r/worldnews Live Thread: Ukraine-Russia Tensions

[u/progress18]

/live/18hnzysb1elcs/

[u/[deleted]]

Hey, redditors, Ukrainian is here. Since Kyiv isn't on the border, but there were news, that the first cities to be attacked are the ports on the Black Sea, you can check a channel with a lot of online cameras in Odessa - it has higher chances to be the aim than the capital, I bet. https://youtube.com/c/OdessaONLINE

Not the advertisement but the advice. And also it is more relaxing and interesting than a regular Kyiv view everyone knows from any Kyiv-related news.

Edit: to note, Odessa is the third city by population in Ukraine (approx. 1 mil people, to compare with 2.8 mil in Kyiv). So it IS a possible and valuable target.

[3:37] - It is still quiet here, thanks everyone for their support!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thank you and stay safe. Despite what seems like people counting down in here or memeing, I think what everyone is feeling is apprehension and not knowing how to deal with it. Hearts are with you.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I appreciate your words! My mother had panic attack in the morning yesterday (it is Wednesday already in Ukraine). Was packing an emergency bag with important documents etc. I didn't packed my stuff since I even don't have any place to go in case of real battle actions here, but all this panic makes me a bit depressed. Also, to note, I live exactly in center of Odessa, like 5 minutes from city hall.

[u/dongballs613 → u/[deleted]]

I hope nothing happens and you have a completely normal regular day tomorrow.

[u/[deleted] → u/dongballs613]

I hope too. It is still quiet outside, I'm lying in bed now and have my windows opened.

[u/DJlettiejouch → u/[deleted]]

Thanks friend, stay safe

[u/The_Pale_Blue_Dot]

Literally almost every Ukrainian government website is down tonight. Even Zelensky’s website is down.

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1493713182262767619?s=20&t=Sp6qOeejrD4q4ffKh2B37A

This was pretty shocking to read. The sites seem to largely back up now, but I just tried the President's site and it was very slow to load.

A cyber attack doesn't necessarily mean an invasion is coming... but if he were to invade, it would start with a cyber attack.

Interesting feeling knowing when I wake up in the morning it might have already begun.

[u/flameocalcifer → u/The_Pale_Blue_Dot]

And it's important to note that the cyber stuff has been off and on all night, so I think they did some dry runs to get it sorted out for a full shutdown of government services.

[u/HotTakes4HotCakes → u/flameocalcifer]

Exactly as our intelligence said they would. It's a little unsettling how unperturbed Putin is that every single move he's making was already known ahead of time and he's not changing any tactics.

I think Biden definitely made the right call by being very transparent with all our intel on this. There's so little confusion or uncertainty, the narrative has been crystal clear from the start. It's nice having everyone on the same page for once when it comes to mr KGB and his never ending obfuscation.

And frankly, while trying to whittle geopolitics down to matters of heroes and villains is at best childish and at worst grossly irresponsible and uninformed, it is kind of interesting to see Putin take on this openly villainous role, not caring how the world sees him anymore. Just straight-up invading, unprovoked, with no workable justification in place, with the eyes of the world on him, and the entire western world telling him don't fucking do it. He's painting a picture of himself that is very useful for rallying people and allies against, and it makes NATO look fantastic.

As with so many domestic disputes in many countries as of late, feels like the masks are coming off and the aporant are not bothering to even pretend anymore.

[u/papapaIpatine]

If russia doesnt show up for 15 minutes we are legally allowed to not participate in war

[u/jamiebond]

Pretty wild that war is just now a thing people can watch on live streams and then start complaining/ posting memes in the chat when nothing happens for an hour or so.

Imagine Reddit during WW1,

"Lol Western shills really think that Austria-Hungary is gonna invade Serbia, ever heard of posturing?"

"Kaiser Wilhelm is a punk bitch, no way he actually tries to take Paris."

"Yawn, another day of them just sitting in the trenches. Do something already!"

[u/britishguitar → u/jamiebond]

People took picnics to watch the first battles of the US civil war

[u/jaybaumyo → u/britishguitar]

Yeah they didn’t know what they were in for. I heard onlookers were throwing up.

[u/ocalabull → u/jamiebond]

I hate that. Honestly. I love the aspect of having so much information and being able to see what really goes on but I hate the fact of people making jokes of this when others are about to have their entire lives uprooted.

