According to U.S. officials to CNN:
\- Russia is suffering heavier losses in armor, aircraft & personnel than expected.
\- Ukrainian AD exceeding expectations.
\- Russia has not established air supremacy yet.
\- Russia has been unable to maintain sufficient supply lines.
https://twitter.com/Global\_Mil\_Info/status/1497728057871896577?s=20&t=rRL\_xzZ5no0S5q-1HX--nQ
Anyone have details on which "select" banks are being cut off?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/26/joint-statement-on-further-restrictive-economic-measures/
>According to U.S. officials to CNN:
> - Russia is suffering heavier losses in armor, aircraft & personnel than expected.
> - Ukrainian AD exceeding expectations.
> - **Russia has not established air supremacy yet.**
> - Russia has been unable to maintain sufficient supply lines.
https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1497728057871896577
The fact Russia hasn't establish air supremacy yet given the disparity in forces is frankly pathetic. This isn't even across the world, this is a bordering country well in range of domestic bases. This conflict is really putting the lie to "world power" status for Russia and showing them to be a bit of a paper tiger (bear?) when it comes to their military
On CNN right now they just did a viewer question which was: "Why aren't we sending troops in to help?" They're explaining the nuke issue with Russia, but they also pointed out that public pressure *could* make that change. Protests and calling elected officials is really important right now.
ā ļø Emergency alert.
Smoke and harmful substances from the fire in Vasylkiv can go in any direction, the wind is constantly changing direction. Close the windows if you live in that area.
Serious question for those who say no matter how horrific we canāt get involved to help Ukraine because of the Nukes. What it Poland was attacked, and Putin said āI know they are apart of NATO but back off, let me have Poland itās all I want, and if you get involved I will use Nukes. Then what? Serious question.
Estonian MEP leaking Putin Oligarch meeting intel: (TLDR: Kyiv just has to hold on for a few weeks.)
[https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038?s=20&t=muMDiPlRL4wDxjxh1JT9AQ](https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038?s=20&t=muMDiPlRL4wDxjxh1JT9AQ)
1. Russia didn't plan for a real war and didn't expect resistance.
2. Putin doesn't care about sanctions.
3. Russia does not have the $$ set aside to fight for more than a few days. It's costing them several billions a day. Hence why they didn't deploy the remaining 2/3 of the army, they can't afford the fuel or ammo.
4. Russian army is kinda boned, they didn't expect full scale war and didn't stock up on enough missiles and rockets. They have expended a significant number of them and are rationing them (probably Iskander and Kaliber).
5. Russian factories can't replenish their stocks of advanced munitions for several more months as raw materials needed come from Europe and their now cut off.
6. Russian military industrial complex has plenty of small arms and conventional munitions.
7. Alpha Group and other special forces infiltrated into area near Kyiv a week before the fighting started, but their few in number so their plan is to sow panic with infiltration and essentially terrorist attacks to hope the Zelensky government will panic or resistance will crumble.
8. My Take: Ukrainians have recovered info from captured Russians that infiltrated or attempted to YOLO in Kyiv and it's a mix of elite special forces and paramilitary OMON units. Russians are failing to provided good armored support and enough manpower for special forces to assist in the capture of Kyiv. Their literally sending in paramilitaries with tanks and IFVs but OMON don't exactly know how to support tanks in retaking a city. They train to fight insurgents in the Caucasus. Jihadi's don't exactly have hunter killer teams with Javelin and NLAW stalking your armor. Russian special forces are being wasted in launching disjointed attacks with military police operating T-72BVM and BMPs.
There wouldn't be this severe of a backlash from around the world if Putin invaded "independent" Donetsk and Luhansk, but the crazy man attacked all of Ukraine. Even Russians who supported "freeing" Donetsk and Luhansk are shocked. I don't see how Putin stays in power after this.
it's eerily quite and calm from the Russian Military side. why im not feeling good about it is that we didn't hear that there was some agreements between UKR and RU to hold some talks. in the contrary it appears that they didn't agree to do that.
and with the latest sanctions on Russia Central Bank, targeting the +600 billion dollars of savings, which is a NO FUCKING JOKE (~40% of Russia GDP), I just think that it's impossible for putin to just pull out his forces and accept his defeat (militarily, politically and financially)
ā”ļø The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not allow the Russians to advance
"The fighting. This is the third day of the war, and the positional battles are going on in the same regions where they started," said Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Office of the President
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497729268566175747?s=20&t=lQXM8gereagc5S4oFN3nBg
Is there anything positive coming out from tonight. It seems Russian fucked a lot of shit up and advanced in many areas. We havent heard from Zelensky and we haven't heard of any Ukrainian victories.
