[kellyhound]

27-year-old Ivan and his friend Gosha were drunk – they were celebrating Ivan’s wife’s infidelity. Once, when the drunken friends were sleeping on a bench in Ulyanovsk, they were “mobilized”.

So they came to fight in Ukraine. Gosha was immediately killed by a battalion commander because he didn’t want to give up the money.

Ivan gave all the money he had, escaped to the North-West Frontier three times and was caught and returned to the front three times.

On his last mission, he went without armor and weapons (because the North-West Frontier soldiers of the russian army are not given such things).

When he saw the FPV drone of the Black Sky battalion of the Spartan brigade, he acted atypically – he decided not to run away, but with gestures showed that he wanted to surrender.

Now Ivan dreams of never returning to russia, because “in the swamps” once “meat” is “meat forever” (besides, his wife is already carrying a child that is not his for the second time).

Ivan voluntarily told his story on camera.

[dfinsvalde]

Original video source:

[Guns N' Coffee]

https://apnews.com/article/russia-na...0d4842ea686b03

Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say

LONDON (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a rare and lethal toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs, five European countries said Saturday.

The foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analysis in European labs of samples taken from Navalny’s body “conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.” The neurotoxin secreted by dart frogs in South America is not found naturally in Russia, they said.

A joint statement said: “Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to administer this poison.”

The five countries said they were reporting Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention. There was no immediate comment from the organization.

Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence that he believed to be politically motivated.

“Russia saw Navalny as a threat,” British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said. “By using this form of poison the Russian state demonstrated the despicable tools it has at its disposal and the overwhelming fear it has of political opposition.”

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot wrote on X that the poisoning of Navalny shows “that Vladimir Putin is prepared to use biological weapons against his own people in order to remain in power.”

The European nations’ assessment came as Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, attended the Munich Security Conference in Germany, and just before the second anniversary of Navalny’s death.

She said last year that two independent labs had found that her husband was poisoned shortly before he died. She has repeatedly blamed Putin for her husband’s death. Russian officials have vehemently denied the accusation.

Navalnaya said Saturday that she had been “certain from the first day” that her husband had been poisoned, “but now there is proof.”

“Putin killed Alexei with chemical weapon,” she wrote on She said Putin was “a murderer” who “must be held accountable.”

Russian authorities said that the politician became ill after a walk and died from natural causes.

Epibatidine is found naturally in dart frogs in the wild, and can also be manufactured in a lab, which European scientists suspect was the case with the substance used on Navalny. It works on the body in a similar way to nerve agents, causing shortness of breath, convulsions, seizures, a slowed heart rate and ultimately death.

European officials said they had a high degree of confidence in the assessment that Navalny died from epibatidine poisoning. Asked why the results had taken so long, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said that it had been “a complicated process.”

Wadephul said “no one but Putin’s henchmen will be able to say in detail what happened on Feb. 16, 2024, in the Russian penal colony. But it is clear that Russian authorities had the possibility, the motive and the means to administer the poison to Navalny.”

Navalny was the target of an earlier poisoning in 2020, with a nerve agent in an attack he blamed on the Kremlin, which always denied involvement. His family and allies fought to have him flown to Germany for treatment and recovery. Five months later, he returned to Russia, where he was immediately arrested and imprisoned for the last three years of his life.

The U.K. has accused Russia of repeatedly flouting international bans on chemical and biological weapons. It accuses the Kremlin of carrying out a 2018 attack in the English city of Salisbury that targeted a former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Skripal, with the nerve agent Novichok. Skripal and his daughter became seriously ill, and a British woman, Dawn Sturgess, died after she came across a discarded bottle with traces of the nerve agent.

A British inquiry concluded that the attack “must have been authorized at the highest level, by President Putin.”

The Kremlin has denied involvement. Russia also denied poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent turned Kremlin critic who died in London in 2006, after ingesting the radioactive isotope polonium-210. A British inquiry concluded that two Russian agents killed Litvinenko, and Putin had “probably approved” the operation.

[Silky]

I have no position on this war as an American (the only ones who're fighting on either side were fobbits in the Afghan/Iraq war who never seen combat).

I don't agree with Russia invading Ukraine in the 21st century, but I don't agree with how Ukraine has been spending their donations. US has spent $187 billion Yet Ukraine somehow needs funding for more ammo. Definitely not yachts, 4chan was correct again.


Ukrainians are saying America couldn't handle this type of war.


