Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

[Pantomime Mackem]

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[chunkyshanhawk53]

Do they have their own/Chinese equivalent?

WeChat/Alipay exist in China. And it’s huge (doesn’t work easily for foreigners)

No idea about Russia

 

[elder]

good thread on russia's on logistics problems

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Russia has already lost the war imho, unfortunately though we still don’t know how it will end

 

[Ambivalent Dave]

To be fair it backs up the Russians comments about Britain effectively declaring war on them through sanctions but nothing about US or EU though

If sanctions are a declaration of war, I wonder what their take is on the deployment of novichok on sovereign territory

 

[Pantomime Mackem]

I can’t see why that metric would ever be used for point scoring. Do what we need to do. Report the progress, no need to compare or brag.

Mogg always comes across to me as quite weak-headed

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

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“Previously described as a Putin critic, he is thought to retain close ties to the Kremlin and is he understood to be in Moscow”

These are the words of the Times on his father @John the Savage . Still ok with this?

 

[John the Savage]

“Previously described as a Putin critic, he is thought to retain close ties to the Kremlin and is he understood to be in Moscow”

These are the words of the Times on his father @John the Savage . Still ok with this?

What’s he done like? Any evidence of wrong doing?

 

[SAFCOldie]

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There's likely some finer detail going on here, any experts put there interpretation on the statement?

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

What’s he done like? Any evidence of wrong doing?

There’s an article linked

 

[box2box]

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johnson has never understood ‘conflict of interest’ let’s hope there is complete transparency of his actions throughout the Ukraine conflict…..

 

[johnhp]

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Going to hurt a lot of ordinary Russians

 

[The]

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Like the Tsar and Rasputin.

 

[wisemensaysteve]

These 2 heading home from Germany, it looks to me that some serious hardware is being sent into Europe

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[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

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Going to hurt a lot of ordinary Russians

Huge news

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Mastercard done the same

 

[MackemBob]

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Classic. Am sure somewhere changed the name of the street of the South African consulate to Nelson Mandela street years ago.

 

[SAFCOldie]

Mastercard done the same

What does this actually mean though, are the just going to shut it all down for the average pleb? If I'm reading the statement correct it said for cards issued in Russia, the characters they are trying to hit won't have their cards issued in Russia?

 

[MackemBob]

He is a big Beatles fan apparently

Can I recommend “Happiness is a Warm Gun”.

 

[Bulwell]

good thread on russia's on logistics problems

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Great thread btw.

On another note for someone like myself who isn't a petrolhead I never thought I'd be so fascinated by tyres and follow the tyre guy on twitter.

I've tried not to be too optimistic so far but the Russians looked fucked and amateurish, there I've said it.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

What does this actually mean though, are the just going to shut it all down for the average pleb? If I'm reading the statement correct it said for cards issued in Russia, the characters they are trying to hit won't have their cards issued in Russia?

Cards issued in Russia won’t work anywhere
Cards issued anywhere won’t work in Russia

I think anyway
With this action, cards issued by Russian banks will no longer be supported by the Mastercard network. And, any Mastercard issued outside of the country will not work at Russian merchants or ATMs.

@SAFCOldie