[duntez]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

Well, this isn't helping:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...ern-companies/

Putin moves to seize assets of ‘naughty’ Western companies fleeing Russia
Kremlin move would make it harder for companies to leave Russia

Vladimir Putin has signed a secret decree to seize the assets of Western companies and make it harder for them to leave Russia.

The Kremlin last week signed an order that will allow officials to appropriate “naughty” Western assets at cut-price rates and is also considering measures to fully nationalise businesses, the Financial Times reported.

The move would give the Russian state priority rights to buy any Western asset for sale at a “significant discount” so they can ultimately be sold at a profit.

It will also require all private buyers of Western companies to either be fully Russian-held or in the process of axing all foreign shareholders.

Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin’s spokesman, told the Financial Times that Western investors and companies were “more than welcome” in Russia but added that others had stopped paying salaries entirely or had moved to leave the country at a huge loss.

He added: “If a company doesn’t fulfill its obligations, then, of course, it goes in the category of naughty companies. We say goodbye to those companies. And what we do with their assets after that is our business.”

It comes after a number of Western corporate giants chose to stay in Russia despite Putin’s war against Ukraine.

Philip Morris International, the tobacco giant which makes Marlboro cigarettes, recently said it would “rather keep” its business in Russia despite lining up three credible buyers.

Unilever chief executive Alan Jope has said exiting the country “is not straightforward” and refused to “abandon” approximately 3,000 employees in Russia or let its assets fall into the hands of the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, Heineken said in February that it is grappling with “the very real risk” of Russia nationalising its local business.

The Dutch brewer has been warned by Russian officials that suspending or closing its local operations would be deemed “intentional bankruptcy”, a criminal offence which could see the Kremlin appoint external managers for the business.

French companies have come under particular fire for remaining in Russia, with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, last year accusing a series of businesses in the country of “sponsoring the Russian war machine”.

Closer and closer to a total war

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

Well, this isn't helping:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...ern-companies/

Putin moves to seize assets of ‘naughty’ Western companies fleeing Russia
Kremlin move would make it harder for companies to leave Russia

Vladimir Putin has signed a secret decree to seize the assets of Western companies and make it harder for them to leave Russia.

The Kremlin last week signed an order that will allow officials to appropriate “naughty” Western assets at cut-price rates and is also considering measures to fully nationalise businesses, the Financial Times reported.

The move would give the Russian state priority rights to buy any Western asset for sale at a “significant discount” so they can ultimately be sold at a profit.

It will also require all private buyers of Western companies to either be fully Russian-held or in the process of axing all foreign shareholders.

Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin’s spokesman, told the Financial Times that Western investors and companies were “more than welcome” in Russia but added that others had stopped paying salaries entirely or had moved to leave the country at a huge loss.

He added: “If a company doesn’t fulfill its obligations, then, of course, it goes in the category of naughty companies. We say goodbye to those companies. And what we do with their assets after that is our business.”

It comes after a number of Western corporate giants chose to stay in Russia despite Putin’s war against Ukraine.

Philip Morris International, the tobacco giant which makes Marlboro cigarettes, recently said it would “rather keep” its business in Russia despite lining up three credible buyers.

Unilever chief executive Alan Jope has said exiting the country “is not straightforward” and refused to “abandon” approximately 3,000 employees in Russia or let its assets fall into the hands of the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, Heineken said in February that it is grappling with “the very real risk” of Russia nationalising its local business.

The Dutch brewer has been warned by Russian officials that suspending or closing its local operations would be deemed “intentional bankruptcy”, a criminal offence which could see the Kremlin appoint external managers for the business.

French companies have come under particular fire for remaining in Russia, with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, last year accusing a series of businesses in the country of “sponsoring the Russian war machine”.

Good find as IMO this is a huge development as it's almost along the lines of keeping those businesses & infrastructure hostages & under duress so that they keep producing regardless of sanctions which will no doubt increase the level of this invasion as these companies want to shut up shop yet the orcs wont let them. ?

Rather a serious development indeed & one which NATO & it's allies will have an answer n I'm pretty shore that it's not going to be a good one.

Time will tell I suppose but it doesn't look good !

