Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 8

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Interesting coming from Zakharova

www.pravda.com.ua

Putin lost control over Russia’s information space – ISW

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ceded centralised control over the Russian information space.
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The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ceded centralised control over the Russian information space.


Source: ISW report from 11 March 2023


Details: The ISW reported that Russian forces did not make any confirmed advances within Bakhmut on 11 March.


Ukrainian and Russian sources continue to report heavy fighting in the city, but Wagner Group fighters are likely becoming increasingly pinned in urban areas, such as the AZOM industrial facility, and are therefore finding it difficult to make significant advances.


Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova confirmed that there is infighting in the Kremlin inner circle, that the Kremlin has ceded centralised control over the Russian information space, and that Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently cannot readily fix it.


Zakharova stated that the Kremlin cannot replicate the Stalinist approach of establishing a modern equivalent to the Soviet Information Bureau to centrally control Russia’s internal information space due to fighting among unspecified Kremlin "elites."

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Russian forces did not make any confirmed advances within Bakhmut on March 11. Ukrainian and Russian sources continue to report heavy fighting in the city, but Wagner Group fighters are likely becoming increasingly pinned in urban areas, such as the AZOM
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Polymathic said:
Over a year into Russia's war in Ukraine, trade into the country appears to have stabilized, despite a series of aggressive western sanctions aimed at crippling the economy and Moscow's war machine. Exploding exports of smartphones, refrigerators and washing machines from the likes of Turkey, Kazakhstan and others close to Russia suggest unorthodox new trade routes that could be supplying Russia with key technological components. In this week's DW Business Special, economist Michael Rochlitz explains why what seems like a creative workaround is a sign that sanctions are working

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One of their biggest routes , Turkey, is busy being closed down
 
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tetrasect said:
Even during wartime, neither NATO nor the US is a threat to Russia.

These Putin simps really have some kind of mental blockage going on.
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Does a threat only ever have to mean physical military invasion or attack?
 
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Even ANC and Juju don't sound as bad as this

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634892216274436096

The son of a Russian State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Boris Ivanyuzhenkov, "Sochi" hockey player Artyom Ivanyuzhenkov is suspected of murder in a cafe near #Moscow. He fled the scene of the crime. The hockey player was with friends in a bar. There was a conflict between the bar guests and Artyom. One of the rioters - a 23-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach. He died on the spot. According to witnesses, Artyom stabbed him and then fled. In 2020, Artyom, hit a cyclist to death by a car in Podolsk. On May 28, 2016, the eldest son of the deputy Ivanyuzhenkov, Anton, who is also a hockey player, hit two people at a public transport stop in his car as a result of an accident. In August of the same year, the criminal case was closed due to the "reconciliation" of the sides. None of the deputy's sons went to prison. The hockey player's father and State Duma deputy Boris Ivanyuzhenkov was known in the 1990s as a member of the "Podolsk" Organized Crime Group. He was even a suspect on charges of rape and illegal possession of weapons. Typical family of a Russian deputy.
 
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Paulsie said:
Does a threat only ever have to mean physical military invasion or attack?
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If you mean showing that Ukrainians can have a higher quality of life on average as part of the West vs under Russian tutelage then yes. But then why not? Why should >40million Ukrainians sacrifice their well being so that BASF can make cheaper products and Russian oligarchs under Putin's protection can make more money?
 
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Major Boredom said:
One of their biggest routes , Turkey, is busy being closed down
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Turkey was never interested in a strong Russia. So they will try to make a few bucks and gain concessions but they won't affect significant change because that's not in their own geopolitical interest.
 
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