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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 10:18am On Sep 07, 2024
naptu2:
Nairaland has been in a war with spammers for many years. People want to bombard Nairaland with adverts and posts that have nothing to do with the topic of the threads that they are on. You must have seen the betting, pornography, giveaway or advert posts at some point or the other.

Spammers can overwhelm Nairaland by making a lot of posts in a short period of time. Nairaland has adopted many measures to counter the spammers. There is the anti-spam bot which is programmed to look out for certain words or characters that spammers usually use and hide such posts and ban Nairalanders who post them. Nairaland also limits the number of posts that you can create in a minute and the number of threads that you can create in a day. It is also for this reason there are systems that try to verify that you are a human being and not a spam robot.

In the past month or thereabout, a spammer has been bombarding Nairaland with spam pictures. Sometimes the entire second page of front page threads are filled with just the spammer's photos. He created many robot accounts, so that more accounts would post the photos whenever some accounts were banned. He was using photos in order to get around the anti-spam bot (you can't track the words that he was using because the words were in a photo).

To combat this, Nairaland has had to limit the number of photos that users can post in a day. It has had to increase the checks against spam robots. It has also had to adopt other measures to defeat the spam robots.

I watched as the spammer was creating many posts on my thread, but his pictures were not being attached and he eventually gave up.
Wow!


But I'm sure there are other ways Seun and the mods can tackle this issue rather than restricting everyone from posting a certain amount of pictures in a day.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 9:47pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan responded to US government schizophrenic statements:

"External forces are not attempting to interfere in the U.S. presidential election,' stated U.S. intelligence.

Well, hello there! Then what was that you pulled off yesterday? Our partisans were hiding in their burrows all night. They'll come out again any minute now!

So, be careful with such statements. You might jinx it."
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 7:05pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, WSJ reports.

Washington has informed allies of the Iranian move in the past couple of days, European officials said.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 7:04pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheev revealed that several countries in the Middle East and Africa have expressed interest in the Russian light tactical fighter, Checkmate.

Proposals have already been sent to potential partners. The Checkmate is designed to be both unmanned and two-seater, offering versatile options for future operations.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 6:19pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡The United States and Iraq have reached an understanding on plans to withdraw US-led coalition forces from Iraq.

The plan is broadly agreed upon but still needs final approval from both governments and an announcement date.

Hundreds of troops are expected to leave by September 2025. The remaining troops would depart by the end of 2026.

The US has approximately 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in neighboring Syria. Other coalition nations, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, also contribute hundreds of troops.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 6:17pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡Unconfirmed reports of shooting at Joppatowne High School in Harford County, Maryland
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 6:16pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡Trump suggests he will limit US sanctions on Russia and Iran if he wins.

"You’re losing Iran, you’re losing Russia. China is out there trying to get their currency to be the dominant currency."


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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 6:08pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡Estonia’s Justice Minister Liisa Pakosta has told the BBC her country is considering whether to house foreign prisoners in one of its jails.

She said she discussed prisons with UK Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood at an AI summit in Vilnius on Thursday.

But she said there were no “agreements or anything like that” with the Labour government.
The UK is dealing with an overcrowding crisis in prisons, with the population in England and Wales at a record high.

With few spaces left in cells, the government will release about 3,000 prisoners from jails next week, under a temporary scheme.

This will come after a report in the Telegraph said criminals could serve their sentences in Estonian prisons under plans being considered by ministers.


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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 5:54pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) claims Iran could have a nuclear bomb before the presidential election, and suggests U.S. troops need to be deployed to the region immediately to counter such an outcome, Fox News reports
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 4:22pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡The U.S. has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $250 million.
It includes:

- RIM-7 missiles and air defense assistance
- Stinger missiles
- Ammunition for HIMARS
- Artillery ammunition in 155mm and 105mm calibers
- TOW missiles
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-tank systems
- Bradley infantry fighting vehicles
- M113 armored personnel carriers
- Mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs)
- Small arms ammunition and grenades
- Patrol boats
- Equipment for naval training
- Demolition equipment and ammunition
- Spare parts, support equipment, services, training, and transportation.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 3:57pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡🇷🇺 SERGEY LAVROV:

"The United States has become more active in Asia, primarily Southeast, East and North Asia.

But its activities differ from ours.

They do not respect the rules created by the ASEAN nations, which were considered the core element and the driving force of all processes in that part of the world.

The United States does not respect these rules.

It wants to split ASEAN so as to contain China.

It makes no secret of its intentions.

A new term has been invented, Indo-Pacific strategy, in accordance with which the United States is creating exclusive interest clubs.


It has created AUKUS (Australia, the UK, and the United States).

It has also created QUAD, and is actively inviting our Indian friends to take part in its activities.

Our Indian colleagues try to avoid participation in the events of that quadrilateral group (its other members are Japan, the United States and Australia), which are notoriously provocative.

Nevertheless, the process is ongoing.

They have created the Indo-Pacific Four (Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand) and are trying to establish a QUAD-like organisation with the Philippines in place of India.

