Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, aka "Putin's Special Operation"

[Yohan]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ldren.html

Putin is not the only one who got greetings from the ICC so far.

Likely others will follow...

Children's Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova is already on the list of the ICC, and under sanctions by various Western countries.

She has so far been sanctioned by the US, Europe, the UK, Canada and Australia.
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The invasion allegedly conceals a plan to deport Ukrainian children from territories occupied by Russian invading forces.
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Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, 38, faces a war crimes arrest warrant after she admitted to adopting a 15-year-old Mariupol boy herself in a TV appearance with Vladimir Putin.

Ms Lvova-Belova claimed to be the 'saviour' of children from Ukraine caught up in Russia's 'special military operation'.

[Yohan]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/turkey- ... eden-.html

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday approved Finland’s accession to NATO after months of talks, but added that discussions with Sweden will continue.

“We have decided to initiate the ratification of Finland’s accession process to NATO in our parliament,” Erdogan said in Ankara, according to a Reuters translation, as he met his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto.

Erdogan added that he hoped the Turkish parliament would endorse Finland’s bid before the country’s May 14 elections.

Friday’s announcement paves the way for Finland to become a member of NATO in the coming months.

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Hungary is the only other member that has yet to approve Helsinki’s membership out of the 30 NATO nations, although the ruling party in Hungary said Friday it would back Finland at a March 27 vote.

It is important to accept Finland into NATO, as it shares a long border with Russia.

[Yohan]

he's losing some of his finest troops at Bakhmut and the Russian economy, while by no means collapsing, has begun to shrink.

You don't know that. Like Yohan, you are just repeating what you read in the mainstream media and thereby proving yourself to be stupid. Its is the responsibility of all governments during wartime to constantly mix lies and truth. Tjis is psrtly to confuse the enemy, partly to keep up spirits of stupid people like you, @Vogager1 and @Yohan, not to mention the soldiers actually fighting. The only intelligent position is to keep an open mind until the war is over, and meanwhile assume everything you read is possibly a lie....

Is Voyager not from Ukraine? It seems he is fairly good informed, not only by newspapers, but with personal contacts what is going on between Ukraine and Russia.

About myself, I collect my information from the other side - from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan etc. and I can assure you that nobody cares here in this Asian region about Russia. Just cutting as much business as possible with this country.

China has other problems to consider - Russia/Ukraine is not important for China.
China helping Russia - and risks to miss plenty of business opportunities in Europe and Japan and even in the USA?
Do you really believe that?
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In Japan all imports from Russia have now successfully moved to other countries which are more reliable...
It's not only about energy, like coal (now from Australia) or crude oil (some Arab countries are willing to deliver), fish import from Norway...even food for 130 million chicken is now taken over by Brazil... LOL...

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I think you live in the fantasy 'Russia good, all others around it are bad' and also believe, tha Russia has unlimited power to rule over Europe and parts of Asia, but this is not the case.

So far not even a single NATO soldier died, but Russia lost a huge number of young men (either dead or handicapped), lost a significant amount of military equipment, Russian oligarchs find their property and money in Western countries confiscated, trade is declining, plenty of other sanctions and restrictions, even now the Russian president is openly accused to be a war criminal....

The weakest point however of Russia is its small population and low productivity. 145 million people is about the same as little Taiwan and Japan, or the same as Germany and poland - and its productivity is lower than those of Italy.

[WanderingProtagonist]

he's losing some of his finest troops at Bakhmut and the Russian economy, while by no means collapsing, has begun to shrink.

You don't know that. Like Yohan, you are just repeating what you read in the mainstream media and thereby proving yourself to be stupid. Its is the responsibility of all governments during wartime to constantly mix lies and truth. Tjis is psrtly to confuse the enemy, partly to keep up spirits of stupid people like you, @Vogager1 and @Yohan, not to mention the soldiers actually fighting. The only intelligent position is to keep an open mind until the war is over, and meanwhile assume everything you read is possibly a lie....

Is Voyager not from Ukraine? It seems he is fairly good informed, not only by newspapers, but with personal contacts what is going on between Ukraine and Russia.

About myself, I collect my information from the other side - from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan etc. and I can assure you that nobody cares here in this Asian region about Russia. Just cutting as much business as possible with this country.

