DIY-HP-LED
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Looks like he's three sheets to the wind as we say, comes from the tilt angle of a schooner's deck when under full sail.
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BudmanTX
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he's known for being 4 sheets of oh shit.........
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Ukraine Anger Over Von Der Leyen's Unverified '100,000 Dead Soldiers' Claim
Ukraine has hit back at a claim by the European Commission's president that 100,000 of Kyiv's troops have been killed since Russia's invasion in February
Ursula von der Leyen used the number in a video address, prompting Kyiv's armed forces to state that the death toll was "classified information." Footage of her speech has since been edited to cut the reference.
In Russia, the state-owned news agency Tass was among the media outlets to seize on the high figure and to say the European Commission had "removed information about 100,000 dead Ukrainian servicemen."
www.newsweek.com
Ukraine has hit back at a claim by the European Commission's president that 100,000 of Kyiv's troops have been killed since Russia's invasion in February
Ursula von der Leyen used the number in a video address, prompting Kyiv's armed forces to state that the death toll was "classified information." Footage of her speech has since been edited to cut the reference.
In Russia, the state-owned news agency Tass was among the media outlets to seize on the high figure and to say the European Commission had "removed information about 100,000 dead Ukrainian servicemen."
Ukraine anger over von der Leyen's unverified "100,000 dead soldiers" claim
Russian state media seized on the high figure, which the European Commission has since explained refers to troops both killed and injured.
www.newsweek.com
DIY-HP-LED
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The Russian lost that many, the Ukrainians fight smarter and are better trained allowing more flexible tactical action and maneuver on the battlefield. At its peak the intense Russian shelling in the east this spring and summer killed a lot of territorials manning defenses, but that was only 200 a day at its height. Since then, the kill ratio in favor of the Ukrainians has been enormous since western artillery and HIMARS came into the picture supported by counter battery radars and drones of all descriptions. I can see the Russians losing dozens of dead and wounded daily just from small commercial drone bombing and aerial grenade attacks alone.Ukraine Anger Over Von Der Leyen's Unverified '100,000 Dead Soldiers' Claim
Ukraine has hit back at a claim by the European Commission's president that 100,000 of Kyiv's troops have been killed since Russia's invasion in February
Ursula von der Leyen used the number in a video address, prompting Kyiv's armed forces to state that the death toll was "classified information." Footage of her speech has since been edited to cut the reference.
In Russia, the state-owned news agency Tass was among the media outlets to seize on the high figure and to say the European Commission had "removed information about 100,000 dead Ukrainian servicemen."
Ukraine anger over von der Leyen's unverified "100,000 dead soldiers" claim
Russian state media seized on the high figure, which the European Commission has since explained refers to troops both killed and injured.
DIY-HP-LED
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Meanwhile the war online continues, with the Russians getting a lot of trolling from people who know them well!
BudmanTX
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Turn off the heat, water and light in the houses of Russian diplomates
The Czech project "Gift for Putin" published a petition in which it is proposed to cut off the power supply to residential buildings in the country, which are owned by the Russian Federation.
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82% said yes
DIY-HP-LED
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I figured by now they would be lining their pockets with plastic bags to steal food at the odd diplomatic event they were invited to, they are doing better than I expected, give them time...Turn off the heat, water and light in the houses of Russian diplomates
The Czech project "Gift for Putin" published a petition in which it is proposed to cut off the power supply to residential buildings in the country, which are owned by the Russian Federation.
82% said yes
BudmanTX
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i say go for it, and while the czech are at, do it to the rest of the diplomats across the EU as well, let them sit in the dark with no heat..etc
printer
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Ukraine sees 9 deaths in 1 day, as civilians struggle to heat homes after Russian attacks
Ukraine's state emergency service said Wednesday that nine people had been killed in fires in the past 24 hours as people broke safety rules trying to heat their homes following Russian attacks on power facilities. The number of fires has risen, it said, with Ukrainians increasingly resorting to using emergency generators, candles and gas cylinders in their homes because of power outages.
"Only in the last day, there were 131 fires in Ukraine, 106 of them in the residential sector. Nine people died, eight were injured," it said in a statement.
"Generators on balconies, gas cylinders in apartments, lit candles.… Due to violations of fire-safety rules, the use of uncertified products for heating and cooking, incidents of fires and explosions in highrise and private buildings have become more frequent." The statement urged Ukrainians to take more care in their homes and to explain fire risks to children.
Ukraine is still struggling to restore full power a week after Russian missile strikes damaged energy facilities across the country.
