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Snoozyalooz_4 days ago
+51
https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3mjzpwmygc22w
A 2 minute clip of Ukrainian drones flying against the efforts of Russian AD in the Rostov region
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neonpurplestar4 days ago
+57
Being slightly spammy, but this article paints a very grim picture for russia:
>"The industry is sinking deeper into crisis." One of Russia's largest steel companies reported a 370-fold drop in profits.
[https://archive.is/wn40N](https://archive.is/wn40N)
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hornswoggled1113 days ago
+25
It's hard to imagine a key component of a war industry not thriving. It make me happy 😁.
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Guyfawkes19943 days ago
+21
Not “just” not thriving:
>The company's revenue, which owns the Cherepovets Metallurgical Combine, three GOKs, as well as pipe and machine-building plants, decreased by 18%, profit before taxes and depreciation (EBITDA) - by 54%, and in terms of cash flows, Severstal went into a deep minus: revenues to accounts were less than the outflow by 40.37 billion rubles.
>To cover the cash gap that has arisen, the company spent almost all the money on its accounts: out of 38.4 billion rubles at the beginning of the year, 4.9 billion remained at the end of March. Compared to the beginning of 2025 (128.5 billion rubles), Severstal's monetary cushion has flated by 96%.
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Shockkdiamondss3 days ago
+4
It's gonna be Putin, bankers and a lot of hungry Russian people.
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TurbulentRadish81133 days ago
+13
This is a really exciting extract. Thanks for finding it.
Accounting is weird so numbers like profit can be really deceptive. I'm pretty sure that cash on hand is a really useful extra bit of context.
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Guyfawkes19943 days ago
+3
Thanks, I just went onto the article and Safari translated it.
Yeah, blowing through 33.5 billion rubles in 3 months with another 9 months left to really doesn’t paint them in a good light ahaha.
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hoishinsauce3 days ago
+6
Yeah, profits could be in the books only. Like if they sold to the government and it looks profitable but the government never paid them.
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Guyfawkes19943 days ago
+3
Yep, that’s almost certainly what’s happened. From further down the thread, there’s something like 2.9 trillion rubles of unpaid debts in the Russian manufacturing sector, with government owned entities owing a lot of it. But now the Russian government has to choose between letting Severstal fail (possibly to be bought on the c**** by someone connected to the government) or lend huge sums of money to it, which increases the pressure on Russian government finances.
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hornswoggled1113 days ago
+11
Wonderful. I've a very limited understanding of Russian economics but the scale sounds big and the failure, tangible. Love it!
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Guyfawkes19943 days ago
+17
And this one company is one sixth of the entire Russian steel industry and the single largest company in that sector. For it to have effectively run out of cash by the end of March is really not a good sign.
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hornswoggled1113 days ago
+8
Music to my ears.
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kaukamieli3 days ago
+4
IP could not be found when I click it
Are they not buying, or just not paying?
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KSaburof3 days ago
+2
More like both already ))
"According to IFRS financial reporting published on Tuesday, Severstal's net profit in the first quarter dropped 370-fold, amounting to only 57 million rubles compared to 21.07 billion for the same period a year earlier.
The revenue of the company, which owns the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, three mining and processing plants, as well as pipe and machine-building plants, decreased by 18%, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) fell by 54%, and in terms of cash flows, Severstal went deep into the red: inflows to accounts were 40.37 billion rubles less than outflows.
To cover the resulting cash gap, the company spent almost all the money in its accounts: out of 38.4 billion rubles at the beginning of the year, only 4.9 billion remained by the end of March. Compared to the beginning of 2025 (128.5 billion rubles), Severstal's cash cushion has shrunk by 96%."
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MuryGoatsBaldPatch3 days ago
+28
For those who are not aware if Severstal isn't making a profit from steel in Russia no one is. Severstal has the lowest production costs out of all steelmakers on the Russian market. Here's a bit from an interview in 2025:
[https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjz6xumx3n2j](https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjz6xumx3n2j)
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neonpurplestar4 days ago
+64
>Russia's Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery has halted operations after drone attack, sources say
[https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-novokuibyshevsk-oil-refinery-has-halted-operations-after-drone-attack-2026-04-21/](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-novokuibyshevsk-oil-refinery-has-halted-operations-after-drone-attack-2026-04-21/)
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neonpurplestar4 days ago
+71
1/ Russia is entering a full-scale debt crisis, according to newly published official figures. Non-payments have reached an all-time high equivalent to nearly 4% of GDP or a fifth of the entire federal budget. It's a fresh sign of a deepening economic crisis worsened by war.
