Ukraine has not been defeated! How you can even make that claim is ridiculous.
Just who is it that Russia is fighting a grinding war with in Donbas? That’s right – Donbas.
There are no Russian troops in Kherson city! None in Kharkiv! None in Zaporizhzhia city! None in Odessa, none even in Kiev!
Your delusion is frankly breathtaking.
Do you think Russia is fighting nobody and the whole thing is for show?
Posted by: Julian | Apr 6 2024 7:40 utc | 141
You’re mistaking sports for warfare. Sports is winning a competition through mutually defined rules. War is achieving political objectives through force.
The Russians at the outset of the SMO stated that their objectives were to demilitarize Ukraine, “denazify” Ukraine and liberate the breakaway oblasts that had decided to join Russia.
Never once did Putin or anyone say they intended to occupy Ukraine … they didn’t even declare war. Do you really think the Russians want to govern the hornets nest that is western Ukraine? Western politicians, pundits and media however decided that they would define Russian objectives through a mythical work called “The Russian Playbook”.
This playbook is a bit of a head scratcher though because it has the Russians laying siege to a city of 3 million with a force of under 30,000 while ignoring that this action fixed the Ukrainian reserve allowing the Russians to sieze a land route to Crimea and completely ignored Russia’s masterful retreat and rearguard action to move an army of 30,000 over the Dnieper under fire with no casualties while crossing.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Apr 6 2024 16:59 utc | 204

https://m.vk.com/video-154921046_456267221

(IntelDrop) Putin’s Claim Confirmed By NATO Nation’s Ex-Minister? ‘ISIS Pawn Of USA…’ | Moscow Attack | Ukraine
Amid a heated war of words between Russia and the West over Vladimir Putin’s claim that Ukraine had a hand in the recent Moscow terrorist attack which led to the death of more than 140 people, a former minister of a NATO nation has made a huge statement. Panagiotis Lafazanis has claimed that the terrorist group ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the Moscow attack, is actually controlled by USA and UK security agencies. Watch the full video for more.

Posted by: anon2020 | Apr 6 2024 17:54 utc | 206

For me Buryats and Tatars who are fighting side by side with Great Russians against Nazies are more brothers than Slavs from Azov and Lyut who are fighting on the other side.
Once again, the graviest enemies almost always share their genotype. The war in America will be Reds vs Blues, not Whites vs Browns.
Posted by: Poslan1 | Apr 6 2024 16:19 utc | 199
That is actually a post I mostly agree with. This pan-Slavist horsecrap has gone for too long and only brought grief to Russia.
Still, if the Norteamericanos go for CivWar 2.0, it won’t be Red vs Blue, but Establishment vs Opposition. The lines do not appear to be clear-cut in the imperial core.

Posted by: Constantine | Apr 6 2024 19:31 utc | 208

Robert E. Smith 194 – Spot on there. RF is fighting to preserve Western Civilization from the WEC/Soros/Zuckerberg axis of evil.
Nuland and Sherman and Blinken-sky are merely the operators of the system which engaged in and fostered the now Ukrainian general war with the hopes of forcing Russia into a state of systematic collapse
They implemented the strategic policy to expand NATO to its outer limits, via the takeover/coup of the pro Russian Ukrainian government in 2014, with the expectation that Russia would allow this change. Obviously, the further tangent of this goal was the ethnic cleansing of the eastern Donbass of all Russians and Russian speakers in 2022.
Monday morning quarterbacking is a sport we all often play, but in retrospect, RF should have saved the then Kieve government in 2014 with an injection of Special Ops troops before the Nuland ball got rolling. All hindsight of course…….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Apr 6 2024 19:57 utc | 210

anon2020
… 12 bore …
Sounds a bit like rediscovering what was used by the army of Rhodesia – before they lost and it became Zimbabwe – in that civil war. They erected on a pole above their armoured Lorries what looked like a pincushion with shot gun cartridges facing outward in all directions. When under attack they would fire the thing which would spray the surroundings with shot gun pellets.
They called it the “hedgehog”. My uncle told me who was one of those conscripted soldiers.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 6 2024 23:10 utc | 212

A current Reuters headline “Ukraine’s Zelenskiy warns of dwindling air defence missiles”
I see SU-25 was used as CAS for about the first time on one section of the front.
An interesting aspect of attrition warfare is the trading of cheap drones for multi million dollar missiles. A particularly acute problem for the west with its privatized/financialized MIC and vastly overpriced products.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 6 2024 23:25 utc | 214

S | Apr 5 2024 23:46 utc | 102
***… the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinskiy drew attention to this fact, writes Strana.ua.
“Paveli was the head of the puppet government of Croatia, an ally of Nazi Germany in 1941–1945, the executioner of Jews, Serbs and Gypsies,” he said.
Dolinskiy added that Paveli has the blood of more than 30 thousand Croatian Jews on his hands, most of whom were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp.***
How strange that he didn’t also complain about — even notice? — the insignia and flags of the Azov and Aidar regiments in modern Kiev-Ukraine during the (Jewish) Poroshenko and Zelensky regimes.
Or the applied ideology of Netanyahu and the Zionists…..

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 7 2024 4:35 utc | 216

My apologies.
Should have been posted on open thread!

Posted by: suzan | Apr 7 2024 5:39 utc | 218

suzan@207….it translates as
Fear nothing, but fear itself.
….as for curing potatoes, can I assume you mean after harvest, cut potatoes are cured for several days before planting, to heal the cut but I try, based on past harvests, to plant full uncut seed potatoes. Seems to work better up here on the 50th. As for after harvest cure, mainly we let them sit, I use wire drying rack, some people put on news print on the floor. They are turned several times over a few days, we just scuff the dirt off and that’s it. Not sure what the USDA says, but it works for us.
As an added bonus half of last year’s crop was potatoes that over wintered from the previous year, so I plan on doing that this year. I will though plant some Nursery seed potatoes, you always need a plan B when growing food. Especially up here.
Cheers M
all tips and ideas are welcome, thanks.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 8 2024 21:11 utc | 220

Posted by: S | Apr 7 2024 0:48 utc | 215
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So the shortage of weapons and ammunition announced all over NATO doesn’t make the case that they are being demilitarized?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Apr 11 2024 4:33 utc | 222