Once banned intermediate- and shorter-range missiles are being deployed there, just as they were previously deployed in Denmark in Europe.


They are brought to the Philippines now.

This is being done within the formats where Russia, China and many other countries are not invited.

We use different approaches.

They want to dictate their will.

They think that the South China Sea is an area where the Americans must assert control and take care of problems, just like in the Taiwan Strait."
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 3:41pm On Sep 06, 2024
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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg:
🇺🇦 KIEV SENT 15 TRUCKS WITH DEAD BODIES TO SWEDEN.

The attack on a military communications institute in Poltava and a training center for specialists in electronic warfare and surveillance is beginning to take on new details. Official Kiev says about 50 soldiers have been killed and more than 200 wounded.

Military experts, including Western ones, confirm the deaths of about 600 people, including Czech, German and French "specialists". And Sweden is in complete shock at the loss of the entire leadership of the SAAB long-range radar detection and control systems in Poltava.

Crossing Russian red lines is life-threatening
Western journalists and experts continue to discuss the "attack of the century" and report more and more details of the extreme losses.


According to British expert Alexander Mercouris, shared on his blog, among those destroyed in the Iskander strike were specialists trained by the Swedes to operate the AWACS surveillance systems of reconnaissance aircraft.

King Charles XVI of Sweden shuddered at the word "Poltava".

It is already known that German, French and British soldiers served as instructors at the Poltava Military Institute. Their task was to train cadets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to work with unmanned aerial systems supplied to the Ukrainian army from NATO countries.

But in addition to UAV instructors, there were also top Swedish specialists in electronic warfare and radar systems. The Swedes trained the Ukrainians to work on ASC 890 aircraft to detect long-range radar targets.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 2:24pm On Sep 06, 2024
⚡ "Azerbaijan was not and will not be part of the anti-Russian sanctions campaign."

– Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 11:22am On Sep 06, 2024
Wow.... What happened to as long as it takes?

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 11:21am On Sep 06, 2024
⚡Russia will impose domestic restrictions on US media outlets in response to Washington’s sanctions on Russian state-funded news network RT, the Kremlin said on Friday.

“There will certainly be measures here that will restrict their media disseminating their information,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state RIA Novosti news agency.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 8:02am On Sep 06, 2024
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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 10:33pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡Hundreds of people have been evacuated within a half-mile radius due to a massive chemical plant fire. Authorities are bracing for an explosion in Akron, Ohio.

Currently Numerous homes and businesses within a half-mile radius have been evacuated due to a hazardous situation in Akron, Ohio, following a fire at a chemical plant called Cokey Laboratory.

The presence of various chemicals, large amounts of propane tanks, and other explosive materials inside the plant has made the situation extremely dangerous.

The fire chief stated, "We’re putting our firefighters in jeopardy by keeping them in there because the fire is being fed by everything inside.

The building is expected to explode, and there’s a risk of it going 'big boom he said so far no injuries have been reported but they are keeping a very close eye on the situation
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 10:05pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡Belarus Army is now installing cages on its military equipment, near the border with Ukraine.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 10:01pm On Sep 05, 2024
shoodboi2:
That's true. It's been a while I heard it on this forum. Even Nairaland has slowed down on their anti-Russian propaganda.

Defeat is a bad thing. Slava Rossiya 🇷🇺🇷🇺
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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 9:50pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡Former EU commissioner and former French foreign minister Michel Barnier has been appointed as France's new prime minister, reports AFP.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 9:19pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡Algeria has recently expelled approximately 20,000 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries to neighboring Niger since the beginning of this year, according to a non-governmental organization.

Alarme Phone Sahara, which assists migrants in the Sahel region, reported that these expulsions often occurred under severe conditions and included women and children.

Between January and August 2024, the organization documented 19,798 expulsions, as confirmed by their communications officer, Mokhtar Dan Yai.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 9:18pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡Ukraine claims there were 700 servicemen in the Poltava Military Institute of Communication at the time of the Russian strike.

https://strana.today/news/471578-komitet-rady-po-oborone-na-zakrytom-zasedanii-obsudil-udar-po-institutu-svjazi.html

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 7:49pm On Sep 05, 2024
Kingsnairaland:
The production of combat aircraft in the USSR was: in the second half of

1941 - 8.2 thousand,

in 1942 - 21.7 thousand,

in 1943 - 39.9 thousand,

in 1944 - 33.2 thousand and

for January - August 1945 - 19.1 thousand aircraft, that is,

in total, 112.1 thousand aircraft

were produced during the war years.
22 Sept 2021
https://www.quora.com › How-ma...
How many planes did the Soviet Union have in WW2? - Quora

Russia were not handicapped in ww two

Even tanks Russia built no nation could match them during the war
Thank you 🙏🏻
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 7:39pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡Putin:

The new BRICS members are self sufficient and with their own distinctive cultures.

BRICS membership implies economical and cultural sovereignty.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 7:36pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡🇷🇺 SERGEY LAVROV:

"President Putin has repeatedly stressed that 'we are open to contacts with the countries of the 'collective West' on the understanding that they pivot away from their openly hostile course towards our country'.

