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>>2250893>Regarding that dead Ukrainian journalist, i suddenly have a question. They chimp out over a journalist dying, crime against humanity, other bullshit, yadda yadda, but does Ukraine herself allow Russian journalist ("non-staff reporter" of Russian press) to travel to Ukraine and conduct whatever "investigations" they want?They won't even allow EU citizens do it in the EU.
https://www.thejournal.ie/chay-bowes-arrested-in-romania-upon-landing-to-cover-election-6693708-May2025/
>CHAY BOWES, A founder of the Ditch website and broadcaster for the Moscow-backed RT, has been detained on arrival in Romania and denied entry.
>RT reported last night that Bowes had travelled from Dublin to Romania ahead of its presidential election on Sunday.
>The upcoming election is a rerun after November elections were cancelled amid allegations of Russian interference in favour of far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who is barred from the new vote.
>RT, a Russian state-funded broadcaster, initially reported that Bowes was arrested in Bucharest after landing there to cover the election.It was later claimed by RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan that Bowes had been “deported from Romania, and placed on a flight out of the EU to Istanbul”.
>Simonyan shared a video from Bowes, in which he claimed that he was detained by Romanian police after they boarded the plane he was on shortly after landing.
>“Three of these police officers told me that I had to come with them, that I was being detained,” Bowes said.He added that he was taken to a building in the airport by Romanian officials, which he described as as “interrogation area”.
>He was then asked by officials about where he intended to go in Romania, and who he was going to meet.
>Bowes declined to tell the officials who he intended to talk to during his time in Romania while covering the elections. He said that he was then taken to a holding area, before being led to another “interrogation room”.
>There, Bowes said he was presented with a document “presumably stamped by a judge” which claimed that he was “a threat to the security of the state”.
>Due to this threat status, the document explained that he was to be deported from Romania, Bowes said.
>“I’m an EU citizen, it’s a fundamental breach of my rights,” Bowes said.
>He claimed that “this came from Brussels rather than Bucharest”.
>Local media, citing a statement from Romanian border police, said that Chay Bowes had been previously banned from entering Romania, though a reason for the ban was not specified.
>“Following the checks, it emerged that the man was banned from entering the national territory, meaning that the border police did not allow him to enter Romania,” a statement from border police to Romanian news outlets said.
>“The Irish citizen was informed about the situation and was also given a form regarding the measure ordered and the reason for it, as well as the legal way to contest it.”
>One report said that Bowes “remained in the transit area” of Bucharest airport and purchased a ticket himself for a flight to Turkey, taking off a few hours later.
>The Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it was aware of reports of Bowes’ detainment and deportation, and said that it “stands ready to provide consular assistance”.
>Bowes, a whistleblower who revealed to Village magazine that Leo Varadkar leaked a confidential GP contract agreement to his friend in 2020, later became an editor for The Ditch website.
>He stepped down from the publication in the summer of 2022 and has since worked as a correspondent for RT.
>Bowes was previously invited by Russia to speak at the UN Security Council, where he criticised what he described as the “ever hawkish Anglosphere” for its military support of Ukraine, calling it a “seemingly perpetual escalation of military aid.”
>Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation warned in 2023 that Bowes spread material that aligned itself with pro-Kremlin narratives, and had done so for years.>>2251667fake news
>>2251675Trump is a conman, his base got took again. i see that MTG is pissed, but probably won't matter. The red hat brigade will probably just cuck and say Russia made him do it. He's MAGA-ing by being Joe Biden.
>>2251850He what?
>Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II. I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I. We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything — That’s because we don’t have leaders anymore, that know how to do so! We are going to start celebrating our victories again!Alright…
Poster of
>>2251675, I would like to rub your face in this Truth Social post, for the dumb mistake of suggesting that this
fucking moron is capable of plotting.
>>2252234Most of us have been following the line that Trump wouldn't. He was the one who armed them in the first place after Obama only sent "non-lethal aid".
That Russia can only win through Trump pulling the rug out from under Ukraine is the NAFOid perspective.
>>2252275I know you are a NAFOid because you've shit up this thread with NAFOid talking points for a long time with the same style.
Also, I was on image boards probably before you were born so this style of posting is like a 1/10 for annoyance.
>>2252276I'm talking about self-identified NAFOid posters.
>>2252430In the history of manlets across the full range of political ideologies, Putin is something of an aberration.
Napoleon, Stalin, Genghis Khan, Hitler, academic estimates of Alexander the Great… these manlets, for better or for worse, all had a psychological FORCE. Zelensky is a lite version of this.
Putin's behavior makes no sense to students of manletology, leading many thinkers to suspect he's been drugged with some kind of pacification drug.
>>2252238What, no Bibi?
>both Armenia and AzerbaijanSpicy.
>no LaosHow many people even realize they're still an ML state?
