[Clarido]

Originally Posted by marekparek ↗

Fresh meat ready for mincing. Brand new mobiks, Magyar calls them bobiks

Can someone translate what they are saying?

[kellyhound]

Two Ukrainian attack drones struck the largest oil refinery in southern Russia on Saturday, a source in Kyiv told Reuters, detailing the latest in a series of long-range attacks on Russian oil facilities.

Local authorities in Russia said earlier that a fire had been extinguished at the Volgograd refinery following a drone attack. Oil producer Lukoil (LKOH.MM), opens new tab, which owns the refinery, later said the plant was working as normal.

The Kyiv source said the operation by the SBU security service struck the primary processing facility, without which the refinery could lose significant production capacity.

Ukrainian officials seldom take responsibility publicly for deep strike attacks on Russian territory.

The Volgograd refinery is the latest in a series of facilities to be targeted by drones. Kyiv sees such infrastructure as important for the Kremlin's war effort.

The source told Reuters such drone attacks would continue.

"By hitting oil refineries working for the Russian military-industrial complex, we not only cut off the logistics of fuel supplies for enemy equipment, but also reduce funds into the Russian budget," the source said.

The distance between the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv near the Russian border and the southern Russian city of Volgograd is more than 600km.

[kellyhound]

Former Russian officers will testify in the Hague International Court to expose the crime of war committed by Putin and Russia.

A former officer of the Russian Military Intelligence Agency GRU said he had joined the Wagner Mercenary Organization to fight. He has now defeated to the Netherlands and stated that he will testify in the war committed by Russia in Hague.

60 -year -old Igor Salikov arrived in the Netherlands on Monday.Russian exile disagreement person,热门事件 Vladimir Ousickin, published a oath submitted by Salikov to the International Criminal Court (ICC), asking for "international protection and political asylum" for himself and his family.Osuschie is the head of the prisoner's right to organize the "Gulag" anti -corruption project.

Oussekin told the media that as of Tuesday morning local time, Salikov still lived in a hotel at Studu Airport in Amsterdam. After arriving, he had been working with the "(special) service department" after arriving.

Salikov claims that he has served in the Russian army for 25 years and has risen to the rank of Colonel. Later, he joined the currently dissolved Wagner Group and the Russian Ministry of Defense -controlled the mercenary forces Rect Group.

He said he participated in the 2014 Russia's invasion of Crimea.He also said that after Russia invaded Ukraine, he also went to Ukraine in 2022.

He said that he witnessed the conflict between Moscow in Donetsk and the eastern region of Lugusk.

Salikov further claimed that the Russian military launched a "false flag" that was disguised as a camouflage in Ukraine in the Donetsk to accuse the Kiev regime of violence against the Russian community.

He said that for more than a year, he has been providing information to Oussekin to prepare for testimony in Hague.

"I witnessed the atrocities of civilians." The 60 -year -old veteran said in an interview that he saw that prisoners of war were abused and executed, and children were abducted.

"I saw the secret agencies who saw a large number of children without parents entered Belarus with a large number of children without parents."

He said that the order of committing these crimes was directly from the Russian Ministry of Defense and the intelligence department, and in some cases, even President Putin himself.

According to Salikov, one of the leaders of the Wagner Group Dimitri Utkin personally ordered the execution and retaliation of civilians in Ukraine and Syria. The latter executed Putin's will."

In the letter to the International Criminal Court, Salikov wrote: "I hope to purify my soul and tell international investigators and courts that the facts I know corruption, military aggression and crimes reveal Russian President Putin's invasion in 2014. Ukraine's illegal plan and provide detailed information I know."

Salikov told the International Criminal Court that he fully understood his testimony and the risks he would bring to the Netherlands, "But I think the information and my testimony will be announced in the media, revealing the dictatorship

Vladimir Putin's criminal plan is very important. Because of his faults, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and millions of people have been deprived of humanity. "

The International Criminal Court confirmed in a statement that Salikov has submitted information on suspected crimes to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, but said that according to the confidentiality of its activities, it cannot provide any further survey that is underway.information.

The International Criminal Court said: "Especially, my office cannot confirm or deny whether someone is a potential witness or is in contact with any other identity."

In a letter to the International Criminal Court, Salikov also said that the Russian Federal Security Agency (FSB) ordered him to shoot five people in Bucha Town in Kiev, Ukraine.

It is said that in March 2022, hundreds of civilians were slaughtered in the town.Ukraine President Zelezki said in April 2022 that Ukraine had "conclusive evidence" proved that Russia made a massacre in Buzha.

"At the end of March, in the Bucha area, I received an order from the anti -love newspaper official to shoot 5 people being held by our detention.And released these people, so that he was sued by military arrest. "Salikov wrote.

