War News Part 5 - Government Seizes Chelsea Fc!

[ichkeria]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/60688168

[Peter Pedant]

// Croatia remark but it was inappropriate//
PP sucks cheeks in and looks guiltier. He is told.

this thread is about seizure of London assets just before we get too outraged and sanctimonious.

Sham transactions are a well recognised entity in trust/finance law

[ichkeria]

I swear this is true:
Russian state media claiming that Ukraine has trained birds to fly chemical weapons into Russia.
They reckon they’ve intercepted several feathered bombers in W Russia.
This was on Twitter appropriately enough …

[Gromit]

Sir Robert Sawers, ex-Chief of M16, explains the conflict to the Oxford Union.



His lucid explanation is very perceptive.

[mushroom25]

Hey PP, are you clairvoyant?

the following appeared on the BBC Live newsfeed at 11h10:-

11:10
Mystery Soviet-era drone crashes in Croatia
Guy Delauney

BBC Balkans correspondent

The drone crashed near a student dormitory in a south-western suburb of the capital Zagreb The drone crashed near a student dormitory in a south-western suburb of the capital Zagreb
The mayor of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, says it was a miracle that nobody was killed when a suspected military drone the size of an aircraft crashed in the city at around 23:00 last night.

According to Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, the unmanned drone is Russian-made: "But it is not known whether it is owned by the Ukrainian or Russian army".

Unofficial accounts say it might be a Soviet-era TU-141 drone, operated by the Ukrainian military. Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomasevic said fragments of the drone have been found in several areas of the south-western suburb of Jarun. "No-one was killed, it's down to luck. It's a large aircraft."

Croatian leaders say the drone flew over Hungary for 40 minutes and then entered Croatian airspace for another seven minutes before crashing in the capital.

President Zoran Milanovic, who is also commander in chief of the armed forces, has urged Croatians to remain calm, saying this kind of incident happens during conflicts and the drone is not thought to have been directed at Croatia.

[jim360]

So, that's approximately four miles away from where I live.

Well, ***.

[jno]

no clairvoyance presumably needed from PP, he reported it shortly after it happened.

[jim360]

Since the actual crash happened at 11pm last night, and PP's posts about a "missile ... landed in Croatia" were 12 hours earlier, then yes it was pretty clairvoyant.

I didn't hear it. When a colleague told me about it this morning, I was genuinely wondering if he was part of the same in-joke that PeterPedant was.

[jno]

oh, you're right, it must have just been that I first read it last night, sorry.

[ichkeria]

Encouraging news:
The Pentagon: Ukraine has managed to preserve 80% of its Air Force in spite of Russian strikes.
Ukraine now reportedly has 56 fighter jets. 5 to 10 sorties a day against 200 Russian sorties.
Ukraine reports 10 Russian planes downed in the last 24 hours

[Peter Pedant]

better than mystic meg.. thx all