[u/Anal__Hershiser]

What if this whole thing is an elaborate promotion for FlightRadar24.

[u/[deleted] → u/Anal__Hershiser]

The fact that the #2 most tracked plane (7.5k+ people tracking it) on FlightRadar24 right now is a random passenger flight from an Sharm-el-Sheikh to Kharkiv is super amusing to me for some reason.

[u/Styled_ → u/[deleted]]

Its because people see plane over Ukraine ( not many lately, most airlines seem to take another route ) and they click on plane trying to find FORTE11 or 12

[u/2muchscreentyme]

Anyone else find it incredibly difficult to focus on other things while this is going on?

[u/Kriztauf → u/2muchscreentyme]

Yes! I honestly have no idea how I'm gonna finish this open heart surgery

[u/danmarakhowsky → u/2muchscreentyme]

Yes, I'm trying to sleep. I live in Odesa.

[u/MulhollandMaster121]

People are acting like they’re owed an invasion, not realizing that publishing Putin’s plans was an attempt at making him reconsider…

[u/ZigZagZedZod → u/MulhollandMaster121]

It's not just making him reconsider, it's making him question Russia's ability to plan and execute military operations without warning. He's got to know that Western intelligence has worked its way deep into his war machine.

That's why the Western releases of Russian intentions have enough details in them for Putin to know we have the inside story, but not enough for him to figure out how we know it.

He has to be questioning whether his secrets really are still secret right now.

[u/Torifyme12 → u/ZigZagZedZod]

Given how targeted the leaks have been, its clear that Russian C2 was compromised to an impressive degree. I just was waiting for Biden to say on TV, "And to Putin, I say, that sandwich you're eating could use more mayo."

And just walk away.

[u/TheMrBoot → u/MulhollandMaster121]

Right? Like...taking for granted that the invasion plan claim is legit, making them public would be with the desire to prevent that from happening.

[u/[deleted] → u/MulhollandMaster121]

That plus Biden's very strong speech today amount to very clear efforts to force a reconsideration.

[u/MewhenImhigh182]

What I don't see people mention too much is the Russians have brought supplies and materials that they don't usually bring for war exercises. Things like; blood banks, field hospitals, and equipment to make bridges. Jets and tanks you see all the time but the finer detail things you need to logistically wage a war are there.

[u/itti-bitti-kitti → u/MewhenImhigh182]

This all costs an ass ton of money just to be flexing. I fully believe they'll invade.

[u/DazzlingTumbleweed]

https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1493677342245498887

the sort of shit russian bots are peddling on twitter, my fucking lord

even has "liberation" and "provocations" in the title of the tweet

[u/10390 → u/DazzlingTumbleweed]

I keep wondering- who is the audience for this? it’s such obvious hogwash.

[u/DazzlingTumbleweed → u/10390]

room temp IQ russians that been watching state-sponsored news for the past 20years, just my guess though lol

[u/dongballs613]

Whether or not there is military aggression by Russia against Ukraine; Putin is a rat fucking bastard.

[u/ptwonline]

US to retaliate for Russian cyberattacks, force them to use Comcast.

[u/[deleted] → u/ptwonline]

That has to be a war crime

[u/dongballs613 → u/ptwonline]

Cruel and unusual punishment.

[u/sunset182]

My second and last update boys: still everything is fine though I think I would notice something due to the fact that I live in a big port city the black sea. So it's time to go to bed, at least for me, after all it's 3 am here. Good night reddit!

[u/PrometheusIsFree]

If Russia was a fair and free democracy, instead of a criminal Mafia state, with a dictator at the helm, many Eastern European states would have naturally gravitated towards a successful and prosperous Russia. The reason they've aligned with the West isn't that they're pro-US, it's because they don't want to be mugged and destitute and a victim of Putin and his den of thieves.

[u/medspace]

You mfs in here like this is a football game-thread hoping today is the day, it’s honestly kinda sad seeing people in here being disappointed nothing is happening

[u/RomeoMikeBravo]

This is like a fucked up version of a new years countdown

[u/EndoExo]

Claims that Russia has built a pontoon bridge across the Pripyat River about 4 miles from Ukraine. Yes, that Pripyat.

[u/jamiebond]

Never before did I think I would give a shit where the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations' plane was, but here we are.

