ALERT RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE - Consolidated Thread

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Abert said:
Looks like the Mig was attempting to take it out ...
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Just for future reference, not all Russian planes are MiGs and MiG is not a generic term for a Russian (or Soviet) fighter. MiG refers to the Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau (now known as just Mikoyan), Su refers to Sukhoi, Il (IL) refers to Ilyushin, Tu refers to Tupolev, and Yak refers to Yakovlev. In the case of the downed drone, both aircraft were Su-27s, not MiGs.
 
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Russian Envoy: Moscow Expects #US to Stop #Flights Near Russian Borders After Black Sea Incident Moscow Expects US to Stop Flights Near Russian Borders After Black Sea Incident
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Apex
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UK defense minister says Russia should respect international airspace after US drone crash
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635848534531375105
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Russia does not want “confrontation” with the US, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said Tuesday after he was summoned to the State Department following the incident with a U.S. drone over the Black Sea.

“We prefer not to create a situation where we can face unintended clashes or unintended incidents between the Russian Federation and the United States,” Antonov said.

5:16 PM · Mar 14, 2023

Moscow sees U.S. drone incident as provocation -Russia's ambassador to U.S. | Reuters
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635764364115337216
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OSINTdefender
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U.S. Defense Officials do not believe that the Russian Su-27 running into the MQ-9 Reaper over the Black Sea was meant to happen or any way Intentional; Air Force Officers after seeing the Video from the Drone stated that, “ The Russian Pilots appeared to be Amateurs.”
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635772537194856450
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NBC reports US officials: Russia is able to reach the wreckage of the drone faster than any US ship.

Apex
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Re: earlier drone incident over the Black Sea:

NBC: The U.S. has wiped out the drone’s software and is considering its salvage options for the wreckage, but the Russians can reach whatever remains of the drone faster than a U.S. ship, U.S. officials say.
3:28 PM · Mar 14, 2023

- The U.S. would need to send a ship through the Bosphorus Strait from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea, while the Russians have ships in the Black Sea.
 
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Robbert Tulp
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Russian Tank Losses

The T-80BV/U is the first tank variant that has crossed the 100% mark of visually confirmed losses of tanks in active service. The actual number is likely higher. We'll still see losses of the T80BV/U because has reactivated an unknown number from storage.
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Samuel Charap
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Based on the findings of our @RANDCorporation
study on Russian coercive signaling, I would bet the MQ-9 was operating in an area that was of particular military significance to Moscow. 1/x
(we also covered this in a thread posted yesterday)
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635702751093989379
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Our relevant findings are summarized here. This falls clearly in the tactical compellence bin, I.e. a coercive signal to compel a change to ongoing military action. 2/x
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635702753191243777
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This is important because (based on historical patterns) the Russians would have had a clear military reason for what they did -- this wasn't a random act of lashing out. And Russian pilots would have been following instructions from ground control, not freelancing. 3/x

It was an illegal and hugely dangerous action regardless, but past patterns can provide important insights about motives. END.
 
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Echo 5

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jward said:
Euromaidan Press
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8 senators from Democratic & Republican party have reportedly written to US Def
Secretary Austin, asking for info on what it would take to send F-16 jets to Ukraine, claiming the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is “now at a critical juncture"
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635991282496487427
View: https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1635991282496487427?s=20
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I have a better idea. Those 8 senators can deploy themselves to the front lines.
 
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CaryC said:
different variations, saying to same thing:

8 uniparty members have..........
8 Demoncratic and RINO's have ........
8 Low life scumbags wanting a kickback/donation from Ukraine have.......
8 Demoncratic and Republicans who are a part of the MIC have......

Are there more variations?
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Well you know what "I" always say
"They're all on the same side, and it AIN'T OURS"
Time to decorate the Lampposts.
 
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News|Russia-Ukraine war

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 385​

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 385th day, we take a look at the main developments.

A resident looks for his belongings after a shelling in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.

