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iykofias:
Destroyed armored personnel carrier YPR-765 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.

Before Ukraine used to be winning on SM now it is Russia winning on SM and Ukraine the other way round.

Perm Gunpowder Plant, which produces Grad and Smerch weaponry for Russian troops, reportedly went up in flames.

Video footage showed a plume of smoke rising in the distance, with some witnesses claiming to have seen the explosion at the time of the attack.

Two of those who were killed were allegedly burned alive while more are feared dead and could be buried under the rubble.

The building also makes engine charges for aircraft missiles, booster systems for cruise missiles and products for the A-135 missile defence system.

- mailonline

The time you spent login in and out of multiple accounts could have been spent wisely doing something tangible.

With that your laptop you finally presented as newly acquired, you should be posting works and seeking inspiration for what to do next and be relaxing with insulting posts to people you don't know.

Niceiroko:
Appointee is different from a politician both mind their businesses

the process of politics itself was meant to bring about random selection of the most capable hands to oversee the affairs of men concerning physical issues. If the spirit of God can make Christians excel above their peers why should the best minds be exempted from ruling over the affairs of men.
If a Christian can be a class monitor, then he or she can be a politician.

Joseph and Daniel were top political appointees who excelled above their local gods serving peers all by the reason of their relationship with God.
They also faced scandals and trials like today's politics will throw at any "Jew".

The anointing is a mystery and works in mysterious ways.

As anointed as Elijah was, he needed a variety of mysterious kingdom tools to escape physical danger.

I don't know what OP's problem with the anointing is.

By the power of the anointing Elijah walked in, he knew when to seek angelic covering. He knew when to run from physical danger. Same cannot be ruled out for Johnson Suleiman with an empty emotional rant from someone here.

okeysoninv:
when we told them Russia has finished they thought we are bluffing. I see china trying to take part of Siberia . watch out

To me Russia cannot be easily finished given their natural resources and intellectual manpowers but what struck me was how poor some regions are within that Russia. It is like Fulani Hausa relationship. Systematically neglected and intellectual enslaved Hausas are doing the bidding of Fulani masters today in insecurity crisis because it is easier to lure them with poverty. Fulanis only became more involved when their brother got to power and even at that, engage in the financially rewarding crimes unlike illiterate Hausa's.

To think within russia, the acclaimed world power by Putardinhos, they are using rams and groceries to lure the men to battle front with next to no weapons. I am so confused.
Like Nigeria we like to see ourselves as the giant of Africa when few men plundering our resources show off but are the poverty capital of the world. Russia too with all those oligarchy are so poor, rams and groceries are used to bribe them to battle. How much is a ram? 200 USD ?

fasho01:
They are 2 parallel lines

how?

His outburst is all the more significant since his region is also the home of heavily-criticised Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, who Putin has steadfastly refused to fire despite strong demands for his head over the failure of the military campaign.

Tuva - an impoverished region - has suffered a high death toll during the war, far more than Moscow.

The region also saw protests - violently crushed by Putin's law enforcement - over men being sent to the war.

Messages seen within a Telegraph channel said the Tuvan conscript also questioned whether it was worth tolerating their leaders when they treated conscripts so badly.

mailonline

PlayMaker14:
Don't give out a single dime, nor give her shishi.... Paying for what you did not use is injustice.

If she's compelling you to pay, tell her you are not paying anything in a calm and convincing way.

You nor go fear cow, come fear E shit join na... Haba!!

Without security her place can be visited by bad boys. She can pay that one.

Egusi due its versatility. Pounded yam, rice, Semo, Garri, Fufu, Yam, and every swallow generally.
One thing I ask, empty all the stock from tomato and ogbono into the egusi to give it momentum.

On September 21, I woke up to the news that my country had announced a “partial mobilisation”. The details given by President Vladimir Putin were vague; reports by independent media claimed that unpublished parts of his draft decree put a mobilisation target of one million people.

Almost immediately after the announcement, I started receiving calls for help on Telegram, asking for advice on how to flee Russia. Some of my friends who had left before the war and I organised a chat group to answer questions on which countries do not require a visa, how to rent a cheap apartment and set up a bank account. The chat accumulated more than 150 potential draftees fleeing the country in just three days. Some of them had already received notices from the military office, but most had not and had no intention of risking getting one. This was one of many social media initiatives which, along with various organisations, have helped Russians flee the draft.

