Current Affairs Ukraine

[Lowste]

Watching Ukrainian Mothers taking up arms to defend Kyiv, is frightening but also shows the resolve and the desire to defend the life they lead

Tough and passionate people

 

[Wat Tyler]

Yet Israel is in it.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

The driver survived with no major injuries it seems, mad

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The way the tank turned toward him in a seeming effort to purposely run over his car. Absolute madness.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Yet Israel is in it.

Tell you what, I reckon all the world's ills would be solved with targeted Eurovision bans.

 

[daza_1973]

That'll learn 'em

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Can you post it mate?

Google Russian tank crushes Ukrainian car

 

[catcherintherye]

Just out of interest is what Putin is doing legal?

Hes just broken international law.

2 wrongs dont make a right though.

 

[Death]

Google Russian tank crushes Ukrainian car

I seen a few already. Just wonder what one you are talking about.

 

[tsubaki]

I should disclose though on posting the above without comment, that I'd have switched Facebook (and Twitter) off for the entire UK once COVID took hold.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Tell you what, I reckon all the world's ills would be solved with targeted Eurovision bans.

Point stands about Israeli war crimes being swept under the carpet and normalised.

But that’s probably for another thread.

 

[wm02]

Never underestimate the tenacity of Eastern Europe women.
My wife grew up in a small town in Poland. At one point, the communists were planning to turn the town’s parish church into a bar. A group of elderly women found out about the plan and rushed to the church with axes while the young communists were starting to lock up the church. Due to the axes and their insults (“I changed your diaper when you were young, you ingrateful little sh**”), the 15th century church was never desecrated.

 

[bcblue1878]

Hes just broken international law.

2 wrongs dont make a right though.

Obviously they don’t, but no one is going to get anywhere with this bloke by playing strictly by all the rules!

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Point stands about Israeli war crimes being swept under the carpet and normalised.

But that’s probably for another thread.

Amnesty called them out recently and got called ani-semetic as a result!

 

[PhilM]

Amnesty called them out recently and got called ani-semetic as a result!

As @Wat Tyler said, it's probably for another thread. There's a lot of things that the IDF have done and will continue to do that's beyond the pale.

 

[PhilM]

@FrenchDarrenBent what are your thoughts on the release from the US and UK?

Officials from the U.S. and U.K. on Friday said Russian forces have not made the kinds of gains they expected in Ukraine, with one official saying Russia was "behind on Day 1 targets."

“The Russians have lost a little bit of their momentum," a U.S. defense official said. "No population centers have been taken. Russia has yet to achieve air superiority.”

The official noted that Ukraine’s air and missile defense capability is still working, though degraded.

“In general we assess the Russian forces are encountering greater resistance than they expected," the official added. “Ukrainian command and control is intact.”

A British intelligence update from the Ministry of Defense noted that Lviv has sounded air raid sirens but officials have seen no evidence of strikes in the city.

"We do assess that there is greater resistance by the Ukrainians than the Russians expected," the senior defense official said, adding Ukraine's command and control of its military "remains intact".

"They are not moving on Kyiv as fast as what we believe they anticipated they would be able to do. That said, they continue to try to move on Kyiv."