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Sorry DML, but all of this sounds like propaganda at this point. Putin will successfully take the eastern regions of Ukraine and Zelensky will surrender. (It’s already admitted. Zelensky says they can no longer keep this up and it was actually a Russian tactic to send in their worst shit first against Ukraine’s best, and now they’re sending in the big guns. That’s why we are hearing less about this war.)
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The more the United States gets involved - the better the war is going for Russia because that means Ukraine needs help.
If we don’t get involved at all, that’s still good news for Russia.
The media put up a good battle against the truth and had people actually believing Ukraine would best Russia. It’s not going to happen though. Smart people knew this up front.
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𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐜𝐨𝐞♞ wrote:
No need to apologise, these are not my expressed views.Sorry DML, but all of this sounds like propaganda at this point. Putin will successfully take the eastern regions of Ukraine and Zelensky will surrender. (It’s already admitted. Zelensky says they can no longer keep this up and it was actually a Russian tactic to send in their worst shit first against Ukraine’s best, and now they’re sending in the big guns. That’s why we are hearing less about this war.)
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༺ ᗪᗰᒪ ༻ wrote:
Copy 👍𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐜𝐨𝐞♞ wrote:
No need to apologise, these are not my expressed views.Sorry DML, but all of this sounds like propaganda at this point. Putin will successfully take the eastern regions of Ukraine and Zelensky will surrender. (It’s already admitted. Zelensky says they can no longer keep this up and it was actually a Russian tactic to send in their worst shit first against Ukraine’s best, and now they’re sending in the big guns. That’s why we are hearing less about this war.)
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Russia controls ‘half’ of Sievierodonetsk in the East
Russian forces control half of the east Ukraine city of Sievierodonetsk, a Ukrainian military official said today, as Moscow's army continues an unrelenting push deeper into the Donbas region.
"Unfortunately, the front line divides the city in half. But the city is still defending itself, the city is still Ukrainian, our soldiers are defending it," said Oleksandr Stryuk, head of the city's military and civil administration, said in a live broadcast.
After failing to capture the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in the early stages of the war, Russia has shifted its focus to the eastern Donbas region and is attempting to consolidate areas under its control.
Luhansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday earlier described the situation in Sievierodonetsk as "extremely complicated" conceding that parts of the city were controlled by Russian forces.
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100 days of war
The United Nations has today said there would be no victor from Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the conflict entered its 100th day and Moscow's forces pressed deeper into the eastern Donbas region.
"This war has and will have no winner. Rather, we have witnessed for 100 days what is lost: lives, homes, jobs and prospects," Amin Awad, Assistant Secretary-General and United Nations Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine, said in a statement.
The milestone came as Kyiv announced Moscow was now in control of a fifth of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea and parts of Donbas seized in 2014.
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Best if Ukraine just surrender now
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Russian warning to West as Britain pledges to send ‘cutting edge’ missile system for Ukraine
The British government said on Monday that the multiple-launch rocket systems it is offering to Ukraine will bring “a significant boost in capability” for the country's efforts to resist Russia's invasion.
“If the international community continues its support, I believe Ukraine can win” its war against Russia, British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement.As he faces a confidence motion from within his own party on Monday evening, British prime minister Boris Johnson made a third social media post since the vote was announced, sharing a picture of himself on the phone to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
"President (Zelensky) just updated me on the ongoing battle against Russian aggression in the Donbas," the Prime Minister tweeted.
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"It's clear the Ukrainian people will not bow to Russian brutality. We're unwavering in our mission of ensuring Ukraine is defended and supported for the long-term."
The statement came after comments on Sunday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warned the West against sending longer-range rocket systems to Ukraine.
The British government described the M270 weapon system as a “cutting edge” military asset which can strike targets up to 80 kilometres away “with pinpoint accuracy.” The United Kingdom pledged last week to send the weapons. It gave no details about delivery dates.
Russia said on Monday it would respond to Western deliveries of long-range weapons to Ukraine by pushing back Ukrainian forces further from Russia's border.
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Fierce street battles in key city
Ukrainian troops are battling Russians street-to-street in the ruins of Sievierodonetsk, trying to hold onto gains from a surprise counter-offensive that had reversed momentum in one of the bloodiest land battles of the war.
The fight for the small industrial city has emerged as a pivotal battle in eastern Ukraine, with Russia focusing its offensive might there in the hope of achieving one of its stated war aims - to fully capture surrounding Luhansk province on behalf of separatist proxies.
After withdrawing from nearly all the city in the face of the Russian advance, Ukrainian forces staged a surprise counter-attack last week, driving the Russians from a swath of the city centre.
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Since then, the two armies have faced off across boulevards, both claiming to have inflicted huge casualties.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow's troops were in full control of the residential areas of the city.
"The residential areas of the city of Sievierodonetsk have been fully liberated," he told a defence ministry meeting in televised remarks.
Before Ukraine's counter-offensive, Russia had seemed on the verge of encircling Ukraine's garrison in Luhansk province, cutting off the main road to Sievierodonetsk and its twin city Lysychansk across the Siverskiy Donets river.
