Ukraine
- Thread starter Silvanus
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I have thoughts about this.
Many thoughts.
Thoughts that I can't say.
Merry Christmas, and down with Russia.
More Russian officials should travel in the US, where hotel windows can't be opened all the way
On Dec 25? Did one of the Christmas ghosts try to fly him somewhere instructional and he fell off?
No, we all know what actually happened
It was John McClanovich with the air vent in the Jokatomi Plaza
Any Russian with more than a thousand rubles in the bank should know by now to just stay away from windows.
Let's be real; the GRU likely brings its own windows to these things, just in case.
The ghost of Christmas defenestration.
Wasn't very popular so all his scenes got cut from the original novel.
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Well, that was . . . . um . . . .it was. . . . . something? Just makes me realize just how animal friendly good ol Putin is. He just wants to spare European family pets from hardship. That's why everyone needs to just give him everything he wants.
Nah, I got nuthin'.
Well, here's something tremendously odd and unsettling.
So, Russia has been running summer camps for kids in Crimea. These were also advertised in schools in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. There is no suggestion that kids were forced to sign up; it appears to be all voluntary signing up. According to Russia's state media, approximately 4,500 kids from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were attending the summer camps in Crimea.
...except that the camps were meant to last ~2 weeks, and the camp runners are now refusing to return hundreds of the children to their parents in Kherson, now that its been recaptured by Ukraine. Some have been there for months.
www.theguardian.com
Voicemails left by the camp runners feature them telling parents that they won't be sending the kids back, or that they're being kept for reasons like having their own country's flag in the background of a picture on their social media. Sometimes they're sent to other camps, many miles, without the parents being notified. And the kids aren't just getting summer camp activities, of course, but propaganda "history" lectures.
Keep in mind that Russia has also been illegally deporting kids from orphanages in occupied territories to Russia. We're edging closer and closer to fitting the "genocide" definition, in a concerted effort to destroy another culture through the illegal mass abduction of children.
So, Russia has been running summer camps for kids in Crimea. These were also advertised in schools in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. There is no suggestion that kids were forced to sign up; it appears to be all voluntary signing up. According to Russia's state media, approximately 4,500 kids from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were attending the summer camps in Crimea.
...except that the camps were meant to last ~2 weeks, and the camp runners are now refusing to return hundreds of the children to their parents in Kherson, now that its been recaptured by Ukraine. Some have been there for months.
Weeks turn to months as children become stuck at camps in Crimea
The Russian-run camps were advertised as restorative breaks; parents say some children have been kept there for months
www.theguardian.com
Voicemails left by the camp runners feature them telling parents that they won't be sending the kids back, or that they're being kept for reasons like having their own country's flag in the background of a picture on their social media. Sometimes they're sent to other camps, many miles, without the parents being notified. And the kids aren't just getting summer camp activities, of course, but propaganda "history" lectures.
Keep in mind that Russia has also been illegally deporting kids from orphanages in occupied territories to Russia. We're edging closer and closer to fitting the "genocide" definition, in a concerted effort to destroy another culture through the illegal mass abduction of children.
"But...But Azov Battlion!"Well, here's something tremendously odd and unsettling.
So, Russia has been running summer camps for kids in Crimea. These were also advertised in schools in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. There is no suggestion that kids were forced to sign up; it appears to be all voluntary signing up. According to Russia's state media, approximately 4,500 kids from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were attending the summer camps in Crimea.
...except that the camps were meant to last ~2 weeks, and the camp runners are now refusing to return hundreds of the children to their parents in Kherson, now that its been recaptured by Ukraine. Some have been there for months.
Weeks turn to months as children become stuck at camps in Crimea
The Russian-run camps were advertised as restorative breaks; parents say some children have been kept there for months
Voicemails left by the camp runners feature them telling parents that they won't be sending the kids back, or that they're being kept for reasons like having their own country's flag in the background of a picture on their social media. Sometimes they're sent to other camps, many miles, without the parents being notified. And the kids aren't just getting summer camp activities, of course, but propaganda "history" lectures.
Keep in mind that Russia has also been illegally deporting kids from orphanages in occupied territories to Russia. We're edging closer and closer to fitting the "genocide" definition, in a concerted effort to destroy another culture through the illegal mass abduction of children.
Yeah, well, I bet those kids were Nazi goosestepping to the swimming pool every day! You've got to nip that sort of thing in the bud!
As an aside, the Germans stopped goosestepping fairly early on, IIRC, but the tradition continued in the USSR.
...Russia's own propaganda is highlighting the fact that people are working for months without pay in Russia? And that financial desperation is the reason to fight?
Good lord.
69 more cruise missiles fired at Ukraine by Russia overnight. Targets include a cardiology hospital (which thankfully doesn't seem to have been destroyed). 54 of 69 shot down.
Kremlin insists that any peace agreement must involve giving Russia all territory that its army has occupied (edit: and more, since they have never fully occupied the four oblasts they claim to own).
Kremlin insists that any peace agreement must involve giving Russia all territory that its army has occupied (edit: and more, since they have never fully occupied the four oblasts they claim to own).
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Moscow's ex-chief Rabbi advises Russian Jewish people to leave Russia, foreseeing that they will be scapegoated by the Russian government for hardship caused by the war in Ukraine. This comes after the government pressured him to support invasion, leading him to refuse and resign, before leaving in fear for his safety.
www.theguardian.com
This is the power claiming to fight against "Nazism", remember.
Exiled chief rabbi says Jews should leave Russia while they can
Exclusive: Pinchas Goldschmidt warns Jewish population will be made scapegoat for hardship caused by war
www.theguardian.com
This is the power claiming to fight against "Nazism", remember.
Murphy's Law of Combat #7: the only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.