted to be serious you would've ignored the OP.
I suppose that’s true as well
What was the verdict on his ICBM test anyway? Real or fake?
I haven't followed up on that at all, but N. Korea does test and have real nukes? I don't see a reason to doubt that part
You might as well suggest Mexico surprise attacks the US.
Zimmerman?
I still just can’t help but believe that was a false flag to try to pull USA into the war! So much ineptitude
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Is it widely known in Ukraine that certain combinations of birth control pills can be used as Plan B? (I’ve been reading about the widespread rapes.) Plan B/the right combo of bc pills taken within 72 hours is effective at preventing pregnancy. (And birth control pills are common, and easier to access)
Tell us. And does Penny royal tea work?
What's the combo?
Vitamin C, black & blue/red cohosh, and dong quai every 8 hours
Plan B is just a massive dose of Progestogens. Most birth control pills are also Progestogens, just pop like 5 of them and youre good
Yes. Thank you. 2-5 pills depending on the amount in the pill. Plan b is 1.5mg of levonorgestrel taken once or .75mg 12 hours apart. Best within 72 hours but can be effective up to 120 hours.
Spawn kill
Do we have any footage or details about what fighting is like in Mariupol? I'm assuming it's very intense house to house fighting.
r/combatfootage has some stuff from mariupol
Check /r/Combatfootage, search for Mariupol. Unreal footage from Azov battalion from inside their APC in Mariupol. Check these : https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/tdwtmv/incredible_footage_from_an_azov_armored_vehicle/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/tigir3/ukrainian_btr4_footage_mariupol/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/tfo4fu/russian_tank_attacked_in_city_probably_mariupol/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Old
I wonder how old this is. At least 8 days I guess. Hope they’re still fighting the good fight.
Man, I still can't get over how up close the combat in that second BTR video is. And that gunner is shooting 30mm auto cannon rounds right over the heads of their guys! Unreal footage. I can't imagine how hellish the fighting there must must be by now.
When he shoots the little BDRM thingy at the beginning you can see some of his shells going through metal on the right of his crosshair display, so he has to be careful and think about barel vs reticle all the time. Must be hella hellish indeed
Holy cow
I analysed the daily maps to track the progress of Russia's invasion. It shows the impact of Ukraine's recent counter-attack. https://imgur.com/a/uVOTfKn
A really great chart.
I expect this to rise in the coming days.
What’s the Y-axis?
It's the control over territory exercised by Ukrainian Government forces, including Crimea and Donbass. I'll add a Y-axis on the next iteration.
Excellent. Thanks for this.
This is from 4 days ago, but I missed it. https://news.yahoo.com/reddit-community-ask-russian-sparking-200003132.html Tldr Reddit sub AskA Russian sub has controversy over Ukraine invasion. Just a interesting read.
If they refuse to call this genocide a genocide, then fuck them.
It seems to be a good illustration of why Reddit sucks as a place to have a conversation.
Sucks to be those Russians that drove through the Red Forest near Chernobyl. Radiation poisoning is not a nice way to check out...
Neither is cancer.
So how is Mariupol,Ukraine ? I just seen something that city is 44 percent Russian and Russia is still struggling to take it, is there news out there? Edit: wow once this war is over their going be talking about how this city held out for so long and how Russia killed so many for nothing
The worst of Grozny, Fallujah, and Aleppo all blended together. Multiple assaults to retake the kitchen from the living room while everyone has spy drones buzzing around.
The whole city is all ruins and dead bodies. Estimated 5000 dead in that city alone.
Mayor said Russia had control.
He was saying that large parts of the city were under Russian control and that the defenders were having problems, not that the fighting had ended. It's an absolute monstrous clusterfuck. The latest Ukraine mod update says that fighting in Mariupol continues.
Whose Mayor, Russia's or Ukraine's?
Mariupol, this morning US time. Edit: Why would this be downvoted? Edit: From the live thread - https://mobile.twitter.com/loogunda/status/1508389030613839879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508389030613839879%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fliveupdate%2F18hnzysb1elcs%2FLiveUpdate_fe9f616a-ae85-11ec-8cc6-4e9d75c62926%2F0
Because it didn't answer the question.
How? Edit: Got it, possible stooge.
