Ukraine Invasion: Part 52

[MagicFox]

Welcome to 52. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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I do worry for the innocent Syrian civilians caught up, Assad will be looking for any excuse to use more chlorine on them.

Re Alaska, You might be thinking of something like this:

https://www.norad.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/3849184/norad-detects-tracks-and-intercepts-russian-and-prc-aircraft-operating-in-the-a/

In that case the Russians were operating in the Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) which as the article points out is in international airspace.

They are a few of those dotted around the world, some nations really like them, and they really only exist to put those potentially involved in non scheduled operations on warning that there is an increased risk of them being intercepted and monitored.

Okay, thanks. So much goes on that it's hard to remember it all!

The Russian representative at the UN laughs while hearing the Ukrainian delegate’s report on the mass killing of Ukrainian children by Russians. https://t.me/Kyivpost_official/26986

Bastard. I hope they receive sanctions. Disgusting behaviour.

You know things are bad for the Russians when the North Koreans in Kursk are complaining about the food. 😂

https://en.defence-ua.com/news/north_korean_troops_in_russia_are_starving_in_kursk_region-12747.html

Very random but I wonder why the article has a lowercase R for Russia all the way through. Is this some kind of slight or just an error.

It's a slight on the country, you see it a lot amongst Ukraines supporters.

@DesdamonasHandkerchief thanks for clarifying. I'd not come across it before. It was so extensive and the rest of the article was grammatically sound so it did seem like a passive f-you.

For when it's needed - should we fill this one up?

Ukraine Invasion: Part 53 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/5224528-ukraine-invasion-part-53

@MagicFox what's your usual protocol? Do you post a few messages even if trivial so that you can hit the 1000?

I wouldn't wish anyone to starve to death. However, every time I hear of food supply issues in the invading army the Holodomor memorial does flash into my mind's eye.

Yes but as I'm a little bit early it might not work so well!

Has anyone any thoughts on the Georgescu vs Lasconi run-off in Romania? Georgescu is keen to remove all Ukrainian funding from Romania.

One touch of irony here is that if the Russians and NKs in Kursk have to start pillaging to eat, it's going to be the local Kulaks who suffer.

Not surprised.

Vile beast

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-4-2024

Key Takeaways:

• Mounting evidence continues to personally implicate Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Kremlin officials in the forced deportation and "re-education" of Ukrainian children in Russia.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to posture Russian economic stability and growth while high interest rates and efforts to combat inflation suggest that the Kremlin is worried about economic stability in the long-term.
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on December 4 that Armenia has effectively reached "the point of no return" in its ties with the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
• Ukrainian forces recently regained lost positions in Toretsk and near Velyka Novosilka. Russian forces recently advanced in Chasiv Yar, near Toretsk, Pokrovsk, Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, and in Kursk Oblast.
• The Kremlin continues to use its "Time of Heroes" program to place veterans of the war in Ukraine in leadership positions within the Russian government and major state companies.

UK Ministry of Defence

"The Kremlin continues to use its "Time of Heroes" program to place veterans of the war in Ukraine in leadership positions within the Russian government and major state companies."

There's going to be a whole new round of megarich and even oligarchs after this war. That bodes so well for the future of the average Russian...

Filling thread up

Slava

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T'hell with vatniks and long live Ukraine

May Putin suffer permanently infected piles and rotten teeth