2/ Russian media is reporting today that data from Rosstat, the official statistics agency, says that as of the end of January 2026 unpaid business debt has reached a record 8.2 trillion rubles ($109.3 billion). Non-payments have nearly tripled since 2022.
3/ This is equivalent to about 20% of the annual federal budget, 150% of Moscow's budget, and 1500% of the budget of large and wealthy regions such as the Sverdlovsk Region and the Krasnodar Krai.
4/ Manufacturing and trade are suffering the worst. A third of the entire debt, 2.9 trillion rubles ($38 billion) is concentrated in manufacturing.
5/ In this one sector, debt has increased by a trillion rubles ($13.3 billion) in 2025 alone, while debt grew by 1.4 trillion ($18.6 million) in all other sectors combined during 2025.
6/ Trade accounts for another 1.9 trillion rubles of debt ($25.5 billion). The petroleum sector is suffering particularly badly, with a debt of 1.6 trillion rubles ($21.3 billion). Hydrocarbon processing sites have been particularly badly affected by Ukrainian drone strikes.
7/ Large state-owned companies are reported to be the worst offenders for non-payments. The crisis is attributed to a company of a decline in GDP, falling demand, and tax increases.
8/ Russian businesses have complained vociferously about the government's decision to raise VAT to 22% on 1 January 2026, revise insurance premiums, and reduce the VAT payment threshold for businesses operating under the simplified tax system (STS).
9/ These measures are attributed by independent commentators to the government's increasingly urgent need to fund the war in Ukraine. As of 2025, the war was estimated to be costing $2.7 billion per week, or nearly $200 billion for the entire year – around 7.3% of GDP. /end
[https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjz5kuhrkl2m](https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjz5kuhrkl2m)
[https://skywriter.blue/@chriso-wiki.bsky.social/3mjz5kuhrkl2m](https://skywriter.blue/@chriso-wiki.bsky.social/3mjz5kuhrkl2m)
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Kageru3 days ago
+24
The Russian people turning on the war, demanding the bleeding of manpower, national wealth, living conditions and the reduction in the their future prospects ends, would be an ideal end to this war. Potentially beneficial to both sides of the border, and this will help.
... though I must admit I had assumed a reasonable society would have turned on this disaster earlier, a poor assumption on my part about the state of Russia.
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neonpurplestar4 days ago
+58
>The latest video coming from the refinery in Tuapse, Krasnodar region, in Russia shows that basically the entire facility is burning. I’m saying that this facility is a total loss.
[https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3mjytiwbhc22w](https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3mjytiwbhc22w)
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Canop4 days ago
+27
> I’m saying that this facility is a total loss
Most tanks seem to be burning, that's a severe loss, but it doesn't mean that the processing units are seriously damaged. Refinery tanks are *designed* to prevent fires from propagating to the most precious parts.
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AwesomeFama4 days ago
+11
Oh wow, that's pretty impressive looking.
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neonpurplestar4 days ago
+52
>The net profit of Russian steel maker Severstal for Q1 2026 dropped by 99,73% to 57 million rubles from 21,072 billion rubles in q1 2025. Revenue dropped 19% to 145,31 billion rubles and the EBITDA by 54% 17,94 billion rubles.
[https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjyqlo5bcn2j](https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjyqlo5bcn2j)
>For those who are not aware if Severstal isn't making a profit from steel in Russia no one is. Severstal has the lowest production costs out of all steelmakers on the Russian market. Here's a bit from an interview in 2025:
[https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjz6xumx3n2j](https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjz6xumx3n2j)
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CyberdyneGPT54 days ago
+21
Do there really need to make more steel? Their supply of recyclable steel from tanks, AFVs, artillery, air defense systems, blown up buildings, burning oil tanks, and stuff must be enormous by now.
How are the recycling businesses doing? 😏
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Oprah_Pwnfrey4 days ago
+16
Difficult to move that much steel back to Russia. Hopefully Ukraine is able to recycle it and put it to use instead.