Within hours of the announcement, flights out of Russia were bought out and long queues formed at border crossings with neighbouring countries, including Georgia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. According to Russian media reports, by October 4, some 700,000 people had left the country.

Millions of Russians were affected directly or indirectly, whether they and their family members decided to stay, were drafted or left. It was clear that in his desperation, Putin was dragging Russians into a war that nobody but he needed.

The negative reaction to the “partial mobilisation” was registered even by pollsters – long seen as unable to provide an accurate reflection of public opinion in Russia. A poll conducted by independent pollster Levada Center registered a sharp increase in the number of people who said they were “very concerned” about the war in Ukraine – from 37 percent in August to 56 percent in September; that is in addition to 32 percent who say they are “rather concerned”.

Putin’s approval rating also took a hit. It dropped from 83 percent to 77 percent. But to many, 77 percent may still look like a large number for a president who is sending hundreds of thousands to a brutal war. How can that be reconciled with the 88 percent who say they are “very concerned” and “rather concerned” about the war in Ukraine? How can this be?

Since the war started, there has been a lot of debate about whether Putin’s popularity is as high as polls show. If one dives deep enough into how these surveys are conducted, it’s easy to see that the outcome couldn’t have been any different. As Dmitry Muratov – the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and chief editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta – explained in a recent interview, pollsters have much more information about people they call than just their phone number.

Russians are aware of that and when they get a call, asking whether they support Putin, they are much more likely to answer “yes”, fearing that a “no” may have negative consequences for them. Furthermore, as Muratov points out, the rate of those who refuse to respond in the first place is quite high – possibly around 75 percent. With such skewed analytics, no wonder the official results show that Putin’s approval rating is high.

But there is also another factor: the Kremlin’s industrial-sized propaganda machine, which is aimed at keeping the Russian population misinformed and politically passive.

This machine, along with a lack of political freedom and the recent purge of all major independent media outlets, has contributed to the formation of a layer of society known as “vatniki” “(from the Russian word for a type of warm coat). These people live shrouded in apathy generated by Putin’s propaganda, as if wrapped in a comfortable cotton coat.

They do not necessarily support the war or killing Ukrainians, but if Putin says that is what must be done, then, according to them, perhaps, he is right. Or, at least, that is how it has been for the past two decades: through the war with Georgia and the illegal occupation of its territories in 2008; the illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and the start of the war in the Donbas in 2014; and the intervention in the war in Syria in 2015.

The disappearance of imported European cheese and currency fluctuations aside, the vatniki never felt the impact of these reckless decisions by Putin. The Kremlin made sure that people lived their lives in isolation of these events, watching them on TV screens from the comfort of their living rooms, packaged as glorious conquests by media propagandists. War and international policy were, to the vatniki, nothing more than entertainment.

In a recent conversation about the inertia of the majority in Russia, a friend summed up the world of the vatniki quite well. She reflected on her grandmother’s behaviour: “She chooses nothing in her life or her country. She is not an active Putin supporter, she simply accepts everything she sees on TV. There’s no buffer of reflection between watching TV and creating an opinion. It’s not that she doesn’t express her opinion directly; it simply doesn’t exist.”

But the mobilisation shook things up. It put many Russian families at risk of losing their comfortable life and even their breadwinner – which is still a man in most Russian families. That made a lot of vatniki feel quite worried. It is one thing watching the news, cheering Russian soldiers as they grab territories of other countries, it is another having your grandson get drafted and die from a HIMARS strike.

Waking up from a peaceful slumber of propaganda manipulation is hard and, as in the case of the older generation of Russians, almost impossible at times. The Russian state media creates the illusion that politics is hard and that Putin is the only one able to handle it – so the Russian people might as well support him.

My grandmother, in her mid-sixties, who has two grandsons, said, “[This mobilisation] is the right thing to do, I am sure, but it would be better not to have it.” Then, as if catching herself saying something outrageous, she added, “Our country was simply forced into all these actions, and I would very much like it all to end as quickly as possible.”

