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You can run, but you cannot hide!
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Pierced Organ
170K Russian IT Specialists Could Emigrate by April – Industry
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/...ndustry-a77034
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‘This is a mess’:
anxious Russians grab cash and plot emigration
Western sanctions send rouble tumbling and create long queues at cash machines around Moscow
https://www.ft.com/content/424d8ed3-...c-eebf0c7f5d4d
My future is taken away from me’:
Russians flee to escape consequences of Moscow’s war
Growing numbers of Russians are leaving the country,
fearful of possible martial law and the war’s consequences
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ia-ukraine-war
Odessa preparing to rock and roll!
‘I see bad times ahead.’
Sanctions start to get real for Russians.
Barely two weeks ago, most Russians enjoyed relatively prosperous, consumerist lives,
with access to goods and services familiar to anyone in the West.
They were able to travel, use their Russia-based bank cards in just about every country, order services online, and, like billions of the world’s denizens,
communicate on universal platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
But Russia’s so-called special military operation in Ukraine has stirred up a blizzard of economic and financial penalties in response. Amid that storm – which includes the decision of brands like McDonald’s, Ikea, and Coca-Cola, as well as 300 more, to leave or “pause” their activities in Russia – and Moscow’s retaliatory measures,
Russians’ place in the interconnected global economy seems about to end, perhaps permanently.
The Monitor has talked to more than a dozen Russians to try to gauge their initial experiences, and at udes, about what looks to be an onrushing long, drawn-out, and life-changing crisis. Several “average” people agreed to speak frankly on condition their surnames not be used.
A few well-known analysts spoke on the record, provided no political opinions that might be illegal under a new law on “fake news” be attributed to them.
The emerging picture suggests that everyone is aware that an economic storm is about to hit their lives.
It’s still early days. A drive around Moscow finds mostly scenes of normality, and little resembling panic.
Grocery stores have well-stocked shelves and only minor price increases so far.
Most important, customers are still able to pay with their domestic bank cards – even if they bear the logo of recently departed Visa or Mastercard – thanks to a Russian project begun at the dawn of the sanctions regime eight years ago to develop a self-sufficient Russian payment system, which is now up and running.
There are lines in pharmacies, where supplies of imported medications are being snapped up, but so far no signs of panic-buying of staple foods – even though legal limits have already been put in place on amounts that can be purchased.
It is mostly those with Western connections such as family, business interests, or travel plans who have started to seriously notice the economic woes. For some, it’s the feelings of universal censure and isolation that hit hardest.
Nadezhda, a 40-something TV producer, says the plunging ruble, ban on receiving foreign currency, and skyrocketing interest rates (now at an eye-watering 20%) are all sources of concern.
“But right now I am feeling terrible about my daughter, who had to cancel her birthday trip abroad because the skies are suddenly closed,” she says. “She lost her money, but much worse is how it made her feel. ... I suppose we can get along without our favorite fast foods, games, and movies.
It’s nothing compared to what those people in Ukraine are going through.
But what about the future? Unemployment and social marginalization will lead to more crime. That’s my biggest fear.”
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Euro...l-for-Russians
Pootin knows he absolutely CANNOT lose, so he will keep losing, and then escalate to nuking a Ukraine city, whether NATO intervenes or not.
Sure, Jan
‘We strike at night, when the Russians sleep’ —
How Ukraine is stalking Russian armor with drones
The past several weeks have seen heavy and brutal combat, cities under siege and civilian casualties, convoys ambushed, Russian tanks and trucks destroyed.
But for a fleet of Ukrainian drones, it’s a target-rich environment.
“We strike at night, when the Russians sleep,”
Russian troops are dispersing into towns and villages in an attempt to avoid artillery strikes, Honchar told The Times of London.
However, that doesn’t protect them from Ukraine’s drone operators, who are piloting anything they can get their hands on, from consumer drones found at Wal-Mart, to the now-vaunted Bayraktar TB2 Turkish aircraft. Before the invasion, Ukraine reportedly had around 20 Bayraktar drones,
but the country is now using everything up to and including cheap, commercially bought drones to drop munitions on Russian targets.
