Russo-Ukrainian War Thread - Page 69

On March 27 2022 06:25 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
I would be more surprised if France did not have at least two Nuclear Missile Submarines out at sea at all times.

On March 27 2022 08:42 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
I'll be wary of taking any Russian statements of that kind at face value. That seems to be for a domestic audience but they will surely be aware that anything they tell their domestic audience will surely be analysed by other countries for signs of their plans. We simply don't know what Russia will plan next. They could try to fully mobilize to try occupy more of Ukraine, or try to wind down operations and try to get a more minor aim such as recognition of the Donbass and Luhask "republic" they say they recognise, to try to set up for a withdrawal that they can sell to their domestic audience, or buy time to reorganise and change the priority to the eastern and southern areas of Ukraine.

On March 27 2022 17:28 SC-Shield wrote:
Weren't they expected to default a week or two ago? How did they avoid that?

The head of Ukraine’s Lugansk separatist region said Sunday it may hold a referendum on becoming part of Russia, after Moscow sent troops into its pro-Western neighbor.

“I think that in the near future a referendum will be held on the territory of the republic, during which the people will... express their opinion on joining the Russian Federation,” Russian news agencies quoted Leonid Pasechnik as saying.


“For some reason, I am sure this will be the case,” he said.

Russia launched its military action in Ukraine in late February, saying it was acting in defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics in the country’s east.

President Vladimir Putin had days earlier recognized the two regions as independent.

The industrial, mainly Russian-speaking regions broke from Kyiv’s control in 2014 in fighting that over the next few years claimed more than 14,000 lives.

Russia that year annexed Crimea from Ukraine after a pro-Moscow leader was ousted in a popular uprising and a referendum was held in the southern region on becoming part of Russia.

On March 27 2022 17:41 Yurie wrote:


It was $117 Million, they probably had that money in a region not sanctioning them. Most of their debt is in the Ruble, thus they can always pay that. The problematic ones are the ones in foreign currency which has been somewhat locked down.

I assume the payments from Nordstream will be enough to cover most debts if they can just move the money around.

Ukraine said Saturday that the United States does not object to the transfer of war planes to Kyiv to help it fend off the Russian invasion, after the Pentagon previously rejected an offer from Poland.

Officials in Washington "have no objections to the transfer of aircrafts. As far as we can conclude, the ball is now on the Polish side. We will look further into this matter in our conversations with Polish colleagues", Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in written comments to AFP

His comments come shortly after a meeting in Poland with Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov and US President Joe Biden, who was visiting the NATO member to shore up US support for the country bordering Ukraine.

The Pentagon earlier this month conclusively rejected as too "high risk" a plan to transfer fighter jets from Poland to Kyiv to battle Russian forces, pouring cold water for now on Ukraine's bid for more firepower in the skies.

"Ukraine is in a critical need for more combat aircraft," Kuleba said in the comments, saying Kyiv needed them to "strike a balance in the sky" and prevent Russia from "killing more civilians".

Warsaw had expressed support for a plan in which Poland would have sent its Soviet-era MiG-29s to Kyiv via a US air base in Ramstein, Germany.

On March 28 2022 04:53 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
It's amazing how clueless certain European leaders have shown themselves to be. Germany before the invasion, now Macron is claiming labeling certain names might prevent a ceasefire. How many times do you have to be played before you realize you are not talking to someone who wants peace?

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1508155660076302336

On March 28 2022 06:16 Sent. wrote:
I think it should be clarified that most commentators had problems only with the "this man cannot remain in power" line. Calling Putin "a killer, a pure thug, a war criminal and a butcher" is fine, but saying he should be deposed was a mistake.