A friend observed a similar reaction in her mother, a retired history teacher living in Saint Petersburg: “She asks not to talk about politics. Since the beginning of the war, she said that the government knows better. After the mobilisation, she just cries non-stop. But she will never say that he is against Putin. She’s afraid.”

Having fed the Russian people lies and the illusion of safety all these years, on September 21, Putin suddenly broke an unwritten social contract with them: guarantee stability and comfort, and avoid dragging them into his foreign policy adventures.

Now the illusory feeling of security under Putin’s rule is gone for many Russians. The mobilisation decree states no specific criteria on who might get drafted. And while government officials have tried to sugarcoat the draft by – for example – adding the word “partial” to it – there have been many reports of people being rounded up for military service without regard to the rules of who can and cannot be drafted.

But most of these violations of draft rules have happened far away from Moscow and St Petersburg, the country’s political centre, where the Kremlin wants to preserve peace and quiet. This has created a false sense of security among many of their residents.

As the first wave of mobilisation started to subside and some people realised they weren’t directly affected by it, they returned to their old habit of pretending the war didn’t concern them.

My mother, a middle-aged woman living in Moscow, is one of them. “At first, it was scary. Then it became calmer … in the end, none of my acquaintances was taken away. Perhaps the authorities decided to soften the pressure. But I don’t know what to expect next, and I don’t believe anyone,” she told me.

It is unclear how long the majority will be able to delude themselves that all is good. In the immediate future, at least, protest seems unlikely. As a friend of mine, an aspiring twenty-something politician who decided to stay in Moscow, even at the risk of getting drafted, to fight against the regime, told me: “The biggest problem in Russia is that people can’t unite; they’re atomised, and left feeling helpless.”

But as Russia’s disorganised army continues to face setbacks in the “annexed” regions, the screws will tighten. On October 19, Putin announced martial law in the occupied territories and imposed strict security measures in Russian regions. We might see the next stage of the mobilisation start, even if now Putin is saying that it will end in two weeks – a cheap attempt to calm down the people.

In the coming months, we may see more Russians receiving notices from all over the country. More families may lose loved ones on the battlefield; more people may lose friends and acquaintances. More people may be labelled “missing in combat” to not to inflate the Russian death toll in the war.

This, in addition to a collapsing economy – due to Western sanctions and Russia’s disproportionate military spending – may finally wake people up to the truth: Russia is a criminal state, with an illegitimate political system, broken judiciary and a government of crooks.

If the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was not enough to awaken people, then the corpses of sons and grandsons may be the ones to strip the vatniki of their cushioned lives and push them to the streets.

Aljazeera

Blakpot:
When reading it, I thought same... Its more of a case of the police avenging the death of their colleagues, rather than an attempt to cover up anything.
Despite it being unprofessional, its understandable their emotions can get the better of them.

so they prioritize unprofessional vengeance over knowing who his accomplices are that killed officers? That makes zero sense.
He should have been allowed to lead them to the rest attackers before even touching him.

Even If not for the sake of AJS, they should have held him alive for the sake of their comrades killed.
Clearly a cover up.

Who wants to fund 2023 ambition of a particular candidate? No one except his thieving cronies.

ariesbull:
that is war

more like jihad.

olugabbie:
300k reservists are currently undergoing training, which will be completed by Dec/Jan/Feb. The Wagner is also recruiting/training it own fighters. There are also volunteers undergoing training too. There are about 150k or more troops that are already at the frontline.

So do the maths. We are looking at around 600k troops, with these numbers, the Russians will be unstoppable. They can still call up more reservists if necessary.

The Russians are trying to hold the line, at the same time inflict heavy losses on the Ukrainians. They are also carrying out massive bombardment of the Ukrainians infrastructures. They are trying to disrupt the Ukrainians supply line and at the same time force the civilians to put pressure on the Ukrainian government.

The best of the best of Ukrainian troops are in Kherson. They are well trained and heavily armed. In fact, some were trained in UK. But they are finding it difficult to take Kherson from the Russians, despite using HIMARS to take out several Russian arm and fuel depots.

Russia will win this war and it influence will stretch from Africa to Asia to North America to South America to Europe.

shame on you and your propaganda crew.
Small Ukraine that is using Osusu weapons(contributed weapons) they can barely operate is what a world power Russia is calling hundreds of thousands of reservists for after 8 months.

