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""Just now the chief of the General Staff ordered [the army] to raise the aircraft and open fire on the convoys that go among the peaceful cars, among the trucks. He doesn't care who to kill. They have been killing their civilians for 1.5 years, instead of fighting the enemy.

I want to say thank you to the pilots who, as soon as it became known, refused to obey criminal orders. ""

I've been curious all along,why has the Russian air force been so low key, almost absent. Has Prig given it away? The air force largely refusing to randomly bomb? So the discourse has been there all along. That explains why they have not been allowed to fly at the ceremonies. Will they now attack their own units to end the war? Of course there will be loyal units, so there will be a number of red on red air battles. House of cards falling down.

Exactly how are Ukraine going to set the explosives to blow up the ponds when the complex is crawling with Russians and the area under Russian control? The intelligence is the ponds have been mined ready for destruction already. Like with the dam, its under Russian control and there is no way shelling will ever cause the damage the mines will. It'll be interesting to see how China reacts when Russia causes, in effect, a radiation dirty bomb.

Meanwhile Prigozhin is leading a red on red manoeuvre inside Russia. I told you civil war was coming to Russia. This is merely a 1st prod. Prigozhin will be assassinated in short order, but that will simply sow many seeds of further revolt. The main collapse of society will come when Russia is pushed off Ukraine territory and the reality and humiliation of outright defeat can not be covered up any longer. People will be blaming each other and all the oligarchs and tribes will coalesce into opposing factions with open hostility to each other.

Putin is correct in eventually saying this is now a fight for the very survival of Russia. But the threat is not, and never was, from NATO or the west, the threat is home grown and entirely the fault of Putin and his supporters. Russia will destroy and eliminate itself. Very large swathes of territories will be lost China when it invades in the east. Similarly wars will kick off in the caucuses and south asia and large areas ethnically will be lost. And in the west, the new leaders will seek to make a small Russia incorporating St. Petersburg and Mosocw and will end up pleading for protection from NATO and Europe against the advancing armies taking over most of central Russia.

Oh yes, this is coming.

"When is the invasion again @bigblue?"

Of? Where? Are you drinking in the sun again?

???? Completely bizarre. I have never commented on CNN or Channel 4, I don't watch them. At best if there is a news feed rarely from CNN on the wire, but if I have referenced CNN it is the printed content. I don't waste time watching tele. And I still to this day have no idea what you keep going on about with Cyprus bank accounts. You made an utter fool of yourself banging on day in and day out about some comment but never actually showing it or explaining what the hell you were going on about. Nobody had a clue what you were talking about then, and by the sounds of it, you don't know now. You raised it, YOU explain it.

I will say the BBC are very much left wing and spin for Europe and hence against the US putting them more pro Russia, except they have found they have to be careful what they say as Russia quickly resorted to outright terrorist attacks on civilians.

I have never said anything like CREST is a bank in Cyprus, absolute nonsense.

The Kremlin propagandists reverting back to making up 'false flag' posts thinking people have short memories and are easily duped into accepting pure undiluted lies. That's why Russia will be exterminated in the not to distant future.

Chip, chip, chip. that wall will be coming down. all the wishful thinking sponsored by the latest propaganda round and russian telly, running out of soldiers indeed, wont change the actual real world reality on the ground. the next terrorist act to come from russia in its last desperate attempt to force fantasy in to reality is to blow up the cooling ponds at the nuclear plant. maybe then nato and the rest of the world will wake up and react to stop the maddens russia is inflicting on the world.

Russia invaded Ukraine and escalated the existing war Russia was solely responsible for creating trying to steal another countries territory.

Ukraine has fought back and stood against the increased invasion and outright terrorist attacks on it's country.

Many countries all over the world have answered Ukraine's request for equipment whilst Ukraine defends itself.

There is no proxy war. The situation can not be twisted to create a proxy war for Russia to try and justify it's actions.

As long as Ukraine resists, they will have external support.

One problem is those people quoted don't actually know what the battle plan is. The vast part of the prepared Ukrainian force has not entered the battle space yet. For well over a month, probing attacks have been testing the Russian defences together with Partisan attacks probing Russian response behind the lines. There never was gong to be some big western style D-day or shock and awe, that has been stated repeatedly since the winter when training on western kit began.

It's like being confronted with a concrete wall. You only have a hammer to knock it down. You chip away here, a bit there, looking for small cracks to increase the impact of any one particular blow. The wall continues to appear impenetrable. You keep chipping away. New cracks appear, you concentrate on those removing yet more material. Eventually with most of the wall removed, it is still standing but only just. The last few blows are the hardest, and the whole wall then comes crashing down.

