Oorlog in Oekraïne #928 Moedig voorwaarts

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 19:28 schreef Perrin het volgende:

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 19:59 schreef Joppiez het volgende:

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Tja of gewoonweg niet willen sterven of gehandicapt worden door een domme oorlog. Je leeft maar 1 keer, dus als hier de pleuris uitbreekt pak ik ook de eerste de beste mogelijkheid naar Amerika/Canada/Australie enz

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2024 10:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hang de Russische vlag nog maar niet in top. Er zal best wat gedoe zijn achter de schermen, en dat Zelenskyy niet blij is geloof ik ook wel, maar Zalushny is niet ontslagen of tot vertrekken gedwongen.

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Ukraine's president has sacked the commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.

It follows speculation about a rift between the president and Gen Zaluzhnyi, who has led Ukraine's war effort since the conflict began.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 19:40 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 01:40 schreef oheng het volgende:
Het lijkt erop dat Avdiivka verloren is als ik de geluiden uit die richting mag geloven. Al een tijd terug is de weerstand minimaal. Artillerie tekort is nijpend.

De stad wordt simpelweg aan puin geschoten. Met burgers en al.

Oja, hier zijn de gelekte russische bestanden. Zou ze nog doorlezen maar heb geen tijd. Shaheed drones blijken een factor 10 keer zo duur te zijn als werd aangenomen.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 20:20 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Betekend dit dat de hulp er nu gaat komen? En dat de republikeinen nu de grensgebeuren kunnen vergeten door hun eigen domme fout door het steeds weer afwijzen van de toezeggingen/de lat steeds hoger te leggen?

Dat ze nu dus om het congress heen gewerkt hebben?

Of betekend dit eigenlijk nog helemaal niks/iets heel anders?

Amerikaanse politiek is zo nu en dan een beetje verwarrend.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 20:42 schreef BlaZ het volgende:

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Dit gaat gewoon om de presidentsverkiezingen. Van republikeinse kant is het in stant houden van de grensproblematiek waarschijnlijk een methode om de verkiezingen in het voordeel van Trump te kunnen beslechten. Biden probeerde doormiddel van koehandel dit toch er door te krijgen.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 19:17 schreef Akkerdjie het volgende:

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Mja, het gros in Nederland zou niet meevechten. Jij waarschijnlijk ook niet als je de statistieken volgt. Het is ook een vrij rationele keuze in een land waar het leven niet ronduit kut is. Je hebt immers meestal wel wat geld hier om elders een leven op te bouwen. Als die niet-faggots die zijn gaan vechten toen de oorlog in Oekraine uitbrak zijn dood.

Lekker boeiend wat mensen van je vinden. Het zijn altijd de armen die de eer krijgen te mogen sneuvelen voor hun plaatselijke elite.

https://www.defensieplatf(...)en%20in%20Defensie).

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Senate advances $95 billion Ukraine, Israel funding bill, faces uphill battle as budget talks loom
• The Senate advanced a motion to begin debate on a $95 billion package to fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which was a stripped-down version of the Senate’s failed $118 billion bill.
• The vote allows debate to begin on the aid package, days before their two-week recess and with only a few weeks until government shutdown deadlines in early March.
• Ukraine funding disagreements caused a near government shutdown in September and senators have been trying to negotiate a compromise in the months since.

Senators on Thursday advanced a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, garnering momentum for a funding package that has been a persistent thorn in the side of federal budget talks over the past few months.

By a final tally of 67-32, senators voted to begin debate on a $95 billion aid package to fund Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian aid in war-torn regions.

“This is a good first step,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. said on the Senate floor following the vote.

The bill still faces an uphill battle as senators now begin discussion on amendments with just a few days until they are supposed to break for two weeks.

If senators postpone talks for the two-week recess, the aid package will likely get sidelined as budget negotiations take the front seat, given looming government shutdown deadlines on March 1 and March 8.

The $95 billion bill was a stripped-down version of the Senate’s $118 billion bipartisan funding package, which was released on Sunday.

The initial, more expensive bill failed Wednesday in a 49-50 vote after days of Republican opposition to the border security provisions.

Anticipating that the first vote would fail, Schumer devised a plan to force a vote on the new $95 billion version of the bill, this time subtracting the disputed border security elements.

“For all those Republicans who first said, ‘We want it with border,’ and now say, ‘We want it without border,’ they got both options,” Schumer said Wednesday morning.

The success of Thursday’s vote is a hopeful next step for an issue that has been a point of paralysis for budget negotiations in the past.

Ukraine aid was the centerpiece of a particularly dramatic saga in September. House Republican hardliners tanked a budget deal in opposition to $6 billion of Ukraine aid. At the time, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to remove the Ukraine funding and pass a short-term bill to keep the government running. Days later, McCarthy was ousted from his post.

