Topic: [POV] War in Ukraine - page 5. (Read 2654 times)

Please do not be offended if I did not thank someone in a personal, I really appreciate all those who put an emotional message into the assistance provided, the help that I was able to convert into food, gasoline and other necessary things. Thank you very much.


To be honest, I did nothing today and got busy with my forum questions, but yesterday and the day before yesterday I closed two important points at once. Btw, nothing has happened with free potatoes yet, since there is nowhere to put it yet, since the place where food for checkpoints is prepared is now overflowing with food (which is good news). I am only a pawn, but as far as I understand, without exception, all the surplus will go to those nearest villages in which there is a shortage of food (this is what people brought in one day).


With this point, everything is not so simple ... everything seems to be fine, since I managed to take care of those who needed it to some extent, but at the same time I feel like a nonentity ... because the photos taken only aggravate the already deplorable situation, emphasizing the misfortune of these people. As if with every request for a photo, I remind them of how unhappy they and their children are (with the fact that they are all in acceptable safety). I don't want to experience this feeling again. Therefore, this is the last time I ask people to take pictures (nevertheless, there are about 40 photos here).

• https://imgur.com/a/XEyRg6E
• https://imgur.com/a/tAi5Vft
• https://imgur.com/a/u7Cc0DU

Peaceful skies overhead to all ... btw, our army near Nikolaev threw the Russian troops back 15 miles. 

That's so fitting (compared to other recent uses of the song like disco versions and similar), since it was used in anti-fascist resistance in Italy!

I also found this one the other day about the Javelin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LlJOZPkK94

Whatever helps keep the mood up, I guess.

This could annoy the orcs too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVCQEthhOU

Mmmm I love pierogi.

I also have good news:
I've read some transcripts of communication between Russian troops and their command and it looks as bad as it could be. They're starting to joke about shooting their commanders, ask what to do because they lost almost all tanks in the company, and asking what letter to sign to be moved back home. You guys are wining, Russians came in hungry with expired rations, so make sure they don't leave with empty stomachs. Those idiots apparently had a new communication system but it required functioning cellular towers, but they destroyed too many of them and can't use it. Now they have to use old systems that Ukrainians can tap into.

At least you have a not so tiny speaker in the back
You can drive around blasting "bayraktar song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3IbKsNVpw

Thanks a lot for your first-person insights into this war, icopress! I am fascinated by the Ukrainian population's combined effort to effectively fend off such a supposed 'world power' as Russia, huge respect.
I am wondering: did you guys always have this conviction that your neighbour's army wasn't as strong as has so far always been asserted or did this awareness arise during the first days of the war? To me it always appeared that Russia had a comparable military as the United States; a huge superpower that a single smaller country couldn't compete with. While now it doesn't seem like that at all (not meaning to downplay your great achievements in the war!).

I honestly hope for the best, it's been 16 days or more since the start of the invasion, if I'm not mistaken. It's depressing to live in such conditions and from the bottom of my heart, I wish you good luck, it seems like there's a long road ahead.

However, I've been reading that Putin has opened negotiations again, "offering", more like demanding Ukraine to meet his demands, or he'll fiercely attack Kyiv and Ukraine in general.

The current situation in the Nikolaev region leaves much to be desired ... since the Russians, under the cover of chaotic artillery attacks on the regional center, are moving their troops in a northeast direction. Does anyone else really believe that the MLRS "Grad" can hit the city's military facilities in the evening?

• https://imgur.com/GfM7M5X (these shots are only a few hours old / I didn't take the photo)

If it were not for the evening, the day would have been tolerable, since for almost the whole day I did not hear any signaling sounds and was in a good mood doing important things, and my wife cooked food again, (I think I'll have to devote a couple of days to family and work, so I'll see you in the middle of the week).


By the way... from VERY good news.

• I found about 10 tons of free potatoes 400 kilometers from me.
• I found in the neighboring region baby food, diapers, etc. at prices much lower than wholesale prices.

But the catch is that in my tiny car I will not take either one or the other, so on top of everything else on the weekend I will also look for drivers with my trucks!

Good luck to everyone and a peaceful sky above your head.

Good luck to you and your family. Keep telling us how the days go by!
Great idea with food, keep resisting, they won't break you. Share photos of the gun if you obtain it, although I hope you won't have to use it.
Still, get it and teach your wife how to use it, you'll both feel better knowing that you have the means to repel looters and rapists.

This made me laugh today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxNu0UlasjI

Stay safe!

Aside from the warning sounds of a missile strike, the day was great as we managed to do some shopping at the wholesale food depot (the only disappointing thing is that the prices at the wholesale depot are the same as they were in grocery stores before the war). I ask what the problem is, and the manager refers to the fact that suppliers are raising prices (I'm not sure if this is true). Also, for the last couple of days, my civilian wife has been sitting at home, as she and her friends cook for the military in turn. Btw, I was also intrigued by the news that Washington will allocate $ 50 billion to Ukraine and I am shocked (if this is true). Since this is a quarter of the annual budget of Ukraine.

• https://imgur.com/8mUMEjO
• https://imgur.com/LhRiWc6

In addition, my sister and her child successfully reached Poland, many thanks to the volunteers who met her in Lviv, provided her with an overnight stay and escorted her to the border, at the moment there are almost no queues at the border crossing points, so everything went very quickly.

p.s. A bill has also come into force according to which I and any civilian have the right to use my personal weapons against Russian troops, so now I will probably look for a way to acquire some kind of sniper weapon.

