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Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread
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There is this however:
Both sides could be lying or snorting copium however.
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AZOV battalion are the patriots who fight the nazis of the 21st century.
... “Glory to Ukraine!” he declared.
Pro-tip: Don't wear a t-shirt of your favorite neo-nazi goup if you're going to pretend that you're just a patriot.
The funeral ceremony, such as it was, was over in less than six minutes. One by one, the soldiers filed past the open coffin where the body of Serhei Zaikovsky lay wrapped in clear plastic and covered with the battalion’s yellow and blue standard, obscuring the wounds from the tank shell that killed him.
A young blonde woman, ashen-faced and eyes vacant, fell forward across the body. One soldier caught her and led her gently outside as the coffin lid was screwed tight. Six soldiers hoisted it onto their shoulders as her howls cut through the whistling wind outside.
Private Zaikovsky, 27, was killed on March 24 in a ferocious battle to retake the village of Lukianivka, east of Kyiv, from a Russian tank battalion. He was “a rare intellectual, a scholar and a linguist,” his friend and commander, Yevgenii Vradnik, said outside the bare chapel in Kyiv Memory Park, where the crematorium is situated. “It is a very big loss for Ukraine.”
Kotenko was one of three Ukrainian members of an anti-tank unit killed that day retaking the village, a victory that would never have been possible, Vradnik said, without the aid of the British-supplied missiles that helped to destroy an entire Russian column.
It was one of a string of successful Ukrainian counteroffensives credited for Russia’s announcement yesterday that it would “fundamentally cut back” its assault on Kyiv; less a willing strategic recalibration than an acknowledgement of its failure to advance on the capital in the face of fierce resistance.
The men who retook Lukianivka and carried Kotenko’s body back for cremation, are members of the ultra-nationalist Azov Battalion, whose far-right origins have provided fertile soil for President Putin’s claims to be freeing Ukraine from neo-Nazi control.
Created in 2014 by volunteers to battle Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, it was absorbed into the regular army, while much of its founding leadership departed in a mostly failed bid to enter national politics. Now the battalion, boosted by a flood of recent volunteers, is playing a key role resisting the invasion, not only on its original turf in the besieged city of Mariupol, but around Kyiv, where President Zelensky leads the war cabinet.
Putin’s bitter rhetoric around denazification — with Azov’s white-supremacist origins as his key evidence — raises controlled but familiar anger among the battalion’s commanders. “Perhaps he really believes it,” Vradnik muses. “He lives in a strange, warped world. We are patriots but we are not Nazis.”
Kotenko’s bleak send-off in the bare chapel mirrors the rejection of the Orthodox Christian faith by a growing number of young Ukrainians, especially around the Sea of Azov. Ukraine’s paganism was replaced by Christianity in 988, when Volodymyr the Great of Kievan Rus tossed the thunder god Perun into the Dnieper River, and herded Kyiv’s population in after him for a mass baptism.
Volodymyr became the patron saint of both Russia and Ukraine but Azov’s nationalist leanings hark back to the original pagan faith, which some cite as the inspiration for its symbols, including Azov’s trademark Wolfsangel, also used by Nazi Germany.
Azov has its fair share of football hooligans and ultranationalists but also scholars like Zaikovsky, who worked as a translator and book editor. Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert in the European right, claims Azov has evolved so far from its origins as to make its far-right roots meaningless.
“Ukraine is a democratic country and people of all nationalities and religions live here side by side,” said Artem Hubenko, who came to Kyiv’s striking Soviet modernist crematorium to mourn his comrade, Denis Kotenko, the second of the three Azov men killed in Lukianivka last Thursday.
“We have Jews, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Georgians and Russians all among our fighters. We are all fighting for Ukraine.”
Kotenko’s funeral stretched longer, attended by some 40 soldiers and a small sprinkling of civilians, but it was no more religious than the one summoned to send off Zaikovsky.
