It is a public holiday CJ.
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It’s been amazing to me that Transnistria has been occupied by Russists for so long. As it is landlocked, and mostly by Ukraine, how has it been kept supplied? UKR and Moldova could have kept it isolated from getting any supplies.
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A friend has pointed out that this has always been a Polish folk song from the time when Ukraine was a part of Poland.
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Mirami - Соколи / The Falcons [Eng Subs] |
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So, who thought Ukraine could resist a ground invasion for almost three years? Certainly not Vlad.
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Yep, his “military operation” was really special.
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Just when I thought my respect couldn’t get any greater.
If 430,000 Russian men fall in a forest, and no-one in Russia reports it, does its people make a sound.
Al-Assad offered tea.
Yeah righto. I’m sure trucking Futin will take great notice of the orang-utan.
Russians with a sense of morality.
Russians Are Enlisting in Ukraine’s Army to Fight Against Their Own Country
The orang-utan’s very existence emboldens trucking Futin - apparently.
Dragged back to Russian levels of civility.
The hot spots.
Walk a mile in their boots.
Analysis - Trucking Futin is psychotic.
I thought the real clue would be… that it’s trucking Futin.
The small cogs affecting the big cogs.
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Frontline update - 32 minutes ago.
Russia-Ukraine war: Frontline update as of January 1
Thu, January 02, 2025 - 00:30
As of the evening of January 1, the frontlines witnessed 125 combat engagements, with the Pokrovsk direction remaining the most intense hotspot, where 35 enemy attacks have already been recorded, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to the General Staff, the enemy launched one missile strike and 26 airstrikes, deploying seven missiles, 34 guided bombs, and 562 kamikaze drones, and conducting over 3,000 artillery attacks on Ukrainian military positions.
In the Kupiansk direction, the adversary attacked Ukrainian fortifications seven times near Kolisnykivka, Zahryzove, Lozova, and Nova Kruhliakivka. Five clashes are ongoing in this area.
In the Lyman direction, Russian forces attempted 16 assaults throughout the day on Ukrainian positions near Novoserhiivka, Tverdokhlibove, Kopanky, Makiivka, Ivanivka, and the Serebrianske Forestry. Two enemy attacks near Torske and Terny are still underway.
In the Kramatorsk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled 14 enemy attacks near the settlements of Chasiv Yar, Stupochky, and Predtechyne. Two clashes are ongoing in the area.
In the Toretsk direction, the Russian army launched seven assaults on Ukrainian defensive positions throughout the day. All attacks near Shcherbynivka were repelled, though three enemy offensives near Toretsk and toward Dyliivka continued.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy conducted 35 assault and offensive operations daily. The most intense activity by Russian forces remains near Vozdvyzhenka, Myroliubivka, Lysivka, Novyi Trud, Solone, Kotlyne, Pishchane, Pokrovsk, Novooleksiivka, Zelene, Novoolenivka, Dachenske, and Novovasylivka. Thirteen assaults on Ukrainian positions are still underway.
In this direction today, Ukrainian forces eliminated 161 enemy personnel and wounded 143 more. They also destroyed an armored personnel carrier and five vehicles, damaging three additional vehicles and one enemy armored combat vehicle.
The enemy is also intensively attacking in the Kurakhove direction, with 18 clashes recorded near Ukrayinka, Petropavlivka, and Kurakhove. Four engagements remain ongoing. Enemy losses in this sector include 86 personnel killed or wounded, along with the destruction of five armored combat vehicles and damage to one infantry fighting vehicle.
In the Vremivka direction, Ukrainian forces repelled 17 enemy attacks near Dachne, Konstyantynopil, Yantarne, Novosilka, Rozlyv, and Novyi Komar, with six engagements still ongoing.
In the Orikhiv direction, Ukrainian troops successfully repelled a single enemy attack near the settlement of Novoandriivka.
In the Prydniprovskyi direction, the enemy launched two unsuccessful assaults near the island of Zabych today.
