Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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According to Mr. Bernstam’s calculations, Russian individuals and companies have deposited $268 billion in foreign denominations in Russian banks.
The West’s Plan to Isolate Putin: Undermine the Ruble
Measures announced over the weekend aimed at restricting the Russian central bank’s ability to support the ruble appear to be having an immediate impact.www.nytimes.com
Yet the central bank has just about $12 billion of cash in hand — an astonishingly small amount, he said. As for the rest of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves, roughly $400 billion is invested in assets held outside the country. Another $84 billion is invested in Chinese bonds, and $139 billion is in gold.
It's not clear how much of that $400B in foreign assets is free from sanctions. But $503B is within control of Russia.
400 billion in invested assets? Who you gonna sell to? China at like a 1/4th discount? Same with that gold and bonds 1/2 price. Is China really gonna give Russian $ or yuan which they don't really need.
You can't defend the currency with Yuan lmao.
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Putin's Message for Saudi Crown Prince Amid Western Sanctions
President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday, buttressing a crucial geopolitical alliance as Western sanctions batter Russia's economy.
www.ndtv.com
150 USD / barrel looks eminently achievable. The goal evidently is to take it beyond that .
The only thing keeping it from 150 right now is Iran deal hypothetical.Putin's Message for Saudi Crown Prince Amid Western Sanctions
President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday, buttressing a crucial geopolitical alliance as Western sanctions batter Russia's economy.
150 USD / barrel looks eminently achievable. The goal evidently is to take it beyond that .
On the contrary , I'd say Ukraine must be prepared for the most bloody phase of the conquest now . This may well be what the Russians sought to avoid ( & what the US desired ) but since neither their army is primed to fight this way given they function to a different doctrine & the various deficiencies which've crept into their system plus the obvious diktat from the top , I guess the narrative is shortly going to change in western propoganda outlets from Russia is a spent force to Nazi criminals on the march again.
Indian Student In Ukraine Allowed To Return With Cat After Initial Denial .
The absolute entitlement of our neo middle class is breath taking .
The absolute entitlement of our neo middle class is breath taking .
Russian military is primarily an artillery army. If anything the artillery barrage is going to start and war is going to get bloody.
Ukrainian citizens trying to stop Azov battalions from deploying rocket systems in residential blocks
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В сети появилось видео из Мариуполя - очередное свидетельствование военных преступлений нацбатов, которые прикрываются мирными жителями, как живым щитом. На этот раз во дворе многоквартирного дома радикалы установили Град. Дом заселён - жильцы в шоке. Но вы сами должны понимать, что радикалу с...
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Seems like deliberate attempt to use civilians as human shield.
Blowing up of a Bridge by Ukrainian forces stopped civilians from leaving the city of irpin.
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You are assuming a bit too much of a collapse. Like Russia is the first country in the world to be sanctioned.
Because the EU focus too much on economic convenience than hard realities.
Meanwhile The Borg's re-emergence on Star Trek Picard coincides with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. @Picdelamirand-oil
Err no, the BBC announced it had taken Kherson yesterday.
The Russian army is not at all suitable for this style of warfare. They fight by leveling their target using massive fires and then mop up the stragglers. Ukraine cannot be dealt with the same way as Germany could be. Politics is running the show.
Update on operations in Ukraine 5 March D+9 12:45
1- General situation: general stalemate of Russian forces with the exception of the Eastern zone where the 20th A is advancing towards Kiev and the 1st ABG is suspending the investment of Kharkiv in favour of reconnaissance operations in force towards the centre (Poltava) and the South-East.
2- Air and sea: little change. Persistent fear of anti-aircraft defences (S300, MANPADS) which hindered air manoeuvres. Flying at very low altitude and/or at night with less efficiency.
3- New area, West: the western Ukrainian area (large marshes at the Belarusian border, few important axes during the Rasputa period) is not very favourable for a ground manoeuvre, but possibility of penetrating Jitomyr, west of Kiev.
4- It is possible that the large column on standby is in fact the 35th A (and not the 36th) until then in reserve in Belarus and that it is intended to manoeuvre, either towards Kiev, or towards the South in the direction of Vinnitsya, in order to cut the Ukraine in two.
5- Kiev: the 41st A still stopped at Chernihiv and the 36th A west of Kiev, but rapid advance of the 20th A to the east. The 20th A may reach the east of the capital in the coming days.
