500

niepoprawni.pl 1 year ago

500 days of war. 500 days since Ukrainians' lives changed forever.
In those 500 days, there was so much pain, fear, and regret. But there was (and there is) besides a immense amount of hope, faith, love, strength and support.
No 1 knows how long this war will last. But it is known that they will fight until their country is and is free!

Five hundredth day of a three-day peculiar putin. present we are making fun of the "geopolitics genius", but this does not change the fact that 500 days ago serious people truly thought that the Russians would succeed. It is adequate to mention General Mark Milley, the highest ranking American commander. In early February 2022, during an undisclosed briefing for congressmen, he estimated that a Russian full-scale attack on Ukraine could lead to the collapse of Kiev just within 3 days. Up to 4 1000 Russian and 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers were to die.
According to prof. Taras Kuzio of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy – in an article published in the "Geopolitical Monitor" in November 2022 – before the invasion most Western military analysts claimed that Russia would defeat Ukraine in two-three days. Therefore, the environment shared the view that it would be pointless to set up a endangered country.
Meanwhile, 3 days passed, and Ukraine continued to defend itself. “The question is not: Will Kiev fail, but when?” was discussed in CNN. Stripes of akin content then accompanied the programs of many another renowned stations. Respectable guests in studios – uniforms, civilian specialists with technological titles and all the ointments of experts in Russia and the East – had serious faces and nodded sad heads. During this time, the Ukrainian army nodded Russian, and the Russians wiped their eyes with amazement.
The concept of "three days" has come a long way between 2022 and 2023, for fear or unsettling declarations turning into a origin for shame. The West present is ashamed of its unbelief, the dew of its own weakness. Russian propaganda even denied that it had always suggested a fast victory.
May we not gotta wait another 500 days for a definitive Russian defeat in Ukraine.

In fresh days, a lot has been said about cluster ammunition, including the Human Rights Watch study on its usage in Ukraine. According to HRW representatives, Russia and Ukraine should quit cluster ammunition and the US should "not supply it to any country". Meanwhile, as the media reports, the latest US military aid package will include artillery missiles of this type.
The cluster ammunition can be fired not only from the cannon, but besides from rocket launchers or dropped from aircraft. A single bullet or bomb contains respective twelve (sometimes respective hundred) tiny loads erstwhile detonated, spreading them in a large area. The "rain of fire" is highly deadly, especially in places where the "living force" is concentrated. Unfortunately, cluster ammunition leaves behind many unexploded explosions and is so dangerous to civilians. In 2008, more than 120 countries signed a convention prohibiting its use.
Both parties to the conflict in the east did not accede to this agreement, so they fired at each another legally. The problem is that Ukrainians have already utilized up their resources, hence repeated requests for transportation from NATO arsenals for respective weeks. According to informal information, a large stock of cluster ammunition has already been transferred to Ukraine by Poland.

After gathering the president of Ukraine and Turkey
Ukrainian soldiers of the AZOW Regiment Denis Prokopenko, Światosław Palamar, Sergei Wołyński, Oleg Chomenko, Denis Szlega returned from Turkey to Ukraine.