Keep resisting until sanctions strangle Russia?
I suspect that there will be a significant number of these things, many of which will be lost in the fog of war and many of which will be recorded on different smart phones. And, since I don’t think Russia will leave Ukraine for a long time, and this will turn into a nasty drawn out resistance, any sort of after-action legal accounting may never be possible.
How is this supposed to work? The Ukraine has a large Russian population. There has to be extended families in both countries. Igor lives in the Ukraine and his great uncle had a dacha in Russia.
From Guardian live feed.
Does being an ethnic Russian make one a Russian citizen?
No, clearly not.
Changing road signs is an obvious thing to do by a country being invaded, but the nice Ukrainian twist is that now all roads lead to The Hague
I mean, it does, but The Office Of Vetting Mercenary Soldiers For Ukraine probably has like, zero applications per year on average. So now if they’re getting, say, 300, well obviously there’s going to be a backlog. It’s not like they need 10,000 serious applications to slow them down.
Apparently they currently have 16,000 applications. The first batch of foreign soldiers will be going on active duty soon.
Well, technically you’re probably right, however, it is indicative of China’s worldview and morality.
I mean, I assume that’s true as well, but Russia wouldn’t be the first state to declare itself the overlord of all ethnic nationals and insist on their obedience and fealty even as they seek to sever ties.
But assuming it doesn’t make such a claim… (or assuming Ukraine doesn’t recognize such a claim…) I would imagine that is how it works. One can be a “Russian” in Ukraine, even with family in Russia, without being a Russian citizen.
Or, hey, maybe the Ukraine government won’t give a damn and they will seek to confiscate the property of their own citizens for having ethnic ties to Russia. This also wouldn’t be the first time a war turned ugly along ethnic lines.
Keeping in mind this is re:
Well then! I stand corrected 
(Well I’m not really wrong, just overly cautious)
Even Putin must know that is no longer a possibility at this point. The number of Russian military personnel that it would take to keep 44 million pissed off Ukranians in line would be phenomenal. Nobody would obey the puppet government’s orders. Vanishingly few Ukranians would do anything to support a Russian occupation force. There would be daily bombings, acts of sabotage, and Baba’s in head scarves cursing out Russian soldiers.
No other country would recognize the illegitimate government. Well maybe Syria, North Korea and Eritria, but that’s it.
It worked out so much better in Putin’s head.
That assumes that Ukrainians would continue to heavily resist after the war, from what we have seen it seems likely that they will, in some form, but I’m not sure we can assume an Iraq/Afghanistan level of insurgency.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/transfer-three-10-aircraft-squadrons-143353128.html
Emphasis mine:
[The U.S. Air Force’s A-10 aircraft] is available since the service wants to retire most of the 30-year-old fleet. The airplane was designed to operate in Europe from ill-prepared facilities. Pilot retraining is minimal. All that is needed is painting Ukrainian insignia and delivering the aircraft. This could be done in days…
Everett Pyatt is a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy for shipbuilding and logistics.
If you’re transitioning from a Cessna 172 to a Piper PA-28, the retraining is minimal. If you’re going from a Robinson R22 to a Bell 206, takes 10 hours, I think. (I think insurance companies require 25 hours.) You could transition in a week.
But going from a Sukhoi Su-25 (which the Ukrainian Air Force has) to a Fairchild Republic A-10? They have similar roles. Both have armoured ‘bathtub’ cockpits (but the A-10 has better visibility). The Su-25 is faster. It probably wouldn’t be too hard for Ukrainian pilots to learn to fly the A-10. But I would expect weeks of training, time that I don’t think Ukraine has. I think it might be better for other countries to supply more Su-25s.
Kharkiv is one of the most ethic Russian cities in Ukraine. There was even a significant amount of support there in 2014 for Putin’s puppet, Yanukovych.
It’s mostly Russian-speaking, and a quarter of the population have relatives across the border in Russia.
But Kharkhiv is fighting ferociously against the Russians. It’s been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting and is being intensely bombarded by Russian artillery and missiles at present.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said,
"The city’s attitude to Russia today is completely different to what it ever was before. We never expected this could happen: total destruction, annihilation, genocide against the Ukrainian people – this is unforgivable.”
If this is the attitude in Kharkiv, then there is nowhere in Ukraine outside of Donbass that will accept Russian domination.
Putin is doubling down and F*** the sanctions. There’s been concern this might happen.
Slight nit-pick…Baba didn’t curse out the soldiers. She CURSED them. Much worse IMHO.
But she gave them a packet of sunflower seeds so it’s all good.
After I saw that clip the first time, I was confused about the sunflowers so pulled up google. I typed “su” and auto fill took over from there with the first listing about them being Ukraine’s national flower. That tells me that a whole bunch of other folks also wanted to know what was going on.
I sure hope sunflower grandma survives to die peacefully years from now, surrounded by family and friends.