Posts by Kate Cook27

cosmicgull52 said:Everyone was hyping up a massive spectacle for Victory Day, but nothing actually happened. It seems like Russia's top priority right now is just survival. While they struggle to hold onto a few small towns, their rear lines are falling apart. The whole thing is going under before it even breaks.

I’m kind of hoping for the same thing—that nothing actually happens. Just a lot of noise on both sides. Everyone is bracing for an attack, waiting for the big move, but then... silence.

Dennis Price said:Some faction within the FBI is playing the anti-war card just because it doesn't suit their own interests—honestly, it’s probably just some radical students running amok, if you ask me.

I'm leaning toward that being the most likely scenario too—just some group within the FBI.
If the Ukrainians are actually at fault, I have my suspicions about one particular group, though I highly doubt it’s them right now. We'll just have to wait and see how this plays out.

Melissa Gray2 said:Look, you could have been hanging out in Lviv without actually ever stepping foot on the front lines. It makes total sense that people fleeing to Lviv would pick up the language—they’re gonna need it to survive, right? Besides, if they started claiming they loved Russia, everyone would immediately flag them as foreign agents anyway... wouldn't they?
Back in Mykolaiv, things got pretty intense, with tons of locals getting detained just because people suspected they were leaking info.
Who knows how many "suspicious" folks have been taken out in those cities while the mainstream media stays completely silent about it...

Yeah, I was in Donbas. Most people don't want to speak Russian anymore since it feels like the language of the enemy.
There are plenty of traitors out there—people signing up on websites to help the Russians, total traitors. They can always just run back to Russia if they want.
Unfortunately, the cost of this war is just incredibly high.

😢

goldenowl73 said:So, I was just catching up with some folks over in Kyiv, and man, the vibe is heavy right now. Everyone there is bracing for a massive wave of bombing coming next week—specifically looking at Tuesday and Wednesday as the big danger zones. Some families have already packed up and sent their kids and wives off toward the West, though even out there, people are saying nowhere is truly safe anymore.

😢.
How's your family doing in Kyiv? There's this big expected strike coming up on August 24th. Preparations are already underway—they've closed the airspace, there’s a ton of military movement, and apparently, things are looking just as ready over in Belarus. They're expecting Russia to throw everything they've got at them.
On the flip side, the Russian troops on the ground are also anticipating that Ukraine might launch an offensive around then. I’m really hoping none of this actually happens. We'll just have to wait and see.

pronto2 said:I feel the exact same way—it’s the hypocrites that get to me. They’re suddenly acting all concerned now, even though kids have been dying over there since 2014.🤷

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The folks in charge of these so-called People's Republics—with their so-called People's Courts of Justice, police, doctors, militias, and the rest—couldn't help but smirk while saying they won't honor any deal. They basically admitted they won't stop until they've wiped out the so-called Ukraine and the so-called Ukrainians. It wasn't even necessary for them to state that peace isn't the goal, but rather total war until Ukraine falls apart—a country they claim shouldn't have existed in the first place and doesn't deserve to exist because it's just a hub for corruption. And of course, they stick to their favorite rhetoric: "All Ukrainians will eventually accept being Russian, we'll de-Ukrainianize them, and if anyone resists, they can go hang themselves in Red Square." The real cost? Kids spending their lives hiding in basements.

pronto2 said:CNN is reporting via Hina...

I was right there—saw it, heard it all.

wiredseal7 said:I assume the rebel parts of Donbas and Crimea were included in those stats ten years ago.
Even back then, they were speaking almost exclusively Russian over there.

Yeah, they were—but in other areas too. Even the Kyiv region had a massive number of Russian speakers. To be honest, there’s nothing left of the Donbas. Luhansk is empty. Donetsk is the same. A friend of mine is telling me they’ve basically "cleared" everything out. Now everyone is going to learn Ukrainian. There are plenty of people from the Donbas studying it right now. Some don't even want to speak Russian anymore. In a few years, there won't be a trace of it left. It's a shame.
A lot of people still understand Russian—it's not even an issue in the West, though Ukrainian is obviously the majority there now, almost everyone.

pronto2 said:The Russians just hit themselves in the Donbas. I can't believe some of the stuff people write here—it’s like everyone's brainwashed beyond repair...

Believe it or not, this actually happened. The separatists were firing on their own occupied territory. Their militia, their army—there are reports that tanks were literally pointed the wrong way, facing toward the occupied zones instead of the Ukrainian lines. Honestly, back in the day, officials would even talk about this openly on the news 🤣. Most of the fire came from the separatists—for instance, out of 1,500 recorded incidents, 1,000 were from the separatists and only 500 from the Ukrainian side.
It isn't just Russians in the Donbas.

The status of the Russian language in Ukraine

Back when I was looking at data from ten years ago, 45% cited Russian as their primary language—now it’s plummeted to just 16%. At this rate, you won't find a trace of it left in a few years. All of this has happened since February 24th.

Referendums

They’re slated for next month, though there’s a chance they might wait until winter hits. Honestly, it doesn't much matter—it'll likely be a 99% landslide for joining mother Russia anyway.

