ALERT RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE - Consolidated Thread

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raven

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Hmm. Hard to see how war is a strategy to combat low birth rates and dangerous demographics, but those kids come up with some krazy ideas- and the decline is a real and pressing issue globally -


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Putin's invasion of Ukraine can be seen as a desperate gambit to increase the Russian population at gunpoint, argues @MaxBoot for @PostOpinions
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View: https://twitter.com/CFR_org/status/1636715008561119235?s=20
Actually . . . it appears that the EU creates crisis after crisis in order to increase its population.
Attack Libya and what happens? Mass migration to Europe from North Africa.
Attack Syria and what happens? Mass migration to Europe from the Levant.
Attack Ukraine and what happens? Mass migration to Europe.
Or did we forget that Europe has the same population problem the rest of the world has?
 

CaryC

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I guess those Uke's underwater divers who blew up Norstream got the job done. And then gave it to Russia.



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American drone lost in Black Sea found near main Russian base in Crimea​

Story by Ukrainska Pravda • Yesterday 8:31 AM


The American MQ-9 Reaper UAV, which fell into the Black Sea due to the actions of a Russian fighter jet, was located near the Russian base in Sevastopol.

Source: Defense Express

Details: Analysts compared the coastline in the video with Google Earth data and came to the conclusion that "it is most likely the area southwest of Sevastopol." The publication cited US data that the MQ-9 Reaper was in neutral airspace, that is, at least 22 km from the coastline.


There is a lot more at link, BUT it's stuff we've already put up and talked about.
 

raven

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I guess those Uke's underwater divers who blew up Norstream got the job done. And then gave it to Russia.



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American drone lost in Black Sea found near main Russian base in Crimea​

Story by Ukrainska Pravda • Yesterday 8:31 AM


The American MQ-9 Reaper UAV, which fell into the Black Sea due to the actions of a Russian fighter jet, was located near the Russian base in Sevastopol.

Source: Defense Express

Details: Analysts compared the coastline in the video with Google Earth data and came to the conclusion that "it is most likely the area southwest of Sevastopol." The publication cited US data that the MQ-9 Reaper was in neutral airspace, that is, at least 22 km from the coastline.


There is a lot more at link, BUT it's stuff we've already put up and talked about.
Article says it was conducting "routine" operations.
Routine is an interesting word. Is intelligence collection "routine" between two countries at war? Are military operations routine?

Are the intelligence platforms of a country immune from attack by an adversary simply because they are in international airspace?

And the article says it was in "neutral" airspace. What is neutral? Neutral is an agreement that I won't conduct military operations if you won't conduct military operations. Well, we were conducting military operations so it isn't neutral. It is international airspace which is airspace that is not protected by "the rule of law" of any single nation.

International airspace is the airspace where the pirates roam because there is not rule of law.
 

jward

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Actually . . . it appears that the EU creates crisis after crisis in order to increase its population.
Attack Libya and what happens? Mass migration to Europe from North Africa.
Attack Syria and what happens? Mass migration to Europe from the Levant.
Attack Ukraine and what happens? Mass migration to Europe.
Or did we forget that Europe has the same population problem the rest of the world has?
May have to break down and read the dumb article I reckon- hadn't thought they were using forced migration as the method by which to increase...n o' course that comes with it's own set o' problems
I think they see the robotics and baby makin' factories as all the solutions they will need in the not too distant future : (
 

Walrus

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Russia Releases ‘Future Map’ Of Ukraine; Reduces Europe’s Biggest Country To Kyiv While Russia Absorbs The Rest​

EUROPE
ByTanmay Kadam
July 30, 2022
Deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and Former President – Dmitry Medvedev has posted maps to illustrate what he believes would be the fate of Ukraine. According to Medvedev, Ukraine would probably be reduced to Kyiv and its surrounding areas.
While the second map showed Ukraine’s territory reduced to Kyiv and a small surrounding area, with seven regions to the west annexed by Poland and three in the Southwest by Hungary and Romania. The rest of the country was wholly absorbed into Russia.
As depicted on the map, the seven regions annexed by Poland include Lviv, Lutsk, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr. Romania is depicted to have annexed two regions, namely, Chernivtsi and Vinnytsia, and Hungary is shown to have annexed Uzzhorod.


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This is a probable future with what's left of AFU's Army #4.0.
I'm of the opinion that the Transcarpathians will be part of Hungary, as that is their majority ethnicity there and by far the one with which they mostly connect. I don't know anyone who would favor being under Poland's empire - except maybe the Baltics as they split up and join the countries around them (Finland, etc).

I still have trouble thinking of Moldova as an independent country instead of a breakaway Romanian province, but that's just me, because that's what it was for so long. Romania already has lots of swampland with the River Danube delta and probably doesn't need any more.
 

raven

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May have to break down and read the dumb article I reckon- hadn't thought they were using forced migration as the method by which to increase...n o' course that comes with it's own set o' problems
I think they see the robotics and baby makin' factories as all the solutions they will need in the not too distant future : (
when you read these, you have to remember the "rules based international order" ALWAYS accuses it opponent of doing what they are doing. If you begin with that, everything falls nicely into place.

it almost appears that the EU is greatly disappointed that so many Ukes have evacuated to Russia instead of Europe
 

Walrus

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Then you'd have really enjoyed her (or was it a female newscaster- so much news who can keep up eh) who discussed the issue while using her body to make lil humourous digs bout the poor US drone that just "fell" into the water coz it couldn't fly.. Well, guess you had to see it, far funnier than it sounds.
..anyways..
I bet there were some snarky newscasts which are still coming from that incident, too. The Rooskies have unsurprisingly dropped all pretense of respect for anything US and spend most of their time lampooning us. We've earned that in spades. I'm glad to not be working there anymore; I can see where it'd be open season (and closed doors) for American companies. It was a great atmosphere to work in while it lasted.

On the drone itself, I've only seen one image where there was clearly a damaged propeller blade + one missing one. Hard to tell if it was real or not. As for going after it, I'm sure there've been contracts signed for some stout ROVs either from Italy, northern Africa, the North Sea or - failing that - India or even Brazil. They can all be flown in as well and dropped onto the deck of a service vessel. Brazil is hard to get equipment out of the country which has been imported; they've kind of adopted the Rooskie stance on that sort of thing.

ETA: There's lots of deepwater service equipment in west Africa as well as Cyprus (Noble's Leviathan project), so there's no shortage of it around. The only one who might have equipment already in the Black Sea (if Russia doesn't) would most likely be Turkey; I don't think the Romanians, Bulgarians or Ukrainians have the water depths where they'd be needed but Turkey has issued some deepwater leases.
 

wait-n-see

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A “poor quality” Russian army: Response to General V. Desportes

March 17, 2023

by Jean Michel Regnier

My general,

I read with great interest your answers to the questions that Marc Baudriller (Boulevard Voltaire) asked you on February 22nd under the title: “ We switch to a just war, these are the most dangerous ».

On the other hand, I must admit that one paragraph caught my attention:

« It has also now been proven that therussian army is of poor quality, that it maneuvers badly, masters the logistics badly and that it is badly commanded. It's still an army of yesterday... »

I happen to have been interested in the conduct of operations in Ukraine since December 2021, when V. Putin asked for some security guarantees in Europe. Request rejected by the West and one of the starting points of the current conflict.

You undoubtedly have much more information than I do, so how do you explain that this army, generally presented as an "army of barefoot muzhiks", poorly motivated, poorly equipped, poorly commanded, without the support of a solid industrial base, lacking ammunition and missiles, manages to hold its own, ALONE, NATO forces for more than a year, controls 20% of the territory, has "consumed" the equivalent of two Ukro-NATO armies and is about to inflict the same fate on the third?

If I believe the report of the Mossad via a Turkish media, most likely released with the green light from Uncle SAM who is currently looking for an escape route out of this conflict, the losses are colossal!

Soldiers/ MaterialsRussiaUkraineRatio
airplanes2330213
helicopters562124
Drones200275014
Tanks and armored vehicles88963207
Howitzer (Artillery Systems)427736017
AA defense systems1249741
dead18 480157 0008.5
Wounded44 500234 0005.25
Captives32317 23053
Deaths – NATO Military Instructors 234
Dead – NATO soldiers Germany, Poland, Lithuania… 2458
Western mercenaries 5360

The icing on the cake, if I may say so, this "poor army" succeeded in drain the reserves of materials and ammunition (artillery and anti-tank) of the thirty NATO countries!

