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MaizieD Thu 14-Apr-22 12:58:36

'hopped' shock

Oh, the horrors of the 'doubling rule'.and fat fingers

hoped

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MaizieD Thu 14-Apr-22 12:57:20

The ship has actually sunk, mokryna. It apparently had a crew of 500. Turkey said they had managed to rescue 54 of them amid very high seas. It's to be hopped that more have managed to escape. The poor souls are being manipulated to feed one man's ego. Doing what they have been ordered to do and would be punished for disobeying.

I feel very much in sympathy with this mumsnet poster's comment:

Fuck me, all this horror for some wee-willied He-Man's pointless sense of pride.sad angry

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4527642-Ukraine-Invasion-Part-20?pg=20

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MaizieD Thu 14-Apr-22 12:44:36

Whitewavemark2

Yes corruption seems as bad as it is in the U.K. government.

It's to be hoped that it hasn't spread to our armed forces, as it seems to have done in Russia grin

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mokryna Thu 14-Apr-22 12:12:57

Thank youMaizieD . I am relieved to hear that the ship ‘caught fire’, I hope it sinks setting off all the mines that have been planted. Moreover, it is heart lifting that supplies have finally reached the surrounded Ukrainians in Mariupol.
I just hope v.p. will be overthrown before even more atrocities are committed and new free elections …

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NotSpaghetti Thu 14-Apr-22 11:19:20

There's a video about some volunteers working over there on YouTube:
youtu.be/0Vv30JAFcx4

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Whitewavemark2 Thu 14-Apr-22 11:05:31

Yes corruption seems as bad as it is in the U.K. government.

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MaizieD Thu 14-Apr-22 10:36:00

We seem to have neglected actual war news from Ukraine for a while, though thanks to twitter and an excellent series of mumsnet threads I'm keeping up, more or less.

The good news is, that, from last night, the flagship of the Russian in the Black Sea is conducting a special operation from the bottom of said sea. Apparently Ukraine has very effectively used long range anti ship missiles which seem to have been newly acquired.

This means that Russia will be highly unlikely to attempt to attack Odessa from the sea, which will make Ukranian defence of the port much easier.

It's also a humiliation for Russia, which actually announced that the ship was 'on fire', apparently an unusual move in this 'special operation'.

Will it further dent Putin's image as a 'strong' leader and make regime change more likely?

Will it provoke him to further atrocities?

Also being said is that two thirds of the money supposed to be for maintaining Russia's navy has disappeared into private pockets. The same was said earlier about the army's supply and maintenance budget.

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