#Russian-Ukrainian Conflict

[cumedyhut]

United States of America Gets a Warning From Russia.

World War 3 when it comes, will not be restricted to Europe and so, the United States should be careful in the way it is pushing Ukraine to attack Russian territory, using Western weapons. That is the context of a warning sent to the United States from Russia on Tuesday. That warning came from Moscow as a response to the recent Ukrainian Army attack on Kursk inside the Russian territory recently…

[helpukrainenow]

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Make the lives of Ukrainians more safer.

More than 1,000 people have died in Ukraine since the war began due to mine explosions. Approximately 12% of verified mine casualties were children. This is not counting the scores of people who have had their limbs amputated or have been maimed due to mines. Estimates suggest that at least 15,000 people have lost their limbs, with numbers continuing to grow. More than ten million people in Ukraine live in areas in need of mine action assistance. If each of us donates $5 monthly, Ukraine would be much safer.

Slava Ukraini

[opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko]

After seeing Westerners bully a 14-year old boy from Odesa for not wanting to potentially interact with people who are committing genocide of his people on twitter, I felt compelled to return to that hellsite for a while to write a thread to explain why we might feel that way. Here it is, I feel it might be useful for those who don't understand why we're like this when it's "not all russians":

Thread screenshots after the break:

[underleveledjosh]

You Are Not Obligated

Nobody is obligated to speak about Palestine. Nobody is obligated to speak about Ukraine. Nobody is obligated to talk about ANY political issue. If you don't want to talk about any of these issues because it is too distressing for you, you are valid. You are NOT complicit, you do NOT have blood on your hands. Do not let those toxic assholes on Twitter or other sites tell you otherwise. They're abusive, and they want to control you. Your mental health comes first. Is this about ignoring these issues? No. This is about the fact that nobody gets to decide what YOU post.

This is not even mentioning that, realistically, those politicians up at the top don't give a shit about us whether or not we agree with them. We are merely a bunch of little pawns to be be used by them. They don't give a shit, and they will ignore us. Either that, or they will abandon us once they decide that our usefulness has ended. This is not a nihilistic view. This is a realistic view.

[troythecatfish]

[ohsalome]

Oppression Olympics enjoyers reminded me of the time Anton Krasovsky called to "drown ukrainian children in the river".

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

Let it be known that Ukraine has and will continue to hold onto Russian land until Russia leaves Ukraine's internationally recognized territory. Most of all it's very telling that Putin and Russian state media had downplayed and ignored Kursk due to it being an absolute disaster for Russia, well when they aren't calling for those same Russian villages and towns to be homed into the ground. It's almost insane to think that people thought Ukraine wouldn't last a week much less several years, but never underestimate the fighting will of people opposing tyranny. Don't stop fighting until Ukraine is free!! 💛💙💛💙💛💙

[half-life-crisis]

The #Russian #military crossed into #Ukraine 1,004 days ago. It is obvious by now that #Ukrainians do not want to be “#liberated” by #Russia. This #war affects #usall!

https://halflifecrisis.com/hlc-articles/ukraine-russian-conflict-1-004-days-later…

Next in line will be #Moldova, followed by the #USA, unless we understand #geopolitcs.

[bearfoottruck]

OK, so I've been seeing MULTIPLE posts on my dash about Palestine and I'm thinking, "Yeah, but what about Ukraine? Don't any of us still care about them?" Keep in mind that Russia and Iran are allies.

[tearsofrefugees]

Powerful Portraits of Ukrainian Refugees Posing in Front of Their Destroyed Homeland

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, over 6.5 million Ukrainians have been driven from their homes to neighboring countries. A new series of powerful images shines a light on the ongoing struggle as these refugees rebuild new lives across Europe.

