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Ukraine’s Allies Are Starting to Look at How a Cease-fire Could Work - Some officials are gaming out what an off-ramp could look like - BLOOMBERG https://archive.ph/2024.09.18-122826/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-17/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-kyiv-s-allies-start-to-look-at-how-it-could-work One European defense official said their government shares the concern that following any deal, Putin would prey on insecurities in the West as he prepared for a new conflict. What’s more, the official noted, it would be politically difficult for Zelenskiy to sign any agreement that includes territorial concessions while Putin’s goal to subjugate Ukraine in its entirety remains unchanged. At the very least, it would make sense for Putin to wait to see who wins the US election and what their actual policies are, said the official.

Well that's your mum you are probably stereotyping !

The mad, bad, sad world of Ryan Routh - He seems to be a war zone archetype https://archive.is/WGURC#selection-1271.0-1281.35 Routh hasn’t been convicted of anything, only arrested. And though it’s too early to say, if he is guilty of the crime as alleged, it seems he hasn’t done the Ukrainians any favours, whatever his intentions may have been. As someone once wrote of another conflict, war is ‘madness visible’.

The West has finally declared war on Russian disinformation Putin aims to discredit liberal democracy at home and abroad, and social media gave him a platform to do so https://archive.is/BfEqh#selection-2347.0-2371.114 While Russian state media is no longer able to present the case against Ukraine to large audiences, it may not need to. An April 2024 CBS/YouGov poll showed that 61 per cent of Republicans, 50 per cent of Independents and 26 per cent of Democrats oppose sending military aid to Ukraine. Amongst Republicans, 56 per cent trust Ukraine-sceptic conservative media outlets as information sources about the war, while only 33 per cent trust war correspondents and 27 per cent trust the State Department.

If you really want to watch it it's on Rumble.

Thanks I keep getting this problem and this fixes it or seems to do you know if it's just luck. It happens virtually every week.

Yellow clothing unless they are a salim !

I do cmd and at the dos prompt ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew which always seems to work for me.

What a load of nonsense - my wife's most cherished present is a duty free Rolex I bough at Heathrow - the seller was Thai and I said if she wouldn't post all the docs to our home address I wasn't buying as I was worried about getting stung by Thai customs. She did it and got the sale. Turns out it was a good investment - bought for 5k and the same model now is 8k 5 years later.

On 26 July 2024 Bulgakov was arrested on charges of corruption by the FSB and sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Bulgakov#cite_note-7 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/26/former-russian-deputy-defense-minister-arrested-on-corruption-charges-a85837

I think we agree Brian a good place to leave posting for today.

My moneys on the Paliantysia - whose very features re ammo dump are mentioned in this video and the fact they negate the need for ATACMS or other long range western tech.

From your link Brian re my comment "or some more sophisticated missile either a home made Ukrainian...... " This suggests that the attack on the Toropets ammo depot involved at least one experimental jet-propelled drone or the Palianytsia missile-drone.

Well if true then the lack of even basic AD around such an important site points to sheer complacency and incompetence of the base command who must have felt safe so far from the border.A huge amouint of drones would overwhelm anything but the most sophisticated defence which they obviusly don't have, Apparently the General responsible for that storage was under investigation already assuming he survived the attack which is doubtful given it's size and ferocity.

If true about the Iskanders et al then Russia would be well advised to store high value items next to nuclear facilities , reactors or missile sites. One does idly wonder if this was indeed a multiple drone strike or some more sophisticated missile either a home made Ukrainian or a 'hacked' western one - where western minders conveniently look the other way. We will probably never know for sure. But a huge hit for sure and a major Ukrainian success.

Russia Seizes Eastern Town as Ukraine Says It Hit a Big Ammunition Depot The capture of Ukrainsk underscored Russia’s steady advances in the Donetsk region. Ukraine is trying to counter with strikes on Russian military infrastructure. NYT ` https://archive.is/feihP#selection-4617.0-4621.161 The capture of Ukrainsk and the Ukrainian drone strikes, which hit in the northwestern Russian town of Toropets, highlighted one of the main dynamics of the war in recent months: Russian forces are gaining ground in Ukraine, and Kyiv is trying to disrupt that progress by hitting military bases and warehouses that are key to Russia’s operations.

My post and it's qoute actually praises Ukraine's efforts to reduce corruption and highlights the efficiency of US oversight in helping it on that path.

Pentagon inspector general: Ukraine is 'job one' for defense oversight https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-inspector-general-ukraine-is-job-one-for-defense-oversight/7787995.html?sfnsn=wiwspmo Storch told VOA that the Pentagon is working with Ukraine’s military to ensure that it provides timely and accurate information, and with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government to fight corruption. He said that in the days immediately following Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s armed forces were delinquent in providing information, but that the situation has improved, in part thanks to oversight. While corruption remains endemic in Ukraine, Storch said that Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions are maturing and that the oversight community is working to ensure that such progress continues. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

Yegor Firsov, a chief sergeant in the Ukrainian army, tells Fareed about the alarming situation on Ukraine’s eastern front line and his motivations to keep fighting on. CNN Video Report https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/15/world/video/gps0915-fighting-on-ukraines-eastern-front

‘If they don’t die, our infantry will’: Ukraine’s pivotal battle for Donetsk Russian forces are gathering on Pokrovsk, a logistics base and transport hub, after months of slow, brutal advance https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/if-they-dont-die-our-infantry-will-ukraines-pivotal-battle-for-donetsk According to Stanislav, Russia is able to advance because its army is much bigger. “We don’t have enough ammo. For every one shell we fire, they fire seven. Or more. We lack infantry,” he admitted. “The situation is a bit better than six months ago [when the US Congress blocked deliveries of weapons]. But with this tempo of fighting it isn’t enough. Russia is a big country. It has money and resources. It funds its military with oil and gas.”

Ukraine-Russia war live: War casualties reach 1 million as Russian ammunition depot town hit in drone strike https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-putin-war-casualties-ceasefire-kursk-latest-b2614685.html Roughly one million people have been killed or injured since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, fresh estimates from Western intelligence show. The figure includes 80,000 Ukrainian troops killed and 400,000 wounded, according to a confidential estimate from Kyiv reported by the Wall Street Journal. Estimates of Russian casualties vary but are expected to number around 200,000 killed and 400,000 wounded.

Well yes and no I remember briefly interest rates of 13% in the UK after Black Wednesday when the UK attempted to peg the pound to the Euro and started a capital flight. So there is no doubt that Russia's economy is under strain but as a predomninantly underpinned as a mega resources play it will never stray into Zimbabwe/Argentina territory. Ukraine of course is bust - if foreign capital inflows were to stop the economy would totally collapse along with goverment salaries. Something akin to the worse Yeltsin years when civil sociey collapsed in Russia - and in 1992 inflation soared to 2000%. Russians never forget that hell and it's one of the main reasons Putin came to power.

Good morning. US believes Zelensky's peace strategy 'can work,' official says -Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/us-believes-zelenskys-peace-strategy-can-work-official-says/ U.S. officials have seen President Volodymyr Zelensky's Victory Plan and believe it is a strategy "that can work," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said during a press briefing on Sept. 17. Zelensky on Sept. 16 said that his Victory Plan for Ukraine is over 90% complete, and that he will present the plan to allies next week. The details of the strategy have not been released to the public One does wonder what this plan could be that doesn't include Russia. Start ww3 ,NATO boots on the ground , give us everything we want (and you don't have) like yesterday , beef up leaky sanctions ?

Notice how the controversial Yermak the power behind the "throne" is on the panel and of course Boris who enobled Lebedev as Lord of Siberia. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark "