[RD] Russia Invades Ukraine: Eight

[Verbose]

"I think we have a deal with Russia, we have to get a deal with Zelensky".

He doesn't.

If he could put them on different planets maybe...

 

[Akka]

I guess if we consider "total surrender in exchange for nothing" a "deal", then he might have, in fact, a deal with Russia.
And then he'll pretend that Ukraine didn't want to make peace when they will reject rolling over and allow themselve to be murdered.

 

[Ordnael]

Ah! the smell of Pax Russica in the morning!

Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least eight, Ukrainian officials say​

• Russia launches drones, missiles on Kyiv, other regions
• At least eight dead, over 70 wounded in Kyiv
• Ukraine says attacks show Moscow is the obstacle to peace
• Some people trapped under rubble, emergency serrvice says
• Ukraine and Russia under pressure to agree peace deal

KYIV, April 24 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 70 and smashing buildings in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.
The attack set off fires and six children were among the wounded, with some people still trapped under rubble, the officials said.

"There has been destruction. The search is continuing for people under rubble," the State Emergency Service wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X that the "brutal strikes" showed that Russia, not Ukraine, was the obstacle to peace. There was no immediate comment by Russia on the overnight attack.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said eight people had been so far confirmed killed in the capital, although officials had earlier said nine were killed.
The most serious incident was in the Sviatoshynskyi district west of the city centre, where the rescuers continued to clear the rubble from two buildings, Klitschko said.
Pictures posted on Telegram showed rescue teams working with floodlights, moving cautiously through piles of rubble and clambering up ladders extended along the facades of buildings. Police were calling from apartment to apartment to determine whether residents were safe.

The attack came at a critical moment in Russia's war in Ukraine, which began with Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022, with both Kyiv and Moscow under pressure from the U.S. President Donald Trump to show progress towards a peace deal.
Trump and his administration have threatened to walk away from efforts to broker a ceasefire if no headway is made, leaving European nations looking for ways to support Kyiv.
Talks in London on Wednesday aimed at achieving a deal made "significant progress" towards reaching a "common position on the next steps", according to a joint statement from Britain, France and Germany. But the talks were downgraded after a last-minute decision by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to attend.
Trump appeared to blame Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a lack of progress after Zelenskiy said he would not recognise Russia's occupation of the Crimea peninsula as part of a peace deal.

MOBILE PHONES RING BENEATH RUBBLE​

Rescue teams were operating at 13 sites in Kyiv with climbing specialists and sniffer dogs, the emergency services said. Forty fires had broken out.
"Mobile telephones are heard ringing beneath rubble. The search will continue until it become clear that they have got everyone," it said.
Fires had broken out in garages, administrative buildings and falling metal fragments had struck vehicles.
An air raid alert was in effect in the capital for six hours.

"There was the air raid siren, we did not even have time to dress to go out of the apartment. One blast came after the other, all windows were blown out, doors, walls, my husband and son were thrown to the other side," Kyiv resident Viktoria Bakal said, describing the attack.
Russia launched 145 drones and 70 missiles, including 11 ballistic missiles, in the overnight attack, Ukraine's air force said on Telegram. Air force units shot down 112 targets.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that apart from Kyiv and the surrounding region, seven other regions were under "mass" attack.
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second biggest city, endured overnight waves of Russian missiles and drones, mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on Telegram.
Terekhov said the city in northeast Ukraine was attacked 14 times with drones and 10 times with missiles. Multi-storey residential buildings, a city polyclinic, a school building, private yards, industrial enterprises, and a hotel complex were damaged and one person was taken to hospital, he said.
There was also damage in Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, where emergency services said Russian forces launched a repeat strike on rescue teams attending a fire, injuring one worker.
Ukrainian state railway Ukrzaliznytsia said that railway infrastructure had come under attack and two railway workers were hurt.
In Kyiv and Kharkiv regions the shelling damaged technical track, administrative and technical buildings, but trains were operating normally, it said.
In the industrial city of Pavlohrad, which lies in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, 14 multi-storey buildings were damaged, mostly their windows and balconies, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on Telegram, adding that no one was hurt in the attack.

 

[Lexicus]

Guys don't worry it's all gonna be fixed

 

[Thorgalaeg]

The guy writes the same way he talks. Like a complete idiot.

 

[EvaDK]

'Vladimir...'

Putin does not use social media. However, Trump can pick up his presidential phone and call the Kremlin directly.

