Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Supposedly a hacker got into Ukraine's military database and published their KIAs as 2.4 million.
Maybe true, maybe not.
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Supposedly, too funny. Watch it and weep comrade.
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Ukraine AMBUSHES Russian Forces In Crimea; MAJOR Losses As Russian Ships DESTROYED
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“The United States and Europe have enough strength to stop this terror”
By Ferdinand Knapp | July 6, 2026 9:58 am CET
https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-attack-kyiv-kills-11-injures-4
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed his calls for more Patriot missiles Monday as Russia's latest missile attacks killed at least 12 people and injured more than 50 in Kyiv on Sunday night.
"It is critically important that the world — first and foremost the United States and our European partners — come out of the NATO summit in Turkey with strong decisions in support of our air defense," Zelenskyy wrote on X on Monday.
Zelenskyy had warned late Sunday that intelligence suggested Russia was preparing another massive strike on Ukraine ahead of this week's NATO summit in Ankara.
"As long as Patriot missiles remain in our allies' stockpiles, Russia is only encouraged to keep 'vanquishing' residential buildings," the Ukrainian leader said. Only Western support for Kyiv's air defense can guarantee "the protection of ordinary people’s lives," he added.
"The United States and Europe have enough strength to stop this terror," Zelenskyy said.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Moscow's overnight strikes destroyed four districts, with Podilskyi reporting the most damage as several high-rise residential buildings were struck.
Among the injured were three children. Klitschko wrote on Telegram and declared Tuesday a day of mourning for the victims. The number of casualties might rise as emergency crews continue searching the rubble for survivors on Monday morning.
Klitschko later posted again on Telegram to say the death toll had risen from 11 to 12.
The latest attack comes just days after another wave of Russian missile and drone strikes killed 13 people and injured more than 80 last week and two days after Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, held a call with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Veronika Melkozerova contributed reporting from Kyiv. This article has been updated.
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Originally posted by THG:
Supposedly, too funny. Watch it and weep comrade.
Yeah. Watch my meaningless clickbait and cry.
Seriously dude... Are you still going to be at this every day when this thread turns 10 years old?
Pathetic.
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Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC
By Tania Kharchenko and Samuel Horti | July 6, 2026
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kkrx8jeno
This article contains accounts of torture and sexual violence
A BBC World Service investigation has identified Temerbek, and uncovered details about two other men accused of abusing detainees, shedding light on a system that operates almost completely out of reach of Ukrainian and international justice.
The men appear to now be living ordinary lives with their families in Russia and occupied Ukraine. Survivors see revealing their identities as a step towards holding them accountable.
Liudmyla says that if the men she accuses of abuse aren't found and imprisoned, "then, justice for me will be their names as criminals, and torturers, will be known to their children".
The prisons these men helped run are part of a detention system in which the UN's human rights office (OHCHR) says the torture and ill-treatment of civilians is "systematic and widespread".
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For almost four and a half years Russia has not been at war, officially. It has actually been involved in a “special military operation” against Ukraine. It has even been illegal in the Russian Federation to speak of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a “war”. This preposterous fiction was maintained for a few reasons. Internationally, the Russians wanted to pretend to the world that they were not at “war” but instead were involved in a pre-emptive defensive operation. Domestically it was a way of avoiding certain constitutional triggers that would have been activated by a formal declaration of war and, finally, it was a way of assuring the Russian people that the government had the situation in hand. No war means no problems.
How Putin’s “Special Military Operation” Became a People’s War
There is an old Italian joke that explains a lot about the nature of conformism in authoritarian and totalitarian societies: one of Mussolini’s sons asks his father what form of government he has established in the country, to which Il Duce replies irritably: “Eat up and shut up!”
This formula describes an authoritarian model in which “eating up and shutting up” is enough for the bulk of the population to appear law-abiding. Until recently, this was the model in place in Russia: in exchange for relatively decent conditions, ordinary people kept quiet, stayed out of the authorities’ affairs, and automatically voted in favor of any initiatives.
More at https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2023/03/how-puti
ns-special-military-operation-became-a-peoples-war
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Moscow’s ballistic-missile barrages are exploiting Ukraine’s Shortage of Patriot Missiles
Zelensky said there were enough interceptors for Patriot batteries in other countries’ stockpiles but that governments were reluctant to share them.
“Any delay with missiles for our air defense—missiles for Patriots—means the loss of lives, and it encourages Russia to continue the war. The world has the necessary quantity and quality of air defense,” he said. “Missiles for Patriots are needed not in warehouses right now, but in Patriot units in Ukraine.”
The Patriot missile-defense system has proven the only way for Ukraine to reliably stop ballistic missiles. The sheer speed of ballistic missiles, which travel at several miles per second in their descent, make them hard to stop.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraines-shortage-of-patriot-missiles
-leaves-kyiv-undefended-4a8059bb
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The call for accountability
By David Kirichenko
July 7, 2026, 9:24 am
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/79276
. . . For some critics, however, the dismissal marked only the beginning of a larger question: whether accountability would follow.