National power grid operator Ukrenergo said the electricity deficit had fallen slightly, from 30 per cent on Tuesday morning to 27 per cent on Wednesday morning. Energy consumption has risen as winter sets in. Weather forecasters said temperatures in the capital Kyiv would fall to –6 C overnight and were set to soon drop further. Ukrainian and Western officials have accused Russia of weaponizing winter, as the now-nine-month-old conflict crosses into the coldest parts of the calendar. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told citizens to expect further Russia strikes on energy infrastructure in the days ahead.
Ukraine's state emergency service said Wednesday that nine people had been killed in fires in the past 24 hours as people broke safety rules trying to heat their homes following Russian attacks on power facilities. The number of fires has risen, it said, with Ukrainians increasingly resorting to using emergency generators, candles and gas cylinders in their homes because of power outages.
"Only in the last day, there were 131 fires in Ukraine, 106 of them in the residential sector. Nine people died, eight were injured," it said in a statement.
"Generators on balconies, gas cylinders in apartments, lit candles.… Due to violations of fire-safety rules, the use of uncertified products for heating and cooking, incidents of fires and explosions in highrise and private buildings have become more frequent." The statement urged Ukrainians to take more care in their homes and to explain fire risks to children.
Ukraine is still struggling to restore full power a week after Russian missile strikes damaged energy facilities across the country.
National power grid operator Ukrenergo said the electricity deficit had fallen slightly, from 30 per cent on Tuesday morning to 27 per cent on Wednesday morning. Energy consumption has risen as winter sets in. Weather forecasters said temperatures in the capital Kyiv would fall to –6 C overnight and were set to soon drop further. Ukrainian and Western officials have accused Russia of weaponizing winter, as the now-nine-month-old conflict crosses into the coldest parts of the calendar. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told citizens to expect further Russia strikes on energy infrastructure in the days ahead.
DIY-HP-LED
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The allies say the grid will be restored and defended. This is a byproduct of people trying to survive and might not be necessary for too much longer from the way I'm reading the tea leaves. The allies appeared to put an end to the Russian energy and infrastructure strategy, implementation of air defenses has been ongoing since before they formally met in Romania. Blinken said they are not gonna rebuild the grid, just to see it taken down again until they run out of spares to repair it, a sensible position IMHO.
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Make peace, not war The Kremlin’s internal polling shows that more than half of Russians now favor negotiations with Ukraine, while only a quarter want to continue the invasion
Russia’s ongoing military defeats in Ukraine and the social burden of mobilization are rapidly cooling the public’s support for the war. Meduza has gained access to the results of an opinion poll commissioned by the Kremlin “for internal use only.” According to the study conducted by the Federal Protective Service (FSO), 55 percent of Russians favor peace talks with Ukraine, while only a quarter of the respondents still support continuing the war.
The FSO poll does not diverge all that much from the results of an October public-opinion study conducted by the Levada Center, Russia’s only large independent sociological institute. In the Levada study, 57 percent of respondents said that they supported, or would probably support, peace talks with Ukraine. Only 27 percent expressed the same range of support for continuing the war.
The FSO’s own polling indicates that Russians’ attitudes about the war have changed. As late as July 2022, only 30 percent of survey respondents favored ending the war by peace negotiations. Comparing the new results to those collected in the summer make the shift obvious:
Two sources close to the Putin administration told Meduza that the Kremlin now plans to limit the polling data that VTsIOM (the Russian Public Opinion Research Center) releases to the public. One source said, “You can get all kinds of results these days — better not to do it at all.” Also speaking to Meduza, a political consultant who works frequently with the Kremlin explained that it’s “best not to reveal the dynamics” of the Russians’ changing attitudes towards the war.
Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, says the share of Russians likely to support peace talks with Ukraine began to grow rapidly following Putin’s September 21 mobilization decree:
This is sheer reluctance to take part in the war personally. They continue to support it, but they have very little desire to participate themselves. Besides, their support was, from the very start, something they declared with regard to what they perceived as having nothing to do with themselves: “Life goes on — it’s even getting better.” Now, the risks are greater, and people want to start the talks. Still, the majority of people leave this to the government: “We’d like it, but it’s up to them to decide.”
Sociologist Grigory Yudin also links rising public support for peace talks to Russia’s draft. This fall, he says, Russians came face-to-face with the “crumbling of their everyday lives and a sense of danger.” Their “loss of faith in the victory” and the “absence of a convincing account of how exactly Russia might win” also contribute to the shift in opinions, says Yudin. “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Yudin added,
if this turned out to be mixed with an acute sense of danger to the country itself. In this sense, peace talks followed by legalizing the annexations should make the country safer.
