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[wannabejack]

Something that is the truth.

When Russians arrived in this village, they nailed all the phones to a tree. Then locals say the torture began

In a basement in a Ukrainian village on the Russian border, the remnants of a torture chamber tell a horrifying tale. Those investigating what happened here say the depraved orders came from the top. WARNING: Readers might find the details in this story distressing.

www.abc.net.au

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[Festerz]

Major dam breached in southern Ukraine, unleashing floodwaters

A major Soviet-era dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone in what both Ukraine and Russia said was an intentional attack by the other's forces.

www.reuters.com

Russia threatened to do this and now they have. The long term consequences for the region and its people are absolutely catastrophic and reminiscent of Hitler's scorched earth policy.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Major dam breached in southern Ukraine, unleashing floodwaters

A major Soviet-era dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone in what both Ukraine and Russia said was an intentional attack by the other's forces.

www.reuters.com

Russia threatened to do this and now they have. The long term consequences for the region and its people are absolutely catastrophic and reminiscent of Hitler's scorched earth policy.

More war crimes, he wants to destroy the land and peoples, **** Putin, **** him.

 

[OneGreatClub]

So bloody sad

 

[OneGreatClub]

Another indictment and that’s not the last one either.
I always believed.

 

[Papa G]

Why would Russia destroy a vital piece of infrastructure that they currently control and will ultimately control? its the same as the West trying to blame them for blowing up of Nordstream 2.

 

[edgie]

To complicate Ukranian offensives.

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[Papa G]

To complicate Ukranian offensives.

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When is the United States planning this offensive?

 

[wannabejack]

Internal Blast Probably Breached Ukraine Dam, Experts Say (Cautiously) (Published 2023)

With Russia and Ukraine blaming each other for the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, experts say that an external attack or even structural failure might explain the disaster, but that it is not likely.

www.nytimes.com

Experts cautioned that the available evidence was very limited, but they said that an internal explosion was the likeliest explanation for the destruction of the dam, a massive structure of steel-reinforced concrete that was completed in 1956. And local residents reported on social media that they heard a huge explosion around the time the dam was breached, at 2:50 a.m.
A blast in an enclosed space, with all of its energy applied against the structure around it, would do the most damage. Even then, the experts said, it would require hundreds of pounds of explosives, at least, to breach the dam. An external detonation by bomb or missile would exert only a fraction of its force against the dam, and would require an explosive many times larger to achieve a similar effect.

Some dams have collapsed because of unusually heavy water flows “overtopping” them. “Normally, such a failure would start on the earthen part of the dam, on either bank,” said Professor Baecher.
But photos and videos show that the Kakhovka dam was first breached in the middle, next to the power plant adjoining the Russian-held bank. Both ends of it appeared to be intact at first, though as the day went on, more and more of the dam collapsed.

 

[raptalia]

i was thinking it is like a repeat of nazi germany teaching the next generation of hitler youth and burning all of their old text books

The parallels with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany are uncanny. Hitler wanted lebensraum to the east while Putin wants expansion to the west. Hitler kept the German people in the dark with propaganda, Putin has done the same with the Russian people. Hitler used the injustice of Versailles to feed national fervor among the German people, Putin has used the supposed threat of a NATO arms build up to do the same in Russia. Hitler sought to indoctrinate German youth through the Hitler Youth and now Putin is doing the same in Russia. The only thing missing is the genocide but maybe that is to come?

The irony of it all is that Putin is that big a fool that he cannot see that his invasion of Ukraine has only strengthened NATO as Finland and now Sweden have joined NATO. If Putin succeeds in Ukraine the chances are Finland or maybe Poland will be his next target and as Finland is now part of NATO that will result in all out warfare and Putin maybe just stupid enough to escalate that to nuclear war.

Putin is a dangerous fool and the Ukrainians have already targeted him. The best hope the world has is that the Ukrainians will eventually be successful and that his successor will be a more intelligent person.

 

[raptalia]

Is Donald J Trump that stupid that he thinks the rest of the world is also stupid?

