(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Panicked Russians line up to get dollars [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-13 Russians panicking much? x Russian Telegram channels report long lines by many currency exchange points in Russia. They appeared after reports that Moscow stock exchange will stop trading in dollars and euros when the United States introduced new sanctions. Russians want to buy dollar while its cheaper… https://t.co/esLdONhKDr pic.twitter.com/zSsD9P5i2H — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 12, 2024 Russia takes another step toward becoming a satellite of China. x Chinese Yuan will become Russia's main currency - Russian Central Bank The yuan/ruble exchange rate will now set the trajectory for all other currency pairs, including the euro and dollar, the bank's statement said. Meanwhile, in many Russian banks there are no dollars… https://t.co/GtGHwphOFv pic.twitter.com/A2O1F4fFxA — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 13, 2024 x Trouble in paradise. After yesterday's introduction of a new package of sanctions against Russia, lines are forming at exchange offices. Brokers have reportedly started blocking Russians from withdrawing currency. pic.twitter.com/Spa0WL6I8N — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) June 13, 2024 This kid (he’s 20, but he’s still a kid) is a Ukrainian Baron von Richthofen. “F***, this gets me high” x Apparently russians are not liking this piece by a press correspondent 20 year old Ukrainian has eliminated hundreds of russian using his FPV VR skills pic.twitter.com/EVHhzjNMT0 — Rocke Fella - NAFO Raccoon Spec Ops (@NAFORaccoon) June 12, 2024 What’s riskier — being human ERA on a Russian vehicle or taking your chances on your own? x Drone strike on meat armor. Extra crispy orcs. The Taystra unit of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade "Edelweiss" is working. Source: https://t.co/8HwIV6A3HE pic.twitter.com/RCdsAh1AkF — ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) June 13, 2024 And it still had that new car smell. x Ukrainian SSO units damaged/destroyed a brand new Russian R-416GM radio relay station. pic.twitter.com/8kEUEDrcnB — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) June 13, 2024 And the Academy Award for worst acting performance goes to … WARNING: Video shows Russian getting blown up. x 🔞 The orc pretended to be a corpse and lay down next to his dead comrade. Due to the intense heat, the bodies of the occupiers swell almost instantly and a huge number of flies flock to them. The orc was constantly driving away flies, so we quickly noticed him and eliminated… pic.twitter.com/iXIVwMs8I6 — ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) June 13, 2024 A Russian armored vehicle hits a mine, then the drones move in to pick off the survivors. x All off!🔥🍞 It's time to get hit by fpv drones! And that's how the story ended for these invaders! A RuZZian BMP-2 blown up on a mine near occupied Ivanivka, Kharkiv region. pic.twitter.com/9plHHtxA7b — Challenger Tank In Ukraine🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@ChallengerInUA) June 13, 2024 Does Russia give out bags of onions to the widows of fallen propagandists? x ❗️ Russian media have complained that three employees of the Kremlin propaganda television channel NTV have been seriously injured in Horlivka, Donetsk Region. It is reported that the injured are in critical condition, they are in coma. pic.twitter.com/pJTN3qaprH — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 13, 2024 Oh good. A shiny new Russian system to blow up. x 🚨 According to General Budanov, Russians have deployed an S-500 Triumfator air defense system in Crimea The S-500 is according to the Russians capable of intercepting intercontinental ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles The system costs about USD 2.5 billion Let 's see… pic.twitter.com/fKxCdnBc2G — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) June 12, 2024 This is an interesting essay suggesting that the handwriting is on the wall for Russia’s occupation of Crimea. He discusses how the Kerch Bridge could be brought down and how to disrupt the new rail line Russia built. He makes it sound plausible, but these things are always harder to pull off than they seem. If the only thing stopping Ukraine up until now from blasting the bridge was getting US permission to use ATACMS, then the bridge would be gone already. Meanwhile, UK intelligence shows Russia putting back in place the eight previously storm-damaged barrier barges on the southern side of the Kerch strait. In other words, the Russians are seriously worried about those bridges. The assessed reason for these barges is ‘to reduce the angle of approach for Ukrainian Uncrewed Surface vehicles (USVs)’. To an extent they will achieve this but steering something like a Magura V5 USV around or between them would not on its own prove a challenge for a system that can achieve ‘kills’ against moving targets out at sea. The barges will also have an anti-USV necklace strung between them and possibly even people on them with weapons. This might help defeat USVs on their own but would do nothing to an ATACMS strike. The jamming masts they are reported to have for this will be equally ineffective against a missile equipped with anti-jam technology, frequency hopping and inertial navigation backup systems. The Ukrainians have shown both ingenuity and simultaneity in their attacks many times now. A Storm Shadow (for example) into one of the barges followed by a wave of USVs through the gap would overwhelm any defences there, and that might see the bridges down. This would be totemic in its own right, but even worse, a simultaneous attack on the overland rail