6- East: limited Russian advance into Kharkiv but peripheral operations of the 1st ABG towards Sloviansk in the south-east and Poltava in the south-west of Kharkiv. Poltava, a high point in Russian military history, victory of Peter the Great against the Swedish army of Charles XII, 1709
7- Southeast: major Russian effort and separatist militias against Mariupol. Violent fighting. The siege of Mariupol absorbs the forces of the 58th A and part of the 49th A from Donetsk.
8- Few forces available to advance north, but presence with limited forces near Zaporozhjia, with seizure of the nuclear power plant and thus control over 15% of Ukrainian electricity production.
9- South-West: new attack on Mykolayev (Ukr. naval forces HQ) from Kherson. The fight in the sector seems to be taken over by the 22nd Corps (CA) + naval brigade and 7th AAD and no longer the 58th A. The capture of Mykolayev essential for the attack on Odessa.
10- Notes Return to the phase of suppression of air defences in the early days of the war. Its incompleteness had serious consequences on the failure of the high-speed offensive of the ground forces.
11- The air raid on the airport of Gostomel (North Kiev), suffered heavy losses (two attack helicopters destroyed and especially one or two IL76 transport planes destroyed with undoubtedly heavy human losses).
12- Back to the problems of Russian organisation. Their origin may be the anarchic accumulation of different command structures after the succession of reforms: army and corps, autonomous brigades and divisions with regiments.
13- Often too many units to be commanded (far beyond the norm of 5) simultaneously by the army staffs, especially with reinforcements + liaison problems.
14- Death of several Russian generals reported, sign of the need (by order?) for commanders of large units to go directly to the closest unit to bypass a saturated chain of command and compensate for the lack of initiative of the units.
1- General situation: general stalemate of Russian forces with the exception of the Eastern zone where the 20th A is advancing towards Kiev and the 1st ABG is suspending the investment of Kharkiv in favour of reconnaissance operations in force towards the centre (Poltava) and the South-East.
2- Air and sea: little change. Persistent fear of anti-aircraft defences (S300, MANPADS) which hindered air manoeuvres. Flying at very low altitude and/or at night with less efficiency.
3- New area, West: the western Ukrainian area (large marshes at the Belarusian border, few important axes during the Rasputa period) is not very favourable for a ground manoeuvre, but possibility of penetrating Jitomyr, west of Kiev.
4- It is possible that the large column on standby is in fact the 35th A (and not the 36th) until then in reserve in Belarus and that it is intended to manoeuvre, either towards Kiev, or towards the South in the direction of Vinnitsya, in order to cut the Ukraine in two.
5- Kiev: the 41st A still stopped at Chernihiv and the 36th A west of Kiev, but rapid advance of the 20th A to the east. The 20th A may reach the east of the capital in the coming days.
6- East: limited Russian advance into Kharkiv but peripheral operations of the 1st ABG towards Sloviansk in the south-east and Poltava in the south-west of Kharkiv. Poltava, a high point in Russian military history, victory of Peter the Great against the Swedish army of Charles XII, 1709
7- Southeast: major Russian effort and separatist militias against Mariupol. Violent fighting. The siege of Mariupol absorbs the forces of the 58th A and part of the 49th A from Donetsk.
8- Few forces available to advance north, but presence with limited forces near Zaporozhjia, with seizure of the nuclear power plant and thus control over 15% of Ukrainian electricity production.
9- South-West: new attack on Mykolayev (Ukr. naval forces HQ) from Kherson. The fight in the sector seems to be taken over by the 22nd Corps (CA) + naval brigade and 7th AAD and no longer the 58th A. The capture of Mykolayev essential for the attack on Odessa.
10- Notes Return to the phase of suppression of air defences in the early days of the war. Its incompleteness had serious consequences on the failure of the high-speed offensive of the ground forces.
11- The air raid on the airport of Gostomel (North Kiev), suffered heavy losses (two attack helicopters destroyed and especially one or two IL76 transport planes destroyed with undoubtedly heavy human losses).
12- Back to the problems of Russian organisation. Their origin may be the anarchic accumulation of different command structures after the succession of reforms: army and corps, autonomous brigades and divisions with regiments.
13- Often too many units to be commanded (far beyond the norm of 5) simultaneously by the army staffs, especially with reinforcements + liaison problems.
14- Death of several Russian generals reported, sign of the need (by order?) for commanders of large units to go directly to the closest unit to bypass a saturated chain of command and compensate for the lack of initiative of the units.
No it's from Michel Goya. But I thought you didn't know him so I didn't quote him.
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Kherson was taken 2 days ago and elements of Russian forces advanced some 150Kms north of Kherson to Voznesens'k. Mykolaiv itself was bypassed and encircled. It's now under Russian attack.