sofrep.com
www.euronews.com
folks been waiting for these to make it to Ukraine…
Most have made it to the front lines
This relocation effort was spotted But them cheap $30 drones and handGrenades didn’t work…
The 2nd clip, don’t look like the same location
www.independent.co.uk
you right the sanctions haven’t been fully applied and they trying to lift some of the motherfuckersSanctions have ‘virtually wrecked all logistics’ in Russia, transport minister admits
A Kremlin official admitted that western sanctions were stopping the Russian economy from functioning.
Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev told state media that punitive measures had “virtually wrecked” Russian trade logistics, the Kremlin’s transport minister was quoted by Interfax as saying.
He said Russia was being forced to consider alternative trade routes, including the north-south corridor running from Moscow through central Asia to India.
“The sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation today have virtually wrecked all the logistics in our country. And we are forced to look for new logistics corridors,” Mr Savelyev said.
Sanctions have ‘virtually wrecked all logistics’ in Russia, transport minister admits
Moscow seeking alternative trade routes to the Asian market, says minister
The sanctions haven't even been fully applied yet. This is a good resource for tracking all of them and the countries participating etc.
Russia's war on Ukraine: A sanctions timeline
www.piie.com
Word going around that now Russia trying to block this game from open beta/release(seeing as the dev studio is based in Ukraine)
Here's the back story to that.Saudi Arabia didn’t even answer the phone
Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis
Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the U.A.E.’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan both declined U.S. requests to speak to Mr. Biden in recent weeks, the officials said, as Saudi and Emirati officials have become more vocal in recent weeks in their criticism of American policy in the Gulf.
“There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn’t happen,” said a U.S. official of the planned discussion between the Saudi Prince Mohammed and Mr. Biden. “It was part of turning on the spigot [of Saudi oil].”
Mr. Biden did speak with Prince Mohammed’s 86-year-old father, King Salman, on Feb. 9, when the two men reiterated their countries’ longstanding partnership. The U.A.E.’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the call between Mr. Biden and Sheikh Mohammed would be rescheduled.
The Saudis have signaled that their relationship with Washington has deteriorated under the Biden administration, and they want more support for their intervention in Yemen’s civil war, help with their own civilian nuclear program as Iran’s moves ahead, and legal immunity for Prince Mohammed in the U.S., Saudi officials said. The crown prince faces multiple lawsuits in the U.S., including over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
President Biden announced Tuesday a ban on Russian oil imports into the U.S., amid growing calls from bipartisan lawmakers to take action. The U.S. will also ban imports of Russian natural gas and other energy sources, Biden said. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
The Emiratis share Saudi concerns about the restrained U.S. response to recent missile strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen against the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, officials said. Both governments are also concerned about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, which doesn’t address other security concerns of theirs and has entered the final stages of negotiations in recent weeks.
The White House has worked to repair relations with two key Middle Eastern countries it needs on its side as oil prices push over $130 a barrel for the first time in almost 14 years. Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. are the only two major oil producers that can pump millions of more barrels of more oil—a capacity that, if used, could help calm the crude market at a time when American gasoline prices are at high levels.
Brett McGurk, the National Security Council’s Middle East coordinator, and Amos Hochstein, the State Department’s energy envoy, both traveled to Riyadh late last month to try to mend fences with Saudi officials. Mr. McGurk also met with Sheikh Mohammed in Abu Dhabi in a bid to address Emirati frustrations over the U.S. response to the Houthi attacks.
The call with Sheikh Mohammed in early February was expected to focus on ways the two countries could counter Houthi attacks from Yemen.
One U.S. official said the Biden administration has worked diligently to strengthen Saudi and Emirati missile defenses, and that America would be doing more in the coming months to help the two Gulf nations protect themselves. It may not be all the two countries want, the official said, but the U.S. is trying to address their security concerns.
But the Saudis and Emiratis have declined to pump more oil, saying they are sticking to a production plan approved between their group, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and a group of other producers led by Russia. The energy alliance with Russia, one of the world’s top oil producers, has enhanced OPEC’s power while also bringing the Saudis and Emiratis closer to Moscow.
Both Prince Mohammed and Sheikh Mohammed took phone calls from Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, after declining to speak with Mr. Biden. They both later spoke with Ukraine’s president, and a Saudi official said the U.S. had requested that Prince Mohammed mediate in the conflict, which he said the kingdom is embarking on.
you right the sanctions haven’t been fully applied and they trying to lift some of the motherfuckers
This been pure entertainment
Damn sanctions made us beg Saudi Arabia… I think they laughed at us
we had to go kiss up on Venezuela, letting them know we’ll…Ease some of the sanctions that we have on them
shit so bad we called Lukasheka, to express our desires to lift sanctions. The panic backed plan is, we lift sanctions if he let Ukraine’s wheat get transported via his railroads.
