Ukraine

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There’s public panic going on in RF right now as they are anticipating a run on the banks due to sanctions. Russian Telegram channels are mightyyyyyy interesting reads today.

In other news, one of their units became isolated and encircled in Vovchansk too. These clowns can’t take a village 3km from the RF border despite 10x assaults/day for a month, including no fortifications and the element of surprise last month.


Embarrassing

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UK imposes first sanctions targeting ships breaching Russian oil restrictions

LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday imposed its first sanctions targeting vessels in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s "shadow fleet" that it said was used to cir vent Western sanctions on the trade in Russian oil.

The action, part of 50 new sanctions and co-ordinated with G7 partners, also targeted suppliers of munitions, machine tools, microelectronics, and logistics to Russia’s military, including en ies based in China, Israel, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, the government said.

"Today’s action includes the UK’s first sanctions targeting vessels in Putin’s shadow fleet, used by Russia to cir vent UK and G7 sanctions and continue unfettered trade in Russian oil," a government statement said.

Britain also sanctioned Russia's leading financial marketplace, the Moscow Exchange (MOEX.MM), opens new tab, saying it had obtained a benefit from or supported the Kremlin "by carrying on business in a sector of strategic significance."

On Wednesday, U.S. sanctions against the same ins ution forced an immediate suspension of trading in dollars and euros on its leading financial marketplace.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...ns-2024-06-13/

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Armenia PM: I will not travel to Belarus from now on as long as President Alexander Lukashenko is there

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"One of the heads of the CSTO states says that he participated in the preparation of the war [in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020], encouraged, believed, and wished for the victory of Azerbaijan. And after that, I will go to discuss something with the leader of Belarus in the format of the CSTO," said Pashinyan, at the same time allowing contacts within the CIS and EAEU.

"I declare that I will not travel to Belarus from now on as long as President Alexander Lukashenko is in Belarus. And in general, I declare that from now on, no official representative of Armenia will go to Belarus; at all," Pashinyan promised.
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https://news.am/eng/news/828907.html

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There’s public panic going on in RF right now as they are anticipating a run on the banks due to sanctions. Russian Telegram channels are mightyyyyyy interesting reads today.

In other news, one of their units became isolated and encircled in Vovchansk too. These clowns can’t take a village 3km from the RF border despite 10x assaults/day for a month, including no fortifications and the element of surprise last month.


Embarrassing

- "Promises, promises."

- Ernie "The Cat" Ladd

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https://news.am/eng/news/828907.html

Wise decision.

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"bloggers"

tee, hee.

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[10 year contract] eh?

Putin looks forward to the challenge with equal amounts of both anticipation & determination.

Let us proceed...

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[[[But even those who smirk start paying attention when Kukharchuk’s colleague starts speaking. The man, who asked CNN to identify him only by his call sign “Dato” because of privacy concerns, is one of them.
He has spent much of his life behind bars. Convicted of various crimes, he escaped from prison three times and was paroled in February 2022 after serving 31 years. He joined the Ukrainian army just hours after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.


Members of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade seek to recruit convicts in a prison in central Ukraine.
Daria Tarasova-Markina/CNN

Dato, 58, commands respect from his audience. His voice cuts through the yard and when he pauses, the silence is heavy. Dozens of prisoners hang on his every word. Some are standing outside in the yard; others are leaning out of the windows of their cells. His speech is peppered with prison slang. He speaks of honor, duty, and reputation. “This is your chance to rehabilitate yourself in the eyes of your children,” he tells them.
Recruiters from several brigades have already visited this prison of 700 men, and about 100 inmates have already signed contracts with different units.]]]

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https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...ns-2024-06-13/

3-5 day SMO just found out that the dildo of consequences has no lube

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[[[The new law does not allow the recruitment of people convicted of crimes against the foundations of national security of Ukraine, or of particularly serious corruption offenses. Those who committed the most violent offenses are also excluded. People convicted of two or more premeditated murders, of crimes committed with cruelty, or of murders combined with rape or sexual violence, are barred from signing up.


