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Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

Wistful of Dollars posted:

can you link that report?

It's here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/eur040052008eng.pdf

Amensty also did a follow up the next year on the aftermath of the conflict.


e: you want section 6, page 26 if you just want to skip to that. The next two paragraphs from the ones quoted are worth reading as well.

Alchenar fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Feb 18, 2022

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KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


I'm not a professional terrorist, but that seems like a poor place to blow up a car bomb if you wanted to actually cause damage and not just do the bare minimum to declare a terrorism happened.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Alchenar posted:

It's here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/eur040052008eng.pdf

Amensty also did a follow up the next year on the aftermath of the conflict.

thanks

Baronash
Feb 29, 2012

So what do you want to be called?

Paladinus posted:

An explosion is being reported by pro-separatist media close to DNR's government building. Allegedly a bomb was detonated in a card in what appears to be an empty car park.



Who am I to tell a terrorist how to do their job, but an empty parking lot seems pretty low on the list of “important hard targets” :sad:

“Look we needed to stage a photo op for state media, but Sergey wouldn’t let us blow up his hardware store for some reason”

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Supposedly it's very close to some administration building(which of course looks complete undamaged)

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
I wonder if there was even any cars in the lot given the time of day?

Alchenar posted:

It's here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/eur040052008eng.pdf

Amensty also did a follow up the next year on the aftermath of the conflict.


e: you want section 6, page 26 if you just want to skip to that. The next two paragraphs from the ones quoted are worth reading as well.

Worth noting this is an excellent report because it also highlights what both Georgian and South Ossetian and Russian forces were doing in the area, and it was not pretty. Basically ethnic cleansing.

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


CommieGIR posted:

I wonder if there was even any cars in the lot given the time of day?

Only Ivan, he works late.

You know, Ivan who collects hand grenades and full gas bottles in his car.

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010

Baronash posted:

Who am I to tell a terrorist how to do their job, but an empty parking lot seems pretty low on the list of “important hard targets” :sad:

“Look we needed to stage a photo op for state media, but Sergey wouldn’t let us blow up his hardware store for some reason”

Looks more like a car fire than a car bomb. Typically you use a car to make a car bomb because you can cram a lot of explosive in it. That there is an intact car a couple of spaces away from the fire seems to indicate a pretty minor explosion, if there was one.

Like, the glass on the street lamp is still whole and the bulb is still illuminating and that can't be all that far away.

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.
Could it be that there is internal confusion even within the Russian government whether to attack or not?

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Jesus was a Ukrainian

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1494713008349716482

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 16 hours!

Honj Steak posted:

Could it be that there is internal confusion even within the Russian government whether to attack or not?

At least on the propaganda side, probably; propaganda systems in Russia are a bunch of different siloed organizations with different approaches, some under the control of individual plutocrats, doing things they think Putin wants. This winds up contributing to the whole incoherent, truth-eroding firehose effect of it.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Feb 18, 2022

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009


unsurprising and depressing

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Discendo Vox posted:

At least on the propaganda side, probably; propaganda systems in Russia are a bunch of different silos, some under the control of individual plutocrats, doing things they think Putin wants. This winds up contributing to the whole incoherent, truth-eroding firehose effect of it.

Yes and you can frequently encounter different networks of Telegram channels and the like serving different, frequently competing entities

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Honj Steak posted:

Could it be that there is internal confusion even within the Russian government whether to attack or not?

Unlikely, Russians know how to do bureaucracy, when they want to make it work. LDNR mobsters, on the other hand, are probably salivating over so many topics right now that they’ll need to import saliva soon, and much of which is likely delusional - c.f. mysterious chain of deaths or exiles of every single LDNR warlord that didn’t come off as a complete tool.


РА! СИ! Я!

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
Russia Today doing what it does best: Being the Fox News of Russia

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1494667476663156742?s=20&t=MpdZ0dS1Hg1beG6X_FrwDA

golden bubble
Jun 3, 2011

yospos

Rad Russian posted:

That's not how it's sold/spun IN Russia. Putin himself might be anti EU-fication, however for Russians NATO=U.S. Vast majority of Russians don't have any beef with EU. The conflict is strictly positioned as getting U.S. and its influence and "forces" out of Ukraine (with the message that the U.S. is of course planning to target Russia next). This is why U.S. deciding to get involved yet again directly is making things worse and exactly what Putin wanted. It would be better if Biden didn't feel the need to make any statements at all, making it look like every single political decision around the world must be blessed by U.S. first. European countries are in NATO too and should have all the focus on them, they should be leading whatever policy is needed here.

2014 was spun as U.S. trying to come into Ukraine to install a puppet government, so it's easy to keep following up on that message again, as long as U.S. does not let European countries lead all the efforts on aid, weapons, and sanctions.

I would have been nice for the US to state that US gives its full backing to its European allies in this moment of crisis. But sadly, Germany took it's sweet time to admit that things were that bad because of their own internal politics*. And if German isn't behind a strong response, then the EU in general cannot lead a strong response to Russian aggression. By the time Germany turned around it's tune, the US had been involved enough that Biden may as well make direct statements anyway.


