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Is there someone in Russia that dies from natural causes? I'm seriously curious about this.
Sudden death syndrome seems to have suddenly started


Lavrov: Ukraine must demilitarize or Russia will do it​

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLOyesterday


Smoke billows after Russian attacks in the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)
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Smoke billows after Russian attacks in the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)


KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday warned anew Ukraine that it must demilitarize, threatening further military action and falsely accusing Kyiv and the West of fueling the war that started with Moscow’s invasion.
Sergey Lavrov said Ukraine must remove any military threat to Russia — otherwise “the Russian army (will) solve the issue.” His comments also reflected persistent unfounded claims by the Kremlin that Ukraine and its Western allies were responsible for the 10-month war, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
Russia launched the war on Feb. 24, alleging a threat to its security and a plot to bring NATO to its doorstep. Lavrov reiterated on Tuesday that the West was feeding the war in Ukraine to weaken Russia, and said that it depends on Kyiv and Washington how long the conflict will last.
“As for the duration of the conflict, the ball is on the side of the (Kyiv) regime and Washington that stands behind its back,” Lavrov told the state Tass news agency. “They may stop senseless resistance at any moment.”
In an apparent reaction, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted that “Russia needs to face the reality.”

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“Neither total mobilization, nor panicky search for ammo, nor secret contracts with Iran, nor Lavrov’s threats will help,” he said. “Ukraine will demilitarize the RF (Russian Federation) to the end, oust the invaders from all occupied territories. Wait for the finale silently…”

A day earlier, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Associated Press in an interview that his government wants a summit to end the war but that he doesn’t anticipate Russia taking part.
Kuleba said Ukraine wants a “peace” summit within two months with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres acting as mediator. But he also said that Russia must face a war crimes tribunal before before his country directly talks with Moscow.
Both statements illustrate how complex and difficult any attempts to end the war could be. Ukraine has said in the past that it wouldn’t negotiate with Russia before the full withdrawal of its troops, while Moscow insists its military gains and the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula cannot be ignored.
Testifying to the hardships of war, families of Ukrainian prisoners of war believed held by Russia on Tuesday said the Christmas holiday season is particularly painful and appealed for more to be done to bring their loves ones back home.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia have revealed the exact numbers of POWs they hold, while hundreds have been released as part of prisoner exchanges. Iryna Latysh’s husband Yevhen was captured exactly 300 days ago, in the early days of the war, and she says Christmas isn’t the same without him.
“We were decorating the Christmas tree together this time last year,” she sobbed. “We put the star together, the decorations.”
U.N. human rights investigators have warned that Ukrainian POWs appear to be facing “systematic” mistreatment — including torture — both when they are captured and when they are transferred into areas controlled by Russian forces or Russia itself.
Meanwhile, fierce fighting continued on Tuesday in the Russia-claimed Donetsk and Luhansk regions that recently have been the scene of the most intense clashes.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that Russian forces are trying to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, but without success. Heavy battles are also underway around the city of Kreminna in the Luhansk region, Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said.
In the partially occupied southern Kherson region, Russian forces shelled Ukrainian-held areas 40 times on Monday, wounding one person, Ukrainian authorities said. The city of Kherson itself — which Ukraine retook last month in a major win — was targeted 11 times, said regional administrator Yaroslav Yanushevich.
Since its initial advances at the start of the war 10 months ago, Russia has made few major gains, often pummeling Ukraine’s infrastructure instead and leaving millions without electricity, heating and hot water amid winter conditions.
Lavrov didn’t specify how the Russian army will achieve its goals of demilitarizing and “denazifying” Ukraine — which was Russia’s stated goal when the invasion started in February. The reference to “denazification” comes from Russia’s allegations that the Ukrainian government is heavily influenced by radical nationalist and neo-Nazi groups. The claim is derided by Ukraine and the West.
Lavrov warned further Western support for Ukraine could lead to direct confrontation.
“We keep warning our adversaries in the West about the dangers of their course to escalate the Ukrainian crisis,” he said, adding that “the risk that the situation could spin out of control remains high.”
“The strategic goal of the U.S. and its NATO allies is to win a victory over Russia on the battlefield to significantly weaken or even destroy our country,” he said.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning oil exports to countries that support a $60-per-barrel price cap that was declared by the European Union and Group of Seven countries in a bid to reduce Moscow’s revenue during wartime. The ban takes effect in February and will run through July.
The price cap is higher than what Russian oil has sold for in recent weeks, so the potential effects of Putin’s ban are uncertain.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
 
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I said "a woman", singular.

