Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Ukraine asks Slovenia to remove it's flag from Kiev's embassy because it looks similar to Russia's flag. 🤦‍♂️

What exactly are Russians angling at when they keep going on about 15000 people killed in Donbas over the last 8 years.

Are they trying to make out the Ukrainians killed all those people?

Are they trying to say the west ignored that conflict so why are they getting their knickers in a twist now? ( stupid argument although fair criticism to say what the west done since 2014 was outright weak ass appeasement)

But the Donbas and crimea conflict is entirely the fault of the Russians too is it not.

How can they use it in their defence so much?

Their (largely baseless) claim is that 'ethnic Russians' in those regions were oppressed prior to Russian intervention.

"Very scummy thing to do."

As a secondary school teacher, those Russian teenagers turning in their teacher doesn't surprise me one bit.

List of companies that are still operating in Russia: https://yale.app.box.com/s/11lqy1d3yn1kf9xa3r96k9sb6w5m4qea

Please check especially if you plan to buy some electronics - quite a few PC/mobile phone conpanies are in the list.

Shrewder or not, when Covid shut down China the whole world stopped as well. So if China has that kind of power its beyond serious, and it has not started already, its high time the west weaned itself of Chinese products. Its gotten far too big for its boots.

2.5m refugees in Poland. 600k got PESEL (Polish PPS) that allows to tap into financial help, start work, etc.

I got a first hand relation from a friend that worked in Russia in 2014 that even highly educated Russians live in a parallel universe. "We're good, the USA is evil, it's all their fault. We just want to help". It was around the time of euromaidan in Kyiv when Ukrainians kicked out pro-putin government. I lost hope that the war will be stopped by civilian actions in Russia.

You would hope the Irish media do their job and name and shame these 2 companies.

Might be time to fire off some emails to RTE, Newstalk etc.

Not North Korea and light sentencing. Your affilliations seem obvious.

Any chance you could post the list in a text version? I'm not a fan of opening random files from the Internet.

You want to believe it. It is far from reality as I experienced opposite reaction personally in Ireland. It only depends to how strong opponent atm you are acting against. You are not so developed as you would like to think.

There have been quite a few stories of Russians refusing to fight, the most recent is around 1,000 Russian national guard refusing to be deployed. There's also been a couple of mutinies we know of, at least one (or possibly two) whereby Russian troops ran over their commander injuring him. Ukrainians seem to have quite a few Russian POWs, the "exchange rates" are typically very high (exchanging captured Russians for captured Ukrainians). Russians are also abandoning their equipment and vehicles in large numbers, so far, it's been visually confirmed that the Russians have allowed around over 1,000 separate vehicles and pieces of equipment to be captured (or abandoned them), it basically means the Ukrainian military is technically larger now than it was at the start of the war (from independent visually confirmed reports they are capturing more than they are losing)

We are fairly certain that at least 10k Russian soldiers are dead as of just over a week ago (the Russians let it slip in their press) and there's a decent number of injured, possibly in the 10's of thousands. Over 350 main battle tanks lost or captured. Keep in mind though that's out of 200k invasion force, so 10% to 15% reduction in fighting power, split across multiple fronts. Morale seems to be bad on the Russian side, but don't think it's enough to cause any significant collapse myself. The first month has been bad for them, but they are digging in more now and I very much doubt they'll keep making the same errors.

Warning on this