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Russian soldiers sent Olga Novikova, founder/director of Mariupol film festival video with her captured son demanding to pay 5000 Euro ransom for his life. If not they promised to send video of his execution. links in comments. pic.twitter.com/VBtauH45IZ
Two charming little actresses, Elizabeth and Sonya, of the city theatre of Mariupol. They both performed the role of Lucy in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
Churches rarely do cover themselves in glory when dictators rule the roost. While many brave people stood against Hitler, many did not. The interesting one today is Pope Francis’ stance which can be summarised as sitting on the fence.
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 00:21 - Jul 18 with 6091 views
Four-year-old killed in Vinnytsia attack is buried.
More than 100 people have come together to pay their respects to four-year-old Liza Dmitrieva, killed in a missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Thursday.
Liza, who had Down syndrome, was en route to see a speech therapist with her mother when Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia, far from the front lines. At least 24 people were killed, including Liza and two boys aged seven and eight, and more than 200 were wounded, including Liza’s mother.
“There is no punishment at all for people who do this,” Ilona, a friend of Liza’s family, told The Associated Press. “Sorry, I have no more comments. Here are the consequences of all this. It’s just torment, despair and a great deal of pain.”
Men carry a coffin during a funeral ceremony for Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo].
A woman carries a portrait of Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, during a funeral ceremony in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Sunday, July 17, 2022 [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo].
Wearing a blue denim jacket with flowers, Liza was among 23 people killed, including two boys aged 7 and 8, in Thursday's missile strike in Vinnytsia. Her mother, Iryna Dmytrieva, was among the scores injured.
“I didn’t know Liza, but no person can go through this with calm,” Orthodox priest Vitalii Holoskevych said at the funeral, bursting into tears. “Because every burial is grief for each of us. We are losing our brothers and sisters.”
He paused and continued in a trembling voice: ‘’We know that evil cannot win.’’
Men lower the coffin of Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, during a funeral ceremony in Vinnytsia, Ukraine [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo].
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 07:20 - Jul 18 with 6041 views
The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 00:21 - Jul 18 by Eireannach_gorm
Four-year-old killed in Vinnytsia attack is buried.
More than 100 people have come together to pay their respects to four-year-old Liza Dmitrieva, killed in a missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Thursday.
Liza, who had Down syndrome, was en route to see a speech therapist with her mother when Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia, far from the front lines. At least 24 people were killed, including Liza and two boys aged seven and eight, and more than 200 were wounded, including Liza’s mother.
“There is no punishment at all for people who do this,” Ilona, a friend of Liza’s family, told The Associated Press. “Sorry, I have no more comments. Here are the consequences of all this. It’s just torment, despair and a great deal of pain.”
Men carry a coffin during a funeral ceremony for Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo].
A woman carries a portrait of Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, during a funeral ceremony in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Sunday, July 17, 2022 [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo].
Wearing a blue denim jacket with flowers, Liza was among 23 people killed, including two boys aged 7 and 8, in Thursday's missile strike in Vinnytsia. Her mother, Iryna Dmytrieva, was among the scores injured.
“I didn’t know Liza, but no person can go through this with calm,” Orthodox priest Vitalii Holoskevych said at the funeral, bursting into tears. “Because every burial is grief for each of us. We are losing our brothers and sisters.”
He paused and continued in a trembling voice: ‘’We know that evil cannot win.’’
Men lower the coffin of Liza, 4-year-old girl killed by Russian attack, during a funeral ceremony in Vinnytsia, Ukraine [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo].
So very said. If ever there was a reason to go after that animal Putin it’s murders like this.
Nothing new here, but it never ceaseless to amaze me how so many people enjoy dispensing torture. In this instance for the fun of it. It’s the ultimate control, I suppose. Maybe it’s the pleasure and excitement of hearing the screams, finding interesting ways to inflict pain and of course impressing your friends.
Just as so many enjoyed torture or were indifferent to it in Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Russia and Ukraine now, there would be no shortage of volunteers in this country given the opportunity. There is something so very wrong in the DNA of man.
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 12:23 - Jul 18 with 5990 views
Thank you for posting this. I agree with every word he said there. He was spot on.
The price of hoping it goes away, the price of appeasement doesn’t bear thinking about. But I suspect few but those countries next on the menu think that way.
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 14:54 - Jul 18 with 5929 views
It was meant to be a story of a poor Russian soldier who got killed in Ukraine and his family got nothing. At his home, we see a fridge with the Ukrainian warranty on it. What are the chances for a fridge in the middle of Siberia to have a UA warranty?https://t.co/pQORxQ5oWgpic.twitter.com/sufywMUSRO
The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 17:55 - Jul 18 by Eireannach_gorm
It was meant to be a story of a poor Russian soldier who got killed in Ukraine and his family got nothing. At his home, we see a fridge with the Ukrainian warranty on it. What are the chances for a fridge in the middle of Siberia to have a UA warranty?https://t.co/pQORxQ5oWgpic.twitter.com/sufywMUSRO
Basically an old car with the tech stripped out. Nice.
What I noticed at the bottom of the article was the comment about aircraft parts. Allegedly Boeing and Airbus have stopped supplying them to Russia (unless Macron and Scholz have found a way round it for Airbus). That means that even China have banned Russian aircraft from its airspace. Not very comforting for the aircrew, though I don’t suppose objecting is much of an option.
