LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - Russia has told Ukraine it is ready to halt military operations "in a moment" if Kyiv meets a list of conditions, the Kremlin spokesman said on Monday.
Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was demanding that Ukraine cease military action, change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory, and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states. — Reuters
They have mobile cremations. Scary shit that we may never know the extent of. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Most of the propaganda has a grain of truth somewhere, denying that fans the flames of such propaganda, it doesn't quash it. — Isaac
Sweeping the rug out from under him by promising to jointly investigate the problem at least has a chance of undermining some of his support in Russia if he refuses. — Isaac
All the combat experience gained by his military dies inside of the body, so it seems a little short sighted, no?Maybe it's too expensive to send the bodies back? One thing Putin said that I sort of believe is that this was an exercise to give his military some real combat experience. — frank
All the combat experience gained by his military dies inside of the body, so it seems a little short sighted, no? — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Most of the propaganda has a grain of truth somewhere — Isaac
I doubt the assault on Odessa goes well, that's when the Ukrainians will pull out the Neptunes. — Count Timothy von Icarus
It's genuine, Peskov is Putin's man. Of course Peskov has thrown earlier wild pitches at opponents: for example he purposed to Trump "as a show of friendship" that the US would withdraw all of it's troops from the Baltics and Poland. Trump didn't even respond to the gesture.There's zero reason to assume this offer isn't genuine. — boethius
's with small sentences like "...has a grain of truth somewhere" that propaganda thrives on. — Christoffer
Demands are now for the territory they already held before the war started and a pledge not to join NATO, clearly not the original war aims, i.e. a change in government and Russian defacto control of the country. — Count Timothy von Icarus
But this makes no sense. Then why the Kool-Aid? — Isaac
They need the Kool-Aid precisely because their ability to just shoot dissenters is limited. — Isaac
There's zero reason to assume this offer isn't genuine. — boethius
What makes you think that? — Isaac
Better late than never I guess?
Did sanctions have an effect of sorts? Ukrainians cause difficulties?
Anyway, seems the Nazi story fell out of favor. — jorndoe
it nurtures the lie that muddies the waters of what is propaganda and what is not. — Christoffer
lots of people who never talk philosophy or politics etc. keep mentioning the grain of truth as if it validates anything of what Putin is doing. — Christoffer
It's genuine, Peskov is Putin's man. — ssu
True, but we aren't discussing the portrayed genocide that Ukrainian government according to Putin was doing in the Donbas. No evidence of that has been even given (or fabricated) from the Russian side I think. — ssu
Better late than never I guess?
Did sanctions have an effect of sorts? Ukrainians cause difficulties?
Anyway, seems the Nazi story fell out of favor. — jorndoe
In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania, unloading them from giant military cargo planes so they can make the trip by land to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other major cities. So far, Russian forces have been so preoccupied in other parts of the country that they have not targeted the arms supply lines, but few think that can last.
Now 17 000 anti-tank weapons is huge amount. That it has been sent in less than a week is noteworthy: — ssu
That's one of the reasons why they're the bad guys. — RogueAI
Destroyed columns say something else. And if the vast majority of the Russian forces are engaged, then combat is obviously happening elsewhere where the media isn't present.Notably, the only city the Russian's have so far actually done urban combat and occupied is the only city required to carry out the above plan: Kherson. Every other city the Russian's are simply laying siege at minimal risk to themselves. — boethius
Not actually. The videos typically show Syrian forces and Syrian tanks. Russia has basically had in Syria a rather small contingent of aircraft, air defense to protect their base and some field units and mercenaries. I haven't seen one video of a tank of the Russian armed forces destroyed in Syria. They are Syrian tanks, even if Soviet/Russian manufactured ones.When Russia intervened in Syria, the "resistance" had an amazing social media campaign, took out many Russian tanks and vehicles (some of it real, some of it fake) with Western supplied anti-tank missiles, high praises from the Western media, and denigrating the Russian equipment and personnel, and predictions of the Russian's losing etc. — boethius
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