TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Ukraine used F-16 fighter jets to repel a massive air attack on August 26, Zelenskyy announced during a press conference.
He noted that the fighters performed very well, helping to shoot down several missiles.
Getting forgetful in my old age. Forgot to bring a stylus and my fingers are too fat to work without one.
Sochi in russia is flooded
"and the flood shall boil out paddocks, that shall go up, and enter into thine house, and into the closet of thy bed, and on thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and into thy people, and into thine ovens, and into the remnants of thy meats", Exodus 8:3-13
From the Analyst, Military & Strategic
‘WE NEED THE MONEY’ AND OTHER NEWS
In an interview on DeutchWelle today Ukraine’s Alexander Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Indistries, made some interesting comments.
Firstly, that the industrial capacity to produce missiles for attacking Russia is three times higher than the money available to fund their production. He indicated that the new Danish program to direct money into Ukrainian weapons industries was extremely welcome and a vital move to ramping up production.
Another interesting aspect was the discussion on Palantisiya requiring Starlink to reach targets. Kamyshin refused to comment.
In the same article - talking about Kursk, the ex-military British Analyst DW have used since the war began, was asked what he thought about the situation there.
He was very diplomatic of course, but it amounted to, the Ukrainians had their reasons. It hasn’t worked, Putin has decided to take the loss and the political embarrassment, and declined to stop the advances in the central front regions which are now getting very worrying in their scale.
Rather than say he thinks they were wrong and it’s a mistake, he said that it was almost certain the forces that were withdrawn from the central front to conduct the Kursk campaign were now needed there and the pressure on Ukrainian units was very great, that those facing the onslaught almost certainly wish they were there to aid them.
He also made it plain that he did think in the end, Putin has called Ukraine’s bluff, not that he used those exact words - TV people never say it that directly.
Further frontline news is depressing. The main road from
Vuhledar to Kramatorsk has been cut and the Russians have control over it. They are also on the high ground heading south west to Vuhledar now, which makes it far harder to defend.
The Russians have made sizeable gains in the north Oskil
River region.
Toretsk is in the middle of severe fighting. New York has been completely lost.
Pokrovsk is in dire danger and is just 8km away from Russian lines. Evacuations are urgent for remaining civilians though most have no idea where to go.
This morning an 8 hour long missile and drone raid involving some 200 missiles, most targeted electrical infrastructure, causing widespread blackouts and damage across 15 of Ukraine’s oblasts. It’s believed to be the largest raid ever.
Details on what was shot down and what was hit will be available in time.
It merely adds to the desperate need for Ukraine to be able to strike deeper and deeper into Russia - to hit air bases and factories, oil and gas industries and any other target that hinders Russian war efforts.
America needs to take the limits off long range weapons use now, those airfields and support sites need to be destroyed.
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Death of crops. Bashkiria has introduced a emergency regime due to waterlogging of the soil, from of which crops died on an area of about 200,000 hectares. On Monday, August 19, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic, Ilshat Fazrakhmanova reported that a third of the winter crops were harvested, another third died, and the rest of the crop "is planned to be harvested if available opportunities." By August 23, 11% of grain and leguminous crops were harvested in Bashkiria.
You make a big mistake! Another billionaire whines that oligarchs are powerless to influence Putin, and therefore the West has made a "colossal mistake" by imposing sanctions against russian businessmen for political reasons. It's just unfair. After all, they have built multinational companies, actively invested abroad, and now they have to work only within the country. Usmanov, the oligarch with a fortune of $ 13.8 billion, was included in the sanctions lists of the European Union, Great Britain, Switzerland and the US.
Earnings of russia's mining and metallurgical giant Norilsk Nickel fell by 22% in the first half of 2024 year-on-year against the backdrop of lower prices for basic metals, logistical difficulties, problems with cross-border payments and export duties. Norilsk Nickel was not directly affected by Western sanctions, but faced with the problem of importing equipment, "voluntary sanctions" of partners and other global restrictions.
Russian companies will be forced to pay a fee to the state for the use of foreign software. Minister of Digital Gulag Development Maksut Shadayev said that the bill will be introduced to the State Duma in September to "equalize" the conditions for the implementation of foreign software with russian. He also stressed that the Ministry of fancy Financials is working on the issue and that the new fee will not affect small and medium-sized businesses, and budgetary organizations.
India surpasses China to become Russia's top oil buyer in July. Russian oil accounted for 44% of India's total imports last month, reaching a record 2.07 million barrels per day, up 12% from a year ago. Indian refiners have been gorging on Russian oil sold at discounts after Western nations imposed sanctions against Moscow, and their demand will continue to grow until sanctions are further tightened.
Russia's richest and most mysterious oil company has become unprofitable and has classified almost all financial indicators. The fourth largest oil company in terms of production and the first in terms of cash in its accounts, Surgutneftegaz, decided to classify the vast majority of financial indicators. In particular, Surgutneftegaz does not disclose revenue, cost of sales, selling and management expenses, as well as income from subsidiaries. The company's long-term and short-term loans, the volume of assets, cash reserves and even the authorized capital were classified.
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A businessman with interests in Germany, bypassing sanctions, exported American lithographs to Russia for the manufacture of microcircuits.
Ties with the West do not prevent foreign firms from selling semiconductor dry etching installations for the production of chips to Russia in circumvention of sanctions. As The Insider found out, among the leaders in violating US bans on the supply of American high-tech products to Russia was the Hong Kong company of an entrepreneur with Singaporean citizenship and business in Germany.
This year, the Russian Engineering Group LLC imported from China and Taiwan lithography machines for the manufacture of microcircuits, as well as parts and spare parts for them manufactured by the American Applied Materials in the amount of more than $ 4 million. According to the Hong Kong registry, the company is owned by a Chinese citizen named Chan Po Wah (陳寶華) and a Singaporean citizen named Gallal Sabry Sera. The equipment imported by the company is dry etching units, which has a number of technological advantages compared to wet etching.
In Russia, a person with the same name (recorded as Serag Gallal Sabry) at different times was a co-owner of five different companies. One of them, Kvant LLC, still continues to work in Zelenograd, having a revenue of several billion rubles a year and a staff of about 1000 people. Another Singaporean company (over which Serag still retains control) is engaged in the supply of ordinary household appliances from China.
Gallal Sabra Serag may well be described as a Western European industrialist and businessman with serious interests in the European Union. A person with the same name is listed as the director of the German company Ledsikon (formerly RandLight GmbH), which produces LED devices.
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I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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