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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    ^ Thought so, too. Bring your nuclear forces to standby, then blame the other side for being fixated on nukes. Almost as if it were intentional.
    Exactly.

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    A dangerous escalation.

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    Heard today that a russian guy (rich) has put a price on Putin's head.

    100 mill dorlassos

    My neighbor told me

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    Link is broken

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    Its $1M, he'll be looking over his shoulder for the rest of the time until he get a whiff of nerve agent.



    Russian businessman Alex Konanykhin has placed a $1 million bounty on the head of Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging Russian officers to arrest their president as a “war criminal.”


    “I promise to pay $1,000,000 to the officer(s) who, complying with their constitutional duty, arrest(s) Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws,” Konanykhin wrote in a Facebook post earlier this week.


    Konanykhin went as far as questioning Putin’s legitimacy as the Russian president, noting that “he came to power as the result of a special operation of blowing up apartment buildings in Russia,” while violating “the Constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponents.”

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-based-russian-businessman-offers-1-million-bounty-for-putins-arrest/

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Link is broken
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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    Its $1M
    Yep, that's my neighbor in a nutshell

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    Airline software giant ends distribution service with Russia’s Aeroflot, crippling carrier’s ability to sell seats

    Russia launches Ukraine invasion-107021724-1645997629037-gettyimages-1235325628-20210916-svo

    Key Points

    • Sabre Corp. on Thursday said it terminated its distribution agreement with Russia’s Aeroflot, a move that Europe’s Amadeus followed suit.
    • The Texas-based airline software giant provides ticket distribution and reservation services for carriers around the world.
    • Sabre’s decision is the latest that has isolated Russia’s airlines since the country invaded Ukraine last week.


    Airline software giant ends distribution service for Russia'''s Aeroflot
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    Russia-Ukraine live: Kyiv, Moscow agree to humanitarian corridors

    Ukrainian and Russian officials agree on a plan for safe corridors, backed by possible ceasefires, to evacuate civilians.


    • A second round of talks between Kyiv and Moscow has ended, with the two sides agreeing on a tentative plan to create a humanitarian corridor.
    • Russian President Vladimir Putin says operations in Ukraine were going to plan.
    • Russian troops have seized control of Kherson, in Ukraine’s south.
    • Several other cities, including the capital, Kyiv, northeastern Kharkiv and Mariupol, in the southeast, continue to be attacked.
    • President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s defence lines are holding.
    • The United Nations says more than one million people have fled Ukraine amid Russia’s assault.


    Russia-Ukraine live: Kyiv, Moscow agree to humanitarian corridors | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Russian President Vladimir Putin says operations in Ukraine were going to plan.
    What is the plan?

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    Russia’s Putin says Ukraine advance ‘going to plan’

    French President Emmanuel Macron says he fears the ‘worst is to come’ in Ukraine after a phone call with the Russian president.

    President Vladimir Putin has insisted Russia’s military advance in Ukraine is “going to plan” as Kyiv and Moscow agreed to create humanitarian corridors for civilians to escape the Russian invasion.
    After the fall of a first major Ukrainian city to Russian forces, Putin on Thursday appeared in no mood to heed a global clamour for hostilities to end as the war entered its second week.


    Putin again said Russia was rooting out “neo-Nazis”, adding during the televised opening of a national security council meeting that he “will never give up on [his] conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.”
    Reporting from Moscow, Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari said that Putin’s statements aimed to try to “convince the Russian population that things are absolutely going according to plan, reiterating the narrative that they are fighting a good fight in Ukraine, and that they are doing it for the security of their own country.”


    ‘Worst to come’

    Putin earlier told French President Emmanuel Macron that Moscow “intends to continue the uncompromising fight against militants of nationalist armed groups”, according to a Kremlin account of their 90-minute call.
    Following the call, a senior aide to Macron said the French leader believed “the worst is to come” in Ukraine.
    “The expectation of the president is that the worst is to come, given what President Putin told him,” the senior aide old reporters on condition of anonymity.
    “There was nothing in what President Putin told us that should reassure us. He showed great determination to continue the operation,” the aide continued.
    He added that Putin “wanted to seize control of the whole of Ukraine. He will, in his own words, carry out his operation to ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine to the end.”
    “You can understand the extent to which these words are shocking and unacceptable and the president told him that it was lies,” the aide said.

    Russia’s Putin says Ukraine advance ‘going to plan’ | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

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    ^ So its a dribbling nutter reducing a country to rubble and killing countless innocent civilians, all because he's lost the few remaining marbles he had during the COVID years. He's surrounded by an apparatus too scared to tell him he's taking his country into the dark ages as a result of his actions. Russia faces decades in isolation now and he's driven bordering countries closer to NATO, reinvigorated NATO and countries previously dependant upon Gazprom oil and gas will re-double efforts to seek alternant sources and de-carbonise at a faster rate.

    Brilliant strategy.

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    US Bars Russian Citizens From Piloting Planes Over United States

    The U.S. has barred all Russian citizens who own or lease aircraft in the United States from piloting those planes in the country's airspace.


