This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

[lucas80]

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SA is a God awful mess right now. Their navy and air force are basically non functional at this point. Their army is poorly equipped, and has failed in hot zones of Africa in the last few years. Their corrupt leaders are cozying up to Russia and China.

 

[seminole97]

Russia claims it has repaired the Kerch Strait Bridge, damaged during Ukraine’s July 2023 strike, “ahead of schedule,” although traffic restrictions for trucks and fuel supplies remain due to prior Ukrainian attacks, the UK intelligence update notes, published by the British Defense Ministry on 19 October.

The ministry tweeted:

• On 14 October 2023, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin declared that damage from Ukraine’s July 2023 strike on the Crimean bridge had been repaired ahead of schedule. Although fully operational, use of the bridge remains restricted due to procedures enacted following the first Ukrainian attack in October 2022. Trucks and fuel supplies continue to be moved by ferry.

August 22, 2024:

 

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"Oil base In the Rostov region. Latest Status Rostov has been burning for days after the Ukrainian drone attack..."

 

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Did Ukraine just put that up?

 

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FWIW

 

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[binsfeldcyhawk2]

New US military aid on its way including Himars and Javelins; fuel ferry sinks in Russian port after Ukrainian strike. What we know on day 912

• Russian forces mounted 53 attacks on the Pokrovsk front in Donetsk oblast on Thursday as Moscow pressed to take the town, which Kyiv’s military described as the main focus of the invaders’ efforts in Ukraine. Elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions near the settlement of Niu-York. Russia earlier said it had seized the settlement. Russia’s army also claimed it had captured the village of Mezhove, between already held Avdiivka and Pokrovsk. Ukraine did not confirm the Russian claims.
• A ferry loaded with fuel tanks sank in the Russian port of Kavkaz in southern Krasnodar region on Thursday after a Ukrainian attack, local authorities said. Kavkaz port is one of Russia’s largest on the Black Sea, exporting as well as sending fuel across to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
• Ukraine’s air force said it used a US-made GBU-39 bomb to strike a Russian platoon command post in the Kursk region of Russia which Ukraine has invaded. The model is a precision-guided small diameter bomb with wings that unfold so it can glide to its target using built-in navigation after being dropped from a plane. Allies including the US are supplying weapons to Ukrainian forces but have imposed restrictions on how and when they can be used inside Russia.
• The Biden administration will send about $125m in new military aid to Ukraine including air defence missiles; Himars ammunition; Javelin anti-tank missile systems and other anti-armour missiles; counter-drone and counter-electronic warfare systems and equipment; 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition; vehicles and other equipment. Officials said the weapons were being provided through presidential drawdown authority, which means they are taken from Pentagon stockpiles and can be delivered more quickly.
• A Russian strike killed a 56-year-old man and injured eight others in the Kharkiv region of north-east Ukraine, the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office said on Thursday. The injured included a 15-year-old boy, while residential buildings were also damaged in the Russian strike on the village of Bohodukhiv, the prosecutor general’s office said.
• Russian drone attacks killed two civilians and wounded a third, while a guided bomb attack killed two people, said prosecutors and officials in Sumy, which borders Russia’s Kursk region that Ukrainian troops have partly occupied.
• Ukraine’s drone attack on Thursday at Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region caused fires and ammunition explosions lasting hours, Dan Sabbagh and Luke Harding report. Ukraine’s SBU security service said it carried out the remote raid on the base, home to about 30 Su-34 and Su-35 fighter jets. The planes carry out regular bombing runs against Ukrainian positions on the frontline about 280 miles away, the SBU told the Kyiv Independent newspaper. It is unclear how many jets were damaged or destroyed.

