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India has offers to buy Malaysian and Indonesia Palm Oil in exchange for sales of weaponries.
Last 2 successions in Egypt were not particularly smooth. Oil producing countries in are not seems to have political stability as good as Russia. Morocco and Algeria were in the brink of war few months back. Nigeria, Angola and some oil producing countries in Africa also politically unstable. Security threat in form of terrorism and piracy also common in this region.
Russia agreed to allow the wounded Ukrainian or AZOV neo-NAZI soldiers to leave Azovstal Steelworks as long as they SURRENDER.
Looks like Russian forces have taken Mariupol. This battle lasted 82 days.
I have updated relevant section in the repository thread.
The Russia - Ukraine War Repository Thread with Fact-checking considerations
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Very interesting to know that there are Russians in Berlin who still support Putin. The Russian community in the city is divided in loyalty
Obviously you have not read the treaty.There's no law in Iraq calling for the amputation of a thief's hand. The US tank crushed the car unlawfully no matter how one will look at it.
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Contradictory statements.
The treaty's focus is on whether or not the incendiary effect of a munition is incidental. Which logically ought to be determined not just by the technical classification and nature of the munition, but also by how and to what effect it is actually being employed by the ones firing it. Especially if it lends itself to dual use, and white phosphorous does much more so than a simple smoke grenade.
Thence, if white phosphorous is used not to illuminate, trace, create smoke or to signal, but to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons (reflecting the description made of an incendiary weapon in Article 1.1. of the Protocol), then white phosphorous will be considered a weapon indeed, and its use will be governed by the limitations stipulated for in the Protocol.
In other words, should white phosphorous be utilized to damage assets or kill enemy combatants located amidst concentrations of civilians, then this will be a war crime. Let alone if civilian areas are showered with it in order to cause terror and fear.
The cost of of the GPS controlled shell Excalibur may be high, but ordinary shells does not cost $60k. Ordinary shells are much cheaper.The American M777A2 howitzers came to Ukraine without the AFCS digital fire control system. The system allows for automatic correction of fire by GPS, which allows you to increase the pace and accuracy of shooting. Why this electronic unit was removed is not clear, perhaps because of fears that the howitzer will fall into the hands of the Russian army. There have already been reports that one howitzer has been captured by Russia. It is worth noting that the M777 howitzer is quite good and the lightest in the world. One of the problems when using it in Ukraine may be the cost of ammunition, the price of a projectile from $ 60,000.
Russian troops used incendiary shells MZ-21 on Azovstal in Mariupol. The Ukrainian media immediately announced phosphorus ammunition, but in fact unguided rockets MZ-21 were used. The 9M22S projectile is designed for firing from the BM-21 Grad combat vehicle. The incendiary element of the projectile is a shell of hexagonal cross-section made of magnesium alloy ML-5, in the blind socket of which a pyrotechnic composition is pressed.
The Azov battalion surrendered in the city of Mariupol. The wounded are being taken out of Azovstal. The commander of the Azov, Denis Prokopenko, published a video message in which he de facto recognized the surrender of the Azov. "The defenders of Mariupol fulfilled the order, despite all the difficulties, they delayed the superior enemy forces for 82 days and allowed the Ukrainian army to regroup, prepare more personnel and receive a large amount of weapons from partner countries. No weapons will work without professionally trained military personnel, which makes them the most valuable element of the army. For the sake of saving lives, the entire Mariupol garrison fulfills the approved decision of the supreme military command and hopes for the support of the Ukrainian people."
It did not worth 500 billions, it worth what it was worth at the time of siezure. Which if I have to guess, zero.It is simple.. Russia had almost $600 billion of foreign reserves in Western banks..and they were all frozen by the new sanctions.. Russia responded by confiscating the Western assets in Russia.. it already did worth $500 billion..