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Ukraine

Post by Skywatcher » Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:50 pm

Not looking so good
Hopefully just sabre rattling again
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56720589
In the last hour or so Biden has urged Putin to back down on Ukraine
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Re: Ukraine

Post by welshandy » Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:22 pm

Russian TV not helping the situation. The weekly news programme on Rossiya 1, Russia's most popular TV channel, claims an alleged build-up of Nato military hardware in Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56772297

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Re: Ukraine

Post by Skywatcher » Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:24 am

Getting worse ,Putin has moved up to fifteen SU-34 fighter bombers near Ukraine border
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rders.html
Also reported now 150,000 Russian troops are at or near Ukraine border
https://www.forces.net/news/eu-estimate ... ine-border
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Re: Ukraine

Post by pg1610 » Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:51 am

Skywatcher wrote:
Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:24 am
Getting worse ,Putin has moved up to fifteen SU-34 fighter bombers near Ukraine border
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rders.html
Also reported now 150,000 Russian troops are at or near Ukraine border
https://www.forces.net/news/eu-estimate ... ine-border
Not sure what the implication is here, Russia will say its all part of long planned exercises in the same way NATO has just deployed a good number of US/GERMAN jets to Poland and has how many troops stationed in Estonia at present ?
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Re: Ukraine

Post by Condor68 » Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:46 pm

Dont know if its coincedence but there seems to have been more Canadian assets around recently.

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