Ukraine.

Zitler is one sick fucker.:sick:
Now he's just kidnapping young Ukrainian men and sending them straight to the meat grinder.

Kiev to send conscripts straight to frontline units​

Combat brigades will provide new recruits with basic training, a Zelensky aide has said
Kiev to send conscripts straight to frontline units

Recruitment officers check civilian's documents as they look for fighting age men in Kharkov, Ukraine © Narciso Contreras/Anadolu via Getty Images
Newly drafted Ukrainian men will soon be sent directly to frontline brigades, where they will receive their basic military training, a senior official in Vladimir Zelensky’s office has announced.
The shift in mobilization procedures was outlined on Friday by Pavel Palisa, the deputy head of the presidential office responsible for overseeing conscription. Kiev’s mobilization efforts have failed to replace battlefield losses, prompting attempts to streamline the process.
Palisa said the decision, adopted by a military council chaired by Zelensky, is intended to create a “just, equal and predictable” system. Under the new approach, each frontline brigade will receive a steady monthly intake of conscripts and train them according to its operational needs. He added that the number of units authorized to conduct basic training would be expanded beyond the current 37.
Moscow has repeatedly argued that dwindling manpower is the most serious problem facing Ukraine’s military. President Vladimir Putin said last week that in September alone, Kiev lost around 44,700 troops and managed to replace only about two-thirds of them. Even lowering the draft age, he suggested, would not produce immediate relief as casualties and desertions continue to climb.

Some Ukrainian officials have taken aim at civilians resisting the draft. MP Roman Kostenko, who also serves in the military, said on Saturday the country needed a new social contract under which “those who don’t want to fight leave the country.”
Ukraine barred nearly all adult men from going abroad when the conflict escalated in late 2022 and lowered the draft age to from 27 to 25. Earlier this year, the Ukrainian government issued a decree allowing men aged 18 to 22 to cross the border. Nearly 100,000 young men have reportedly fled the country since then.
In October, Kiev’s conscription authorities urged citizens to stop circulating viral videos showing draft officers forcing men into vans. The widely shared clips of aggressive “busification” tactics have intensified public frustration with the country’s mobilisation drive.
 
Nazis.

German parliamentary commissioner calls for anti-Lenin campaign​

The names of Communist-era leaders should be erased from city streets, Evelyn Zupke said

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Germany’s parliamentary commissioner has called for renaming streets bearing the names of Vladimir Lenin and Cold War–era socialist leaders.
Streets in multiple cities still carry the names of politicians from Soviet-aligned East Germany, which reunified with pro-US West Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Evelyn Zupke, the Bundestag’s commissioner representing former East German political prisoners, told the newspaper Bild that names associated with the socialist past should be removed from public spaces.
“Thirty-five years after reunification, no street should be named after Lenin, Otto Grotewohl, or Wilhelm Pieck. Naming a street is an expression of appreciation by our democratic society today. These individuals, however, symbolize the suffering of thousands of victims,” she said on Saturday. Zupke added that changing the names “would send the right signal on the 35th anniversary of German unity.”
According to Bild, more than a dozen cities in the former East Germany have streets named after Lenin, including Nauen in Brandenburg. A spokesperson for Nauen told the newspaper that street names are decided by the city council, and the matter was not on the agenda.
A spokesperson for the town of Weissenfels said that although Mayor Martin Papke “supports the remaining in the long term,” the final decision rests with the residents. The town in Saxony-Anhalt has streets named after Lenin and Pieck, East Germany’s leader from 1949 to 1960, as well as a street named in honor of German-Soviet friendship.
Many countries from the former Eastern Bloc removed pro-Communist names and statues following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine launched its own “decommunization” campaign after the US-backed coup in 2014, with the last remaining Lenin statue reportedly toppled in August. Moscow has condemned the campaign as a thinly veiled attempt to erase Ukraine’s historical ties with Russia.
 
Looks like the russians are moving west of the 4 cities that hung on for months. While the Ukes are on the back foot, I would expect the russians to open another front maybe towards Odessa or to the north in Sumy oblast
 
This is the shit Russia has to deal with all the time.

‘Inept and uneducated’: Moscow ridicules EU official for rewriting history
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen had previously repeated a bogus claim that no country has attacked Russia in 100 years
‘Inept and uneducated’: Moscow ridicules EU official for rewriting history

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. © Getty Images / Maksim Konstantinov; SOPA Images; LightRocket


Moscow accused Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen of being historically illiterate and deliberately promoting a false narrative after she claimed that no country has attacked Russia over the past century.
Speaking to CBS, Valtonen had stated that Russia “invaded 19 neighboring countries” during the last 100 years, adding that “no neighboring country has attacked Russia.” A nearly identical claim was also made late last month by EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas.
Responding to Vlatonen’s comments on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova questioned why the Finnish minister “does not know that in 1941 Nazi Germany attacked the USSR.” She suggested this was either due to “the influence of a German school” which Valtonen attended in her childhood or the “degradation of democratic institutions.”

Zakharova recalled multiple examples of Russia being attacked by neighboring states, including Finland’s own early-20th-century incursions.
She has said she will provide Valtonen with a Finnish translation of the Russian Military Historical Society’s “Black Book: A Brief History of Swedish and Finnish Russophobia.”

The spokeswoman went on to suggest that Valtonen’s remarks reflect a broader pattern in which Western Europe “deliberately promotes the inept and uneducated to fundamental government posts” while NATO hands out coordinated talking points to push a hostile anti-Russian narrative.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other officials have linked such claims to an entrenched “animalistic Russophobia” in Western European governments that continue to raise alarms over a supposed threat posed by Moscow.
Russia has repeatedly insisted that it has no hostile intentions toward any EU or NATO states.
Moscow has argued that the claims of an impending Russian attack are being used by Western European leaders to justify increased military spending, expanding mobilization initiatives, tighter security measures, and undermine US-led efforts to reach a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict.
 

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