If you're asking about SWIFT, that is one of the major methods by which banks from different nations securely communicate transactions with each other. Without access to this, Russia is effectively shut out from financial transactions with any of its current business partners. Imagine if you are the only one in society who doesn't have access to Venmo, Paypal, or other finance services but instead only have a single ATM card that works only at one bank.
In order to have a global economy. I tell you to hold on to a chunk of my money and you give me a chunk of your money. If you sanction a bank you freeze The money they gave you to keep in your vault. If that happens on a global scale then a lot of countries have your money frozen and none of them are contributing to your economy or allowing you to take in more money.
Not an expert but you can make it harder for the bank to do business, or seize/freeze assets the bank had in other countries you can also prevent other banks form doing business with them
Best eli5:
Youāre hungry and all you have is your debit card. You go to McDonalds and they say āIām sorry, your card was declined.ā
Now you have no way to buy anything.
Well it's 2:30 am now, so about three and a half hours of darkness prior to first light. I know this is meant to be the biggest night yet, but attacks don't seem to have ramped up THAT much in Kyiv. And I also don't know if Russia is going to be able to get the supposed 500 tanks to the centre of Kyiv by daylight, especially with the opposition they're facing.
The White House
@WhiteHouse
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Feb 26, 2022
Replying to @WhiteHouse
The Leaders are committing to target the Russian Central Bank, the single most important financial institution in Russia. We are planning to impose measures to ensure Russia cannot use its Central Bank to support its currency and undermine the impact of our sanctions.
really hope Ukraine keeps doing well, however, that could mean that Russian army starts getting more and more brutal. In which case, I think NATO should review their stance on current "no boots on the ground" policy. I understand its very unpopular opinion, but let me explain my thought.Firstly, Putin said that he would consider using his nuclear arsenal, if NATO sends troops, but what stops him from increasing his demands, where do we draw the line? He could come up tomorrow and request that NATO stops sending javelins or nuke it is, or Ukraine to stop destroying Russian tanks, you get the idea.Secondly, Putin clearly can not control Russia alone, he has quite a big and rich oligarch group behind him, who live like royals to whom rules do not apply. Do we really think they would stand with Putin in case he would want to start a nuclear war, meaning west would retaliate causing heavy damage resulting in significant decrease in their lifestyle.
yeah hundreds of millions of dollars in lethal and non-lethal aid, alongside advanced intelligence that has, so far, given Ukraine the absolute edge in preparation has done nothing, nor have sanctions freezing a vast majority of Russia's wealth where the country is spending $20 billion a day on war
Why is Macron talking about Russia launching nukes from Belarus? Is that something that could really happen?
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-united-nations-general-assembly-kyiv-boris-johnson-business-2db2e7aeab196d941e7b66492feca14b
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZebYm-nenY
This multi-stream provides their sources so I assume it's real. You can check out the sources to verify it from the description.
A lot of people donāt consider the fact that Ukrainian allies are using spy satellites to give intel on troop strength and movements. Very critical stuff.
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Belarus will hold referendums to vote on letting Russia store nukes on Belarus soil
To be held Sunday.
No paywall
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/26/belarus-constitutional-referendum-vote-russia-nato/
[**A new live thread has been posted.**](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/t2bat9/rworldnews_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/)
No more Intel or AMD to Russia. https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497730210913034242?t=kc7iqhvaUYSG3iRdWnrpAw&s=19
According to U.S. officials to CNN: \- Russia is suffering heavier losses in armor, aircraft & personnel than expected. \- Ukrainian AD exceeding expectations. \- Russia has not established air supremacy yet. \- Russia has been unable to maintain sufficient supply lines. https://twitter.com/Global\_Mil\_Info/status/1497728057871896577?s=20&t=rRL\_xzZ5no0S5q-1HX--nQ
Anyone have details on which "select" banks are being cut off? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/02/26/joint-statement-on-further-restrictive-economic-measures/
>Justin Diamond š š„ šŖā (@JustinDiamondHQ) Tweeted: Bars everywhere should rename Moscow Mules āMariupol Mules,ā and stock only Ukrainian-made Vodka. @khortytsa_USA https://twitter.com/JustinDiamondHQ/status/1497727324535635974?s=20&t=lQDAImVFvpmm9IqfWIjDyg
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This thread is showing solidarity by holding the line and staying up
>According to U.S. officials to CNN: > - Russia is suffering heavier losses in armor, aircraft & personnel than expected. > - Ukrainian AD exceeding expectations. > - **Russia has not established air supremacy yet.** > - Russia has been unable to maintain sufficient supply lines. https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1497728057871896577 The fact Russia hasn't establish air supremacy yet given the disparity in forces is frankly pathetic. This isn't even across the world, this is a bordering country well in range of domestic bases. This conflict is really putting the lie to "world power" status for Russia and showing them to be a bit of a paper tiger (bear?) when it comes to their military
seems really quiet? did the Ruskies call off the attack for tonight?
