Poor Vladimir!

[Khandro]

According to front page of this morning's Express, https://www.express.co.uk/ he has had, "his legs cut from beneath him", and further down it says, Liz Truss has "Pulled the rug from beneath him"
He's having a bit of a bad hair day don't you think?

[douglas9401]

Truss is moonlighting with Pickfordski?

[ichkeria]

Shoigu appeared on TV yesterday for the first time in nearly a fortnight.

It sure about Gerasimov (head of the army) though.

Does anyone remember the smiling Gennady Gerasimov btw? From a different era. And even mentioned in a Billy Bragg song!

[ichkeria]

“Not” sure

[davebro]

If Putin remains in power I think it's just a matter of time before we have a nuclear exchange. That WILL be end of!

[naomi24]

More than a bad hair day.

//Ukraine destroys Russian landing ship after state media revealed its location with propaganda footage//

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10646879/Ukraine-war-Huge-Russian-ship-destroyed-Kyivs-navy.html

That'll teach him not to show off!

[ichkeria]

Retaking Berdyansk would be quite something.
At least it shows the Ukrainian navy is still active.

[Peter Pedant]

chrissakes he is thinking of gassing the Ukrainians - where did he get that idea from, hey

so if he has a sore bottom, well and good

[Peter Pedant]

shoigu's step daughter had a photo shoot and turned up in - - yellow wivda baby in blue!

[ichkeria]

And Zhirinovsky’s croaked it.

[davebro]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky

seems like another nutter - must be something in the water.

[ichkeria]

Oops there goes another general:

Lt-Gen Yakov Rezantsev taken out in an attack on a command post.

Believed responsible for a lot of the slaughter in Mariupol.
Told his men reportedly on Feb 28:
“ It’s no secret to anyone that there are only a few hours until this special operation is over.’
Well, it’s over for him at last

[Khandro]

Just been sent this;
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=r

Whether it's ALL true I don't know, (the hearing certainly was) but sounds like there is at least, something rotten been going on in Ukraine, sorry ichi.

[ichkeria]

These aren’t weapons facilities!
This was all covered at le HRH several weeks ago when Russia seized on these remarks and called an emergency cat meeting of the UNSC.
You can find it all online

[Khandro]

OK

[ichkeria]

I can't believe you missed the grotesque speech by Vasily Nebenzya in which he spoke at (tedious) length about the awful diseased Ukraine was planning to inflict on Europe and was roundly ridiculed

The fact of the matter is bio research is an important scientific discipline but can be put to bad use by the unscrupulous, as can chemical and nuclear resaearch, and it's hardly surprising they don't want the Russians getting hold of stuff.

[youngmafbog]

//The fact of the matter is bio research is an important scientific discipline but can be put to bad use by the unscrupulous//

Dont we know it.

[Peter Pedant]

// and it's hardly surprising they don't want the Russians getting hold of stuff.//

I worked at Porton Down and the Russians have it - in fact it is unusable because the land you conquer remains infected

haw haw haw - excuse me
Collapse of Soviet Union and the cameras went into an unlocked lab, and a fridge - not turned on for years...
opened it and there were petri dishes
and a cameraman picked one up and read out - - - "this says - - Vee, anthrasis"

and I thought this must be faked.

and the day had come when the electricity went off, and the wages didnt come thro..... and they just walked out of the biological warfare lab, leaving the anthrax in the fridge ( god it wd have to be an incubator... anyway)

they hadnt even bothered to sterilise the plates / specimens
they just went

[William51]

Lets hope it gets worse for him.

[ichkeria]

I loved the conversation between the Russian officer and his boss in Russia, intercepted by the SBU and made public.
The chap in the field complains that they've suffered heavy casualties, half the remaining men have frostbite, and to cap it all they've been hit by one of their own Grad missiles.
To which the guy back home replies: "We-ell, these things happen"
Not surprisingly they mutinied and ran over their colonel with a tank.
I didn't believe this when I first read about it in the New York Post, but it appears to be true.

[Khandro]

Vladimir Putin will soon have to select the version of defeat that suits him best. His plan A – a lightning quick invasion, followed by installing a government in Kiev, then horse trading with the effete and corrupt West – has failed entirely. To that extent, he has already lost.

For now, Putin has applied plan B. It consists of tactics used elsewhere, such as in Grozny and Aleppo, which allows him to indulge his penchant for blind slaughter while waiting for someone to blink. Aside from one man’s vainglory, there is a hellish calculus at work here: how long can Ukraine resist the invaders; how long can the Russian army sustain this miserable enterprise, both morally and in terms of supply; and how long will Putin’s subjects at home put up with a rapid attrition of living standards?

Nobody can call the outcome of this spread bet, but for all his bluster and rage, Putin isn’t looking or sounding like a winner worth backing today.


The Spectator