Russian invasion of Ukraine imminent, BBC reports

[sene5hos]

If they do, it will end over 200 years of Swedish non-alignment. Finland adopted neutrality following a bitter defeat by the Soviet Union during World War Two.

Turkey's leader opposes letting Finland, Sweden join NATO

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is “not favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO

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HELSINKI -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that his country is “not favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO, indicating Turkey could use its membership in the Western military alliance to veto moves to admit the two countries.

 

[sene5hos]

Along with the M777 howitzers, long-range M549A1 shells also arrived in Ukraine.

The United States provided Ukraine with several tens of thousands of M549A1 long-range active-rocket projectiles with a flight range of up to 30 kilometers.
This greatly expands the Ukrainian military's strike capabilities, increasing the area covered by the destruction of targets by almost 17 square kilometers, compared with the use of standard ammunition.

Initially, it was assumed that standard ammunition capable of striking at ranges up to 24.7 kilometers would be sent to Ukraine, however, later on one of the photographs M549A1 active rockets with a flight range of up to 30 kilometers were seen, and the source said that, on a par with Thousands of long-range shells also arrived in Ukraine with conventional ammunition.

According to official data, in total, the United States delivered to Ukraine 90 light towed 155-mm howitzers.

 

[wetnose]

We also sent them Excalibur shells...which have been tested to go up to 65Km!!!

Ukraine Can Get Precision-Guided Excalibur Rounds from Canada | Defense Express

According to CBC News, Canada recently sent four of its relatively new M-777 howitzers to Ukraine's military to help it face down a renewed Russian offensive from the east. One of three CBC defense sources said the package included a number of precision-guided Excalibur rounds left over from the...

en.defence-ua.com

 

[EagerBeaver]

Russia Cuts Electricity To Finland:

Russia cuts off electricity to Finland; industry group sees Nato link

While Russia has only supplied a small fraction of electricity used in Finland lately, the shutoff will raise prices here.

yle.fi

 

[sene5hos]

Finland's president initiated phone call with Putin to tell him the country is applying to join NATO

"The conversation was direct and straight-forward and it was conducted without aggravations," Finland's President Sauli Niinisto said.

ca.finance.yahoo.com

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö told Russia's Vladimir Putin that Finland would seek NATO membership.

President Niinistö initiated the call with President Putin, which took place on Saturday.

Russia has previously warned against Finland joining NATO, threatening "retaliatory steps".

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö initiated a phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday, telling the Russian president that Finland will be seeking membership to join NATO.

Russia has previously warned against Finland joining NATO, threatening "retaliatory steps" against the country and claiming Finland's membership in NATO would be a national security threat.

"The conversation was direct and straight-forward and it was conducted without aggravations.
Avoiding tensions was considered important," Niinistö said in the release.

According to the press release, Niinistö reminded Putin that "every independent nation maximizes its security."

The release continued: "This is what is happening now, too. By joining NATO Finland strengthens its own security and assumes its responsibility.
It is not away from anyone else."

In his call with Putin, the Finnish president also "repeated his deep concern over the human suffering caused by the war Russia wages in Ukraine," according to the press release.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised public support for NATO membership to an all-time high in Finland and in neighboring Sweden.

 

[sene5hos]

Russia Cuts Electricity To Finland:

Russia cuts off electricity to Finland; industry group sees Nato link

While Russia has only supplied a small fraction of electricity used in Finland lately, the shutoff will raise prices here.

yle.fi

Russia cuts off electricity to Finland amid growing international tensions

Russia has cut off electricity to Finland on Saturday 'for the first time in over 20 years' amid a payment dispute.

finance.yahoo.com

Retaliatory steps: after their phone call.

Russia said it would cut off electricity to Finland starting Saturday as it claims the country has not paid, a state-owned power company said.

RAO Nordic, a subsidiary of Inter ROA, said it will stop exporting electricity to Finland without providing specifics amid larger tensions across Europe beset by the Russia-Ukraine War, Reuters reported.

 

[sene5hos]

CNN's Sara Sidner reports on how Ukraine is using facial recognition technology to identify Russian soldiers killed in battle.

Since the Russian's claim very few causalities in this Special Operation, without this sort of notification, the families might never know what happened.
At least they can (at some point) claim the body and take it home.

Do the Russians do the same for Ukrainian soldiers? NOPE

 

[sene5hos]

CNN senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen embeds with a medical team for US and NATO Special Operations Forces as they practice medevac drills.

Retired Corpsman here. Not enough credit is given to the service men and women who are brave enough to risk their life while saving lives, especially during war time.
They are true humanitarians and I’m appreciative that this story was covered.

 

[sene5hos]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/putin-nato-finland-sweden-1.6451154

If you talk to anyone in Western diplomatic circles — especially in the security, intelligence and defence sectors — what is about to unfold over the next few weeks in Scandinavia counts among Russia's worst nightmares.

The inclusion of Finland and possibly Sweden in NATO, politically and militarily the source of all that is evil to Moscow, will stretch the alliance firmly from the Arctic Ocean all the way to the Black Sea, pressed right up against the border.

It is the kind of scenario that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to avoid.

 

[sene5hos]

Ukraine has announced that it has hit another Russian ship.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine 79. As it enters the day, the fight between the two countries around the strategic Snake Island in the Black Sea is also gaining momentum.
Ukraine said it shot another Russian army ship near the island, a strategic base in the Black Sea.

Ukraine has announced that it has hit another Russian ship off the strategic-value Snake Island in the Black Sea. Ukrainian military official Sergiy Bratcuk in Odessa said the Russian extraction ship Vsevolod Bobrov burned after being shot with a missile.

