Quote from: paxmao on May 11, 2022, 11:02:32 PM

Edited to update: Seems like UKR is obtaining some territorial gains in the northeast near Kharkiv. Not an strategic advance to see, but it shows that Putin's army cannot really hold all the occupied territory without unacceptable loses.

Belgorod is now within artillery range.

Quote from: Branko on May 11, 2022, 10:15:46 PM

Quote from: paxmao on May 11, 2022, 09:00:09 PM

Are you sure that it was Russia who helped kicking Milosevic out?

Yes

https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/ja-sam-svjedok-rusi-su-za-vrijeme-domovinskog-rata-naoruzavali-hrvate-a-ne-srbe-1131787

Your source.

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Russia was our friend and ally in the procurement of weapons in the early 1990s. The Russians supplied us with weapons at the request of France. I am a witness to that - says Marin Tomulić in the conversation we had on Wednesday in Paris. - Now it is considered that the Russians were and remain allies of the Serbs. But during the Homeland War, they armed us, not the Serbs - he adds.

Your source states that Russia sent or sold weapons at the request of France - let's say that is accepted. But, you are ignoring the direct intervention of USA in the conflict in 1999. It was not until this intervention ramped up that the war had a end in sight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars#Timeline

I can see you are looking at only the half of the story - the one that reinforces your views.

Quote from: be.open on May 11, 2022, 09:19:29 PM

What kind of evidence do you need? That Azov militants wear SS chevrons, torture and kill captured Russian soldiers? That the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine use the houses of civilians as ammunition depots and firing points? That the provocation in Bucha was staged, filmed with professional film equipment and sewn with white thread? Are you sure that there is not enough evidence in this topic and are you ready to adequately perceive new ones?

You know perfectly well that Russia does not recognise the Azov troops as soldiers, but has classed them as terrorist. If Putin does not intend to give them the rights of fighting soldiers (not that he seems to care much for these anyway) why all this complaints about them doing this or that?

Either they are soldiers in which case all that tatoo checking, filtration, questioning and torturing by Russia is a crime or they are not soldiers in which case you cannot complain about them theoretically not acting under the rules of war.

Apart from blatant lies, you do not even seem to pretend to have equanimity at all.

I'm Croat...NATO intervention from 1999 has nothing to do with our war, which ended in 1995