Russia & Ukraine

Zelensky says Ukraine can’t accept any peace deal that leaves Russian troops on his country’s territory
‘We will not accept a frozen conflict,’ says Ukrainian president
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/z...-troops-on-his-countrys-territory-01651699666

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country could not accept a deal with Moscow that would allow Russian troops to remain in occupied territory.

Speaking to participants in the Wall Street Journal CEO Council summit, Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had halted the Russian offensive in what he described as the first stage of the conflict.

In the second stage, he said, Ukraine would expel Russian troops from its territory and in the third, would move to fully restore its territorial integrity.

Zelensky said he would not accept a cease-fire deal that would allow Russian forces to remain in their current positions. “We will not accept a frozen conflict,” the president said without giving further details.

Zelensky emphasized that Russian President Vladimir Putin must agree to meet him to negotiate any deal to end the fighting.

He said it was important to continue peace talks but noted that “until the Russian president signs it or makes an official statement, I don’t see the point in such agreements.”
 
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Russia is unloading a pile of missiles across Ukraine, and the more they take heat for the high body count, the more they will ramp up the missiles as an alternative. They are also starting to unload more cruise missiles from their submarines. It is just going to be that way for another month. I mean, the war will go on longer than another month but they will start going into the war of attrition type of situation then.

Problem is, they are already counting their missiles a bit so they are in a dilemma as to whether to ramp up the shock and awe and be highly destructive but then be very lean on the other side of the shock and awe campaign. Same situation with artillery shells. Going to be rough for the next month. But they were planning on being resupplied with Chinese weapons but Putin can't count on that for all the reasons discussed. And their ability to resupply through internal production is already zero. They can't get the parts and the production cycle is very long even if they could.

Astute Putin bootlickers may properly point out that the U.S supply of stingers and javelins is also much lower than the west would like and the burn rate is high. And I don't step away from that fact. But there are some newer and older weapons in the mix too which can backfill a bit. His snaky Iranian buddies will him a bit but they are more focused on getting their oil back on the market which does not help Vlad.

The bootlickers will also argue that he will just move up to the nukes if it comes to that point and that point has merit as well and if so it is what it is. Any talk along that line that is not just bluster pushes China further away from his crazy shiite. Not what he wants.

What a mess. As our fearless leader Kamala Harris says: "There is this passage of time thing" or something like that. I would not want to be a Russian soldier and that passage of time leaves me in Ukraine when winter sets in again, as it surely will. That would be a pretty ragged outfit. Putin will have/has depopulated the few remaining areas in the east by then so the dead people and those now living off in Poland will be beyond worrying about defending rubbled areas. Not sure there that artillery or nukes for example will have much more effect on Mariupol and such areas. And Russia will start receiving more missiles into Russia by then or tomorrow, whichever comes first.

Russia running short of precision missiles, say western officials

https://www.ft.com/content/f81234cc-cd05-45e8-9dc0-3219b8886490
 
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Belarus adopted a new law. It provides for the use of the death penalty for "attempted crimes".
Read as: Protest against Loekaskjenko and you will be executed.

In simple laguage: Loekasjenko can execute everyone who opposes to him.

Russia does not have such a law, but they don't need that. They keep things simple, they do it the "Russian way", and just poison, murder or drop people from a 10 floor building. Less administration and more productive.

https://scottrewired.com/the-parlia...pansion-of-the-grounds-for-the-death-penalty/
 
TreeFrogTrader said:
Russia is unloading a pile of missiles across Ukraine, and the more they take heat for the high body count, the more they will ramp up the missiles as an alternative. They are also starting to unload more cruise missiles from their submarines. It is just going to be that way for another month. I mean, the war will go on longer than another month but they will start going into the war of attrition type of situation then.

Problem is, they are already counting their missiles a bit so they are in a dilemma as to whether to ramp up the shock and awe and be highly destructive but then be very lean on the other side of the shock and awe campaign. Same situation with artillery shells. Going to be rough for the next month. But they were planning on being resupplied with Chinese weapons but Putin can't count on that for all the reasons discussed. And their ability to resupply through internal production is already zero. They can't get the parts and the production cycle is very long even if they could.

Astute Putin bootlickers may properly point out that the U.S supply of stingers and javelins is also much lower than the west would like and the burn rate is high. And I don't step away from that fact. But there are some newer and older weapons in the mix too which can backfill a bit. His snaky Iranian buddies will him a bit but they are more focused on getting their oil back on the market which does not help Vlad.

The bootlickers will also argue that he will just move up to the nukes if it comes to that point and that point has merit as well and if so it is what it is. Any talk along that line that is not just bluster pushes China further away from his crazy shiite. Not what he wants.

What a mess. As our fearless leader Kamala Harris says: "There is this passage of time thing" or something like that. I would not want to be a Russian soldier and that passage of time leaves me in Ukraine when winter sets in again, as it surely will. That would be a pretty ragged outfit. Putin will have/has depopulated the few remaining areas in the east by then so the dead people and those now living off in Poland will be beyond worrying about defending rubbled areas. Not sure there that artillery or nukes for example will have much more effect on Mariupol and such areas. And Russia will start receiving more missiles into Russia by then or tomorrow, whichever comes first.

Russia running short of precision missiles, say western officials

https://www.ft.com/content/f81234cc-cd05-45e8-9dc0-3219b8886490
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The launching of missiles from subs is very telling because it’s not easy to supply submarines and launches from them are more complicated than from land. So that right there tells us that Russia is counting a dwindling supply and looking at dipping into alternative supplies.

The Russians should have theoretically started a big push from the east this week because of the timing of force reconstitution and logistics after retreating from their Kyiv loss but it doesn’t seem like they can get even get that done. So yes, artillery where basic strategy and planning fails, it is after all the Russian way.
 
Tsing Tao said:
This will probably upset all the neocons and folks on the left channeling neoconservatism impulses.

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The diplomacy is very clear as outlined by Ukraine and western nations. Russia must leave all of Ukraine including Crimea. After Russia does this then we can talk about a reduction of sanctions.

gwb-trading said:
Zelensky says Ukraine can’t accept any peace deal that leaves Russian troops on his country’s territory
‘We will not accept a frozen conflict,’ says Ukrainian president
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/z...-troops-on-his-countrys-territory-01651699666

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country could not accept a deal with Moscow that would allow Russian troops to remain in occupied territory.

Speaking to participants in the Wall Street Journal CEO Council summit, Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had halted the Russian offensive in what he described as the first stage of the conflict.

In the second stage, he said, Ukraine would expel Russian troops from its territory and in the third, would move to fully restore its territorial integrity.

Zelensky said he would not accept a cease-fire deal that would allow Russian forces to remain in their current positions. “We will not accept a frozen conflict,” the president said without giving further details.

Zelensky emphasized that Russian President Vladimir Putin must agree to meet him to negotiate any deal to end the fighting.

He said it was important to continue peace talks but noted that “until the Russian president signs it or makes an official statement, I don’t see the point in such agreements.”
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gwb-trading said:
The diplomacy is very clear as outlined by Ukraine and western nations. Russia must leave all of Ukraine including Crimea. After Russia does this then we can talk about a reduction of sanctions.
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Yeah, that's not what the article was saying. But hey, the bright side is that you don't have any say in world politics!
 
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