“Many people see him as a symbol of military corruption in Ukraine,” said Halenko. “The problem is that he was removed from office, but he was never punished.”
Bohdan Krotevych, the former chief of staff of the Azov Brigade, wrote on X in May that Tkachuk represented “the worst remnants left in the army from the Soviet era,” pointing to questions about assets and what he described as a degrading attitude toward cadets.
If Tkachuk escaped accountability, he argued, it would send a message that senior officers could continue using their positions for personal gain while treating subordinates as servants.
“Cases like Tkachuk’s contribute to Ukraine’s inability to outperform Russia in the training and preparation of military personnel,” said Halenko. “And that is a critically important issue.”
In 2020, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced an investigation into academy officials over allegations that more than 16 million hryvnias had been embezzled through food procurement contracts between 2017 and 2020.
The Academy declined to address specific questions about allegations raised by former cadets, corruption investigations, or Tkachuk’s tenure.
Former cadets describe an institution that, in their view, changed little during Tkachuk’s tenure.
“The academy preserved many Soviet-era practices,” Halenko said. “From what I observed, there were no significant reforms.”
Oleksandra Ustinova, a Ukrainian member of parliament from the Holos party, said that the challenges facing Ukraine’s military education system extend far beyond a single academy.
“Every military academy in Ukraine needs to be led by people with real combat experience,” Ustinova said. “For too long, institutions have been run by officers who were educated in Soviet military systems and never served on the front lines.”
Analysts say that the quality of military education has become increasingly consequential as Ukraine rapidly expands and replenishes its armed forces during the war. . . .
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'Europe needs its own effective anti-ballistic system,' Zelensky tells NATO Summit
By Asami Terajima | July 7, 2026 4:56 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/europe-needs-its-own-effective-anti-ballis
tic-systems-and-missiles-zelensky-says-as-nato-summit-starts-in-ankara/
President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated Europe's need for its own "effective anti-ballistic systems and missiles" at the NATO Summit in Ankara on July 7, warning that ballistic missiles remain "Russia's last major advantage."
Zelensky's call for an anti-ballistic system comes a day after Russia launched a massive missile and drone strike on Kyiv, killing 26 in the second large-scale attack on the capital in four days.
Critically short on supplies of U.S.-produced Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, which are capable of shooting down ballistic missiles, Ukraine's air defense is being overwhelmed by the escalation of Russian attacks on Kyiv in recent weeks.
The Ukrainian president urged European allies that their need for affordable, mass-produced anti-ballistic systems "cannot wait until 2030 or beyond," and needs to be met "as soon as possible, in fact, today."
"It's about providing the strongest possible protection. First of all protection for hundreds of millions of Europeans, and that protection is needed today, not years from now," Zelensky said in his address at the Defense Industry Forum.
Zelensky once again pleaded to Western allies for more air defense missiles to counter ballistic missiles, while adding that Ukraine is developing its own anti-ballistic ammunition and hopes "it will deliver real strong results."
The president stressed that Ukraine's current priority is securing more air defense missiles to counter ballistic missiles, which Russia has increasingly used in recent massive attacks on cities far from the front.
Zelensky said that discussions with the U.S. on a potential Patriot missile production license are underway and called on Western allies to support Kyiv in the negotiations.
"We are capable of doing everything else ourselves, but when it comes to air defense, we need our partners' determination," Zelensky said.
"Please, let more determination and more decisions for air defense be one of the key outcomes of this NATO summit in Ankara."
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Wrong. Stalin was a scary guy, extremely competent, leading a mighty country. Putin isn't scary and isn't competent, same weaknesses as big blabbermouth Mussolini, leading a country that is no mightier than Italy, which is why Russia hasn't been able to crush Ukraine like it is a bug.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
No, it means Putin is Stalin.
Country comparison Russia vs Italy 2026
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/russia/italy
Economy Stats: compare key data on Italy & Russia
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Italy/Russia/Economy
If Putin is so incompetent and Russia so weak, why is Europe shitting its drawers about him?
Why are you?
And, seriously dood, even the IMF disagrees with your assessment of Russia's economy. From where do you dredge up these know- nothing fools?
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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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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Supposedly a hacker got into Ukraine's military database and published their KIAs as 2.4 million.
Maybe true, maybe not.
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Supposedly, too funny. Watch it and weep comrade.
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Ukraine AMBUSHES Russian Forces In Crimea; MAJOR Losses As Russian Ships DESTROYED
THUGR, I watch Military Summary channel every day, usually twice a day. He backs up his map with geolocated videos, which Kiev readily supplies bc they need to make the most of any success that they have. I also have many other sources.
I doubt that I'm missing anything major.
Same question: From where do you dig up these know- nothing fools?
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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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