The Ukraine war thread
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@Jolly said in The Ukraine war thread:
I'd concentrate on the refineries. Oil and gas are Russia's economic lifeblood.
Good point. Somewhere, perhaps in a link I posted a while ago, there was a comment that Ukraine's attacks on the refineries has cut Russian oil processing by 13% or so.
I also saw a story that the Biden administration has cautioned that Ukraine should not strike targets outside its borders.
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Russian tank attack crushed near Adviivka
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:
Gotta wonder how it evaded Russian radar for 800 miles.
Interesting:
Ukrainians just might have hit something more than a routine weapons factory. Could have a negative effect on the Kremlin in a large predominantly Muslim region.
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This article sums up my views on Ukraine pretty well.
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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Meanwhile inside Russia, the normalization of
devianceviolence continues to grow: -
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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More on bridge collapse:
According to independent Russian media outlet Meduza, Russian authorities announced plans to carry out repairs of the bridge’s road surface in 2018 and planned to spend around nine million rubles ($97,000) on the job.
https://kyivindependent.com/bridge-collapses-in-russias-smolensk-region-killing-1-injuring-5/
Perhaps the budget for repairs was diverted or stolen by management. After all, it is Russia where these incidents are taking place.
Curious coincidence though that someone managed to catch it on video at the very moment the bridge catastrophically failed. Those bridges over railroad yards are commonplace in Russian cities. Wonder what made that particular bridge so special around that particular time?
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@Jolly said in The Ukraine war thread:
I'd concentrate on the refineries. Oil and gas are Russia's economic lifeblood.
Maybe not that much:
However, Vakulenko noted that this may not impact the state budget because Russia can compensate for decreases in refined petroleum product exports by increasing its export of crude oil. Additionally, the companies that own the refineries continue to pay an oil extraction tax despite the attacks.
“Some people think that by attacking oil refineries, the related export revenue disappears, but that is not true. It just turns into revenue from crude oil export,” Vakulenko told The Moscow Times.
