Russian invasion of Ukraine

I just saw on Wikipedia that the creator of the Bayraktar drone is married to Erdogan's daughter, so I imagine the manufacturer will do what they are told.

When you pillage a solar farm
https://twitter.com/wammezz/status/15399­55224055529479

Except it's still there, so this report was inaccurate.

I see the tweet has been deleted, were the pictures from during construction and post completion then?

Horrifying

"Estimates suggest that the Ukraine war entered the top quartile for total deaths as early as late May. And at a continued pace, the war will hit some 125,000 deaths if it lasts a year, well past the 80th percentile of wars."

This war will be among the deadliest of the last 200 years even if NATO and Russia manage not to slide into direct conflict

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2­022/06/23/ukraine-war-deaths-soldiers-hi­story/

While the statistics are indeed horrifying, the study quoted in the article seems a bit silly to me. Comparing wars where soldiers rode into battle with sabres drawn and wars fought with satellite guided artillery is odd.

How are they supposed to manage in Königsberg without ruzzian vodka?

Can't imagine a single village without a moonshine production point so they should be fine but it's actually an interesting situation - those sanctions apply to export and now everybody here is discussing whether transit through Lithuania counts as export or not.

And while every politic here was silent about it, Russians cried their eyes out, pushed somebody in Germany around and now somebody from the EU already proposed to make an exception for Kaliningrad and people here are going nuts that if we start making exceptions to Russia, it's just a matter of time until Russia makes some pact with Germany to exchange Lithuania for a gas subscription.

Oh wow, a transcript of phone conversation between Macron and Putin just before invasion.
I've got to admit it sounds way more tense than I've imagined. Putin is an absolute lunatic.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2­022/06/27/vladimir-putin-told-emmanuel-m­acron-would-rather-play-ice-hockey/