Posted on 05/21/2022 3:34:15 PM PDT by dennisw
Did they speak up about the death and destruction going on in the Donbass for 8 years at the hands of the Ukrainian national guard? Those ppl are “their brothers” too.
“On Friday, a member of Odessa’s city council unveiled a proposal to replace the city’s streets named after Russian cities and historical figures and be given new names honouring US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.”
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Really? SEND MORE MISSILES.
“’Putin Destroyed Everything,’ Says Odessa Mayor”
A bit premature to state, since Russia hasn’t moved to liberate the city.
It’s really up to Odessa as to whether their city remains intact, or ends up like Mariupol. Either way, within a couple of weeks, it will become another Russian bargaining chip.
I think you mean Putin and his DPR feral dogs.
Putin may yet achieve his political objectives in this war. But it comes at the cost of engendering undying hatred for generations in Ukrainians for Russia. But Putin’s time is short in this world and he may not care.
Then, how are politicians from all over the world managing to fly in and and out of Kiev?
This is the new definition of winning...
Yes, he also didn’t mention the Ukranian troops and weapons located in those bombed locations. A short time ago Russia bombed a big shopping mall in Odessa. I wondered why?
But, when I did some additional reading I discovered that was one place they were storing the US/NATO weapons which explained why there were tremendous explosions and huge fire.
“Putin may yet achieve his political objectives in this war. But it comes at the cost of engendering undying hatred for generations in Ukrainians for Russia.”
That’s something of Russia’s specialty. Take a nation that is mostly friendly (Poland, Estonia, Czechs) brutalize them for a few decades and then wonder why everyone hates you.
Did you rad the article? This guy was a pro-Russia politician, and Odessa is Russian speaking city. Pre-war the region was strongly in favor of closer ties with Russia.
But when Russia invaded all of that changed. Any divisions within the Ukrainian nation vanished instantly when faced with a brutal common enemy.
Odessa is in a region not content with the Ukrainian government. But if the mayor isn’t sufficiently hostile to Russia with his words he will be killed. Keep that in mind as you read this
A street named after Biden? Incompetent Boulevard? Dementia Way?
According to a 2004 public opinion poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the number of people using Russian language in their homes considerably exceeds the number of those who declared Russian as their native language in the census. According to the survey, Russian is used at home by 43–46% of the population of the country (in other words a similar proportion to Ukrainian) and Russophones make a majority of the population in Eastern and Southern regions of Ukraine:[26]
Autonomous Republic of Crimea — 97% of the population
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — 72%
Donetsk Oblast — 93%
Luhansk Oblast — 89%
Zaporizhia Oblast — 81%
Odessa Oblast — 85%
Kharkiv Oblast — 74%
Mykolaiv Oblast — 66%
“his steel-blue eyes flashing”
those are tears.
The Russian bots are really in to projection.
In Ukraine people don't have to worry about falling out of windows.
Because when you commit rape, the victim isn't supposed to resist. If he does, everything you do in response is morally justified.
You can learn a lot of interesting facts by reading this article:
1. Odessa was founded hundreds of years ago by the Russian Empire,
2. The Port of Odessa is blockaded by a fleet that has either been sunk or evacuated to the Crimea,
3. Streets are being renamed for Joe Brandon, the 10% Big Guy who has been delivering $Billions and $Billions
Can you even bother linking the source?
In the mean time no one really cared.(same wikipedia article)
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-truth-behind-ukraine-s-language-policy/
Will the “language issue” mobilize the pro-Russian electorate? Opinion polls conducted by KMIS, Sociological Group Rating, and GfK Ukraine in 2016-2017 demonstrate that the status of the Russian language is important to just one percent of respondents. KMIS research in May 2017 shows that the share does not exceed three percent even in eastern regions.
Meanwhile, the same research shows that 64 percent of citizens think the state should support the Ukrainian language above all. Respondents in the eastern and southern parts of the country (35 and 38 percent respectively) also named state support to Ukrainian language as a top priority.
But I guess this doesn't fit your narrative.
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