Russian invasion of Ukraine

Seems to me very unlikely Belarus will join now Russia is losing when it didn't when Russia was expected to win. Lukashenko didn't feel secure to do it then, why would he now?

Most likely just another empty threat from Putin in the hope of diverting ukr forces from their focus elsewhere.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Seems to me very unlikely Belarus will join now Russia is losing when it didn't when Russia was expected to win. Lukashenko didn't feel secure to do it then, why would he now?

Most likely just another empty threat from Putin in the hope of diverting ukr forces from their focus elsewhere.
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They'll be annihilated if they do, they don't have a single veteran, not even from peacekeeping duty and their equipment will be whatever the Russians thought they could spare.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
As @JASR wrote, this was exposed as anti Russian propaganda and untrue.

m.bild.de

Did these gold teeth really come from victims of torture?

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense expressed a gruesome suspicion on Twitter, posting a photo of a box of dental crowns. But BILD met the village dentist – he says no.
m.bild.de m.bild.de
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It’s a shame that an official ukraine account published false info, albeit maybe in good faith… but they have many many examples of horrific truthful behaviour by the Russians… they really don’t need to stoop to the bottom of the mine levels of Russian propaganda to try and make a point. The Russians do that by themselves
 
JASR said:
It’s a shame that an official ukraine account published false info, albeit maybe in good faith… but they have many many examples of horrific truthful behaviour by the Russians… they really don’t need to stoop to the bottom of the mine levels of Russian propaganda to try and make a point. The Russians do that by themselves
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Completely agree that the Russians have obviously committed many horrendous crimes - that's what made this story believable.

But I wouldn't regard official Ukrainian sources as 100% reliable - they're doing a propaganda role, not an information service. They do seem to be far more reliable than Russia, that said.

Folk on here have been very critical eg of the BBC for being slow, but there's good reason they don't publish claims without first verifying, which takes time.
 
JASR said:
Didn’t I see something on this thread, about a Ukrainian dentist saying that’s his collection?

If I’m hallucinating that, then yes, massive shades of WW2 German behaviour towards ‘non-people’
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I certainly hope that's what it was, mate
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Completely agree that the Russians have obviously committed many horrendous crimes - that's what made this story believable.

But I wouldn't regard official Ukrainian sources as 100% reliable - they're doing a propaganda role, not an information service. They do seem to be far more reliable than Russia, that said.

Folk on here have been very critical eg of the BBC for being slow, but there's good reason they don't publish claims without first verifying, which takes time.
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I was one of the criticals… mainly for the pushing down the ‘news’ agenda by the BBC of the ukraine conflict… things were clearly happening in Kharkiv oblast, and they had headlines about Sue Barker leaving in a ‘bad way’, along with many other ‘celebrity’ ‘news’ stories that day… it was very jarring and annoying on a usually quality News website.
 
grunge said:
Putin officially blaming Ukraine for the crimea bridge attack as an act of terrorism.
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"acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public"

Giddy up, more terrorism please Ukraine.
 
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