Oh and @M.W. As a daytime TV watching lady you might have some actual expertise here. The wife likes this quilt for a guest room but I'm a bit...Laura Ashley design?? What decade are we in? Is Laura Ashley back? I'm not saying it's ugly but I have a feeling it just won't have the quality. I see a pattern of suspicious alleged huge discounts.. As a woman, what's your opinion?
Dude you can't bait me. When I said that was the last post on this topic with you in this thread then I meant it. You should count the number posts after, in which you tried to lure me back in, that's not really nice of you. Hope those birds in your head find peace soon.
Putin has his usual short term cards that he can play but he has no choice but to resume allowing grain shipments. He has a very large number of countries in the mideast and Africa that he is trying to colonize and become very hostile, very fast- as Putin has found out before- when people explain to them that they are starving due to Putin not allowing shipments. So that part will clear up. In regard, to factors that are not going to clear up, would be the UN's prediction of rise in grain prices due to the destruction of the dam in Ukraine- whose back up waters irrigated a good portion of Ukraine's and Russia's farmland - destroying this years crop and the ability to plant for next year in a few months. (Ukraine/Russia grow winter wheat, which is planted in the fall). And over half of Ukraine's crop output is sunflower oil which is a beast that requires lots of water. Depends on what one is trading or means by "grains." Corn, wheat, barley, oats, seed oils, soybeans all have their own story. If one is thinking wheat, then I would look at what is going on in the American market/crop. And it is not pretty. This summers winter wheatc rop is looking very poor from drought and winter damage earlier in the season- so there will be a price to be paid for that somewhere along the line, regardless of what the impact from Russia/Ukraine is.
Regarding that dam,,, When I was looking for news about the above I saw something about a dam being blown up... I didn't read it, but I had google set on "last 24 hours"... at 1st glance it looked like this could be ANOTHER dam. Great point about Africa. Makes sense.
Just do a search, I've never hidden my volunteering work I've never hidden that I'm a mean mofo when I choose to be. Its you who have explaining to do. I guess it must be time for you to watch The Murdock Mysteries so you are crotchety. My wife does like that Anne with an E too. Countdown is a good way to improve your English. Migrants like it. Still, those spelling errors keep creeping in.
I don't watch tv nor tv shows like you lemming. And I would never waste a minute to dig into any of your past posts like you did with me to find material to bait me with. You are not a mean mofo you are an idiot, plain and simple. A lot of confusion swirling around in your brain. Take good care of yourself. Over and out.
Yeah... But you are just a troll so..self-control is not your forte however you do watch Countdown right? You don't waste any time reading anything, like history books so you clearly learn a lot from those very high quality YouTube/Tictoc videos and what your lady feelings whisper.. Of course many have an auto-translate to your native tongue.
"The BBC is among the first media organisations to gain access to some of the first villages liberated in Ukraine's counteroffensive. Out of this cluster of four settlements in the eastern Donetsk region, Neskuchne has seen the heaviest fighting according to the battalion which liberated it. Ukraine lost six soldiers in the process. Its name means "not boring" in Russian. An obvious irony for a village that was occupied by Russia in spring last year - a few weeks after President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine." The town of "not boring" eh? Russians and their whatever they say they mean the opposite. Well it wasn't for a few days there. Still it was nice to see them try and target some actual military forces recently and not always just civilians just because they can actually hit apartment buildings. Fun in the sun.
Whew, the wife intends that quilt as a present for a friend's new AirBnB. Makes more sense. The thing would probably start to pill quickly.. 250 bucks down to 106 but with the actual quality of 40 dollar Chinese crap. Laura Ashley still living off now distant and faded successes just like Russia. But I guess it will look nice for the photos eh @M.W.?