Even America is reduced to taking shells from its pre-positioned strategic reserves in Israel and South Korea!

Last but not least, by MJ Stoltenberg's own admission, Secretary General of NATO, it turns out that the military-industrial complex of NATO is not able to react and replenish stocks in less than two, two and a half years.

You may agree with me that this " poor quality army » don't defend yourself too badly. “ON” could have seen worse. So I have the impression that Western analyzes of the situation have some “quirks”:

  • “We” predicted that Russia would never attack with an unfavorable initial ratio of 1/5 or even 1/6: She did!
  • "ON" predicted that it was going to seize kyiv and invade all of Ukraine: It didn't!
  • "ON" predicts a major winter offensive: She still hasn't launched it although the thaw is fast approaching...
  • "ON" predicted that it would be defeated in about fifteen: A year later, it still has the initiative!
  • “ON” predicted an economic collapse of Russia: It has still not taken place and worse, the IMF predicts a balance sheet to come that makes many Western countries green with envy.
  • "ON" wanted a "regime change": The polls show that the Russian people follow their leader and adhere to his objectives.
Also, I must admit to being a bit skeptical. On the other hand, I fully subscribe to your concept of " just war » carrying all the dangers. The two protagonists are at the same stage. Only, perhaps, their motivations diverge:

  • One fights for the "golden calf" stamped "$";
  • The other fights for “Man, his roots and his culture”.
At one time or another, you will have to choose your side. As for the ways out of the crisis, I fear that we are at the stage of biblical times, of Sodom and Gomorrah, at "quarter to midnight" of being transformed into "pillars of salt" by nuclear fire of a US strike first followed by a Russian reply… which would be perfectly in line with their respective employment doctrines.

The US has done it before, it will do it again…unless… something does not fall apart. That, for example, the fight ceases lack of fighters, reinforcements and / or lack of ammunition ?

To return to France, I sincerely hope that the staffs of our armies and the governments to come will learn the lessons of this conflict to build the armies that France needs to regain its place in the concert of Nations. For the moment, you are right: We are not on the level. We are two or even three wars behind! There is an EMERGENCY because you have to keep in mind that you have to 25 years to train a chef de corps.(commanding a regiment)

My respects, General.

Lcl(er) REGNIER Jean-Michel
 

Housecarl

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Just heard on the morning news out of Sacramento's KFBK that Reuters is reporting an indictment has been issued by the ICC against Putin for war crimes.
 

wait-n-see

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued international warrants for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova.

"Today, March 17, 2023, the Second Pre-trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two persons in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms. Maria Alekseevna Lvova-Belova," the press release reads.

Guess who doesn't recognize the ICC? USA, Ukraine, and Russia.

View: https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1636751215454486531?cxt=HHwWhoDU7d-j9LYtAAAA
 

mecoastie

Veteran Member
A “poor quality” Russian army: Response to General V. Desportes

March 17, 2023

by Jean Michel Regnier

My general,

I read with great interest your answers to the questions that Marc Baudriller (Boulevard Voltaire) asked you on February 22nd under the title: “ We switch to a just war, these are the most dangerous ».

On the other hand, I must admit that one paragraph caught my attention:

« It has also now been proven that therussian army is of poor quality, that it maneuvers badly, masters the logistics badly and that it is badly commanded. It's still an army of yesterday... »

I happen to have been interested in the conduct of operations in Ukraine since December 2021, when V. Putin asked for some security guarantees in Europe. Request rejected by the West and one of the starting points of the current conflict.

You undoubtedly have much more information than I do, so how do you explain that this army, generally presented as an "army of barefoot muzhiks", poorly motivated, poorly equipped, poorly commanded, without the support of a solid industrial base, lacking ammunition and missiles, manages to hold its own, ALONE, NATO forces for more than a year, controls 20% of the territory, has "consumed" the equivalent of two Ukro-NATO armies and is about to inflict the same fate on the third?

If I believe the report of the Mossad via a Turkish media, most likely released with the green light from Uncle SAM who is currently looking for an escape route out of this conflict, the losses are colossal!