And be weary of western media. They have expected a 'show' to be put on. 'Names' have organised their holiday diaries around when the expected the counter-offensive and the length. Such 'names' don't like events out of their control and will resort to negative spin in retaliation for having their schedule disrupted.

Ukraine will continue chipping away, all over the wall, as I said it would before. Short sharp attacks and then withdrawal, move on to a new point and repeat. Keep Russia having to commit to defend the entire frontline and avoid being corralled into battles on Russian terms. Russia can only defend such a frontline with hugely increased air support, and already Ukraine have increased the kill rate of aircraft - and the Partisans have SAMS within Russia too. Some parts of the Russian defence have simply collapsed and very extensive Russian mine fields have worked against Russia in a big way, yet another spectacular own goal for the Russian clowns and you will hear a lot more about how Russia has managed to kill more of its own people than Ukraine in some hot spots thanks to the mines in weeks to come.

"And now Zelensky admits that the counter offensive is NOT going well. "

Really? Not quite what your 'BBC' news piece says. And this is the Kremlin leaning BBC too.

"President Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged battlefield progress has been "slower than desired", weeks into Ukraine's military offensive to recapture areas occupied by Russia.

"Some people believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It's not," he told the BBC.

"What's at stake is people's lives."

Ukraine says its counter-offensive has reclaimed eight villages so far in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk to the east.

Mr Zelensky said the military push was not going easily because 200,000 sq km (77,220 sq miles) of Ukrainian territory had been mined by Russian forces.

"Whatever some might want, including attempts to pressure us, with all due respect, we will advance on the battlefield the way we deem best," Mr Zelensky added.

He reinforced the need for Ukraine to be given security guarantees from Nato but said ultimately the goal was membership of the defensive alliance.

Nato's secretary general made clear this week that no plan was on the table to issue an invitation to Ukraine at next month's summit in Lithuania.

"[Jens] Stoltenberg knows my position," the Ukrainian leader said "We've told them numerous times: 'Don't knock the ground from under our feet.'"

The Ukrainian leader again made the case for Ukraine to receive US-made F-16s and said he believed fighter pilots could start training as soon as August, and that the first jets could arrive in six or seven months' time.

Mr Zelensky was speaking to the BBC to mark a Ukraine Recovery Conference in London focusing on the role the private sector can play in rebuilding his country. He later spoke at the conference, along with UK PM Rishi Sunak.

Ukraine's economy shrank by 29.2% in 2022 and earlier this year the World Bank estimated the cost of reconstruction and recovery at $411bn (£339bn).

The Ukrainian leader told the BBC that the support he needed was not just for recovery but for transformation as well.

On the front line as Ukraine attacks Russian trenches

He said "quick steps" to be done immediately included finding places for people to live, rebuilding the destroyed Kakhovka dam and decentralising the energy network.

"But on the larger scale we are speaking about the transformation of Ukraine," he explained. "This is Ukraine not only with its energy and agriculture and industrial complexes, but with its reforms we can see."

He spoke of "the digitilisation of Ukraine" as well as judicial and anti-corruption reforms.

When I asked him what the endgame of the war looked like at this stage, he made clear that "victories on the battlefield are necessary" and that Ukraine would never sit down with whoever was president in Moscow, if Russia remained on Ukraine's territory"

Tip of the iceberg..... " it was revealed he had edited Reuters and BBC wire articles to include pro-Kremlin views." A number of the "“troll farms” which is a term used to describe hundreds of people whose “sole purpose in life is to spread disinformation”." exist on here.

"RNZ staffer accused of pro-Russian edits to Ukraine war news resigns

Emma Clark-Dow17:56, Jun 21 2023

RNZ's pro-Russia edits 'shocking', 'hurtful', 'damaging' - community rep

Breakfast

Mahi for Ukraine's Kate Turska said both a physical war and a propaganda war were being fought.

Michael Hall, the RNZ staffer accused of inserting pro-Kremlin copy into wire stories covering the Ukraine-Russia conflicts, has officially resigned.

The news was announced on RNZ’s Checkpoint on Wednesday afternoon, after a statement from RNZ CEO Paul Thompson was released to RNZ staff.

The staff member has been out of leave since the scandal broke, when it was revealed he had edited Reuters and BBC wire articles to include pro-Kremlin views.

RNZ has been keeping a running tally of the edited stories on their website, which now sits at 36.

The edited copy does not just relate to stories covering the Ukraine-Russia conflict, with articles about the China-Taiwan and Israel-Palestine conflicts also changed in breach of RNZ’s journalism practices.

Stories covering Covid-19 in China, the Brazilian president, Julian Assange, emission goals in the EU, and UK parliament were also edited.

Michael Hall offically resigned on Wednesday.

