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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 »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on February 03, 2025, 11:09:13 am
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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« Reply #1552 on: February 03, 2025, 01:21:50 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on February 03, 2025, 09:18:04 am
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.

"Liberators and Protectors"?  Are you still standing by that, @Right_in_Virginia ?













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« Reply #1553 on: February 03, 2025, 01:26:12 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on February 03, 2025, 10:52:33 am
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 »
Quote from: Hoodat on February 03, 2025, 01:26:12 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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« 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 #1558 on: February 03, 2025, 03:14:52 pm »
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1559 on: February 03, 2025, 03:31:23 pm »
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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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« 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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« Reply #1564 on: February 03, 2025, 07:45:45 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on February 03, 2025, 10:52:33 am
Who gets Crimea?

The Ottoman Empire Turkey.
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Re: Ukraine 5
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« Reply #1566 on: February 03, 2025, 08:36:31 pm »
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« Reply #1567 on: February 03, 2025, 08:46:29 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on February 03, 2025, 11:07:11 am
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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« Reply #1568 on: February 03, 2025, 08:47:50 pm »
Quote from: Canuck Conservative on February 03, 2025, 01:17:04 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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« Reply #1569 on: February 03, 2025, 09:03:19 pm »
Quote from: MeganC on February 03, 2025, 08:47:50 pm
2014. The Russian war to conquer Ukraine started in 2014.

True.  Right after Yanukovych was given his walking papers.
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« Reply #1570 on: February 03, 2025, 09:04:41 pm »
Quote from: MeganC on February 03, 2025, 08:47:50 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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« 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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« Reply #1574 on: February 04, 2025, 09:13:17 am »
Quote from: Canuck Conservative on February 03, 2025, 09:04:41 pm
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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« Reply #1580 on: February 04, 2025, 04:34:42 pm »

https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1886880321854992390





It looks like a Mk-84 (2000#) bomb with a standard JDAM (not JDAM-ER) kit.
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« Reply #1583 on: February 04, 2025, 09:50:13 pm »
Forget Mariupol.

With Trump's new expansion thinking, I say we encourage the Russian people to depose Putin and his regime, and make it the 52nd state of the USA, right behind Canada.  Why think small with designs on Gaza for annexation.  I say, seize the largest country in the world.

In fact, with 200 countries in the world, let's offer every country in the world the opportunity to become part of the USA?  How many countries when asked would gladly say, yes, sign us up.  I would bet there would be a few.
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« Reply #1584 on: February 04, 2025, 09:57:56 pm »
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« Reply #1588 on: February 04, 2025, 10:19:33 pm »
Russian advance on Ukraine slows by half as troop recruitment crisis deepens

Despite continued territorial gains near Kupiansk and Pokrovsk, Russia faces mounting difficulties replacing combat losses as recruitment efforts stall and previously mobilized reserves deplete.

Olena Mukhina  |  03/02/2025

Military expert Yevhen Dykyi told Radio NV that Russia’s advance in Ukraine has slowed significantly over the past month.

As of early February 2025, the military situation in various regions of Ukraine and Russia’s Kursk remains fluid, with both sides engaged in continued clashes. Ukrainian forces are focusing on reinforcing defensive positions and integrating new technologies, while Russian forces persist in their offensive operations across multiple fronts.

Despite the reduced pace, Russian forces continue to seize Ukrainian territory, leveraging their vast manpower. The most vulnerable areas remain Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast and Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.

However, Dykyi highlighted a critical issue for the Russian military—severe difficulties in replacing wounded and killed soldiers.

“While the intensity of fighting remains high, Russia’s advance has slowed by about 50%. Their forces are gradually depleting, but the key word is gradually. They mobilized a massive number of troops, but replacing losses has become a major challenge. Recruitment has nearly stopped,” he explained.

Dykyi noted that Russia still has some reserves from the 2022 mobilization, but most of those troops have already been lost. The Russian army now relies primarily on contract soldiers drawn by financial incentives.  .  .  .

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/02/03/russian-advance-on-ukraine-slows-by-half-as-troop-recruitment-crisis-deepens/
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« Reply #1590 on: February 04, 2025, 10:32:19 pm »
Russia to Trump: Back off Ukraine’s rare earths

The Kremlin delivers a warning to the U.S. president over his military aid proposal for Kyiv.

Elena Giordano  |  February 4, 2025  |  1:07 pm CET

A senior Russian official slammed United States President Donald Trump's proposal that he could militarily aid Ukraine in exchange for access to its valuable mineral rights.

"If we call things as they are, this is a proposal to buy help — in other words, not to give it unconditionally, or for some other reasons, but specifically to provide it on a commercial basis," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday.

"It would be better of course for the assistance to not be provided at all, as that would contribute to the end of this conflict," he added, about a war that was instigated by Russia.

Trump announced Monday that he was “looking to do a deal with Ukraine” in which the U.S. would provide military aid for the war against Russian President Vladimir Putin in exchange for Ukraine’s "rare earths."

"We’re investing hundreds of billions of dollars. They have great rare earths, and I want security of the rare earths," he said in Washington, adding that Ukraine is "willing to do it."

Ukraine has strategic reserves of titanium, lithium, graphite and uranium, which is crucial for its future economic stability  .  .  .

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« Reply #1591 on: February 04, 2025, 11:04:13 pm »
Apparently the NK troops haven't been seen on the battlefield since mid-January.

NK hadn't had any combat experience for 70 years, and there were huge language and operational problems ... 1/3 of the troops NK sent (12,000) are already casualties.

Even Kim probably had enough of that nonsense. Putin can waste more of his own troops, he's done such a great job already.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1592 on: February 05, 2025, 07:59:45 am »
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1593 on: February 05, 2025, 08:18:05 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on February 04, 2025, 10:32:19 pm
Russia to Trump: Back off Ukraine’s rare earths

The Kremlin delivers a warning to the U.S. president over his military aid proposal for Kyiv.
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Absolutely brilliant!

This also impacts China as they have stopped selling rare earth minerals to the U.S.

The pootin puffers are hardest hit.

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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1594 on: February 05, 2025, 08:22:17 am »

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1887056437312151658

FTA: According to the publication, no more than 48 hours pass between the release of the drone and the strike.

So, within 48 hours after they roll off the assembly line, the drones are enroute to their target.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1595 on: February 05, 2025, 08:28:17 am »
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1596 on: February 05, 2025, 08:47:46 am »
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1597 on: February 05, 2025, 09:14:01 am »
Quote from: FtrPilot on February 05, 2025, 08:47:46 am

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1887133854189703290

It doesn't look like that tank had any ammo. There weren't any secondary explosions as it burned.
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Re: Ukraine 5
« Reply #1598 on: February 05, 2025, 10:16:32 am »
Quote from: DB on February 05, 2025, 09:14:01 am
It doesn't look like that tank had any ammo. There weren't any secondary explosions as it burned.

Also, there were a lot of "passengers" (infantry) on the tank that abandoned the tank after the first hit.

Perhaps the tank was exiting the fight.
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« Reply #1599 on: February 05, 2025, 10:40:49 am »
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