Russian invasion of Ukraine

The fact that Zelensky voiced paddington bear in Ukraine makes me very sad. 🥺

https://youtu.be/zI4aS2bT0Lw

Maybe the most interesting footage this week. If it's not real, the leutenant is a hell of an actor.

So many things about this video and website are insane, it's actually quite funny. What's with the palm trees and neon lights?

That was my impression. The man in the middle is either a very, very good actor, or it's authentic. Sad moment when the man on the right days there's always hope (of returning to Russia).

Netflix have put their documentary on Youtube.
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Full Feature | Netflix

Is Paddington doing a Nazi salute there? A lot of them ended up in South America.
Maybe we have found out where Putins worries come from.

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Are those Russians that have been bombarding the towns for the last week still confused? Or does the confusion only set in once captured?

The confusion is all an act.
They all say the exact things, they have been primed to do it.
A new take on the “just following orders” crap.

Exactly. Yet more propaganda, and they shouldn’t be given the airtime.

What they're saying isn't a benefit to Russia though, basically they've been coerced into fighting against their will.

Is Nato expansion to blame?
https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1500097922788175879

this article linked in that thread is worth a read:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/2/23/22945781/russia-ukraine-putin-speech-transcript-february-22

Well worth reading, thanks for that.

Yet another thread on the Russian logistics issues
https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1500213943012319252

Visa and Mastercard to stop working in Russia…

I don’t know how cash vs card habits are in Russia, but that feels like a huge inconvenience…

apparently will only affect foreign issued cards and purchases outside Russia and have no impact on Russian people using them to buy goods/withdraw cash in Russia itself

🙄

apparently will only affect foreign issued cards and purchases outside Russia and have no impact on Russian people using them to buy goods/withdraw cash in Russia itself

You sure?

San Francisco-based Visa said in a statement that it will immediately
begin working with clients and partners in Russia to stop all
transactions over the coming days. Once the process is completed,
transactions by Visa cards issued in Russia will no longer work
outside the country, and cards issued elsewhere in the world will not
work within Russia.

https://www.ft.com/content/08119b95-ee26-4f64-be43-49c57c75b030

EDIT: oh, I've just read it again - "OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY"

Well, hope those Russian tourists stuck abroad took off some cash

apparently, this information is largely according to Russian state-run banks so maybe not the most impartial!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60637429

In a thread he links to they are sending Russian school buses to the front

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1500405677872795652?s=20&t=VVXdPLPcgjdPpQ5r_66jYw

Yeh and when the civilian vehicles are destroyed and your country bankrupt, how do you replace the basic infrastructure to make it function again

Moscow authorities prepping for protests

https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1500424517369450496?s=20&t=ywA-x1pK52OnW9hk3KrS_Q

Stickers of something like this might prove popular? @dangeek ?

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Change it to landscape format and we've got ourselves a spoke card!
I'd be happy to purchase a couple, provided any surplus funds went humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Belarus was supposed to committed 30k troops last week, instead their Deputy Defence Minister has quit citing the troops won't fight for the cause
https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1500451779141582851