This morning.
Russian troops were in the centre of the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson after conflicting claims over whether Moscow had captured a major urban centre for the first time in its eight-day invasion.
Via Al Jazeera
The capture of Kherson, a strategic southern provincial capital where the Dnieper River flows into the Black Sea, is the first significant city to fall since Moscow launched its attack on February 24.
Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv continues to come under heavy Russian shelling, with police and university buildings among the latest struck.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) says a member of its observer mission died in the shelling.
Russia denies targeting civilians although there have been widespread reports of non-combatant casualties and the targeting of residential areas.
Russia on Wednesday reported its military casualties for the first time since the invasion began last week, saying nearly 500 of its troops had been killed and almost 1,600 wounded.
Shelling continues in Ukraine as Russian forces advance (Al Jazeera)
Meanwhile…
Losses of Russian Army in #UkraineRussiaWar on Feb. 3:
Planes – 30
Automobile techniques – 374
MLRS – 42
AFV – 900
Helicopters – 31
Artylerian systems – 90
Cisterns with fuel – 60
Cutters – 2
Tanks – 217
Antiair defense ways – 11
UAV – 3
Militaries – 9000 pic.twitter.com/rZyTSK3OjP— KyivPost (@KyivPost) March 3, 2022
Graph via Sky News
Meanwhile…
Yesterday.
Independent, crowd-funded reporter Patrick Lancaster reports from the Russian advance in the Volnovakha area of Ukraine.
un declares the number of refugees from ukraine now tops 1 million.
Yeah but, 999,000 of em are crisis actors.
Huge numbers of men are making their way out of the cities to avoid the draft & the other insanities being imposed by that literal clown, Zelensky.
It’s nice though, to see all the Wokies, the Aunty Fas & the rest supporting actual fascism in action, as Zel The Sad Clown demands that untrained civilians take up arms, pro patria, against professional soldiers.
The efforts that man puts into getting a few pics of dead civilians to help him win the “Information War” online, while he loses the actual war, are admirable, if you admire lunatic fascist CIA goons & I’m sure, once the corporate media get the message out to you, you’ll hop to it.
Apparently inplementing a draft is insane when your country is invaded. Aren’t the Russian troops conscripts?
‘supporting actual fascism in action’
No, we oppose Putin’s invasion.
“the end’s not in sight
it’s gone way too far,
this could turn out
another unwinning war…”
‘i never thought that i would be
fighting fascists in the southern sea
saw one today and in his hand
was a weapon that was made in birmingham’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOLH8WfCaY
And the rhetoric just keeps coming against a leader who we all know put p into bastard
The only way. Now he is going will be like the last tzar
The online pro Ukraine propaganda has been absolutely relentless and the blatant attempts to raise Zelensky’s international profile to some sort of Churchill type figure is at times comical.
One of two things is going to happen- either he becomes a hero or a martyr, and given the equipment and skills differential between the two sides, I know which my money is on.
The irony of such a comparison is that this time around, the sides have switched. The Ukrainian army is largely made up of conscripted kids- and Nazis. Russia on the other hand, is backed by China and Cuba but all of a sudden left / right is of no relevance it appears.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki scored dropped the ball yesterday when she stated the last time Russia invaded Ukraine was when Biden was vice president- all a mere coincidence of course.
you’re okay with Putin invading another country then yeah? Civilian death grand on your watch? A simple yes or no will do.
This lady articulates what I would consider to be also my position.
https://www.tiktok.com/@theirishslip/video/7068674321304046853
from that position, Ukraine must be ‘greedy’ to get their country back from Russian invaders. Grand so.
You’ve still not answered my question though, not that I expect you to. Far too simple to come out against murder and invasion, much more difficult to try and obfuscate, muddy and spin.
If only those Spud Munchers back in 1916 weren’t so greedy, it would have spared so much innocent British blood.
Bullets too for that matter at a time when there was a Great War raging.
What makes you think she’s a lady.
Yeah yeah girl/female/woman/non binary- sorry, I never got her pronouns.
