#analysis

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The use of what #Putin said was a ballistic missile with multiple warheads in offensive combat is a clear departure from decades of the Cold War doctrine of deterrence.

Ballistic missiles with multiple warheads, known as “multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles,” or MIRVs, have never been used to strike an enemy, experts say.

edition.cnn.com/2024/11/22/eur…

#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar

Anti war Russian ballet star dancer falls from 5th floor window. Drugs blamed but let’s get real:

“Shklyarov condemned Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in a now-deleted Instagram post from March 2022, declaring his opposition to “all kinds of military actions.”

“It is impossible to watch everything that is happening today without tears,” Shklyarov wrote.

In contrast to Olga Smirnova, a star ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet who fled Russia and moved to Europe, Shklyarov continued performing in Russia and refrained from further commenting on the war.”
#russia #russiaUkraineWar #ukraine #putin
theguardian.com/stage/2024/nov…

Vladimir Shklyarov, Russian ballet star, dies aged 39 after falling from building

St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre says dancer was taking painkillers for an injury and fell from fifth floor

^{Sian Cain (The Guardian)}

Since the tankies seem to be coming out again, a reminder:

👉 If Russia stops fighting, there will no longer be a war.

👉 If Ukraine stops fighting, there will no longer be an Ukraine.

#Ukraine #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar

North Korea expects food, cash and new leverage in exchange for sending troops to Russia

#InexperiencedTroops #LeverageNegotiation #HighStakes #YoungRecruits #RussiaUkraineWar

independent.co.uk/asia/east-as…

What does Kim Jong-un stand to gain from sending North Korean troops to Putin’s war?

A lot is at stake for North Korea’s leader as he sends young, inexperienced recruits to join Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine

^{Shweta Sharma (The Independent)}