In the cavernous Hall of Farewell, a female officiant told the mourners that Kotenko, 25, had joined the battalion when young, but with time had become one of their best and they should all give glory to his memory. “Glory to Ukraine!” she cried out. “Glory to the heroes!” the soldiers replied, their fists held tight across their chests in Azov’s signature salute. “Glory to the nation!” she declared and the soldiers responded: “Death to our enemies!”
No one in their battalion of 120 men knew exactly how many Russians they killed in Lukianivka, only that they had pushed back an original force of 400 some 18 miles. “There were many Russians killed,” Hubenko said, without emotion. “We did not allow them to escape with any tanks.”
The NLAW anti-tank missiles gifted by Britain have been critical to their gains: far more manoeuvrable and destructive than local equivalents. They were grateful for the weapons, Vradnik said, but even they had their limits. “To retake our regions, we need vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft weapons from Nato,” he said. “It’s very hard to bring down Russian aircraft with the mobile weapons we have. Our children are more important than fear of Putin’s aggression.”
Nowhere is that plea more urgent than in Mariupol. From a basement, a commander recorded a video asking the world to save the city. “I ask you not to confuse patriotism with Nazism,” he said. It was they, he said, who were confronting “the real Nazis of the 21st century”.
“Glory to Ukraine!” he declared.
A young blonde woman, ashen-faced and eyes vacant, fell forward across the body. One soldier caught her and led her gently outside as the coffin lid was screwed tight. Six soldiers hoisted it onto their shoulders as her howls cut through the whistling wind outside.
Private Zaikovsky, 27, was killed on March 24 in a ferocious battle to retake the village of Lukianivka, east of Kyiv, from a Russian tank battalion. He was “a rare intellectual, a scholar and a linguist,” his friend and commander, Yevgenii Vradnik, said outside the bare chapel in Kyiv Memory Park, where the crematorium is situated. “It is a very big loss for Ukraine.”
Kotenko was one of three Ukrainian members of an anti-tank unit killed that day retaking the village, a victory that would never have been possible, Vradnik said, without the aid of the British-supplied missiles that helped to destroy an entire Russian column.
It was one of a string of successful Ukrainian counteroffensives credited for Russia’s announcement yesterday that it would “fundamentally cut back” its assault on Kyiv; less a willing strategic recalibration than an acknowledgement of its failure to advance on the capital in the face of fierce resistance.
The men who retook Lukianivka and carried Kotenko’s body back for cremation, are members of the ultra-nationalist Azov Battalion, whose far-right origins have provided fertile soil for President Putin’s claims to be freeing Ukraine from neo-Nazi control.
Created in 2014 by volunteers to battle Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, it was absorbed into the regular army, while much of its founding leadership departed in a mostly failed bid to enter national politics. Now the battalion, boosted by a flood of recent volunteers, is playing a key role resisting the invasion, not only on its original turf in the besieged city of Mariupol, but around Kyiv, where President Zelensky leads the war cabinet.
Putin’s bitter rhetoric around denazification — with Azov’s white-supremacist origins as his key evidence — raises controlled but familiar anger among the battalion’s commanders. “Perhaps he really believes it,” Vradnik muses. “He lives in a strange, warped world. We are patriots but we are not Nazis.”
Kotenko’s bleak send-off in the bare chapel mirrors the rejection of the Orthodox Christian faith by a growing number of young Ukrainians, especially around the Sea of Azov. Ukraine’s paganism was replaced by Christianity in 988, when Volodymyr the Great of Kievan Rus tossed the thunder god Perun into the Dnieper River, and herded Kyiv’s population in after him for a mass baptism.
Volodymyr became the patron saint of both Russia and Ukraine but Azov’s nationalist leanings hark back to the original pagan faith, which some cite as the inspiration for its symbols, including Azov’s trademark Wolfsangel, also used by Nazi Germany.
Azov has its fair share of football hooligans and ultranationalists but also scholars like Zaikovsky, who worked as a translator and book editor. Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert in the European right, claims Azov has evolved so far from its origins as to make its far-right roots meaningless.
“Ukraine is a democratic country and people of all nationalities and religions live here side by side,” said Artem Hubenko, who came to Kyiv’s striking Soviet modernist crematorium to mourn his comrade, Denis Kotenko, the second of the three Azov men killed in Lukianivka last Thursday.
