Live Updates: Russia Invades Ukraine From Land and Sea

CONCORD, N.H. —
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed an executive order Saturday directing the state Liquor and Wine Outlets to remove Russian made and branded spirits.

In a tweet, the governor said he signed the order instructing the Liquor and Wine Outlets to start removing Russian-branded and Russian-made spirits from the stores until further notice.

"New Hampshire stands with the people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom," part of the tweet said.

There are 67 Liquor and Wine Outlets in the state.

AdamKinzinger (R-Ill.)
@AdamKinzinger
The #ghostofkyiv has a name, and he has absolutely OWNED the Russian Airforce. Godspeed and more kills, Samuyil! QT @RaulBrando: Ukrainian Ace-fighter Pilot known as the “Ghost of Kyiv”, real name is Samuyil Hyde

RedCesar said:
Zelensky stole all speech skill points from Putin. But speech isnt going to save him.

Desolated said:

Just a reminder.

In light of the ongoing war conflict in Ukraine, the International Judo Federation announces the suspension of Mr. Vladimir Putin’s status as Honorary President and Ambassador of the International Judo Federation.

Desolated said:

Just a reminder.

traed said:
You can literally just watch webcams that happen to be in Ukraine if you want unfiltered. Not much going on in sight of cams, I havent even caught anything when I breifly checked now and then nothing that looks like a warzone anyway. I just saw people driving their cars and walking the streets like any normal day. Helps put things in perspective on what the scale is. Not that I'm downplaying the situation just the news makes it sound like full blown war.

RedCesar said:


"You did wrong thing so I can do wrong thing too"
5 year old brain

traed said:
You can literally just watch webcams that happen to be in Ukraine if you want unfiltered. Not much going on in sight of cams, I havent even caught anything when I breifly checked now and then nothing that looks like a warzone anyway. I just saw people driving their cars and walking the streets like any normal day. Helps put things in perspective on what the scale is. Not that I'm downplaying the situation just the news makes it sound like full blown war.

You will need a lot or ram and internet speed to run all these at once if you want to eyeball it all.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QAKIt3ZYj2c
https://youtube.com/watch?v=37dqEb-5ZtI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k8yBajlwRwU
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIPNVm6lNfM

traed said:
@149597871
@Fate_Saber88
I'd call it military strikes or armed conflict for now. It is a war in that sense just not a war in the sense that there is continuous violence in the cities where people feel the need to get out or at least take cover some place safer from a strike. I know there is likely other things going on outside of cities but i was specifically talking about the major cities not Ukraine as a whole.

Meusnier said:

How do you define wars? The Cambridge dictionary says that an "armed conflict between nations" qualifies as war. Those fights are way past the state of skirmishes.

"Dear colleagues, as you see, Western countries are not only taking hostile actions toward our country in the economic sphere—I am talking about the illegitimate sanctions everybody knows about," Putin said in a statement translated to English.

"But more importantly, senior officials of leading NATO countries make aggressive statements against our country. That is why I order the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff to put the deterrent forces of the Russian army in a special regime of duty," he added.

traed said:
@149597871
@Fate_Saber88
I'd call it military strikes or armed conflict for now. It is a war in that sense just not a war in the sense that there is continuous violence in the cities where most people feel the need to get out or at least take cover some place safer from a strike. I know there is likely other things going on outside of cities but i was specifically talking about the major cities not Ukraine as a whole. I never called it fake just pointing out the interesting way things can go in these situations where people seem to maintain a certain level of normalcy. I don't take sides here.

Fate_Saber88 said:
So you are mistaking an Area of Operations/Conflict zone to the general broader sense of war, there is not a single war where soldiers storm in every single city or region, especially on the very first days, also Russians failed to quickly storm many of their objectives due to supply line issues this might explain why you don't see much on webcams.

Edit: I see you trying to dose the amount of commitment of each force but you should check some combat footage of it and the absurd amount of armored vehicles destroyed (there is video evidence of hundreds). These strikes/ ambushes require a lot of commitment and violence.

Soverign said:
Putin has now moved to nuclear blackmail over sanctions.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-puts-russia-s-nuclear-deterrent-forces-on-high-alert-in-response-to-illegitimate-western-sanctions/ar-AAUn7Ji?ocid=msedgntp


Which is completely expected if the war is not going in his favor. Being stalled in a war of his choice and enduring long lasting economic sanctions means you must give him $$$$ for your arrogance or the world will burn.

WatchTillTandava said:


Not going in his favor? We're four days into it. Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe. It took the U.S. three to four weeks to conquer Iraq. And NS Germany's conquest of Poland in a month and France in six weeks is hailed in the annals of world history and military academies to this day as paramount examples of Blitzkrieg, lightening offensives.

People are looking at this without a bird's eye view and without context just because in the internet age and age of information the masses get updates in real time.

Fate_Saber88 said:
Not comparable ! Iraq is half away around the world from the U.S! and Bagdhad is way further inland than Kiev is form Belarus, Russia is fighting and struggling against a relatively less equipped nation on her doorstep. You have no idea of power projection and military logistics as it seems, every U.S general would be laughing at such operation.

traed said:

I already implied it's a war and indirectly applied a value of scale and frequency to it. I feel calling it just "a war" has an unspoken implication of expecting years of warfare and I don't want to jinx it I guess. I'm basically being optimistic hoping something could solve the situation to not go further nor be left in a situation future attacks can occur.

