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"More and more reports coming out from different sources around the world that US is seeking to get UKR to modify its stance on negotiations."

Any links? Propaganda messages disseminated from the Kremlin and promoted on friendly outlets like the BBC does not actually indicate a realty.

The only negotiate is arranging tge organized withdrawal of Russia without being fired on as they leave. The idea that any Ukraine land is up for negotiation is just plain wrong. Actual attributable statements from Ukraine allies around the world are supporting Ukraine recovering all territory bringing the 2014 war to an end. Amongst the analyst community it is the same, Russia must not gain anything or else there will be many more wars like this to come. It has become a critical junction. There is no scope for negotiated settlements following a blatant land grab.

The platform is irrelevant, the comparison map is the information of note. That you should focus on the accidental source is notable. I've never done twitter or had an account. I take info from a very wide range of sources and deduce my opinion from that. It is very much more informed than most and frequently annoys people who try to force an opinion. Free open thinkers can be such annoying people can't they, especially when their focus is factually based and genuinely independent. Those are nuts to tough to crack.

I never bother watching video links, charts or cherry picked opinionated blogs. I'm far too busy having fun.

Time for some people to face up to the facts.

https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/1591421964778098690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1591421964778098690%7Ctwgr%5Eb64b10a3ba3d27d6c814c99d7c7d3fe5efd7bbab%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fputin-ally-demands-full-scale-war-push-nato-back-after-kherson-defeat-1759104

I didn't bother studying your mashup of US politics or your correlations between various names or events. The seeds of all post war border disputes were sown in Potsdam when Stalin grabbed as much as he could and set up Russia v The West. Russia has failed to take the opportunity presented by the collapse of the USSR. I don't study US politics so whatever names you throw from there meaningless. Important to you and the rest of the anti something brigade but of no consequence to me. There is no conspiracy over CC, even the chair of the IPCC now accepts the models are all running too hot and won't be used in future reports. CC is a huge Putin/Kremlin style propaganda juggernaut that is only slowly being challenged. It'll take something like the BBC having its license to broadcast revoked for actively suppressing over many years the contesting scientific opinion (now the consensus in the broader academic world and even voiced in the CC academic world) and actively promoting false stories and facts despite all levels within the BBC aware that they were falsifying and 'spinning' a lie.

That is all you have? Crack pot theories of governments in the pocket of the US? Post WWII boundaries have been in flux in various places and significantly complicated by the Soviets. There are avenues through places like the UN to resolve those issues. Not just deciding to march in and take land. If Russia had bothered to engage Kyiv rather than strut around with its head full of existential conspiracy treating everybody as an enemy then post USSR there were many opportunities as the west embraced the 'new' Russia - only to have all the good will thrown back in numerous hissy fits. Post Yeltsin, we can now see Russia never had any intention of peaceful global involvement and has used proxies like Ukraine to return back to its safe place of conflict, safe because it is the familiar place. Like some disturbed child Russia has never moved on from the cold war and is still cowering in a corner flicking poo at passer bys.
Live in your bunker, blame everybody else for your failures and invent whatever conspiracy you like to get you through the night. Surprised you haven't adopted the lizard theories yet, the truth is out there.

"West getting Crimea back."

The west never 'had' Crimea. What a stupid statement. Crimea was part of Ukraine post USSR and was invaded and occupied by RUSSIAN forces in 2014 you idiot. Go and read some history books before posting such stupid remarks.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/13/7376131/

Not long to go now, generals should just call it and wrap it up now since that is exactly what is going to happen in the end anyway.

Same old propaganda lines, that somehow the west is able to tell Ukraine what to do. You muppets fall for this Kremlin line every time. There is nothing coming out of any western or NATO government saying Ukraine has to negotiate. In fact most commentators are saying the exact opposite with Ukraine having the Russians in multiple retreats. I think some of you are so desperate you are actually beginning to believe the Kremlin. Russia lost the war at the end of the summer, it is all about the method of withdrawal back to Russia now. Outright defeat? Organized march? Kremlin coup? Defy orders? Insurrection? Surrender and apply for asylum? Russia will not retain any lands post February and Crimea will not be part of the Russian federation

Learn to deal with some real world realities.

