De meeste mensen realiseren gewoon niet hoe goed wij het hier eigenlijk wel niet hebben. Dat er maar weinig landen zijn die zo'n hoge levensstandaard hebben als Nederland. Die graag wel de lusten hebben maar niet de lasten die daar bij komen.quote: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.
quote: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.
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.quote: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.
quote: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.
Deze indo wilt ook een klewangquote: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!
Tcker heeft ook meermalen aangegeven dat hij een totale digibeet is, die geen enkel onderzoek doet. Zijn eigen woorden. Laatste keer dat hij dit zei was IIRC in zijn interview met Jimmy Dore.quote: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.
Vind het best debiel dat ze hem aangesteld hebben. Geboren in Rusland, blijkt niet eens Oekraens te spreken. Ook op de Soviet manier oorlog voeren aan zijn reputatie te zien, en dat ga je als Oekrane gewoon niet winnen zo. Begin van het einde dit?quote:
Tuurlijk lol. India koopt Russische olie om de rest van de wereld te behoeden voor hogere prijzen. Wat een bullshit.quote:‘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.
Dus die Ukrainers gingen naar Nederland, waar ga jij naar toe?quote: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 Oekranse 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. ls je het al overleeft (bijvoorbeeld zo’n gehaktmolen als de frontlinie in de Oekrane 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.
Broedervolk h. Ze verschillen niet zo heel veel van elkaar.quote: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 Oekraens te spreken. Ook op de Soviet manier oorlog voeren aan zijn reputatie te zien, en dat ga je als Oekrane gewoon niet winnen zo. Begin van het einde dit?
Niet ontslagen zo lijkt het, eerder weggepromoveerd. Maar uiteraard zat het eraan te komen met al dat nieuws. Het hoeft ook geen probleem te zijn, de Britten hadden er ook vier tussen September 1939 en begin 1946. Grant was de vijfde die door Lincoln werd aangesteld. Frankrijk had er vier in WO1.quote:Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 20:16 schreef Drxx het volgende:
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Het heeft niet eens een week geduurd.
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quote: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.
Op het oog een gek fikkie eigenlijk, alsof het dak over de gehele lengte in brand staat maar verder niets.quote:
Dit is toch wel prachtigquote:Op donderdag 8 februari 2024 23:43 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27777
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Ja dat dak lijkt heel brandbaar. Of iets met gas dat zich via de zolders heeft verspreid?quote: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.
Asbest springt juist compleet uit elkaar bij vuur? Lijkt dan hier weer geen sprake van...quote: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?
Dat is deel van de Russische propaganda/hun narratief.quote: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.
Niemand is bereid om als eerste dood te gaanquote: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 Oekrane 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.
Hoe kom je hierbij?quote: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...
Iets met uitproberen met wat we van het dak gehaald hebben in toenmalige vakantie huisje van mn ouwelui... Sprong alle kanten opquote:
Ik heb de hele 2 uur en 7 minutes uitgekeken van het interview en ik kan het hier alleen maar mee eens zijn. Het was n grote propaganda show. Meer dan 30 minutes werd er over de geschiedenis gesproken van Rusland, en waarom een gedeelte van Oekrane dus van Rusland is. Ook probeerde Carlson een aantal keer zijn samenzweringstheorien aan de man brengen. Waar Putin nu en dan een klein beetje op in ging. Dat Oekraine een satellietstaat is van Amerika. En dan Putin direct met Biden zijn regering (en hem) zou moeten onderhandelen over vrede.quote: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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quote:Guard Chief: First Ukrainian F-16 Trainees Are ‘On Track,’ But Funds Aren’t There for More
The first four Ukrainian pilots training to fly the F-16 at Morris Air National Guard Base, Ariz., are “on track,” the head of the National Guard Bureau said Feb. 8, and the first batch of pilots are funded to complete their schooling. But Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson told the Pentagon press that Congress must authorize more funding to add additional pilots to the training queue.