2026 US defense budget was approved at $901 billion

https://youtube.com/shorts/9cqZItwrT...RWZivy-s0xbRwU

I'm neutral, I just watch them die on this website, but I'm glad Trump cut the funding to Ukraine, as much as I want Ukraine to defend their borders.

That's my rant.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by Silky ↗

I have no position on this war as an American (the only ones who're fighting on either side were fobbits in the Afghan/Iraq war who never seen combat).

I don't agree with Russia invading Ukraine in the 21st century, but I don't agree with how Ukraine has been spending their donations. US has spent $187 billion

Yet Ukraine somehow needs funding for more ammo. Definitely not yachts, 4chan was correct again.


I'm neutral, I just watch them die on this website, but I'm glad Trump cut the funding to Ukraine, as much as I want Ukraine to defend their borders.

That's my rant.

I looked it all up for you

1. The $187 billion figure you're mentioning represents the total amount appropriated, authorized for use, by the U.S. Congress for the Ukraine response and Operation Atlantic Resolve from February 2022 through June 2025.

Around 124 billion for military aid. Around 54 billion for economic support to keep the Ukrainian government functioning. This incl. a $20 billion loan finalized in late 2024 through the World Bank, intended to be repaid using interest from frozen russian assets.

Around 10 billion for humanitarian support like food, clean water, medical supplies and refugee support.

However, as of today, the money that is already spent is approx. $83 to $90 billion meaning there is a gap.

How come? Well, there's an around $30 billion U.S. manufacturing backlog, meaning much of the money is obligated to American defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

This money stays in the U.S. to build new weapons that will eventually replace the older ones already sent to Ukraine from U.S. stockpiles.

Billions are spent on the U.S. military itself to cover the cost of surging thousands of American troops to Europe for NATO security, conducting intelligence operations and providing training to Ukrainian soldiers outside of Ukraine.

Billions of funds are mostly allocated for multi-year contracts. F.e: if the U.S. orders a new air defense system for Ukraine today, the money is spent on the contract, but not disbursed until the system is actually built and delivered years later.

Further, like many think and read on biased/propaganda websites, the 124 billion for military aid is factual not a give away of taxpayers money bla bla as most of the money is actually a domestic investment like contracts for new weapons that were awarded to U.S. companies in over 70 cities, creating local jobs and revitalizing the American manufacturing sector. (Boosting U.S. economy)

Not to mention the strategic gain as this significantly degrades the conventional military power of russia which is a primary geopolitical rival, just like China and all that without deploying American troops.

Economic sanctions are paying off nowaday as the russian economy is stagnating and no one can hold a war economy for years without the right amout of money and goods. Interests are high, lack of employees for certain sectors, fuel shortages due to sanctions and Ukr. attacks etc.

They already spending 5 to 10% less on pensions, welfare, infrastructure, subsidies etc.

The russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is facing an unprecedented personnel crisis, with over 172,000 positions unfilled due to (police) officers leaving, a figure that has risen from 90,000 in 2023.

Poor pay, high turnover, and, according to reports officers leaving for higher-paying roles, are driving this, with over 9,000+ leaving in the earlier stages of the war in Ukraine.

High shortages exist in critical areas: up to 66% in district police in some regions, 31% in patrol/post service and 23% in criminal investigation.

Also claims that Zelensky or his associates used aid money to buy luxury yachts (spec. 2 ships named Lucky Me and My Legacy) have been thoroughly debunked already.

AP, Newsweek and others found that the yachts were still for sale at their respective brokerages long after the social media rumors claimed they were purchased.

The yacht story originated from a pro-russian disinformation campaign using fake documents and a website pretending to be based in Washington, D.C. and taken over by 4chan users etc.


The U.S. economic aid is not sent as a blank check as it is funneled through the World Bank and requires receipts for specific government expenses like teacher salaries, etc, etc.

The Ukraine oversight working group, consisting of over 20 federal agencies, has completed dozens of audits and reported no evidence of significant diversion or theft of military assistance.

So i hope in the future you try to gather some info also from other websites that are more trustworthy instead of some social media accounts or 4chan. Actually you have to gather from 2 sides to see the real picture as left biased sites are also sometimes not paint the right picture.

[kellyhound]

A British brigade was “destroyed” in a Nato wargame in Estonia last year, it has emerged.

Hedgehog 2025, a military exercise involving more than 16,000 troops from 12 Nato countries, simulated a battlefield “contested and congested” with a variety of drones, according to the head of Estonia’s unmanned systems unit.

During one scenario, a battle group consisting of thousands of troops, including a British brigade and an Estonian division, was defeated by a simulated enemy operated by a Ukrainian team in a “horrible” result for Nato.

