Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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You're insane, SECOND.
And you spend way too much time finding and blast-posting walls of gibberish. 
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Nobody gave a shit about Ukraine when all of this started.
Nobody gives a shit about Ukraine now.
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Ukraine's former Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has warned the West that Russia's intentions towards Ukraine are far more sinister than mere conquest.
According to Reznikov, negotiations with Moscow will not bring peace, as Vladimir Putin is determined to completely destroy Ukraine and "assimilate" its citizens into the Russian Federation.
Reznikov states that any "deal" with the Kremlin would not end the conflict. Russia demands the recognition of Ukraine's occupied territories as its own in exchange for ending the war.
However, this is merely a tactic to buy time, regroup, and ultimately "solve the Ukrainian problem" using new resources. Russia does not recognize the existence of Ukraine and its people; its goal is the annihilation of the Ukrainian state and the assimilation of Ukrainians.
Drawing parallels with the events leading up to World War II, Reznikov compares the international demands in 1938 for Czechoslovakia to cede Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
He argues that Putin's actions follow a similar pattern, and history shows that such concessions do not stop aggressors.
The situation is further complicated by the lack of "meaningful diplomacy" with Moscow, as stated by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Despite some recent successes, Ukraine's counteroffensive has not yet liberated a significant portion of southern Ukraine occupied by Russia since last year's full-scale invasion.
Some Western allies have suggested that Ukraine may need to make territorial concessions to Russia in exchange for peace and NATO membership, a proposal that has sparked outrage in Kiev.
https://www.dagens.com/news/disturbing-revelation-putins-goal-is-not-t
o-conquer-ukraine
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Ukraine reports significant blow to Russia: 600 Russian forces killed and party headquarters destroyed
Jakob A. Overgaard
According to official statements, approximately 600 Russian military personnel were neutralized in a single day. This recent event has added to the growing number of casualties since the conflict began in February 2022, bringing the total to a staggering 268,140.
The Mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, further disclosed that the United Russia Political Party's main office in Polohy, Ukraine, was obliterated in an assault that took place on Friday. This information was corroborated by the Kyiv Independent. Fedorov, communicating through the Telegram messaging platform, mentioned that locals depicted the Russians as being "evicted" from the headquarters during the tumultuous "pseudo-elections" period.
In a somber note, Fedorov hinted at the aftermath of the attack, stating, "Some were rushed to medical facilities, while others were taken directly to the morgue."
The Ukrainian armed forces' general staff has been actively monitoring and estimating the number of Russian casualties. Their recent estimate aligns with the government's claim of 600 Russian personnel losses on that fateful Friday.
The destruction of the United Russia Political Party's headquarters is seen as a symbolic blow to Russia's influence in the region. The exact reasons and circumstances surrounding the attack remain unclear, but it underscores the volatile nature of the ongoing conflict between the two nations.
https://www.dagens.com/news/ukraine-reports-significant-blow-to-russia
-600-russian-forces-killed-and-party-headquarters-destroyed
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Originally posted by second:
Ukraine's former Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has warned the West that Russia's intentions towards Ukraine are far more sinister than mere conquest.
According to Reznikov, negotiations with Moscow will not bring peace, as Vladimir Putin is determined to completely destroy Ukraine and "assimilate" its citizens into the Russian Federation.
Reznikov states that any "deal" with the Kremlin would not end the conflict. Russia demands the recognition of Ukraine's occupied territories as its own in exchange for ending the war.
However, this is merely a tactic to buy time, regroup, and ultimately "solve the Ukrainian problem" using new resources. Russia does not recognize the existence of Ukraine and its people; its goal is the annihilation of the Ukrainian state and the assimilation of Ukrainians.
Drawing parallels with the events leading up to World War II, Reznikov compares the international demands in 1938 for Czechoslovakia to cede Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
He argues that Putin's actions follow a similar pattern, and history shows that such concessions do not stop aggressors.
The situation is further complicated by the lack of "meaningful diplomacy" with Moscow, as stated by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Despite some recent successes, Ukraine's counteroffensive has not yet liberated a significant portion of southern Ukraine occupied by Russia since last year's full-scale invasion.
Some Western allies have suggested that Ukraine may need to make territorial concessions to Russia in exchange for peace and NATO membership, a proposal that has sparked outrage in Kiev.
https://www.dagens.com/news/disturbing-revelation-putins-goal-is-not-t
o-conquer-ukraine
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
BORG!
