Russia pulling air defense systems protecting St Petersburg to send to the meat grinder in Ukraine, presumably to use as crappy surface-to-surface terror weapons. But they totally have this under control. It's only a matter of time. Translation: Russia is transferring (presumably in the direction of Ukraine) air defense systems and anti-aircraft missiles from the St. Petersburg region This information is published by the Finnish edition of Yle with reference to satellite images and expert commentary. These images show that mobile firing platforms and missiles have disappeared from the base on the Karelian Isthmus. This case is not isolated. According to Yle, St. Petersburg has long been surrounded by a protective ring of 14 air defense bases. Now several of them are empty.
They have to figure NATO will it attack St Petersberg and with Finland joining NATO they certainly won’t risk anything like that.
I am not sure what Russia's end game is now, Putin has no way to save face at all - those days are gone...and his people are slowly turning against him and the war, the longer it lasts the more they will turn. DD
Putin could declare that Russia has successfully de-Nazi-fied Ukraine and he is bringing home the troops. Putin lied about invading Ukraine (both in 2014 and 2022) and can lie again about ending the war and occupation.
Disregard, won't embed. Just.a video of Russian state TV calmly advocating nuking the queens funeral...
This is how you can tell Russia is scared. Sham referendum time. "We licked them so they are ours forever and you can have them, neener neener!"
I think it's a move to allow Russian mobilization of troops to "defend the homeland" if they can claim that's the homeland.
Absolutely - the world will as well. It's purely about internal Russian politics and expanding their military options.
Ukrainians have been pushing hard for F16s, and the response from US government has been that training and maintenance requirements would be too much to enable Ukraine to actually use them any time soon.
92% of Ukrainians want Ukraine to join the EU, 79% support joining NATO - this is evidenced by the results of the KMIS survey
A collapse of shares began on the Russian stock exchanges after the news about pseudo-referendums "on joining the Russian Federation" of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine Ukraine Now Edit: Putins address to Russia was supposed to begin an hour ago (1PM CST) and nothing yet. RT removed the announcement of the speech from its website. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. Double Edit: Delayed until tomorrow.
