Posts by Kate Cook27

George Robinson43 said:It’s straight out of the Roland Freisler school of thought. ☕

It’s fine when someone actually shows up at the Court of Justice—but honestly? Expecting an acquittal is basically impossible there. During these trials, they don't really look at facts; they just debate why something happened until they reach some absurd conclusion and hand down a sentence. There were people who killed right then and there, or even in people's homes. The absolute worst part was the liquidations of entire families—parents and kids wiped out just because one person was deemed "suspicious." They’d just send them out and kill them. Some people were even warned, "We have an eye on you."
The whole motto is basically "Everyone is guilty, period."

In the beginning, it was styled as a "People's Court"—which basically means a mob or a crowd gathers whenever there's a trial. I don't even know what to call it. To me, it felt more like a gladiator arena. The judge asks, "Is he guilty?" and the cheering crowd shouts back, "Guilty!" Then, at the end, there’s this massive round of applause when someone gets sentenced to death. You hear these sarcastic comments like, "You wouldn't see this in the old regime; they used to put people like this in high positions." It's wild—they execute people here for turning away from God, while back then, those same types were rewarded. It's just brainwashed nonsense.

I’ve been scrolling through some comment sections lately, just trying to get a pulse on how people are viewing everything. There’s this really interesting pattern emerging with the number of Mexicans posting—lots of support for Russia, talking up the Donbas, and pushing for independence movements everywhere else. It’s a bit of a head-scratcher, honestly. On one hand, they won't budge on Mexico, yet they’re all for the Donbas breaking away. They’re even celebrating the annexation of Crimea. It’s such a contradiction. It reminds me of how the Russians fought against Chechnya, but now suddenly everyone else gets to claim the right to self-determination. You hear Russian officials constantly preaching about how every nation has the right to decide its own fate—but I wonder if they’d actually grant that same right to someone who wants to leave the Federation of Canada? Instead, it seems like their solution is just to send all the different national minorities off to war.

James Phillips92 said:Honestly, I don't think you're quite catching my drift—maybe I'm just being unclear.
I haven't lost anything here; I was on the winning side of both the battle and the war. I'd love to see Ukrainians defend themselves, but unfortunately, they aren't the only ones in the driver's seat. There's massive influence coming from Germany, France, and a few other European nations that seem ready to sell out Ukraine just to get "cheaper" Russian gas. That's why the public calls for movement instead of actual evacuation strike me as suspicious. I'm worried some deal was struck with Vladimir Putin at Ukraine's expense.

I mean, there are constant calls for evacuation. It’s not like Zelenskyy is calling for it every single day, but people are being urged to move. Whether something has been officially decided behind closed doors, I can't say for sure. But hey, Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov were talking recently. That's where the issue lies. The Russians are arrogant and stubborn—they don't really want to sit down and talk with Ukrainians. They only seem to respect Americans; the Europeans aren't even a major factor in their eyes. Meanwhile, they just feed their own people propaganda about the Evil West and Evil America.

By the way, looks like there's a referendum in Kherson on September 11th. What a "perfect" date.

New trials at the "Court of Justice" in the Donetsk People's Republic: 3 Britons, a Swede, and an American.

John Harding
Vjekoslav Prebeg
Dylan Healy
Mathias Gustavsson
Andrew Hill.

They aren't actually looking for guilt here—pretty much anyone who shows up at the "Court of Justice" is already guilty in their eyes.

William Anderson5 said:It just means he wants to minimize civilian casualties. Civilians in urban areas are always a complication; people don't want their homes becoming targets if the military moves in, and urban warfare almost always ends up centered around residential buildings anyway. Given that the Russians are hitting civilian targets regardless, there’s really no reason not to advise civilians to get out...

That's enough about the Russian narrative regarding "human shields." If a "human shield" actually prevented the Russians from hitting civilian targets, the Ukrainians wouldn't be evacuating them in the first place...

