What is happening with Russia and Ukraine now?

Edit and delete of original post: One: The forum is acting a bit weird again...*cough cough* must be because of the Singing Pipes. Two: I edited my original post because my comment was stupid.

 

*sigh*

• The red star represents genocide and war crimes only in some Baltic states (And a few countries outside of the Eastern Bloc) for the most part because USSR won't hear them talking shit anymore and they can express their feelings on the Union with zero repercussions ([1] [2] [3]).
• RF army never stopped using stars ([1] [2]).
• Stars are not copyrighted to USSR alone ([1] [2] [3]).

 

Rebels granted self-rule and amnesty.

 

A barebones quick summary of a few previous news articles and a bottom line for this thread so far:

Ukraine overthrew the previous government for delaying EU association agreement for 6 months.

Now the EU association agreement was delayed for additional 18 months and on top of that they have destroyed their economy, got thousands of their own people killed and lost Crimea, LPR and DPR.

 

New Maidan in Kiev:

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Not exactly related, but Kosovo decided to join sanctions against RF.

Get it?

Eh?

A state that just went and declared independence is telling everyone that it's not acceptable to just go and declare independence. And put sanctions in place against a country that it doesn't have any contact with.

 

New Maidan (Long post):

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Poroshenko in US Congress (~50 minutes, recorded from UA TV):

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Kiev's major Klitschko asked Germany to help build a wall from Russia.

Sources: [1][2][3]

Germans would know a thing or two about walls.

I thought it was a joke at first, but given his history of strokespeak, this isn't all that surprising.

 

Vladimir Putin seeks power to 'unplug' Russia from Internet: Report

Alarm bells should be ringing among the Russians now. Outlawing "public gatherings" and now this. Why would you do that if you expect people to support you? I mean, does democracy mean absolutely nothing to Russians? Surely they must realize that even if things are ok now, they won't be able to do shit about it if Putin decides to go full dictator police state?

 

They aren't that insane.

 

Last time the russians decided to build that wall, because once again the west was better then the shitty east.

 

A holodomor memorial is reportedly being built in the US:

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Nice. Ukraine refused the collectivization of farms, destroyed its food stockpiles during a widespread famine, effectively committing suicide, and a bunch of people died as a result. I wonder if it will say it was the Evil USSR killing innocents by starving them to death while ignoring the famine related deaths in the rest of the country. I bet this year's winter will be branded Holodomor #2.

A military factory in Donetsk was hit today:

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Whoever said that real post-apocalypse won't have pimped out rides with raiders with badass names is a dingus.

 

Ukraine TV, interview, SS chevron at 0:37:

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Propaganda machine in Slavyansk:

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"Ukraine armed forces are not your enemy, separatist leaders of the fake people's republics have abandoned you"

 

New prisoner exchange.

UA agrees to a 30 km buffer zone.

 

Peace march in Moscow:

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Now that there is relative peace, almost nobody reports Ukraine anymore outside of UA and RF.

- Not now Russia, ISIS in on TV.

Reportedly UA army restored and uses tanks from Chernobyl exclusion zone vehicle graveyards:

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I call bullshit on using tanks. BUT, spare parts could have been taken from there. Considering the overall shitty condition of UA tanks that technically have not been mass produced since what... 87'? It's not that farfetched that they could have used some components from the graveyards, like spaced armor pieces or tracks.

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Elena Vasilyeva has said sorry for posting fake lists of dead russian soldiers (That turned out to be a list of 2008 roster of football club Gazovik) on live stream (Still going at the time of this post):

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Protesters topple Lenin monument in Kharkiv. Should anyone tell them that the Ukrainian state would probably not exist without Lenin?

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EDIT: Several people got seriously injured during the thing. Reportedly there is a broken spine, a broken arm, a lost eye and head trauma.

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Nothing substantial in the Western media lately and I assume nobody gives a hoot about Eastern one.

There is a ton of combat footage though, but as mentioned before it doesn't really add anything important to the discussion.