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Ukraine: Unsubstantiated rumours and speculation

I disagree. The size of the fires which need to be reported from a governance and health and safety perspective will be any size of fire including the odd wheelie bins kids have torched. Not just burning down an entire factory sized fires. Think about it, if these huge fires that we’ve witnessed over the last few weeks was the norm, it would be a huge economic and political issue in a relatively short lengh of time. These fires are not the odd skip that’s caught fire. They are an anomaly.
In Russia ? You think they report every little issue?
 
Though 10,000 fire deaths a year is fucking mental. The UK is just under half the population and about 300 fire deaths a year. So Russians are 16 point something times more likely to die in a fire.


Meh, less than 1/4 of US firearm deaths in 2020. Russia needs to up its game if it wants to hang with the big kahunas.
 
Meh, less than 1/4 of US firearm deaths in 2020. Russia needs to up its game if it wants to hang with the big kahunas.
Most of them are suicides. Given the population difference a Russian is more likely to die in a fire than an American is to be shot by someone else.

ETA: and they're both more likely to die in a car accident.
 
Reportedly an aviation college, so potentially relevant. A munitions factory also burnt down there last week. Looks careless.
 
In a post on Telegram, Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, called the fires "divine intervention."

"Large fuel depots periodically burn... for different reasons," he wrote. "Karma is a cruel thing."

Another Zelensky advisor, Oleksei Arestovych, was equally opaque to The New York Times, noting that Israel never admits its covert attacks and assassinations.

"We don't confirm, and we don't deny," he said.


Move along, nothing to see here :hmm:
 
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