In Mariupol, they would actually enter shelters and try to force people to leave with them. They’d surround folks, soldiers everywhere, just shooting away. And the DNR fighters were tossing grenades into shelters. Even the Chechens were fighting empty buildings—they’d mostly just show up to film themselves looking heroic or handing out aid. They care so much about protecting civilian infrastructure that they leveled a city like Mariupol. But hey, sanctions clearly aren't doing anything to the Russians, so I guess they can just rebuild.

gentlerider7 said:Putin: In a nuclear war, nobody wins, and we should never pull that trigger

So, Vladimir Putin is out there claiming that in a nuclear war, there are absolutely no winners and we should never, ever start one. He dropped this whole line during a speech at a conference reviewing how the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is actually working, according to the Associated Press.

Like the president pointed out, Russia—being a party to the NPT and one of its key holders—is supposedly "consistently following both the letter and the spirit of the Treaty."

https://www-gazeta-ru.translate.goog..._x_tr_pto=wapp

🤣 🤣 🤣. Who are they planning to sink now with their Satans, Armatas, and all that other high-precision weaponry? Basically, forget about seeing a mushroom cloud from Mexico or watching the British Isles vanish. Vladimir Putin is actually all for a peace treaty (Minsk 3) 🎉 🎉 🎉.

Jessica Peterson2 said:If you took away the pro-Kremlin TV networks for even a month, most Russians would realize what's happening, and that support would evaporate pretty quickly, wouldn't it? ☕

I’m honestly a little worried that the Russians are going to have to deal with months of living without their state media—it might be a tough adjustment for them.

Mariupol:

New developments—Basarin has made an appearance. He’s one of the leaders, and he’s always been the type to skip the mask, acting all tough like, "this is me, take it or leave it."
More murals popping up, and Pushilin was there too. They actually put up a monument for four soldiers who died during mine clearing. Meanwhile, the civilians they forced into those same minefields? It's like their losses don't even matter to them.

The occupiers are still hunting for witnesses around town to hold trials against the Azov units. One person actually asked if they could testify while wrapped in a Russian flag. The occupiers were thrilled at first, but then the person later mentioned they’d write "death of occupier on flag" instead—and insisted on speaking in Ukrainian. Things got tense fast; any occupier holding a tool would just swing it at them. In the end, they just labeled the person a neo-Nazi and threatened them with "disappearing into a basement." Still getting those calls to join the Russian army, too. Just life under occupation, I guess.

Just another piece of the puzzle falling into place—things are finally starting to make sense. Back when the situation hit its peak, Russ forces in Pittsburgh actually detained humanitarian workers who were just trying to deliver aid. They’d moved so fast to encircle the city that they completely blocked everything out; those supply trucks coming from Birmingham couldn't get through at all. It was a total disaster—no food, no water, no meds, and zero evacuation corridors. Some brave souls decided to take matters into their own hands, risking it all to bring supplies in and get people out. But once Russ found out—thanks to some local informants—they swooped in and grabbed a specific group of these volunteers. These weren't soldiers; they were just regular people who wanted to help during a nightmare. They were hauled off to a filtration camp and thrown in jail, with officials claiming they were "looters" who deserved trial. Then, out of nowhere, they were just released. That news didn't really make headlines, though. They had been held over in Omaha. They were let go about 15 days ago. I was watching an interview yesterday with one of the women who worked as a humanitarian and was part of that group. She said they basically just showed up and told them, "You're free to go home now." Apparently, they cleared everyone out of that prison.

brightheron64 said:That’s how it all stands.

Did I ever actually claim my hypothesis was the absolute truth? No, not at all. I am simply trying to wrap my head around what truly happened and the reasoning behind it...

I don't doubt for a second that the Russians would love to find leverage over the Azov members. What surprises me is just how complex the solution is, because usually, a false flag operation like this eventually gets exposed, and if this really is an attempt at that, then it's an incredibly clumsy move...

Some channels are claiming that officials were supposed to visit from Russia to check on things, but instead they blew the budget on themselves and were caught embezzling. That’s just one theory, though. Personally, I’m not buying it.