Reuters Ukrainian flag, Russian corpses evidence of Kyiv's advance in south Story by By Max Hunder • 2h ago Aftermath of a Russian military strike in Kryvyi Rih© Thomson Reuters By Vitalii Hnidyi NESKUCHNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine's blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists on Tuesday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine's biggest advances for seven months. Aftermath of Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih© Thomson Reuters Not a single resident could be found in Neskuchne, one of a cluster of settlements on the Mokry Yali river that Ukraine says its troops have captured in a steady advance southwards into Russian-held territory since their operation began last week. Aftermath of a Russian missile strike, in Kryvyi Rih© Thomson Reuters Ukrainian troops rode through the muddy streets on the back of a tank and in a pick-up truck. A warplane flew overhead, firing flares. "Three days ago the Russian forces were still here. We chased them out of Neskuchne. Glory to Ukraine," said Artem, a member of a Ukrainian territorial defence unit, who gave no surname. "These are Ukrainian lands." The mainly one- and two-storey buildings in the village, which had a population of several hundred before Russia invaded last year, had nearly all been damaged. The scene was silent, apart for the crump of artillery fire in the distance. Reuters saw at least three dead Russian soldiers lying in the street, including one whose fly-blown body lay by an abandoned Russian military vehicle. Artem said the advancing Ukrainian troops had watched from a drone as comrades initially tried to evacuate him, only to dump him where he lay and flee. Aftermath of a Russian missile strike, in Kryvyi Rih© Thomson Reuters It was the first independent confirmation of Ukraine's advance in the area, roughly 90 km southwest of the city of Donetsk, one of several axes where it is trying to break through Russian lines in the early days of a long-awaited counteroffensive. MISSILE STRIKE Elsewhere on Tuesday, a Russian missile strike killed at least 11 people in an apartment building and warehouses in Kryvyi Rih, birthplace of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Aftermath of a Russian missile strike, in Kryvyi Rih© Thomson Reuters Residents sobbed outside the burnt-out apartment block and smoke billowed after the early-morning attack. Officials said at least four people were killed there and another seven in the warehouses. Twenty-eight were injured. Survivors described two explosions. Olha Chernousova said she was thrown out of her bed by a violent blast wave. She escaped onto her balcony to wait for rescuers. "I thought I would have to jump into a tree." Moscow denies intentionally targeting civilians but has repeatedly struck apartment buildings with long-range missiles, often at perceived turning points in the war. It killed 25 people in an apartment block in the central city of Uman six weeks ago at the start of an intensified campaign of drone and missile strikes in the run-up to Ukraine's counteroffensive. ReutersUkraine recaptures fourth village in modest counteroffensive 2:05 ReutersUkrainian troops enter eastern village of Makarivka, fighting around village 1:48 EARLY DAYS OF ASSAULT Ukraine began its counterassault last week after sticking to the defensive through seven months of a huge Russian winter and spring campaign that yielded scant gains despite the bloodiest ground combat in Europe since World War Two. So far Ukraine's offensive is still in its early days, with tens of thousands of fresh troops and hundreds of Western armoured vehicles yet to be committed to the fight. Russia, for its part, has had months to prepare several layers of defensive lines, meaning Ukraine's advance does not necessarily amount to a breach through the front. After a week of giving little information about its offensive, Ukraine said on Monday it had recaptured seven settlements so far. Troops have advanced up to 6.5 km (4 miles) and seized 90 square km (35 square miles) of ground along a 100 km-long stretch of the southern front line, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said. Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a televised meeting with Russian military bloggers, said on Tuesday the goals of Russia's military campaign had not fundamentally changed, and claimed that Ukraine had suffered 10 times the casualties as Russia. Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have estimated Russia has suffered losses several times greater than Ukraine's, with the worst casualties coming in recent months during the winter and spring campaign that captured scant territory. Russia has not acknowledged any Ukrainian gains since the counteroffensive began last week, and says it has repelled repeated advances. Its defence ministry said on Tuesday its forces had fended off Ukrainian attacks near the villages of Makarivka, Rivnopil and Prechystivka. Makarivka is located further south along the river from Neskuchne. Moscow also released video footage of what it said were German-made Leopard tanks and U.S.-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles captured in battle. Reuters could not immediately verify the location or time of the footage. Military analysts say the fighting so far is probably still mainly probing attacks by the Ukrainians who have yet to unleash the bulk of their forces, while Russia's main defensive fortifications still lie further back. (Additional reporting by Max Hunder in Kryvyi Rih and Reuters Bureaux; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Alex Richardson)