Yudin says the public’s resentment for how the war is going is not far from outright “apathy.” Still, he doesn’t rule out the possibility of anti-war demonstrations in Russia:
Protests do not occur simply because people think something but because something makes protest possible. Russia’s protest potential is very high. When possibilities present themselves, there will be protests. Quite possibly, we won’t have to wait that long.
Kremlin insiders who spoke to Meduza, however, said there’s little concern in the administration about potential mass protests, though they acknowledged that “it’s best not to raise the temperature, and not to anger people if not necessary.” Russia’s state media and propaganda outlets, moreover, have already received instructions “not to dwell on the war.” According to Meduza’s sources, the mass media is now being told to focus instead on a “more positive agenda.”
Political scientist Vladimir Gelman says the dynamics of Russian public opinion are unlikely to pressure the Putin administration into honest negotiations with Ukraine. The Russian side, he argues, is “not ready to make concessions,” and the prospects of any peace talks depend largely on what happens in combat — not in opinion polls.
Last October, Meduza wrote about Vladimir Putin’s unwillingness to abandon his claim on the Ukrainian regions he’s now annexed outright. The Kremlin’s recent hints at possible peace talks are likely a scheme to buy time to prepare a new offensive. Meduza’s sources close to the administration say the president still clings to his plans in Ukraine, and officials will reportedly resume Russia’s “partial” mobilization in the winter. Just how many more men the Kremlin hopes to draft remains unclear.
meduza.io
Russia’s ongoing military defeats in Ukraine and the social burden of mobilization are rapidly cooling the public’s support for the war. Meduza has gained access to the results of an opinion poll commissioned by the Kremlin “for internal use only.” According to the study conducted by the Federal Protective Service (FSO), 55 percent of Russians favor peace talks with Ukraine, while only a quarter of the respondents still support continuing the war.
The FSO poll does not diverge all that much from the results of an October public-opinion study conducted by the Levada Center, Russia’s only large independent sociological institute. In the Levada study, 57 percent of respondents said that they supported, or would probably support, peace talks with Ukraine. Only 27 percent expressed the same range of support for continuing the war.
The FSO’s own polling indicates that Russians’ attitudes about the war have changed. As late as July 2022, only 30 percent of survey respondents favored ending the war by peace negotiations. Comparing the new results to those collected in the summer make the shift obvious:
Two sources close to the Putin administration told Meduza that the Kremlin now plans to limit the polling data that VTsIOM (the Russian Public Opinion Research Center) releases to the public. One source said, “You can get all kinds of results these days — better not to do it at all.” Also speaking to Meduza, a political consultant who works frequently with the Kremlin explained that it’s “best not to reveal the dynamics” of the Russians’ changing attitudes towards the war.
Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, says the share of Russians likely to support peace talks with Ukraine began to grow rapidly following Putin’s September 21 mobilization decree:
This is sheer reluctance to take part in the war personally. They continue to support it, but they have very little desire to participate themselves. Besides, their support was, from the very start, something they declared with regard to what they perceived as having nothing to do with themselves: “Life goes on — it’s even getting better.” Now, the risks are greater, and people want to start the talks. Still, the majority of people leave this to the government: “We’d like it, but it’s up to them to decide.”
Sociologist Grigory Yudin also links rising public support for peace talks to Russia’s draft. This fall, he says, Russians came face-to-face with the “crumbling of their everyday lives and a sense of danger.” Their “loss of faith in the victory” and the “absence of a convincing account of how exactly Russia might win” also contribute to the shift in opinions, says Yudin. “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Yudin added,
if this turned out to be mixed with an acute sense of danger to the country itself. In this sense, peace talks followed by legalizing the annexations should make the country safer.
Yudin says the public’s resentment for how the war is going is not far from outright “apathy.” Still, he doesn’t rule out the possibility of anti-war demonstrations in Russia:
Protests do not occur simply because people think something but because something makes protest possible. Russia’s protest potential is very high. When possibilities present themselves, there will be protests. Quite possibly, we won’t have to wait that long.
Kremlin insiders who spoke to Meduza, however, said there’s little concern in the administration about potential mass protests, though they acknowledged that “it’s best not to raise the temperature, and not to anger people if not necessary.” Russia’s state media and propaganda outlets, moreover, have already received instructions “not to dwell on the war.” According to Meduza’s sources, the mass media is now being told to focus instead on a “more positive agenda.”
Political scientist Vladimir Gelman says the dynamics of Russian public opinion are unlikely to pressure the Putin administration into honest negotiations with Ukraine. The Russian side, he argues, is “not ready to make concessions,” and the prospects of any peace talks depend largely on what happens in combat — not in opinion polls.
