Oorlog in Oekra�ne #916 Patriots

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 17:00 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Tja, als je geen democratie wilt kun je beter in China gaan wonen.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 17:06 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Het veto recht is vrijwel het tegengestelde van democratie.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 18:04 schreef michaelmoore het volgende:

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Het vetorecht is ingesteld om de kunstmatige superstaat de EU er door te kunnen drukken,

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 18:17 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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En toen dat niet voldoende was hebben ze de oorlog in Ukraine ge�nsceneerd?

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 18:29 schreef Digi2 het volgende:

RUSSIAN Ruble Collapse Damaging Workforce - 5 Million Shortage of Workers as Migrants Stay at Home

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Een commissie van het Oekra�ense parlement buigt zich over de kwestie. Deze week wordt een besluit verwacht over de vervolgstappen. Al duidelijk is dat de leeftijd waarop mannen in militaire dienst moeten, wordt verlaagd van 27 naar 25 jaar. Ook worden er hardere straffen voorgesteld voor het actief ontduiken van de dienstplicht, bijvoorbeeld beperkingen bij de aankoop van een huis of het aanvragen van een rijbewijs.

Het is een prangende kwestie. Het Oekra�ense leger heeft dringend behoefte aan nieuwe menskracht om de huidige troepen te kunnen rouleren. Sommigen zijn al sinds het begin van de Russische invasie actief aan het front. Daarnaast zijn er uiteraard verliezen.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 18:29 schreef Digi2 het volgende:

RUSSIAN Ruble Collapse Damaging Workforce - 5 Million Shortage of Workers as Migrants Stay at Home

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 13:12 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:
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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2024 17:00 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Tja, als je geen democratie wilt kun je beter in China gaan wonen.

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Ukraine meets NATO: Asks for offensive weapons to hit Russia
Several NATO countries are considering whether to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles. Such missiles can reach military targets in Russia and Crimea, and could give Ukraine control over large parts of the Black Sea.

The short version:
• Several NATO countries are considering giving Ukraine long-range missiles to reach military targets in Russia and Crimea
• On Wednesday, the NATO countries and Ukraine will meet in Brussels to discuss the status and consider new countermeasures against Russia
• Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has asked for more air defense and ammunition, combat drones and missiles with a range of over 300 km
• His Norwegian colleague Espen Barth Eide believes it is smart that Ukraine attacks Russian forces harder in the Black Sea and Crimea
• Turkey will not allow British minesweeping vessels - a donation to Ukraine's navy - to sail into the Black Sea

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Canada backtracks on citizenship review for Russian antiwar activist
Blogger Maria Kartasheva was convicted of misinformation in Russia

A Russian antiwar activist living in Ottawa has been granted Canadian citizenship after all, despite a conviction in Russia that threatened to disqualify her.

Maria Kartasheva, 30, has lived in Ottawa since 2019.

She was convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the full-scale invasion in of Ukraine in February 2022. The law prohibits "public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation."

Her convictions stem from two blog entries from March 2022, when she posted photos and wrote in Russian expressing her horror at the Bucha massacre. Russia's foreign minister has rejected allegations of atrocities in Bucha.

Under Canadian immigration rules, if an applicant is charged with a crime in another country that could be indictable under Canada's Criminal Code, their application can be revoked or refused.

A Canadian officiant motioned for her to step aside in the middle of her citizenship ceremony last spring, just moments before she was supposed to swear her allegiance to the Crown.

Minister announced news on X
According to a December letter from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the crime she committed in Russia "would equate to false information under subsection 372(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada."

That interpretation was criticized by a Canadian lawyer and professor who contend the law's real goal is to silence opposing voices.

Russian antiwar activist could lose Canadian citizenship bid over conviction abroad
On Tuesday afternoon, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller said in a social media post that Kartasheva "will not face deportation and has been invited to become a Canadian citizen."

"Canada's citizenship eligibility rules are designed to catch criminals, not to suppress or punish legitimate political dissent," wrote a post from his account on X.

Kartasheva relieved, exhausted
On Tuesday, Kartasheva told CBC News she received the news by email just before lunchtime.

"I am still scared that this is a mistake," said Kartasheva, who immediately called IRCC to confirm.

"I kind of have a feeling that even after the ceremony I won't believe that it happened."

Her citizenship ceremony took place virtually around 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Kartasheva told CBC the experience has left her feeling exhausted and tremendously relieved at the same time.

"There was a long period of time when I felt that no one was interested in this and no one hears and no one would help," she said, adding she's grateful to all those who lent her their support after CBC first published her story, including her MP.

Kartasheva said this outcome will serve as a precedent for other Russians living abroad who openly oppose the Kremlin.

"I hope everyone will feel safe and understand that this is not going to happen to anyone else, that … Canada will support Russians in Canada who are against the war, and so we can sleep soundly in Canada and know that we are protected after all."

Conviction 'didn't seem credible': Miller
Speaking to Power & Politics host David Cochrane on Tuesday, Miller suggested Kartasheva had been unfairly punished by an immigration safeguard that was never meant to deny citizenship to political dissidents.