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Nurnmurmer4 days ago
+58
**The estimated total russian war losses from 24.02.22 to 21.04.26 inclusive are as follows****:**
* personnel - approximately 1 320 310 (+1 040);
* tanks ‒ 11 884;
* armored fighting vehicles ‒ 24 429 (+7);
* special equipment ‒ 4 132;
* vehicles and fuel tanks ‒ 90 763 (+192).
* artillery systems ‒ 40 478 (+82);
* MLRS ‒ 1 749 (+1);
* air defense assets ‒ 1 350.
* aircraft ‒ 435;
* helicopters ‒ 350;
* UAVs (operational-tactical level) ‒ 250 463 (+1 905);
* cruise missiles ‒ 4 549.
* warships and boats ‒ 33;
* submarines ‒ 2.
Source [https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/total-russian-combat-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-april-21-2026](https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/total-russian-combat-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-april-21-2026)
Russia grows weaker every day. Slava Ukraini!
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+41
> Ukraine has unveiled the Skif tracked APC prototype, a 15 ton vehicle designed for 11 personnel. It features STANAG 3 all round protection with level 4 frontal armor. The platform uses imported components at early stage and is now entering testing as localization efforts continue.
I read ages ago how Ukrainian soldiers wanted more M113s but especially Bradleys. They said they saved lives in rotations and cleanup counterattacks, but that was when they mostly dealt with small FPV drones.
I wonder if there are now more drones having bigger warheads (e.g. Molniya) that have changed the value of APC/IFVs.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4aqzua5vsewimmusg66fyajl/post/3mjynvtp6sc2t
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Electrical-Lab-95933 days ago
+4
i think probably the the difference is hit by the larger drone in a Civilian transport you are very likely to die, vs hitting an APC you might die, its not like either can outrun a drone, so in that case, you probably want the extra Armor
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TurbulentRadish81133 days ago
+1
I listened to a guy talking about his deployment to Kursk, and he said the advantage of a pickup can be that it's harder to spot. If that's still true then I could see how the best vehicle might not always be obvious.
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Own_Pop_97113 days ago
+4
I would guess an important part is also that counter attacking is better handled by Ukrainian drones than it was two years ago. You don't need quick moving troops to mop up anymore, at least sometimes.
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TurbulentRadish81133 days ago
+4
I'm still skeptical of how widespread "all drone" work will be. We've seen some great examples, let's see a lot more!
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neonpurplestar4 days ago
+60
The headlines from "The Moscow Times" are not messing around today:
>Rosstat has recorded a record-breaking non-payment crisis in the Russian economy, amounting to 8.2 trillion rubles.
[https://archive.is/tyLzq](https://archive.is/tyLzq)
>Russians withdrew a record amount of cash from banks following government decisions to tighten controls on transfers.
[https://archive.is/1gqs4](https://archive.is/1gqs4)
>Most russian companies have frozen hiring until the end of the year.
[https://archive.is/eNf8Z](https://archive.is/eNf8Z)
>Russia is cutting oil production to a six-year low due to drone strikes on ports and refineries.
[https://archive.is/zlLiv](https://archive.is/zlLiv)
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+48
> The net profit of Russian steel maker Severstal for Q1 2026 dropped by 99,73% to 57 million rubles from 21,072 billion rubles in q1 2025. Revenue dropped 19% to 145,31 billion rubles and the EBITDA by 54% 17,94 billion rubles.
Russia's largest steelmaker by market cap in 2025, but Novolipetsk might produce more tonnage. Looks like those two are over half of steel market cap combined.
Wiki says it had 50k employees and 713bn rub revenue in 2025. So it's a big company.
https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjyqlo5bcn2j
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+37
Severstal corporate talking about steel in Russia. Domestic demand is down.
> The gap between production capacity and real demand in
the domestic market has not gone away
Exports?
> **some companies are under sanctions**, the nearest export regions are closed to them, and distant ones, taking into account the cost of logistics, restrictions and the strong ruble, [exports] are simply economically unprofitable.
How bad is it?
> ...without significant changes, we can expect a reduction in steel production in Russia of 10 to 15%.
Are other companies doing better?