Soldiers/ MaterialsRussiaUkraineRatio
airplanes2330213
helicopters562124
Drones200275014
Tanks and armored vehicles88963207
Howitzer (Artillery Systems)427736017
AA defense systems1249741
dead18 480157 0008.5
Wounded44 500234 0005.25
Captives32317 23053
Deaths – NATO Military Instructors 234
Dead – NATO soldiers Germany, Poland, Lithuania… 2458
Western mercenaries 5360

The icing on the cake, if I may say so, this "poor army" succeeded in drain the reserves of materials and ammunition (artillery and anti-tank) of the thirty NATO countries!

Even America is reduced to taking shells from its pre-positioned strategic reserves in Israel and South Korea!

Last but not least, by MJ Stoltenberg's own admission, Secretary General of NATO, it turns out that the military-industrial complex of NATO is not able to react and replenish stocks in less than two, two and a half years.

You may agree with me that this " poor quality army » don't defend yourself too badly. “ON” could have seen worse. So I have the impression that Western analyzes of the situation have some “quirks”:

  • “We” predicted that Russia would never attack with an unfavorable initial ratio of 1/5 or even 1/6: She did!
  • "ON" predicted that it was going to seize kyiv and invade all of Ukraine: It didn't!
  • "ON" predicts a major winter offensive: She still hasn't launched it although the thaw is fast approaching...
  • "ON" predicted that it would be defeated in about fifteen: A year later, it still has the initiative!
  • “ON” predicted an economic collapse of Russia: It has still not taken place and worse, the IMF predicts a balance sheet to come that makes many Western countries green with envy.
  • "ON" wanted a "regime change": The polls show that the Russian people follow their leader and adhere to his objectives.
Also, I must admit to being a bit skeptical. On the other hand, I fully subscribe to your concept of " just war » carrying all the dangers. The two protagonists are at the same stage. Only, perhaps, their motivations diverge:

  • One fights for the "golden calf" stamped "$";
  • The other fights for “Man, his roots and his culture”.
At one time or another, you will have to choose your side. As for the ways out of the crisis, I fear that we are at the stage of biblical times, of Sodom and Gomorrah, at "quarter to midnight" of being transformed into "pillars of salt" by nuclear fire of a US strike first followed by a Russian reply… which would be perfectly in line with their respective employment doctrines.

The US has done it before, it will do it again…unless… something does not fall apart. That, for example, the fight ceases lack of fighters, reinforcements and / or lack of ammunition ?

To return to France, I sincerely hope that the staffs of our armies and the governments to come will learn the lessons of this conflict to build the armies that France needs to regain its place in the concert of Nations. For the moment, you are right: We are not on the level. We are two or even three wars behind! There is an EMERGENCY because you have to keep in mind that you have to 25 years to train a chef de corps.(commanding a regiment)

My respects, General.

Lcl(er) REGNIER Jean-Michel
The problem with this is the “mossad” numbers are BS. Aircraft numbers alone mean the entire Ukraine Air Force has been shot down 3 times over. That number alone puts all the rest in doubt. More Ukrainian artillery has been destroyed than Rhett ever had etc. I don’t think any credible I tell service would be reporting those numbers
 

mistaken1

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I guess those Uke's underwater divers who blew up Norstream got the job done. And then gave it to Russia.



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American drone lost in Black Sea found near main Russian base in Crimea​

Story by Ukrainska Pravda • Yesterday 8:31 AM


The American MQ-9 Reaper UAV, which fell into the Black Sea due to the actions of a Russian fighter jet, was located near the Russian base in Sevastopol.

Source: Defense Express

Details: Analysts compared the coastline in the video with Google Earth data and came to the conclusion that "it is most likely the area southwest of Sevastopol." The publication cited US data that the MQ-9 Reaper was in neutral airspace, that is, at least 22 km from the coastline.


There is a lot more at link, BUT it's stuff we've already put up and talked about.

I show that is 13.67 miles from the coast (for those who are kilometer challenged like me).
 