    A Notice to Air Missions released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration declares that “all aircraft, regardless of the state of registry, owned, chartered, leased, operated or controlled by, for, or for the benefit of, a person who is a citizen of the Russian Federation are prohibited from operating to, from, with ot through U.S. territorial airspace, except for aircraft engaged in humanitarian or SAR [search and rescue] operation specifically authorized by the FAA.”

    President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that all U.S. airspace was closed to Russian aircraft, but the FAA’s announcement takes it a step further and bars any Russian citizen from even operating an aircraft in U.S. airspace.


    The notice grants exceptions to any Russian flight given diplomatic clearance by the State Department or an aircraft experiencing an in-flight emergency.


    Aircraft that do not comply “may be intercepted, and their pilots and other crewmembers detained and interviewed by law enforcement or security personnel.”

    US Bars Russian Citizens From Piloting Planes Over United States - Defense One

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    TBH, I think threats of Putin being 'hated by the West' largely fall on deaf ears. He's been hated by the West for years! More pertinent I reckon is how his domestic popularity is faring.

    ^ Kinda wish they had done that with Saudis back in the day.

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    Top Russian general killed by Ukrainian sniper in major blow for Putin


    One of Vladimir Putin’s most senior paratroopers was gunned down by a “sniper” during a special operation in Ukraine.
    Major-General Andrey Sukhovetsky, 47, was the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District.


    There has been no official announcement over his death but a military source confirmed: “This is true. Sniper.”


    His funeral back in Russia is scheduled for Saturday.

    Russia general killed by Ukrainian sniper in major blow for Putin’s war | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    More pertinent I reckon is how his domestic popularity is faring.
    Will hinge on the degree the sanctions effect your average Russian. His popularity jumped up and remained high when he invaded Crimea but little in the way of sanctions were applied. Different story with Ukraine invasion as the sanctions will no doubt impact your average Ivan hard in the pocket. Time is Putin's enemy. If this goes on and on for a lengthy period the impact will hit Russian folks very hard economically.
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Different story with Ukraine invasion as the sanctions will no doubt impact your average Ivan hard in the pocket.
    There has already been a run on the banks, most of which are out of money, especially foreign currency. The economy is in the midst of a total collapse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Top Russian general killed by Ukrainian sniper in major blow for Putin


    One of Vladimir Putin’s most senior paratroopers was gunned down by a “sniper” during a special operation in Ukraine.
    Major-General Andrey Sukhovetsky, 47, was the deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District.


    There has been no official announcement over his death but a military source confirmed: “This is true. Sniper.”


    His funeral back in Russia is scheduled for Saturday.

    Russia general killed by Ukrainian sniper in major blow for Putin’s war | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
    That's a major scalp for the Ukrainians and just highlights the incompetence and complacency of the invaders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Will hinge on the degree the sanctions effect your average Russian. His popularity jumped up and remained high when he invaded Crimea but little in the way of sanctions were applied. Different story with Ukraine invasion as the sanctions will no doubt impact your average Ivan hard in the pocket. Time is Putin's enemy. If this goes on and on for a lengthy period the impact will hit Russian folks very hard economically.
    I could be wrong about this, but the “average Russian” is not sufficiently powerful in the country to effect change.
    Probably Russians a bit higher up the food chain have more influence and they are more dependent on keeping the internal money markets working.
    Maybe the structure of Russian society is tweaked in their favour, and they can have more impact. Russia is already bottom of the G20 in terms of perceived corruption, so the little average person has no hope in society anyway.

    I hope I am proved wrong on this, but it’s such a confusing and crooked society, I don’t know how it survives from day to day, just based on the circulation of dirty capital.
    Maybe the bigger danger to Putin is losing the support of his general staff? His access to Air and Naval support seems very limited for what he’s trying to achieve?

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    An information battle over Ukraine takes center stage.

    This week, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, read out before the General Assembly what he said were text messages a Russian soldier sent to his mother moments before he was killed. They were obtained, he said, by Ukrainian forces after the soldier died.

    “Mama, I’m in Ukraine,” the ambassador read. “There is a real war raging here. I’m afraid. We are bombing all of the cities together, even targeting civilians. We were told that they would welcome us and they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves under the wheels and not allowing us to pass. They call us fascists. Mama, this is so hard.”

    The messages — read out under the global spotlight of a high-profile United Nations meeting — offered a poignant reminder of the human cost of war. They also served as a potent example of how central the battle is for public opinion around the world in a lopsided war between Russia’s military machine and a scrappy, increasingly better-armed Ukraine.
    Both sides’ efforts to influence the narrative and perception of the war are striking.

    Ukrainian officials are using the reports and images on social media of Russian casualties to try to undercut the morale of the invading forces. President Vladimir V. Putin, meanwhile, has described the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky as “a band of drug addicts and neo-Nazis.” And at least some Russian soldiers appear to have imbibed the misinformation emanating from the Kremlin that their invasion would be welcomed.

    Ukraine’s military, interior ministry and U.N. ambassador did not respond to requests for more information to help verify the authenticity of the messages read out at the United Nations.