But what makes you think she’s a lady, is she a member of a royal family.
to be fair to SOQ, I’d see ‘lady’ as a compliment to anyone who identifies that way. I use it frequently in work ‘lady in bed 4’ etc and don’t get many complaints (aside from the rare; “I’d prefer to be referred to as ‘X'” and then I change it up).
Yeah, but he talks so much horse manure at times.
You are the one nit-picking stupid gender labels on a serious war topic sweetheart.
So it is serious then. I thought the Russians were only having training manoeuvres, until the Irish fishing fleet told them to get lost.
TL;DR SOQ doesn’t think there is any difference between Russia (Putin) and USA (Biden).
How do you, yourself feel, Paul about, let’s just pick one…say, the invasion of Iraq, ostensibly in revenge for a terrorist act perpetrated by unconnected individuals in a different country?
Ok with that? You can expand on your answer, no need for authoritarian & rhetorical demands that you limit your answer to a simple yes or no.
Of course, since the US did it’s usual version of “invasion”, which means bombing the country back into the middle ages by destroying every piece of civilian infrastructure, it’s hard to put the Russians in the same boat as the US, isn’t it?
Great that we are now, newly-declared by our Taoiseach/Tainiste (can’t remember which he is today), allies of the US, so you can’t really retreat behind all that plague on both their houses stuff, seeing as you’re clearly a FFFG voting type.
‘One of two things is going to happen’
He’ll be either a leader of or a martyr to the resistance. Putin blundered badly here, completely failed to come even close to dominating the narrative, reduced to closing down news stations in Russia to keep his population ignorant.
‘all a mere coincidence of course.’
What… does that even mean?
The internet is awash with videos of Russian kids who were treated as fodder by the Russian army- and sent out to die. Such a strategy is not unique to the Russian army, as anyone who lived through the troubles in the north will testify.
Such tactics are wholly dependent on what the core objective is and that appears to be a regime change rather than an outright invasion, and a commitment not to join NATO.
https://www.tiktok.com/@myhormonebliss/video/7070486021359537409
The internet is also awash with interviews with black and Indian people about how badly they been treated of course- and being dragged off trains- something you said was merely a passport administration issue just two days ago.
It is not- it is outright Ukrainian racism- so much so that India has now sent representatives to the borders to try to get their people get out.
I wouldn’t argue with most of that, except your assumption that it must be a strategy rather than, say, a blunder, let alone that it is somehow the correct strategy to acheive regime change, but none of it has anything to do with your ‘coincidence’ comment.
Also, ‘not join NATO’ is doing a lot of work for ‘clearly thinks Ukraine belongs to him.’
‘something you said’
That wasn’t me. Are you lying again or have you forgotten alraedy?
It’s awfully woke of you to be bothered by such breathtakingly blatant racism, though, Putin will think you’re decadent and weak.
I find it believable that you, Nigel, are unaware of Russia’s 15-year campaign to ban nuclear weapons from Unraine but no such excuse exists for either the US or NATO.
America had the right to push the world to the brink of nuclear war during the Bay Of Pigs incident as they were facing an existential threat.
Russia has found itself, having clearly exhausted every other possible avenue, in exactly the same position, so exactly the same standards must be applied.
Ukraine got rid of its nuclear weapons back in 1994, in agreement for Russia leaving them alone after voting overwhelmingly for independence in 91. There are no nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and no plans to put them there. They don’t exist. Russia exhausted nothing. It’s broken that agreement multiple times. Russia doesn’t care about the non-existent nukes. It only cares about the independence.
Re racism, the evacuation plan is clear, women and children first. Russia has tried to use this as some racial issue but it is not.
And the Russians have always used “kids” as fodder. Anyone whose relatives have ever served in the Soviet Army will tell you that. While the generals are at the back enjoying their caviar, your new recruit from Tatarstan is at the front getting his guts spilled out in the name of nothing.
The goal is to invade and occupy. Putin has spoken many times about how the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worse thing to have ever happened in Russia. Well, f you, Pootin, no-one wants you in Ukraine.
Russia is a country is built on lies.
