Plus soo much oil and gas exploration to siphon off for some mates.
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Plus soo much oil and gas exploration to siphon off for some mates.
Davexl.
Respectfully, can I suggest that the regurgitation of multiple daily articles from the Guardian is not really suited for this thread? Surely if most folk wish to get 'up to the minute' updates, then they can access various news sources from across the globe themselves?
I note that there is a specific Ukraine related thread which may be more appropriate for these numerous media posts you wish to disseminate? Whether there is an appetite from ST's to be given regular media updates on that thread, I guess you would be best to ask.
I'll consider it FTG, just trying to document the war as it represents Geopolitical Risk in all its glory (Not). Getting sick of maintaining this thread anyway and all the other news sources involved - though the Guardian is head & shoulders above all the others...
Guardian
3h ago 02:49
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-...ormat&fit=max& Julian Borger
The United States will try to persuade China not to supply arms to Russia at a high-level meeting in Rome which the White House sees as critically important not just for the war in Ukraine but also for the future of the global balance of power.
Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, will meet his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, in the Italian capital amid reports that Russia has asked China for weapons to bolster its faltering invasion of Ukraine.
Sullivan will point out that the US briefed Beijing on Vladimir Putin’s intentions months ahead of the invasion, but that the Chinese leadership ignored those warnings, mistakenly believing that Putin was bluffing to gain leverage, according to sources familiar with plans for the Rome meeting. Sullivan will also argue that if China supplies weapons to Moscow it will be a further, historic mistake, and a turning point in global politics.
The White House is anxious to prevent the Ukraine war further cementing a division of the world into two opposing blocs.
Guardian
4h ago 11:14
Summary
The time in Kyiv is 1.15pm. Here is a round-up of the main headlines so far today:
- Talks between Russia and Ukraine on Monday have started and communication between the two sides is hard but ongoing, Ukrainian presidential adviser and negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter.
- One person was killed and three injured when a shell hit a residential building in north-west Kyiv on Monday morning, Ukraine’s state emergency services said. The nine-storey residential apartment building reportedly caught fire from Russian shelling after 5am.
- The Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv has been shelled by Russian forces, the Kyiv city administration said in an update on its official Telegram account on Monday morning. At least two people were killed and seven injured, it said.
- A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has said assertions from US officials that Russia asked Beijing for military equipment for its campaign in Ukraine were “disinformation” from the US. The comments came during a regular Chinese foreign ministry briefing in Beijing, Reuters reported.
- Ninety children have been killed and more than 100 wounded in Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24 February, the Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office said on Monday.
- A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth, the Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world, epitomising the horror of the attack.
- Germany will reportedly purchase up to 35 F-35 fighter jets, a government source told Reuters.
- The US will try to persuade China not to supply arms to Russia at a high-level meeting in Rome.
- The UK defence ministry claims Russian naval forces are “effectively isolating Ukraine from international maritime trade”, its latest defence intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine reads.
- Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, is reportedly in Ukraine alongside Russian forces, according to footage shared by Chechen television channels and posted to Kadyrov’s Telegram account.
- Vladimir Putin will be “held responsible” for war crimes in Ukraine at the international criminal court in The Hague, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, has pledged, saying the UK would help gather the necessary evidence.
- The CEO of controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI said the Ukraine defence ministry has started to use its services, according to Reuters.
- Ukrainian president Zelenskiy urged Nato to impose a no-fly zone after the attack on the military base that brought the fighting close to the Polish border. “If you don’t close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian rockets fall on your territory, on Nato territory,” he said.
- Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday the full implementation of sanctions by European Union countries would help put pressure on Russia to stop attacks.
- The German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer has suspended advertising and investments in Russia, it announced today.
- Russia’s defence ministry admitted responsibility for a rocket attack on the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, a military base, near the Polish border on Sunday.
Guardian
1h ago 19:00
Summary
It is 9pm in Ukraine. Here’s where we stand now:
- “Almost all” of the Russian advances in Ukraine “remain stalled”, a senior US defence official said during a background briefing, CNN reports. Russian forces moving on Kyiv have not appreciably progressed over the weekend but the official noted that the US believed Russia was trying to “flow in forces behind the advance elements” moving to the north of the Ukrainian capital.
- The mayor of Ukraine’s frontline city of Kharkiv said the city had been under constant attack by Russian forces, Reuters reports. Speaking on national television, Ihor Terekhov said Russian troops had fired at central districts causing an unspecified number of casualties.
