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Russians deploy air defence to Crimea and front line, leaving rest of Russia empty
Yurii Ihnat, the spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, has said that the Russians have deployed air defence systems to Crimea and the front line but have withdrawn them from other regions of Russia.
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Kuleba is wasting his time. The "lawyers" and "bankers" of the west never bothered about the rule of law once they had a mutually beneficial rule of law when it came to money. Heck, they are only delighted to be doing business with the Saudis and the Chinese. Secondly, it's not about protecting Russian assets. It's about protecting western assets in Russia - and to protect against setting a precedent where other countries expropriate western assets.
Easy enough for Ukraine to call for this - it won't be their money that gets expropriated. Whether we like it or not, we live in a capitalist society in the west - and that means plenty of dodgy dealings.
Easy enough for Ukraine to call for this - it won't be their money that gets expropriated. Whether we like it or not, we live in a capitalist society in the west - and that means plenty of dodgy dealings.
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Putins lunatic mate. His view of multipolarity meaning Ukraine would not exist.
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TBF if that is the sort of thing he is saying now, he may be out of a window sooner rather than later.
The first video is bad enough, but the second video is a pretty clear attack on Putinism - "we need to change ourselves.... we need to offer ourselves, Ukrainians and other fraternal peoples of the post-Soviet space a new project... we must defeat ourselves... offer a project for our future".
Yes, he says Ukraine shouldn't exist but he also suggests Russia as it currently exists shouldn't either.
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Russians deploy air defence to Crimea and front line, leaving rest of Russia empty
Yurii Ihnat, the spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, has said that the Russians have deployed air defence systems to Crimea and the front line but have withdrawn them from other regions of Russia.
The Ukes know where the holes in Russian AD are, the long range drones then follow these corridors to strike deep into Russia.
The dilemma for Russia is do they pull back their AD systems from the Ukranian borders to protect their vital infrastructure? If they do this then they can’t fully protect their front lines.
The recent loss of their airborne EW (The A-50) only serves to compound the problem.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin falsely claimed that Russia supports the “unconditional equality” and “sovereignty” of all states in a January 20 letter to the Non-Aligned Movement Summit, contradicting Russia’s official position on its war in Ukraine and its wider imperial ambitions.
Putin claimed that Russia rejects “neocolonialist ambitions, double standards, as well as forceful pressure, dictatorship, and blackmail as a means of achieving foreign policy and foreign economic goals.”[1] Russian officials have routinely denied Ukraine’s sovereignty and refused to treat it as an equal.
The Kremlin rejects Ukrainian statehood and nationhood by incorporating Ukraine into the ideological and geographic conception of the Russian World (Russkiy Mir), which includes any Russian speakers and ”carriers of Russian history and culture“ as “compatriots“ and includes all of the former territories of Kyivan Rus, the Kingdom of Muscovy, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the contemporary Russian Federation.”[2]
Russia uses the framework of “Russkiy Mir” to justify Russian imperialist expansion and the subjugation of independent, sovereign states and their peoples within a pseudo-cultural and historical context.
Russian officials have routinely justified the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by claiming that Russia aims to protect its “compatriots” abroad, again rejecting Ukraine‘s sovereignty.[3]
Russia also continues to trivialize the sovereignty of other post-Soviet countries and has been setting information conditions to escalate tensions in the Baltics and Moldova under the guise of protecting its “compatriots” abroad.[4]
Russia has been in violation of its own commitments to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and “inviolability of borders” and its agreement to center relations with Ukraine on ”non-use of force or threat of force” and “non-interference in internal affairs” undertaken in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum since its initial invasion in 2014.[5] Putin's false claims that Russia respects “equality” and “sovereignty” are likely intended to cater to states that the Kremlin desires to pull into its wider sphere of influence, much as it initially intended to do with Ukraine before the initial 2014 invasion.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin falsely claimed that Russia supports the “unconditional equality” and “sovereignty” of all states in a January 20 letter to the Non-Aligned Movement Summit, contradicting Russia’s official position on its war in Ukraine an
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The evil empire
news.sky.com
Cat dies after being thrown from train in Russia
The ginger and white cat, Twix, was travelling with its owners when it escaped from its crate. A female member of staff threw the pet from the carriage on 11 January in Kirov, western Russia, according to local media.
news.sky.com
I may be mistaken, I think the news just reported a mostly russian speaking part of Poland has been bombed. I hope I am wrong here.
Can’t see anything about that
Donetsk: Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city, officials say
Ukraine rejects accusations from the region's Moscow-installed leader that it was responsible.
www.bbc.co.uk
Donetsk isn’t in Poland. It’s part of Ukraine that Russia has occupied since 2014Donetsk: Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city, officials say
Ukraine rejects accusations from the region's Moscow-installed leader that it was responsible.
I was mistaken, caught half the story.
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