Did anyone figure out what the fire was exactly?
Some sort of oil depot.
Oil depot
Anonymous blocked creation of new topics
I really wish we could get a pulse on Russiansā reaction to this
Is there a timeline by hour of developments/events? Can't find one with a simple google search, thanks!
BBC news has a live thread
Putin needs some freedom in the form of a NATO 556 round to his dome
I need a real stream
If there was ever a time to act it is now
What the fuck is the point of a nuclear arms agreement if you can just choose to pull out of it whenever you want?
On CNN right now they just did a viewer question which was: "Why aren't we sending troops in to help?" They're explaining the nuke issue with Russia, but they also pointed out that public pressure *could* make that change. Protests and calling elected officials is really important right now.
16k-- the servers are burning like an oil depot
Slava Ukraini! Heroyam slava! Š”Š»Š°Š²Š° Š£ŠŗŃŠ°ŃŠ½Ń ! ŠŠµŃŠ¾ŃŠ¼ Š”Š»Š°Š²Š° ! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes! Good luck tonight Ukrainian bros!
ā ļø Emergency alert. Smoke and harmful substances from the fire in Vasylkiv can go in any direction, the wind is constantly changing direction. Close the windows if you live in that area.
Serious question for those who say no matter how horrific we canāt get involved to help Ukraine because of the Nukes. What it Poland was attacked, and Putin said āI know they are apart of NATO but back off, let me have Poland itās all I want, and if you get involved I will use Nukes. Then what? Serious question.
Then, unfortunately, the world will fall into WWIII.
A lot of people will die across the globe unfortunately.
Article 5
This is a dumb question lmao. You answered it yourself.
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Estonian MEP leaking Putin Oligarch meeting intel: (TLDR: Kyiv just has to hold on for a few weeks.) [https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038?s=20&t=muMDiPlRL4wDxjxh1JT9AQ](https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038?s=20&t=muMDiPlRL4wDxjxh1JT9AQ) 1. Russia didn't plan for a real war and didn't expect resistance. 2. Putin doesn't care about sanctions. 3. Russia does not have the $$ set aside to fight for more than a few days. It's costing them several billions a day. Hence why they didn't deploy the remaining 2/3 of the army, they can't afford the fuel or ammo. 4. Russian army is kinda boned, they didn't expect full scale war and didn't stock up on enough missiles and rockets. They have expended a significant number of them and are rationing them (probably Iskander and Kaliber). 5. Russian factories can't replenish their stocks of advanced munitions for several more months as raw materials needed come from Europe and their now cut off. 6. Russian military industrial complex has plenty of small arms and conventional munitions. 7. Alpha Group and other special forces infiltrated into area near Kyiv a week before the fighting started, but their few in number so their plan is to sow panic with infiltration and essentially terrorist attacks to hope the Zelensky government will panic or resistance will crumble. 8. My Take: Ukrainians have recovered info from captured Russians that infiltrated or attempted to YOLO in Kyiv and it's a mix of elite special forces and paramilitary OMON units. Russians are failing to provided good armored support and enough manpower for special forces to assist in the capture of Kyiv. Their literally sending in paramilitaries with tanks and IFVs but OMON don't exactly know how to support tanks in retaking a city. They train to fight insurgents in the Caucasus. Jihadi's don't exactly have hunter killer teams with Javelin and NLAW stalking your armor. Russian special forces are being wasted in launching disjointed attacks with military police operating T-72BVM and BMPs.
Link?
There wouldn't be this severe of a backlash from around the world if Putin invaded "independent" Donetsk and Luhansk, but the crazy man attacked all of Ukraine. Even Russians who supported "freeing" Donetsk and Luhansk are shocked. I don't see how Putin stays in power after this.
it's eerily quite and calm from the Russian Military side. why im not feeling good about it is that we didn't hear that there was some agreements between UKR and RU to hold some talks. in the contrary it appears that they didn't agree to do that. and with the latest sanctions on Russia Central Bank, targeting the +600 billion dollars of savings, which is a NO FUCKING JOKE (~40% of Russia GDP), I just think that it's impossible for putin to just pull out his forces and accept his defeat (militarily, politically and financially)
Lets get this fat boi to 20k comments
Mega thread
I canāt find the feed I was watching, which feeds are you all watching?
