Today we’ve gotten a lesson why Russia did everything to stop shipment of Tomahawk land attack missiles to Ukraine. Powerful mid range missiles which might put European part of Russia under threat is missing link in strategic targeting campaign of Ukraine.
Stalin's USSR was even worse than Hitler's Germany.
As monstrous as the nazi ideology was with holocaust and other ethnic cleansing of Europe, it's no match for Stalin.
In this thread, I'll list Stalin's often unspoken atrocities.
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make a russian culture fan listen to this, sound on. russian drone landing into a busy market next to a public transport stop in my homecity Zaporizhzhia. and not for the first time. several months ago they murdered two teenagers on the same spot, the same way
“One girl is 9, the second is 11 years old. The first one was wounded very, very badly. It has already been stitched up. The second girl is suspected of being pregnant because she already had periods before, but doesnʼt have any now.”
Russian people are shit.
Russian "culture" is shit.
The Russian "soul" is shit.
Russia has nothing of value to give to the world.
Fuck Russia and fuck the Russian world.
Kremlin-linked oligarchs and ideologues presented future scenarios at SPIEF, describing occupation of Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities, EU collapse, US crisis and either Ukraine’s absorption or creation of a controlled buffer state as a “good” outcome by 2036. Their “bad” scenario includes defeat, Ukraine in NATO, loss of influence and Russia’s fragmentation. #Russia
On the night of June 2, Russia launched another large-scale attack against Ukraine.
In Kyiv, Russian attack killed four people and injured at least 58, including three children. The strikes damaged residential buildings and civilian infrastructure across several districts of the capital. A nine-storey residential building was hit, causing the partial collapse of its upper floors. Emergency services continue to search the rubble as people may still be trapped underneath.
In the Dnipro region, seven people were killed and 35 injured in Russian attacks on residential areas in Dnipro and Kamianske. Among them are 3 kids. During rescue operations following the initial strike, Russia launched a second attack that killed a rescuer. Search and rescue operations continue.
In the Kharkiv region, Russian attack injured at least 14 people, including a child. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged in several communities across the region.
In the Chernihiv region, a 15-year-old boy was injured. Among the damaged facilities are warehouses, a school and private homes.
Russia continues to wage war against civilians. More pressure on the aggressor, stronger sanctions, and more support for Ukraine's air defence are needed to save lives.
Putin is increasingly criticized at home for being weak as the Russian military offensive stalls and as Ukrainian midrange drones paralyze Russian logistics to Crimea and the rest of southern Ukraine.
So he delivered fireworks of psychological release to all these Russians who want to see Kyiv burn. At least 11 Ukrainian civilians killed, more still under the rubble.
Near-zero impact on Ukraine’s ability and determination to wage the war, of course.
And yes, the civilian deaths could have been avoided if Raytheon were making more Patriot interceptors and if Trump were willing to sell more of them to Ukraine. Or if MBDA and Thales weren’t still making SAMP-T missiles in homeopathic doses, on year five of the war.
Frankly speaking, neutrality is a morally bankrupt concept.
Having studied sanctions evasion and wartime supply chains, I’ve found some facts particularly striking: neutral Switzerland is the leading European supplier of microelectronics that end up in Russian weapons, while another neutral European country, Ireland, is the leading supplier of aluminum for Russia’s war machine.
So that’s what “neutrality” often means in practice.
@ZespolBrauna oh, really -- what aboung Bogdan Khmelnytskyi? Or Maksym Zaliznyak? Leave a nation's history to the nation itself. UKR is not exactly happy about poles glorifying Pilsudsky, or Edward Riz-Smigla or others... Leave your colonial narratives in the past...