The Russia thread.
Out of context: Reply #243
- Started
- Last post
- 1,079 Responses
- yuekit1
One thing to remember is that Russia already had troops in eastern Ukraine. So by announcing they are sending in troops what has actually changed? It would be more accurate to say Russia has admitted they have invaded Ukraine.
It's unknown how many troops they have there but it's enough that hundreds of Russian soldiers have reportedly died in Donbas region. The Russian government doesn't acknowledge their deaths even to their own families as this article talks about:
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-th…
However pictures of the dead have been published in some of the more anti-establishment Russian media and a Russian court even admitted to the troop presence in December.
"The case involved allegations of corruption concerning a catering service intended for 'the garrisons of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation stationed on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics,' Judge Leonard Sholokhov wrote."
- back in the day there would have been a post on liveleak showing footage of the incident and the bodies... thanks for the info, yuekit.BuddhaHat
- This, and it's frustrating that some people don't get that declaring "independence" is them starting to just go a little bit more loud with a quiet war..garbage
- ..that has been going on for a long time now. They did this with Crimea in 2014. Same year that they downed MH17 and killed hundreds of civilians in...garbage
- ..Donetsk.garbage