Now Russia produces more than 10 million barrels of oil per day, slightly ahead of Saudi Arabia in this indicator and second only to the United States. I don't understand what kind of decline in production you are talking about when the country is in the top 3 in the world ranking (in second place)?

I think the root of Europe's climate problem is the weakening of the Gulf Stream. The weakness of the warm current makes the climate less mild and more continental. If this version is workable, after an abnormally hot and dry summer, Europe will face a frosty and harsh winter.

Are you talking about it? This is typical stupid western propaganda. This is the flare stack, which is necessary for the safety of production, burning discharges from safety valves. When gas is produced in Norway or somewhere else, such flare stacks also burn there. This is necessary in order not to poison the environment in case of a possible leakage of natural gas. Also, when oil is extracted in remote areas, associated gas is flared, because it is unprofitable to collect and transport it, plus for the same safety reasons. BP and Shell also do this.

Also in Russia, three and a half thousand memorials of the eternal flame are continuously burning in memory of the victory over fascism in World War II. But what kind of sadness is this for you, little Russophobic asshole?

I have already spoken here many times and I will say it again - time works for Russia. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have not carried out a single successful offensive in six months, Ukraine simply does not have the opportunity for offensive operations. Russia can and knows how to attack, but saves a limited human resource. The situation now seems to be a stalemate, but the approach of winter plays into the hands of Russia. August is still on the calendar, and Europe is already in hysterics. I'm glad you're able to joke under these circumstances.

The European Union has more than twice the population of Russia and Ukraine combined. That is why the European Union produces a lot, but exports relatively little.

Гадить исподтишка и вслух отрицать свою причастность - это обычная ссыкливая трусость. И кроме вас долбоёбов, все всё понимают.

What else is there to do but believe in the power of verbal interventions? A sharp increase in the key rate to the level of inflation will be a disaster for Greece and Italy in particular and for the European Union as a whole.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck".

The increase in the key rate was carried out as part of the fight against inflation, but the problem for the euro is that it does not work that way. If you want to curb inflation, you must first raise the key rate sharply to a level above the current inflation rate, and then implement a series of key rate cuts to stimulate the economy. And if you smoothly raise the key rate by a value that is obviously an order of magnitude smaller than the current inflation rate, then you only stimulate stagflation, that is, inflation growth against the backdrop of a decline in business activity. You don't need to graduate from the Higher School of Economics to understand this.

If the Armed Forces of Ukraine stop hiding behind civilians as a human shield, there will be fewer civilian casualties.

I don't understand hints in a non-native language. Be direct about what you mean if you expect to get a straight to the point answer. If we are talking about Ukrainian sabotage in Crimea, then each of them only strengthens the label of a terrorist state in Ukraine. Keep up the good work and soon even the most Russophobic Western curators will turn their backs on Ukraine.

ps Meanwhile, the activity of the Russian army from the Donbass, Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions also expanded to the Mykolaiv region.

Украина активно использует террористические методы, но я бы не назвал её террористическим государством. Всё же террористы обычно находят в себе смелость брать ответственность за совершённые теракты - и это выгодно отличает их от нынешнего режима на Украине.

The topic has become too boring for me personally for at least a month, it does not deserve daily close attention.

There are many options - using green energy from windmills and solar panels (green hydrogen), using gas (blue hydrogen), using nuclear power plants (orange hydrogen) or even burning coal (brown hydrogen). Moreover, one option does not exclude any others and does not require an exclusive contract for its implementation.

And if Germany simply has a common problem with energy, then it needs to somehow learn to bring its energy balance back to normal, and not engage in vampirism, sucking out excess energy from donor countries in exchange for its depreciating euros. What kind of a locomotive country is this if it does not have enough energy? Germany needs to be more modest in its ambitions.

You distort. At first you said that Ukraine had no plans to join NATO, and I objected that these plans are even enshrined in the supreme law of your country. Then you said that this happened after the annexation of Crimea and therefore does not count, but I gave examples of much earlier plans for Ukraine to join NATO, and not just unfounded statements, but backed up by actions. This is not a nice conversation style on your part, shame on you.

