trompete [he/him]

I would like a row of sittings ducks please.

Best I can do are sitting duck related meetings with expensive consultants.

Perfect!

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1kst198/ru_pov_a_decision_has_been_made_to_create_a/

But that’s what I’m asking. Assuming the quote is correct, and he really did say a decision has been made to create a security zone and they’re currently solving this problem, what does that mean?

Security zone is vague af (which I guess is the point), but people have been speculating about quite a large area potentially. Something about getting Moscow out StormShadow range, everything east of the Dnieper, stuff like that. And whatever forces crossed into Sumi chasing the Ukrainians out of Kursk, that’ll not be enough to achieve that. So must be an offensive, am I wrong? They would not announce this before starting, so they would have started already. It’s also about time for a spring/summer offensive, assuming they had one planned. Supposedly they built up two new armies.

But who knows I guess we’ll see in the next few days.

Did Putin just announce an offensive to take half of Ukraine?

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/499987.ukraine-moskau-muss-brennen.html

Junge Welt reports that the Deutsches Freiwilligenkorps (DFK; I assume they go by Freikorps), made of German Neo-Nazi volunteers, will be integrated into the 49. storm battalion “Karpaten-Sitsch”:

Founded in 2014 after the Maidan coup by members of the Svoboda [“freedom”, formerly social-nationalist] party and the “Sokil” military sports group [article says “Wehrsportgruppe”; famously Wehrsportgruppe is what Nazis like to call their little militant clubs in Germany], the “Carpathian Sitsch” battalion, which has since been disbanded and reactivated in 2022, is a volunteer unit. It follows in the tradition of the “Carpathian Sitsch”, which was formed in 1938 on the initiative of the fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and wiped out in the fight for independence against Hungary.

The DFK to this day recruits from the milieu of the small party Der III. Weg [the third way]. The neo-Nazis have maintained contacts with Svoboda, Sokil and the “Azov” movement for years, collect donations for Ukrainian fascists and took part in a conference of the Fascist International in Lviv in August 2024 together with the DFK, the Russian Volunteer Corps [these are the Russian Nazis that raided into Russia in 2023] and other neo-Nazi units fighting for Kiev. The fact that the DFK congratulated Adolf Hitler on his “birthday” on their official social media channel on April 20 does not seem to bother the Ukrainian army leadership. Nor does the revanchist manifesto published by the DFK on the 80th anniversary of the liberation: “In Germany, the 8th of May 1945 has not been forgotten, and it will certainly not be celebrated!” declared the DFK, demanding that the German people show “the same courage, the same loyalty, the same willingness to sacrifice” as Hitler’s soldiers once did - “for a bright future in the glory of the old glory”.