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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 18, 2024 16:21:19 GMT
Video of Ukraine's 225th assault brigade breaking into Kursk, Russia.
This almost certainly happened a while ago.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 18, 2024 16:23:45 GMT
In finance news...
Russia raised interest rates to 19% last week, and now the debt they've been taking on is at ~20% rates for next year.
The biggest russian bank Sberbank just said it ran out of mortgage subsidies so it has stopped issuing family mortgages.
The bad news is that Russia has a *lot* of gold and gold prices are up 25% this year. So they've sold a pile of gold but the $ value of what they have didn't drop by nearly as much.
More signs of financial stress are appearing. Big numbers to watch are oil prices and in January they should reveal how much of the National Wealth Fund is left.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 19, 2024 0:56:33 GMT
At least 13 armoured russian ammo storages damaged or destroyed in that attack last night. Norwegian earthquake detectors derected at least 17 "seismic events" with the top one being a ~2.5 magnitude earthquake.
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Post by hcstokie on Sept 19, 2024 6:18:09 GMT
At least 13 armoured russian ammo storages damaged or destroyed in that attack last night. Norwegian earthquake detectors derected at least 17 "seismic events" with the top one being a ~2.5 magnitude earthquake. I know it wasn’t, but it looked like a nuke had gone off on the video I’ve seen. Apparently up to 30k tonnes of explosives stored there. The blast of Hiroshima was the equivalent of 50k.
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Post by Olgrligm on Sept 19, 2024 11:44:36 GMT
At least 13 armoured russian ammo storages damaged or destroyed in that attack last night. Norwegian earthquake detectors derected at least 17 "seismic events" with the top one being a ~2.5 magnitude earthquake. I know it wasn’t, but it looked like a nuke had gone off on the video I’ve seen. Apparently up to 30k tonnes of explosives stored there. The blast of Hiroshima was the equivalent of 50k. To put that number in some context, the enormous explosion of the ammo depot at RAF Fauld in WW2 only had about 4000 tons. That explosion produced the Hanbury crater, which is 30 m deep and 300 m wide.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 19, 2024 15:30:46 GMT
At least 13 armoured russian ammo storages damaged or destroyed in that attack last night. Norwegian earthquake detectors derected at least 17 "seismic events" with the top one being a ~2.5 magnitude earthquake. I know it wasn’t, but it looked like a nuke had gone off on the video I’ve seen. Apparently up to 30k tonnes of explosives stored there. The blast of Hiroshima was the equivalent of 50k. The seismic shocks say something about energy in the explosions but only the big booms. The hours of small blasts in between aren't counted but hopefully someone will calculate the big ones. When I saw the 30k tonnes number it was written by a Ukrainian who said 30k tonnes of ammo capacity (if full) while the nuke yield is pure TNT. Wiki says that only 20% of the weight of a full metal jacket russian rifle bullet is explosive, but they also stored mortar propellant charges which are ~100% I think. I wonder what mix of ammo they'd put in the special hardened bunkers.
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Post by mtrstudent on Sept 19, 2024 15:36:25 GMT
Russia glide bombed a "geriatric boarding house" which I think is an old people's home.
They're fucking sick.
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