Since then, Congress has continued to keep the government’s lights on with short-term, stopgap budget measures, called continuing resolutions, passed hastily at several different points over the past year to avoid government shutdowns.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has been adamant about his disdain for continuing resolutions.

“I think operating by CRs and shutting down the government is a dereliction of duty,” he said in December.

Still, deadlocked congressional disagreements have forced Johnson’s hand. In January, he helped pass yet another continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown, which now expires in early March.

With roughly a month until that short-term budget dries up, passing the aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan could leave lawmakers with one less thing to fight over and help clear a path toward a long-term budget.

But Johnson’s hatred for CRs might not be enough to outweigh his desire to torpedo the Senate’s foreign aid bill. Even if senators can pass the $95 billion, border-less bill, House Republicans have not confirmed which way they will swing on it.

“The House will review the Senate’s product,” Speaker Johnson’s office said in a statement on Wednesday. “The Speaker believes the House should review each issue individually on its merits.”

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The UN commission has called on the Russian Federation to stop deporting Ukrainian children
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has demanded an immediate cessation of Russia's forced removal of children from Ukraine.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued a damning indictment against Russia, urging an immediate cessation of the forced removal of children from Ukraine. Voice of America reports that the committee's latest findings underscore a dire situation requiring urgent attention.

Russia Urged to Cease Forced Export of Children from Ukraine
In a sternly worded report, experts from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child have called on Russia to halt its practice of forcibly exporting or deporting children from the occupied territories of Ukraine. The report demands transparency from the Russian Federation, insisting on the disclosure of the exact number of children taken from Ukraine and the swift facilitation of their return home.

The committee's findings highlight Russia's violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by stripping deported children of their Ukrainian citizenship. This action underscores a blatant disregard for international law and human rights standards.

Bragi Gudbrandson, a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, expressed grave concerns over reports of sexual exploitation and gender-based violence in Ukraine, Crimea, and Sevastopol, areas currently under Russian occupation. The committee emphasizes the urgent need for intervention to address these egregious violations of children's rights.

Allegations of War Crimes
Gudbrandson highlighted accusations of war crimes directed at the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, raising serious doubts about Russia's commitment to upholding international norms and protecting children in conflict zones.

The committee underscored the importance of protecting children from all forms of violence, including abuse and neglect. Urgent measures are needed to ensure that children are provided with appropriate support and intervention to prevent further victimization.

The UN expressed deep concern over the politicization and militarization of schools, emphasizing the need for education systems to promote values of peace, tolerance, and mutual understanding. Attempts to rewrite school curricula to serve military-political agendas are condemned as detrimental to the well-being of children.

Violation of Children's Rights in Ukraine
During discussions on Ukraine, the Russian Federation faced severe criticism for violating children's rights, including the killing and injury of hundreds of children due to indiscriminate attacks. The forced displacement and deportation of children from Ukraine were also condemned as grave violations of human rights.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child emphasized the importance of ensuring access to education for all children, including those belonging to ethnic groups and indigenous communities in Crimea. Education in the Ukrainian language must be made available to promote cultural diversity and inclusion.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 21:12 schreef sp3c het volgende:
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ANALYSIS: Use of Another Putin ‘Wonder Weapon’ – Sign of Russian Determination or Desperation?
The 40 plus strong missile attack on Ukraine on Wednesday probably saw the first appearance of the “Tsirkon” hypersonic missile that Putin has been “promising” to use for over a year.

Among the debris found following the Feb. 7 Russian missile attack on Ukraine, was what appears to be the remnants of a 3M22 Tsirkon (or Zircon) hypersonic missile which was one of Moscow’s “wonder weapons” first revealed in March 2018.

The 3M22 was not included in the official breakdown of missiles shot down during Wednesday’s attack given by Ukrainian Air Force’s, which only mentioned Kh-555/101 and Kalibr cruise and Shahed drones. However, earlier in the morning, they had warned of the approach of a “high-velocity missile” towards Kyiv.

Military commentators feel that, as the wreckage was found adjacent to powerlines in the Dniprovsky district of Kyiv, this was an unlikely target for a multi-million-dollar missile, making it probable that it was indeed shot down by Ukrainian air defense.

The Monitor Telegram channel first drew attention to the missile as being “something different” and said had been fired from a land-based launcher in occupied Crimea.

They described the missile as flying on an “atypical trajectory,” different, but similar, to that previously witnessed when Onyx and Kinzhal missiles were fired on Ukraine.

While markings on the missile wreckage indicated that it was indeed from a Tsirkon, they seem to be hand written which, along with the fact it did not reach hypervelocity during flight, casts some doubt on its identification. It is possible that this was a “prototype” and another example of Russia deploying a “test sample” to see how it would perform.

