Fires in Russia
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Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Fires in Russia:
@Mik said in Fires in Russia:
Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
Yeah, about 3,000 km from Ukraine.
I've seen many people thinking this may be sabotage by Russians opposed to the
special military operationwar."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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@Aqua-Letifer said in Fires in Russia:
@Mik said in Fires in Russia:
Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
Yeah, about 3,000 km from Ukraine.
I've seen many people thinking this may be sabotage by Russians opposed to the
special military operationwar.@George-K said in Fires in Russia:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fires in Russia:
@Mik said in Fires in Russia:
Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
Yeah, about 3,000 km from Ukraine.
I've seen many people thinking this may be sabotage by Russians opposed to the
special military operationwar.I honestly think the Russian people might have the most agency here. If Putin has to deal with significant in-fighting in addition to WWIII, that might be enough to stop this.
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I wonder how many of these fires, like at a mall, are just normal occurrences. They may be portrayed as more than what they are. The munitions depots and such are of course a different story.
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I wonder how many of these fires, like at a mall, are just normal occurrences. They may be portrayed as more than what they are. The munitions depots and such are of course a different story.
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What the Hell Is Going On in Russia?
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The weirdness got going in a normal way, with reports earlier this week of Ukraine’s “embrace of the British special forces model” to strike targets inside Russia that the regular Army (or even Ukraine’s inadequate Air Force) could never reach.
The Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan reported that a major oil depot was hit on Monday in Bryansk, more than 60 miles inside Russia’s border with Ukraine. That’s outside the range of most of Ukraine’s drones.
While interesting, it isn’t exactly a “what the hell?” moment. British troops have been training Ukraine’s special operators since Russia annexed Ukraine and armed insurgents in Ukraine’s Donbas region back in 2014....
Last week in Tver, about 100 miles northwest of Moscow, a Russian missile research facility caught fire, killing 17. Russian authorities claimed the blaze was an accident, but they claimed the same thing at first about Moskva.
At nearly the same time, Russia’s largest chemical plant burned to the ground in Kineshma, about 150 miles east of Moscow.
On Wednesday, Newsweek reported on “mysterious explosions throughout Russia,” including an ammunition depot in Belgorod, well north of Kyiv. Almost at the same time, nearly 200 miles away in Voronezh, more explosions were reported in a neighborhood near Russia’s Baltimor military airfield. And in Kursk, about halfway in between Belgorod and Voronezh, more explosions were reported.
That would be a busy night even for the special forces of a much larger country than Ukraine.
Then this bit of weirdness happened in downtown Moscow on Wednesday:
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On Friday, a Russian train engine derailed in the Bryansk region that was “reportedly traveling on the same line used by Moscow to send equipment and ammunition to Russian troops in Ukraine.” The track had been somehow damaged before the derailment.
Also last week — and this one slipped completely under my radar — the fifth of five military enlistment offices in Moscow was hit by arsonists since the start of the war.
And:
Meanwhile, another oddity: Russian executives turning up dead in apparent murder-suicides with their families. That fate recently befell former executives from energy giant Gazprombank and Novatek, Russia’s largest independent gas producer. Their deaths are among a number of high-profile oligarch deaths in recent weeks.
So once more, I must ask: What the hell is going on in Russia?
A string of bad luck? Surprisingly effective Ukraine special forces? Popular resistance to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin?
Some combination of all three?
"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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It was suggested to me the the other day that these problems in Russia might actually be caused by interested third parties including NATO countries.
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It was suggested to me the the other day that these problems in Russia might actually be caused by interested third parties including NATO countries.
@LuFins-Dad said in Fires in Russia:
It was suggested to me the the other day that these problems in Russia might actually be caused by interested third parties including NATO countries.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit. Kinda makes sense too.
"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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What the Hell Is Going On in Russia?
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The weirdness got going in a normal way, with reports earlier this week of Ukraine’s “embrace of the British special forces model” to strike targets inside Russia that the regular Army (or even Ukraine’s inadequate Air Force) could never reach.
The Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan reported that a major oil depot was hit on Monday in Bryansk, more than 60 miles inside Russia’s border with Ukraine. That’s outside the range of most of Ukraine’s drones.
While interesting, it isn’t exactly a “what the hell?” moment. British troops have been training Ukraine’s special operators since Russia annexed Ukraine and armed insurgents in Ukraine’s Donbas region back in 2014....
Last week in Tver, about 100 miles northwest of Moscow, a Russian missile research facility caught fire, killing 17. Russian authorities claimed the blaze was an accident, but they claimed the same thing at first about Moskva.
At nearly the same time, Russia’s largest chemical plant burned to the ground in Kineshma, about 150 miles east of Moscow.
On Wednesday, Newsweek reported on “mysterious explosions throughout Russia,” including an ammunition depot in Belgorod, well north of Kyiv. Almost at the same time, nearly 200 miles away in Voronezh, more explosions were reported in a neighborhood near Russia’s Baltimor military airfield. And in Kursk, about halfway in between Belgorod and Voronezh, more explosions were reported.
That would be a busy night even for the special forces of a much larger country than Ukraine.
Then this bit of weirdness happened in downtown Moscow on Wednesday:
...
On Friday, a Russian train engine derailed in the Bryansk region that was “reportedly traveling on the same line used by Moscow to send equipment and ammunition to Russian troops in Ukraine.” The track had been somehow damaged before the derailment.
Also last week — and this one slipped completely under my radar — the fifth of five military enlistment offices in Moscow was hit by arsonists since the start of the war.
And:
Meanwhile, another oddity: Russian executives turning up dead in apparent murder-suicides with their families. That fate recently befell former executives from energy giant Gazprombank and Novatek, Russia’s largest independent gas producer. Their deaths are among a number of high-profile oligarch deaths in recent weeks.
So once more, I must ask: What the hell is going on in Russia?
A string of bad luck? Surprisingly effective Ukraine special forces? Popular resistance to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin?
Some combination of all three?
Also last week — and this one slipped completely under my radar — the fifth of five military enlistment offices in Moscow was hit by arsonists since the start of the war.
I believe I already posted about these draftee enlistment offices in the regions getting torched. Most likely the work of local arsonists opposing the current draft intake. It used to be that you could bribe your son’s way out of the draft. That has not been possible for some years now. Locals therefore resort to vandalism and arson in the hope of delaying or halting the local intake.
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Trust me there is nothing of political let alone military value in Ishim. There are however, a lot of alcoholics.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Fires in Russia:
It was suggested to me the the other day that these problems in Russia might actually be caused by interested third parties including NATO countries.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit. Kinda makes sense too.
@George-K said in Fires in Russia:
@LuFins-Dad said in Fires in Russia:
It was suggested to me the the other day that these problems in Russia might actually be caused by interested third parties including NATO countries.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit. Kinda makes sense too.
@George-K said in Fires in Russia:
@LuFins-Dad said in Fires in Russia:
It was suggested to me the the other day that these problems in Russia might actually be caused by interested third parties including NATO countries.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit. Kinda makes sense too.
Most logical explanation.
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No fire, but, what a coincidence.
MOSCOW, May 1 - RIA Novosti. In the Kursk region, a bridge on a railway freight line partially collapsed, Governor Roman Starovoit said .
“Today, at about 11:20 am, a partial collapse of the bridge structures was discovered on the 67th kilometer of the Sudzha- Sosnovy Bor railway,” the head of the region said in his Telegram channel.
According to the official, there were no casualties as a result of the incident, and there is no threat to the life and health of residents.
Special services are working in the emergency area to establish the causes of the incident.
