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1. Succes 23 februari 2023 16:47

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   The National Bank of Ukraine issued a banknote "Remember! We will not forgive!" commemorating the anniversary of a full-scale Russian invasion. Unlike other banknotes, this one is a vertical one
   
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2. kwekkel 23 februari 2023 16:48

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   Freemoneyforever schreef op 23 februari 2023 16:41:

   [...]
   De Nederlanders zouden nog wat kunnen opsteken van culturen, waar meer ruimte voor nuance is (zie één van mijn eerdere posts van vandaag). Ik bescherm geen enkele dader, dat is puur interpretatie van u.
   
   U ziet (mijn bijdrage) zwart-wit, zo Nederlands.....
   

   Opsteken van andere culturen staat geheel los van de content die hier bedoelt wordt. Die content is namelijk de oorlog in Ukraine, begonnen door Poetin. Daar past geen nuance.
3. Freemoneyforever 23 februari 2023 16:48

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   Fred 61 schreef op 23 februari 2023 16:45:

   [...]
   Maar beste Freemoneyforever.
   Soms is het toch alleen maar zwart of wit?
   

   Dat zijn uw woorden. Ik wil, dat ze de Russen zo snel mogelijk terugschieten achter de Russische grenzen van 2013.
   
   Daarnaast vind ik het interessant, hoe anderen tegen de situatie aan kijken. Daarmee kan mijn visie verder scherpen. Op dit forum is men dan al snel geneigd iemand in het Poetin-kamp te plaatsen.
4. Freemoneyforever 23 februari 2023 16:50

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   poicephalus schreef op 23 februari 2023 16:48:

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   Opsteken van andere culturen staat geheel los van de content die hier bedoelt wordt. Die content is namelijk de oorlog in Ukraine, begonnen door Poetin. Daar past geen nuance.
   

   Daarover mogen we van mening verschillen. Ik ga niet naar het forum om alleen maar te lezen: Poetin en de Russen moeten zo snel mogelijk terug in hun hok.
5. Succes 23 februari 2023 16:51

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   AP
   Russia, Ukraine prepare for potentially more disastrous path ahead as war reaches one-year anniversary
   
   For Russia, it’s been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes.
   
   Now, on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing for a potentially even more disastrous phase that lies ahead.
   
   Russia recently intensified its push to capture all of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas. Kyiv and its Western allies also say Moscow could try to launch a wider, more ambitious attack elsewhere along the more than 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line.
   
   Ukraine is waiting for battle tanks and other new weapons pledged by the West for it to reclaim occupied areas.
   
   What’s nowhere in sight is a settlement.
   
   The Kremlin insists it must include the recognition of the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed illegally in 2014, along with the acceptance of its other territorial gains. Ukraine categorically rejects those demands and rules out any talks until Russia withdraws all forces.
   
   While Putin is determined to achieve his goals, Ukraine and its allies are standing firm on preventing Russia from ending up with any of its land.
   
   Experts warn that Europe’s largest conflict since World War II could drag on for years, and some fear it could lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
   
   New offensives, new objectives
   
   ...
   
   Igor Strelkov, a former Russian security officer who led separatist forces in the Donbas when fighting erupted there in 2014, warned that any big offensive could be disastrous for Russia because its preparation would be impossible to conceal and attackers would face a devastating response. He said an offensive would also raise logistical challenges like those that thwarted Russia’s attempt to capture Kyiv at the war’s start.
   
   “Any large-scale offensive will quickly and inevitably entail very big losses, exhausting the resources accumulated during mobilization,” Strelkov warned.
   
   Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at RUSI in London, predicted any Russian offensive would fail, but said it could drain Ukraine’s resources and keep it from preparing its own large-scale counteroffensive.
   
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   www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-ukra...
6. Succes 23 februari 2023 16:54

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   Three Possible Futures for the Russia-Ukraine War
   
   The future of Russia-Ukraine war includes the possibility of a protracted conflict with no end in sight.
   
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   The frontline may be frozen but the battle rages on in Ukraine. In Bakhmut, a town that Moscow views as key to gaining control of the entire Eastern Donbas area, the past weeks have seen military stock shrink fast, and hundreds of troops killed and injured a day, according to U.S analysts.
   
   All, so far, for a stalemate.
   