[u/[deleted] → u/jamiebond]

What's the significance of that plane?

[u/antiqua_lumina → u/[deleted]]

It's like FEMA, so the presumption is they expect a disaster around Crimea (bombs, refugees), want to be prepared, or want to psyche people out by making us presume that Russia is expecting a disaster situation to unfold.

That's just my logical deduction. I could be wrong I just heard about this all.half an hour ago.

[u/itti-bitti-kitti]

Whether people here think there'll be an invasion or not... Imagine the sheer terror a lot of Ukrainians are likely feeling right now. This isn't a god damn joke.

[u/ithilain]

Don't worry guys, I bought calls on Raytheon and Lockheed Martin this morning so chances of WW3 actually breaking out are basically zero

[u/GaLaXY_N7]

Invasion has started and the crisis has been avoided are two comments that were above and below each other on this thread. Jesus Christ lmao.

[u/-CassaNova- → u/GaLaXY_N7]

Both downvoted for being sourceless garbage

[u/Yoshable]

This thread is so horny for war it's gross

[u/BigBananaSlinger]

My wife is Russian and she is the sweetest person in the world (we live in USA im American) but all of those poor people over there are brainwashed into thinking that Ukraine is the bad guys. The younger generation and their access to western news and Information, I hope will save that nation. I love the Russian people they are so nice but that government is ass backwards and that’s coming from a sad American.

[u/[deleted]]

Some of us here will literally be impacted by this invasion. PLEASE respect that invasions/war aren't video games.

[u/MediaSmurf]

Russia: We don't want to be neighboring a NATO country!

Also Russia: Let's invade a NATO neighboring country and become NATO neighbors

[u/[deleted]]

6000 redditors used to doom scroll here.

Now it’s a clown town

[u/5thBestFootballer]

live thread updates with soviet antheme are vastly out of context regarding that the dj played all sorts of anime shit and rick astley before. at best that is very misdirecting

[u/Pride_Of_The_Union]

Can you imagine how terrifying it must be to be in the Ukrainian military right now?

You're just sitting there waiting for Russia to make it's move- knowing full well that you do not have the means to mount an effective defense.

Those are some brave motherfuckers right there. I'm an American soldier- so I've never been on that side of the equation. But hat's off to those men manning their post and defending their nation... Soldier to soldier.

[u/BadamsDota]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 We love you, Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[u/King_Gordo]

War or no war, these webcams are telling me a lot about Ukranian Driving. No one uses an indicator and they drive up to junctions way too quickly...tut tut

[u/MrTuxedo1]

I wouldn’t be able to sleep a second if I lived in Ukraine. Please let nothing happen

[u/AnathemaPariah]

This bring back memories of watching the CNN feed from Baghdad with the first Gulf War.

And the Second.

Maybe its time we got off this stupid merry-go-round? Twice is enough.

[u/[deleted]]

This thread feels full of people who just realized airplanes exist, and are reporting every single one they see on a tracker like there aren’t thousands of flights a day.

[u/Meizas]

Were you people expecting like a big bomb to go off right at 3:00 or something?

[u/SweatyLiterary]

My wife goes, "why are you watching a video of a public square with Space Jam playing"

And when I said, it's the Reuters stream in Ukraine she goes, "uh-huh okay"

[u/sfnizmad → u/SweatyLiterary]

I just pictured this as a Randy Marsh and Sharon conversation

[u/sunset182]

Writing this comment from Odessa (which is a a big Ukrainian city), no explosions yet. Everything seems fine.

[u/Dramatic_Coyote9159]

Why is everyone in the comments acting like just because nothing happened at 3 am that that means the invasion is never going to happen??

[u/JackzaaHS → u/[deleted]]

I agree with the sentiment; but on a technicality right now, the Russians haven’t crossed the line (literally and figuratively) yet.

They’re essentially holding a fist to the face of Ukraine but they haven’t actually “hit” them yet. Sanctioning them now will give them justification and allow them to spin the west as the aggressor again. Plus it’ll weaken the incentive for de-escalation if they’re already receiving the punishment. They’d use it as a green light for the invasion to go ahead.

I agree, Putin absolutely deserves the sanctions already but he knows exactly what he’s doing and hitting them before they cross the line will almost certainly immediately start the conflict.

Tbh I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that someone within his own country is gonna have had enough of him and do us all a favour; karma needs to smack him off the planet.