According to the Ministry of Justice, 5,000 inmates have applied to join the military since the law was signed. Some are already undergoing basic training at a training ground in central Ukraine.
Daria Tarasova-Markina/CNN

How exactly the law will work in practice remains to be seen. After it was passed, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry said the inmates, who must sign up of their own free will, would serve in separate units. But Kukharchuk and Dato, representing the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, would like to have the prison recruits serve with regular infantry.
Kukharchuk told CNN the soldiers from his brigade have no issues with fighting alongside convicts. “How can you have a special at ude towards people who come to you, who will sit in the same trench with you, who will participate in assault operations with you and have your back?” he said.]]]

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Chubby there in the truck is pregnant. LMFAO!!!

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https://news.am/eng/news/828907.html

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One day you're kicked off of Africa and the next week Armenia wanders in. Just shows ta go ya.

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Must be one of those pretty little Internet influencers.

tee, hee.

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[[[But other commanders, while supportive of convicts’ recruitment, are not so sure about integration. “Prisoners should fight in separate units. And they need very good people to lead them,” one commander, who goes by the call sign “Teren” and is fighting in Avdiivka, told CNN. The artillery reconnaissance commander with the 110th Mechanized Brigade asked for his real name not to be used for security reasons.
“I am not against prisoners fighting at all. I’m surprised that we didn’t use this idea at the beginning of the war. There are always a lot of casualties among the infantry, and if the convicts want to (risk their lives) to go to fight in the infantry, it’s a good decision,” he added.
The push to recruit inmates into the military appears at first glance to parallel a campaign of prison recruitment by Russia’s mercenary company Wagner early in the war, and continued by the Ministry of Defense since last year. The lives of thousands of Russian convicts have been expended in so-called “meat grinder” assaults, particularly in the fighting for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
But Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska, speaking to CNN in Kyiv, rejected the comparison.
“In Ukraine, motivation is largely based on patriotism. Our prisoners join the army voluntarily. In Russia, it was voluntary and forced. I personally saw (Russian) prisoners who were forced to join Wagner,” he said, adding that in Russia, inmates were recruited into the notoriously brutal private military company, whereas in Ukraine, they are joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine.]]]

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Looks like south side Chicago twixt Friday & Saturday.

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[[[“This is a regular state military service with all the guarantees: salary, social insurance (paid for by the U.S., payments in case of injury, death, and so on. This is a completely different story in terms of motives and mechanisms.”
Shaking off the ‘ex-prisoner’ label

The convict recruits will be allowed the same family leave as other soldiers and will be en led to the same salary but won’t receive the annual leave that is standard for other troops, according to the law.
According to the Ministry of Justice, 26,000 people are currently in prison in Ukraine. Since the law came into effect, 5,000 male inmates have applied to join the military, the ministry says. Nearly 2,000 have already passed their medical examination and been released from prison into the military by the courts. The first tranche of prisoner recruits is already in basic training, according to Maliuska.





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The minister said he expected more convicts to sign up. Many are waiting to see what happens to the first round of recruits, he said, but the initial reaction has been positive.]]]

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There’s public panic going on in RF right now as they are anticipating a run on the banks due to sanctions. Russian Telegram channels are mightyyyyyy interesting reads today.

In other news, one of their units became isolated and encircled in Vovchansk too. These clowns can’t take a village 3km from the RF border despite 10x assaults/day for a month, including no fortifications and the element of surprise last month.


Embarrassing

Initial panic (among an isolated few) and then it passes. Big yawn.

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Hungary, the only NATO ally that does nothing for Ukraine's war effort.

What a fitting place for the Budapest Memorandum to have been signed.

Not that anyone really knows what that is anyway.

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Initial panic (among an isolated few) and then it passes. Big yawn.

Like those 2 huge California banks went belly up last year...Everybody went down there. CNN was out front telling everybody it was no big deal to go back home and watch Phil Donahue. Blinken flew across, landed out front, CNN let him in. Half hour later, some Black /man/woman from the F.D.I.C., showed up, CNN let it in,,,15 minutes later it was all over, like it never happened.

L.A. times killed the story, roller derby went on as schedule that same night at the L.A. sports arena; Skinny Minnie Gwen Miller started as a jammer. SF Chronicler claimed it never happened on and on.

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Hungary, the only NATO ally that does nothing for Ukraine's war effort.

What a fitting place for the Budapest Memorandum to have been signed.

Not that anyone really knows what that is anyway.

That's where my wife's mother is entombed. A bigger & larger (pest) you have no idea.

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