> We export about 10-15% of total production. The margin is about zero. We have the lowest cost on the Russian market. We understand that the situation for other metallurgists is even worse. Some are no longer withdrawing capacity from major repairs on time - let’s call this a "creeping suspension of capacity.".
https://bsky.app/profile/delfoo.bsky.social/post/3mjz6xumx3n2j
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+40
> “Minus the occupiers' air defense: summary 01.04 – 21.04. In 21 days, 27 targets were systematically "minus-ed": 🟢 11 radars and detection systems 🔴 16 SAM systems and launchers
> There are more targets, but they have not been added to the map because it was not possible to geolocate…”
Nice map of where they could locate videos showing drone attacks on apparent Russian air defence. I think these are attacks, not confirmed destructions.
https://bsky.app/profile/the-hedgehog.bsky.social/post/3mjz4aqjrfk2r
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Electrical-Lab-95933 days ago
+5
no air defence system can keep up with that level of destruction .
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TurbulentRadish81133 days ago
+1
I hope it's destruction. There are a ton of decoys and lots of the videos cut out before impact so I have no idea what the real destruction rate is.
Ukraine has definitely improved the rate of drone attacks though. Very impressive imo.
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+37
> [Moscow Times] Russian oil companies are forced to cut oil production due to drone attacks on oil ports and refineries, as well as after the cessation of supplies via the pipeline «Druzhba», Reuters reports, citing five industry sources.
> According to their estimates, in April oil production in the Russian Federation will fall by 300-400 thousand barrels per day compared to March, which will be the largest one-time reduction since the pandemic crisis, when the global oil market was faced with a collapse in demand. Compared to the end of last year, the decline in production will be 500 thousand barrels per day.
https://bsky.app/profile/rebel44cz.bsky.social/post/3mjz4r66cae2h
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KSaburof4 days ago
+15
\> oil companies are forced to cut oil production
It's finally happening 👌
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+39
> 1\ Russia is entering a full-scale debt crisis, according to newly published official figures. Non-payments have reached an all-time high equivalent to nearly 4% of GDP or a fifth of the entire federal budget. It's a fresh sign of a deepening economic crisis worsened by war
I posted Kommersant source on this yesterday. The translation made me think this is only unpaid contracts, purchases etc among businesses rather than other debt.
Post 2 has a nice graph;it was ~3tr rub when the invasion started and then keeps going up. Now it's 8 trillion roubles.
https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjz5l2e7td2m
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CyberdyneGPT54 days ago
+70
>Ukrainian forces struck the Rosneft-operated Tuapse oil refinery for the second time in four days overnight on April 19 to 20, killing one person and igniting a fire at the tank farm, Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed....
>**The second strike came hours after Russian crews extinguished the April 16 blaze**, which burned for three days and required more than 150 firefighters and nearly 50 pieces of equipment to contain.
>The two attacks targeted the hub Russia had recently activated as a backup. Reuters reported on April 13 that Rosneft had diverted crude oil from Novorossiysk to Tuapse after Ukrainian drones damaged the Sheskharis terminal there, disabling two berths and forcing a halt to exports.
[https://www.sofx.com/ukraine-hits-russias-black-sea-oil-fallback-twice-after-novorossiysk-drone-strike-forces-diversion/](https://www.sofx.com/ukraine-hits-russias-black-sea-oil-fallback-twice-after-novorossiysk-drone-strike-forces-diversion/)
Ukraine seems to be determined to stop the flow of oil from Black Sea ports, and Russia seems unable to do anything to stop them. Ukraine is hitting the pipelines to the Black Sea and the ports almost daily now.
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isthatmyex4 days ago
+42
I stand by my nomenclature complaint. We need to start calling this a strategic air campaign and not drone strikes. Ukraine is using a diverse array of domestically produced cost effective cruise missiles that are causing deviating damage to a wide range of military and infrastructure targets across Russia. And they increasingly appear to be able to hit targets with bigger and bigger waves with more and more impunity. Sneaking a single drone or two to a piece of critical infrastructure is one thing. But precision carpet bombing of critical infrastructure all across Russia, getting damage assessment and then carpet bombing it again, then moving down the list a few days later isn't "drone strikes", even if some do sound like lawnmowers. This is a strategic air campaign and a historically effective one at that, and I am willing to let a the Russians die on this hill.
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hornswoggled1114 days ago
+14
Looks like a valid complaint.
I used to complain when people called this situation a war. I encouraged the use of the word invasion more given that was more accurate and had transparent moral implications.