Russia’s armed forces test-fired the Tzirkon in public for the first time in December 2022, after which Putin announced that from the following January Russian ships, specifically the newly-commissioned Admiral Gorshkov frigate and the Severodvinsk nuclear submarine, would be armed with the weapon.

Tzirkon was slated to replace the P-700 Granit and P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles using the universal UKSK 3S14 missile launcher, in a move the Kremlin described as making Moscow's international security guarantees “more convincing.”

Little is really known about the Tzirkon other than the few details Russia has let slip and its designation as a hypervelocity is based purely on those. It has not been seen to achieve such speed either during its earlier testing or on this operational deployment.

So far, the exact tactical and technical characteristics of the product have not been officially reported with publicly released specifications changing over time.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced it had been accepted into service in June 2022 and mass production would start immediately. At the time they mentioned it would have a 300-kilogram warhead, a range of 400 kilometers and a flight speed of Mach 6 (Mach 5 being the usually recognized hypervelocity threshold).

During his December 2022 announcement, however, Putin claimed a range of 1,000 kilometers at a speed of Mach 9.

As neither of the naval vessels known to carry the missile have access to the Black Sea, because of Turkish-imposed constraints, and Monitor’s suggestion the missile was fired from land in the Crimean Peninsula there are questions concerning the platform used to launch the Tsirkon (if that is what it was).

The most likely candidate seems to be the K-300 Bastion coastal defense system which had earlier been adapted to fire the Oniks anti-ship missiles for attacks on residential areas, infrastructure, grain storage and handling facilities in Odesa.

While, if the wreckage recovered in Kyiv is from a Tsirkon, it would suggest that it is likely to be as vulnerable to Ukraine’s more capable air defense systems such as Patriot as the KH72 Kinzhal has been.

The greater threat is, however, because unlike the “early warning” that take-off of the MIG-31Ks which carry the Kinzhals gives a land-based system can be launched without prior warning.

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NYT: American officials confirm Patriot missile shot down Il-76 plane
The American-made Patriot missile system is likely responsible for the Russian Il-76 plane crash, American officials anonymously told The New York Times. The plane was also likely carrying at least some Ukrainian prisoners, officials reported.

Russia's Il-76 military transport plane crashed in the country's Belgorod region on Jan. 24, allegedly killing everyone on board.

The cause of the crash is unclear, with Russia claiming that Ukraine's military shot the plane down as it carried 65 Ukrainian POWs. Kyiv has demanded an international probe into the incident.

Ukraine's military intelligence agency did not confirm whether prisoners were on the plane nor have they commented on what might have caused the crash.

Ukrainian officials did reveal that a prisoner exchange had been planned for that day.

Ukrainian military sources told Ukrainska Pravda that the plane was carrying S-300 missiles, regularly used by Russia to strike Kharkiv Oblast.

The Patriot air defense system is a crucial component in protecting Ukrainian air space from Russian missile attacks.

Although American officials have been unable to confirm who was on the plane, sources told the NYT that it appeared probable that at least some of the passengers were Ukrainian prisoners.

The New York Times reported that American officials would not comment on what brought down the plane publicly. According to the news outlet officials who spoke privately on the condition of anonymity said that it was in fact the Patriot missiles.

After Russia claimed that 65 Ukrainian POWs were killed in the crash, Ukraine requested that Russia return the bodies of the killed POWs home.

Russia's government never responded to the appeal. Russia also reportedly blocked the International Committee of Red Cross from investigating the circumstances of the crash.

Officials report that Ukraine likely acted on weak intelligence as the plane was previously used to transport missiles, making it a valuable target for Ukraine's military.

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Russia may be trying to build 10,000 attack drones a year for use in Ukraine
A purported cache of stolen Iranian documents also suggests Moscow is paying a lot more than expected.

Is Russia aiming to build 10,000 Shahed-136 loitering munitions a year?

Plans for massive domestic production of the 200-kg, 2,500-km Iranian-designed suicide drones—and the high price Moscow is paying for them—are just two of the purported revelations of files that an Iranian hacking group says it stole from a company controlled by Tehran’s leading paramilitary arm.

On Feb. 4, the Prana hacking group released thousands of emails and multiple documents that it claimed to have purloined from Sahara Thunder, which it calls a front company for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Defense One could not confirm the authenticity of the documents.

Much of the metadata of the files had been deleted, making it difficult to determine whether the files were authentic, said Ruslan Trad, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab.

One of the documents, dated “November 2022,” describes a trip to Iran earlier that year by employees of Alabuga, a state-owned company that manages a large industrial park in Russia. In August 2023, the Washington Post reported, citing its own leaked documents, that Alabuga was central to a plan to build 6,000 Shahed-136s.

