Ukraine: Unsubstantiated rumours and speculation

[platinumsage]

This is neither rumour or speculation, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to mention that three military cargo planes have flown over me in Exeter this morning. Guess it's Ukraine related.

They sometimes use Exeter airport for routine training runs from Brize Norton.

 

[Bingoman]

Sky News website has said the U.S. intelligence suggests that Russian forces will launch an assault on Kyiv as soon as tonight?

 

[Idaho]

Unsubstantiated rumour :

A good bit of psy ops to run against a control freak autocrat. Hype up his best lieutenants, making Putin isolate and distrust them, and further limit his already decreasing ability to delegate.

 

[WouldBe]

You have a very simplistic narrative of male genital anatomy. He is more accurately both bell end and bawbag.

That would explain the end stage syphallis rumours.

 

[gosub]

 

[Bingoman]

US President Joe Biden has said he banning Russian oil imports

 

[steveseagull]

Dropping this one in the unsubstantiated for now...

 

[bimble]

totally UNSUBSTANTIATED:

 

[Yossarian]

totally UNSUBSTANTIATED:

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A decree has been issued, according to Interfax, but right now it seems so vague as to be meaningless, the list of products and materials involved is still undetermined.

The decree introduces certain special economic measures to be in effect until December 31, 2022.

These include "a ban on exports outside of the Russian Federation's territory and (or) imports to the Russian Federation's territory of products and (or) raw materials according to lists determined by the Russian government."

The decree also restricts "exports outside of the Russian Federation's territory and (or) imports to the Russian Federation's territory of products and (or) raw materials according to lists determined by the Russian government."

The decree stipulates that "the measures envisioned by Clause 1 of the decree shall not be applied to products and (or) raw materials exported outside of the Russian Federation's territory and (or) imported to the Russian Federation's territory by citizens of the Russian Federation, foreign citizens, and persons without citizenship for personal use."

The Russian government has been authorized to determine the specifics of employing the measures provided for by Clause 1 of the decree with regard to certain types of products and (or) raw materials, as well as with regard to certain legal entities and (or) individuals.

Putin signs decree banning or restricting exports from Russia, imports to Russia of certain products, raw materials

interfax.com

 

[Ax^]

hmm this could get interesting job related we still have medical imports into Russia atm
so we reasonable value would hate to see patients go without because of political willy waving

 

[sim667]

Had my first interaction with someone I know say footage from Ukraine is actors.

So it begins

 

[WouldBe]

Had my first interaction with someone I know say footage from Ukraine is actors.

So it begins

One of them actually was (Pasha Lee). He did a voice over in the Ukrainian version of the lion king. He was killed in shelling the other day.

 

[two sheds]

As was Zelenskyy to be fair

 

[WouldBe]

As was Zelenskyy to be fair

Fortunately he's still with us.

 

[Dogsauce]

Fortunately he's still with us.

Would it be wrong to put him in a death pool selection? I’ve not made my predictions for this year yet.

 

[steveseagull]

Brown bread

 

[Aladdin]

Unsubstantiated

My 82 yr old dad.

Dad: "Putin will be gone by Paddy's Day. ...they're going to take him out."

Me: "Who is?"

Dad: "The Kremlin....."

Me: ""

Dad: "trust me...he's a dead man walking"

Me:

Dad: "I have my sources"

Me:

 

[bimble]

Had my first interaction with someone I know say footage from Ukraine is actors.

So it begins

yes. this is coming, its not going to stay the preserve of far away and occasional QAnon type people.
A woman responded to me the other day (when i said i'd been spending too much time reading the news) by asking 'Do you support Ukraine' as if it was a football match, and i had this feeling of an ill wind blowing in, like the vaccine stuff but worse.

 

[zahir]

This could present an interesting new option for migrants and refugees from other conflicts who want to head for Europe.

 

[NoXion]

Would it be wrong to put him in a death pool selection? I’ve not made my predictions for this year yet.

Would you sell life insurance to a man on a mountain top in a thunder storm?

 

[zahir]

From anonymous sources but it may well be accurate.

Blindsided Russia’s top officials were caught off guard by Putin’s war in Ukraine. Many of them want to resign — but can’t. — Meduza

Two weeks have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian troops continue to shell Ukrainian cities as they try to make their way deeper into the country, but Ukrainian defense forces have successfully held them off. Meanwhile, the West (and some non-Western countries) continues to impose new...

meduza.io

According to Meduza’s sources, about a quarter of Russia’s top personnel considered resigning after the war in Ukraine began. Most were “proactive professionals familiar with best practices in the business and management sectors,” said the source, a person close to the Russian government.

Since the war started, however, there have been exactly zero high-profile resignations. Meduza’s source explained it this way: “Resigning right now would be seen as trying to escape. And for that, they’ll shoot you.”

 

[zahir]

A new nuclear deal with Iran in the offing. I wonder if this will be linked to opening up oil exports from Iran.

 

[moochedit]

We had this yet?

BBC News - War in Ukraine: UK soldier AWOL amid fears he is heading to Ukraine

War in Ukraine: UK soldier AWOL amid fears he is heading to Ukraine

The 19-year-old left his Windsor barracks at the weekend, an Army source confirms to the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WouldBe]

We had this yet?

BBC News - War in Ukraine: UK soldier AWOL amid fears he is heading to Ukraine

War in Ukraine: UK soldier AWOL amid fears he is heading to Ukraine

The 19-year-old left his Windsor barracks at the weekend, an Army source confirms to the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

Saw it on AOL this morning. 4 soldiers are AWOL. Didn't say if they were all from the same barracks though.

 

[strung out]

Bit presumptuous.

 

[spitfire]

HUGELY unsubstantiated.

Also CW: description of war crime. Not nice.

 

[two sheds]

it's fairly trivial these days to do packet/protocol inspection in real-time and just throw away anything that looks like an encrypted protocol that you can't read. Many of the "currently working" VPNs can either be broken or coerced in to using compromised encryption that the gatekeepers such as the state can intercept (if they haven't already done so). Wikipedia article here with some of the Russia-specific developments.

which explains why my thought (that VPNs have a limited number of ip addresses) is bollocks

 

[8ball]

Unsubstantiated rumour :

This guy had a face like absolute thunder in one of the press things with the big table where Putin was banging on, so it seems both plausible in terms of truth and plausible in terms of someone noticing it and using it for psy-ops.

 

[NoXion]

This guy had a face like absolute thunder in one of the press things with the big table where Putin was banging on, so it seems both plausible in terms of truth and plausible in terms of someone noticing it and using it for psy-ops.

Given the above photo, I'd say that it's possible that Mr Shoygu just has an unfortunate case of resting bitch face.

 

[8ball]

Given the above photo, I'd say that it's possible that Mr Shoygu just has an unfortunate case of resting bitch face.

He's a moderately stern sort, but the look when Putin mentioned nukes was a picture.