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Belarus Red Cross says it helped deport Ukrainian children to Belarusquote:The head of the Belarusian Red Cross has sparked an international outcry with his announcement that the organization is involved in the relocation of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied areas to Belarus, a stark admission that potentially could make the group complicit in what Ukraine says is a war crime. I feel like the guy admitting to it means that he might believe there's a genuinely good reason to be doing this
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sum posted:When they first floated firing all the TCC heads and replacing them with injured veterans like, 4 months ago, I literally thought it was Russian disinformation at first. This is shockingly stupid. Without exaggeration this could lose the war in the medium term. medium term? what is medium term? with ukraines victory right around the corner we dont need to worry about such things
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, I don't know about "main push" considering the stats we already have on hand, it may be another push though. There are still some reserves. I’m hoping the “main push” means we finally see those challengers in action
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Aug 12, 2023 05:50
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Good news for Ukraine - The EU has delivered 1.1 billion Euros worth of artillery rounds to Ukraine. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...r-russias-kursk EU delivers Ukraine 224,000 shells under ammo plan 10 hours ago The EU has delivered Ukraine 223,800 shells under the first part of a plan to provide a million artillery rounds to aid Kyiv’s fight against Russia, a spokesman said. “Member states have delivered around 223,800 artillery ammunition – long-range self-propelled, precision-guided ammunitions as well as mortar ammunitions — and 2,300 missiles of all types,” EU spokesman Peter Stano said. Overall, the total value of the ordnance provided was 1.1 billion euros ($1.2bn), the EU said. EU funds reimbursed only part of that, suggesting the measure fell short of the target. Earlier this year, the 27-nation European Union pledged to step up supplies of much-needed artillery shells to Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces faced shortfalls.
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Aug 12, 2023 05:51
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Pobrecito posted:Ukr is just moving carefully to get through minefields and burn through the russian artillery. Delay from mines does not last forever. The slow offensive pierces the minefield.
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Aug 12, 2023 05:54
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Almost €5k per shell.what a bargain!
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Aug 12, 2023 06:03
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KomradeX posted:Wasn't Sakai an FBI informant or something along those lines? It wouldn't shock me, I mean, he's an unknown western Maoist, with a do-nothing line, published by weird, well-funded Canadian anarchists, but I don't have any concrete basis to make such a claim. Plenty of children of the suburbs, angsty over identity issues, could have written the same stuff with perfect sincerity.
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Aug 12, 2023 06:15
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Good news for Western rule of law democracies - The greatest and surest indicator of the vitality of a democracy is a military industrial complex that can be relied upon to impose its will and agenda on the elected representatives of the nation
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Aug 12, 2023 06:16
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I’m hoping the “main push” means we finally see those challengers in action Maybe they will rush in some Leopard 1s in with them if they get a chance.
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Aug 12, 2023 06:17
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Miles Blundell posted:does that mean that god died in 1992 crushed the soviets on their way out as a last gently caress you for eating the apple
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dk2m posted:Russia retreated all over the place last year for all sorts of reasons but the one that you’d want to believe is that the sight of your army sent them scattering. I can see how that would be a huge morale booster It really is doing my brain in that people thought the mass retreat was ever going to be repeated. The retreat was largely and very clearly motivated by Russia's initial underestimation of Ukraine and overestimation of their own capabilities, both causing them to drastically overextend and requiring a retreat once Russia realized their initial approach would not work and they needed to consolidate their forces and dig in for a longer and more attrition-based conflict than they first assumed. Why the gently caress would anyone think that example would be relevant after months of Russia digging in and executing a painfully slow expansion strategy? "Rapid and massive over-extension requiring retreat if the opposition should go on the offensive" does not describe the current Russian strategy at all. I swear so much of West vs Russia military history could be described as we never imagined they were capable of adapting.
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Aug 12, 2023 07:05
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Phigs posted:Why the gently caress would anyone think that example would be relevant after months of Russia digging in and executing a painfully slow expansion strategy? How else would Ukraine win?
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Dawncloack posted:Almost €5k per shell.what a bargain! I was thinking the missiles would bring the average value up but then remembered it also included mortar bombs which should probably be cheaper.
