Serious stuff in Ukraine

[Landdownunder]

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has blamed a top Russian commander for losing a key town in the annexed Donetsk region to Ukraine, and called for Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons.

And jazz before you call fake saw his address "low level nuclear" not quite sure what that means someone enlighten me.

Who knows outcome for Ukrainian people and commodity markets. Or Russian people as well.

Sickening all round.

Calls for Russian commander to be stripped of position,medals and be ordered to pay for his mistakes in blood on the front line.

Yup this is 2022

[TOM4CWB]

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has blamed a top Russian commander for losing a key town in the annexed Donetsk region to Ukraine, and called for Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons.

And jazz before you call fake saw his address "low level nuclear" not quite sure what that means someone enlighten me.

Who knows outcome for Ukrainian people and commodity markets. Or Russian people as well.

Sickening all round.

Calls for Russian commander to be stripped of position,medals and be ordered to pay for his mistakes in blood on the front line.

Yup this is 2022

185,000 Jews from Ukraine and Russia to Israel… Putin trying to shut down this flow out… now the borders to the only countries allowing Russian men in without Visas Are lined up, backed up… as they escape Putin’s war draft…

Putin losing and retreated his army from one of the most strategic supply transportation hubs to supply the Russian armed forces in the Donetsk region… just after Putin just annexed it Friday…???

The intensity of this war… is increasing exponentially… direct use of nuclear bombs threatened to stop Ukraine’s advances…to retake lost territory… residents welcoming the Ukrainian army back…

Putin is in a corner… Russians are furious…

God help us all…


Open speculation that the grain shipping corridor will soon be closed…expiration is end of October…

PS… Israel reports that Russia agreed to use the Drones just by supplied by Iran… as a condition of supplying them…to use these drones to attack Jews in the Ukraine …as well as the Ukrainian armed forces…

[agstar77]

If something does not give we will be F tt.

[TOM4CWB]

185,000 Jews from Ukraine and Russia to Israel… Putin trying to shut down this flow out… now the borders to the only countries allowing Russian men in without Visas Are lined up, backed up… as they escape Putin’s war draft…

Putin losing and retreated his army from one of the most strategic supply transportation hubs to supply the Russian armed forces in the Donetsk region… just after Putin just annexed it Friday…???

The intensity of this war… is increasing exponentially… direct use of nuclear bombs threatened to stop Ukraine’s advances…to retake lost territory… residents welcoming the Ukrainian army back…

Putin is in a corner… Russians are furious…

God help us all…


Open speculation that the grain shipping corridor will soon be closed…expiration is end of October…

PS… Israel reports that Russia agreed to use the Drones just by supplied by Iran… as a condition of supplying them…to use these drones to attack Jews in the Ukraine …as well as the Ukrainian armed forces…

[sumdumguy]

Geez, nuclear, let’s kick this up a notch - YIKES

[TOM4CWB]

Geez, nuclear, let’s kick this up a notch - YIKES

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/analysis-russias-war-ukraine-reaches-185127456.html

Associated Press
Analysis: Russia's war in Ukraine reaches a critical moment


TAMER FAKAHANY
Fri, September 30, 2022, 12:51 PM
LONDON (AP) — There are moments in history that appear as critical to the world as they are terrifying.

Just this century: the 9/11 attacks in 2001; the U.S. “shock-and-awe″ war on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq two years later; the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 killed millions and upended life; and most recently the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, bringing ruinous war back to Europe.

Friday seemed one of those watershed moments as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties to illegally annex a large swath of eastern and southern Ukraine, like it did with Crimea in 2014.

Coming seven months into the conflict and with near daily nuclear threats by backs-to-the wall Kremlin leaders, Putin chilllingly vowed to protect the newly annexed regions by “all available means.” Almost immediately, Ukraine’s president countered by applying to join the NATO military alliance, setting Russia up to face off against the West.

Any thought that this kind of harrowing brinkmanship had ended with the 1980s when the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and then U.S. President Ronald Reagan eased the Cold War and the specter of nuclear Armageddon, is now gone.

Even with the horror of Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki burned on humanity's collective consciousness, the world finds itself once again contemplating the possible use of nuclear weapons.