In the average, women have less physical strength than men.
Unless we talk about roided out women with 2000ng/dL testosterone count, a strong female soldier might be stronger than a relatively weak male soldier, but has no chance against a strong soldier.

Incorporating females into a combat unit makes the males carry more weight and thus hurts combat efficiency.
Female combat soldiers here are only in very low intensity fronts like Egypt and Jordan valley. It's best to let women be in roles like reconnaissance through drones and border optics, operate mortars, artillery command centers, air defense units. Not with guns at the frontline.
 
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Just challenging your delusional Australian self importance and highlighting the insignificant penal colony country that you are. Don't forget your history.

He's not Australian. He's claimed descent from a whole bunch of nationalities and cultural backgrounds...from Chinese to Latin American. He knows fcuk all about anything as proven multiple times on this thread, but claims to be an "expert" and "in the field".
 
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which means your side is behind, because it cant have effective strategy without knowing what the opposite sie is thinking.

but its Ukranians who have died like cannon fodder in Bakmut- you've got it reversed here buddy- Ukraine lost so many soldiers in Bakhmut- even the Ukranian troops in Bakhmut couldnt hide the fact that so many Ukranian troops had been neutralised there- Ukrainian army tried to hide that fact by just sending more soldiers there- and Russia gladly continued to denazify good Ukrainian ground forces- easier in one place/Bakhmut than chasing them all over Ukraine no?

Ukraine DID use up ALOT of its men- the "Bakhmut meat grinder " is now a historical phrase and reality in the Ukraine war- this is reality, not a fake cartoon character like ghost of Kiev.

lmao..you're so behind, no wonder Ukraine is losing territory daily now- its war plans are broken - no electricity, no transformers, no artillery on the frontline, no real APCs, now using pick uip trucks, obv no fuel, no morale- lots of POWs being captured daily.

But the war is still heavy, but i am seeing signs that Russia's military is well supported and greased up on the "back end", but Ukraine's back end war logistics is in horrible shapes- no trains to transport military personnel and equipment due to denazification of Ukraine's power grid, no artillery, no warm meals on the frontline right as COLD winter sets in...low equipment supply to Ukrainian troops, thats why they fire few artillery (and are dying more because of that).

I know who has the momentum in this war as of today- its Russia.


Conscription, the worlds last remaining but biggest and yet most unrecognised form of exploitation (some would even say slavery) which disproportionately affects men (many barely past boyhood) who are someone's son, father, brother or husband, forced to fight and die for the political beliefs and greed of maniac killers. And According to eye witness reports from Ukraine the Russians always attack with three lines. The first line is conscipts, the second regular army and the third is the Wagnar mercenaries who's job is too shoot any Russian soldiers retreating from the first two lines. No wonder Russian morale is in the toilet.A new mobilisation is on the way in Russia, and Martial law to prevent young men from leaving the country. Russia is running out of everything and one day the average Russian will realise the mistake of backing a maniac. Now dependant on Iranian drones and North Korean ammunition.
 
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Is there someone in Russia that dies from natural causes? I'm seriously curious about this.
if you consider the amount of alcohol consumed there , I say hardly
 
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He's not Australian. He's claimed descent from a whole bunch of nationalities and cultural backgrounds...from Chinese to Latin American. He knows fcuk all about anything as proven multiple times on this thread, but claims to be an "expert" and "in the field".
And you know fu ck?? I don't even need to know "all"

:rofl: :rofl:
 
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A group of Polish volunteers was hit by a Russian drone..

Russian Mi-8 helicopters attack the Ukrainian army everywhere in Bakhmut..