British Intelligence: Russian Losses in Ukraine Near One Million
<Russian losses in the war in Ukraine, now entering its fourth year, have reportedly exceeded 950,000 killed and wounded, according to the UK Ministry of Defence citing British military intelligence.
<Based on ministry estimates, Russia’s total military casualties in the first four months of 2025 amounted to around 160,000. In April alone, Russian forces were losing approximately 1,200 soldiers per day, either killed or injured.
<If this rate continues, 2025 is set to become Russia’s most costly year in terms of personnel losses since the war began.
<Despite the heavy casualties, Russia has failed to seize significant new territory in Ukraine.
<Currently, an estimated 600,000 Russian troops are deployed in Ukraine. The Russian armed forces are reportedly recruiting around 30,000 new soldiers each month.
>>2252798The msc video at about 8:40, saying he's hooked to to machines to support his health/support his life, but he's vague on the source for that claim, attributing it to "the news" and "different channels."
>>2252794tbh yeah but after seeing the kinds of looney toons shit the cia did you try and get castro I can't say it's not somewhat plausible
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1917549402132209786>Vovan and Lexus prank with Prank with Paul Massaro, senior policy advisor to the US commission on security and cooperation in Europe.
>Paul massaro says a lot of interesting things about the inner workings of US foreign policy:
>0:23 What’s the mood in the US congress? Most senators don’t really care. The US president has the authority.
<1:16 Every administration tries to make peace with Russia, but Russia is doing something bad to derail that.
>2:08 Trump really believes Russia wants peace? Trump is NOT a Russia puppet, he is slightly Russia friendly, but he doesn’t know about Ukraine.
>Trump needs to give Ukraine everything and sanction Russia. But Trump just wants to end it and he doesn’t care how.
<4:01 we want to focus on China, but Russia won’t let us.
>4:23 “if Russia were defeated and humbled finally that would also let us focus on other pressing national security issues”
<5:31 USAID and NED problems? They were productive in Ukraine and Georgia, but promoted too much woke ideology
<Maybe their shutdown was illegal, so the next president might bring them back.
>7:21 What’s going on in Georgia?
<7:57 Ukraine is the better Russia. “there's no place worse to be a Christian than Russia”
>8:46 US needs to help Ukraine get closer to Turkey. Turkey is a counterweight to Russia. They’re willing to shoot down Russian jets.
<9:13 NATO is a constraint on our actions
>9:23 Russian opposition does not have the answer, you need defeat of Russia for change. The Russian identity as it's currently constituted is the problem.
<10:09 Supporting Russian minorities is away to break up Russia
>11:57 Ukraine will not join NATO? I mean Ukraine is already effectively a NATO state.
>But NATO is diminished itself because it did not bombed the Russian convoy driving to Kiev.
>But everything can be reversed again with the next president, so Ukraine may join NATO.
<13:58 Poland and Ukraine will stop Russia from attacking Europe, not NATO.
<Poland understands it can’t rely on NATO.
>14:35 What should Ukraine do? Hit oil, support separatists groups in Russia, get close to Turkey and Poland.
<15:25 Im skeptical towards Germany and France. France is big words and nothing happens.
>16:08 Maidan Coup in Georgia “were working very hard at this”
<16:59 Olympic committee change policy towards Russia >>2253181>out of fear of a nuclear warAn incompetently exploited fear on the part of the Kremlin. Not even a single live nuclear test lmao, and the "tests" that were announced in May of last year completely vanished from the discourse.
Bring back someone serious like Khrushchev.
>>2253203It would be stupid to attack the parade and possibly injure foreign dignitaries. It is just a NAFOid revenge fantasy.
Same reason they'll talk about hitting nuclear power stations and not actually do it.
>>2252641>A good tankie isn't a ziggerA zigger is a tankie that understands the inversion since 1956. There's no gendarme of Europe or red army re: feudalism and socialism in the continent, but rather NATO and failed post communist transitions blamed on spooks. Little Donbass and Crimea was supposed to represent a nonexistent precapitalist empire dividing Europe and Ukraine. Smashing such to unleash bourgeois progress was the designated solution to EU stagnation, a sign of refusal to acknowledge what hollowed out Ukraine since 1991. The transition from German, Polish, Japanese, etc. miracles to Ukrainian decay predicted the true cause of this crisis in the end of bourgeois progress. Anglo-American stagnation only served to confirm this while causing Europe to double down on this solution and use it to divide the world between democracy and autocracy.
This is how we ended up with an alliance in Ukraine of discredited Western ideologies, neoliberalism and fascism, somehow representing the frontline for bourgeois democracy rather than its degeneration. By the time the conclusion of the 20th century reaches Russians in Ukraine, there's nothing left of 1989's democratic promises to reject. This is why even Gorbachev understood the reason Russia intervened jn Ukraine after 2014.
Of course all of this runs up against a parochial post 2016 narrative about globalization that reabsorbed the briefly populist Western left and restored its decades long slide into collaboration. Now the people who gave up on internationalism are complaining Marxist ziggers are betraying them for the nationalism of colonial and semi colonial nations. It's little different from those 20 years ago who cried Red-Green alliance with Islam.