   This is Ukraine, almost a year on after Russia invaded it on February 24, 2022. Many seasoned “Russia watchers” failed to foresee the conflict, believing Vladimir Putin was merely parking his troops on its border with Ukraine to deter from EU and NATO expansion in its sphere of influence, in a show of “heavy metal diplomacy.” Given the failure to predict the war, is there any chance we could do a better a job of assessing how it might develop?
   
   ...
   
   We estimate the conflict could pan out in three ways.
   
   Scenario 1: Russia Suffers a Major Setback
   Scenario 2: Russia Enjoys Tangible Success
   Scenario 3: Protracted War
   
7. closer 23 februari 2023 16:58

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   Hadrianus schreef op 23 februari 2023 12:04:

   Dat is niet waar helaas.Met de kerst kregen (overigens terecht) een aantal Russen granaten naar binnen geschoten.
   Dit filmpje werd opgeleukt met hihhohiho de kerstman en Merry Christmas door LS.Ik heb hem diverse malen gevraagd welk doel dat dient.
   Nooit antwoord gehad.
   

   Gefeliciteerd met jouw duimpjes voor een leugen. Ik moest even zoeken want je geheugen is niet zo best. De post die je bedoelt was niet "met de kerst" maar op 12 december: www.iex.nl/Forum/Post/14550575.aspx
   
   Luchtschip heeft het filmpje niet "opgeleukt", dat doet hij überhaupt niet. Wat hij wel heeft gedaan is de tweet hier plaatsen met een letterlijke vertaling van de tekst, zoals we van hem gewend zijn.
8. Succes 23 februari 2023 17:01

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   Batteries Are Ukraine’s Secret Weapon Against Russia
   
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   With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraine’s power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the world—and itself.
   
   ...
   
   From the first month of Russia’s full-scale invasion, SpaceX’s Starlink service helped keep Ukraine online, even as the country’s communication infrastructure was being knocked offline. “We cannot ignore the fact that Starlink has been the signal of life for Ukraine,” Olha Stefanishyna, a deputy prime minister of Ukraine, told journalists late last year. “Our government has been able to be operational because I had Starlink over my head.”
   
   While Starlink has been a critical stopgap, Kyiv has turned its attention to getting its regular infrastructure back up and running—thanks in no small part to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hot-and-cold routine with Ukraine. Just this month, SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said the company cut off Ukraine from using Starlink to connect its fleet of drones.
   
   “Given this huge range of instability in the position of the SpaceX CEO—from the willingness and then unwillingness to continue financial support—we’re doing contingency planning for ourselves,” Stefanishyna said.
   
   That’s where Shchyhol’s ministry comes in. Working with private industry, his agency has laid or repaired 3,200 kilometers of fiber optic cable and built or rebuilt 1,500 mobile base stations—another name for cell towers—since the war began. That work has returned Ukraine’s mobile communications to about 77 percent of its pre-war capacity. The biggest problems are in the areas along the front lines, such as Zaporizhzhya and Odessa, and towns occupied by the Russians in Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
   
   ...
   
   High-capacity lithium-ion batteries mean the base stations, Shchyhol said, “should have reserve power sources for at least three days.” And they can recharge themselves when the power comes back online.
   
   Two of the biggest telecommunications firms in Ukraine have, between them, already sourced and installed 22,000 new high-capacity batteries. Shchyhol said his ministry has identified another 8,000 base stations that need to become “energy independent.” With demand for those batteries only increasing as Russia mounts a more serious offensive to break a stalemate in eastern Ukraine, there is a scramble to source more. And not every cell company is about to source tens of thousands of those batteries on their own.
   
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9. Succes 23 februari 2023 17:06

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   Almost 300,000 estimated dead one year into Russia-Ukraine War
   
   A grim milestone was set to be marked on Wednesday the Russia-Ukraine War with the anniversary of the Russian military's invasion on February 24, 2022. High-end estimates of combined total military and civilian deaths is almost 300,000 casualties.
   Russian and Ukrainian claims
   
   Military losses are disputed, but it is widely agreed that the death toll has been monumental. The Ukrainian military claimed on Wednesday that over 145,000 Russian military personnel had been killed since the war's beginning. The White House claimed last Friday that 30,000 Wagner mercenaries had been killed in the war.
   
