That last video…the poor animals. 
that’s an interesting update for playstation:
Version 9.50
- Now when you start a party, you can select either an open party or a closed party.
- You can now individually adjust the voice chat volume of each player in a party.
- We’ve added Ukrainian language support.
It’s difficult of course, as the two are tightly integrated. It’s the same with fisheries in the North and shipping companies here in Vestlandet. They have a lot of Russian employees that they don’t necessarily want to drop but they also can’t pay them through normal channels.
But yeah, on a political level it’s a shitshow.
We used to call that “fragging”, but I guess the practice predated the Vietnam War. Happens when the troops start asking, “are we the baddies?”
Thanks for the link; I’ve not been reading Norwegian news as regularly as I used to.
So they’re out of grenades too.
“Having waited for the right moment, during battle, he ran over the commander with a tank as he stood next to him, injuring both his legs. Now Col. Medvedev is in a hospital in Belarus, waiting for monetary compensation for combat wounds received during the ‘special military operation to protect the Donbass.’ Colonel Medvedev was awarded the Order of Courage,” he wrote.
Although I think i’d posted this in this thread a few weeks ago but even if I did, it deserves a repost. The sheer incompetence of Russia’s actions have easily caught up to everything in this video.
Peskov also said that most Nato member states suffer from a hysterical and inadequate understanding of what is going on in Ukraine.
From what I’ve read, that would equally well describe Putin’s understanding of Ukrainian history.
EU diplomat Borrell: Russia wants to ‘isolate Ukraine from the sea’
The Russian government has no interest in negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine for now as its army has not reached its military goals, European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Thursday.
“Right now, Russia doesn’t want to sit and negotiate anything: what it wants is to occupy the ground,” Borrell said in an interview with Spanish TVE channel.
“It wants to surround the coast to the border with Moldova and isolate Ukraine from the sea. It wants to negotiate in earnest only when it has secured a position of strength.”
Reuters report that Borrell said the European Union and its allies will keep on delivering military aid to the Ukrainian army.
“It is important because everything will be decided in the next 15 days,” he said. “What will make history is the capacity of Ukrainians to resist.”
It’s distasteful, but I’d assume working out a port access agreement might be an offer from Ukraine. “You can’t HAVE the port, but we’ll negotiate your ability to use it”. If that port is as important as they say.
Bad bedfellows, though. And it’s likely not the main point of this war, just a handy souvenir.
I immediately hear “It’s summer and we’re running out of ice” from Oklahoma. This just can’t end well.
I think we know why… he’s a white man with money.
I rather think it is a lot more than that. Russia has relatively limited deep-water large ports with access to year-round readily navigable seas. That was part of why it took Crimea, but it needs unrestricted land access between Crimea and ‘home’. Taking other ports such as Odesa is probably a strategic aim, and cutting Ukraine off from port access gives Russia huge leverage and control over the ability of the Ukrainian economy to function.
