To: JonPreston
Do this again and I will push the abuse button.
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“Even Russia’s reported vast gold reserves are finite”
They report something like $200 billion worth. (but their lips were moving...)
On the Winter solstice (21 Dec), sunrise in Moscow is about 9 Am, and Sunset around 4 PM. On that day, St. Petersburg gets about an hour less daylight.
St. Petersbug is the most Northerly major city on Earth.
🟦 No legal recognition of the "Russian occupation" of Ukrainian territories;
🟦 No restrictions on Ukraine's defense forces;
🟦 No veto on Ukraine's right to choose future alliances;
🟦 Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine, nothing about Europe without Europe; <> 🟦 Ukraine will never give up its language, faith, and national identity.
How this differs from the order of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson "We will not sign anything with them at all, let's just keep fighting" is unclear.
- UARU
A big kick in the nuts to Russian oil revenues in November. (35% decline)
My guess is that got their attention, and that the Russians are now pretending to engage in peace negotiations again, because they desperately need to deter a death blow to their oil infrastructure this Winter.
My advice would be to keep them talking, but blow that oil infrastructure up at the first excuse, to set conditions for a longer term peace with Russia after the inevitable end of the current war. It would be the best deterrence.
OilPrice.com (24 Nov):
“Russia’s budget is expected to receive $6.63 billion (520 Russian billion rubles) from oil and gas in November, a decline of 35% compared to the same month of 2024, Reuters calculations showed on Monday...
...Last week, the price of Urals crude loading at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk plunged to as low as $36.61 per barrel, the lowest in nearly three years...
...The discount of Urals relative to the international Brent benchmark widened to an average of $23.52 a barrel in the middle of November...
...October revenues for the Russian budget collapsed by 27% from a year earlier, as international oil prices dropped, sanctions on Russia intensified, and the Russian ruble strengthened...
...Last week, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said its analysis of the initial market impact of the sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil showed they “are having their intended effect of dampening Russian revenues by lowering the price of Russian oil and therefore the country’s ability to fund its war effort against Ukraine.”
The 2 imperial cities with St Peterburg also major manufacturing, rail hub for the Russian army. Many of their supplies are made in St Petersburg. Then shipped south to them by rail. These are the two prime targets for Ukraine to disable and wreck their energy infrastructure, that brings them light, heat, electric, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel. Kill their electric to knock out their many elevators.
Can you imagine a 20 story high rise for the elites. Knock out their elevators. Elevators with back up generators will run out of fuel.
Ukrainian redlines:
- legal recognition of the occupation of Ukrainian territories
- any restrictions on the size of the Ukrainian army
- veto on Ukraine's right to join NATO
- renunciation of language, faith, and national identity
— Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk outlined Ukraine's "red lines" in the process of peace negotiations with the Russian Federation
So we have Donald Trump desperately trying to cobble together Peace, and ppl like you dream of war. What exactly is wrong with you?
Russia Empties One of Its Largest MT-LB Storage Bases. Nov 24, 2025
One of the largest Russian storage bases containing MT-LB armored vehicles - the 7004th arsenal - has now become almost completely empty.
OSINT analyst Jompy reported about this on his X account.
Only three heavily damaged vehicles remain on the site, and they are unlikely to be suitable for use.
Until recently, this base was a key storage site for Soviet armored vehicles that were actively used in the war against Ukraine. Now it appears abandoned, and most of the equipment has been removed.
The 7004th arsenal was considered one of the largest MT-LB storage locations. According to OSINT analysts, it may have contained several hundred vehicles that were gradually sent to the front or written off.
The storage base is located near the city of Arsenyev in Primorsky Krai. This is about 7,000 km from the Ukrainian border.
A similar situation can be seen at other depots as well. In particular, updated satellite images of Ussuriysk show that almost all the equipment has disappeared, with only trucks remaining.
This gives grounds to expect similar changes at the 7020th base, which has not yet been updated but has likely been emptied as well.
An example of this is the 7033rd arsenal, where self-propelled artillery systems and multiple-launch rocket systems were previously stored. The area now appears almost empty.
Meanwhile, the condition of the remaining vehicles indicates they are unusable. Many of them appear damaged or dismantled, making their restoration impossible.
Russia has depleted almost half of its stock of towed artillery at the storage base near the city of Shchuchye, where about 50% of all its towed artillery had been stored.
At the same time, the rate of de-preservation has fallen more than fourfold compared to 2022.
Images at link:
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-empties-one-of-its-largest-mt-lb-storage-bases/
Russian Air defense against a flamingo cruise missile which hit Kristal oil depot 14/11/25
BREAKING:
Large fire erupts in the Moscow region after a Ukrainian drone swarm strike.
Looks like another Russian power plant might have been hit
Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) @Archer83Able
Ukrainian strikes hit the Shatura Power Station located in Russia’s Moscow Oblast.
A heavy fire broke out at the facility.
The plant is one of the oldest energy infrastructure objects in Russia (commissioned in 1920). The facility possesses a combined power of 1500 MW.
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Looks like they didn’t have a clue where the Flamingo was
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Air defense chasing ghost 👻
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Sorry for the poor sob whose flat is going to get swiss cheese by the falling rounds. ...na...
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It’s less more about chasing and more about the weapon teams on those AAs making sure they look like they were trying their best so they don’t get punished for being idle, results be damned.
It’s 2025 and they’re still using Soviet efficiency
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They need to distribute copies of the 28point plan to everyone so they can use it after they shit themselves next time they hear a flamingo coming in.
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Fireing straight to the city 🤣
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And random, high volume firing over what looks to be a fairly populated area is... not great
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Human life doesn’t matter in Russia... Oil does...
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There’s human life in russia?
KAYBOOM ! ! ! ! Goes Flamingo!
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GREAT PHOTO and VIDEO>>> MOSCOW REGION ELECTRIC DEMOLISHED!
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Ukrainian strikes hit the Shatura Power Station located in Russia’s Moscow Oblast.
A heavy fire broke out at the facility.
The plant is one of the oldest energy infrastructure objects in Russia (commissioned in 1920). The facility possesses a combined power of 1500 MW.
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