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Mars_B4_Moon

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Russia space agency official held over multi-million euro fraud
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russ … d_999.html

Biden Says Russia Is Celebrating U.S. Divisions Over Providing Aid to Ukraine
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/us/p … raine.html

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine traveled to Washington to make a last-ditch appeal for more help

Vladimir Putin 'sowed his political demise' as Ukraine standstill ushers in coup risks
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/18 … a-war-coup

Russia bars anti-war candidate Yekaterina Duntsova from challenging President Vladimir Putin
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-bars-a … 00364.html

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US to deliver $250M to Ukraine amid congressional stalemate
https://au.news.yahoo.com/us-deliver-25 … 51047.html

Ukrainian Troops Attack Russian Positions in Trench Warfare Drone Footage
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-attack … eo-1852471
Ukrainian soldiers have targeted Russian positions in a trench along the frigid front lines, dramatic combat footage appears to show

The armchair generals saying Ukraine should give up some territory are wrong
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion … itory-are/

Ukraine ends 2023 anxious about aid from allies and disappointed by stalemate with Russia
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/ne … te-russia/

'Five realistic scenarios of war in Ukraine in 2024: GLOBSEC report'
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/12/31/ … ec-report/

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Tucker Carlson a name in journalism circles, ex-Foxnews, he was also a CNN commentator and on the MSNBCNetwork, was fired from FoxNews and then went on his own social media website. He was now gone to Moscow to interview Putin

From the clips I have seen it would seem Vladimir Putin dominated and controlled Interview, Tucker was almost getting lectured and Putin giving a weird, strange, warped version of history and makes excuses for war and imperialism, the first interview with Putin to be granted to a Western journalist since the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Adam Kinzinger referred to Carlson as a "traitor", while representative Marjorie Taylor Greene praised Carlson's decision, Guy Verhofstadt, wrote that the European Union (EU) ought to consider issuing Carlson with a travel restriction. I didn't watch it all but it is said Carlson asked whether Putin would release Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist detained in Russia

Opposing Ukraine aid Bill is playing into Putin's hands: Biden
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/u … in-4104686

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Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers ‘captured’ in chaotic withdrawal from eastern city
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-ukr … 24613.html

American ballerina detained in Russia for 'treason'
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch … 4608069628
Russian authorities have detained a woman who is a Los Angeles resident and dual national on suspicion of treason

'Western outrage at Navalny's death inevitably leads to the painful question: Punish Putin, yes, but how?'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/artic … 66_23.html

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Ukrainian Releases ‘Massive’ Missile Barrage, Blows Up Russian Warship Near Crimea

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perhaps a warship lost on Russian side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2jQRfPKqIg

Witness Video Shows USV Strike On Russian Patrol Ship
https://funker530.com/video/witness-vid … trol-ship/

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Re: Putin's Russian expanding to be the old USSR

Mars_B4_Moon,

Ukraine might eventually sink most of the ships in Russia's Black Sea Fleet, but it wouldn't help them win their war against Russia, because Russia has never been a great naval power.  Their submarines are potentially very dangerous, either to Russian sailors or their enemies.  Russia is literally flattening Ukrainian cities with artillery barrages and missile strikes.  There's not much left.  Ukraine will never recover from this war.  The Russians wanted to negotiate a peace deal last year when their invasion was going badly, but the NATO clownshow didn't want Zelensky to sue for peace.  Now he's facing abandonment, just as the Afghanis faced abandonment in Afghanistan, because our politicians are grotesque cretins who prey upon the very people they're supposed to serve.

Nobody is lining up to join western military forces because they don't see any point to volunteering to give their lives for the causes of people who hate their very existence, and would never lift a finger to help them, assuming they weren't actively looking for ways to hurt them.

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A very strange meat grinder mindset, tyrant Tsars, then WW2 some say 5 million families vanished others say 10 million, Soviet Union suffered the greatest number of casualties in the war, losing more than 20 million citizens, about a third of all World War II casualties.

