Current Affairs Ukraine

[PhilM]

So true mate, it's horrifying the control that one powerful man and his cronies can have.

There's a pretty graphic video of the remnants of a Russian convoy outside of Hostomel after the Ukrainian special forces had their way with it.

Young lads, many who weren't even able to dismount from their armour before being annihilated, whose parents will probably never know what happened.

But, that's the horrors of war - normal people become capable of killing and often it's without favour, affection, malice or ill-will. Normal people die.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Excuses if already posted. UK doing just better than the UAE.

 

[edge]

Theres an evil arrogance and hate in the eyes of every single Serb Ive met. Weird people, utterly despicable....

They have spent a billion buying Russian military equipment in the last few years, and were all for getting into conflict with there neighbours again till they joined Nato.
Russia has a military envoy stationed there.
They were bombed by Nato during the wars there as well.
Bit of a strange stance the appear to want one foot in one camp and one in the other.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Thing to note is that the Ukrainian Farmers Union now possess more military hardware than possibly Luxembourg or Belgium.

UTFUF!

 

[stipe]

They have spent a billion buying Russian military equipment in the last few years, and were all for getting into conflict with there neighbours again till they joined Nato.
Russia has a military envoy stationed there.
They were bombed by Nato during the wars there as well.
Bit of a strange stance the appear to want one foot in one camp and one in the other.

Also historically, Russians saved them from Ottoman Empire, not to mention WW1 started because Russia came to Serbia rescue after Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded them, and then system of alliances came in play

So yeah, even as Croat, i could at least understand why they such Russian fanboys. But here on Balkans everyone is so self centered and have quite a illusion of self-importance, every nation here have some fantasy of "Greater" self
When you spend so many centuries under rule of foreign empires (them under Turks, we under Habsburg Austria), it creates strong sense of nationalism that is used as excuse for everything, good or bad

 

[Ivo]

There's a pretty graphic video of the remnants of a Russian convoy outside of Hostomel after the Ukrainian special forces had their way with it.

Young lads, many who weren't even able to dismount from their armour before being annihilated, whose parents will probably never know what happened.

But, that's the horrors of war - normal people become capable of killing and often it's without favour, affection, malice or ill-will. Normal people die.

Where do people find/watch these videos? Do the news agencies see them, or do they ignore them?

 

[Paulie]

Anyone got a back story of who the Chechens will be siding with in this conflict?

 

[PhilM]

Where do people find/watch these videos? Do the news agencies see them, or do they ignore them?

I suspect the news agencies ignore them because they can't be collaborated and they're incredibly graphic. They're often shared on Telegram et al.

 

[stipe]

Where do people find/watch these videos? Do the news agencies see them, or do they ignore them?

It get posted on Telegram and r/combatfootage on Reddit (and probably a lot of other places and forums)

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Where do people find/watch these videos? Do the news agencies see them, or do they ignore them?

They're oftentimes fake and used for propaganda purposes or attention seeking. The BBC did an article & a fact check on some of the more popular stories flying around twitter.

I stick to journalists we trust. At least they should quote some source.

 

[ste d' indica]

Twitter & YouTube both now blocked in Russia.

 

[Wizard]

Where do people find/watch these videos? Do the news agencies see them, or do they ignore them?

News agencies will see them but the one being talked about here is way too graphic to be shown on TV. Someone posted it in here a few pages back from a Reddit thread.

 

[Runub]

Meanwhile in Belgrade Serbia tonight, thousands of people march in support of Russia

Serbia has applied to join the EU. They should put that application in the bin

 

[Paulie]

There's a pretty graphic video of the remnants of a Russian convoy outside of Hostomel after the Ukrainian special forces had their way with it.

Young lads, many who weren't even able to dismount from their armour before being annihilated, whose parents will probably never know what happened.

But, that's the horrors of war - normal people become capable of killing and often it's without favour, affection, malice or ill-will. Normal people die.

When is the fighting from the video from?

 

[stipe]

Serbia has applied to join the EU. They should put that application in the bin

They even staged rendition of Russian anthem, from twitter