WatchTillTandava said:


Iraq is one example from many in history (not referring specifically to the U.S. here - world history is replete with wars and most, regardless of which side was ultimately victorious, didn't end in three or four days). And you just ignored half my post. Is Germany also halfway around the world from Poland and France?

WatchTillTandava said:


Iraq is one example from many in history (not referring specifically to the U.S. here - world history is replete with wars and most, regardless of which side was ultimately victorious, didn't end in three or four days). And you just ignored half my post. Is Germany also halfway around the world from Poland and France?

149597871 said:
It couldn't be the difference in power or the fact that 80+ years have passed since then and technology has changed, or the fact that Russia is attacking from everywhere but West with help from Belarus and the situations you are describing are not even remotely comparable.

At least this war shatters all the myths about the Russian army being the most badass and well-trained or that Putin is some sort of a strategic genius. Well, not to you perhaps, but there's always copium for that.

Fate_Saber88 said:
I did not catch it, (elaborate more about the blitzkrieg and this invasion please... ) what does the blitzkrieg have anything to do with Kiyv being very close to the nearest Russian base? Also, the type of warfare back then was much less complex than nowadays, to put it simply it was way easier to replace a tank, plane, and whatever equipment you lose in battle, you cannot afford to lose hundreds of equipment on the first days of operation nowadays. Why is the blitzkrieg so relevant here? I just can't get it, Poland is a neighboring country,the blitzkrieg can't be compared to Iraq and this war by any means, The Ukrainian army had very few options on an aerial counter-attack and this is the only reason why they advance in certain regions, they just positioned a shitload of troops near Kyiv and that's it, no big deal considering their superiority, if anything just a major fluke. Ukraine is not going to win anyway but the amount of damage is far higher than any major military power could ever accept to take over a much less equipped force right over its doorstep.

Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs confirming the news the world’s largest cargo aircraft, the Antonov #AN225, has been destroyed at Hostomel Airport outside Kyiv.

LoliAnchorman said:
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1497953549900447750





@Soverign

Russia and Iran have the same problem. They are funding so much money into their goons overseas that sooner or later the population is gonna have a fissy-fit because all that money isn't gonna be coming to them. Russia has been pouring money into the breakaway regions of Ukraine for like 8 years now and the population is now having runs on the banks.

149597871 said:
@WatchTillTandava

Of course, it is not you "I hope Putin wins" guy or Russia, who's spreading disinformation, it is your enemy. You guys are totally trustworthy!

inb4, 6 more paragraphs of nonsense.

WatchTillTandava said:


"Truth is the first casualty of war", so let's be clear - all sides spread propaganda in wartime and it's been the same throughout every war in human history (but obviously much more effectively on a mass scale with the advent of mass communication in the form of radio, television, and internet, mass mobilization of armies, etc.)

I don't speak Russian so when I hear translated Russian statements from the Russian MoD which I consider false and dumb I just ignore and dismiss them out of hand. If I mainly criticize pro-NATO/U.S./anti-Russian propaganda it is because that propaganda is in English, the language I speak, targeted toward other English speakers and people of my own country and I can tell how many naively lap it up.

I have a number of things I dislike or would criticize about Russia's domestic and foreign policy, as I do for any other country on the planet to the extent I've looked into it and care enough about it.

QPR said:
Pootin has ordered the Russian nuclear deterrent to be on high alert.
He is unhinged, he knows he is losing this war.

In London, Ukrainians and Russians were protesting together to stop the war.

WatchTillTandava said:


What does 80 years passing or technology changing have anything to do with it in this context? Was Ukraine stuck in a time vortex and only Russia is in 2022? Ukraine and the rest of the world are in the same year and present time and the technology advanced for everyone. Russia is attacking from three directions, but hasn't even used the bulk of its forces.

And no "copium" is required on my part - I've seen conflicts like this play out for years in Syria and the insane level of propaganda that is ratcheted up to try to present a fallacious picture to the world. In 2011 it is "Assad will fall in days!!!" then weeks, months...years...eventually!" and that they weren't going to take back Aleppo with Russian help as NATO and Turkey would stop it, etc. On and on. These propaganda blitzes occur every single time there is a war and the fanaticism, loudness, and hysterical nature of it is directly proportional to the geopolitical importance of the conflict and how much they don't want to lose. They can't send U.S., British, French, etc. soldiers in to stop Russia militarily so they try to substitute with the false narrative and disinformation campaigns.

You may need the helping of copium when Zelensky is dead, put in a Siberian camp by Spetsnaz operatives, or fled to Poland or Hungary. And when Kiev falls which even U.S. intelligence reports say could be days away. This coup d'etat installed-regime in Kiev is going to be physically dismantled brick by brick and I await the shocked dismay expressed just as with after Crimea, after they didn't win in Syria, etc.



Russia has at least over 4,000 tanks and armor on standby. There is so much in reserves from the old Soviet era with like the world's largest tank fleet. Many people keep referring to how "close" Kiev is, but that doesn't mean you can just walk in unopposed to a major urban centre with defenders with anti-armor weaponry and equipment, a population of three million people (even if most are uninvolved in fighting, it creates a murky situation where civilian casualties can be increased exponentially and forces can blend in with the civilian populace, etc.) and where you haven't even used sustained heavy artillery and strategic bombers yet in any force.

Russia has launched Kalibr cruise missiles from the Russian Black Sea Fleet to Kiev, Poltava, Mariupol, etc., and other cities and targets. I suspect what you will see next if Zelensky's representatives don't offer capitulation in name or in essence in the meeting at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border is the beginning of a siege imposed on Kiev.