Fuck Ukraine.
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Quote:And we're supposed to believe Reznikov because he has such a stellar history of honesty?
Originally posted by second:
Ukraine's former Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has warned the West that Russia's intentions towards Ukraine are far more sinister than mere conquest.
According to Reznikov...
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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SECOND: Ukraine reports ....
Aaaaand.... That's as far as I got with THAT one, too! Ukraine ALSO 'reports' that they killed something like 268,000 Russians. And yet, neither the BBC nor Meduza can find all of those death notices or graves. Must be invisible as well as dead!
Dood, get new material....
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What the West Still Gets Wrong About Russia’s Military
Moscow’s Overlooked Manpower Problem—and How Washington Can Exploit It
By Zoltan Barany, September 8, 2023
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/what-west-still-gets
-wrong-about-russias-military
In the spring of 2022, as the West watched Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine unfold, one of the greatest surprises was what it revealed about Russian military strength. When the assault began, many Western leaders and analysts assumed that Ukraine would be quickly overpowered by Russia’s vast army, powerful air force, and deep reserves of major weaponry. Instead, Russia’s ground forces proved to be disorganized, poorly trained, and lacking crucial supply lines, while Russian planes failed to gain control of Ukrainian airspace. It took weeks for the West to fully recognize these weaknesses and help Ukraine exploit them.
In recent months, there has been a similar misreading. In the weeks after Ukraine’s slow counteroffensive began in June, many commentators dwelled on the strength and depth of Russian defenses. Some expressed pessimism about Ukraine’s ability to break through them at all; others warned that Moscow could order a second mobilization, bringing hundreds of thousands of new troops into combat. Yet by late August, Ukraine was making solid gains, with Biden administration officials acknowledging “notable” progress, including against Russia’s second line of defenses.
This pattern is not new. For decades, Western analysts and policymakers have consistently overrated Moscow’s military strength. In part, this has been the result of a lack of reliable information. Although Russia (and the Soviet Union before it) has fought in many wars, there have been few examples of Moscow facing off against resolute and well-armed enemies, and Russian propaganda and repression by the Kremlin have effectively limited independent analysis inside Russia. But another factor may be even more important: in assessing Russia’s strength, U.S. and other Western experts have tended to focus on quantitative assessments of weapons systems—tanks, planes, and missiles—and raw manpower, rather than on the qualitative and psychological characteristics that often determine a military’s performance on the battlefield.
In fact, on many qualitative measures, Russian forces have been woefully lacking. Moscow lacks the kind of highly trained officer corps that has proved essential to the world’s best armies. Relying in part on conscription that is imposed unequally across the population, it suffers from low troop morale. Many of Russia’s best young minds have sought to avoid service altogether or have fled the country. And because of Russia’s autocratic system and pervasive corruption, it has proved difficult to bring the kinds of innovation, adaptability, and versatility that tend to produce the best outcomes on the battlefield.
Paradoxically, the West is acutely aware of qualitative issues when assessing other militaries. Take the cases of Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Although their per capita defense outlays are among the highest in the world, few analysts would rank the effectiveness of their armed forces at a similar level: it has long been demonstrated that they lack sufficient training, morale, discipline, and experience in operating under demanding and adverse conditions. Yet because of Russia’s historic reputation as a superpower, analysts have tended to view its armed forces differently, concentrating on material strength while neglecting crucial intangibles such as the quality and experience of its troops—and, more specifically, the way that Russia has built up its manpower. As a result, the United States and its allies may be foreclosing more effective policy responses to the war or even inhibiting Ukraine’s warfighting strategy.
SUPERPOWER OR SUPER HYPE?
The overestimation of Moscow’s military goes back at least to the mid-twentieth century. Following World War II, experts often overrated Soviet forces, with major consequences for U
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Victory at What Price in Ukraine?