But then I see this strategic air campaign by Ukraine and feel I can let go of my complaint. It's still a clear moral situation.
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Well-Sourced4 days ago
+47
[24Hours Ukraine | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/24hoursukraine.bsky.social/post/3mjyrfpalwc2w)
> 🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Today, Ukraine has 200 very strong defense companies, 30 of which rank among the world’s top. These include drones, artillery, armored vehicles, highly advanced demining drones, and ground robotic systems.
[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3mjyo5n5cjs2o)
> In 🇺🇦Ukraine, a mobile fire support platform called Spider has been developed on a tracked chassis.
> The vehicle is designed to engage armored vehicles, fortifications, enemy manpower, and low-speed aerial targets.
> The Spider is equipped with machine guns such as the Browning M2 and PKT, as well as automatic grenade launchers AGS-17 and Mk19.
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Illuminated124 days ago
+19
Close to 2 years left. Keep fighting Ukraine. 2 years until Democrats retake the White House and flood you with aid. You still have support from millions of Americans!
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IllyaMiyuKuro4 days ago
+12
Democrats didn't flood Ukraine with aid back then when they had their chance, there's no reason to believe they want to do it at all.
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Playful_Alela3 days ago
+1
It's not guaranteed that they will, but imo it's likely. The Dems realize that Trump has permanently hurt US relations with key partners in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc. that they need to rebuild. Repairing relations with Ukraine will also be a priority
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GetInTheKitchen14 days ago
+13
??? Literally take the midterms this november and take the House+Senate, then release the epstein files.
Trump will have to run away from maga diehards that use pedophilia as a license to kill.
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Kageru3 days ago
+3
They have a very flexible sense of justice and ethics given 30% still support him and it is already extremely obvious he is clearly in those files, corrupt, favours Russia and entirely unfit to hold high office.
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+10
I agree that *if* nothing surprising happens, then democrats pass aid, Putin will be forced to make changes - most likely negotiate.
But 2 years is a long time while people die, the republicans are manouevring to ensure they cannot be removed by voters, and even if democrats could win and are allowed to win, voters have already made it clear they barely care about Ukraine at best.
Voters rewarded the party that cut aid, made more Ukrainians die and prevented peace. Democrats are trying to save US democracy and are going to be handed the republican-inflicted fiscal catastrophe and possibly other things. They might not want to take the political risks to save Ukraine.
IMO it's on Europe and other allies. We need aid increasing now.
If Democrats pull through and flood aid/do a Marshall Plan, that could save Ukraine long-term. Let's hope, but I don't think Americans can promise anything and be trusted since the moment they elected republicans in 2022.
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anachronistic_circus4 days ago
-3
Uhuh and that’ll be aid with no strings attached with permissions to hit everything’s in Russia ?
Or just like before? Here’s something, don’t do that, can’t have that, can’t do that?
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GetInTheKitchen14 days ago
+7
Yes because biden's strategy kept the war contained.
All the drone successes and ukraine's air campaign was started during the Biden admin. You don't magically get successful drone strikes in 2 years, you get them in 4.
Also, republicans cut aid under biden and got 10000+ Ukrainians killed, and trump started the iran war and cut russian sanctions on oil.
If it wasn't for Biden era drone research Ukraine would be FUCKED by russian oil export money.
Do your damn research and use the brain God gave you, not regurgitate Biden era conservative memes.
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anachronistic_circus4 days ago
+3
Bidens strategy of “let’s just bleed russia a bit” got the Ukrainians tintje situation they are right now
So yes, use your brain instead of regurgitating status quo
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+3
I'd be interested in hearing more about your mental model as to what it would actually look like if Ukraine had received continuing aid funding levels, and exactly what it would have
It seems like you're assuming that if the Republicans hadn't blocked $120bn more aid funding, the US would also have drastically cut the proportion of it that bought stuff that got delivered?
Which weapons and changing restrictions do you think would change the war? How, precisely?
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anachronistic_circus4 days ago
+2
> It seems like you're assuming that if the Republicans hadn't blocked $120bn more aid funding, the US would also have drastically cut the proportion of it that bought stuff that got delivered
No I did not say that. These are random conclusions which you are making
Just like your conclusion that IF republicans did not block new allocation THEN definitely Ukrainians would get drastically more aid
But there’s nothing to support that based by the “cautious” “lets send things in small amounts, with restrictions and way late” approach that the Biden admin undertook
The funds were never in danger of running out and Biden had absolute authority to allocate more
> Which weapons and changing restrictions do you think would change the war? How, precisely?
