Mamoulian War

No, tanks is not much taboo, than logistic and mechanical issue. Poland was able to give Ukraine 200 tanks, because they were all Soviet Ear tanks, and Ukraine has already very big repair/mechanical/service infrastructure, to take care of them. On the other hand, giving few hundred NATO manufactured tanks would require not only training for riding it, but also training for servicing them, and in many cases, that would need thenpresence of NATO trainers in Ukraine. Few dozens HIMARS, CEZARs, Zuzanas, or PH2000 can be serviced outside of UA. Which is already done in Poland and Slovakia, and most likely Romania as well. For hundreds of tanks, IMO that would be bordering with unsustainability for logistics, unless as I’ve said, NATO people would be present in Ukraine. Which could be seen as direct involvement and escallation. I bet, that NATO is already working on solving that, but unless Russia would cross the red line tomorrow, I do not see to happen that overnight.

Very interesting interview woth the only Russian diplomat, who stepped down in protest against invasion of Ukraine, with some insights into Kremlin background. By Deutsche Welle.

An article taken from BBC - interview with Russian soldier who was in the Bucha as well, and how he left the front few months later. Currently being recalled to the front again. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/28/7369511/

Some Norwegians already demanded that NATO to say, that destroying their pipelines would be an automatic Article 5.

18 more HIMARS going to Ukraine as a response to mobilization and “referenda”.

A little bit of insight on how Gazprom handles things in Siberia in the last few years

Some countries are saying, they are running out of equipment, some have started new production as soon, as lend lease and a lot of money was promised to Ukraine, to cover their arm expenditure.

Oh yeah, exporting the inflation worldwide... well it seems it is also a part of the plan how to liquidate Russian's profits Some people were speaking about it few months ago already...

Oh yeah Kinzhal, the epitome of Ruskaya Bolshaya Tekhnika... https://eurasiantimes.com/russian-hypersonic-missile-kinzhal-fired-from-mig-31-fighter/

And as much as we love to speak, who is in deeper **** now, we all kind of forgetting about China… IMHO The invasion cost them much more than EU. We’ll see how long they will take it from behind, before they manage to do some interferring action.

@Darkpriest I understand your worries, but Thankfully, not being able to afford to give much more ‘aid’ did not stop the allies from providing the aid to Soviet Union against Hitler, else many Slavs on this board would not be commenting on this board these days So far, the West got the memo… Doing nothing would in the end cost us much more. The extremists, nationalists and neonazis would rise to power anyway, just with much bigger flow of money to fund their collaboration from Russia… Our family lived under their boots for 41 years, and we do not want to experience forced evictions and jailing on daily basis again

I bet Ukrainian people would do anything to be able to worry about life under an underperforming economy instead of living under Nuclear threats and ongoing genicide…

From mobilization to POW in 6 days. Probably a WR.

And a super expensive hit at Dnepr river in Kherson Oblast

Google translate of current energy situation in EU and Slovakia from Slovak Data Crunchers from 1 day ago: source: https://www.facebook.com/databezpatosu/ “OVERVIEW OF ENERGY k . SEPTEMBER EUR/USD EXCHANGE: We have expanded the table and in the last line you can find the development of the EUR to USD exchange rate. All energy raw materials are quoted in USD and therefore a 20% year-on-year exchange rate drop is in itself very bad news and the trend is still unfavorable for the EU (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EURUSD=X/) GAS STOCKS: We have also added the status of gas storages in the EU. The absolutely fantastic news is 87.4% occupancy yesterday and an increase of 9% over the last month and 2% over the last week (https://gas.kyos.com/gas/eu) DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAST WEEK: The price of oil, both BRENT and URAL, dropped significantly. The Urals are lower today than they were a year ago Finally, following the increase in production capacities (MOL started) in the refineries, the price of diesel fell below 1.80. Gasoline is stable, but in the next few days both types of fuel will certainly drop further. Production at OMV is to start at the beginning of October. Gas reserves increased by 2 billion m3, France is at 96%, Germany at 91%, Italy and the Netherlands are at 89%, Slovakia reached 87%. Stocks were by no means this high last year, and the EU aimed for such high values by the end of October. The development is very good and soon the stacks will be full. The price of gas fell to less than half of the maximum values like this a month ago. This happened despite the fact that just a month ago, the flow through Nordstream I was stopped and there should have been less gas. It's not like that. Russia delivers about 8% of EU imports on a daily basis and it is 1/5 of the deliveries from previous years. The price of "base load" electricity also dropped to less than half of the maximum values like this a month ago. In the EU, French nuclear reactors started up after repairs (+8GW), the wind is starting to blow in Western and Northern Europe (+25GW in the short term) and the output of hydropower plants has increased due to the increase in precipitation. Coal-fired power plants (+8GW) also started up after the rise in the level of the Rhine and after the resumption of coal supplies in Germany. We put a heart here, because most of the fundamental factors are developing WELL and prices are falling. This is due to the increase in supply and sometimes in combination with a decrease in demand. This applies to oil, fuel, gas and electricity. The exception is the EUR/USD exchange rate, which remains a pain.”

Ukraine has marine drones able to get from Odessa to Sevastopol, without loss of a signal. So I presume other countries could have something similar for underwater use as well.

That is the issue with cookies. Happend to me on weekend. For me ot solved to accept Social Media cookies and reload the page.

Because they still have “friends” in which eyes, they have to remain strong… like Eritrea, North Korea or Mali…

The third drafting officer was shot and killed yesterday. According to explanation, which I got from Ukrainian guy, in Russia you get max 15 years for homicide and can be pardoned after 7. So for a few guys who rather go to jail than to Ukraine, it might be a way, how to get lower sentence…

Insight to Russian logistics connected to mobilisation…

It will probably not get embedded. People are mocking the referenda. Netherlands have started referendum about annexation of Russia with English subtitles https://www.mojevideo.sk/e/4yvq Slovak video provider ^

@xzar_monty Same in Crimea Tatars and cities with Armenian minorities. Tatars are about 80% of all conscripted men fromCrimea. The Armenians are even more blantantly misused. In a city, which name I do not remember again, the are approximately 3% of the local demographics. But the conscripted men from this city are 90% Armenians.

We’ll see. The current war changed the minds of a lot of Pro-Russian politicians. Prime example would be Czech president Zeman, who had very strong rhetoric about some western actions in the past, and had a lot of praise for doing things the russian way. That all changed on February 24, when he strongly condemned the russian aggression and voiced support to Ukraine and heavy sanctions against Russia, and he did not change his mind until now.

The thing with Italy is, that the most powerful party of the right wing coalition, led by the lady, which name I do not remember is, that she, despite being close to neonazi, was always vocal, that the Ukraine will get the same support from Italy as under Draghi. Of course Berlusconi and Salvini will try to force the change of her mind, but that’s what only time will tell. And Italy being Italy, we might see another elections in few months…