Is Ukraine about to have a war?
Just wait. Time is on our side. They are cut off.
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Is there any recent information as to the situation at the Nuclear Power Plant? As I recall the last I read was:
1) There were issues with power supply and emergency generator fuel supplies for circulating cooling water in the shut down cores and storage facilities.
2) There were still IAEA inspectors at the plant.
3) Russkies were messing around with the fuel rod storage facilities.
4) Russkies had left the plant.
5) If the dam is breached there may be water supply issues at the plant.
6) There were claims explosives had be planted by the Russians in the plant.
Have there been any updates on the status of the plant?
1) There were issues with power supply and emergency generator fuel supplies for circulating cooling water in the shut down cores and storage facilities.
2) There were still IAEA inspectors at the plant.
3) Russkies were messing around with the fuel rod storage facilities.
4) Russkies had left the plant.
5) If the dam is breached there may be water supply issues at the plant.
6) There were claims explosives had be planted by the Russians in the plant.
Have there been any updates on the status of the plant?
The Russian have sited Anti Aircraft guns on top of one of the reactor roofs, one worry I have is with the lines keep getting knocked out and repaired, that seems to be a well oiled machine, my worry is with the rest of Ukraines generating system being hit and down to 40% will they get to a point where no matter if the lines are standing they will be unable to generate power elsewhere to send to the plant.
On November 2, #Russian shelling damaged the last two high-voltage communication lines of the nuclear power plant in #Zaporizhzhia. The station switched to full blackout mode, all 20 diesel generators were switched on.
#russia annuls access passes to #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant #NPP issued by #Ukraine. Personnel is forced to sign contracts with #rosatom. Anti-aerial reconnaissance equipment was installed on fifth power unit's roof. The situation is worrisome.
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That's one big fireball
The problem with stockpiling mines is.
The problem with stockpiling mines is.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Slightly related.
Sounds like ideal Russian troop accommodation…
https://www.politico.eu/article/pola...sy-devastated/
Poland seizes ‘completely devastated’ complex rented by Russian embassy
‘The Russians have destroyed everything, even cables are torn from the walls,’ a Polish official says.
The Polish government has taken over a “completely devastated” property complex near Warsaw that had been leased by the Russian embassy.
The property in the Jabłonna forest district near the Polish capital had been rented by Russia since the 1980s. But the Polish government ended the lease in April after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its failure to pay the rent, according to Polish media reports.
At a press conference on the property on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Edward Siarka said that despite repeated appeals the Russian embassy had not released the complex, which is why “today we have started to take over the property,” which covers approximately 6 hectares and includes two hotels, two villas and several summer houses, accirding to media reports.
Photos of the site show the facilities, which belong to Poland’s state forestry service, in a very bad condition, with broken windows, decayed floors, collapsed roofs and rotten furniture.
The property was “completely devastated,” Michel Gzowski, a spokesperson for the state forestry service, said in a tweet.
“The Russians have destroyed everything, even cables are torn from the walls,” Gzowski said.
Sounds like ideal Russian troop accommodation…
https://www.politico.eu/article/pola...sy-devastated/
Poland seizes ‘completely devastated’ complex rented by Russian embassy
‘The Russians have destroyed everything, even cables are torn from the walls,’ a Polish official says.
The Polish government has taken over a “completely devastated” property complex near Warsaw that had been leased by the Russian embassy.
The property in the Jabłonna forest district near the Polish capital had been rented by Russia since the 1980s. But the Polish government ended the lease in April after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its failure to pay the rent, according to Polish media reports.
At a press conference on the property on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Edward Siarka said that despite repeated appeals the Russian embassy had not released the complex, which is why “today we have started to take over the property,” which covers approximately 6 hectares and includes two hotels, two villas and several summer houses, accirding to media reports.
Photos of the site show the facilities, which belong to Poland’s state forestry service, in a very bad condition, with broken windows, decayed floors, collapsed roofs and rotten furniture.
The property was “completely devastated,” Michel Gzowski, a spokesperson for the state forestry service, said in a tweet.
“The Russians have destroyed everything, even cables are torn from the walls,” Gzowski said.
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Crowd funding to buy ex British Spartans for Ukraine... they raised the money to buy all 60 in 1.5 days!
https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-vol...153300138.html
In just nine hours, the Prytula Foundation raised $5.5m from private donors to buy 50 FV103 Spartans used by the British Army
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Missing Moskva sailors declared dead by a Sevastopol court.
Wonder how that will go down in the Kremlin…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...468833794.html
Wonder how that will go down in the Kremlin…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...468833794.html
Expect that no one is going to be offering Russia any real estate any time soon given their attitude to other peoples property, including the property of Ukraine. Russia has gone out of it's way to behave badly, and then they wonder why they are considered to be a bunch of hooligans led by a criminal.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
https://wartranslated.com/russian-re...axes-in-blood/
Russian regions pay their taxes in blood
Summary of Dmitry Oreshkin (Russian political scientist) interview on Populiarnaia Politika – a discussion on Putin’s nuclear blackmail, shifting responsibility to the regions and Ksenia Sobchak (Putin’s goddaughter who became a suspect in a criminal case of extortion of money and left Russia)…..
Excerpt…..
Russian regions pay their taxes in blood
Summary of Dmitry Oreshkin (Russian political scientist) interview on Populiarnaia Politika – a discussion on Putin’s nuclear blackmail, shifting responsibility to the regions and Ksenia Sobchak (Putin’s goddaughter who became a suspect in a criminal case of extortion of money and left Russia)…..
Excerpt…..