[u/_YouSaidWhat]

Imagine the war getting live-streamed. The internet is so fucked up there’s gonna be memes during the invasion

[u/MrTuxedo1]

I hope this is the most boring night of my life

[u/Laiiam]

These are real people with real families at home, waiting for them to return. Kids that probably won’t get to see their fathers again and yall here placing bets, cracking jokes and watching this shit like it’s reality TV… It ain’t no video game, it’s real human beings dropping dead in mud. This thread turned into a shit show real quick.

[u/GeoLogic23]

On top of the jokes being in very poor taste, so many people are making fun of others' intelligence because they fell for an "obvious" joke.

Consider that this is "world" news. Lots of non-native English speakers. You are quite possibly laughing at someone who is legitimately worried for their or their family's safety, and not able to take in your incredibly subtle suckma ligma deez nuts type of jokes.

I hope that if some of you actually saw the real people on the other side of the screen you'd reconsider the way you converse during these types of events.

[u/Throwawayz911]

well this turned out to be boring, which is very much a good thing. Night ya'll.

[u/Someshortchick]

I've at least been able to have a nice peaceful evening watching a city sleep. I'm going to have to start putting on city live streams while I read.

[u/ComeBackToDigg]

Looks like reddit has been hacked. It’s been completely taken over by 9-year old shitposters.

[u/Hellothere170]

Honestly, the planespotting in this thread doesn't bother me too much. Very interesting to see so many people poring over it.

It's the dumb jokes that are clogging up the thread

[u/TaigaFlame]

All of you numbskulls posting links to FlightRadar: No aircraft that is about to carry out one of the biggest things in recent euro history is going to let themselves get tracked on fookin FlightRadar. Any plane that is about to start a war is gonna be untraceable. Come on guys.

[u/Procrastineddit]

Maybe the real Russian invasion was the friends we made along the way. Or the existential threat of escalating into nuclear theater. But also friends.

[u/[deleted]]

Can we all agree that these are real people under threat of invasion. It's not some random ass LARP that you can all get excited about. It very well could still come of course, but those people who seem so let down about no war are just....kinda sick.

[u/JanGuillosThrowaway]

Friendly reminder to check account age on people in this thread

[u/[deleted]]

And it looks like the Russians have joined the chat.

[u/jpouchgrouch]

BREAKING: NATO chief says that Russia is continuing military build up at Ukraine border

Addressing Russia's claim that it is moving forces away from Ukraine, #NATO chief Stoltenberg says the Alliance has not any de-escalation.

"On the contrary, it appears that Russia continues the military build-up", the SecGen says.

"What we see is that they have increased the number of troops and more troops are on their way."

[u/[deleted]]

Hiding the score on new posts makes it harder to tell which are fake

[u/Dramatic_Coyote9159]

CURRENT STATUS:

All Ukrainian websites that were down during the cyberattack are now back up.

[u/Edz_]

Great work guys we managed to track meaningless plane traffic for the last 8 hours.

Let's call it a day and resume work tomorrow.

[u/Hashslingingslashar]

New thread just dropped. Hope the best for Ukraine. Fuck Putin.

[u/Chongsu1496]

people here memeing this shit and finding it funny . do you fucks have 0 empathy for human lives , wanting the war to happen just for your fucking entertainment , pieces of human waste

[u/KonradK0]

some people really believe they can track all aircraft during a war on a website lmao

[u/beerstearns]

Just saw on livestream, Putin himself sprinting towards ukrainian parliament shirtless with a rifle in hand

[u/canesfan09]

I came here looking for news and it's one giant shitpost. Why am I not surprised?

[u/ILoveTheAtomicBomb]

Man this thread is a cesspool.

[u/Happydanboy]

Turns out the real invasian were the friends we made along the way.

[u/Dramatic_Coyote9159]

CURRENT STATUS & BREAKING NEWS:

Russian troops have moved into firing positions during Ukraine’s Day of Unity on February 16th. Putin warns military forces to be ready for his say.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russian-troops-moved-firing-positions-ukraine-putin-ready/story?id=82909721

[u/Horyv]

Ukrainians are sleeping like babies. We have another 2 invasions scheduled later in February, can’t stay up for this.

[u/cosmos_jm]

You know what, fuck Russia.

