Could they have intervention?
EU Single Market only works when everyone is on board and they are on the wrong side of EU law here. At the same time, there should be a collective response from the EU supporting Poland and its EU neighbours considering they're taking the main hit on this. Supposed to be a community afterall so I can see why they are acting unilaterally to force hands in Brussels.
Kim has arrived in Russia by slow train. Putin has indicated his support for Trump and said that Ukraine will only look for peace when they start to run out of munitions!
Will they not find an instruction book on site when they arrive and an exit report left by the soldiers they are replacing - like the nurses do when they go off duty. If They update their reports then the most that is missing is one day max. We must give some credit to the Russians that they would at least get this basic action right !!!!!!
"Ah Dude where's my plane?"
This is like the trabants crossing into Western Germany.🙂
I though one of the amusing things was that the train had to stop at the border to have the wheels changed to use Russian tracks. That process alone took 5 hours!
Might be embarrassing if anything happened to Kim's train in Russia. Like Prigozhin's jet?
That's true (about the EU support needed for Poland and other border states), however as far as I remember the Ukrainian grain (don't know about other products) was always supposed to transit the EU. It was about making it easier to get to non EU markets, given the situation.
The EU never opened itself up to Ukrainian agricultural imports. Charitibly, maybe there was too much flowing in for it all to transit easily, but some Ukrainian grain was diverted, and funnily enough profit was made off that (it is cheaper) so it was IMO mainly a Customs/border enforcement and corruption issue.
The member states (in particular the ones screaming about the Ukrainian grain/agri products) have the job of implementing EU Customs, securing the borders and finding + punishing any businesses/companies breaking the rules.
Germany has certainly turned around since the early days, make this happen
Also Denmark delivering again
What if the site is over run before getting the new troops in ?
How do dead soldiers perform a hand over ?
5 hours is good going on a 90 carriage train.
Wait until they try to take off with it.........if that ever even happens!!! More than likely, it will be carried of bit by bit for spare parts.
Ironically the largest problem of the grain transit out of Poland last year was German coustums .
Mainly the rail transportation of the grain.
Which in turn caused a backlog of grain in Eastern storage areas in Poland, they couldn't send it back.
That's when polish government blocked the grain from entering.
There was Prosecutions made in the area I live ,on individuals who had dealings with the sale and use of the Ukrainian grain.
Worth a read.
"Ukrainian forces are cracking the Russian defense lines step by step. They drive a chisel into the lines and then widen the rift by moving into the flanks. This might not look fast, but it is how you break defense networks and it is working. This is, however, not even the most important news.
More importantly are the Russian troop movements in that sector. The deployment of the Russian 76th Guards Air Assault Division is an admission that the Ukrainian progress has reached such critical state for the Russian invasion army that they are even forced to deploy one of their offensive forces for defense operations. It does not only prove the level of desperation but also diminishes Russian capabilities for offensive operations. Furthermore, the Russian "offensive" at Kupyansk-Kreminna is now completely exposed as what it is: a diversionary attack.
In reference to my post a few days ago, where I again - and repeatedly before - paraphrased the importance of logistics, I can only re-emphasize that the real battle in the South is about logistics and supply lines. Ukrainians not only hammer the frontline but the whole logistical network of the Russian army. The more Russian troops move in, the harder it gets for them to sustain that level of logistical support, a proficiency where they already proved to be weak Additionally, Russians are taking more and more risks by not only bringing more of their troops into Ukrainian artillery range but also exposing other frontline sectors.
The attrition rate of the Russian army units comes on top of that, too. We already have eye-witness accounts of Russian POWs, disclosing profound Russian losses even within their newly deployed formations such as the above mentioned 76th Division (check on @Tatarigami_UA latest posts).
The strategy of the Ukrainian Army might not look spectacular, but it works, when continued to its logical end. It is exactly how an army would operate in order to soften up an entrenched enemy to a point where it is untenable to continue to fight and withdraw. All what is needed is stamina and patience."
The search for anti-war, anti-Putin sentiment start's in kindergarten. You have to teach your kids about what not to say in school, and you have to be careful what you say in front of them, and in front of people you don't know. Hard to believe I know, but that's Putin's Russia for you.
The fact is governments come and go, empires fall but the character and culture of a people is a hard thing to shake. Russia will always be an authoritarian society.
No need for Russian replacements then. The new recruits can be used to make sandwiches until another spot is found for them to defend🏈!!!!
Another lit cigarette in Moscow ?
It is said that senior Russian officials have increased their Vodka consumption from the old one glass a day to one bottle!
For the size of that train, must have been an army of mechanics and technician's practicing the change over since the trip was announced to do that kind of job in that time. 5 hrs.....wow. And maybe they will beat that record when the reverse change happens on Kims way back home.?
One glass a day? to one bottle??? You're joking !!!! One bottle is the starting point, nothing more, and definitely not to be considered as serious drinking.. kinda like what you would have at home before leaving for a night out. 😂
“North Korea is willing to continue its proxy war against US to 'the last Russian"
A smoking accident has occured in Sevastopol this morning
Is that the ship they previously damaged?
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The Russian Navy are being defeated by a country with essentially no navy
No doubt if it takes longer on the way back they'll be arrested for sabotage and treason as soon as they reach Pyongyang and swiftly sent to a labour camp or shot.
This thug and his regime is beyond vile and it says a lot about Putin that he is turning to them for friendship and support.
They make a nice couple. Thugs
When I was working in Russia -mid 90s - it was an eye-opener to find that a lot of vodka bottles don't come with a screw top or cork. Just a push through foil cap. You open it, it's getting finished.
"The leader of the DPRK shows great interest in rocket technology, and they are trying to develop (their presence in) space"
North Korea's presence in space; bwahahaha. Real 'sure Jan' meme territory there. Though perhaps more concerning is the suggestion Russia might sell nuclear subs to the North Koreans. I doubt they'd be top of the line but NK chugging about in their diesel ww2 era subs was a better sight than nuclear vessels. Pyongyang doesn't need nuclear anything.
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