Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 8

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Cius said:
Would love to see a MYBB Poll on what people think will happen when the mud dries and the counteroffensive begins. Options could be:

Russia major advance
Russia moderate gains
Stalemate
Ukrainian moderate advances
Ukrainian major advances

Personally I think May will see big Ukrainian success.
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Definitely a major advance for Ukraine. They wouldn't start a counter-offensive if they weren't sure they could gain significant ground. I've heard about the supposed goal of isolating Crimea from quite a few sources, so that might be something to look out for...
 
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Decision on fighter jets expected ‘before the summer’: Denmark​

Denmark’s defence minister said he expects a decision on whether to donate fighter jets to Ukraine “before the summer”, as deliveries of Polish and Slovak MiG-29s have begun.
Discussions are taking time because countries have to act together, acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said during a visit to Ukraine.
“Denmark will not do it alone,” Poulsen said, adding that a decision was still achievable “in the near future”.
“We need to do this together with several countries. We will also have a dialogue with the Americans about this,” the minister said.
Slovakia and Poland began deliveries of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in late March and early April.
Despite requests from Kyiv, no modern fighter jets, such as the US-designed F-16 have been pledged, and Washington has so far said it would not send fighter jets.
 
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Because young people are incapable to act on their own in the interest of their future.

Russia accuses Ukraine, West of recruiting youth for ‘sabotage’​

The head of Russia’s FSB security service, Alexander Bortnikov, accused Ukraine and the West of recruiting young Russians to stage armed attacks.
“In the conditions of Russia conducting the special military operation, Ukrainian special forces and their Western curators have launched an aggressive ideological indoctrination and recruitment of our citizens,” Bortnikov told a meeting in Moscow of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
“Especially the younger generation, to involve them in sabotage, terrorist and extremist activities,” he added, according to a statement from the committee.
On April 2, a famous Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a blast in a café in St Petersburg after a woman handed him a bust that later exploded, wounding more than 40 others.
While little is known about the attack, Russia has blamed Ukraine and said it was orchestrated with help from supporters of jailed critic Alexey Navalny.
 
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Corn that can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. i.e. Self-fertilise. The potential to adapt other plants in the same way.

Putin will probably s**t himself when he sees this. Yet another Russian economic blackmail gambit that will fail. And Russia's probably going from ding-dong banana republic to straight up useless in the future. You make your bets... Putin bet on fossil fuels, fertiliser and food. In an era when major advances in alternative energy production and food production efficiency are being made all the time. This has the potential to be on par with the green revolution in agriculture after WW2. Forget rising food prices. This could actually solve world hunger while lowering the ecological impact of farming on water ecosystems drastically.

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Russia produced 15% of the world's fertilizers. They're already able with initial cross breeding programs and proliferation of the special bacteria the corn uses to get test cultivars nearly adequate for large scale production that fixes 40% of their own nitrogen. They predict stable cultivars in 4-5 generations. That's no time.

At 40% self-fertilization (and more is possible, the original cultivar does 80%) the world's top 5 fertilizer producers could stop exporting entirely and it wouldn't dramatically impact the world.

Most of the nitrogen in chemical fertilisers are not even absorbed by crops. That's part of the problem. Using chemical fertilisers you have to provide several times the nitrogen in the fertiliser that the plant needs and most of it ends up in the sea or in the water table.

Scientists can foresee giving all agricultural grains this ability. Maybe even other types of agricultural crops too.
 
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Because young people are incapable to act on their own in the interest of their future.

Russia accuses Ukraine, West of recruiting youth for ‘sabotage’​

The head of Russia’s FSB security service, Alexander Bortnikov, accused Ukraine and the West of recruiting young Russians to stage armed attacks.
“In the conditions of Russia conducting the special military operation, Ukrainian special forces and their Western curators have launched an aggressive ideological indoctrination and recruitment of our citizens,” Bortnikov told a meeting in Moscow of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
“Especially the younger generation, to involve them in sabotage, terrorist and extremist activities,” he added, according to a statement from the committee.
On April 2, a famous Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a blast in a café in St Petersburg after a woman handed him a bust that later exploded, wounding more than 40 others.
While little is known about the attack, Russia has blamed Ukraine and said it was orchestrated with help from supporters of jailed critic Alexey Navalny.
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And there is a problem ?

Russia is of course at war with Ukraine
 
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence explains why Armed Forces do not leave Bakhmut

The city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast took the brunt of the Russian invaders in the East, and leaving the city would mean allowing the Russians deeper into the Ukrainian territory.
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The city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast took the brunt of the Russian invaders in the East, and leaving the city would mean allowing the Russians deeper into the Ukrainian territory.

Source: Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defence, on the air of national television

Quote from Maliar: "It is in Bakhmut where the enemy is concentrating their main efforts, so we have to concentrate [our efforts - ed.] there in response in order to stop them. In fact, Bakhmut has now taken the main blow of the enemy's armed forces and their private armies in the East. "

Details: According to her, if the defenders had not defended Bakhmut, the Russians would have moved deeper into our territory. "Therefore, the importance of the defence of Bakhmut must be understood in this context," said Maliar.

The deputy minister added that the invaders will not stop trying to completely take control of the city. Since the Armed Forces of Ukraine had already destroyed a large number of mercenaries of the Wagner Private Military Company, the Russians began to pull up their airborne and assault units.

At the same time, the Deputy Minister added, the Russian artillery and aviation "turned the city into Syrian Aleppo".
 
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