I think this was always a losing gambit. One side identified progress in the divisions of the Western ruling class as it reached the decline part of its centuries old arc, the other identified it in global inequalities antagonized by this decline. The latter has been given an opportunity to dismantle late 20th century views about the peace and growth of capitalism that denied the wars and revolutions needed by communists. Global oppression has intensified since the end of socialism and anti colonial struggles, which is why a socialist would only escalate the war fought by Russia given how this oppression is combining aspects of the Russian Civil War, Polish Soviet war, and WW2 then demanding balkanization of Russia and China, who are by far some of the biggest victims of imperialism in the last century.
>>2253425The resilience of Zelensky concerning internal politics of Ukraine actually amazes me. I'm sure there are many, including oligarchs and military leaders, who want him gone. Yet this comedian has managed to basically paralyze any opposition, abolished elections etc. with little to no resistance.
Say what you want about the guy, but when it comes to US approved comprador leaders he seems one of the more competent ones.
>What the now signed deal really entails is still unknown. The text of the framework agreement was published (in Russian) by the Ukrainian government. There are however two additional agreements which define the all important details.Why would Ukraine only ever release the terms in Russian, lol?
https://strana.news/news/484282-polnyj-tekst-dohovora-o-nedrakh-s-ssha.htmlV. 1) UKraine ensures free exchange of Hryvna into USD, and Ukraine has to pay into the joint fund specifically in USDs. Meaning Ukraine's economy is downgraded below Latin American export-orientation
VI 5) Any military aid provided to Ukraine by USA counts towards US participation in the joint fund, i.e. Ukraine has to pay all help back with any profits that can be found in Ukraine
But reading through this, I suspect it's a fake document, there are parts where text repeats - meaning it's possible it's generated by LLM
>>2253441Putin improved Russia a ton, given what he had to work with, after the collapse of the USSR and a decade of Yeltsin rule.
Putin will be remembered as Russia's Deng, Nicholas II. will always be remembered as the incompetent monarch who was unfit to bring the Russian Empire into the 20th century.
>>2253468USD denomination ensures export orientation of Ukraine. Yeah, it makes sense for USA to want to get paid in USD, but originally, there was a pretense that USA will use Ukraine's resources for USA's industries' needs, and not just for plunder
>>22534643 years later, Soviet era stockpiles of air defences in Ukraine have finally run out. Just how much weapons has USSR left behind?
MOSCOW, May 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, the longest serving Kremlin chief since Josef Stalin, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he was always thinking about the succession, and suggested that there could be an contest between several candidates.
>"I always think about it," Putin, 72, said when asked if he thought about the succession in a film by state television about Putin's quarter of a century as Russia's paramount leader entitled "Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 years".
>"Ultimately, the choice is for the people, for the Russian people," Putin said. "I think that there should be a person, or rather several people, so that the people have a choice."https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-72-says-succession-is-always-his-mind-2025-05-04/>>2253542prigozhin could never be anything other than the leader of mercenaries lol
No fucking way he would be a minister, let alone president
>>2253539you do realise Russia is not using its full military in this conflict right?
Ukraine burned through its whole army and is now conscripting left and right trying to survive against like a third of Russia's full military potential
>>2253539Being bogged down in a war of attrition is exactly when that sort of advantage is most important. It means they can sustain the conflict for longer and outlast the Ukrainians and the West. Rapid maneuver warfare is most necessary when you don't have the capacity to win a long war of attrition. Also as
>>2253558 says, Russia is only waging a limited conflict (no conscripts, only partial economic mobilization, etc) and is still exceeding the AFU's capabilities in every way.
>>2253474Ukraine was not only a major staging area for the Soviet military, it was a major manufacturing centre, particularly for aerospace. If the Ukrainian oligarchs hadn’t sold off or destroyed equipment and manufacturing they’d have enough for decades.
Ironically it was the Americans who paid them to destroy it to stop them selling it to terrorists.
>>2253542>Prigozhin could have just waited, the Russian succession was free for him as long Wagner was popularHe would've just been tossed in jail like Igor. No loss ultimately, because none of these guys called for a Kiev front, just
MORE SHELLS or more men for Putin's Donbas grind.
>>2255128Russia should have intervened probably by the Odessa massacre at the latest to destroy Europe's rising proxy army. This is all related to the empire offloading the issues of capitalism as an international system onto the wider world, dividing two peoples with little history of boundary and artificially causing a crisis between them. This is why Maidan's ATO became just one front among many to intensify a global form of slavery and apartheid in world capitalism by ironically dividing the world. There is little issue with Russia protecting a 'Soviet people' in Ukraine squeezed by that ironic contradiction, instead we should be examining the failed democratic promises of capitalism laid bare in the former USSR.
