Holy crap we get 1.2million before the year is out.

This just sucks. Just take the money from the frozen Russian assets and pay development aid. Europe has not reason to want famines in Africa. This will just backfire.

Burning means the at least some of the oil does not end up in an oil spill.

We do not see it just in aircraft. Russian railway total transport is down quite a bit. In 2010 rail had a modal share of 59% in Russia.

Torpedos have fibre optic cables to control them for the submarine or ship they are launched from. Those are quite long, so an unmanned service vassel could transport such a torpedo close to the port and then launch it inside it.

The point of the video is that the 28 point peace plan is what Russia believes is their best case scenario. So they are from taking Ukraine in three days to they are doing an amazing job if they manage to take the Donbaz. That is really weak.

It is also in the interest of Ukraine. There are oil reserves in the parts of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia. Those pipelines are a great option to sell that oil to Hungary and so on.

Most European countries stopped importing Russian fossil fuels about a year after the full scale invasion. That reduced European spending on Russian fossil fuels by about 90%. Right now the big buyers are mainly Hungary and Slovakia as well as some LNG contracts, which have not been banned, because Hungary and Slovakia block those sanctions. Also pipeline oil remains an issue, but it seems like most European countries have just given Ukraine the go ahead to blow up the pipelines going towards Hungary. Well as long as the explosions happen in Russia.

These are just the financial figures for the first 9months. Ukraine only started attacking Russian refineries a lot in August and the Rosneft refineries have been hit only more recently. For example according to Wikipedia the Ryazan refinery was “It go boom. 15 November 2025.” So this is going to get a lot worse.

Also US sanctions are not part of this either.

One of the easiest way to deal with stuff like Shahed is to fly to them and shoot them down using a gun. Drones are no longer super cheap. They need to survive electronic warfare and that hardening costs a lot. A WW2 style prop plane with a 50cal or similar can just shoot down a Shahed no problem. There are plenty of trainer aircraft, which fit the bill.

It is until you realize how expensive this war is. The damage a drone does to an oil refinery probably costs a few millions to repair and even more in lost profits, if it actually stops production. Tanks cost a million a piece easily. Air defense, planes and so forth easily cost more. Even something like a Shahed is $200k per shot.

I am honestly shocked that South Korea does not send more aid to Ukraine.

numbers mean nothing unless you’re talking about money and sq. km of stolen land.

Not even that. Sanctions cost Russia a lot. So ending the war would give Putin a lot more money. He might even get away with some land from Ukraine.

The real problem is that ending the war in something, which might look like a defeat is a risk. The only ideological group in Russia allowed to operate somewhat freely are nazis. However they really like the war against Ukraine. So ending it is a risk.

It did not just happen. The last winter happened to be cold and most gas is used for heating. So more LNG was needed to fill up storage. Some of that came from Russia, but most from the US.

The good news is that the 19th sanctions package includes an LNG ban. So this is going to end in a bit over a year.

No, they get gas via pipeline.

France accounted for 41% of Europe’s imports of Russian LNG in H1 2025, followed by Belgium (28%), Spain (20%), the Netherlands (9%) and Portugal (2%).

Source(and also original source of the article): https://ieefa.org/european-lng-tracker#section9

The problem is that the penalties are just way to low. They really need to be in the double digit billions to work.

There are currently billions of frozen assets in the West and also oil and gas pipelines to Europe. With a peace deal, it would be possible to restart the sale of oil and gas and maybe even get the money. Even if they have to give it to Ukraine, that would be less of a problem, as they do not control it anyway. Especially if Putin gets couped, this might well leave Russia as part of the EU sphere of influence, which would give them the option to move soldiers 1000km from Bejing.

I would honestly not be surprised. Invading a collapsing Russia might well be easier, then invading Taiwan and China has claims of the Russian Far East.

Casulties are not deaths, but soldiers which can no longer fight. So when somebody gets badly wounded, they are also a casulty.

Still really horrible though.

Reached 1,111,111 casulties.