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And don't expect any cooperation from Hungary unless Orban loses the upcoming election.

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What does Hungary have to do with the UNSC?

Waffledynamics said:

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Rossticus said:

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And don't expect any cooperation from Hungary unless Orban loses the upcoming election.

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What does Hungary have to do with the UNSC?

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Drinking. Brain conflated NATO and UN. Regardless, anything NATO related will be hamstrung by Hungary.

Interesting to see Turkey being supportive. It was looking like Turkey was on the outs with NATO

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Waffledynamics said:

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Rossticus said:

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And don't expect any cooperation from Hungary unless Orban loses the upcoming election.

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What does Hungary have to do with the UNSC?

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Drinking. Brain conflated NATO and UN. Regardless, anything NATO related will be hamstrung by Hungary.

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I'm saucin' too. No worries.

Hard to imagine some bloc of NATO countries won't decide to do anything. Ukraine needs allies and badly. I don't have much to back this up, but I get a feeling WMDs, or at least nukes, are becoming less and less of a threat. Here's to hoping the Russians get booted out of the Donbas and Crimea.

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Interesting to see Turkey being supportive. It was looking like Turkey was on the ours with NATO

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Without any specialized info, my back of the envelope guess is that Turkey recognizes they have a delicate line to walk. They cannot side with Russia too much and cannot side with NATO too much. Being a mediator and hoping for as close to the previous status quo probably suits them.

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Rossticus said:

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Waffledynamics said:

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Rossticus said:

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And don't expect any cooperation from Hungary unless Orban loses the upcoming election.

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What does Hungary have to do with the UNSC?

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Drinking. Brain conflated NATO and UN. Regardless, anything NATO related will be hamstrung by Hungary.

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I'm saucin' too. No worries.

Hard to imagine some bloc of NATO countries won't decide to do anything. Ukraine needs allies and badly. I don't have much to back this up, but I get a feeling WMDs, or at least nukes, are becoming less and less of a threat. Here's to hoping the Russians get booted out of the Donbas and Crimea.

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Too many countries feel insulated and that Russia will still be their friend if they don't peeve them off. Plenty of European countries that would hit a button right now and send every Ukrainian straight to the grave if it got them back to normal and guaranteed their safety. Some folks have principles and some folks will stack corpses to hide behind.

Guy in a 3rd pic is a UA tanker, the only tank in battle for Lukianivka on our side. Got his T-64 damaged and finished the battle on a T-72 picked up right there.

— Serhiy Pazelskyy (@mrx_ua) April 3, 2022

To my understanding there isn't a realistic mechanism by which to do so

Iryna #Vereshchuk said that there were 11 #Ukrainian mayors in #Russian captivity

This information was forwarded to the #UN. pic.twitter.com/JZYixsk8VS

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 3, 2022

Izyum looking like it might be the next Mariupol.

About 80% of residential buildings are destroyed in #Izyum, #Kharkiv region, according to deputy mayor Vladimir Matsokin.

15 to 20 thousand people in Izyum and the villages below the city are blocked and in need of humanitarian aid. pic.twitter.com/6iqk5doScj

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 3, 2022

According to US officials to CNN, Russia wants to take control of Donbas & other regions in Eastern Ukraine by early May. Putin is focused on May 9th due to it being known as Russia's Victory Day. Putin is finally preparing to name a general to oversight the conflict in Ukraine.

— Global: MilitaryInfo (@Global_Mil_Info) April 3, 2022

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That’s it.
The Ukrainian military has secured the Belarussian-Ukrainian border in Kyiv region.

— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) April 3, 2022

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I know it's mainly just re-occupying quickly abandoned territory but still incredible.

Really curious as to how the Ukes address the south now. Punch in and try to relieve the besieged cities ASAP? Slow roll in with more conventional tactics? Just consolidate what they have and put it on the backburner for now?

Also this reporter has been one of the most solid guys since the beginning with just the touch of snark to stay personable. And likes heavy metal and beer. Wish I could buy him one in person.

Warning. This link, which shows evidence of Russian crimes against humanity, has many dead civilians throughout.

Edit: Add in the ".com" after "twitter" if you'd like to view.

https://twitter/kiraincongress/status/1510249049357791234

In #Irpen, the occupiers shot women and girls and then drove tanks over them

The mayor of the city, Oleksandr Markushin, said this in an interview pic.twitter.com/PGmcyzQYdV

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 3, 2022

Clearly the tide of the war must be turning back in Russia's favor if they are seizing... WW2 military replicas. 🙄 https://t.co/pU1F8aRNdU

— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) April 3, 2022

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UN inspectors and other world health professionals need to be in Bucha and surrounding areas yesterday to get full documentation of what occurred. We know atrocities happened. The world knows it. But there still needs to be a third party, first hand, documented mission to record this to remove the biased claims. For future Russian generations. Russia needs to be broken of their views of their roles in this world. They need to know they are the bad guys and always have been. (If possible of course, big ask)

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Russia is on the security council. Good luck doing anything to them.

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Oh, for sure. Russia will get away with this one too I think.

No, I meant for future Russians. They need to know the true history of what their armies have done. What their armies have ALWAYS done. Their wars have been whitewashed to an incredible degree with no real accountability and is part of the reason why they keep doing it IMO. The Russian warrior is an absolute savage human being. We have literally hundreds of years of history to prove this. Your typical Russian does not have that history though unless they travel or dig past the justifications. Which most won't. We are no different really I guess. How many average Americans do you know personally that are willfully bling and ignorant to history and the world at large? Majority of people I know check that box prettily handily.

LOTS of claims already of staged media from Bucha. Third party observers won't make it go away but maybe, just maybe, it will get a few to pause.

BREAKING: Multiple explosions hit Ukrainian city of Odessa, smoke billowing from multiple locations pic.twitter.com/Qln8pBq9Mn

— BNO News (@BNONews) April 3, 2022

WATCH: Plumes of black smoke in Odessa after Russian airstrikes, apparently targeting fuel depot pic.twitter.com/9tNiCPRPj2

— BNO News (@BNONews) April 3, 2022

Yes but I've heard a lot of "the older generations of Russians support Putin because they only watch state run TV, but the younger generations are almost all against the war."

Every single one of those young Russians has access to the internet and varying viewpoints to consider, yet they react almost to a person with disgust and contempt. Coupled with the images and stories of widespread Russian looting (washing machines on transport trucks?), the war crimes and crimes against humanity that we are seeing, then this? I think we are seeing a pattern emerge. No, it's not every single Russian. But man it sure does seem to be a big majority of the Russian population. So I think that means the world could have a bigger problem on their hands than a "small military operation."

While delivering a sermon just now at the Main Church of Russia’s Armed Forces, Patriarch Kirill, high priest the Russian Orthodox Church, declares, “We broke the backbone of fascism, may God help us today.”

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) April 3, 2022

Patriarch Kirill: "We are a peace-loving country"

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All #Russia said during a sermon at the liturgy at the main church of the Russian armed forces in #Kubinka, near #Moscow, that the Russian people have no desire for war or harming others. pic.twitter.com/cdB9qwvQBv

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 3, 2022

HAHAHAHAHA. Wikipedia you say

The stories in the linked article are horrific.

"On February 27, Russian forces rounded up six men in the village of Staryi Bykiv, in the Chernihiv region, and summarily executed them." https://t.co/0HOKZiOtr2

— Michael Weiss 🌻🇺🇸🇮🇪 (@michaeldweiss) April 3, 2022

...In the liberated territories, small groups of servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation remain, who are hiding or trying to cross the state border of Ukraine on their own" pic.twitter.com/5dZDglph22

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 3, 2022