"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (9 Viewers)

[manta22]

If I could find some here I'd certainly give it a shot. I've had Polish beer before, long ago enough I cant remember the label, but it was a really good lager. I bet with all their grain-fields the Ukrainians have brewing down pat too.

And I'd rather talk beer thn politics any day of the week, and two cans on Sunday.

When I was in East Berlin in '62, I and 3 fellow GI friends dropped into a restaurant there, "the Bucharest" and ordered a Soviet beer that was listed on the menu. The waiter replied that it "was not available" so I asked what he recommended. We ordered the Romanian beer and found that the label listed it at 14% alcohol. Needless to say, being in the Soviet Zone of Berlin, we each only had one beer.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

When I was in East Berlin in '62, I and 3 fellow GI friends dropped into a restaurant there, "the Bucharest" and ordered a Soviet beer that was listed on the menu. The waiter replied that it "was not available" so I asked what he recommended. We ordered the Romanian beer and found that the label listed it at 14% alcohol. Needless to say, being in the Soviet Zone of Berlin, we each only had one beer.

Completely jealous. In 1990 in Spain for Desert Storm we could get Bud or Miller at the E-club, or go out on the town and get either San Miguel or (hork!) Cruzcampo.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

As of today today the number of vehicles and heavy equipment lost by Russians reached the 8000 mark
1500 (well almost ) of them tanks.

Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

www.oryxspioenkop.com

Quite a few loses for a 9 month "military operation"

 

[buffnut453]

Ukraine war will be over by end of spring, country's deputy defence minister predicts

The retired major general says his nation will never stop fighting until victory and even a Russian nuclear strike would not end the struggle to drive out invading Kremlin forces.

news.sky.com

 

[Admiral Beez]

Ukraine war will be over by end of spring, country's deputy defence minister predicts

The retired major general says his nation will never stop fighting until victory and even a Russian nuclear strike would not end the struggle to drive out invading Kremlin forces.

news.sky.com

I hope he's right.

Much of the NATO-provided self propelled artillery and rocket artillery is truck-based, rather than tracked. Will this hinder their winter use? I suppose once/if the ground freezes and hardens that wheeled SPG might be okay.

If the AFU can keep on the offensive through winter I think Russia, with its already demotivated army now ill-equipped for the cold, is in big trouble.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Someone smoking in St Petersburg

 

[manta22]

Someone smoking in St Petersburg

POL dump?

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

POL dump?

The smoke doesn't match that sort of fire.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Tesla going up in flames?

 

[manta22]

The smoke doesn't match that sort of fire.

You're right, it would have been black.

 

[GTX]

They call it 'The Hole'. Inside the Kherson police station where locals say Russia carried out torture

Local people detail how they heard screams coming from a converted police station and saw bodies being removed while the city was under Russian occupation.

www.abc.net.au

 

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'Gross sabotage': Sweden finds traces of explosives at Nord Stream site

The parallel undersea pipelines, which run from Russia to Germany, were ruptured in September.

www.abc.net.au

 

[RogerdeLluria]

POL dump?

Seems it's a gas pipeline

Explosion hits Russian gas pipeline amid suspicions of sabotage

The fireball was visible for miles in every direction after hitting about 14 miles east of St Petersburg, the nation's second largest city and Putin's hometown.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Russians having a taste of what Putin is doing in Ukraine

The blast caused disruption to the Severnaya Thermal Power Plant, which heats hundreds of thousands of homes at a time when temperatures are around minus 5C.

The plant provides electrical and thermal energy to factories, residential areas and public buildings in the northern part of the Vyborgsky and Kalininsky districts of St. Petersburg, as well as the settlements of Novoe Devyatkino and Murino, and the Vsevolozhsky district of the Leningrad region.

In total more than 800,000 people receive heat from the Severnaya plant.

 

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Good to see them still in the fight:

 

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