"We just left the keys in the ignition right after randomly deciding to splash some yellow and blue paint on the wingtips.... where did they go?"

Ukraine has pilots that can fly MIG-29's, they just don't have the MIG-29's to keep up with the scale Russia is invading with. Well until now POGGERS

Edit: Spoke too soon (I just woke up!) looks like it fell through.


Explainer Thread:

Whats russia going to do fight the whole world?

Countries have no control over what Ukriane does with the weapons they send. Just like gun manufactures are not responsible for a person using there product to commit mass murder.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-...ay-11646606234

Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say

Only $300 for 6 months. Ukraine should offer them more to switch sides. Can't cost that much.

Props to the residents of the capital of Kyiv for turning their city into a fortress.

People who are working together, and ready to pay the ultimate sacrifice, to defend their home. Major props for their courage and strength.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/europ...cmd/index.html

Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN)Just two weeks ago, residents of the Ukrainian capital were tending to their shops, teaching schoolchildren or parked at their office desks.

The Russian invasion changed all that. Fighting literally for their lives, civilians, turned into volunteer soldiers, helped construct defenses with military precision -- and they are now manning them.

Trenches run deep into the woods that surround the highway leading in Kyiv from the south. Fortified fallback positions are ready for whatever comes next. Huge metal anti-tank barriers known here as "the hedgehogs" because of their spiky shape are placed at regular intervals along the road. And makeshift blockades made of sandbags and huge concrete blocks stand at every exit..

The people of Kyiv are determined to defend their city.

Some flash a victory sign as vehicles pass by. The blue and yellow national flag can be seen everywhere.

Many volunteers do not seem to be dressed warm enough for the freezing weather. They wear civilian clothes, with big coats and sweatpants an unofficial uniform. Their pants are mostly green, black or camouflage motif -- not the military kind -- but the civilian pattern made for hunting.

Some, but not all volunteers, are armed with automatic rifles and big knives.

Oleksiy Goncharenko, a volunteer manning one of the defense positions in Kyiv, told CNN that he works in four-hour shifts at the checkpoint.

His face is red from the cold. "It's OK. Just cold," he says, adding that "locals are giving us soups and things like that."

Almost 40,000 volunteers joined the Territorial Defense Forces in the first two days after the invasion began, according to the Ukrainian armed forces' chief of staff. In Kyiv alone, 18,000 picked up weapons when authorities called for volunteers and reservists to do so.

Those who couldn't join the forces (so many people signed up that the Territorial Defense Forces had to start turning people away) are helping in other ways.

They are making Molotov cocktails, sewing camouflage nets for barricades, distributing food, hot drinks and cigarettes to those standing guard.

They are raising money for the military, building more road blocks and even painting over traffic signs in an attempt to confuse invading forces.

Near Kyiv police headquarters, eight men -- two policemen and six National Guards -- man a checkpoint, stopping every vehicle that comes through.

National Guard reservist Oleksandr, who asked CNN to only use his first name for his safety, said that he spends six hours at the post, then takes six hours to rest.

Usually, that means four hours sleep and two hours for anything else that needs to be taken care of: a shower, a shave, change of clothes, or a quick message to his family. Six hours is a long time to stand in the snow, he says -- it's cold.

Around the corner, a small shop remains open, even as every other business around it have closed. Liudmyla, who runs the shop, supplies coffee and cigarettes to the soldiers protecting the road in front of her store.

Honestly, let this be a gentle reminder just how fucking great we have it here in Canada.

Yes gas is $2.00/L, we have to wear masks indoors, and I have to deal with a toddler who keeps coming into our room in the middle of the night, but these are literally first world problems.

Yah I ain't complaining about gas prices at all these days... Europe's been paying these prices for decades.

If paying $2.10/l will eff Putin ... bring it on. SMALL price to pay comparatively to those who lost lives and homes.

People will be complaining real quick Gas is going up another 3 cents and diesel is going up 18 cents over night...

It will be the same people that complain about everything else all the time. Then they will blame the NDP, or the federal Libs without realizing that 85-90% of the increase in gas prices is going directly to the oil companies and about 2 cents are related to rising taxes.

Apparently, in a speech to Republican donors, Trump suggested that the US should put the Chinese flag on F-22 jets and bomb the shit out of Russia. Then say “China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it”.

It might be funny for us to joke about this stuff, but what kind of (former) world leader would joke about starting WW3?

Damn, McDonald’s closes 800 restaurants in Russia..

Fuck they sre going to be worse off than they were in the crumbling Soviet Union real quick

How to turn your country into North Korea with this one neat trick.

Just imagine how much more of a disaster this would have been if Trump had been re-elected... Apparently Putin was counting on him eventually being able to take America out of NATO... As much as Russia is failing in their invasion of Ukraine so far, no US support at all would probably be a disaster.

No wonder they get all the fun subcompact hot hatches...

Putin managed to do what Trump couldn't ... get NATO alliance nations to pay up their fair share. Every member now upping their contribution.

I felt like all the noise about chains closing in Russia was kind of funny… I mean…. It’s not like they can get supplies to run their stores anyway ?

News these days would be very different if Trump pulled out of NATO. He then had the fucking gall to recently take credit for NATO itself, the slimy piece of shit.

McDonald's is not importing burgers. McDonald's will still be playing all works which kind of defeats the purpose.

Massive lineups at Mcdonalds in russia for the last day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane..._queues_after/

^ I doubt all the ancillary stuff (packaging, etc) is obtained in Russia

all the food-related stuff would be made in russia packaging maybe china. They have 850 locations in russia.


https://i.redd.it/daubxz0uw9m81.jpg

this is prime opportunity for all these guys that still have the itch to fight plus all the rando wanna-be's to try get some

hopefully this Wali guy is getting paired up with the higher powers and used strategically

https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-e...is-11646779430

it will go up even more.. Saudi and UAE just don't give a damn on oil supply.

RUSSIA - UKRAINE - war or posturing? Definitely war
 

Putin is a fucking criminal! -committing war crimes on the most vulnerable people in a society: children.

The Russians did a missile strike on a maternity hospital. Hospital staff and children are dead, and buried under the rubble.

Fuck Putin!!!

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world...cid=entnewsntp

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian attack severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukraine said Wednesday, and citizens trying to escape shelling on the outskirts of Kyiv streamed toward the capital amid warnings from the West that Moscow’s invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter that there were “people, children under the wreckage” of the hospital and called the strike an “atrocity.” Authorities said they were trying to establish how many people had been killed or wounded.

Video shared by Zelenskyy showed cheerfully painted hallways strewn with twisted metal and room after room with blown-out windows. Floors were covered in wreckage.

Outside, mangled cars burned, in a video provided by the Mariupol city council, with heavy damage to at least three two-story buildings. Much of the front of one building had been ripped away. The council said the damage was “colossal.”

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6378540.164684513...kraine-war.jpg

This image taken from video issued by Mariupol city council shows a maternity hospital in the besieged port city after what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian attack on Wednesday. (The Associated Press)

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world...cid=entnewsntp

Officially maybe not, but if a bunch of pilots want to volunteer for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion then what's stopping them?

Scary development: Russia is accusing Ukraine and US of "preparing to frame Russia using chemical weapons"

In other words, Russia is planning on using them, and this is their bullshit excuse