The battle group was “just walking around, not using any kind of disguise, parking tents and armoured vehicles” one participant, who played the enemy, told The Wall Street Journal. “It was all destroyed.”

Lt Col Arbo Probal, head of the unmanned systems programme for the Estonian Defence Forces, said the aim of the exercise was designed to test soldiers’ ability to adapt under fire.

“The aim was really to create friction, the stress for units and the cognitive overload as soon as possible,” he said.

The scenario envisaged a battlefield where tanks and troops had the ability to advance, mimicking the early stages of the war in Ukraine, rather than the largely frozen front lines along which troops are currently fighting.

The Ukrainian team used Delta, a sophisticated battlefield-management system, to counter Nato forces. The system allows Ukrainian troops to collect real-time battlefield intelligence and use artificial intelligence to analyse data, identify targets and coordinate strikes.

One team of 10 Ukrainians, acting as the enemy, counter-attacked Nato forces, mock-destroying 17 armoured vehicles and carrying out 30 “strikes” in half a day.

Aivar Hanniotti, an Estonian systems coordinator who led another unit on the opposing side, said the results were “horrible” for Nato forces.

“We quite easily found cars and mechanised units, and we were able to take them out quite fast with strike drones,” he explained.

Two battalions were eliminated in a single day, Mr Hanniotti said, adding that “they were not able to fight any more after that”.

One commander reportedly observed the drill and concluded: “We are fucked.”

The exercise underlines how drones have become the defining weapon of the war in Ukraine, with analysts estimating that the weapons are responsible for about 70 per cent of all casualties.

European allies of Kyiv have moved quickly to produce their own drones and to train their militaries in unmanned warfare.

On Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled the first strike drone that was jointly produced by Germany and Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president, who is attending the Munich Security Conference, said: “This is modern Ukrainian technology. Battle-tested. Powered by AI. It will strike, it will scout, it will protect our soldiers.”

Britain announced last year that it would invest £2bn in drones to make the Army “battle-ready”.

The country’s strategic defence review, unveiled one month after the exercise in Estonia, said that drones had become “an essential component of land warfare” and that the Army needed to invest in a mix of unmanned aerial vehicles.

It comes as the US continues to push for Russia and Ukraine to negotiate an end to the war. Donald Trump, the US president, recently set a June deadline for the two sides to negotiate a peace deal.

Mr Trump said on Friday that his Ukrainian counterpart would miss an opportunity if he doesn’t “get moving”, claiming Russia wanted to make a deal to end the war.

“Russia wants to *make a deal and Zelensky’s going *to have to get ⁠moving. Otherwise he’s ⁠going to miss a great opportunity. He has *to move,” Mr Trump told reporters ⁠at ⁠the White House.

However, Marco Rubio skipped a meeting with European leaders on the war in Ukraine on Friday, the Financial Times reported.

The US secretary of state had been set to attend a meeting with the leaders of Germany, Poland, Finland and the European Commission but pulled out after apparent scheduling conflicts.

One European official said the cancellation was “insane”, though Mr Rubio did meet Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, as well as the leaders of Denmark and Greenland.

A new round of peace talks involving Ukraine, the US and Russia will take place in Geneva on Feb 17 and 18.

Vladimir Medinsky, a presidential aide to Vladimir Putin, will lead the Russian delegation, the Kremlin said on Friday.

Mr Medinsky’s return suggests Moscow may be attempting to stall peace talks after he was previously described by Ukrainian officials as a “pseudo-historian” over his hardline demands.

During negotiations last year, Mr Medinsky compared the war in Ukraine to the Great Northern War, which involved Russia and Sweden and lasted for 21 years between 1700 and 1721 during the rule of Peter the Great.

The Ukrainian delegation will be led by Rustem Umerov and Kyrylo Budanov, two senior advisers to Mr Zelensky.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “Lessons learnt from Ukraine are driving a landmark shift in the UK’s defence and getting drones into the hands of technically skilled and tactically aware pilots is central to our objective of doubling the Army’s lethality by 2027 and tripling it by 2030.

“We are spending £4bn on boosting our drone capabilities. The Army has already trained over 3,000 drone pilots, with another 6,000 to be trained next year.

“This is backed by the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War, including an extra £5bn this year alone and £270bn over this Parliament.”

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Economic sanctions are paying off nowaday as the russian economy is stagnating and no one can hold a war economy for years without the right amout of money and goods.

Interests are high, lack of employees for certain sectors, fuel shortages due to sanctions and Ukr. attacks etc.

