https://bsky.app/profile/stratcomcentre.bsky.social/post/3luyzkqi63c2j
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
AvtoVAZ employees have gone on a three-week vacation, but buyers won’t notice because more than 100,000 unsold cars have accumulated in warehouses. In the first half of this year, stocks grew by about 30,000, said the head of Avtostat, Sergei Tselikov. Stocks are growing against the backdrop of a precipitous decline in sales; in the first half of the year, dealers sold 162,000 Lada cars, which is 23% less than in the first half of 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/stratcomcentre.bsky.social/post/3luyzkqi63c2j
Dizzy, this is what you believe happened in 2016
Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
In the first video, people in Donetsk are seen greeting a water tanker.
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1949058721960603745/video/1
In the second video, during the rain, people try to collect at least a drop of water because the water pipeline from the Siverskyi Donets was destroyed by the Russians.
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1949058721960603745/video/2
When Donetsk was not occupied by Russia, the city hosted the European Football Championship, as well as concerts by Rihanna and Beyoncé.
Now, there is no more running water in the city. According to the schedule, water only appears in taps once every three days, and even then it doesn’t reach every household, so water has to be delivered by tankers, with long queues forming for it. People use plastic bags as toilets, and this filth spreads everywhere.
This is happening not only in Donetsk - water is supplied once every two days in a number of other cities, including Mariupol.
This is how Russia ‘liberated’ Donbas.
Why is this happening?
In the past three and a half years - since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - reservoirs in Donetsk Oblast have significantly dried up.
The water supply system from the Siverskyi Donets River was destroyed.
The region’s reservoirs and underground water sources are not enough to meet the needs of the population, in part due to the extensive network of coal mines.
When the self-proclaimed “DPR” and “LPR” were created in 2014, Ukraine did not cut off this water channel, as it was still supplying water to Mariupol, which remained under Ukrainian control.
But at the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, the situation changed: the Russian army, during its offensive, destroyed a unique hydraulic structure that had supplied the region’s largest cities with water.
The Russian authorities decided to build a new canal - the Don–Donbas canal - which was supposed to begin in the Rostov-on-Don area.
It soon became clear that the new water pipeline, first of all, could not provide the region with the necessary amount of water, and second, it was built with numerous violations, with a large portion of the budget embezzled during construction.
Crimea is also suffering from a water shortage, and the situation is worsening.
One of the reasons why Russia is striving to seize southern Ukraine is that it sees this as a way to “solve the water issue” for the occupied territories.
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧@WarMonitor3
Jul 27, 2025
Germany to borrow hundreds of billions of euros for military spending, including weapons for Ukraine.
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1949459334762504425
“the population is fleeing Russian occupied Donetsk because Russians have turned it into Russia.”
The Air Force of Ukraine reported that the main direction of the strike was Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi region. The Kh-47M2 aeroballistic missiles did not reach their targets.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1949755628252991706
President Trump has stepped up weapons deliveries to Ukraine big time. Lots of C17 and C130 transport flights today. Most since President Trump returned to office.
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