line would mean that all supplies for the Dnipro front and the various bases in Crimea had to come by truck through an overburdened road network under the hammer of Zelensky’s guns and missiles. Whilst railways are easier to repair than bridges, supply problems on the peninsula would quickly mount and Russia’s ability to use it as a base would diminish even further. A double win. Some have even started to consider if this might be the moment for an amphibious landing of some sort by Ukraine. The Ukrainians have already made determined efforts to get across the Dnipro river, but the classic use of amphibious assault is to outflank the enemy. A landing in Crimea would avoid the need to attack into prepared defences as on the existing front line. x Putin may be about to lose Crimea. https://t.co/LQkoP3mqur — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) June 11, 2024 Another 980 soldiers and 34 artillery systems off the battlefield. x Russian losses per 13/06/24 reported by the Ukrainian general staff +980 men +17 tanks +21 APVs +34 artillery systems +2 AD systems +33 UAVs +5 cruise missiles pic.twitter.com/YEcdog6er9 — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) June 13, 2024 Putin is doing a heckuva job. x Sentinel-2 passes in June of 2022 (left) and June of 2024 (right). The damage to the Crimean peninsula from the loss of the Nova Khakovka Dam is evident. With no reservoir to catch the seasonal rain and snow melt runoff, Crimea is left barren and dry. pic.twitter.com/cgC8Bxd9Yw — Evergreen Intel (@vcdgf555) June 13, 2024 I’ll bet those “peacekeepers” will be glad to be leaving Nagorno-Karabakh so they can finally go to Vovchansk or Chasiv Yar or Krynky. x ⚡️russian forces have withdrawn from Nagorno-Karabakh, - Azerbaijani Defense Ministry. The russian "peacekeeping" contingent had been based in the region since 2020 under an agreement between russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. There were about two thousand russian troops there.… pic.twitter.com/iHRIUTAuYw — BLYSKAVKA (@blyskavka_ua) June 12, 2024 “What do we want?” “Washing machines!” “When do we want them?” “Now!” x “For Belgorod, Donbas......🤷 we take the USA into focus! We demand that our nuclear missiles be sent to US cities! To Washington!” - march of Z psychopaths in Russia Meanwhile the rest of the swamp is fighting to get as many US dollars out of the ⬇️ 🏧 as possible 🤷😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/FEQdSRl6G3 — Kvist.P 🇩🇰🇺🇦 (@kvistp) June 13, 2024 Drones delivering drones. x A wild hornet drone delivering a wild hornet drone to a pilot at the front. I heard you like drones so I put a drone on your drone so you can drone while you drone.https://t.co/O0KL01M7l0 pic.twitter.com/JIIVBIBLyf — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) June 13, 2024 This isn’t related to Ukraine, but I can’t resist. How long before Russia runs out of motorcycles, Chinese golf carts, turtle tanks and Scooby Doo vans and resorts to trebuchets? Who needs hypersonic cruise missiles when you can terrorize the enemy with flaming dung piles? Trebuchets don’t cost much; they’re easy to fix in the field; they don’t need special ammunition and you don’t need months of training to work them. How about drone trebuchets? Or ballistae as air defense systems. When will we see Russian cannon fodder storming Ukrainian fortifications in siege towers? x ⚡️ The IDF uses catapults to launch attacks towards Lebanon. Israeli media report that the border area with Lebanon is covered with dense vegetation, which is a problem for Israeli forces deployed in the area. It is believed that such arson attacks are intended to help the army… pic.twitter.com/kf72CMDE3M — BLYSKAVKA (@blyskavka_ua) June 13, 2024 A Russian Duma deputy wants to expel all the prostitutes/escorts. 🤣😂🤣 "It's impossible to be an escort, as they nobly call themselves, but in reality are kept women, prostitutes. They act through an agency or individually, it is known who they are. That's why we just need to address this more harshly. They are walking around wasting their lives. Families are destroyed, they seduce people with their imaginary silicone beauty. I believe that prostitutes are such useless and harmful residents of our land that they can be safely removed. The interests of prostitutes are contrary to the interests of the country, so they should all be expelled. They can't do that in Russia, there's zero tolerance towards prostitution." x 🤪 The West should prepare for the influx of Russian prostitutes. Russian State Duma Deputy Vitaly Milonov proposed to expel all prostitutes from the territory of the Russian Federation. News from Mordor: "It's impossible to be an escort, as they nobly call themselves, but in… pic.twitter.com/Q9lNcgCl6w — Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) June 9, 2024 Rest in peace. x Our Beloved Canadian Brother Emile-Antoine Roy-Sirois, who had been serving in Ukraine as a Volunteer succumbed on the Battlefield. Honor, Glory and Gratitude To Our Brother. -2023! pic.twitter.com/X67Vpwp2b9 — Mykhailo Rohoza (@MykhailoRohoza) June 11, 2024 x In the video, Volodymyr Obodzinsky visits the cemetery where his entire family is buried, which is 5 people: his wife, teenage son, daughter and two twin grandchildren.💔#StandforUkraine pic.twitter.com/6fplrL2Nu7 — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) June 13, 2024 Trash pandas need attention too. x Бадьорого, незламні! Тримаємо стрій! Донатьте нашим воїнам, не забувайте їх підтримувати, бо тільки разом ми переможемо! ✊🏻🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/Lrpz0JkVXW — Aurora Borealis 🤫 (@aborealis940) June 13, 2024 Dunai and the kitty have been rescued. 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