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bbc Russia has launched its "most powerful blow" against Ukraine's energy sector so far this year, according to the private energy company, DTEK. The combined missile and drone strikes which targeted power plants and infrastructure in Kyiv and multiple locations left the system operating with "serious restrictions", it said. The strikes were launched as temperatures dropped to -20C (-4F) and left more than 1,000 tower blocks in the capital without heating once again and damaged a power plant in the eastern city of Kharkiv beyond repair. President Zelensky has said more than 70 ballistic and cruise missiles were fired - significantly more than usual - together with 450 drones which are used to overwhelm Ukraine's air defences. Ukraine's Air Force said it had intercepted only 38 of the missiles, which means many reached their target. Officials here have complained repeatedly of a shortage of missiles to protect the skies. Ukraine relies on US-made Patriot missiles, in particular. DTEK says some of the plants targeted were providing heating only, not electricity, which means they were exclusively for civilian use. The Geneva Convention makes clear that targeting civilian infrastructure is a potential war crime.

Upravo ti vrtis gomilu reci i ponavljas stvari koji su tvoja losa percepcija. Ukrajnski rat jeste najkrvaviji u poslednjih 50 godina, verovatno i duze, primeri koje si nabrojao su vrlo diskutabilni i kad se uzme neka mera - broj ubijenih, raseljenih, proteranih, razorenih gradova i sela, puteva, otimanje tudje zemlje, ratni zlocini, zlocini protiv covecnosti, vremenski okvir itd, ovaj rat jeste najstrasniji koji svet pamti od ww2. A ti se igraj gimnastikom i izbegavaj cinjenice da bi dokazao nedokazivo. I nastavi da vrtis mantru o 'zlom (kolektivnom) zapadu', mada vidim da si se sada usredsredio na USA i da dokazujes da je Rusija mlecno dete u zlodelima (tvoje reci), sto je takav nonsens koji kao da je izasao iz usta cinicnog Lavrova dok opravdava zlodela koja cini njegova armija i drzava. A tvoj zakljucak da je Izrael izvrsio genocid je tvoj zakljucak, relevantne medjunarodne organizacije imaju (uglavnom) drugacije misljenje. Ja bih sacekao malo sa tom tvrdnjom, makar do neke obimnije istrage, narocito zbog toga sto su Jevreji osetili na sopstvenoj kozi sta je genocid i vrlo verovatno da bi pouceni tim iskustvom znali da ga primene da to zaista zele. A onda bi Palestinaca danas bilo koliko i Jevreja da Hamas ima vojnu moc kao Izrael.

Upravo je tvoj post primer dvostrukih standarda, opravdavanje najkrvavijeg i najstasnijeg rata u poslednjih pola veka. A i pre svega opravdavanje ruske agresije na suverenu državu jer je 'zli zapad' (kolektivni, naravno) nekad negde izvrsio nesto slicno (naravno nikad isto), iako svi ti 'zli zapadni' ratovi nisu iza sebe ostavili zrtava koliko dva-tri meseca ukrajnskog pakla. Pri tome, nije kako kazes - prvi put, krvavi tragovi ruske agresije i krsenja medjunarodnog prava su i danas vidljivi u Gruziji i Moldaviji, po istom paternu otimanja teritorija, ratnih zlocina, krsenja obicaja rata i preseljenja stanovnistva, samo ne u tom obimu kao u Ukrajni. Koja je, ponavljam, najveci i najstasniji primer dvostrukih standarda svih vas koji egzaltirano kritikujete 'zli (kolektivni) zapad' a zmurite na sto puta vecu nesrecu u Ukrajni.

to je tvoje, kreativno tumacenje, na koje imas pravo ali koje nije tacno.

Nema opravdanja za genocid, ali ako se vratimo na definiciju genocida, sukob Hamasa i IDFa tesko da moze da se podvede pod kategoriju genocida. Naravno, neosporne su nevine zrtve u ovom sukobu. Ali ne treba zaboraviti da je zrtve medju Palestincima ostavio i sam Hamas, egzekucijama onih koji po njima nisu dovoljno 'lojalni'. Ne znam jel i oni idu u ovu Hamasovu procenu od 70k ubijenih. A rat u Ukrajni pominjem u kontekstu dvostrukih standarda jer je, valjda, sasvim u redu ubijati, proterivati, raseliti, kidnapovati decu i menjati im nacionalnost i drzavljanstvo, okupirati medjunarodno priznate teritorije samo ako to radi protivnik 'zlog koletivnog zapada'. Kog briga za milione srusenih kuca ili milione izbeglica? Ili stotine hiljada ubijenih, iskasapljenih, ranjenih, obogaljenih?

