From: https://ukranews.com/en/news/1001391-ukraine-receives-emergency-aid-for-most-of-the-day-from-eu-power-systems-for-4th-day-in-a-row

On Thursday, April 25, the power system has a shortage of electricity for most of the day, in connection with this, for the fourth day in a row, emergency assistance is called in for most of the day from the power systems of European countries.
This was announced by the press service of the Ukrenergo national energy company, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
However, on Thursday, the total volume of emergency aid is slightly lower than yesterday, thanks to increased production at solar power plants.
On Thursday, as of 09:30 a.m., electricity consumption is 10% lower than at the same time yesterday.
“At the same time, there is a shortage of electricity in the power system for most of the day. Yesterday, April 24, the daily maximum consumption was recorded in the morning hours. It was 6.4% higher than on April 23,” the message says.
During almost the entire day, excluding night hours, it is planned to import electricity from Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Moldova with a total volume of 12,786 MWh, with the maximum capacity in individual hours up to 1,675 MW.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, electricity consumption in the Kharkiv Region and for industry in Kryvyi Rih of the Dnipropetrovsk Region was limited on Thursday.

Doesn’t say how these power imports are going to be paid for, can’t imagine they’re on a Pay As You Go tariff!

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 25 2024 11:50 utc | 4

The Ukrops are starting something new : selective & preventive withdrawals.
It seems some of the positions are abandoned to the advancing RUAF infantry. They are only met by arty, FPV and booby traps. So the “miraculous $60B “aid” package” had an effect : the kokhols understood they were not the most loved child in the family and are trying not wasting ordinances and manpower at great pace anymore. They are not in a full blown retreat either, there are still some hard-points on the line they’re trying to hold.
Let’s see if Russian advances are just the conquest of the positions they targeted from long range during bad weather period or if it’s effectively the banderists retreating in good order for the first time in the SMO. It’s an important doctrinal change for them , defense in line and in depth was their trademark for the last two years+.
Expect more “TikTok operations” to hide it from public eyes in the coming days. Dima was reporting about a reactivation of “Krinky beachhead”, I also expect strike on Crimea or in Russia… terrorists are gonna do terrorists things.

Posted by: Savonarole | Apr 25 2024 12:05 utc | 6

It’s made my day, stopping back (as I’ve done again and again) and finding MoA open again. I very much hope whatever the medical issue was, it is behind you now and you are well. Thank you for your wonderful contribution here.

Posted by: Robert E.Smith | Apr 25 2024 12:07 utc | 8

Asian frog | Apr 25 2024 11:31 utc | 3
“Useless eaters”. 🤣 made me laugh. Did you make that up?
Or was it already a phrase?

Posted by: KingCobra | Apr 25 2024 12:31 utc | 10

Posted by: Asian frog | Apr 25 2024 11:31 utc | 3
Such a stupid, sexist thing to say. I’d argue women nowadays are more useless than men – they can’t fight in the fronts, they cant run the infrastructure of the modern (post-)industrial states, we dont need more humans at the moment, so the need for women is actually reduced.

Posted by: Boo | Apr 25 2024 12:41 utc | 12

@KingCobra | Apr 25 2024 12:31 utc | 10

“Useless eaters”. … Did you make that up?
Or was it already a phrase?

It’s a term of LTI. See: Glossary of Nazi Germany. Search for “Unnütze Esser”.

@Posted by: SwissCovidiot | Apr 25 2024 12:47 utc | 13
m(

Posted by: dustbunny | Apr 25 2024 13:00 utc | 14

“Useless eaters”. 🤣 made me laugh. Did you make that up?
Or was it already a phrase?
Posted by: KingCobra | Apr 25 2024 12:31 utc | 10
_____
Supposedly it dates back to the Nazis (“Unnütze Esser”). Supposedly the Club of Rome has used the phrase too, although I can’t find hard evidence of that. The justly notorious Yuval Harari frequently refers to “useless people” and the “useless class.”

