Current Affairs Ukraine

[bluestevon]

How long will 800kgs of spuds last you?

Around 9-10 months or so we give them to the wife's parents as we do with some other stuff too just to help a little bit

 

[bluestevon]

Do you ever get bored of spuds and fancy spaghetti?

Got two kids who literally demand mashed potatoes every bloody evening with something mate

 

[DualityNSNO]

The call comes after Kiev and Moscow were reported to have made significant progress on an initial 15-point peace plan, including a ceasefire and Russia's withdrawal, "if Kyiv declares neutrality and accepts restrictions on its armed forces," according to the UK's Financial Times.

Ukraine calls for Turkey to be guarantor in Russia ceasefire deal

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba yesterday called on Turkey to be a “guarantor” in any future deal with Russia, along with the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members…

www.middleeastmonitor.com

See, a completely different link, 3/10.

Absolute madness to accept this, and this was an offer given 3-4 weeks after the war started.

Demilitarisation of Ukraine, restriction on weapons, restriction on army, Russia gets regions already occupied and they can keep army there. What a brilliant deal that would be, it would lead to NO problems! Russia has NEVER broken a single promise historically, including... a few years ago when they said that they're just parking the tanks next to Crimea.

Clown of an offer, got rejected. It was span by the media at the time, Ukraine was very vocal about not accepting it.

You'd think this was some utopian solution, the way you keep mentioning it - I thought there was something new.

Also "Turkey ready to host peace talks" isn't "TURKEY MADE PEACE, UKRAINE REJECTED".

 

[davids]

No mate, but when the price is 15p per kilogramme now and rises up to 80/90 it's a huge saving. Peppers 40p instead of 250/300p in three months time.

Keep trying to be funny though you may succeed one day ?

He's funny but not in a way that would make you laugh.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

No mate, but when the price is 15p per kilogramme now and rises up to 80/90 it's a huge saving. Peppers 40p instead of 250/300p in three months time.

Keep trying to be funny though you may succeed one day ?

I was curious. We tend to not bulk buy but I can see the logic if you are confident that you can store the veg in a good condition and benefit from economies of scale. I suppose we are conditioned to live within the supermarket/convenience store model of regular, smaller purchasing.

 

[wm02]

Like a lot of people we have a garage - which most use as storage areas, they have cold cellars in them too.

By product of the communist era when people where given flats and often storage areas who worked for factories etc.
the Dacha was also given as plots if land by a man-made lake in a similar way and was more often than not built by the people themselves

Yup. Sounds very similar to the place my wife’s grandmother (RIP) had in Poland.
A nice sized cellar to store potatoes, canned fruits, and vegetables.
But her real love in life was her garden plot in the communal garden. She kept an absolutely immaculate garden

 

[LinekersLegs]

No. In the absence of a rail link the fuel has to be trucked to the tanks.

That’s over 400km across territory contested by Uke drones and long range arty.

Plus the amount of trucks that would be needed to daily supply an Armd brigade is utterly huge - they don’t have the resources

Interesting thread on that topic

 

[DualityNSNO]

He's funny but not in a way that would make you laugh.

As are you - not in a "haha, funny" way, but in a " ? " way.

 

[davids]

See, a completely different link, 3/10.

Absolute madness to accept this, and this was an offer given 3-4 weeks after the war started.

Demilitarisation of Ukraine, restriction on weapons, restriction on army, Russia gets regions already occupied and they can keep army there. What a brilliant deal that would be, it would lead to NO problems! Russia has NEVER broken a single promise historically, including... a few years ago when they said that they're just parking the tanks next to Crimea.

Clown of an offer, got rejected. It was span by the media at the time, Ukraine was very vocal about not accepting it.

You'd think this was some utopian solution, the way you keep mentioning it.

So the Ukrainian Foreign Minister was telling lies? And the Financial Times piece was a total fabrication?

 

[tsubaki]

The US could provide real-time sat footage. They have been providing the Ukrainians intel for some time now.

They could have, but the positions of those satellites will be known to the Russians and it would be an excessively obvious piece of evidence of involvement in a terrorist attack.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Around 9-10 months or so we give them to the wife's parents as we do with some other stuff too just to help a little bit

That is great. I would never have imagined that they would keep that long!

 

[bluestevon]

Do you ever get bored of spuds and fancy spaghetti?

Won't even go into getting given 60kg of flower by Yulias dad about five years ago, given none of us actually bake ...

 

[DualityNSNO]

So the Ukrainian Foreign Minister was telling lies? And the Financial Times piece was a total fabrication?

So you are talking of something completely different, again, and it's my fault for not DoInG mY ReSeArCh?

 

[DualityNSNO]

Won't even go into getting given 60kg of flower by Yulias dad about five years ago, given none of us actually bake ...

//offtopic, I know

Man, that's the most annoying of our (collective) culture!

We live in an apartment, but every time we visit my SO's parents (cuz they live closer) - we get a thousand things... which we don't have a cellar to keep in, so we keep arguing about it lol

Like yeah, I get it, stuff in jars and that lasts for ages, but realistically you can consume/use 5-6 portions... Congrats, you now have 95 portions, have fun. FFS

 

[davids]

They could have, but the positions of those satellites will be known to the Russians and it would be an excessively obvious piece of evidence of involvement in a terrorist attack.

If you take what some post on here as gospel,the Russians were busy shelling their own troops in the nuclear power plant and yet the US haven't provided sat footage. It's a very disjointed propaganda narrative.