Thank you, that’s exactly the kind of detail I was looking for.

Does anyone have sources on how much US/UK involvement is required to launch these missiles? It is guaranteed that they provide intel and potential targets. From there, does Ukraine program the missiles? According to Wikipedia, it seems the Storm Shadow missiles are guided by GPS, which—despite its ubiquity—is US military tech. It also appears the missiles need to be loaded with satellite images for target matching. Apparently, they can relay images of a site just before impact and presumably that won’t be going directly to Ukrainian military staff but more likely somewhere in the US/UK?

I was almost impressed for a second by some of the tech, but then I remembered that Russia has missiles flying at up to 3 km/s, and now I’m not as much.

I’d attribute it more to the strong rumours online that RFK is about to drop out and endorse Trump to get a spot in Trump’s hypothetical administration lmao

“In North Korea, people get so hungry they have to eat their clothes, even the buttons”

Not posted in a while and this isn’t strictly news but I figured if anyone keeps track of Western misinformation around the Ukrainian war and the events leading up to it then you can add this to your “There are no Nazis in Ukraine” section.

I’ve been having this argument with my brother for a few days now. I had most recently brought up the anti-Roma pogroms post-2014, one of which is described in detail here. Of course this wasn’t good enough as a source for my brother even though it directly links to the court’s ruling on the Roma’s claims for compensation for being forced from their homes by local authorities after anti-Roma riots on the Ukrainian Court website. So I pulled up the court document and had it translated. Some choice quotes from the Judge’s decision below:

On the legality of the local assembly’s decision concerning the Roma: “The court states that the decision No. 1 indirectly instructed the Executive Committee of the Council of the need to convey to residents of Roma nationality the opinion of the residents of the village on the issue of their residence in the village, which according to Article 8 of the Law ‘On Local Self-Government in Ukraine’ is a form of direct participation in solving issues of local importance.”

Regarding the village head’s actions in signing and announcing the assembly’s decision: “As for the actions of the village head to sign and announce this decision, in the opinion of the court, they do not have independent significance in the aspect of violation of the rights of the plaintiffs but are actions of writing the decision of the general meeting of citizens for its legitimation in the context of the possibility of further consideration in the activities of the Council and the Executive Committee.”

On the court’s view of the village assembly’s decision’s impact: “At the same time, the defendant village head did not personally make this decision; such a decision was made by the territorial community represented by the village council, which is not a defendant in the case and against which claims have not been filed.”

On the issue of moral damages: “Since the court came to the conclusion that there are no grounds for recognizing the actions and inactions of the defendants as illegal, there are also no grounds for the recovery of moral damages, taking into account the absence of signs of illegality in the actions and inactions of the defendants.”