Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, aka "Putin's Special Operation"

[Voyager1]

Zelensky's retaliation against China
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compani ... r-AA1Dgp7Y

[Yohan]

You might reject such videos as propaganda, fakes etc.



Honestly what is this man doing in a church?

[Yohan]

These videos were made without any political background, but do you really want to live like that?

This couple (Morocco/Russian) who made these videos is not poor, have also a second home in the city, doing this life-style for fun...
but there are others, who have no choice, Russia away from some major cities is poor, nothing there...
Everything you see in these videos is primitive, desolate...nothing to be proud of it.

[Winston]

Wow. Trump says that the Russia-Ukraine war may end this week! That's a good sign. Apparently the talks are paying off and Putin is ready to sign a deal! See below.

[Yohan]

Trump says that the Russia-Ukraine war may end this week! That's a good sign. Apparently the talks are paying off and Putin is ready to sign a deal! See below.

Do you really believe this, Winston?

Every agreement signed by Russia will be broken in no time, A worthless piece of paper.
It's only about winning time to move military equipment and soldiers to other positions.
That's all.

Trump's 'peace within one day' did not work out so far, and in European media I read nothing about peace at all, it is more a talk going on about a trap from Putin.

Trump's ideas about peace is seen also in a mistrusting way in EU, everything is about Trump and Putin only, excluding and ignoring deliberately all EU/UK and giving orders to Ukraine what its government must do to please Putin.

Any negotiations - even not yet started - will take a long time and the war will continue.... just my guess.

[Yohan]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-r ... 21644.html

Putin says Russia has weapons shortages despite beefing up production
Reuters Wed, April 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's armed forces are still short of certain weapons, including drones, despite a big increase in production, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

Putin told a meeting of the state Military-Industrial Commission that almost all defence enterprises had met their orders in full last year.

"For example, production of weapons, communications, reconnaissance and electronic warfare systems more than doubled. The troops received over 4,000 units of armoured weapons, 180 combat aircraft and helicopters," he said in televised comments.

More than 1.5 million drones of various types had also been produced, Putin added, including about 4,000 first-person view (FPV) drones - lightweight models designed for precision targeting.

But Putin said: "I know very well, and many here who are participating in our meeting today know it as well as I do: there are still not enough of these weapons. Not enough."

He added: "I am sure that all plans to increase production of the necessary equipment, in this case drones, will certainly be fulfilled. They are eagerly awaiting them on the front."

Putin's comments signalled that Russia intends to further ramp up military production in the fourth year of its war in Ukraine, even as it holds talks with the United States on prospects for ending the conflict.

[Yohan]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ondon.html

US Vice President JD Vance warned Wednesday that Moscow and Kyiv must strike a deal or Washington will end its efforts to reach a ceasefire.

'We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say yes, or for the United States to walk away from this process,'

Trump's '1-day-to peace' does not work as expected.

Mr Trump, who previously boasted he could secure peace on 'day one', has been signalling he could walk away from the process altogether if an agreement is not struck soon.

No problem, if USA does not want to continue - Europe has to take over and to do it without USA.

[Voyager1]

Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least eight, Ukrainian officials say
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety ... r-AA1Dwl0v



And @Winston tells us that putin wants "peace". What a joke

[Voyager1]

[Yohan]

https://www.newsweek.com/shoigu-putin-u ... hs-2063492

Nice greetings from peace-loving Russia

Ridiculous, talking about Western aggression while it was Russia invading Ukraine and tries to remove this country since more than 3 years from the world map.

Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons in response to what it considers to be Western aggression, said one of Vladimir Putin's top officials, who warned that any peacekeeping force overseeing a ceasefire in Ukraine risks World War III.

Sergei Shoigu, who was Putin's defense minister at the time of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, told the Tass news agency that Moscow is closely following the military preparations of European countries. Shoigu added that plans by a so-called "coalition of the willing" to oversee peace in Ukraine risks a confrontation between Moscow and NATO.

[Yohan]

Wow. Trump says that the Russia-Ukraine war may end this week! That's a good sign. Apparently the talks are paying off and Putin is ready to sign a deal!