China has other problems to consider - Russia/Ukraine is not important for China.
China helping Russia - and risks to miss plenty of business opportunities in Europe and Japan and even in the USA?
Do you really believe that?
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In Japan all imports from Russia have now successfully moved to other countries which are more reliable...
It's not only about energy, like coal (now from Australia) or crude oil (some Arab countries are willing to deliver), fish import from Norway...even food for 130 million chicken is now taken over by Brazil... LOL...

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I think you live in the fantasy 'Russia good, all others around it are bad' and also believe, tha Russia has unlimited power to rule over Europe and parts of Asia, but this is not the case.

So far not even a single NATO soldier died, but Russia lost a huge number of young men (either dead or handicapped), lost a significant amount of military equipment, Russian oligarchs find their property and money in Western countries confiscated, trade is declining, plenty of other sanctions and restrictions, even now the Russian president is openly accused to be a war criminal....

The weakest point however of Russia is its small population and low productivity. 145 million people is about the same as little Taiwan and Japan, or the same as Germany and poland - and its productivity is lower than those of Italy.

I honestly could care less about Japan or the Japanese after coming to the conclusion that they aint shit but America's bitch. And it's been that way ever since they got bombed by the most evil shit empire to ever walk the earth. What did Russia ever do to Japan? America has done much worse and still continues to do more damage. This is why I'd never visit any country that's America's bitch, and Japan is very proud of that status.

[Yohan]

Well, better to be with USA than with Russia and China. Life is not so bad here in Japan compared to many other countries in Asia.

Not such a politically stable situation in Far East and South East Asia, if you look at North Korea/South Korea and China/Taiwan....and in some nations a fairly large number of people are living in poverty, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Philippines...

The nearest nation you can really trust and feel safe is maybe Australia/New Zealand - but these countries are not considered to be a part of Asia anyway.

What did Russia ever do to Japan?

Look up history, North Korea is the only country in this world without any diplomatic relationship with Japan, while Russia still has no peace agreement with Japan since end of WWII.

This is why I'd never visit any country that's America's bitch

Better live in South Korea than in North Korea... Life here in this region is not only about Japan and USA, but also about South Korea and USA.

[WanderingProtagonist]

Well, better to be with USA than with Russia and China. Life is not so bad here in Japan compared to many other countries in Asia.

Not such a politically stable situation in Far East and South East Asia, if you look at North Korea/South Korea and China/Taiwan....and in some nations a fairly large number of people are living in poverty, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Philippines...

The nearest nation you can really trust and feel safe is maybe Australia/New Zealand - but these countries are not considered to be a part of Asia anyway.

What did Russia ever do to Japan?

Look up history, North Korea is the only country in this world without any diplomatic relationship with Japan, while Russia still has no peace agreement with Japan since end of WWII.

This is why I'd never visit any country that's America's bitch

Better live in South Korea than in North Korea... Life here in this region is not only about Japan and USA, but also about South Korea and USA.

You say it's better to be with the USA than it is with China and Russia. What makes the USA any better? China and Russia both never attacked a bunch of different countries but America has annihilated a shit ton of nations more so than any country on earth. Who also have the most people locked up in prison? America. Who lost control over their own damn streets, cities, and states and let criminals call the shots? America. Russia invades Ukraine and everyone starts acting like it's the worse thing they could do compared to all the atrocities the West have committed against the world. The problem is the world is ignorant and overlooks all the shit the US does just because the US is the one that' still on top right now bossing everyone else around. If America tomorrow decided to nuke India, or even Italy just because they felt like it, nobody would sanction the U.S. they would still kiss this country's ass and suck it's cock.

That's one major thing I truly hate about the West, and America is it's fake ass self righteous complex. "Your nation is evil and deserve to be sanction for invading, but no one is allowed to criticize or sanction our douchebaggery arrogant POS hypocritical asses when we do it." Every nation have blood on it's hands, including Japan. The truth is, they got neutered and now they are the property of the West. A country that thrives off bloodshed, and conflict. And South Korea is already in the shitter at the rate they are going. They don't have to worry about the North, they are killing themselves for the North. All Kim have to do is just sit back and watch as the South disappears or end up getting colonized by outsiders that aren't even Korean.

