Wasn't that whole story just bullshit though?

I think they did tell them to go fuck themselves but didn’t die in the attack afterwards. They were captured.

And then released in a prisoner swap.

How is Ukraine supposed to employ all these new tanks and artillery to say relieve Mariupol over large expanses of open ground when they have only one additional S-300 battery?

Additional Migs only make sense if we send AWACS into Ukrainian territory. Seems like a slog regardless.

Yikes. One way to cut through the propaganda in Russia

Russian state tv is ramping up the nuclear propaganda. ‘Hit them once and be done’

Then the ‘threat’ the Russians sent the US today about stopping supplying Ukraine weapons.

Now this.

It’s terrifying that a nuclear device being detonated is conceivable.

After losing that flag ship it is thought Putin will be apoplectic and the several different ways they’ve reported it (all kinds of pathetic and hilarious) on Russian media it makes him unpredictable and it far more likely. Attacks on Kyiv resumed and more conscripts have been (forced) to deploy. On top of that issuing threats to the US and Sweden and Finland over their impending national membership.
Nuclear option is very much in play.

The fact that this has already gone 50+ days, makes me think this will get much worse (and larger) from here.

Fascinating and scary thread on tactical nukes and their potential use in Ukraine. I don’t know they came in smaller sizes that would *only* destroy a kiltometre or two. There are maps further info the thread to give scale.

Irelands coming to its limit on taking refugees.
There’s nowhere to put them now. Hotels b&bs guest houses etc are all full
We’re around 30,000 now
They’ve now switched to venues. Mill street arena (pj played there in 96 on no code) is next up. For 300 people.
It’s getting bad now. All the food and energy prices are already going up.
30c more on a litre of milk than last week.

This is grim.

And here we go. Fuck

Not good

We’re so fucked. All of us

How ? HOW??

That's like a metaphor for the last half page of this thread, somehow.

4/20

Wait why is this in the Ukraine thread