“We have Jews, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Georgians and Russians all among our fighters. We are all fighting for Ukraine.”
Kotenko’s funeral stretched longer, attended by some 40 soldiers and a small sprinkling of civilians, but it was no more religious than the one summoned to send off Zaikovsky.
In the cavernous Hall of Farewell, a female officiant told the mourners that Kotenko, 25, had joined the battalion when young, but with time had become one of their best and they should all give glory to his memory. “Glory to Ukraine!” she cried out. “Glory to the heroes!” the soldiers replied, their fists held tight across their chests in Azov’s signature salute. “Glory to the nation!” she declared and the soldiers responded: “Death to our enemies!”
No one in their battalion of 120 men knew exactly how many Russians they killed in Lukianivka, only that they had pushed back an original force of 400 some 18 miles. “There were many Russians killed,” Hubenko said, without emotion. “We did not allow them to escape with any tanks.”
The NLAW anti-tank missiles gifted by Britain have been critical to their gains: far more manoeuvrable and destructive than local equivalents. They were grateful for the weapons, Vradnik said, but even they had their limits. “To retake our regions, we need vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft weapons from Nato,” he said. “It’s very hard to bring down Russian aircraft with the mobile weapons we have. Our children are more important than fear of Putin’s aggression.”
Nowhere is that plea more urgent than in Mariupol. From a basement, a commander recorded a video asking the world to save the city. “I ask you not to confuse patriotism with Nazism,” he said. It was they, he said, who were confronting “the real Nazis of the 21st century”.
“Glory to Ukraine!” he declared.
... “Glory to Ukraine!” he declared.
Pro-tip: Don't wear a t-shirt of your favorite neo-nazi goup if you're going to pretend that you're just a patriot.
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You know, I really respect that kind of principled conviction and unwavering patriotism from a man who immediately abandoned his country to foreign invasion.
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Pro-Russian accounts sharing this.
Who knows if this is someone larping as a Russian soldier but the fact is that a very big battle is developing in Donbass...
This battle will make or break Russia's campaign in Ukraine, that's for shure.
Who knows if this is someone larping as a Russian soldier but the fact is that a very big battle is developing in Donbass...
This battle will make or break Russia's campaign in Ukraine, that's for shure.
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Weird and fast, seeing as how putler and the german guy had their call about this very recently.
Pudin's move of paying with roubles is being met with resistance, Here's a comment from a guy i read some days ago when this was just being announced: "G7 countries calling the Kremlin's bluff on this countersanction, so question now is if Moscow walks it back, comes up with something else, or turns the taps off to Europe."
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Remember that it's daily mail and that it's a tabloid site which are hungry for clicks and revenue, So take it with huuuuge bowl of salt.
"The Daily Mail tends to publish stories utilizing sensationalized headlines with emotionally loaded wordings such as “Woman, 63, ‘becomes PREGNANT in the mouth’ with baby squid after eating calamari”"
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Whatever the outcome of the war will be, I'm expecting a lot of people blaming the whole thing on jews
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That's one of the benefits of being God's chosen.
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I would've said UK and Germany too. That reminds me of an entertaining but schitzo theory about cryptocolonialism, how the UK is spreading globohomo ideology in Europe (heavily focusing on France and Germany) as revenge for historical feuds, that's why all that globohomo shit is so dehumanizing and humiliating, they want to humiliate their historical enemies by trooning out their children and such. Also another goal of that is to keep Germany and Russia apart from becoming allies, as that alliance will easily become the most dominant force in Europe, pushing out the anglos.
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Russia has pretty routinely violated Swedish airspace for a while now, its nothing new. Although if they did have live nukes, that would be new.