By David Lapp-Jost
September 09, 2023
How many Ukrainian lives is full-out victory over Putin and recovery of the Donbas and southern Ukraine worth? 100,000? 500,000? A million? It´s a more relevant question than most realize. Despite the flurry of Ukraine War coverage in Western media, a February 2023 Responsible Science Journal article on the war with insight into the true human cost until now went almost completely without notice. https://www.sgr.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-05/SGR_RS5_2023_Parkin
son1.pdf
That article asked an obvious question that almost everyone else seemingly intentionally avoids “how many Ukrainians have died as a result of this war?” and the likely answer was 150,000 excess deaths – deaths above the normal expected rate -- only by February of this year. One might expect this question in every article about the war – how many people are dying? To improve human security in Ukraine and prevent future conflicts, we need to ask new questions, scrutinize war in new ways, and reflect on what it means to work for peace.
More at https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/09/09/victory_at_what_p
rice_in_ukraine_978456.html
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Ukraine collects Russian bodies on 'road of death'
Russia and Ukraine have conducted regular exchanges of prisoners of war, as well as the bodies of dead soldiers, since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Wearing face masks, the Ukrainian soldiers poked sticks into the undergrowth along a deserted country road, searching for the bodies of Russian soldiers they hoped to exchange for their own comrades, living and dead.
They called it the "road of death" after the number of Russian soldiers killed there when Ukrainian forces retook the southeastern village of Blahodatne at the start of their counteroffensive in June.
Three months on, the frontline had shifted south and it was finally safe enough for the three-man team of Ukrainian soldiers to start their operation in this liberated part of Donetsk region.
"We're going to search," said Volodymyr, a 50-year-old marine, as artillery fire boomed in the distance. "Search with our eyes. And using smell."
The route was dotted with gutted vehicles and shattered buildings. At one point, they used a rope to tug a body to make sure it had not been booby-trapped by retreating Russian forces.
The group recovered nine bodies in their day-long search on Friday. Each was loaded onto the back of a truck and taken for forensic examination.
Volodymyr said Russian forces had been forced to retreat rapidly from Blahodatne and that the only other route out had been unusable because it was heavily mined.
"There was probably an exchange of fire. But they retreated very quickly," he said.
"They left the wounded and killed on the way and escaped to Urozhaine. But they didn't stay in Urozhaine for long either. There was intense fighting for Urozhaine," he said, referring to a nearby village that was later retaken.
Retreating forces and prisoner exchanges
"Here's what we do. We gather up their bodies. We arrange exchanges for our prisoners who are alive. And for bodies. Our boys," Vasylii, a 53-year-old volunteer, said. "You know, so that a mother can go and visit the cemetery."
https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukraine-war/ar
ticle-758505
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From your article, SECOND:
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With tens of thousands of Ukrainians since dead, this adds up to maybe four to five times the Russian losses, based on estimated Russian excess deaths. Hundreds of thousands of healthy young people have been injured and/or traumatized in an already-poor health care system. Millions are live as refugees in Europe, with only 1/3rd of the refugees wanting to return to Ukraine despite impoverishment and vulnerability to sex exploitation. Ukraine´s birthrate has plummeted. Realistically hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have already died and next winter may well again be very hard, perhaps even harder. War is crucifying Ukraine, and Ukraine may also be losing.
Russians report Ukrainian battlefield deaths based on (they say) radio intercepts of field officers reporting in to their commanders. (Of course, they don't report on their own deaths) That doesn't account for behind-the-line deaths from longer-range weapons like drones, artillery, rockets, and missiles which can't necessarily be observed or intercepted. It also doesn't count soldiers who died in hopsital later. I haven't totaled up Kremlin MoD reports, so all I have are estimates but people have claimed 200,000-400,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed since the start of the war, with about 60,000 just from the start of the "counteroffensive".
Meanwhile, using Russian death and inheritance notices and other tools, Meduza and Mediazone says
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According to their analysis, 25,000 more inheritance cases were opened in 2022 for males aged 15 to 49 than expected. By May 27, 2023, the number of excess cases had shot up to 47,000.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-11/ukraine-war-has-killed-about-50
000-russians-data-suggests/102587006
NOT the 460,000 that "Kiev says"! It almost seems to me that Kiev is actually reversing the numbers .... their "Russians killed" is actually "Ukrainians dead", and vice versa.
Various (realistic) estimates from various battlefields report anywhere from 4-10:1 ratio of Ukrainian deaths to Russian deaths. Probably closer to 5:1, but whatever the ratio clearly Ukraine is losing far more soldiers than Russia, and won't be able to keep the war going indefinitely because they've already run out of traditional 155 mm shells and sooner or later will run out of soldiers.
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