The only socialist position is to globalize the struggle Donbass represented to answer the other threats found in Palestine, Taiwan, etc. against Iran, China, and others. You ultimately can't fight back against imperialism on a national basis.
>>2255378>Us leftiesUh-huh, sure, whatever you say, "fellow leftist".
I mean, shut your mouth, /pol/ uighur.
>>2255585Leftypol mod majority are liberal anti-communists who allow all kinds of slurs. I don’t follow the mod drama so I don’t know who left or went inactive but the increase in mod tolerance for anti-communist and just poor quality posts in general increased in late 2023.
Just look in the catalogue at all the bait posts.
>>2255595That's just what it's called tho.
https://leftypol.org/overboard/catalog.html
>>2255920Nvm, most things are broken
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>>2255902thanks really looking forward to it
idk who supports Russia anymore outside of an abstract "eh I guess it's better than America controlling ukraine"
the incompetence is too much
you read russian military telegrams and it's like an alternate reality where ukraine lost 1000000000000000000000000 billion troops and they're going to collapse by next week but oh wait another 6 months pass and nothing has happened
>>2255934The slowness doesn't matter. Kiev in one year, Kiev in ten years - makes no difference.
What matters is the fact that there may be an underachiever in the Kremlin who's going to bail early and give Ukraine/NATO the win of keeping Odessa and Kiev.
Russian communists rally progressive forces at second International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow
Despite finding themselves broadly aligned with Putin on the question of fighting NATO expansionism and neo-Nazism in Ukraine, the Russian communists maintain a distinct line: socialism has to be restored in order to fight fascism and win.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/02/russian-communists-rally-progressive-forces-at-second-international-anti-fascist-forum-in-moscow/>>2256102I didn't, you're mistaking me for someone else 🤔 the only prediction I changed since mid 2024, was about Pokrovsk.
I've been predicting that the Donbass front would start collapsing in late May, and that Russia would capture Donbass in August 2025, and reach the outskirts of Kiev in the winter of 2026 (3 months + 6) for the past ~10 months.
Dylan burns a hyper Ukraine simp streamer who literally went to Ukraine sucking off azov cock now did an article sympathetic to a Ukraine deserter
https://offbeatresearch.com/2025/05/dysfunction-and-dereliction-the-collapse-of-the-155th-brigade-through-a-deserters-eyes/Dysfunction and Dereliction: The Collapse of the 155th Brigade Through a Deserter’s Eyes
>>2252751>>2252765>>2253166I doubt that is the case. The rumors here in Serbia tell a different (and funny) story. The story goes that Vucic wanted to have a meeting with Trump but for some reason didn't get one through official channels, we don't know if he was rejected or never even asked. Still, he announced a official visit to the USA where he would meet Trump. Then he got some rich diaspora Serbs to get him a ticket to a Republican fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, it cost a million dollars. He tried to enter with a fake name and meet Trump and take a picture with him (probably for domestic propaganda purposes) but he got found out and kicked out. He then aborted "official" visit to the USA and the serbian media reported that he fell ill and has high blood pressure so he's heading home. He hasn't been seen in public since but he announced a TV speech on May 7. The life support thing is probably just fake news by Vucic-aligned media.
Vucic is in a tough spot because of the parade visit, since Russia is pressuring him to come and EU just straight up said that if he goes they're going to ban Serbia from moving forward in the process of joining the EU. The fake illness is probably a way to try appeasing both sides. However, the Kremlin announced a Putin-Vucic meeting so they're probably not buying it.
Also, Lithuania announced that they're banning Vucic from using their airspace to go to the May 9 parade. Serbia joined the EU sanctions against Bellorus a while ago and Ukraine is at war. So maybe Vucic will now claim that he can't come because the airspaces are closed.
Vucic might even personally dislike Victory Day, since he used to belong to a political party which is anticommunist and glorifies the Chetniks (one of the Serb Nazi collaborator organizations).
Russia says Putin will travel to China in August
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China at the end of August and beginning of September
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/06/russia-china-putin-xi-visit/05d73fcc-2a87-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.htmlA Jam-Proof Russian Drone Just Blew Up A Ukrainian HIMARS
Russia’s fiber-optic drones are a growing problem for Ukrainian forces.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/05/06/a-jam-proof-russian-drone-just-blew-up-a-ukrainian-himars/>>2255976It’s astounding how willing people are to
embarrass themselves by skimming one Wikipedia article and not checking related articles.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his munitions industry to boost the production of artillery shells, state media said Wednesday, as the country continues to supply arms and troops to support Russia’s war on Ukraine.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said that Kim, during recent visits to unspecified munitions and machinery factories, praised modernization efforts that the agency claimed enabled the facilities to double their annual shell production capacity.