In the USA a War was supported in Afghanistan after the 911 attacks, less political support for a War in Iraq, these conflicts seen the 20-year war on terror, the collapse of Iraq and infighting, the growth of ISIS and $8 trillion spent and 900,000 deaths, however ISIS declined and almost vanished during the Trump Presidency, the media complained about all the deaths of Americans in Iraq but how high were the numbers during Bush junior, Obama, Trump how bad do these numbers stack up in blood, how horrific was it truly compared to other big wars, nations and other conflicts and the USA 4,430 + total deaths in Iraq only had 2,450+ United States military deaths in Afghanistan and but many other American soldiers injured. Russia and Ukraine however are seeing hundreds of thousands of their people dying, it seems like entire generations are wasted away, however there are broadcasts of propaganda Russia says it is not losing so many men and Ukraine has more dying while Ukrainian estimates of Russia military losses tended to be high, while Russian estimates of their own losses tended to be low, a US estimate said 70,000 killed Ukraine soldiers, 100,000–120,000 wounded a BBC News estimate 115,000 killed Russians, 214,000 wounded, a US estimate 350,000 killed and wounded Russians, the numbers of dead are at levels not seen since WW2. Many foreign mercenary gun for hire citizens from 24 countries are also confirmed to have been killed. 

Now we have reports Russia preparing 100,000 soldiers for the bloody meat grinder and for another major offensive

Russia-Ukraine war latest: 'Situation unstable' in Ukraine's frontline areas - as Russian region hit in fresh attack
https://news.sky.com/story/russia-ukrai … id=7417120

ABC defends broadcasting Russia-Ukraine war documentary after ambassador calls it ‘bowl of vomit’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n … l-of-vomit
Ukraine ambassador to Australia says documentary aired on Four Corners repeats Kremlin’s ‘blatant lies’

2 years of Russia-Ukraine war
https://www.npr.org/series/1232648534/2 … kraine-war

Both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war are using new and old technologies for warfare
https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/f … r-warfare/

New high tech drones and some gun from an old period movie

strange trench warfare relics and even Soviet, Tsar, German, American, British antique guns from before WW1 found on battlefields

100 year old design antiques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qksR2Zvd-FM

Why Ukraine’s army still uses a 100-year-old machinegun
https://www.news.com.au/world/why-ukrai … 06f9616c04

CNN: Ukraine dismisses Russian claim about killing hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers with a 'vacuum bomb'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-ukraine- … 37079.html

Ukrainian artist-turned-soldier uses mud and ash from the front lines to paint nature, war
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukrainian … nature-war

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Defence minister says Poland told allies 'well in advance' about Eurocorps commander
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Ar … -commander
Poland told its allies "well in advance" about its decision to dismiss the commander of the Eurocorps.

Ambassador: Poland 'absolutely neutral' whether refugees stay or return to Ukraine
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ambassador-p … 22419.html
Warsaw will neither encourage nor prevent the return of Ukrainian refugees to Ukraine, Polish Ambassador to Kyiv Jaroslaw Guzy said in an interview with Deutsche Welle

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Putin continues to look weaker but at the same type your typical imperialist authoritarian, he claimed it would be 2 days of a special operation

it looked scary for a while Russian Tanks invade, Ukraine had its Navy destroyed and most of its Airforce, Russia gains ground and they had taken half of the entire country of Ukraine
then Ukraine started to hit back hold them off and drive them back near the border, Russia starts to counter attack again

then its a stalemate...maybe with Russians gaining tiny bits of ground

2 years pass 730 days and more days pass
Now it has become a meat grinder trench warfare stalemate, drones on both sides, improvised weapons and bodies broken on both sides, hundreds of thousands dead or with serious injury, Russia throws more bodies and slowly gains small bits of ground.

War has changed into a world of Terminator Drones a bleak future for the next evolution of war and mass human death. Like other past wars we are seeing new technology storm onto the battlefield, it hurts the older dinosaur machine, the tank is cut open and it changes the face of combat and a new route for death to arrive. The Russians and Ukrainians innovate even though it is a stalemate and a meat grinder war, things happening in Ukraine are going to change how battles are done, require the re-writing combat arms manuals, new shocking attacks on Naval vessels the Army and soldier innovates a new weapon of death or a new shield against the Robot Terminator machine to survive.

