dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑fredag 31 maj 2024 19:42
Fast än så länge utspelas kriget
inte på Ukrainas villkor - där är vi inte än.
Putin calls clashes in Russia's Kursk region 'large-scale provocation'
The Kyiv Independent skrev:Putin claimed that Ukrainian soldiers are carrying out attacks on civilian facilities in the Kursk region, adding he is planning to meet with the heads of Russian security agencies. According to Russian officials, five people were killed and at least 20 injured as a result of clashes in the area.
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Earlier in the day, a source in intelligence services told the Kyiv Independent that a Ukrainian first-person-view (FPV) drone hit a Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter over Kursk Oblast on Aug. 6.
According to the crowd-sourced monitoring website DeepState, one Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter and at least two tanks were destroyed in the battle amid reports of a cross-border incursion into Kursk Oblast.
Nu utspelas kriget på Ukrainas villkor! Den svenska utgåvan av Falungong-kopplade Epoch Times
spekulerar i att Ukraina är ute efter Kursks kärnkraftverk:
Svenska Epoch Times skrev:Striderna på den ryska sidan gränsen bröt ut under tisdagen. Först uppgav Ryssland att en ukrainsk attack slagits tillbaka, men sedan sades att ett intrång landvägen pågår och att angriparna bekämpas med flyg och artilleri, rapporterar AFP.
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Att Ukraina går in i Ryssland på detta sätt är mycket ovanligt. Och eftersom Kiev-regeringen inte har kommenterat alls spekuleras det vilt på nätet. Militärbloggare på båda sidor lyfter fram att Kursks atomreaktorer ligger bara några mil från gränsen, helt nära stridsområdet, och undrar om det är den anläggningen Ukraina är ute efter.
Kursk-verket är av liknande typ som det katastrofdrabbade Tjernobyl, en ålderstigen sovjetisk konstruktion, men har fortfarande tre av fyra reaktorer i drift.
Som bekant gick det inte så bra för det ryska flygvapnet, trots dess
stora insatser. Litauen hade ett liknande kärnkraftverk, men EU gav ändå landet
inget val:
LRT skrev:“The shutdown of the Ignalina plant pushed the country into an energy crisis – with no alternatives for energy production and dependent on Russian infrastructure, Lithuania was for a long time paying probably the highest price for imported gas. Lithuania’s geopolitical shift towards the West opened up the gaps of Soviet modernisation, which resulted not only in dependence on Soviet infrastructure and supply, but also non-compliance with Western security standards,” says Genys.
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According to Sekmokas, Germany even promised to provide electricity to Lithuania, although it was not clear how this would be implemented.
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Sekmokas, the former energy minister, recalls the night in 2009 when “we went from being an electricity-exporting country to a deficit country overnight”. The price of electricity immediately went up by 30 percent, which caused dissatisfaction among the population.
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In the end, “we did not see any direct actions or measures of influence from Russia” he adds. “Apparently, Russia’s calculation was simple: Lithuania was losing a large source of electricity.”
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If Moscow had wanted to sabotage the decommissioning process, Auštrevičius says, it could have used the staff at the Ignalina NPP, many of whom were Russians with “multiple” contacts with Russian special services.
Tyskland var förstås pådrivande för avvecklingen - och Putin gnuggade händerna. Men det finns
andra mål i Kursk-området än en utväxling mot Zaporizjzja:
Gazprom's gas transit via Ukraine to continue Thursday amid reported clashes near Russia's Sudzha town
Reuters skrev:Gazprom (GAZP.MM) will continue to ship gas through Ukraine to Europe on Thursday, Ukraine's gas transit operator said on Wednesday, amid unconfirmed reports Kyiv's forces had seized the Russian firm's measuring station near the border town of Sudzha.
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In May 2022, at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian transit operator stopped transporting gas on an alternative branch line through the transit point of Sokhranivka close to the Luhansk region in the east.
Ukraine said Russian forces had started taking gas transiting through Ukraine and sending it to two Russia-backed separatist regions in the country's east.
Ungern, Slovakien och Österrike följer säkert utvecklingen med spänning. Dessutom går den viktiga järnvägen mellan Lgov och Belgorod förbi just Sudzha...