Ukrainian pilots arrived in the U.S. to train to fly F-16s in September, first at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, for a crash course in English, and then beginning in October at Morris Air National Guard Base, Ariz., home of the 162nd Wing, where the day-to-day mission is focused on training foreign pilots to fly F-16s.
The U.S. and its allies expect the Ukrainian Air Force to achieve initial operating capability with its F-16s by the end of 2024, according to Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander, who said pilot training was on track.
Hokanson echoed Wallander’s assessment, but added the caveat that without additional funding, things could change in the coming months.
“Everything we see right now, they’re on track,” Hokanson said. “Obviously as we get further on to higher levels, they may be more advanced or less. But we look at each pilot individually, because what we want to do is prepare them, as much as possible before they go back to Ukraine, to be successful.”
Pilots at Morris complete the six-month “B Course”—or Basic Course—to become proficient in the fundamentals necessary to transition to the F-16. That is the course the four Ukrainian pilots are now undergoing, a defense official previously told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
Hokanson’s senior enlisted advisor, Air Force CMSgt. Tony L. Whitehead added that maintainers currently being trained on the F-16 will get resources to help them over the long term.
“Our standard operating procedures and [operating instructions] are translated for those maintainers, so they can make sure that the continuity of training can continue when they go back to Ukraine,” he said.
Such resources will likely be crucial, as officials and observers alike have noted that maintaining F-16s inside of Ukraine will represent a major effort in and of itself.
Building out a corps of F-16 pilots and maintainers takes time, though, and while Ukrainian personnel are also training in Denmark, the possibility of expanding training in the U.S. appears unclear.
“We do have the resources to continue the training that has already started … and hopefully get all of those folks completed later on this year,” Hokanson said. “Then if we decide to increase that, then obviously we’ll need the resources to train additional pilots and ground support personnel.”
Hokanson did not specify where such resources would come from, but lawmakers in Congress are currently locked in a heated debate on Ukraine funding. On Feb. 8, the Senate took a procedural step to advance a massive foreign security aid package that includes $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and more. However, that bill’s fate remains uncertain in the House. Lawmakers must also pass a budget for the federal government by early March or risk a shutdown.
Previously approved funding for Ukraine ran out in late January.
quote:President Zelenskyy’s dual citizenship proposal presents wartime dilemmas
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the country’s recent Unity Day holiday on January 22 by thanking Ukrainians around the world for their wartime support and calling for changes to the Ukrainian Constitution that would allow for dual citizenship. Zelenskyy confirmed he was submitting the relevant legislative proposal to the Ukrainian Parliament.
If passed, the bill would allow Ukrainians to hold more than one citizenship. This would have significant implications for Ukraine itself and for the large international Ukrainian diaspora. According to the Ukrainian World Congress, the Ukrainian diaspora currently numbers around 20 million people. Most would potentially be eligible for Ukrainian citizenship. Restrictions on dual citizenship have previously deterred many members of the diaspora from applying for Ukrainian passports.
Zelenskyy’s proposal has been welcomed by many within the Ukrainian diaspora. If adopted, it could help strengthen ties between Ukraine itself and the global Ukrainian community, while granting diaspora members an opportunity to have a greater say in Ukraine’s development. It would make it far easier to visit Ukraine and open a business, purchase property, or otherwise invest in the country, while also providing diaspora Ukrainians with the chance to vote in elections or even run for office themselves.
For existing Ukrainian citizens, acquiring a second passport would potentially open multiple doors in terms of travel, work, and study. Ukrainians have enjoyed visa-free access to the European Union’s Schengen Zone for limited time periods since 2017, and have also benefited from a range of measures to ease border restrictions since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Nevertheless, the prospect of holding an EU, US, or other Western passport would certainly appeal to many.
While there is likely to be considerable public support for Zelenskyy’s dual citizenship proposal, any attempt at implementation in today’s wartime environment could prove highly problematic. Crucially, it remains far from clear what the initiative would mean for military service.
With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine now approaching the two-year mark, most analysts believe the conflict has evolved into a war of attrition. With its far larger population, economy, and industrial base, this places Russia at a considerable advantage. The Russian military has also demonstrated a striking disregard for heavy losses in Ukraine, repeatedly employing so-called “human wave” or “meat assault” tactics to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses by sheer weight of numbers.