   In January, Norwegian Chief of Defense Eirik Kristoffersen told Danish TV2 that Ukraine had lost around 100,000 fighters in the invasion. In November, US Joint Chief of Staff chairman Mark Milley estimated that each side had lost at least 100,000 soldiers.
   
   On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Military claimed that since the war began that its forces had destroyed 3350 Russian tanks, 6593 armored vehicles, 2352 artillery pieces, 471 multiple launch rocket systems, 244 anti-air systems, 299 aircraft, 287 helicopters, 2029 drones, 18 warships, and 5215 other vehicles.
   
   The Russian military said on Wednesday that it had destroyed since the war began 7,994 armored tanks and other armored vehicles, 4,189 artillery pieces, 1038 MLRS. 405 anti-air systems, 387 aircraft, 210 helicopters, 3,222 drones and 8501 other military vehicles.
   
   ...
   
   The Kyiv school estimated 135,800 destroyed buildings, 119,900 being private homes and 15,699 being apartment buildings. In August, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry estimated that 140,000 buildings had been destroyed, and 3.5 million people had been as a result had been displaced or left homeless.
   
   Türk said in the OHCHR statement that "older people and people with disabilities have faced immense challenges, in some cases unable to reach bomb shelters or having to spend prolonged periods in basements in conditions affecting their health.”
   
   The Kyiv school report said that 978 medical facilities had been destroyed.
   
   The UK Defense Ministry noted on Tuesday that "Throughout January 2023, there was a very high intensity, and worsening trend, of damage being inflicted on both medical and educational facilities."
   
   1270 schools and 786 kindergartens were destroyed in the war by September, the Kyiv School of Economics report said.
   "Students have seen their education halted or disrupted by attacks on educational facilities," said Türk.
   
   UNESCO said by June 2022 that 152 cultural sites, including 70 religious buildings. By September, the Kyiv School put this figure at 775 cultural facilities and 80 religious buildings. The world council of churches on Wednesday claimed that at least 494 churches, synagogues and mosques had been destroyed, used by Russian soldiers as firing positions.
   
   With a presumed spring and summer Russian offensive, these figures are set to rise even higher -- with no end in sight.
   
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10. Succes 23 februari 2023 17:07

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    Russia-Ukraine war: Seven ways it shaped the Middle East and North Africa
    
    The conflict between Kyiv and Moscow has seen food shortages, booming energy markets, governments selling arms, and geo-political alignments shift
    
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    Defensieanalist: 'Er nadert een staatsgreep in Rusland, dan wordt Poetin neergehaald'
    
    Volgens defensieanalist Michael Clarke nadert er een staatsgreep in Rusland, dat zegt hij donderdag tegenover Sky News.
    Hij benadrukt dat er nu nog geen signalen zijn dat deze staatsgreep komt, maar is deze kans wel heel reëel gezien de vermeende spanningen binnen het Kremlin.
    
    Clarke zegt dat de staatsgreep gedaan zal worden door mensen die het dichtst bij Poetin staan. Bijvoorbeeld militaire functionarissen: ,,Vroeg of laat zullen zij Poetin willen verwijderen uit zijn positie, daar ben ik zeker van. Het is alleen niet duidelijk wanneer. Maar deze staatsgreep zal Poetin neerhalen", aldus Clarke.
    
    Eerder al voorspelde ook de voormalige speechschrijver van Poetin, Abbas Gallyamov, in gesprek met CNN dat er een staatsgreep komt. Naarmate de Russische verliezen in Oekraïne toenemen en het land ontberingen ervaart als gevolg van de westerse sancties, zullen de Russen iemand zoeken om hiervan de schuld te geven, benadrukte Gallyamov. ,,De Russische economie verslechtert. De oorlog is eigenlijk al verloren. Er keren steeds meer overleden mensen terug naar Rusland, dus de Russen zullen meer moeilijkheden tegenkomen en ze zullen proberen een verklaring te vinden waarom dit gebeurt, rondkijkend naar het politieke proces en ze zullen antwoorden: 'Nou, dit komt omdat ons land wordt bestuurd door een oude tiran, een oude dictator'."
    
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    Russische commandant geeft zijn mannen een scheldkanonnade, omdat zij met bijlen op iemand ( een Russische mede soldaat ) insloegen
    
    Verwijt ze dat ze dronken waren en is daar hels over.
    Vandaag met een bijl en morgen ga je met granaten gooien
    
    Russian invaders been lectured by their commander on the "discipline" after drinking and hitting others with an axe
    
    "Enemy there - Ukrainian, enemy here on the frontline - wtf is wrong you? How many times i told you not to drink?"
    
    >>>Russian mobiks ( gemobiliseerden ) had a little drink, and one started chopping his friends with an axe so they had to beat the hell out of him.
    
    video 2:41 minuut Engels ondertiteld
    
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    South Africa army defends naval drills with Russia
    
    South Africa’s military on Wednesday defended its decision to host controversial naval exercises jointly staged with Russia and China and coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
    Originally slated to start last week, the exercise dubbed Mosi-II kicked off on Wednesday along South Africa’s eastern coast.
    
    But coming on the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine, the drills were described by commentators as politically “dubious” and showing “insensitivity”.
    
    The exercises have also been criticised by the United States and the European Union.
    
    South Africa has refused to condemn the invasion of Ukraine which has largely isolated Moscow on the international stage, saying it prefers dialogue to end the war.
    
    “There is a difference between military and politics,” Lieutenant-General Siphiwe Sangweni, chief of joint operations in the South African National Defence Force, told a news conference in the eastern port town of Richards Bay.
    
    He said the army was “guided by government” but also needed to learn skills from other military forces to protect South Africa and for use in international peacekeeping operations.
    
    “Yes, there will be other countries who feel differently in how we have approached this, but… all countries are sovereign nations and have a right to handle things (as) they see fit,” he said.
    
    Sangweni said “cooperation and coordination with all other militaries” was “very important”.
    
    More than 350 members of South Africa’s armed forces will take part in the exercises which wind up on February 27. Russia is the “lead” country in the drills, said South Africa.
    
    A Russian military frigate equipped with a powerful Zircon missile system and a Chinese destroyer will be used in the exercises.
    
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    Ukraine Gets More Tanks: Finland Transfers Armored Minehunters and Sweden Considers Including Leopard 2 in Next Military Aid Package
    
    Two Scandinavian countries at once, Finland and Sweden, have declared their intentions to strengthen Ukraine with tanks. In particular, Finnish Minister of Defense Mikko Savola said at a media briefing that the country was preparing its heavy armor for a transfer.
    
    But despite the expectations for the Leopard 2 tanks, according to the official message of the country's Defense Ministry, three Leopard 2R vehicles will be sent instead. This equipment is made on the basis of Leopard 2 and is intended for demining works.
    
    The provision of Leopard 2R from Finland will be included in the new 13th military aid package with a total value exceeding 160 million euros. The rest of the items in this package, as well as the terms of its supply and other details would not be disclosed for security reasons, the Finnish Ministry of Defense noted.
    
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    Moldova ready to destroy Chisinau Airport runway to deter Russian invasion
    
    The authorities of Moldova have been ready to sabotage the runway of Chisinau International Airport since the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
    
    The plan, meant to curb a potential invasion of Moldova by Russia, was revealed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicu Popescu to the local channel Jurnal TV.
    
    “In the first days of the war, the rate of advancement of Russian troops in the territory of Ukraine, including in the south of the country, was phenomenal,” Popescu explained in the show Secretele Puterii [Secrets of Power – ed. note]. “It was absolutely clear – and at that stage, those maps also circulated – that Russia was counting on the fact that it would very quickly reach the border of the Republic of Moldova.”
    
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    Czechia has already supplied Ukraine with 89 tanks, 226 infantry fighting vehicles, 38 howitzers, 6 air defense systems, 4 helicopters and ammunition. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Czechia and Giga Chad Petr Fiala.
    
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    Franky & Coen bakt 1300 porties friet en snacks in Hostomel
    Vluchtelingenhulp
    
    Na een melding van een alarm zijn we iets later begonnen dan normaal, maar uiteindelijk hebben we 1300 porties friet en snacks kunnen bakken in Hostomel.
    
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    Three Possible Futures for the Russia-Ukraine War
    
    The future of Russia-Ukraine war includes the possibility of a protracted conflict with no end in sight.
    
    globelynews.com/russia/when-will-russ...
    
    The frontline may be frozen but the battle rages on in Ukraine. In Bakhmut, a town that Moscow views as key to gaining control of the entire Eastern Donbas area, the past weeks have seen military stock shrink fast, and hundreds of troops killed and injured a day, according to U.S analysts.
    
