Russian Invasion of Ukraine

[Kepler]

How do you blow up the largest Russian equivalent to an Amazon warehouse?

600 UAVs.

I would advise Dump not to invade Canada.

Yowzer.

 

[ticapnews]

Russia threatens the UK with "inevitable consequnces"

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Putin is an annoying little suka.

 

[Kepler]

Russia threatens the UK with "inevitable consequences"

 

[aparch]

Ian (@itodd888) on Threads

Always really hard to spot a midair collision The thing that’s going to hit you doesn’t move in the windscreen, until it does

www.threads.com

"The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is."

 

[MissThundercat]

Russia threatens the UK with "inevitable consequnces"

And unicorns are gonna fly out of my nose.

 

[Kepler]

Stay classy, Ivan.

Russia launched two drone strikes on western Ukraine, very near its border with NATO member Poland, Ukrainian and Polish authorities said on Sunday.

One of the drones hit a passenger train locomotive in Volyn, some two kilometers (1.24 miles) from the border crossing.

That's a war crime and Hegseth is upset he didn't think of it first.

 

[Slap Shot]

Trump is mad at Zelensky for attacking fuel reserves in Russia.

 

[Kepler]

Gee, this doesn't sound like corruption at all.

The deadlock on the renewal of EU sanctions on Russia deepened on Monday after France and Slovakia, in a rare joint effort that has baffled Brussels, continued to demand the removal of Russian-Uzbek businessman Alisher Usmanov from the blacklist.

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Diplomats are still trying to figure out why France has suddenly joined Slovakia's yearslong campaign to spare Usmanov from the sanctions list, which covers almost 3,000 individuals and entities accused of propping up Russia's war on Ukraine.

France has only argued a "national security" reason, without any details.

According to an EU diplomat, the French delegation did not elaborate further on their position during the discussion on Monday.

Usmanov was added to the backlist in the early days of the full-scale invasion over his "close ties" with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his stakes in "key sectors" of the Russian economy, according to the EU Council.

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Slovakia has long called for Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, another high-profile oligarch, to be deleted from the sanctions list. Until now, other member states have been unwilling to grant the request, which they consider to be politically motivated.

Earlier this year, a media investigation published a two-page letter allegedly sent by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico asking for help to end what Erdoğan called "the unfair practice" involving Usmanov.

"Your support in removing him from the EU sanctions list and restoring his violated rights would be extremely valuable," Erdoğan wrote in the letter dated 2 March 2026.

The document mentioned Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as countries that also backed Usmanov's removal.

"We have a separate issue related to national security, and we would like to respond positively to our international partners who are approaching us regarding Mr Usmanov," a French diplomat told Euronews.

 

[Kepler]

Cafe sign in Talinn.

 

[Kepler]

I guess jocks are dumb in Russia, too.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Datsyuk would be saying the same thing if he was still playing over here, but through a translator.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

I guess jocks are dumb in Russia, too.

He plans on living his life after retirement in Russia (where he lives in the off season as it is). He has to play nice.

 

[Kepler]

From ISW:

The Kremlin continues to deny that Russia will conduct mobilization after its September 18-20 State Duma elections, likely in an effort to dissuade Russian citizens from fleeing abroad. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated on September 18 that Russian authorities have no plans to conduct a covert mobilization after the elections.[1] Bloomberg reported on September 18 that Russian government and military recruitment officials have been attempting to open accounts at foreign banks and move assets abroad, while also encouraging their relatives to leave Russia, amid concerns over an upcoming mobilization.[2] Russian officials have repeatedly denied that Russia will conduct involuntary reserve call-ups, likely in an effort to appease Russian society and avoid public upheaval or mass emigration such as occurred as a result of the 2022 involuntary reserve call-up.[3]

The Kremlin will have to change its recruitment practices and likely conduct some form of involuntary reserve call-up in order to sustain its war effort in Ukraine over the mid- to long-term if it continues operations that generate casualties at the current rate. Russia’s current casualty rate exceeds its recruitment rate by thousands per month, and the Russian war effort is even so failing to achieve its operational and strategic objectives.[4] Russian denials of mobilization do not indicate that Russia will not conduct mobilization, as Putin has shown no inclination to accept a ceasefire or lower the objectives he has given the Russian military to accomplish. These denials instead signal Putin’s concerns about the likely reaction of Russian society to involuntary mobilizations. It remains unclear when or what form of mobilization Putin may choose to order.

Here is a detailed account.

Podcasters have been warning that when they were finally forced to do this public reaction would be highly negative.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

The draft is coming and they all know it. They've been lined up at the Georgian border all week to leave.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Poots continues his megalomaniacal quest to become Tsar Vladimir III.

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office “has been aggressively pursuing a suite of nationalizations, reopening privatization deals from the 1990s on the grounds that they violated the country’s economic sovereignty,” Alexandra Prokopenko, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times Friday.

 

[aparch]

SNL UK not holding any punches. It feels like their version of Weekend Update actually has bite to it.

Nooruddean Choudry (@beardedgenius) on Threads

Really really really fucking good. This is what sets SNL UK apart when it covers stuff like this. It’s not milquetoast gags - it’s properly got teeth. Especially for a mainstream show. Some of the lines like ‘good guy with bad music’ and ‘wealthy corpse-maxer’ are exquisite

www.threads.com

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

"...seen here looking at both sides of the issue."

No punches pulled indeed.

 

[Kepler]

Interesting choice.

Trains carrying Boris Johnson and the former CIA chief David Petraeus may have been the target of a Russian drone strike that hit a train engine near the Poland-Ukraine border, according to Ukrainian Railways.