Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

[CissesUnderpants9]

This is not going to end well………

Correct, it's going to be very bloody before it's over, that's just in Ukraine, one foot on NATO land, however, and we will begin WW3, and how that ends. as Sir Edward Grey, said The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime', 3 August 1914.

 

[Baloo]

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[LondonBlackCat]

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Sweeney with some footage. There's also video of burnt out Russian APCs / AFVs but won't post them as there are bodies in the footage.

 

[luvulongtime]

Got to mean no Ukraine air force to speak of.

big low flying helicopters should be an easy target for ground fire summits gone wrong here if true

 

[gards2]

Never thought i'd see something like this in my lifetime

 

[peil]

This is really f***ing shit

We have a huge tech team based in Kharkiv. We’re currently working on getting as many as possible into Western Europe as quickly as possible.

It’s fuxking disgraceful it’s come to this.

I was working at EY back in 2009 when the pipelines were turned off, was very tense then with the Kiev office's telecoms taken offline as they were routed via Moscow.
Trying to talk to lads in Moscow about why the lines were down and they were like it's out of our hands.

 

[bahtat]

I think this will be over in 5 mins now. If we saw helicopters take Heathrow it'd tell us it was game over in a strategic sense.

I don’t know about Ukraine but military aircraft don’t use Heathrow

 

[Shambo]

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[coyneeee_s]

Also, we shouldn't forget that Ukraine's democratically elected leader was overthrown in a violent coup, funded by the US and EU. I'm not saying they backed the violence, that started with the Ukraine right wing firing on its own protestors, but the US did have connections with the far right when planning who should take over Ukraine once they removed Yanukovych.

You mean the one who rigged the vote and then repealed the constitution of Ukraine to join NATO which was the vote of the people?

And is now concidentally now part of the Kremlin? Aye that one.

The only shame about it is that he wasn't assassinated.

 

[billybobmackem2312]

You'd like to think that Ukraine are well prepared for this, with NATO weapons and are putting up the strongest resistance possible.

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Jesus f***ing christ

 

[Deleted member 6694]

Hes gone full Adolf!

THIS - anyone tweeted Adolf Putin yet?

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[Scotty]

I think this will be over in 5 mins now. If we saw helicopters take Heathrow it'd tell us it was game over in a strategic sense.

yep, was lots of talk about how many anti-tank missiles the west were sending - looks like they forgot the memo that said 'send manpads, lots of them'

 

[Frijj]

This is a massive black mark against the west. Standing idly by and letting the Russians just take Ukraine.

The US, UK, NATO…are not the superpowers they claim to be.

The Yanks are great at bombing the desert but are doing fuck all when they’ve got a real fight on their hands.

We are no better.

This is a lovely how-to training manual for China to take Taiwan. The US will do jack shit when they take Taiwan as well.

 

[shadowplay]

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I'm not sure if that was accidental tbh.

 

[LondonBlackCat]

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Section of the aforementioned video without the AFV / body images. Looks like they brewed up a T80 and the turret's blown off.

 

[The]

Have we sanctioned the fuck out of Belarus yet, the little shithouses. Give the russian economy somet else to prop up while they’re trying to fund all this.

 

[Shambo]

Lithuainia declares a state of emergency and deploys troops to its border

 

[The Ram]

Heartbreaking scenes of people having to evacuate, some with no means to escape or nowhere or to go to.

I can only hope this ends badly for Putin.

 

[shepherd88]

Sounds bizarre but a lot of those in front line will be organised by football ultras. There's a great book called 1312 in which the author went around eastern Europe with access to a lot of ultra leaders and those in Ukraine and surrounding areas were basically using the football as an excuse to find lads willing to fight for the cause of their countries.

That and deal drugs, obvs...

Oh I've got that book to read. Will need to push it up the list to read next

 

[Georgewhitt]

I, probably like some other people on here, have been to war, and I have to be honest, it wasn't a particularly pleasant experience. All "Boys Own" stuff until you actually get there.
The thought of bairns armed and fighting for their lives breaks my heart.
All politicians should be forced to be on the front line, and leading the way when they give that order, then maybe, just maybe, we would see less conflict.

Please God, let it end soon.