In the Kursk region, Ukrainian defenders repelled 32 enemy attacks throughout the day, with one battle still ongoing. Additionally, the enemy carried out one missile strike and nine airstrikes, employing seven missiles and eleven guided bombs, along with 202 artillery shellings.
In the Kharkiv, Hulyaipole, and Siversk directions, the enemy has not conducted any assault operations since the start of the day.
Russia’s losses in the war
According to the General Staff, Russia has lost over 790,000 personnel since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours alone, Russian forces suffered an additional 1,250 casualties.
Ukrainian troops also destroyed four tanks, 13 armored combat vehicles, four artillery systems, one helicopter, 50 operational-tactical drones, 49 vehicles, and one piece of special equipment belonging to the occupiers.
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Russian rights? Now there’s something to aim for.
A hit to the hip pocket.
Not paying the bill or political bastardry?
Great shooting. These Russians are getting more accurate.
Russia loses another Mi-28, friendly fire suspected
LOL. Ya start a war and complain about the consequences.
During holidays - How rude.
Cost per kilometre.
No gay times in Russia.
Russia fines party-goers for ‘looking too gay’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/01/russia-fines-party-goers-for-looking-too-gay/
Probably because there’s no ‘normal’ intelligence.
Russian Grinches.
Casting a Shadow.
The killing fields of Kursk.
Silent majority by intimidation or complicit silence?
Trucking Futin’s phone is about to run hot.
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Ukraine taking terrible punishment according to this. If the commentary matching the video is the truth, it paints a grim picture.
I can only hope they locate the rogue nation responsible
They know nothing about Russian military drafting processes in India do they?
Seriously, what idiot would travel there? So how much tax would they raise. One rupees?
OK, not one rupees. Just ‘thanks a bunch’.
India Targetting Russia to Boost Banana Exports to $1B.
https://indiashippingnews.com/india-targeting-russia-to-boost-banana-exports-to-1-bn-apeda-chairman/
I dunno. The Crimean Bridge has been hit? It’s the only article I can find claiming this. Is there any info available on this @Nexta ?
And counting…
Now this is what @Captain_Jack was talking about.
The wash-up here. Trust no-one, beware of loopholes and - any signed documents pretty much account for jackschitt.
Another article about the plots in Ukraine.
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Three men have been charged with spying on U.S. military bases for Russia and plotting attacks on American personnel in retaliation for Western support of Ukraine, German prosecutors said.
The men, identified only as dual German-Russian nationals Dieter S., Alexander J. and Alex D., were charged Dec. 9 in the Munich Higher Regional Court with suspicion of working for a foreign intelligence agency, according to a statement Monday from the German federal prosecutor’s office.
Dieter S., who prosecutors say was the plot’s ringleader, was also charged with acting as a sabotage agent, conspiracy to cause an explosion and arson, declaring his willingness to interfere with rail traffic and endangering security by taking pictures of military installations.
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I haven’t seen any confirmation of a hit on the bridge, alas.
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I’m gunna post this in its entirety because we all despise Russia and that fuktard Putin. Also, we need some encouraging news about Ukraine. Puck Futin.
Putin cannot survive another year like 2024
It is baffling to see people claiming Russia is winning the war. Last year was a catastrophe for its army and economy
“Does it look like Ron Blaskett has got his hand up my arse Sine?”
As 2025 begins, pessimism about Ukraine’s fate hangs in the air and the stench of appeasement on the wind. I find myself confused as to why, for it should be clear that the conflict has so far been an ignominious failure for President Vladimir Putin.
Unable to achieve the objective of subjugating his far smaller neighbour, he has instead inflicted enormous suffering on his own country and devastated its economy while undermining Russian prestige and strategic influence around the world.
Lest we forget that what was planned as a three-day “special operation” has turned into a three-year nightmare. Russia has made only limited territorial gains and has been incapable of capturing even the whole of Donetsk Oblast in the east. Last year’s grand offensive to establish a buffer zone at Kharkiv to protect Russian territory only seized a few kilometres along the border. Missile attacks aimed at plunging Ukraine into near-constant cold and darkness have clearly failed.
