Quote from: TwitchySeal on April 19, 2022, 10:18:49 PM

Apparently before the election he won both him and the incumbent president agreed to take drug tests before a debate (both passed), so I assume accusations were made. But other than that, really nothing.

I don't remember did there was accusations or no, but actually this drug test challenge before debates was made by Zelensky to Poroshenko.

Quote from: suchmoon on April 19, 2022, 10:22:47 PM

Although now that I think of it, hacking and posting this type of "news" instead of the usual "you've been pwned hahaha" might be more effective in spreading panic.

From the technical standpoint, this might mean that it was not the server but some user's (who has access to post news on that site) PC that was hacked.

That is if we were to believe there was a hack and not someone accidentally spilling Putin's plans

Yeah, hack may be just excuse, but in reality, this thing was done intentionally. Something similar what they often spread on TV propaganda shows when some politologs talking about potential nuclear strike on Poland, or Baltic states for example. Main faces or Russian politics won't say that, but they can use propaganda shows to spread such message. Good example of it was Zhirinovsky.

Quote from: be.open on Today at 05:22:18 AM

That's right, in Russia there is no hatred for the people of Ukraine. Russians and Ukrainians are too closely intertwined cultural and family roots to cultivate hatred for each other, it's like a form of schizophrenia. I am sad how some Ukrainians hate Russians, hatred is a self-destructive emotion.

You must be living in some alternative reality. Go into streets or open some social media and you'll see what Russians think about Ukrainians. Calling Ukrainians as nazi or banderovtsy is common stuff in Russia. It's not about Azov, not about Zelensky or someone else, but about whole nation. I don't even talk about such words like Khokhol

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Across Ukraine, the number of schools that teach Russian is rapidly declining, and since 2018, Ukraine has completely stopped publishing textbooks in Russian. Modern Ukrainian school textbooks are some kind of obscurantism, and from an early age children are cultivated anti-Russian propaganda, representing Russians as wild orcs, with whom the best thing to do is to kill. It began under Yushchenko in 2004, and in 17 years a whole generation of narrow-minded nationalist fanatics has grown up, of which now all this Nazi nonsense will have to be knocked out of their heads.

So, what's wrong with that? Official language in Ukraine is Ukrainian, so, it's normal that they don't teach Russian as main language. But they still teach Russian as foreign language. And anti-Russian propaganda in school textbooks, what you describe is sounds more like some conspiracy theory.

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It seems you live in an illusory information bubble, having little contact with reality. Stores in Ukraine massively refused to serve Russian-speaking customers. In the bars of Ukraine, Russian speech could easily become a strong argument for a fight. Ukrainians are bilingual people and their attempt to ban the Russian language is absurd, because it impoverishes them and linguistically the Ukrainian language is not a self-sufficient dialect of Russian.

And despite things you said, people in Ukraine continue to use Russian language without any issues. Many troops who defends Ukraine speak Russian, public faces or many politics too.

Quote from: Veleor on Today at 07:37:05 PM

Here is a very fresh video from Mariupol: https://youtu.be/YZGo5roYEJE

The fact that this is Mariupol in 2022 is partially confirmed by the words at the end of the video about the escaped mayor Vadim Boychenko, as well as about the military who are hiding at the plant and the name of the street.
In this video, several women in broad daylight on a busy street publicly accused the Ukrainian army of crimes against local residents. Do you think they brazenly lie, not being afraid that passers-by may catch them in a lie? Or maybe all these people on the street are actors or too scared to tell the truth? Submit your versions.
If you do not believe these reports, then invite independent journalists and human rights activists who will interview the population of Mariupol about what has been happening in the city for the past two months.

So, ok, you picked one of many videos. I'm not surprised that part of people in Mariupol is pro-Russian and they would welcome Russian troops with flowers. But why exactly do you that people in this video is telling true and all people who tell about Russian crimes in Mariupol is lying?
Inviting independent journalists would be good thing, but who exactly is independent journalist? Every journalist depends on something. And considering current situation in Mariupol, I think it would be quite difficult to find journalist who would risk their life and come to Mariupol.