After a series of humiliating setbacks on the battlefield, Putin has made it painfully clear that any attack on the newly annexed regions would be construed as an attack on Russia. He would use any means available in his vast arsenal — the nod to nuclear weapons was barely veiled — and wasn’t bluffing, he said.

“We’re in an escalation phase, and Russia now is faced with a series of more extreme choices than before,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, the former U.K. ambassador to Belarus.

Gould-Davies, who is senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said Russia’s attempts to win the war by more moderate means have failed, and Putin is now having to increase the “range and severity of the measures” Russia is taking, including annexation and nuclear threats.

Even as Moscow annexed the four Ukrainian regions in a move that will not be recognized by an overwhelming majority of the world, tens of thousands of Russian men called up to fight in the war were fleeing Russia.:....

[shtferbrains]

News from Ukraine for today.
With a little Putin spin

[biglentil]

[jazz]

Sure is getting serious alright. Zelensky getting liquid.

[fjlip]

That Son of a Bit ch is way worse than our boy king...f'ing CROOK.

poor Ukrainians are blessed with this azz hole like we are...

Always in SAME tee shirt...WTF?

[ajl]

Just contemplating the scenario of the globalists operating as nato 'winning' the war against Russian which is taking place in the Ukraine. First thing would be a purge of the ethnic Russian's in the Donbass killing many and having the rest flee to Russian territory. This has been the goal of the nationalists since 2014. The next thing would be prototypical 'globalist' state being set up although much of that is already in place. Corruption will know no bounds. Going to have to get jabbed in they want you too. They will then be emboldened to expand the war against the people around the world including here in canuckistan.

[TOM4CWB]

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/russia-smuggling-ukrainian-grain-help-041141247.html

Sun, October 2, 2022, 10:11 PM
BEIRUT (AP) — When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying grain stolen by Russia and urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship.

Moscow called the allegation “false and baseless,” and Lebanon’s prosecutor general sided with the Kremlin and declared that the 10,000 tons of barley and wheat flour wasn’t stolen and allowed the ship to unload.

But an investigation by The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” has found the Laodicea, owned by Syria, is part of a sophisticated Russian-run smuggling operation that has used falsified manifests and seaborne subterfuge to steal Ukrainian grain worth at least $530 million — cash that has helped feed President Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

AP used satellite imagery and marine radio transponder data to track three dozen ships making more than 50 voyages carrying grain from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to ports in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and other countries. Reporters reviewed shipping manifests, searched social media posts, and interviewed farmers, shippers and corporate officials to uncover the details of the massive smuggling operation.

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This story is part of an AP/FRONTLINE investigation that includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience and and upcoming documentary, “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes,” which premieres 10/9c Oct. 25 on PBS.

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The ongoing theft, which legal experts say is a potential war crime, is being carried out by wealthy businessmen and state-owned companies in Russia and Syria, some of them already facing financial sanctions from the United States and European Union.

Meanwhile, the Russian military has attacked farms, grain silos and shipping facilities still under Ukrainian control with artillery and air strikes, destroying food, driving up prices and reducing the flow of grain from a country long known as the breadbasket of Europe.

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While there is little evidence Ukrainians themselves are under threat of famine, Russia’s war of aggression has starved its economy of export revenue. In 2021, before Russia’s most recent invasion, Ukraine exported $5 billion worth of wheat, corn and vegetable oils — primarily in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The high prices haven’t helped Ukrainian farmers in the occupied regions, who have been forced to sell their harvests to Russian-controlled companies for half of what they would have been paid before the war, according to Fedorov, the Melitopol mayor. If a farmer refuses, he said, the Russians just take the grain anyway, paying nothing.

“It is a very low price, and our farmers don’t understand what they can do,” said Fedorov, who evacuated to Ukrainian-controlled territory after the invasion but keeps in touch with people back home.

Ukrainian agricultural holding company HarvEast reported that Russians had taken about 200,000 metric tons of grain, which CEO Dmitry Skornyakov said cost his company about $50 million. He said his employees in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol reported the grain was trucked across the border into Russia.

“To steal it, they just drive to Rostov and Taganrog, small Russian ports, then mix it with the Russian grain and say that that is Russian grain,” Skornyakov said.

The same appears to be happening at sea.

