re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Biden today when asked about the failed counteroffensive:

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They have taken more ground since the beginning of the "counteroffensive" than Russia has taken in well over a year. While it has not met some people's expectations if it is a failure then you have to come up with a new word to describe Russia's abysmal progress since about week 4.

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Biden today when asked about the failed counteroffensive:

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I think it’s a little to early to declare that it failed, but to date it hasn’t been all that successful.

The next six weeks are key. Something big has to happen soon.

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Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russian prisons to clammy basements. Most have no status under Russian law.

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And Russia is planning to hold possibly thousands more. A Russian government document obtained by The Associated Press dating to January outlined plans to create 25 new prison colonies and six other detention centers in occupied Ukraine by 2026.

In addition, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in May allowing Russia to send people from territories with martial law, which includes all of occupied Ukraine, to those without, such as Russia. This makes it easier to deport Ukrainians who resist Russian occupation deep into Russia indefinitely, which has happened in multiple cases documented by the AP.

Many civilians are picked up for alleged transgressions as minor as speaking Ukrainian or simply being a young man in an occupied region, and are often held without charge. Others are charged as terrorists, combatants, or people who “resist the special military operation.” Hundreds are used for slave labor by Russia’s military, for digging trenches and other fortifications, as well as mass graves.

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Torture is routine, including repeated electrical shocks, beatings that crack skulls and fracture ribs, and simulated suffocation. Many former prisoners told the AP they witnessed deaths. A United Nations report from late June documented 77 summary executions of civilian captives and the death of one man due to torture.

Russia does not acknowledge holding civilians at all, let alone its reasons for doing so. But the prisoners serve as future bargaining chips in exchanges for Russian soldiers, and the U.N. has said there is evidence of civilians being used as human shields near the front lines.

The AP spoke with dozens of people, including 20 former detainees, along with ex-prisoners of war, the families of more than a dozen civilians in detention, two Ukrainian intelligence officials and a government negotiator. Their accounts, as well as satellite imagery, social media, government documents and copies of letters delivered by the Red Cross, confirm a widescale Russian system of detention and abuse of civilians that stands in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions.

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failed counteroffensive

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Please elaborate on how the ongoing counteroffensive has failed

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momentoftruth87

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Remember when you posted obviously fake info in this thread, got schooled, admitted you got it wrong, and then immediately ran to the poliboard to repost the same info you acknowledged was fake minutes prior?

Good times.

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should have never happened with the us involvement.

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you have openly wished posters in this thread go fight in Ukraine

Seems like you support US involvement

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Think 155mm tube launched munitions from what was reported.

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I believe it was the:

M483A1 & M864 155mm shells (DPICM)

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I haven't seen it officially stated which version is being sent other than it be 155mm shells that fall under a 2.35% dud rate threshold.

Though I am sure it will come down to availability, it should likely be the M864. While these carry roughly 20% less submunitions (72 instead of 88) they almost double the range from 10.6 miles to 18.75 miles which would be perfect for softening those defensive lines from a distance.

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Bargain? Ukrainians whose country has been destroyed and have lost homes, family, cities, and most of their country would probably disagree. Ukraine has no hope of winning. America provoked this and prolongs it by wasting tax dollars providing weapons. This is Europe's problem, not ours. They need to stand up and fight their own battles.

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So Russian boots on everyone's necks is preferred? I now know what you stand for, and it isn't freedom.

Maybe this has something to do with why the "counter offensive" is failing. SMH.... People that support this war wouldn't if you were in this guys position. Fools.



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