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Royal Navy support Ukrainian Antarctic base

HMS Protector dropped in on Ukrainian polar research station Vernadsky in Antarctica.
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During time spent ashore, the team confirmed the welfare of the 21 scientists who had spent the winter at Vernadsky. Welcome supplies of fresh food were passed to the station leader. Many of the station staff reported families stranded under attacks in Kharkiv and Kyiv
 
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Oorlog in Europa? Deel 44

Dag tien van de invasie van Rusland in Oekraïne. Met nog meer geweld en vernietiging door het hele land.
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This dutch defense blog has been providing good daily updates of what's happening. This image featured in the article really stuck out at me for illustrating how things quickly changed for the people of the country in less than 2 weeks.
 

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Russia is tightening its grip on Ukraine nuclear plant, says U.N. watchdog

Russian forces that seized Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have now placed staff running the facility under their command and restricted communications with the outside world, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday.
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Russian forces restrict access to external communication at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on March 6. Mobile networks and internet access at the power plant have been blocked by occupying Russian forces and all operations conducted by the plant’s staff require approval by a Russian commander, the IAEA said in a statement.
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hagaricus said:
Oh dear..

May I quietly point out that even in the most liberal democracies, treason in time of war is punishable by summary execution.
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And the story is that he was shot while trying to escape after having been arrested. While that's a cliche as old as time (or at least firearms), used all the time by tyrannies, it's also a common enough event in daily life in societies that value human rights. You try to escape prison, you're electing to become a bullet sponge. So the official story is not unreasonable, especially with *everybody* on edge.

Plus there's this... and since it comes from Facebook, filtered through twitter, You *know* it's trustworthy:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500209804878430208
View: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500209804878430208
 
jeffb said:
Some more perspective, from 2014.
www.theguardian.com

It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war | Seumas Milne

Seumas Milne: The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all
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From Seumas Milne, who in his youth was part of the pro-Soviet faction in the Communist Party of Great Britain. I'm not saying you can ignore his analyst, but he's not an impartial observer. Also its not news, its 8 years old commentary.

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Corbyn’s Pet Stalinist

Seumas Milne loves the Soviet Union, hates the EU, and has the ear of a possible future prime minister.
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In terms of its politics, Straight Left was uncritical in its support of the Soviet Union and vehemently opposed anything that smelled of Khrushchevite revisionism. The newspaper backed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and, retrospectively, the prior Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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The Congress is talking about donating F-16s (either new builds or USAF ones, it isn't clear) to Poland to get them to transfer 1.ELT's 20-odd MiG-29s.

www.euractiv.com

US considers sending F-16s to Poland if Warsaw gives its MIG-29 to Ukraine

The United States is considering sending planes to Poland if Warsaw decided to send fighter jets to Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a visit to Moldova on Sunday (6 March).
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It's a new deal which emerged after Borrell's flub in the past couple days and is focused solely on Poland. It may or may not succeed but it is a US initiative, not EU one. It's not fake, just preliminary. It may fall apart if Duda declines, since I think 1.ELT would need to be trained to operate F-16 (something that isn't done, since they're waiting for the JSF in 2024 for the squadron) to do its Baltic Air Police mission.
 
Combat-Master said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1500026380704178178
View: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1500026380704178178?s=20&t=AIJq1gKUiZqvqjtDQZYLgg

Reminds me of when Russian E/W were used to jam TB2 drones during Karabakh war, it took a day for TB2 to be updated to counter the jamming. Also very important that countries who buy military equipment which relys on radio frequencies should be given some capability to update software of the platforms to counter jamming.
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TinWing said:
Again, another violation of the Geneva Convention regarding the filming of prisoners of war. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ssian-pilots-beg-mercy-filmed-shot-field.html
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TinWing said:
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Does the Filming of the Russian POWs Violate the Geneva Conventions?

I recently wrote a column on why I believe that the Russians are now committing flagrant war crimes. Ukraine is the victim of those crimes and the images from that country are truly sickening. Vla…
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Filming prisoners of war is a violation of the Geneva Convention. Basically, any video in which individual prisoners are identifiable is a war crime. It doesn’t even have to involve coercion or torture. This is something that every soldier knows.
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TinWing said:

More food for thought.
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You may wish to read this: https://international-review.icrc.org/sites/default/files/S0020860400080542a.pdf

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And this is definitely a “staged” event by the standards of that paper. Again, another violation of the Geneva Convention. https://nypost.com/2022/03/07/captured-russian-officer-apologizes-to-ukraine-for-genocide/amp/
 
From the latest news it looks like Poland has ruled out any transfer of MiGs, unless Washington practically begs them to take some F-16s off their hands I don't see this happening. From the Guardian's rolling updates:
Polish planes “will not fight over Ukraine” to support the embattled country’s defence against Russia, Polish government officials said on Monday.

Marcin Przydacz, a deputy foreign minister, said in an interview on Radio Zet:

We will not open our airports and Polish planes will not fight over Ukraine ... Polish planes will not fight over Ukraine.
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But, separately, the government’s spokesman Piotr Mueller indicated a final decision had not been made, the Associated Press reported. He said that the decision on whether to send fighter jets presented risks and was a “very delicate matter’.

The comments come after the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, asked the US to help Kyiv get more warplanes to fight Russia’s invasion and retain control of its airspace.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said Washington was looking at a proposal under which Poland would supply Kyiv with Soviet-era fighters and in turn receive American F-16s to make up for their loss.

Poland has been less than enthusiastic about the idea, at least publicly, largely because Russia has warned that supporting Ukraine’s air force would be seen in Moscow as participating in the war and could create a risk of retaliation.
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Even if they tried some subterfuge to get those MiGs across the border some nosey planespotter or ADS-B watcher is bound to blow the gaff.

Some knock on effects around the wider region though:
Wheat shortages could fuel unrest in the Middle East: https://www.theguardian.com/global-...east-as-ukraine-russia-war-hits-wheat-imports

Georgia and Moldova both now quite like the idea of joining the EU: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...u-application-in-policy-u-turn-russia-ukraine
Whether this is a ploy to keep their people happy or a serious gesture is open to question.

And just for laughs to lighten the mood, a new twist idea, I mean why didn't anyone think of this before? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/07/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-jets-chinese
 
Kat Tsun said:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500301348780199937.html

Translation of an FSB agent's understanding of the situation.
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Christo Grozev (from Bellingcat) showed this to a couple of his FSB contacts, and they think it could be one of their colleagues, so it might well be genuine.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500196510054637569
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500196510054637569


https://twitter.com/x/status/1500197460626624513
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513
 
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Orionblamblam said:
A Tentative Fleet Plan said:
jeffb said:
Some more perspective, from 2014.
www.theguardian.com

It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war | Seumas Milne

Seumas Milne: The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I am not interested in the foreign policy views Jeremy Corbyn's former Executive Director of Strategy and Communications. They were bad then, and they only been shown to be worse now.
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In light of the forum moderators views on "extremist links," quoting someone who defended communism seems inappropriate. Would the forum let stand political analysis from an actual Nazi sympathizer? If not, why a communist sympathizer?


overscan (PaulMM) said:
Addiitionally, "news" does not include Youtube videos of other people's personal opinions, especially from accounts with extremist links.
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I considered deleting it, but I thought it more important to give the correct context to the views of someone who was in mainstream UK politics.
 
www.abc.net.au

This is how the war in Ukraine unfolded

This time two weeks ago the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine remained hypothetical. Yet the grim escalation of war between Moscow and Kyiv is now devastatingly real. This day-by-day account shows how we got here.
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