I still find it funny how the Japanese will sanction a country that never attacked them on their own damn soil. The U.S. bombed their asses to hell, then made them a sign a bunch of BS surrender papers that guaranteed they will be Jew Owned America's bitch for life and you got plenty of American assholes on youtube WWII videos proudly gloating about the bombing of Hiroshima, but I don't know of any Japanese person who gloats about them attacking the U.S. during Pearl Harbor. America is a nation of assholes that got many nations by the balls and because the Japanese forgot who they use to be before they lost WWII, they'll sanction anybody as long as the West tells them to. At least Vietnam did have the balls to kick America's ass and sent their asses home packing.

Nobody gloats about invading Vietnam but they gloat about bombing Japan. The Peace treaty Japan have with America is BS, that "PEACE" treaty simply means that America owns the Japanese as property. The problem is the woke ass West have control over any nation that refuses to be independent of the West. The Chinese may be a lot of things, but at least they aren't America's bitch. And I can respect them for that compared to a country that refuse to get it's act together, have high suicide rates, men being herbivore losers and the women thinking they can be 20 forever instead of trying to fix their low birth rate issue and then standing around purposely waiting for the day when outsiders invade, erase and breed them out of their own country thus turning Japan into mini-America. South Korea is in the same boat.

North Korea and China will at least survive longer than the both of them unless the people starve out in NK since Kim is a dumbass, if that happens then Kim will be royally screwed or who ever takes over NK when he passes Then both the North and South will be done. China still have a massive population even though people keep exaggerating saying their birthrates are low. China is a large country, still with a billion population of people living there similar to India. When people say China have low birthrates, it's like they expect the whole f***ing world to just move there. 1 billion is a lot of people, even the U.S. don't have that many people living there regardless of the immigrants flooding in. But changing your country to look like someone else's country to fix a low birth rate issue is quite pathetic, it sends the message that you' have failed as a nation, your men failed, as did your women.

[Yohan]

You say it's better to be with the USA than it is with China and Russia. What makes the USA any better?

It's about living standard, still better living in Japan depending somehow on USA, than living in North Korea depending on China.

I still find it funny how the Japanese will sanction a country that never attacked them on their own damn soil.

Russians were attacking Japan and ready AFTER WWII to invade Japan (in Northern Hokkaido and were only a few miles away) but Japan did not want to end up divided like Germany and surrendered quickly to USA. It was the better choice as we can see now.

Life was always - and still is - better in Western Europe compared to Eastern Europe, it is also better in US-controlled Japan than in Russian controlled Cambodia....and not to talk about China and North Korea.

The Chinese may be a lot of things, but at least they aren't America's bitch. And I can respect them for that compared to a country that refuse to get it's act together, have high suicide rates, men being herbivore losers and the women thinking they can be 20 forever instead of trying to fix their low birth rate issue and then standing around purposely waiting for the day when outsiders invade, erase and breed them out of their own country thus turning Japan into mini-America. South Korea is in the same boat.

North Korea and China will at least survive longer than the both of them ....

Question: Where are you living now? In USA - at least I guess so?
If everything is so nice in Russia and China or any other country which does not depend on USA, why are you not moving out, relocate and living there in your country of choice?

[Voyager1]

putler made a surprise visit to Mariupol under the cover of night. This is the same place where he killed 600 civilians who were sheltering in the Mariupol theatre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_ ... _airstrike).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video/pu ... i-AA18P85L

This war criminal needs to be brought to justice.

[Voyager1]

Now the old fool Xi Jinping is meeting with the war criminal in Moscow.



The old fool is making the Russian version of crepes (блины) with his friend war criminal putin.

[Yohan]

Now the old fool Xi Jinping is meeting with the war criminal in Moscow.
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The old fool is making the Russian version of crepes (блины) with his friend war criminal putin.

The Chinese are with Russia and the Japanese are with Ukraine, what else can be done?

Russia is not a friendly neighbor and frequently Russian warplanes and ships enter Japanese territory as provocative action.
China too, of course and North Korea is sending some rockets and even missiles fired from submarines...