A resident looks for his belongings after Russian shells hit Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine [Sergey Shestak/AFP]
Published On 15 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023

Here is the situation as it stands on Wednesday, March 15, 2023:

Drone incident​

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  • An MQ-9 US military drone has crashed into the Black Sea after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets in a move the United States called a “brazen violation of international law”.
  • Russia said its fighter jets scrambled to intercept the US drone but that the spycraft crashed because of “sharp manoeuvring”.
  • RIA state news agency cited Russia’s ambassador to the United States as saying Moscow viewed the drone incident as a provocation.
  • The US said it would summon the Russian ambassador over the incident.

Fighting​

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the country’s top military command is unanimously in favour of defending eastern Ukraine, including the besieged town of Bakhmut, to inflict maximum losses on Russian forces.
  • A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the centre of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, killing at least one person and injuring three, Zelenskyy said.
  • The Russian-installed acting governor Yevgeny Balitsky of the occupied Zaporizhia region said the front line in the region is stable but that Russian forces are attentive in anticipation of an attack.

Diplomacy​

  • 32 countries have joined a coalition supporting the creation of a special tribunal against Russia for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba.
  • Last year’s blasts on the Nord Stream gas pipelines were carried out at a “state level”, Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged on Tuesday.
  • Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has voted to approve an amendment that would punish those found guilty of discrediting “volunteer” groups fighting in Ukraine.
  • A peaceful resolution in Ukraine will not be possible without taking into account the “new realities” on the ground, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
  • Lithuania’s parliament has voted unanimously to designate Russia’s Wagner mercenary force “a terrorist organisation,” accusing it of “systematic, serious crimes of aggression” in Ukraine, according to the Reuters news agency.
  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a possible Republican presidential candidate, has described the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” that is not a top national security interest of the US.

Weapons​

  • Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered a top Russian arms manufacturer to double its production of high-precision rockets, the TASS news agency reported.
  • Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says the country could supply Ukraine with MIG fighter jets in the next four to six weeks.
  • Russia is running out of artillery ammunition to the extent that “punitive shell-rationing” is taking place in many areas of Ukraine’s front line, according to UK intelligence.
  • Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren says the Netherlands will give Ukraine two minesweepers, drone radars and an M3 amphibious bridge-building system.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
www.aljazeera.com

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 385

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 385th day, we take a look at the main developments.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
 
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Abert said:
For all the PUTIN NEEDS TO GO / TAKEN OUT group - you may want to just take a look at what he is holding in check.
What a LOT of Russians feel should take place.
Nuclear Tsunami! Russian General Threatens To Use Poseidon Torpedo To 'Sink' The UK If NATO Sets Foot In Ukraine
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It is more than a little funny because not one of the "Putin needs to go" folks believes the Russians will do it. And not one of them believe they can create a tidal wave that will "sink the UK".

No one has actually considered the economic crisis that would unfold (and how quickly it would happen) if a single nuclear weapon were to "go off" in any of the major cities in North America or Europe. Air Travel would cease. Bank runs would take off. Grocery stores would be emptied. And the migration would make the idea of diaspora look tame.

If a nuke went off anywhere . . . would you go to work?
 
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WAR: Putin points out that Biden's decision to use airpower to support Ukraine's forces makes the US a beligerant in the conflict. Putin warned Biden that more American aircraft would be brought down if the US didn't stop providing Ukraine air support.


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Russia warns U.S. to stop ‘hostile’ flights after Black Sea drone collision
Russia has warned the United States to cease “hostile” activity near its border after the dramatic incident involving an American

8:53 AM · Mar 15, 2023

Russia warns U.S. to stop ‘hostile’ flights after Black Sea drone collision​

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Russia has warned the United States to cease “hostile” activity near its border after the dramatic incident involving an American drone over the Black Sea.

Ukraine said Wednesday that the episode — the first known direct confrontation between the two superpowers since the war began last year — illustrated the Kremlin’s desire to expand the conflict.

A Russian fighter jet harassed and then collided with the propeller of an MQ-9 Reaper drone on Tuesday, forcing the U.S. to bring the drone down in international waters, the U.S. military said. Washington said it was a “brazen violation of international law” and summoned Moscow’s envoy to lodge a protest.

But Russia denied its planes came “into contact” with the drone and accused the U.S. of being to blame for conducting surveillance near its airspace to help Ukraine.

