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Nonexisting:
Initial gragra. Dick wey quick rise go quick fall. I may not be a fan of America but their originality na baba God give am to them. China with all their technology ingenuity still dey struggle with quality issues. YouTube I know, every other tube na tire tube.

The app is developed for their citizens, not for you. YouTube was first accepted by Americans forst before it was introduced to other countries.

The Ukrainian military claims to have "eliminated" two more Russian generals during fighting in the south-eastern Kherson region.

A third general from Russia's 49th General Army was said to have been seriously wounded, and a mobile command centre was destroyed, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence's intelligence update.

Western experts say more Russian generals have been killed in action in Ukraine than in any other conflict since World War II, reflecting a lack of preparation that may require senior officers to put themselves in harm's way.

Earlier, the UK's own defence intelligence suggested that Ukrainian forces were making successful counter attacks, and continuing to frustrate Russian advances in eastern areas.

SOURCE:-www.bbc.com

WoundedLamb:
That's why I said, to what extent? What I know for sure is that some of those assets will definitely go into aiding Ukraine either directly or indirectly. Here is what I mean, some of these assets make profits even while they're under the control of the West pending the outcome of the war and any follow-up negotiations like you said. When such assets worth hundreds of billions appreciate in value, the profit is always tangible. Therefore, the key element here is the time between the seizure and the release of these assets (a year is like day in international relations). That's exactly how finance works. Time is everything. Like I said, the West will try to aid Ukraine and they will not do it all from thier pockets.

Ok

Opolopoopolonio:
Ukraine will NEVER be a puppet of Russia and will decide its future.

That's a big deal!

That can not be determined by you. It will be determined by the outcome of the war. Just pray Russia looses. Because, if Donbas and Kharkiv are seized. Then the 22 battalions of the Russian forces stationed in Belarus will go for Kyiv.

Luhansk has been 80% liberated already as at today. Russian troops are also advancing in Kharkiv. Although little gains were recorded in Donetsk.

WoundedLamb:
This is Germany though, not the West. Just like Germany, many other nations have either assisted or pledged to assist the country, some contributions are more than that of Germany. It says the donation is for reconstruction but the question of who will eventually rebuild Ukraine is not yet on the table cause the war is still ongoing and stopping it is the priority. When it's time to rebuild Ukraine, no sane person would expect the West to do that from their reserves (at least, not the entire amount). The expectation is rather something similar to what happened after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Russian assets seized/frozen by the West are definitely going to play a great role in that. The question is, to what extent? I mean, it's very unlikely that the West would just free all Russian assets and pretend the war never happened, don't you think?

They can't use Russian federation assets (especially it's foreign reserved) seized to rebuild Ukraine. They seized assets will be needed for bargaining in the future.

You don't burn bridges they you will eventually need in future. Some Western politicians have mentioned it. But it was down played.

Opolopoopolonio:
Sure, Russia will win IF NATO and EU get tired of backing Ukraine.

Ukraine is willing to fight

US is willing to continue backing them for ego sake.

Ukraine will outlive Putin

Putin will never win!

Ukraine will outlive Putin, Biden, Zelenszky, Boris Johnson, You and I.

So it is not a big deal.

tonididdy:
Produce and esport jet engines, yet receive a mother load of engine and Spare parts from the USA a few days ago

How do I sell rice and still import rice?

Are you aware the every military facility in Ukraine is a target for Russia?

DoggoneDogg:
It's over for the clown Zelensky and his Ekuke Nairaland War strategists like fernandezisback, joyandfaith and amazontopaz.

Unfortunately, Ukraine are not ingenious like Biafra to fabricate their own arms so their demise is nigh.


Decapitate the Comedian impostor!
Decapitate the Nazi Invaders!
Decapitate the Western Imperialists!!


Long live Mother Russia!!

I totally disagree. Ukraine is an arm exporter too. The produce and export jet engine and other military weapon.

I said from beginning, that this is an experiment. The West has never sanctioned an economy as big as Russian before. It is an experiment tgat could work in their favour or Russian favour

Opolopoopolonio:
Why haven't they targeted them all this while nah Did Ukraine tell you their weapons are missing in transit

Ukraine main arms depot in Kharkiv region was captured today by Rissian forces. Kindly check bbc.com.

olugabbie:
Thousands of tonnes of Ukrainian ammunition is now said to be in Russia's hands, after the capture of an arms depot in the Kharkiv region was claimed by the Russian military.

The Tass news agency reported the claim by the country's defence ministry and described the depot as large.

There was no independent verification of the news, although earlier in the day, Ukraine had said that Russian forces were trying to mount an offensive in the area.

In the city of Kharkiv itself, Ukraine said that Russian shells had struck a wedding hall and the main Barabashovo market, causing casualties.

The main arms depot in Kharkiv is now in Russian hands.