Air defenses and long range missiles, And the permission to hit Russian territory immediately after the invasion
If refineries started burning in early 2022 and Ukrainians could actually strike back at Russian energy infrastructure back in late 2022 when Russians started systematically destroying the Ukrainian grid, the Russian leadership might have thought differently about a long war
Instead it’s “your neighbor is attacking you, you can punch back, but with one hand behind the back, oh and also dont cross the street to fight back, even if your neighbor is trying to set the house on fire”
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+2
> No I did not say that. These are random conclusions which you are making Just like your conclusion that IF republicans did not block new allocation THEN definitely Ukrainians would get drastically more aid
Yes I am concluding that more allocations would mean more aid. My baseline assumption is that the fraction of the passed budget that gets delivered would be similar to what already happened = lots more aid delivered over time.
You've repeatedly argued that allocations aren't deliveries. Doesn't that mean you are assuming that more budget would have been not spent, or spent in a very different way?
I cannot comprehend how you can argue "yes more money would be allocated and yes it would be spent and transferred similarly to before, but $120bn wouldn't meaningfully change deliveries". That's logically nonsense, so I must be misunderstanding your assumptions somewhere.
> The funds were never in danger of running out and Biden had absolute authority to allocate more
Are you sure? Are you talking PDA, USAI, or other components?
How much was left and how much more would have been available with more annual allocations similar to the 2023/24 request?
> Air defenses and long range missiles, And the permission to hit Russian territory immediately after the invasion If refineries started burning in early 2022 and Ukrainians could actually strike back at Russian energy infrastructure back in late 2022 when Russians started systematically destroying the Ukrainian grid, the Russian leadership might have thought differently about a long war
I agree. Which weapons, how many and which targets would have been destroyed?
If you were starting now, same question.
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anachronistic_circus3 days ago
+2
> Yes I am concluding that more allocations would mean more aid
We will start with this, because under your assumptions / conclusions "more allocated aid" == "more deliveries to Ukraine" but there's no evidence that that would actually happen, just your assumptions. (and a belief in "nice democrats" / "traitors republicans" I guess...)
Now I wish that was the reality, but again, the plan laid out by the Biden admin was "let's see if we can make Russia bleed a bit - BUT WAIT, not too much!"
Yes the republicans fucked over the Ukrainians, but the whole process was started way before that....
For starters search for *"Biden was furious about Moskva"*
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TurbulentRadish81132 days ago
+1
Ok so your assumption is that 0% of additionally allocated money would have resulted in deliveries?
That's *is* what you're asserting above.
Because if it's above 0% then yes, more allocated aid == more deliveries.
Why do you think they would have gone from delivering tens of billions of dollars worth from previous packages into delivering zero?
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anachronistic_circus1 day ago
+1
> Ok so your assumption is that 0% of additionally allocated money would have resulted in deliveries
Again … you’re stuck in your infinite loop of “good democrats were allocating and delivering as much as they could, Ukriane was doing great, bad republicans started to interfere and allied themselves with Russia”
While the reality: Bidens admin could have asked for more and delivered more literally at any point (except that deadlock over immigration/border policies… but even then Biden had ultimate authority)
There was bipartisan support in congress, in fact some of the so called “Russia hawks” both on Democrat and Republican side criticized the admin for indecisions and appeasement
If they wanted to deliver more l, they could have, if they wanted to allocate more, they could have
But that was not the strategy, rhe strategy was caution, it backfired and Ukrainians have being paying with their own lives for ir
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skyshark824 days ago
+10
There's a real chance Democrats retake the house. They would at least control the purse strings, and impeachment/removal from office is possible. Trump may very well do something crazy enough to convince a few Republicans to support removal.
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phluidity4 days ago
+6
There is a zero percent chance of actual removal from office. That would take 2/3rds of the Senate, and the Republicans have shown they are tied to Trump to the end. If the felonies, pedophilia, and extrajudicial wars haven't changed their minds, there is nothing he could do to lose their support now.
