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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1550 on: February 03, 2025, 01:14:56 pm »
The Ruble is at an all time low.  1 Ruble is about to be less than 1 US cent.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1551 on: February 03, 2025, 01:17:04 pm »
Owners?

That's what Russia itself said.

When the Soviet union imploded in 1991, Russia signed a peace treaty with the newly-independent Ukraine, promising to recognize its sovereignty and borders - including Crimea. In return, Ukraine gave up their nukes. Russia freely signed that treaty, nobody put a gun to their head.

And, the Treaty was still in effect on Feb. 24, 2022, when Putin invaded without any provocation.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1552 on: February 03, 2025, 01:21:50 pm »
Who/what in your opinion takes its place?

Who gives a shit?  Just do whatever it takes to stop them from committing atrocities against their neighbors.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1553 on: February 03, 2025, 01:26:12 pm »
Who gets Crimea?

I would say the Tatars.  But the Russians killed most of them off.  They've proven themselves adept at 'ethnic cleansing' over the centuries.  Invade.  Kill off the indigenous population.  Move a bunch of Russians in.  And then claim it as always being theirs.  It's what Russians do.
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« Reply #1554 on: February 03, 2025, 01:29:35 pm »
Invade.  Kill off the indigenous population.  Move a bunch of Russians in.  And then claim it as always being theirs.  It's what Russians do.

That's what they're trying to do now with Moldova.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1555 on: February 03, 2025, 01:32:45 pm »
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1556 on: February 03, 2025, 03:06:56 pm »
Founder of pro-Russian paramilitary group dies in explosion in Moscow

Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova and Victoria Butenko  |  February 3, 2025  |  1:42 PM EST



Russian Emergencies Ministry firefighters, police officers and investigators work at the site of an explosion at the Aliye Parusa residential complex in Moscow, Russia on February 3, 2025. Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

The founder of a pro-Russian militia group in eastern Ukraine, described by authorities in Kyiv as a “criminal mastermind”, has died following a bombing in central Moscow, according to Russian state media.

Armen Sarkisyan died Monday at a Moscow hospital from injuries sustained in an explosion in an upmarket residential complex in the capital city, TASS quoted the medical services as saying. The Russian Investigative Committee later confirmed Sarkisyan’s death, stating that “despite the assistance provided, one of the victims died in a medical facility.”

Sarkisyan, also known by nickname “Armen Gorlovsky” after Horlivka (Gorlovka in Russian) the eastern Ukrainian town he is from, founded the separatist Arbat Battalion fighting in the region. Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence described him as a “well-known criminal mastermind” who became the “supervisor” of prisons across Russia and occupied territories of Ukraine in November 2022.  .  .  .

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/03/europe/armen-sarkisyan-bomb-death-moscow-intl-latam/index.html



Good riddance.  Another war criminal on the way to hell.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1557 on: February 03, 2025, 03:11:18 pm »
Russia oil trade to China, India stalls as sanctions drive up shipping costs

Siyi Liu, Chen Aizhu and Nidhi Verma  |  January 28, 2025  |  1:13 AM EST


SINGAPORE, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Trade for March-loading Russian oil in top buyer Asia has stalled as a wide price gap between buyers and sellers emerged in China after costs for chartering tankers unaffected by U.S. sanctions jumped, according to traders and shipping data.

Washington imposed fresh sanctions on Jan. 10 targeting Russia's oil supply chain, causing tanker freight rates to soar as some buyers and ports in China and India steered clear of sanctioned ships.

Offers for March Russian ESPO Blend crude exported from the Pacific port of Kozmino jumped to premiums of $3-$5 a barrel to ICE Brent on a delivered ex-ship basis (DES) to China after freight rates for an Aframax tanker on the route surged by several million dollars, three traders familiar with the grade said.

Prior to the January sanctions, robust winter demand and firming prices for rival grades from Iran sent spot premiums for ESPO Blend crude to China rising to close to $2 a barrel, the highest since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, the aftermath of which had sent discounts to as deep as $6.  .  .  .

