Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:Russians Express Anger at Mass Grave Plans: 'We Don't Want to Be Buried'
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Battle front news missing from M$M lately. Things must be going "so well" for Kiev!/snark
By Brendan Cole On 3/13/23 at 8:38 AM EDT
Residents in the Russian region of Penza have expressed concerns regarding local authorities' plans for a mass burial of citizens, in a video that has been widely viewed on social media.
The clip of a group of people from the city of Zarechny, about 400 miles southeast of Moscow, came amid Russian claims that Kyiv is targeting Russian territory. There are concerns that the war in Ukraine could spill over onto the territory of the aggressor, as well as at the growing casualty numbers of Russian troops.
In the video, a man says that he had seen a drone that had come from the Saratov region located to the south of Penza oblast. A woman then describes how the local administration has not provided any information "about where children would be taken if there was bombing."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-anger-grave-mass-war-buried-pe
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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SECOND and THGR reliably get things bass akwards. I've never seen such deliberate stupidity in my life.
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Fuck Ukraine.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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International Criminal Court to open war crimes cases against Russia but trial looks unlikely | March 13, 2023
The New York Times reports:
The International Criminal Court intends to open two war crimes cases tied to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and will seek arrest warrants for several people, according to current and former officials with knowledge of the decision who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The cases represent the first international charges to be brought forward since the start of the conflict and come after months of work by special investigation teams. They allege that Russia abducted Ukrainian children and teenagers and sent them to Russian re-education camps, and that the Kremlin deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure.
The chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, must first present his charges to a panel of pretrial judges who will decide whether the legal standards have been met for issuing arrest warrants, or whether investigators need more evidence.
It was not clear whom the court planned to charge in each case. Asked to confirm the requests for arrest warrants, the prosecutor’s office said, “We do not publicly discuss specifics related to ongoing investigations.”
Some outside diplomats and experts said it was possible that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia could be charged, as the court does not recognize immunity for a head of state in cases involving war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.
Still, the likelihood of a trial remains slim, experts say, as the court cannot hear cases in absentia and Russia is unlikely to surrender its own officials.
The Kremlin has denied accusations of war crimes, but international and Ukrainian investigators have gathered powerful evidence of an array of atrocities since the invasion’s early days.
The first case, the briefed officials said, deals with the widely reported abduction of Ukrainian children, ranging from toddlers to teenagers. As part of a Kremlin-sponsored program, they were taken from Ukraine and placed in homes to become Russian citizens or sent to summer camps to be re-educated, The New York Times and researchers have found. Some came from orphanages or group homes.
Moscow has made no secret of its program, presenting it as a humanitarian mission to protect orphaned or abandoned Ukrainian children from the war.
Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, the program’s public face, began sending children to Russia within weeks after the invasion began in February 2022 and has regularly appeared on television to promote adoptions. Mr. Putin signed a decree last May to speed up access to Russian citizenship for Ukrainians.
Mr. Khan, the prosecutor, has publicly signaled his intentions to pursue this case, saying that illegal transfers of children to Russia or to occupied parts of Ukraine were a priority for his investigators.
Earlier this month, he visited a children’s home in southern Ukraine, now vacated, and his office posted a photograph of him standing among empty cots. “Children cannot be treated as the spoils of war,” he said in a statement following his visit.
A report published in February by Yale University and the Conflict Observatory program of the U.S. State Department said that at least 6,000 children from Ukraine were being held in a total of 43 camps in Russia, with the actual number thought to be higher. The National Information Bureau of the Ukrainian government said that as of early March it could be more than 16,000.
“There has been a lot of focus on this issue, and pursuing it as a crime will generate a lot of reaction,” said Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association. “It’s forbidden to forcibly transfer civilians across a border, and during a conflict it can be a war crime. It can also amount to crimes against humanity if it is part of a widespread and systematic policy. Deporting children could even be part of genocidal intent.”