Thousands of tonnes of Ukrainian ammunition is now said to be in Russia's hands, after the capture of an arms depot in the Kharkiv region was claimed by the Russian military.

The Tass news agency reported the claim by the country's defence ministry and described the depot as large.

There was no independent verification of the news, although earlier in the day, Ukraine had said that Russian forces were trying to mount an offensive in the area.

In the city of Kharkiv itself, Ukraine said that Russian shells had struck a wedding hall and the main Barabashovo market, causing casualties.

Kingsnairaland:
It does not matter how long it takes... This is a new generation every one is wise... Before some football teams use to beat other teams home and away now smaller teams know how to defend to the last breath that how it is with war.... Hit and run war fare tactic no nation can stand it.

The hit-and-run tactics can be used in Urban area like Kyiv. But the Donbas is an open field. It is either you stay and fight or you run.

Sirlancelort:
Proof?

What proof do you need? Are they getting oil for free? The EU is yet to abandon Russian gas & oil. So how will they pay, if they sanction Russian banks that they use?

Sirlancelort:
Proof?

What proof do you need? Ate they getting oil for free. The EU is yet to abandon Russian gas. So how will they pay, if they sanction Russian banks that they use?

leofab:
your maid is a very important article in your household

No! House maid can be replaced at any time by the employer. But Russia gas can't be replaced. The EU is finding it difficult to replace Russian gas. It will take them years to replace Russian gas. Some EU members will never leave cheap gas for expensive one/ones. Country like Hungary will never ever leave Russian gas.

TenQ:
Interestingly, Ukraine will recover very quickly. Do you know that reconstruction works has already started in Kieve? I believe that most European countries and USA will give huge donations to Ukraine for its repair and return to normalcy.

There is also the possibility of compelling Russia to pay war reparations as a condition for ending the economic sanctions against it.

David may yet beat Goliath again!

But , do you know that Ukraine has forever earned the Respect of Russia?
Never again will Russia underate Ukraine again.

In my secondary school, the day I stood up to fight a much bigger bully was the last time he picked on me. The surprise on his face was plain for all to see

There is nothing special about the defenders. They survive till this day because of the support the are getting from the West. Ukraine started receiving weapon from the West in 2014. The West promise Russia that it will make the war costly for her and this is what is happening now.

989900:

1. I actually didn't anticipate I'd have to breakdown advancing democracy in eastern European context to kindergarten level . . . you totally got the interpretation wrong.
And honestly, I shouldn't be having this discussion with you, if I have to come down to that level.

2. Russia has always been a threat to all her neighbors -- and it's been this way for centuries. Reasons why Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland all sharing borders with Russia joined NATO. Same reason Finland (I'll intentionally skip Finland's past suffering in the hands of Russia) and Sweden are set to join NATO any moment soon. Of all her neighbors, Ukraine is the least likely to be admitted into NATO 'cause it has present territorial disputes, which makes it totally unacceptable into NATO.

3. Ironically, Russia aligned and signed pact with NATO as far back as 1997 to partner with NATO.

4. If only you did read the entire original post and fact-check the points raised, you'd be in a better position to have an intellectual/factual discuss, but you didn't, which is a given around these parts: emotions over facts.

When the baltic states joined NATO, Russia was not a threat to them. Russia was extremely weak militarily and economically. The only thing Russia had then was Nuclear weapon.

After the dissolution of the USSR, all the states (including Russia) that emerged from the fall of the Soviet Union were extremely poor. The baltic states needed help and that was why they join EU & NATO.

Russia on the other hand was saved by Putin. He brought Russia out of the mess and made Russia super power once again. Today Russia is a energy, technology and military super power.

Sirlancelort:
Your own don pass CNN, so are you trying to say that the Russian people are not seeing what other democratic countries outside Ukraine are enjoying?.

Don't mind the guy. The West made him believe that Russians are hearing & sight impaired.

Some of them don't know that Russia is as advanced as the West. Likewise China. There is nothing they have in the West that you won't see in Russia.

989900:
Putin invaded Ukraine because it was showing progress and advancement as a democratic country and moving towards advancing as a modern industrialized country. He couldn’t have that on his doorstep.

Why? Not because of any security threat. No one wants to invade Russia. No, it’s because he couldn’t stand the Russian people seeing the rise in standard of living that the Ukraine was going to see. He couldn’t stand for his people to see how much more pleasant living in a free and democratic country would be.

Once they saw those things, they would demand the same.

NATO expansion had nothing to do with it (Russia already shares borders with NATO or within NATO's reach, and taking Ukraine would only bring NATO closer to Russia anyway). Just like it had nothing to do with his invasions of other countries either.


Russia has limited warm water ports, and a navy that’s near collapse with no more than a dozen fully functional capital ships, a half dozen attack submarines, and eight modern missile submarines. It’s air force has few gen 5 fighters.

