That is true yes soccer games are dangerous all over Europe. But this was outside the experience of Irish fans at that time. There was complaints made by the Irish embassy in Moscow at the time.
They wont be laughing when they face proper equipped and trained soldiers from Ukraine
Ukraine calls for intensified sanctions on Iran after drone strikes
Iran - Russia axis is strong
I remember an oul lad in work, who was in a small group of about 6 or 7 who between them hadn't missed an Ireland away game since the 80's... and he said that Russia game was the hairiest one he'd been to, couldn't wait to get out of Russia on that occasion.
Considering he'd been to many Warsaw pact countries during that time, along with Yugoslavia is quite telling ... he also mentioned getting stopped and interrogated by the Stasi sometime round just either before or after the 88 Euro's when he did some travelling and they didn't believe him that he was watching the football..
I know there was something leading up to that game also, I think the Russian's had just had another match with someone else that didn't go well and Irish fans were actually advised not to go...
The Rafale has a 2,000 km range, add the ASMP 500km range and you get 2,500. The distance from Paris to Moscow is 2,486, what a remarkable coincidence. But hey, when your submarine launched ballistic missiles are good for 9,000 km, the old cold war doctrine of nuclear bombers carrying bombs on one-way trips seems a bit redundant.
No amount of ole ole was going to protect them in Russia in 2002. I think the Irish fans embarrassed themselves that time, by taking it and not fighting back/defending themselves. fighting Irish my ass.
Loud explosion was reported in Dzhankoi, Crimea
One of the founders of Google, who own Youtube, is one Sergey Mikhailovich Brin. If you think that's a Russian sounding name; that's because it is. Born in Moscow. He is still a controlling shareholder of Alphabet.
That's what I meant. the Rafale/ASMP combination doesn't really have much value as either a counterforce (against military facilities, command centres, land-based ICBM silos, etc.) or a countervalue (against industrial or population centres) option. It's by its nature vulnerable to air defense systems, slow (I don't think the Rafale is able of attaining supersonic speeds without afterburners) and limited, with roughly 40 aircraft between the two squadrons I mentioned. They're not much of a second strike weapon either since their air bases are prime targets for ICBMs during any preemptive strike. Granted, you could probably get a dozen or so of these aircraft onto the Charles de Gaulle, France's only aircraft carrier, since the Rafale was designed as a carrier aircraft from the outset, but while the ocean may be big, it's not Douglas Adams style big and a carrier battlegroup is still easier to locate than a submerged nuclear submarine.
Another possibility, Russia don't like Lucky Lukashenko anymore and do not care what happens to him. Also, if a civil war started up in Belarus it would be a welcome distraction for Putin as the media would be all agog and stop reporting on dead Russian soldiers and of course the Ukrainian counter advances. Russian politico rule no1. Distraction is essential when you don't like what the papers say.
The attacks on Irish fans in Moscow were widely reported at the time - fans said it was the worst and most dangerous place they had ever visited in decades of away games. Lots of Russian neo-Nazi skinhead types on the rampage.
France has a nuclear deterrence for France or for NATO. Not for external countries.
So if, for example Putin fires a small tactical battlefield nuke at some fields in Ukraine, no countries are going to press any nuclear buttons to launch nuclear weapons at Russia.
That obviously doesn't mean nothing will happen, there are other options. Also intl. powers like China/India/etc could react very sharply to such an escalation by Russia (interestingly China has a nuclear pact with Ukraine, meaning that if Ukraine is attacked it must intervene, although in reality that would be very unlikely to happen)
FYI Nuclear missiles firing at Russia is WW3, end of the world stuff and we're all pretty much dead.
Military aircraft crashed In a residential area of Russia
Russian Ministry of Defense confirms loss of Su-34 in Yeysk. 2 pilots survived, one of them reported that “engine caught fire”. “At the site of Su-34 crash fuel caught fire in residential yard”
#BREAKING #Belarus says it preserves the right to take "preventive measures" against threats on the country, amid Russian troops deployment on its border with #Ukraine
*Narrator: “No one is actually threatening Belarus.”
Incredible. You can clearly see the parachute in the picture. Dunno if it's perspective or what but he's so close to that explosion - wonder if he survived
They weren't meant to let the mobilised lads fly the planes
You see the pilot eject in this one.
Entire apartment block on fire.
@Strazdas
Crimea River
Interesting tweet on why what's happening in Belarus is just more military bullshit from Putler.
Surveillance camera footage doesn't appear to show any sign of the aircraft being on fire before it hit the block of apartments
Begorod is taking so much damage of late the decision has been made to colour it in pink on https://liveuamap.com/
About 16 second you see a flash,it's possible it was hit by something,
It certainly didn't look out of control or on fire
Yes, clearly something causes the pilots to eject, but the Russian MoD claims that the engines were on fire doesn't seem to stand up.
On the Twitter link in my post you can see a flash before it crashes. There is another angle too, I think. I’ll try find it
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Another $36m gone up in flames...
Another SU-34? Between war losses and crashes, the fleet numbers for that type must be dropping noticeably at this point.
This could be interesting if they get them to the Ukrainian military.
New Ukrainian drone 1000km range carrying a 75kg explosive warhead
They only had about 140 to start with and they have lost a fair few over Ukraine
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