Posted on 02/14/2024 10:38:15 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russians have been told to grow their own bananas as a shortage looms, days after President Vladimir Putin issued a ban on imports from Ecuador, its largest supplier of the fruit, seemingly over an arms shipment spat.
Oleg Knyazkov, the head of the industry expertise center at Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian consumer watchdog, told local news outlet Gazeta that he predicts there will be a nationwide shortage of bananas in a month. He advised Russians to start growing them domestically.
His comments come after Putin suspended banana imports from five Ecuadorian companies on February 2, saying the decision was made due to the detection of pests in shipments of the fruit. Weeks earlier, Quito accepted a U.S. offer to exchange Soviet-era military equipment for modern U.S. weapons in a deal worth $200 million.
The United States said that Ecuador's Soviet-era equipment would be sent to Ukraine amid the ongoing war started by Russia in February 2022.
The move was blasted by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who said Ecuador had made a "reckless decision under serious pressure from external interested parties."
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No doubt an eggistential threat to world freedom and the American land of the free and home of the brave.
You lost the Battle of the Black Sea to a country without a navy.
No matter who you support in the Ukraine war, it is pretty damn hilarious for us to send $200 million in Russia weapons from Ecuador to Z-boy.
First its eggs with you, now bananas
Why do Zeepers hate breakfast?
The climate around Moskva is ideal for growing bananas. In fact, most of Moscovia is also good for growing the yellow fruit and for egg hunts.
We can get spammed 3-4 solid days over the ship sinking. A banana story will grow legs in our banana republic. This could go on longer than the egg story.
FR’s worst Uke harpy...down to posting about Putin’s banana scandal.
When Ukraine gets smashed and Zelensky gets dead will you get gone?
Scab
Russia is continuing to be demilitarized and there will be a negotiated settlement with an even weaker Russia after President Trump is back in office in January.
Another day, another Russian ship sunk.
Initial reports that the first GLSDBs have just started to be used by Ukraine, and the F-16s are coming - packing a suite of new friends on their pylons.
The EU approved $50 billion for the Ukraine, and Sweden will soon join NATO, after 250 years of neutrality.
Russian refineries have started catching on fire a few times per week - including the refinery that provided Moscow with lion's share of its gasoline and diesel.
January 2024 saw the lowest volume of Russian seaborne crude oil exports, since the 2022 invasion (October's sanctions tightening on tanker ships have reduced volumes every month since). That was the last leg of Russian hydrocarbon revenues, after the collapse of natural gas and refined products.
A powerful strike by Iskander-M missiles on a military training ground in Selidovo, located on the territory of the DPR, led to large-scale destruction and significant losses among the Ukrainian military. Information about this event was disseminated by war correspondent Alexander Kots through his Telegram channel.
According to Kotz, the force of the impact was so great that the affected area was compared to the size of two football fields. The military correspondent emphasized that the chances of survival for those who were at the training ground at the time of the attack were practically zero. A special feature of the warheads used is that they are equipped with 54 fragmentation warheads, capable of firing at a height of about 10 meters above the ground and hitting infantry even in deep trenches due to the vertical direction of the fragments.
According to preliminary data, the death toll at the test site reached approximately one and a half thousand people. Ukrainian sources claim that within a few hours after the attack, trucks with the bodies of the dead were sent from the Selidovo area in the direction of Dnepropetrovsk.
An important aspect of this event is that the Ukrainian military personnel who died in Selidovo were soon to be transferred to the Avdiivka direction to support defensive actions against Russian troops. The strike on the training ground thus caused serious damage to the plans of the Ukrainian command to strengthen its positions at the front. Подробнее на: https://avia-pro.net/news/udar-po-poligonu-v-selidovo-obernulsya-katastroficheskimi-posledstviyami-dlya-vsu
Fake news.
https://bnnbreaking.com/world/ukraine-suffers-heavy-casualties-as-russia-intensifies-attacks
In a particularly devastating incident, Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military training ground in Selidovo, Donetsk People's Republic. The attack reportedly caused casualties among Ukrainian troops. Former Ukrainian parliamentarian Igor Mosiychuk confirmed the incident on his Telegram channel, stating that some soldiers were killed and injured, but refrained from providing exact numbers. An unofficial Telegram channel associated with Ukraine's 35th brigade suggested that the losses could be around 200 troops.
Fake news.
Git some egg to go with that banana?
Yeah, they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Dnepr to the delta past Kherson
In 2021, his troll was Fox News, for months.
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