Thomas Ulich @MiVyoo@qoto.org

I feel EXACTLY like @anderspuck when Ukraine destroys ships in the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

This is an awesome video with great points about the current state of the Ukraine war, and some well deserved straight talk for Olaf Scholz who keeps holding back the Taurus missiles:

https://youtu.be/HYWCUZBvJ7k?si=d3vyfp689qcq2HIz

Why is Russia bombing civilians?
by @anderspuck 13:23

Russia has launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine hitting many civilian objects.

But it's a mistake to overlook the military objectives and explanations.

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#AndersPuckNielsen is a military analyst and Navy Commander at the Royal Danish Defence College. He studies #Russia's military since long before the 2022 invasion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWCUZBvJ7k

#Ukraine
#Ukrainerussiawar
#Youtube
#NAFO

Russia's latest escalation in procuring and even using North Korean missiles emphasizes once again that treaties and agreements with Russia are not worth the paper on which they are written on. This case in particular shows that, brazenly. Short thread in pics.

#Russia #Ukraine

Newly appointed Foreign Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, calls for long range missiles to be used deep inside Russia.

This is an interesting development, because until now, most western countries have required, their weapons only to be used in Ukraine, which has created an asymmetric war, where every Ukrainian can be targeted by missiles, while Russian leaders are safe in Moscow.

Canada will provide more NASAMS air defence systems to help defend Ukraine from airstrikes, says Ukrainian president Zelenskyy on Telegram.

That is absolutely awesome Canada! 🇨🇦

In today’s New Years address, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called for peace in The Middle East and said a two state solution was the only way forward. And while Israel has a right to defend itself, Israel must put an end to the illegal settlements and strive for peace.

On #Ukraine, Ms. Frederiksen said, “Ukraine is in need of ammunition, because Europe has not delivered. This is unacceptable”, and she asked rethorically, “What good is Europe, if Europe cannot defend itself?”

#Denmark

The attack on Belgorod — how to spot Russian disinformation:

Russia has called for an emergency meeting at the UN security council, claiming Ukraine has attacked the city center of Belgorod, using Czech made RM-70 Vampire rocket systems (picture 1), and Russian social media accounts are full of videos of explosions inside the Belgorod city center.

But here is the problem (picture 2). The maximum range of RM-70 Vampire is 20 km, meaning even if Ukraine drove all the way up to the border…

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This 83-year old Russian babushka was asked regarding the upcoming “elections” in Russia and tells how it is. She releases some serious truth bombs such as:

“Our people (Russians) are as dumb and as slavish possible.”

“The more I learn about this country (Russia), the more I hate it.”

“I was unhappy with the Soviet regime, but there was no such ugliness then as is now.”

The whole video is here and I can recommend to watch all of it:

youtu.be/h_LMdoCuSRM?si…

#Russia

By this day in 2002 all Russian soldiers in Moldova and Georgia were promised to be removed.

They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.

https://www.awi.de/NM_WebCam/neumayerW.0650.jpg Neumeyer station updates every 10 min, time in the URL. @southpoleviews

For anyone who still thinks we shouldn’t prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators because their January 6 insurrection failed, consider this: there is no such thing as prosecuting a successful insurrection.

President Zelenskyy made a surprise visit in Avdiivka. He thanked personally soldiers at this very embattled city and awarded several of them for exceptional deeds beyond the call of duty.

It is unheard of that leaders of countries would choose to visit such dangerous areas, but unlike the Russian coward Putin, who even in confined spaces only dates to meet actors, President Zelenskyy shows what real leadership is.

Source: President Zelenskyy’s office

#Ukraine #Donetsk #Avdiivka

I fully understand, it is difficult for YouTube to regulate a user driven medium of this size, but I believe, the EU and the US must demand of content platforms, that they have effective processes in place — at least for the bigger channels, where creators are making content for a living.

Deleting someone s entire livelihood and not having anyone content creators can talk to, simply does not suffice. This has to be fixed before we lose someone because they think, their career is over.

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About a month ago, YouTube completely removed the YouTube channel Warthog Defence, effectively deleting all his work, and his contact with 637,000 subscribers. This week the YouTube team apologizes and says they made a mistake.

But then yesterday, they have demonitized another very popular YouTube channel, “Reporting from Ukraine”, and now he has to go through the stressful proces of spending weeks trying to get anyone at YouTube to listen. This is not a proper way to treat content makers.

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Finally! The EU has found a legal way of supporting Ukraine, circumventing the Hungarian blockade, using special rules introduced under the pandemic.

This means an end to the veto blockade from Putin's Hungarian helper, Victor Orbán.
https://news.yahoo.com/eu-covid-19-mechanism-bypass-072100214.html

Via @accretionist

Zaluzhnyi , Ukraine commander-in-chief made this correct observation
"My main mistake is that I thought that such a number of losses as we inflicted would stop anyone. But it did not stop Russia,"
It's exactly how Putin wants to win , just overwhelm Ukraine in quantative terms, a difficult year lies ahead for Ukraine and Europe.
#geopolitics #russia #ukraine @geopolitics