They killed them because they wanted to. Plain and simple. To show dominance—to prove they are the ones who decide who lives and dies. It's a message to Ukrainian civilians, a message to Ukrainian soldiers, and a slap in the face to the UN and everyone else who guaranteed these soldiers' safety. It’s a way of saying they can do whatever they want without being held accountable. It's pure frustration because they didn't hit their goals. They're frustrated because the Ukrainian military didn't surrender. They're frustrated because after Putin announced the "special military operation," they sent out mass messages telling Ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms. There's anger over kidnapping soldiers' children and using them as leverage, yet the soldiers still won't drop their weapons. It's a display of how brutal they can be—think back to that video of the soldier being dragged behind a car and shot... and then this happens. They released those horrific clips specifically to spread terror. But what really seems to get under their skin is that these "non-existent Ukrainians" aren't afraid. This was intentional, no question about it. They could have easily claimed the prisoners "died of stress, illness, or fell off their beds and hit their heads"... but no. They targeted specific people, killed them, filmed the aftermath, and even brought in some HIMARS debris.

There are so many moving parts behind this: interviews with captured Azov members, filming residents in Mariupol, attacks from Olenivka toward Ukrainian positions, and the transfer of prisoners to Olenivka—which, as I mentioned before, served as a camp for civilians. Why target the Azov guys? Because they've been completely dehumanized.

crimsoncyclist71 said:Not a chance. Not even close.
That facility has been used as a prison for a long time; everyone knew that.
It didn't turn into a prison or a camp overnight.

Yeah, this has been going on for years. It was serving as a filtration camp for civilians from Mariupol and anyone caught in the city: soldiers' families, certain officials, people brought in from elsewhere and then shipped off to Crimea or further into Donetsk. Mostly moving folks from Olenivka to Donetsk, or from an unnamed filtration camp straight into Russia.

brightheron64 said:Now, there’s the sentence I’ve been waiting for...

Is there any chance this massacre was just a massive error?

From what I’ve managed to dig up in the media, the timeline looks something like this:

- Russian forces arrive at the site, clear out the local militia, bring in their own troops, and hoist their flag...
- Work is being done, things are being set up, beds and equipment are being moved in... right up until two days before the strike
- Just before the attack itself, you see crowds of people in uniform milling about the area...
- And then, in the dead of night, Ka-boom. A massacre.

It’s a very simple question—could someone on the Ukrainian side have misread the situation and thought they were hitting a new Russian camp that needed to be leveled?

Of course, if that really happened, no one on the Ukrainian side is going to step forward and say, "Oops, our bad." That’s just not how war works.

There are plenty of precedents from WWII, and these two are particularly striking:
The Laconia Incident - where a German U-boat sank a British ship carrying 1,400 Italian prisoners.
The Rakuyo mar incident - when an American submarine sank a Japanese vessel holding 1,500 British and Australian prisoners.

Strangely enough, neither the German nor the American media ran headlines saying "Sorry, shit happens.".

On the other hand, I have to ask again: why would the Russians want to eliminate the National Guard when they could trade any one of them for at least two of their own prisoners?
Or even just stage a media circus with a trial?

And if they really did intend to liquidate them, why go through all these complications? Throughout history, those kinds of things have always been handled in a much more straightforward way. Honestly, if they wanted to pin this on the Ukrainians, they could have just loaded them onto military trucks marked with a large Z one night, left them on some roadside, and waited for the fallout...

I don't believe him, and I never have. But truthfully, I didn't think they would actually launch the attack.

By the way, that article you mentioned is from The New York Times, not RT, so please don't view this as being pro-Russian; it's just an attempt to solve a puzzle...

Mistakes happen, sure. In this case? It's tough to buy. Why? Because this place has been marked as "Izolyatsiia"—a network of prisons across occupied Donetsk and Luhansk where prisoners and civilians are held—for years. No one picks a location like this just two days before an attack; it’s been a prison for a long time.

