Ukraine Invasion: Part 37

[MagicFox]

Welcome all to thread 37. Thanks to everybody contributing to the backbone of these threads (extra hat tip to Ducks and Desdemona for posting daily updates) and to all lurkers too.

The one in AIBU about being worried about Russia retaliating against the West.

I will have a look

There's a couple of posters on there come up with all the Russian stock phrases, best thing is to report them I think. The more the suspicious posts are reported, the more Mumsnet take notice.

I do think some people genuinely think pushing for peace is the right thing - usually because they haven't observed Russia's pattern of behaviour - so they might be mistaken but they're honest. But yeah, some of those posts are as genuine as a banana bunnyrabbit.

My very, very, close relative has put on FB that 'naughty' NATO members have been brought to heel. I've looked on news sites, but can see nothing but the usual bluster from Putin. This person's FB friend has a post about how Biden was never in Ukraine as AF1 was flying in the US the same evening.

Honestly, if I were them I'd take the L for today, try and come back afresh in a few days. They never learn, though.

AF1 was tracked to Warsaw by two USAF E-3B Sentry aircraft. Facebook is such rubbish.

Joe Biden replaced Air Force One with a train on a surprise trip to Ukraine

Apparently Russia carried out an IBM test whilst Biden was in Ukraine, and it failed

Time for a snort of derisory laughter!

It’s my Birthday and I’m there fighting a futile war with Russian trolls 🤓 Every little helps. I think they come out at night due to the time difference, Russia is a vast country and troll factories are all over the place.

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Happy Birthday, and thank you for all your insights over the last year 🎂🎈🎊

Yes, a big thank you for the insights.

Oh ... my ... god. Farcical.

ChrisO_wiki
AT ChrisO_wiki
1/ Cadets at the Moscow Police College have reported an attempt to forcibly mobilise them en masse under false pretences. They say they were locked in a hall while attempts were made to get them to sign up to join the army. They had to call the police to be released
2/ According to the Russian 'Mobilisation News' Telegram channel, "the cadets were assembled under the pretext of rehearsing a graduation ceremony. But representatives of the military enlistment office came to the meeting.
3/ "The students said that they were detained for an hour and a half in the college on Fabritiusa Street by their teachers - department head Vyacheslav Rozhko and teachers Sergey Vasilyev and Alexei Novikov, as well as 2 representatives of the Tushino military enlistment office."
4/ The students were handed mobilisation orders by the military registration and enlistment office staff and were pressured to sign them. However, they refused, leading an impasse in which they were locked into the hall while their instructors refused to let them go.
5/ Mobilisation News reports that student Maxim G., 19, "called the police asking for help. The boy said that he was a cadet in a police college and that he and his classmates had been locked in the auditorium to force him to go to the front."
6/ The police students were released after the police arrived at the police college to free them from the police instructors.

The incident likely reflects another example of Russia's ongoing 'quiet mobilisation', targeting state employees. /end

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Prigozhin takes another step in openly challenging the current Russian regime.

Boss of Wagner mercenary group accuses Russian army chiefs of ‘treason’
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/wagner-mercenary-group-yevgeny-prigozhin-russia-army-chiefs-treason-ammunition-ukraine-war

“[Moscow’s] chief of general staff and the defence minister give out orders left and right not only to not give ammunition to PMC Wagner, but also to not help it with air transport,” Prigozhin said in a voice message shared by his press service on Tuesday.

“There is just direct opposition going on, which is nothing less than an attempt to destroy Wagner. This can be equated to high treason,” he added.
[...]
In his state of the nation speech delivered on Tuesday, Putin seemed to address the infighting.
[...]
In a post later in the day, Prigozhin said he had been too busy to watch the speech and could therefore not comment on the president’s remarks.

In a post later in the day, Prigozhin said he had been too busy to watch the speech and could therefore not comment on the president’s remarks

My my my. I wonder if he'd dare say that to Putin's face.

Hmmm I wonder how much longer Prigozhin
Is going to be about for...

He should probably stay away from high windows, cups of tea and underpants....

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