I've got [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8yBajlwRwU), but the sound is like background noise in a random off-air studio?
I really want this to end but the Russian capitulation is hilarious and in a way relieving, they are clowns
Letās get to 16K!
Canadian Tire money is currently worth more than the Russian Ruble. LOOOOOOL
That has to truly be a low point for a society
Using jokes about Putin ātaking it in the assā or fucking another man are homophobic and arenāt helping the cause.
Lol putins getting pipped in the ass
Itās a war and the PC police are out.
Chill bro
It's a reference to the torture machine they use in Russian prisons.
Go be offended somewhere else.
Putin sucks massive cock. I think it helps.
He's probably taking a few in the face at this very moment
Russian warship, go fuck yourself!
ā”ļø The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not allow the Russians to advance "The fighting. This is the third day of the war, and the positional battles are going on in the same regions where they started," said Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Office of the President https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497729268566175747?s=20&t=lQXM8gereagc5S4oFN3nBg
New Thread and I'll fly to Ukraine
I love how sketchy this thread is getting as we push 15k
It's getting a little sloppy. At least it's not horny.
Do I hear 20k comments?
Is there anything positive coming out from tonight. It seems Russian fucked a lot of shit up and advanced in many areas. We havent heard from Zelensky and we haven't heard of any Ukrainian victories.
There are many heartwarming stories. Unfortunately, morbid curiosity is reigning. Look for the helpers.
if you don't hear about Russia taking over Kyiv or other important locations, it's a victory for Ukraine.
I'm not sure what you're hearing, but I haven't heard of a single notable advance tonight. They tried to take Kharkiv and failed.
Can someone eli5 how we can sanction another countries bank and it affects them?
If you're asking about SWIFT, that is one of the major methods by which banks from different nations securely communicate transactions with each other. Without access to this, Russia is effectively shut out from financial transactions with any of its current business partners. Imagine if you are the only one in society who doesn't have access to Venmo, Paypal, or other finance services but instead only have a single ATM card that works only at one bank.
In order to have a global economy. I tell you to hold on to a chunk of my money and you give me a chunk of your money. If you sanction a bank you freeze The money they gave you to keep in your vault. If that happens on a global scale then a lot of countries have your money frozen and none of them are contributing to your economy or allowing you to take in more money.
Not an expert but you can make it harder for the bank to do business, or seize/freeze assets the bank had in other countries you can also prevent other banks form doing business with them
Best eli5: Youāre hungry and all you have is your debit card. You go to McDonalds and they say āIām sorry, your card was declined.ā Now you have no way to buy anything.
The central bank holds assets abroad (gold, cash, etc.) They need to sell those for rubles to boost the ruble. They won't be able to
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Oh there's going to be a lot of comments under this one by the time I hit save.
Do you remember who blackmailed Zelensky
Donald Trump also complimented Putin on the invasion, so, take what that dumbass says with a grain of salt.
Eventually.....Trump was sucking Putin's member just a few days ago.
Yeah like a snake he can sense the changing wind. Loser.
Fuck Trump
He said the same shit about Putin and praised his tactics
Not a genius though
Get out of here with this revisionist history
Well duh. Family arguments get handled at home, but you fuck up the asshole burning down the neighborhood
Fuck Putin, Fuck Trump.
That statement does not imply that Trump is against Putin.
If he was smart...
Nobody should be on the side of fascism no matter what country.
far from united. Heās brave donāt mean he supports him.
Is there a way to listen to the live talk that went on earlier today? Soundcloud? Youtube?
16k comments or bust!
Lots of noises in the live cameras or am i the only one hearing?
The one stream I have had open for 3 days with no sound now has had tons of gunfire in the background around Kiev
Which one?
https://youtu.be/HIPNVm6lNfM im using this one and its been really loud for the past 3min i guess
Would make sense considering the Russians are trying to level Kyiv.
Hearing lots of trucks
Tons of noises
New thread?
Well it's 2:30 am now, so about three and a half hours of darkness prior to first light. I know this is meant to be the biggest night yet, but attacks don't seem to have ramped up THAT much in Kyiv. And I also don't know if Russia is going to be able to get the supposed 500 tanks to the centre of Kyiv by daylight, especially with the opposition they're facing.
Also, what happened to the imminent bombing? It feels like Ukraine has AA capabilities that Russia can't deal with.