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 25 2024 13:06 utc | 16

rk @15
Discussion of nuclear war has become “normalized”, and this is horrifying. Leaders seem to be trying to persuade everyone that it would not be such a big deal, like a trip to the store or something. These people are insane. A nuclear exchange would be devastating for the whole world! Something to chew on: https://folkpotpourri.com/a-time-of-unimaginable-sorrow-is-upon-us/

Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Apr 25 2024 13:44 utc | 18

Welcome back, b.
Are you sure that the doctors did not implant some AI stuff in you? Like Raymond Shaw in 1962/2004 “The Manchurian Candidate”?

Posted by: KitaySupporter | Apr 25 2024 14:04 utc | 20

Asian frog | Apr 25 2024 11:31 utc | 3
“Useless eaters”. 🤣 made me laugh. Did you make that up?
Or was it already a phrase?
Posted by: KingCobra | Apr 25 2024 12:31 utc | 10
War criminal Kissinger used it to describe all the normal proles…

Posted by: Mary | Apr 25 2024 14:16 utc | 22

Posted by: Robert E.Smith | Apr 25 2024 12:07 utc | 8
It’s made my day, stopping back (as I’ve done again and again) and finding MoA open again. I very much hope whatever the medical issue was, it is behind you now and you are well. Thank you for your wonderful contribution here.
Fully agree. Hope all goes well b.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 25 2024 14:22 utc | 24

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 25 2024 11:50 utc | 4
I’m pretty sure the EU won’t send Kiev an invoice for electricity.
Just a little bonus gift, on top of all those other deadly “gifts”.
Savonarole | Apr 25 2024 12:05 utc | 6
Indeed the AFU now seems to withdraw from untenable, strategically irrelevant positions.
Which is the only rational thing to do – unless there’s reason to slow the opponent’s advance as much as possible (at the cost of heavy losses).
AFU has (finally) started to build defensive fortifications further back, but this takes time. Could this be the (main) reason for trying to hold on to places like Berdychi, Krasnogorovka?

Posted by: smuks | Apr 25 2024 14:38 utc | 26

Boo | Apr 25 2024 12:41 utc | 12
First, great news that b is back in the saddle. Take it easy now.
Women have on huge advantage over men – they can have babies – and long may it remain so.
From Lord Of War via Translate – Svetlana Braslavskaya sounds like someone you’d want on your side:
In recent weeks, the Ukrainian company on electronic warfare « Infosecurity » has been working on a new compact system for intercepting and suppressing signals called « Hydra ». Recently, she also went beyond her core business — message interception (COMINT) — and sought to become a leader in the field of UAV control technologies in Ukraine using her portable system Detection « Pluto ».
From the very beginning of the SVO, the company, owned by Yaroslav Kalinin, has become a key industrial player in Ukraine and over the past few months has received significant technical support from the West. This took the form of a strong partnership, which was first established at the end of last year with industry experts such as the American company SPX CommTech and the German Rohde & Schwarz.
Since then, « Info Protection » has become the main supplier of Rohde & Schwarz equipment for the Department of Defense, including Ardronis drone control solutions for the DIU General Intelligence Directorate. These systems are designed to detect, localize and destroy UAVs.
When developing the « Hydra » compact system, « Infozahist » took the initiative of the Ukrainian startup Falcons, which is led by engineer Svetlana Braslavskaya and who is a pioneer in the field of miniaturization of radio intelligence systems in Ukraine. The embodiment of this is the ETER flagship system, which was developed to meet the needs of the Ukrainian MTR in a system that was easy to deploy, but at the same time allowed to disguise during special operations on enemy territory.
This served as a template for the « Hydra » company « Info-protection », which consists of an antenna for intercepting and causing interference, placed in a backpack and connected to a software interface and a loaded signal library. The system automatically identifies detected signals using an artificial intelligence algorithm, and then proceeds to jam them. The technical skill is the miniaturization of the antenna and software interface.
Innovative technology « Info-defense » is part of a paradigm shift in military strategy. According to reports, the main activist of miniaturization of systems is the head of the department of electronic warfare of the Ukrainian supreme command Andrei Starikov.
The problem with larger systems installed on trucks is that they are too easy to identify from satellite or UAV images. Then they become a priority goal for attacks by Russian artillery and UAV « Lancet », the main task of which since March has been the destruction of Ukrainian electronic control systems, which turned out to be a serious obstacle for Russian commanders, trying to conduct local attacks.
Therefore, systems that are currently being developed, tested or deployed at the forefront must now comply with new technical specifications in which emphasis is placed on compactness. The Ukrainian conflict became an experimental laboratory of high-intensity technological warfare, and also demonstrated the difficulty of deploying bulky RTR systems in such theaters of war.
The Ukrainian command is also developing a new strategy for using this new technology due to the significant level of combat losses among electronic specialists. The idea is to provide sufficient training in the field of EW, so that all ordinary military personnel are able to use future miniature systems.
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So Ukraine are miniaturising their drone detection/jamming systems. Let’s hope Russia does likewise. China should be helpful here, I trust Blinken is being swaddled in meaningless flannel over in China:
“Now, China, you must stop supporting Russian war industry, so that when we’ve beaten them, we can turn against you”.
“Mr Blinken, China at all times supports peaceful outcomes and co-operation between countries, and we understand and appreciate the concerns of the United States, which we fully take on board. Try these noodles, they’re delicious.”

