September 28, 2022

My Patron stamps came today all the way from Kyiv!

https://twitter.com/PatronDsns/status/1565290711720787968


Kind of neat. It took about 4 weeks. A journey through war.
25 bucks thru Amazon. The money goes to a demining vehicle and what ever is left over goes to Ukraine animal shelters.

September 28, 2022

Mark Sumner of the Daily Kos does top drawer analysis of the war in Ukraine

Tuesday was one of those days when things changed so quickly that a map of the battlefield in some areas in the evening barely resembled that of the same areas in the morning. In two different areas of northeastern Ukraine, towns and villages were liberated, the area under Russian occupation was diminished, and remaining Russian forces in the region were placed at a sharply higher risk.

Though there are other things happening that are certainly important, it’s hard not to look first at the areas where Ukraine made big moves in the last 24 hours—and where current maps are almost certainly several steps behind the situation on the ground.

Link in a minute:

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/28/2125733/-Ukraine-update-Counteroffensive-continues-All-roads-to-Lyman-now-under-Ukrainian-control

September 28, 2022

Dr. Howard Forman on the purpose of vaccines.

https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1575167054662971392


Good question Doc!

September 28, 2022

The Lyman Gap grows smaller by the hour

Supposedly Putler himself has given a no retreat order.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1575146126075887621

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1575147087288737797

September 28, 2022

A Russian commander inspires the new recruits!

Pretty funny. Patton he ain't:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1574896930471256073

September 28, 2022

Gazprom threatens to stop paying Ukraine gas transit fees

Hard to believe but all through the war natural gas has been flowing from Russia via a pipeline in Ukraine and Russia has been paying Ukraine money to allow it.



Yahoo

Investing.com
Gazprom Threatens Ukraine With Non-Payment for Gas Transit in Fresh Escalation
September 27, 2022, 2:04 pm
By Geoffrey Smith

Investing.com -- Russian gas monopoly Gazprom (MCX:GAZP) took an important step toward cutting off almost all of its remaining supplies to the EU on Tuesday, as the Kremlin pulled its last remaining levers to pressure western and central Europe into dropping its support for Ukraine.

In a post on its official Telegram channel, Gazprom said it may seek to add the Ukrainian gas pipeline operator Naftogaz Ukrainy to Russia's list of sanctioned entities, ratcheting up a dispute over the Ukrainian company's alleged failure to ship Russian gas westward according to its sales contract.


This would prevent it from paying Ukraine its usual transit fees, a move that would pave the way for the suspension of physical shipments.

Gazprom claimed that it had no other option, because the jurisdictions where the two parties had agreed to submit their disputes for arbitration - Sweden and Switzerland - have turned hostile to Russia, denying it the chance of a fair hearing.

https://news.yahoo.com/gazprom-threatens-ukraine-non-payment-180406450.html

It's the last operating Russian gas line to Europe.

September 28, 2022

The Lyman pocket is closing in Ukraine

https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1575039290652127234

The Russian war correspondent wargonzo fled the town. A sure sign the end is near.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1575076323264933888

And the word from Def Mon: Motti, which is Finnish for encirclement, dating back to the russia- Finland War of 1940.


https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1574889679308181505

September 27, 2022

A recent update on the Battle for Lyman in Ukraine by Prof. Astor.

I believe this describes the situation as of this AM. Prof. Astor is a military historian and I think does a good job of explaining confusing maps. The situation is changing by the hour.

https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1574762526037917705

Short thread. The video he references confirms what I'm reading. I don't know whose doing it. Good, once you get past the accent.

I should warn that I tend to be optimistic and pick out stuff I hope is true. I've been wrong before. But Prof Astor is pretty good on military stuff.

September 26, 2022

Jackie Kennedy watched the 1st JFK-Nixon debate with a Special guest

62 years ago tonight.

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1574289729977212930

September 26, 2022

Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder lecture 6: The Making of Modern Ukraine