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Sun and wind without a backup solution are not going to fix anything at a national scale, they still need a reliable continuous source, and that is only nuclear.
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Putin is an excellent player in the political arena True, in quotation marks
By artificially dropping the ruble to 55 derevynnkh per dollar, the miserable and cowardly under-fuhrer failed the budget item - budget revenues from the sale of hydrocarbons. I explain - the budget of the terrorist country is formed in pieces of paper with the name "ruble". And all income, including foreign exchange, is transformed into rubles. And if "yesterday" for 1 dollar they received as much as 120 rubles, today - only 55. Further, through simple operations, you can calculate how much the budget loses because of this Another "idiotic victory in Russian"

Successes of a pathetic parody of the Fuhrer, on this trip:
- 4 times he felt bad, doctors came running
- no drones
- Iran will continue to sell oil to China, and yes - in this market it will reduce the price in order to sell oil as much as possible. Iran needs a currency, not some unnecessary pieces of paper called "ruble"
- Oil production (however, as well as gas) Iran will increase, this is Iran's business and it does not care about the problems of Russia and Putin personally.

Try to prove otherwise!

There are many rumors about the health of President Putin, and as far as we can tell, he is even too healthy.

@be.open. By heavy losses on the part of Ukraine, I primarily meant the heavy losses of the civilian population and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, which the Russians are deliberately destroying in this war. Having failed to destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian invaders began to systematically destroy the civilian population, including the elderly, women and children, especially pro-Ukrainian ones, in order to simply intimidate the Ukrainians and break their will to resist. These are purely fascist methods ...

Now about the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On February 24, Russia, without declaring war, attacked the northern, eastern and southern parts of Ukraine, including from Belarus, with the forces of eight of its most prepared armies for the attack, totaling up to 200,000 soldiers and officers. Moreover, all this army moved to Ukraine with endless columns of armored troops and other military special equipment. The calculation was for a quick, within 3-5 days, the capture of the main territory of Ukraine and a violent change of power in Ukraine. But a month later, Russian troops suffered a significant defeat in manpower and equipment and were forced to flee from the central and northern regions of Ukraine so as not to be completely defeated. Thus ended the first stage of this war, and this was the undoubted success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and all Ukrainians.

After that, having received a good rebuff and realizing that they could not capture all of Ukraine, the Putin regime concentrated the main blow on the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine in order to first of all completely capture the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and, if possible, build a land corridor not only to the occupied since 2014 Crimea, but also Transnistria. But Russia has not yet fulfilled these already limited goals. Now Ukraine has a front with a total length of 2,450 kilometers, and the "second army of the world" has lost almost all of its elite troops and the best military equipment in Ukraine. We can say that the Russian offensive has almost run out of steam. The shortage in Russia is felt both in manpower and in technology. Russia has already thrown almost all of its reserves into Ukraine, while exposing all its regions militarily, and they are being successfully crushed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russia removes from conservation and throws into Ukraine even the old T-62 tanks, which have been in service since the 50s of the last century, and is arming the new replenishment with Mosin rifles of the 1891 model.

During the five months of the war, Russia was unable to achieve any significant success at the front. Of the 25 regional centers of Ukraine, Russian troops only in the first days of a large-scale offensive were able to capture, with little or no resistance, only the regional center Kherson, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are going to liberate in the near future.

During this time, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia lost 38,550 of its soldiers and officers alone in the dead. According to Russia itself, which is not made public, such losses amount to more than 54,000, and taking into account the wounded, this figure has already exceeded one hundred thousand people. At the same time, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1,691 Russian tanks, 3,892 armored vehicles, 220 aircraft, 188 helicopters, 831 artillery systems, 249 MLRS, 113 air defense systems, 2,767 military vehicles, 693 UAVs, 15 ships and boats were destroyed.

And this is just the beginning. After receiving only a dozen HIMARS MLRS from the United States, over the past two weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed over 20 different Russian ammunition depots. Because of this, the Russian ammunition depots are removed from the front line by 90 km, which greatly complicates their delivery to the front line, which is why they experience significant difficulties and their offensive is almost bogged down.
Let's see what happens in another two or three months.

So, if they are shown to be alive, that would be a wrong assessment? There does not seem to be any corroboration of any fact stated other that some obscure "sources", seems just like another rumour.

Another "precision posting" by the usual trolls. Which colonels were killed.. in "your thinking"?

Once again.. agreeing to a ceasefire is not a surrender. At this point, I don't see any benefit for Ukraine in continuing with the war. Ever day, they are suffering from around 200 military deaths. Some of the officials want to fight to the last Ukrainian, but is that the citizens really want? If a ceasefire is agreed at this point, then most probably Ukraine will be able to keep provinces such as Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa and Mykolaiv. The longer this war lasts, the probability of territorial losses increase. Without the industrial heartland of East Ukraine, the survival of the country will be at risk in the long term.

