How Many More Of These ….

[ichkeria]

Before Russia is declared a terrorist state?

Vynnytsya’s “good luck” ran out this morning

Death toll in Chasiv Yar apartment bombing rises to 48.

Warning:
Distressing (even though partially airbrushed) image:

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Get rid of Putin and who’s the favourite to replace him?
Nikolai Patrushev, a man suspected by many of masterminding the Dubrovka and Volgodonsk terrorist attacks in the 2000s

[naomi24]

Every time I watch the news now I fear Russia has the upper hand.

[ichkeria]

I'm not surprised
It's either the dreary Orla Guerin in Lysychansk claiming we're all doomed by Russian artillery or the rather silly BBC headline last night (Russia extends it's war into W Ukraine) - as if that region has not been attacked several times now: the terrorists' submarines in the Black sea can lob off a cruise missile anywhere they like, and have done for months and will no doubt continue to do so. This has been a war of terror from the start, but it isn't one russia can win, for all the crimes they are committing.

[naomi24]

//it isn't one russia can win, for all the crimes they are committing. //

Who is going to bring them to book?

[ichkeria]

Alas, of course the vast majority of the 21,000 (!) war crimes being investigated by the remarkable public prosecutor of Ukraine Irina Venediktova, will never be prosecuted. And God knows how many are yet to come or indeed have happened inside russian-occupied territory. The deportation an estimated 2 million Ukrainian citizens to russia is a war crime in itself.
However militarily, russia cannot win this war.

[naomi24]

//Alas, of course the vast majority of the 21,000 (!) war crimes being investigated by the remarkable public prosecutor of Ukraine Irina Venediktova, will never be prosecuted. //

Exactly.

//However militarily, russia cannot win this war. //

I would like to have your confidence.

[ichkeria]

Because the Russians don't actually fight!
In places where there has been actual combat they have been defeated. They have endless artillery and a lot of human cannon fodder and a lot of brutality, and their special forces are quite good (sometimes) but they are expending manpower and hardware at an unsustainable rate. That might not matter were their hearts and souls in it, but plainly that is not the case.

[naomi24]

Still wish I had your confidence. I can't see an end to this.

[Untitled]

it is quite clear that russia could not hold ukraine even of they did manage to win in the field… the only question is how much damage they are willing to do before the inevitable settlement…

[ichkeria]

I don’t see there being a settlement as there’s no dispute to settle.