Thank you for sharing - it’s always enlightening to hear stories from those directly affected.
It really makes you wonder/worry what’s happening right now behind the scenes in Australia.
One nil to Ukraine.
Good aim? Or maybe just got lucky.
You fight like you live.
Absolute legends.
Going to be a cold winter - but spirits will not easily be broken.
He told one mother: “Some people die of vodka, and their lives go unnoticed. But your son really lived and achieved his goal. He didn’t die in vain.”
On Friday, President Putin declared that “life is more complicated than what they show on TV or even on the internet”.
Jeepers. Once these mums find out the truth about this war and how its going…
“We never thought we’d see this sort of human wave attack in Europe in the 21st century”
Pretty sure Russia is stuck in a different century to the rest of us
They were handpicked women from within the Putin regime, not actual mothers of troops.
They sure do seem to get lucky a lot.
Good article on the relationship between UAVs and arty
Bounty on Prigozhin is out. FBI offering $250 000 for information leading to his arrest for conspiracy to defraud the United States.
About time. Putin should be next.
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How hardcore are the Poles
Edit: Bump please
Podcast interviewing Aiden, the English guy fighting in Azovstal steelworks who was captured and sentenced to death.
We get a shoutout, even if it’s a typo. But have we really contributed a lot? From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…
This list is out of date
Looks like the real total so far looks like it is “approximately” (even the government doesn’t know) AU$655 Million worth of aid to Ukraine. (If my maths is right, that is around 0.3% of our Social security and welfare expenditure in 2020–21 - estimated to be $227.5 billion)
https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/media-releases/2022-10-27/additional-support-ukraine
Russians officials and the military | What will soon happen to them (English subtitles) - Max Katz
Oh fk me. That is heartbreaking.
How can humans be so horrible and callous, and then on the other end of the scale so brave and selfless?