    All, so far, for a stalemate.
    
    This is Ukraine, almost a year on after Russia invaded it on February 24, 2022. Many seasoned “Russia watchers” failed to foresee the conflict, believing Vladimir Putin was merely parking his troops on its border with Ukraine to deter from EU and NATO expansion in its sphere of influence, in a show of “heavy metal diplomacy.” Given the failure to predict the war, is there any chance we could do a better a job of assessing how it might develop?
    
    ...
    
    We estimate the conflict could pan out in three ways.
    
    Scenario 1: Russia Suffers a Major Setback
    Scenario 2: Russia Enjoys Tangible Success
    Scenario 3: Protracted War
    
    

    Scenario 4 (more and more likely) a Coup from within the Military top.
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    Calimero schreef op 23 februari 2023 15:58:

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    A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening
    Russia capitalizes on disillusionment with the United States to win sympathy in the Global South.
    
    By Liz Sly, February 22, 2023 at 5:14 p.m. EST
    
    JOHANNESBURG — Clement Manyathela, who hosts a popular and influential talk show on South Africa’s Radio 702, remembers the outrage he felt when Russian troops first surged into Ukraine. He had believed Russia’s insistence that it wasn’t planning to attack and felt cheated when war broke out.
    
    “We were lied to,” he said.
    
    But as the fighting continued, he, and many of those who call in to his show, began to ask questions: Why had President Vladimir Putin deemed it necessary to invade? Was NATO fueling the fire by sending so many weapons to Ukraine? How could the United States expect others around the world to support its policies when it had also invaded countries?
    
    “When America went into Iraq, when America went into Libya, they had their own justifications that we didn’t believe, and now they’re trying to turn the world against Russia. This is unacceptable, too,” Manyathela said. “I still don’t see any justification for invading a country, but we cannot be dictated to about the Russian moves on Ukraine. I honestly feel the U.S. was trying to bully us.”
    
    In the year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a reinvigorated Western alliance has rallied against Russia, forging what President Biden has trumpeted as a “global coalition.” Yet a closer look beyond the West suggests the world is far from united on the issues raised by the Ukraine war.
    
    The conflict has exposed a deep global divide, and the limits of U.S. influence over a rapidly shifting world order. Evidence abounds that the effort to isolate Putin has failed, and not just among Russian allies that could be expected to back Moscow, such as China and Iran.
    
    India announced last week that its trade with Russia has grown by 400 percent since the invasion. In just the past six weeks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been welcomed in nine countries in Africa and the Middle East — including South Africa, whose foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, hailed their meeting as “wonderful” and called South Africa and Russia “friends.”
    
    On Friday, a year after the invasion began, the South African navy will be engaged in military exercises with Russia and China in the Indian Ocean, sending a powerful signal of solidarity at a moment the United States had hoped would provide an opportunity for reinvigorated worldwide condemnations of Russia.
    
    Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves around the world as millions of refugees fled the country, grain shipments were delayed and Russian gas curtailed. (Video: Jason Aldag/The Washington Post)
    Conversations with people in South Africa, Kenya and India suggest a deeply ambivalent view of the conflict, informed less by the question of whether Russia was wrong to invade than by current and historical grievances against the West — over colonialism, perceptions of arrogance, and the West’s failure to devote as many resources to solving conflicts and human rights abuses in other parts of the world, such as the Palestinian territories, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
    
    Members of the Ukrainian Association of South Africa and other activists march at Umhlanga beach in Durban on Feb. 18 to protest South Africa's joint military exercises with Russia and China. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images)
    The Western countries “are hypocritical,” said Bhaskar Dutta, a clerk in Kolkata, India. “These people colonized the entire world. What Russia has done cannot be condoned, but at the same time, you cannot blame them wholly.”
    
    U.S. officials point out that 141 of 193 countries at the United Nations voted to condemn Russia after the invasion and that 143 voted in October to censure the Kremlin’s announced annexation of parts of Ukraine. But only 33 countries have imposed sanctions on Russia, and a similar number are sending lethal aid to Ukraine. An Economist Intelligence Unit survey last year estimated that two-thirds of the world’s population lives in countries that have refrained from condemning Russia.
    
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