The NATO weapons of note were delayed until the middle of summer. The defence of Kyiv was achieved with toy drones and widely available MPADs. If anything it could be argued the most useful weapons were deliberately delayed to allow Ukraine to fail. Given the refusal to provide air support, air craft and iron dome systems, it actually looks more like Ukraine were fighting with one hand tied behind their back!

Since the HIMAR and some other tech has arrived, in very limited quantity, Ukraine has made major gains pushing back Russian forces. What would happen if the arms supplied were doubled?

NATO and other coalition forces are no where near the battlefield and weapons supply is in small increments rather than full support. It is plain to see if NATO did get involved Ukraine could be cleared of Russians in days.

Perhaps it is time for a UN move to assemble a force to liberate Ukraine. Russia would have its excuse to run away saying it can't fight the whole world or some such. Is that what the Kherson test is with the accompanying propaganda? One thing is for sure, Russia is currently ONLY fighting Ukraine, nobody else.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/12/7376042/

Interesting, no UT or after hours trades posted.

mm cupboard is bare and they had to raise the price towards the close indicating the big order behind the spike may not be cleared. If phantom shares were issued to balance the books, then be prepared for a Monday dip, but there is no reason why the overall trajectory should not continue up.

Russia tried to blow the Kakhovka dam, and failed. They put a hole in the road but the dam is not reported as breached. What were they trying to do? Setting off charges with the compression wave traveling down into the most resistive part of the structure that is strongest under compression indicates they have no access to engineers in the field. Engineers all over the planet will be in hysterics over the pathetic effort. Forget the withdrawal, the howler is how they tried to blow the dam. To blow a dam you set our charges 1/3 depth below water line to breach the upper section and let erosion of large water flow excavate the dam with some possibility of creating further large sections to collapse depending on age, silting and construction method.

Well golly gosh would yo loo at that! Looks like mms have filled the order in good time and no phantom shares will be needed next Monday, so the gradual incline up can continue unabated next week (without any shock news). Maybe next week will have another biggie buy or the certificates continue to be swapped for e shares on LSE.

Nice to see a spread in single digits.....

very few A trades so don't get your hopes up this 11% will survive the auction. There is a general incline as the split news approaches, along they way will be one or two large positions taken and some day trading profit take. MM are pressing the price to fill an order, this is not market pressure it is most likely a single trade. It has most likely been filed very the week and the mm have probably been given today as the fill. They will likely issue phantom shares at the close f trading to cover any gap and drop the price on Monday to recover the phantom shares. Overall by Tuesday Wednesday the sp will maybe be a few % better off for it plus the other lower levels of uptake. You have to consider the overall average and trend when the volume is so very very low (in number of trades).

We also have to consider the impact all those paper shares being transferred to LSE trading accounts maybe having.

Ramp away people. The Kherson withdrawal is a test to see how opinion holds and a staging post for 'negotiations'. Wishful thinking on Putin's part, negotiations will only start when Russian forces are off Ukraine soil. India and China and the BRICS are fed up with turmoil, the UN is never going to vote against Ukraine defending it's border and the wests pockets are ideologically and material deeper than Russia and it's few allies. Russia has completely painted itself in to a corner and the end game is well underway with the first stage of the inevitable withdrawal. Remaining variable, how fast or slow will Russian forces leave Ukraine?

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..ramp it baby, to hell and back, yeeeehaaaaa........

Nobody is stopping Russia from going home. There is no way to provide face saving, what could possibly be done? It has been a humiliating cork up from the start. Forget face saving, just cut the losses and retreat over the boarder before NATO is bumped in on the back of a particular atrocity or two.

If you instructed your broker to only invest in LSE companies with no non UK assets valued over, say 100 million, how many companies would you have in your portfolio? Not many I would say.

meanwhile, compare this

https://www.scienceunderattack.com/blog/2019/9/23/no-evidence-that-climate-change-is-accelerating-sea-level-rise-35

to the rubbish you will hear on the news tonight. Are we all ready to hand over a few trillion in reparations?

I see your "Ma-Na-Ma-Na......."

and raise you

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