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I'm so sorry I lost interest in this dead nigger thread so poor people like @Vince McMahon suffered
Vladimir Putin is a faggot, Russia is losing, the CIA continues to reign supreme, the West isn't in decline or generally hated, China and streetshitters aren't going to save the world from the neocons, cope seethe and dilate about it. I think that covers about everything
Edit I forgot Samuyil Hydenskyy is real and his kill count as of five seconds ago is 87 Russian planes, 36 helicopters, 173 tanks of various models, 292 APCs of various models, 75 artillery guns / rocket launchers, 1337 trucks, and the martyrs of Snake Island who are definitely ded lift up his wings like angels every mission he flies
Vladimir Putin is a faggot, Russia is losing, the CIA continues to reign supreme, the West isn't in decline or generally hated, China and streetshitters aren't going to save the world from the neocons, cope seethe and dilate about it. I think that covers about everything
Edit I forgot Samuyil Hydenskyy is real and his kill count as of five seconds ago is 87 Russian planes, 36 helicopters, 173 tanks of various models, 292 APCs of various models, 75 artillery guns / rocket launchers, 1337 trucks, and the martyrs of Snake Island who are definitely ded lift up his wings like angels every mission he flies
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Top flag, a nation currently getting raped. Bottom flag, the official Rape capitol of all Europe. Coincidence?
With Jewish shekels at their core, everyone loses.
Yet London itself is no longer British, fucking your enemies while becoming a caliphate yourself, interesting tactic.
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Sweden is routinely violated.
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england/germany rivalry was very short lived. the more serious rivalry existed between france and germany, going back to at least napoleon when he destroyed the HRE.
and that cryptocolonialism theory seems contradictory when you consider that the UK and related anglo countries (canada, NZ, australia) are getting hit with globohomo shit just as hard as continental europe is. the idea in principle makes sense and is probably correct, but england as the perpetrator of globohomo doesn't.
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Either way this goes, it will be a beauty to see the Seethe and Copium, Russia wins this Redditors will Seethe, Russia loses or this ends up being a strategic disappointment, the Rightful Russian Clay people will probably Seethe so hard they'll delete their accounts.
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Yeah, pretty much. That's why I said it's a schitzo theory, it doesn't account for how huge of a shithole the UK is now.
One thing they got right is that a Russia/Germany alliance would become the dominant power in Europe pretty quickly. Not much chances of that happening, fortunately for the anglos.
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That alliance would probably lead to war, if only for the fact that Poland would get really nervous about it and might decide its better to try and take out at least Germany before they get dismembered again. For some reason those poles get paranoid about that sort of thing.
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I'm starting to understand the motivations on the current MSM globohomo push. I saw this one on the bottom of the daily mail article:
They're making it seem like all of Russia is going to collapse tomorrow and the Ukrainians will be driving their tanks through Red Square by the end of April.
I originally felt the push was to whip up the NPC retards in NATO nations to supporting NATO sticking their dick in the Ukrainian anthill, nukes be damned.
But now I have a different thought. I think the current push through the MSMs is for all the NATO/globohomo country NPCs getting their own economies assraped by the effects of the sanctions being put on Russia. Sort of a "Just two more weeks to flatten the curve" type shit. Like "Don't worry, Russia is about to lose, then our economy is going to be great!". Since even they know that anybody, even NPCs, can only really get whipped up into ultra-fervor when it affects them personally. That's why COVID was such an effective push, using people's fear of their own mortality to make them do whatever you tell them to. The Ukraine situation just isn't as effective an angle to push.
They're making it seem like all of Russia is going to collapse tomorrow and the Ukrainians will be driving their tanks through Red Square by the end of April.
I originally felt the push was to whip up the NPC retards in NATO nations to supporting NATO sticking their dick in the Ukrainian anthill, nukes be damned.
But now I have a different thought. I think the current push through the MSMs is for all the NATO/globohomo country NPCs getting their own economies assraped by the effects of the sanctions being put on Russia. Sort of a "Just two more weeks to flatten the curve" type shit. Like "Don't worry, Russia is about to lose, then our economy is going to be great!". Since even they know that anybody, even NPCs, can only really get whipped up into ultra-fervor when it affects them personally. That's why COVID was such an effective push, using people's fear of their own mortality to make them do whatever you tell them to. The Ukraine situation just isn't as effective an angle to push.
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