The Guardian (amongst others) Has a great scoop on how the oligarchs transferred assets just before sanctions were applied
https://www.theguardian.com/business/series/cyprus-confidential
Having these here was a source of pride and an ego move. However if they're moving them it's a very good sign because it means they really need them elsewhere.
He could have been the slave/gang master with the guns and sticks.
How the Russian trenches and pits get dug.
Slave society.
"We need to stop breeding the people who get a higher education".
Basically looking for stupid women and stupid loyal serfs.
Russia. Putin's Russia.
Donated a Suzuki carry truck earlier in the year to the armed forces in Ukraine.
I was sent footage this evening of the transformation that occurred in a Ukrainian workshop.
The people are skilled at the camouflage paint.
Taking "the beatings will continue until morale improves" to heart
More of putin's war machine destroyed in Ukraine:
Not a great sales pitch for the Russians lol
True but India seems to be happy to.
Something tells me were this to become law or the norm, this lady would consider herself exempt from any ceilings imposed on Russian women. I guess the demographic crisis and emigration caused by mobilisation is starting to bite?
Worth noting that this sentiment is identical to the American Conservative/Right, with speakers at the most recent CPAC forwarding the same suggestion, and that women abandon education and careers in lieu of motherhood. Is it any wonder parts of the GOP in America see Russia as friends?
As the great Irish philosopher Johnny Logan once said “What's Another Year?”
Moving their cash out of Russia? To protect it from Putin maybe? At one stage, he called the oligarchs together and told them that he expected more financial support for the war IE: Time to cough up boys, you have had it very good for a long time now.
And not just the paint either...Those tyres are definitely not standard issue, unless it was a special issue off roader for the ESB, Forestry etc.
I did the tyres myself.
The concept was started by a New Zealand dairy farmer in buying Kei 4wd trucks in Japan and fitting atv tyres and rims and selling them to NZ farmers.
I bought that one in this country from a garage who imported it from Japan and fitted atv wheels. I added wider rims and tyres again for the land on farm here. This can float on ground and climb any incline with 4wd hi low box. Travel 80km/hr.
Nice touch!!! A lot of well meaning people donate (amongst other things) vehicles, and for sure, vehicles of all shapes and sizes are badly needed in Ukraine, but 4 x 4's fitted with wider wheels and rough terrain tyres are especially welcome. I wish it a long and safe life. Well done!
Number 8 wire mentality. I give you an upvote :)
Report that Ukraine continues to progress its liberation of the east bank of the Dnipro river:
Jesus, fair play. I hope your handywork survives the war and gets to take part in a victory parade some fine day in the future.
Have you a link to what kind of vehicles they would take?
Basically, they will take any vehicle, provided its in good working order. 4 x 4s, with a good reliability history, ( Toyota ) would be especially welcome, spare parts in good supply, and easily procured. They should come with a good supply of standard service parts, engine oil, filters ( both air and oil ) Brake pads, Tyres, brake fluid and anti-freeze for the model supplied. Given the winter conditions now, a set of snow chains would be essential. I've seen donated vehicles which worked well, until they had a breakdown, and that was that, no spare parts readily available. This may sound like a wish list, but I've been there and those are basics. A reliable, dependable make, and enough standard service items to see it through its first year of service.
Someone from Wales came over and picked up mine on a trailer and drove their donated 4wd and trailer to Ukraine.
They're looking for 4wds and it's better again if you can drive it over in the convoys to Ukraine. But they'll take a 4wd without driver.
India are buying their airplanes from Raffale, so the point is that the Russian military airplanes (as opposed to SAM systems) are not in high demand is valid. The fact that confidence in Russia is so low that there was even a questionmark over whether India would buy SAM systems from them, is also telling.
Rather disturbing to read a story like this, but considering the state of the place under Putin, not surprising I suppose.
True there. I was more annoyed that India were doing deals with Russia in regards their military. But least Ukraine are showing the world just how crap Russian made weapons can be so their will be a pivot in the futire that countries will never buy from them again even when this conflict is over.
Further down on that thread on Twitter, the same scenes are shown again, but with English subtitles. It seems that the two guys getting hammered had given drugs to other members of their unit and another one, and most of the other unit were subsequently killed in a fight. This was their punishment. The guys digging the pit had used drugs, and were being taught a lesson. They had also invited the survivors of the other unit to come and take part.
I guess it's also a side-effect of the fact that Khrushchev's secret speech following Stalin's death never led to any larger scale attempt to process the atrocities of the Stalin era. Once Khrushchev was gone and Brezhnev took over, that was it, any attempt at properly dealing with this was done. The uncomfortable discussions that happened in many German living rooms in the 1960s (including in my grandparents' home) never really happened in Russia, neither in the 1960s, nor after the collapse of the USSR.
They tried to get India to part fund the original Sukhoi Su57 programme until the Indians realised that there older Sukhoi aircraft could detect the Russian Su 57s even though they are supposed to be a 5th gen stealth aircraft
I dont know much about it, but it does seem that the Su57 is vaporware. Much like most of the superweapons announced by Putin in 2016, not even the Russian armed forces are spending money on them. Their claim that it is better than the F35 but 1/3rd of the cost leads to the old addage that if it sounds too good to be true.....
Where the Americans have been producing and flying new design Stealth aircraft since the 70s each one individual and unique to the next the Russians went with lets cheat a little and took an su27 fighter and modified it's airframe and and pancaked fuselage and blended it's wings into a single shape and decided it was a 5th generation stealth fighter, with the radar cross section 1000 times larger the the F35 , meanwhile the US are flying the 3rd generation stealth bomber and at least 2 other unidentified new stealth aircraft,
We'll see russians charging the front on bicycles yet
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