The Ukraine war thread

[Mik]

It's much easier to ignore goings on in someone else's yard.

[Wim]

Putin and maps...

https://glavcom.ua/publications/velikij-konfuz-malenkoho-kartohrafa-putina-929447.html

Also on CNN via Youtube

Dumb-dumber-(fill in whatever suits you) 🥴

[Mik]

I'm thinking that's not going to pluck anyone's emotional strings.

[George K]

@Wim said in The Ukraine war thread:

https://glavcom.ua/publications/velikij-konfuz-malenkoho-kartohrafa-putina-929447.html

Wanna go back a few centuries? Have at it.

[Renauda]

If Putin wants to look at old maps he should have a look at one or two from more recent history that would show his Kaliningrad enclave belonging to the Germany. It was called East Prussia.

[Renauda]

Putin’s expertise in historical geography is leading to mirthful memes:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/24/putins-antique-map-stunt-stirs-meme-storm-a81260

[George K]

I still maintain that Ragnar Lothbrok has a greater claim on Rus than Putin has on Ukraine.

[Renauda]

Vilnius and Warsaw have the strongest claims after the Varangians. Prior to that for all we know it could have been the Huns and Khazars.

Putin’s claim is a best tenuous, but then so was Henry Tudor’s claim to the English throne.

[Mik]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainians-claim-to-have-destroyed-large-russian-warship-in-berdiansk/ar-AA1bHpzO?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=75e0c85711214e11bcb276bcae939c0b&ei=21

[Jolly]

Storm Shadow...

https://eurasiantimes.com/its-official-ukrainian-su-24-fencer-fighter-jets-are-launchin/

[George K]

Russia's 'conditions for peace.'

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The deputy to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said “Ukraine must”:

• Refuse to join NATO and the EU
• Commit to a ‘neutral, non-aligned status’
• End the resistance of its Armed Forces
• Cease the supply of Western weapons
• Recognize the ‘new territorial realities’ (Moscow’s euphemism for the illegal occupation of Ukrainian lands)
• Make Russian a state language ‘at the legislative level’

He also characterized Russia’s genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine as “the realization of the right of peoples to self-determination”, co-opting decolonialist language from the United Nations.

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While these positions are obviously unacceptable to Ukraine – even before the thousands of war crimes Russia has committed against Ukrainians – Galuzin listed them as conditions “for achieving a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace.”

Galuzin claimed that the Kremlin has not changed the initial goals of its criminal war, falsely labeling them as "protecting the residents of Donbas, demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine, and eliminating threats to Russia's security that originate from its territory."

[Renauda]

All Lavrov needed to say was there was one condition. Unconditional surrender of Ukrainian sovereignty to the Russian Federation.

Long winded, bastard.

[George K]

[Mik]

I suspect Putin has Lukashenko's successor picked.

[George K]

I wonder if he's been "Litvinenko'ed".

[Renauda]

@George-K

Or maybe Putinolini made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

[George K]

Drones hit Moscow buildings

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Russia is blaming Ukraine for launching a drone attack on Moscow early Tuesday which reportedly left two people injured and several buildings damaged, a rare incident in the Russian capital after months of war.

While incidents in Moscow are uncommon, residents in Kyiv have faced 17 airstrikes this month. There was a Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian capital overnight, which officials said killed at least one person.

At least three residential buildings in Moscow were damaged by drones on Tuesday, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing emergency services and residents.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said there were no serious injuries reported from the aerial assault, which caused “minor damage” and emergency services were on the scene.

Ukraine has denied direct involvement with Tuesday’s drone attack on Moscow.

There have been a handful of incidents within Russian territory since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor last February, with most of the fighting taking place inside Ukraine.

Earlier this month, two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were destroyed over the Kremlin in a murky attack that Russia blamed on Kyiv and claimed was an attempt to target Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kyiv forcefully denied the allegation.

On Tuesday, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Kyiv was also at fault for what it called a “terrorist attack” that involved eight aircraft-type UAVs which were shot down or diverted earlier in the morning.

“All enemy UAVs were destroyed,” the defense ministry said in a statement. “Three of them were suppressed by electronic warfare, lost control and deviated from their intended targets.

“Another five UAVs were shot down by the Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system in the Moscow region,” it added.

[Copper]

@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

Ukraine has denied direct involvement

It was probably the same people who masterminded the Nord Stream pipeline affair.

[George K]

[George K]

Drones attack Russian oil refineries

Drone attacks on Russian soil continued into their second day, with reported strikes on two oil refineries roughly 50 miles from Russia’s highly important Black Sea oil export terminals, local authorities said.

The strikes come just a day after drone attacks in Moscow that damaged buildings and prompted the Kremlin to say it reserves the right to take “severe measures” in response.

Meanwhile, several people have been killed in shelling in the central and eastern Ukrainian regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Russian-occupied Luhansk, according to local offici