And it's not like they're the most advanced drones available. The fact Russia is struggling against these further proves that either they haven't deployed their best, or have been living off reputation for decades and aren't as effective a force as we thought.
The Russian “Ambassador” is an utter disgrace- clearly nothing more than a Putin mouthpiece (as we all knew). He is absolutely a danger to the stare at this stage with his spiteful rhetoric.
No Facebook or Twitter. If they ban TikTok too, I might move to Russia 😁
So, Russia are invading Ukraine in order to force the country in order to adopt a neutral position? Isn't getting invaded by a hostile country the exact kind of thing that would make a country think, "Hey maybe we should be part of a defensive alliance which would ensure that'll never happen again!"? That's absolutely sh*t logic from Russia, but then again maybe force is all Putin and his cronies know. If you were to take Russia's alleged line of thinking and reduce it down to a more human scale, just to illustrate its absurdity and cruelty, it would be like if you had been with this woman once, but you broke up, but when she started making eyes at your enemy across town, so you beat her up until she agreed to either be with you or just stay celibate. It's thuggery and intimidation.
Ukrainian men are savage tough (in a good way). Born survivors. They’ve had to be with those Russian tramps as neighbours.
Russia stopping fertilizer exports.
That's a big deal. Bigger than their oil being stopped.
How can you always choose the wrong side? lol
They’d still be supported by the main company and they’d look after all the marketing, food and menu as I understand it. Probably source most food locally but the company wouid not want the negative press and possible boycotts elsewhere
Yes, Russian media reporting that Twitter is also blocked.
Signs that all is not well behind the scenes perhaps? These are pretty drastic steps for a government to be taking and visible to everyone in Russia.
Get ready for Tubridy to claim credit for getting the donations over the next few days .
His conduct is beyond unbecoming for a so called Ambassador and dangerous to our state as he’s potentially riling up a very hostile state against us.
Indeed. The news is not good for Russia, so Russia blocks the news. Even if Russia ends up achieving their aims, this has been a disaster for them. Damage control on the home front now.
Been dreading this.
Russia is a major producer of potash, phosphate and nitrogen containing fertilizers – major crop and soil nutrients. It produces more than 50 million tonnes a year of the fertilizers, 13% of the global total.
Phosagro, Uralchem, Uralkali, Acron and Eurochem are the biggest players. They export to Asia and Brazil.
“Vessels are not coming here. And there are no containers at all,” a source in the Russian fertilizer industry told Reuters. Russia has been considering retaliatory measures on Western sanctions but has not officially announced any major steps so far.
“Failures in fertilizer shipments could have a direct impact on national security in several countries and cause serious food shortages for hundreds of millions of people already in the medium term,” the ministry said in its statement.
Can’t stand him but will absolutely let him have this one. The money will be needed and his platform is ideal mechanism
I'm completely ignorant about it, but isn't that easy to make? other countries can begin production or increase production quite easily I'd have thought?
Ukrainians are shooting some down, it's one thing to toss a conscript into a battle in a 20 year old tank, it's another to commit a $40 million ₽4,960m* fighter jet.
Fixed that for you
Could be very counter-productive for them. Their state TV propaganda machine is telling them about a minor military operation "to protect the Donbass" and with no Ukrainian civilian casualties and yet they've just shut down the two biggest social media networks. I'd say a fair few people in Russia must be beginning to smell a rat and wondering if things are a lot more serious than they are being told.
Exactly, he is a declared enemy of our state. What are we going to do about it?
"Isn't getting invaded by a hostile country the exact kind of thing that would make a country think, "Hey maybe we should be part of a defensive alliance which would ensure that'll never happen again!"?"
Yes. If all were equal it would be in the Ukrainian peoples interest to move closer to the west and eventually join the EU. After all, Russia offers nothing except militarism. That would be no problem if it sat in a different geo-political reality or geographic position.
But the reality is that it sits in a position where a nuclear power with huge conventional forces and complex cultural and historical connections has for decades asserted that it joining Nato would be a red line - however "bullying" that may be. And in this circumstance the wiser approach would have been to thread and navigate a neutral path for the mutual benefit of everyone. Ukraine cant and wont join Nato now and the government that pursued it will either flee or enter negotiations that will treaty it.
The cost benefit analysis of taking a neutral line would have been the more logical policy to pursue for Ukraine. Pursuing the alternative is now a futile war of destruction.
Hi, just wondering if you're a mod and if not, why are you giving out orders on what can and can't be posted here?
Who they gonna sell it to?
7 down, 6 across......going to be some cranky Ruskies about.
Not Lovin' each day...it could be my last...don't need you right here next to me.
It would be my opinion that Russia did indeed want to take over Ukraine, certainly take over the major cities especially Kyiv, have the current government fall out of windows by mistake, stick another Soviet puppet in like the moron in Belarus(which is a province of Russia in all but name), and that they expected far less resistance even welcome from the Ukrainians as they were 'rooting out nazis'. They thought it was more like Hitler marching into Austria, only it turned out to be Hitler marching into Russia.
Well if there's anyone who'd know if Russia committed war crimes, the experts will surely know!
Apparently the mayor of a Ukrainian controlled town in the Luhansk region, Volodymyr Struk, was abducted and murdered by unknown men in military style uniforms. An advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs greeted his death by saying "There is one less traitor in Ukraine" and that he had been "judged by the court of the people's tribunal". "He was shot by unknown patriots as a traitor according to war-time law".
I've seen in news reports Ukrainian officials and soldiers again and again talking about the need to identify "saboteurs". Ukraine is a very corrupt state. There could be a lot of scores being settled against ethnic Russians in Ukraine in a similar fashion by groups of "unknown patriots" under the cover of war. There is form for this - 31 pro-Russian protestors were burnt to death in Odessa back in 2014 by a crowd chanting "Glory to Ukraine" and "Death to enemies". Given the Ukrainian crisis is ultimately an ethnic conflict in a multicultural state it could get very, very grim.
The Ukrainians have imprisoned an ethnic Russian politician, Viktor Medvedchuk, who was the leader of the main opposition party in Ukraine for several years now. The chances are that he will be "shot while trying to escape" before this ends. He is apparently a personal friend of Putin so will likely be murdered by hardliners as a final act of revenge.
fertilizer prices have a massive impact on food availability and pricing in developing economies (in particular) but impact the whole world. There were already fertilizer shortages (and rising costs) before any of this started.. due to rising gas prices and orther factors.
Russia's move here (and the conflict in general) threatens to push tens of millions below the poverty line. If not reversed somehow, it will lead to starvation, destabalize entire regions and create massive refugee flows. This conflict may cause more deaths outside Ukraine than it does inside it, baffling and depressing as that sounds.
These are all articles from 2021 before any of this started. It was bad then. Imagine with 13% of the global supply now cut off...
And from a few days ago:
Can you send that meme in Russian please? I can't use google translate on images lad.
We had a fetiliser industry in Ireland. We shut down. Ditto peat and sugar production…I’m sure you can gather where this is going.
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