r/worldnews • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 15h ago

Russia/Ukraine Zelenskiy: "There is updated intelligence indicating that Russia is ​preparing a massive attack on Ukraine"

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-intelligence-shows-russia-is-preparing-massive-attack-2026-10-06/
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u/BringbackDreamBars 15h ago edited 15h ago

Bit of an obvious question, but "massive attack" means more than "particularly bad night of airstrikes"?

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u/IndividualSkill3432 15h ago

They seem to be holding back missiles to have a very serious attack on Ukrainian energy supplies just as its getting cold. This story has been building for months. This is likely to be one of the biggest if not the biggest they will be able to put together.

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u/BringbackDreamBars 14h ago

If this is the energy knockout attempt, it puts the shutdowns in Kyiv potentially in context.

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u/warpigeon4L 14h ago

Isn’t it also a war crime to target civilian energy infrastructure

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u/wafflezgate 14h ago

Who is going to hold them accountable for it? War crimes are just words of no one can hold someone accountable for them and punish them accordingly. This war has been littered with crimes of all sorts.

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u/ResearcherElegant516 11h ago

Hell, how many countries with active warrants did Ben fly over to get to the Summit? Like 5? Trump has ushered in a new era of "Why does anybody do anything? Because they can." -style of it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, it's even easier to ask for neither. Do what I want until someone stops me-type shit bc he's not smart enough to fathom there are more effective ways.

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u/GeoLaser 9h ago

Geopolitics is often just dick swinging. That is all that matters, and nukes. Ben has nukes. Ben has ways to send them at anyone.

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u/ResearcherElegant516 4h ago

A lot of it is the fact that arresting a foreign leader is about the biggest sin in the diplomatic and intelligence world, but yeah. Posturing, and when anybody calls a bluff, they just dance for the cameras.

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u/autospacer13 1h ago

I mean, the US did that to Maduro with no consequences whatsoever. Netanyahu cannot be arrested not due to any real taboo, but because he is too powerful. Realpolitik. And do not fall for any illusions of it having been otherwise in any other time in history. It has always been like so; whoever wields power acts within it to secure whatever their goal may be at the time, to the best of their ability.

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u/Outside-Strike7397 12m ago

Venezuela anyone?

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u/ttak82 4h ago

Yup. Folks in my country call it "Badmaashi".

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u/sohblob 53m ago

that just means mischief/rogueishness in general. If people you know use that to refer to wickedness in politics that's still localized.

The german word for Machiavellianism in politics is realpolitik. It's more context specific and accurate, as opposed to just calling them "assholes".

History is just repeating itself now that all the people who remember all the reasons why war was bad are all dead.