Saying "recognize Donbass" is just the start of a far more complicated discussion over what the borders of Donbass are or should be. The Russians are not likely to accept the frontlines in the area before the war as the borders of those republics.
Huh, OK, first I'm hearing of it, I legitimately thought Ukraine had zero drones other than the TB2s. Looking up articles, I can't find anything though, except for mentions of US drones spying on shit happening in the area, which seems a tad different to Ukraine operating them.
I wouldn't take ASB as a serious source. Anything more official or a clip of the interview in question?
The authorities at Konotop supposedly negotiated with the Russians to become an "open city". Thus they are technically still under Ukrainian control.I've been using this Finnish map.
It's pretty accurate and quickly updated, but there are a few odd things about it. As far as I know, Russia still controls Konotop and are still at the outskirts of Voznosensk yet this map doesn't reflect that.
You can read this for more info on the 2016 deployment and the issues associated with it. I would not consider the Ravens meaningful UAVs in 2021. They were something given to Ukraine in 2016 because they wanted to give them something.
As is every major event, better assessments (along with more fake news) will emerge after the conflict.
"Haha, we're such badass volunteers the general even called us 'the expendables'."
It's probably a deep fake of that VC guy getting shot in the head by a South Vietnamese officer or something.
Now that's what you call an INACTION movie!
They have balls, I give them that. Earlier the mayor of Kremennaya was accused of collaborationism and executed for attempting to do the same, although the tone of the article reads like jingoist pro-Russian sensationalism.
Putin has been repeating that outside of his obvious horseshit about denazification so I really wouldn't be surprised.
Russia should use a nuke...just not on Ukraine. - Pick some shit country that isn't involved at all, make a strike on its capital, pour encourager.
I saw one of ASB's commenters posting a link to a vid that compiled various news coverages on that. I'll try to find it.
Interesting, thanks. If more cities and towns take a similar route, then I hope that they put a special marking on them to denote that.
Russia also demands they sign an agreement to not be apart of any military block, meaning all the main things that Russia wanted it will get.
That's pretty much what was originally wanted. Some (including me) speculated that since this erupted into a full war, Russia was going to claim everything east of the Dnieper. There's something Russia could do in all of this which would make things really awkward for Ukraine, but I don't see them doing it due to external politics. That is demanding that the region north of the Azov sea becomes an independent nation too. This would make things really difficult politically for both the AZOV militia and the Ukrainian government.
That used to be a basic negotiation tactic, you start off with a big demand then work your way down to the things you actually wanted. I think a lot of here agree that the occupation of Ukraine would be near impossible for the Russians, so either the Russians lost their minds or Crimea and the two new "independent" Republics were the goals all along.