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Apr 25 2024 15:16 utc | 28

RF needs to continue to apply pressure all along the front in order to find the areas where the UFA line is creaking, cracking and collapsing……….
Then determine the most vulnerable point and punch it, punch it very hard. Kind of like a mini big arrow can begin.
But the RF attacks on the power grid, power stations, and power importation transfer stations, rail heads, locomotive yards, rail bridges, super highway bridges, river bridges, oil tank farms, refineries, and ng transfer stations must increase in intensity.
Air campaigns are only effective if they make logistics supply and support difficult in the extreme. Underfed, and cold troops without ammo, and without transport are in their most vulnerable state…..exploit that and quickly too……..
Get it done before the NATO cabal can get its act together……NATO arms unable to get to the front line UFA troops are mere hunks of expensive metal……make that happen….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Apr 25 2024 16:03 utc | 30

@SwissArmyMan | Apr 25 2024 12:47 utc | 13
Useless eaters refers to us the 99% who aren’t part of the uber elite. They own everything already, except for the assets in Russia and China, so since they own everything us scum are of no purpose whatsoever, we are just too much noise and drama and human rights, we can be replaced by robotics and AI except for some fertilized eggs kept in storage for women and child sex slave purposes.

Posted by: gT | Apr 25 2024 16:13 utc | 32

Welcome back B
The West’s strategy after the failure of last year’s offensive is to hold the line in Donbass this summer. You could call it Operation Hold The Line.
From my perspective, the objective of Russia offensive in the coming weeks is to disrupt the coherence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a structured entity in the Donbass region.
Over the past couple of days, the Russian army has achieved significant successes: Ocheretino and Novobakhmutovka have been liberated, and the brick factory in Krasnohorivka, which has become the heart of Ukrainian defence in that settlement, could fall next month.
However, progress will continue to be difficult as the Ukrainian’s are using four kamikaze drones for every one Russia uses.
Russia will need even more troops if they want to carry out a strategic operation to liberate the Kharkov region, the success of which would be the biggest turning point in the conflict. Russia has at this point 300,000 heroes but they will be tired by the autumn. For now, politics means further mobilization can’t take place.