But following the counter-offensive, Mr Zelensky made a surprise visit to Lysychansk on Sunday, personally demonstrating that Kyiv still had an open route to its troops' redoubt.
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Moscow ambassador storms out of UN after EU chief blames Russia for food crisis
Moscow's UN ambassador walked out of the Security Council after the EU accused Russia of using food supplies as "a stealth missile against developing countries".
European Council President Charles Miche addressed Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia directly at the council meeting, saying he saw millions of tonnes of grain and wheat stuck in containers and ships at the Ukrainian port of Odesa a few weeks ago.
That was "because of Russian warships in the Black Sea", and Moscow's attacks on transport infrastructure and grain storage facilities, and its tanks, bombs and mines that are preventing Ukraine from planting and harvesting, he said."This is driving up food prices, pushing people into poverty, and destabilising entire regions," Mr Michel said.
"Russia is solely responsible for this looming food crisis. Russia alone."
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Ukraine says 31,000 Russian troops killed in war
Ukraine regularly shares estimates on Russian losses in the war, which began in late February and shows no signs of reaching a close.
In the latest, Kyiv says Russia has lost around 31,360 personnel between 24 February and 7 June.
It is worth noting that Ukrainian estimates have consistently been much higher than those given by Western agencies and Moscow.
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Belarusian army in combat readiness training - ministry
The Belarusian armed forces have begun taking part in combat readiness training, the country's defence ministry has said.
Belarus is a close ally of Russia and allowed it to launch the northern prong of its 24 February attack on Ukraine from Belarusian territory.
President Vladimir Putin has proposed that Belarus is used as a way to transport the millions of tonnes of grain trapped in Ukraine's Black Sea port.
He said his proposal would only work if sanctions against Russia's ally were lifted.
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2 Britons and Moroccan sentenced to death by pro-Russian court in self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
A court in the pro-Russian self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic on Thursday sentenced three men to death that it has accused of being "mercenaries" for Ukraine, according to Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti.
British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan national Brahim Saadoune appeared in court on Thursday, where they were handed down the death penalty.
The men were captured by Russian forces in mid-April in Mariupol.
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Good updates. I have particularly been trying my best to take the ostrich approach and not get sucked in.
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Putin hints at further invasions in ominous comments
Suspicions that Vladimir Putin does not intend to stop at Ukraine in his efforts to expand Russia's territory have formed a backdrop to the war since he ordered his forces to cross the border in February.
Televised comments made by the Russian president in a Q&A yesterday will only have fuelled such fears."Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years. It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, he took something from them. He did not take anything from them, he returned (what was Russia's)," he said after a visiting an exhibition dedicated to the tsar.
When Peter founded the new capital, "no European country recognised it as Russia. Everybody recognised it as Sweden," Mr Putin said.
"What was (Peter) doing? Taking back and reinforcing. That's what he did.
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"Apparently, it also fell to us to return (what is Russia's) and strengthen (the country). And if we proceed from the fact that these basic values form the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in solving the tasks that we face."
And in perhaps his most ominous remarks at the event, the Russian appeared to leave the door open for further Russian territorial expansion.
"It's impossible - do you understand? - impossible to build a fence around a country like Russia. And we do not intend to build that fence," he said.Mr Putin, now in his 23rd year in power, has repeatedly sought to justify Russia's actions in Ukraine, where his forces have devastated cities, killed thousands and put millions of people to flight, by propounding a view of history that asserts Ukraine has no real national identity or tradition of statehood.
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Peter the Great, an autocratic moderniser admired by liberal and conservative Russians alike, ruled for 43 years and gave his name to a new capital, St Petersburg - Putin's hometown - that he ordered built on land he conquered from Sweden.
It was a project that cost the lives of tens of thousands of serfs, conscripted as forced labourers to build Peter's "window to Europe" in the swamps of the Baltic Sea coast.
Prior to Putin's visit to the exhibition, state television aired a documentary praising Peter the Great as a tough military leader, greatly expanding Russian territory at the expense of Sweden and the Ottoman Empire with the modernised army and navy he built. -
‘Desertion growing’ in Ukraine army as 200 soldiers killed each day in Donbas
Cases of desertion are growing every week in the Ukrainian army, according to a leaked intelligence report, as up to 200 of its outgunned soldiers are killed every day in the eastern Donbas region.
Kyiv’s forces are outnumbered 20 to one in artillery and 40 to one in ammunition by the Kremlin’s forces in the area, the Ukrainian report reveals.Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior aide to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that the battle over the war-torn country’s industrial heartlands was so intense that the army was suffering up to 200 military casualties per day.
The previous upper limit was given as 100 soldiers.
Mr Podolyak said Ukraine’s armed forces needed hundreds of the most powerful artillery systems to compete with Moscow’s forces, not the handful being sent by Western governments.
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The intelligence dossier, drawn up by Ukrainian and Western officials, warns of the growing risk of demoralised Ukrainian soldiers going awol.
