Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-23 and Invasion

[Tamas]

Ukrainians seem to be gaining the advantage in Kherson. Might be time for another Russian goodwill gesture.

I am indeed hoping for a Russian announcement of "we are winning so big, to show we are nice we are retreating from Kherson".

[Zanza]

Tovarish Schröder is back in Moscow - for vacation as he told a German reporter.

[HVC]

On the lighter side of espionage News, Ukraine caught a FSB plant because she was too hot to be the girlfriend of a pilot who wanted to defect.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11046913/Russian-spooks-foiled-Ukrainians-realise-defectors-girlfriend-good-looking-him.html

[The Larch]

They look like an average Slavic couple to me. 

[HVC]

He could have pulled it off if he was wearing a tracksuit 

[Eddie Teach]

A man and a plastic sex doll? 

[HVC]

Ukrainians seem to be gaining the advantage in Kherson. Might be time for another Russian goodwill gesture.

I am indeed hoping for a Russian announcement of "we are winning so big, to show we are nice we are retreating from Kherson".

Instead they're cutting gas transportation to 20% of normal come Wednesday.

[Josquius]

On the lighter side of espionage News, Ukraine caught a FSB plant because she was too hot to be the girlfriend of a pilot who wanted to defect.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11046913/Russian-spooks-foiled-Ukrainians-realise-defectors-girlfriend-good-looking-him.html

Hmm, yeah, gotta say, beastmen and hot women is pretty par the course for that part of the world.
I'd say more alarming would be this plastic footballers wife wannabe type woman going for a military person. That doesn't seem believable

[Jacob]

This seems reasonable to me - how Ukraine is proceding:

https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1552594268606406657

The question I have is whether the negative comments are Russian trolls and psyops warriors, or whether there's substance there... but then again, that's the purpose of those kind of comments.

[Josquius]

Seems fair enough. Its nice to think of Ukranian tanks rolling down the streets of Kherson WW2 style but that's a fantasy that serves little purpose.

On Russian propeganda i am wondering how long it will be before they claim to have destroyed more of the American rocket launchers than exist in the area. They're getting close already.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Seems fair enough. Its nice to think of Ukranian tanks rolling down the streets of Kherson WW2 style but that's a fantasy that serves little purpose.

On Russian propeganda i am wondering how long it will be before they claim to have destroyed more of the American rocket launchers than exist in the area. They're getting close already.

They already did that a few weeks ago when they claimed to have destroyed a whopping 5 himars out of 4

[Zoupa]

Gunfire and air raid sirens at the Serbia Kosovo border.

[DGuller]

Seeing reports of Azerbaijan starting another offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.  Are they trying to pounce while Russia is occupied elsewhere in order to establish facts on the ground?  Looks like the prediction of the hornet's nest being disturbed with Russia invading Ukraine is finally coming to fruition, all sorts of frozen conflicts are now liable to become unfrozen.

[mongers]

Raya Ilyevich, 86, holds her cat, Murchik, outside her apartment damaged from Russian shelling in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine [File: David Goldman/AP]

[Admiral Yi]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3587073-hawley-is-only-senator-to-vote-against-finland-sweden-nato-membership/

Josh Hawley votes against admitting Sweden and Finland into NATO.  Rand Paul votes present.