Kim urged workers to further accelerate artillery shell production, calling it crucial to “strengthening the fighting efficiency” of his armed forces, and also called for the development of more advanced machinery to boost munitions output. KCNA did not mention any comments from Kim regarding his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/06/north-korea-kim-jong-un-artillery-shells-russia-ukraine-war/50c44054-2ae4-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.htmlXi and Putin are the greatest beneficiaries of Trump’s chaos
“There are changes happening, the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years. And we are the ones driving these changes together,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said as he took leave of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin back in March 2023.
As Putin and Xi embark on a four-day summit that begins on Wednesday in Moscow, they can be satisfied that those changes have indeed materialised, even if driven in part by the disruptive presidency of Donald Trump.
The world is at an inflection point, and Beijing and Moscow are poised to be the major beneficiaries of America’s self-inflicted blow to its global stature. Now Putin and Xi need only strategise about how to capitalise on this historic moment and ensure that the demise of US hegemony is irreversible.
Two years ago, when Xi last visited Moscow, it was to communicate his decision not to abandon Putin; instead, he chose to clandestinely support Russia’s war against Ukraine. At the time, that seemed a risky bet. Russian troops had taken a beating in Ukraine thanks in part to significant US assistance, Kyiv was preparing a counteroffensive, and many in the west had got carried away with hopes of Russia’s imminent defeat and humiliation.
Xi unlocked a flow of dual-use goods like sophisticated chips and advanced machine tools that have helped to fix Russia’s battered military industrial complex, and China has made additional room for Russian commodities in its giant markets, allowing Moscow to earn much-needed export revenues. As a result, the Kremlin has managed to bolster its military machine and put the Russian economy on a war footing. China, meanwhile, has gained improved access to cheap hydrocarbons, metals, fertilisers and agricultural goods; cutting-edge battle-tested Russian weaponry; and Russian tech talent kicked out of western labs.
For both China and Russia, this war-induced investment in their decades-long relationship has paid off massively — even if Moscow has had to accept deeper dependence on its neighbour and Beijing has had to stomach worsening ties with Europe. But now Xi and Putin could reap even greater profits. With Trump enthusiastically shattering the remains of the US-led order, they are unlikely to remain bystanders.
First, Beijing and Moscow have learnt a great deal about how to inoculate themselves against Washington’s weaponisation of its technological and financial dominance. Russia’s ability to wage a costly war, despite a tsunami of western sanctions, is the best showcase for China’s America-proofing methods — be it reliance on the renminbi for payments and savings, or embracing Chinese tech. Moscow and Beijing are likely to aggressively market these tools, first and foremost in the global south, including through Brics — and, with his global tariff war, Trump has become their unwitting salesman.
Second, Xi and Putin have said for more than a decade that the western brand of democracy is far from perfect. What better testament to that than Trump’s re-election? At least for now, China can claim that its system offers certainty and a long-term view that is glaringly absent in Trump’s America.
The widespread belief in democracy’s superiority over other systems of governance has long been a powerful transformative force and source of US power. It contributed, for example, to the demise of the Soviet Union, which was a traumatic experience for both Putin and Xi. If that belief is eroded, it will be a major victory for Moscow and Beijing.
Finally, Trump’s hollowing out of US bureaucracies, including the state and defence departments and the intelligence community, along with the alienation of key US allies, could weaken China’s and Russia’s arch-nemesis beyond repair at a time when their own military and intelligence machines are being rapidly beefed up.
Right now Beijing is going around the world scouting for projects abandoned by the dismantled USAID in order to boost China’s global soft power, and trying to woo America’s former friends into new trade and investment deals. In a darker alternative future, Xi and Putin — both in their early seventies — may see the coming years as a chance to cement their legacies by making decisions that could immortalise them in history, including redrawing the world’s map even further now that the old order is gone and America is busy sorting out its own mess.
The time the two leaders spend together this week may or may not end up in the history books. What’s certain is that if Trump’s idea was to drive Xi and Putin apart, as he has bragged, his second presidency is pushing them even closer.
https://www.ft.com/content/c5a1bc4e-462e-4e76-b0cb-5210c2e74efa>>2256950Jesus the hubris!
Grandiose prose Horse shit, the "news" article…
This makes me mad this literal terrorist who continues to annihilate minorities and was literally sworn to Al-Qaeda, had a 10 million bounty from the US, designated terrorist group and now he's just a good guy and they should remove all sanctions
This is so stupid dude
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-europe-sanctions-syria-us-war/>>2257840"iSSrael" already ignored it once again while Palestine didn't
once again showing to the world that the foundational myth of "iSSrael" has nothing to do with the plight of the jews during ww2
based Putin exposing zionism for what it is
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-army-have-video-game-like-digital-weapons-store-deadly-realistic/Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians
<Ukraine has created a macabre points scheme based on video games to boost the effectiveness of its soldiers.
>KYIV — Ukraine's military is turning to incentive schemes used in video games to spur its soldiers to kill more Russian troops and destroy their equipment.
>The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units.
>“Brave 1 Market will be like Amazon for the military, [it] will allow military units to directly purchase technologies they need on the war front,” said Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and minister for digital transformation, speaking at a weekend military tech conference in Kyiv.