1 min into the call, Putin interrupted by say “fuck off and hung the phone up”
On some not so funny shit, the same way Russia miscalculated things at the beginning of the special ops mission… we have done on a greater scale…
we not in a Desperation stage as many of them Europeans countries
Germany appoarching $9 per gallon on fuel
Finland told Russia they ain’t paying for shit in Rubles, well yesterday Russia cut their energy off
I have three gamers friend in the UK…. They don’t know wtf about to happen over there…
that’s just the countries I remember reading about…
When I get home later, I’m post the articles…because I know many of us on here like proof
and all of my friends/work colleagues echo the same thing: This is the most united Europe has been on an issue like this in forever. You have Gemrnay sending offensive weapons and Sweden and Finland joining NATO. Unprecedented actions solely because Russia was inept in the way that they started this. None of this would have occurred had Russia swiftly capurted Kyiv and replaced Zelenskyy as was planned. Things like this aren't supposed to happen and is a sign of more problems behind the scenes:
apnews.com
Neither am I,y
I am not talking about sanctions on other countries, I'm talking about the ones applied to Russia since 24/2:
In revealing testimony before the Duma parliament, the head of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) told the country’s lawmakers she had to throw everything but the kitchen sink just to prevent a full-blown run on the banking system.
“The sanctions imposed against Russia affected the situation in the financial sector, spurred the demand for foreign currencies, and caused fire sales of financial assets, a cash outflow from banks, and surging demand for goods,” said Elvira Nabiullina in prepared remarks first published in English on Friday.
Russian official admits sanctions are crippling the economy as the country grapples with a selloff and mass shortages
In testimony to the Russian parliament, the country’s central bank governor reveals just how close the economy came to a full-scale meltdown.news.yahoo.com
Those were actually designed to escalate and become more prohibitive with time and wider in scope. Russia cant afford to fund the war and prop up their currency for too much longer and each day brings more Western money and arms to Ukraine. Never in a million years did I think I would get to see shit like this.
Not really heard anything like that at all out of Europe. I am in Western Europe often for work and was there when this shit first started. Ukraine just won Eurovision
Gas prices are actually lower now in Germany than they were at their peak in February/March: https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/gasoline_prices/
I think that when this is all over, Germany being convinced to risk its oil/gas relationship with Russia is what allowed this go the way it has. Russia would have caused massive division within NATO by highlighting the German position and reluctance to send arms etc. However, instead of a fractured NATO, we have an expanding NATO and a Russia that is increasingly on the ropes.
Russia has a ton of internal issues to deal with as well related to this bullshit. You can only rely on blocking the internet so long. Very reminiscent of W. Bush not wanting the retuning caskets filmed as if that was changing the overall sentiment on the war.
‘Never have I been so ashamed’: Russian envoy criticizes war
A veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva says he handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Boris Bondarev, 41, confirmed his resignation in a letter delivered Monday morning after a diplomatic official passed on his English-language statement to The Associated Press.
“For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on Feb. 24 of this year,” he wrote, alluding to the date of Russia’s invasion.
The resignation amounts to a rare — if not unprecedented — public admission of disgruntlement about Russia’s war in Ukraine among the Russian diplomatic corps. It comes at a time when Putin’s government has sought to crack down on dissent over the invasion and quell narratives that conflict with the Russian government’s line about how the “special military operation” — as it’s officially known in Russia — is proceeding.
'Never have I been so ashamed': Russian envoy criticizes war
A veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva says he handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the “aggressive war unleashed” by President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Bruh.. the US has been kissing the Saudi 's ass way before these sanctions.
At which point China will look to takeover Russia (and it doesn't need to do it physically). That alternative doesn’t sound good either.
This isn't Russia related it is "we need cheap gas for the elections" related as it is every midterm or presidential year.
www.axios.com
Bruh.. the US has been kissing the Saudi 's ass way before these sanctions.
As far as Venezuela goes...
Where have you been? The USA lives by this moto:
Bruh.. the US has been kissing the Saudi 's ass way before these sanctions.
As far as Venezuela goes...
Where have you been? The USA lives by this motto:
Naw bruh aint been no while. There's been a continuous ass kissing going on. The US just had to adjust to a new asshole to kiss (the Saudi king's son).
