Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
I love a happy ending.
“HUR has published a video showing the elimination, by a precision air bomb, of the son of a lieutenant general — the commander of the 18th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces — Guards Lieutenant Vasily Marzoev.
He was in charge of a UAV crew that was detected by aerial reconnaissance in the village of Plavni, Vasylivka district, Zaporizhzhia region.”
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1982882494354526572
That news about the death of an important Russian general’s son is an individual tragedy, but lends hope for more generals urging Putin to bring the troops home. This news is right up there with the recent report at this thread on how Russia pulled elite troops from various regions on the front. They were to be used for an attack on an important salient. Unfortunately, rather than use these elite troops training in more complex forms of attack, this commander ordered them to be a meat wave, and few will ever return to their former units. The Russian top generals corp cannot let go of their great Soviet mass attack strategy. They don’t seem to understand how much bigger the Russian population was in those days.
The son was an active, uniformed combatant, and the father, a uniformed war criminal.
Kyiv Independent (27 Oct):
“Lieutenant Vasily Marzoev was killed by a glide bomb after drone operators in his unit were spotted in the village of Plavni, HUR said in a post on Telegram, adding he was also at the position at the time of the strike.
“The liquidated Vasily is the son of Lieutenant General Arkady Marzoev, commander of the 18th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who is involved in the commission of war crimes against Ukrainian civilians in Kherson,” HUR said.”
And how battlefield intelligence was much harder to get, artillery was much less precise, along with air dropped munitions, and then there are drones.
You can run but you can not hide very well anymore
Dod you see where vehicles are being damaged as the businesses are cutting the fuel they get which is not working.
When the potato water starts to run out that may top gas shortage as triggering event😂
It is pitin who has in word and speeches how he laments the fall of the Soviet Union.
Sadly the short dictator without a mustache is doing his best to recreate the misery that was the Soviet Union.😂
Sanctions shaking up Russian oil companies.
Lukoil to sell foreign assets after US sanctions
Kyiv Independent (October 27)
“Lukoil, one of Russia’s largest oil producers, said it plans to sell its foreign assets following new U.S. sanctions targeting the company and its subsidiaries.
“PJSC Lukoil informs that owing to introduction of restrictive measures against the company and its subsidiaries by some states, the company announces its intention to sell its international assets,” Lukoil said in a statement published on its website...
...The recent U.S. sanctions, announced on Oct. 22, target Russia’s two largest oil companies — Rosneft and Lukoil — along with dozens of their subsidiaries, effectively freezing all U.S.-based assets of those companies.
The sanctions also open the door for secondary penalties against foreign institutions that handle transactions with those on the blacklist...
...Lukoil and Rosneft are critical parts of Russia’s economy. Together, they account for nearly half of the country’s crude-oil exports — approximately 3 million barrels per day. As the country’s largest private energy company, Lukoil accounts for roughly 15% of the national output and 2% of the global production.
The new restrictions extend far beyond the parent firms, covering six Lukoil subsidiaries and 28 Rosneft enterprises. Among them is Lukoil-Western Siberia, which alone accounts for around 40% of the company’s hydrocarbon production.”
Big Indian companies (Private and State-Owned) dropping Russian oil like a hot potato.
OilPrice.com (27 Oct):
“Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s largest state-owned refiner, said it will fully comply with international sanctions related to crude oil imports from Russia. “We will abide by all sanctions imposed by the international community,” IOC Chairman Arvinder Singh Sahney said on Monday (27 OCt)...
...According to trade data, Russian oil accounted for about 21% of IOC’s total crude imports between April and September. The company, like other Indian refiners, has relied heavily on discounted Russian barrels since 2022, but tightening Western sanctions are now prompting a reassessment of those trade flows...
...Following Washington’s move on October 22, the European Union introduced its own measures, including a full transaction ban on Rosneft and Gazprom Neft...
... IOC’s subsidiary, Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL), has already cut its Russian crude intake by half this month in response to the latest U.S. restrictions.
The developments have also prompted private refiners to clarify their stance. Reliance Industries Ltd, led by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, pledged last week to fully comply with Western sanctions...
...Reliance, India’s largest private refiner and the top importer of Russian oil, holds a long-term contract with Rosneft to purchase up to 500,000 barrels per day.”
It is in India’s long range best interest to do what will send Putin home as quickly as possible. We may see serious starvation and malnutrition in a number of countries because of the grain harvests that may not occur in Ukraine and Russia this fall. India probably has nearly a billion people who will suffer this year and next because of food shortages and high prices for basic food stuffs. The govt. will also suffer as it tries to limit the pain of the Indian people. I wonder how much China will be affected by such shortages and the influence it will have on their relations with Russia?
When President Trump gets back from his Asia trip later this week, Hungary’s President is in the hot seat, over Russian oil purchases. Trump is relentless. Russia is Doomed.
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