Something you don’t hear about these days. Has it ended? Any positive change? Still raging on? Anyone? Haven’t heard crap about it in years.
Whatever happened in the war in Ukraine?
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Still a conflict, but a stalemate. I’m evaluating a software development team in Kharkiv and asked about that, since my previous development team in Lviv had some attrition due to members joining up (it’s pretty weird to get job updates from Linkedin inviting me to congratulate so-and-so on his new position as a machine gunner). Those guys in western Ukraine make the most patriotic Americans look like we don’t give a damn. Have you ever been in a bar on a Friday night and seen a bunch of 19-year-olds spontaneously start singing the national anthem? I have, but it was in Lviv.
I don’t think anything is going to change there until the Ukrainians get some help.
I don’t think anything is going to change there until the Ukrainians get some help.
Hi,
Stalemate my ass, lol....Ask anyone in Donbass if either side has come to a stalemate. Fighting rages on daily. Canadian Defense Ministry just approved for Prairie Gunworks to supply Ukrainian Troops with some 50BMG sniper rifles because their 14.5s were just too heavy for that type of conflict but their 338s cannot penetrate what it needs to.
Sincerely,
Theis
Stalemate my ass, lol....Ask anyone in Donbass if either side has come to a stalemate. Fighting rages on daily. Canadian Defense Ministry just approved for Prairie Gunworks to supply Ukrainian Troops with some 50BMG sniper rifles because their 14.5s were just too heavy for that type of conflict but their 338s cannot penetrate what it needs to.
Sincerely,
Theis
This is reasonably accurate according to a couple of friends there, majority of the country is normal, but the two listed areas are , well, not normal.
Pay attention to the part about Russian security forces abusing people and 10,000 dead...
Hi,
Finally have time to reply.....
The biggest issue with the Ukrainian conflicts is that from the outside it is viewed as an invasion by Russia and that is what the Ukrainian Government wants and pushes everyone to know...BUT in reality the conflicts and fighting started well before Russia stepped in.
For decades the Donbass and Crimea regions have been treated as the stepchildren of not only the Ukrainian Government but by a majority of the Ukrainian people also. Those regions always were against the controlling politicians parties so they were always the last regions in Ukraine to receive any assistance and support from the Ukraine Government. There were always the last to get assistance with infrastructure, etc etc.
They have long called for their own annexation from Kiev control and even took up their own rebel resistance to do so.
So in reality the conflicts are more of a civil war than foreign invasion but that doesn't lend USA and International assistance like "Being invaded by Russia" does
You know the old saying of "Be there for your kids or someone else will be"....Well Russia showed up....
In regards to the "End Game"....
Crimea end game will be complete and full Russian control....for the right amount of money Kiev will sign that over officially but only after it is gotten all the International aide it can get. BUT the problem with that is the Rebels do not want to be under Russian control either....They want to be accepted as their own entity so they are sleeping with the "soon to be" enemy right now to use that enemy to get them out from under Ukrainian control. So it is super complicated.
What is not discussed publicly very much by the media or anyone else for that matter is the DIRECT relation of the Ukrainian conflicts to the Russian involvement in Syria.
For example:
Evro Polis LTD is a Russian company that has the contract from the Syrian Government to protect all Syrian oilfields. Guess how much that contract is worth???? 25% of ALL oil & gas production from Syria!! That money is being used to facilitate the infrastructure advancement in Crimea.
Instar Logistics is being used as a funnel by Kalishnkovs previous Director of International Business Development for financial, material, and technological support for goods and services....AKA Supplying Weapons lol.
How come the International leaders have placed Viktor Perevalov, General Director of VAD, AO on the US Department of Treasury sanction list but NOT the German company that partnered with him to provide 4 turbines produced in their joint venture that were transferred to Crimea? US Government will not even name the German company....
List goes on and on.....
Sincerely,
Theis
Finally have time to reply.....
The biggest issue with the Ukrainian conflicts is that from the outside it is viewed as an invasion by Russia and that is what the Ukrainian Government wants and pushes everyone to know...BUT in reality the conflicts and fighting started well before Russia stepped in.
For decades the Donbass and Crimea regions have been treated as the stepchildren of not only the Ukrainian Government but by a majority of the Ukrainian people also. Those regions always were against the controlling politicians parties so they were always the last regions in Ukraine to receive any assistance and support from the Ukraine Government. There were always the last to get assistance with infrastructure, etc etc.
They have long called for their own annexation from Kiev control and even took up their own rebel resistance to do so.
So in reality the conflicts are more of a civil war than foreign invasion but that doesn't lend USA and International assistance like "Being invaded by Russia" does
You know the old saying of "Be there for your kids or someone else will be"....Well Russia showed up....
In regards to the "End Game"....
Crimea end game will be complete and full Russian control....for the right amount of money Kiev will sign that over officially but only after it is gotten all the International aide it can get. BUT the problem with that is the Rebels do not want to be under Russian control either....They want to be accepted as their own entity so they are sleeping with the "soon to be" enemy right now to use that enemy to get them out from under Ukrainian control. So it is super complicated.
What is not discussed publicly very much by the media or anyone else for that matter is the DIRECT relation of the Ukrainian conflicts to the Russian involvement in Syria.
For example:
Evro Polis LTD is a Russian company that has the contract from the Syrian Government to protect all Syrian oilfields. Guess how much that contract is worth???? 25% of ALL oil & gas production from Syria!! That money is being used to facilitate the infrastructure advancement in Crimea.
Instar Logistics is being used as a funnel by Kalishnkovs previous Director of International Business Development for financial, material, and technological support for goods and services....AKA Supplying Weapons lol.
How come the International leaders have placed Viktor Perevalov, General Director of VAD, AO on the US Department of Treasury sanction list but NOT the German company that partnered with him to provide 4 turbines produced in their joint venture that were transferred to Crimea? US Government will not even name the German company....
List goes on and on.....
Sincerely,
Theis
