Ukraine War Watch Thread

[Maximus]

How are you, guys? Keep defeating Russians? Okay then, here's a reality injection for you (it may hurt, my needle is thick enough):
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[wjfox]

Translation:
Mayor: They have given us the condition: Surrender or the city will be shelled with artillery. We have a choice, surrender or fight. [Repeats]. We vote, who is for fighting?
Crowd: [Rather undecided.]
Mayor: I'm for it. But we have to make the decision together, because the attack will be on the whole city.

[Certain Russian user]

Kherson

[Certain Russian user]

> Maximus
Yeah, "Ищи своих" a well know and very reliable Ukrainian source...
Try again (no, better not even try).

[wjfox]

80 Russian vehicles destroyed in coordinated strikes in Romen including some 40 Grad MLRS.

A further 100 in Bishkin village consisting mostly of tanks and APCs.







Confirmed equipment loss of both sides here. Every loss is verified with a photograph.

Russians seem to be losing at a rate of about 3 to 1.

[wjfox]

Kherson

You must be so proud of your country. Destroying and occupying another country.

[R8Z]

There is an insane number of lies/propaganda for Ukraine on reddit. The brazilian one that I follow is even propagading long-debunked lies (early war), most probably due to the language barrier.

[wjfox]

One less scumbag in the world:

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/28/r ... -tushayev/

[wjfox]

[R8Z]

A very good Finnish visualization on the war progress. Not sure how accurate it is but seems good enough and almost real-time up to date.

https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/ ... ine/091194

[wjfox]

[caltrek]

Kherson

You must be so proud of your country. Destroying and occupying another country.

It is amazing how Wikipedia is keeping right up to date on entries related to the invasion. Here, for example, is a citation from that source:

2 March
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have captured Kherson on 2 March, but Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian President, later denied the claim.

Wikipedia's citation for this entry: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/to ... 022-03-02/

Extract;

(Reuters) "The Russian 'liberators' have come," one Ukrainian volunteer lamented sarcastically, as he and three others strained to carry the dead body of a man wrapped in a bedsheet out of the ruins on a main square...

Moscow said on Wednesday it had captured Kherson, a provincial capital of around a quarter of a million people on the southern front, but Ukraine disputed the claim.
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The regional governor had said overnight that it was surrounded, under fire, and Russian troops were looting shops and pharmacies. On Wednesday an adviser to Zelenskiy said street fighting was going on in the port, which sits at the Dnepr river's exit into the Black Sea.

"The city has not fallen, our side continues to defend," said the adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych.
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"We are going to see... his brutality increase," British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said of Putin in a radio interview. "He doesn’t get his way, he surrounds cities, he ruthlessly bombards them at night ... and he will then eventually try and break them and move into the cities.”

[caltrek]

Personally, I also don't think an invasion like this is a good idea.

Here I tend to agree, with emphasis on LIKE THIS part. Ukraine becoming the new European Somalia. Prospect of gaining such a country as war trophy and 20-30 million of such people as "fellow citizens" terrifies me. President PhoenixRu would probably do it very differently. But I'm not president to make such decisions.

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Well, since you oppose this invasion, perhaps you would consider signing this petition in solidarity with many of your fellow Russians:

More Than 1 Million Sign Petition Launched by Prominent Russian Activist to 'Stop the War' in Ukraine

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live ... n-n1290568

Introduction:

(NBC) More than 1 million people have signed a petition formed by a prominent Russian human rights activist calling on Russia to "stop the war" in Ukraine.

Launched on change.org by Lev Ponomaryov, chairman of non-governmental organization For Human Rights, the petition announced the formation of a new "anti-war movement" formed in opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The petition calls for a stop to the conflict to "prevent ...(it) from developing into a war on a planetary scale."

Specifically, it calls for an "immediate ceasefire" by Russia forces, as well as the immediate withdrawal of troops from Ukraine.

The petition has continued to spread despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's growing crackdown on dissent.

[caltrek]

Earlier, I linked some of Putin's remarks regarding Ukraine. In the first part of Biden's State of the Union speech, he also addressed the situation in Ukraine. There will be those who would dismiss this as mere propaganda. Remember, it was Biden who warned that Russia was planning to invade, and Russian spokespersons who dismissed those earlier remarks as "hysterical" propaganda.

Here is a link to Biden's speech "as prepared for delivery."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... delivered/

[weatheriscool]

UN votes to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calls for withdrawal
Source: The Guardian

The United Nations has voted overwhelmingly for a resolution deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and called for the immediate withdrawal of its forces, in a global expression of outrage that highlighted Russia’s increasing isolation.

In an emergency session of the UN’s general assembly, 141 of the 193 member states voted for the resolution, 35 abstained and five voted against.

The resolution, which was co-sponsored by 94 countries, said the UN “deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine”. It demanded that “the Russian Federation immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine” and “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... raine-vote

[andmar74]

[wjfox]

[raklian]

That's probably how the US intelligence found out Russia was going to invade Ukraine even though the Russian officials called those claims ridiculous.

[andmar74]

[wjfox]