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  • Accounts of Russian torture emerge in liberated areas

    09/13/2022 1:58:40 PM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 50 replies
    BBC.com ^ | September 13, 2022 | Orla Guerin
    In north-eastern Ukraine, a counter-offensive has seen the nation's forces recapture swathes of territory, and drive out Russian troops. But in the newly-liberated areas, relief and sorrow are intertwined - as accounts emerge of torture and killings during the long months of Russian occupation. Artem, who lives in the city of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region told the BBC he was held by Russians for more than 40 days, and was tortured with electrocution. Balakliya was liberated on 8 September after being occupied for more than six months. The epicentre of the brutality was the city's police station, which Russian...
  • Russia is running out of high tech parts and is now reduced to buying weapons from North Korea

    09/06/2022 8:25:55 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 38 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/06/2022 | John Sexton
    Last night Politico Europe published an interesting story about where Russia is starting to feel the pinch as it tries to keep its war machine going. Despite sanctions, Russia has managed to keep selling lots of oil and that has kept its economy from collapsing. But while it has lots of cash on hand it’s not so easy to import supplies of high tech chips that are needed for its weapons of war. In order to find those parts, Russia has put together a shopping list.Having fired off (or lost in combat) way more of their missile firepower than they...