According to Dan Kaszeta (who should know) it is an ammonium nitrate explosion. Likely a result of an agricultural warehouse being targeted (or hit by mistake). Almost certainly not a deliberate use of chemical weapons.

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Somehow it seems like the tank is driving a lot faster than in the other video

Now they need to do it at this speed.

Nitrogen Dioxide by the look of the colour, Chlorine is yellowy green

hmmm ... and people here mutter about flying displays? What could have gone wrong there? Bloody stupid, IMHO.

Compare with the secondary explosion of the stored fertilliser in Beruit in 2019 - same red orange colour

Actually, you can just buy this kind of pictures on shutterstock.com and so, with the right to publish online.

For me, this feels very close to the concept of "being able to bring democracy".

Those in the Power (including the FSB) aren't going to give up, or even share, their power with democratic elected competitors. That is, why I suggest, to take care the Russian Federation breaks up, etc. It removes the Nukes threat, removes the original powers and brings back a more manageable scale. See how much difficulties the US does have to keep its democracy upright.

TBH, I do think, there are a lot of Chinese reporters, with itching fingers to report the reality, vs. China state propaganda. This footage gave them an excellent opportunity, without serious risk of being accused of damaging the CCP.

I think, you raise a lot of interesting topics in just 2 sentences.

The Nukes: I don't think, that stuff is suitable for regional conflicts, apart from that, just too expensive to manage.

Natural resources: Oil can be relatively easily transported (though large scale is still overhead intensive), but gas needs the tubes. And those tubes will cross that many areas to reach somebody willing to pay for it at a large scale, that it is likely a conflicting area is crossed. When the tubes are already in place, it's a difficult situation. When the tubes need to be instated, forget it.

The China connection: It's a huge distance, so needs careful planning, protection, etc. Less suitable for conflicting areas. Mongolia isn't that much a China friend, on top of that pretty uninhabitable, so, difficult.

West of the Urals: Yeah, that was the thought of the NATO future, before Putin started messing around with reality and becoming more and more a NATO opponent again, early 2000. Apart from the Putin made mess (social, political and some more), Russians are quite nice people, a bit rough on the edge, though that is not that strange in other areas on the Globe, US Midwest, Mexico, Colombia, etc.

Another ship hit today:7


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“Ship on fire” also reported on CNN. Waiting for more details.

the Chinese reporter who recorded this is quite famous for being embedded in Russian forces. He's very pro Kremlin.

RAF Rivet Joint taking a keen interest in the area earlier…

According to Ukrainian sources the Russians once again attempted to ford the Siverskyi Donets river, near Bilohorivka, earlier this afternoon.

It went about as well as their previous attempts...

Insanity, let us hope that they do not learn the definition of it any time soon.

For the war crimes tribunal(s)…

Ukrainian army in first, that I am aware of, use of ground launched Brimstone. Anyone recognise the launcher?

I do not recognise the launcher, but I saw the same footage earlier claiming Ukrainian troops under training.

Either way, interesting…