Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Meanwhile... Russia captures Bakhmut city administration building. I'm a little off on my prediction. I said they would capture Bakhmut by end of March. Apparently my timeline is slipping a little.
Meanwhile, desperation fuels terrorist action. Like the assassinations of Daryana Dugina, or the previous assassinations of two Donbas commanders (when Kiev was getting it's ass handed to it) Kiev's SBU has apparently resorted to assassinating journalists.
SECOND: Signym, you're crazy.
Russian authorities are blaming Ukrainian government entitiesQuote:nope!
and Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny
As usual, I get only one or two sentences into your posts before I stumble over something so blindingly stupid I have to stop.
Navalny is in prison, last I heard. I doubt he could organize anything.
You're a loser, troll.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Putin's paranoia reaches new heights by standing 60ft away from his audience
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Is there a reason to think Russians are crazy killers? Maybe:
Russia hawks exploit blogger’s death to demand executions and an even harsher crackdown on dissent
One of Russia’s most popular television hosts, Vladimir Soloviev, said that Trepova “should be shot,” along with her husband, who is living abroad.
“Drag him by his ears back to Russia and put him up against the wall,” Soloviev said on his show.
Soloviev also said that other Russian dissenters living abroad “should be thrown into sacks, brought back to Russia” to “rot in prison” or “be shot.”
On another popular Russian show called “60 Minutes,” one senior regional official, Andrey Gurulev, said he longed for the “days of Stalin…when the enemies of the people would get a pick and an axe and have fun waving it at a [Siberian prison camp].”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/05/europe/russia-hawks-blogger-death-crack
down-intl/index.html
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Finland just fucked itself.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/it-is-finn-ished/
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Congrats, Finland on becoming the thirty-first member of NATO. Imagine their shock when they realize being a member of NATO means fighting NATO’s wars of choice.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Ukraine ‘ready’ to talk to Russia on Crimea if counteroffensive succeeds
https://www.ft.com/content/d68b4007-4ddf-4320-b29a-f2eee2662d6e
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Ukraine ‘ready’ to talk to Russia on Crimea if counteroffensive succeeds
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Ukraine ‘ready’ to talk to Russia on Crimea if counteroffensive succeeds
Christopher Miller, Felicia Schwartz
Kyiv is willing to discuss the future of Crimea with Moscow if its forces reach the border of the Russian-occupied peninsula, a top adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the Financial Times.
The comments by Andriy Sybiha, deputy head of Zelenskyy’s office, are the most explicit statement of Ukraine’s interest in negotiations since it cut off peace talks with the Kremlin last April.
“If we will succeed in achieving our strategic goals on the battlefield and when we will be on the administrative border with Crimea, we are ready to open a diplomatic page to discuss this issue,” Sybiha said, referring to Kyiv’s long-planned counteroffensive.
He added: “It doesn’t mean that we exclude the way of liberation [of Crimea] by our army.”
Sybiha’s remarks may relieve western officials who are sceptical about Ukraine’s ability to reclaim the peninsula and worry that any attempt to do so militarily could lead President Vladimir Putin to escalate his war, possibly with nuclear weapons.
To date Zelenskyy has ruled out peace talks until Russian forces leave all of Ukraine, including Crimea.
Sybiha is a veteran diplomat who focuses on foreign policy in the president’s office and has been at Zelenskyy’s side at key moments in the war.
He said the president and his aides were now talking specifically about Crimea, as Ukraine’s army gets closer to launching its counteroffensive to regain territory.
A spokesperson for Zelenskyy did not respond to requests for comment.
Rear Admiral Tim Woods, the British defence attaché in Washington, said on Wednesday that Crimea would need “a political solution because of just the concentration of force that is there and what it would mean for the Ukrainians to go in there”.
He added: “I don’t think there’s going to be a very quick military solution . . . hence we need to see what are favourable conditions for Ukraine to negotiate and I think Ukraine would be up for that.”
In the early days of the war, Ukraine was willing to negotiate with Moscow over the future of Crimea rather than insisting on regaining it militarily at all costs.
But at present the only known contacts between Kyiv and Moscow are to negotiate prisoner of war exchanges and the return of children forcibly deported to Russia.