Nuclear secrets on documents seized: Prosecutors unseal Trump indictment ahead of court date

Prosecutors unseal an indictment against Donald Trump, accusing the former US president of risking some of the country's most sensitive secrets with his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021.

www.abc.net.au

Trump has been charged with 30 federal offences and overnight two of his lawyers quit. The ridiculous thing is that most of us knew exactly what Trump's response would be, 'it's all a political smear campaign etc etc'. Wisely Biden's White House has kept out of the proceedings and left it to the US Justice Department to investigate and charge Trump.

There are just too many indictments and charges hanging over Trump's head. Surely sooner rather than later his money won't help and some of the charges will stick?

Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion yet this guy stays out of jail, obviously being a billionaire gives you a get out of jail free card in the US these days.

 

[OneGreatClub]

ESpiONage AcT.

 

[wannabejack]

The parallels with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany are uncanny. Hitler wanted lebensraum to the east while Putin wants expansion to the west. Hitler kept the German people in the dark with propaganda, Putin has done the same with the Russian people. Hitler used the injustice of Versailles to feed national fervor among the German people, Putin has used the supposed threat of a NATO arms build up to do the same in Russia. Hitler sought to indoctrinate German youth through the Hitler Youth and now Putin is doing the same in Russia. The only thing missing is the genocide but maybe that is to come?

The irony of it all is that Putin is that big a fool that he cannot see that his invasion of Ukraine has only strengthened NATO as Finland and now Sweden have joined NATO. If Putin succeeds in Ukraine the chances are Finland or maybe Poland will be his next target and as Finland is now part of NATO that will result in all out warfare and Putin maybe just stupid enough to escalate that to nuclear war.

Putin is a dangerous fool and the Ukrainians have already targeted him. The best hope the world has is that the Ukrainians will eventually be successful and that his successor will be a more intelligent person.

Unfortunately Putin (Russia) ticks the genocide box as well.

December 1, 2022

Vladimir Putin’s Ukrainian Genocide: Nobody can claim they did not know

The overwhelming evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine together with the openly genocidal intent on display in Moscow mean nobody claim they did not know about Putin's Ukrainian Genocide, writes Peter Dickinson.

www.atlanticcouncil.org

The staggering quantity of genocidal statements coming out of Russia since the invasion of Ukraine began nine months ago makes it relatively easy to demonstrate the intent that is so crucial when identifying acts of genocide. The United Nations defines genocide as meaning any one of five acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.” The mass killings, systematic human rights abuses, forced deportations, and deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure carried out by the Russian military mean that Moscow is arguably guilty of committing all five genocidal acts in Ukraine.

In the aftermath of World War II, post-war audiences looked back on the horrors of the Nazi regime and asked how crimes of such magnitude were allowed to happen. Many of those who lived through the war protested that they had been completely unaware of the atrocities taking place around them. Similar excuses will not work in the current situation. On the contrary, the overwhelming evidence of Russian war crimes and the openly genocidal intent on display in Moscow mean that when future generations look back at Putin’s Ukrainian Genocide, nobody can claim they did not know.

 

[Grave Danger]

Is Donald J Trump that stupid that he thinks the rest of the world is also stupid?

Nuclear secrets on documents seized: Prosecutors unseal Trump indictment ahead of court date

Prosecutors unseal an indictment against Donald Trump, accusing the former US president of risking some of the country's most sensitive secrets with his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021.

www.abc.net.au

Trump has been charged with 30 federal offences and overnight two of his lawyers quit. The ridiculous thing is that most of us knew exactly what Trump's response would be, 'it's all a political smear campaign etc etc'. Wisely Biden's White House has kept out of the proceedings and left it to the US Justice Department to investigate and charge Trump.

There are just too many indictments and charges hanging over Trump's head. Surely sooner rather than later his money won't help and some of the charges will stick?

Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion yet this guy stays out of jail, obviously being a billionaire gives you a get out of jail free card in the US these days.

They haven't even got to the big stuff yet, ie interference in the 2020 election process and the Jan 6th insurrection.

 

[TazD]

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

Over the course of time info slowly leaks out.
The 9/11 attacks are presented here as a bumbling interaction between the CIA and the FBI.
It presents the Saudis as complicit in the attack.
It is, of course, a contested assertion.