Maybe part of the SMO too was to cripple the economy and kill civilians western Ukraine. Just give up, Putin is undefendable. He has no principles.

gaby:
You'd stop eating this trash the day you see how and where they are made....

Yuck...

Very unsanitary and unhygienic...

Na fat wey dem rub pepper mix come dry am for sun where flies go perch am tire...

If this is the procedure, a net can be used to shield the flies when under the sun to make it more hygienic. This is where the whites overtake us and achieve excellence.
They go the extra mile to eliminate unhygienic aspect.

A small mosquito net framed over the kilishi will block out flies and allow it recievw the needed sunlight. It may even be possible to use a drier to achieve the sun drying effect.

Uprightness100:
Today’s Russian attacks left over a million and a half Ukrainians without electricity. The goal to freeze Ukraine this winter is slowly reached.

The new Russian General that commands their operation, Sergei Surovikin, said a few days ago that this is the best way to win the war without sacrificing soldiers in the battlefield.

@underlined, Russia seem to have given up on winning a symmetrical warfare and have gradually settled for livelihood crippling things Ukraine cannot seem to reciprocate, the hallmark of terrorism. Shame on Russia.

This man will be another Jonathan with the way he will be signing documents he cannot comprehend the content and the implication of its content.
Overall, God has blesses us with many such leaders. From YarAdua, to GEJ to Buhari and the likely trio of Obi/Atiku/Tinubu.

Army' of Russians dragged into spluttering Ukraine invasion includes overweight middle-aged men and women learning how to handle machine guns in bizarre scenes at training camp

Bizarre new pictures have emerged of unassuming, middle-aged Russian civilians handling assault rifles
Adults not on the frontlines were called to training sessions in Russia's Rostov region to prepare for combat
Participants paired khaki helmets and padded vests with rigid blue jeans and freshly manicured nails
They said they would be prepared to defend their country and families if it became necessary to do so
Military training is also underway for the conscripts called to the frontline under Putin's 'partial mobilisation'


mailonline

Moscow's strip clubs are hit by Putin's war as wealthy Russians flee abroad to avoid being called up to fight in Ukraine (while conscripts get two free dances before going off to die)

At Golden Girls in Moscow, numbers started to decrease from February

Lucky Lee, owner of club, is offering special deals to men conscripted by Putin

Lee said that the men are offered two private dances and drinks free of charge

They are offered these after they show the clubs their mobilisation summons




mailonline

Omihanifa:
It’s really sad. This flood already shows that Nigeria can’t really survive natural disaster.

We have human disaster to compensate for natural disaster elsewhere.

Gtovr:
The Ukrainian authorities, backed by their Western sponsors, have long been using terrorist methods on Russian territory, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.

"There are many examples of that but a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge was the climax of these activities," he noted.

you 'annexed' regions officially just some days ago but say the defenders have been using foul tactics for long.
Someone had already concluded in his mind the 'annexation' and is making a grave propaganda error on a public forum.

Uprightness100:
DECEIVERS:
Zuckerberg, an outspoken proponent of climate change activism, owns a private jet which burned more than $158,000 worth of jet fuel in less than two months.

I don't think his advocacy for climate change contradicts his use of so much fuel.
There are no renewable energy jets yet.

Oddfinder001:
Adeleke only reclaimed his stollen mandate. We all saw how he was forced on osun ppl. If not coercion and vote buying, the margin would've been large

that's because voters were hungry under oyetolla who couldn't pay salary. What is he trying to do with 12000 workers when older employees are being owed. If the state was financially buoyant, why are employees owed?

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seunayantokun:
Politicians are heartless. People you didn't employ in 4 years, you now suddenly put to work to create problems for the incoming administration. How do you want them to be paid?

Same man who couldn't repay debt nor pay salaries of employees fully. Very wicked and heartless bunch.

A gov that cannot pay salary and debt for 4 years suddenly has money to pay 12,000 workers. Wonderful.

Ogun state or Anambra?

They more often than not have sad end. From America to Europe to Africa, it is a similar story.
The other time it was a 15 million guy from Delta state.

Fake news.