Last October, Meduza wrote about Vladimir Putin’s unwillingness to abandon his claim on the Ukrainian regions he’s now annexed outright. The Kremlin’s recent hints at possible peace talks are likely a scheme to buy time to prepare a new offensive. Meduza’s sources close to the administration say the president still clings to his plans in Ukraine, and officials will reportedly resume Russia’s “partial” mobilization in the winter. Just how many more men the Kremlin hopes to draft remains unclear.
Make peace, not war The Kremlin’s internal polling shows that more than half of Russians now favor negotiations with Ukraine, while only a quarter want to continue the invasion — Meduza
Article by Andrey Pertsev. Translation by Anna Razumnaya.
DIY-HP-LED
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Putin can't win and won't, they will be driven from Ukraine or will leave without orders because they must, to survive. I thought they were meting out stuff to Ukraine as conditions required with the Ukrainians screaming for more to suck Vlad into believing he could actually win, if he threw enough in. Once we realized they could hold the Russians off and even defeat them, things started to move into Ukraine in just the right amount and kind. Well, he appeared to throw in the kitchen sink and will dramatically weaken Russia as a military power and destroy their economy in the process, all in less than a year and for a pittance in terms of military expenditures versus the benefits. It throws open the whole region and central Asia too with Russia shown to be weak and inept and unable to project power or even defend itself from eventual internal dissolution.Make peace, not war The Kremlin’s internal polling shows that more than half of Russians now favor negotiations with Ukraine, while only a quarter want to continue the invasion
Russia’s ongoing military defeats in Ukraine and the social burden of mobilization are rapidly cooling the public’s support for the war. Meduza has gained access to the results of an opinion poll commissioned by the Kremlin “for internal use only.” According to the study conducted by the Federal Protective Service (FSO), 55 percent of Russians favor peace talks with Ukraine, while only a quarter of the respondents still support continuing the war.
The FSO poll does not diverge all that much from the results of an October public-opinion study conducted by the Levada Center, Russia’s only large independent sociological institute. In the Levada study, 57 percent of respondents said that they supported, or would probably support, peace talks with Ukraine. Only 27 percent expressed the same range of support for continuing the war.
The FSO’s own polling indicates that Russians’ attitudes about the war have changed. As late as July 2022, only 30 percent of survey respondents favored ending the war by peace negotiations. Comparing the new results to those collected in the summer make the shift obvious:
Two sources close to the Putin administration told Meduza that the Kremlin now plans to limit the polling data that VTsIOM (the Russian Public Opinion Research Center) releases to the public. One source said, “You can get all kinds of results these days — better not to do it at all.” Also speaking to Meduza, a political consultant who works frequently with the Kremlin explained that it’s “best not to reveal the dynamics” of the Russians’ changing attitudes towards the war.
Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, says the share of Russians likely to support peace talks with Ukraine began to grow rapidly following Putin’s September 21 mobilization decree:
This is sheer reluctance to take part in the war personally. They continue to support it, but they have very little desire to participate themselves. Besides, their support was, from the very start, something they declared with regard to what they perceived as having nothing to do with themselves: “Life goes on — it’s even getting better.” Now, the risks are greater, and people want to start the talks. Still, the majority of people leave this to the government: “We’d like it, but it’s up to them to decide.”
Sociologist Grigory Yudin also links rising public support for peace talks to Russia’s draft. This fall, he says, Russians came face-to-face with the “crumbling of their everyday lives and a sense of danger.” Their “loss of faith in the victory” and the “absence of a convincing account of how exactly Russia might win” also contribute to the shift in opinions, says Yudin. “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Yudin added,
if this turned out to be mixed with an acute sense of danger to the country itself. In this sense, peace talks followed by legalizing the annexations should make the country safer.
Yudin says the public’s resentment for how the war is going is not far from outright “apathy.” Still, he doesn’t rule out the possibility of anti-war demonstrations in Russia:
Protests do not occur simply because people think something but because something makes protest possible. Russia’s protest potential is very high. When possibilities present themselves, there will be protests. Quite possibly, we won’t have to wait that long.
Kremlin insiders who spoke to Meduza, however, said there’s little concern in the administration about potential mass protests, though they acknowledged that “it’s best not to raise the temperature, and not to anger people if not necessary.” Russia’s state media and propaganda outlets, moreover, have already received instructions “not to dwell on the war.” According to Meduza’s sources, the mass media is now being told to focus instead on a “more positive agenda.”