Wilhelm, Putin regards the creation of an empire, The Soviet Union, as a dreadful mistake for Russia, one he has cautioned both the EU & the USA from repeating, though I find it hard to believe that the old style fascists, relabelled Globalists, in Brussels or Washington will pay much attention to that.
So, you are frankly, talking rubbish or lying, I’m unsure which.
Yes, women and children first- unless they are black women and children of course. Why are you assuming there is only male POC in Ukraine?
https://www.tiktok.com/@brutamerica/video/7069940056009542955
I agree on the using of army kids but my point is that is ALL armies, not just the Russian one.
You still haven’t explained by the ‘mere coincidence’ remark.
I agree that the Churchill comparison is not accurate.
I’m not aware of Zelensky being implicated in any genocide, which is a significant distinction.
or having an Imperialist hardon
Zelensky is a western puppet, has no legiitimate politcal or moral authority.
Absolutely- that he would happily go into government with the likes of the Right Sector and Svoboda shows what he is really about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv_WWzjrUrI&t=20s
and yet the bang o barkashov off the pair o yis is only brutal.
Zelensky has already armed civilians, in the last few days, to go out & fight against professional soldiers. This is a War Crime, under the Geneva Convention, such unfortunate people are even subject to immediate & legal execution by opposition forces as, without uniforms, they are not subject to the Convention.
Zelensky’s insane behavior hasn’t so far inolved him handing out uniforms, unfortunately, but he’s a dead man, anyway unless he’s already fled, which is entirely possible since all the pics of him in his flak jacket were from a couple of years ago, in Donbass, where he went to meet & greet Ukrainian artillery soldiers who were busy shelling civilians, Russian civilians.
As I do agreeSOQ if this drags on Ukraine will resemble Gaza and Syria
The might of the Russian might and tech weapons are useless in rubble and that’s going to be the war
Man against man
The big threat now is NATO getting involved
Once that happens nukes raise their ugly head
The rhetoric all round is making an obscene situation worse
Just had a friend escape Ukraine, what should have been a normal flight was 6 days travel to Spain.
She now has a restriction of 30 euro per day withdrawal on her bank card at the ATM, as she has a Ukrainian bank account.
Having watched the same thing happen in Greece, it is clear to me that money in the bank is near useless when a problem arises and you actually need it in a hurry.
Hence the war on cash. We are near the end game for the financial reset, to be blamed on Russia of course, and not the worlds central banks inflating away purchasing power with their printers….
+1, Gerry.
Digital Currency is not currency, our money is mostly digital anyway, it’s a control system that, along with digital IDs will “end freedom in The West” to quote Naomi Wolfe.
People are sleepwalking into a dystopian nightmare & when they wake up, it will be too late.
Meanwhile sticking to the facts
AFP- Germany said it will increase its weapons deliveries to Ukraine by sending 2,700 anti-aircraft missiles to the conflict zone. Germany will deliver STRELA-type anti-aircraft missiles of Soviet manufacture
In the shipping news (Reuters) – French authorities have seized a yacht they linked to Rosneft boss Igor Sechin – a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin – in the Mediterranean port of La Ciotat, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday. Most likely ST.PRINCESS OLGA (AMORE VERO) ?
I know there are some people here who love a good chart. Well this is the current cost of shipping to and FROM Russia. You can do the math and work out the cost / benefit analysis. Note that is assuming that you can get insurance and I can only imagine what Lloyd’s syndicates are currently charging for that cover or even if its still available
https://twitter.com/humenm/status/1499273467203629056
The audience for the BBC’s Russian language news website more than tripled its year-to-date weekly average, with a record reach of 10.7m people in the last week (compared to 3.1m). In English, bbc visitors in Russia were up 252% to 423,000 last week.
Foreign regimes interfering in a country’s own internal affairs, WILL NOT END FORTUITOUSLY
Have you told Putin?
I have not had the great honor to meet the man so no I have not told him this
Well, get on it, man! If you don’t who will?
Whoosh..
here Charger
if you’re going to do a Russian sailor doing English you have to butcher it a bit, maybe use clipped and mis-ordered sentence construction e.g.
