Mamoulian War

About the Stoltenberg’s hint at Ukraine’s future in NATO. I am 100% sure, I have read this morning some articles claiming that Hungarian media confirmed the Hungarian Yes despite Orban’s “fake” outrage. Unfortunatelly I am not able to find the links anymore, so take this as a rumour for now.

Oh, they still do pursue their goal of denacification. Russian state press has published article on their hoals recently, and it puts Mein Kampf to shame… They plan to “cleanse” the hatred out of “people formerly known as Ukrainians”…

Here is the only safe link, I have found about the ”news” above. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/17/7398225/

One Slovak journalist have published this today (Google Translated).

The fourth of milestones in this year has been reached... It took some time, due to me being much more busy, and spending more time with Assetto Corsa Competizione, but the main story boss of Tales of Arise on my PS4 has been finally beaten today. I have been very positively surprised of the game, and I have enjoyed it much more, than the JRPGs I have played in last few years. It's probably only on par with Tales of Berseria. I have enjoyed the story full of plot twists and surprises, and had my fun with the decent gameplay as well. Although, it was simplified a lot compared to older Tales of games, it was still good enough, to not drag the enjoyment down. The only negative, which I have encountered, was around the time, when I have arrived at Niez to fight against the fourth Renan Lord. At that point, the story progression hit soft experience wall, probably to incentivize purchase of XP and money DLCs. So once in a while, in order to progress further, I had to start to go after all possible sidequests and needed to do little bit of extra grinding for money, as the consumables were hard to find and cost arm and leg at the shops. Still it was much more manageable than some Ubisoft games, and I have never felt that I was forced to do it. It just made the fights with bosses less stressful.

This one is pretty interesting. Prigozhin sugested, that Russia should stop war and declare all objectives of SMO as fulfilled. 🤔

It didn’t take long, and Girkin himself denied this assumptiom. He is definitelly protected by someone very high.

Seems like Girkin has used up all of his free passes, and they started to “investigate” him for discrediting of world’s second army 🙈

A little bit more about Russian military recruitment 🤷‍♂️

Assetto Corsa Competizione will have new DLC released next week. Three new GT3 Cars (Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche) and a new track in Valencia. It’s track number 23

First arbitration of Ukraine against Russian Federation in Hague has concluded. Ukraine’s Naftogaz was awarded 5 billion USD for the economical damage, they incired after Russia annexed Crimea. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/13/7397683/

Ben Hodges on the other hand, predicts UA getting close to Crimea, if the West gets more consistent with the help. Only the time will tell Many people expected limited gains even last year. And UA has surprised everyone, with their Kharkiv liberation (including me 😛). RU were already appointing collaborators to "referendums" there. Few analysts have said, that Kherson was expected to be liberated only this year

Another milestone has been achieved during the invasion. 👀

Now, IIRC, there was a similar “leak of secret documents” before landing in Normandy in WW2. Do I remember it correct? 😁

Found it on GOG as well 😁 https://www.gog.com/en/game/zoria_age_of_shattering And the Prologue is already available for free 😁

We’ll see in a month or two, how this all will work out. 🤷‍♂️ Ukraine needs to get more land back to be able to get as much funding as today in the months to come. The more land they grab, the more likely will be the West to fund it more.

And it is annonced on GOG as well. YAY!

Unfortunately not able to open the article due to paywall, but here is the official stance of Ukrainian General staff on leaks about counteroffensive 🤷‍♂️ https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/6/7396754/

A little in-depth look at Russian military recruitment ads, which were shared here some time ago. They are getting even more ridiculous, and Moscow Times has they looks more like NATO propaganda mocking Russia 😄 https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/escape-your-worthless-life-join-putins?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

After some small breaks now and there and casually playing Assetto Corsa Competizione on Low Fuel Motorsport portal, I am still playing some Tales of Arise. I think I am already in the final dungeon, but for the first time, I have encountered a small need to do some grinding, wither for money or for XP. As some of the enemies there are little bit to tough for my party. So I am flying between Rena, Dahna, Lenegis and Daeq Fazol, trying to get some more quest finished, visiting training grounds and fishing with Kisara And I am again at my typical bad habit, that as soon as I suspect, the game is closing to the finish, I am avoiding to play it, as I do not want it to end 😄 Silly me 😄 Anyway, we have Easter holiday soon, so I hope I can move the game little bit further on Friday, and then I'll see what should I play next 🤷‍♂️

I think, this is another message, which is more likely aimed to domestic audience than to international. On 1st April, they started another round of conscription and they want to get as much as 400k more unfortunate Russian to the meatgrinder. And rhetoric as this, is said to boost the patriotism as much as possible from the lethargic people at home, who just want to be left alone so they can get drunk 🤷‍♂️

On April the 1st, the Club of Angry Patriots have been established in RU, here are the leading members and their backgrounds. They hate Prigozhin and are not having nice words about Putin, but they are still saying, they do not plan to overthrow the government (“yet”). Still a man can wonder, why none of them has fallen out of the window yet, despite them openly “Discrediting the Russian Army”. Probably someone very powerful is behind the marionette strings 🤷‍♂️

And this is a reaction after the incident in Russian TV.

A background of this guy, or who he really was 🤷‍♂️