"We have a set of rules in Canada that prevents criminals from becoming citizens, Miller said. "Ninety-nine per cent of the time those types of rules are there for a very good reason and they do a good job in making sure that undesirable people with criminal pasts do not become citizens.

"You know, there can be situations where that rule doesn't work, this is one of them."

Miller did not confirm whether he personally intervened in Kartasheva's case, but indicated he was pleased with the outcome and that Canada's immigration rules had been misapplied in this case.

"It didn't seem credible to me. It looked like it was on the level of political dissent that is legitimate not only in a country like Canada, but should be in a country like Russia, and to penalize that person for having expressed herself and her views with respect to the Putin regime would be ludicrous, so she's been invited to become a citizen as she should have been in the first place."

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In Crimea, girls poisoned 46 Russian military personnel and shot FSB officers: a Hollywood story appeared on the Internet
In Crimea, still controlled by the Russians, they found two girls suspected of killing dozens of invaders and tried to detain them, but the saboteurs shot back and killed several employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, who were sent for detention.

The saboteurs were in Yalta in one of the private houses, they tried to detain them a few days ago, but they failed – the girls managed to escape, the Kremlin Snuff Box writes on Telegram, citing information, in particular, from sources in the FSB.

“…The suspects in the death of 46 fighters resisted; unfortunately, it was not possible to detain them… The saboteurs turned out to be well armed and (we did not expect this!) Well-prepared. Plus, someone could have warned them about our visit. As soon as the special forces came to arrest them, they opened fire on them with pistols and automatic weapons.” the Russian special service allegedly said.

The channel also says that the invaders only managed to fire a few shots in response, and then the girls fled in a car. Journalists learned that the saboteur’s car was abandoned on the outskirts of Yalta.

“We don’t know where the saboteurs are now. Three FSB officers were killed as a result of the shooting. Two more were wounded, one of them seriously. One of the criminals may also have been wounded, but it is unlikely that this wound was serious (she fled the scene of the shooting on her own). The search for the saboteurs continues,” the sources added.

Crimea news in focus – worth reading today
At the beginning of December last year, the media learned that on the Crimean Peninsula, girls handed over gifts to the military unit of the Russian invaders, and thanks to this, dozens of invaders were poisoned.

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Russia's Nuclear Deterrent Command Center Imperiled by Winter Freeze—Report
A Russian nuclear deterrent command center in Moscow has been imperiled by power outages that have impacted more than one-quarter of the region's cities amid freezing temperatures, a Russian Telegram channel has reported.

The VChK-OGPU outlet, which purports to have inside information from Russian security forces, reported that the 820th Main Center for Missile Attack Warnings—part of the Russian Space Forces, a branch of the country's Aerospace Forces—near Solnechnogorsk in Moscow is without power.

It serves as the space forces early warning network against potential ballistic missile attacks.

The development comes as Russians are reported to be suffering from power outages in their homes in the Moscow region caused by technical issues at plants amid subzero temperatures.

On January 4, a heating main burst at the Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant in the town of Podolsk, which is about 30 miles south of central Moscow. Since then, tens of thousands of Russians are reported to have no heating in their homes.

Affected areas include the cities of Khimki, Balashikha, Lobnya, Lyubertsy, Podolsk, Chekhov and Naro-Fominsk, a map published by a Russian Telegram channel and shared on other social media sites shows.

Other Russian media outlets reported that in Moscow, residents of Balashikha, Elektrostal, Solnechnogorsk, Dmitrov, Domodedovo, Troitsk, Taldom, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Krasnogorsk, Pushkino, Ramenskoye, Voskresensk, Losino-Petrovsky and Selyatino are also without power.

The Telegram channel said that at the 820th Main Center for Missile Attack Warnings, "the crew...is on duty around the clock."

"It is here that the decision on a retaliatory nuclear strike is executed," the channel said.

Newsweek could not independently verify the report and has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry by email for comment.

Power outages have also been reported in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, in the country's western Voronezh region, in the southwest city of Volgograd, and in Rostov, which borders Ukraine, a country that Russia has been at war with since February 24, 2022.

On Sunday, two shopping malls in St. Petersburg were forced to close because of problems with light and heating, reported local news outlet 78.ru. Hundreds of other homes in the city have had no electricity, water or heating for days amid temperatures of -25 C (-13 F).

Russian authorities have also been forced to compensate passengers of a train that ran from Samara to St. Petersburg (a 20-hour journey) without heating during -30 C (-22 F) temperatures. Videos circulating on social media showed carriage windows frozen over. A passenger also said the toilet didn't work during the trip because of frozen pipes.

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Russians living in ‘unfriendly’ countries could lose right to vote in presidential elections
Russian citizens living in countries designated “unfriendly to Russia” may be about to lose the chance to vote in forthcoming elections, the business daily Vedomosti reported on Monday.