“I have not had great honor to meet man so I have not this him told no”
hey look, it’s charger’s latvian gardener!!
More importantly, since the US has been constantly doing what Russia’s doing for the first time, has anyone told this to Biden?
Mind you, they’ll have to repeat it, quite a lot, then write it on a piece of paper & attach it with a safety-pin to the poor old duffer’s cardigan.
No, because it’s not Russia’s first time.
I’m sure you’re aware, stephen, that the theft of the yacht & more importantly, the gun-running by Germany, are both illegal acts but I suppose the Rule of Law, Civil Rights & Human Rights are mostly things The West expects our opponents to observe, while we blithely ignore them.
Never mind the guff about shipping costs, the real New World Order is about to emerge from almost 20 years of pig-ignorant stupidity by NATO, the US & EU, as India, China, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia & the UAE have made clear their intention of forming a trading block, free from the influence of the US, it’s Petrodollar & it’s ass-licking European vassals. Like Ireland.
Print your chart out & mail it to some Germans, they’ll need it if the gas gets turned off. I was in Berlin in November once, never experienced cold like it, knowing that, should you fall over & lose consciousness outdoors, you will die before morning
‘Independent’ reporter Patrick Lancaster who even says in his report he ‘wants Russia’ to control Ukrainian…
Lancaster says he covers “the Ukraine war on the DPR side of the frontline” and describes himself as a “crowdfunded journalist.” He asks donors to give to an account in a Russian government-run bank.
His reports include people very critical of the Russian action.
That’s just a handy visual record for Putin’s kill-list compilers.
He produces video reportage of people speaking their views and opinions. He does not tell them what to say. Do yu think these people are paid actors?
I hope not, that would just confuse the kill-list compilers.
Luckily, the CIA have much more well-compiled lists. Theirs is merely a piece of paper that reads, “everyone who stands in our way”. In the past, of course, that has included Americans of all kinds, presidents, civil rights leaders, you name it, the CIA kills them all.
Your justifications for Putin’s murders and likely plans for murders are getting exceptionally tenuous.
Interesting take on what is actually at stake in the conflict even though he is Permabull on Gold.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-opening-salvos-thrown-what-are-putins-next-steps-ukraine
To say his arguments are like a Swiss cheese is an insult to dairy products. Even by ZH standards thats not just left field it’s an avant garde take on things. Take about making up things in plain sight to fit your cognitive bias and narrative. Putler is made up to be some kind of genius 5 D chess player. I note the ECB is on the brink (sub Daily Excrement stuff) no one is supply arms to Ukraine according article ? File under self delusional w*nkology. I can’t wait to read the foaming at the mouth comments section from all the resident Chuck Connors guys who’ve made billions out of crypto but who still live with their mammy.
I see, stephen, you’re using that hilarious nickname for Putin, which implies you see him as a new Hitler?
So when are you signing up to go and fight & die to protect the freedoms we used to have in The West?
I mean, if you actually believed Hitler was on the way, you’d just sit in your Mammy’s kitchen posting teenaged bad takes & hilariously inane copes on a website, yeah?
Blah blah blah bla ……noddy heads nodding. we’re all so well informed now that we have the interweb, not.
Ukraine Russia conflict explained in short.
https://www.tiktok.com/@nickacheeseburger/video/7068618287025900802
Yeah, let’s just neuter them and that will solve the problem. Who’d of thought all we needed was to send a couple of vets in. Well done SOQ.
The dogs of war are just that- dogs.
So, Putin is a dog then.
George Galloway interviews Prof Alfred De Zayas- Former U.N. Independent Expert.
If you want to solve the Ukraine crisis both sides must trust each other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Uv0ftSXIw
Common sense.
‘both sides must trust each other’
How the hell is that common sense? At this stage you might as well say both sides need to have tails and unicorn horns.
Ah, Nigel, you had to bring in the Unicorns, have you thought about making them all fly the rainbow flag? Maybe if the Ukrainian army drags up & advances on the Russians, formed up as a Pride Parade, the Russians, being the type of homophobes that everyone in the world apart from us, here, in the West are, they’ll run away, screaming “hide the vaseline” in Russian?