When will Winston and some others finally understand that Putin does not care at all about what Trump says....
Trump's promise of 'ending the war within one day' is nothing but a worthless meaningless dream.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-critici ... 47837.html

Updated Fri, April 25, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday offered rare criticism of Vladimir Putin, urging the Russian leader to “STOP!” after a deadly barrage of attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine's capital.

“I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying.” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. “Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!”

Russia struck Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones. At least 12 people were killed and 90 were injured in the deadliest assault on the city since last July.

Trump’s frustration is growing as a U.S.-led effort to get a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia has not made progress.

[Yohan]

https://japantoday.com/category/politic ... ian-assets

Moscow slams 'treacherous' Japanese loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets
Today 06:35 am JST

MOSCOW
Russia on Thursday accused Japan of treachery and complicity in theft after Tokyo last week signed an agreement to lend Ukraine over $3 billion for reconstruction, backed by the proceeds from frozen Russian assets.

Japan signed an agreement with Ukraine on April 18 for the loan of 471.9 billion yen ($3.3 billion). Under the terms of the arrangement, the loan will be repaid with proceeds from Russian assets worth tens of billions of dollars which have been frozen in the European Union because of the war in Ukraine.

The money is part of the G7's Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine (ERA) program, which aims to provide Kyiv with $50 billion for reconstruction.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters at a briefing in Moscow on Thursday that the loan would damage already poor relations between Japan and Russia which are strained by Tokyo's support for Ukraine against what the Japanese Foreign Ministry calls Russian aggression.

Even without support of USA, Ukraine is not standing alone against Russia.

Ukraine has to provide the military force, soldiers, out of their own country. However there is a lot of support otherwise from countries like Japan, which are not directly linked to NATO and EU.

In Japan Russia is considered to be a threat since the end of WWII. Just read the follow-up comments of this article.

[Yohan]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/car-bomb-kil ... 40944.html

Maybe a 'thank you gift' in return from Ukraine for all these Russian drone attacks in Kyiv with residential buildings and cars hit and set alight.

Car bomb kills senior Russian general in Moscow

Fri, April 25, 2025
A senior Russian military figure was killed Friday after a vehicle exploded in the town of Balashikha in the Moscow region, the Investigative Committee of Russia said.

Russian authorities had launched a criminal inquiry into the death of Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement Friday on behalf of the committee, which is Russia's main federal criminal investigations authority.

Moskalik was killed in the explosion of a Volkswagen Golf in the city of Balashikha following the “detonation of a homemade explosive device filled with shrapnel,
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He is the latest in a long line of senior Russian military figures to be killed in bombings since Moscow invaded Ukraine three years ago.

We see so many victims every day," Zakharova said, adding: "Even today, a Russian military was killed in a terrorist attack in Moscow.”

Russian general killed in car bomb as Trump's envoy in Moscow for peace talks | BBC News

[Voyager1]

Yeah they blew that sucker up.

Way to go Ukraine! Slava Ukraine!

[Yohan]

Yeah they blew that sucker up.
Way to go Ukraine! Slava Ukraine!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... al-weapons

This guy was also removed by Ukraine a few months ago.....

Wed 18 Dec 2024
Lt Gen Igor Kirillov killed along with his deputy after device attached to escooter exploded

Killing of Russian general cements SBU’s reputation for abrupt vengeance

A senior Russian general has died after an explosive device hidden in an electric scooter detonated outside an apartment building in Moscow, in an attack claimed by Ukraine that marks one of the boldest targeted assassinations of a senior military official since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.

Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, the head of the military’s chemical, biological and radiological weapons unit, was killed along with his assistant when the blast went off as the two men left a building in a residential area in south-east Moscow on Tuesday.

A source in Ukraine’s SBU security service said Kyiv was behind the attack.

Kirillov, who was placed under sanctions by Britain in October over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, is the most senior Russian military official to be killed in an assassination away from the frontlines since the start of the Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine nearly three years ago.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ation.html

How some of Putin's top military chiefs have been picked off in series of bombings and shootings on Russian soil since Ukraine invasion began - as general is wiped out in latest assassination