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Well, you'd hope it is all just noise and a bluff (and how else can you treat it really and still stay sane).

If you step back for a min. and consider Putin is making regular dark hints about nuclear strikes and there's the deranged N. Korean type propaganda from Russian tv that people post here where they are either laughing or winding themselves up in fits of rage + threatening all sorts (incl. nuclear missiles) on "enemies" helping Ukraine...It is disturbing and quite incredible where Russia is now, and what it has become.

Maybe it's just too much to dwell on. This made me laugh from Irish Times on our local antics in the Dáil where who gets to burn turf is the main issue (eh, the burning issue I suppose).

Progress?

You should stop watching Russian "news".

Who would seize Gazprom? Gazprom is Russian majority state owned energy corporation based in Russia which distributes gas to the EU and elsewhere via pipeline.

In other news

Senior Gazprombank Official Leaves Moscow For Ukraine To Fight Russian Invaders

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-volobuyev-gazprombank-fighting/31823444.html

Mr Filatov advises us to seek out and discuss alternative viewpoints. If you do that in his country you get 15 years in Jail. Yes great idea. Will he tell Russians to seek out alternative viewpoints???

Russians politicians and Russian apologists should have this poked in their eye at every opportunity why they need to jail peaceful, ordinary , non criminal citizens for 15 years?

F-Putin... his nukes are compensating for his crap army, napolean height and fragile ego..

Start worrying about it and Putin wins, start giving concessions and Putin wins, if Putin wins, he doesn't stop in Ukraine and Transnistria.

There's also nothing we can really do about it either

Hopefully Pool lose

Sounds like the Ukrainians are planning to rename the Kerch bridge, Kursk bridge.

"Colonel of the FSB of Russia and former "Minister of Defense of the DPR" in 2014 Igor Strelkov (Girkin) commented on the words of the Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine Alexei Danilov about the possibility of a strike on the Crimean bridge. Strelkov during the stream said that the APU will strike when it is "possible, achievable and profitable.

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According to him, Ukrainian army is quite capable of striking the bridge across the Kerch Strait, and this is evidenced by the downed and subsequently flooded flagship of the Black Sea Fleet cruiser "Moscow"." https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/513579-kreyser-moskva-svidetel-girkin-ubezhden-chto-vsu-naneset-udar-po-krymskomu-mostu-video

Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine apparently made a comment to the effect that Ukraine would/might attack the bridge if the opportunity arose.

"The Australian Ministry of Defense sent Ukraine six towed howitzers of 155 mm caliber and related ammunition for these artillery systems, according to defense brief.

The day before, at the Royal Australian Air Force Air Force Air Force, howitzers were loaded onto a C-17A Globemaster III military transport aircraft and sent.

"The government will continue to look for opportunities to provide further operational military assistance where it can promptly provide the necessary capabilities to the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

Other military equipment, rations, medical supplies and financial contributions to the NATO trust fund for Ukraine were also transferred, which is also part of Australia's assistance, which now amounts to 225 million Australian dollars."

Autralia continues to be the antithesis of Germany and Ireland - helpful, punching above their weight in useful response to Ukrainian requests.

They are making progress though. When you step back and try not to get sucked into the propaganda being churned out on both sides, sure, Russia completely miscalculated the assault on Kyiev, but unfortunately they are gaining ground in the Donbass region, which was their original aim.

Fair enough their military is not the powerhouse it was originally thought to be, and has been a humiliation for Putin, but their sheer numbers, and their willingness to sustain massive casualties, can't be ignored.

Germany had a far better trained and technically advanced military during WW2, but the sheer numbers Russia had meant they won in the end.

I hope I'm wrong, but I can't see a way that they will be beaten and withdraw from Ukraine. I fear a long drawn out conflict which will destabilise and destroy Ukraine.

Oh, look at all those Russian speaking Transnistrians queueing patiently to welcome all their Orc compatriots about to arrive from the the Orc motherland.

Whoops, sorry, my bad...

"People continue to leave Transnistria en masse, fearing an escalation of the conflict. The whole world already knows where rusnya there is a threat to life Because for the sake of carrying out propaganda purposes, in order to accuse the other party of crimes committed, they are ready even to kill civilians."

Why would you want to leave your Russian speaking separatist aspiring region to presumably the greater Moldovan state that you don't like and where people speak Romanian, when more Russians seem likely to soon arrive. Surely you prefer your own kind to Moldovans?

Orcs are funny.

Imagine all the stepladders he could buy

Comparisons with WW2 are not at all valid.

Russia only defeated a brutal German invasion after losing countless millions of men, around 90 thousand tanks, millions of civilian casualties, thousands of towns/cities in utter ruin, etc.

It was a titanic ideological war with unprecedented scale and there's no way modern Russia has the means or appetite to get involved in a death-struggle of that nature or anything even remotely close to it.

Their armed forces are nowhere near the size they were back then relatively speaking and their modern day industry isn't remotely capable of supporting such a conflict either.

I mean Russia has already set it's armed forces back by years by its disastrous adventure in Ukraine. This was never meant to be a "war", it was meant to be a short, sharp victory with probably a few hundred casualties anticipated. Clearly they had zero plan B.

Contextually their modern day military and industrial capability is nothing whatsoever compared to what it was in WW2, even if they were on a war footing, which they are not.

Back then they could replace tanks, planes and equipment faster than they were losing them, even when they were losing hundreds every day for years.

They absolutely cannot do that these days, neither with tanks, planes, men or missiles, even if Putin declared total war tomorrow.

These actually sound like a decent Russian couple, unlike some of the sociopaths / psychopaths we have heard on recorded audio recently. Both of them seem to regret the war and the wife says she is having sleepless nights at the thought of the many Russian soldiers being killed (something her fascist government claims isn't even happening).

No discount, you don't know where the money is going. Whatever discount you were planning on giving, donate it directly to the Ukraine armed forces.