The proposal, which is currently under consideration according to a Vedomosti source, would close voting stations at Russian embassies and consulates abroad ahead of the 2024 presidential race. It may not ultimately extend to all Russian consulates in the 49 countries Moscow has deemed “unfriendly”, but it is likely to impact a “significant number” of them.

When asked why the Russian government was considering the proposal at all, officials involved in the discussions cited the shortage of consular workers and concerns about “voter safety” given that voters sometimes have to queue up outside embassies and could face harassment.

In the 2018 presidential election, 474,000 Russians voted at 394 polling stations abroad. In 2024, those numbers are expected to be much higher, following the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Russians — many of whom oppose Putin’s regime — in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Voting stations abroad must be registered by 24 January, according to Russian Central Election Commission member Pavel Andreyev. According to another source in Russia’s Foreign Ministry, a final decision on the issue is expected by the end of the month.

Mystery fire breaks out at Putin family home near Moscow, Russia

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FIRE FURY Shocking moment mystery fire breaks out at Putin family home near Moscow as ‘sabotage’ suspected
This is the second property linked to the Kremlin top that was destroyed in recent events

THIS is the moment a mystery fire broke out at Vladimir Putin's family home near Moscow.

The property, which belongs to Putin's first cousin, was reduced to ashes after flames engulfed the entire building in Ryazan, 125 miles southeast of the capital.

The home was currently occupied by Roman Putin, 45, who is sanctioned by the West for links to the autocrat.

Roman is the son of Putin’s first cousin Igor, who officially owned the place.

His son was at the property when the blaze began but escaped without injury.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the cops amid suspicions of sabotage.

This is the second property with links to Roman and the Kremlin top that was destroyed in recent events.

Earlier a hotel where he had offices in remote Novy Urengoy was destroyed in successive arson attacks by unknown people, causing �8 million damage.

The incident came after Roman was linked to a scheme to host two waves of refugees from the Donbas area of eastern Ukraine, according to reports.

He offered to personally fund a third wave of 500 refugees in support of Putin's invasion, which may have triggered the arson attacks.

Reports say law enforcement has identified arson as the cause but made no progress in bringing the perpetrators to justice.

However, it is unclear if the arson was linked to opposition to Putin or his war against Ukraine.

Following the Kremlin top's footsteps, Roman began his career in secret services, serving in the FSB.

He eventually switched to local government before founding a company called Putin Consulting to trade on the famous family name.

The controversial businessman also founded the People Against Corruption party, but has been unsuccessful in getting a seat in the parliament

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Have any of you seen pics of the Russians having meetings in a camo office and had a roof? This image i snapped from a video shows (And you can clearly see) that their is no roof in the room and my guess is that its a box just that they have put up in a hangar or warehouse of some sort cus their is CLEARLY NO ROOF if you look at the picture.

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 05:20 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1671253659668344832.html
Niet de eerste keer dat wij zulke verhalen horen en dat wij beelden zoals deze zien vanuit Russische kant. Meer informatie onder de links.

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 14:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:

Klinkt als flinke paniek.

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 14:43 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Altijd een lastige keuze. Ben je veiliger in de APC/IFV, of er bovenop?

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 14:54 schreef zuchtje het volgende:

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Ik denk dat het onderbewustzijn die keus voor je maakt. Fight en flight rennen weg, freeze en fawn blijven zitten.
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Of misschien ligt het aan welke middelen je hebt gebruikt voordat je op die machine stapte. Cokeheads gaan rennen, en vodkaheads blijven zitten

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 14:54 schreef StateOfMind het volgende:

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En je allebei op hebt?

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 14:56 schreef zuchtje het volgende:

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Die luxe heeft alleen de bestuurder

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 15:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Doomsayers incoming in 5....4.....3.....

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 15:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Doomsayers incoming in 5....4.....3.....

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By November, capacity had risen again, though assessments differ. European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton suggested that Europe could now make some 400,000 rounds annually. Estonia’s Pevkur, speaking at a November media roundtable, put the figure between 600,000 and 700,000—and said it would reach one million rounds in 2024.

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 16:54 schreef HSG het volgende:
Je ziet op den duur de paniek toeslaan bij de Oekra�ner.

FULL! Rekaman Pertempuran Jarak Dekat Rusia Vs Ukraina, Unggul Mana?

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 16:57 schreef BlaZ het volgende:

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Het bericht is wat vreemd, alsof de EU er 1 miljoen produceert en ze dan ineens naar Oekra�ne stuurt. Dit komt ook niet overeen met wat de beste man gezegd heeft, het gaat namelijk om de jaarproductie.
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Het is de vraag hoeveel shells Oekra�ne eigenlijk denkt nodig te hebben op dagbasis en hoeveel Oekra�ne er zelf kan produceren. In totaal zul je er toch eerder 3 miljoen per jaar nodig hebben denk ik (8200 / dag).

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Op woensdag 10 januari 2024 18:09 schreef Joppiez het volgende:

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Waarom post je overal een bij? Vind je het leuk dat er Oekrainers sterven ofzo?