Monique Ford/Stuff

Michael Hall offically resigned on Wednesday.

The expert panel leading the investigation into the editing of copy was announced last week, made up of media law expert Willy Akel, who will chair the panel, public law expert and former journalist Linda Clark, and former director of editorial standards at the ABC, Alan Sunderland.

RNZ board chair Jim Mather said the panel will ensure “no stone will be left unturned”.

“The board had concluded a review independent of RNZ was appropriate, and that drawing upon such expertise is the best way forward,” he said.

“We have tasked them to conduct a robust and comprehensive review of RNZ editorial processes. This is in the interest of achieving and protecting the highest standards of journalism at RNZ.”

Defence analyst Paul Buchanan said government-funded media outlet RNZ should have been better prepared for the threat of Russian disinformation, saying he had been warning people for “several years”.

Buchanan said the media should be aware of “troll farms” which is a term used to describe hundreds of people whose “sole purpose in life is to spread disinformation”.

“This is not only pro-Russia [disinformation], their goal is to undermine trust in liberal democracies,” he said.

The troll farms “ramped up” during the pandemic, taking advantage of conspiracy theories surrounding vaccinations.

“Let’s be clear – a lot of t

From the sounds of it the Kremlin propaganda machine has been in overdrive again and the freshly brainwashed zombies have spieled their twisted delusional version of sub-reality on the board. To date, anytime the Russian propaganda machine has kicked off it is to cover up another failure of one sort or another. This will probably be to do with the large number of surrendering Russian troops, or to cover up the huge casualties as the clowns run back through their own mine fields, or the lack of actual evidence of all the gains and victories claimed or the lack of proof of all the tanks supposedly destroyed, or the multiple reports of Russian with no crews or the total failure of the wonder weapons Hitler is supposed to have,oh oopps slip of the .. 'Putin' is supposed to have to wipe out the west, the increasing frequency and increasing size of Partisan actions inside Russia. Moscow is going to have a bad couple of weeks soon, taste of their own medicine. Viva La Partisans!

It's been the same since the the start and what a coincidence! The same gullible fools believing that Russian propaganda crap just happen to be same ones believing more crap about dividends and redoming fixing a knackered broken debt laden company. So gullible.

And the fake security blanket continues to be ramped up.

All these very recent accounts appearing trying to make it look like this is some sort of reasonable information exchange to give comfort to people who are totally caught out by this utter mess, made worse by even more share swap extensions.

Why would anybody create an account and then come to a chat room for critical financial or procedural advice rather than their actual broker? Makes no sense at all.

Been saying for quite a while, the whole thing stinks. The delay in splitting in some vain hope the warwould be over in a couple of months has led to increasing debt, a significant decrease in cash flow and a right mess trying to invent some option to keep everything together. Most companies cut their losses and exited Russia. Polymetal has tried to be clever and may well suddenly get its fingers burnt and wipe out all remaining share holder value.

Errmmm.. if this doesn't raise an alarm bell, what will? Another extension to share swaps. WHY?

The fact there is no details as to WHY this is needed is the red flag. More than enough time has been given for the share swap for Russians. Something about this is very, very wrong.

"Can I still sell my Poly shares today through Sharedeal active ?"

Why are you asking here? Why are you not asking Sharedeal directly?

This is a clear giveaway that all this advice and comfort speak is a false narrative. Nobody should pay any attention to any of the advice posted on here. Go and talk to independent financial advisors only.

Lol chique, Russian forces finally hit some Ukraine kit and blast the story al over the media like it is some proof of victory. Youtube is awash with hundreds and hundreds videos of Ukraine forces wiping out Russian tanks, aircraft, soldiers, vehicles. There are very few comparable Russian videos. There's no propaganda in it.

And the idea the fake news from Russia must be considered in order to balance an overview is ridiculous. Fake news has no part in any assessment.

The Ukraine forces stop an invasion, pushed the invaders into defensive positions and now engaged in retaking invaded land. Where is Russia's win in any of that? Time you Russian sympathisers recognised the actual real world and get out of this fantasy you have created. You have no lost Ukraine to NATO, the exact opposite to what the invasion was supposed to do. Yet another former soviet state pushed towards NATO directly due to the Russian threat and this case direct Russian aggression.

Longest day approaches, maximum daylight, maximum time for night vision. The Partisans are hitting targets daily, probing attacks are taking place all across the front line. Time is fast approaching for a major offensive, the fisrt of many. The NATO standard kit is being warmed up.

Nobody knows what the hell is going on

DEFENSIVE

It's like a highlighter pen on the screen

Few million sells at the end there. Transfer or dumping? Ouch, gotta hurt with such losses.