Russia attacks Ukraine

[dsanchez]

United States President Donald Trump has said, after a more-than-two-hour call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that Moscow and Kyiv "will immediately start negotiations" towards a ceasefire and an end to their war, now in its fourth bloody year.

Putin said that efforts to end the conflict seemed "on the right track" and that Moscow was ready to work with Ukraine on a memorandum about a future peace accord.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/19/after-putin-call-trump-says-russia-ukraine-will-start-ceasefire-talks

[Ulrich]

Prolonging the war...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2wz74jdzo

The Kremlin claimed Donald Trump was showing signs of "emotional overload" after he called Vladimir Putin "absolutely crazy" following Moscow's largest aerial assault on Ukraine.

The US president said on Truth Social on Sunday that "something has happened" to Putin, after Russia killed 13 in Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles. "He has gone absolutely crazy," Trump said. "Needlessly killing a lot of people."

[MeltingMan]

As dozens of attack drones swarmed the Russian capital, brave Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky revealed he wants direct crunch talks with Donald Trump and "crazy" Vladimir Putin.

[MeltingMan]

Ukraine's security service said 'Operation Spider's Web' took one and a half years to organise and was personally overseen by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

New maps illustrate the enormous distances.

PS: The operation can compared to Pearl Harbor only to a limited extent. The old battleships in the harbor offered an all too tempting target for the Japanese naval aviation, while the modern aircraft carriers were anchored far out. Their baptism of fire was yet to come. The message of the Ukrainian military is: "We can reach any point in Russia, if necessary even without (expensive) and possibly outdated technology from the West." 

[MeltingMan]

[MeltingMan]

But you better learn to speak Russian.

A slap in the face for everyone who had the unpopular Russian as a compulsory subject at school, while English was optional. 

Mark Rutte is the last person on this planet to complain about defense spending. During his disastrous time as PM in which he destroyed the housing market, did nothing about PFAS and the impact on the environment by our bizarrely large agricultural industry, he also did huge cutbacks on defense spending.

Even though MH17 should have been the ultimate warning. Plus I still don't understand why he hasn't done anything about his horrible level of English.