The file posted by Prana said Russia had agreed to buy the technology and components to assemble 6,000 “Dolphin 632 boats.” It also said Russia would produce up to 10,000 a year once it had received all the relevant technology.

But numerous details in the Prana files suggest that these “boats” are in fact UAVs. The “November 2022” document, for example, lists such components as “avionics,” jet-assisted take-off, and a Nassir-2 anti-jamming system.

A separate, Alabuga-branded slideshow titled “Factory Production,” describes the “boat” as including a fuselage and elevons. Their construction requires specialists in “REB,” a Russian acronym referring to electromagnetic warfare.

Other documents, by contrast, seemed to go into exhaustive detail to try to hide that the boat is a drone, with one production schedule listing various boat-related parts.

It is unclear whether the “Dolphin 636” is the Shahed-136, although other documents in the Prana dump explicitly discuss the drone’s technical characteristics. One Alabuga-branded slideshow, "motor boat production technology,” offers multiple images of the propeller-driven aircraft.

And if the drone is in fact the Shahed-136, the documents suggest that Moscow has paid a heftier-than-expected price for the weapon, which it has used in large numbers during its invasion of Ukraine.

Iran initially wanted to charge Moscow a licensing and component fee of $375,000 to assemble each Shahed-136 in Russia, which negotiated that down to $193,000 apiece for 6,000 drones, according to the “November 2022” document.

That price is six times the previously estimated cost of the drone, which is made from low-cost components and carries a 40-kilogram warhead.

Many of the components can be acquired locally, with around 10 percent of components coming from abroad, according to the document.

Russia is also seeking to license-produce several other types of Iranian drones, according to a document titled “April 2023.” These include two variants of a “236” drone—one turbo-powered, and one piston-powered with a “seeker”—and type “107” reconnaissance and strike drones.

The 107 is presumably the Shahed-107 drone, while the 236 is likely in the same product family as the jet-powered Shahed-238.

The prices for the 236 seeker variant is given as $900,000, $1.4 million for the 236 turbo-jet, and $460,000 for the 107 drone, according to the document. The price of the 236 turbo-jet makes it more expensive than the estimated cost of Russia’s Kalibr cruise missile.

The document also said the delivery schedule would depend on its “partner’s” production capabilities. For each category of drone, deliveries would be between ten and 100 per month for the next six months, but eventually ramp up to hundred per month, for a total of 2,130 of the 236 seekers, 677 of the 236 jet-powered drones, and 3,360 of the type 107 drones.

The Shahed-136 reportedly has a range of 1,500 miles, but its top speed is just over 100 miles an hour, making it an easy target for Ukrainian air defenses. In one attack in November, officials claim to have destroyed 74 of 75 incoming drones. Russia has occasionally been successful in using the drone against Ukraine’s infrastructure, including one attack that knocked out Odesa’s electrical system.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 21:11 schreef sp3c het volgende:

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imo een beetje een flutonderzoekje wmb, oorlog is zo ver weg voor Nederland en Nederlanders, je hebt geen idee hoe je reageert als je moedertje beschoten wordt en je basisschool platgebombardeerd is

net zoiets als vragen of je op het water zou staan als het keihard is geworden

in de Sahelregio zeggen ze fuck no, waarom zou het water keihard zijn geworden?

in Nederland zeggen we IT ... GIET .... OAN!!!!!!

BIETCHES!

geschiedenis leert ons dat de Nederlander komt vechten als het moet

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Experienced Ukrainian pilot killed in action

Vladislav Rykov, a highly experienced Ukrainian Air Force pilot, was killed in action on Feb. 7, the 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade reported on social media.

Rykov "had 385 sorties under his belt — he was the best pilot and commander I knew," fellow Air Force pilot Rostyslav Lazarenko posted on Facebook. "My heart was ripped out yesterday."

No further details about Rykov's death were provided.

A month earlier, Vladyslav Zalistovskyi, a 23-year-old MiG-29 pilot known by the call sign "Blue Helmet," was also killed during a combat mission.

He was known through his Instagram channel named Blue Helmet, where Zalistovskyi published videos of his flights. The account has amassed over 3,000 followers.

In another incident from last August, three Ukrainian pilots, including well-known aviator Andrii Pilshchykov with the call sign "Juice," died in a mid-air collision between two training jets.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 20:37 schreef BlaZ het volgende:

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Het is ook de vraag wat de invloed van Sirski hier gaat zijn. Dat is toch zover ik kan lezen een minder voorzichtige commandant dan Zaluzjni. Hij zal toch niet direct Avdiivka willen verliezen lijkt me gezien zijn geschiedenis in Bagmoet.
Ik zie buiten dit stukje van Röpke wel redelijk wat negatieve reacties op het ontslag van Zaluzjni, maar goed we gaan het zien.

https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1755640285575450880

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 21:56 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Ja, geen idee wat het effect zal wezen. Ik weet wel dat het verlies van Bakhmut best wel goed heeft uitgepakt voor Oekraine. Immers, daardoor is Wagner onthoofd en uitgeschakeld (onderdeel van Rosgvardia, volgens de huidige Wagner commandant). Interne stabiliteit van rusland is in gevaar gekomen, en volgens Prigozhin zijn er 20.000 russen omgekomen in Bakhmut.