For Inversion, photographer Danila Tkachenko enlists the help of photojournalists covering the war in Ukraine. He enlarges their images showing the destructive effects of war, places them in well-known areas of Europe, and then asks Ukrainian refugees to pose in front of them. The powerful images are a poignant reminder of what these people left behind and the suffering of their homeland.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹📸 A Russian military transport plane, was in the process of flying 65 Ukrainian POWs to a location in the Bolgorod oblast to facilitate a prisoner exchange when it was shot out of the sky by Ukrainian missile, killing everyone on board.]

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UKRAINIAN MISSILE SHOOTS DOWN RUSSIAN MILITARY TRANSPORT PLANE FILLED WITH ITS OWN POWs

74 are dead, including 65 Ukrainian POWs, after a Russian military transport plane being used to facilitate a prisoner exchange scheduled for Wednesday was downed somewhere over the Bolgorod region of the Russian Federation, near the border with Ukraine. The prisoner exchange has since been called off by Russian authorities.

In an article published by Ukrainian Pravda, a Ukrainian news periodical, a source is cited as saying that the aircraft was downed by Ukrainian forces near the border with Russia's Bolgorod region, however they have since retracted the source, and are now claiming they cannot confirm the news. The Russian authorities have since confirmed that the plane was in fact downed by a Ukrainian missile, likely using either an American Patriot air defense missile or a German-made Iris-T.

In a statement released by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian authorities say that the crash took place at approximately 11:15am (local time), when a Russian Il-76 military transport plane filled with Ukrainian POWs was downed near the Bolgorod region.

“At about 11:00 Moscow time, an Il-76 plane crashed during a scheduled flight in the Belgorod region. On board there were 65 captured Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, <including> six crew members and three accompanying persons,” the statement says.

In its statement, the Russian Defense Ministry slammed the missile strike, declaring the "Kiev regime committed a terrorist act" in downing the military transport.

According to Russian sources, the aircraft had been en route from the Chkalovsky military airbase in Moscow, and was shot down by air defenses stationed somewhere in the Kharkov oblast in the northeast of Ukraine, killing everyone on board.

The Russian and Ukrainian authorities had agreed to conduct a prisoner exchange later on Wednesday, with the exchange set to take place near the Russian village of Kolotilovka, also in the Bolgorod oblast, close to the border with Ukraine.

A second military transport aircraft carrying some 80 Ukrainian POWs was turned around before reaching the danger area, and was successfully diverted to another airbase after news of the downing reached Russian authorities.

The Ukrainian officials have so far refused to comment on the crash, remaining mum as news of the event spreads, although Andrey Yusov, a spokesperson for the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) confirmed a prisoner exchange had been scheduled for Wednesday, adding that the exchange has since been cancelled.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[fogonsunday]

Why do people say that “tankies” support Russia… brother…. Russia is a capitalist nation…

[head-post]

Outdated world order needs changes

When international organisations such as the UN and the International Criminal Court (ICC) are increasingly proving their incapacity as regulatory bodies with each condemnatory statement or failed arrest warrant, influential countries, such as China, the US and Russia, are stepping up international policy efforts.

Need in new world order

The war in Ukraine, more than a hundred executive orders signed by US President Donald Trump immediately after his inauguration in January, China’s endless military exercises off the coast of the self-governing island of Taiwan, and Israel’s war in Gaza – all are attempts to resolve long-standing disputes in the absence of appropriate political mechanisms.

Ukraine’s allies are increasingly expressing concerns that Trump and his counterparts Vladimir Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China may agree on a new world order reminiscent of the 1945 Yalta Conference, as Bloomberg columnist Andreas Kluth reported.

At a conference in Yalta, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill met to define the post-war world order. And now a similar situation may repeat itself, only instead of the Second World War, the impetus for redivision is likely to be the war in Ukraine, and the influential British politician in the trio will be replaced by the president of China.

Trump the Reformer

Upon returning to the White House, Trump rocked world stability the same day. Seeing the weakness of international institutions and their inability to enforce their own decisions, the US leader began to promote his vision of the world order in the spirit of “imperialism.”

