Russian invasion of Ukraine

Anyone else read that the Ukraine have suspended far left political parties and one has quite a few seats in the parliament https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia

It's a thing that happens in wars; we interred 1000 fascist supporters without trial in 1940 including Oswald Mosley and a knighted Royal Navy Admiral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Regulation_18B

Such a shame. Good job Billy Bragg (though not much of a fan of his music).

Anyone else read that the Ukraine have suspended far left political parties and one has quite a few seats in the parliament

Yes. The leader of the biggest party is a guy called Viktor Medvedchuk who was Putin's first choice to replace Zelensky in a puppet government and when the invasion ran into trouble, he went into hiding. He's also facing criminal charges for diverting funds from a Russian company to re-arm seperatists in Donbass.

Never would've thought Russia has a dispute over land with Japan as well but oh well - there's never too much land for them, I guess.

On March 21, 2022 Russia announced its withdrawal from peace treaty
talks with Japan and freeze of joint economic projects related to the
disputed Kuril islands due to sanctions imposed by Japan over
Ukraine.[68]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute

The hacked media reported Russian KIA to wounded ratio is very high. Something like 1 killed to 2 wounded.
Russian field medical is as bad as their logistics? Cronyism could have siphoned off a lot of expensive medical equipment and supplies.

No one seems to have even seen Russian vehicles with a red cross on them. Hospitals in Belarus supposedly overflowing with dead and injured and bodies in black bags being moved at night back to Russia via train.

They have buses with a red cross on them https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/19/ukraine-war-russian-corpses-shipped-to-belarus-in-dead-of-night-16307123/

'the Ukraine'

Why are people still calling it that? What's wrong with just Ukraine?

By this stage, even the dogs in the street know that 'the Ukraine' and 'Kiev' are the Russian nomenclatures. That many journalists are still too lazy to get it right is pretty damning.

Russian field medical is as bad as their logistics? Cronyism could have siphoned off a lot of expensive medical equipment and supplies.

I saw somebody speculate the ratio is different to other wars because how many of the deaths happened in armoured vehicles and aircraft. I.e entire tank or helicopter crews being taken out rather than infantry casualties who are more likely to be treatable.

No idea if true but struck me as potentially plausible. There are many ways to die a bad death in a tank. And not many ways to get wounded.

I mean, it was not that long ago in the context of military history that tank crews wore chainmail to protect from spalling and now days there are anti tank rounds (HESH) that specifically target that vulnerability. Bleak.

If I were conscripted tomorrow, I'd choose infantry over armour any day of the week.

Actually, I think I'd be shot for cowardice rather than conscripted. But my point still stands.

Some friends of mine created these amazing badges free to use for anybody - stickers, patches, whatever comes to your imagination.

You can download working files here: https://www.younique.lt/forukraine/

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Cool, but I'm not sure I'm with you on "Svoboda".
It seems ukrainians have a very narrow path between pro-russia and ultra right wing. Such a shame. I might well be missing a point though.

The Ukrainian soldiers were surprised that the Russians still carry the old school rubber tourniquets.

It seems ukrainians have a very narrow path between pro-russia and ultra right wing. Such a shame. I might well be missing a point though.

Freedom of course is a very relative term.

But ultra right wing Ukraine as whole is what Putin wants the west to believe.
Therefor he is denazifying Ukraine.

I see what you mean!

By including an ultranationalist political party in with the designs, you risk doing Putin's work for him. @drøn's misgivings are bang on.

The advice I was given by an old CSM (infantry obs)was stay away from tanks because every f****r wants to kill them.

If the photos are representative the Ukrainians are hitting a disproportionately large number of armoured personal carriers and specialty vehicles. Not many actual tanks, the tanks they are hitting seem to be catastrophic hits, turrets blown off not just mobility kills.
This could be superb intelligence letting them hit the air defence and artillery command vehicles etc.

I have to admit, I was not aware and had to google about that ultranationalist political party.

I see your point but I don't agree with it. Svoboda means freedom.

The highlighted part "da" means yes which in my interpretation could mean they're free to say yes to join European Union (similar colours by the way).

But fair point you guys, I'll check with those friends of mine about it. I'm pretty sure they didn't mean it. It's pity that the word "Freedom" has this negative connotation.

Ah, literally translates to freedom and the right-wingers have called their party "freedom" too. They shouldn't get ownership of such a word in that case.

The advice I was given by an old CSM (infantry obs)was stay away from tanks because every f****r wants to kill them.

It has been suggested that we really should reduce our i.e., UK's tank numbers for this reason, plus we have to ship them to anywhere that they would actually be useful.

This could be superb intelligence letting them hit the air defence and artillery command vehicles etc.

I think partly superb intelligence aided by EU and US but also skilful use of drones and ground reconaissance. Also probably helps to have civilians with phones too.

Those photos of Russian tanks with turrets popped off and barrels nailed into the ground are crazy. Not something I'd expect to see in 2022.

Is It the ammunition on T72s auto loader blowing up