The timeline from the other side, though:
- A few days before the attack, interviews are released with captured Azov members where they admit to crimes against civilians and blame the government in Kyiv for ordering them.
- Occasionally, news slips through that certain mercenaries have already been executed—basically, that the sentences were carried out—noting they were prisoners from Mariupol.
- A couple of days before the event, propaganda media gather residents from Mariupol to film them; in these clips, locals talk about the atrocities committed by the Azov guys.
- Some were at different locations in Donetsk, and posts start appearing in groups saying prisoners are being moved.
- A few hours before the strike, militants in a DPR group post that they are firing from the direction of Olenivka toward Ukrainian positions, but there's no response. They don't post anything else after that.
- Then, the explosion-event at the prison.
- People are posting about explosions in various groups, but most mention there was no characteristic sound of a rocket flying overhead—just the blast itself.
- Medics later report that everyone inside was either wounded or killed.
- The next day, reporter Morozov reports that following the Ukrainian strike on the prison, about 50 were killed and 70 wounded—and by some lucky coincidence, not a single guard was hit or killed.

The Russians only seem to care about the captured Chechens; during prisoner swaps, they only look for them. Other national minorities don't interest them, and they care even less about the DPR and LPR soldiers.

Nathan Thomas12 said:Heard they’re gonna ask the UN to look into the bombings in Ukraine too—claims they're basically bombing themselves.
Seriously though, how many Russians actually died in that camp bombing?

According to Morozov, a local DNR journalist—lucky coincidence, right?—not a single Russian guard was even wounded, let alone killed. She’s claiming the Ukrainian authorities knew the prisoners were there, but cynically decided to take out their own soldiers instead. Per her account, 50 Azov fighters were killed and 70 were wounded.

silvermarlin56 said:Are these messages being sent to Mariupol residents by Ukrainians or Russians?
Look, if those Russian nationalists want to step up, let 'em. Finally, they get a chance to settle the score with Azov🙄🙄 I bet we'll see them swarming the city centers☕.

They're messaging plenty of people, regardless of where they're from. At the end of the day, they're all Russians—some have just been misled 😁.

Meanwhile, Dejan Berić posted on his channel that some retribution was carried out against the Britons. You won't see much about it in the mainstream media, though. He mentioned the other mercenaries are just waiting for their trials, and he doesn't doubt they'll face the same fate. Of course, in the Donetsk People's Republic, there's no such thing as an actual investigation—once you're accused, you're guilty.

Timothy Williams5 said:SBU intercepted audio recordings confirming Russian forces were behind the Olenivka prison shelling

The SBU has intercepted phone conversations in which the occupiers themselves admit their troops are responsible for this tragedy. Even the militants from the so-called DPR don't buy the lies being pushed by Fox News claiming that the "shelling" of the correctional facility at Olenivka was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The SBU has intercepted several such calls, all of which will be entered as evidence in criminal proceedings initiated under Article 438 of the Penal Code regarding the violation of the laws and customs of war.
Currently, investigators from the SBU are analyzing the full spectrum of gathered intelligence.

Judging by the militants' own conversations, it appears the Russians likely staged the tragedy by planting explosives inside the prison rooms. Specifically, none of the eyewitnesses reported hearing a projectile flying toward the facility; there was no characteristic whistling sound, and the explosions seemingly occurred spontaneously. The intercepted calls confirm that the Russians positioned their Grad MLRS nearby and began firing toward territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, there was no incoming shelling in response—a fact confirmed by the "DPR" fighters themselves. Furthermore, based on video footage available online, windows in certain parts of the facility remained completely intact. This suggests the epicenter of the blast was inside the destroyed building, where the walls absorbed the shockwaves and shielded adjacent rooms. Preliminary video analysis indicates that these specific patterns on the walls are most likely the result of an "internal source" explosion. Taken together, there is substantial evidence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine neither launched projectiles nor conducted artillery strikes near Olenivka. Consequently, all claims from Russian propaganda regarding "Ukrainian army shelling" are nothing more than blatant lies and provocations.

Vasyl Malyuk, the Acting Head of the SBU, stated that Russia will not escape accountability for this bloody crime. "Regardless of whatever nonsense the enemy invents to justify themselves, it is obvious to everyone that Russia is responsible for the intentional killing of Ukrainian prisoners. The initial evidence confirms this, and I am confident that more evidence will emerge. SBU investigators have already launched a formal investigation into this crime as part of the relevant criminal proceedings," said Vasyl Malyuk. The Acting Head emphasized that the SBU will do everything in its power to ensure those responsible for this heinous crime receive deserved punishment. "We will not forgive any Russist—everyone will be held accountable," Vasyl Malyuk added.