Posted by: Old Sovietologist | Apr 25 2024 16:33 utc | 34

Useless shitters vs useless eaters, there’s your class war in a nutshell.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 25 2024 16:40 utc | 36

“useless eaters” has been around for a while, often used to describe the elderly, the retired, and anyone not a slave to the system. Recently reported that Covid was responsible for 30 million excess deaths worldwide, mostly “useless eaters” quite an accomplishment!
Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Apr 25 2024 12:47 utc | 13
Amazing how the Productive People are slandered with the “Useless Eaters” epithet by the Parasites who require them for their own existence.
If 100% of the WEF, 90% of DC, London, Brussels and 75% of Government Employees disappeared the world would function better and more peacefully.

Posted by: kupkee | Apr 25 2024 17:10 utc | 38

Macron may be in to something:

🇫🇷🇪🇺👉🇷🇺 Europe should be ready to build relations with Russia after the end of the conflict in Ukraine, Macron said.
❓😂 Are you guessing something, Macron? https://t.me/ZandVchannel/110599

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 25 2024 17:50 utc | 40

Discussion of nuclear war has become “normalized”, and this is horrifying. Leaders seem to be trying to persuade everyone that it would not be such a big deal, like a trip to the store or something. These people are insane. A nuclear exchange would be devastating for the whole world! Something to chew on: https://folkpotpourri.com/a-time-of-unimaginable-sorrow-is-upon-us/
Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Apr 25 2024 13:44 utc | 18
I was commenting on a discussion thread about a decade ago and pointed out that a typical thermonuclear bomb has about two orders of magnitude more power than the Hiroshima fission bomb. Someone responded what’s the difference a nuclear bomb is a nuclear bomb. How do you respond to that? The people who think that a nuclear war is no big deal can’t live without a daily visit to Starbucks for a foofoo coffee drink. Do they really think that their urban lifestyle would continue after a nuclear war, and they would still be slipping into the coffee shop where they cruise on social media and be cool? Hard to believe the level of detachment from reality.

Posted by: Mike R | Apr 25 2024 18:09 utc | 42

Norwegian @ 40

Macron may be in to something

Mon Dieu, throughout his dismal rule everything Macron has said has been the opposite of what he has done, home and abroad.
Internationally after Minsk he has no credibility, add to that as a bonded USA viceroy and Brussels administrator he has no agency, I really wouldn’t bother with what Macron says. Who comes after him that might be more interesting, hopefully for more than the 15 minutes it takes to figure out they are also a fraud.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Apr 25 2024 18:20 utc | 44

Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Apr 25 2024 18:27 utc | 45
In case you didn’t notice I was being sarcastic.
But the worst would be a near total collapse of civilization and current production and distribution (with an added bonus of a nuclear winter)
I think anyone who has grown before the 90s has been expecting things to turn wrong sooner or later , and feel there is little that can be done to prevent it (maybe that’s why I would personally like Pepe’s story to be true and that at least the grownups will try to stop the children from starting it)

Posted by: Newbie | Apr 25 2024 18:36 utc | 46

With talk of nuclear war resurgent, please allow me to repost mention of Level 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_7_%28novel%29
“It is easily the most powerful attack on the whole nuclear madness that any creative writer has made thus far.”—J.B. Priestley
“Eventually, I believe, Roshwald’s remorseless apocalypse will be recognized as one of the masterpieces of anti-utopian literature.”—H. Bruce Franklin
“In some ways this story gives the most realistic picture of nuclear war that I have read in any work of fiction.”—Linus Pauling
https://www.scribd.com/document/595930933/Mordecai-Roshwald-level-7

Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 25 2024 18:54 utc | 48

So, Russia’s military is stronger than ever …
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/as-ukraine-s-defeat-looms–imaginary-war-unravels

Posted by: Patrick al-Henrygazh | Apr 25 2024 19:12 utc | 50

Black Mountain Analysis episode 18 with Mike Mihajlovic.