End of the federation and return to the feudalism
The Russian economy is in shambles and now the financing of the regions is being cut dramatically, with the regions expected to pay taxes to the federal fund and solve all their own problems. Of 85 regions only 20 are profitable or at least do not require constant subsidies to run the local economy and social program. In the Russian “federal” system the regions don’t have a say in the funding assignment and money re-distribution.
The Russian system is indeed transitioning from pseudo-federal to a fully feudal system – rich regions are paying taxes in money that is then distributed between Kremlin and Putin’s favourite vassals, e.g. Kadyrov. At the same time the poor regions, such as Tuva or Buryatiya pay their taxes to Moscow in blood – sending men to the war with Ukraine.
“This is not federalization, but an attempt to return to what is called a dual political regime in terms of medieval chiefdoms”
At the same time while federal funding is cut to the minimum regional governors need not only to find funds to keep the lights on, to compensate for inflation, sanctions and mass removal of the workforce (either through mobilization or people fleeing Russia) but also to fulfil newly assigned “rebuilding” of the annexed territories. Each region of Russia and the large city was obligated to chip in and fund the “reconstruction” of cities destroyed by the Russian army, such as Mariupol.
This brutal system of economic and social injustice can lead people from Bashkiria or Dagestan to start asking themselves a question: “do Why we get no money from the federal budget for our region, yet we are the first to be sent to die on the frontlines……
The Russian economy is in shambles and now the financing of the regions is being cut dramatically, with the regions expected to pay taxes to the federal fund and solve all their own problems. Of 85 regions only 20 are profitable or at least do not require constant subsidies to run the local economy and social program. In the Russian “federal” system the regions don’t have a say in the funding assignment and money re-distribution.
The Russian system is indeed transitioning from pseudo-federal to a fully feudal system – rich regions are paying taxes in money that is then distributed between Kremlin and Putin’s favourite vassals, e.g. Kadyrov. At the same time the poor regions, such as Tuva or Buryatiya pay their taxes to Moscow in blood – sending men to the war with Ukraine.
“This is not federalization, but an attempt to return to what is called a dual political regime in terms of medieval chiefdoms”
At the same time while federal funding is cut to the minimum regional governors need not only to find funds to keep the lights on, to compensate for inflation, sanctions and mass removal of the workforce (either through mobilization or people fleeing Russia) but also to fulfil newly assigned “rebuilding” of the annexed territories. Each region of Russia and the large city was obligated to chip in and fund the “reconstruction” of cities destroyed by the Russian army, such as Mariupol.
This brutal system of economic and social injustice can lead people from Bashkiria or Dagestan to start asking themselves a question: “do Why we get no money from the federal budget for our region, yet we are the first to be sent to die on the frontlines……
The disintegration of Russia itself will be the bigger war coming up. The regions will want to keep their own raw material incomes which ends the central governments income and power and so on.
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Dugin says it is a holy war and I agree..
Their plan was full of holes
Their supply lines are full of holes
Their army manning is full of holes
Their tactics are full of holes
A lot of their troops are now full of holes
A lot of their armour, ships and aircraft are now full of holes
A Holy war it is!!
Their plan was full of holes
Their supply lines are full of holes
Their army manning is full of holes
Their tactics are full of holes
A lot of their troops are now full of holes
A lot of their armour, ships and aircraft are now full of holes
A Holy war it is!!
Nutloose re your burning ship above with 600 cars, and the Japanese doing nothing to help, do you have any further links? It sounds very uncharacteristic, and I can find nothing to back up this story.
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Less Hair, that looks like it. Many thanks.
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and I will 3rd it.
It is always disturbing to me to read analysts stating Kherson will be taken by XYZ because the RF is suffering.It is not a small city and what citizens remain are suffering a lot more than russian soldiers.
My friend there managed to get out , she had stayed there to look after her elderly parents, but one day 2 FSB officers and 3 troopers knocked on her door not so politely seeking 'information' ( Her name was on a list because of her job) so she decided to run after they beat her up. It took her 5 days to reach Zaporizhia via Melitopol . This was a few days before all crossing points to Ukraine territory were closed on 28 September. She had to spend 4 weeks in hospital, ( mainly from preexisting conditions not treated for 6 months, but she still has pain from the broken fingers) but she is safe now.
There are many people left who never had the resources or wit to leave the city and they suffer more and more every day.
Interesting point that she brought up , that I did not see mentioned anywhere, clearly she went through many many checkpoints to reach safety. At only the checkpoints manned by Buryats and Kalmiks people's dogs were being confiscated, as she said to be eaten.
It is always disturbing to me to read analysts stating Kherson will be taken by XYZ because the RF is suffering.It is not a small city and what citizens remain are suffering a lot more than russian soldiers.
My friend there managed to get out , she had stayed there to look after her elderly parents, but one day 2 FSB officers and 3 troopers knocked on her door not so politely seeking 'information' ( Her name was on a list because of her job) so she decided to run after they beat her up. It took her 5 days to reach Zaporizhia via Melitopol . This was a few days before all crossing points to Ukraine territory were closed on 28 September. She had to spend 4 weeks in hospital, ( mainly from preexisting conditions not treated for 6 months, but she still has pain from the broken fingers) but she is safe now.
There are many people left who never had the resources or wit to leave the city and they suffer more and more every day.
Interesting point that she brought up , that I did not see mentioned anywhere, clearly she went through many many checkpoints to reach safety. At only the checkpoints manned by Buryats and Kalmiks people's dogs were being confiscated, as she said to be eaten.
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Kitting out the Ukrainian trainees, nice to see we are looking at 19000 now with almost 9000 have been through the system already.. It makes you proud of the MOD doing this and all the other countries participating in their training.
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Surprised the captured T90M is in service with Ukraine, One would have thought it would have been shipped elsewhere for examination.
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