Russia Invades Ukraine

[Kriselda Gray]

How can can Ukrainian pilots fly helicopters with those giant balls?

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

How can can Ukrainian pilots fly helicopters with those giant balls?

Queening chairs

[Estiveo]

[Slim Cognito]

the comments are enlightening for us who don't know how this works.

[pipistrelle]

A thread unroll.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1509 ... 19013.html

[Gregg]

How can can Ukrainian pilots fly helicopters with those giant balls?

You know the beautiful thing? For two weeks, trigger happy Russians are gonna be shooting down their own aircraft by mistake and the Ukrainian pilots are gonna be setting in ready rooms playing dominos while they do it.

Every Russian Anti-Aircraft commander above the rand of Captain is getting a good old fashioned ass chewing right now and they're not gonna miss anything in the sky for a while. Sucks to be a hummingbird in Russia this week.

[Phoenix520]

Queening chairs

[Gregg]

Queening chairs

Is that the chair you have to sit in before you can be Pope?

[Suranis]

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-s ... 022-04-01/

The Ukrainians are denying that they blew up the depot. They are probably lying, as it forces the Russians to scream even louder that the Ukrainians penetrated their airspace and attacked them with no response. But it's possible that the it was a freak accident caused by the typical Russian adherence to standards and quality control. Or a weird false flag. Or Russian soldiers going "fukit."

Anyway this purports to be CCTV footage of the strike

[Atticus Finch]

Haiku

A walk in a park
turned into a turkey shoot
Putin's dreams are shattered



Easy victory
Ukraine had other ideas
now a meat grinder

[Gregg]

His Illuminated Majesty's Air Forces have no comment.

Fuel Depot go BOOM

[W. Kevin Vicklund]

Pupperoni stocks are up after higher than expected sales in March.

[RVInit]

Haiku

A walk in a park
turned into a turkey shoot
Putin's dreams are shattered



Easy victory
Ukraine had other ideas
now a meat grinder

[tek]

At the front door of Total Wine this morning

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[neeneko]

hrm.. I have not had vodka in years.... temping.... and there is a Total Wine just down the street.

[AndyinPA]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ce-station

Russia says it will end cooperation with western countries over the International Space Station until sanctions are lifted.

Russia’s space director said on Saturday that the restoration of normal ties between partners at the ISS and other joint space projects would be possible only once western sanctions against Moscow were lifted.

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, said in a social media post that the aim of the sanctions was to “kill Russian economy and plunge our people into despair and hunger, to get our country on its knees”. He added that they “won’t succeed in it, but the intentions are clear”.

“That’s why I believe that the restoration of normal relations between the partners at the International Space Station (ISS) and other projects is possible only with full and unconditional removal of illegal sanctions,” Rogozin said.

Rogozin said Roscosmos’ proposals on when to end cooperation over the ISS with space agencies of the US, Canada, the EU and Japan would soon be reported to Russian authorities. He has previously said that the sanctions could “destroy” the US-Russian partnership on the ISS.

[pipistrelle]

Maybe stop bombing Ukraine and aiming for civilians. That’d be a start.

[John Thomas8]

[AndyinPA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... e-updates/

A high-ranking Ukrainian official said the entire Kyiv region was no longer under Russian control Saturday, as signs mounted that Moscow’s troops were pulling back from cities and towns across the capital region. And as the forces withdraw, those on the ground describe a grim scene that’s been left behind.

Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said the nation’s armed forces were back in control of all of Kyiv oblast, and Britain’s Defense Ministry confirmed that local forces were steadily regaining control. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s withdrawal in the north was “slow but noticeable.” In Bucha, a town near Kyiv, local officials and reporters say there are mass graves and bodies scattered in the streets.

Also, here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... sian-mines

[pipistrelle]

[Atticus Finch]

Haikus

Russian czar Putin
Present day Xerxes will find
Invading not easy

Gotterdammerung
Putin’s designs for Europe
A present-day Nero

General Putin
Is not a Stormin’ Norman
Operation Nowhere

[AndyinPA]

[AndyinPA]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... a-and-kyiv

Russia has been accused of a “terrible war crime”, as western leaders condemned the killings of scores of unarmed civilians in Bucha and the surrounding areas of Kyiv.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the Kremlin-ordered attack on his country amounted to genocide, after local officials reported scores of civilians had been killed in the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel near the capital following the withdrawal of Russian forces.

Zelenskiy told the US television network CBS that Ukraine’s refusal to be subdued to Russia was the reason “we are being destroyed and exterminated”, describing the war as “the torture of the whole nation”.

Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dymtro Kuleba, said Russia was “worse than Isis”.

Reporters from Agence France-Presse saw at least 20 bodies, all in civilian clothing, strewn across a single street in the town of Bucha on Friday. One had his hands tied behind his back with a white cloth, and his Ukrainian passport left open beside his body. “All these people were shot,” Bucha’s mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP, adding that a further 280 bodies had been buried in mass graves in the town.

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]