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Right there, it is completely wrong. It very much relies on imports. Most chips in Russian equipment is foreign sourced. Recently there was a photo of a shot-down Russian fighter plane that had a Garmin GPS installed, FCOL. UralVagonZavod - Russia's main tank producer - was shut down yesterday...

"UralVagonZavod" and Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory have stopped production due to lack of imported replacement parts because of the sanctions. UralVagonZavod is the biggest (and, I think, only?) military tank producing and repair facility in Russia.

Well this is interesting. Russian publication Komsomolskaya Pravda let the cat out of the bag, briefly, today. It removed the article from its pages pretty quickly, but, as you well know, Internet is forever. https://web.archive.org/web/20220321131726/https://www.kp.ru/online/news/4672522/ По...

I hear the trading has not opened. Even "gradually".

"But Russia’s dependence on imports actually worsened over the years. In 2021, some 81% of manufacturers said they couldn’t find any Russian versions of imported products they needed. More than half were dissatisfied with the quality of homegrown production. Both figures were the highest...

London Bullion Market will not allow Russia to sell gold.

The Chinese buy sophisticated oil equipment from the West as well.

Fun info about consequences of sanctions. Russia produces its own paper (after all, they have enough forests). But - apparently the chemicals used in paper production come from abroad and are now sanctioned. So, a couple of largest paper factories have stopped production. Printer paper in stores...

By the way, here is a fun experiment for someone who knows Russian: https://www.google.com/search?q=погиб+в+ходе+спецоперации (a search for words "died during the special operation"). The result: 7.5 million results. If you put it in quotes so it is that exact phrase - 272,000 results...

This is from Russians themselves: https://www.cdu.ru/tek_russia/articles/1/804/ The percentage of imported equipment in oil industry: Drilling at an angle and horizontally: 61% Oil Refining: 49% Shelf oil production: 68% Liquid gas production: 68% Oil Exploration: 48% (These are BTW not...

No, it doesn't.

Weatherford International and Baker Hughes announced they are stopping all business with Russia as well.

This is from a Russian journalist's tweet. My Translation: "Yesterday in Vladimir we buried the senior officers of the SOBR (Quick Reaction Forces) of Russian Guards in Vladimir region that were killed in the war with Ukraine. Four lieutenant colonels. If so, can you imagine how many junior...

(BTW he wrote this on the 18th. On the 19th Halliburton, Schlumberger and Honeywell announced they are stopping all business with Russia) https://zeihan.com/the-end-of-russian-oil/ The Western supermajors have left. All of them. Just as the Ukraine War began, Exxon and BP and Shell have walked...

(BTW he wrote this on the 18th. On the 19th Halliburton, Schlumberger and Honeywell announced they are stopping all business with Russia) https://zeihan.com/the-end-of-russian-oil/ The Western supermajors have left. All of them. Just as the Ukraine War began, Exxon and BP and Shell have walked...

https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-morgues-russian-soldiers/31760144.html?fbclid=IwAR0fJup5am2uHO6K2v7iknokZOiSkSzc6F22-5uWhbOXAwZhlId3wXLW_Uw There's no room in the morgue at Mazyr. It's filled with the bodies of Russian soldiers....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10630625/Elon-Musks-internet-allowing-Ukrainian-drones-pound-Putins-helpless-tanks.html Elon Musk's satellites help Zelensky dominate the skies: US billionaire's internet system is allowing Ukrainian drones to pound Putin's helpless tanks

There are no thousands in any one place of course. It is a very wide (and deep) front - so yes there are thousands all over the place. A few here a few there. All together - yes, hundreds of dead just on that channel.

Russian PM just announced publicly that Russian economy is not going to collapse. In those words. Prepare for the collapse. Also - Russian authorities started adding this appeal to the utilities bills: asking people to join the reserves. Starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel...

I gave you the telegram channel. It has hundreds of such pictures.