Ik heb ook niet het idee dat er nog veel Oekrainsche troepen nog in Avdiivka zijn.

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EU debunks viral claims it is considering sanctions on Tucker Carlson over his interview with Putin
The European Union has refuted reports that it is considering sanctions on American polemist Tucker Carlson for his controversial interview with Vladimir Putin, recorded during his trip to Moscow.

On Wednesday, a flurry of conservative commentators falsely claimed the bloc was mulling slapping a travel ban on Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, after the Kremlin confirmed his sit-down with the Russian president had taken place. It marks Putin's first interview with a Western reporter since he launched the all-out war on Ukraine.

The claim was initially reported by the American magazine Newsweek, based on comments made by a current and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) who called on member states to consider sanctions on Carlson for acting as a "mouthpiece" and "propagandist" for Putin's regime.

The remarks of the two lawmakers, who have no competence to propose or approve sanctions, were mistakenly associated with formal EU plans to target Carlson with restrictive measures, and amplified by X owner Elon Musk, who described the allegations as "disturbing" and a move that would "greatly offend the American public." Musk's post garnered over 25 million views.

On Thursday, Peter Stano, the European Commission's spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, shut down the rampant speculation. "Currently there are no discussions in the relevant EU bodies linked to this specific person (...) the American person who is in Moscow," he said.

But Stano underlined that the bloc is able to blacklist "propagandists" who have "a continued track record" of information manipulation aimed at undermining the "sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Ukraine."

The confusion was sparked by the comments of Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt and former Spanish MEP Luis Garicano, both of the liberal Renew Europe group.

Verhofstadt said earlier this week on social media platform X that if Carlson "enables disinformation for Putin," the EU should "explore" a travel ban.

Responding to Elon Musk’s remarks that EU measures against Carlson would "offend" the US public, Verhofstadt shared a photo of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich behind bars in Moscow, saying "this is what a real journalist in Russia looks like."

"That should greatly offend the American people!" Verhofstadt said.

Musk's platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is under the EU's legal scrutiny for infringements of its digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act, relating to the spread of disinformation and illegal content.

No fact-checking community notes have been added to Newsweek's original story.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 21:11 schreef sp3c het volgende:

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imo een beetje een flutonderzoekje wmb, oorlog is zo ver weg voor Nederland en Nederlanders, je hebt geen idee hoe je reageert als je moedertje beschoten wordt en je basisschool platgebombardeerd is

net zoiets als vragen of je op het water zou staan als het keihard is geworden

in de Sahelregio zeggen ze fuck no, waarom zou het water keihard zijn geworden?

in Nederland zeggen we IT ... GIET .... OAN!!!!!!

BIETCHES!

geschiedenis leert ons dat de Nederlander komt vechten als het moet

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 22:16 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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We hebben een hoop te verliezen. Naar welk land wil je vluchten als er ellende komt? Onze portemonnee is hier en als je daar aan komt willen we er misschien idd voor vechten. En we hebben wel een geschiedenis van bloedvergieten en gemene spelletjes. Zo beschaafd zijn de Nederlanders niet als het er op aan komt.

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Occupier's accomplice detained in Lviv: Trying to flee to EU
The SBU and the National Police have detained a collaborator in Lviv who served in the occupation "Ministry of Internal Affairs" in the temporarily seized part of Zaporizhzhya.
The SBU and the National Police have prevented a collaborator who was part of the occupation "Interior Ministry" in the temporarily seized part of Zaporizhzhya from escaping from Ukraine. The attacker was involved in the capture of local members of the resistance movement. About it on 8 February reports the SBU.

Counterintelligence SBU detained the accomplice of the occupiers in Lviv, where he covertly arrived for further departure to the European Union, - stated in the message.

According to the investigation, the figure is a resident of Vasilievsky district in Zaporozhye, who in June 2022 joined the ranks of the occupation "district police department".

There, the attacker was included in the "punitive detachments" that kidnapped local residents on the streets or from their own homes. Also, the collaborator together with the RF troops robbed the homes of local residents under the guise of searches. Money, clothes, office equipment and other private property were stolen from citizens.

In addition, the defendant was involved in guarding the occupation "election committees" during the pseudo-referendum of the Russian Federation on the "joining" of the region to the aggressor country.

