Ukrainian recruiting ad: Russian Moskvich car, with "To Kyiv", Russian flag and a fascist Russian "V" symbol, meets a Ukrainian Leopard tank. Message at end reads "Become a tank driver."
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Putin has so far achieved the goals of breaking the US away from NATO, undermining faith in Article 5, weakening the EU through Brexit, and political capture in Hungary and Slovakia, and bolstering the far-right across the West.
Lots of loud explosions audible in western Kyiv just now - Russian attack with Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, targeting Starokostyantyniv air base in Khmelnytsky Oblast and possibly Kyiv itself. Three MiG-31Ks in the air, which means three missiles.
It's Putin's birthday today so fireworks are to be expected.
This has happened with every major category of weapon, from tanks to F-16s and now to ATACMS: Ukraine begs for them, and Russian attacks eventually makes refusals to supply them untenable. They are then released, to outrage but no significant reaction from the Kremlin… 🧵
…Had they all been released in a shorter timeframe, Ukraine might have won the war by now. It seems reasonable to conclude that these weapons have been drip-fed to Ukraine to prevent Kyiv from losing but stopping it from beating Russia, for fear of consequences of Russia defeat.
Absolutely the wrong policy, as it has cost Ukraine thousands of lives, and the West has no influence on what happens in Russia anyway. Preventing a Russian defeat only keeps the Putin regime in power, allowing it to strengthen again and continue to be a threat.
Ukraine may have struck another Russian Black Sea Fleet #ship in #Sevastopol Bay: Locals report explosion, air raid sirens and ambulances heading in direction of bay.
ATESH partisans report several "200s" (dead) and many "300s" (wounded)
Ambulances continue to rush to the place where Russian authorities claim "nobody was injured". - Ukrayinskiy Krym Telegram channel.
Krymskiy Veter Telegram channel writes: “In Sukharnaya Bay, where (the missile) is believed to have hit, yesterday there were a Project 775 landing ship and another ship, reports the Krymskiy Veter monitoring group.”