Salikov said that he fled the Russian army after refusing to execute the civilians. He now wants to report to the International Criminal Court of Criminal Court because he "lost confidence in Russia's career."

Putin and his children's affairs specialist Belova has been expelled from Ukrainian children to Russia and was wanted by the International Criminal Court for illegally. If Putin embarked on the territory of any member of the International Criminal Court, the country would be obliged to arrest him.

Russia insisted that the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court on March 17 was illegal, because Russia was not a member state.

[RedactedKaos]

Partially from the BBC..I think


Russian prisoners recruited to fight in Ukraine are no longer sent for six months, the BBC reported.
Instead, they will likely have to stay until the war ends, whenever that might be.
One man who identified himself as a recruited prisoner said: "If you sign up now, be ready to die."
Russian prisoners who are sent to fight in Ukraine are now being made to serve until the war ends instead of just for six months, the BBC reported.

Russia has sent tens of thousands of prisoners to fight in Ukraine since it launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. Earlier prison recruits were sent for six months and, if they survived, were given full pardons.

But prisoners who sign up for the fight now are being told that they will likely have to stay on the front lines until the end, according to the BBC.

They can get a full release only if they get a state decoration, become incapacitated, reach the oldest age for serving in the military, or the war ends, the outlet reported.

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Two Ukrainian attack drones struck the largest oil refinery in southern Russia on Saturday, a source in Kyiv told Reuters, detailing the latest in a series of long-range attacks on Russian oil facilities.

Local authorities in Russia said earlier that a fire had been extinguished at the Volgograd refinery following a drone attack. Oil producer Lukoil (LKOH.MM), opens new tab, which owns the refinery, later said the plant was working as normal.

The Kyiv source said the operation by the SBU security service struck the primary processing facility, without which the refinery could lose significant production capacity.

Ukrainian officials seldom take responsibility publicly for deep strike attacks on Russian territory.

The Volgograd refinery is the latest in a series of facilities to be targeted by drones. Kyiv sees such infrastructure as important for the Kremlin's war effort.

The source told Reuters such drone attacks would continue.

"By hitting oil refineries working for the Russian military-industrial complex, we not only cut off the logistics of fuel supplies for enemy equipment, but also reduce funds into the Russian budget," the source said.

The distance between the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv near the Russian border and the southern Russian city of Volgograd is more than 600km.

[Guns N' Coffee]

@hissgoescobra
My message for Mike Johnson, MAGA, and all the parasites of power in D.C.:

[scorpion9]

Fresh meat ready for mincing. Brand new mobiks, Magyar calls them bobiks

Originally Posted by Clarido ↗

Can someone translate what they are saying?

If i remember correctly, they were the most recent POW that were sent to russia in exchange for ukrainian POW's ( after the crash of the russian POW plane ). They were asked "what were you in jail for" and they were all reciting their murder charges.
I.e, im in for a homicide,
I'm in for double murder.
I'm in for tripple murder.

and so on.

[Guns N' Coffee]

Russian election officials reject antiwar politician's bid to oppose Putin in next month's vote

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Antiwar politician Boris Nadezhdin was rejected Thursday as a candidate in next month’s presidential balloting by Russian election authorities, a strong signal from the Kremlin that it won't tolerate any public opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.

The move by the Central Election Commission provides an even smoother path for President Vladimir Putin to win a fifth term in power. He faces only token opposition from pro-Kremlin candidates in the March 15-17 vote and is all but certain to win, given his tight control of Russia’s political system.

Nadezhdin, a local legislator in a town near Moscow, had needed to gather at least 100,000 signatures of supporters — a requirement that applies to candidates of political parties that are not represented in the Russian parliament.

The Central Election Commission declared that more than 9,000 signatures submitted by Nadezhdin’s campaign were invalid, which was enough to disqualify him. Russia's election rules say potential candidates can have no more than 5% of their submitted signatures thrown out.

He has openly called for a halt to the nearly 2-year-old war in Ukraine and for starting a dialogue with the West. Thousands of Russians lined up across the country last month to sign papers supporting his candidacy, an unusual show of opposition sympathies in the rigidly controlled political landscape.

The 60-year-old Nadezhdin, whose name is a form of the Russian word for “hope,” gave a sense of optimism to those opposing the war, and many of them stood in bitterly cold temperatures across the country last month to sign petitions.

Starting peace talks with Kyiv was among his campaign promises, as was the idea that Russia is not “a besieged fortress” and needs to pivot toward working with the West rather than being in a confrontation with it.

Speaking to officials at the election commission Thursday, Nadezhdin had asked them to postpone their decision, but they declined. He said he would appeal his disqualification in court.

“It’s not me standing here,” Nadezhdin said. “Hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens who put their signatures down for me are behind me.”

Putin is running as an independent candidate, and his campaign was required to gather at least 300,000 signatures in his support. He was swiftly allowed on the ballot earlier this year, with election officials disqualifying only 91 out of 315,000 that his campaign submitted.

