The Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Part 2)

What a wonderfulp country Russia is nowadays :face_vomiting:

Why is that ‘though’ guy in that film himself not fighting at the front …

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The problem with countries like Russia is that they haven’t evolved in terms of society. Where as the majority of central Europe and the Scandinavian countries have become more liberal/open minded. Eastern Europeans in my opinion still have this false bravado and the inability to laugh at themselves/faults. As a result they play the hard man and every confrontation is an attack on their masculinity.

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Hmm :face_with_monocle:

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Finland has closed the border to Russians and stopped giving them visas, but when the urge to travel across the border for shopping comes, Russian tourists bypass Norway.

Norway has not closed the border, and the crossing at Storskog in Finnmark has thus become a loophole for Russians who get visas here. Once they are in Norway - and thus inside Schengen - they can drive across the unguarded border to Finland and shop, writes Euractiv.

Busloads of people arrive daily with long shopping lists. Coffee, chocolate and cheese are popular goods for Russians on border trade.

When asked by the Finnish broadcaster YLE, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that goods covered by European sanctions - including luxury goods - should not be sold to customers who obviously plan to take them to Russia.

What is actually in the shopping bags is not good to know. Although Finnish customs officers try to control what is taken out of the country, customs officer Kari Hannu believes that it is his Norwegian colleagues who are responsible for what is taken on to Russia.

The border town of Näätämö’s two merchants have taken separate lines. While one refuses to give the Russians the opportunity to recover the VAT, the other prints receipts for exports and leaves it up to the customs officials to approve it or not.

(NTB)

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Do the Ukrainians have weapons that can reach that far or are they suggesting sabotage here?

Simultanious strikes in different sectors on ground based air defence are unlikely to be sabotage.

As to the rest of your question, I do not know and posted it because I found it quite interesting. It could be a test of long range bombs the US is going to deliver (but this is very early for that), or it could be something else. I don’t know. I’ll scout for more info after work. Need to get back to my actual work now :smiley:

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Normal (it’s google translated).

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that’s fucking crazy. by himself with a rifle and a TOS-1 or Javelin, taking on a BMP. nutz.

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It looks like there were a few soldiers in the trench but definitely balls of steel. I respect them so much.

Seen this one?

https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1626530279371177984?t=oyuy7wl8xkKX0ABmi08x8w&s=07&fbclid=IwAR176-6hUkN4CcvNwUp3JtWVJUUM4x_fJliBut_-RjGjI_Zd_MwS0AhqY6M

I thought it might even be the same incident from a very different view, but pretty sure it is a different AT

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