Jimmy_D

There’s very little support for the Russian invasion outside of Russia. There’s a certain level of tolerance for it from some places, due to either the cost of opposing Russia and existing deals, or opportunism of Russia being being forced to buy and sell in a smaller market, but everywhere is facing uncertainty because of it.

Could have been 2-0 up in the first five minutes, then their right back scores a worldy with his weak foot for his first goal and the whole game flips on that.

Cheats.

JWP territory…

Damn! Thought that was in!

“I don’t think this can be disallowed…” Who is that idiot on commentary?

Never mind him climbing all over the defender then…

Was about to say how well we’d started… Where did that come from? Cracking strike to be fair. Still feels like we’ll be ok, one of those where Burnley may well have scored too early.

Indeed, especially after the saves Pope had to make. Missing that penalty to go 2-0 will sting though…

I can’t tell if that’s a point gained or two points dropped for Burnley after that… Might not be until the end of the season we find out heh.

Looks like Russia can’t sustain some of the capital controls they bought in to prop up the rouble, and as they’re starting to be relaxed the rouble is starting to lose value again.

Probably trumped at the moment by their own promotion chances, but yeah, if they don’t make it, being in a lower league really won’t sit well.

MK Dons, at home, in League One, going 3-0 down to a long range lob. They must have been getting flashbacks…

That is a ridiculous goal to put Wednesday 3-0 up against MK Dons!

Well that’s one way to break a winless streak Forster immense.

I saw that clip, it came across that they seem to almost be blaming Russian failures on it not being a war, that they’re not currently using everything they have.

Seems like a very short sighted decision, feels like this probably reduces their chances of staying up.

Seen some speculation that US description earlier may have been to reduce the risk of triggering retaliatory strikes on Kyiv immediately, there were NATO delegates there at the time.

Reports that Russian ships are withdrawing further out into the Black Sea away from the Ukrainian coast, which lends credence to the claims it was a missile strike. It's still possible an accident took Moskva out of action and it's a reaction to losing the defensive capability it provided, but either way, it indicates that Russia thinks there's some sort of shore based threat to their ships.

It hasn't sunk, it's just on a special underwater operation.

Agreed, Neptune missiles the most likely cause, although it seems Ukraine may have had as few as four(!) of them and held onto them for this long, waiting for the best chance to use them. One way or another they've ended up taking down the biggest target in the Russian fleet. Sounds like this would have been the first time Neptunes have been used, so possibly Moskva had gotten a bit lax on maintaining constant defence systems and thought it had no threats.

That sounds more possible, the level of continued Ukrainian success so far in this war does suggest some sort of presence of Western Special Forces with plausible deniability, as well as significant Russian underperformance. Would be almost impossible to know for sure though, Ukraine does have the capability apparently, with Neptune missiles. Another possibility could be Russian sabotage, which if it was intended to scuttle the ship but not kill, could possibly tally up with Russian reports of a fire of unknown origin and no casualties, as they may have had far more of a warning to abandon ship. Any non-deliberate cause for a fire would be very unlikely to sink the ship, unless there were massive oversights on firefighting systems. Whichever it was, ALL of them were highly unlikely. I certainly didn't expect to see that the Russian flagship had been sunk by any cause during this war unless NATO were fully involved.

I guess it was a Royal Navy submarine that sunk the last cruiser before this one, in The Falklands War. I guess it's possible if it was almost certain that it couldn't be traced back to the Royal Navy, but it'd be a huge risk in terms of escalation. Seems highly unlikely.

Indeed. Either way, looks like the biggest naval threat Russia had in the area isn't a threat any more.

Reports now that the Moskova, Russia's flagship, has sunk after being struck by Ukrainian manufactured Neptune missiles. Assuming that's accurate, Russia just lost its flagship in a war as the aggressor against a country that doesn't have an active navy.