Satellite imagery and transponder data shows large cargo ships anchored off the Russian coast rendezvousing with smaller ships shuttling grain from both Crimean and Russian ports, obscuring the true origin of the cargo. Those larger ships then carried the blended grain to Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Daniel, the former naval officer whose company tracks ships globally, said ship-to-ship transfers of cargo at sea are rare, and are usually tied to smuggling. “When you’re a sanctioned country, you have a much more limited market,” he said. “So if you don’t blend your cargoes or if you don’t hide your origin, you probably have a much smaller market and therefore much lower price.”

High demand for grain makes it easy for Russians to find buyers, said Oleg Nivievskyi, assistant professor and vice president for economics education at the Kyiv School of Economics.

“There will be no problem to sell the stolen grain from Ukraine whatsoever,” he said.

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Turkey’s role in the theft of Ukrainian grain is particularly sensitive because the NATO country has tried to play the role of mediator between the two warring countries.

Turkey helped broker an agreement between Russia and Ukraine in July to allow both countries to export grain and fertilizer through safe corridors in the Black Sea. The deal did not address the grain Russia has taken from occupied areas. In the last two months Ukrainian officials said more than 150 ships carrying grain have departed from ports they still control, including shipments to Somalia and Yemen, war-torn nations currently facing famine.

Yet there are also indications the Turkish government itself may be a recipient of disputed grain from Ukraine. AP and “Frontline” tracked trips from Crimea to Turkey by the smuggling ships Mikhail Nenashev, Laodicea and Souria to docks with seaside silos operated by the Turkish Grain Board, a government-run entity that imports and exports grain and other agricultural products.

The board’s press office and executives did not respond to emails with detailed questions about the suspect shipments.

Though Turkish authorities have pledged to stop illegal smuggling, Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a June news conference his country had not found any evidence of theft.

“We’ve received such claims,” he said. “And such information is coming from the Ukrainian side from time to time. We take every claim seriously and investigate it seriously. ... In our investigation on ships’ ports and goods’ origins, following claims about Turkey, we saw the origin records to be Russia.”

Whatever the records say, the smuggling operation continues.

Crane Marine Contractor's ship Matros Koshka — named for a Russian sailor lauded as a national hero for his bravery during the Crimean War of 1854 — cruised north last week into the Black Sea with a listed destination of Kavkaz before turning off its transponder and running dark.

Satellite imagery taken Thursday showed the 161-meter-long ship (528 feet) had docked once again at the grain terminal in the occupied Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, little more than a mile from a Soviet-era statue honoring its namesake.

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AP investigative reporters Sarah El Deeb reported from Beirut and Michael Biesecker reported from Washington, and news verification reporter Beatrice Dupuy was in New York. AP reporters Arijeta Lajka in New York, Zoya Shu in Berlin and Ahmad El-Katib in Beirut contributed to this report.

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Follow Biesecker at twitter.com/mbieseck, El Deeb at twitter.com/seldeeb, and Dupuy at twitter.com/Beatrice_Dupuy"

[Landdownunder]

A world leader sells his house. A world leader is wealthy. A world leaders wife is self made millionaire.

Nothing to see there not slightest bit unusual.

Someone will find conspiracy in it

[biglentil]

A world leader sells his house. A world leader is wealthy. A world leaders wife is self made millionaire.

Nothing to see there not slightest bit unusual.

Someone will find conspiracy in it

Funny how some see through the climate change propaganda, yet trust the same legacy media that have just gas lit them for 2 years. Btw where is Ghislaine Maxwell's client list?

[shtferbrains]

Putin thought he had the propaganda down pat last February when he had us all convinced he could roll his mighty military into Kiev to a welcoming population that wanted to be ruled by the strongman who didn't take shit from a bunch of weak leadership.
He thought he had been preparing for years and had the whole deal spun up and ready to execute.
Only he didn't figure on the will of the Ukrainian people to fight back.
Severely underestimated the ability of the stand up comedian to rally them.
So you have a former KGB head with experience in war and a propaganda specialist. Seen as one of the strongest world leaders. With a military that is suppose to be ready to rebuild the Soviet Union,
And a Stand Up Comedian who was just there to keep the graft flowing?

But nobody thought the people would fight.

Looks like the comedian is the leader the people will fight for.