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Azath Vitr (D, on 11 October 2026 - 07:13 PM, said:

The obvious answer is that he's trying to mess around with the markets, so that people close to him can make some money on the market jumps from the rumour mill.

If you want to be more generous, he keeps trying to make concessions to Moscow to get them to curb their aggression, and each time, Moscow is demonstrably stomping over his statements of "peace", thus demonstrating, quite publicly, that the US has no leverage to actually stop this war.

Azath Vitr (D, on 11 October 2026 - 06:59 PM, said:

Someone didn't tell Moscow about it, so it's moot already

Trump pronounced an "energy ceasefire"

several hours later, the orcs hit a thermal power plant in Kharkiv with jet-powered drones.

None of it is likely to reach the US before midterms, tbh.

They'll probably ship it from the Baltics, and that's a long trip. I don't think they can get stuff from the Far East, since they've shut down the 2 refineries tehre for maintenance and are buying from China and Korea.

it is such a dumb stunt, since it really does nothing for the US, and it also removes the veneer f lip service that UA was previously paying to the Washington. Obviously Kyiv isn't going to stop.

Head of Z-channel Rybar', his wife and 3 associates were arrested in Montenegro. He is wanted by the US, so that's gonna be fun.



Another strike on a Yandex data center. They only have 5 big ones, and they are well-known, sooo....

Kyiv is suffering from blackouts. The orcs are also continuing to terrorize main frontline cities. A few days ago we had 9 people killed in Kharkiv, 2 days ago over 20 were killed in Priluky (region center in Chernihiv Oblast), and yesterday a glide bomb hit 2 buses in Kramators'k. Over 30 people dead.

Apparently UA launched a combo drones + recon balloon attack on Moscow. The airports are closed, just as putler was supposed to be flying back from Turkmenistan. His plane(s) are being rerouted to St. Petersburg.



UAF sent more drones to the Lukoil refinery in Ukhta, Komi republic, but again, they seem to have failed to hit the processing units. For some reason, they haven't had a good hit on that one yet. Could be the combination of distance and cold, but then again, they managed more accurate hits in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, which is even further north, so ionno. (Ukhta is not quite Siberia, Komi is W of the Urals, but it's considered part of the Far North)