* Personally, I blame their energy dependency on Russia gas.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

golden bubble posted:

* Personally, I blame their energy dependency on Russia gas.

I suspect that is an accurate thing to blame. Part of why Russia was pushing Nordstream 2 so hard to completion.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


One of the interesting things about the US / Europe side of this is we're energy neutral now, whereas Europe is worse off than ever because they decided nuclear energy was harder to deal with than Russia.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

KillHour posted:

One of the interesting things about the US / Europe side of this is we're energy neutral now, whereas Europe is worse off than ever because they decided nuclear energy was harder to deal with than Russia.

Kind of. A lot of countries are now doing doubletakes with the Natural Gas crisis during the winter and while it got tied to Natural Gas, EU did pass the recognizing Nuclear as a Green Energy source. France also has stopped their Nuclear rollback and is doubling down on Nuclear, so there's been a major course reversal.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


CommieGIR posted:

Kind of. A lot of countries are now doing doubletakes with the Natural Gas crisis during the winter and while it got tied to Natural Gas, EU did pass the recognizing Nuclear as a Green Energy source. France also has stopped their Nuclear rollback and is doubling down on Nuclear, so there's been a major course reversal.

Sure, but how long would it take them to even start displacing LNG in the grid? They're kind of screwed in the short term.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

KillHour posted:

Sure, but how long would it take them to even start displacing LNG in the grid? They're kind of screwed in the short term.

Yup. And they could've easily predicted this.

Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day

KillHour posted:

Sure, but how long would it take them to even start displacing LNG in the grid? They're kind of screwed in the short term.

A decade.

5 years if they really pushed it but, you know, that takes effort.

lunael1982
Oct 19, 2012

Conspiratiorist posted:

A decade.

5 years if they really pushed it but, you know, that takes effort.

Or longer like in Finland with our new French nuclear reactor. Construction started July 2005 with planned to be operational in 2010. Well, it went critical last December... 11 years later than planned. The reactor has gotten lot of criticism during the whole planning and construction but now all the trouble seem worth it in this current situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Sir Bobert Fishbone
Jan 16, 2006

Beebort
exif is obviously only as accurate as the time setting on the recording device, but
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1494740895928836099

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:

exif is obviously only as accurate as the time setting on the recording device, but
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1494740895928836099

I actually checked, and it's 100% true, lmao. Both videos are dated Feb 16. So I guess maybe what was reported as the date of the invasion was the date of the false flag that Pentagon mentioned.

It could be explained as the wrong date on the device if it was just one vide, but both DNR's Pushilin and LNR's Pasechnik couldn't possibly have the same wrong time on their cameras.

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
https://twitter.com/DI_Ukraine/status/1494740303248605184

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Paladinus posted:

I actually checked, and it's 100% true, lmao. Both videos are dated Feb 16. So I guess maybe what was reported as the date of the invasion was the date of the false flag that Pentagon mentioned.

It could be explained as the wrong date on the device if it was just one vide, but both DNR's Pushilin and LNR's Pasechnik couldn't possibly have the same wrong time on their cameras.

For all we know, it could’ve easily been the same camera.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

cinci zoo sniper posted:

For all we know, it could’ve easily been the same camera.

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1494745207245623296?s=20&t=VWvCBqTMnaPyNojft79IGQ

Trump
Jul 16, 2003

Cute

thats very cool, but do mind atleast summing it up?

Shes Not Impressed
Apr 25, 2004


Explosives rigged to blow in buildings in Donetsk to start false flag

If you don't read Ukrainian, you can click on the tweet and there is a translate option.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1494688046561779715?s=20&t=VWvCBqTMnaPyNojft79IGQ

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

cinci zoo sniper posted:

For all we know, it could’ve easily been the same camera.

Interestingly, doesn't look like it. Here are exif dumps for the two files


The original files had different formats and have different metadata available.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


/c:/users/pushilin/documents/ukraineinvasionplans/falseflag.prproj

MSB3000
Jul 30, 2008

KillHour posted:

/c:/users/pushilin/documents/ukraineinvasionplans/falseflag.prproj

More likely it's just dumped on the desktop with everything else.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

BREAKING: DNR reports that Polish special forces might have tampered meta data on important public announcement videos. Top secret documents acquired today say that exif data was not suspicious in any way before tampering

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


MSB3000 posted:

More likely it's just dumped on the desktop with everything else.

The paths are actually in there




Name your loving projects.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

MSB3000 posted:

More likely it's just dumped on the desktop with everything else.

It's even worse/better. Pasechnikov's video was in D:\Бросок мангуста\ЛИ\Untitled.prproj

The folder is called 'strike of a mongoose'.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
Adobe 2014. How much you want to bet pirated?

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Aug 6, 2013


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CommieGIR posted:

Adobe 2014. How much you want to bet pirated?

People pay for Adobe?

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