Russia-Ukraine war and related tensions Megathread

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https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1497231580951162886?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle...

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https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1497231580951162886?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle...

I really hope that this is intended as propaganda for internal consumption, and that the situation is not that dire.

I kinda posted this hoping that it will be rebuked. But it's not like these concerns are unreasonable.

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https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1497587401501327361
https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1497298554381119491
So glad to see Anonymous getting its hands dirty again.

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https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1497587401501327361
https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1497298554381119491
So glad to see Anonymous getting its hands dirty again.

Anonymous are effectively the 21st Century version of Antifa, except mainly focusing on cyber actions vs street fighting.

"You watch the neighborhood, we'll watch the skies."

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Russians looting en masse, possibly indicative of their intent to leave the region, although this could just be a normal thing for them:

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1558875749725118467
Hard to see how they continue to defend this area, though, at least without significant losses.

somewhat unrelated but what are the X's and V's for?

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https://twitter.com/breaknewsi/status/1579489093255598082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7C...

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Russia is murdering soldiers who desert:

Russian’s Vladimir Putin sparked the wrath of his own people by drafting hundreds of thousands to join the war against Ukraine, and now it seems some of those men were sent not to fight the so-called “enemy” but to “snuff out” any of the Russian troops who dare to retreat.

Ukrainian intelligence on Thursday released an audio recording that appears to capture in disturbing detail the mayhem and internal rifts between Russian troops on the battlefield. In the five-minute clip, described as an intercepted phone conversation between a Russian soldier and his wife, the man says he and the other men in his unit are a comfortable distance from the actual fighting.

“They moved us back to the second line, there’s shooting somewhere ahead of us, but we’re back here for now in the trenches,” he says, before boasting that he’d been lucky and found a “Rosneft jacket covered in blood, but warm.”

“They brought the inmates here... from prison. But they led them somewhere way up front. And we’re sitting here as a retreat-blocking detachment, . If someone runs back, we snuff them out.”

“What a nightmare,” his wife says.

“That’s how we have it set up. We sit on the second line, guarding the first. Behind us, there’s another line. If you go that way, you also won’t make it. So it’s impossible to run away. They shoot their own.”

“If someone goes [that way], you need to wipe him out,” he said.

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Report: Putin privately signals interest in ceasefire in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been privately signaling that he is open to a cease-fire in Ukraine, the New York Times reported Saturday, despite publicly saying he won't back down from the conflict that has been ongoing since early last year.

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Putin has been indicating since at least September that he is open to stopping the fighting at the current boundary lines, the Times reported, citing two former senior Russian officials close to the Kremlin and other American and international officials.

Bad news for the Russophiles.

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The US has accused Russia of deploying chemical weapons as a "method of warfare" in Ukraine, in violation of international laws banning their use.

State department officials said Russia used the choking agent chloropicrin to win "battlefield gains" over Ukraine.

The allegations, which US officials said were not an "isolated" incident, would contravene the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which Russia signed.

BBC via MSN

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A police officer and a volunteer help a Vovchansk resident evacuate to Kharkiv due to Russian military strikes near the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 17, 2024.

Ukraine accused Russia of potential war crimes Saturday, saying their shelling targeted civilians in residential areas of two cities in northeastern Ukraine.

In the first case, a Russian airstrike wounded six people, including two teens and a child in the city of Kharkiv.

In the second case, Russian shelling in Vovchansk, a town 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the Russian border, killed a 60-year-old woman and injured three other civilians. A 59-year-man also was injured in the village of Ukrainske, they said.

Thousands of civilians have been killed or injured since Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Moscow denies targeting civilians.

Russia said its forces shot down a Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile on Saturday. A similar missile launched last week on the Russian border town of Belgorod caused the collapse of an apartment building, killing at least 15 people.

Fierce battles continue along the now-longer front line of Ukraine.A police officer and a volunteer help a Vovchansk resident evacuate to Kharkiv due to Russian military strikes near the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 17, 2024.

VOA News

Complete barbarians.