760 + of the special operation

Ukraine-Russia war live: Elon Musk says Russia will ‘certainly gain more land’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ … est-news2/

an islamic attack while Putin and Security focus on Ukraine

Russians back Vladimir Putin in blaming Ukraine for concert hall terror attack
https://www.ft.com/content/e5b52757-1fa … pe=nongift

How ISIS has Europe and the US in sights after deadly Moscow attack
https://www.egyptindependent.com/how-is … ow-attack/

there are rumors on social media Russia's police military treated the captured men brutally, one of them his ear chopped off and fed his own ear

Who are the Moscow attack ISIS terror suspects and what do we know about them?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews … pects-who/

and in Euro politics

Putin revels in German coalition rift over Ukraine aid
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany … r-ukraine/

Russia supplies oil to North Korea in defiance of UN sanctions
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7785/Ar … -sanctions

North Korea makes money selling Russians weapons

almost one year ago

South Korea's military drones fly in formation during a South Korea-U.S. joint military drill at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/uploads/im … 34777.jpeg

the 'BRICS' people

France’s Macron embraces Brazil’s Lula — and the memes poking fun at their ‘wedding’
https://apnews.com/article/lula-macron- … 602ef26065

China maintains communication on possible peace talk in Switzerland on Ukraine crisis: Chinese diplomat
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202403/ … html?id=12

Ukraine and India, a historical ally of Russia, hold talks to strengthen ties
https://apnews.com/article/india-ukrain … 09252af709

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2 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 5 days later since Russia declared the start of a 2 day then a two week long “special military operation”

the bloody meat grinder continues

Putin's forces hit by double hammer blow as warship destroyed in fireball drone attack
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/18 … ea-ukraine

Opinion: What’s left of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-left … 53414.html

Russia’s war against Ukraine is shattering the conventions of warfare in many ways

Ukraine war: 2 children among 8 killed in Russian strikes, as Kyiv downs bomber that Moscow says ‘malfunctioned’
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/ … gic-bomber

Russian state-run news agency TASS quoted Russia’s defence ministry as saying: “A Russian armed forces Tu-22M3 aircraft crashed in the Stavropol region while returning to the base aerodrome after performing a combat mission. The pilots ejected.”
https://www.defencetoday.com/security/f … ic-bomber/

Ukraine Intercepts Tu-22M Bomber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X72_pq12cb4

came down near Stavropol

'Somewhat unsurprisingly, the Russian Ministry of Defense has claimed the aircraft was lost due to a technical malfunction. One supposes that the pilot failing to get out of the way, or the engine failing to operate with a missile shoved into it, are both technical malfunctions.'
https://funker530.com/video/russian-tu- … r-defense/

Ukraine Says Downed Russian Long-Range Strategic Bomber
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/ … ber-a84894

Reports of burnt or shot Su-25s and damaged Tu-95s

However Russia seems gain some ground again and to be slowly pushing forward

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We will need to do more than keep an eye on this as Weeks ago, Niger ordered U.S. troops to leave the country.
Russian Military Personnel Move Into Airbase Housing US Troops

Tensions between the United States and Russia have intensified since the latter invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The Biden administration has sent Ukraine tens of billions of dollars in support.

Although the United States has about 1,000 troops in Niger, most are at another base, Airbase 201, about 500 miles from the capital.

As noted by Reuters, Airbase 201 was built by the United States at a cost of more than $100 million.

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U.S. Weapons Are Coming To Ukraine. But Russian Forces Have The Momentum.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia- … 30632.html

Vladimir Putin flaunts captured US tanks and British armoured cars from Ukraine in chilling display
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new … s-32699714

Belarus is hosting 'several dozen' Russian nuclear weapons, Lukashenko says, as he warns of 'apocalypse'
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/belarus-russ … ukashenko/

Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his country is now hosting "several dozen" Russian nuclear weapons

How America’s Adversaries Are Uniting to Overturn the Global Order
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/ax … r-fontaine

Poisonous feud erupts inside Putin's regime as he parades ‘traitor’ millionaire defence minister
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new … s-32664953
Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, 48, has been at the helm of the ministry throughout the Ukrainian war

Finland’s schools turn away from Russian language, culture as Ukraine war drags on
https://www.thehindu.com/news/internati … 131070.ece

Niger ordered U.S. troops to leave the country.

