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You'll hear Tucker whine about this, it's called nation building Tucker. I'll bet it is not only supported by a supermajority of the population, but they are also probably driving the issue too. Considering what Russians did and are doing in Ukraine, can anybody blame them? I don't think it will oppress the Russian speakers, it's more about politics and attitude than language because everybody in Ukraine speaks Russian, at least that's what the Ukrainians say. If the war never happened, neither would this.

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Another bomb found in Belgorod just days after Russia accidentally struck the city

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Another bomb found in Belgorod just days after Russia accidentally struck the city
Story by Darya Tarasova • 6h ago

More than 3,000 people were evacuated on Saturday from residential buildings in the Russian city of Belgorod after a bomb was found close to the area accidentally bombed by Russia’s air force earlier this week, Russian state media reported.
 
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The next stage of the war in Ukraine: Analyzing Kyiv’s strategy | DW News

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Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces could begin very soon. What are the lessons from the grueling battle for Bakhmut? How has Ukraine’s defense of Bakhmut affected its ability to go onto the offensive? And what will be Kyiv’s primary goals as it mounts the attack?

The former Commanding General of the US Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, analyzes Ukraine’s strategy in an extended interview with DW’s Richard Walker.
 
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The Baltic states hate the Russians with a passion having been occupied by them and genocide committed against them by the Russians. They want Russian military power destroyed as do all the eastern European countries that were under Russian occupation and control for damn near 50 years after WW2 ended. They will give nearly everything to Ukraine and NATO to defend them if required, I believe it would be the same with the other Baltic states. Poland is almost ready to jump in on the Ukrainian side and has been sending everything it could and as the Russians grow weaker and cannot mount offensive operations in Ukraine, they will send more to finish them off.


Estonia has begun initial operations to send 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine
 
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Ukraine counteroffensive: When will the mud season end? – DW – 04/01/2023

Kyiv plans to launch a counteroffensive against Russia this spring. A former US military meteorologist has taken to Twitter to provide valuable predictions as to when ground conditions will be right.
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In southern Ukraine, the soil will be dry from around mid-April, then two weeks later in the Donetsk region, and from mid-May in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region further north, he explained.
 
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Landing on the south (east) of the Dnipro will draw Russians away from other places and they are short of troops, it extends the front the Russians have to defend. The Ukrainians can be under their artillery cover from their side of the river for miles ahead of their front and the M777 and long-range guns can take out any Russian artillery with counter battery fire, while HIMARS can take out the ammo dumps and HQs. They can secure their logistics across the river and the supply boats can meet the troops near their spearheads as they progress up along the river highway. Ukraine has a lot of boats accumulated and bridging sections can be used as barges to bring across Bradly's APCs and even tanks. Drones did most of the recon, they knew where the Russians were.

This should draw a lot of Russians to their front and away from others, this points right at the entrance to Crimea. If the Ukrainians can bring across guns, they could maintain fire control over the entrances to Crimea and trap the Russians in the south as they try to retreat from the offensive further east and get back into Crimea. By establishing some territory on the east bank of the Dnipro they could establish fire control over the entrance to Crimea. This will prevent Russians from getting back in and there is probably nobody in Crimea to defend the place now. I can't see the Russians having a lot of troops sitting idle in Crimea when they will be desperately needed elsewhere. As soon as Vlad tries to bring troops in over the Kerch bridge they will take it down, or they may want to trap those Russians in Crimea. Either way this is an interesting development, and it will divert Russian resources at least and cut Crimera off at best.


Ukrainian Forces Land on the Eastern Bank of the Dnipro River -- Near Dachy, North of Oleshky!
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Video footage geolocated by Russian pages show Ukrainian forces landing on the eastern bank of the Dnipro river, north of Oleshky. A possible sign of the counteroffensive beginning.
 
