Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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No wonder Putin is so scared of them...

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Joey D
I guess they've moved from windows to...check notes...toads.
www.independent.co.uk

Russian oil boss dies ‘from toad poisoning’

Alexander Subbotin was a Lukoil board member
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

Apparently, oligarchs are dying pretty frequently too:
www.dw.com

Mysterious deaths among Russian oligarchs – DW – 05/07/2022

Seven Russian oligarchs, many involved with oil and gas, have recently died under mysterious circumstances. Though suicide is officially suspected, speculation about the Kremlin's involvement abounds.
www.dw.com www.dw.com
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I heard he rana tight ship - bufo-re he died, of course.

Also I've covered the entirely plausible, totally normal deaths of Russians - and people linked to Russians who died totally normally - previously...
Famine
September 2003 - Stephen Moss; Lawyer with links to two Putin critics (Berezovsky, Khodorkovsky) and Cipriani Dining Club member. Died of sudden heart attack, aged 46, at home in London.
March 2004 - Stephen Curtis; Lawyer with links to two Putin critics (Berezovsky, Khodorkovsky) and Cipriani Dining Club member. Died in helicopter crash in clear conditions on approach to Bournemouth airport.
October 2006 - Igor Ponomarev; Diplomat. Dies in London of a heart attack, with surprisingly similar symptoms to thallium poisoning, aged 41.
November 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko; Critic of Putin. Dies in London following poisoning with Polonium-210. Ponomarev and Litvinenko had both just met Mario Scaramella, an Italian security consultant investigating links between Italian politics and FSB activities.
January 2007 - Yuri Golubev; Business partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Died of a sudden heart attack, aged 64, at home in London.
February 2007 - Daniel McGrory; Journalist investigating Litvinenko death. Died of sudden heart issues, aged 54, at home in London
February 2008 - Badri Patarkatsishvili; Business partner and friend of Berezovsky. Died of sudden heart attack, aged 52, at home in Surrey.
August 2010 - Gareth Williams; MI6 agent linked to Russian mafia. Died accidentally in "a sex game gone wrong", found in an MI6 safe house inside a zipped up North Face sports bag, inside a bathtub.
November 2010 - Paul Castle; Property dealer linked to Berezovsky and Cipriani Dining Club member. Commits suicide by jumping in front of a tube train.
November 2012 - Alexander Perepilichnyy; Russian tycoon linked to alleged Litvinenko hitman. Dies of sudden heart attack while jogging near home in Surrey. Ruled not suspicious, despite stomach contents including "heartbreak grass" - Gelsemium elegans - a deadly alkaloid plant that can cause heart attacks.
December 2012 - Robbie Curtis; Property dealer linked to Berezovsky and Cipriani Dining Club member. Commits suicide by jumping in front of a tube train. Yes, I've copied this directly from the Paul Castle text above.
March 2013 - Boris Berezovsky; Wealthy critic of Putin and Cipriani Dining Club member. Committed suicide by hanging at his home in Berkshire.
November 2014 - Johnny Elichaoff; Property developer and Cipriani Dining Club member. Committed suicide by "rolling" off a shopping centre roof in Bayswater, London.
December 2014 - Scot Young; Property developer and Cipriani Dining Club member. Committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor window of a London flat and impaled on railings below.
May 2016 - Matthew Puncher; Nuclear radiation dosimetry expert and Litvinenko case investigator. Committed suicide by stabbing himself five times with two different kitchen knives in his own house in Oxfordshire.
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November 2016 - Sergei Krivov; Security officer at Russian consulate in New York. Dies within the consulate. Consulate officials originally claimed he fell from the roof, then that he'd died of a heart attack, police report filed say he had head trauma. Coroner ruled haemorrhage due to chest tumour.
December 2016 - Oleg Erovinkin; Russian intelligence agent, alleged source in Trump dossier. Dies of causes unknown (rumoured to be, but not officially confirmed as, a heart attack) in his car in Moscow, aged 61.
December 2016 - Andrey Karlov; Russian ambassador to Turkey. Shot dead by gunman at art exhibition in Ankara, gunman shouted "do not forget Syria".
January 2017 - Andrey Malanin; Russian diplomat to ambassador to Greece. Dies of "natural causes" in his home in Athens, aged 54.
January 2017 - Alexander Kadakin; Russian ambassador to India. Dies in hospital in Delhi, following sudden heart attack, aged 67.
February 2017 - Vitaly Churkin; Russian ambassador to the UN. Dies of sudden heart attack in his office in New York, aged 64
March 2017 - Denis Voronenkov; Putin critic. Shot dead outside a hotel in Kiev.
March 2017 - Nikolai Gorokhov; Russian lawyer representing Sergei Magnitsky in a tax fraud case. Fell from fourth floor window of Moscow apartment, but survives despite head injuries. Magnitsky himself was beaten to death in jail in November 2008.
August 2017 - Migayas Shirinskiy; Russian ambassador to Sudan. Dies of sudden heart attack while swimming in his residence in Sudan, aged 62.
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MatskiMonk
Was he found kotcheled in the corner, laughing by the bass bin?