‘Dear Mr Putin, we are unhappy flying in aircraft with cardboard pattern parts. We are thinking of’ BANG! Comrade pilot has retired….for ever…
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 18:45 - Jul 18 with 5875 views
The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 09:52 - Jul 17 by Churchman
Churches rarely do cover themselves in glory when dictators rule the roost. While many brave people stood against Hitler, many did not. The interesting one today is Pope Francis’ stance which can be summarised as sitting on the fence.
There are certainly many who stood as well as you rightly pointing out the many who did not.
Pastor Martin Niemöller springs to mind with his epic quote "First they came for the communists ..."
What does "victory" for Russia actually look like? They are never going to re-educate the average Ukrainian. Unless they actually succeed in total genocide of them, the Russian occupiers will be forever facing terror and reprisal. The Iron Curtain finally fell because there is a limit to the control of people. Perhaps it is time there was a kick-back on an unprecedented scale.
The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 20:50 - Jul 18 by Nthsuffolkblue
What does "victory" for Russia actually look like? They are never going to re-educate the average Ukrainian. Unless they actually succeed in total genocide of them, the Russian occupiers will be forever facing terror and reprisal. The Iron Curtain finally fell because there is a limit to the control of people. Perhaps it is time there was a kick-back on an unprecedented scale.
I don’t know what it looks like to Putin tbh. Whatever he defines is as, I guess. He clearly has a 20 years of rule view and that of a dictator who cannot be questioned. I think he really does want to rebuild the USSR almost to the model the west feared at the time, but was not all it seemed. It wouldn’t have imploded if that hadn’t been the case.
So, given the war has not gone to plan for Putin, he may go down ‘what we hold what we have’ route. If he takes a bit more territory over the next month or so and puts a peace face to a fatigued west, I think a nod, a wink, let bygones be bygones result will come from it. Zelenski won’t have a say in the matter.
Russia will have taken an important chunk of Ukraine, joined up with Crimea and can eat the rump of Ukraine later with assassination, subversion, incursion. The risk for this strategy is that it assumes the west will remain divided and weak. I think that’s likely, but it’s not certain. The other risk to Putin is his own age. He’s clearly a very fit man for his age, but he’s still 70 odd. The clock is ticking on his ambitions.
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 13:24 - Jul 19 with 5649 views
Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities again. On the video, Kramatorsk. A little later, Dnipro, Kremenchuk and Bila Tserkva in Kyiv region. At least 3 people reported dead in Dnipro, including a bus driver who was returning from a day shift pic.twitter.com/JfGDR9jg5K
The first deaths from hunger in the #Khersonregion.An elderly local woman died of starvation in Nova Kakhovka.For a month, the occupiers havn't taken their humanitarian aid to some areas of the city.The woman simply didn't dare to ask other people for food.She died of exhaustion. pic.twitter.com/ENlXj4zLha
— Oksana Hliebushkina (@hliebushkina) July 1, 2022
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The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 01:10 - Jul 20 with 5547 views
Well, this is battlefield confirmation that GMLRS rockets fired by HIMARS M142 and tracked M270 launchers can reach ~100 km, as @noclador had speculated.👇👇
RU forces are moving the train offload points out of HIMARS range, this image gives an indication of how this affects delivery times.
The conclusion is the transport times have doubled, so they need twice the amount of trucks to be able to keep up the rate of delivery. pic.twitter.com/4zwgfR46TI
I take it Russia is gearing up for the next large scale assault. I see Labrov, the man described as having a face like an elephant’s ballbag, is at it again:
The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 14:32 - Jul 20 by Churchman
I take it Russia is gearing up for the next large scale assault. I see Labrov, the man described as having a face like an elephant’s ballbag, is at it again:
It’ll be interesting to see what difference, if any, American long range weaponry has.
This would suggest otherwise or at least they are not being very effective in their assaults.
Additional attempts to advance was made in the Pavlivka, Novomykhailivka and Mykhailivka area. "They were repulsed and ingloriously managed to escape" according to GSUA. I can not find a location for Mykhailivka at this moment. pic.twitter.com/MfLN7Pp4i2
Russia relocated a significant number of ships from Sevastopol to their other naval base in the black sea, Novorossiysk. Could this possibly have to do with ATACMS range, and them being afraid of a secret delivery? Source https://t.co/jCHhOQeGd5pic.twitter.com/qNaSbsBfpe
Yesterday the brave representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC ) delivered more than 20 tons of humanitarian aid to the suffering civilians in northern #Kharkiv Oblast.
I was on hand to ask them about their mission to save lives during this tragedy. pic.twitter.com/00aWRyOwyS
— Sarah Ashton-Cirillo (@SarahAshtonLV) July 21, 2022
Heartbreaking. In Kharkiv, the missile attack by Russia killed a teenager. His father was sitting by his body for two hours, holding his hand and praying. pic.twitter.com/GYkThxdEpo
While Putin engages in his war of slaughter, who are sanctions affecting the most? Putin’s war chest is bulging with EU and others’ money for energy, it stands to make huge sums of money from grain sales, both its own and threat stolen from Ukraine. The following Guardian article is interesting.
In summary, the write believes Europe is fracturing under Putin’s economic pressure and the winter could turn into a scrabble for energy while Europe’s economies go down the drain. From this there could be a push for a Ukraine land surrender for peace.
Under Biden’s weak leadership, the US is happy to bleed Russia long term and if the cost is Europe’s economies, who cares.
The writer thinks the way forward is for NATO (the US) to stop hissing around and push Russia out. End it. It’s not going to happen.
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