Russia & Ukraine

[terr]

"...Russians hit the Beskidy railway tunnel in the Carpathian Mountains in an apparent effort to cut a key railway link and disrupt shipments of weapons and fuel.

However, the head of Ukrainian railways said the damage to the railroad was still being assessed but the tunnel was spared.

The strike reportedly delayed three passenger trains, but all later resumed their journeys."

 

[gwb-trading]

"...Russians hit the Beskidy railway tunnel in the Carpathian Mountains in an apparent effort to cut a key railway link and disrupt shipments of weapons and fuel.

However, the head of Ukrainian railways said the damage to the railroad was still being assessed but the tunnel was spared.

The strike reportedly delayed three passenger trains, but all later resumed their journeys."

There were threads on social media which showed rubble from the attack near the entrance of the tunnel -- and later photos show it all cleared away.

Either the Ukrainians cleared away the rock/rubble from the attack -- (or they got inventive with photoshop )

 

[UsualName]

Obviously lots of stuff going on taking attention away from Ukraine but the Russians are having success in the west and Ukraine is suffering some petty high losses. With Zelensky saying Ukraine is losing 60-100 fighters a day and now having ceded Lyman (sp) seems it’s been a rough go. Not sure why the Ukrainians stuck around for the fight for so long with those loses unless Russia was taking significantly higher casualties.

Hopefully the rocket system we send over will prove out and combined with predator “Grey Eagle” drones should help change the landscape. But still hard fighting going on right now.

 

[Tsing Tao]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1531686726128881666

 

[virtusa]

 

[virtusa]

 

[terr]

I don't see how they can continue. If they decide to increase production, it has to be spread evenly among the OPEC members, and Russia cannot do that, they cannot even fulfill their quota as it is.

 

[piezoe]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1531686726128881666

Let it turn into a world confrontation. Does anyone think Putin can win against the world? I am certain Putin doesn't think so. Consequently this will not turn into a world confrontation.

 

[piezoe]

Obviously lots of stuff going on taking attention away from Ukraine but the Russians are having success in the west and Ukraine is suffering some petty high losses. With Zelensky saying Ukraine is losing 60-100 fighters a day and now having ceded Lyman (sp) seems it’s been a rough go. Not sure why the Ukrainians stuck around for the fight for so long with those loses unless Russia was taking significantly higher casualties.

Hopefully the rocket system we send over will prove out and combined with predator “Grey Eagle” drones should help change the landscape. But still hard fighting going on right now.

we are not sending enough. We need to send several hundred of these rocket systems. Right away!

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

I don't see how they can continue. If they decide to increase production, it has to be spread evenly among the OPEC members, and Russia cannot do that, they cannot even fulfill their quota as it is.

I understand that Russia is an OPEC+ member rather than a core OPEC member but nevertheless I thought the whole idea was that the OPEC+ members would still participate in OPEC production and resulting price fixing efforts.

So I don't exactly get this bit about Russia being an OPEC+ producer but then offering massive and very large volume discounts to India and China. It could be that I just need more understanding of how it works, or it could be the opposite- I do understand and OPEC does not like it either. Not sure yet. But Russia needs to be careful about playing snakey games. If OPEC or OPEC PLUS falls apart and has more members go off the reservation and offering discounts it could drive the price of oil down, and that would hurt Russia YUGE. Even if it is just longterm. In case Russia is planning on being around for a while.

Probably the problem is simply related to the fact that OPEC has not addressed the discount oil issue in its agreements because they thought they could control price just by getting countries to abide by production agreements- because no country would want to sell below a higher price based on spot or what other opec members are getting. But along comes this sanctions scenario. Russia is selling a pile of oil at discount prices with long term contracts- in both India and China. Oil that OPEC members would otherwise be participating in at OPEC prices. They going to get kicked out of the club at some point.