Those defending Mariupol are tough as nails, has to be said. So weird for me to type that from the comfort of my computer while they're in a plant battling it out with overwhelming Russian forces. Bizarre.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Why do the Russians have such a hardon for Mariupol. What makes it so significant for them?
Vaguely reminiscent of the Battle of Stalingrad except in reverse. The Nazis had pushed through all the way to the Volga and one of the main pockets of Soviet resistance was a large factory area.
Take a map and look where Mariopol, Crimea and the borders of Ukraine and Russia are...
In the link is an explanation from the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60825226
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The first reply on the tweet shows it's fake. Why would factory have gardens???
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The weapons that we are sending to Ukraine, are these coming from the existing defence budget? Or are we in effect selling them to Ukraine, or is it something tht tax payer will pay seperately?
Long thread(s) here, but reports of a Ukrainian counterattack east from Kharkiv that would seriously threaten Russian N/S supply lines out of Belgorod. He clarifies below report was from Ukrainian official and not the armed forces. Good news if true.
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The tax payer pays the military industrial complex. Ukraine pays it back in the future if/when they can likely by deals such as allowing Shell etc to mine for gas etc. People who own Shell/military complex are the same people. Some elites somewhere
How is this allowed to be posted? Apparently it’s from a journo who had a chat with a Ukranian official so it’s nothing that should officially be known
Do you mean that it's giving information to the enemy? If so, I'm sure the Russians already know if and where they're being attacked.
Because if the settlements were retaken part of it has already happened, and the looming threat to Russian supply lines is just an obvious inference.
The correct answer is always that tax payer will be paying for it, rich elites will be benefiting from it.
But there’s a bit of strategy there as well added in to what they’re now trying to achieve.
I dunno, seems a bit borderline to me especially when its sort of off the record
Wouldn't it be some sort of set up similar to the USA involvement in WW2?
Wasn't it mid 2000's when the UK had made its last payment to USA?
We can only hope that the Russian Army is getting their Intel off of Twitter
I think we have to accept they know what they wish to release, and have their reasons for it. It wouldn't be unfeasible for this to be thrown out there to mislead the Russian forces. Or it could just be too late to make any real difference.
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That's a really big storm it sank in.
I wonder who took those photos of the ship and how they ended up in the hands of the Ukrainians? I'd have thought that only Russian ships would be be allowed to get close to the scene of the disaster, in which case someone Russian leaked them.
Or maybe the Turkish coastguard was involved in rescuing some of the survivors?
Or maybe the Turkish coastguard was involved in rescuing some of the survivors?
Novaya Gazeta claims to have seen photographs sent from one of the sailors to his mum. He also apparently told her about conditions on the ship, severed limbs and such. If that got out, there's no reason someone on another ship couldn't have taken photos and sent it to their mum, who showed them to media.
I believe a Turkish merchant ship responded to an SOS or some such, they would surely all have pulled out their phones for photos.
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Anyone have a link to that twitter thread about Russia actually being low on tanks someone posted? I found this:
"According to an open-source intelligence report that appeared on the Russian Lenta website, the Russian Army has 2,685 main battle tanks (MBT) in its active inventory. While that still is a significant number, reportedly only about 1,200 of those tanks—roughly 45 percent—are actually new or upgraded tanks produced in 2000 or after.
This recent analysis was in stark contrast to previous reports from the state-run Sputnik news agency, which said that Russia had almost twelve thousand tanks at its disposal."
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-running-out-tanks-170901
"According to an open-source intelligence report that appeared on the Russian Lenta website, the Russian Army has 2,685 main battle tanks (MBT) in its active inventory. While that still is a significant number, reportedly only about 1,200 of those tanks—roughly 45 percent—are actually new or upgraded tanks produced in 2000 or after.
This recent analysis was in stark contrast to previous reports from the state-run Sputnik news agency, which said that Russia had almost twelve thousand tanks at its disposal."
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-running-out-tanks-170901
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Unsettling morning when you wake up to breaking news that your wife”s hometown is being attacked with missiles again. Still very unclear what and where has been hit, but mother-in-law says she could hear each explosion.
Who cares? It sank and is not in use anymore
If David moyes had a Russian brother
For those that think Russian ruble has recovered look at the buy/sell spread against USD at the bank branches that began selling (still with restrictions) USD again from today. The official exchange rate is artificial as feck since there’s no liquidity in the market.
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She wouldn't say that if it were her free speech being censored, if she faced being sent to to jail for up to 15 years for speaking non-allowed speech, and if the information being blocked/controlled was the kind of "information" that she likes.
Such people are hypocrites. They want dictatorship, but only if the dictator's decrees pander to their personal prejudices and desires. She'd soon be calling for an end to the dictator if the decrees specified the legalisation of gay marriage, the abandonment of Russia's nuclear weapons, and an intention to apply for NATO membership.
The second pic seems excessive, probably due to dried up liquidity, but 100 ruble spread is basically what I expected anyways. The banks and other financial institutions are not in a rush to sell their dollar reserves and certainly not for anything close to what people believe is the current dollar value of the ruble.
I had the same discussion at work yesterday. It sank, how it sank is doesn't matter just as long as it can't be used against civilians.
It might have been the flag ship of the Russian Black Sea fleet, but it’s not the Black Sea fleet. There are many other vessels that are still operational.
How it sank matters in assessing the capabilities of Ukrainian coastal, anti-ship defences. Which in turn might change the planning or tactics of the Russian Navy, with regards to how it approaches the Ukrainian cost and cities like Odessa.
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