>The program assigns points for each type of kill: 20 points for damaging and 40 for destroying a tank; up to 50 points for destroying a mobile rocket system, depending on the caliber; and six points for killing an enemy soldier.
>Soldiers have to download the video footage taken by their drones confirming the kill to the military's Delta communication and situational awareness system.
>Units will soon be able to use the special digital points they’ve been getting since last year by trading them in for new weapons. A Vampire drone, for example, costs 43 points. The drone, nicknamed Baba Yaga, or witch, is a large multi-rotor drone able to carry a 15-kilogram warhead. The Ukrainian government will pay for the drones that are ordered and will deliver them to the front-line unit within a week.
>“In short, you destroy, you get the points, you buy a drone using the points,” Fedorov said.
>He pointed to the accomplishments of Magyar's Birds, one of Ukraine's elite drone warfare units. It has run up a score of over 16,298 points, enough to buy 500 first-person view drones used in daytime operations, 500 drones for night operations, 100 Vampire drones and 40 reconnaissance drones, Fedorov said.
>The scheme is aimed at directing more equipment to the most effective units.
>It will also help to bypass bureaucratic procurement procedures and buy weapons directly from manufacturers. As of today there are more than a thousand articles on the Brave 1 marketplace, ranging from drones to robotic systems, electronic warfare systems, parts, AI systems and other weapons.<Ukraine's military is turning to incentive schemes used in video games to spur its soldiers to kill more Russian troops and destroy their equipment. | Maria Senovilla/EPA
>Soldiers will be able to leave reviews on the site to guide future purchases.
>The ability to get points for killing enemy troops is also spurring competition among units; so far about 90 percent of the army's drone units have scored points. In fact, they are logging so many hits that the government has had to revamp the logistics of drone deliveries to get more of them to points-heavy units.
>“They started killing so quickly that Ukraine does not have time to deliver new drones,” Fedorov said.
>It also helps improve the military's verified data on the destruction of Russian targets in real time — boosting battlefield awareness.
>The Ukrainian government is continually tweaking the system to make it deadlier.
>“For example, we have increased the number of points for infantry elimination from two to six, and that has doubled the number of destroyed enemies in one month,” Fedorov said. “This is not just a system of motivation, this is a mechanism that changes the rules of war.” >>2258184>Noooo, Russia must morally grandstand, too!>Noooo, Russia must do the trade wars, too!Do you figure it's the glowies, or westerners doing chauvinism for free?
Why would Russia engage in strategies practice by losers currently eating shit?
Exclusive: Ukraine considers shift from dollar to euro amid geopolitical realignments
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-considers-shift-dollar-euro-amid-geopolitical-realignments-2025-05-07/LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) - Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the U.S. dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global trade and its growing ties to Europe, Central Bank Governor Andriy Pyshnyi told Reuters.
Potential accession to the European Union, a "strengthening of the EU's role in ensuring our defense capabilities, greater volatility in global markets, and the probability of global-trade fragmentation," are forcing the central bank to review whether the euro should be the reference currency for Ukraine's hryvnia instead of the dollar, Pyshnyi said in emailed remarks.
"This work is complex and requires high-quality, versatile preparation," Pyshnyi added, in the most direct comments by a Ukrainian official on a possible shift.
>>2258453Just have to ask people, is Russia still producing civilian vehicles? Because that’s usually one of the first things that stops in favour of producing war materiel. The only thing they can reply with is
>they’ve weaponised their war economy to continue producing civilian stuff to convince the population there’s no war economywhich they unironically will tbh
>>2258430hey mister "real" gommunist, one little request:
define imperialism :^)
>>2258462Not even moral, Ukraine and a significant portion of their western
supporters internet well wishers just want to believe that millions of Russians are now dead and that it was entirely Russia’s own fault.
>>2258533>liberalismCheck
>literal dictatorshipCheck
>imperialismDouble check
>colonialismHundreds of nations under russian chauvinist boot.
>>2258552It’s not progressive from the perspective that Ukraine suffered a NATO-backed coup and had ever since seemed rabidly dedicated to acting as cannon fodder for NATO with its main motivation being NATO membership.
Doesn’t seem very nationalist or liberating in any material sense to me, just kind of how a proxy would operate
>>2258579It was their democratic choice ruscist chud
The democracy in question:
>>2258538>LiberalismUkraine banned all left wing political parties
>DictatorshipZelensky postponed new elections indefinitely
>Imperialism Ukraine invaded Iraq with America, interfered in HK against China, interfered in Syria against Assad, etc.
>Colonialism90% of Ukrainian land is stolen from Poland, Belarus, and Russia
>>2258581Nah, only one side was moving its nuclear weapons closer to the other in the lead up to this conflict, that’s just a typical defence concern that would have caused conflict as far back as tribe A getting to close for comfort to tribe B’s camp when hunting and foraging.
