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© Thomson Reuters 2025.Russian drones hammer Ukraine's Odesa port
By Iryna Nazarchuk and Olena Harmash ODESA, Ukraine©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ok1517
Not just Odessa, many other Ukrainian areas, too!
This is the result of Donald's great phone call with his buddy dictator in the Kremlin.
Terrorizing, injuring, killing civilians, Putain continuing his genocide attempt!
There is only one way to end this aggressor's invasion: the free western world has to supply Ukraine with the utmost! Only a total and unconditional defeat of those invaders and in addition an end of Putain's reign will ensure a safe Ukraine AND a safe Europe.
Don't rely on Donald and the US - don't trust him, his administration or Putain!
Ukraine prevails! More than 3 years already!
Yrral
Trump is giving Putin,a get out of jail card
TaiwanIsNotChina
61 days with no ceasefire.
HopeSpringsEternal
Odesa will have a hard time in 'partitioned' Ukraine, the future's not looking too bright, especially as the population rapidly ages and departs for safer locations.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Odesa will do great in Free Ukraine. It will not do great if it is reduced to rubble by war criminal russia.
HopeSpringsEternal
Ukraine's going to be a lot less free except to pursue neutrality, as no NATO and no serious standing Army.
World will not be destabilized again using Ukraine as proxy force. Odessa will never fully recover, brain drain continues, so just a bunch of old folks like in Fukushima
stormcrow
The murder of innocent Ukrainians goes on.
Give them what they need. After all, they represent the front line.
Underworld
HopeSpringsEternal
Ukraine isn't a proxy force.
Still Putin's war.
JJE
What is an illegal NATO general doing there?
They have forfeited that city now.
Underworld
JJE
NSTO generals aren’t illegal.
JJE
Yes, they are there - flagrant violation of the 1991 constitution, neutrality and completely meriting corrective measures.
This will provoke Moscow more. Watch.
stormcrow
“This will provoke Moscow more. Watch.”
What might Russia do ? Invade Ukraine some more?
JJE
Some details are emerging about this - meaning the Russian delegation. Will be led by two experienced gentlemen. One wears stars in a certain no-nonsense agency - known for dealing out free phone calls - and once headed a particular numbered directorate but is now the 2IC, and as such wears a suit mostly. This will be interesting.
JJE
Yes, Ukraine will inevitably lose more territory.
Think about it: Moscow has every strategic incentive to seize more, as it's clear the EU warmongers won't stop and administrations come and go. This is called preparing for a rainy day.
I'veSeenFootage
↑This dude just explained that Russia should invade more of Ukraine and called the EU "warmongers" in the same breath. This is just getting ridiculously stupid.
stormcrow
“Yes. Ukraine will inevitably lose more territory.”
Wouldn’t it make more sense to deal with Putin/ Russia from a position of strength rather than weakness!?
Ukraine is defending its territory and the invading Russian grunts (including the NK troops) on the ground don’t know what they’re doing there, but the Ukrainians fully understand what they’re doing there
Fos
Let's all remember the main responsible for this full scale disaster is the big US industrial military complex, the same one that President Dwight Eisenhower warned against in 1961. Like Gorbachev said, US and its allies have been badgering Russia with accusations and blaming it for everything. Russia wanted to have friendly ties with America, but it's difficult to do that when Russia sees that it's being cheated.
TokyoLiving
Who cares?, The war for kyiv regime is lost, Russia Federation map will get bigger, and good old US will take the leftovers..
chatanista
Wouldn’t it make more sense to deal with Putin/ Russia from a position of strength rather than weakness!?
That's what NATO have been trying to do for the last 3 years. Hasn't worked obviously.
stormcrow
BTW ( just to check and be sure we’re on the same page), who invaded Ukraine?
JJE
NATO
Primusinter
Odessa is literally packed with Western weapons. All the port terminals, warehouses and basements of shopping malls are filled with shells. Why did Peter Pavel come to Odessa? To drink coffee on the Lanzheron? No, this warmonger still won't calm down with providing Ukraine with bullets and missiles. I repeat once again: Russians are firing only at military targets. Another reason is Macron's passionate desire to deploy his French military here. Let him see what happens to his frogmen if they come to Odessa.
Primusinter
And who dug up the Black Sea? /s
Primusinter
The population, primarily, is trying by hook or by crook to get their children out of Ukraine. No one wants to defend "free" Ukraine. Only Macron and Starmer want it. But they still can't decide whose hands to do it with.
wallace
Where are Putin's signs he wants peace?
stormcrow
NATO invaded Ukraine?
Germany has always been completely against granting Ukraine NATO membership, so that was never going to happen. It was just a false pretext Putin used to invade Ukraine.
Besides, didn’t NATO offer membership to Russia? And didn’t Russia refuse?
Peter14
Another post from someone F.O.S.
Let's all remember the sole responsibility for this full scale disaster is the massive Russian industrial military complex, hell bent on territorial expansion for Putin. Russian excuses are just that, EXCUSES!
Peter14
No Putin requested a road to NATO membership for Russia, but then President Clinton laughed it off and said never. This was Putin's epiphany to make NATO the enemy once again.
Russia had "preferred partner" status in NATO, along side nations like Japan and Australia. But Putin wanted to get inside NATO to make it dysfunctional or to rule it, and with those plans thwarted he chose to become NATO's enemy again.
This is all on Russia and its leader for life Putin. Always with plans to make himself look bigger in histories page, he now joins those in histories pages like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, and even Nero. Murder, scandals, atrocities all from these stains on humanity's past.
TaiwanIsNotChina
A phone call is not an invasion.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Ukraine doesn't have a garbage neutrality clause like the one inflicted on Austria.
JJE
Now two provable mistruths.
Never "preferred status".
Yes, it does.
Peter14
Relations between the NATOmilitary alliance and the Russian Federation were established in 1991 within the framework of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. In 1994, Russia joined the Partnership for Peace program, and on 27 May 1997, the NATO–Russia Founding Act (NRFA) was signed at the 1997 Paris NATO Summit in France, enabling the creation of the NATO–Russia Permanent Joint Council (NRPJC). Through the early part of 2010s NATO and Russia signed several additional agreements on cooperation.[1] The NRPJC was replaced in 2002 by the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), which was established in an effort to partner on security issues and joint projects together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93NATO_relations
Perhaps not preferred nation "exactly", but certainly a close cooperative relationship ahead of nearly all non member states.