Politics Ukraine / Russia

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  1. UKRAINEFAN

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    Day 164. Russia’s war on Ukraine is about to enter a new phase. Russian forces are massing in the south in anticipation of Ukraine’s counter-offensive. Ukrainian forces target bridges, ammunition depots, and rail links in southern regions. Russian forces reportedly fire rounds near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Enerhodar and accuse Ukraine. Russians recruit convicts to fight in Ukraine.
     
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    Day 165. Ukrainian partisan activity and civilian resistance ongoing in the occupied territories. Occupiers mine infrastructure in Kherson. The first foreign-flagged ship arrives in Ukraine since February, and awaits grain load. Nuclear disaster possible: IAEA director general requests access to Zaporizhzhia NPP. EU condemns Russia’s activities around Zaporizhzhia NPP. Residents of Zaporizhzhia Oblast are advised to stock up on firewood and insulate their homes. Russian occupiers prepare cages to stage ‘show trial’ of POWs in Mariupol. Russian occupation authorities continue to prepare for the integration of occupied territories into the Russian Federation following their upcoming sham annexation referenda. Ukraine says it will receive tanks and planes from North Macedonia. The US readies a new $1 billion Ukraine weapons package.
     
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    Today North Korea offered 100,000 troops to Russia to help defeat Ukraine. And so it begins....the N Korea, Iran, Russia, China alliance against the free world.
     
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    Day 166: Russian military leadership continues to experience major turnover. Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks and have likely made incremental gains in Donbas, unsuccessfully attempted to advance on Mykolaiv. Forced mobilization continues in occupied Luhansk. Four vessels with Ukrainian grain left Odesa and Chornomorsk. 26,000 war crime cases are under investigation. Sweden will send instructors to the U.K. to train the Ukrainian military. Meta closes a Russian troll factory. North Korea offers Russia 100,000 volunteers to participate in the war in Ukraine.
     
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    Day 167 Ukraine calls for the UN, IAEA to send security mission to Zaporizhzhia NPP (nuclear plant). Russia and Ukraine agree to protect the grain shipping channel. Russia continued to focus efforts on reinforcing defenses in southern Ukraine. At least 17.7mn people in Ukraine will need humanitarian assistance this year. $1 Billion in Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine (including more rockets for HIMARs)
     
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    The attack on the air base in Crimea by Ukraine is a big deal. First strike into Crimea. First strike of a distance it was thought Ukraine could not cover. There were a lot of russian planes there but really only two confirmed destroyed so far. Psychological effect on both russians (hundreds fleeing from Crimea) and Ukrainians (renewed motivation) is tremendous.

    Russo-Ukrainian War, Day 168. Several large explosions hit Russian positions near Sevastopol and north of Crimea. A series of explosions destroyed a Russian Federation airfield Saki near Novofedirivka. Russia did not blame Ukraine. Ukraine has not taken credit. Ukraine will not conduct peace talks without the withdrawal of the Russian Federation troops from Crimea and Donbas. Russian forces conducted ground attacks southeast of Siversk, around Bakhmut, north of Donetsk City and southwest of Donetsk City near the Zaporizhzhia-Donetsk Oblast border. Ukrainian officials claimed that Russian forces continued to fire artillery systems from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and that the Russian occupiers began implementing a plan to connect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the Russian energy system and disconnect it from the Ukrainian energy system. In Mariupol, the invaders force Ukrainian prisoners of war, mostly the Azovstal defenders, to exhume corpses. Russia to stop oil supplies to Europe through the territory of Ukraine. The southern Europe countries carry out record purchases of Russian oil in secret. The Pentagon confirmed sending a new type of missile to Ukraine. The US will allocate $ 89 million to Ukraine for the training for demining experts. Russian officials are continuing to take prominent roles in preparing for the sham referenda in Russian-occupied regions despite Kremlin claims that Russia is not conducting the referenda.
     
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    Just like the sinking of the Moskva russian flagship, Kremlin doesn't know how to handle this. They are afraid if they tell russian people that Ukraine did it, that people will realize they may be losing the war.
    I see one report today that Ukrainian special forces did this. Possibly true since there is no sighting of a missile coming in videos of explosions. If true this would have been one of the most daring raids in history.
     
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    Update: Ukraine claims 9 russian warplanes destroyed in the attack on Saki airbase. Still no confirmation of how the attack was carried out. Ukrainian government source says only that it was done using Ukrainian produced weapon. Possibly the Neptune anti-ship missile using GPS coordinates is speculation by one expert. This would have been a very low flying missile which might explain why it was not seen. Or it could be USA ATACM and USA asked them not to announce it?
     
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    GO UKRAINE!!! Kick those Russians all the way back to Siberia!
     
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    A Russian woman visiting Germany verbally abused two Ukrainian refugees and then mocked Ukraine generally. Her hotel reservation was cancelled, she was asked to leave, then her flight was cancelled.

    What is Russian equivalent of Karen?
     
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    Karenina......?
     
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    That's a last name.
     
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    Karen Karenina..............?
     
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    I just looked it up and it's KAPEH in Cyrillic
     
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    Ukraine taking off the kid gloves. Tired of living in fear of how russia or Belarus will react. In this case, I don't think Lukashenko would dare attack Ukraine; it might lead to a revolution.
     
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    lets goooo


    Fuck Belarus and Russia
     
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    I don't know if recapturing Crimea is possible, but if Ukraine was able to that would be such an embarrassment for the Kremlin. Definitely rooting for it.
     
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