@IAPonomarenko He's a step below even aspiring to intellectual humility. He's an outright liar. The mystery is why. Why Ukraine? Is he motivated by hope of gain or fear of loss, and if so what does he hope to gain or fear to lose?
Okay, @RFERL has obtained a doc describing a "peace treaty" that Russia offered to Ukraine in March 2022, namely on March 7 -- on the full-scale invasion's day 10, when it became crystal clear that the initial blitz plan was going off the rails and that Russian invasion forces had stalled at Kyiv.
Here's what they demanded:
- Ukrainian armed forces of just up to 50,000 (including just 35,000 in the ground - forces), including 1,500 commissioned officers.
- No more than 300 tanks and 700 IFVs and APCs
- No more than 400 artillery pieces, rocket systems, and tubed pieces, and mortars.
- No more than 70 airplanes and 55 helicopters
- No more than 4 warships
- No missiles with an effective range of over 250 km
- Ukrainian "neutrality"
- Reparations to Russia for ruined infrastructure in Ukraine's Donbas, where Russia had waged an undeclared war on Ukraine since 2024
- Ukraine recognizing the 'independence' of Russian-controlled puppet pseudo-states in Donbas
- Russian as an official language in Ukraine
- All assets held by the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine reinstated
- Permanent Russian occupation and military presence in all territories seized after February 2022, including the close outskirts of Kyiv, until Russia considers that all of its demands are fulfilled
- No international sanctions
- No Western defense aid to Ukraine
What Ukraine would have gotten in return:
- Nothing.
No Russian formal obligations other than assurances of no further advances in the occupation of Ukrainian territory as long as Russia considers the "ceasefire treaty" carefully fulfilled by Ukraine.
Let me tell you what this all is called: unconditional surrender. And turning Ukraine back into a Kremlin-controlled, defenseless client state, with a Russian soldier boot pressing its throat.
Moreover, this had been a Russian demand for unconditional surrender 22 days before Russian forces were eventually withdrawn from the Kyiv area as a result of a military defeat and the failure of the "special military operation's" foremost objective.
To call THAT "just peace" or say "Ukraine had a chance for peace" over THAT, one needs to be simply extraordinarily incompetent or just full of shit.
Or both.
Exclusive - Newly obtained footage from Russia's Sergievsky Training Ground showing North Korean troops being outfitted in Russian gear in preparation for deployment to Ukraine.
Reminder that mastodon.gamedev.place (and other places) exist. Yes they are kinda nerdy, yes the UX is lacking at places, yes they do not have "massive reach". Lots of downsides. But also! It does not have some of the downsides of *gestures at this place*.
Kherson is a living NIGHTMARE
I just went to a city in Ukraine where the Russians have been killing civilians with POV drones constantly and it’s getting worse
What I saw was shocking. The locals told me the only thing protecting them is the leaves 🍃 on the trees and now, the leaves are falling and there’s no protection and no plan
It’s an unprecedented evil I didn’t think humans were even possible of.
Everyone in that city looks up at the sky constantly because they are being hunted from above.
This is the future of warfare and it should terrify the world
Here’s my full documentary on Kherson
We were attacked with four FAB-500 by a Russian Su-34.
➡️I have nothing to add to what I say in the video, dear @JoeBiden, @OlafScholz and other state leaders.
Only that there will be much more @BILD soon, including a detailed analysis of the attack we witnessed.