Today’s topics:
– Western aid to the Ukraine. Is it really for the Ukraine and is it really aid?
– Nuclear threat in space – is it real?
– Arest of Timur Ivanov
– Kaliningrad issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9PAyDGR9VM

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 25 2024 19:53 utc | 52

Anyone have some news of Budanov ? Asking for a friend 🙂

Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Apr 25 2024 20:10 utc | 54

Barflies might find “Corruption in Russia: The Timur Ivanov Case” an interesting read authored by Marat Khairullen the war correspondent and translated into English.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 25 2024 21:07 utc | 56

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Apr 25 2024 21:32 utc | 57
Heh, I had “Berdychi Bob” marked as a not so worthy successor to Baghdad Bob…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 25 2024 21:41 utc | 58

Berdyshitville Berdyshitville Berdyshitville. (It’s like a metronome)
Berdyshitville Berdyshitville Berdyshitville. Stands
Berdyshitville Berdyshitville Berdyshitville. Stands
Berdyshitville Berdyshitville Berdyshitville. Sssstan, ah fuck.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 25 2024 22:03 utc | 60

Posted by: HERMIUS | Apr 25 2024 19:46 utc | 51
Maybe but there are too many unusual things happening where I am (Germany):
– German military is looking for volunteers for a territorial defense force
– there are background talks with hospitals being done by the local military branches
– citizens got warned that there will be massive obstacles re transportation (mass movement of equipment has to be expected by train, on streets, in the air)
– police and other forces are prohibited from taking holidays
– Polish friend reported that they built a training ground for unknown forces, he’s talking about Balts and Belarusians
Dunno but something changed and I’m not the only one feeling that there is more to it…

Posted by: Zet | Apr 25 2024 22:25 utc | 62

Posted by: Patroklos | Apr 25 2024 22:21 utc | 61
I think you may be like me. If you had asked me say 40 years ago, I would have described myself as a strong Australian patriot. I believed in my country. I saw it as better than most others in terms of human rights, free speech, welfare, income disparity. living standards and wages. I saw us as a can-do nation, but with principles.
I no longer feel this way and rather despise my nation and its leadership. I hate feeling this way. it is much, much nicer and more secure to believe in your country and the people around you.
However it is what it is. Perhaps I say the past through rose tinted glasses, but no so – the governments of Curtin, and Whitlam were genuinely progressive in al,most all ways that matter, and even Menzies while a bit crawly to the UK was progressive by today’s standards. Crikey Malcolm Fraser would now be on the extreme left.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 25 2024 23:10 utc | 64

@53 unimperator
Re: equipment pricing
When aid is sent they price the equipment at what they paid in 1970 or 1980 or whatever.
Basically it’s priced at about 15 cents on the dollar. In addition of course they send plenty of stuff they don’t announce.
61 billion dollars will only replace a small fraction of what they’ve sent. There might be very little new things getting sent from this money
For instance when they send hundred of Bradley’s it will take years to replace them with new ones at a cost of multiples of what they use as the cost of the old Bradley’s they sent
So 1 billion is actually 10 billion today to replace them years in the future.
The aid package is pure pork for the US MIC. Ukraine won’t receive much of it, just enough to protect and reward their collaborators in ukraine. Ukraine has served its purpose its survival is no longer necessary. The US MIC has contracts for years of work with existing industrial facilities. There’s plenty more lucrative possibilities beyond ukraine and in the 5 plus year future. It’s all massive profits and more work than they can handle.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Apr 26 2024 1:22 utc | 66

Daily Mail:
In 2027, Ukraine will launch a powerful counteroffensive that will rid its entire territory of russian invaders.
>A person familiar with the planning says that it would probably take until 2026 or 2027 for Ukraine to develop a serious offensive capacity.
And
https://web.archive.org/web/20240425185316/https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/04/25/americas-61bn-aid-package-buys-ukraine-time

