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Due to a technical issue, I couldn't/can't post the link. Could someone kindly do it for me please? There's lots of media reports, though how trustworthy they are, I don't know.

The 'Russia to imminently cut itself off from the internet' claim is marked as unverified, as this was a verbal claim from a contributor to a discussion on the BBC World Service.
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Last night, Channel 4 showed the first three episodes from a series that the current Ukraine President was in where he played a comedy part as...the Ukraine President! It had English subtitles.

In the current circumstances, i'm not sure whether I think this was appropriate or not.

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Perhaps this one?

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/c...ussia-internet

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The show partly contributed to him becoming the actual president, and any international rights payments will go towards supporting those in Ukraine who made it.

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I'm just urging people to make sure that what they are reporting is actual truth.FB and other social media don't always check contributions.Just because it's on the internet doesn't make it actual fact.

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Thank you. They say it's being done to help to frustrate the efforts of Russia, but it will also hinder everyday Russians from accessing our news or organising anti war groups etc.

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Good point.

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No it won't Richard. Read the article.

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I don’t think it was a coincidence that U.S Secretary of State, Antony Blinken was in Moldova yesterday. Last week they, along with Georgia, officially applied to join the EU. Like Ukraine, there are pro-Russian factions in these countries, but the countries application to join the EU, gives a clear message to Putin, where their political allegiances align.

Any ex-Soviet State is a Putin target right now. But Moscow is failing in its main objectives in Ukraine, its losing the information war. You only have to look at the blackout of outside news getting in to Russia. Facebook and Twitter completely censored, if Russia was meant to be winning this, it’d be glad to show the worlds news in Russia, right now, that’s not happening because Russia is being frustrated at the fierce Ukraine resistance and its embarrassed.

For all intent and purposes, the West, NATO may not physically get involved in this. But every west spy agency has their hand in this helping Ukraine, advising them, and they’re winning by defeating Russian logistics, destroying their fuel tank vehicles with just Molotov cocktails. Russia is also losing experienced savvy fighter pilots, think I’ve seen 45 planes have been shot down since start of invasion.

Russian morale is very low. Their soldiers (conscripts) surrendering relatively easily, there is footage of them crying for their mothers. The Russians are poorly equipped, vs high Ukrainian fighters morale, using high tech military gear given to them from us and other European nations and the U.S, their soldiers fighting on home soil, with a population behind them. As long as we can keep supplying them with resources, they got this.

Putin has to now know this invasion was a grave error and his presidency is now in endgame. Yeah, who cares he’s been spitting feathers and coming out with all kinds of vitriol about sanctions are akin to declaration of war.

The risk is and some are saying, Putin could still well order a nuclear strike in Ukraine, albeit a smaller scale one, this would then ultimately initiate a massive world wide condemnation, probably forcing rest of us in to war, can any of us realistically see us still standing by while a murderous madman is dropping nukes over Ukraine?

We also need to keep an eye on what Russia is doing with the Ukrainian seized nuclear plant.

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Map Intel of latest Russian advance or lack of:

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1646662737

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I really dont see how things like this are helpful.

The people in charge are not going to care, all its doing is affecting the lives of ordinary Russians, who have no say in this war at all.

In the case of the Internet, its cutting out a major source of "real" news, rather than "Russian" news.

It likely makes Putin feel even more right about the "evil west" having it out for Russia, and more desperate to win.

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Spor on, though I think that applying to join the EU is mainly symbolic at this stage as it could take years, even if they're accepted.

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Unfortunately, in a war it's not always possible.


Look at the Ukrainian soldiers on that Island that told a Russian warship "Too xxxx themselves" and reported dead.


Now it appears they are alive.


Even the BBC report events and say unvarified.

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The Kremlin has set out their terms.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...nato-invasion/

Also this.

This war will be a total failure, Russian whistleblower says.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...st-claims.html

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So to use a phrase the Americans like, Russia is looking for an off ramp, it's also a phrase I heard a couple of times this morning on Bloomberg as the 'experts' were discussing what Russia would do next.

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Got to love the German Embassy in South Africa.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...9&d=1646668895

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TBH, those terms don't seem too onerous.