Are there no one competent in his staff, that informs the orange toddler of these things?

 

[Lexicus]

I like to think he composed that Truth via talk-to-text and paused a moment to tell his cat, Vladimir, to stop going on his desk

 

[Yeekim]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915148908247855544

 

[JollyRoger]

To end the war text STOP to VLADIMIR

 

[Thorgalaeg]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/europe/russian-military-officer-killed-intl/index.html

This as you stop Putin.

 

[Kyriakos]

Last time there was an assassination of an enemy country's supreme political leader during war, it was by Nazi Germany. Hardly the side to emulate.

 

[Akka]

Funny how Russia can string war crimes like a gamer gather achievements and their apologist will find a way to ignore them or contrive justifications about it all, but then they find a way to shoehorn a comparison with "nazis" when Ukraine does targeted killing of high-ranking military officers.
The shameless obscenity is really nauseating here.

 

[Kyriakos]

Not really, what's nauseating is having direct calls to murder people in a civ forum.

 

[soundjata]

Not really, what's nauseating is the countless deaths resulting from the foolishness a few.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

A few? Ukraine was invaded by a lot of people AFAIK.

Funny how Russia can string war crimes like a gamer gather achievements and their apologist will find a way to ignore them or contrive justifications about it all, but then they find a way to shoehorn a comparison with "nazis" when Ukraine does targeted killing of high-ranking military officers.
The shameless obscenity is really nauseating here.

Nauseating ad nauseam in this case.

 

[Gedemon]

Last time there was an assassination of an enemy country's supreme political leader during war, it was by Nazi Germany. Hardly the side to emulate.

Not Israel ?

Anyway, Ukraine hasn't done it, and don't plan to do it.

While Russia is actually emulating WWII Germany, invasion, annexation, and ethnic cleansing in occupied territories.

Hardly a side to defend systematically, especially by reversing the roles.

 

[Kyriakos]

Not Israel ?

Anyway, Ukraine hasn't done it, and don't plan to do it.

While Russia is actually emulating WWII Germany, invasion, annexation, and ethnic cleansing in occupied territories.

Hardly a side to defend systematically, especially by reversing the roles.

With Hamas? I guess, although I wouldn't think of Hamas as similar to another country in a war; more of a terrorist group (which is unrelated to why most people join it).

 

[red_elk]

Russian troops liberated Kursk region​

Russian troops have liberated the Kursk region, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported.
"Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov reported to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin on the completion of the operation to liberate the Kursk region from Ukrainian neo-Nazis," the Kremlin spokesman said.

Early in the morning of August 6, 2024, Ukrainian militants invaded the Kursk region. Their advance was stopped. In early March, Russian troops launched a large-scale offensive and liberated about 1,100 square kilometers of territory in a few days. In total, since the beginning of the invasion, more than 60 settlements have been recaptured, more than half of them, including Sudzha, in the last two months.

Российские войска освободили Курскую область

Российские войска освободили Курскую область, сообщил пресс-секретарь президента Дмитрий Песков. РИА Новости, 26.04.2025

ria.ru

 

[Akka]

Not really, what's nauseating is having direct calls to murder people in a civ forum.

Nah, defending people who actually emulate the nazis by trying to blame their very victims of being the ones emulating the nazis, is definitely massively more nauseating than wanting the actual criminals to die. But then the putrid hypocrisy required to pretend it's not the case is exactly the same as the one required to make the claim in the first place after all.

 

[Kyriakos]

Russian troops liberated Kursk region​

Russian troops have liberated the Kursk region, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported.
"Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov reported to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin on the completion of the operation to liberate the Kursk region from Ukrainian neo-Nazis," the Kremlin spokesman said.

Early in the morning of August 6, 2024, Ukrainian militants invaded the Kursk region. Their advance was stopped. In early March, Russian troops launched a large-scale offensive and liberated about 1,100 square kilometers of territory in a few days. In total, since the beginning of the invasion, more than 60 settlements have been recaptured, more than half of them, including Sudzha, in the last two months.

Российские войска освободили Курскую область

Российские войска освободили Курскую область, сообщил пресс-секретарь президента Дмитрий Песков. РИА Новости, 26.04.2025

ria.ru

Does it make it more likely that now Russia regards itself as being in a position to discuss peace (with taking the four republics- sorry, I only added that because by now one has to take into account vacant statements of the type "it always could discuss peace!1!1"...) ?