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skyshark823 days ago
+1
You are very probably right, but nobody can predict what this guy will do next. He could very well deploy a nuclear weapon against Greenland, order cruise missile strikes within the US, who knows? If we relayed some of the things that have already happened in the recent years to our past selves, they would have been called absurd.
Even Republicans must at some point realize two things: 1) This guy won't live forever. 2) They're much better off when they're in the minority, crying about Communism instead of actually having to run a government.
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SnooMuffins40154 days ago
+29
I don't think the situation will be so clear two years from now? The US has disaligned itself from Europe so strongly. I'd rather see stability brought to the region by a united Europe and a Fortress Ukraine.
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TigerLemonade4 days ago
+25
This is what Americans fail to understand. They think Donald Trump is just a bad dream and once he is gone things can go back to normal.
When it comes to the international community there is no going back. The world is moving on.
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Playful_Alela3 days ago
+1
The Democrats know that people are thinking this way tho which is why they will try very hard to restore relations imo. I think it's also very unlikely that the world will completely move on from the US after Trump. Trump has permanently damaged US relations with the world, but leaders in the rest of the world know that there's problems with just isolating the US and with pivoting to countries like China or India
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Wonberger4 days ago
+14
I hate to say it as an American myself, but Europe needs to be independent. Trump may be gone in 2028 but the morons who elected him will still be here, and unfortunately we may always be just one election away from madness.
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jimmy0110873 days ago
+5
Plenty of morons our side of the Atlantic to be fair… by 2028, we might need you back!
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Illuminated124 days ago
+16
I agree with what you said. Europe needs to start thinking about themselves. There is a stark difference between Republicans and Democrats regarding Ukraine though. Democrats in the White House would bring more aid to Ukraine regardless of how Europe is positioned.
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ced_rdrr4 days ago
+19
In the video – Kyrylo Budanov jumps from the gas production platform "Crimea-1" in the Black Sea during a Russian attack.
This was during his visit to one of the "Boyko towers" in August last year.
[https://xcancel.com/tvtoront/status/2046486078807249306](https://xcancel.com/tvtoront/status/2046486078807249306)
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Canop4 days ago
+9
This is a weird video or description. He jumps because of an attack then quietly does the plank ? In longer extracts on tg other persons are seen overlooking, as quiet as he is. I suspect the context isn't the one given in comment.
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ced_rdrr4 days ago
+6
He was there, issued medals and left. There are other photos from the same day. I also saw comments that Russians sent a recon drone there to see what's happening, so it was not like an incoming attack.
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Well-Sourced4 days ago
+40
[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3mjyl4rpsw22j)
> The 🇬🇧British company Windracers, which specializes in logistics drones, has been included in the list of key suppliers in the largest “drone” military aid package from the United Kingdom to 🇺🇦Ukraine.
> The package, with a total value of £752 million, provides for the supply of 120,000 drones.
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Well-Sourced4 days ago
+39
[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3mjybzgt3hc2j)
> 🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the “Pentagon” battalion of the 225th Assault Regiment destroyed 2 🇷🇺Russian field ammunition depots.
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Well-Sourced4 days ago
+34
[NOELREPORTS | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4aqzua5vsewimmusg66fyajl/post/3mjyha5th7k2t)
> A Ukrainian drone strike hit railway infrastructure near Persiyanovsky in Russia’s Rostov region, disrupting train traffic after damage to contact power lines. The site lies near a military unit and logistics facilities. #Russia
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Well-Sourced4 days ago
+29
[WarTranslated (Dmitri) | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mjyoajfvwk2o)
> Nighttime in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, where locals reported a drone attack overnight, with a suspected strike on railway infrastructure. Following the attack, some trains have been delayed due to what local authorities are describing as "unauthorized interference."
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OldRepresentative5784 days ago
+62
> The Russian military blogger "Rybar" has started complaining that Russia is losing all the progress it has made over the past year in the offensive near Zaporizhzhia.
> According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine's superiority in drones and trained operators is playing a major role. Drone strikes on Russian convoys in the Melitopol area have also become more frequent.
