Another one. Ukraine must have been able to set up a pretty effective communications network with it's manpads units and air surveillance units for this to be possible.
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An hour into the new year and the Russian terrorism continues.
Indeed. Their ability to thwart the effectiveness of Russian missiles has been pretty impressive.
With English subtitles.
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There you go. I wonder why it took so long and so many mixed messages before Germany posted that.
It's actually not a long time if you consider that imports worth several dozen billion Euro per year have been replaced right now, including building new infrastructure projects like new pipelines and LNG tanker terminals which also cost billions and were done in record time (for German standards).
While Russia continues to waste its military resources on fighting civilian population, Ukrainian armed forces are eliminating occupiers from its territories:
Based on the local sources on the ground the strikes resulted in up to 600 KIA + injured.
Before/after:
Apart from hosting freshly mobilized Russian troops the school used to store explosives/ammunition. The stupidity of the commanders in Russian army has no bounds.
Based on the local sources on the ground the strikes resulted in up to 600 KIA + injured.
Before/after:
Apart from hosting freshly mobilized Russian troops the school used to store explosives/ammunition. The stupidity of the commanders in Russian army has no bounds.
What a stark contrast between this and Putin's speech.
I'm not Ukrainian but this speech gives me goosebumps.
There are so many parallels with this and Croatian Homeland war so all this moves me and bring me back bad memories from the war when I was a kid.
Looking at the latest weather forecasts for Donbass region the temperatures are expected to fall well below zero (up to -20 C) towards the end of the week. The ground will finally freeze, it will be interesting to see which side will try to take advantage of these conditions.
Indeed. Terrific speech to galvanize the country going into the new year.
Russian MOD is saying 63 killed, if they are admitting a number that high the real number must be staggering.
While true it would make more sense to look at it month by month, as you will then see a clear drop, it just took time to create and implement sanctions, but early on the physical volume of imports was similar to last year, but more money was paid due to higher prices.
So apparently there was no significant Ukrainian military presence at all in Sumy at the start of the invasion? It was mostly self-defense forces according to this Guardian article. Sumy was one of the first places that the Russians entered.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...sidents-kept-russian-forces-out-of-their-city
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...sidents-kept-russian-forces-out-of-their-city
The fact remains that the EU gave more money to Russia in 2022 than in 2021. And a big reason for this is that for more than two decades German politicians have been advocating in the EU for Russian companies. For example, see:
https://www.politico.eu/article/blame-germany-russia-policy/
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Such obdurance serves as a reminder that Germany didn’t sell its soul to Russia overnight; It was a process that took years, by the end of which the entire country was complicit.
No German is more responsible for the crisis in Ukraine than Merkel.
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Yes, but that's a different statement. Verhofstadt claimed that the sanctions have no effect and that's simply wrong.
One has to acknowledge that it took time to show an effect and that therefore the 2022/2021 comparison doesn't look good, but 2023 will look much different.
No, what Guy Verhofstadt wrote is just the facts, it is exactly what happened in 2022. Please read it again:
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9 packages of sanctions and the effect is less than 0 !
We are rewarding Russia for its war against us !>>
It is very simple. The EU should do more to help Ukraine. Now! The EU has to do much more than what the US is doing, it is as simple as that.
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So the Yale study is wrong?
https://www.dw.com/en/yale-study-shows-sanctions-are-crippling-russias-economy/a-62623738
Well yes, when did those sanctions come into effect? It wasn't at the beginning of the year. If you want to see the effect of 9 packages of sanctions you have to compare the time when they are implemented to the time before. Everything else is either stupid or cheap populism.
Verhofstadt said something very simple. The EU paid Russia more money in 2022 than in 2021. This is a fact. It is not an interpretation, it is fact.
The EU should be doing more to help Ukraine. Again, this is very simple. The EU should be doing more than what the US is doing. The EU has this responsibility because in the past 20 years the EU, and especially Germany, encouraged Putin against the advice of the US. Germany and the EU helped create this mess, they should feel responsible for the Ukrainians that suffer and die every day, and they should help Ukraine beat Russia. The EU can do much more and should be doing much more.
The economy overall is suffering terribly, it's just the energy sector that produces record numbers.
The EU should do something about the EU.
Germany has the primary responsibility for this mess. And now about Greece, between 2010-2019 it was basically Germany that made all Greek economic decisions, it was the corrupt Merkel government that destroyed the Greek economy (GPD down 23%!), and yes, it was Germany that pushed Greece to depend more on Russia.