Terrorists, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA

Documents publicly available make it clear that Saudi Arabian government officials assisted the two 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Midhar, who crashed an airliner into the Pentagon. Newly released testimonies further reveal that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was aware of...

johnmenadue.com

"It is interesting to note that some effort is being made to discredit Canestraro and the testimonies he has collected. Disinfo Review, a website that describes itself as a site providing a weekly update into pro-Kremlin disinformation, claims that the testimonies are “a gross distortion of facts aiming to promote the narratives that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job and that the US supports terrorism.”

The testimonies do no such thing. They do not suggest that the CIA orchestrated the attacks. Rather they suggest that the CIA was aware of two of the hijackers and their extremist views but thought they could possibly recruit them to provide inside information of Al Qaeda operations. With this single-minded obsession, they failed to spot and stop the actual terrorist operation the men finally undertook."

 

[wannabejack]

When is the United States planning this offensive?

Without knowing it, the United States may have planned part of this offensive twenty years ago.

Borrowing U.S. Tactics, Ukraine's Marines Thunder Thru Russian Lines

The Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade is more than a week into its own prolonged thunder run along the Mokri Yaly River.

www.forbes.com

In April 2003, early in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a battalion from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Divison combined 29 M-1 tanks, 14 M-2 fighting vehicles and several M-113 armored personnel carriers into an urban assault task force—and rolled straight into Baghdad days ahead of a planned multi-brigade coalition attack on the city.

Col. Eric Schwartz, who led the so-called “thunder run,” reasoned that a small, fast-moving armored force would confuse and demoralize Baghdad’s Iraqi defenders—and perhaps preempt a slow, bloody, block-by-block slog across the city.

Twenty years later, the Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade is more than a week into its own prolonged thunder run along the Mokri Yaly River. In eight or nine days of hard fighting, the 2,000-person brigade has liberated several villages—most recently Makarivka, on Monday.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Ukraine will never forgive Putin.

 

[wannabejack]

Ukraine will never forgive Putin.

'They are destroying us.' People plea to escape flooded Russian-occupied areas

Editor’s note: For this story, we spoke to people living or having family in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. For their safety, they are identified by first name only. After destroying the Nova Kakhovka dam and stranding thousands of Ukrainians in the catastrophic flood zone, Russians...

kyivindependent.com

Worse, the Russians allegedly destroyed people's means of escape. Serhiy's parents told him the Russians went through the town and rounded up or destroyed all the boats they could find in the weeks before triggering the explosion that caused Ukraine's most lurid catastrophe in decades.

"They stole the boats before all this... all the landings, they carried out all the boats," said Serhiy, paraphrasing what his parents told him. "It's like they were preparing for this to specially create a situation so that no one could escape."

"We thought they were looting. Now I understand that there was a specific command to remove all means of flotation so that people couldn't save themselves."

Oleh said that his aunt told him a similar story.

"They (the boats) were taken away," he said, quoting her. "People whose houses were locked kept their boats. The ones on the pier were smashed, shot up, or taken away."

The occupation authorities themselves have vanished from Oleshky, Serhiy said. But civilians trying to flee were blocked from doing so.

"Yesterday, people tried to escape, so (the Russians) fired assault rifles in the air and didn't allow anyone to leave," Oleh said.

 

[OneGreatClub]

I doubt these reports would surprise anyone.

https://archive.is/2023.06.17-184144/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4561e12a-0d14-11ee-aa7c-6e26d8c3ad9b

 

[Pear1870]

Well a credulous person wouldn't, and there a plenty of those. If true, it's obviously a war crime and all responsible should be be held accountable. I am not so accepting, not without evidence. Without evidence this can be just a paid comment made to influence readership in what is (from a media perspective), a war of propaganda. In such a war, truth is a casualty, usually the first. Question everything.

A similar scenario was reported just over a year ago.
The owner of Ukraine's warzone mobile hospital, Gennady Druzenko, in an interview on Ukrainian TV 24 in March last year, revealed to the interviewer he gave orders to his staff to castrate wounded Russian soldiers. He was later forced to apologize stating he "had always been a great humanist but changed his beliefs when it came to Russians".
Whether such practices were actually performed or not was not stated.
The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case based on the comments. It means if captured, he will be tried under Russian laws.