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Phigs posted:
The most fun part is how they keep comparing this war to the Winter War in which the Soviet demonstrated their capacity to change their way after having an arguably bad start.
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Aug 12, 2023 08:04
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Pomeroy posted:It wouldn't shock me, I mean, he's an unknown western Maoist, with a do-nothing line, published by weird, well-funded Canadian anarchists, but I don't have any concrete basis to make such a claim. Plenty of children of the suburbs, angsty over identity issues, could have written the same stuff with perfect sincerity. the claim that J. Sakai was an informant is pure hearsay from people who can’t spell Amerikkka with the Triple K.
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Aug 12, 2023 08:08
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Dawncloack posted:Almost €5k per shell.what a bargain! is that before or after the zelensky's cash pallet cut
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Aug 12, 2023 08:26
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fizzy posted:Good news for Western rule of law democracies - The greatest and surest indicator of the vitality of a democracy is a military industrial complex that can be relied upon to impose its will and agenda on the elected representatives of the nation thank goodness you’re back
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Aug 12, 2023 09:12
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gradenko_2000 posted:Good news for Ukraine: fizzy's back
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Aug 12, 2023 09:17
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:the claim that J. Sakai was an informant is pure hearsay from people who can’t spell Amerikkka with the Triple K. As I said, I'm not making that claim. The hypothetical motivations of some anonymous Anarcho-Maoist, who calls the PRC a racist colonizer state, who lumps together all the false and real targets of the War on Terror as a unified "pan-islamic fascism," are something I cannot speak to, and do not care about. I'd probably despise him less as an enemy agent, and not some failed intellectual twisting his brain into knots, trying to rationalize his first world angst and preserve a self-image of a real revolutionary having been failed by the masses.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Late to this but Imagine spending $3k on Chilis and only $800 on Bojangles. SMDH
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Aug 12, 2023 10:03
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V. Illych L. posted:weeb union is actually one of the best channels to follow for regular updates in context on the course of the war. the dude's a danish goon-type creature and his editorialising is not always the best, but he does provide accurate and relatively up-to-date information. [Ukraine] weeb union is actually one of the best channels to follow
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Aug 12, 2023 10:03
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I tried to track sown those medium.com blog posts about J Sakai being an op/fed and all I found was innuendo and implication
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Good news for Ukraine: the Kyiv Independent has uncovered a Russian plot
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Aug 12, 2023 11:09
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Triple K my favorite wrestler
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gradenko_2000 posted:Good news for Ukraine: the Kyiv Independent has uncovered a Russian plot Someone post the Red Alert 3 Jim Curry gif
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Aug 12, 2023 12:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:Good news for Ukraine: the Kyiv Independent has uncovered a Russian plot WHAT but that territory rightfully belongs to the United States!! That does it I'm all in on Ukraine now
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Aug 12, 2023 12:19
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evilmiera posted:Someone post the Red Alert 3 Jim Curry gif I think it's this one 
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Aug 12, 2023 12:55
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evilmiera posted:Someone post the Red Alert 3 Jim Curry gif Who's Jim Curry?  I've heard of Tim Curry, but not Jim...
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Aug 12, 2023 13:05
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The Unnamed One posted:GAME OF INCHES, BABY the guy whos willing to get CTE and shoot himself in the head five years later, that's the guy who gets the inch! HELL YEAH HELL YEAH
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Aug 12, 2023 13:15
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https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1690312549223251968 ukranians going for the 3rd time lucky
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evilmiera posted:Jim Curry
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Those of you who poo poo on Ukraine's counteroffensive cinematic trailers and anime posters, have you consider these are made by art school hacks whose parents love their children too much and paid $$$ to get them these useless jobs. They have to put put cinematic trailers every month to avoid being sent to the meat grinder. You are making fun of Ukraine's Shindler's List
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gradenko_2000 posted:Belarus Red Cross says it helped deport Ukrainian children to Belarus A warzone is a bad place for children to grow up in.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:A warzone is a bad place for children to grow up in. The Russian forces are to blame for starting the war and turning the area into a warzone.