“We proceed from the fact that the United States will refrain from further speculations in the media landscape and stop making sorties near the Russian borders,” the country’s ambassador to the U.S. said after his meeting at the State Department. “We perceive any actions involving the use of American weapons and military equipment as openly hostile,” ambassador Anatoly Antonov said according to a statement published on the embassy’s Telegram on Wednesday.
Antonov insisted that the Russian fighter jets didn’t hit the American drone or use their weapons. He echoed earlier assertions from Moscow’s defense ministry, which said it had scrambled planes to intercept the drone after it intruded into an area near Crimea that Russia had declared off limits for the purposes of what it calls its “special military operation.”
“The unacceptable actions of the United States military in the close proximity to our borders are cause for concern,” Antonov said. “They gather intelligence, which is subsequently used by the Kyiv regime to strike at our armed forces and territory.”

He added that Russia “does not seek confrontation.”

But the incident highlighted the growing tensions over the war in Ukraine, with the Kremlin eager to dissuade the U.S. from maintaining its support for Kyiv.

The clash was a sign of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “readiness to expand the conflict zone with the involvement of other parties,” Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said on Twitter Wednesday. Putin was losing on the battlefield and so constantly raising the stakes “in the hope of a change in circumstances,” he said.

The U.K.’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace, also called on Russia to respect international airspace.
“The key here is that all parties respect international air space and we urge the Russians to do so,” Wallace told Reuters at a defense show in Japan.

Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets had tracked the U.S. surveillance drone as it flew in international airspace over the Black Sea, which borders Turkey, Ukraine and Russia, among other countries, according to the U.S. European Command.
Before the collision, the jets “dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner,” it said in a statement.

The U.S. summoned Antonov to the State Department over the incident, spokesperson Ned Price told reporters Tuesday, to convey “strong objections” to this “unsafe unprofessional intercept.”

The Tuesday afternoon meeting between Antonov and the assistant secretary for Eurasian Affairs, Karen Donfried, lasted less than an hour, a senior State Department official said.

Two U.S. defense officials said the Russian jet that collided with the drone did not crash but instead landed in Crimea.
The officials said it is the first time they are aware of that a Russian jet has dropped fuel on a U.S. aircraft during an intercept.

The U.S. has wiped out the drone’s software and is considering its salvage options for the wreckage, but the Russians can reach whatever remains of the drone faster than a U.S. ship, the officials said. The U.S. would need to send a ship through the Bosporus from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea, while the Russians have ships in the Black Sea.
The Turks have resisted permission for U.S. and other warships to transit the strait in recent months, the officials said.
 
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"We will announce the details in due time. These decisions are being made by a group of several countries," "Although we have clear declarations as to which countries these will be, we have agreed that they will announce their decisions in accordance with their procedures."
 
jed turtle

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jward said:
Euromaidan Press
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8 senators from Democratic & Republican party have reportedly written to US Def
Secretary Austin, asking for info on what it would take to send F-16 jets to Ukraine, claiming the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is “now at a critical juncture"
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635991282496487427
View: https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1635991282496487427?s=20
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Arrest everyone of those b@stards and charge them with treason, for aligning with a foreign agent (ie: neo-Nazi controlled Zelensky) and putting our nation at risk for total destruction.
 
vector7

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Biden to launch World War III, accuses him of "emboldening" Putin if he doesn't retaliate for the drone incident, declares Russia, China, and Iran the new "Axis of Evil"

Lindsey Graham warns, "We're gonna have World War III."

Congressman Mike Waltz adds Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, Venezuela are "all on the march"

This isn't run-of-the-mill crazy talk, this is something next level.

They're really trying to will a World War into existence
RT 2min
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635875140469768193
View: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1635875140469768193?s=20
 
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Oreally said:
II'm sure this makes you feel good
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If you view everything through your changing feelings, you have no firm anchor in reality. We have a nation of confused people who value feelings higher than human rights. For example, a man can claim to feel like a woman, or a furrie, or a tree.... and you are supposed to honor that confused individual's desired pronouns. Delusion.
 
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