A British man has been captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine, according to reports.
In a video circulating online, a man dressed in military clothing identifies himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, and says he formerly served in the British Army.
Russian state news agency Tass quotes a military source saying that what they call a “UK mercenary” had been “taken prisoner in the Kursk area” of Russia, part of which Ukraine has held since launching a surprise offensive in August.
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Scott Anderson,Mr Anderson’s father, said he had begged his son not to go to Ukraine.
“He wanted to go out there because he thought he was doing what was right,” Mr Anderson told the Daily Mail.
I am not sure how Russia will treat an armed incursion on its territory by a foreign national. He could be exchanged by some Russian agents held by the British eventually in the better case. Otherwise he could also spend time in Russian jail.
Ukrainian polls are propaganda and I am surprised they do polls in Ukraine at this time. But the above shows that people, who say they exclusively speak Ukrainian at home are a minority in the East and South of the country. People who use both Russian and Ukrainian predominate.
One of the biggest anxieties Russia had about Ukraine’s drift towards the West was Ukraine firing long term missiles from its territory. And Ukraine is currently shooting rockets from its territory…
The Western countries supplied Ukraine with these rockets and provide maintenance and support the use of these rockets. Russia has accelerated the inevitable through its intervention. It is unclear if these rockets will have any bearing on the campaign but nevertheless, the ever more desperate Western countries resorted to this measure. This is the Kiev regime’s last salvo.
The use of Oreshnik came after the West allowed Ukraine to shoot long range rockets into Russian territory. Several Storm Shadows and ATACMS into Russia, and Russia answers with Oreshnik.
On Thursday, the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was hit by a Russian air strike which eyewitnesses described as unusual, triggering explosions that went on for three hours. 😳
Vybukhy for three fucking hours; they must have have hit something explosive. 🧨
Hours after the strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a TV address, said that Russia had launched a “new conventional intermediate-range” missile with the codename Oreshnik, meaning hazel tree in Russian.
I wonder what the secret is. TNT mixed with solntsepyok juice?
Ukrainian military intelligence maintains that the missile is a new type of ICBM known as Kedr (cedar). They say it was travelling at Mach 11 and took 15 minutes to arrive from the launch site, more than 1,000km (620 miles) away in the Astrakhan region of Russia.
Ukrs cannot reach that with their Storm Shadows, this is why they want the Tomahawk, this may still come…
Some 80% of the missiles fired by Russia have been intercepted by Ukraine, an extraordinary figure. But these faster speeds of ballistic missiles are intended to try to bring that percentage down.
80% of Russian missiles being shot down is nothing but Ukrop propaganda. They don’t have the means to perform such a feat.
Biden allowed the Ukrs to shoot rockets into Russia…
I personally do not believe Trump could have an impact on the conflict. Russia is on the roll in Ukraine, and the Ukrs are getting their asses handed to them. It will not be long and the Ukrainian defense in the Donbas collapses completely. The Donald can expedite the process by stopping weapons deliveries to Ukraine but why would he do it? I wouldn’t do the latter if I was in his position.
If not to Ukraine, the Donald could deliver gear to the Europeans, who are shaking in their boots over the Russian threat. Buying US weapons would fulfill their NATO obligation of 2% GDP for defense. The Eurocucks will pay for US weapons and US tarifs that the Donald imposes. The Russian threat is necessary to sell these expense to the public. In the first few years of his presidency, the Donald can afford to have Ukraine fucked over by Russia. He can blame it on Biden and the Democrats.
Zrada means betrayal, they are sensing a betrayal…
RUSI published this article by Tim Willasey-Willsey CMG…
It talks about the failure of Europe to commit to Putin’s defeat.
The new NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, lost no time in visiting Kyiv after he assumed office, where he ‘pledged continued support for Ukraine in its war with Russia’. Doubtless his words were sincerely intended, but he knows there are serious political headwinds across Europe and the US.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky senses this too as he briefs his ‘Victory Plan’ around European capitals following a mixed reception in Washington.
Guys, Zelensky’s victory plan was basically, give us Taurus and Tomahawk, and take us to NATO. Mixed reception LMAO…
The forthcoming presidential election in the US represents the point of maximum danger. A win by Donald Trump could see him placing a phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as 6 November.
Does anybody believe the Donald will be able to stop the war in Ukraine? Trump was saying things the average US voter wants to hear during the election campaign but his options are limited. He can offer Russia an ultimatum after which he will send Ukraine more weapons. And provided they still have the manpower to drive those Bradleys, the Ukrainians will continue fighting until the bitter end. Besides, providing weapons fits well into the reindustrialization agenda.
Nobody should want this war of ‘meat grinder’ savagery to continue a day longer than necessary. However, Zelensky would have much to fear from a deal negotiated by Trump. The 2020 Doha Accords with the Afghan Taliban have been described as the worst diplomatic agreement since Munich in 1938. Fortunately, Trump was prevented from reaching a similarly disastrous deal with Kim Jong-un of North Korea.