 

[sene5hos]

Ukrainian Military Intelligence Chief Russia said it would be defeated by the end of the year.

Ukrainian Military Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov said Russia could be defeated "before the end of the year".

Saying that August will be a "turning point" in the war, Budanov argued that Kiev will be able to regain all its territory.

Speaking to British channel Sky News, Budanov noted that "victory will come even if it is difficult".

"In the second half of August, it will be a turning point and most military operations will be completed by the end of the year," Budanov said.

The military intelligence chief argued that Kiev knew "everything", including Russian military plans, and that Moscow had given "heavy casualties as soldiers and weapons".

After Russia failed in Kiev, it focused on targets east and south of Ukraine. There was a lot of clashes in the Donbass area last week.

The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Russian army in the Donetsk and Tavriya region "used mortar, artillery, bombers to inflict maximum damage to the Ukrainian army.

"At the end of the war, we will rebuild the Ukrainian power in all areas we have lost, including Donbass and Crimea," Budanov said.

 

[sene5hos]

3rd Meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers "Russia's attacks have created one of the most severe food and energy crises in recent history," the statement said about the Russia-Ukraine war, which was discussed on the day. 3 of the meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers, which began in the Wangels district of Schleswig-Hostein, Germany. we met on the day. Dec.
The main agenda item of the meeting included the fact that the ongoing war in Ukraine is fueling a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries.

21 of Russia's attacks on Ukraine. calling it a turning point for the century, the G7 said: “This war is having dramatic consequences far beyond Europe.

As Dec G7, we would like to make it clear that we will not stand by and publicly ignore the international rules that are bound to peace, prosperity, security and stability,” he said.

 

[sene5hos]

Russian 'incendiary phosphorus bombs' rain down on Azovstal steelworks

An aerial video posted to social media on Sunday showed the attack on the plant, where Ukrainian soldiers have been making a final stand against the Russian onslaught in Mariupol.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Putin continues brutal assault on Azovstal steelworks: Footage show Russian 'incendiary phosphorous bombs' raining down on last Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol.

An aerial video showing the Russian attack on the steel plant was posted to social media channels Sunday.

It showed Russian incendiary munitions raining fire down onto the already heavily damaged buildings below.

Ukrainian soldiers, trapped inside the plant, are making a final stand for Mariupol in the sprawling complex.

Their wives and mothers have said they believe their fight is coming to an end, and fear for the worst.

 

[cloudsurf]

Most of the Ukraine soldiers fighting in the Azovstal network are from the Neo-Nazi Azov brigade , So I don`t feel that bad for them. I do feel bad for the thousands of civilians being killed as collateral damage in this inhumane war.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Most of the Ukraine soldiers fighting in the Azovstal network are from the Neo-Nazi Azov brigade ,

This is what Putin is talking about when he says Russia is fighting against Nazism.

Azov Brigade - Wikipedia

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Putin maintains moral high ground (or tries to) by pointing out that the Russians are trying to cleanse the country of these Nazis.

 

[cloudsurf]

This is what Putin is talking about when he says Russia is fighting against Nazism.

Unfortunately that is a smokescreen. I wouldn`t be surprised if Russia had more home grown neo-Nazi`s than Ukraine. The Ukraine citizens who voted for fascist or neo-Nazi parties in the last election , make up 2% of the population.

 

[sene5hos]

Russian 'incendiary phosphorus bombs' rain down on Azovstal steelworks

An aerial video posted to social media on Sunday showed the attack on the plant, where Ukrainian soldiers have been making a final stand against the Russian onslaught in Mariupol.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Putin continues brutal assault on Azovstal steelworks: Footage show Russian 'incendiary phosphorous bombs' raining down on last Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol.

An aerial video showing the Russian attack on the steel plant was posted to social media channels Sunday.

It showed Russian incendiary munitions raining fire down onto the already heavily damaged buildings below.

Ukrainian soldiers, trapped inside the plant, are making a final stand for Mariupol in the sprawling complex.

Their wives and mothers have said they believe their fight is coming to an end, and fear for the worst.

What a phosphorus bomb is and what damage they can do as MoD warns of use in Mariupol

It is illegal to use phosphorus bombs on civilian areas due to their incendiary effects and ability to cause significant burns

inews.co.uk

It's illegal to use phosphorus bombs on civilian areas due to their incendiary effects and ability to cause significant burns.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Unfortunately that is a smokescreen.

Maybe so, but perhaps the one positive to come out of this war is that some of these Nazis are "cleansed."

 

[sene5hos]

Ali Velshi reports on significant setbacks for Russia in its war on Ukraine, not the least of which is that Finland and Sweden are poised to join NATO.
Michael McFaul remarks on Vladimir Putin's failure to achieve his own major military objectives.

 

[wetnose]

Most of the Ukraine soldiers fighting in the Azovstal network are from the Neo-Nazi Azov brigade , So I don`t feel that bad for them. I do feel bad for the thousands of civilians being killed as collateral damage in this inhumane war.

The founder of the Azov brigade did have some Neo-Nazi connections but the group later disavowed him. The Azov brigade stood up to Russia's aggression in 2014, so Putin wanted to use them to turn international opinion against Ukraine.

A far-right battalion has a key role in Ukraine's resistance. Its neo-Nazi history has been exploited by Putin

President Vladimir Putin framed the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a "special mission" to protect Russian speakers from genocide at the hands of "neo-Nazis."

www.cnn.com