8 years ago, on May 2nd 2014, Ukrainian radicals murdered at least 42 people in Odessa for the crime of being Russian. They burned them alive. They had tacit approval from the government; no one was punished. From that day on, it was clear that war had become inevitable. The War in Donbass had barely started; after May 2nd, 1000s of volunteers from Odessa & Russia joined the Militias. Ukrainian social networks were full of “funny” videos of people jumping to their deaths to escape the fire. Restaurants added "Vatnik shashlik" to their menus. Young girls poured the Molotov cocktails that lit the Trade Union House on fire; Ukrainian politicians joked about “the traditional May BBQ” for years; people who were involved in the massacre are now popular bloggers, pundits, advisors, military leaders.

The Punhart Von Steyr

Constructed in Styria, Austria in the early 1400’s, the Punhart Von Steyr is the largest wrought iron bombard by caliber. According to modern calculations, it could fire a a 690 kg stone ball around 600 m using a 15 kg charge of gunpowder. Today the Punhart Von Steyr is on display at the Museum of Military History in Vienna.

🇨🇦🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to unconfirmed reports, Canadian General Trevor Kadier left the territory of the Azovstal enterprise and was detained by the Russian military.

A monument to a grandmother with a Red banner was erected in Belgorod.

The one who came out to the Ukrainian military with the flag of the USSR and refused to take help from them

Also, a sculpture in her honor will be installed in Voronezh, reports @rt_russian.

New Ukrainian armoured divisions arrive!

"The great Eastern campaigns change the monarch who leads them. Immediately after Darius died, the Persians saw Alexander as his rightful successor. Much to the displeasure of the Macedonians, Alexander tried to unite Greek and eastern power. From that moment on he displayed traits that were difficult to reconcile with the image of his youth. He began to surround himself with Asiatic splendour, and the Greeks, when approaching the throne, had to kneel according to Persian custom. Callisthenes' refusal cost him his head. Callisthenes was a relative of Aristotle, of whom Alexander said in his youth that he, Alexander, should thank his father Philip for his life and that he lived in a manner worthy of Aristotle. Western historiography sees arbitrariness as incompatible with the dignity of a monarch; it is always seen as a shadow on the character of the few to whom it attributes the noscript of 'great'. This is not the case in Eastern sources. Alexander is also an oriental hero, but he appears as a new character."

🇷🇺 In honor of Victory Day, the Consolidated Orthodox Choir performed "Katyusha" in front of the Main cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces

No English subnoscripts.

https://youtu.be/czKIvFGMJPU

English translation in this one:

https://youtu.be/wSxdfu3WPSc

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible

— Harry Truman, The New York Times 24 June 1941; also in TIME magazine 2 July 1951

Blitzkrieg in Manchuria. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the last major offensive of WW2. The Soviets transported 4 whole armies from the West to the East in record time. The Japanese were taken completely by surprise by the size and speed of the Soviet advance. The Kwantung army, terribly undersupplied and severely lacking in planes, artillery and tanks, collapsed in six weeks.

Commentators on the war should be checking the news to confirm their facts, especially if they did not follow the 2014 crisis. The proposal for an EU military was in the news years ago, so it should not be used to argue for Based NATO restructuring or any other nonsense coming from Spencer and those who think the administration can be replaced.

The war did not start in February. A CBC analyst even confirmed this, and you should not be saying less than what the embedded journalists and thinktanks are willing to admit.

This one is only 2021, but it's also the first page of a search:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/eu-aim-rapid-deployment-force-without-us-assets-by-2025-document-says-2021-11-16/