FfFfFfFF 58,366 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 It seems that the Battle for Severodonetsk, city with a pre-war population of around 100k in eastern Ukraine, reached its most intense stage. The Russians managed to briefly capture a hotel in the northern part of the city a few days ago. Then they lost it, but now they are advancing further within Severodonetsk towards the city center. According to reports, Russia might be in control of around half the city's territory. The city is probably deserted and largely destroyed by now (more or less similar to Mariupol), this is tragic to see. More in depth description of what has happened along the frontlines: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis 8,391 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 The situation in Ukraine is rather alarming these days. At this rate they may have the full donbas within weeks or months. And you know when Russia controls something it never lets go. The West should've armed Ukraine with more capable weapons a long time ago. The surging oil prices are making sanctions ineffective especially at a time when Oil companies in the U.S, and gulf countries refuse to increase production. This just shows how weak the West is becoming. A 1.5 trillion$ economy somehow manages to bully the **** out of an alliance that controls 50% of the world's economy. Go figure... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 58,366 Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Dennis said: The situation in Ukraine is rather alarming these days. At this rate they may have the full donbas within weeks or months. And you know when Russia controls something it never lets go. After Severodonetsk, Russia will have to take Lysychansk in order to completely secure Luhanks (so far they have 95-96%?? of it), now this won't be a hard task. However, in Donetsk the situation is different as the Russians failed to break through the defences in many parts, where the frontlines are still the ones from 2014. This is not insignificant. Before 24 February, Russia had around 30%? of Donetsk, now probably have 50%, following the math it will take some months to completely seize it. What is worse is that clearly the Russians and Ukrainians will fight teeth and nail for every inch of Donetsk. Much blood will be shed here in the following months, this is tragic. In November last year, there was a viral clip of the icon of the Virgin Mary of Donetsk crying with tears of blood. Only God knew the carnage that was awaiting this place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,907 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 6 hours ago, Dennis said: The situation in Ukraine is rather alarming these days. At this rate they may have the full donbas within weeks or months. And you know when Russia controls something it never lets go. The West should've armed Ukraine with more capable weapons a long time ago. The surging oil prices are making sanctions ineffective especially at a time when Oil companies in the U.S, and gulf countries refuse to increase production. This just shows how weak the West is becoming. A 1.5 trillion$ economy somehow manages to bully the **** out of an alliance that controls 50% of the world's economy. Go figure... Gulf Countries aren't really refusing. They don't really have the capacity in General as investments haven't kept up with drained reserves. They are severely underhitting their own Quota so even if they raise the quota fully it won't do much. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are the only 2 OPEC Countries believed to have any actual spare capacity but then that gets complicated, for them to produce above their Quota they would have to leave OPEC which they will never do Something similar is happening in the US. While companies got more cautious since the last Oil Massacre that left a bunch of oil companies bankrupt and they are less willing to throw all their profits to growing production even more, they haven't stopped investing and growing still but they are hitting up against labor shortages, equipment shortages from supply disruptions, workers that left oil permanently after the last crash and don't wanna come back and high inflation in doing business. All of that is slowing down the rate of growth To say everyone is just "refusing", I think it's a little more complicated than that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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