Su-25 in the sky over Dnepropetrovsk. No ID if it’s Russian or Ukrainian pic.twitter.com/yNJcvQ86X3

— CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) February 24, 2022

President Biden is speaking to Ukraine's President Zelenskyy now according to WH.

— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) February 24, 2022

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JobSecurity said:

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#UPDATE: #Russia has destroyed all Ukrainian navy ships and has been targeting air bases and air defenses in Kyiv and other various areas throughout #Ukraine.

— ConflictsWorldwide (@ConflictsWW) February 24, 2022

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If these reports are true, we are looking at a pretty significant loss of life. A reality that seems to get lost when the talk is just about ships and airports.

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Wouldn't port be the very last place you would want your navy if you knew war was about to start. Sounds like they were all cot in port and destroyed

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Russia has the ability to track every one of those ships. They know/knew exactly where they were.

Listening to this Ukrainian Parliament guy talking on FOX about this whole thing, it seems increasingly possible this just continues to spiral.

The Bolsheviks seeded "revolutions" in all their neighbors, resulting in the USSR. Putin yesterday invoked the Bolsheviks of 1917 when explaining his justification that Ukraine was created by Russia and therefore belonged to Russia.

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What appear to be Su Ukrainian fight jets over Kramatorsk. At least three passes in past few minutes followed by more explosions. At least two.

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 24, 2022

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If those are Ukrainian AF that managed to scramble, I unfortunately do not think they are long for this world. Goddammit.

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is about to address his nation, press service says

— Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) February 24, 2022

The internet is incredible

Russia’s independent Ekho Moskvi Radio (Echo of Moscow) reports that Putin’s speech about the beginning of the “military operation” was recorded on February 21st. He is wearing same tie.
“Confirmed by downloading video from Kremlin web-page and checking metadata” – tweet says. https://t.co/UqPE9VCE8t

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) February 24, 2022

Putin has pulled a play out of Hitler's play book.

Every one of his moves communicated exactly what he was going to do.

He engaged in talks just long enough to move his chess pieces and then blitzed the **** out of his target the second he didn't need to stall any longer to manuever.

3 questions that will be amswered im the coming days:

1) How much resolve do the Ukranians have to hold out?
2) Is Putin gonna be satisfied with just Ukraine or has he decided that its time for bigger moves?
3) How will the world respond?

JobSecurity said:

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What appear to be Su Ukrainian fight jets over Kramatorsk. At least three passes in past few minutes followed by more explosions. At least two.

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 24, 2022

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The first report of life out of the Ukrainian military...

Eliminatus said:

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Just wondering why we have to wait till tomorrow afternoon to hear our latest sanctions. Why not do something now? Russian troops are advancing into Ukraine as we sit here and if they truly push, this fight may be measured in mere days. Hours count here, and the west dawdles.

Infuriating really. Like watching your friend getting knifed in the street and then going home with a promise to speak out against knives the next afternoon as they struggle against their attacker.

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I hear you. I don't care who POTUS is at the time, you should be on TV tonight across the world saying something. Anything.

Bystander effect?

Everyone waiting for someone else to handle it?

JobSecurity said:

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The internet is incredible

Russia’s independent Ekho Moskvi Radio (Echo of Moscow) reports that Putin’s speech about the beginning of the “military operation” was recorded on February 21st. He is wearing same tie.
“Confirmed by downloading video from Kremlin web-page and checking metadata” – tweet says. https://t.co/UqPE9VCE8t

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) February 24, 2022

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Oh, he's totally going to stop. Bet he has one of those for like, 6 or 7 more countries.

Yeah, this is making my heart race watching him on Fox. It is terrible and stunning to see a modern country in modern times be invaded.

Peace through strength was our foreign policy under Trump.

We now have the opposite. Wouldnt be surprised if Biden calls a lid tomorrow at 10am and is off for the rest of the weekend and the former Soviets are conquered by Christmas.

RUSSIA IS ATTACKING UKRAINE'S MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE WITH HIGH-PRECISION WEAPONS - RIA CITES RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY
RUSSIA'S DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS NOT TARGETING UKRAINIAN CITIES WITH MISSILE OR ARTILLERY STRIKES - RIA

— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) February 24, 2022

From earlier. I've seen MLRS impacting areas with my own eyes.

Nothing else would do this and not sure why anyone would attempt to fake it at this point.

Reported videos of Russian Multiple Rocket Launch Systems landing on the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv a few hours ago. pic.twitter.com/o7jJgZviHU

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 24, 2022

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JobSecurity said:

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President Biden is speaking to Ukraine's President Zelenskyy now according to WH.

— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) February 24, 2022

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And yet he won't make a statement until noon 2/24/22.

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Takes time to write out a BS speech and rehearse it so you dont make a further @$$ of yourself. Forget the Q&A. He would need a week for that.

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Bystander effect?

Everyone waiting for someone else to handle it?

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Yep. Like the skinny nerd that just wants to be left alone getting pummeled by one person while 20 stand around and watch commenting on how horrible it is.

I believe the reports from Russian intelligence about as much as I believe GBI/CIA/NSA Reports.

Honestly they should be announcing the next traunch of sanctions, SWIFT action, diplomats being PNG'd and closing down on other actions.

Nazi's did the same thing in Spain before WWII

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BattleGrackle said:

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Bystander effect?

Everyone waiting for someone else to handle it?

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Yep. Like the skinny nerd that just wants to be left alone getting pummeled by one person while 20 stand around and watch commenting on how horrible it is.

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Sounds like the politics board!



I kid I kid.


Or am I?

MouthBQ98 said:

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Russia had problems with Chechnya, Afghanistan, Georgia. They can win battles but I'm not sure they are ready for a protracted war.

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Russians have historically sucked on the offense An exception is WWII starting in 1943. We'll see how it goes this time.

Voice service on mobiles just got shut off in #Kyiv. Expecting to loose power shortly.

— Chris Kubecka 🇵🇷🇨🇿🇳🇱 ✈️🇺🇦 @MiddleEastInst (@SecEvangelism) February 24, 2022

Who's gonna do that?

I'd like to see the US very involved, supplies, weapons, equipment, but no boots on the ground right now. What have we done so far?