Nema sta da 'priznaju', to su brojke Hamasa. Koliko vidim, oni su samo tu Hamasovu brojku prihvatili. Opet, samo delic zrtava u odnosu na pokolj u Ukrajni koji se pred celim svetom desava vec skoro 4 godine.

Clinton Nyapara Mogesa, 29, initially left Kenya for a job in Qatar in 2024, and his family later learned that he had then travelled to Russia. On Saturday, Ukrainian authorities reported that he had died in a so-called "meat assault" - one involving high casualty numbers - in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, after being recruited in Qatar. They said the Russians did not evacuate his body, and he was carrying the passports of two other Kenyans. Ukraine's intelligence assessment estimates that more than 1,400 people from 36 countries in Africa have been recruited to fight for Russia.

U redu je da igramo domacu ligu, ali ja se pitam zasto igramo ovu ligu? Ako i to EL zahteva, mogli smo da regisrujemo 10 juniora i to je to. Ovako uopste ne kapiram poentu igrati takmicenje, rizikovati povrede, trositi novac, boriti se sa umorom, a sustinski ti se zivo fucka pobedio ili izgubio. Kakva je poenta igrati ligu i utakmice gde te nije briga da li pobedjujes ili gubis? Kog je briga za takvo takmicenje? Kako navijaci mogu da se posvete tom takmicenju gde je svejedno da li pobedjujes ili gubis? Za kog se igra liga ako navijace zabole i za utakmicu i za ligu?

Voleo bih da mi neko ponudi razuman odgovor na pitanje - zasto mi igramo ovu ligu?

Zali boze talenta koji se trosi u utakmicama sa Samarom.

bbc The US president called it "very nice" of his Russian counterpart to agree to an energy truce. But details were sparse from the start. The next day, the Kremlin clarified that Putin's burst of good will expires on Sunday, just as the coldest weather bites. There is usually a week or more gap between massive aerial attacks in any case, so it's unclear whether Russia has actually paused anything. There has been no major strike since 24 January, when hundreds of tower blocks in Kyiv lost power and heating. Ukraine's heating system is breaking down though. The Geneva Convention, the laws of war, bans attacks on infrastructure that cause excessive harm to civilians. But this is the fourth winter in a row that the energy grid has been targeted by Russia deliberately, leaving it more fragile and harder to repair after each successive strike. There were widespread power outages across western and central Ukraine on Saturday after a "technical disruption" affected power lines connecting its grid to those of Romania and Moldova, its government said. Engineers have been drafted in from Ukraine's national rail company and elsewhere, working around the clock to restore electricity, and to defrost and patch up the heating pipes that run beneath giant apartment blocks in Dnipro, Kyiv and beyond. An extended pause in strikes on the sector would provide a welcome break, but few Ukrainians trust Russia to deliver that.

Mislis na Rubia?

Koliko vidim, Kuba je 'u konopcima' posle blokade Venecuele. Mislim, tamo se nikad nije zivelo 'na visokoj nozi', ali sad su bas u problemu. Struje imaju redje od Ukrajinaca (srecom je ne trebaju za grejanje) a od kad je i Meksiko resio da im vise ne salje humanitarnu naftu, pitanje je trenutka kad ce privreda potpuno da se urusi. Prosecne plate ispod 50 dolara, nijedna zdrava fasada u velikim gradovima, redovi za gorivo gori nego kod nas devedesetih, tv i radio stanice su suspendovale programe, samo ona najbitnija ima program od nekoliko sati dnevno, vojska se ukopava u nedodjijama i sprema za rat 'do istrebljenja'. Ukratko, bas besperspektivna situacija za njih.

Da, to su bile dugorocne projekcije koje smo citali jos krajem 2023. Jos tada je Rusija planirala povecanje ulaganja u vojsku i vojnu industriju '24 i '25, a smanjenje '26. Mada je tesko verovatno da bi takvo eventualno smanjenje mogli da priuste ako front ostane aktivan u meri u kojoj je danas. Jos nesto od danas pominjanog Merza DW German Chancellor Friedrich Merz denounced Russia's "daily war crimes" against Ukraine's civilian population. "We are witnessing the ruthless bombing of Ukraine's entire civilian infrastructure, particularly its energy infrastructure," Merz said. "These are daily war crimes committed by the Russian side against Ukraine and its people," he added. Merz expressed skepticism that Russia was truly prepared for a ceasefire, followed by a peace agreement. "We can only say that we are doing everything we can to end this war diplomatically, humanitarily, and militarily. However, the key to ending the war has been in Moscow for four years," he stressed.

Sta znam, cini mi se da solidan broj republikanaca nije, blago receno, odusevljen Trumpovom politikom i onim sto radi MAGA, ali da su trenutno u manjini i glas skoro da im se i ne cuje.