Mariupol

An attempted hit on the so-called mayor of Mariupol.

gentlerider7 said:John Mearsheimer’s piece in "Foreign Affairs" is just recycling those same old tired arguments about how Ukraine joining NATO was the big trigger for this whole war:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukrai...g-fire-ukraine

"Contrary to the common wisdom found in the West, Moscow didn't invade Ukraine just to conquer it and make it part of Great Russia. Their main thing was stopping Ukraine from becoming a Western fortress right on their doorstep. Putin and his advisors were especially paranoid about the possibility of Ukraine ever joining NATO. Back in mid-January, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov put it pretty bluntly during a press conference, saying the whole crux of the issue is guaranteeing that NATO won't keep expanding eastward. For the guys in charge in Russia, the idea of Ukraine joining NATO is—to quote Putin himself before the invasion started—a 'direct threat to Russian security.' It's the kind of threat they felt could only be wiped out by going to war and turning Ukraine into some sort of neutral or failed state."

"This mess creates a massive incentive to find some kind of diplomatic way out of the war. But honestly? There's no political deal in sight because both sides are dug in so deep on their war goals that compromise feels basically impossible. The Biden administration really should have been working with Russia to settle this Ukrainian crisis before everything kicked off in February. Now, we're past the point of making a deal. Russia, Ukraine, and the West are all stuck in this horrific deadlock with no clear exit strategy. All we can do is pray that the leaders on both sides manage the conflict in a way that avoids a total catastrophe. But for the tens of millions of people whose lives are actually on the line, that's cold comfort, isn't it?"

🤣 🤣 🤣, thank God we have people willing to open our eyes. It’s clearly just Western propaganda to claim that Russians will hold legitimate referendums to annex these regions, or that the "liberated" folks are just dying to fall under Russian protection 🎉 🎉. And I'm sure Putin never mentioned that Ukraine was a Bolshevik mistake—just like certain gentlemen playing government in these republics never mention the "final solution" for the so-called Ukrainians. It all boils down to NATO.

Nancy Lopez7 said:People are out there protesting about how those stubborn Ukrainians just won't stop fighting—and apparently, they think the "evil" West is just fueling the fire by backing them up.
🙂

I mean, seriously, why won't they just surrender to such a massive military force?

https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSE/status...htmode%3Dfalse

It feels like our neighbors haven't had much to say lately, hasn't it?

Does anyone have any intel on when things might finally wind down—any idea what's actually happening behind the scenes? 🍿

🤣 🤣 🤣.
One guy looked about 74 to me—or maybe I just misjudged. Those pensions must be pretty meager.

I mentioned on one channel that I was "concerned" about how long this special operation is dragging on, and they immediately jumped on me, saying we should just attack everything now. They seem pretty worked up about the possibility of banning Russians from getting visas.

Mariupol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPMr4urwDE&t=64s

They're reporting about a thousand dead at the Broadway theater here😢.

"And then the brothers arrived." They're saying over 20,000 people were killed😢.

In the video, Ksenija Kajan says the building caught fire and people burned inside.
There was no water available—they couldn't even get the fires under control.

In Rostov, the leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic—including Denis Pushilin—are set to meet folks from Mariupol to see them off as they head back home. The big question is whether any actual aid will follow them, though I wouldn't hold my breath. Workers in Mariupol who traveled in from various parts of the Russian Federation to help "build a better, more beautiful, more historic" Mariupol are already complaining about missing paychecks 😁.

Justice certainly isn't in short supply in the Donetsk People's Republic—new courts have been established to handle foreign mercenaries, and prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty
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New footage coming out of Mariupol shows residents claiming the Russian army wasn't even there—they say it was just Azov fighters responsible for the killing, burning, and total destruction of the city. This lines up with recent statements from captured soldiers, who claim they received direct orders from the Kyiv regime to kill civilians, block people from leaving the city, and destroy everything in their path
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Some folks from Mariupol are being sent back to the city from Russia. They're reporting that they're currently stuck in transit near Pskov. That whole affection for the "Russ" in the Donbas region lasted quite a while. Though, maybe they'll just get tucked away in those new apartment blocks built in three months flat 😁 🙏.

Mariupol

Word is mobilization is about to kick off in the city. My contact actually says it’s already underway—some locals are already out on the front lines. Freedom isn't free, I guess. The liberated folks are supposedly thrilled, acting like they're defending Mother Russia 🎉 🎉.

There's some complaining happening because traitors are stepping forward. There’s even a page where people sign up to help the occupiers, and people are venting about it 😁. At least they're getting paid—since there are no wages, no pensions, no aid, nothing... sometimes there isn't even food, so they're basically scavenging just to eat.

The center where the occupiers were handing out Russian documents got hit one day, so some of those "helpers" ended up fleeing back to Mother Russia 😁. (The partisans are staying active despite the occupiers' crackdowns).

Some people are claiming Mariupol will get a new name: Kadyrovsk, after Ramzan Kadyrov 🤣.

darkhawk30 said:"Moscow has started laying out concrete plans to hold referendums in several cities within the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine... "

I honestly want to know how they actually intend to pull this off.
The whole thing feels like a total farce—nothing more than a pathetic little Hamlet.