Now I understand why Putin called the West an empire of lies, and Arestovich called it the Ukrainian national idea to lie to oneself. 

In this case, Germany has no reasonable alternatives other than to receive energy from Russia through existing main pipelines, or to start generating hydrogen on its own.

Yep. But there is a caveat - hydrogen from Russia is much easier to replace with hydrogen from another source, because hydrogen is one of the most widespread chemical elements on Earth. It can be hydrogen from different sources, marked with different colors depending on the type of generation and the degree of its environmental friendliness (green, blue, orange, brown, etc.), but it is still a flammable, odorless and colorless volatile gas that can be be used as an energy source without astronomical infrastructure investments. Hydrogen has no nationality.

Besides, the European Union still has no other strategy. And frantically trying to plug holes in the energy supply is not a strategy.

I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the recent project of the Central Bank of Russia MAIN DIRECTIONS OF THE UNIFIED OF THE STATE MONETARY AND CREDIT POLICIES FOR 2023 AND THE PERIOD 2024 AND 2025. The link is a very interesting document considering the base scenario and two alternatives (Global Crisis and Accelerated Adaptation). The link is a very interesting document considering the base scenario and two alternatives (Global Crisis and Accelerated Adaptation). In short, the people's welfare fund allows you to finance a federal budget deficit of 20% for three years without the threat of its complete depletion, even in the worst-case scenario. Don't expect Putin to run out of money.

Recently, against the backdrop of dramatic failures in the Donbas, Ukraine has stepped up terrorist activities - the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the explosions of sabotage groups in the Crimea. This activity is aimed at creating a media effect in order to restore interest in Ukraine in the West, but it can also completely discredit Ukraine in the eyes of the West.

Linking to Wikipedia is a weak argument. Strictly speaking, war is not considered declared until the corresponding note is delivered through the diplomatic line. And the war ends with the signing of a peace treaty. And in this aspect, Russia is not at war with Ukraine, just as Ukraine is not at war with Russia (and Russia is at war with Japan). Naftogaz recently successfully accepted another payment from Gazprom for gas transit - what kind of war is this if the parties to the conflict conduct commercial activities among themselves?

Russia is conducting a special operation in Ukraine. Type of anti-terrorist, only in an expanded composition, with the support of the army and navy. Ukrainian nationalists actively use terrorist methods in their practice, and Nazism is deeply rooted in Ukrainian society. Therefore, a sufficiently large-scale purge was needed to protect ourselves and save Europe from the resurgent neo-Nazi contagion.

The problem with anonymous telegram channels is that they all lie.

From the point of view of Ukraine, this is a war. From Russia's point of view, this is a special military operation. The key difference is that Russia is conducting this operation with a peacetime army, without mass mobilization. Simply put, Ukraine has deployed 100% of its military potential and attracted significant Western military assistance in this conflict, while Russia has deployed a maximum of 15% of its military potential.

Russia is using barrage-of-fire tactics to break into the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that Ukraine has built in Donbas during its eight years of aggression against the Russian-speaking population. There have been no civilians in Avdiivka for a long time, so only soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer from massive shelling. Where there are civilians, Russia uses precision-guided strikes.

In Russia, we are well aware of what denazification is, and no, this does not mean the destruction of Ukraine as a nation. It's just that next year in January in Kyiv there will be no traditional torchlight procession in honor of Bandera - that's what denazification is. And before the end of the summer, a tribunal will begin in the Donbas against the militants of Azov with swastikas on tattoos - this is also denazification. Denazification is not directed against the Ukrainian nation, but against the ultra-right Ukrainian nationalists, who turned out to be so widespread in Ukraine that the national battalions are part of the cadre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Yep. Russia has a flexible strategy, in general, the special operation is going according to plan. Putin is a great strategist, he made even the weather and time work for him. Ukraine did not have and does not have a single chance in this confrontation, and the prolongation of the conflict only worsens the position of Ukraine. The enemy of Ukraine now is not Putin, but Zelensky - because of his stupid persistence in the delusion that Ukraine can defeat Russia. This drug addict clown came to power on promises to end the war in Donbas, and he dragged the whole country into the war and brought it to default. Although it was possible simply not to sabotage the Minsk agreements.