Current Affairs Ukraine

[Mutzo Nutzo]

They’re gonna get 30 x M2000-9’s which are the upgraded UAE spec export versions of the M2000-5 Mk2’s.

Really advanced radar, laser targeting pods and ECM systems.

Really good aircraft to have in your locker. The Ukes have wanted them for a while.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

France has been training Ukrainians for a number of years. Doubt its only been decided this week to send them Mirage jets.

Let's hope they're more reliable than my Peugeot.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[davek]

Interesting report on the pushback recruitment officers are getting from Ukrainians.

‘It’s emotionally very difficult’: mobilisation squads face hostility as Ukraine tries to boost army ranks

Insults and arguments show the social divisions opened up by recruitment drive and years of war

www.theguardian.com

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

It certainly makes you think.

 

[davids]

Interesting report on the pushback recruitment officers are getting from Ukrainians.

‘It’s emotionally very difficult’: mobilisation squads face hostility as Ukraine tries to boost army ranks

Insults and arguments show the social divisions opened up by recruitment drive and years of war

www.theguardian.com

Strange piece when the reality is they are chasing down young men in the streets and bundling them into vans. Recruitment Officers or press gangs? Hardly a man with a clipboard...

 

[Ming the merciless]

Strange piece when the reality is they are chasing down young men in the streets and bundling them into vans. Recruitment Officers or press gangs? Hardly a man with a clipboard...

A white feather used to be enough back in the day.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Interesting report on the pushback recruitment officers are getting from Ukrainians.

‘It’s emotionally very difficult’: mobilisation squads face hostility as Ukraine tries to boost army ranks

Insults and arguments show the social divisions opened up by recruitment drive and years of war

www.theguardian.com

That might be the toughest job, mentally, on the planet. It's one thing to fight a war, with the support of one's peers, and another to be the face of a war back home in a democratic society, enduring the slings and arrows of those who do not want that war fought.

Those are some brave, tough people. My hat is off to them for enduring what they put up with every day. Their grind is no joke.

 

[davek]

Strange piece when the reality is they are chasing down young men in the streets and bundling them into vans. Recruitment Officers or press gangs? Hardly a man with a clipboard...

Apparently most of those doing the lifting are those who've never been near the front line. They're pencil pushers who stay in Kyiv and send other people's kids into trenches.

Nice.

Imagine being forced to fight in a war for a kleptocracy and to keep Zelensky and his wife in foreign holidays and jewellery.

I'd have been over the border within about 2 minutes of that bell end calling for mass conscription.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[davek]

That might be the toughest job, mentally, on the planet. It's one thing to fight a war, with the support of one's peers, and another to be the face of a war back home in a democratic society, enduring the slings and arrows of those who do not want that war fought.

Those are some brave, tough people. My hat is off to them for enduring what they put up with every day. Their grind is no joke.

Many of them haven't been to the war. Those that have know what a meat grinder it is but they want to corral those who haven't been subject to it and send them to the front line.

It's primitive what's happening with Ukraine's conscription.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Ukraines subscription =primitive

Russias press gangs and convicts = best in class

Potatoes for everyone.

 

[COYBL25]

Many of them haven't been to the war. Those that have know what a meat grinder it is but they want to corral those who haven't been subject to it and send them to the front line.

It's primitive what's happening with Ukraine's conscription.

As opposed to the sophistication of Russia’s conscription.

A round of potatoes for every comrade.

 

[verreauxi]

Imagine being forced to fight in a war for a kleptocracy and to keep Zelensky and his wife in foreign holidays and jewellery.

Has Zelensky gone on a foreign holiday?

 

[davek]

Has Zelensky gone on a foreign holiday?

He's hardly ever in Ukraine.