Mr Putin’s war machine cannot maintain its current pace indefinitely.
Russia’s artillery is keeping up such a heavy barrage that the barrels of the guns are wearing out.
It is likely to run very low on replacements next year, requiring it to use more rockets instead.
But artillery rockets need five times as much explosive material, which is also in short supply.
By the same token, Russia is thought to have lost around 3,000 armoured vehicles in the year to February, according to data collected by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think-tank in London, and around 9,000 since the start of the war. It has replaced them from Soviet-era stockpiles, but those are expected to run out in about two years.
“Russian defence industrial capacity maxes out in 2025,” says a Western official.
The capacity of Ukraine’s allies, meanwhile, is growing. The bill Congress has just passed includes investments to increase the rate of ammunition production.
Annual output of pac-3 interceptors, the missiles fired by Patriot launchers, could rise by about a fifth over the coming year, from the current 500 or so. America’s annual production of shells should rise to about 1.2m next year.
Add to that European shells—1.4m this year and 2m next—and Ukraine’s allies should soon be able to match Russian production.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 26 2024 2:12 utc | 68

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 26 2024 2:12 utc | 68
Interesting. So Russia will continue to kick the snot out of Ukraine for the remaining 8-months of 2024, and during 2025 & 2026. Ukraine will continue losing 1,000 soldier casualties per day, so roughly 800,000 more dead troops during that time.
Nice concept. Russia will be so exhausted and weakened from beating up Ukraine… that Russia will be easy to defeat after that.
Suddenly, in 2027, Ukraine (or whats left of it) will recover and begin an offensive that will devastate Russia.

Posted by: Retaining_H2O | Apr 26 2024 2:43 utc | 70

North Korea has lots of capacity to produce artillery barrels, and Russia has always had facilities to recondition them. And of course they are also pumping out new ones.

Posted by: Babel-17 | Apr 26 2024 4:30 utc | 72

“And US announcing weapon packages which were delivered months ago. They never stopped delivering anything.”
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 25 2024 19:56 utc | 53
Yeah they did. Until recently, I was living in Riverside county Cali. Took me almost a year to figure out the minor earthquakes I started feeling in 2022 were coming from the train tracks and what looked like normal container trains. In the beginning it wasn’t even every day, but by the time of the summer offensive I was noticing upwards of 6/day.
Didn’t feel one the entire month of Dec ’23. What has happened since I don’t know.

Posted by: varnel | Apr 26 2024 4:39 utc | 74

Not saying that’s proof that 100% of shipments stopped, but the overloaded trains heading for the ports of LA/Long Beach did.

Posted by: varnel | Apr 26 2024 4:58 utc | 76

@74 re trains.
Ansar Allah closed the Red Sea in December 2023. Rather than shipments going all the way around Africa. Shipments to the Mediterranean, that were outgoing from West Coast ports may have been transferred to the Gulf and East Coast.

Posted by: golddigger | Apr 26 2024 5:21 utc | 78

Utterly delighted to have you back, b. Didn’t realise how psychologically dependent I was for my regular dose of sanity from your posts, until you vanished (and of course my forebrain was generating all manner of conspiracy theories).
I was assuming that a lot of the “Oh noes, we iz loozing territry, pleez send cheezburgers” stuff on the mainstream media was just Ukraine talking up Russian activity in order to get the money they want to steal. But I notice that these reports of villages being lost to Russian advances have continued after the dosh was poured into the furnace.
Perhaps the lesson is that although obviously what one hears must be treated with some scepticism — propaganda is a weapon of war after all — the Russian claims about the decline and fall of the Ukrainian military may have some basis in fact. In which case we might indeed see the Russian spring offensive that some pro-Russian pundits have been predicting.
The sooner the better, I say. Get this damned war over with, humiliate NATO, embarrass the colonial imperialists’ useful and useless idiots, and then let’s get back to the real show, which is the Sino-American war, alas.

Posted by: MFB | Apr 26 2024 6:18 utc | 80

Posted by: golddigger | Apr 26 2024 5:21 utc | 78
Good point, I had not considered that, thanks.

