Mamoulian War

Lot of Eastern NATO members have still a big piles of Russian stuff in their armies, so I presume this is being sent in a first wave. And a lot of Ukrainian have been trained in western tech, during last 8 years. I bet, that Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has sent some kind of list of stuff, which they deem most useful. At least that would be the most logical way of things to do.

Denmark allows their volunteers to join Ukraine foreign brigade. And Hungary denies any weapon support for Ukraine. on the other hand Slovakia sends weapon support worth 4 millions EUR.

Well, as you might have noticed, the first wave of Russian soldiers are consisting of inexperienced conscripts, and because of that, I kind of doubt, that even military leaders of these troops are the Russian tactical elites. These kind of mistakes seems logical, when taking this fact into consideration...

@Zoraptor According to Al-Jazeera, the Russian progress form the south is halted for the time being. We'll see | Translated by Google Translate of course

Same tactics was used by Chechens during the first Chechen war against Russia and it was pretty seuccessful, and Groznyi is much smaller city than Kharkov. Considering historical experiences, It is at very least plausible.

From what I understood, the Ukrainian forces let Russian Army into center withour restitance just to ambush and easily defeat them. We'll see how it really goes. Still feeling very uneasy about any news from Kharkiv, due to colleague living there

And this is interesting as well. Cyberwarfare at it finest allegedly Russian domestic stations have been hacked and are airing what is really happening at Ukraine I'll be glad if anyone can find trustworthy news in medias, which can confirm or deny this information. I found so far only some tweets.

Allegedly one of the top Chechen warlords have been killed in action near Hostomel...

Apparently Anonymous got their hands on 200GB of data of communication between Belarus weapon manufacturer and Russia. A big chunk of the data are allegedly people paid by the Russia to spread misinformation in other countries. If this is true, there will be a lot of "fun" going around in the next few days in central and eastern europe, and a lot of salty people trying to run away from Slovakia. Being an agent of enemy is punishable up to life sentence in Slovakia... The tweet is in Czech language.

Apparently Russia asked Kazakhstan for military intervention at Ukraine, and Kazakhstan denied they request. I hope that this is true.

Hostomol is a strategic airport for both armies, most of the news around it should be considered as propaganda. The latest news are, that Russian paratroopers got it now IIRC... I really do not know in what to believe in some instances

I wish that would be an entertainment for me as well... I am having work colleagues in Ukraine and one of them in Kharkov... I feel like sitting on needles, every time new info gets here... And the closest attack was approx 180 kms away from our borders...

i found the source, we'll see. The person is apparently UA press secretary?

Apparently Zelenskyi and Putin agreed to have talks. They are currently picking a site. I hope Zelenskyi would not drop guard and agree for a cup of tea in Minsk...

I know many of the Americans would probably not like to hear it, but the best what Europe could do now, is to strike deal with Iran, to get their gas instead of Russia's. If EU and NATO, can trade with no hesitation with Saudis, they can trade with Iran as well... There is absolutely no difference... From what I know, Iranian's at least are not in the last 10 years waging wars against they neighbour like Saudis in Yemen... it would at least show little bit of willingness from EU to actually help Ukraine...

That is also true, but as said above a lot of men are voluntarily going back to Ukraine from Europe, including almost all of Ukrainian doctors working in Slovakia. EDIT: OFC a lot of men != all of men.

Italian prime minister Mario Draghi successfully secured a carve out for Italian luxury goods from the EU's package of economic sanctions against Nato, EU dip tells me. 'Apparently selling Gucci loafers to oligarchs is more of a priority than hitting back at Putin,' source adds. EDIT: Can anybody here confirm, or this is some kind of Onion type news?

It already started, first NATO member has accused NATO and EU of failure to act... Russia and China are probably celebrating...

This War of Mine is on sale on GOG. All of the profits will be donated to Ukrainian Red Cross. So if you still do not have this game, you can help people in need with this purchase. https://www.gog.com/en/game/this_war_of_mine_complete_edition Edit: Sale is on Steam as well, AFAIK, GOG will be donating their store cut as well, Valve not. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/9717/This_War_of_Mine_Complete_Edition/

Lavrov in the interview said, they do not see current government of Ukraine as legitimate, and they will denazify it. So Russia is attacking a country in Europe with the goal to overthrow the legitimate democratic government... IF EU does not answer, it will be considered as an invitation letter for Russia to do whatever the **** they want in eastern europe... I do not believe ATM that NATO would ever invoke article 5, becuase "muh profits"...

How the **** did you come to the conclusion that I support that piece of ****... ???

And this is how it looks when a small land in middle of the pacific ocean has bigger balls than the west...

And looks like the only people in the West who have some balls at the moment are computer nerds...

Now imagine reading something like that in 1939...