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I wouldn’t say the warnings in February were ignored. Sure they were publicly downplayed but it’s clear the Ukrainians had been preparing and they crushed the f

I wouldn’t say the warnings in February were ignored. Sure they were publicly downplayed but it’s clear the Ukrainians had been preparing and they crushed the force that attempted to take Kyiv.

rasz 4y ago
https://simpleflying.com/an-225-destruction-blame/ https://simpleflying.com/an-225-destruction-blame/ >"There was no decision to transfer the plane anywhere. You could do Rzeszów, you could do Leipzig. Why Leipzig? Because on January 26th, there was an appeal to management from the [NATO Support and Procurement Agency] via [Antonov Logistics (Germany)] for the relocation of all our aircraft. Flight personnel, personnel, spare parts, etc [could be transported] to Leipzig in light of a possible war. There was no answer to this inquiry...And as I said, there was no strong-willed decision to transfer [the aircraft] between February 15th and 23rd. https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/biden-zelensky-ignored-warnings-about-attack-kyiv-disagrees.html https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/biden-zelensky-ignored-... >U.S. President Joe Biden said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ignored warnings that Russia would invade his country ahead of the February 24 aggression. “I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating, but I knew, and we had data to sustain, he was going in off the border. There was no doubt. And Zelensky did not want to hear it, nor did a lot of people,” Biden said on Friday, June 10, during a political fundraiser in Los Angeles.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > “I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating, but I knew, and we had data to sustain, he was going in off the border. There was no doubt. And Zelensky did not want to hear it, nor did a lot of people,” Biden said on Friday, June 10, during a political fundraiser in Los Angeles. Yet Ukrainian military surely took it time to escalate the shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk in February, as seen from OSCE reports. https://www.osce.org/files/2022-02-19%20Daily%20Report.pdf?itok=95901 https://www.osce.org/files/2022-02-19%20Daily%20Report.pdf?i...
  - KptMarchewa 4y ago
    >Yet Ukrainian military surely took it time to escalate the shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk in February, as seen from OSCE reports. Obviously russians did it to create false sense of urgency in russian media. Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
    - justsomehnguy 4y ago
      Make up your mind or you will find Putin under your bed.

I wouldn’t say the warnings in February were ignored. Sure they were publicly downplayed but it’s clear the Ukrainians had been preparing and they crushed the force that attempted to take Kyiv.

rasz 4y ago

https://simpleflying.com/an-225-destruction-blame/ https://simpleflying.com/an-225-destruction-blame/ >"There was no decision to transfer the plane anywhere. You could do Rzeszów, you could do Leipzig. Why Leipzig? Because on January 26th, there was an appeal to management from the [NATO Support and Procurement Agency] via [Antonov Logistics (Germany)] for the relocation of all our aircraft. Flight personnel, personnel, spare parts, etc [could be transported] to Leipzig in light of a possible war. There was no answer to this inquiry...And as I said, there was no strong-willed decision to transfer [the aircraft] between February 15th and 23rd. https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/biden-zelensky-ignored-warnings-about-attack-kyiv-disagrees.html https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war/biden-zelensky-ignored-... >U.S. President Joe Biden said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ignored warnings that Russia would invade his country ahead of the February 24 aggression. “I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating, but I knew, and we had data to sustain, he was going in off the border. There was no doubt. And Zelensky did not want to hear it, nor did a lot of people,” Biden said on Friday, June 10, during a political fundraiser in Los Angeles.

justsomehnguy 4y ago
> “I know a lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating, but I knew, and we had data to sustain, he was going in off the border. There was no doubt. And Zelensky did not want to hear it, nor did a lot of people,” Biden said on Friday, June 10, during a political fundraiser in Los Angeles. Yet Ukrainian military surely took it time to escalate the shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk in February, as seen from OSCE reports. https://www.osce.org/files/2022-02-19%20Daily%20Report.pdf?itok=95901 https://www.osce.org/files/2022-02-19%20Daily%20Report.pdf?i...
- KptMarchewa 4y ago
  >Yet Ukrainian military surely took it time to escalate the shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk in February, as seen from OSCE reports. Obviously russians did it to create false sense of urgency in russian media. Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    Make up your mind or you will find Putin under your bed.