Alternatively, wahmen nowadays are better, stronger, braver & more resourceful than men & all we need is a battalion of Mna Na hEireann to turn the tide?
If none of that works, we could send in Bill Gates’ WHO to jab all the Russians with safe, effective, life-saving Covid vaccines, that’ll put a stop to their nonsense as they try to deal with the casualties, eh?
Don’t worry, Putin will protect you from teh gays and teh vaxx, even if he has to kill everyone in Ukraine to do it.
George Galloway… you are a joke, SOQ.
Galloway speaks about three sentences in the whole interview- but yeah sure play the man not the ball AGAIN eh?
Judge a man by the company he keeps – to call Galloway a bag of spanners is an insult to a monkey wrench
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1498437971997040648
https://twitter.com/jeffsprogress/status/1499299066458648576
As what exactly is it Prof Alfred De Zayas is saying you disagree with?
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SOQ’s remarks were a criticism of jungleman’s idiotic comments, stephen, not an encouragement for you to display similarly low-brow stupidity.
Cheers for the embedded video, have reported to YT for the promotion of terrorism.
I actually believe you are capable of just that sort of fascist authoritarianism, Rob. At the same time, you probably think of yourself as being “on the left”.
Demented leftie fascists, who will save the world from these little snitches? Somebody didn’t beat them up enough in school, when they ran to tell teacher about the other boys & now they can’t get out of the habit & they hate everybody because they were shunned by their classmates.
Oh dear, you saddo.
If we were in Russia, you’d be one of the few people on this site that wouldn’t get arrested for not suporting the war.
Analysts identify top 10 ‘war myths’ of Russia-Ukraine conflict:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/russia-ukraine-conflict-top-10-war-myths-newsguard
First sentnce- Untrue claims about genocide and authorities in Kyiv supporting nazism are among the most common falsehoods pushed online amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to analysis.
Outside of the third Reich, Right Sector and Svoboda are as close to Nazi’s are you can get, and they are in the bloody government?
How are they in government?
Right Sector has 0 members in the 450 seat Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine Parliament)
Svoboda has 1 member, who is in opposition.
I imagine SOQ is furiously consulting TikTok for irrefutable 15 second clippets to knock your actual facts clear out of the water.
What is it with this place that attracts such nasty bitchy characters?
Surely you’re well qualified enough in the area to answer that question yourself?
nasty male members attract nasty female dogs
SOQ
Ok so you are right- that information was out of date- from 2010 to 2014 it appears. But they are still there- especially Azov.
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/for-ukraine-s-far-right-war-with-russia-can-be-an-opportunity-1.10618564
The Guardian, Ferg? Are you serious? Not a single truthful sentence has appeared in that rag in over a decade.
Meanwhile, almost every single piece of reporting on this operation that’s appeared in the Western media has been fake news or entirely fictitious nonsense that a child wouldn’t believe.
“The Ghost of Kiev” hahahahahaha! I bet you believed that, didn’t you?
There’s a reason that there are 20 national newspapers in the UK & The Guardian is number 20, in terms of circulation.
Back in the the 17th and 18th centuries Bedlam was open to fee-paying spectators. People would bribe the wardens / attendants and slip in to point and laugh at the lunatics gibbering away in there. Alas, the tours of the wards were officially ended in 1770 but in 2022 we get to see your incontinent drooling and the parading of your ignorance here for free.
You’re for nothing.
This 2 minutes of TV must rank up there was one of the craziest ever – it makes the jousting on BS over Ukraine seem fair and balanced ! Watch until the end as it has a surprising twist for the increasingly irate host who is no Bill (Ah Eamon you can’t be saying that) O’ Herlihy
https://twitter.com/skbozphd/status/1499298691156705282
Ha ha no that IS funny.
The best I saw was Colonel Douglas McGregor on Fox, just told the startled reporter that The West refused to listen to Putin for 15 years, he’s been planning this for the last five & that if the Ukrainians don’t surrender in the next two days, they will be annihilated.
It was startling, because it was the Truth, delivered in no-nonsense military fashion.