Ukraine broke off the peace talks after the discovery of alleged Russian war crimes in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, while Zelenskyy signed a decree declaring negotiations with Putin impossible after the Kremlin annexed four provinces in September.
Ukraine’s president has repeatedly made clear his ultimate goal of bringing all his country’s land, including Crimea, under Kyiv’s control.
But in May last year he indicated Ukraine could consider a peace deal if Russian forces returned to positions in eastern Ukraine predating last year’s invasion and suggested the issue of Crimea would be resolved later through diplomacy.
Crimea has been under Russian occupation since February 2014 and was annexed by Moscow the following month after a mock referendum — a move condemned internationally as an illegal land grab.
Ukrainian forces have recently stepped up their attacks on Russian military facilities in the peninsula, including land and sea-based drone assaults.
Kyiv is also hoping that its coming counteroffensive will make headway south — possibly through Zaporizhzhia province — and sever a land bridge that allows Russia to supply its invasion forces from Crimea.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a Zelenskyy adviser, told Radio Free Europe on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces would be on Crimea’s doorst
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With every passing day, the chances that the Russian military would achieve an operational breakthrough on the ground before the large-scale Ukrainian counteroffensive lessen.
Despite throwing men and weapon systems against multiple points in the Donbas and the east, the Russian forces have failed to achieve anything but some marginal territorial gains since they began their large-scale offensive in January.
To make the situation harder for the Kremlin, the turn for the Ukrainian military to respond approaches.
The weather and operational conditions for the large-scale Ukrainian counteroffensive are improving, and Kyiv is expected to attack in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, on day 405 of the conflict, Finland formally joined NATO, thus doubling the transatlantic alliance’s land border with Russia.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/04/putins-ukraine-war-is-slowly-break
ing-the-russian-military/
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded to a reporter’s question Wednesday regarding Russia’s relationship with the United States:
“We really are in a hot phase of the war, because Ukrainian Nazis are using American weapons, first and foremost. And the American administration keeps threatening to deliver longer-range and more deadly weapons systems," Lavrov said. "But nevertheless, I think we should continue to support our relations, and we hope that the Americans will wake up at once and return to the negotiating table. We'll see, we won't have to wait much longer."
Some background: Throughout the conflict Russian President Vladimir Putin has continuously framed his invasion of Ukraine – a country with a Jewish president – as a campaign of supposed “denazification,” a description dismissed by historians and political observers alike.
Last year, Lavrov – Putin’s top diplomat – sought to justify Moscow’s goal of “de-Nazifying” Ukraine by claiming Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood” and that “the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews.”
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-04-06
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There Is No Fixing Stupid When It Comes to Western Delusions About Russia
https://sonar21.com/there-is-no-fixing-stupid-when-it-comes-to-western
-delusions-about-russia/
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Chinese Ambassador to the EU Fu Cong stated on April 5 that the Russian–Chinese joint statement declaring there were “no limits” to their ties released in February 2022 was misrepresented, calling “no limits” a “purely rhetorical statement.”[7]
Fu added that China does not support Russia’s war in Ukraine and is not providing Russia weapons.
Fu’s statement is consistent with ISW’s March 21 assessment that Putin has not been able to secure the benefits from the no-limits bilateral partnership with China which he likely hoped for when meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow between March 20 and March 22.[8]
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-a
ssessment-april-5-2023
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Lukashenko delivered boilerplate rhetoric that continues to indicate that he has no intention of involving Belarus further in Russia’s war effort.
Lukashenko stated that NATO is conducting a purposeful buildup of forces along the borders of the Union State and that the West has unleashed an informational, political, and economic war against Belarus and Russia.[10] Lukashenko has previously employed such rhetoric in an attempt to justify resisting Kremlin pressure to further support the Russian war effort in Ukraine by arguing that Belarus needs to protect the western flank of the Union State.[11]
ISW has written at length about why Lukashenko is extraordinarily unlikely to further involve Belarus in the war in Ukraine.[12] ISW has previously assessed that Lukashenko is increasingly losing maneuvering room with the Kremlin amid the Kremlin’s steady pressure campaign to formalize the Russian-Belarusian Union State, and Lukashenko may be acquiescing to further integration measures while rejecting Putin’s likely larger demand for the direct participation of Belarusian forces in Russia’s war against Ukraine.[13]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-april-6-2023
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