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-oil-trade-china-india-stalls-sanctions-drive-up-shipping-costs-2025-01-28/
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1559 on: February 03, 2025, 03:31:23 pm »
Russia oil trade to China, India stalls as sanctions drive up shipping costs

Siyi Liu, Chen Aizhu and Nidhi Verma  |  January 28, 2025  |  1:13 AM EST


SINGAPORE, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Trade for March-loading Russian oil in top buyer Asia has stalled as a wide price gap between buyers and sellers emerged in China after costs for chartering tankers unaffected by U.S. sanctions jumped, according to traders and shipping data.

Washington imposed fresh sanctions on Jan. 10 targeting Russia's oil supply chain, causing tanker freight rates to soar as some buyers and ports in China and India steered clear of sanctioned ships.

Offers for March Russian ESPO Blend crude exported from the Pacific port of Kozmino jumped to premiums of $3-$5 a barrel to ICE Brent on a delivered ex-ship basis (DES) to China after freight rates for an Aframax tanker on the route surged by several million dollars, three traders familiar with the grade said.

Prior to the January sanctions, robust winter demand and firming prices for rival grades from Iran sent spot premiums for ESPO Blend crude to China rising to close to $2 a barrel, the highest since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, the aftermath of which had sent discounts to as deep as $6.  .  .  .

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-oil-trade-china-india-stalls-sanctions-drive-up-shipping-costs-2025-01-28/

My bet is Trump is using tariffs as a carrot for China to decouple from Russia to further isolating them. And why they only got slapped with 10%.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1560 on: February 03, 2025, 03:34:59 pm »
UN report: Dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war killed

3rd February 2025, 5:56 p.m.


Kiev (dpa) - The UN Human Rights Office complains of a sharp increase in the killing of captured Ukrainian soldiers by the Russian army. Since the end of August, the human rights observation mission in the Ukraine The office announced 79 executions in 24 cases. Many Ukrainians who surrendered or were in the hands of the Russians were shot on the spot.

The mission therefore also documented that an injured and out of action Russian soldier was killed by Ukrainian forces.

According to its own statements, the UN office analyzed video and film material from Ukrainian and Russian sources and interviewed witnesses. The time and place of the incidents indicated that such shootings occurred primarily where Russian troops advanced on their offensive. The reports were classified as credible.

The actions are long verified
This means a sharp increase compared to earlier periods, a spokesman for the observation mission said on request. The verification of such acts takes a long time. Between December 2023 and August 2024, 13 incidents were confirmed in which 30 Ukrainian military personnel were killed.  .  .  .

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ukraine-krieg-un-bericht-dutzende-ukrainische-kriegsgefangene-getoetet-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-250203-930-364406
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Re: Ukraine 5
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1562 on: February 03, 2025, 06:07:01 pm »

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1564 on: February 03, 2025, 07:45:45 pm »
Who gets Crimea?

The Ottoman Empire Turkey.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1566 on: February 03, 2025, 08:36:31 pm »
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1567 on: February 03, 2025, 08:46:29 pm »
Who's going to do this.

The world put an end to the German and Japanese empires. The world will sooner or later put an end to Russia.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1568 on: February 03, 2025, 08:47:50 pm »
That's what Russia itself said.

When the Soviet union imploded in 1991, Russia signed a peace treaty with the newly-independent Ukraine, promising to recognize its sovereignty and borders - including Crimea. In return, Ukraine gave up their nukes. Russia freely signed that treaty, nobody put a gun to their head.

And, the Treaty was still in effect on Feb. 24, 2022, when Putin invaded without any provocation.

2014. The Russian war to conquer Ukraine started in 2014.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1569 on: February 03, 2025, 09:03:19 pm »
2014. The Russian war to conquer Ukraine started in 2014.

True.  Right after Yanukovych was given his walking papers.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1570 on: February 03, 2025, 09:04:41 pm »
2014. The Russian war to conquer Ukraine started in 2014.

You are correct Megan, my apologies. We often forget about that part.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1571 on: February 04, 2025, 08:14:42 am »

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Re: Ukraine 5
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1573 on: February 04, 2025, 09:12:47 am »

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1886695400532222354


Most likely, South Korean intel are translating unencrypted radio transmissions from the Kursk region.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1574 on: February 04, 2025, 09:13:17 am »
You are correct Megan, my apologies. We often forget about that part.

Not your fault. The Russian propagandists and their detestable apologists like to memory hole the fact of their failed eleven year long war of imperial aggression.
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