Russia - threadbanned users in OP

A happy new year to all, particularly Ukraine.

You do know that the biggest criminal in Russia is the President? The man who single handedly drove a coach and four through the Russian Constitution, especially the electoral laws. All a prospective Presidential candidate would need to run is Putins endorsement. previous history not important.

I did read. You posted stating reports of explosions in Moscow.

A poster asked if you can share the reports, you said no.

Actually you said: I tell you what. You go find them and report back here

I don't understand why people cannot share their sources, regardless of the source.

If it's a link to Russian media or a random tweet, people can get some context etc...

It wasn't just oligarchs or business people with links to the Kremlin falling from windows as is currently now.

Doctors were falling from windows during the start of the Covid pandemic.

Yes, I was looking for links. Zero main stream media coverage of the NYE explosions and the tweet you link to has a picture from Dec 29th.

May as well impose some pain on Moscow, there's nothing to lose. Another round of drafting is imminent and they have zero chance of launching a nuclear strike so they may as well bomb the shít out of Moscow in retaliation.

So, lots of loud noises in the air, around midnight, with no actual pics or videos....on yeah also it's NY's eve.

Could it be fireworks? I love the smell of Russia burning as much as the next guy, but I also love when I can see it!

And don't just dismiss people reusing old pics as not having a current one.

It would be like me posting about a major accident on the Kerch bridge, possible deaths and showing an obscure screengrab from the CCTV from the attack months ago.

But it was actually just some drunk fella bumper rubbing someone. That's ok, cause I didn't have a current pic!

Best new years speech I've heard or watched,

This is why they are winning and will eventually be victorious over putin and his orcs .

Slava Ukraini

That's a very powerful video. He will go down in history as one of the best presidents ever in the world. He's not a politician who became a president.

It's a video directed entirely at the Ukrainian population, but those clips from all those cities who were liberated brings a tear to my eyes.

Depends how you define "winning" really.

There seems to be so many different definitions, depending on what angle the propaganda merchants are spinning on any particular week.

Russia is occupying far more territory than they were before this conflict began back almost one year ago - according to western sources as much as one fifth of Ukrainian territory. Some 20 million Ukrainians either displaced or turned into refugees. Unfathomable levels of death and destruction of vital infrastructure... the list goes on and on.

I guess if Ukraine were to have tangible success in driving Russia out of these newly annexed territories, and perhaps made further progress towards taking back Crimea, then by this metric you could make a strong argument for them being in a "winning" position.

But all of that is a big "if" presently. It's far easier to defend territory, rather than being the attacker trying to take it back. Russia appear to be digging in for a very long fight, with neither side particularly interested in serious negotiations right now. Which sadly probably means a great deal more death and destruction in the months and years to come.

But the new year is really about being hopeful and optimistic. Happy new year to all Russians and Ukrainians, and lets hope for a peaceful resolution to this horrible ugly conflict in 2023.

As always, the aggressor who invaded the others sovereign terrority, kidnapped & murdered it's citizens, deliberately targeted and destroyed civilian infrastructure and deliberately committed war crimes; can stop all of this easily. Russia can just leave Ukrainian territory, hand over all of those under it's command who engaged in war crimes and start paying to reconstruct Ukraine back to want it was before they invaded.

I guess loud explosion noises on new years eve could have been fireworks. I just posted a link to one of the reports being discussed and you pointed out it was not a photograph from the incident reported to have happened within a few hours of the report but of another fire in the same area a few days ago. I don't see this as being like using footage from a major attack months ago to report "some drunk fella bumper rubbing someone" but think whatever you want about the report I posted a link to. As I said it was just a response to a request for such a link and it is in no way of interest to me to be trolling through twitter to verify which reports from a war zone are 100% accurate. You can spend your time doing this if you like but please don't try tell me what I should do. I am happy to make allowances for people reporting from the Ukrainian perspective as they are the ones being terrorised by fascist invaders sent by putin in breach of agreed international borders and have no interest in what reports do or do not meet your standards. Here is another report demonstrating which side are the aggressors in this conflict and deserve anything Ukraine can throw at them in defending themselves:

(Counts down to midnight)

Solovyov: Da…Good New Year Comrades (Downs drink)

Soldier on Right: Da…N..New Year (Nearvously sips drink)

Soldier on Left: (Sighs and half heartedly blows into a party horn)

Solovyov's face seems to say "Please let this end soon", and that could refer to the New Year's party, the war, Putin's regime, or all three.