Current Affairs Ukraine

[PhilM]

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[Rita_Poon]

jo brand gets everywhere. boo!

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

The Proletarsk fire that's been burning for four days now looks like it's just about to ignite the kerosene tanks too.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Senior ROC priest hospitalized after court hearing

Metropolitan Pavel, a former Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) head of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, is being treated at a Kyiv hospital after his condition deteriorated during a court hearing on Aug. 21, according to Pavel’s lawyer, Mykyta Chekman.

english.nv.ua

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

The President.



Putins mouthpiece.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

There's been lots of chatter about this. Another nightmare for Putin.

 

[davek]

There's been lots of chatter about this. Another nightmare for Putin.

Must be true if 'War Translated Dmitri' and 'Thunder 26' say so.

 

[davek]

Pointed remark in the context of the imminent fall of that strategically important town to its south...

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Must be true if 'War Translated Dmitri' and 'Thunder 26' say so.

Who are you, like?

 

[davek]

Who are you, like?

I dont pretend to know what's going on behind the scenes. I know as much as 'War Translated Dmitri'.

 

[Cecil]

I dont pretend to know what's going on behind the scenes. I know as much as 'War Translated Dmitri'.

You know absolutely nothing. Stop pretending you do.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I dont pretend to know what's going on behind the scenes. I know as much as 'War Translated Dmitri'.

You are not even you.

 

[dublinbluenose]

So it seems like there is a panic going on in the Russian military at the moment. The arrest of the CEO of Telegram by the French authorities has put them in a spin.

The Telegram messaging app is widely used in Russia and Ukraine. Russian military use it as a means of communication and military bloggers widely use it. The servers are based in UAE and it's unclear how long the French authorities have been targeting Telegram.

While it is an end-to-end encrypted service, the messages still pass through and are recorded on those UAE servers. Russian military officials have been told to delete their messages - not that this will actually achieve anything other than some short term operational chaos.

 

[davek]

Build up of troops on the Ukraine-Belorussian border seems to have Kyiv worried.