They already spending 5 to 10% less on pensions, welfare, infrastructure, subsidies etc.

Russian oil exports are expected to experience a significant decline in February 2026, putting severe pressure on state coffers.

The so-called "shadow fleet"—a fleet of outdated tankers attempting to evade sanctions—is increasingly hampered by stricter Western enforcement and new sanctions packages.

Oil export revenues fell further in February. This is attributed to a sharp decline in Indian purchases and the loss of volumes via the Druzhba pipeline.

Tankers from Putin's shadow fleet are increasingly wandering aimlessly or sitting idle as enforcement actions (particularly by the US) have widened the discount on Russian Urals crude to $27 against Brent crude. This makes the clandestine trade less profitable and riskier for buyers.

In February 2026, the European Commission proposed a twentieth sanctions package, aimed at banning all services that support Russian oil exports by sea.

Due to lower global prices and deeper discounts, half of Russia's oil and gas producers are now operating at a loss. This has led to a 3.4% drop in drilling activity in 2025, impacting future production capacity.

Oil prices rose by almost 3% on February 18, 2026, after peace negotiations in Geneva abruptly broke off, increasing uncertainty about Russian supply to the global market.

While China remains a major buyer of cheap Russian crude, total export volumes have fallen to their lowest level since early 2022.

The combination of stricter enforcement of the shadow fleet and reduced demand from strategic partners like India is creating a "gaping hole" in the Russian budget.

Proposed sanctions: Energy and Maritime:
Complete ban on maritime services for the transport of Russian crude oil, coordinated with G7 partners.

Sanctions against the "shadow fleet":
Addition of 43 additional vessels to the list (total 640), including a ban on access to EU ports.

Restrictions on the purchase of tankers to prevent Russia from acquiring vessels for sanctions circumvention.

Ban on maintenance and services for LNG tankers and icebreakers to hinder Russian gas export projects in the Arctic.

Financial Sector:
Sanctions against 20 Russian regional banks.

Restrictions on providers and platforms that facilitate crypto trading to close down circumvention routes.

Sanctions against banks in third countries (incl. Kyrgyzstan, Laos, and Tajikistan) that facilitate prohibited trading.

Trade Restrictions (Export and Import):
New export bans on goods such as rubber and tractors. Ban on cybersecurity services to Russian entities.

Export restrictions on battlefield technology, including materials for explosives production.

New import bans on metals such as nickel, copper, iron ore, and aluminum scrap.

Import bans on chemicals and critical minerals.

Import ban on various goods, including salt, silicon, pebbles, and furs.

Quota on ammonia to maximize current import flows.

Enforcement and Legal Measures:
Activation of the Anti-Circumvention Tool: For the first time, this tool is being used to prohibit the export of CNC machines (computer-controlled machine tools) and radios to high-risk countries (such as Kyrgyzstan, etc).

Strengthened legal safeguards for EU companies against unlawful expropriation or intellectual property infringements in Russia.

Sanctions against 30 individuals and 64 entities, including Bashneft and 8 Russian oil refineries.

Measures against foreign ports (such as those in Georgia and Indonesia) involved in the transshipment of sanctioned goods.

[GoreGram]

Funny, how not a single fuck is given about corrupt Ukraine now. Now it's Persian killing season
Ukraine is cooked
We should have never been involved in a conflict between two Slavic nations.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by GoreGram ↗

Funny, how not a single fuck is given about corrupt Ukraine now. Now it's Persian killing season
Ukraine is cooked
We should have never been involved in a conflict between two Slavic nations.

Moved your post from the conflict thread because, once again, you don't know how to read the rules.

I guess the fact we still have threads about it means no one gives a single fuck.

My gods, the ignorance that oozes out of everything you post is palpable.

WB Veruca Salt.

[GoreGram]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Moved your post from the conflict thread because, once again, you don't know how to read the rules.

I guess the fact we still have threads about it means no one gives a single fuck.

My gods, the ignorance that oozes out of everything you post is palpable.

WB Veruca Salt.

Thank you WonderMomma,
My point still standing tall. Israel gets to attack a bunch of countries and kill thousands of innocents, but Russians cannot attack Ukraine
Hypocrisy is violently forced on us. Ignorance that oozes out of everything we are forced to submit to by warmongering, empty-headed folks.
BTW, I LIVED IN UKRAINE for 2 years. There ain't no bigger cocksucking fraud than officials in Ukraine. I hope you paid your taxes, Ukrainians need it for embezzlement