- A Russian airstrike hit a residential building in Kyiv as Moscow’s forces stepped up their brutal campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital and other major cities. One person was found dead in the nine-storey apartment building, officials said, with three more people hospitalised as air raid sirens sounded in the capital and other cities hours before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were set to resume talks.
- The Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv was shelled by Russian forces, the Kyiv city administration said in an update on its official Telegram account on Monday morning. At least two people were killed and seven injured, it said.
- Ukrainian authorities have denied accusations by Russia after a Ukrainian missile allegedly exploded in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk killing 20 civilians. Ukrainian military spokesman Leonid Matyukhin said the missile, that carried warhead shrapnel, was in fact a Russian rocket. The Russian and Ukrainian claims cannot be independently verified.
- There are reports that Russian forces blew up explosives at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine’s parliament earlier said Russian troops planned to begin “disposal” of ammunition in front of the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power station.
- At least nine people were reportedly killed and nine more wounded in an airstrike on a television tower in Ukraine’s northern Rivne region today. “There are still people under the rubble,” governor Vitaliy Koval said in an online post, Reuters reports.
- Ninety children have been killed and more than 100 wounded in Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24 February, the Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office said. “The highest number of victims are in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kherson, Mykolayiv and Zhytomyr regions,” it said in a statement.
- A convoy of more than 160 cars departed from Mariupol today, local officials said, in what appeared to be the first successful attempt to evacuate civilians from the encircled Ukrainian city. After several days of failed attempts to deliver supplies to Mariupol and provide safe passage out for trapped civilians, the city council said a local ceasefire was holding and the convoy had left for the city of Zaporizhzhia.
- Ukraine’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said Russian forces were “behaving like terrorists” and Putin had started a “full-scale war” in the centre of Europe that could “become a third world war”. Addressing the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, he said Europe “chose the road of pacifying the aggressor” for years instead of “defending the values of democracy, the rule of law and human rights”.
- Vladimir Putin’s decision to order Russian nuclear forces to be put on high alert is a “bone-chilling development”, United Nations chief António Guterres said. The UN secretary general said a further $40m (£30.7m) would be allocated to ramp up humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
- A close ally of Putin has admitted Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has not gone as quickly as the Kremlin had wanted, Reuters reports. National guard chief Viktor Zolotov blamed the slower than expected progress on what he claimed were far-right Ukrainian forces hiding behind civilians, an accusation repeatedly made by Russian officials.
- Russia has denied reports that it has asked China for military equipment, claiming it has sufficient military clout to fulfil all of its aims in Ukraine without any need for help from Beijing. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russian troops could take “major population centres under full control” in Ukraine.
White House faces oil standoff with Saudi Arabia and UAE as prices soar
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...+15+March+2022
So what do we know so far?
Russia hasn’t able to wage a war of mobility, so is slowly surrounding and besieging cities. This means that the Russians are effectively immobilized and are static targets. They are able to create havoc by local and long-range bombardment, and to advance slowly – nibbling away taking territory here and there, but not take large swathes of territory and to disrupt Ukraines internal supply lines.
But the Ukranians do not have the weaponry to take advantage of the Russian’s immobility – we also saw this with their inability to inflict serious damage on the sitting duck that was the Russian “40-mile-freedom-convoy”.
The conclusion is that the Russians have lost the initiative as far as movement goes, but that the Ukranians are unable to take advantage of this.
So there’s effectively a stalemate, but with Russia slowly gaining ground. Who or what would change this?And how could they do it?
I guess the methods are pretty well known.
1) Lead a guerrilla war in all occupied territories (and I am sure they do that). The Russian terrorists need to expect bombs / mines and small weapon fire against them 24/7 where ever they are - this will tire them down.
2) cut off the supply lines to the sitting ducks by surgical attacks (like destroying bridges, block infrastructure bottlenecks - quite difficult to prevent for the attacking Russian terrorists
3) Undercover attacks and sabotage against significant Russian infrastructure in Russia (like electricity, gas fields, oil fields, pipelines, and potentially nuclear plants in Russia (less of a problem for Europe given the predominant winds from the West)).
Talk with them in the only language the Russian terrorists and child killers understand.
Guardian
The United States told allies that Russia has requested military equipment from China, including missiles, drones, and armoured vehicles, and that China “responded positively” to the request, the Financial Times reports. China denies the story. The US is believed to have told Beijing it would be a “historic mistake” during an “intense” session of talks in Rome on Monday.