During the morning missile attack on Ukraine, the Russians hit Samsung Offices

[NeuroticFish]

This is sad and needless. I urge Putin to stop the bombing and return to negotiation tables

Indeed, it's sad, it's bad, it doesn't help anybody.
All that Putin has managed to do until now was to make the world see that Russia is not the power they've been boasting/advertising, and that by far.

Unfortunately I don't think that any negotiation is possible as long as his army is still in the neighbor country and as long as he is claiming territories that belong to the neighbor country.
Even more, he seems to have been completely losing the contact to reality, so any "normal" expectations from him are unfortunately futile. I really hope I'm wrong, but this is how the things look like now.


PS. Doesn't this belong to P&S?

[BADecker]

Samsung in Ukraine? Now I gotta check all my electronics, and find replacements for those that are Samsung. Never really liked the name, anyway.

[paxmao]

The morning did not begin with good news. Ukrainian cities were subjected to massive shelling from the enemy. We hope all our readers are staying safe. Unfortunately, there are victims and destruction. Russian terrorists attacked civilian objects. In particular, in Kyiv, a rocket damaged the building of the 101 Tower office center, which housed Samsung’s office and the company’s R&D center.

As the Director of Consumer Electronics Division at Samsung Electronics Ukraine Andrii Skira reported on his Facebook page, all company employees were outside the office. We also hope that employees of other offices managed to respond to the alarm and get to the shelter.

Any evidence that Russia is a terrorist country is no longer needed. It should not be feared, it should be defeated. Therefore, we remain calm, believe and donate to the Armed Forces, and continue to work.


https://mezha.media/en/2022/10/10/russians-hit-the-office-and-r-d-center-of-samsung-in-kyiv/

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Could russia target chip makers like samsung as primary military targets in the future. In an effort to pressure them to supply russia with much needed components?

In this instance russian rockets appeared to target samsung office bulidings.

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Something like that is possible under the "Mafia Logic" that the RF army uses when deciding targets. However I do not think that is likely for two reasons: it does not really have an effect on Samsung's ability to deliver tech components and second, RF missiles tend not the be even remotely accurate. Most likely this is just another of their fuckups. They just shot in the general direction of the population and that is pretty much it.