Russia has basically zero capability to mount expeditionary warfare (as we see in Ukraine). The logistics system is badly designed, rife with the same corruption issues, and largely only capable of defensive war.

Russia’s biggest enemy though isn’t the US or NATO. It’s Russia's own paranoia combined with the attitude of a schoolyard bully. Russia was welcomed by the west back in the 1990’s. Today, Russia could be like a combination of Poland and Norway -- even better had it wanted to be.

A nation with rich natural resources slowly working to throw off the legacy of communism, but it chose a different route: It chose to be an asshole to her neighbors and then wonder why people don’t like them anymore.

Russia's eternal (Russia's been taking her neighbors' territories for centuries) covetousness for her neighbors' territories, the all-year-round navigable ports of Ukraine, the oil and gas in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, land connection and water to Crimea after illegally annexing same in 2014, amongst many other things is driving this madness.

Ukraine has never been a DEMOCRATIC state under Zelenszky. Zelenszky is an authoritarian leader, just like Putin.

Do your own research.

ariesbull:
Two days ago, Biden had a conference call with Johnson, Trudeau, Macron, Scholz, Draghi, Duda, Iohannis, Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Kishida and Stoltenberg about Russia's Special operation in Ukraine. These are the people Putin is fighting in Ukraine, not Zelensky and his toy soldiers.

You don't need to be told what the meeting was all about - Ukraine is melting away despite the West pouring in over $15B worth of arms, psyops, massive propaganda across all media (social & tradititional), Intelligence and communications gathering against Russian troops and their logistics via spy satellites & drones, unprecedented sanctions against any country in the history of the world, cancel culture, blanket ban against Russians, including those in individual sport (Tennis), and openly bullying of other countries, namely China, India, Pakistan, Hungary etc. Yet, Russia's certain victory is what it is - certain!

They came to the realisation that only boots on ground can deter Russia's victory. NATO has over 30K combat-ready troops in the Baltic States alone, ready to be deployed at a moment notice. That was what the call was all about.

To avoid them believing in their propaganda and lies that Russia's nuclear weapons are obsolete, therefore won't fire when needed (I have read this from many Western 'experts'), so yesterday, a day after the call, Putin showed them that propaganda is not reality by revealing what ICBM can do.

Russia test-fired the new RS-28 SARMAT (NATO calls it SATAN II) intercontinental ballistic missile. It has a maximum range of 18,000 km (Moscow to NYC is 7,506 km), maximum speed of 20.7 MACH (25,560 km/h or 7.1 km/s), can carry 10-15 warheads, each with a capacity of up to 750 kilotons, capable of wiping out an entire country at one go and unstoppable by any known air defense system in the world

The missile hit a target 6, 000 km from its launched site. Guess what Putin said after the test? "The missile will provide food for thought for those who try to threaten Russia."

Since yesterday, everywhere has been calm. Even Germany said it no longer sending heavy weapons to Ukraine. The West should tell its lackeys in Ukraine to negotiate in good faith, so as to end the proxy war, otherwise Ukraine would be added to the WhatsApp group of Syria, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Putin doesn't lose a war because he gives his military, achievable objectives, and also explain to them how he can take care of any external impediment. We saw it in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Crimea and now Ukraine. As we've seen, the only impediment in Ukraine is NATO troops on ground, and he's making sure that such doesn't happen.

The world is standing on a precipice, the warmongers should look up the meaning of the word - caution - in the dictionary!


Silk Mgbeahurike

Brilliant analysis!

topcatking:
I stopped being a Putin puppet when I realised that fulani herdsmen , amotekun and even the vigilante for normal street can decimate and rubbish the Russian armed forces.

Ukraine is staying in the fight because of the support it is getting. This is a country of 40 million population. If just 10% of that population (4 million) decide to stay and fight. Then it will be extremely difficult for the invaders. Russian troops in Ukraine is less than 500,000. No matter their capabilities, it will be difficult to conquer Ukraine.

In addition, the West is pouring weapon worth of billions of dollar into Ukraine. Ukraine being the defender has enough man power already approximately 4 million fighters, with the weapon they are getting from the West, then it will be difficult for any Super power to conquer Ukraine in this kind of circumstance.

Before US go to war with any country. The first thing they do is to strangle the country's ability to fund the war through economic sanctions. Then they place arms embargo on the country to kill it's ability to import arms during the war. When all these are achieved, then they send in their troops. But Russia is facing the opposite. Ukraine is being armed. Infact, they started arming Ukraine since 2014 and sanctions started raining on Russia around that time.

So instead of mocking the Russians. You should be praising them. No country in the West will choose to fight under this harsh circumstances, not even the US.

But they can still win. If they can take Donbas and Kharkiv, then it is game over for Ukraine.

