Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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I suppose Ukraine had a surplus of Russian pow's to tilt the balance, wonder how many were sent the other way.
Pretty sure those RU POWs would be send straight back in.
Are we to assume that the majority of Russians support this? Still very difficult to get a sense of the popular feeling around actions being taken. Maybe they aren’t a country of protest?
Sounds like a recipe for deserters to be honest.
This been mentioned?
We’ll see in the upcoming days how the mobilization will affect this, but before that, sadly, yes. There’s a huge part of the public that tries to ignore what’s happening (which still makes then pro-war) and now they’ve been forced to choose; an equally big part that is openly pro-war and a lesser group that stands against it, many of whom (those who had the opportunity) had left the country.
Genuinely, how does this end?
Not well for Russia (and Russians sadly)
Looks like they’ve traded Medvedchuk.
Either Putin pulls back and his ‘partial’ victory will be he devastated Ukraine and his population will swallow it or he turns off the gas over a harsh winter and Germany pull away from the alliance and the rest voicing concerns which concludes Putin keeping East Ukraine.
Oh and nuclear war is just rhetoric and scaremongering. Putin ain’t giving up his billions, yachts, daughters and mistress’s to go in the history books.
You obviously missed the news that he already turned off the gas and nobody cared. He fired his last shot for the economic war against Europe and he failed.
To be fair to Putin (hah), he did seem to keep the majority of Azovstal in fairly decent nick, despite thermobombing 55 of them at Olevnika. I gave them all near to no chance of survival after surrendering. It's little things like this, along with his resistance to fully mobilise, that makes me unconvinced that he will ever go nuclear.
The sad thing is that I think a true Ukrainian win (i.e. back to 1992 borders) is very difficult. Liberating Crimea is no easy feat without a navy. But they should be given every chance to claim as much back as much of their own land back before negotiating. It should be them who decides when to stop. And when the conflict is frozen this time, we need to give them security guarantees otherwise it's just a matter of time before invasion no.3 starts.
If Russia wins, Europe will break I think. At least I think there will be a major division within the EU between Eastern and Western Europe.
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Guessing turning it off in the summer is completely different to doing it in the winter.
Well feck it the issue has to be addressed at some point so may as well be now.
It's turned off and nobody expects it to be turned on again.
I only hope they manage to find a way to contact the Freedom of Russia legion.
Stroke of military brilliance there. Can’t see anything bad happening by sending anti-war folks to man your trenches.
The problem is that, given the state of Russian materiel, they can't pull the old "grenade accidentally went off" trick around the officers.
Some people with knives would make those goons' job a lot more challenging. They're cowards who gang up 2, 3, 4 on 1 against peaceful protestors. They deserve to get shanked with a rusty knife. The problem for the world is that Putin has all of the people likely to fight back physically on his side.
"Comrade, you dropped your grenade and lost the pin! Latrine duty for a week!"
“Comrade captain seems to have fallen on his bayonet!”
I am sorry for your loss and the circumstances you've found yourself in, but I am also in awe of the courage and resilience you are displaying. Many people must be taking inspiration from you, hope this all ends sooner rather than later.
Hope Putin is taken down from within before things start to escalate.
A man in his 50s assaulted him because "he didn't speak Russian". Obviously some nationalistic types do not like English speaking people on the streets. For some, Russia is not fighting their brothers the Ukrainians, Russia is fighting the West.
Yeah, pretty grim stuff to get randomly assaulted on the street during a live stream.
And for the only reason that you speak English.
Incredible how highly Russia valued Medvedchuk. Russians again going back on their public commitments not to trade Azovstal POWs for him. That will go down badly in Russia:
Dying at war is for the poor.
So much for 35km queues.
Out of these 4824 a total of one person sought asylum and 36 temporary protection.
The whole country is going to the gutter pretty fast. Depressing stuff all around. Problem is they're drawing Ukraine to the gutter along with them.
Wonder what the feeling in Russia is about the release of Azov PoW.