Comments by "Richard Marsden" (@richardmarsden5610) on "Moment Ukrainian ATGM takes out Russian armoured vehicles and personnel" video.

  1. Zaporizhzhia province to hold referendum on joining Russia The chief of the Russia-held Ukrainian province of Zaporizhzhia, Yevhen Balytskyi, signed a decree in Melitopol about the region holding a referendum on joining Russia, according to a report published by Ria News on Monday. The region, currently controlled by Russian military forces, is known to be an essential part of Ukraine's industry and agriculture, next to hosting the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
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  2. Russian National Wealth Fund up almost $23 bln in July to over $200 bln, ministry says Russia’s National Wealth Fund (NWF) increased by almost 1.4 trillion rubles ($23 bln) in July 2022 and amounted to around 12.2 trillion rubles ($201 bln) as of August 1, the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Monday. "As of August 1, 2022, the National Wealth Fund amounted to 12.155 trillion rubles, or 9.1% of GDP projected for 2022," the statement said. As of July 1, the National Wealth Fund was estimated at 10.7 trillion rubles. Its liquid part stood at 6.5% of GDP, or around 8.7 trillion rubles ($141.3 bln) as of August 1. More than 50 bln euro, 5.4 bln pounds sterling, 782.3 bln Japanese yen, 309.7 bln Chinese yuan, 554.9 tonnes of gold in impersonalized form, and over 256.6 mln rubles were deposited with the Bank of Russia. Moreover, slightly over 528.9 bln rubles were deposited with VEB.RF development bank. Some $3 bln were invested in debentures of foreign states, 307.6 bln rubles and $2.292 bln were invested in securities of Russian issuers related to implementation of self-sustained infrastructure projects, and another 328.9 bln rubles - in preferred shares of credit organizations. A total of 138.433 bln rubles were deposited with VTB and Gazprombank for financing self-sustained infrastructure projects, as well as 1.5 trillion rubles and 65.5 bln rubles were invested in ordinary shares of Sberbank and Aeroflot, respectively.
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  3. Kiev regime’s irretrievable combat losses may exceed 193,000 — DPR militia The Ukrainian army’s irretrievable losses may exceed 193,000 service members since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Spokesman for the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) Militia Eduard Basurin said on Monday. "This has to be mentioned. The figure will, perhaps, even be much higher. These are the figures that they give. I believe that the scope may even be larger," Basurin said in a live broadcast on Russia’s TV Channel One, responding to a question by the anchorman about whether he could confirm the information that the Ukrainian military’s irretrievable losses amounted to 193,000 service members, as reported by Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny, according to some media outlets’ data. As the spokesman for the DPR people’s militia specified, irretrievable losses included killed military personnel and crippled service members who could not rejoin the troops. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24 that in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics for assistance he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation in Ukraine. The West retaliated by imposing numerous large-scale sanctions on Russia. Along with this move, Western countries ramped up the deliveries of weapons and military hardware worth billions of US dollars to the Kiev regime.
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  4.  @Rocket_scientist_88  Irrelevant what the West wishes. The dollar financial system is just going to be a poorer alternative to a BRICS+ financial system. The United States led West shall soon find itself unable to sustain the military assets and expenditures that it can't afford today.
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  5. Russia: Ukraine's regime trying to sell off country Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed on Monday that Ukraine's authorities are trying to "sell off" the country, particularly to Poland by allowing Warsaw's troops to enter the west of its territory on the pretext they should act as peacekeepers. According to the publication on the SVR's website, Poland is "gradually implementing its far-reaching ambitions regarding Ukraine." Apart from introducing its troops there, Warsaw is, as the service claimed, planning to take control over Ukraine's "most promising sectors of the economy." The SVR's remarks came after a series of deals Poland and Ukraine signed since Russia's military operation in the latter country started. The initial documents that were signed gave Poland's citizens a special status in Ukraine with more rights, and the similar went for Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Moscow then commented that Ukraine de facto allowed to be seized.
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  6. Russian forces wipe out five Ukrainian command posts in past day — top brass Russian combat aircraft, missile and artillery troops struck five Ukrainian command posts in the past 24 hours in their special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Monday. "Operational-tactical and army aviation aircraft, missile troops and artillery continue striking military sites on Ukrainian territory. In the past 24 hours, they hit five command posts, among them the command centers of the Ukrainian army’s Soledar operational-tactical battlegroup in the area of the settlement of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the 63rd mechanized brigade near the community of Belaya Krinitsa in the Kherson Region, and also manpower and military hardware in 117 areas," the spokesman said. The strikes also obliterated ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army’s 66th and 110th mechanized brigades and 56th motorized infantry brigade in the area of the settlement of Vodyanoye, five ammunition depots near Krasnogorovka, Novomikhailovka and Artyomovsk and a fuel depot near Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the general added.
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  7. I think the viewers who do find the scenes distressing would probably like to put you on the end of their own weapon systems Manwell.
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