Russia - Ukraine war part ll. News and Discussions

[Viet]

The youtube videos are neutral and cover both sides well. @Viet on the other hand is a lunatic with his millions of Russians killed crap.

I am neutral. Putin is a psycho. Russia has no future. Millions Russians, Ukrainians dying. For what? That’s the reality. I pray for their souls.
Russia will be forever in wars as long as he is in power. He failed to step down from power when getting old. He is a resurrection of Stalin.
When he was young he was a nice guy. He told jokes in Vietnamese.

 

[Soldier35]

A Ukrainian drone is engaged using small arms. This footage shows Russian mobile air defense fire teams operating in the Donbas and Ukraine. Small arms are used to take down Ukrainian army drones. The exact location of the filming is not disclosed.

 

[Mobius]

What a Legend!

 

[Yommie]

DOBROPILLYA DEFENSES COLLAPSE Russian Spearheads Enter Southern Districts | Push Toward Center​

 

[Yommie]

MASSIVE STRIKE ON UKRAINE: Kyiv, Dnipro Hit Zaporizhzhia: Bridge Badly Damaged MS 2026.10.07​

 

[Yommie]

The rebels pumping out more Su-34 bombers to put the pressure on the government forces. It is anticipated Su-34 eventually be replaced with domestically built J-36 bombers built under license.

 

[Yommie]

The last bit of government held part of Pokrovsk raion is about to fall to the rebels.

 

[冖_冖]

Hong Kong becomes Russia’s gold gateway to China as bullion flows shatter records

(Kitco News) – Western sanctions have upended traditional gold flows, with Russian bullion that would normally go to London now pouring into Hong Kong at a record pace on its way to mainland China and other Asian markets.According to an analysis of Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department data...

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Hong Kong becomes Russia’s gold gateway to China as bullion flows shatter records​

Oct 07, 2026 - 4:48 AM

(Kitco News) – Western sanctions have upended traditional gold flows, with Russian bullion that would normally go to London now pouring into Hong Kong at a record pace on its way to mainland China and other Asian markets.

According to an analysis of Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department data by BullionVault, Hong Kong imported 112.7 tonnes of Russian-origin gold in just the first seven months of 2026. This far surpassed the record 92.1 tonnes of Russian gold imported during all of 2025. Russian bullion accounted for almost 15% of Hong Kong’s non-monetary gold imports in the first seven months of this year, up from just 0.6% in 2021.

Analysts told CNBC that the dramatic increase highlights the ways that Russia’s gold trade has been rerouted since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, when its gold producers were shut out of major Western markets.

“Hong Kong has emerged as an important hub for Russia-China trade since the full-scale invasion,” Vita Spivak, senior consultant at Gatehouse Advisory Partners told the network. “Most gold goes to mainland China, as it hasn’t placed sanctions on Russian gold.”

“For bullion specifically, Hong Kong also offers advantages beyond sanctions circumvention,” she added. “It provides direct access to the world’s largest gold-consuming market.”

The London Bullion Market Association suspended all six Russian gold and silver refiners from its Good Delivery lists in March 2022, with the U.S., UK and other Western countries subsequently imposing restrictions on Russian gold, effectively closing off the markets that had been the primary destinations for the country’s bullion exports.

“The fact that Hong Kong’s official data clearly shows a steep rise in imports of Russian gold reflects the kind of support and bilateral trade for which Putin has repeatedly thanked Xi,” said Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.

“Russian exports of gold to the UK and other Western-sanctioned nations of course collapsed,” he added.

Between 2019 and 2021, Russia’s gold exports to the UK amounted to around two-thirds of the country’s mine production, the BullionVault data showed.

“Hong Kong has always been an important entrepot for gold going into China,” said Rhona O’Connell, head of market analysis for EMEA and Asia at StoneX, adding that Hong Kong is now in “a race with Singapore for hub supremacy and is about six months ahead in terms of infrastructure.”

China has designated gold a “strategic mineral” and has promoted physical bullion as a store of value for households, while the country’s central bank has continued adding to its reserves at a torrid pace.

 

[Mobius]

 

[Soldier35]

Residents of Pryluky, in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, published footage showing strikes by Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles. Some media outlets reported that a Ukrainian air defense missile malfunctioned and struck a residential building, resulting in several fatalities. The Kh-101 missile has a range of up to 5,500 km and carries a 400 kg warhead. It was later reported that the "Plastmass-Pryluky" industrial facility in the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, was hit during the missile strike; the plant manufactured and stored components for FP-5 "Flamingo" cruise missiles.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Russia murdered 33 Ukrainian civilians on a bus today in Kramatorsk. Russia continues to heavily target Ukrainian civilians as their frontline advance goes nowhere.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Putin and Russia are losing — the least desperate move is to accept a truce​

Vladimir Putin is losing his brutal war on Ukraine; what will make him accept a truce?

Kyiv’s “Operation Vivaldi” keeps pounding away, driving Russian forces back and liberating villages in the Donetsk region, erasing most of Moscow’s (meager) gains of the last year.

The offensive has so far liberated nearly 68 square miles of territory from Russian forces, taken 250-plus Russian prisoners and inflicted 2,000 casualties.

Even his hold on Crimea is weaker than it was.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s drones are striking deep inside Russia and occupied Crimea, disrupting supplies to the front and slamming Putin’s oil refineries.

With his battlefield strategy a total bust, he’s falling back on terror — targeting airstrikes on innocents far behind the lines and bombing energy infrastructure to maximize civilian suffering this winter — in a desperate hope that it finally breaks Kyiv’s will (which he’s been expecting for nearly five years now).

He’s also hoping elections in Western Europe end those nations’ support for Kyiv, but so far his war has only united Europe against him, with defense outlays growing and NATO expanded to his doorstep — when his invasion was supposed to push the alliance further away, if not break it entirely.

If he keeps it up, Lithuania will wind up hosting a US military base, with nuclear deployment; does he want one in Finland, too?

After the November elections, President Donald Trump can be more aggressive in pushing Putin to the table, including by exercising the powers granted him under the bipartisan Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act.

In the meantime, the renewed flow of oil and gas out of the Middle East will soon drive down global prices, further cutting into the Kremlin’s energy revenues.

The longer Putin waits, the greater the risk of more unpleasant surprises, including a domestic economic collapse that would leave him far more vulnerable to some kind of coup.

His generals, his spies and his diplomats have failed him for five years now; nothing has worked out for him as promised.

He can stop the conflict now, even holding his gains to have peace now — or keep pretending some miracle is around the corner, while risking even greater humiliation . . . or worse.

Putin and Russia are losing — the least desperate move is to accept a truce

The longer Putin waits, the greater the risk of more unpleasant surprises.

nypost.com