At the end of 2023, the attacker left for Lviv as an internally displaced person from the temporarily occupied territory in southern Ukraine. In the city, the man settled with his relatives and was preparing to illegally cross the border towards the EU.

Investigators of the SBU informed the defendant of suspicion under part 7 of article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaboration activities). He faces up to 15 years in prison.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 22:16 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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We hebben een hoop te verliezen. Naar welk land wil je vluchten als er ellende komt? Onze portemonnee is hier en als je daar aan komt willen we er misschien idd voor vechten. En we hebben wel een geschiedenis van bloedvergieten en gemene spelletjes. Zo beschaafd zijn de Nederlanders niet als het er op aan komt.

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Commander: Ukraine downs Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter near Avdiivka
Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter near Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast on Feb. 7, Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, the commander of Ukraine's Tavria group fighting on the southeastern front lines, said on Feb. 8.

"The enemy's Alligator with its crew was hit by a portable anti-aircraft missile complex and fertilized the soil in the Avdiivka direction," Tarnavskyi said on Telegram.

The Ka-52 Alligator is an updated twin-seat variant of Russia's Ka-50 attack helicopter designed to destroy enemy armored and unarmored ground targets, tanks, low-speed aerial targets, and personnel, according to the Airforce Technology website.

Russia has lost over 300 combat helicopters since the start of the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Feb. 8.

The Tavria group of Ukraine's military is fighting in some of the hottest spots on the front, including the ongoing battle for Avdiivka.

Russian forces are now concentrating their offensive operations near Novopavlivka and Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast, according to Tarnavskyi.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 21:32 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Bajonetten plaatsen en voorwaarts!

We zullen er wel even met de blanke klewang op ingaan!

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 22:05 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
Tevens kan ik Tucker sowieso geen echte journalist noemen. Van een journalist verwacht ik namelijk dat zij opzoek zijn naar de waarheid, en dit met feiten en bewijs ondersteunen. Terwijl Tucker zelf al heeft aangegeven dat hij er meestal maar wat uit flapt.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 21:51 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Draad over Syrskyi.

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‘World is grateful': India keeps oil prices cheaper by buying from Russia, Indian oil minister says
• India keeps global crude prices affordable by buying oil from Russia, India's energy minister said.
• "If we start buying more of the Middle Eastern oil, the oil price will not be at $75 or $76. It will be $150," he told CNBC's Sri Jegarajah on the sidelines of the India Energy Week conference in Goa.
• The minister said he was confident that India's renewable targets "will be met totally."

India keeps global crude prices affordable by buying oil from Russia, India's energy minister said.

"The world is grateful to India for buying Russian oil. It's not that they don't want us to buy Russian oil," India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC's Sri Jegarajah on the sidelines of the India Energy Week conference in Goa.

"If we start buying more of the Middle Eastern oil, the oil price will not be at $75 or $76. It will be $150," he added.

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, India's refiners have been snapping up discounted Russian oil.

Moscow has since become India's leading source of crude oil, accounting for about 36% of the South Asian nation's crude imports.

Consequently, India's imports of Middle Eastern oil fell to a record low.

Oil prices have been under pressure in spite of rising tensions in the Red Sea and fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East. Such uncertainty would typically push energy prices higher but gains have been limited amid record output from the U.S., and an ongoing global economic slowdown.

The Indian minister said he was not "unduly worried" about whether there will be a spike in prices as a result of a lack of availability or affordability of the oil.

"The fact of the matter is half the work is in recession," he said, adding that higher oil prices will invariably end up becoming a "self fulfilling prophecy" where higher prices will curtail demand.

India is expected to be the largest driver for growth in global oil demand from 2023 to 2030, the International Energy Agency said in a report Wednesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced plans to boost the country's annual oil refining capacity by almost 80% to 450 million tons, in what could possibly pose as another challenge to India's renewables goals.

India has set an aspirational target of meeting 50% of its electricity demand from renewable sources 2030, and a 100% transition to renewable energy by 2050. Currently, 75% of the nation's total power is derived from coal-fired plants.

That said, the minister said he was confident the renewable targets "will be met totally."

"We are well on the way of meeting our targets and we'll meet them all before time," he said, adding that many of India's major oil companies have net zero targets at 2035 and 2040.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 22:39 schreef Akkerdjie het volgende:

