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Coeur du Tigre
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| Registered on: | 11/18/2008 |
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 1:00 pm to Coeur du Tigre
Oct. 1 - Lady Bavovna visits Moscow. Again.
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Workers at a chemical plant in Krasnoznamensk in the Moscow region, where explosions occurred, say that the emergency happened in assembly workshop No. 4. According to preliminary data, at least 8 people have died, and the fate of 30 people remains unknown. Employees are putting forward a version that a train with dangerous cargo detonated. Explosions are still audible.
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 12:51 pm to cypher
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Brussels is reaching UN levels of uselessness -
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 3:44 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Eight straight quarters of falling steel consumption. Since the start of 2024, it's down 31%.
In Q1 2026, 8. 5 million tons.
That's per Severstal's own data.
The entire country is mobilized for war production, and the civilian economy is still vanishing. Construction is grinding to a halt. Manufacturing too. Sanctions plus a war economy produce exactly these results.
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 3:32 am to Coeur du Tigre
Six drones in one night from a single platform. In a world of high tech, our beloved 50cal still has a place.
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Sky Sentinel AI turrets are already working over Kharkiv, and now Kyiv looks next.
One frame shows a jet-powered Geran being intercepted, a target moving fast enough to make manual gunnery nearly useless.
The system doesn’t flinch. Sensor pod, stabilized mount, thermal view, firing abort logic. It just waits and kills.
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A punt gun is dumb steel that needs a man on the roof every night. The firing abort logic and the thermal track are the whole point here, so one operator covers a grid of towers and the gun never blinks at 3am.
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The gun is the cheap part. A Geran-2 costs 50k, a Geran-4 up to 150k, and Ukraine drops Shaheds for about 10k a kill. Swapping a barrel beats trading a tower for a drone every night.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 3:10 am to Coeur du Tigre
Once they're outside the bunkers, they're outside the bunkers...
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Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 3:05 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Ukraine’s military has shown a homemade air defense system built by bolting American anti-tank missiles onto a Rada radar and welding the whole thing to a Dutch army truck.
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STASH is an improvised counter-drone system built around the AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire, an American air-to-ground missile originally designed to destroy tanks and armored vehicles from helicopters and aircraft, repurposed here to intercept airborne threats instead.
What makes the Longbow variant specifically useful for this mission is its guidance system, a millimeter-wave active radar seeker that lets the missile find and lock onto a target on its own after launch, giving the weapon genuine fire-and-forget capability rather than requiring a laser designator to keep tracking the target throughout the engagement, a critical advantage when trying to hit a small, fast-moving drone under time pressure.
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Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 2:58 am to Coeur du Tigre
Closing Russian airports have taken on added value recently, especially to traffic from Irkutsk.
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Ukrainian drones struck the Volodarskaya LPDS in Moscow region, triggering a fire.
The facility, operated by Transneft subsidiary Mostransnefteprodukt, is a key oil products storage and distribution hub with 250,000 m³ of tank capacity for gasoline, diesel and aviation kerosene.
It is part of the Moscow oil products pipeline network and is connected to fuel supply infrastructure serving Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports.
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Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/6/26 at 2:43 am to CitizenK
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You, and Trump do not understand crude oil and refining markets. How many refineries in Europe are prepping to reopen? Do you have an idea? I do. It looks that Libya may finally be stabilizing, which means new refineries with easier to refine crude oil than Bakken or Permian. A couple of shuttle tankers to Europe is all that will be needed to be more competitive than from anywhere else.
Once again, your statement here has zero relationship with the original post. I get it, you're angry at seeing Trump get caught lying about another of his attempted corrupt deals with Russia. But this has nothing to do with crude markets, EU refinery capacity, EU sanctions, Venezuela or any other of your distractions from the facts of the original post.
The OP is solely focused on the attempt by the Trump family to purchase a major Russian oil company. The price was to be offered at (highly) distressed levels. In turn for this, Trump would drop sanctions on that company, thus allowing that newly-purchased oil company to become a legal conduit for Russian oil sales.
Seeing that the Ukrainians were quite literally blowing up their deal weekly, Trump is trying to get them to stop by lying that these attacks are the reason diesel prices are so high. But diesel prices are not why he wants Ukraine to stop hitting the Russian - specifically Lukoil - refineries. It's his precious backdoor corrupt deal.
Now... tell us why this is all wrong because distillation towers are too complex to understand or Platt's only trades pipeline parcels or the moon is made of Swiss cheese. Anything to confuse the actual issue of - yet again - corruption in the White House.
