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[Il Palazzo]

As it hasn't been mentioned yet, Russia is throwing a whole bunch of mudlike substances, trying to get at least some to stick. Usual MO, hard to tell what's true (apart from the wanting to take its ball home and refuse to play nicely in the one international agreement that actually exists), so read it as you will.

I have my suspicions, but that's beyond my ability to call.

Nice footage from the drones e.g. here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9tNwORmwro

[scriver]

Ah, I just realised I read the revolution purge question the wrong way around

[Starver]

A note that three guilty verdicts have just been passed (one acquittal) in the MH17 trial. No hope of the sentencing being enacted, and not much more that could be done against Russia (at this point), but it's legally official nonetheless.

[Strongpoint]

A note that three guilty verdicts have just been passed (one acquittal) in the MH17 trial. No hope of the sentencing being enacted, and not much more that could be done against Russia (at this point), but it's legally official nonetheless.

I expect an appeal and 5 more years of trial...

[Starver]

A note that three guilty verdicts have just been passed (one acquittal) in the MH17 trial. No hope of the sentencing being enacted, and not much more that could be done against Russia (at this point), but it's legally official nonetheless.

I expect an appeal and 5 more years of trial...

I rather expect it to be ignored, by the guilty parties, so long as those found guilty in absence are in no danger of being handed over. Which means the state that once protected them is nothing like it is now and may be more than happy to expedite delayed justice in one form or another.

[Quarque]

Xi publicly warned Putin not to use nukes. This is great news. If any country has political influence over Russia, it is China.

(many sources for this, but for example see:)

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-xi-jinping-warns-vladimir-putin-not-to-use-nuclear-arms-in-ukraine-olaf-scholz-germany-peace-talks/

[EuchreJack]

That is GREAT NEWS, thanks for sharing! 

[King Zultan]

I wonder if it's gonna turn out Russia is China's bitch.

[anewaname]

I can't help but to see Xi's statement in the context of a intended Taiwan invasion.

[Loud Whispers]

I can't help but to see Xi's statement in the context of a intended Taiwan invasion.

Probably the only silver lining of Putin's immense folly is that it showcased the many ways a Taiwanese invasion could end in absolute disaster 100x more effectively than any American or Chinese war game could ever have done and seems to have sobered up PRC warhawks

[martinuzz]

Cherson's inhabitants say that the Russians burnt many corpses at one of the city's garbage dumps.
Eye witnesses report that trucks brought many black bags there and those were set on fire, after which a nauseating and penetrant odour of burned flesh filled the air. What remained was buried under the garbage.
Employees of the garbage dump confirmed the stories.

Some people say it were the corpses of their own soldiers.
"every time we bombarded them, they moved the remains of the fallen to the garbage dump to burn them".

So yeah.. Russian moms, Russian dads, brothers, sisters. If they tell you your child / sibling deserted, they lie. Your loved one was killed and burned like trash offal.

[Strongpoint]

Cherson's inhabitants say that the Russians burnt many corpses at one of the city's garbage dumps.
Eye witnesses report that trucks brought many black bags there and those were set on fire, after which a nauseating and penetrant odour of burned flesh filled the air. What remained was buried under the garbage.
Employees of the garbage dump confirmed the stories.

Some people say it were the corpses of their own soldiers.
"every time we bombarded them, they moved the remains of the fallen to the garbage dump to burn them".

So yeah.. Russian moms, Russian dads, brothers, sisters. If they tell you your child / sibling deserted, they lie. Your loved one was killed and burned like trash offal.

Russian strategy in Kherson, in the past months, was a cold-hearted evacuation of elite troops and heavy equipment while using mobilized Russians as speedbumps holding Ukrainian advance (as well as wast minefields). They succeeded with the evacuation and those troops will be a large problem elsewhere. But the amount of untrained Russian men lost on that front must be huge. They wanted to be like their WW2 grandfathers... they share their fate.

[Loud Whispers]

So yeah.. Russian moms, Russian dads, brothers, sisters. If they tell you your child / sibling deserted, they lie. Your loved one was killed and burned like trash offal.

The messages of that one mobilised chap who was dead in 120 hours, the soldiers who got arrested for deserting their post after they were left under shellfire for 3 days with no food or water... Yeah it's hard to say Russian command is sacrificing its conscripts; sacrifice implies they at least did something useful. This is just slaughter, slaughter with no purpose

[ChairmanPoo]

"Pay no heed to casualties Comrade Commander, for every Conscript that dies in this glorious crusade, there are a thousand more eager1 to replace him."

1: For some definitions of eager. Individual constript eagerness might vary. Eagerness not guaranteed in the event of Bayraktar

[Loud Whispers]

"Pay no heed to casualties Comrade Commander, for every Conscript that dies in this glorious crusade, there are a thousand more eager1 to replace him."

1: For some definitions of eager. Individual constript eagerness might vary. Eagerness not guaranteed in the event of Bayraktar

That's legitimately what happened in Pavlivka

Russian high command sent in Russian marines to capture Pavlivka with no air or atillery support, even though Pavlivka was deep inside Ukrainian held lines. The Russian marines accuse their own command of sending them to capture a politically significant but strategically irrelevant target just so he could win a medal after their own CO ignores their private requests to retreat, after losing 300 men and half of their vehicles in two days. Surrounded on all sides and with the road behind them at risk of being mined, they ask publicly to be allowed to retreat - only to be told "actually you are doing fine, stay put, all reports to the contrary are false."

Vranyo; I am lying to you, you know I am lying to you, but still I am lying to you