Bazoum a 'Nigerien' politician, a Sunni islamic who served as the 10th president of Niger from 2021 to 2023. He assumed office in April 2021 after winning the 2020–21 presidential election and surviving a coup d'état attempts? then ousted in the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état by members of the presidential guard and the armed forces led by Abdourahamane Tchiani, it allows Russia to get in but also paved the way for Turkish influence in the region? There has also been a Gabonese coup d'état, Burkina Faso coup d'état, Guinean coup d'état, Malian coup d'état.

7 months ago, comments on France

withdrawal of French troops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESBntkKPwdc

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Ukraine says it has no reserves as Putin amasses half-million troops for summer offensive: report
https://nypost.com/2024/05/15/world-new … ve-report/

Ukrainian State Border Guards Fend Off Russian SOF in Kharkiv

https://funker530.com/video/ukrainian-s … n-kharkiv/

This footage, provided by a Ukrainian soldier in the State Border Guards, shows him and some squadmates fending off a Russian attack which started at the kickoff of Russia's recent offensive in Kharkiv.

buying from North Korea

Kim Jong-un tests out deadly weapons as North Korea becomes world military export hub
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/18 … -Pyongyang

and purchased from Iran?

Ukrainian defenders down all 18 Russian Shahed attack drones launched overnight
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-de … 51594.html

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Putin seeking to weaponise threat of mass migration, warns Estonian PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/artic … stonian-pm

Romanian prosecutors arrest suspect accused of spying for Russia
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ro … 024-05-24/

Switzerland denies Ukraine peace summit ultimatums. The focus of the Swiss-hosted Ukraine peace conference will be on nuclear safety, food safety, freedom of navigation and humanitarian aspects, rather than demanding a withdrawal of Russian forces.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-af … s/78704482

Both sides seem to have performed tactical withdrawal a number of times during the war or retreating defensive actions, they can be total failures if done wrong and leave the retreating side open to getting shot in the back, it is a type of military operation where retreating forces draw back while maintaining contact with the enemy, the withdrawal is sometimes a defending move may be undertaken as part of a general retreat, to consolidate forces, to occupy ground that is more easily defended.

Shells are in demand, a shell may contain multiple pellets or a single slug, Shells are usually large-caliber projectiles fired by artillery, armored fighting vehicle  tanks, assault guns, and mortar carriers, or battleships warships, and autocannons, there have been improvisation on the Ukraine battlefield maybe even some fired from home-made devices or boat, shelling an enemy has been used for about 1,000 years in warfare, with modernization has home satellite technology and rocket-assisted projectiles (RAP)  shells have been used to create smoke screens or make visibility and light up a battle field at night.

both sides send more of their young men into the combat, it seems to be somewhat of a stalemate with Russians having some small gains recently

or more meat for a meat grinder

Russia sent more to the front

and Ukraine sending more to their frontlines

Ukrainian police to forcibly take draft dodgers to Territorial Recruitment Centers
https://au.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-pol … 00435.html

there are some incredible and shocking tank battles recorded by drone

and Perhaps video like these are important

its difficult to know what really happens unless you are there but this is perhaps the reality of Trench warfare the scene of war are scenes of violence, emotion, slurs, close combat fighting or other potentially shocking live subject matter which a lot of world media avoids but sometimes we get footage of

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PRPODjDXiN4

after the horror of war they offer the guy help and a smoke

Inside an Outgunned Ukrainian Front-Line Artillery Unit | WSJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ucs4dy_bs4

and I normally do not share any videos with music I think there is something wrong about it maybe somewhat disrespectful or propaganda-ish but this event had a lot of drama to be recorded and played back

Bradley Hit by RPGs, Rescued by Comrade
https://funker530.com/video/bradley-hit … y-comrade/

Ukrainian Bradelys in action, likely from the 47th Mechanized Brigade. The first vehicle is struck, both by RPGs and an FPV drone, according to the source. Smoke billows from the wounded IFV, and a high elevation shot shows fires burning along the tree line. A second Bradley dashes into the frame and stands guard over its wounded comrade, Bushmaster chain gun pounding away at unseen enemies. The ramp drops and crewmembers from the stricken vehicle dive into the back. During the evacuation, the rescuing Bradley appears to take an RPG hit, but it continues firing, unphased. With the survivors aboard, the Bradley makes good its escape, trailing smoke and dodging incoming artillery shells.

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Belgium gives Ukraine nearly €1B in military aid, including 30 supersonic fighter jets
https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium … itary-aid/