In the second case, the I.C.C. chief prosecutor is expected to addres
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No. We do not need another international alphabet agency.
Fuck Ukraine.
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SECOND and THGR reliably get things bass akwards. I've never seen such deliberate stupidity in my life.
Russia has been forced to issue old ammunition that was previously declared unfit for use, says UK intel, deepening its struggles in Ukraine
Russia is issuing old military stock that was previously seen as unfit for use, UK intelligence said.
It's so low on ammo that many places on the front now have "extremely punitive shell-rationing."
This is likely a key reason why Russia's new offensive hasn't progressed, the MOD said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-has-been-forced-to-issue-o
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Russia’s vaunted second offensive is a damp squib | Neither shock nor awe
Vladimir Putin is running out of ideas and ammunition
For months Ukrainian officials had warned that Russia was getting ready to launch a big new offensive. It was mustering forces “beyond the Urals”, said General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s army chief, in December, and could even once again target Kyiv. Russia had gathered half a million fresh troops and would “try something” around the anniversary of the war, suggested the defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov. In fact, Russia’s offensive began weeks ago. It has underwhelmed.
Since late January Russia’s army has been hurling troops and shellfire along wide swathes of the front lines in the east. To the north, in Luhansk province, Russia is attacking towards Kupiansk, a rail hub, and Lyman, a small city, both of which Ukraine liberated in the autumn. In the south, in Donetsk province, Russia is pressing Avdiivka and Vuhledar, which lie either side of Donetsk city. The focus of its efforts, unchanged since August, remains Bakhmut, an unassuming town that has acquired talismanic status for Russia.
Russia has little to show for this onslaught. Its gains this year have been trifling: 60 square kilometres around Bakhmut and the nearby town of Soledar, estimates Konrad Muzyka, an analyst. Bakhmut is likely to fall in the coming days or weeks. But Ukrainian troops will simply reset along a new defensive line to the west. And such gains will have come at a steep price. On February 17th British defence intelligence said Russian military casualties, including those for the Wagner Group, a mercenary firm which leads the fighting in Bakhmut, had reached 175,000 to 200,000, with 40,000 to 60,000 deaths.
Russia’s attack in Vuhledar epitomises the campaign. The city, in Donetsk province, sits on a high point astride key Russian supply lines running west into neighbouring Zaporizhia province. A Russian effort to seize Vuhledar in November ended in disaster. So too did the latest attempt, which began in January. Russia’s 40th and 155th naval infantry brigades, a pair of elite units, are thought to have suffered enormous casualties, with over a thousand deaths in just two days, according to Ben Wallace, Britain’s defence secretary.
Nor does Russia have much in reserve. Though it has mobilised over 300,000 troops since September, half were sent straight to the front to replace casualties, running to 1,000 a day killed and wounded, reckons another Western official. The rest, says Michael Kofman of cna, an American think-tank, have probably been used to fill out under-strength battalions and build a reserve to rotate front-line units out of Ukraine. A much-rumoured new wave of mobilisation has not materialised.
Russia has also held back four brigades of naval infantry around Mariupol, in Donetsk province, and seven brigades of VDV airborne forces in Luhansk province, says Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute, another think-tank. “That’s not enough to do some massive offensive that breaks through and starts carving up everything.” Moreover, says Mr Kofman, although these elite units have done most of the serious fighting, their quality has deteriorated as mobilised personnel pad out their depleted ranks.
Manpower is not the only problem. Western security officials say that, come spring, Russia’s rate of artillery fire will be 20% of the level it managed in late 2022—a serious handicap in what has been an artillery-dominated war. Russia’s defence industry, despite being on a war footing, is struggling to keep up, say officials. Military demand for main battle tanks outstrips production by a factor of ten. Precision-guided munitions (pgms), central to Russia’s air campaign against Ukraine’s power grid, are dwindling. Russia’s air force used up half of its air-to-ground missiles in the first month of the war alone. This year Russia is likely to have half as many pgms available as it expended in 2022.