• Ukraine’s border guard service said on Thursday that Kyiv had not observed any signs of Belarusian troop or equipment movements near their shared border since Minsk announced it was sending additional forces to the area. “We do not see any movement directly near our border – neither equipment nor personnel,” said Andriy Demchenko, spokesperson for the border force.
• The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Thursday said no conflict could be resolved on a battlefield, as he spoke in Poland on the eve of his visit to Ukraine. Modi will be the first Indian PM to make a Ukraine trip and is the first in 45 years to visit Poland. The Indian government has avoided explicit condemnations of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In Warsaw, Modi said his country supports “dialogue and diplomacy for restoration of peace and stability as soon as possible”. Ukraine chastised Modi for a visit to Moscow last month during which he met and hugged Vladimir Putin. Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the meeting as a “huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts”.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday its director general, Rafael Grossi, would assess the situation at Kursk nuclear power plant during his visit next week. The IAEA said it had been informed by the Russian federation that the remains of a drone had been found within the Kursk nuclear power plant. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has made unevidenced claims that Ukraine tried to attack the plant. Russian troops are occupying Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and Vladimir Putin has been accused of “nuclear blackmail” by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
• Ukraine’s Kursk campaign has boosted morale and changed the dynamic of the two-year war, according to the Guardian’s defence and security editor, Dan Sabbagh, who explains how Ukraine managed to mount a surprise invasion involving thousands of troops amounting to 14 brigades.
• Russia has started to use vessels sanctioned by the EU for oil product exports, Reuters has reported, citing economic data. One of the sanctioned vessels, the Barbados-flagged Saga, was loaded in Vysotsk with 33,000 metric tonnes of dark oil products and was moving towards the Suez Canal, which could suggest an Asian destination.
• Another, the Kavia, was loading diesel at the Baltic port of Primorsk for an unknown destination. The ships from the sanctions list cannot enter the ports of EU member countries. Several other vessels sanctioned by the EU have been renamed, including the Serenade (formerly NS Stream), N Cerna (formerly Canis Power) and Success (formerly SCF Amur), which are currently in the Sea of Marmara, according to data. The Marmara sea sits across the Bosphorus Strait from the Black Sea.
• Ukraine ratified the Rome statute of the international criminal court on Wednesday, opening the possibility of more prosecutions of Russian officials for war crimes. Membership of the ICC is a requirement for joining the European Union, which Ukraine hopes to do after it was formally accepted as a candidate in June 2022. The legislation contains a clause that says Ukraine will not recognise ICC jurisdiction over cases where the crimes prosecuted by the ICC may have been committed by Ukrainian nationals.

Ukraine war briefing: Fierce fighting on Pokrovsk front as Russia claims gains

New US military aid on its way including Himars and Javelins; fuel ferry sinks in Russian port after Ukrainian strike. What we know on day 912

www.theguardian.com

 

[bunsen82]

I want out of NATO and its endless wars and funding. Also fvck Blackrock and its planned rebuilding Ukraine. I want all funding to Ukraine to end. I also don’t support Azov Nazi’s like you and never will.

But pretty sure you fully vax(thank you for that for all our health) and a turn the neighbor in type as well while having the how great you are talk nightly with himself.

So I’m on the side of not my business and I don’t care(just here to share a different narrative) and not spoon fed my thoughts on it by biased lies and media run control.

Now flag this and go report someone Nazi supporter. Here is a link to prove you support Nazis

A far-right battalion has a key role in Ukraine's resistance. Its neo-Nazi history has been exploited by Putin

President Vladimir Putin framed the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a "special mission" to protect Russian speakers from genocide at the hands of "neo-Nazis."

amp.cnn.com

https://www.reuters.com/article/opinion/commentary-ukraines-neo-nazi-problem-idUSKBN1GV2TC/

Ok comrade

 

[h-hawk]

FWIW - a decided Russian slant. (If Russia keeps attacking SE and Ukraine takes control of the supply road it seems the Russians would be doing Ukraine a favor.)