TLDR? Boys, one to five downvotes are rookie numbers. This time, put your backs into it and let's get double digits. You can do it.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 4:01 pm to Coeur du Tigre
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 3:57 pm to Coeur du Tigre
Amazing that those wizards in the Russian Ministry of Finance still find funding for items like this. Just amazing.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 3:50 pm to Coeur du Tigre
Huge news if true. Just last week Kyiv was reporting that they were only able to knock down 30% of the jet-powered Gerans. This is 87%. We'll wait for confirmation.
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Ukraine’s additional air defense measures may be taking effect. Monitoring channels claim that only about 4 of more than 30 jet-powered Shaheds sent toward central Ukraine, particularly Kyiv and the surrounding region, reached their destinations today. They also claim more than 130 conventional piston-powered drones were completely destroyed. Ukraine’s Air Force has not yet officially confirmed these figures.
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 3:44 pm to CitizenK
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Treasury gave buyers until November 21 to cut ties, so the clock is already running on the discount. Boehly and the Witkoff crowd are bidding on the wreckage, not the asset.
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This is a ridiculous claim. The export market is Europe, and that is who sanctioned Russian products first.
These two statements have nothing to do with each other. You're confused and need to re-read the thread. The author is talking about the attempted distressed and extremely lucrative purchase of Lukoil by the Kuchner/Witkoff group. The only mention of sanctions is the plan to get sanctions on Lukoil dropped after purchase thereby giving Putin a sanction-free market for his crude oil. A plan in which Trump is totally complicit.
As the Lukoil refineries and logistics are getting hit constantly by the Ukrainians, the potential buyers are losing the value of their assets before they even get to complete the deal.
The entire point of the article is that Trump is complaining about the Ukrainians hitting Russian refineries not because as he says it is causing "diesel shortages" but because it is costing his son-in-law and close friend the value of their deal and thus destroying the plan to open Russian crude oil to markets sanction-free.
Now, if you want to talk about a "ridiculous claim", we can use your statement that Venezuelan oil sales are "extremely transparent". Statements like that would make a great stand-up comedy routine.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 7:08 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Satellite analysis of Russia’s Ilsky refinery after the September 26 FP-1 drone strike indicates that all of its primary processing capacity was hit. At least six impacts were identified on equipment belonging to the AVT-5 and AVT-6 units, which provide most of the refinery’s processing capacity. The smaller AVT-3 unit burned extensively. Two additional impacts were identified on technical overpasses in the northern section, along with an oil spill in the tank farm.
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Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 1:21 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Venezuela is the tell. Same playbook as Lukoil. Grab the reserves, let the family skim, and call it energy policy. The Iran war just made the cover story convenient.
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Cutting off imagery to protect a refinery deal is the tell. Boehly and the Witkoff crowd are bidding on Lukoil assets, so every drone Ukraine flies now costs them money. Kyiv should treat that as confirmation the strikes are working.
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Boehly is the lead bidder and a Trump donor, so the payout is already structured. Every refinery Ukraine takes offline is a line item they cant collect on.
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Treasury gave buyers until November 21 to cut ties, so the clock is already running on the discount. Boehly and the Witkoff crowd are bidding on the wreckage, not the asset.
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 12:59 am to Coeur du Tigre
Uh oh...
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Over 2,000 people marched from Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava toward the Russian White House.
The permit said commemoration. The crowd said otherwise.
Chants recorded on the ground: • “Down with the Tsar” • “We want freedom” • “Free political prisoners” • “Honest elections” • “No political repression.”
The route itself was the message. Protesters walked toward the site where Yeltsin’s tanks settled a parliamentary standoff in 1993. All while denouncing the current system out loud. This directly compares the two.
The regime approved this rally because it was told the event would honor the dead. Instead it got a live demonstration against political repression, rigged elections, and the man at the top.
The second protest in days. The anniversary symbolism is doing work the organizers never had to spell out.
Notably absent from the chants: any mention of the war their taxes fund. That silence is its own statement about what Russian opposition still refuses to touch.
Putin’s response was predictable. Around 100 arrests.
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Posted by Coeur du Tigre on 10/5/26 at 12:48 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces say their three-month Operation “Crimean Switch Off” has targeted 456 energy nodes across Russian-occupied territories and Russia since July 6. According to commander Robert Brovdi, USF units struck 44 energy facilities over the past 10 days alone: 17 in occupied Crimea, 14 in Donetsk region, five in Luhansk, six in Zaporizhzhia and one each in Kharkiv and Kherson regions.
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