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

[blueharvest]

‘I can do the same job as a man’: Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future

Yulia Mykytenko leads a platoon of men in a reconnaissance and attack unit – and has already lost her husband, father and many friends in the devastating war. In her memoir, she writes that she was always destined for combat

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sithborg]

Russia, battling birth rate dip, is working on 'child-free' ideology ban, says Putin ally (September 2024)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-battling-birth-rate-dip-is-working-child-free-ideology-ban-says-putin-2024-09-24/

JD Vance and Elon Musk and other straight white male supremacist fascists are very excited.

Russia still hadn't quite recovered from the population drain of WW2. Add in covid and their current losses, there is going to be a generational shift.

The ironic thing is, there is a very, very easy answer when the conflict is over. But immigration is still not popular.

 

[blueharvest]

Biden announces $50bn G7 loan to Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets

US Treasury Secretary Yellen says Russia will be ‘bear the costs of its illegal war, instead of taxpayers’ in the West.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[blueharvest]

Ukraine war briefing: Brics summit backfired on Putin with calls for peace, says Kyiv

Xi Jinping among world leaders in Russia advising against escalation; any North Korean troops ‘fair game’ on Ukraine battlefield, says US. What we know on day 974

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart, researchers find

New research shows Russia has worked to amplify false and misleading claims about the U.S. government's response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton as part of the Kremlin's efforts to manipulate Americans before the Nov. 5 election.

apnews.com

 

[:eek:]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-has-sent-3000-troops-russia-ukraine-war-south-korean-lawmakers-say-2024-10-23/

 

[blueharvest]

Evangelicals emerge as a potent lobby for US support of Ukraine

Ukrainian evangelicals are lobbying their American counterparts for continued support of their homeland in its war with Russia

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[squeekness]

Billionaires wanting to rule the world.

 

[Sithborg]

Yeah, a lot of things are starting to make sense.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Yeah, a lot of things are starting to make sense.

Like Twitter never getting rid of the bot problem Musk complained about but increasing them.

That and Elon says he fears prison time. The NSA should have been recording all of their contacts if they weren’t incompetent. That’s what they are there for. Same with the CIA keeping tabs on Elon’s foreign trips to Europe.

 

[squeekness]

Like Twitter never getting rid of the bot problem Musk complained about but increasing them.

That and Elon says he fears prison time. The NSA should have been recording all of their contacts if they weren’t incompetent. That’s what they are there for. Same with the CIA keeping tabs on Elon’s foreign trips to Europe.

Elon going to jail suits me fine.

 

[blueharvest]

Ukraine war briefing: Navalny widow blasts UN chief Guterres for meeting ‘murderer’ Putin

Secretary general calls for ‘just peace’ in Ukraine at Brics summit; Putin not denying North Korean troops brought into war. What we know on day 975

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

North Korean troops fighting Ukraine will be 'fair game,' U.S. warns Putin

North Korean soldiers were being disguised as Russians and were acting under the Kremlin’s command instead of their own, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun reported to lawmakers Thursday, his office told NBC News.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[:eek:]

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5163246/south-korea-weapons-ukraine-north-korea-troops-russia

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

‘Blood alliance’: why South Korea fears North’s involvement in Ukraine war

News that troops from North Korea could be joining Russians on the battlefield in Ukraine has caused deep concern in Seoul

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Ukraine war briefing: Russia plans to send North Korean troops into battle as early as Sunday, Zelenskiyy says

Ukraine president urged world leaders to pile ‘tangible pressure’ on Pyongyang as South Korea urges Russia to stop its ‘illegal cooperation’ with North Korea. What we know on day 976

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Evangelicals emerge as a potent lobby for US support of Ukraine

Ukrainian evangelicals are lobbying their American counterparts for continued support of their homeland in its war with Russia

www.independent.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

Russia reportedly paid a former Florida cop to pump out anti-Harris deepfakes

Dougan allegedly created a network of fake news sites.

www.theverge.com

 

[blueharvest]

Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks kill nine civilians across Ukraine, officials say

Attacks prompt Volodymyr Zelenskyy to issue new call to Kyiv’s allies after number of civilians killed in central city of Dnipro rises to five. What we know on day 977

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

G7 vows to clamp down on Russia’s oil sanctions evasion

Group commits to unspecified measures to enforce price cap on Russian exports in response to Ukraine war

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

Nice.

 

[Lily Adler]

MAGA: why did Ukraine do this?