Russia & Ukraine

Yo Lukie- Belarus Boy. Howz that being best buds with Vlad and licking his boots working out for ya?

Only gonna get worse. Economically and militarily. Smarten up. You have choices. What's Vlad giving you for choices other than to just bend over and take it up the bo-bo?


Belarus can't make foreign debt payments because of Ukraine war sanctions

Belarus is unable to repay its foreign debt because of economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union over its alliance with Russia in its war in Ukraine.

"The possibility of repaying debt obligations in foreign currency in the standard manner is currently limited due to the sanctions against Belarus," the country's finance ministry said Wednesday in a statement.

The World Bank on Monday said it had put loans made by its main lending unit to Belarus into "nonperforming" status, effective immediately, due to past-due amounts of $68.4 million.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/belarus-russia-ukraine-war-debt-payments-sanctions/
 
gwb-trading said:
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That's a really messed up statistic.

50K posts over 20 years is 2500 posts per year.

I have 30K posts over 6 years. That is 5K posts per year, double the posting rate of you. I need to calm the hell down.
 
The "volunteers" that went to fight in Ukraine received their first month salary.
1800 Roubles (about $29). No it is not daily salary, it is monthly salary. They need to feed their family, pay rent or loans, buy their own military equipment...

Hilarious, and in no time the complete bankruptcy of the entire Russian population.
 
Putin's mouthpieces are pushing the unleashing disease on the Ukraine civilians while starving them out and freezing them.

'We've been driven to this': Russia pundits call on Putin to unleash epidemic to win war
A senior Russian politician and close ally of Vladimir Putin claims that Moscow should focus on "starving and freezing" Ukrainians as well as inflicting an epidemic on the population.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...r-Putin-Moscow-epidemic-energy-latest-news-vn

Andrey Gurulyov, a deputy in the State Duma, made a series of unhinged threats against Ukraine, claiming that Russia should cause the "collapse" of Ukrainian society. Speaking on Russian state TV, he said Moscow should aim to freeze and starve the Ukrainian civilian population. He praised the recent Russian barrage of missile strikes that have targeted Ukraine's energy network.

In response to the wave of missile strikes, Ukraine's national energy company urged citizens to "charge everything" ahead of expected power cuts.

Outages of up to four hours at a time will affect the whole country on Thursday, according to grid operator Ukrenergo.

Mr Gurulyov delighted in explaining that knocking out Ukraine's energy system would create circumstances for a disease epidemic in the country.

He insisted that Russia had no choice but to ensure Ukrainian civilians had no access to heat, running water or refrigerated food.

Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, tweeted in response to the threat: "They just get crazier and crazier on Skabeeva's show."

Video of the deranged tirade was shared by Russian media monitor Julia Davis, who tweeted: "Russian lawmakers Andrey Gurulyov and Konstantin Dolgov advocate freezing, starving the Ukrainian civilian population, forcing them into exile by making their survival otherwise impossible.

"State TV host Olga Skabeeva disingenuously claims that Russia simply has no other choice."

Mr Gurulyov told Russian viewers: "The absence of electricity means the absence of water, the absence of refrigerators, the absence of sewer.

"One week after all electricity is cut off, the city of Kyiv will be swimming in s***, pardon my expression. There will be a clear threat of an epidemic."

He explained that Ukraine's energy supply systems were a more significant military target than Kyiv's armed forces or supply routes.

The State Duma deputy said: "Another relevant point that is quite serious, we don't have to strike the railway junctions, the railroads or even the bridges.

"We need to knock out the control centers, we're in the digital age.

"Data centers with servers control the railways and Ukraine's energy supply systems as well as banking systems and a mint that prints the money."

He predicted that these military tactics would create a "flood of refugees" with no choice but to escape Ukraine.

Mr Gurulyov said: "How would they live? Let me finish, if you have no water, no sewer, we're projecting the flood of refugees towards Western borders, correct?

"Because it's impossible to survive, there is no heating, no water, no sewers, no lights.
 
gwb-trading said:
"State TV host Olga Skabeeva disingenuously claims that Russia simply has no other choice."
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Olga. That's Iron Beaver.

The Russian know that using nukes is problematic so they are going full slash and burn scorched earth. Unfortunately this energy and other infrastructure destruction is working for them and there will be more or it, and it is going to be a pisser to overcome.

Unfortunately going to require some missiles going into Russia rather than just being on the receiving end. Belgorod seems to be their primary staging place for both troops and missiles headed to Ukraine and is near the border. Just saying.

I do finally get cocky about Kherson now because I think it is somewhat of a lost cause for the Ruskies now. Although they will try to flatten it from afar.

However, I don't get cocky over the Russian destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure piece. Gonna be fierce and a lot for Ukraine to deal with.
 
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Sounds like Putin wants to invade other countries (that is NATO countries) and cause WW3.

Threat of offensive from Belarus grows-General Staff

The threat of a renewed offensive by the Russian armed forces on the Northern Front is growing. But this time the direction of the offensive may be changed to the west of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in order to cut the main logistics arteries for the supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine from partner countries, " said Alexey Gromov, Deputy Head of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
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