Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion

onemanarmy said:
An estimated 700k left Russia to avoid mobilization, 300k+ were mobilized, so could be well over a million. Maybe not millions, but a lot of people though.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers are skewed towards Putin’s interests, as in more people have left Russia to avoid mobilization than has been reported.
 
MadMike said:
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Poor Droopy.
 
Amazon helped out the Ukrainian government.

Since the day Russia launched its invasion Feb. 24, Amazon has been working closely with the Ukrainian government to download essential data and ferry it out of the country in suitcase-sized solid-state computer storage units called Snowball Edge, then funneling the data into Amazon’s cloud computing system.

“This is the most technologically advanced war in human history,” said Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 31-year-old vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, referring not just to weapons, but data, too. “AWS’s leadership made a decision that saved the Ukrainian government and economy.” Amazon has invested $75 million so far in its Ukraine effort, which includes the data transfer via the “Snowballs,” as they’re called. Fedorov, speaking at a tech conference in Las Vegas earlier this month, called it “priceless.”
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data
 
Surely they are not that dumb to try attacking Kyiv again? It's just talk to keep some UA forces doing nothing around the border. Right?
 
The Firestarter said:
Surely they are not that dumb to try attacking Kyiv again? It's just talk to keep some UA forces doing nothing around the border. Right?
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That is the common argument, yes. To fix Ukrainian troops at the Belarus border.

However, it's also been argued that they could have done that at a cheaper cost than what they're doing now. The implication being that preparations may be serious and we shouldn't rule out another assault from the north.
 
A Biden admin official recently told members of Congress that Ukraine has the military capability to take back Crimea.

A Biden administration official recently told members of Congress that Ukraine has the military capability to retake Crimea, but some officials are concerned any large-scale offensive that threatens Russia’s hold on the peninsula could push Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons, say two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The late November Ukraine briefing to some members of Congress included discussion of the reasons Ukraine will continue to need U.S. weapons and equipment for the foreseeable future. The two officials said a Biden official, when asked during the briefing about continued support for the Ukrainian military and whether it would try to retake Crimea, responded that Ukraine now has the ability to take it back.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/na...-congress-ukraine-can-retake-crimea-rcna61755
 
Great long piece from NYT. It's just unbelievable how badly the Russians planned this invasion. Crazy details.

Russian soldiers go into battle with little food, few bullets and instructions grabbed from Wikipedia for weapons they barely know how to use.

They plod through Ukraine with old maps like this one from the 1960s, recovered from the battlefield, or no maps at all.

They speak on open cellphone lines, revealing their positions and exposing the incompetence and disarray in their ranks.

They have trained at dilapidated Russian bases hollowed out by corruption, including this one, home to a tank division badly defeated in Ukraine.

They are given wildly unrealistic timetables and goals for taking Ukrainian territory and complain of being sent into a “meat grinder.”

This is the inside story of historic Russian failures.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html
 
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Don't feck with Kadyrov



Translation: Another series of the Indian film "Don Raj Kadirka". Bollywood is resting
 
Raoul said:
Don't feck with Kadyrov



Translation: Another series of the Indian film "Don Raj Kadirka". Bollywood is resting
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Gay Dagestani Steven Gerrard starring in a Nollywood action blockbuster.
 
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