 

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[lucas80]

Solid AP write up about the possible frustration amongst the elites in Russia, whose "acquiescence", allows Putin to remain in power. When does the calculus change for them? When does jettisoning him become more favorable than keeping him, or not knowing what might replace him? The bungling response to the Kursk incursion might hold clues.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-p...war-invasion-72d96d8cb52c105e9289dc6909900b13

 

[lucas80]

Putin bends the knee to a visiting Chinese delegation. This has to be getting old for the Russians. Bowing and scraping whenever a Chinese leader pops into Moscow to make a collection.
https://apnews.com/article/moscow-p...-ukraine-war-1a4973738d7f430799bdd3b95ab827c5

 

[lucas80]

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Did Ukraine just put that up?

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Nice of Modi to make a visit. Now, stop buying up all that cheap Russian oil and gas, and ship over about 2 million 155 mm shells.
This could be a potentially intriguing visit if India can be a 3rd party to negotiate a Russian withdrawal/claim victory agreement.

 

[lucas80]

Putin's visit to Georgia might also provide some tea leaves to ponder over. The Caucus region has been unstable for, well, 1000 years, but in post Soviet times it's grown increasingly unstable, and only the looming threat of force from Moscow kept things at a simmer. Kadyrov has sent a lot of men to die in Ukraine, but Putin also might be needing him to keep the rest of the republics in the area under control, which seems like a recipe for a proliferation of violent uprisings. We had the small debate about what an oblast is, well, the republics of Russia have several unhappy members going back to the days of the czars.

 

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[binsfeldcyhawk2]

When does jettisoning him become more favorable than keeping him, or not knowing what might replace him?
https://apnews.com/article/russia-p...war-invasion-72d96d8cb52c105e9289dc6909900b13

When they don't think they'll fall out of a building if they go against him?

 

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Looks like he just got done f***ing a bunch of katsaps...

 

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"Another serious fire occurred in the city of Proletarsk, where the refinery has been on fire for almost a week, after an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, residents said that an unknown person set fire to vegetation and the fire spread throughout the village."

 

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[Joes Place]

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"Another serious fire occurred in the city of Proletarsk, where the refinery has been on fire for almost a week, after an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, residents said that an unknown person set fire to vegetation and the fire spread throughout the village."

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[billanole]

I’m not the one lining up to vote for Comrade Kamala and her Pro-Soviet policies.

Did you copy that from a drump speech?

 

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"How could this blaze get better?" A fire from an oil depot in #Proletarsk, #Rostov Region, has spread to the cityA whole street of houses is on fire, and it is reported that 6 houses have already burned down."

 

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More video of the fire.

 

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[lucas80]

I read an interesting blurb today that Russia is having issues dislodging the Ukrainians in Kursk because their favorite tactic involves pulverizing stuff with glide bombs and artillery. The glide bombs in particular would destroy their stuff and kill their civilians, which for now is a deal breaker. Massive bombs accurate to only 1 mile are fine against Ukraine, but not their citizens.

 

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[noleclone2]

This is interesting…. What does he know.

 

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[Tenacious E]

Very interesting video of Ukrainian reporters in Kursk talking with people who were not evacuated.

 

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"Another serious fire occurred in the city of Proletarsk, where the refinery has been on fire for almost a week, after an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, residents said that an unknown person set fire to vegetation and the fire spread throughout the village."

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Early on in this massive thread I posted about the tremendous environmental costs occurring due to this conflict. Cancer rates and other illnesses are sure to skyrocket for the citizens of both countries.
I wonder if global temp increases have seen a “trackable” increase. The volume of petro burning alone is crazy.

 

[MitchLL]

Early on in this massive thread I posted about the tremendous environmental costs occurring due to this conflict. Cancer rates and other illnesses are sure to skyrocket for the citizens of both countries.
I wonder if global temp increases have seen a “trackable” increase. The volume of petro burning alone is crazy.

Agree
The fallout will be long lasting.

 

[Slappy Pappy]

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This is interesting…. What does he know.

Translation: "Please don't invade us too."

 

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