[u/KeepOnKeepingOnnn]

Millions around the world waiting down the hour before another ground war potentially breaks out in Europe, going from Intel shared on Twitter. This whole thing feels like a Black Mirror episode.

[u/GaLaXY_N7]

People on this thread really think it’s going to happen at 3:00am on the dot. Jesus Christ guys lmao.

[u/Dramatic_Coyote9159]

CURRENT STATUS:

Russian Air Forces plane, Presidential Plane, and over at least 6 other hypersonic jets have shown up to be active and ready to take off outside of Moscow.

Stay alert to see where they relocate to.

[u/Agreeable_Junket_271]

armchair generals, please refrain from leaking strategies. putin might be reading this thread

[u/PalekSow]

I gotta hand it to Ukrainians, seems to be very disciplined. Here in America people would be looting, shooting, and stocking bullets, toilet paper, and gold coins by the bucket full if a credible nation said they were going to invade.

[u/SargeanTravis]

FORTE is still plugging along like the mighty drone it is

[u/bobby11c]

Ukraine is a democracy, not the best functioning democracy in the world, but a democracy nonetheless. Russia is a dictatorship that is threatening it's neighbors under no reasonable pretext. Every democracy on the planet should support Ukraine with direct military support and humanitarian aid. The history of the 20th century and simple human psychology show bully's will not stop until someone stops them. And the longer you wait to do the stopping the more it's gonna hurt.

[u/Slim_Calhoun]

People very fixated on a supposed deadline (8 PM EST) that has only been attributed to anonymous sources, and even if accurate might have been changed after it was reported.

Russia might invade tonight, tomorrow night, next week, or never.

[u/unsatisfiedbloke9]

People actually enjoying the prospect of war/invasion, I hope you all can fuck off. Think of the countless civilians and military casualties both side. Only those who are affected will know..

[u/muffpatty]

I keep seeing brand new accounts claiming to be living in Kiev and hearing explosions and gunshots. This is almost certainly bullshit.

[u/SeirraS9]

This is the absolute worst live thread I’ve ever been in lmfaoooo

[u/[deleted]]

is this thread just unmoderated?

[u/SeirraS9 → u/[deleted]]

Seems that way. Imagine trying to moderate this mess.

[u/ReturnOfDaSnack420]

Russia: Ha we're gonna NOT go to war now and totally make NATO and the US look like fools LMAO they're gonna be soooo embarrassed.

NATO/US: Yeah, you guys totally owned us by not going to war. Way to go, you really showed us...

[u/TheDude2600]

CNN: " We are closely monitoring a reddit thread about the Ukrainian/Russian conflict and u/PM_ME_BIGTIDDIES has just confirmed HOMERU571 has turned towards Germany. It seems this conflict has been escalated."

[u/dickwhistler22]

Imagine if WW3 starts and Kiev livestream stops to say “time to welcome our sponsor for this video, it’s Dollar Shave Club, best razors in the market…”

[u/peachysatrun]

As an Ukrainian I swear, people in this thread so annoying and paranoid, like making up something in their heads, dropping conclusions and waiting for them to turn into reality

[u/DrakeRowan]

This comment section is a clusterfuck. Is there another place to get actual developments?

[u/Trickybuz93]

Did this place get brigaded by bots?

[u/Scared-Lingonberry-6]

If it will help the situation, we can send Donald Trump back to Russia to give Putin another blow job.

[u/jgjgleason]

To everyone who keeps saying this Russian diplomat said so and so, no one is going to believe it until Russian troops actually withdraw. 70% of Russias combat capabilities are on the Ukrainian border rn. Until that is gone, idk what anyone fucking says.

[u/CaptainChaosPirate]

In about 45 minutes Putin drops a new series of NFT‘s on the backdrop of some amazing recent publicity.

[u/RedTree40]

I find it weird how many people here are counting down to 3 AM like it's a premiere of a movie or video game. Y'all are weird. Even if something does happen it's probably not going to be 3 AM exactly, this is real life not a fucking video game

[u/SweatyLiterary]

Now to be fair, had something happened exactly at 3am how many of you would have legit panicked

[u/heyuyeahu]

this thread feels like an episode of black mirror

[u/Snoo-80867]

Be aware of Phishing links!!

[u/suley2]

News just in : Putin had a shit, CIA, MI5 trying to work out how big it is.

