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.
Russian deaths in WW1 were 1.7-2.25million. Obviously that is deaths and not casualties, but Meduza is at 132k deaths by name and 219k deaths by probate count. That was the Russian Empire, so a much larger country then modern day Russia, with a larger population and a much younger one as well.
Seems like the Russians pushed in the south around Orikhiv. That part of the front was very calm for months. Also the Ukrainians seem to close the northern most cauldron
Windows are certainly worse quality for oligarchs, given how many fall out of them.
He does not need to. He just does as his handlers command and they are from the US oil and gas industry.
He wants Europe to buy American instead. Given the situation that is indeed reasonable, but the real solution is to go green. That he hates though.
Nope. Most UN members have diplomatic relations with Palestine. Even the ones that do not recognize it as a country do. Mostly it is some small countries, which do not, but I fully get that say Samoa does not care that much about Palestine. Wikipedia has a good list of it.
Russia seized a lot of Western assets and is activly suing companies with long term gas delivery contracts, which do not buy Russian gas, because the Russians cut it off.
These are refineries not oil fields. They turn oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and much much more.
No, that is exactly what is going to happen. The Russians leave them out their tied up, so the Ukrainians can kill them.
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.