[duntez]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Look! It's a Budanov sighting. Here's your proof of life you've been waiting for. But I suppose the DFM is lying or faking this meeting? And the Japanese ambassador? I suppose the fact his head is shaved will be enough to grasp onto to keep pushing that he was injured.

On another note, look at his body language. Wide stance, squinted stare. I see that face a lot with him. I would classify him as someone with an RBF, like me. (resting bitch face)

"Budanov met with Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori, Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova said.

"Not a dummy, all participants of the meeting are alive and well," she wrote on Facebook.

Earlier, Russian propaganda made up a story about the intelligence chief being injured as a result of an alleged missile hitting "the office next to Budanov's." The propagandists wrote that after being wounded, Budanov was taken to a hospital in Berlin."
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This pics of him look so wierd.. like they were photoshopped

Like this

[WonderMomma]

"The Deputy Press Secretary of the US Defense Minister, Sabrina Singh , said at a briefing that the Pentagon has once again recalculated the cost of military aid to Ukraine.

In general, it turned out that for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, the USA OVERESTIMATED the value of the provided military aid by 6.2 billion dollars‼️‼️

Now the Pentagon will be able to provide Ukraine with additional military aid for this amount until the end of the current fiscal year

I will add, probably not everyone knows.

Our American friends will transfer all military aid worth 6.2 billion dollars to Ukraine by October 1, 2023‼️‼️

Because in America, the new fiscal year begins on the first of October."



"There are changes on the map in the South.

The temporarily occupied settlement of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region, became even closer.

Ukrainian units defeated the enemy, moved forward and secured new positions."

[Guns N' Coffee]

[ljubodrag]

■ Rostec Corporation has created a tool to combat enemy drones.

♫ Avtomatika Concern JSC (part of Rostec) showed the Pishchal-Pro anti-drone gun.

♫ Also shown is the Kupol-PRO portable anti-UAV system. Its range is 2 km simultaneously in 10 frequency bands.

"Kupol-PRO" suppresses navigation, control and data transmission channels.

[WonderMomma]

Russian bases and ammunition depots destroyed from 11 - 19 June 2023.


"Portugal will soon hand over 14 more M113 armored personnel carriers and 9 towed 105-mm howitzers to Ukraine.

In total, Portugal has handed over 45 M113 vehicles to Ukraine."


1️⃣ "Shoigu is threatening strikes on Ukrainian decision-making centers in case HIMARS and Storm Shadow rockets are used outside the "special military operation zone.""

2️⃣ "Lukashenko says Europe lost its sovereignty because it stopped using Russian energy (he describes that in unacceptable terms).

In reality Europe freed/is freeing itself from depending on Russia and refused the blood money."

[WonderMomma]

*edit - put the correct video

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"The head of the DIU, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the cooler of one of the reactors at Zaporizhzhia NPP was mined. He called it a "certain" threat because the plant is under occupation. If the cooler is blown up, "there will be significant problems."

Budanov also disclosed some details of the Kakhovka HPP explosion: half an hour before the explosion, the Russian command ordered the unit there to leave the station's territory very quickly. At the same time, a special forces group arrived at the hydroelectric power plant, "and after that, what happened happened.""
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1️⃣ ""Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was partly mined. And the scariest part is that the cooling system was mined. If it is damaged through explosion, there is a large probability of significant problems" - Kyrylo Budanov, head of DIU.

By the way, what have Russian media said about Budanov lately?"

#znpp

2️⃣ "Kyrylo Budanov, head of DIU, commented on the rumors about his wellbeing."

[xennex]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

1️⃣

By the way, what have Russian media said about Budanov lately?"

Further proof to never, EVER, trust anything pro-Russians say as they have a long record of lying and warping facts.
I wonder how they aren't disgusted with themselves, but as I always say, I've only lived my life, not theirs, and thus don't know what life lessons and traumas created them.

[RaNer]

Originally Posted by xennex ↗

Further proof to never, EVER, trust anything pro-Russians say as they have a long record of lying and warping facts.
I wonder how they aren't disgusted with themselves, but as I always say, I've only lived my life, not theirs, and thus don't know what life lessons and traumas created them.

Duh Kijeva