Just FWIW, I can confirm from personal contacts that a Ukrainian (born) being 'Russian speaking' does not make a (high functioning) Ukrainian be particularly fond of Russia, and certainly not fond of the Soviet Union in which they grew up and were educated.  I myself am guilty of using 'Russian speaking' as short-hand for Unkrainians who might have some affinity for Russia, but it is too simplistic.


The vid (which I skimmed due to lack of content) confirms to me that Harari is basically A) a pseudo-intelectual celebrity-academic who is focuses what intellectual ability he has on saying what wealthy elite and their globalist useful idiots want to hear since it is a good way to make money and get free plane tickets (e.g., an evolution of the Jarred Diamond grift), or B) reasonably bright and informed, but a flat out propagandist playing to his globalist useful idiot base with nary a shred of intellectual honesty in his content.

Same here, brother. I live in Kyiv, and speak and think in Russian, and I've never had any problems with that. Even on Euromaidan no one ever asked me why I speak Russian.

Putin and his propaganda are lying to their people.

Have no more time to write rn.

For those who are interested, watch this Yuval Noah Harari video

https://youtu.be/yQqthbvYE8M

He explains it all really well.

This is one of the reasons why not a single Russian-speaking Ukrainian presents his region as part of Russia.

We Ukrainians cannot stand weakly characteristic people, and it makes no sense for us to condone the seizure of our lands, since we all value freedom very much. Honestly, I also don’t quite understand why Apple and Google have not yet intervened, since it is precisely the shutdown of the appstore and the play market and all related services that would entail the most acute protests in Russia.

My wife is just smart ^{[Continuing to cook food for the guys at the nearest checkpoint]}


p.s. To be honest, she is not my wife yet, but just a partner, but I think I will fix this when everything is over.

Russian people are brainwashed so much that they think Russia is doing ''denazification'' in Ukraine andthey support it. I don't know how much we can trust in this data, butthere was poll made and about 70% of Russians support Putin actions in Ukraine. Large part of their population watch only state-owned TV which wash their brain 24/7. While oppositional channels which were already blocked is Western agents which spread propaganda.
Offcourse, not everyone support war, but they can't do much because they simply fear. There was some protests of brave people, but police already arrested thousands of them. They even arrested 90 years old women who was in protest. They recently made law whch let them to send people who are against Russian government for 15 years jail. Russian repression machine is turning country into North Korea.

In a civilized world, such crimes should not go unpunished. I don’t understand the Russians who see that many TV channels that tell the truth are blocked, Facebook, Twitter are blocked, and at the same time, none of the Russians have any questions why this is happening? Or the situation is that they are really all scared, no one dares to say a single word against the government, otherwise they will go to jail. Then why is such a life necessary?

We protect our land and therefore we will win. I am also angry that the whole world is afraid to help Ukraine close the sky, this is the same fear that gives the occupants an advantage, this should not happen.

At least 50,000 people took to the streets ... after which, within a few hours, the Russian military left the city. I doubt very much that they were afraid of the protesters, I believe that they advanced towards Nikolaev (therefore, Kherson is still outside the line of demarcation).

In addition, Ukrainian mobile operators are no longer operating in Kherson, and this makes me think that temporary officials are already moving from the Crimea to Kherson who will begin to equip the post-war city. As for the shots ... the military only scared the protesters away (I did not see or hear from my acquaintances that anyone was injured or killed during the protest).

But Putin claims he's not bombing residential areas, that's propaganda! (My comment is sarcastic, of course). It's a shame, he's a criminal and should be executed, his days are numbered. Many Russian solders are not even aware of what's happening, many of which are barely 18 years old, bombarded by propaganda and fueled by hate and lies, thrown on a battlefield, not knowing what they're fighting for, leading to their death.

Putin doesn't differentiate much from Hitler himself.

Do you know what's going on in Kherson? There are videos of protests but also gunshots.

Guys, judging by the map, you might think that the situation is deplorable, but I ask you to take a look at the photos below.


First, pay attention to this life hack ... and this is supposedly the second most powerful army in the world.


Secondly, a Russian aircraft and several helicopters were again shot down on the southern front ... a total of 79 aircraft were shot down.


Unfortunately, today we have 30 people killed and wounded.

Well, who could have imagined?:

  https://southfront.org/ukrainian-armed-forces-destroyed-headquarters-of-azov-nationalist-battalion-in-mariupol-report/

As I say, these groups tend to be created (often by a certain tribe) in order to be utilized for certain things then liquidated when they are no longer useful.  Think about that before joining some 'ultra-nationalist' (or 'ultra-anything'...or 'anything' for that matter) organization if you are ever approached.

While Russia yesterday confirmed that they have about 500 deaths. But I think that both these numbers is far from reality. But no doubts that both sides have big loses.
And you're right, in Russia it's just numbers. Now they blocked last oppositional TV and radio channels which covering war in Ukraine. They're turning in North Korea. I saw that on their propaganda channel they turned in live webcam videos from Kyiv and said that people live their life as usual there. It's disgusting.
I hope that Putin and everyone who is responsible for it will have to respond for what they have done. And I hope it will happen as soon as possible.