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Horseshoe theory posted:Who's Jim Curry? Jim Curry, the guy who played Ace Ventura Pet Detective.
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Good news for Ukraine - The sex lives of their valiant war veterans are in focus https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66443573 Ukraine war: Sex lives in focus for Ukraine's injured veterans By Toby Luckhurst BBC News, Kyiv 14 hours ago At a modern office in central Kyiv, a 26-year-old Ukrainian veteran is proudly playing a video on his phone that shows him passionately kissing a young woman in a kitchen. It is an advert for ReSex: a charity that tries to help former soldiers with their sex lives, after suffering physical and mental trauma. In March last year, invading Russian forces launched a brutal siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, pounding much of it to ruins. Hlib Stryzhko - then a marine - was one of the city's defenders. A Russian blast knocked him from the third floor of a building to the ground. He was then crushed under rubble. Hlib's pelvis, jaw and nose was broken, and as well as being badly concussed, he says the heat of the explosion melted his tactical goggles onto his face. He was then captured by Russian forces and taken as a prisoner of war. The following month, Hlib was released and sent back to Ukrainian territory as part of a prisoner exchange. But he says he received little medical care during his time in captivity. The BBC first spoke to Hlib just weeks after his release, and later spoke to him during his rehabilitation. It was while Hlib worked on his recovery that ReSex approached him. "After my pelvis injury I had problems that took some time to heal. And [the issue of sex] wasn't talked much about, so I wouldn't want that to happen to other people like me," he says. "That was a motivation to take part in the project." Ivona Kostyna is one of the founders of Veteran Hub, the group which runs the ReSex project. She says they first had the idea for the project back in 2018, after reading about the issue for US soldiers. After securing funding with the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, they spoke to Ukrainian soldiers and experts, to ensure they were tailoring their help specifically to the men and women who need it. They faced some confusion from the public - and veterans - when they first asked for responses to questions online. "People are dying, you're thinking about sex!" Ivona says. They also had to confront some of their own preconceptions - like the false assumption that injured veterans would all be struggling with their sex lives. "There's sex in the hospital, sex at home, sex before procedures, sex after. There's a lot of good sex going on," Ivona says. "We were like, wow, OK, how can we be helpful here?". But overall, she says, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. The charity has printed some 6,000 booklets and sent them out to medical centres, veterans and their families all around Ukraine, and made them available online. ReSex has also launched a social media campaign with videos, graphics and a helpline. The charity covers everything from masturbation to sex toys and even basic biology. "We try to cover it all," Ivona says, adding that there's also a section of the booklet specifically for young injured veterans who may be virgins. "So sex after their wound would be their first sex ever, which is quite different from what they might have imagined." Kateryna Skorokhod, ReSex's project manager, says they published separate guides for women and men to ensure respective partners have specific advice tailored to their experiences and their bodies. She stresses, though, that the focus of the project is more on the emotional side than the physical. "It's about how you can accept yourself, how you can love yourself, and how you can build a relationship with yourself and your partner after these injuries - with sex and with intimacy in relationships." Relying on veterans answering their questionnaire means there are gaps in their research, she says, adding that they've struggled to get any responses from the LGBTQ community. But they've also learnt a great deal about Ukraine's veterans. Specifically, they realised that traumatic brain injuries are often going undiagnosed and under treated in the country - something she says affects "the libido and the whole sexual performance very much". The language used to discuss sex is important too, Ivona says. "It's definitely not a dramatic language. It's definitely not about 'overcoming obstacles' - that's probably good for sport, but it turns out sex is not on the same scale." She says it's important to make sure veterans know they don't have to have sex unless they want to, and that sex may be difficult or painful at first. Hlib certainly speaks positively about the project that he's joined. When asked if he's had a girlfriend since his injuries, he laughs. "After I came back from captivity and the hospital, I had a girlfriend, and then another when I was doing the project questionnaire. And now I have a partner," he says. "I might have missed one." But he said he was thankful for every person he had dated in the past year. "Every partner I had was important to me, in gaining my confidence back. I'm very grateful for that."
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1690312549223251968 Chris Christie strikes again!!!
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