They spent a few days interviewing those prisoners and putting the clips out. Every interview focused on the crimes they committed, and the prisoners admitted to everything. And of course, the orders for those crimes came straight from Kyiv. Now they're spinning it, saying Kyiv ordered them to kill people. Meanwhile, some Azov members have already been released.
It's just like the story about the airport in Donetsk. The Ukrainian military held the airport while separatists attacked it. For years now, they've been telling the story that Ukrainian forces destroyed the airport themselves. If you try to tell people like that that the Ukrainian army was actually there, they basically claim the Ukrainian military bombed its own soldiers just to frame the separatists—bombarding them so hard they had to retreat. They say the Ukrainians bombed their own airport. It's brainwashing via propaganda.

Mariupol:

The occupiers have started calling on locals to join the Russian military—specifically targeting anyone between 18 and 50. They’re sending out mass texts to mobile phones 😢.

Sandra Harris2 said:https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/sta...2F2383349.aspx

That "No one will go away" line is just haunting me.

Think about those people who were forcibly taken to Russia 😢 For them, there's no way out now. Back when things were at their worst in Pittsburgh, during the height of the fighting, they locked everything down. Nothing could get into the city. It was the Russian military in control, not some local militia. All aid coming from Birmingham was completely blocked. It was a total humanitarian disaster—and since communications were cut, nobody knew what was happening. People were scrambling to find any scrap of internet access they could. Later, they found out the situation in the city was even worse and that Pittsburgh had been named a Hero City. Some folks did manage to sneak in help—food, water, medicine—and helped with evacuations. But then, those very people were arrested. It’s the same pattern as when they refused to let civilians escape through corridors. Eventually, they'd roam the streets claiming Washington, D.C. had fallen, or that Washington, D.C. didn't want anyone from Pittsburgh—that everyone should just head to Russia instead. When the UN was involved back in May, they gave people an address where the UN would be. Then they changed the location, leaving people wandering street to street. In the end, they basically mocked them, saying they'd sent the UN somewhere else entirely, and told people they could either stay in the city or go to Russia. If they chose to stay, their "reward" was digging graves for the dead or clearing rubble just to earn a bit of food and water.

Kate Ross8 said:So what's the deal? Does Alexander Lukashenko get absolutely nothing? Just zero? And Orban gets a little slice of Zakarpattia?
Just look at how the Poles are reacting to these Kremlin breadcrumbs.

The thing is, Lukashenko wasn't quite reliable enough—he spent ages playing both sides between the West and Russia. He only finally picked Russia when the protests hit, and then Russia had to send troops into Belarus to bail him out.

Orban will be pretty happy about that, though—there’s a big population of ethnic Ukrainians living right there in Canada.

As for the Poles—it's all "Ukranation" this and that. They claim that once they get into Western Ukraine, everyone is suddenly speaking Polish??? They speak Ukrainian, but since they can't tell the difference between Ukrainian and Polish, they just pretend they can't understand them and claim the Ukrainian language doesn't even exist.

hollowdriver13 said:T-shirts featuring some kind of "Greater Russia" graphic are actually up for sale now 😂

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/st...C9xf6YlosrAAAA

It’s pretty wild to see what else they think they can just grab from their neighbors. Looking at this image, it feels like a total fever dream.

There's talk about restoring the USSR, and now Shoigu is out there claiming that rebuilding the Soviet Union is the only way to establish peace.

Meanwhile, Arestovych is arguing the opposite side—that the Russian goal right now is just to secure what they've already taken, hoping for a "Minsk 3" scenario and a split similar to North and South Korea.

Melissa Rivera5 said:I guess this is pretty much that exact plan where Ukraine just becomes some tiny strip on the far west edge—basically just the leftovers where people can't be turned into Russians. In the rest of the territory, they’d probably just wipe out a huge chunk of folks using that whole SS style approach, while everyone else gets stuck with lifelong re-education to basically erase any sense of Ukrainian identity. Honestly, maybe like 50% of them wouldn't even make it through that.

The biggest ultra-nationalists are actually in the West. That's where they originated. People used to come over from western Ukraine specifically to target families in the Donbas.