Walrus

Veteran Member
At the risk of serious thread drift, another outstanding piece of work by VDH:

Are We the Byzantines? › American Greatness

Are We the Byzantines?​

The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become. Will Americans?
By Victor Davis Hanson
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March 16, 2023
When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome. Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, avoiding military quagmires, and ensuring constant deterrence.

Generations of self-sacrifice ensured ample investment for infrastructure. Each generation inherited and improved on singular aqueducts and cisterns, sewer systems, and the most complex and formidable city fortifications in the world.
Brilliant scientific advancement and engineering gave the empire advantages like swift galleys and flame throwers—an ancient precursor to napalm.

The law reigned supreme for nearly a millennium after the emperor Justinian codified a prior thousand years of Roman jurisprudence. Yet this millennium-old crown jewel of the ancient world that once was home to 800,000 citizens had only 50,000 inhabitants left when it fell.

There were only 7,000 defenders on the walls to hold back a huge Turkish army of over 150,000 attackers.
The Islamic winners took over the once magical city of Constantine and renamed it Istanbul. It had been the home of the renowned Santa Sophia, the largest Christian church in the world for over 900 years. Almost immediately, this “Church of the Holy Wisdom” was converted into the then largest mosque in the Islamic world, with minarets to follow.
So what happened to the once indomitable city fortress and its empire?

Christendom had cannibalized itself. Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy fought endlessly. Westerners often hated each other more than they did their common enemy. In the final days of Constantinople, almost no help was sent from Western Europe to the besieged city. In fact, 250 years earlier, the Western Franks of the Fourth Crusade had detoured from the Holy Land to storm the supposedly allied Christian City of Constantinople. Then they ransacked the city and hijacked the Byzantine Empire for a half-century. Constantinople never quite recovered.

The 14 th-century Black Plague killed tens of thousands of Byzantines and scared thousands more into moving out of the cramped city.

But the aging and dying empire battled more than the challenges of internal divisions, or an unforeseen but deadly pandemic and the empire’s disastrous responses to it. The last generations of Byzantines had inherited a global reputation and standard of living that they themselves no longer earned. They neglected their former civic values and fought endless battles over obscure religious texts, doctrines, and vocabulary. They did not expand their anemic army and navy. They did not reunite their scattered Greek-speaking empire. They did not properly maintain their once life-giving walls.

Instead of earning money through their accustomed nonstop trade, they inflated their currency and were forced to melt down the city’s inherited gold and silver fixtures. The once canny and shrewd Byzantines grew smug and naïve. Childlessness became common. Most now preferred to live outside of what had become a half-empty, often dirty, and poorly maintained city. Meanwhile they underestimated the growing power of the Ottomans who systematically pruned away their empire. By the mid-15th century Islamic armies were ready to exploit fatal Byzantine weaknesses.
The Sultan Mehmed II grandly announced the Ottomans were now the real, the only world power. Ascendent Ottoman armies would eventually move on to the very gates of Vienna in an effort to rule all the lands of the ancient Roman empire.

We should take heed from the last generations of the Byzantines.

Nowhere is it foreordained that America has a birthright to remain the world’s preeminent civilization. An ascendent China seems eerily similar to the Ottomans. Beijing believes that the United States is decadent, undeserving of its affluence, living beyond its means on the fumes of the past—and very soon vulnerable enough to challenge openly.

Left and Right seem to hate each other more than they do their common enemies.

Like the Byzantines, Americans gave up defending their own borders, and simply shrugged as millions overran them as they pleased. Our once iconic downtowns, like end-stage Constantinople before the fall, are now dirty, half-deserted, dangerous, and dysfunctional.

America prints rather than makes money, as its banks totter near bankruptcy.

Americans similarly believe they are invincible without ensuring in reality that they are. Our military is more worried about being woke than deadly. Like Byzantines, Americans have become snarky iconoclasts, more eager to tear down art and sculpture that they no longer have the talent to create. Current woke dogma, obscure word fights, and sanctimonious cancel culture are as antithetical to the past generations of World War II as the last generation of Constantinople was to the former great eras of the emperors Constantine, Justinian, Heraclius, and Leo.

The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become. So far neither have Americans.
 

mzkitty

I give up.
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Press Release: 17 March 2023

Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova​


Today, 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.

Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article 28(b) of the Rome Statute).

Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, born on 25 October 1984, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that Ms Lvova-Belova bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes, for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute).

Pre-Trial Chamber II considered, based on the Prosecution’s applications of 22 February 2023, that there are reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children.

The Chamber considered that the warrants are secret in order to protect victims and witnesses and also to safeguard the investigation. Nevertheless, mindful that the conduct addressed in the present situation is allegedly ongoing, and that the public awareness of the warrants may contribute to the prevention of the further commission of crimes, the Chamber considered that it is in the interests of justice to authorise the Registry to publicly disclose the existence of the warrants, the name of the suspects, the crimes for which the warrants are issued, and the modes of liability as established by the Chamber.

The above mentioned warrants of arrests were issued pursuant to the applications submitted by the Prosecution on 22 February 2023.

Video statement of ICC President Judge Piotr Hofmański:
YouTube (for viewing)
Video (MPEG-4) for download

 

jward

passin' thru
Just heard on the morning news out of Sacramento's KFBK that Reuters is reporting an indictment has been issued by the ICC against Putin for war crimes.
EndGameWW3
@EndGameWW3
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Update: Spokesperson for the International Criminal Court: Putin's arrest warrant came after an
investigation at the request of 43 countries.
That's at least 43 countries Putin can't go too.

Judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin today. He is believed to be responsible for Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including the unlawful deportation of children and adults from Ukrainian to Russia.
View: https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1636757491320061957?s=20
 

jward

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Steve Herman
@W7VOA

#Turkey President Erdogan asks his country's parliament to decide whether to back the #NATO bid of #Finland.
At a news conference with his Finnish counterpart, Erdogan said #Turkey will continue discussions with #Sweden on terrorism-related issues and Turkish support for the Swedish #NATO membership bid will depend directly on measures taken.
US welcomes President Erdogan’s announcement "that he will send Finland’s NATO accession protocols to the Turkish Parliament and looks forward to the prompt conclusion of that process," says National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in a statement.
"We encourage Türkiye to quickly ratify Sweden’s accession protocols as well. In addition, we urge Hungary to conclude its ratification process for both Finland and Sweden without delay," adds Sullivan.
 

155 arty

Veteran Member
The war will end sure-once NATO is dragged into it. Whether Russia "wins" is is a matter of dispute. "Win" is a rather broad term.

Estimate 250 MT of nuclear weapons dropped on Europe in general; primarily major cities. Figure 80-100MT dropped on Britain and around 400MT on the US.

The world will end up as a smoking cinder. One good thing though-all these goddamned Russian apologists will at least FINALLY shut up.
Well now that the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin ,Vlad may go absolutely scorched earth policy .
They keep backing him deeper and deeper into a corner .
What happens when you corner a wild animal?
I think we all know the answer..of course this my speculation...but now I don't think they have left any way out but total war ! Jmho
 

CaryC

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Well now that the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin ,Vlad may go absolutely scorched earth policy .
They keep backing him deeper and deeper into a corner .
What happens when you corner a wild animal?
I think we all know the answer..of course this my speculation...but now I don't think they have left any way out but total war ! Jmho
IMHO he ain't going anywhere. No one is going in after him, and he ain't coming out.

It's all western theater, but not with Clint.
 

CaryC

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Russia intends to discuss the issue of the US invasion of Iraq at the UN Security Council on Monday

March 20 marks the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 on the basis of false accusations of weapons of mass destruction. - RIA Novosti source
View: https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1636774953080045577?s=20
Also IMHO better be careful what you wish for.

The US's hands ain't spotless.

And that's 43 out of 190 countries at the UN and 123 in the ICC. It's not even close to a majority.
 

jward

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EndGameWW3
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Update: Spokesperson for the International Criminal Court: Putin's arrest warrant came after an
investigation at the request of 43 countries.

That's at least 43 countries Putin can't go too.

Judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin today. He is believed to be responsible for Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including the unlawful deportation of children and adults from Ukrainian to Russia.
View: https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1636757491320061957?s=20
(((Tendar)))
@Tendar
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The ICC also issued a warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova.
She organized the mass abduction of Ukrainian children after their parents were murdered by Russian troops. The souls of so many children has been damaged because this Russian evilness.
Bringing her to justice is imperative.
 
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