Political scientist Vladimir Gelman says the dynamics of Russian public opinion are unlikely to pressure the Putin administration into honest negotiations with Ukraine. The Russian side, he argues, is “not ready to make concessions,” and the prospects of any peace talks depend largely on what happens in combat — not in opinion polls.
Last October, Meduza wrote about Vladimir Putin’s unwillingness to abandon his claim on the Ukrainian regions he’s now annexed outright. The Kremlin’s recent hints at possible peace talks are likely a scheme to buy time to prepare a new offensive. Meduza’s sources close to the administration say the president still clings to his plans in Ukraine, and officials will reportedly resume Russia’s “partial” mobilization in the winter. Just how many more men the Kremlin hopes to draft remains unclear.
Make peace, not war The Kremlin’s internal polling shows that more than half of Russians now favor negotiations with Ukraine, while only a quarter want to continue the invasion — Meduza
Article by Andrey Pertsev. Translation by Anna Razumnaya.
DIY-HP-LED
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Looks like the scum rose to the top in China and it's down to one man rule and blunders, the more concentrated the power, the bigger the blunders. Trump, Putin, Xi and Elon are all blundering fools at one level, with no check on mistakes or admission of them so they can be corrected. The great egotist is infallible, like the pope another position with absolute authority at one time. If a walk back is required, a minion is blamed and thrown under the bus, but the great one makes no mistakes.
DIY-HP-LED
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'Putin has failed tactically and his military are performing pretty abysmally' | Admiral Lord West
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“The Russians, having failed tactically and their military forces, are performing pretty abysmally. They’ve realised that they need to do something as a game changer.”
Corruption in the Russian army is causing troops to perform ‘abysmally’, former chief of the naval staff Admiral Lord West tells #TimesRadio.
BudmanTX
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Putin has failed tactically and his military are performing pretty abysmally
that's the only line i need to see....and that's a big yes
DIY-HP-LED
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His army or horde is still pretty dangerous, and it will be a slog to drive them out of Ukraine. They still have plenty of shit left keep in reserve and there is gonna be another draft, this one scrapping the bottom of the barrel clean through. I think this fellow retired too long ago for his opinions to be of much value. The increasing number of weapons they are receiving has almost converted them to a NATO army, minus the airpower. The drones and precision artillery will make it hard to hold those dug in positions in the east with the whole Ukrainian army focused on the place, while cutoff Crimea withers on the vine until spring or summer. The two main rail lines leading into the Donbass will be cut at bridges and anything trying to get across the sea of Azov to Crimea will be sunk by the Ukrainians from the coast or with small fast boats carrying big missiles.
They have to get their grid up and running while defending it, that is the allied plan, so expect layered air defenses to protect vital infrastructure, ending with a Gephardt gun next to a transformer for any that get that far. I expect the ground to harden up with frost in the northeast before it does in the south close to the sea. This should allow the Ukrainians the freedom to maneuver off the main roads. The Russian troops are untrained and can't maneuver very well or retreat in good order. So once the Ukrainians punch through their defensive lines they will probably blitzkrieg them with an armored column and lots of light vehicle teams spreading out into their rear far in advance and using drones to avoid Russian concentrations, they will attack the supply depots, and HQ's. This will sow panic among the Russian troops at the front and the assholes behind them guarding them, the war criminals who don't want to get caught.
BudmanTX
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the biggest thing imo, is the defence of the power grid and getting it back up and air defences in place for protection.....there ya been some chatter about another barrage...so we'll see.....and the US is mulling over Patriot batteries for the time being......letting the winter set in and it will set in....the Russians are gonna be cold. According to one area, UA has been geeting thousands of calls of Russian service members wanting to surrender (so we'll see if anything comes from that), now it's time to hunker down and save the masses in the west of UA, the East and South are the battle grounds for the time being......other things that can be done is move that new drone fleet into the sea of azov at that port....start blowing ships up there...
DIY-HP-LED
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Looks like the Ukrainians are inflicting some pain of their own near the border, but they are military targets or infrastructure that supports it, it appears. Maybe since the NATO conference in Romania they are feeling a bit cocky!
30 Nov: Russians PANIC. MASSIVE SABOTAGE HITS Russian Cities | War in Ukraine Explained
30 Nov: Russians PANIC. MASSIVE SABOTAGE HITS Russian Cities | War in Ukraine Explained
DIY-HP-LED
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They are probably training Ukrainian crews for patriots on simulators already or have been, it is a lot easier and faster to train a technically trained person than a regular solder on these systems, people like electronic engineers, technicians and computer programmers.