The situation in the Donbas is having a “seriously demoralising effect on Ukrainian forces as well as a very real material effect; cases of desertion are growing every week”, according to the report.
The suggestion was confirmed by a Western official, who also said Russian troops were abandoning their units as the war in Ukraine rumbled on.
The source added: “They will, of course, be facing more issues, but the Ukrainians are fighting in their homeland and are in largely dug-in positions, so they have the advantage over Russia in that regard.”
But Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk, of Ukraine’s ministry of defence, said that the reports were not true and likened them to “Russian propaganda”.
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“Russian troops really outnumber our artillery forces, so we need weapons from Western partners,” he said. “But Ukrainian troops, despite this [Russian] advantage, do not retreat.”
The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank, said Russian forces were trying to merge their operations in Izyum and Popasna.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Moscow was attempting “to regain momentum in this area in order to put further pressure on Severodonetsk, and to give it the option of advancing deeper into the Donetsk Oblast”.
If the Kremlin’s offensive drive is successful, it would leave Ukrainian troops almost entirely encircled by Russia’s forces in Severodonetsk.
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Ukraine 'losing on frontlines with Russia and has nearly run out of ammo'
A report has been published this morning in which Ukraine's deputy head of military intelligence has said the country is losing against Russia on the frontlines and that it has now almost run out of ammunition.
It is now almost solely reliant on weapons from the West to keep Russia at bay, he is reported to have said."This is an artillery war now," Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence, told the Guardian.
He said the conflict would now be decided on the frontlines, and "and we are losing in terms of artillery".
"Everything now depends on what [the West] gives us," said Skibitsky."Ukraine has one artillery piece to 10 to 15 Russian artillery pieces. Our western partners have given us about 10% of what they have.
"We have almost used up all of our [artillery] ammunition and are now using 155-calibre NATO standard shells. -
"Europe is also delivering lower-calibre shells but as Europe runs out, the amount is getting smaller."
He went on to urge the West once again to supply more arms to Ukraine, which is expected to ask for a list of weapons and defensive equipment at the contact group meeting with NATO on 15 June.
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Severodonetsk will be 'liberated in few days', says Luhansk governor
The eastern city of Severodonetsk will be "liberated in a few days", Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai has said.
As fighting on the streets of the city continues, Mr Haidai said Ukrainian forces would be able to "clean up" the area once they had received long-range artillery.
A statement from the governor's office to Sky News read: "We are waiting for the Western long-range weapons. After getting this, Severodonetsk will be liberated in few days."The statement went on to say that while the evacuation of civilians and the delivery of humanitarian aid into the city was "still impossible", the region's hospital had "everything necessary to stabilise the wounded".
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For context: Severodonetsk, located 189 miles south of the Russian border, has become the main focus of Russia's offensive in Ukraine in recent weeks.
It is one of last areas in the eastern Luhansk region that is still under Ukrainian control.
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‘Sham judgement’ – Two British men sentenced to death after being captured by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine
Two British soldiers captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by pro-Moscow rebels in what UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss branded a “sham judgment”.
Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were convicted of taking action towards violent seizure of power at a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.The UK Government insisted the judgment had no legitimacy and the pair should be treated as prisoners of war.
Ms Truss said: “I utterly condemn the sentencing of Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner held by Russian proxies in eastern Ukraine.
“They are prisoners of war. This is a sham judgment with absolutely no legitimacy.
“My thoughts are with the families. We continue to do everything we can to support them.”
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A No 10 spokesman said: “We are obviously deeply concerned by this. We have said continually that prisoners of war shouldn’t be exploited for political purposes.
“Under the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war are entitled to combatant immunity and they should not be prosecuted for participation in hostilities.“So we will continue to work with the Ukrainian authorities to try to secure the release of any British nationals who were serving in the Ukrainian armed forces and who are being held as prisoners of war.”
A third man, Moroccan national Saaudun Brahim, was convicted alongside Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner.
The men were accused of being “mercenaries” after fighting with Ukrainian troops.
Russian media outlet RIA Novosti reported that the three are set to face a firing squad.
Tory former minister Robert Jenrick, who represents the Newark constituency where Mr Aslin lived, said: “Russia should be clear, they cannot treat British citizens like this and get away with it.
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“Contrary to the Kremlin’s propaganda, Aiden Aslin is not a mercenary. He has been living in Ukraine and serving in its armed forces before Russia’s illegal invasion and as a prisoner of war is entitled to protection under the Geneva Convention.
“Aiden must be released as soon as practicable.”
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Russia shelling chemical plant sheltering hundreds
Bitter fighting rages on in Sievierodonetsk, but the region's governor said Ukraine remained in control of an industrial area and chemical plant in the eastern city, where hundreds of civilians are sheltering from incessant Russian shelling.
A Russia-backed separatist group yesterday claimed 300 to 400 Ukrainian fighters were also trapped at the Azot plant.
Governor Serhiy Gaidai earlier conceded Russian forces now controlled most of the small city in Luhansk province, and said Russian shelling of the plant had ignited a big fire after an oil leak. It was not known if the fire was still burning this morning.
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