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Vlad won't like the terms of a ceasefire, Austin wouldn't have made the call if he thought it would put Ukraine at the slightest disadvantage. They just got a $40 billion dollar deal, or soon will and will be deploying new arms and training troops to use them. A cease fire would do Ukraine more good than Russia and it would give the Ukrainians a chance to work over the Russians with psychological warfare and prey upon their poor morale. A ceasefire might also see mass Russian desertions and surrenders to Ukrainians.
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US defense secretary urges ceasefire in call with Russian counterpart
Lloyd Austin, the US defense secretary, held a call with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Friday in which he called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, the Pentagon said.

During the call Austin also “emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication”, according to Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.

The call is the first time Austin had spoken with Shoigu since February 18, six days before Russia invaded Ukraine.

The call came after Republican senator Rand Paul blocked the passage of a $40bn aid bill for Ukraine on Thursday. The bill will be taken up again next week.

Russia has shown no signs of halting its aggression. On Friday the UK ministry of defence said Russia was stepping up its attacks near the cities of Izyum and Severodonetsk, in eastern Ukraine, in an attempt to “envelop Ukrainian forces”.

Cotton Picking Nigel said:

I'm so glad we got rid of that racist from here!

I am literally shaking and shidding right now, I can't stand it when people are disrespectful like that!!

I came here to find out about how to grow herbs on my cotton farm, not to see a nazi sympathiser being racist.

All the best
Nigel

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Back with a new sock

Less money for Russia and I'm certain the Fins have contingency plans, they are a prepared bunch.
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Russia will cut electricity to Finland starting on Saturday, Finnish transmission system operator says
From CNN’s Chris Liakos in Helsinki

Russia will suspend power exports to Finland starting Saturday due to problems in receiving payments, Finland’s transmission system operator Fingrid said in a statement on Friday.

“RAO Nordic Oy, a subsidiary of the Russian entity Inter RAO, which trades electricity over the 400 kV interconnectors, will suspend imports of electricity to Finland at 1 am on Saturday 14 May 2022,” according to Fingrid.

The subsidiary said that it has not received payments for the volumes sold since May 6 and that this is the first time it has happened in over 20 years of its trading history.

“Unfortunately, in the current situation of lack of cash income, RAO Nordic is not able to make payments for the imported electricity from Russia. Therefore we are forced to suspend the electricity import starting from 14th of May,” RAO Nordic Oy said.

According to Fingrid, the adequacy of electricity in Finland is not under threat, with Russian imports in recent years covering 10% of Finland’s total consumption.

“The lack of electricity import from Russia will be compensated by importing more electricity from Sweden and by generating more electricity in Finland,” said Reima Päivinen, senior vice president of power system operations at Fingrid.

Some context: The Finnish government is planning to issue a second white paper on Sunday proposing that the country joins NATO, Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters on Thursday. The proposal would then be put into a parliamentary vote with a plenary scheduled for Monday morning.

Russia's foreign ministry said Finland's possible accession to NATO marked a "radical change in the country's foreign policy" and warned of countermeasures.

"Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to stop the threats to its national security that arise in this regard," it said.

In late April, Gazprom said it fully halted supplies to Polish gas company PGNiG and Bulgaria's Bulgargaz after they refused to meet a demand by Moscow to pay in rubles rather than euros or dollars.

DIY-HP-LED said:

Back with a new sock

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Master gave Dobby a sock?

Dobby was a slave, what are you trying to say?

Well the supply pipelines of Russian gas and oil for Hungary do go through Ukraine, a third of Europe's natural gas does. So imagine if they are a big enough pain in the ass about Ukraine can always turn off the valve. However that probably won't be required now.
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Hungary must "play its part" and decide if it wants to join EU in Russia sanctions, senior EU diplomat says
From CNN's James Frater and Zahid Mahmood in London


Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó gives a press conference after meeting with his Turkish counterpart in Ankara, Turkey, on April 19. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images)

Hungary still has to “play its part” and decide whether it wants to display unity with the European Union in sanctioning Russia as the bloc works on its sixth round of proposals, a senior EU diplomat said on Friday.
Speaking during a news briefing in Brussels to journalists, the diplomat said the proposed sixth round of sanctions would include an oil embargo with the purpose of “having a lasting impact on Russia’s capacity to earn money and to inflict the heavy costs.”
The diplomat said the proposal still needed to be fine-tuned, as most European countries “need to phase out from oil, and obviously there are realistic economic considerations that should be taken into account and the availability of alternatives are obviously different from member state to member state.”
“So, we need to solve ... these concerns one way or the other,” the diplomat added.
The diplomat said they understood that there is an “existential oil dependency on Russia as far as Hungary is concerned.”

“The commission is coming up with proposals, and at a certain point, you have to bite the bullet, you know, and see where you want to be in this, and we hope Hungary will be more forthcoming,” the diplomat said.

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Hungary has been offered “reasonable proposals,” the diplomat said, adding that the country will have to decide where it stands “so that we can continue to have this important EU unity and send out the same signals to Russia that it should stop the war effort,” the diplomat said.
“Negotiations are ongoing every day, including the weekends. So I don’t know where this will end,” the diplomat said.
On Wednesday, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Hungary will only vote for EU sanctions on Russian oil if the bloc comes up with solutions to issues it would start.

“We have made it clear to the European Commission that we can only vote for this proposal if Brussels offers a solution for the problems Brussels would create,” Szijjártó said in a video posted on Facebook Wednesday.

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“We are expecting a solution not only relating to the transformation of our refineries that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, not only relating to the capacity increase of the oil pipeline [that runs] across Croatia to Hungary that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars but also with regard to the future of the Hungarian economy, as, like I said before, this current proposal is like ‘an atomic bomb’ for the Hungarian economy,” Szijjártó continued.