“In the night it’s impossible to see our drones,” said an Aerorozvidka soldier to the Times of London.
“We look specifically for the most valuable truck in the convoy and then we hit it precisely and we can do it really well with very low collateral damage — even in the villages it’s possible. You can get much closer at night.”
Braggadocio aside, the drones have been able to penetrate what was thought to be a sturdy air defense network.
the unit is now flying up to 300 missions a day, targeting Russian convoys along the frontlines.
Often working off the Starlink satellite system, the drones have continued to strike at Russian targets.
“We have an in-house team of military software developers who follow a NATO standard to develop our situational awareness system,”
“Based on the information we task our 50 teams in the field to either hit the targets identified or provide additional reconnaissance to some special parameters.
Or to provide artillery with their eyes — they do the coordination of artillery fire.”
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukra...-tanks-drones/
Putin's Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He's Holding Back. Here's Why
Russia is causing less damage and killing fewer civilians than it could, U.S. intelligence experts say.
If Russia were more intentionally destructive, the clamoring for U.S. and NATO intervention would be louder.
And if Russia were all-in, Putin might find himself with no way out.
Instead, his goal is to take enough territory on the ground to have something to negotiate with,
while putting the government of Ukraine in a position where they have to negotiate.
https://www.newsweek.com/putins-bomb...es-why-1690494
The Saker:
Day 26 of “Operation Z” in the Ukraine
Next, according to Chechen sources, Chechen special operations have entered the Azovstal factory in Mariupol. This is too important a claim to be accepted yet, but there are many indirect reports which seem to confirm the veracity of this claim. If so, then that means that most of the residential areas of Mariupol have now been liberated from the Nazi terrorists of the Azov battalion. If the combat operation inside or near the Azovstal buildings is still going on, well that means that very soon Mariupol will be denazified which, considering that the Nazi forces inside the city were just about the most evil and yet quite combat capable units available to the Ukronazi regime, the final liberation of Mariupol will mean a huge difference for the entire operation.
What about the events on the front line?
I won’t into details here but I will offer a few bullet points
Very heavy combats near Avdeevka and Mariupol.
Combat pretty much everywhere the line of contact, which result in slow positional warfare with artillery exchanges and very careful mopping up building by building and even room by room.
On average Russian forces advance between 5 and 20 kilometers per day, which is rather fast against a defense in depth prepared for years.
The key cities of Kiev and Odessa are almost completely blocked, but not fully surrounded yet.
The Black Sea fleet basically controls the entire Ukie coast and all of the Black Sea itself.
The Black Sea fleet also prevents any resupply of Odessa from Romania.
Russia has full air superiority over the entire Ukie airspace
The Ukies are STILL firing both Tochka-U and Grad/Smrech missiles in the general direction of liberated cities just to create as many casualties as possible, but the Russians have become very skilled at not only shooting down these missiles (the destruction ratio has gone up very sharply) but also a destroying the key Ukrainian ammo dumps were they hide those missiles (this is what happened with the big building in downtown Kiev which the Russians totally vaporized with one perfectly aimed Iskander missile.
And, finally, I want to share something very important with you: the Ukronazi forces cannot resupply or rotate themselves. Why?
Because moving around when the air is full of Mi-24/35s, Mi-28Ns, and Ka-52s in “free hunting” mode requires a type of courage very few people have.
Because most roads are carefully monitored by multi-sensor Russian reconnaissance/intelligence capabilities
Because more big roads (you cannot use small dirt roads to resupply or rotate effectively) are either already physically controlled by the Russians or are “shot through”, which in Russian indicate that while Russian soldiers have reached each other and hugged they can shoot at any location from these roads from any side.
So it does not matter how motivated the Ukrainians are. Even with we assume 100% of the Ukrainians are well trained, well-armed and would rather die than retreat or surrender, they still need many TONS of stuff (food, ammo, water, MRE, medicine, batteries, petroleum, diesel, lubricants, oil and many more things!) EVERY DAY. Just to give you an idea, read this pretty decent discussion of some aspects of logistics by the US military.
So once the Ukies are blocked by Russians, it is essentially over for them. Anybody with a basic understanding of modern warfare can confirm that to you.
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