/side joke
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In basement after some anti hangover procedure, afaik. As shaman said he has headache, went into basement for some sleep. Typical situation for russian elite :sly:
 
Urgent news: Ukraine partially shuts down gas flows headed to Europe.

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1,884 views May 11, 2022 Ukraine's natural gas grid operator said on Tuesday that it would stop transporting Russian gas through an eastern border entry point called Sokhranivka, raising fears of a cutoff of flows to Europe. The Ukraine's GTSOU said that, beginning Wednesday, it would quit accepting Russian gas at the entry point due to "the interference of the occupying forces in technical processes". And it proposed transferring capacity to another location, Sudzha. While Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday it was not technologically possible to switch gas transfers to Ukraine to a new entry point and "the Ukrainian side is well aware of this". Russian side also claimed it did not see any obstacle to continuing its normal supply regime. The shutdown could close off about a third of the gas transiting from Russia through Ukraine. Russian troops occupy territory in E. Ukraine through which the pipeline passes. Prospects of a cutoff of a key natural gas artery sent shivers through the markets which were already on edge because of the conflict and Russia’s recent decision to stop gas flows to Poland and Bulgaria. Natural gas prices ended up rising 3.4 percent on Tuesday, to 97 euros per megawatt-hour. So far, flows of Russian gas through Ukraine have been remarkably stable despite the conflict.
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Joey D
Lavrov needs some basic geography lessons because Ukraine is definitely in Europe.
www.reuters.com

Lavrov says Russia does not want war in Europe

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow did not want war in Europe, but that Western countries were keen to see Russia defeated in its military campaign in Ukraine.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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And we are Americans. The people who, when asked to name a country beginning with the letter "U", will reply with "Utah", "Houston" or "Yugoslavia".
 
Blitz24
And we are Americans. The people who, when asked to name a country beginning with the letter "U", will reply with "Utah", "Houston" or "Yugoslavia".
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While that's certainly true, it's still pretty worrying that the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry doesn't know what country is and is not in Europe. Although, to be perfectly honest, he probably just thinks it's all Russia.
 
Joey D
The US is being pretty bold letting the transponders on their drones stay on while they're clearly doing recon around the Black Sea.

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Not only unmanned, but also the manned RC-135 was seen in the midle of the Black Sea with it's transponder on. I believe it's on purpose, to avoid being shot down by the russians or ukrainians, specially the RC-135, which, unlike the drone, if shot down would kill americans or british people, which could lead to an escalation.
 
It's the NY Post, so take it with whatever grain of salt you give that particular publication.
nypost.com

Putin seen with blotches on cheeks after skipping beloved ice hockey game

Putin pulled out of the Night Hockey League game in which he had been “expected” to compete and sent a video message while at Sochi, the Black Sea resort where the match was scheduled to take place…
nypost.com nypost.com

Here's a Newsweek source on it if you prefer that publication more:
www.newsweek.com

Putin Missing Hockey Game Sparks More Questions Over Health

Rumors have spread about the health of the Russian president following the invasion of Ukraine.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com
 
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Serious changes in RF General Staff of AF, according to Arestovich.

/Tinfoil hat on
Also, if someone interested in what Z, V and O means - Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy 🤔 as we know, main target of campaign was to capture or kill Zelenskyy and re-establish new regime. /Tinfoil hat off
 
Joey D
Lavrov needs some basic geography lessons because Ukraine is definitely in Europe.
www.reuters.com

Lavrov says Russia does not want war in Europe

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow did not want war in Europe, but that Western countries were keen to see Russia defeated in its military campaign in Ukraine.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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And so is Russia, at least up until you get to the Urals.
 
eran0004
Sweden is likely to apply on Monday.
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I don't know why this bothers me but my instinct says that Finland should be the one to do it first, if not simultaneously. Finland is the easier target for Russia. If Finland can get in then it proves that anyone can. The front-line countries joining first also allows less time for Russia to mount an effective offense to it since they'll immediately be met with resistance rather than having plenty of wiggle room in a buffer zone.
 
Keef
I don't know why this bothers me but my instinct says that Finland should be the one to do it first, if not simultaneously. Finland is the easier target for Russia. If Finland can get in then it proves that anyone can. The front-line countries joining first also allows less time for Russia to mount an effective offense to it since they'll immediately be met with resistance rather than having plenty of wiggle room in a buffer zone.
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Agree completely...now is the time to reach for those intangibles that mean so much. Concepts like 'unity' and 'solidarity' carry a LOT of weight right now. It should be leveraged accordingly. :cheers:
 

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