Cotton Picking Nigel said:

Master gave Dobby a sock?

Dobby was a slave, what are you trying to say?

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Same crazy, same malicious motivation, different username.

why do i smell squirrel......hmm

Poo Poo the Dictator - scrap dealer.

Meanwhile at the tank factory ………

I don't need to post words here, do I?

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Sen. Rand Paul stalls $40 billion in aid for Ukraine, breaking with Mitch McConnell

Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer worked together to try to pass the aid for Ukraine Thursday. Paul didn't accept their compromise.

www.usatoday.com

I don't need to post words here, do I?

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ur good...Rand is a POS for doing that......smh

Now this young general is worth paying close attention too, he looks smart and is chief of Ukrainian intelligence.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine's Military Intelligence Chief 'optimistic' of Russian defeat 'this year'
75,070 views May 13, 2022 In an exclusive interview, Ukraine's Head of Military Intelligence sits down with Sky's Dominic Waghorn. Major General Kyrylo Budanov told us the war with Russia is going so well, that it will reach a turning point by mid-August and be over by the end of the year.

I really doubt there are washing machine electronics in a tank. The only thing I can think of is if they have a small three phase motor controller that needs to get driven, possibly a thermostat although I doubt that as well. If they needed any parts they would not be used on the washing machine board and there would be no idea that is where they came from.

Does not want to accept this picture.

printer said:

I really doubt there are washing machine electronics in a tank. The only thing I can think of is if they have a small three phase motor controller that needs to get driven, possibly a thermostat although I doubt that as well. If they needed any parts they would not be used on the washing machine board and there would be no idea that is where they came from.

Does not want to accept this picture.

https://defense-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/t90ms_gunner.jpg

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I’d like to see a turret on spin cycle.

Thanks square heads!
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Ukrainian destroy multiple Russian Tanks with German Panzerfaust 3 in Kharkiv
8,071 views May 13, 2022 Ukrainian destroy multiple Russian Tanks with German Panzerfaust 3 in Kharkiv



The impact of Panzerfaust 3 in Ukraine against the Russian Invaders

She should ask Rand Paul, the little narcist needs attention, but hey he'll trigger the libs and git the brown folks. Nothing else matters, if the constitution doesn't matter neither do the Ukrainians.

The simple fact is the better weapons they have the less people they lose, so you could say Rand Paul might have blood on his hands, though they say it will be ok till the 19th of May. Still it's a life and death struggle and this little shit is playing politics and looking for attention. He might get someone's attention over this, someone who might kill the fucker, someone who might buy a plane ticket from Europe and who can easily buy a gun in a red state, you know, freedom and that kinda shit. Rand might not die for his principles, because he doesn't have any, but he might die by the bullshit he supports concerning guns.
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Ukrainian lawmaker says situation on battlefield is "far worse" than it was at the start of war
From CNN's Jennifer Hansler:

A Ukrainian lawmaker called on the United States to provide air defense systems and fighter jets to Ukraine, saying that the situation on the battlefield is "far worse" than it was at the beginning of the war.

“It is hell” on the frontlines right now, Oleksandra Ustinova told reporters at a German Marshall Fund roundtable in Washington Friday. “We keep losing many more men now than it was at the beginning of the war.”

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Daria Kaleniuk, a leading Ukrainian civil society activist, explained “we can't win this war with Soviet equipment because A. Russia has much more Soviet equipment, B. we don't have anywhere to get ammunition for this, and C. Russia simply has more people and more troops."

Ustinova said Ukraine no longer seeks the Soviet-era MiG fighter jets because “the war has changed.”
Instead, she said Ukraine needs the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), Paladin self-propelled howitzers, and fighter jets like the F-16s in order to effectively counter Russia, and called on the US to begin training Ukrainian pilots to use such jets.
Kaleniuk, who said she recently met with Ukrainian defense officials in Kyiv, noted that Ukraine has “combat-experienced pilots, who are willing and ready to go now for trainings. They were willing to go yesterday for trainings. But there is no decision to accept them and to provide that because there is no decision to provide fighter jets.”

The US has begun to send heavy weaponry to Ukraine, but has yet to give them MLRS or fighter jets.

Ustinova and Kaleniuk, who were in Washington this week for meetings, said that they believe there is a lack of “political will that is needed” for the administration to decide to send such kinds of heavy weaponry – and quickly — and the feeling that there is still fear about provoking Moscow.

They decried the fact that it took so long for the US to decide to send the heavy weaponry it is sending now, with Ustinova saying, “if we had Howitzers two months ago, Mariupol would not happen because they wouldn't be able to surround like they did, to surround the city and literally destroy it.”

“For us time means lives, thousands of lives. We've been hearing that it has been unprecedented how fast everything is moving and how fast the decisions are taking. But there has never been a war since World War Two like that. And unfortunately, we keep asking here to take the decisions faster,” she said.

I asked G7 countries to adopt legislation to seize Russian assets and give them to Ukraine - Kuleb
2,309 views May 13, 2022 Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba attending the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Germany, hold briefing. Addressing the meeting Kuleba made a request to seize Russian assets and hand them over to Ukraine to help rebuild it after months of war. According to Kuleba, Russian aggression causes world food crizis. On sanction, in particular an oil embargo, Kuleba noted that the only country in the European Union is opposing it.

Cotton Picking Nigel said:

I'm so glad we got rid of that racist from here!

I am literally shaking and shidding right now, I can't stand it when people are disrespectful like that!!

I came here to find out about how to grow herbs on my cotton farm, not to see a nazi sympathiser being racist.

All the best
Nigel

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people are what they are, we'll never change them, but we don't have to treat them civilly.