Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

I did not mention Ukrainian war crimes. I specifically said that I wasn't implying anything like that, in brackets, so I wouldn't be misunderstood.

Another pack of Russian lies and propaganda without independent substantiation. Like your previous claims about the BBC report into the shooting of unarmed Maidan protestors - which the report directly contradicted & the Budapest Agreement which your liar in chief Lavrov wouldn't even stoop to.

This is multiple times now you have accused Ukraine of actions you are 'outraged' about which all available evidence shows were conducted by Russia. And yet when the facts are clearly shown to you, there is no withdrawal of the false accusation, no redirection of the outrage to Russia. You just move onto the next angle in your attempt to 'both sides' the conflict.

Why is Russia using a nuclear plant as a military launch pad for attacks? Russia are shelling nuclear fuel storage plants in the complex.

Ukraine has said Russian shells landed close to where radioactive material is stored

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-ukraine-updates-fresh-shelling-reported-at-ukrainian-nuclear-plant/a-62778568

Initially, Russian state media and pro-Russian telegram channels claimed successful Russian airstrikes on a military transport target in Kramatorsk. After it became clear that the missiles had killed civilians, however, earlier reports were redacted, the Russian government denied responsibility for the attack, and the Russian Ministry of Defence characterized it as a Ukrainian hoax.[35][37] The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed that the missiles were launched by Ukrainian forces from the city of Dobropillia, southwest of Kramatorsk... The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that their forces no longer use Tochka-U missiles. However, Amnesty International, the investigative journalists of the Conflict Intelligence Team, and a number of military experts had already reported the use of Tochkas by Russian forces in multiple parts of Ukraine prior to the strike on Kramatorsk... Serial numbers cannot be used to prove which side fired the missile, however, since all Tochka-U's were manufactured at a single site in Russia and distributed from there across the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_railway_station_attack#cite_note-46

Human Rights Watch has found evidence of Russia using “at least seven types of antipersonnel mines in at least four regions of Ukraine” since February 24, 2022. Ukrainian officials have estimated that up to 160,000 square kilometres in the country may be contaminated by unexploded landmines. Meanwhile, HRW has seen no evidence that Ukraine has used the mines, an action that would amount to a violation of the Ottawa Treaty. Still, accusations against both sides have flourished. 

https://observers.france24.com/en/europe/20220817-ukraine-russia-donetsk-petal-butterfly-antipersonnel-mines

These lies cannot stand.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that their forces no longer use Tochka-U missiles. However, Amnesty International, the investigative journalists of the Conflict Intelligence Team, and a number of military experts had already reported the use of Tochkas by Russian forces in multiple parts of Ukraine prior to the strike on Kramatorsk... Serial numbers cannot be used to prove which side fired the missile, however, since all Tochka-U's were manufactured at a single site in Russia and distributed from there across the Soviet Union.

Quickest investigation ever

Almost as if they had all the evidence in advance...

Such cynicism. If Mussolini could make the trains run on time why cannot Putin do the same with the "justice" system?

Yea - I understand that the investigators found a Ukr passport, a season ticket to the opera house in Kiev , a very recent receipt to the local SPAR in Liev - all totally up scorched !,,

If you recall the July 2005 bombings in London, the police were unable to ascertain that a second attack was on the way a fortnight after the first, despite amassing a ton of evidence about the first four terrorists. A pity the FSB weren't there to solve it for them!

Best wishes to all Ukrainians on their independence day.

I really don't see Russia letting Crimea fall back into Ukrainian hands.

They'd throw everything they have at that not happening. You'd sooner take the Donbas back than that.

Its all well and good that they intend to take it back - but practically how will they do it?

At the minute they are losing territory in Nikolaev/Kherson front that they previously recaptured, and the Donbass front is a near stalemate

Reports coming out that the Russians have taken the nuclear plant off of the Ukrainian grid.

If true then that's a serious change of events, if we start facing a catastrophic event, I wonder would NATO would view this as an attack?

Unrecognised russian held territory.

I'm guessing they want to scare the west as much as possible and probably "retaliation" for the bombing in Moscow.

If something goes wrong, it's not like we will be the only ones to suffer so the only game I see here is to destroy Ukraine as much as possible.

It's not like the west could help fix that.

Russia and Belarus have spent 2 decades sending agents into the EU to murder people in UK Germany and Czech republic, bomb factories, hijack Irish planes to kidnap passengers. They used Irish universities to create deep cover for an agent trying to enter the international criminal court offices in The Netherlands. Those murderers and spies used the VISA arrangements between the EU and Russia to commit these murders and crimes. The Visa arrangements should have been cancelled long ago, years before the war in Ukraine to safeguard EU citizens.