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On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko said the Ukrainian army had established control over the Sudzha gas hub - a major gas facility involved in the transit of natural gas from Russia to the EU via Ukraine, which has continued despite the war. It is the only point of entry for Russian gas into the EU.
Although this has not been verified by the BBC, Mr Honcharenko’s comment was the first confirmation of an incursion into Russian territory by a Ukrainian official. Kyiv had previously not commented on reports of a cross-border attack.
Fuck russia.
War is horrific in many ways, and in most cases its the innocent who suffer. Lets keep that in mind.
Saying that - Fucking lol. You fucked around, time to find out.
It’s just a military exercise. Don’t worry ruzzians. All is going to be fine.
The acting regional governor, Alexei Smirnov
Come on. That’s a made up name.
The Governor of Texas isn’t “John Hamburger”.
Professional racing driver Dick Trickle would like a word with you
80s SF Giants player Dick Burns would, as well.
What about the Nazi-sponsored English motor-racing legend, Dick Seaman.
Leave Mr hamburger alone!
The governor of Texas is “Chuck U Farley”.
It could be, if we repost the denials enough
Ukraine should create a referendum to annex the entire Kursk region. Russia says it’s legal to do so.
Russia needs to cede that territory in the interests of peace.
RuZZia: [Invades Ukraine]
Ukraine: [UNO reverse card]
I heard they did a vote and the population of Kursk overwhelmingly voted to join Ukraine nod nod
152% of the residents support the annexation so…
This will be interesting. Either Putin goes back on his word and mobilizes more people into his special military operations to bolster the defenses. Or he seems weak for allowing Russia to be invaded.
Good dilemma.
Putin goes back on his word and mobilizes more people into his special military operations to bolster the defenses
This would be easy to spin, it’s no longer a special operation it’s become a war of survival against the Ukrainian Nazis and their gay Jewish NATO allies, the very thing our lord and saviour Putin was trying to prevent with the special operation!
Sure it could be… but still… It would require moscovites to be drafted… and that would make the whole war more real for them. I’d imagine Ukraine would then spend some extra attention to these battalions, to drive the point home.
Finally some excellent development. Time to Make Putin into Poutine.
I wonder how many operatives they’re going to sneak into the country through this raid to do longer term damage via reconnaissance and sabotage. Plenty of opportunity with all this chaos and the ability to bring a large amount of supplies to stash things.
I imagine the distraction is the main goal.
Looking at the map:
- Russia tried to stretch Ukraine with a distraction near Kharkiv
- so now Ukraine is trying to stretch Russia with a distraction yet further north
I don’t know what value that region may have to the war effort if either side but this initial attack seemed well targeted
It’ll be interesting to see Europe’s reactions when they turn off the gas flow, and force Europe to stop being hypocrites
Thats most likely the main reason, but they don’t get many opportunities like this to slip some people in. It seems like it’d be a waste to not leave behind a team or two to go deeper and gain intel/sabotage things.
force Europe to stop being hypocrites
Not sure what you mean? This is a proxy war. The objective is to bleed Russia and end up owning a big chunk of Ukrainian assets (or our banks will). But mess with the gas supply of the EU and support is going to turn hard on Ukraine.
It’s possibly this is going to turn into a long turn problem between the EU and the Ukraine left bitter by the war. Of course, every crisis is a great opportunity to make money! Even a hypocrisis
Weirder than that, it can’t be easily bombed without permanently disabling Russia’s ability to earn revenue. If Ukraine just sits on it they can hold Russia economically hostage indefinitely.
Why would they want to control the gas facility?
It is the only point of entry for Russian gas into the EU.
But that gas goes through Ukraine. They could have stopped it at any time.
Cut off tail of snake and it will eventually grow back. Cut off head of snake and it cannot grow back.
Everybody beheading snakes until the octopus arrives.
Yeah then you just remove the beak
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By blowing it up and causing an ecological disaster in their own country?
There should be cut off valves where they could have done it safely, but this is Russian built, they used positive power coefficients on their nuclear power plants…
You can’t count on common sense safety measures.
There are definitely cut-off valves. Ukraine already considered cutting off the gas but decided not to.
Sabotage all the metering, etc. and let Ukraine and EU receive as much as they can for free.
And then just hold it. If Russia tries to reclaim it, they end up bombing their own pipeline.
If they cut it off they remove the one entry point of gas into the EU crippling the export.
Im sure the EU wouldnt be very happy either but they diversified over the last 2 years away from russian gas.
On the other hand holding it also opens the door for concessions from Russia.
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