Recently, European countries have been looking for and successfully finding suppliers for their countries of oil and gas, so as not to buy them in Russia. These are Azerbaijan, USA, UAE, Egypt, Norway and other countries. There is really a lot of oil and gas in other countries besides Russia. Europe is now realizing what a mistake they made by becoming dependent on their supplies from Russia, and therefore they are looking for other options, even if they temporarily suffer losses.
In addition, Europe also understands that it is no longer possible to give in to Putin, otherwise, after Ukraine, they may already be subjected to military aggression. Therefore, although they are not quite friendly, they still strive to provide all possible military assistance to Ukraine in order to stop Putin with the hands of Ukrainians. At the cost of heavy losses, Ukraine succeeds, and Russia's military power is steadily approaching its collapse. No one is pressing Ukraine to make concessions to Putin's regime. These conclusions are incorrect.

A few words about oil.

1. Yesterday's news - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, at the request of the United States, announced an increase in oil production to 13 million barrels per day (currently at 10 million). That is, the market will receive 3 million barrels more daily. Is it a lot or a little?
Let's calculate: The level of Russian oil supplies to the EU market is 2.4 million barrels (reference: According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Russia exported 2.4 million barrels of oil per day to the EU in 2021 - this is slightly more than half of all exports). The total volume of daily sales is approximately 4.6 million barrels per day.
Answer: Saudi Arabia will replace 65% of ALL Russian oil, just by slightly raising production. Or 125% of the EU requirement. It is possible that part of the oil will also go to the United States, and farmers will be saved.

After waiting for a long time for concrete and sufficient radical results from the leaders of Procecutor and Security Service department, President Volodymyrs Zelensky questions their leadership and has suspended the  Procecutor General and Head of Security Service of the country accusing them of collaborating with Russia.
Can President Zelensky's accusations be true?
Did the president make the right decision?
 

Absolutely agree with your assumption. When I tell people who do not live in Russia and Ukraine what Russia is doing, they tell me - "hey guy, stop it! It can't be like that! They're not complete idiots!".
.... But then I turn on Russian channels to them, show documentary footage .. And they sit, with frozen bewilderment on their faces, and say "no ... well, it shouldn't be like that ... This is nonsense! ... But so it is!... How can this be?"

Believe me - what seems abnormal to a normal person is the norm in Russia


"And to be frank, I was somewhat convinced that Russia wants to put an end to NATO's presence on its borders by getting its hands on Ukraine as well as protecting its interests from selling gas to Europe." - on this occasion, I say very simple, logical, and, importantly, easily verifiable information: before Russia's terrorist attack on Ukraine, Ukraine had NO PLANS TO JOIN NATO! There was only a desire to switch to new, progressive standards of building an army according to the Western model, instead of the morally, technically and ideologically outdated concept of building an army according to the "Soviet".

It is also easy to prove the lies of other Russian propaganda narratives, just double-check them, and soon you will understand what is actually being built on a LIE!

By the way, I am Russian by origin, though I was lucky that my parents moved to Ukraine a long time ago. I am fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, acceptable in Polish, and even a little in the Transcarpathian dialect (a very interesting dialect, I worked in Transcarpathia for half a year, and learned it). But I believe that the state language should be a single language that unites the nation. And so it is in most countries!

I'm afraid the consequences of this assassination could be far more dire than what we see, from political turmoil to international conflict namely between Japan and China that historically have had a lot of problems. They say the Japanese legislature now is not going to dare oppose Abe's reforms to the pacifist constitution and their dependent and severely limited military.

Well, if we adhered to the terrorist concept, like Russia, we would of course blow up / put on service / raise the price for transit. But we are not Russia and not a terrorist state. We will not amplify the problems of the EU. The EU itself must decide to stop buying gas. And the fact that Russia pays is good, it goes into service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the further defeat of the invaders - Russian terrorists. So no problem

Well, why are you as if not from this planet?!
Real sanctions have been introduced against Russia since March 2022. Total - only 4 months ago!
The oil embargo has not yet been introduced (starts to work from December 2022). Those. in fact, sanctions have only been introduced! If you think that sanctions act on the economy as quickly as cyanide, then no. Sanctions are much worse. It's like scorpion venom. It acts slowly but destructively. At first, everything is fine, "don't make our Iskanders laugh", it's fun, everyone laughs. Then it starts to freeze a little, a slight trembling appears... And for some reason you can't laugh... Then the budgets for social programs suddenly disappear, and the funds in the accounts of citizens begin to be blocked.... Everything starts to rise in price. And many imported goods - just disappear. Companies are closing, unemployment is rising... The economy is paralyzed - because. fees and taxes are drastically reduced. The economy begins to devour itself... Then there is a complete and irreversible degradation of the financial system. In an animal that has been bitten by a scorpion, this corresponds to paralysis, when the animal is still alive, but can no longer do anything, and simply watches how the scorpion begins to eat it alive. The fate of Russia will also end in the same way

Everything is extremely simple:
1. Ukraine, as an honest partner, fulfills its obligations and ensures the operability of the gas transportation system belonging to Ukraine. We honor our obligations, and if we have signed an agreement with adequate partners, we fulfill it, even in such a difficult situation.
2. Russia is afraid to bomb this pipeline, since all its attempts to finally monopolize the EU market with gas supplies have failed as expected. And now, if a terrorist country cannot supply gas to the EU, it will simply be left without money But a terrorist country needs to finance a terrorist operation on the territory of Ukraine.

And what are some other reasons?