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Jij misschien wel, maar mensen met geld maken gewoon dat ze wegkomen, dat ging vroeger al zo, dat gaat nu ook voornamelijk zo. De armen zijn doorgaans degenen die grotendeels sterven. Onze portemonnee is digitaal en in andere landen net zo te gebruiken en als mijn huis toch kapot geschoten wordt heb ik er verder toch niks aan als de oorlog voorbij is.
Ik begeleid enkele Oekraïnse mannen momenteel die gevlucht zijn, een heeft in 2014 gediend, maar heb in het verleden ook twee soldaten behandeld met ptss. Oorlog wordt veel teveel geromantiseerd wat mij betreft. Het is absurd en iedereen die het kan en die iets om zijn leven geeft en geen religioot of overmoedig persoon is met wat onrealistische realiteitszin probeert het te ontwijken. Àls je het al overleeft (bijvoorbeeld zo’n gehaktmolen als de frontlinie in de Oekraïne heeft nog maar enkele procenten van de oorspronkelijke mobilisatie in leven is de schatting) heb je ptss voor het leven. Fuck die shit. Als anderen dat wel willen of er anders over denken, kunnen ze hun ding doen. Ik vang je wel op mocht je terugkeren en probeer er nog wat van te maken.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 23:00 schreef Joppiez het volgende:

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Vind het best debiel dat ze hem aangesteld hebben. Geboren in Rusland, blijkt niet eens Oekraïens te spreken. Ook op de Soviet manier oorlog voeren aan zijn reputatie te zien, en dat ga je als Oekraïne gewoon niet winnen zo. Begin van het einde dit?

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 23:37 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Aardig fikkie daar.

[ twitter ]

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Russian Infantry ‘Banned from Using Armored Vehicles’ to Attack Dnipro Bridgehead
A Ukrainian official said Moscow’s assaults were now only being carried out by unsupported infantry in what they described as groups of “suicide bombers.”

Russian forces attempting to dislodge a Ukrainian bridgehead on the Dnipro River have been banned from using armored vehicles and are now attacking on foot as “suicide bombers,” Ukraine’s military has said.

Speaking to the United News telethon on Thursday, South Operational Command spokesperson Natalia Humeniuk said the ban was due simply to how much materiel Moscow’s forces have been losing in the now months-long battle.

“For a long time, we have been observing that they have a ban on using armored vehicles during assaults, meaning that at first they were making assaults using classic tactics of fighting with armored vehicles,” she said.

“But they were losing equipment, so after a while, they stopped using it.

“We found out that they have a ban on it, meaning that assaults are carried out directly by infantry groups.”

Humeniuk said the number of Russian attacks had dropped in recent days from 10-15 per day to three or four.

She suggested this was because it was “increasingly difficult for the enemy to assemble a group of suicide bombers” and that Russian forces were losing 50-80 men a day.

As Kyiv Post reported last month, Ukrainian Marines are deeply dug-in and, backed by masses of strike drones, are firmly holding ground first captured in mid-October.

According to a number of independent observers, no matter what Russian forces try to do they haven’t been able to dislodge the Ukrainians who will “still be there in weeks and months to come.”

Evidence is now mounting that Russian forces have suffered such heavy losses that some troops are reportedly refusing to attack.

According to multiple Ukrainian and Russian sources, Moscow’s attempts to wipe out the bridgehead employing substantial ground attacks have virtually come to a halt.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 23:37 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Aardig fikkie daar.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 23:43 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27777
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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 23:45 schreef Hatseflats22 het volgende:

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Op het oog een gek fikkie eigenlijk, alsof het dak over de gehele lengte in brand staat maar verder niets.

Ik speculeer even vrijuit... dat door corruptie geen brandvertragend materiaal op het dak gelegd is maar goedkope troep.

Maar zoals Russen altijd schijnen te zeggen:

Oost west,
as best.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 23:51 schreef Perrin het volgende:

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Ja dat dak lijkt heel brandbaar. Of iets met gas dat zich via de zolders heeft verspreid?

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Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 00:42 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
Putler blijft in het interview maar benadrukken dat hij wil onderhandelen. Kennelijk gaat de speciale operatie niet zo best.

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Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 21:52 schreef Akkerdjie het volgende:

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Dat zal best allemaal, maar het is natuurlijk wel een signaal dat in een recenter onderzoek het wederom maar 16% is terwijl marokko weer boven de 90% en amerikanten ruim 50% scoort bijvoorbeeld. Het zijn toch afspiegelingen van de situatie nu.


In deze boekenstein en de wijk- aflevering wordt er dieper op ingegaan:


https://www.bnr.nl/podcas(...)-in-crisis-en-oorlog

Overigens is 16% ruim een miljoen mensen, met die mensen die bereid zijn alvast als eerste dood te gaan in strijd kom je al een heel eind.

Overigens is het ook wel een ding als je vanuit religie ervan overtuigd bent dat je bergen maagden ter beschikking krijgt als je sterft in de strijd en heel veel eer krijgt (de doodscultus van islam) of als je sterft in de hemel komt (christenen), t.o.v. het voornamelijk atheistische NL, waar het gewoon klaar is als je sterft aan de kogel, voor wie of wat dan ook.

