Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (Official Thread)
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Yo...the second vid.
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2nd video has the other angle, they fcked him all up.Yo, how does this happen?
Why are they busting shots in the air?
Why is everyone just standing in formation after GTA V booted up in their face?
How did that guy survive and walk away?
The driver, gunner and rest of the crew inside must've all been on some
together for
that to happen, then one of them said: "Oh, you give us armored transport?"
That soldier has to be thanking and shouting praise to God now. He won't have to be sent to Ukraine and get blasted away over Putin's stupid war.
Christ on a surfboard...
I'm pretty jaded and unsensitized like most citizens of the internet my age but Ifor real at this one.
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Kremlin says its goals in Ukraine can be achieved through talks
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying on Thursday that the goals of Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine were unchanged, but that they could be achieved through negotiations.
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Kremlin says its goals in Ukraine may be achieved through talks
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on the phone during a conversation with a participant of a Christmas charity event in Strelna on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia December 27, 2021. Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The Kremlin was quoted as saying on Thursday that the goals of its "special military operation" in Ukraine are unchanged, but that they may be achieved through negotiations.
The comments by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to Russian newspaper Izvestia were the latest in a series of statements this week stressing Moscow is open to talks - a change of tone that follows a series of humiliating defeats for Russian forces as the war in Ukraine nears the end of its eighth month.
"The direction has not changed, the special military operation continues, it continues in order for us to achieve our goals," Peskov was quoted as saying. "However we have repeatedly reiterated that we remain open to negotiations to achieve our objectives."
While Russia has said before that it is prepared to negotiate, the repeated references this week to the possibility of dialogue are striking.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was open to talks with the West, but the United States dismissed the statement as "posturing".
Lavrov returned to the issue on Thursday, telling Izvestia: "We will not run after anyone. If there are specific serious proposals, we are ready to consider them."
He added: "When we get some sort of signal, we will be ready to consider it."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ruled out talking to President Vladimir Putin after Russia proclaimed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions last month and rained missiles on Ukrainian cities this week in the wake of an attack on a vital bridge between Russia and annexed Crimea.
like why the fukk would ukraine negotiate over goals they fought you over? what would have been the point of all this if they're just gonna say "all you had to do was ask us for the territory."
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That's smiley worthy...:putinsmirk:
Looking like he ordering breakfast from the Kremlin kitchen.
Looking like he ordering breakfast from the Kremlin kitchen.
i know putin never thought they would be the testing ground for NATO weapons when he started his 3 day war.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song should really be adopted as Russia's National Anthem at this point
those russian arms customers who abstained shouldn't have because they should have protest vote against russia for taking their money and giving them shytty weapons.
the only thing i find scary about them these days is what little value they place on their own people's lives. run over a soldier with a tank ... who gives a fukk stay in formation and ignore it ... if he got ran over it's because he's weak and suppose to get run over.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song should really be adopted as Russia's National Anthem at this point
'Everything has collapsed': Russia's draft tanks small businesses
In his brand new co-working space in Chelyabinsk, a city in central Russia, entrepreneur Maxim Novikov is counting the empty seats.
'Everything has collapsed': Russia's draft tanks small businesses
Wed, October 12, 2022 at 11:48 PM·3 min read
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In his brand new co-working space in Chelyabinsk, a city in central Russia, entrepreneur Maxim Novikov is counting the empty seats.
The space is usually overflowing with designers, programmers and young Russians working on their start-ups.
But since President Vladimir Putin announced a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of young Russian men last month, the 33-year-old has lost much of his clientele.
"Many have stopped coming," he told AFP by phone.
Instead, they are filling the depleted ranks of Russia's army or they are among the tens of thousands of others who have fled south for neighbouring Kazakhstan.
The Kremlin's mobilisation has brought uncertainty and chaos to businesses already hard-hit by sanctions and still recovering from the fallout of the pandemic.
In the last three weeks, a little more than half of the 77 spots in Novikov's co-working place were occupied.
He has "no idea" if the people who fled or were drafted will keep paying subscription fees, which cost between 70 and 130 dollars.
And now Novikov is worried about his loans.
"Turnover has already dropped by more than 40 percent this year," Novikov, an architecture graduate, said.
"I wanted to buy a third space but for the moment it is not possible to take the risk."
- 'Projects on hold' -
But he is far from the only business owner in Russia who is growing more nervous over the workforce vacuum."It means projects are being put on hold and private companies will be afraid to invest," said Natalia Zubarevich, an economist at Moscow State University.
Russia's economy has already been battered this year by unprecedented Western sanctions in response to Putin's decision to send troops to Ukraine on February 24.
But Zubarevich said mobilisation was an "additional aggravating factor."
She added she was not surprised young men from the provinces were joining the army, attracted by monthly payouts that are sometimes almost as much as their annual salaries.
Meanwhile, in glitzy central Moscow, 45-year-old Yelena Irisova is distraught at seeing her company, which produces luxury leather bags, stop production.
She employs around ten people in the small business.
But two of her craftsmen left the company in recent weeks -- one fearing mobilisation, another to help her daughter whose husband had been sent to the front.
"After September 21, everything collapsed," Irisova said. "Our sales fell threefold -- from 10 to three orders a day."
She says her savings will keep her going "a month or two, but not more."
- Almost no orders -
No Russian business seems unscathed.Katerina Iberika, 39, who owns a pastry shop specialising in birthday cakes in Moscow, is also facing ruin.
Her five employees are women with exemptions from mobilisation. But it's the low morale among the public that's endangering her business.
"Cancellations of orders for big events started two days before mobilisation," Iberika told AFP.
Now she gets nearly no orders at all, except for "very small" ones.
She is considering leaving Russia.
In increased isolation -- and hit by sanctions and mobilisation -- an anxious Russian society is watching its spending closely.
"People are looking to put their money aside," Sofya Donets, chief economist for Russia at Renaissance Capital, said.
"They're not going to overspend."
Some industries have been harder hit than others by a sudden lack of men.
Employers have sounded the alarm in recent days, asking the government for exemptions from mobilisation, in particular for small and medium-sized companies.
Russia's economic development ministry told AFP that it had drawn up a list of measures for these "problematic issues".
It said it had facilitated grants and micro credits.
"A mobilised entrepreneur will be able to suspend the fulfilment of obligations" to pay the loans back, the ministry said.
Analyst Sofya Donets expects "more intervention and state aid" to calm the effects of mobilisation.
Especially since Russian coffers continue to fill up thanks to its energy exports.
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