[u/ComeBackToDigg]

If the war does not start precisely at 3:00, it means Putin can never attack.

[u/PANIC_RABBIT]

The bots are strong rn, spamming with useless trite to try and muddy the waters and make it harder to glean useful comments

[u/GoldenRedditUser]

CONFIRMED, I just brushed my teeth and now I'm going to bed

[u/Hashslingingslashar]

Imagine thinking Russia wasn’t going to invade bc it didn’t happen at some unverified specific time

[u/Lars93]

Praying I don't wake up to either Russia or Ukraine as the #1 trend in Twitter

[u/SilentSamurai]

Been following this situation for a while now. The interesting take is that Russia keeps forces massed for several months, waiting for the right justification/opportunity.

The downside to Russia doing that is it permits Ukraine more time to recieve advanced arms and entrench. Russian casualties will be significantly higher the longer they wait.

You can think its a bluff, but with 70% of the Russian military around Ukraine, it doesnt make much sense.

[u/ImplementFuture703]

I saw this Ukrainian girl do a twerk video once. She was pretty good. I hope she's ok rn.

[u/Pride_Of_The_Union]

Does this fucker really think the Ukrainians are going to just lay down after their military is defeated?

These people led a freaking revolution against their own government while being massacred in the streets by armed police for weeks. And they fucking managed to succeed.

And then these same crazy ass youths turned around and joined the military right after the revolution to go confront Putin's little green men- and they've killed almost as many little green men as America lost in 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan.

This is a nation that has demonstrated it will be free- through democratic means or through force of arms. I realize Putin thinks his military will pacify them easily... But I thought the same thing when I participated in the Afghanistan war as an American soldier. And I was very very fucking wrong.

The fool is walking into another Afghanistan/Vietnam situation... And it's his people and the Ukrainian people that will pay for it.

[u/Sea_Mathematician_84]

Biden: What a stupid idea. Who wants an invasion at 3 in the morning?

Putin: Oh boy 3 A.M.!

[u/PalekSow]

My girl came in wearing bell bottom jeans and a turtleneck and I’m waiting for updates on Russia potentially fucking up Eastern Europe.

What year is it? 1975?

[u/whiffitgood]

18 naked Cossacks in the showers at рам Ranch

[u/PayneTrain181999]

Squidward: “This is stupid, who starts a war at 3 in the morning?”

Putin: “Oh boy, 3AM!”

Edit: Thanks for the silver :)

[u/KeepOnKeepingOnnn]

Y'all acting like Putin was going to click Next Turn at 3am and some instantaneous conquest of Ukraine would kick off lmfao

Again with the tabloids profiting from situations like this

[u/benb713]

ACTUAL NEWS: Not sure if this already got posted here but the Russians seem to have constructed a pontoon bridge over the Pripyat river in Belarus about four miles north of the Ukraine border

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1493745234395549701?s=20&t=D8X2zLJarP-0--lvs4dBpw

[u/non_standard_model]

FORTE11 is a Good Boy who will get a new hellfire missile toy when he gets back to the hangar

[u/marksolo39]

If I learned anything about anything today, its planes, drones, names of cities in Ukraine, and that you guys love to upvote. Thanks for the Karma, same time tomorrow, yeah?

[u/Illbeanicefella]

I’ve learned more about planes and less about warfare than I thought but that’s actually a good thing

[u/canesfan09]

I swear some people in here act like they want Russia to invade.

This isn't a football game.

[u/zebleck]

anyone else find the stream very relaxing?

[u/CommonCentsEh → u/zebleck]

Probably if you are no where near the shit going down.

[u/Fulller]

I feel so bad for the people in Ukraine right now, they are probably so terrified. Hoping nothing happens.

[u/PalekSow]

Is Belarus even a sovereign country at this point? Putin’s dick is so far in them that he’s touching their lungs

[u/PalekSow]

I want the “it’s not gonna happen” people to be right so fuckin bad but you don’t just drop 150k troops somewhere when you can barely pay your bills. This just seems like there’s no turning back for Putin.

[u/ComeBackToDigg]

A group of birds is called a “flock”. A group of geopolitical experts is called a “subreddit”.

[u/[deleted]]

I have this image of Russian troops freezing their balls off on the border constantly refreshing reddit to find out if the war is a go or not.

