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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-began-putin-rejected-ukraine-peace-deal-recommended-by-his-aide-2022-09-14/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_source=reddit.com

Given that I was also a GK we might even end up with more than Saints have.

Centre Parcs have told all their 'guests' that they have to leave their sites for 24 hours due to the funeral, even if they are in the middle of their holiday.

The USA does it better.

Wet Bank Holidays.

Tumble

If the Post Office crest has to be changed from EiiR, will it be changed to C3PO ?

Russian teachers who moved to the occupied areas of Ukraine to help in "re-education" of the local population have been captured by the UA, and will now go on trial, with a potential jail term of 15 years. Forcible re-education is classified as a war crime.

Alexei, Alexei, come out come out, wherever you are; "Russia’s budget surplus for 2022 has almost evaporated after a sharp drop in energy exports during August led to a monthly deficit of as much as Rbs360bn ($5.9bn)." https://www.ft.com/content/d9cdc51f-5fe3-4f4a-b0e8-054ef21a2a6e?shareType=nongift " Russian gas flows to Europe have dwindled to about one-fifth of pre-invasion deliveries. In early September it said it would keep Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea to Germany, shut indefinitely unless the west lifted sanctions imposed over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The sharp deterioration of Russian state finances comes as its army is being routed in northeastern Ukraine in its biggest military setback since losing the battle for the capital Kyiv in March. Oil and gas revenues, which make up almost half of the budget revenues received so far this year, were down 18 per cent year-on-year over the January-August period, according to the data. The EU has also banned imports of Russian coal. An EU ban on shipped Russian crude imports is due to come into effect in December. Non-oil and gas revenues also fell drastically, by 37 per cent year on year, in January-August, the data showed. Russia initially showed resilience in weathering the impact of punitive measures, including a freeze on half its foreign exchange reserves. But Russia’s state gas monopoly Gazprom said earlier this month that production fell by 15 per cent year on year in the first eight months of the year. Exports, which flow mostly to Europe, were down by more than a third. Revenues look set to worsen following Russia’s suspension of Nord Stream 1, one of its main gas pipelines to Europe, in early September. Russia’s economy shrunk 4.3 per cent in July 2022 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the country’s economy ministry. Analysts at Aton, a Russian brokerage, expect the economy to contract by a further 5 per cent in 2023 because of falling energy output."

Further round the Black Sea, over in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan has started shelling Armenis - Armenia pleads with Putin for assistance.

Putin will have to survive in order to accept his defeat.

Not acceptable to Ukraine, and why should they negotiate at the moment ?

Just posted on Reddit Meanwhile, reports that Putin has cancelled meetings with Defence Ministers and has gone to his Dacha in Sochi.

Prevented

( /Engage MLG mode ) But do you say " I'm going to ASDA's" ? ( /Disengage MLG mode )

24 hour emergency glazers are on permanent standby.

There is an interview on Reddit with a captured Russian tank crewman. He is an ethnic Tatar, and was posted to Ukraine after 1 week on conversion training; he was previously a torpedo operator at a Baltic Fleet naval base and was forcibly transferred. Luckily for him he was captured before joining the Turret Tossing Olympics.

UA are using their MLRS to bombard Russian positions with leaflets on how to surrender safely.

Russian mouthpiece on BBC R4 a few minutes ago, saying Russia needs to go with a partial mobilisation to counter the "terrorist state" that is forcibly conscripting men in shopping centres and off the street. Didn't realise that Putin had declared war on LPR.

People feel alienated by the whole circus; the second and third parties in safe seats cannot be arsed to chase them, it is only voters in marginal swing constituencies that either of the 2 major parties care about. As a result you get voter apathy, and minority pressure groups gain a disproportionate level of influence.

Well, in the main they're the ones dying in Ukraine.

Zelensky tonight; ""Do you still think we are one people? Do you still think you can scare us, break us, force us to make concessions? Don't you really get it? Don't you understand who we are? What we stand for? What we are all about? Read my lips: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you. Without water or without you. Without you. Without food or without you? Without you. Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as frightening and deadly for us as your friendship and brotherhood. But history will put everything in its place. And we will be with gas, light, water and food...and WITHOUT you!""

For those that love unsubstantiated rumours : "There is chatter on #Ukraine 🇺🇦 channels that I stress is unconfirmed: 1. Russian 🇷🇺 units in Kherson began negotiations to surrender. 2. Fighting has broken out between RU & Kadyrov units in the area." ( Kadyrov means mercenary Chechens ).

Bit of a joke if Putin declares all out war whilst his army is running away. It would also remove the self-imposed restriction on Ukrainian forces striking across the border.