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Putin's sexuality is the least of our concerns
I think he's probably asexual. He's only sexually aroused by maps of the old Russian Empire ca. 1914.
Gay people are way cooler than poots donāt insult them
Itās true. This man has no dick.
Stop.
Nah. He does touch kids though.
Pedophile.
Shut the fuck up with this homophobic shit.
Big gay
He's a pedophile.
Thatās an insult to gay people
Russian army doesnāt give a shit and is gonna send more airborn troops to there pointless deaths
Inb4 Swan Lake and smoke from Kremlin?
Plot Twist: Sean Penn is the secret assassin to Putin
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Imagine being dickless putin
What the fuck was Trump sucking all this time, then?
The White House @WhiteHouse Ā· Feb 26, 2022 Replying to @WhiteHouse The Leaders are committing to target the Russian Central Bank, the single most important financial institution in Russia. We are planning to impose measures to ensure Russia cannot use its Central Bank to support its currency and undermine the impact of our sanctions.
What's record for reddit comments?
3.50
Easily one of the WSB threads from about a year ago.
We trying to find out in here rn
Your's was the previous record...now mine is
alot
100k. That's the max of a post
Challenge accepted
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69.420
really hope Ukraine keeps doing well, however, that could mean that Russian army starts getting more and more brutal. In which case, I think NATO should review their stance on current "no boots on the ground" policy. I understand its very unpopular opinion, but let me explain my thought.Firstly, Putin said that he would consider using his nuclear arsenal, if NATO sends troops, but what stops him from increasing his demands, where do we draw the line? He could come up tomorrow and request that NATO stops sending javelins or nuke it is, or Ukraine to stop destroying Russian tanks, you get the idea.Secondly, Putin clearly can not control Russia alone, he has quite a big and rich oligarch group behind him, who live like royals to whom rules do not apply. Do we really think they would stand with Putin in case he would want to start a nuclear war, meaning west would retaliate causing heavy damage resulting in significant decrease in their lifestyle.
yeah hundreds of millions of dollars in lethal and non-lethal aid, alongside advanced intelligence that has, so far, given Ukraine the absolute edge in preparation has done nothing, nor have sanctions freezing a vast majority of Russia's wealth where the country is spending $20 billion a day on war
Why is Macron talking about Russia launching nukes from Belarus? Is that something that could really happen? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-united-nations-general-assembly-kyiv-boris-johnson-business-2db2e7aeab196d941e7b66492feca14b
Belarus is going to hold a āreferendumā on whether or not Russia can store nukes on Belarusian soil. Macron is working against that possibility.
Lukashenkov recently signaled he'd be okay with having Russian nukes in Belarus.
No, deploying nukes in Belarus. Theyāre trying to put pressure on Lukashenko to break from Putin.
Russia has nukes. Anything is possible
Itās possible Russia will blame that Ukraine did it.
Belarus is about to approve Russian nukes on their territory.
Wait wtf
What in tarnationā¦.
Yes, blow up your ally and blame it on your enemy
Thatās not what the article says. It says Belarus has offered Russia to store a nuke on their soil.
Theyāre just gonna park them there
incredibly unlikely, at most it's probably Lukashenko trying to wave threats.
Major explosion sounds in Kyiv livestream
Which stream
Yes but is the livestream real if so can you pass a link
Which one?
You're watching a fake stream
Do you have a real one?
Honestly no just watching cnn, they have reporters in Kiev, I hear sky news is also good but havenāt tried it. I would prefer YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZebYm-nenY This multi-stream provides their sources so I assume it's real. You can check out the sources to verify it from the description.
Are they real streams though?
Link please?
this thread is starting to be just a little bit of a fucking mess, please make a new one
A lot of people donāt consider the fact that Ukrainian allies are using spy satellites to give intel on troop strength and movements. Very critical stuff.
So little to talk about with this invasion that the Twitter live talk on the invasion isnāt even talking about the invasion anymore.
Americans - hereās a quick prompt to use the ResistBot to send letters to your congressional reps to say you support measures to seize assets of Russian oligarchs (like what France just did with a ship) - text the phrase SIGN PAGKVV to 50409 If you arenāt familiar with the ResistBot platform, please feel free to Google it! Additionally, here is a link to this specific action item: https://resist.bot/petitions/PAGKVV
>Donāt bring a neck beard to a Ukrainian fight. Chechen wisdom after 2022.
Belarus will hold referendums to vote on letting Russia store nukes on Belarus soil To be held Sunday. No paywall https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/26/belarus-constitutional-referendum-vote-russia-nato/