Russia’s army is fragmented after a year of war and increasingly resembles a m
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Nobody cares. No more Ukrainian flags to be found anywhere on Twitter, I'm afraid. 
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Quote:Elon Musk owns twitter. If he turned off the Ukrainian flags on twitter, that makes perfect sense since Elon Musk also owns Star Link, which he turned off in Ukraine because it was being used to support Ukrainians. Elon Musk also told Ukraine to surrender to Russia.
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Nobody cares. No more Ukrainian flags to be found anywhere on Twitter, I'm afraid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_satellite_services_in_Ukraine#D
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Elon Musk Fans Horrified as He Suggests Ukraine Give in to Putin's Demands
"You are assuming that I wish to be popular."
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-fans-ukraine
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Russia's war hawks say attrition has backfired in Ukraine: 'We have no rounds'
by Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter |
March 13, 2023 06:54 PM
Russia suffers from an ammunition shortage that extends beyond the Wagner Group mercenary forces, according to Russian complaints from the front that express anxiety about a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“It’s not the issue of Wagnerites — the issue is about the whole front — everyone is lacking,” said Yuri Mezinov, a pro-Kremlin political figure from a Russian border region. “There are no rounds, you understand? None.”
Mezinov voiced his dismay amid a bloody slog around Bakhmut that has exposed bitter disputes between Wagner Group leadership and the Russian Defense Ministry, as well as numerous public protests from conscripts sent on doomed assaults. Their frank complaints argue that the Moscow’s embrace of a war of attrition has backfired — a stunning assessment, for pro-Kremlin analysts, that runs contrary to Russia’s historical reputation for mustering overwhelming numbers of men and materiel in wartime.
“Our boys are dying in hundreds. Not just boys, but the best of my people, Russian people, their generation, their grandchildren and great grandchildren will never be,” said Mezinov, per the War Translated Project. “I saw a lad — today he is gone. Because he didn’t have enough artillery support. Along the whole front, we have a command to attack, we attack without fire support. Do we have problems with metal? Problems with metallurgists? Who can tell me? How is this possible?”
Russian forces have concentrated on Bakhmut for months in a protracted struggle that at times has caused Western officials to fear that Ukrainian military leaders had been sucked into a battle that would end in either defeat or a pyrrhic victory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s team insists that they have turned the tables on Russian President Vladimir Putin, such that Russia is throwing away “a large part of its trained military personnel” through unrelenting attacks on well-defended positions.
"The real heroes now are the defenders who hold the eastern front on their shoulders and, sparing neither themselves nor their enemies, inflict maximum losses on them,” Ukrainian Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Ukrainian military’s Ground Forces, said Saturday. “It is necessary to buy time to accumulate reserves and start a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”
That outlook breaks with conventional wisdom in Western security circles, even those most supportive of Ukraine's war aims. Some of the most recent and dramatic initiatives to send military aid to Ukraine have been taken on the understanding that a longer war plays into Putin's hands.
“This is the time if we want to bring this to a successful conclusion — and, of course, we should, and we do — we should look to bring it to a conclusion quickly,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said during a trip to Washington in January.
Paradoxically, Russia’s struggles around Bakhmut have sparked a disagreement in militarist circles about whether Ukrainian forces will launch a counter-offensive — or whether such a campaign is even necessary.
“I’m almost confident that this is ‘misinformation’ — otherwise, the military leaders would not be announcing it to the whole world,” said Igor Girkin, a former Russian intelligence officer and commander in Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. “As part of the generally successful (for the enemy) conclusion of the ‘battle of attrition and gain of time’ that was deliberately carried out during the winter campaign by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, no counteroffensives are needed.”
Prigozhin’s associates seem to fear an extensive attempt to sweep back Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
“What is happening at the front really cannot but suggest that by accumulating forces along the entire line of contact ... and in the Donbas, the enemy is preparing something like a revanche,” assessed an author at Reverse Side of th
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