    Whatever their origins, the messages allude to an undeniable theme of the war: Fierce resistance by Ukrainian forces has denied Mr. Putin the quick and easy victory Russia appears to have anticipated, while some among Russia’s young military force have been ill-prepared for battle and buffeted by bad morale.

    On Tuesday, a senior Pentagon official said that entire Russian units had laid down their arms without a fight after confronting surprisingly robust Ukrainian defenders. In some cases, Russian troops have punched holes in their vehicles’ gas tanks, presumably to avoid combat, the official said.

    The decision to read the text messages, Russia experts and Pentagon officials said, was also a not-so-veiled reminder to Mr. Putin of the role Russian mothers have had in bringing attention to military losses that the government tried to keep secret.

    In fact, a group now called the Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia played a pivotal part in opening up the military to public scrutiny and in influencing perceptions of military service, Julie Elkner, a Russia historian, wrote in The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies.

    For Mr. Putin, the rising death toll on the Russian side could undermine domestic support for his Ukrainian incursion. Russian memories are long — and mothers of soldiers, in particular, American officials say, could easily hark back to the 15,000 troops killed when the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Afghanistan, or the thousands killed in Chechnya.

    Mr. Putin has tried to counter assessments from Western officials that Russia was running into greater resistance than expected. But on Thursday, he acknowledged there had been losses, promising the families of the fallen a special payout of 5 million rubles, or nearly $50,000.

    Information Battle Over Ukraine Intensifies - The New York Times

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    Ukrainian officials confirm huge nuclear power plant is on fire


    Russian forces shelled Europe's largest nuclear plant early Friday in the battle for control of a crucial energy-producing city, and the power station was on fire.

    Plant spokesperson Andriy Tuz told Ukrainian television that shells were falling directly on the Zaporizhzhia plant in Enerhodar and had set fire to one of the facility's six reactors. That reactor is under renovation and not operating, but there is nuclear fuel inside, he said.

    Firefighters cannot get near the fire because they are being shot at, Tuz said.

    Ukraine's foreign minister warned that if the plant explodes, it will be 10 times worse that the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, when a reactor went into meltdown and sent nearly 10 tonnes of radioactive material into the atmosphere and surrounding regions about 100 kilometres north of Kyiv. Two workers were killed immediately and another 30 died within weeks from radiation exposure.

    Ukrainian officials confirm huge nuclear power plant is on fire | CBC News
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    Maybe Canada should join Nato.

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    Europe's largest nuclear plant is on fire, say local officials

    A fire has reportedly broken out at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.

    It appears to have been caused by "continuous enemy shelling of [the plant's] buildings and units", according to Mayor Dmytro Orlov of nearby Enerhodar.

    Orlov had previously reported intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces on the outskirts of his city, which is in the southeast.

    Russian troops had tried to enter the city in tanks and seize the plant, but residents and workers were seen congregating around the plant and its surrounding roads on Wednesday.
    Ukraine has four active nuclear plants including Zaporizhzhia.

    It also deals with nuclear waste at sites like Chernobyl, now under Russian control.

    The International Atomic Energy Agency said earlier today that it is consulting with Ukraine "and others with a view to provide maximum possible assistance to the country as it seeks to maintain nuclear safety and security in the current difficult circumstances".


    1:13 (Friday 4th GMT +1)
    Alarms raised over attack on nuclear plant

    Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russian troops are "firing from all sides" at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest plant in Europe.

    As we just reported, local officials say that a fire has broken out in the plant because of these attacks.

    "Russians must IMMEDIATELY cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone!" he wrote on Twitter.

    Laura Rockwood, the director of the Open Nuclear Network non-profit, earlier told the BBC's Radio 4 that the war could have an impact on Ukraine's electricity grid, which depends on nuclear power.

    She said military activity around a plant poses two direct risks to nuclear installations - potential damage to a plant's infrastructure and harm to its personnel, or much more serious damage that affects a plant's operational abilities that could cause a meltdown.

    Ukraine latest news: Zelensky asks Putin for talks as humanitarian crisis grows - BBC News

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    This is a live view. There is still smoke on the right, but this was a much bigger fire when I was viewing it earlier.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    I could be wrong about this, but the “average Russian” is not sufficiently powerful in the country to effect change.
    The average Russian soldier is not very smart, this makes this war even more dangerous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HermantheGerman View Post
    The average Russian soldier is not very smart, this makes this war even more dangerous.
    My quoted response was directed at Nortons post claiming that sanctions might cause the average citizen to revolt.
    Russian soldiers are not much different the world over. Many are dumb, some are brainwashed, and some are smarter than both you and I together.
    Now it seems even the dumb and brainwashed are smart enough to let family back home know about their doubts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    My quoted response was directed at Nortons post claiming that sanctions might cause the average citizen to revolt.
    Russian soldiers are not much different the world over. Many are dumb, some are brainwashed, and some are smarter than both you and I together.
    Now it seems even the dumb and brainwashed are smart enough to let family back home know about their doubts.
    Russia has a draft. Saw a report yesterday that Putin purposely picked young men from Siberia who had no clue to where and why they are going to Ukraine.

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