Most of the opposition figures who might have challenged Putin have been either imprisoned or exiled abroad. That includes opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose attempt to run against Putin in 2018 also was rejected, and he is now serving a 19-year prison sentence on extremism charges.

The vast majority of independent Russian media outlets also have been banned under Putin.

Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova said the ballot will have only four names — the fewest number of candidates since 2008, when Dmitry Medvedev ran in place of the term-limited Putin. Medvedev easily won the race with three other token contenders in a power-sharing deal that kept Putin in charge as prime minister.

Three candidates running against Putin next month were nominated by parties represented in parliament and weren’t required to collect signatures: Nikolai Kharitonov of the Communist Party, Leonid Slutsky of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party and Vladislav Davankov of the New People Party.

Those parties largely support the Kremlin’s policies. Kharitonov ran against Putin in 2004, finishing a distant second.

Exiled opposition activists, including those on Navalny's team, had thrown their weight behind Nadezhdin, urging their supporters to sign his nomination petitions.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the Kremlin doesn't view Nadezhdin as “a rival.”

Speaking after the election commission hearing, Nadezhdin stressed that many Russians want change.

“You can remove Nadezhdin from the elections, no question, you can do it," he said. “But where do you put tens of millions of people who want change, who do not agree with the course that is now taking place in the country? That’s the problem. These people are not going anywhere.”

Nadezhdin is the second antiwar hopeful to be denied a spot on the ballot. In December, the election commission refused to certify the candidacy of Yekaterina Duntsova, citing problems such as spelling errors in her paperwork.

Duntsova, a journalist and a former legislator from the Tver region north of Moscow, had announced plans last year to challenge Putin. Promoting a vision of a Russia as “peaceful, friendly and ready to cooperate with everyone on the principle of respect,” she said she wanted to end the fighting in Ukraine swiftly and for Moscow and Kyiv to come to the negotiating table.

Abbas Gallyamov, a former Putin speechwriter who became a political analyst, said the decision to keep Nadezhdin off the ballot showed how hollow the support for Putin was.

“All of Putin’s mega-popularity, which official sociology constantly broadcasts, all that ‘rally around the national leader’ that Peskov regularly talks about is, in fact, a highly artificial and unstable structure that does not withstand any contact with reality,” he said.

It is highly unlikely that the refusal to register Nadezhdin as a candidate will produce any protests in the streets. Demonstrations have been rare in Russia since Februrary 2022, when antiwar rallies resulted in mass arrests and eventually fizzled. Nadezhdin himself has publicly entertained the idea of calling for protests, but stressed that those would be possible only if the government authorizes them, which it rarely does.

Earlier this month, Navalny urged supporters to show their opposition to Putin by coming to the polls to vote at a specific time on election day — a move he hoped would result in long queues and turn into “a powerful demonstration of the country’s mood.”

Navalny's top strategist Leonid Volkov reiterated that call Thursday, saying the decision to reject Nadezhdin “serves one goal: to sow despair, so that more people throw in the towel and decide not to go anywhere.”

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Volkov argued March election is a “propaganda effort to spread hopelessness” and “instill despair in all normal people in Russia" by creating an image of Putin's overwhelming popularity.

“Millions of people will come to vote against Putin, but if every one of them in our vast country comes on their own, they will be an easy prey for Putin's propaganda, fall for the lie that there are few people like him out there. And if everyone comes at the same time and sees each other, propaganda will be powerless,” he said.

[kellyhound]

According to experts, Russian election laws provide ample opportunities for authorities to arbitrarily block would-be candidates from running for office.

“In recent years, the process of collecting signatures [of endorsement] has been made as difficult as possible... increasing the chance that signatures will be rejected on arbitrary grounds,” Andreychuk said.

While Nadezhdin's expected appeal to the Supreme Court may be doomed to failure, some analysts say the move is still important as it shows to his supporters that he will not allow himself to be blocked from running without using all channels available to him.

Long lines formed outside his campaign offices both inside Russia and abroad as thousands of pro-peace Russians hoped to safely express their opposition to the war in Ukraine by endorsing his election bid.

According to Schulmann, even in tightly controlled political systems like Russia, it is still crucial “to create an impression” and “to show how large the demand for an alternative [candidate] is.”

“This is a gamble for impression, not for an outcome,” she said, but emphasized that "the actual outcome remains firmly in control of the [election] organizers, making it impervious to influence by the citizens.”

“We’ve seen the long lines for Nadezhdin, there was enthusiasm, and his regional headquarters were self-organizing as genuine grassroots initiatives. The incumbent [Putin] could not pull off anything like that.”

[kellyhound]

Those who call themselves “Slavs” were asked to answer the question “Does Putin really send people to the meat grinder?”