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Id imagine his 3 day plan didnt include Ukraine walloping their critical infrastructure and killing their revenue streams.
I must look up the Russian for 'have a nice day'.
Peter Magyar calling on Ukraine to reopen the Druzhna pipeline as soon as possible.
Also Zelensky says Western governments are asking him for restraint on strikes on Russian energy.
Difficult when that energy is being turned into bombs, weapons, sign up bonuses for contractors in this illegal war.
Ukraine should keep showing restraint like they have in Tuapse.
“The contracts soldiers sign are indefinite: You’re in the Russian army until you die. One Russian deserter interviewed by the BBC revealed that of the 79 people he’s been mobilized with, he was the only one left alive”
A long read, but quite a few facts and figures about how Ukrainians turned the tide and outdid Russia both in quantity and quality of all sorts of drones
“The most crucial is that Russia’s spring offensive seems to have stalled as soon as it began. Russian forces took only 23 square kilometers of territory in March. At that pace, Russia would finish conquering Ukraine in 1,775 years. They are at a standstill, and despite already having numerical superiority along the front lines, they have already begun to commit their strategic reserves for the spring–summer campaign.”
Also Zelensky says Western governments are asking him for restraint on strike on Russian energy.
Until the same Western governments sanction the bejayzus out of Trump and every business connected to his warmongering sycophants, they can feck right off with their ask.
It's not Ukraine that drove up the price of fuel this last month, so I say more power to their drones and I hope they destroy every refinery and every oil storage depot within 2000km of Kiyv if that's what it takes to get someone to shove Putin out of a window.
Anyone got a tiny violin they don't need?
All she ever wanted was a house by the sea …
Shouldn't have built one on the black sea ring of fire. It's particularly active these days.
Reports that in fact the damage to the Druzhba pipeline was caused by Russia. Russia reportedly struck it 23 times. The €90bn loan is expected to be approved Wednesday, but under Orbans conditions that the Druzhba pipeline be repaired.
There was a report though that in February, Ukraine hit a pumping station for the pipeline.
It's up to the countries that signed the Budapest memorandum to live up to their promises. Once they help push Russia back to it's 1991 borders and keep them there, then they can ask for favours in return.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0420/1569111-russia-ukraine/
I wonder what the USA would do if Iran did similar?
FAFO
Welcome back. Any other wonderings? Maybe some intellectually honest ones?
@engineerws
Instead of pointless and irrelevant obsessing over the USA, if you go to
you can read all of RTÉ's stories concerning other events in the war. Including one you may have missed from a few days ago.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2026/0416/1568480-russia-ukraine-attacks/
The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 659 drones and 44 missiles in an attack that started yesterday daytime and stretched until dawn. The Russian army said it had "carried out a massive strike" against Ukrainian military and energy targets. Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians throughout its invasion, despite thousands killed in strikes on apartments, hospitals, train stations and other civilian infrastructure across the country.
I think Ukraine have been very restrained and clever in their own air war on Russia given what they are suffering every day, going on years now. They are really starting to make it hurt in return and dealing out very significant damage to Russia's oil and gas industry since they have gained the capabilities to do so over the last year or so.
Odesa residents recall hearing girl’s cries under rubble after deadly strike
According to the latest official figures, three people were killed in the Russian attack, including a mother and her 2-year-old daughter
Here you go @engineerws. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself running the excuse brigade for Russia and gargling Putins nutsack pushing their agenda here.
Russia are bombing children in their beds every other night and you expect us to care about some random Russian killed in an oil refinery attack?
Disgusting.
But but but… they just want peace???
Smokey
The environmental destruction being wrecked on the region is just one more legacy Putin is leaving behind him, to go with the hundreds of thousands of people whose time on this earth was terminated, the million+ with permanent physical scarring, the millions with permanent emotional scarring, the millions who have fled their homes and lost their homes, the tens of millions whose daily lives have been upended, the dropping further into poverty of millions of his own people, the crippling of his own country's economy and the alienation of his country from half of the civilised world.
All this because of one man, his ego and his insatiable desire for power.
Deep down he probably already knows how history will judge him.
Are the Russians capable of putting out any fires or do they just let hem burn themselves out?
I think you have the wrong end of the stick here.
I've clearly said Russia should be pushed back to their 1991 borders and the countries that promised support to Ukraine in the Budapest memorandum should be honouring their promises to the full.
I've been unwavering in my support of Ukraine and criticism of Russia. If you see differently please point out where.
Edit: It appears I had accidently thanked @engineernews when scrolling the thread on my phone - I have fixed that now.
I kind of imagine that even in a well organised state that with an inferno of that magnitude the very best one might hope for is to contain the fire and hope it will die out eventually when the fuel is used up.
But add to this a situation where a lot of the available man-power has either been sent to the meat grinder or drafted to service said grinder…well…I don't fancy their chances at handling any large fire…let alone a refinery blaze.
We should send em a carbon tax invoice 😂
anyways the drone death zone is now 60km wide and can be seen from space by untended and overgrown fields
And there's this
Fair enough. I've made that mistake myself. I'll amend my post.
No harm done, I'll eat my portion of humble pie for my mistake.
There is no such obligation. Oddly, this just came up on the Iran thread as well.
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/Part/volume-3007-I-52241.pdf
I think they should, but they are not obliged to.
The US has spent so much time recently stabbing former allies in the back that its clear you can't trust and or depend on the US.
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Konstantinovska is being systematically destroyed. Bakhmut demon has an overview video on his telegram. It'll inevitably be completely level like Bakhmut was. There's another similar sized city after this and then Kramatorsk/Sloviansk.
At what point will the western powers say enough and provide Ukraine with the ability to shoot down the Russian jets conducting these bombings.
is that the correct spelling there is nothing about that town or village in recent update a