As the war in Ukraine drags on, NATO's massive effort to support Ukrainian forces with ISR aircraft has become more apparent than ever..

This map shows ISR flight activity in Europe from November 5 to December 20, 2022.
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Russia Intensifies Attacks on Kherson, Eastern Ukraine​


December 28, 2022 6:23 AMUPDATE December 28, 2022 6:20 PM

FILE - Cars burn and smoke raises after a deadly Russian rocket attack hit the city center in Kherson, Ukraine, Dec. 24, 2022.

FILE - Cars burn and smoke raises after a deadly Russian rocket attack hit the city center in Kherson, Ukraine, Dec. 24, 2022.
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Russian forces increased their bombing and artillery attacks Wednesday on Kherson in southern Ukraine and continued to apply significant force along the front lines in the east, Ukraine's military said.
Russia launched dozens of missiles from multiple locations at civilian targets in Kherson, a city it abandoned in mid-November, according to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces, though Russia denies targeting civilians.
Russia also shelled 25 settlements around Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the general staff said. It said some Russian forces were leaving their posts around Zaporizhzhia. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports.
Heavy fighting continued around the Ukrainian-held city of Bakhmut in the eastern province of Donetsk. Around the cities of Svatove and Kreminna in Luhansk province, northeast of Donetsk, Ukrainian forces are on the offensive trying to rupture Russia’s defensive lines.
Russian President Vladimir Putin talks on the phone to eight-year-old Alexandra Titarenko from Zaporizhzhia region, a participant in the Fir Tree of Wishes charity campaign at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is advocating a 10-point peace plan that calls for Russia to recognize Ukraine's territory and withdraw its troops.
But the Kremlin dismissed the proposal, doubling down on its stance that Kyiv must accept the annexation Russia carried out in September after referendums rejected by Ukraine and most other nations as shams. The four Ukrainian regions include Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south.
"There can be no peace plan for Ukraine that does not take into account today's realities regarding Russian territory, with the entry of four regions into Russia," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. "Plans that do not take these realities into account cannot be peaceful."
Also on Wednesday, Zelenskyy addressed the Ukrainian parliament in a closed-door session, urging lawmakers to remain united against Russia's aggression, while praising Ukrainians for leading the West to "find itself again.”
"Our national colors are today an international symbol of courage and indomitability of the whole world," he said in his 45-minute speech, his last of the year.
"In any country, in any continent, when you see blue and yellow, you know it's about freedom. About the people who did not surrender, who stood, who united the world, and which will win," he said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is backdropped by a screen showing the countries that signed a strategic energy partnership at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 17, 2022.
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Zelenskyy said the world had seen that freedom can be triumphant through Ukraine's gains on the battlefield, and he thanked Ukraine's military.
Zelenskyy noted Ukraine has gained the release of 1,456 prisoners of war since Russia’s invasion 10 months ago. Russia is believed to have thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war, though actual figures are not known.
Ukrainian service members have lunch at a position near the border with Belarus, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine Dec. 27, 2022.

Ukrainian service members have lunch at a position near the border with Belarus, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine Dec. 27, 2022.
Gas exports
Russian gas exports to Europe — its largest consumer of Russia gas and oil — hit a post-Soviet low in 2022. European and Gazprom data and Reuters metrics show Russia dramatically lowered exports via pipeline because of the conflict and mysterious blasts that damaged Nord Stream 2, one of two major pipelines that run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

The European Union had long talked about minimizing its reliance on Russian energy, but Brussels actually did so when Moscow invaded Ukraine in February.
US, NATO Weapons Pave the Way for Ukraine's Battlefield Successes
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State-controlled Gazprom, citing Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller, said its exports outside of ex-Soviet Union states will reach 100.9 billion cubic meters (bcm) this year.

That is a plunge of about 45% from 185.1 bcm in 2021. It includes supplies to China through the Siberia pipeline, through which Gazprom supplied 10.39 bcm last year.
Russian direct gas exports to Germany, Europe's largest economy, were halted in September following blasts that crippled two Nord Stream pipelines.
Some material for this article came from The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
 
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