Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Jaysus. If you are replying to post 48 on page 2 ....... good luck with catching up on all the other 34,900+ posts 😯

Pretty sure the UK would not like an aggressive army on their doorstep. Similarly a well armed navy could cut off the US from the mainland. Neither would be able to accept that and would have to fight for Ireland.

No one enters a defensive alliance to help others. Either they have a reason to defend the other country or they want the help of the other country.

I mean if the UK invaded we would be screwed and no one would help. Many would condemn but no one would help. Russia or China would be fought simply because it would put the west at too much of a disadvantage if there was a large hostile army here.

I don't think there would be much difficulty amassing a 1 Billion Dollar (yes, "B" for billion) bounty.

Video from Antonov Airlines chief pilot Dmytro Antonov (although unconfirmed previous media reports suggest he is now the ex chief pilot due to being sacked for blaming Antonov management for the destruction of the AN225) showing the airport of Gostomel and inside the Antonov offices:-

Only 5 of their AN124s are still flying (temporarily based in Leipzig), all their support planes and many spare parts have been destroyed as well as their offices and documentation.

Oh I'm sure Russia will put a spin on it like everything else they do, not a hope they planned not to retreat from and not take Kyiv.

Yes, you are right. It was from an article, where they compared both incidents and couldn't give positive conclusion that it was Russian.

"I deftly blocked the punch, using my face."

From the Guardian:

Devastating reports have been coming out of the cities in the Kyiv region that were retaken by Ukrainian forces: bodies in the streets. Destruction. Reports of Russian troops using children as shields.

Anatoly Fedoruk, mayor of Bucha, told AFP that the city has already buried 280 people in a mass grave. Corpses littered the streets, he said, some as young as 14 years old. “All these people were shot, killed, in the back of the head,” Fedoruk said.

Many of the bodies had white bandages on them “to show that they were unarmed,” he said.

In the village of Novyi Bykiv, about 100 miles north of Kyiv, coaches of children were said to have been placed in front of tanks. “Cases of using children as cover are recorded in Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia oblasts [regions],” said Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman.

Yes, this is the best opportunity to do something like that since the weeks before the war.

I sincerely hope the US hasn't been putting off such action in order to allow Russian forces to be progressively more weakened and to further stall the point from which Russian forces can begin to rebuild.

Either way, now is the time to call Putin's bluff by entering Ukraine and proceeding step by step towards the Eastern border. The caveat being that peacekeeping/medical/rebuilding personnel will be protected by lethal force.

All of this will be going before the international war crimes people - they are gathering evidence as we speak.

I've seen those videos and pictures too. I really wish I didn't but it's important that they're out there.

Something has to be done. It's beyond depraved. "Never again" just keeps on happening.

A Rather interesting find at the recaptured Hostomel Airport

Not only are the Russian's doing a bad job of covering up registry numbers.

But they have sent some very unique aerial units into the frontline

>This destroyed helicopter is the Mi-8AMTSh RF-91285, it belonged to the Klin-5 squadron of the RuAF, delivered in 2013. Klin-5 is the experimental unit and it under the "344th Center Of Combat Application And Retraining" directorate. RuAF have sent the elite in Hostimel.

Don't know if this has already been mentioned.

Russian soldiers visiting a post office in Belarus to send items looted in Ukraine to Russia.

Mostly mobile phones and jewellery.