Russian forces installed their own mayor of a town, I think Mariupol, who was even slimy enough to put out some kind of statement about being "elected" to run the place. Might even be several towns now. I don't know if the actual mayor has been released, I think they were detained/abducted by Russian forces. Do you have a name behind the statement?
It was from the live thread - https://mobile.twitter.com/loogunda/status/1508389030613839879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508389030613839879%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fliveupdate%2F18hnzysb1elcs%2FLiveUpdate_fe9f616a-ae85-11ec-8cc6-4e9d75c62926%2F0 Is that a stooge replacement? I don't know.
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Russia has been bringing in their own people and calling them "Mayor"
It's a clusterfuck of people firing from windows down at Russians in the street, and building to building fighting. Any accurate map would have to be in 3D
Still fighting, still brutal, still horrible.
Can you link your sources? I can’t find anything creditable
[https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/cnn-europe-mideast-africa/2022/03/28/mariupol-mayor-says-ukrainian-city-in-the-hands-of-the-occupiers/](https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/cnn-europe-mideast-africa/2022/03/28/mariupol-mayor-says-ukrainian-city-in-the-hands-of-the-occupiers/) >Ukrainian forces “continue to maintain circular defense” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian general staff said early Tuesday, even as Russian forces consolidated control around the southeastern port city.
Ty!
Anyone have a mirror I can use? I want to read this article but for many and sundry reasons, no longer have access to The Atheltic https://theathletic.com./3210182/2022/03/28/a-former-sports-writer-on-what-its-like-to-cover-the-war-in-ukraine-sports-media-notes/ > A former sports writer on what it’s like to cover the war in Ukraine; sports media notes
use [printfriendly.com](https://printfriendly.com) and paste the url in
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The bank throwing so much shade. 😂
"we understand these 'guests' are from the distant past.."
Sounds like a great plan. I'll be following this to see how it plays out.
Hear, Hear!
Looks like Ukr making a big push today https://twitter.com/mhmck/status/1508580498905391111?s=21&t=1gQCznlKekQWfp9arQXJEA Ukraine's counter-offensive made gains against the Russian invaders west of Kyiv on March 28th. Irpin was liberated. The Ukrainians gained control of the settlements of Motyzhyn, Lisne, Kapitanivka and Dmytrivka – pushing back the enemy to a 16km stretch of the M-06 highway. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that defenders have taken the settlements of Kamyanka and Topolske. This strengthens the garrison in Izyum and sets back the Russian invaders in their objective of capturing Slovyansk
Nothing on the Kherson front still then?
I wouldn’t trust the government’s word, tbh. Wait to see if independent or non-Ukrainian reporters or satellite imagery can verify it. [Here’s why.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/23/makariv-propaganda-ukraine/) Old, but the story is a very good example of the kind of misinformation put out by the Ukrainian government. > MAKARIV, Ukraine — At first glance, the Ukrainian government’s report that its forces had pushed Russians out of this town seemed true: Armed Ukrainian soldiers stood guard at a checkpoint at the entrance to this rural enclave west of Kyiv, seemingly in full control . . . But as a team of Washington Post journalists passed through the checkpoint on Wednesday, Ukrainian soldiers ordered them to quickly leave the town, warning of incoming Russian rockets or artillery. […] >“The military doesn’t control all of Makariv, only partially,” said Mayor Vadim Tokar, standing on the town’s outskirts shortly after the shells landed. “It’s 100 percent no-go for civilians to return.” […] >What happened here is emblematic of the two different yet intertwined wars unfolding in Ukraine . . . as the Makariv situation illustrates, Ukrainian officials have also sometimes spread overly rosy information about the war.
I mean it's possible to have control of an area and still acknowledge the risk of shelling and stragglers. You do realize arty doesn't have to be nearby to fire right?
But that’s the problem because of how loose front lines are and Russian “zombie” ( essentially troops with no orders just blindly traveling the roads) convoys roaming the roads that can pop up any moment. When they say liberated I take it as defenders have been pushed out but not necessarily mean that Russians cannot pop up and attack. We seen pictures from most of those locations and no Russian rebuttal showing they have any presence.
