Russian invasion of Ukraine

Interesting to note that In November 2024, Trump named Sergio Gor as his director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. I'm not sure how he passed vetting as the guy is close to Putin's inner circle.
He also traveled to Moscow with Rand Paul to hand deliver a note from Trump to Putin a month or so ago.
Anyway, Trump named Gor as his nominee for United States ambassador to India and as his special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs.
Supposidly a promotion, but is it a sign that Trump isn't keen on Gor's appointment selection lists and is tired of Putin not taking the off-ramps presented to him by Trump? Who knows.
 
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BTH said:
I'm sorry but isn't that The S*n?
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It is but at least they're not towing the Russia's inevitable "Victory" line that other press outlets are following. From other mainstream news channels you wouldn't know that Ukraine had retaken villages in the South of Donetsk, or even hit a huge chunk of Russia's oil refining capacity.
 
BlueAnorak said:
It is but at least they're not towing the Russia's inevitable "Victory" line that other press outlets are following. From other mainstream news channels you wouldn't know that Ukraine had retaken villages in the South of Donetsk, or even hit a huge chunk of Russia's oil refining capacity.
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It’s a really odd state of affairs. I’m conscious that this thread can be somewhat tendentious at times, and yet even taking that into account it’s clear that the fuller picture with this conflict extends way beyond the tortuous and costly advances that the Russians have been making this spring and summer. The current situation with oil refineries and the impact that is having on the Russian people being a case in point. The Vietnam war should teach anyone that perpetual tactical victories on the battlefield do not always end in strategic victory.

If nothing else, there’s a wider story to report which isn’t really happening.

The picture here is much more nuanced than is being presented in the UK MSM, which seems pretty binary and largely favourable to the Russians in a way that doesn’t make sense based on an objective analysis of the theatre.

Any of us could be proved wrong at any time, of course, and the frontline could collapse, but this seems highly unlikely to me, and a more likely collapse is the Russian economy, or at least a severe hampering to the point that it will impact severely on Russia’s capacity to continue to prosecute this war, and yet that hardly ever seems to get reported.
 
Shit is happening.....
The situation on the front line is changing every minute, and any publication can harm the Ukrainian defenders.
Maintain informational silence, do not make loud statements, and do not endanger those who defend the country.
Commander of the 225th Special Operations Division, Major Oleg Shiryayev.

Heroyam Slava.
 
SPIDERBOY said:
Shit is happening.....
The situation on the front line is changing every minute, and any publication can harm the Ukrainian defenders.
Maintain informational silence, do not make loud statements, and do not endanger those who defend the country.
Commander of the 225th Special Operations Division, Major Oleg Shiryayev.

Heroyam Slava.
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Hang on a minute
You're posting maps of where build ups of Ukrainian forces are!
 
cleavers said:
bbc only post what putin likes, never much about the shit going on elsewhere where defeat is ongoing, especially at oil/gas terminals behind the lines, and the lack of fuel etc.
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The Russians have been sending small groups on suicide missions.
The groups dont know that they will get no support or supplies.
when they get to where they need to be,they send photos back to their command.
They are then left to be captured or whatever.
Command then use the photos to claim a breakthrough or the taking of a village,when no such thing has happened.
Russian propagandists push it none stop,and the Russian people belive it.

Slava Ukraini.
 
cleavers said:
bbc only post what putin likes, never much about the shit going on elsewhere where defeat is ongoing, especially at oil/gas terminals behind the lines, and the lack of fuel etc.
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Steve Rosenberg their Moscow correspondent is very good - see my post above - personally I have no idea why the Russians haven't kicked him out
 
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