Ukraine cannot afford to accept such high casualty rates. The country has a far smaller pool of military-age men to draw from, and has already experienced a major decline in population as a direct result of Russia’s invasion. Current martial law restrictions mean most Ukrainian males eligible for military service are not permitted to exit the country. However, if changes to the Ukrainian Constitution made it possible to apply for a second citizenship, opportunities may arise for Ukrainian citizens to use newly acquired passports in order to leave Ukraine and avoid conscription.
Meanwhile, a relaxation in Ukraine’s dual citizenship restrictions could also potentially result in members of the Ukrainian diaspora who took Ukrainian passports becoming eligible for military service. Any uncertainty over the status of new passport holders with regard to conscription would be likely to deter many from applying.
The issue of military service is currently high on the Ukrainian wartime agenda amid debate over how best to bolster the depleted ranks of the army. A recent proposal by Ukraine’s military chiefs to conscript up to 500,000 civilians has met with a mixed reaction in Kyiv, with Zelenskyy refusing to offer his public support and instead calling for further details before making a decision.
Differences of opinion over the correct approach toward mobilization are believed to have contributed to mounting tensions between Ukraine’s civilian and military leadership. This was widely cited as a contributing factor behind Zelenskyy’s February 8 decision to replace Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny. Any constitutional changes to introduce dual citizenship would further complicate an already challenging and politically sensitive situation.
President Zelenskyy’s proposal to enshrine the right to dual citizenship in the Ukrainian Constitution reflects growing awareness of the important role played by the global Ukrainian diaspora. If implemented, it would probably prove a popular measure that would significantly increase the number of Ukrainian passport holders and provide millions more people with a stake in the country’s future. However, there are a number of practical reasons why progress on this issue remains unlikely in the current wartime conditions.
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quote:Russia complained about mass drone attack
Russia has stated that combat drones attempted to attack at least four regions. It is reported that air defense forces allegedly shot down 19 kamikaze drones, according to RIA Novosti.
"The air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 19 drones overnight over the territories of the Kursk, Bryansk, and Oryol regions, the Krasnodar Krai, and the Black Sea," the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
Explosions were heard and a fire was recorded at the Il'sky Oil Refinery overnight, located in the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation. Eyewitnesses report that before the explosions and the large blaze, the characteristic sounds of drone operation were heard.
What preceded this
Before this, experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) stated that Russia is increasingly concerned about the significant advantage of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the use of drones.
Additionally, former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin previously stated that the front line buzzes like a beehive due to the large number of Ukrainian drones, which systematically and accurately strike targets, complicating the rotation of Russian personnel.
Als je geluk hebt kom je er levend uit, krijg je een medaille en mag je daarna alles weer zelf uitzoeken, met pech een jarenlang PTSS syndroom of met minder ledematen.quote: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).
had die vent nog in de Tweede Wereldoorlog geleefd dan had ie vast hitler in zijn bunker geinterviewd zonder ook maar 1 kritische vraag te stellenquote:Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 07:53 schreef Mr.Anderson83 het volgende:
Vrije pers!
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Voor de liefhebbers hier:
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/
Enjoy!
Jij hebt het interview gezien zie ik...quote:Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 09:08 schreef TLC het volgende:
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had die vent nog in de Tweede Wereldoorlog geleefd dan had ie vast hitler in zijn bunker geinterviewd zonder ook maar 1 kritische vraag te stellen
quote:Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 07:19 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)eme-court/index.html
Trump has his best day of 2024SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.Een goede dag voor Trump is een zwarte dag voor de wereld.![]()
Nee ik heb geen interview gezien maar propaganda tvquote:Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 09:10 schreef Mr.Anderson83 het volgende:
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Jij hebt het interview gezien zie ik...
quote:Op vrijdag 9 februari 2024 09:10 schreef Mr.Anderson83 het volgende:
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Jij hebt het interview gezien zie ik...
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