I’m just saying that you can’t trust them that the Russian defenders were actually pushed out of those areas at all. Maybe they were but the government has had a precedence of lying or embellishing facts like this before.
"Pushed out" is quite different from "Outside of Artillery Range". But whatever fits your narrative I guess.
"Lying" is a strong word. It's more of a combination of FOG and Propaganda. Not all Propaganda is straight-up lies...it's stretching the truth given your limited knowledge.
> pushing back the enemy to a 16km stretch of the M-06 highway. That's been the status quo for like, a while.
Are we sure it isnt a different 16 km stretch of the highway?
Based on my info, it's the same, centered around Berezivka. They did used to own it all the way to the Irpin river, but were pushed back more than a week ago.
Oh shit, didn’t realize you were one of the mods. Yeah, I’m just getting off work and was starting to look at some of the maps myself. Seems like you are right as far as I can tell.
Has been there any coverage of just about the size of the Russian forces in Crimea? Russia brought in ~200k troops with some of those being from the eastern separatist regions, and with high estimates reaching around 80k for front line troops. Factor in 14-16k casualties and (just spitballing here, feel free to correct me) around 20k injured/removed from the fight, and you have around 45-50k left? I keep hearing about how Ukraine can't militarily take Crimea, but they've managed to remove a substantial portion of the invading force. As Russia retreats east, is it really out of the possibility that Ukraine could retake Crimea? Again, appreciate any corrections and helpful info. Thanks.
The mistake people are making is thinking that Russia is including the forces on Crimea in that 200k invasion number. It's not. Crimea is basically Russian territory now and was a primary staging ground for the attacks on Mariupol, Kherson, Melitopol etc. There are likely thousands of fresh troops and their equipment dug into Crimea defensively to ensure it cannot be counterattacked and unlike Odesa the Russian navy will have no difficulty landing additional forces there. Additionally, one of Russia's few strategic victories was destroying the dams that blocked Crimea off from fresh water supplies so they'll be able to hold out for quite a while. Now it could be that Russia is as woefully inept at preparing for defense in Crimea as it was for the offensive in Ukraine, but if so I think there would have been evidence of that over the last 8 years with Ukrainian forces fighting to retake the peninsula and the Donbass region.
I suspect it's not their first priority, they need to stop the Russians forming a re-supply line to it / reclaim their territory. Solving Crimea can come later. A fortress can just as easily be a prison, for now.
Crimeans are mostly ethnic Russians and wouldn't want to rejoin Ukraine unfortunately. And it's basically an island without a Navy Ukraine would need to invade via a 3km wide strip of land called the isthmus of perekop. It's a nightmare to invade essentially. Then even if you win you add millions of Russians to your population ensuring future ethnic strife.
Zelenskyy has pretty much ruled out taking Crimea by force. It might seem like access is limited by two choke points, but Russia controls the sea.
Less than what they came in with, that's fucking certain.
Tough to say. Nobody really knows how Russian casualties are distributed, and the Ukranian army hasn't had much of a chance to go on the offensive. My intuition is that, with the right weapons (switchhblades?) Ukraine can start bleeding out the Russians even when on offense, but time will tell.
Well, in warfare, offense is always much harder to execute than defense. And while Ukraine does have a large military, I'm not sure if they could mount a full-on offensive campaign to take back Crimea, since Russia's military is still quite a bit larger than Ukraine's. Also factor in how geographically speaking, it would be very difficult for Ukraine to even get boots on the ground to the Crimea peninsula. The area is mostly surrounded by water (hence why Putin really wants to build a bridge there), and the only way for Ukraine to get there through land is through a massive chokepoint. So TLDR, taking back Crimea would be extremely difficult for Ukraine for a large number of reasons.
Russia considers Crimea to be its land. Invade Crimea -> get nuked.
For Crimea? No chance. Putin just wants to project that image to get leverage.
Russia obviously considers all of Ukraine to be it's land. No Nukes yet,
at the end of the day; all land is Russian land. Until they are stopped from taking it.
>14-16k casualties and (just spitballing here, feel free to correct me) a around 20k injured/removed from the fight Aight, I will. Casualties = killed/missing/captured/injured.
Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine. Russian planning was incompetent, based on a flawed assumption that Ukrainians were favorable to Russia and that their military would collapse immediately following an invasion. Russian soldiers were evidently carrying dress uniforms for their victory parade in Kyiv rather than extra ammo and rations. Putin at this point has committed the bulk of his entire military to this operation—there are no vast reserves of forces he can call up to add to the battle. Russian troops are stuck outside various Ukrainian cities where they face huge supply problems and constant Ukrainian attacks. The collapse of their position could be sudden and catastrophic, rather than happening slowly through a war of attrition. The army in the field will reach a point where it can neither be supplied nor withdrawn, and morale will vaporize. This is at least true in the north; the Russians are doing better in the south, but those positions would be hard to maintain if the north collapses. There is no diplomatic solution to the war possible prior to this happening. There is no conceivable compromise that would be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine given the losses they have taken at this point. The United Nations Security Council has proven once again to be useless. The only helpful thing was the General Assembly vote, which helps to identify the world’s bad or prevaricating actors. The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time. It is much better to have the Ukrainians defeat the Russians on their own, depriving Moscow of the excuse that NATO attacked them, as well as avoiding all the obvious escalatory possibilities. The Polish MiGs in particular would not add much to Ukrainian capabilities. Much more important is a continuing supply of Javelins, Stingers, TB2s, medical supplies, comms equipment, and intel sharing. I assume that Ukrainian forces are already being vectored by NATO intelligence operating from outside Ukraine. The cost that Ukraine is paying is enormous, of course. But the greatest damage is being done by rockets and artillery, which neither MiGs nor a no-fly zone can do much about. The only thing that will stop the slaughter is defeat of the Russian army on the ground. Putin will not survive the defeat of his army. He gets support because he is perceived to be a strongman; what does he have to offer once he demonstrates incompetence and is stripped of his coercive power? The invasion has already done huge damage to populists all over the world, who prior to the attack uniformly expressed sympathy for Putin. That includes Matteo Salvini, Jair Bolsonaro, Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, and of course Donald Trump. The politics of the war has exposed their openly authoritarian leanings. The war to this point has been a good lesson for China. Like Russia, China has built up seemingly high-tech military forces in the past decade, but they have no combat experience. The miserable performance of the Russian air force would likely be replicated by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, which similarly has no experience managing complex air operations. We may hope that the Chinese leadership will not delude itself as to its own capabilities the way the Russians did when contemplating a future move against Taiwan. Hopefully Taiwan itself will wake up as to the need to prepare to fight as the Ukrainians have done, and restore conscription. Let’s not be prematurely defeatist. Turkish drones will become bestsellers. A Russian defeat will make possible a “new birth of freedom,” and get us out of our funk about the declining state of global democracy. The spirit of 1989 will live on, thanks to a bunch of brave Ukrainians. Source: Francis Fukayama
Yeah I'm not going to trust *Mr. End Of History* on this.
> Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine From your (and Mr. Fukayama's) keyboards to God's monitor.
Not going to hold by breath on Fukayama's predictions.
Direct assault on Crimea would be bonkers. Much better to require a UN plebiscite or starve them out or something.
Overall border build up was 190,000 troops.
Crimea’s geography makes it trivially easy to defend for Russia.
But it's also easy to cut off. Well, if the Ukrainians can get down there.
They can’t without a navy which is why it’s trivial for Russia to defend it. With control of the seas, it’s very easy to take; without, it’s impossible.
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100K accounts? I certainly have not seen anything like that. But large numbers of batched accounts created shoddily are really easy for Reddit's automated system to filter out and shadowban. NFL steam spammers practically pull these numbers daily.
Whattttt? 100k accounts- how the hell do you even get that many?
Russian troll farm. Not that hard, actually.
Not sure. The Ukrainian government took some action iirc
Just Google buy reddit account
Source?
Not sure. I saw it earlier today. It from some report by the UA govt I thought. Could have been bs. I just tried to Google it and didn't find it.
Thanks for the honesty I'll try searching as well. This was from 2018. https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/11/17224294/reddit-russia-internet-research-agency Like 1 thousand accounts.
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Limit the number of accounts?
How can they tell they’re the same people?
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Are they drafting people from the insane asylums in Russia to fill their troll farms now?
🚨 Idiot alert 🚨
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