From the Russian point of view, Russian speaking Ukrainians are their fellow citizens. The Russians claim Ukraine is mistreating them and invade to protect "Russians" in DPR/LPR. It's total bullshit, but it fits Russian's desire to be seen as both victims and heroes in their own psychodrama about the war.
Styxie
joined 2 years ago
What a great deal. Ukrainian's democratic and human rites are being taken away by Russians in exchange for some bird food.
So all of those assurances from Western leaders about supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes were completely disingenuous.
After a couple of months of running most days, I reached that amazing fitness level where I'm beginning run with relative ease again. I celebrated by buying myself a pair of fancy sport headphones. Hopefully I'll be able to tackle a 10k again by the end of the year. Also, it's fucking cold outside all of a sudden. What the hell.
I have no idea how Russia is sustaining these losses, or accepting them, but they are. I hope the US manages to pass a support package for Ukraine soon. Ukraine needs everything the West can send. I'd love to see EU countries up the ante too.
I'm sure you'd feel the same way about this distinction between nice Russian occupiers and bad Russian occupiers if it was your country they were invading, your culture they were destroying, and your democratic rights they were taking away. It's incredibly naive.
The ones who were executed declined to surrender while on Ukrainian territory. They also could have refused to serve and gone to prison instead, but they didn't. These gopniks knew what they were getting involved in and they deserve what they got.
I doubt that distinction makes any difference to the Ukrainians who are defending their country from genocidal murderers.
I love it when fascists murder each other!
This is a very cool idea for a conversion!
I finally finished Assassin's Creed Valhalla, after nearly 300 hours. Holy fuck, there is so much video game in that god-damn video game. It just keeps going for so much longer than it needs to. Then on top of that they went and added several new features like raiding, and a roguelike game mode which I enjoyed.
It's a mediocre game, but it's a fun time if you're like me and just enjoy exploring big maps, collecting items, upgrading gear, etc. I enjoyed the DLC, but I'm not planning on picking up Dawn of Ragnarök because the mythical storyline just doesn't interest me.
Reports are saying there are 40000 reserves being sent to Avdiivka, so it looks like the numbers are going to stay high for a while. Appearently they've also run out of armour, so it's just infantry assaults now. What a horror show. I didn't think Russia had any reserves, since there's no rotation happening.