Posted by: varnel | Apr 26 2024 6:57 utc | 82

Dr. Mearsheimer said in Judge Napolitano’s interview that US never stopped delivering weapons to Ukraine and Biden has been circumventing congressional restrictions the entire time.
This is why Ukraine is in trouble, the cupboard is bare. The new aid will do little, and consists nothing really relevant beside the minimum basic necessities to even keep up a pretense of war.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 26 2024 7:11 utc | 84

“putins warmachine“ does not have to maintain this pace indefinetly.
Only until “kiev“ breaks.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 26 2024 7:42 utc | 86

Re: Posted by: TJandTheBear | Apr 26 2024 7:35 utc | 85

The triumph of hope over experience. They’ve been making this same argument since the start of the SMO.

The Russians occupy less of Ukraine now than they did 2 years ago in April 2022 – just a fact.
2 years of fighting should yield some territorial gains.

Posted by: Julian | Apr 26 2024 8:18 utc | 88

Yes indeed Patroklos @61, Watcher @64, Jake @69.
I stopped believing the same bullshit 30 years ago.
Once you see it you cannot un-see it…42 years ago after back packing throughout the ME, Turkey and Europe I thought we were the blessed lucky country here in Oz but now it has blatantly become Americas whore and will eventually become another 3rd world woke shithole.

Posted by: Honeyeater | Apr 26 2024 8:37 utc | 90

The Russians occupy less of Ukraine now than they did 2 years ago in April 2022 – just a fact.
Posted by: Julian | Apr 26 2024 8:18 utc | 88

I would have to up it – Russia now does not occupy even a square foot of Ukraine, even worse – Ukraine now occupies some Russian lands that are being liberated right now.
What is your point?

Posted by: Poslan1 | Apr 26 2024 9:14 utc | 92

In a move that could reshape Europe’s energy landscape, the European Commission is poised to propose new sanctions targeting Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports.
…
The proposed ban on trans-shipments within the EU is aimed at preventing the diversion of Russian LNG cargoes to other destinations. Currently, Belgium, France, and Spain are the largest importers of Russian LNG, with many of these imports being re-exported to other countries, including China. By imposing restrictions on trans-shipments, the EU hopes to ensure that Russian LNG does not find its way to markets outside of Europe.

they just cant help themself, especially since it was known that the volumes of russian pipeline gas was replaced with … russian lng. and making it now so that the eu countries cannot resell is like a double suicide, but i am sure, with confidence, that ursula is the perfect man for the job.
but the really shocking part here is that the eu is banning something trans. never saw this coming. usually they endorse that.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 26 2024 9:26 utc | 94

It was a year ago that he openly called Timur Ivanov a swindler. So, Prigozhin has been proven correct.
Posted by: Old Sovietologist |93

Ivanov has been constructing buildings and sites. Prigozhin was complaiming about insufficiant ammo. Why should have Prigozhin called Ivanov anything?

Posted by: Poslan1 | Apr 26 2024 9:32 utc | 96

saw this in the comment section on the hedge, so im not sure if its an actual quote or not, as im not touching bloomberg:

Trump’s advisers are discussing the introduction of sanctions against countries that move away from using the dollar in foreign trade, Bloomberg writes, citing sources.
It is noted that the target of the Trump team if he wins the US presidential election will be the BRICS countries.

this is going to be fun, BIGLY.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 26 2024 9:37 utc | 98

Posted by: Justpassinby | Apr 26 2024 9:37 utc | 98
By the time the US election will be settled, there probably won’t be very much left to sanction as the BRICS mostly have financial infrastructure in place.
The likely effect of the sanctions would then merely be to prevent anyone within the BRICS (and other parts of the world) from doing business with western banks, leading to further shrinking of SWIFT and isolate western currencies from participating in global commodities trade.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 26 2024 9:47 utc | 100