Edit: in Oekraïne zijn de studenten nu zowat aan de beurt om te sterven voor hun land en geen fagot te zijn. Mensen schrijven zich nu in als student om het te ontlopen, maar het is al maanden een discussie om het puur op leeftijd te doen en niet meer op studentstatus. De ondergrens wil men verlagen naar 25 jaar, er moeten nog 450-500k mannen aan kanonnenvoer bij. Eens kijken wat die ervan vinden.
Overigens in Nieuwsuur is het nu toevallig een item over hoe ze met weigeraars omgaan.

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Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 00:02 schreef loveyoulongtime het volgende:

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Asbest springt juist compleet uit elkaar bij vuur? Lijkt dan hier weer geen sprake van...

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Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 03:55 schreef kanovinnie het volgende:

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Hoe kom je hierbij?

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Putin walks away with propaganda victory after Tucker Carlson’s softball interview
It’s evident now why Vladimir Putin granted an interview to Tucker Carlson.

Over the course of the more than two-hour sit-down, the former Fox News host turned online commentator largely refrained from challenging the Russian authoritarian, whose brutal war on Ukraine has led to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Those expecting a hard-hitting face-off will have surely walked away sorely disappointed by the long-winded and rambling interview, in which Tucker himself at times appeared lost.

Instead of pressing Putin on the many topics at hand, including credible accusations Russia has committed war crimes and the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Carlson allowed the autocrat a free lane to manipulate the public and tell his version of history, no matter how deceptive it may have been. At times, between the airing of grievances, Putin appeared to school Carlson on historical events as the host looked on in bewilderment. Or to put it more plainly, Carlson provided Putin a platform to spread his propaganda to a global audience with little to no scrutiny of his claims.

“What you see from watching the first 45 minutes of this, is that this is President Putin’s platform,” Clarissa Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent, remarked, adding that it was “clear from the very beginning” of the interview that Carlson did “not have control.”

In some cases, Carlson even fed into Putin’s narratives. For instance, Putin advanced an absurd deep state-style conspiracy theory that the U.S. government is not controlled by its elected leaders but by unelected powers at the Central Intelligence Agency who direct the president like a puppet from the shadows.

“So, twice you’ve described US presidents making decisions and then being undercut by their agency heads,” Carlson said after Putin made the assertion, earnestly summing up the Russian leader’s mendacious narrative. “So it sounds like you’re describing a system that’s not run by the people who are elected, in your telling?”

“That’s right, that’s right,” Putin replied.

Carlson never followed up to challenge the absurdity.

It was a massive propaganda victory for Putin, who can — and will – now twist the encounter for his own ends. If there was any doubt that Putin did not view the sit-down with Carlson as a big win, a glance at how his own state-run media covered the affair should erase it. Immediately after Carlson published the chat online, Putin’s mouthpieces rushed to amplify it.

TASS featured the sit-down as the top story on its homepage, amplifying Putin’s claim that Ukraine is an “artificial state” and devoting an entire section of its website to special coverage of the interview. RT, the English-language broadcaster now exiled from much of the Western world, aired significant swaths of the interview on its air.

“VLADIMIR PUTIN’S INTERVIEW GAINS OVER 20 MILLION VIEWERS IN FIRST TWO HOURS,” RT boasted in one on-screen graphic.

None of this should come as any surprise.

While Carlson was once a critic of the Russian government, in recent years he has been far more sympathetic to the Putin-led state, dragging the GOP with him. Carlson’s commentary on Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine has been anything but favorable toward Kiev, with the right-wing extremist even likening Volodymyr Zelensky to vermin last year.

Which is precisely why Putin agreed to the interview with Carlson, while actual journalists who would have pressed the Russian leader on a range of critical issues, have been denied access for years. You don’t have to take our word for it, either. Putin’s own spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters this week that Carlson was selected because he “has a position that is different from the rest” of Western media.

There was one moment, however, in which Carlson did gently press Putin. At the end of the interview, Carlson asked Putin if he would be “willing to release” Evan Gershkovich, the imprisoned reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Putin declined to release Gershkovich now, to which Carlson said, “He’s a kid, and maybe he was breaking your law in some way, but he’s not a super spy and everybody knows that.”

While Carlson did advocate for the immediate release of Gershkovich, his remark did not go over well at The Journal. Ted Mann, a reporter at the newspaper, wrote on X that it was “disgraceful of Carlson to suggest Evan was ‘breaking [their] law.’”

“He wasn’t,” Mann added. “Carlson knows that. Evan is a law-abiding, decent reporter being held hostage for geopolitical leverage. He should be released immediately.”

The Journal also released a statement following the interview.

“Evan is a journalist, and journalism is not a crime. Any portrayal to the contrary is total fiction,” the newspaper said. “Evan was unjustly arrested and has been wrongfully detained by Russia for nearly a year for doing his job, and we continue to demand his immediate release.”

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