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Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

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gazc24 said:
Its all good having private jets and yachts but if you can't fly anywhere on dock anywhere its going to hit them hard
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one of the oligarchs had a yacht being repaired in Hamburg and 1 week before war started he had it moved away into Russian waters so they've obviously been tipped off
 
Pantomime Mackem said:
Xi now the power broker in this and he's another nutter. He'll be watching and seeing if it's an oportunity to smash the West once and for all via a Russia-China alliance, even if that means nuclear war, or if the time's not yet come for that.
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He will be, but given the reality of the Russian army he might think twice about it now. I think the only saving grace is China seems to love money more than war, unlike Putin.
 
Horatio Pugwash said:
Seize them, sell them and give the money to the Ukranian people.
Or put Ukranian refugees on them. There's plenty of beds
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Who would you sell them to that wasn’t also involved in some corrupt, warmongering or evil activities? There’s not many squeaky clean multi billionaires who haven’t already got a super yacht of their own.

I suppose we could repurpose one for the “royal” yacht. Slap a git big wass union flag on the side and job’s a good un.
 
Howard the Duck said:
We could do with the pressure being ramped up on the government on this - we know they'll cave and do a u-turn if that happens (they've form for it) but it needs to be as soon as possible.

Mind, I haven't seen any of the rounds of minister interviews this morning so maybe some pressure is already being applied?
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I am all for helping us much as we can but how do you propose to ensure those allowed in are actually Ukrainian? and not Russians that Putin has sent over to destabalise European countries.

We need to help but Putin is getting desperate and we need to be very careful here. Do you not remember a certain incident in Salisbury?
 
Hair Flick said:
Who would you sell them to that wasn’t also involved in some corrupt, warmongering or evil activities? There’s not many squeaky clean multi billionaires who haven’t already got a super yacht of their own.

I suppose we could repurpose one for the “royal” yacht. Slap a git big wass union flag on the side and job’s a good un.
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I'm sure they would find a buyer. Just keep dropping the price until someone buys it. A £25m (pure guesswork) super yacht for £10m.

£10m goes to the ukranian refugees

everyone's a winner
 
HellsBells said:
The fact that that’s even a thought right now is utterly disgusting. I hope they sort it soon mate to give her some piece of mind.

I’ve just googled how I can host a Ukrainian family but there’s fuck all info. It’s all about Ukrainians here bringing their family over.
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I've been wondering the same. This on the BBC if you haven't seen it, not exactly what you're after but for anyone wondering what they can do to help it might inspire:

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Northern_chappy said:
I am all for helping us much as we can but how do you propose to ensure those allowed in are actually Ukrainian? and not Russians that Putin has sent over to destabalise European countries.

We need to help but Putin is getting desperate and we need to be very careful here. Do you not remember a certain incident in Salisbury?
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Aye, those dudes just waltzed in under the guise of being on holiday FFS
 
Horatio Pugwash said:
I've just had a quick look at the super yachts moored in Monaco right now.

I'll believe the EU (and the UK) are turning the screw on the Oligarchs when they start seizing vessels like the Quantum Blue which is sitting in Monaco at the moment and owned by Russian Oligarch Sergey Galitsky
And Avanguard ii owned by Cyril Minovalov CEO of the russian Avangard bank

Until then it's just talk
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so, you think the EU or UK should seize vessels docked in non-EU harbours

;-)
 
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