re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

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Not a good metric, because the side that's advancing will recover the dead much more easily than the side that's retreating

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I know, the point was that you can find all kinds of absurd data points to spin a narrative if you wanted to (like he is doing)

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The acronym ELOU-AVT-12 refers to an installation of electric desalination and dehydration of oil, atmospheric and vacuum distillation. The processing unit was commissioned in 2013 with the capacity of 12 million tons/year for oil about 88 million US barrels

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It's a desalter, crude unit and vacuum unit, all in one which is how a refinery is normally set up. Not some special new technology. It's at least WWII era/ The desalter is to lessen corrosion in downstream process equipment thus lowering maintenance issues.

Russia publishes fake drone flight map days after claim of "attack on Putin residence"

Alona Mazurenko — 31 December, 11:46

Two days after claiming that Ukrainian UAVs had attempted to attack one of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's residences, Russia's Defence Ministry has published a fake map showing the alleged route of the Ukrainian drones. The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has outlined facts indicating that the Russian claims are not credible.

Source: Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine; map published by Russia's Defence Ministry

Details: The Russian map purports to show the flight path of the Ukrainian drones that allegedly attempted to attack Putin's residence.

The Russians claim that they destroyed 50 drones in Bryansk and Smolensk oblasts, while insisting that the UAVs were heading towards Putin's residence.

The Russians also claim that another 41 drones were destroyed in Novgorod Oblast.

Putin's residence is in Russia's northwestern Novgorod Oblast, 20 km from the town of Valdai, near the village of Dolgiye Borody.

Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service believes Russia is conducting an information operation aimed at derailing agreements between the presidents of Ukraine and the US.

The Ukrainian intelligence service has noted that a number of facts indicate that the story about an attack on Putin's residence is fake:

local residents in Novgorod Oblast did not report a drone attack or any consequences of an attack at any time on 29 December;
there is no factual evidence (wreckage, photos, videos) of downed UAVs, and the Kremlin has been unable to present any for almost a day since its information operation began;
Russia's Defence Ministry has twice amended its reports to match the Kremlin's narratives, initially reporting 18 UAVs from Ukraine's defence forces and later increasing the number to 23.

Ukrainska Pravda

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If Ukraine did target Putin's residence, he fled like the midget biotch coward he actually is.

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So you would just stand in your living room as someone was drone striking your house like the captain on the Titanic going down with the ship?

I get it, "Putin bad, we no like Putin". But some of the takes like this are just absurd

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I get it, "Putin bad, we no like Putin". But some of the takes like this are just absurd

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I know you are still recovering from last night’s embarrassing showing by Tennessee. I know how you feel, we were embarrassed all year too.

Nobody cares, Russia is pulling a scam. That’s what they do. There was no reason for Putin to hide, run, or duck for cover unless he was a Tenn fan.

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I know you are still recovering from last night’s embarrassing showing by Tennessee. I know how you feel, we were embarrassed all year too.

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Tennessee fans are generally pretty realistic about what we are at this point, unlike LSU fans who keep grasping for something to hold on to as they continue their slide down from their program's peak.

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Nobody cares, Russia is pulling a scam. That’s what they do. There was no reason for Putin to hide, run, or duck for cover unless he was a Tenn fan.

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The post I replied to said it in the sense of if Ukraine actually had attacked, which I doubt.

didn't even bother to send out fake text alerts...


Valdai Residents Report No Signs of Claimed Ukrainian Drone Attack on Putin Residence

Residents of the town of Valdai in Russia’s Novgorod region said they neither heard nor saw signs of a large-scale drone attack overnight on Monday despite official claims that nearly 100 Ukrainian drones targeted President Vladimir Putin’s residence there.

Fourteen residents told the independent outlet Mozhem Obyasnit that they received no text alerts warning of a drone threat and did not hear any buzzing sounds or explosions characteristic of a drone attack.

“There was no noise that night, no explosions, nothing,” one resident was quoted as saying. “If something like that had happened, the whole town would have been talking about it.”

Putin’s Valdai residence, known as Dolgiye Borody, lies northeast of the town and is separated from it by Lake Valdai.

Residents told Mozhem Obyasnit that they usually know when the Russian president visits his residence due to the heavy helicopter traffic accompanying his arrival.

Moscow Times

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. Ukraine needs to do more than just holler fake in the rebuttal

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No they don’t.

What they should do is target a prominent military target, blow it up, and tell the would if they had really gone after Putin that would have been the result.

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Just wait, damage photos are east to get. We will see that soon.

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That's why it's so blatant though. It's like they aren't even trying if they can't even throw out some drone parts somewhere and take a picture of it