Meanwhile Putin has lost control of parts of Kursk Oblast to Ukrainian forces in the first invasion of Russian territory since the Second World War, failing to retake it despite enlisting North Korea as an ally in the conflict. Putin’s much-vaunted air defences have proven unable to halt Ukrainian strikes on airfields, oil depots and ammunition warehouses inside Russia. Even the capital, Moscow, has been penetrated by locally-produced Ukrainian explosive drones. The Russian navy has been humiliated, losing control of the Black Sea and unable to strangle Ukraine’s grain exports. Upwards of 15 of its ships have been sunk by sea drones with many more damaged and the remainder of the fleet forced to retreat from the Crimean peninsula and the shores of Ukraine.
The human toll from Putin’s sclerotic campaign has also been immense. Ukraine estimates that Russian forces sustained 427,000 casualties in 2024 alone. The Institute for the Study of War, a US think tank, assesses that during the same period Russia seized 4,168 square kilometres; that means each square kilometre captured has cost more than 100 casualties.
The financial outlay on those casualties, with 6 per cent of the entire federal budget promised to support the wounded and compensate the families of the dead, is just one contributor to Russia’s increasingly precarious economy. Interest rates have hit 23 per cent with inflation at 9 per cent, driven by an unsustainable war economy badly damaged by global sanctions. The Russian financial system may not be on the verge of collapse, but no matter how much the Kremlin talks up its prospects, long-term economic stagnation seems inevitable even if the conflict ends in 2025.
Further afield, the war has severely damaged Russian credibility in the Middle East. Putin’s intervention in the Syrian civil war in 2015 kept Assad in power. But the scaling back of his forces there to stoke the meat grinder in Ukraine together with the withdrawal in 2023 of the Wagner mercenary force – another casualty of the war – meant he was unable to save the dictator at the end of last year. Whether or not Moscow retains its bases in Syria, its reputation as a tough and dependable ally compared to the vacillating West will have been badly ruptured. Added to that, Russia’s weakness in Syria has inflicted damage, perhaps irreparable, on its chief regional accomplice and arms supplier, Iran. If Syria becomes a support base for jihadists set on terrorism inside Russia – a distinct possibility – it could be disastrous.
Contrary to Putin’s dream of resurrecting a Russian empire, he has risked turning the country into a dependency of the Chinese. Western sanctions have already made Russia more reliant on China for economic support and commerce than ever before. As Moscow’s economic situation worsens, the trade inequity will only deepen. Russia also depends on the Chinese supply of dual-use technology that is essential for its war production and North Korea would not have sent 10,000 troops to help fight Putin’s war without a green light from Xi Jinping. The conditions are being set for Moscow’s subordination to Beijing.
Despite Russia’s woes, we should not make the mistake of believing that Ukraine and the West are near victory in this conflict. Unfortunately the opportunity for that was lost at least two years ago by a combination of lack of resolve in Europe and fear of escalation in the US, which denied Ukraine the weapons it needed to drive Russia back. Ukraine has been unable to halt the steady Russian advance and is not going to be able to do so without substantially increased support, which is unlikely to come. Kyiv’s allies have become increasingly war-weary since the failed counter-offensive in 2023 and many are resigned to a peace deal. Recent comments by President Zelensky suggest he too is now prepared for that, even if it means territorial concessions.
Putin is playing hardball, rejecting a reported proposal by the US president-elect, which involved a 20-year delay to Ukraine’s Nato membership, Western security guarantees and a European-manned buffer zone. His stance may soften depending on how he sees the future of the Russian economy and how concerned he is over an unpredictable Donald Trump in the White House.
For now, we must kill the idea that Putin is “winning” the war. It has been a colossal failure. The tragedy is the West may be about to reward Putin with enough territory for him to claim otherwise, turning defeat into victory.
Colonel Richard Kemp CBE is a retired British Army officer who served from 1977 to 2006
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