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This is where the Ukrainians landed and appear to be working their way east along the river highway, if I had to guess, I'd say they are making for Antonovskiy Bridge and the E97 highway heading south, and special forces might already have control of critical points along their advance. Special forces well ahead with Javelins could hold off any Russian units coming up the highway until the Ukrainians achieved their objectives. There is a major highway junction south at Oleshky that could be their objective, control that and they control the territory west of them

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The Antonovskiy Bridge is in rough shape, and I wonder how many of those bridge/barge sections the Ukrainians salvaged? They might be able to put a pontoon bridge like the Russians had across next to the damaged bridge. I wonder how many of those bridging sections are still there and how many can be salvaged, even from the river bottom. Then again NATO could have given them something, they must have the means to cross wide rivers. If the Ukrainians get a big enough of a bridgehead on the other side and keep them outside artillery range, they could put considerable forces over the river quickly and threaten the entrance to Crimea. Even if they faked it and just looked like they were building a bridge if would draw lots of Russians to that area and away from major offensives in the east. It would be one more vector of attack the Russians have to worry about.

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Russia ‘will not forget or forgive’ US refusal of journalist visas
Russia on Sunday accused the U.S. of denying Russian journalists visas to visit and cover Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s chairmanship of the United Nations Security Council in New York, vowing that Moscow “will not forget and will not forgive” over the matter.

“The country that calls itself the strongest, the smartest, the freest and the most just, has behaved in a cowardly and stupid fashion by showing what its asseverations about protecting freedom of speech and access to information are really worth,” Lavrov said in a translated statement shared by the Foreign Ministry.

“Most importantly, be sure that we will not forget or forgive,” Lavrov said.

The Hill has reached out to the State Department for comment on Russia’s claim of denied visas.

The Russian journalists were hoping to cover Lavrov’s time in New York as Russia assumes the rotating chairmanship of the UN’s Security Council, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Lavrov’s dig over speech freedoms comes amid controversy over Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on allegations of espionage. The State Department has designated Gerhkovich as “wrongfully detained.”
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Russia ‘will not forget or forgive’ US refusal of journalist visas

Russia on Sunday accused the U.S. of denying Russian journalists visas to visit and cover Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s chairmanship of the United Nations Security Council in New York, vowing th…
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Trust us, we will not forget you invading Ukraine. Just STFU and get out.
 
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DIY-HP-LED said:
The Antonovskiy Bridge is in rough shape, and I wonder how many of those bridge/barge sections the Ukrainians salvaged? They might be able to put a pontoon bridge like the Russians had across next to the damaged bridge. I wonder how many of those bridging sections are still there and how many can be salvaged, even from the river bottom. Then again NATO could have given them something, they must have the means to cross wide rivers. If the Ukrainians get a big enough of a bridgehead on the other side and keep them outside artillery range, they could put considerable forces over the river quickly and threaten the entrance to Crimea. Even if they faked it and just looked like they were building a bridge if would draw lots of Russians to that area and away from major offensives in the east. It would be one more vector of attack the Russian have to worry about.

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Forget the sections, they are junk. What is needed is some steel trussed sections to span the missing areas. The ready made sections can be welded or bolted together after the major sections are made (sides and platform sections made off site). The real problem is keeping it from being bombed.

 
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Forget the sections, they are junk. What is needed is some steel trussed sections to span the missing areas. The ready made sections can be welded or bolted together after the major sections are made (sides and platform sections made off site). The real problem is keeping it from being bombed.

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I think when the Ukrainians hit them in the east and southeast, it will be over pretty quickly, quicker than they could throw a bridge across the Dnipro, except for a NATO pontoon one they have stashed nearby or suddenly on its way from Poland. It would be good to interdict those troops and keep them from getting back into Crimea, maybe HIMARS a bridge or two. I'm pretty sure Vlad has Crimea stripped bare of troops and I can't see troops idle there when he is desperate for them where they count. They had contractors build defensive works and trenches, but they are largely unmanned.
 
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