They've already started prepping—looks like the referendum happens next month. They just need to figure out how to explain it to everyone first. It's a mess out there; some people are flying the Russian flag, some have the DNR or even the Soviet Union flags up... they'll need to let folks know what they're actually voting for.😁.

gentlestag15 said:So, are you actually living in Russia, or are you a Russian woman like our favorite forum regular, Ivan the Terrible?

I'm a Ukrainian mother—born and raised there myself.

Mariupol

The authorities announced there's a shortage of medicine, and my contact confirmed it. So many essential drugs are missing right now, and people are dying because of it 😢.

They also reported that buses are being destroyed to prevent people from leaving town. That’s true too—though despite that, people are still finding ways out every single day, many of them just walking on foot.

There’s word coming in about more bodies left in the streets—and yeah, that’s accurate. They’re doing what they can, but things haven't been cleared yet. Plus, a lot of the graves are shallow, so animals end up digging them up; they're trying their best to get everything cleared away.

Word is the trial for the captured soldiers will happen next month. Some people are talking about cages being set up to hold them, though I couldn't get anyone to confirm that part.

Denis Pushilin showed up again. Apparently, nobody was really listening to him; he just stood there looking "proud" with a Russian flag draped over his shoulders. There's no gas, and some areas are having water issues too. Whether they'll fix anything before winter hits? Who knows.

For a destroyed home, they supposedly offer about 50,000 rubles—or whatever the currency is called now. But there's a catch: you have to sign papers claiming the Ukrainian army destroyed it. If they ask for video footage to prove it, my contact didn't report anything. Some people are sleeping on the street while buildings are demolished however they please—there aren't really any rules. They're tearing things down just as recklessly as they bombed them. They've been filming people around the city talking about crimes committed by the Ukrainian army; they wanted him to speak up too, but he just played dumb. No one snitched on him.

Everyone’s got their own take on things—that's just how it goes with the Donbas. You'll hear the pro-Russian crowd complaining about how they've been bombarded and targeted by the Ukronation for eight years straight. Sometimes you just think about it—people spending eight years living in basements, hiding from bombs, using whatever they could find just to defend themselves. But you won't hear them say, "Hey, the bombs were falling on both sides." They attacked us, we attacked them. People died on both sides of the line. When we did some digging about three years ago, the data showed 2.5 times more children killed on territory held by the Ukrainian military. But then we hit a wall because they refuse to acknowledge that blood. To them, only children killed on the occupied side count. But at the end of the day, a dead child is a dead child—it hurts every parent the same way.
They would never admit to those of us who feel like the Donbas is part of Ukraine—that it actually belongs to us. Instead, they label us nationalists, fascists, militants... you name it. To them, heroes are people like Kačura, who basically say they enjoy killing Ukrainians. Or the ones claiming they'll wipe out Ukraine and its people entirely. They watch those channels where people suggest that Ukrainians who refuse to "Ukrainize" should be hung in Red Square... and then they turn around and act like they weren't living peacefully right next to those very same people yesterday. They're miserable because they don't live in the "motherland" of Russia, and they're furious at anyone who doesn't want to live there either. That's how you get hatred. Just massive, deep-seated hatred.

Donetsk

Here’s a look at how one very vocal pro-Russian woman sees things right now: She’s convinced that either Russia or the Donetsk People's Republic is bombing Donetsk—mostly because she claims they've already told the authorities several times that they're exhausted by this whole war. Apparently, mobilization teams are patrolling every corner of the city; she says people just can't take it anymore. What else did she tell me? She honestly doesn't see the point of the DNR leadership—in her eyes, they’re just puppets following orders from Moscow 🤣 🤣.

She thinks they’ll be running out of men soon—so much so that some guys are actually dressing in women's clothing just to avoid being snatched off the street. She swears they really are picking people up in public; there's always someone there, whether they're in uniform or just regular clothes, dragging people away
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Her brother was killed—he was only 20. She says she doesn't even know what it was all for anymore; he died for a country that doesn't even exist. Russia promised protection, but there hasn't been any actual protection to speak of 😢 😢. Maybe she’ll eventually realize that Russia is just using the people in the Donbas, but I didn't say anything—I used to know Sergei 😢. Just another young life lost forever.

Melissa Rivera5 said:Well, mission accomplished on the demilitarization front, I guess. They can all just head home now.

Forget about heading home until they "liberate" Kramatorsk and Slovyansk in the Donbas mountains—at least, that’s what the channels are claiming while they prep for winter parades in Kyiv.
A few days back, Olga Kačura " Kors" was killed—death of ladies, I guess—and now they apparently need to wipe out something like 10,000 nationalists or whatever they call them. One channel is even reporting they aren't taking prisoners anymore—maybe they have enough already, or maybe they just execute them later, who knows.

If nothing else, Kors at least earned her "Hero of Russia" medal—except we won't get to hear her cheerfully talking about how much she enjoys killing Ukrainians and sending them to mass graves. But hey, I'm sure a new Kors will pop up soon enough.

http://www.english.nv.ua/nation/done...-50260828.html