Russia invades Ukraine Feb 2022

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Russian prisoners saying they didn't think they were going into Ukraine. Where the f@ck did they think they were going. Why are so many of them willing to die for absolutely nothing

[RadioGAAGAA]

Russian prisoners saying they didn't think they were going into Ukraine. Where the f@ck did they think they were going. Why are so many of them willing to die for absolutely nothing

They climbed into the back of a lorry or aeroplane and were drove/flown somewhere and told to get out.

You'd be surprised at what you wouldn't know if you were operating under a communications blackout for weeks.

The officers should know where they are as they'd have objectives which obviously require targets.

But the poor privates and conscripts wouldn't have a feckin' clue.

[Dire Ear]

So much whataboutery that you's get a job in the Dup.

Wise up

[RedHand88]

Russian prisoners saying they didn't think they were going into Ukraine. Where the f@ck did they think they were going. Why are so many of them willing to die for absolutely nothing

They climbed into the back of a lorry or aeroplane and were drove/flown somewhere and told to get out.

You'd be surprised at what you wouldn't know if you were operating under a communications blackout for weeks.

The officers should know where they are as they'd have objectives which obviously require targets.

But the poor privates and conscripts wouldn't have a feckin' clue.

Yea they aren't sitting on social media all day long like the rest of us.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Russian prisoners saying they didn't think they were going into Ukraine. Where the f@ck did they think they were going. Why are so many of them willing to die for absolutely nothing

They climbed into the back of a lorry or aeroplane and were drove/flown somewhere and told to get out.

You'd be surprised at what you wouldn't know if you were operating under a communications blackout for weeks.

The officers should know where they are as they'd have objectives which obviously require targets.

But the poor privates and conscripts wouldn't have a feckin' clue.

Yea they aren't sitting on social media all day long like the rest of us.

If it was some rapid op then fine but they have literally been sat on the Ukraine border for months

[imtommygunn]

It is kind of hard to believe that tbh though I was reading that too.

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/073a37d5-4daf-49ed-b5bc-a4682ef1aa88?

The US is considering placing sanctions on the Russian central bank, in a move that would stop Moscow accessing its foreign reserves. The action by the Biden administration would be the harshest measure imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, according to people familiar with the internal discussions.

You do this by freezing its reserves held with foreign central banks. Whatever foreign exchange reserves a central bank has, they reside on the balance sheet of the issuing central bank. For example, any dollars or euros owned by Russia's central bank are held in accounts with the Fed and ECB respectively. These CBs can then freeze these accounts, effectively preventing Russia's CB from using its reserves.

At the end of June 2020, the value of Russia's gold assets included in its international reserves surpassed the value of US dollar assets. The value of reserves totalled $561 billion as of end-June. Of that, about 30 % was held in euros, 23 % in gold and 22 % in US dollars. In the second quarter of 2018, the CBR shifted about 15 % of its foreign currency reserves into Chinese yuan (BOFIT Weekly 2019/03). By the end of June 2020, the yuan share of reserves had declined to about 12 %."

[From the Bunker]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/12552691/roman-abramovich-hands-chelsea-stewardship-to-clubs-charity-trust-following-russia-invasion-of-ukraine

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/073a37d5-4daf-49ed-b5bc-a4682ef1aa88?

A G20 central bank has never been sanctioned before. This is not Iran. This is not Venezuela. So to shut off their central bank from the international financial system, or at least the dollar and euro economy, is a massively destabilising move potentially," said Lipsky. Edward Fishman, a former US official now at the Center for a New American Security, said it would present a "devastating blow" to the Russian economy that would eclipse the significance of a ban on Swift. "If you added the Russian central bank to the SDN list, it would be the single most impactful sanction that you could apply to Russia, and you could do it with a stroke of the pen," he said. "It would render a sizeable chunk of their foreign exchange reserves unusable overnight."

[Gmac]

Russian prisoners saying they didn't think they were going into Ukraine. Where the f@ck did they think they were going. Why are so many of them willing to die for absolutely nothing

They climbed into the back of a lorry or aeroplane and were drove/flown somewhere and told to get out.

You'd be surprised at what you wouldn't know if you were operating under a communications blackout for weeks.

The officers should know where they are as they'd have objectives which obviously require targets.

But the poor privates and conscripts wouldn't have a feckin' clue.

Yea they aren't sitting on social media all day long like the rest of us.

that's why this will fail Russians hearts are not in it ,!it will turn out to be putins downfall

[armaghniac]

So much whataboutery that you's get a job in the Dup.

if occupation is wrong it I'd as wrong in Ukraine as it is anywhere else..

if the answer to occupation is sanctions, financial and military support then  its should be the answer everywhere...

these are the same issues not different issues but the response is very different.

That's a bit simplistic. This is a nuclear power, while the western countries are nearby they do not want to escalate things so that the lunatic nukes somebody.

[LeoMc]

Any word on the Saudis ramping up oil production to drive the price down and bring the Russians to heel as they did 2 years ago?

[KickPass]

Any word on the Saudis ramping up oil production to drive the price down and bring the Russians to heel as they did 2 years ago?

The only thing the Saudis are ramping up is lethal attacks on innocent civilians in Yemen knowing it will not make the news. Same with Israel ramping up attacks on Damascus knowing Ukraine will steal all the headlines.

[Wildweasel74]

What's with the clowns with the old soviet flag getting their picture took at the Free Derry wall.

[Saffrongael]

I know the Ukrainian President is going down a storm on social media and the like but is he not s bit of a crook ?