Any unfriendly moves will still be met with a tough response.

The ball is not in our court, it is up to those who set out to deliberately destroy their relations with Russia and demonise our land and our nation.

This is a new development in Western policy.


Up until recently, they would say that Russia had 'the wrong government'.

Today, they are saying that the Russian people are 'wrong'.

We are prepared for any turn of events.

We will judge the West’s intentions by its actions, not by its demagogy.

For the time being, we will devote our efforts to strengthening the foundations of a multipolar world that are clearly coming together.

One of our priorities is establishing the Eurasian security architecture and building the Greater Eurasian Partnership.


The concepts of ensuring security, in which we were somehow involved, were purely Euro-Atlantic until recent time.

They, of course, included NATO and the existing back then Russia-NATO Council, the OSCE, and the Euro-Atlantic system, as well as the European Union and all the cooperation mechanisms that existed between us and the EU.

Even though it is still called the European Union, the Euro-Atlantic dimension has always been large enough in its policy, economy and international relations.

Now they have simply merged by signing an agreement with NATO in January 2023, in which Brussels voluntarily assumed a subordinate role in that partnership."


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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 7:18pm On Sep 05, 2024
emmaodet:
But hold on oooo, how does joining EU has to do with hating Russia?
What kind of criteria is that? For God sake in this present age.
That you need to hate Russia and work against it is a major criteria for joining EU?
What kind of groups or countries are these EU sef?
This is really really very bad
I said it a while back.


The number one criteria for anyone planning on joining the EU or associating with the west is HATING Russia & Sanctioning Russia.


Their hate will be their end.


The world isn't blind, automatically the rest of the world will sympathize with Russia for this reason alone.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg: 7:15pm On Sep 05, 2024
⚡ANWAR IBRAHIM:

"Russia is not just a strategic and economic reality that commands attention.

Indeed, as a cultural, intellectual and scientific force, Russia’s prominence on the global stage transcends the confines of commerce and geopolitics, reaching deep into the very fabric of human history and thought.

Russia’s pre-eminence stems not from military might or economic leverage, crucial as that may be, but from the enduring power of ideas, the beauty of artistic expression and an unwavering pursuit of knowledge.

These achievements form the bedrock of the remarkable soft power earning Russia a place of global respect and admiration, influencing the hearts and minds of peoples around the world.

For me personally, this influence is most powerfully felt in literature.


I say this with an honest conviction because having drunk deeply from the wellsprings of English and Malay literature in my early education, and then later having immersed in the works of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton, I do believe that life would be so much poorer without literature, particularly Russian literature.

In this regard, I can’t sing enough praise for the great Russian authors and poets who have explored the profound complexities of life, unparalleled insight, and whose works have had a lasting impact on my understanding of society and the human condition.

For instance, the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, just to name a few, delve into the moral and philosophical dilemmas that define what it means to be human.


While Dostoevsky challenges us to engage with the intricacies of faith, doubt and the human soul, Tolstoy invites us to reflect on the nature of power, responsibility, and the passage of time, transcending the literary significance.

The appreciation of Russian literature manifests the depth of this great nation’s impact on global thought and its capacity to inform our understanding of our own ideas and our roles within the currents of history.

Furthermore, the appeal and power of Russian literature extends beyond its philosophical underpinnings.

Writers like Chekhov, Pushkin, Pasternak and also my favourite, Anna Akhmatova, have brought to life the joys, sorrows and struggles of everyday existence with the realism that has resonated with me deeply."


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Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WrriterNg:
⚡ EU and Serbia Clash Over Foreign Policy:

In a recent exchange between Serbia and the EU, Peter Stano, EU spokesperson, addressed Serbia's relations with Russia, stating, "Everyone knows what the process of joining the European Union entails. It certainly does not include maintaining usual relations with Russia.

We expect Serbia to refrain from expanding its contacts with Russia, as well as for all members of the Serbian government to respect the obligations Serbia has voluntarily undertaken as part of the EU accession process, including aligning with the EU's decisions and actions in foreign policy."


Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin responded sharply to Stano's remarks, saying, "I especially request the EU spokesperson to refrain from using terms like aggression, international law, or the UN Charter. After NATO's 1999 aggression against Serbia, the violation of Resolution 1244, and the recognition of so-called Kosovo, you have lost any right to speak about morality or international law. Your hypocrisy provokes both ridicule and disgust."


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Foreign AffairsRe: Putin Mockingly Endorses Kamala Harris For US President (Photos) by WrriterNg: 6:24pm On Sep 05, 2024
Guestlander:
Where do you get your own information from? The Nazis were killing millions of Russians and they couldn't use their Nukes?
How many Americans were killed at pearl Harbour before the US dropped the Nukes on Japan?
I don't deal with conspiracy theories, I don't have the time for that.
How many years were there between the first atomic bomb by the US and Russia?
Lol... you already answered your question.

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