Fingers Crossed?

[Ken4155]

Don't know how much, if anything at all, of this article is true, but one can only hope that it is indeed a factual report.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/we-ask-you-to-relieve-yourself-of-your-post-kremlin-officials-have-begun-a-mutiny-against-vladimir-putin/ar-AA11HTuq?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=12035613da704e21b6249b178f6712f5

[nero2024]

ichkeria
have you a direct line to Kiev, just wondering ?

[jno]

it's actually time I watched The Death Of Stalin, I've got the DVD somewhere.

[ichkeria]

"have you a direct line to Kiev, just wondering ? "

I just follow all the updates. There's nothing I see that others couldn't - but other people have a life :-)

I did however see some pics our guys in the armed forces sent from the forest near Balakliya, SE Kharkiv yesterday. They must have a master carpenter in their ranks because what they have built or repaired in the short time they have been there is impressive: cabins, a pristine outdoor loo with a perfectly centred square "hole" - kind of sums up what Ukraine brings in contrast to Russia: one builds, the other destroys.
And we got some outsize army pants off e-bay for to send to a UAF goliath - I'm hoping at this rate they might not be needed.

[ichkeria]

"it's actually time I watched The Death Of Stalin"

Have you not seen it jno? Or just fancy watching again. I might give it another go. It's a work of genius. Michael Palin as Molotov - wonderful stuff.

[jno]

no, I haven't, ichkeria. I have about 500 DVDs waiting to be watched before the format becomes obsolete; but I'm working on the Marx Brothers at the moment. Duck Soup has many contemporary resonances.

[Ken4155]

T'would be a tad more fitting were it a glass of vodka with a hint of Novichok.

[FatticusInch]

ichkeria
//"it's actually time I watched The Death Of Stalin"

Have you not seen it jno? Or just fancy watching again. I might give it another go. It's a work of genius. Michael Palin as Molotov - wonderful stuff.//

Stellar all round but Jason Isaacs as George Zhukov in a strong Yorkshire accent stole it for me.
Although banned it Russia, it has been illegally downloaded 11 million times in that country, allegedly.

[jno]

okay, I've moved it into the top 10 on the pile.

[ichkeria]

Yes the Zhukov character is fantastic also.

Poor old Krushchev doing the funeral arrangements …

[jno]

I posted this on ichkeria's thread but it belongs here too (if true)

Russian intelligence officers and military commanders flee Crimea, Kyiv claims

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/sep/13/russia-ukraine-war-blinken-hails-significant-progress-as-ukraines-forces-reach-russian-border-in-north

[Gromit]

[ichkeria]

"Russian intelligence officers and military commanders flee Crimea, Kyiv claims"

Almost certainly true, and it's being going on for some while.
Same is happening in Donbas.
I think I saw somehwere though that Russia had issued a new requirement that permission was now required to leave Crimea.