🇷🇺🇺🇦 Discussion: Relations with Russia and the war in Ukraine

[blueharvest]

US funding for Ukraine dries up

Kyiv could be forced to choose which cities to defend from air attack as Republicans continue to wrangle with Biden over new aid package

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[:eek:]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-launches-drone-attack-kyiv-ukraine-says-2024-01-02/

 

[squeekness]

Did Putin get a weapons shipment in for Christmas?

 

[Morg]

Russia Announced It Had Deployed, To Ukraine, Its Best New Artillery-Detecting Radar. Hours Later, The Ukrainians Blew It Up—With Artillery.

 

[blueharvest]

Russia Announced It Had Deployed, To Ukraine, Its Best New Artillery-Detecting Radar. Hours Later, The Ukrainians Blew It Up—With Artillery.

That's how many millions of dollars down the drain for Russia?

 

[InCali]

Russia Announced It Had Deployed, To Ukraine, Its Best New Artillery-Detecting Radar. Hours Later, The Ukrainians Blew It Up—With Artillery.

Hey......they just said it "detected" artillery.....they never said it could stop it. I hope they at least knew the artillery was heading it's way.

 

[squeekness]

Did Putin stomp his feet and whine like Trump? "They broke my toy!"

 

[blueharvest]

Commander: Air Force hits Russian command center at occupied Crimea airbase

The strike successfully took out a Russian command center, Air Force Commander General Mykola Oleshchuk noted.

kyivindependent.com

 

[blueharvest]

"Mystery." Yeah, right.

Mystery as top Putin propagandist found dead after suspected "poisoning"

Zoya Konovalova, 48, was found alongside the body of her ex-husband, 52, at a home in the Krasnodar region on January 5.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Mani-Man]

"Mystery." Yeah, right.

Mystery as top Putin propagandist found dead after suspected "poisoning"

Zoya Konovalova, 48, was found alongside the body of her ex-husband, 52, at a home in the Krasnodar region on January 5.

www.newsweek.com

Guess the Windows there didnt open this time, had to improvise.

 

[InCali]

Guess the Windows there didnt open this time, had to improvise.

More likely it was a single story dwelling. The old fallback is always in the playbook.

 

[squeekness]

Must be scary to be a high ranking Russian of any kind. Geez....

 

[:eek:]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/11/europe/navalny-russian-court-prison-conditions-intl/index.html

 

[blueharvest]

Russia finds way around sanctions on battlefield tech: report

That doesn’t mean sanctions have failed; they just need to be enforced better — including by requiring Western companies to track their own products, US-Ukrainian research team finds.

www.politico.eu

 

[:eek:]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-firefighters-battle-put-out-huge-fire-online-retailers-warehouse-2024-01-13/

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Iceman]

Need to supply them with better defensive equipment asap.

 

[:eek:]

Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76

Key figure of Soviet underground literary scene and critic of Ukraine war dies days after being hit by car

www.theguardian.com

No falling out of a window this time.

 

[blueharvest]

Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76

Key figure of Soviet underground literary scene and critic of Ukraine war dies days after being hit by car

www.theguardian.com

No falling out of a window this time.

Putin's really upping his game if he's having people run over by cars now.

 

[blueharvest]

Putin’s fingerprints are all over the Hamas attack

The evidence for Russian involvement in this atrocity is circumstantial, but present.

thehill.com

 

[blueharvest]

Zelenskyy heads to Davos to regain the spotlight for Ukraine

The war in the Middle East and the U.S. presidential election also are vying for people’s thoughts.

www.politico.com

 

[:eek:]

https://news.yahoo.com/war-between-nato-russia-imminent-083500522.html

 

[blueharvest]

Putin falsely claims past US elections ‘falsified’ through mail-in voting

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that U.S. elections have been falsified through mail-in voting. “In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting … they b…

thehill.com

 

[Iceman]

Putin falsely claims past US elections ‘falsified’ through mail-in voting

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that U.S. elections have been falsified through mail-in voting. “In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting … they b…

thehill.com

And past Russia elections have been falsified by…him. Also the Crimea “election” was totally above board.

 

[:eek:]

New doctrine in Russia ally Belarus for the first time provides for using nuclear weapons

The defense minister of Belarus says the country closely allied with Russia will put forth a new military doctrine that for the first time provides for the use of nuclear weapons.

apnews.com