In the existing global chaos, Trump plans to create a new reality, not considering the current state of affairs. And now Trump is capitalising on the contradictions of his opponents and allies by issuing ultimatums and threatening sanctions.

Trump is dangerous because he destroys established rules and creates new ones that are convenient for him in the first place. And when he fails to achieve something, threats, tariffs and risky ventures come into play.

International institutions that could have confronted Trump are in crisis, exacerbated by the wars. The United Nations, the European Union, the Council of Europe, NATO have no tools to effectively deter the US president. And Trump is skillfully seizing the moment.

However, he has to reckon with China, a country whose material resources are comparable to the United States and whose strategic ambitions he perceives as justified. At the same time, he does not understand how to deal with Russia against the backdrop of shattered trust and Europe separating the two powers as a potential theatre of war.

To show dominance over other players, Trump imposed duties of 25% on imports of goods from Canada and Mexico and 10% on imports from China. However, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then announced retaliatory 25% duties on imports from the US, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum instructed her economy minister to take retaliatory measures, including tariffs.

China’s Ministry of Commerce sharply criticised Trump’s decision, vowing to file a complaint with the World Trade Organisation, from which the US may soon withdraw.

Just world needed

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a just peace for Russia and Ukraine. According to him, the peace should be in line with the charter of the world organisation and international law.

We desperately need a just and sustained peace for Ukraine, for Russia, and for the world.  A peace in line with the UN charter and international law, which establishes the obligation to respect the territorial integrity of sovereign states.

Back in October last year, Russian President Putin emphasised that world leaders were fighting for a just world, not against each other. He stressed that everyone wanted to build relations on a fairer basis. The vast majority of countries proceed from their own national interests and seek to combine those interests with other countries without violence.

And, unfortunately, this so-called Collective West, […] these sanctions, it’s pressure, constant shouts of ‘You can’t!’, ‘We won’t allow it!’, ‘Keep in mind.’ Who likes it? No one likes it, everyone sees it as an atavism, a remnant of colonial thinking and the Cold War era.

Ukraine’s issue

At the same time, Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said in an interview that presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine, suspended during the war with Russia, “need to be done.”

Most democratic nations have elections in their time of war. I think it is important they do so.I think it is good for democracy. That’s the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running.

Military experts have singled out four options for ending the war in Ukraine. The first one is the country’s defeat due to the reduction of US military aid. The second scenario implies negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow and Ukraine’s relinquishment of some territories. However, such developments will be perceived by many as Kyiv’s defeat, especially considering how much aid the country received for the victory.

The third option is a ceasefire. However, such a step without any agreement will only freeze the conflict, which will threaten a new war in the future. The last scenario is to pump weapons into Ukraine and impose new sanctions against Russia in order to reinforce Kyiv’s negotiating position.

However, even so, taking into account new supplies of weapons and equipment, Ukraine will hardly be able to regain the lost territories, experts said.

THE ARTICLE IS THE AUTHOR’S SPECULATION AND DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE TRUE. ALL INFORMATION IS TAKEN FROM OPEN SOURCES. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT IMPOSE ANY SUBJECTIVE CONCLUSIONS.

Xiao Duong for Head-Post.com

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[gurutrends]

Ukraine is attempting to kill Putin

Ukraine is developing a missile capable of potentially killing Vladimir Putin. As the conflict enters its third year, Yehor Chernev, head of Ukraine’s NATO delegation, recently revealed that the Hrim-2 missile is nearly operational. Believe me, there will soon be concrete results that not only Ukraine but also the Russian Federation will see The Hrim-2 is a single-stage, solid-fuel ballistic…

[guyoftheego]

If you support the deaths of *any* civillians, no matter who they are or who you are, you're a horrible person. That's the end all and be all. The amount of celebrating the deaths of innocnents I've seen since the Ukraine war started has been disgusting itself, but its reached new levels now that the occupation of Gaza is happening.

Stop supporting the fucking deaths of innocent people you fucking scumbags.