Yea I’m sorry guys but your local Putin oligarch / warlord is not publicly going to say he’s not going. That’s a one way ticket to plutonium. He going to say whatever jinoistic stuff he needs to and probably believes as he is also a psychopath
This is likely the glow that the CNN reporter saw, as he said it was Southwest of Kyiv and that’s where this town is.
Why do youtube live stream commenters always type stuff like /cam 5 and /zoom? What does that mean? Sometimes that’s 75% of the posts.
Kadyrov is a psychopath. He is probably looking forward to this.
I still don’t think it happens but the no-fly zone talk spiked my BP. Putin’s rath will be terrible, his retribution swift.
Meaning more the decision to launch them - doesn’t need to push go on the football - pre-clearance from generals granted
Hopefully one of the steps Putin has to take to launch nukes is clicking all the squares containing traffic lights.
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I believe he meant lead bullet.
thermabarric?
Ah. Yes, I was being a bit dense there.
spoiler alert please
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Either the lights have come back on in the main square, or almost all the youtube live streams are now fake. Disheartening.
I think this one is real. But unfortunately the sound is from Lviv.
Looks like Jal may have been correct…
The news that western allies will ban Russian banks from the Swift global payments network is a break through for the countries that had initially pushed for the ban.
The UK and Spain were early supporters of the move to lock Russia out of Swift, the main secure messaging system that banks use to make rapid and secure cross-border payments, but Germany was a key holdout.
On Saturday, however, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, said the country was working on a “targeted and functional restriction” on Swift. Hours later, the joint statement by western allies, including Germany, was released.
It is a victory for Ukraine, which had pleaded since Thursday for countries to ban Russia – foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba going so far as to say that European and US politicians would have “blood on their hands” if they did not.
But it remains unclear how widespread the ban will be. The statement from the west referred to removing “selected Russian banks” from Swift, but gave no specifics.
The US, like Germany, had initially been sceptical about the Swift ban. The Observer’s economics editor, Phillip Inman, wrote that “one reason is that the impact on Russian businesses might not be so serious”:
The head of a large Russian bank, VTB, said recently he could use other channels for payments, such as phones, messaging apps or email. Russian banks could also route payments via countries that have not imposed sanctions, such as China, which has set up its own payments system to rival Swift.
Holy shit, that article was from 12 years ago! Sorry for the confusion. New dead guy was in St. Petersburg. Gazprom guys dying suddenly apparently not unheard of. Will look into it further.
I think one died a few months ago, too.
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Is Russia able to censor their entire internet like China? Can they block all social media? If so are they? If not stuff is leaking through big time.