 

[wannabejack]

Well a credulous person wouldn't, and there a plenty of those. If true, it's obviously a war crime and all responsible should be be held accountable. I am not so accepting, not without evidence. Without evidence this can be just a paid comment made to influence readership in what is (from a media perspective), a war of propaganda. In such a war, truth is a casualty, usually the first. Question everything.

A similar scenario was reported just over a year ago.
The owner of Ukraine's warzone mobile hospital, Gennady Druzenko, in an interview on Ukrainian TV 24 in March last year, revealed to the interviewer he gave orders to his staff to castrate wounded Russian soldiers. He was later forced to apologize stating he "had always been a great humanist but changed his beliefs when it came to Russians".
Whether such practices were actually performed or not was not stated.
The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case based on the comments. It means if captured, he will be tried under Russian laws.

Haven't seen an ICC investigation into this "war crime". Maybe you should have dug a little deeper.

Ukrainian Medic Apologises After Telling TV Interviewer He Ordered His Staff To Castrate Russian Soldiers

Gennadiy Druzenk has been working as a volunteer frontline medic amid the Russian invasion.

www.ladbible.com

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened an investigation into Druzenko in the wake of the comments, but the medic has since taken to social media to apologise for what he said, assuring that the hospital 'does not castrate anyone and is not going to', and explaining that his words came from 'emotions'.

A statement shared on the hospital's website explained Druzenko 'made an emotional statement about the sterilisation of the invaders' and claimed it was 'prompted by threats against Gennady and his family personally'.

The statement added that his words were 'taken out of context and propagated by Russian propaganda channels', before assuring it 'has not engaged, is not engaged and does not plan to sterilise Russian invaders, let alone captured Russian soldiers and officers'.

"Our mission is to save lives... The head of PDMS apologizes for his emotions, caused, again, by brutal threats to him and his family," it continued.

 

[Pear1870]

Your reply made no mention of any disagreement on your part or any outrage to his comment on Ukrainian television. Nothing. He said sorry so all good, I was threatened (but have no evidence of it) but trust me, is that how it goes ?
Gennadiy Druzenko is not just a volunteer, he is a co-founder of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) and also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board (do you mind). He is described as the heart and soul of the organisation. The PFVMH just happens to seek donations from all over the world. His apology a week later wouldn't have anything to do with donations being affected, would it ?

In this particular case, Russia would be within it's rights to investigate the statement because of who made the statement if nothing else just as Ukraine would be within it's rights to investigate information reported in The Times article. The journalist has a moral obligation to seek such evidence from the injured parties and submit to the appropriate authority. Failure to do so implies her article is questionable, fabricated, propaganda or all three.

 

[wannabejack]

Your reply made no mention of any disagreement on your part or any outrage to his comment on Ukrainian television. Nothing. He said sorry so all good, I was threatened (but have no evidence of it) but trust me, is that how it goes ?
Gennadiy Druzenko is not just a volunteer, he is a co-founder of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) and also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board (do you mind). He is described as the heart and soul of the organisation. The PFVMH just happens to seek donations from all over the world. His apology a week later wouldn't have anything to do with donations being affected, would it ?

In this particular case, Russia would be within it's rights to investigate the statement because of who made the statement if nothing else just as Ukraine would be within it's rights to investigate information reported in The Times article. The journalist has a moral obligation to seek such evidence from the injured parties and submit to the appropriate authority. Failure to do so implies her article is questionable, fabricated, propaganda or all three.

In your initial post you said "Whether such practices were actually performed or not was not stated", this to put doubt in people's minds. As I said "Maybe you should have dug a little deeper". If you had dug a little deeper you would have found that there are enough articles saying such practices were not performed.

From an RT article. The doctor added a screenshot to the post, which appeared to be a threat addressed to him. It cited what was presumably his personal data, including phone numbers and an address, and a promise to “come unannounced” and “cut off [his] balls.”

It's been over a year since the articles and the ICC hasn't issued a warrant of arrest. But I'm sure the Russian Investigation will be fair and impartial