Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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Opinion - Russians are waking up to Putin’s Ukraine folly
Ukraine’s unexpected incursion into Russia’s Kursk region — and Moscow's inability to marshal a serious response to it — has shaken public sentiment within Russia.
In other news, russia has completed its ninth day of trying to sell Q3 bonds. They raised about 60 billion rubles this time. The problem is that they wanted to raise a total of 1.5 trillion rubles over thirteen auction days. In total, they've raised 433 billion rubles for Q3 so far, making them over one trillion short of their goal. They have four auction days left, and would need to average about 266 billions raised per remaining day to meet their goal.
And if you look at the whole year, the goal was about four trillion rubles. With only Q4 and four days of Q3 remaining, they're at 1.766 trillions so far. Most of that was the 827 billions from Q1, Q2 (where their goal was one trillion) they managed to raise 505 billions. So far Q3 looks like it might beat Q2, but probably not Q1.
So on the whole, they might manage to reach half of their yearly goal?
Now to be fair, last year, they managed to reach their goal at the last minute, somehow. Can they repeat that performance? Problem is, it's not everybody who can buy these auctioned bonds. It's basically only banks. And russian banks have less and less liquidity with which to buy stuff.
Another proof that russia is economically collapsing:
In general, Russia often hides things because they’re about to get caught in a lie, or they don’t want anyone to know the truth.
They aren’t hiding it because things are going well.
US Army ammo plant boosts artillery shell production for Ukraine
A Pennsylvania ammo plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has managed to boost production by 50% to meet surging demand.
www.defensenews.com
The russians are spooked about Telegram now being a tool of the CIA. Which again shows how they think that every country acts like russia.
Meanwhile, russians are complaining that russian soldiers are being russian soldiers in russian towns. They're supposed to only behave like russian soldiers in foreign towns!
Anniversary of the Illovais'k treachery. Another reminder why you should never negotiate with russia, never trust russia, never believe russia. The only way to deal with russia is by killing every russian invader that come your way.
Meanwhile, russians are complaining that russian soldiers are being russian soldiers in russian towns. They're supposed to only behave like russian soldiers in foreign towns!
Anniversary of the Illovais'k treachery. Another reminder why you should never negotiate with russia, never trust russia, never believe russia. The only way to deal with russia is by killing every russian invader that come your way.
More russians complaining about the russianness of russians.
Some russians being completely bewildered that Ukrainians are not russians.
More fundraisers are going on in russia to buy bodybags. They never have enough body bags.
Ukraine's sanctions against the russian oil industry are working mighty well.
The event of a sudden need for an increase in fuel consumption? Like, for example, winter? Hopefully russia will have lost a lot more of its production capacities when the cold rolls in; just to make it more interesting.
Some russians being completely bewildered that Ukrainians are not russians.
More fundraisers are going on in russia to buy bodybags. They never have enough body bags.
2/ Anna Deryabina, a war widow and volunteer from Chelyabinsk, has organised an appeal on the Russian social network VK for funds for body bags. She writes:
3/ "As scary as it is to write about it, we need bags for the 200s.
For transporting the dead guys.
We need a lot.
The cost of one is 200 rubles.
The reality, unfortunately, is that their guys are buying them at their own expense."
"4/ This is not the first body bag fundraiser reported from Russia. A similar effort was reported recently from Irkutsk, where the local authorities had run out of money to transport bodies back to their relatives.
5/ While Russia's MOD does recover bodies from the battlefield, many relatives have complained that far too few are being returned. Large numbers of unburied dead have been a consistent feature of the Ukrainian battlefields.
6/ It's notable that according to Deryabina, soldiers are having to pay for their own body bags. It's unclear whether they are buying them so that they can collect their dead comrades, or are seeking to ensure that their own bodies can be retrieved if they die. /end
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Ukraine's sanctions against the russian oil industry are working mighty well.
A post by Russian political blogger Anatoly Nesmiyan about the damage to the Russian oil industry inflicted by Ukrainian UAV strikes on oil depots and refineries:
“Kyiv's strikes on oil storage facilities have two dimensions. The operational dimension - the fires burn fuel that has already been produced and could have been used - either in the economy or for military needs. But there is also a strategic dimension.
Storage facilities are an integral part of the production chain, and if storage capacity is reduced, then production must also be reduced - finished products need to be stored somewhere.
Although fuel storage facilities themselves are not a very complex technology, and if desired can be built quite quickly, if we are talking about long-term storage facilities, these complexes take years to build.
Starting with the design, land allocation and ending with the creation of logistics for the delivery and collection of finished products. Infrastructure is the basis of normal economic activity, and it is precisely this that is being struck now.
It is worth saying that the results are already clearly there - information on the production and processing of oil products is suddenly classified.
The explanation ‘to prevent manipulation on the market‘ looks so-so. But as an attempt to hide the real damage from the strikes is more likely. But even from the information that is not yet classified, it is clear that the production of petroleum products has dropped quite significantly - by almost 10 percent.
The surplus of petroleum products was exported and was a kind of maneuvering fund. In the event of a fuel shortage within the country, exports could always be "cut." And this maneuvering fund constituted approximately 10-12 percent of the total output. It turns out that today fuel consumption is proceeding without such a reserve, practically from the wheels.
It is clear what this threatens - in the event of a sudden need for a sharp increase in fuel consumption, a deficit will arise. This means another crisis in a series of endless others. And which will again have to be resolved by manual control.”
The event of a sudden need for an increase in fuel consumption? Like, for example, winter? Hopefully russia will have lost a lot more of its production capacities when the cold rolls in; just to make it more interesting.