World News

22059 readers

18 users here now

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.

Guidelines for submissions:

Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.

For US News, see the US News community.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

782

MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now (self.news)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/news

413 comments fedilink hide all child comments

please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Add to that a brigade (2,000-8,000) of Russian special forces that defected. Those guys are probably worth 2-3 national guardsman.

Edit: allegedly

[–] miket@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Question is, is it true?

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Hard to tell. What is abundantly clear is that they are meeting little to no resistance. Otherwise they would have never gotten this far. Whether troops really are joining them I can't confirm. It's all coming in very rapidly from sources I have no experience with.

I'm going to update my previous comment to add "allegedly."