In any such deal, Zelensky would be unlikely to secure the recovery of Crimea and the Donbas, reparations for the massive damage to his country, war crimes trials or membership of NATO. He might be able to bargain the Kursk salient in return for control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. But, without NATO membership and its Article 5 guarantee, there would be nothing to stop Putin from continuing the war after a couple of years of recovery and rearmament.
I do not think Russia has run out of steam. Russia will not allow Ukraine to have Zaporozhye, which was already included in Russian constitution as part of Russia. Russia will not allow Ukraine to remain in Kursk. Russia will not allow Ukraine to be in NATO, and Russia will not allow Ukraine to have a military.
US support has always been too little, too late. Given the sheer scale of Washington’s military support this might sound absurd, but President Joe Biden’s hesitancy in allowing Storm Shadow missiles to be used against targets inside Russia is indicative of a general trend. As the head of a global superpower, Biden has always had one eye on ensuring that the war does not get out of hand and become nuclear. The result has been that Ukraine feels it has been given enough not to lose but not enough to win.
I have never understood this attitude of the Western alliance. Did they expect to defeat Russia with the stockpile of old Soviet junk from Eastern Europe? When the latter was depleted, they sent in HIMARS, Bradleys, Storm Shadows, Abrams… They will send more provided there are any Ukrainians to operate them. In fact, they might even send their own crews to man the rockets.
In Europe the support has been varied. Some countries, such as the Baltics, the Scandinavian states, the UK and Poland, have done better than others. Hungary has been hostile, and may soon be joined by Slovakia and Austria. Germany has provided the most weapons but has been politically unreliable. Its refusal to supply Taurus missilesand its public debate about reducing its defence budget have sent all the wrong messages. German companies continue to retain significant interests in Russia, and the advance of Alternative for Germany in elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg reminded Chancellor Olaf Scholz that there is little support for the war in Eastern Germany. President Emmanuel Macron of France, having been mercurial about Ukraine from the outset, received a similar jolt from the far left and far right in legislative elections in July.
Newsflash, the Eurocucks did not want this war. But there is zero political will to act in the interests of Europe among the European ruling class. They have outsourced their defense to the Americans, they have been happily using American social media, and other online infrastructure. The Americans have them by the balls because they finance journalists and NGOs in European countries. Imagine going against US foreign policy interests in Europe, impossible! You will be reviled in the media, only a handful of people have the political capital to afford this. Few of them want to.
The most visible sign of a failure of collective determination to defeat Russia was the decision not to seize Russian financial assets frozen in Western banks, but instead to use them as collateral to raise a much smaller loan. Yes, there would have been a theoretical risk of undermining faith in the Western-dominated financial system, but few countries are yet ready to entrust their savings to Chinese or Indian banks. Furthermore, it would have sent a message to Putin not to invade other countries.
I mean having your savings in a foreign bank, whatever foreign bank is invitation to get robbed.
Barring a mutiny by Russian forces or a crisis in Moscow, the prospects for Ukraine (and therefore Europe) look grim. The irony is that Putin would claim victory in spite of his campaign having been a costly disaster.
What would a betrayed Ukraine look like? At least it would retain some 82% of its territory. A guilty West would doubtless provide aid to rebuild infrastructure. It might be given a pathway to eventual EU membership (unless that option had been bargained away at the negotiating table), but joining the Western club may have lost its appeal at that point. Ukraine’s corrupt oligarchs would re-emerge from hibernation. The old post-Soviet cynicism would replace the youthful enthusiasm of the Maidan generation. There would be antagonism towards those returning from abroad after avoiding the fight, and – of course – thousands of grieving families.
The question is if Russia’s campaign was not worth the cost. Russia’s coal deposits have increased by 13%. Gas, grain, lithium, iron, uranium… The Maidan generation needs to be denazified. Russia will denazify the fuck out of Ukraine.
Failing that, the West will have years to repent the betrayal of the courageous Ukrainians, whose only crime was their wish to join the Western democratic order.
The crimes of the Ukrainians are many, and Russia is there to enact justice.
The leader of the Odessa Right Sector, Serhiy Sternenko is being wanted by the recruitment office…
Ukhylyant is what the Ukrainians call men that are hiding from mobilization. A similar word in Czech, úchyl basically means a deviant, usually a sexual one.
Apparently, he got himself a waver claiming he has a bad eyesight. He has been appearing everywhere wearing glasses…
Sternenko was actively grifting donations for drones since the start of the war. He has been doing this with Serhiy Prytula. I wonder if the latter is also sought after by the recruitment office.
I personally do not give a fuck if anyone in Ukraine is an ukhylyant. It is better to stay alive than fight for Zelensky and the globohomo. Dying for Zelensky is dying for nothing. But Mr. Sternenko is a total faggot, he said that “Your Russophobia is not enough” on his streams on YouTube. Imagine if he said: “Your antisemitism is not enough”, how long do you think he would last.
It is this kind of faggots Russia is purging and neutralizing in Ukraine. And Sternenko should be a man and defend the nen’ka…
The stories about North Korean soldiers being deployed to Kursk are getting increasingly wild. What devices are they watching the porn on? What websites are they visiting. Pornography websites are blocked in Russia, and I can hardly believe the North Korean soldiers, provided the stories about them are even true, have the mobile phones and Russian connections to beat their meat off…
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