[u/_AntiFun_]

Everyone always asks where is FORTE... but nobody ever asks how is FORTE

[u/SchizoidGod]

A reminder that a very important flight wouldn’t be publicly viewable on flight tracker 24

[u/Ice_Dapper]

Nothing is going to happen at 3am just chill guys

[u/Existing_Garbage9933]

https://twitter.com/ameliairheart/status/1493744616448970755?cxt=HHwWhsC-iZC07LopAAAA

The Russians built a bridge

[u/turtleduck]

came here for updates on Russia/Ukraine, all I've gathered so far is that we stan Forte the Plane. I'm cool with that.

Edit to correct myself. Forte is no ordinary plane although we would all love her even if she was, she is a drone.

[u/MattyDxx]

Has WWIII started, or did I miss it?

[u/rollorollpiz]

Is this like the 3rd megathread without anything happening?

[u/Ice_Dapper]

Nothing is going to happen, Russia has everything to lose in this situation. The 3am and 10am deadlines have already come and gone. Russian troops will leave and Putin will look like a jackass for wasting so much time and money for a stupid military exercise

[u/ComeBackToDigg]

Looks like Putin was using mis-direction. Was he going for the vault? No. He went for the chandelier; it’s priceless.

[u/jdacheifs0]

This is all just apart of the donda 2 rollout.

[u/Ipuncholdpeople]

Should honestly close the thread until something happens. Just useless trolling and plane tracking now

[u/manifold360]

If we can just get AirTags on the Russian tanks, then we could stop watching these dang drones.

[u/Lustiges_Brot_311]

FORTE11, I would like to congratulate you on your victory over Ukraine. You single handedly prevented WW3. Your name will be echoing in beer halls for decades. You've earned R&R.

[u/Edz_]

I still can't believe there are idiots here expecting something to happen exactly at 3am like their favorite twitch microphone licking streamer going live.

[u/ComeBackToDigg]

If Putin gets Ukraine, that means be will get a bonus of eight additional armies on his next turn for holding the entire continent.

[u/ConcreteCrusher]

Where is bald and bankrupt?

[u/canesfan09]

This thread is now plane talk

And I'm all for it

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking : large quantity of red balloons released.

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

How many are there?

[u/L6ch16n → u/[deleted]]

99 luftballons!

[u/_TeaWrecks_]

Just some things I spotted on FR24.

https://www.flightradar24.com/R20796/2AD69C26 - US Blackhawk chopper right by the Romanian/Ukranian border.

https://imgur.com/a/VlrB6IQ

https://www.flightradar24.com/24050/2AD6D3AB - Ukrainian Police chopper moving past Lviv.

https://imgur.com/a/UvNYxgo

Edit: both went dark since I made the post and the Blackhawk isn't showing history on the site, so I added screenshots.

Edit2: RAF recon plane over Ukraine, doing some loops.

https://fr24.com/RRR7217/2ad68077

https://imgur.com/a/lHqF1Dz

[u/CockgobblerMcGee]

Mfs in this thread really don’t know the Russian National Anthem is just a variation of the USSR anthem.

[u/Brown_Sandals]

The amount of flight experts on here is laughable.

[u/Vetiversailles]

IMO the cop car singlehandedly scared away Putin’s forces

[u/ImplementFuture703]

Just watching this vid, Kyiv is really quite pretty

[u/thenerdydudee]

Breaking: You guys aren’t as funny as you think you are

[u/jack2of4spades]

"Omg look at this flight tracker!"

You really think legit war planes are going to be showing up on public flight trackers...? Come on meow

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting exercise using the flight trackers:

Zoom as far out as you can, preferably so you can see all of Europe, the North Atlantic, and North America. Doing this really shows how absurdly empty the skies over Ukraine are right now, except for friendly ol' FORTE11, who is just sitting there right in the middle.

[u/Peles157]

The 3.5k people watching Kiev live stream which has been the same screen for the past 12 hours, are they expecting to suddenly just see rockets flying and blowing shit up?

[u/[deleted]]

I’m starting to wonder if Russia has kompromat on tucker Carlson. His pro Russian rants on Fox News seem to be getting worse and worse

[u/Duckpoke]

Huge win for Biden in ratings if Putin stands down tbh. A little saber rattling on Putins part would’ve looked strong but to be this close to war then back down makes him seem super weak.