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AwesomeLithuanians raise €5m in 3 days to buy Ukraine a Turkish drone , there's only 2.8 million of them
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I wonder what total would be raised if someone was raising money for a bounty on Putins head.
AwesomeLithuanians raise €5m in 3 days to buy Ukraine a Turkish drone , there's only 2.8 million of them
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I believe the FO’s (Forward observers) who have been directing artillery etc are very “specialist” in their role.Oh I see , they go back into the woods and show the ukranians the instructional video![]()
Isn't that what Harry Wales did on his first tour of Afghanistan?I believe the FO’s (Forward observers) who have been directing artillery etc are very “specialist” in their role.
Yep. Apparently he did it in exemplary fashion.Isn't that what Harry Wales did on his first tour of Afghanistan?
Interesting developments involving Lithuania and Kaliningrad. Or Konigsburg,
if you're a Prussian member of the House of Windsor. Possibly another 'special military operation'
in the works.
There seems to be an EU embargo which involves concrete. (and other goods obviously)
Stuff which normally goes back and forth between one part of Russia and another, through Lithuania.
Which for the kids at the back. Is an EU and NATO member.
So, the Russians are getting upset and are threatening the use of military force.
The BBC in Kaliningrad managed to interview a lone fisherman and 'a concrete businessman'
from central casting for 90's Italian mob characters. Enlightening it was not.
Ukraine became a tragedy from inception. Kaliningrad is shaping up to be a farce.
Kaliningrad is quite different to Ukraine. Its Russia and I’d have thought any blockade by the EU on goods transiting through Lithuania is in violation of some sort of treaty. Putin wouldn’t even need a flimsy excuse he’d have a real justification.
Surely that's the wrong way round? EU sanctions against Russia are preventing movement of goods from / to the EU (Lithuania) from / to Russia (Kaliningrad)
But I'm probably very wrong
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Kaliningrad is Russia’s only year round port on that coast, I believe it remained as part of Russia after the collapse of the USSR for that reason. So Russia ships good into Kaliningrad by boat then moves them to “mainland” Russia by truck which necessitates travelling through Lithuania. In effect TIR.
It wouldn’t actually be TIR as nothing is being exported/imported but there must be a similar treaty in place so you don’t have to go through carnet and a bond for every truck load of concrete.I guess it depends on where the good that are being shipped to Russian originate and what the original arrangement was
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