Misguided Foreign Policies Against Russia And Others Damage The U.S. And Its 'Allies' https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/misguided-foreign-policies-against-russia-and-others-damage-the-us-and-its-allies.html

Does anyone have a list of Donbass or other Russian businesses on the net that people can support?

Manipulated Ukrainehttps://www.globalresearch.ca/manipulated-ukraine/5796140

Serbia and Hungary have found a way to shirk the Russian sanctions package's consequences, but at a high cost.

While the European Union, coupled with the Ukrainian president, is squawking for intensifying sanctions, Serbia and Hungary are endeavoring to resolve the seventh sanctions package's consequences.
As Readovka has previously noted, all the attempts to impose a price ceiling on Russian oil sea deliveries hit Serbia the most. Incidentally, no attempts to curb the prices of British or Norwegian energetic companies were even considered: sacred cows should not be offended.
Although the EU has made an exception for oil supplies from Russia to Japan until 2023, for example, such a generosity cannot be extended on Serbia, so that she was allowed to find solution on her own. All of the Serbian President's attempts to find favor in the eyes of EU officials, even by means of holding a gay pride parade in Belgrade, or his non-recognition statements about the referendum results in Novorossia, were all for naught.

Hungary has come to the rescue - the countries made an agreement to build the “Druzhba” oil pipeline. In this way, Russia will change the logistics and delivery method of fuel for Serbia.
The EU, which thoroughly seeks energetic independence from Russian fuel and gas, has signed up two European countries to build an expensive, labour-consuming section of the pipeline, 300 kilometres length roughly.

Experts estimate the cost of a 100-kilometre section to be $50 million - the cost of the pipe alone, and for every 70-150 kilometres there should be oil transfer stations (OTS). The approximate cost of one such station is $15 million.

At least one oil pipeline tank farm would be needed for that distance, at a cost of another $17.5 million. The most conservative estimate is that the cost of building a pipeline between Hungary and Serbia would be over $80 million.

The problem is that even successful construction, which will take time (at least three months according to the most optimistic forecasts), cannot guarantee the energy security of Serbia (as well as all European countries). An uneasy reason is that the peacefully disposed and law-abiding Ukrainian government may blow up the pipeline with yet another terroristic attack at any moment. No risks at all, even if it’s made on Ukrainian territory: Russians are always to blame.

In fact, the construction of an oil pipeline between Hungary and Serbia is a legal way out of the sanctions imposed by the last package. The price regulations are applied to the sea delivered oil only; that means that only some countries that transfer Russian oil to "unfriendly states" gain no profit. Final consumers will pay a pretty penny for Russian fuel. Russian oil suppliers will benefit from that after all, since the Urals price is growing steadily, but the most important point is that some European countries are willing to pay any price for Russian energy resources. Surprisingly, despite all the fines, sanctions and animosity, the price remains more reasonable than that of amiable European partners.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Archived Footage of the Storming of #Peski⚡️

The second part of the film about the storming of the #Peski settlement by soldiers of the 11th regiment of the DPR People's Militia has been released on the Military Chronicle Channel @milchronicles. The stronghold near #Donetsk came under Russian control in August after weeks of sustained fighting.

The events were filmed from a helmet-mounted camera by war correspondent Andrei Filatov and his quadcopter. Although the video does not feature colourful tank wedge battles, it perfectly captures the realities of the fighting.

In one episode there is an attack by the 11th Regiment's assault group, during which the drone detected an AFU ambush in time. The commander gave the command to stop the advance and the enemy was hit with 120mm mortars.

The video also includes domestic moments, such as delivering water and toilet paper to forward positions. During this, the cameraman and his guide meet a group of soldiers evacuating a wounded comrade. The casualty had stepped on a "petal mine" in a place that had long been considered safe.

All the faces caught in the lens - from the armoured vehicle commander to the mature soldiers in their old SSH-68M helmets - look real. Between shooting and running they cuss and joke like ordinary people.

That is why the video captivates with its naturalness even though there are no battle scenes. As Andrey Filatov @FilatovCorr jokes himself, the videos are so lively because all his cooperation with the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defence boils down to the principle of "If they do not disturb our work, that is good enough".

This is the key difference between real military correspondents and those led by representatives of the RF Armed Forces' information agencies.

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Belarus is undergoing a serious modernisation of the railway as well as of the whole infrastructure. A large number of personnel and equipment is clearly will be received there, as only in two months the whole reconstruction should be completed. This suggests that the Kremlin plans to move a lot of manpower to Belarus and this way to hit two directions of Ukrainian logistics. These are both Volyn—to cut off Western arms supplies—and Kiev, because this is the only way to force Ukraine back into negotiations.

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❗West's financial aid to Ukraine

Since February 2022, Ukraine has almost completely switched to the financial, logistical and military support of the West.

From February 24 to October 3, 2022, Ukraine received 6.7 billion euros of financial support and loan guarantees from international institutions, where only 1 billion from the IMF and the rest from the World Bank. Also, 38.1 billion euros of financial support from Ukraine's donor countries was agreed.

A total of 19 countries have allocated financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 38.6 billion euros.

The largest financial assistance package from the USA is 15.2 billion, within the framework of the collective agreement of the EC - 12.3 billion, from the UK - 2.5 billion, other countries - 8 billion, where 3 countries allocated more than 1 billion (Canada - 1.8 billion, Germany - 1.1 billion and Norway - 1 billion).

In the structure of Ukraine's financial support: 17.3 billion are loans, 18.2 billion are grants (gratuitous aid and subsidies) and 3.2 billion are loan guarantees. Almost all gratuitous aid was provided by the United States (14.4 billion), while Europe mainly issues long-term loans at low rates.

This data is from IEF Kiel.
Of the total amount of financial assistance, about 17 billion euros actually reached Ukraine, plus 6.7 billion from international institutions.

How much is it? Last year, Ukraine's consolidated budget revenues amounted to $75 billion, this year about $40 billion.

If synchronized by the time of actual receipt of assistance, external support exceeds 100% of the internal revenues of the consolidated budget of Ukraine.

To this is added humanitarian aid with an estimated volume of 14.4 billion euros, of which from the USA 9.5 billion, the EC - 1.4 billion, Germany - 1 billion, Austria - 0.6 billion, Great Britain - 0.4 billion, Canada - 0.3 billion, other 33 countries - 1.3 billion .

Humanitarian plus approved financial assistance for the approval period (slightly more than 7 months) is 60 billion (on average 8.6 billion per month), which is 2.6 times more than budget revenues.

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