Ukraine
- Russian businessman Antipov questioned in fraud case - agencies
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/16299740
> MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russian businessman Yury Antipov was questioned by police on Monday in a fraud case connected to the alleged illegal privatisation of metals assets... > > TASS had earlier said that Antipov had been detained on fraud charges... > > The move comes after Russian news agencies reported that a regional arbitration court in Sverdlovsk had ruled in favour of prosecutors seeking to nationalise three assets important to the defence industry that they said had been illegally privatised in the 1990s.
- Ukraine Update: Ukraine's war of attrition can break Russia—and it won't take yearswww.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Ukraine's war of attrition can break Russia—and it won't take years
Attritional strategies get a bad rap. When someone mentions a battle of attrition, many people think of the years-long-stalemate of World War I, or the endless and strategically pointless body count battles that characterized the American involvement...
- several examples of tactics used by Russians to reshape the population on occupied territoriesthreadreaderapp.com Thread by @Tatarigami_UA on Thread Reader App
@Tatarigami_UA: Recently, I mentioned the issue of Russian colonists replacing Ukrainians, who either fell victim to violence, was forcibly displaced, or had to flee. Today, I will provide several examples of tactic...…
- Russian Nazis and Russian neo-Nazi movements.threadreaderapp.com Thread by @P_Kallioniemi on Thread Reader App
@P_Kallioniemi: In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin an...…
In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin and being responsible for the "denazification" in Ukraine.
- Ukraine Update: One town south of Bakhmut is liberated, and another is almost therewww.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: One town south of Bakhmut is liberated, and another is almost there
No one is particularly happy about the pace of events in the Ukraine counteroffensive. President Volodomyr Zelenskyy isn’t happy. Ukraine’s military leadership isn’t happy. Those participating ...
- Ukraine Update: Russia doesn't have a backup plan when it runs out of artillerywww.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Russia doesn't have a backup plan when it runs out of artillery
Joseph Stalin supposedly once called artillery “the God of War.” Regardless of the historicity of the comment, it gets at a certain truth about the Russian and Soviet armies since well before the time of Napoleon: Artillery has been, and continues to...
So basically, we're waiting for a (hopefully very soon) systemic collapse of moscovite army since they bet both their attack and defence on artillery
- Making the case why the Ukrainian counteroffensive is exactly going according to plan.www.dailykos.com Making the case why the Ukrainian counteroffensive is exactly going according to plan.
"Charge of the Light Brigade" is still used ironically to characterize an enterprise that is carried out with great courage and discipline but with inadequate preparation and unsuitable means. Hopefully, the Ukrainians will avoid such an "act of...
- Ukraine Update: A Russian self-decapitation?www.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: A Russian self-decapitation?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has frequently expressed admiration for Josef Stalin, very consciously linking his image with that of the late Soviet leader, whom Putin credits with “defeating Nazism” and saving Russia. This linkage—of the old regime...
- Ukraine Update: Normandy, maple syrup, and counteroffensive optimismwww.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Normandy, maple syrup, and counteroffensive optimism
Ukraine is beginning to advance on multiple fronts, with gains reported on the Tokmak, Velyka Novosilka, Kherson, and Donetsk in recent days, while Ukraine continues to press the flanks around ...
- Denis Prigozhin calls for coup, withdraws his troops from Ukraine and heads for border
A senior American intelligence official tells me for both Ukraine and U.S. intelligence, it’s a “watch and see if they destroy themselves sort of situation.” They said it was going to be a long night of watching how this develops. Said Wagner is mobilizing—headed towards Moscow.
- Ukraine Update: Pyatykhatky and Pickett’s Chargewww.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Pyatykhatky and Pickett’s Charge
Everyone seems to be disappointed by the rate at which the Ukrainian counteroffensive is liberating territory … only it’s not clear that the Ukrainian military is actually part of that “...
- Ukraine Update: The one war stat that tells us what’s happening with Ukraine’s counteroffensivewww.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: The one war stat that tells us what’s happening with Ukraine’s counteroffensive
There’s much fretting about Ukraine’s pace in its counteroffensive, having liberated only a handful of small settlements despite two weeks of heavy fighting. One of the reasons is certainly ...
- Ukraine Update: Why is Russia afraid of actually using its defensive trenches?www.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Why is Russia afraid of actually using its defensive trenches?
Mark Sumner wrote about the place yesterday, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, on the road to Melitopol. It’s a tiny nothing kind of place. Its name literally translates to “five huts,” and it’s close to being accurate. Yet after liberating the settlement over...
- Ukraine Update: Pyatykhatky is a small place. The battle there may have a big effectwww.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Pyatykhatky is a small place. The battle there may have a big effect
Last Friday, Russian sources reported that Ukrainian armor had begun moving toward Pyatykhatky. As with so many locations in Ukraine, there are multiple settlements of that name, including a small ...
- Quick Explainer: Ukraine is Quickly Adapting Tacticallywww.dailykos.com Quick Explainer: Ukraine is Quickly Adapting Tactically
The earliest impression of Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s defense line was defined by an early Ukrainian disaster—the loss of multiple Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles in a minefield north of Tokmak. In the subsequent weeks, it...