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"'Just the way the Nazis did':
Evidence suggests Russians are stealing art from Ukraine on a World War II scale

Last fall, Ukrainian troops were closing in on Kherson, forcing the Russians back.

At the Kherson Regional Art Museum, a team of armed Russians in civilian clothes arrived along with several large trucks and buses. Over five days, they hauled away more than 11,000 pieces of art, including paintings, sculptures, graphics and other works from Ukraine and around the world, said Alina Dotsenko, the director of the museum.

“It was obvious that it was all planned. The decision to loot the museum was not made on the spot,” Dotsenko said. “It was all carefully planned.”

The theft, verified by human rights monitors and independent scholars, was not an isolated incident.

A growing body of evidence suggests Russian forces are systematically stealing art and cultural artifacts from Ukraine on a scale not seen in Europe since the Nazi plunder of World War II..."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...ar-2-rcna77879

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https://twitter.com/JominiW/status/1644436075526463488

Jominis 2nd thread of the year

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"In the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, the Russians intensified preparations for the evacuation of the local population to Crimea, - General Staff.

The occupiers are spreading information that the forced evacuation of the civilian population will begin at the end of April."

[WonderMomma]

"Russian troops dug a 70-km long trench in Zaporizhzhia region. It is almost a third of the whole width of the region (East to West).

The trench was noticed on Sentinel-2 satellite images."

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"Another 31 children who were deported by Russia have been returned to Ukraine, said Mykola Kuleba, executive director of the Save Ukraine charity organization. The children will be in Kyiv in a few hours."

[houseoftechno]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"'Just the way the Nazis did':
Evidence suggests Russians are stealing art from Ukraine on a World War II scale

Last fall, Ukrainian troops were closing in on Kherson, forcing the Russians back.

At the Kherson Regional Art Museum, a team of armed Russians in civilian clothes arrived along with several large trucks and buses. Over five days, they hauled away more than 11,000 pieces of art, including paintings, sculptures, graphics and other works from Ukraine and around the world, said Alina Dotsenko, the director of the museum.

“It was obvious that it was all planned. The decision to loot the museum was not made on the spot,” Dotsenko said. “It was all carefully planned.”

The theft, verified by human rights monitors and independent scholars, was not an isolated incident.

A growing body of evidence suggests Russian forces are systematically stealing art and cultural artifacts from Ukraine on a scale not seen in Europe since the Nazi plunder of World War II..."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...ar-2-rcna77879

Significant cash value to launder.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"As soon as Finland joined NATO, a mobile strategic missile system "Yars" was spotted in the border town of Vyborg."

OP Link: https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post7889016

"Russians spit out another fake with the movement of their Topol allegedly near the border with Finland

Russian public "noticed in the border town of Vyborg" the movement of intercontinental complexes similar to RT-2PM Topol and RS-24 Yars. The city is located near the border with Finland and allegedly in connection with Finland's accession to NATO.

For some reason, however, the "border town of Vyborg" turned out to be the town of Kolchugino in the Vladimir region, 800 kilometers from Vyborg.

Maybe they're preparing for a parade, or maybe the video is from last year, and it's not Vyborg.... Do you hear this sound of "panic"? Or maybe it's the sound of screaming from another fake from the russians" *side eye emoji*

[WonderMomma]

"AVDIKA: RUSSIAN WEAKNESS STARTING TO SHOW

Failed tank assaults, again not backed up by artillery or infantry, ran into Ukrainian unit’s heavily prepared with ATGM’s and were quickly annihilated. The Ukrainians let them get close so that they didn’t have time to turn tail and run when the first was hit.

Ukrainian elite drone units have been causing mayhem along parts of the line dropping grenades on demoralised troops and even flying inside buildings they know are being used by Russian mortar crews.

The Russians have been complaining that cheap drones they’ve managed to capture are booby traps as when picked up they explode.

North and south of Avdika the Ukrainians have managed to recapture important hill positions and drive out Russians from their trenches. The reason this has been achieved so quickly is because the Ukrainians became aware that many of the Russian units were at just 11% of their manpower levels, having been crushed in attacks over the previous weeks. Thousands of troops untrained in assault tactics have been killed for zero gains.

Elsewhere and especially in the south, Russian commanders are struggling to set targets and achieve goals because the Ukrainians constantly hit every supply point, ammo storage point, dispersal area and command post as fast as they find them. The relentless war on Russian logistics has been a nightmare for their rigid and cumbersome delivery system.

Recent ‘documents’ leaked on Telegram said to show Ukrainian HIMARS consumption rates, casualty estimates for both sides and plans to complete as many as 9 armoured brigades by the end of March and 12 by the end of April, are largely being seen as disinformation by one side of the other. There was nothing in the documents that anyone with a calculator and knowledge of what’s been supplied and rumoured over the past 4 months couldn’t have worked out for themselves. The documents are already over 5 weeks old. In wars like this, if the information isn’t current it’s irrelevant."

Avdiivka, Avdeevka

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"Despite what Russian propaganda might have you believe, the Ukrainian Air Force is still operational, still flying sorties and still swatting Russian invader mosquitoes"

I've been stating from the start that the F-16 Fighting ****** or "Viper" as it's better known as is the best option to get the job done in this theater as the capabilities of it are endless & perfect for this type of warfare.

The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting ****** is an American single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,600 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976. Although no longer being purchased by the U.S. Air Force, improved versions are being built for export customers. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation, which in turn became part of Lockheed Martin after a 1995 merger with Martin Marietta.

The Fighting ******'s key features include a frameless bubble canopy for good visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, an ejection seat reclined 30 degrees from vertical to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system that helps to make it an agile aircraft. The F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon and 11 locations for mounting weapons and other mission equipment. The F-16's official name is "Fighting ******", but "Viper" is commonly used by its pilots and crews, because of a perceived resemblance to a viper snake as well as to the fictional Colonial Viper starfighter from the television program Battlestar Galactica which aired at the time the F-16 entered service.

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The Japanese Navy.

Second photo many submarines in one place, three different classes