It doesn’t become inter-imperialist in nature just because there are disgustingly rich people on both sides.
>>2258611They didn’t want NATO expanding because they naturally don’t want NATO nuclear weapons to keep moving closer to their borders and covering more of their borders, while maybe Russia could have had an ulterior motive of their own expansionism into regions that don’t become NATO members in the last 30 years, history as it actually happened don’t seem to support that possibility and NATO has expanded rapidly over the last 30 years and has moved its nuclear weapons closer to Russia as part of that. Thus, it’s pretty academic to pontificate about what ifs and attempts at mind reading to imagine how this conflict *could* have been inter-imperialist if Russia was more aggressive, or less damaged by dissolution of the USSR, or more “honest” about its true ambitions, the fact is that NATO has created an obvious security concern for Russia and the conflict was triggered by those concerns and are being fought on Russia’s borders.
People can pretend that this war is basically just Russian State Oil and American Big Oil fighting over the last oil well up for grabs in the Middle East, it’s merely a coincidence that the conflict actually occurred on Russia’s border with nuclear weapons, hostile intelligence agencies and potentially biological weapon production being moved to said border in the immediate preceding years, but that’s only convincing for themselves.
>>2258624whataboutism isn't a real fallacy, it was memed into being one by americans butthurt by their hypocrisy being exposed
>>2258625are you a bot? your posts are barely comprehensible
Exclusive: US, Russia explore ways to restore Russian gas flows to Europe, sources say.
LONDON/MOSCOW, May 8 (Reuters) - With a frost covering Europe's energy relations with Russia, officials from Washington and Moscow have held discussions about the U.S. helping to revive Russian gas sales to the continent, eight sources familiar with the talks have told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-russia-explore-ways-restore-russian-gas-flows-europe-sources-say-2025-05-08/>>2258662>claiming Ukraine is fighting Fascism Which is true.
>is that your support for Ukraine is based on anti-fascismWhich is not true. I'm against capitalist wars in general as its completely unnecessary bloodshed. But we are going full strawmen about this.
Ukraine and the European Union are poised to announce a special court aimed at prosecuting Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leading Kremlin officials for orchestrating the invasion of their neighbour, according to the EU’s top diplomat.
“Tomorrow we will give the final political endorsement to the establishment of a war crimes tribunal,” Kaja Kallas told reporters following an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Warsaw on Thursday. “There will be no impunity, there will be accountability for the crimes committed. Also those who have really started this war.”
https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/eu-poised-to-set-up-court-to-prosecute-putin-kremlin-officials/66168817.html>>2258668>Which is trueNot by your own metrics apparently.
> Which is not true.I’m sorry, but it is, even if you don’t want that to have been your point. If you think Ukraine is fighting fascism, then naturally you have to believe they’re not fascist. Inb4 “fighting fire with fire”, the victory of Ukrainian fascists over the definitely real Russian fascists wouldn’t defeat fascism, would it?
>>2258694>And nothing changes about the war?Other than that it stops?
<um akschually ruzzia wants to conquer all of ukraine and bucha everyone, they have no choice but to keep fightingstop consuming propaganda
>>2258754Good chunck of those Ziggers here aren't organic anon, but actual russian shills shifting the narrative.
Just because I don't support Russian imperialism it doesn't mean I support western imperalism too, only a retarded can think in such a binary term.
>>2259467 (me)
The main problem with Cuck is that he has a tendency to do dumb, experimental things to "prove" that Ukraine and the West can't be trusted, even though non-Russophobes already know that. See that stupid energy ceasefire, for instance.
>>2259502i'm not sure how marxist he is, but i think he did say he wants to continue sankara's course
also the youngest head of state in the world btw
>>2259504I know virtually nothing about him other than that he is considered to be a marxist from a single article I wrote.
Still, he's going down that similar self-sufficiency and pan-africanist philosophy as Sankara. Asking only for agricultural equipment rather than food. Building lots of factories.
>>2258758>Good chunck of those Ziggers here aren't organic anon, but actual russian shills shifting the narrative. Lmao. Cope harder “comrade”. The majority of posters on this site, let alone this general, have been “supporting Russia” since before you got sent a Discord link to join in the raiding.
Anyone who has been here since before 2022 can see the trend of jungle gang chatting mostly amicably only to be interrupted by NAFOid and “leftcom” raiders. It was only last year there was an attempt to project an actual consistent ideological opposition with the “anti-campist” threads but that fell apart because the raiders got trounced by jungle gang intellectuals.
>>2259504he likely isnt marxist, but he is for national liberation and independence, like sankara, and hired as prime minister Apollinaire J. Kyélem de Tambèla who was a sankara supporter in the old time just after the coup
he is likely better for the country than the compradors keeping the neocolonial relation
>>2259973I think there is value in a strategic position on Ukraine that seeks to extricate the US. but that is scarcely what the EU is doing. They adopt the rhetoric of self sufficiency while depositing all their eggs in the US basket and under the command of NATO.But an EU that "owns" the crisis in Ukraine and gets the CIA out could be a progressive thing, even if the vehicle to get there is hawkish liberal drivel. At the end of the day, any amount of EU independence goes contrary to US interests and is the very reason why we have the Ukraine conflict to begin with. Too keep the euros firmly under NATO.
