re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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No it’s not actually. Why will nobody ever answer or post how many Ukrainians die everyday? Is that illegal to speak about or something

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Personally, I don’t answer questions unless I know the answer.

Now you keep asking that question. If you really wanted to know the answer, I would have guessed you’d have researched and found it by now. But I believe you don’t really care about the answer. You think it’s some kind of gotcha when it isn’t.

Everybody here knows a lot of Ukrainians are fighting and dying.

Yes, Sick Man, not Old Man. Thanks.

Moscow Times:

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The Russian coal industry, one of the largest raw materials industries in the economy, comprising more than 30 single-industry towns and hundreds of thousands of employees, is hurtling towards a severe crisis.

Having lost Western markets, faced with a sharp drop in demand in “friendly” countries and multi-billion dollar losses, coal companies have begun to sharply cut production.

According to Rosstat , coal production in Russia fell by 6.7% year-on-year in July, and its total volume of 31.5 million tons was the lowest since the 2020 pandemic.

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Western sanctions have become the key problem for the coal industry, notes Janis Kluge, a research fellow at the German Institute for International Security Studies. Unlike oil and gas, which the European Union continues to buy,   albeit in small quantities, coal has been subject to a total embargo, and Asian countries that bought Russian coal last year have sharply reduced demand.

Supplies to China in the first half of 2024 fell by 8% and are not expected to grow, complained Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev in September. The fact is that Beijing has imposed duties on Russian coal, the minister explained. At the same time, other suppliers - Indonesia and Australia - were not affected by them, since they are part of a free trade zone with China.

India has cut its coal imports from Russia by 55%, and Turkey by 47%, according to CREA estimates. Russia's total coal exports fell by 11.4% in January-July, to 112.6 million tons. And since coal miners exported about half of their output, the blow was painful for them, Kluge notes.

The Russian coal industry is entering its worst crisis in 30 years, says independent energy expert Maxim Ivanov. In addition to sanctions, Chinese duties and forced discounts, the fall in global coal prices is having an effect: in the first half of the year, they fell by 34%, to $132 per ton on FOB Newcastle (Australia) terms — the largest coal hub in the Asia-Pacific region.

As a result: according to Rosstat, more than half of coal companies became unprofitable, and the net financial result of the entire industry became negative. The total loss of the coal industry for January-July amounted to 7.1 billion rubles. 

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The Russian government is basing its energy strategy on a constant increase in coal production — from the current 438 million tons per year to 482 million tons in 2030 and 556 million in 2050. But there is unlikely to be demand for this coal, Ivanov believes: China is developing its own production, Asian countries are striving to switch to “green” energy, and metallurgists around the world are introducing low-carbon technologies.

“In this regard, the closure of a number of coal mining enterprises located far from export markets and specializing in the production of thermal coal looks inevitable,” the expert believes.

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31 months of articles like this being posted, when is all of that going to actually make a difference? Ukraine isn’t and shouldn’t back down to an invading Russia, but hopefully, sooner rather than later it has to end. Is this going to end with a DMZ? Maybe that’s the best option.

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My Russian friend said that Trump is actually no friend of Putin, quite the opposite. He is very well connected.

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Personally, I don’t answer questions unless I know the answer.

Now you keep asking that question.

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The question should serve a purpose, other than a gotcha though.
Especially for a thoughtful poster.

This thread is littered with Russian casualty numbers. Yet, there is virtually no mention of the massive Ukrainian losses. Why? Why do our MSM press reports often mimic that tendency? e.g., You readily acknowledge horrendous Ukrainian losses, but cannot or will not otherwise quantify them.

When Lee viewed the carnage at Fredericksburg, he mused, "It's good war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."

Ignoring the carnage by skirting the good guy's casualty specifics enables a macabre fondness for human slaughter because it only addresses trauma impacting the dehumanized enemy.

Posters here can chuckle at a man in the throes of spastic convulsion as he dies from drone-deployed nerve agent exposure because he's "the enemy." He's a Russian. He really isn't human. It's far less enjoyable when the reality of reply-in-kind is foisted on "the good guys." Worse still is when one recognizes this entire travesty as an avoidable war which, even once it unnecessarily occurred, should have ended 2 1/2 years ago.

When this fiasco ends on terms similar to those of April 2022, I hope folks will remember the interim time and lives lost/ruined and money spent was all about the US and UK wanting to "press Putin." It wasn't about Ukraine. It wasn't about the Ukrainian people. It certainly was not about Ukrainian victory; there was never any military path to that end. It was solely about the West wanting to probe Russian military capacity using Ukrainians as fodder.

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Asked and unanswered a couple of times the past 2 years.

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Interesting. So, out of curiosity what are the numbers? Because the variance in accounts leads to questions of credibility across the board..

Additional footage of the massive number of secondary explosions at Russia's burning 67th GRAU Arsenal after an overnight Ukrainian strike.

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Ayden, another cuck like Big Serge.

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The question should serve a purpose, other than a gotcha though.

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If the guy asking the question was a regular to the thread and offered sound information, that would apply.

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This thread is littered with Russian casualty numbers. Yet, there is virtually no mention of the massive Ukrainian losses

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It’s an open forum. There are numerous anti Ukraine posters. They have posted Ukrainian numbers as have some pro Ukrainian folks. You could research it and post the numbers yourself.

I did a quick google and I found 480,000 casualties of which 80,000 were killed.

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Ignoring the carnage by skirting the good guy's casualty specifics enables a macabre fondness for human slaughter because it only addresses trauma impacting the dehumanized enemy.

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No one is ignoring the carnage. We see it all the time; especially when Russia launches missiles into residential buildings and women and children are killed and maimed.

You seem to get extremely upset at everyone but the guy who caused it all Putin. You have provided him with an excuse, but that excuse does not measure up.

An independent Ukraine or a large war? Which one brought thousands of deaths? Which one displaced millions? Surely you can see Putin’s actions were the actions of a ruthless dictator and a war criminal.