Remman:
Putin wanted to "demilitarise and denazify" the entire Ukraine. Now he has changed his plan to taking over only the Donbas, which with time, Ukraine will advance and wipe them off, maybe that time they'll only fight to occupy one plot of land in Mariupol and call it "successful".

So disappointed... He underrated the US and NATO!

There are still 22 battalions of Russian troops currently stationed in Belarus close to Kyiv. The Russian troops currently in Ukraine are trying to capture the entire Donbas and Kharkiv. If they succeeded. Russia will not stop. They will likely go for Kyiv, using the troops in Belarus and also Odesa using the troops in Crimea, Kherson & Mariupol.

It is a fact that the US has successfully keep Ukraine in the fight. The weapon, intelligence e.t.c provided by US for the Ukranians are really effective. But Russia can still win. If they can encircle the Ukranians troops in Donbas. Then it is game over for Ukraine. The troops in Donbas are the most elite Ukrainian troops. If Russia destroys them, then the de-militarisation of Ukraine is close to being achieved.

punterzone:
strange things are happening

LOCAL YAHOO!!!!

omohayek:
What's the point of posting propaganda from Russia Today, let alone putting it on the front page? Are the mods trolling?

Let us say this is a propaganda. But what does common sense says? You can arm a group in a war. But tracking the weapon given such group can not be tracked.

Libya is a very good example. Also imagine what happened in Afghanistan. The US left billions of dollar worth of weapon behind when they fled the country.

Remman:
Lol... Clowns like you see with eyes but process information with your anus! Keep fooling yourself. Russia has got into something that they just need to gradually pull off so as not to lose investors. They need to maintain their stand on world power list and they just knew they've stepped into shit. Russia can invade or do anything when UK, CHINA, GERMANY or others say NO! But not when the US go all out to say NO. They can't just run back at once, they need better excuse to back off and a plan to maintain their stands which they're doing already.

It is unacceptable to any super power to surrounded by it adversary/adversaries. Russia can not lose in Ukraine. Although the West won't bend too. But if the sanctions begin to bite and Russian troops start to fall apart in Ukraine. They will use nuclear weapon.

The major issue Russia is facing in Ukraine is lack of man power. They have the equipments. But lack troops that can be poured in Ukraine. The Ukrainians have enough man power but no military equipments. Although the West is filling the void but its not enough.

Russia can not loose.

railone:
Win lose or draw... The US will not release Russia from this choke hold they have them in quickly...

This is why I like Big Brother, their actions are meant to be both a statement and a deterrence for future generations and wannabes

This is incorrect. Like i always say, in international community. There is no permanent enemy and no permanent friend. The likes of Iran and Venezuela used to be enemies of the West. Now the US needs them to counter Russia. The sanctions imposed on them are being lifted.

Russia is not a major threat to the US. US should be worry about China. China has the capacity to dispose the US as the most powerful country in the world. Sooner or later, the West will know this and when it's time to counter China. They will call upon India and Russia. For them counter China growth effective. They need both India & China on their side.

Some people think Russia needs China more. But i strongly believe that China needs Russia more. China's military and economic growth will be challenged by the West at some point. So when that happen and sanctions start to fly. China will need a relaible supplier (Russia) of energy to support it's massive factories and population. The US can force most of the oil producing states to stop selling oil and gas to China. But they can't stop Russia from selling oil and gas to China.

To counter China, Russia must be on their side.

sapientia:
North Korea is banking on sacrificing her citizens

Kim do not care since its a sacred duty for them to defend him to death

North Korea and South Korea is just like staying in a glass house while your neighbour who stays in mud house wants both you to throw stones

Only reason South Korea do not have nuclear weapon is because USA said nope

But google "Korean Massive Punishment and Retaliation (KMPR)"

Any move by Kim to fire a nuclear weapon on South Korea will be met with a very decisive bombardment

of course, remove nuclear weapon and North Korea will be decimated by South Korea

What most people don't know is that the ability to protect your territory from both internal & external aggressor is the number function of a leader.

If North korea decides to invade the South Korea today, the West may not send troops to the Island (SK) to defend it. Irrespective of the military agreement between the US and South Korea. Because the primary responsibility of the US leaders is to protect their own citizens from any form of destruction FIRST. This may not be achieved by directly confronting North Korea in a war (Nuclear war).

So the economic growth and the development South Korea has enjoyed over the years, can be destroyed within weeks and months in a war with North Korea. Security first and any other things (economic development e.t.c) can follow.

North Korea nuclear weapon is not really a threat to South Korea or the US. Because NK can not defeat the US in a nuclear war. And i dont think they will use it against SK. But it nuclear capability represents security guaranty for the Koreans (NK). No country will dare invade the country. The security guaranty is what the Iranians are seeking too and not to destroy Israel like they make you believe. Because every party is a loser in a nuclear war.

leofab:
ground clearance will always take place…

Ground clearing in a nuclear war?