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About Ukraine, Japan has restrictions and cannot offer weapons, but is helping out with a lot of other useful materials and machinery as the destruction in Ukraine is horrible and also takes in some refugees from Ukraine.

If the Chinese are supportive to Putin, the Japanese have no other choice but to be supportive to Zelenskyy.

The Japanese Prime Minister is already on the way.... for good reason, as Ukraine shares a border with Russia, but Japan also shares a border with Russia. - Russia calls Japan a hostile nation and is the only country in this world without a peace treaty with Japan.

Still even a step lower is North Korea, which is the only country in this world without diplomatic relation with Japan.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230321_14/

Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio used a private business jet instead of a government plane to fly to Poland on his way to Ukraine.

Government officials chartered the jet behind the scenes. The aircraft took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Sunday night for India. That was more than three hours before a government plane carrying Kishida left for the same destination.

After completing his itinerary in India, Kishida secretly boarded the business jet. He arrived in Rzeszow in southeastern Poland at around midnight on Monday. The town is close to the border with Ukraine.

The business jet is said to have a capacity of about 10 passengers. Government officials are believed to have used the chartered plane to minimize the prime minister's entourage, and strictly control the outflow of information.

https://japantoday.com/category/politic ... kyiv-visit

Kishida visits Kyiv for meeting with Zelenskyy

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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230321_15/

Poll: Ukrainians hope Japan will take leading role in reconstruction

[Voyager1]

It turns out it was one of his body doubles.

[Yohan]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... entum.html

Video claiming Putin is using body doubles goes viral on Russian social media as bizarre theory gains momentum in the country
The video seizes on speculation that a doppelgänger visited Mariupol
It points out that a ledge on Putin's earlobe constantly changes

A video is going viral on Russian social media claiming Vladimir Putin is conning his people by using multiple body doubles for trips he doesn't want to make.

It seizes on speculation that the Kremlin president's only trip so far to newly-invaded territory in Mariupol was performed by a doppelgänger, and asks: 'Who is ruling Russia?'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eaway.html

Putin is accused of sending a DOUBLE to Mariupol: Ukraine says Putin's CHIN is a giveaway after Russian leader's visit to occupied territory
Kyiv official Anton Gerashchenko accused Putin of sending a double to Mariupol
He posted three images of the dictator's chin and asked which one was really his

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Today Telegram channel General SVR insisted Putin had not been to Sevastopol or Mariupol, a city invaded after a bloody battle last year.

'The information from the Kremlin's resources that Vladimir Putin visited Crimea and Mariupol is NOT true,' claimed the channel which says it has insider sources.

In Crimea, a double of the president was noted with a short visit and solely for the sake of a video photo shoot.'

[Yohan]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... raine.html

I did not know that Russia is banned by UEFA (Union of European Football Associations), now they are looking to other countries outside of Europe, like Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq...

Russia face Iran in Tehran in their first football match outside the old Soviet Union since Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, with the nation banned by UEFA from participating in Euro 2024 qualifiers

Russia were hosted by Iran in an international friendly in Tehran on Thursday
The nation is banned from Euro 2024 by UEFA following the invasion of Ukraine

Russia were thrown out of last year's FIFA World Cup in Qatar amid the invasion

[Yohan]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-118905 ... khmut.html

It seems, it is really him, no double...

I was thinking, Bakhmut is already liberated (=occupied) by the Russian, but it's obviously not true...

Zelensky heads to the frontline: Ukrainian leader embraces troops and meets wounded soldiers in hospital on surprise visit to Bakhmut warzone…as Russian missiles hit civilian targets

Zelensky took selfies and embraced troops fighting on the Bakhmut frontline
Earlier a Russian strike hit a school about 50 miles south of Kyiv, officials said
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The visit by the Ukrainian president proved a stark contrast to that of the Russian president who visited the city of Mariupol under the cover of night over the weekend. It was Putin's first visit to any Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's industrial Donbas region since the war began, and the closest he has actually been to front lines.

Zelensky's visit came on the day that Russia continued its barbaric onslaught on the country, earlier striking missiles and drones into an apartment building and Kyiv school.

[Cornfed]

The Jews are hinting that they may throw in the towel.

https://www.rt.com/news/573496-blinken- ... otiations/