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Russians hit high-rise building in Kharkiv: 31 people injured – photo, video

Oleksandr Shumilin, Tetyana Oliynyk — 2 January, 20:27



Russian forces have struck a high-rise residential building in the city of Kharkiv, injuring people and causing significant damage.

Source: Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Quote from Terekhov: "The enemy has carried out a strike on central Kharkiv… They hit a high-rise residential building in the city's Kyivskyi district. Early reports indicate that there are casualties and substantial destruction."

Details: Zelenskyy said later, citing early reports, that two missiles had been used in the attack.

Quote from Zelenskyy: "Early reports suggest two missiles were fired. Straight into a residential area. One of the buildings has been badly damaged. A rescue operation is ongoing now and all the necessary services have been deployed. The exact number of casualties is not yet known."

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Zelensky: I met with Kyrylo Budanov and offered him the role of Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. At this time, Ukraine needs a stronger focus on security, development of our Defense and Security Forces, and progress on the diplomatic track. The Office will serve these state priorities.

Budanov has specialized experience and the strength to deliver results. I have also instructed him, together with the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council and other leaders, to update and submit for approval the strategic foundations of our defense and national development, and outline next steps.

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Zelensky met with Oleh Ivashchenko, Head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, who reported on security threats and efforts to weaken Russia’s economic and military potential. Zelensky said cutting Russia’s oil revenue and sanctions-evasion links will strengthen diplomacy and help end the war. Ivashchenko will now serve in a role within Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.

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It was Russia who fomented and fed the protests.

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Um... no. Not everything bad for US interests was caused by the Soviets.

Middle-class Iranians had long wanted Democracy and not to be ruled by a King and his elite cronies... they'd deposed him once (in 1953), the CIA and the British(and the oil industry) helped him retake power, which led to some bloody retribution... and that created the general anti-American/anti-British sentiment among the public. I'm not sure the Atheist Soviet Union would be that into installing a Fundamnetalist Islamic regime (trampling Islam inside of The Soviet Union was a big struggle for the U.S.S.R.)... also, The Shah was chummy enough with the Soviets that they viewed Iran as a potential ally...

I know I've mentioned this before, but Americans seem to have no idea that at the same time as the Iranian Revolution, the military dictatorship in neighboring Afghanistan (which had deposed the popular King of Afghanistan earlier in the decade) had been ousted by a People's Revolution, which sought to have the country officially join the U.S.S.R. that bordered it... the CIA funded and trained Saudi Mujaheideen to start a "Civil War" under the reasoning that Communist Athesim was working its way towards the Holy Land and Mecca and had to be stopped early. The Afghan government asked the Soviets to come help, and we Americans were told it was a 'Soviet Invasion'... and we believed it. A guy from Pakistan straightened that out for us in College... some people angrily didn't believe him. I brought it up in a Poli Sci class and the teacher said "yes, that's what happened... it's just too controversial to talk about it... we created a 'Vietnam' for the U.S.S.R. to get stuck in, as revenge." After the Soviets pulled out and the U.S.S.R. collapsed soon after, all those people who were in Carter's cabinet at the time tried to take credit for the idea in their memoirs.

Anyway, if the U.S.S.R. wanted to control/conquer Iran (as the Tsars had always wanted to do), turning it into a militant Shi'ite Islamic regime would not be the way to do it. The Soviets much preferred the secular Pan-Arab/Persian autocrats (Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad) who they understood to religious extremists they didn't. Putin is a bit different because he is not running Russia as an Atheist entity, but uses the Russian Orthodox Church much like the Mullahs use the Mosques.

Iran has long been a powderkeg. The people hate the regime they are under, and most of them had it much better under the Shah.

Ironically, pushing for education and modernization. and creating a growing and thriving urban middle-class, the Shah and others created the very segment of the population that would want them toppled the most. The poor are too desperate and concerned with eating tonight and tomorrow to pine for things like political autonomy.

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Loss of Iran will definitely impact Russia's abilities on the front.

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I'd hope there would be a Shahed drone shortage, but I think Russia makes or imports most of the parts for those from places other than Iran, now.

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I'd hope there would be a Shahed drone shortage, but I think Russia makes or imports most of the parts for those from places other than Iran, now.

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Yep this is accurate

Iranians who were there tell me this, not US reports. Go play with you idiot profs who taught this.

But Tucker Carlson was paid to go to Russia and report on how nice and reasonably priced their supermarkets were

And TUCKER SAID that the kill ratio was 1:8 in the other direction.

So who do we believe?

Is there an option C somewhere?

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Is there an option C somewhere?

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Yeah. It exists somewhere in the Reality Belt

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But Tucker Carlson was paid to go to Russia and report on how nice and reasonably priced their supermarkets were

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That stupid phucker raved about a loaf of bread he could find and most any WalMart, then amazed at the cheap price of groceries he bought. "All" of those groceries are what a typical American eats in a week but the typical Russian family of 4 has that much to spend on groceries for a month.

He loved him some Col McGregor who is the same guy who advised Rumsfeld that he could take all of Iraq and pacify it with 17,000 soldiers. The Army said bullshite.

I could go on in almost perpetuity.