I just don't think any of that is happening, ever. If anything, Israel will become a galvanizing experience for the EU liberals. They know now how far the discourse can be stretched and directly commanded by and in Washington's interests. Nobody wants to be Corbyn. They want their little place in the kayfabe.
>>2260102Honestly, everyone dropped Corbyn and adopted the attitude that he was unelectable because he was a synergy of Mao and Hitler vibes pretty much at the media’s command. No one dared to batter an eyelid at the expulsion of Cobynistas from the party after Starmer lied about taking on Corbyn’s policy, nor the Labour Party hiring ex-Mossad to winkle out the “anti-semites” who still continue to harbour anti-Israel sentiment while still paying their membership fees.
Corbyn voters could be recorded live on the BBC splattering on Tower Hill as traitors getting what they deserve and most in the UK would be nodding and saying “yeah, fair enough really, don’t need their sort or the democracy they were exploiting”
>>2260148>Who does he have a gun on him thoBecause Traore is the Zelenskyy of Africa for RF propaganda.
Except instead of liberals they namedrop Sankara at every turn.
Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) – Pyongyang is significantly commemorating the day of Russia's victory.
Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, said as follows:
Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited the Russian embassy in the DPRK on the morning of May 9 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War and conveyed the best wishes to the state leadership of the Russian Federation and the Russian people on behalf of all the Korean people.
Comrade Kim Jong Un, together with his dearest daughter and leading cadres of the Party and the state, visited the Russian embassy in Pyongyang to warmly congratulate the day of the great victory of the fraternal Russian people with excellent sincerity.
He met with Russian friends residing in Pyongyang with pleasure and conveyed a beautiful flower basket for all the Russian people marking the day of victory.
He made a congratulatory speech.
In his speech, he referred to the unprecedented and important influence on the destiny and future of mankind and the eternal significance of the day of victory when the great Soviet army and people defeated Fascism, and clarified the steadfast stand of our Party, government and people to steadily consolidate and develop the long tradition of the DPRK-Russia relations, the noble ideological foundation and the invincible alliance.
The above-said activities of the supreme leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are a clear demonstration of the strong will to positively promote the sovereignty and dignity of the two countries, the people's peace and happiness, and the regional peace and security by dint of the DPRK-Russia friendship which has been developed into the relations of genuine comrade-in-arms and a long-standing strategic relations in the new era.
I regard it as an eventful moment to be specially recorded in the history of the development of the relations between the two countries and the two peoples.
Pyongyang and Moscow will always be together. -0-
>>2260224
> new ifvT-15? That thing's been lingering in the same development hell as the tank itself.
Though, the Kurganets and Boomerang were also supposed to share parts.
> turret had thinner armor than even t72The unmanned turret could get away with that, though. Unless something else about it fucked them.
>>2260320Sure, but if the FPV operator is picking and choosing the target surface, you're basically down to hoping for a fumbled attack. More likely, several of them.
At least it's a smaller overall area, and the ammo is out of the crew compartment now. Outside of some weird Merkava shit, I can't really think of a better layout.
>>2260398Sure, but then I suppose you can fit a cope cage on top of a turret, but not above the crew compartment on Armata.
In all honesty though, I think it’s mainly not being used because it’s both very expensive and frankly a pretty demotivating sight when one inevitably does get knocked out by a cheap FPV drone, Ukraine would print so many postage stamps…
>>2260455Not really believer in cope cages. Sure, they probably help a bit against grenade drones and apartment blocks full of angry Slavs lobbing PG-7Vs at it, but if your drone can hit the frontal roof on a T-14, it can find a fist-sized slot where the slats aren't.
And that's before someone decides to put a decently large EFP on a drone, and just ignores any practical levels of roof armour.
I think it's just dead. And has been for at least 5 years.
>>2260503they're descended from khazars and volga finns, they just speak a slavic language
calling them slavs is like calling senegalese franks because they speak french
or levantines arabs because they speak arabic
>>2260618the meaning of this usual yearly parade evolved here. dramatically increased attendance and display in a very interesting global context.
libs look at this and see some kind of autocratic army of doom and their BRICS talk shop thats actually corrupt/frail and made up of inferior races.
western socialists see capitalists that the west should kill because they reject liberalism just like drumpf thanks to tankies poisoning socialism
>>2260508>Not really believer in cope cagesyou're a retard, theres a reason everyone use them
>it can find a fist-sized slot where the slats aren'tin combat situation on a moving target with EW mixed in? not really no
>someone decides to put a decently large EFP on a dronesmall cheap drone cant carry much, so carrying an effective EFP might be too heavy
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