Thread and video at https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mjxd5vgt2c2n
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Well-Sourced4 days ago
+42
[Ukrainian filmmaker Ihor Malakhov, missing since 2023, declared killed in action | New Voice of Ukraine](https://english.nv.ua/nation/igor-malakhov-was-killed-in-action-director-had-been-listed-as-missing-in-action-50601250.html)
> Ukrainian film director Ihor Malakhov, who had been considered missing in action, has been declared killed in action, documentary filmmaker Volodymyr Tykhyy reported on Facebook on April 18. Malakhov died on Dec. 29, 2023, during combat near the village of Stepove in the Avdiivka sector. He served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was identified through DNA analysis. He would have turned 60 on April 26.
> The farewell ceremony for Igor Malakhov will take place in Kyiv on April 21. It will begin at 10 a.m. with a minute of silence on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, followed by a tribute at 10:40 a.m. near the Obolonskyi District State Administration.
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Shockkdiamondss4 days ago
+3
[ Removed by Listnook ]
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MrXiluescu4 days ago
+79
As of ISW
>Nilsson reported that intelligence indicates that the Kremlin systematically manipulates data to convince the West that Russia’s economy is effectively withstanding the pressure of sanctions and excessive military spending.[3] Nilsson stated that Russian inflation is likely closer to 15 percent even as the Kremlin claims it to be 5.86 percent. Nilsson said that Russia has understated its budget deficit by $30 billion. ISW has long assessed that the true Russian inflation rate is higher than the Kremlin publicly claims and that the Kremlin has been spreading narratives that exaggerate Russia’s strength to support its demands at the negotiating table.
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helm4 days ago
+30
They're likely balancing the economy on a knife's edge. The public data has to give some information about the state of things so what remains of the market can adjust, and so that people still look at it. Meanwhile, holes are building underneath that they do not want to leak to the public.
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SimonArgead4 days ago
+31
I read yesterday that Russia has also been selling 22 tons of gold from their gold reserves. That is not something you do lightly and if your economy is still strong.
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Jamuro4 days ago
+12
well the central bank needs money for their repo auctions.
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Canop4 days ago
+18
Of course their economy isn't "strong" but don't overread this small sale of gold.
Russia likes to have gold and they bought a lot in recent years. They went from holding roughly 600–700 tons of gold in the early 2000s to over 2,300 tons by 2025 (not counting probable hidden reserves taken from their various allies). If you compare 22 tons to this, it's clear it's something they can afford if it helps optimizing their budget.
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TurbulentRadish81134 days ago
+8
I wondered why they haven't leaned into selling CBR gold.
They've been hitting the NWF instead, and sold most of the gold there. It peaked at 550t.
I think their budget code doesn't let them use CBR gold. Changing the law might risk some loss of confidence so maybe they're waiting on that?
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androshalforc14 days ago
+12
But if they sold roughly 1% to balance the budget this year and we are only a quarter through the year.
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Jay_CD4 days ago
+58
Russia has lost 1,040 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day, bringing its total number of personnel losses to 1,320,310.
**Source:** [Russian losses over past day: 1,040 soldiers killed and wounded | Ukrainska Pravda](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/04/21/8031031/)
**Details:** The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 21 April 2026 are estimated to be as follows \[figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.\]:
* approximately 1,320,310 **(+1,040)** military personnel
* 11,884 (+0) tanks
* 24,429 **(+7)** armoured combat vehicles
* 40,478 **(+82)** artillery systems
* 1,749 **(+1)** multiple-launch rocket systems
* 1,350 (+0) air defence systems
* 435 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft
* 350 (+0) helicopters
* 250,463 **(+1,905)** operational-tactical UAVs
* 4,549 (+0) cruise missiles
* 33 (+0) ships/boats
* 2 (+0) submarines
* 90,763 **(+192)** vehicles and fuel tankers
* 4,132 (+0) special vehicles and other equipment.
The information is being confirmed.
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troglydot4 days ago
+43
>The governor of Samara reports that the LDPS "Samara" oil pipeline, from which oil is pumped, in particular to Novorossiysk, was attacked tonight.
>All relevant services are working at the site of the "accident".
https://t . me/exilenova_plus/19165
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iwantboringtimes4 days ago
+35
Word on the street is that Russia is having monies trouble.
*good*
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Fabian_30004 days ago
+31
F*** Putin & Donnie, Slava Ukraini!
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WorldNewsMods4 days ago
+18
[Previous post can be found here](/r/worldnews/comments/1sqekc1/rworldnews_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/)
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