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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
PooTin's war criminals are installing ‘dragon’s teeth’ barriers to slow advance of Ukrainian forces as they retreat leaving the region "littered" with their dead while Dozens of Russian Deserters Threatened With Execution, Families Say as some of his war criminals complain of 'incomprehensible' losses in Ukraine. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22540 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
And the climb/crawl/race back home has resulted in another step back for Putin - he's pulling out of a major city - Kherson. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63573387 Indeed, if this little snippet from the linked article is true it's a really big "kick in the Gulags" for The announcement came shortly after Russian media said the deputy leader of Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, had been killed in a car crash. Seen as one of the main cheerleaders of the occupation of Kherson, he had warned only six days ago that it was "most likely" that Russian forces would have to cross to the eastern bank. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
For years they have viewed Mr Putin as a master strategist, as someone who always manages to come out on top… as a winner. They have looked on him as the lynchpin of the system of which they are part and which has been built around him.Retreat Hell, it's just a "strategic withdrawal" :-) Wasn't the same said of Hitler? It took 10 years (1933-43} before he lost the plot, it's only taken Poo tin 9 months. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
As Pootin retreats into his bunker, the question becomes: What replaces him? Stay safe folks? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22540 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
I'd say Puking lost the plot about ten years ago in the run up to invading Crimea, others may say it was a few years before that by looking at Georgia and Chechnya..... (Maybe he's never actually found "the plot", and only really wants to go down as "something big" in Russia.) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Snip "something big"Yep, good comedy that was starring: Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Ben Johnson & Honor Blackman. Don't think Puking will see it that way. :-) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
What PooTin expected, but his war criminals didn't get, the Ukrainian army did as the celebrations continue in Kherson. Ukrainians Celebrate in the Streets After Russian Retreat From Kherson. Ukrainian police, TV broadcasts return to long-occupied city. And just to add to PooTin's woes. Map Shows Ukraine Defeating Russia, With 50 Percent of Territory Reclaimed. While PooTin State TV Host Furious at Kherson Retreat: 'Blew Up the Bridges'. No wonder PooTin has gone underground instead of attending the G20. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22540 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Destroying infrastructure while retreating is an indication of not planning to return any day soon. It is also a way of slowing the restoration of "normal times" to the civilian population on the assumption that at sometime in the not too distant future that population will decide that things were better under the invading regime. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1200 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
They also relocated the bones and a statue of Prince Potemkin (1739-1791) and monuments of other 18th century russian military commanders who conquered Crimea and (today's) southern Ukraine from the Ottoman Empire. These artifacts should be returned [to Kherson] "when the city is safer", some pro-russian proxy governor expressed. Potemkin's legacy is the basis of russian ideology of reclaiming Crimea and Novorossiya, which Russia has been expressing ever more aggressively in recent years. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/28/europe/potemkin-remains-removed-kherson-ukraine-russia-intl/index.html It is safe to assume that these plans will turn out to be Potemkin villages themselves. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22540 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Has Pukin' just named the next major city for Ukraine to re-take? (from Sky News rolling news so nothing to link to easily) The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released its latest intelligence report on the war in Ukraine. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3807 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
At least two dead after missiles land in NATO state Poland on Ukraine border Two people have been killed in Poland after two stray rockets landed near the border with Ukraine. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
The Daily Express? That needs confirming with multiple sources, for a claim as serious as that. Hold your fire until then. |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3807 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
The Daily Express? That needs confirming with multiple sources, for a claim as serious as that. Hold your fire until then. Well, something is up... Another one: US Official Says Missiles Crossed Into Poland Our national news and not as "unconfirmed" |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Now being reported as "unconfirmed breaking news" on the domestic BBC News TV channel. |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3807 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3807 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
NATO and Poland Say Deadly Blast Was Likely Unintentional Poland’s president and the secretary general of NATO said Wednesday that it appears that a Ukrainian air defense missile most likely unintentionally caused a deadly explosion on its territory a day earlier. Er.... even if it were a Russian missile, there was only evidence it was unintentional anyway. Because it is now indicated it was not from there, I removed "Russian" from the previous taglines. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
As the 1st snow falls PooTin is still continuing with his missile attacks on civilian infrastructure. :-( |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21253 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
... an “unfortunate accident” in Poland... One very interesting observation is that the blast site is exactly: Due north of Lviv; Due west of Kyiv...
See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Hve you seen the size of Buk 300? that is the old soviet era sam the Ukanians are using. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22540 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
The norm is to launch at least two missiles against a single target, so two holes is quite possible. Each missile has a warhead of 100-150kg of explosive, so the size of hole is not exactly a surprise, especially if it was coming in at a high angle into soft ground. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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