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2022-04-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Huge blaze sweeps through Russia's biggest chemical plant on same day seven people are killed in fire at weapon research facility
From the Daily Mail... where GloboHomo spreads its propaganda to an unwitting universe. Save us, Batboy!
  • Plumes of smoke seen at the huge Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant outside Moscow
  • Cause of latest fire unknown, just hours after weapons facility blaze killed seven
  • Scientists seen jumping out of windows at research hub in Tver, also near capital
  • Defence Ministry site is where Iskander missiles were built before use in Ukraine.

A blaze broke out at Russia's largest chemical plant just hours after a huge fire at a military facility killed seven people.

Huge plumes of smoke were seen enveloping the Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant late this afternoon.

The cause of the fire remains unknown. Almost 150 plant workers were reportedly evacuated.

The facility in Kineshma, east of Moscow produces more industrial solvents than any other in Russia.
Solvents. Like those used in preventative maintenance? Well, losing that won't have much impact, I guess.
Benzene, carbon tetrachloride, acetone, etc. — not healthy for children and other living things. To be fair, chemical plants are prone to catching fire, as they’re generally making highly flammable things under pressure. So this is not necessarily enemy action.
It is less than 1,000km from the border with Ukraine.

Anti-Putin racecar driver Igor Sushko tweeted footage of the latest fire and wrote: 'This is the largest Russian manufacturer of chemical solvents. Located 250 miles EAST of Moscow.

'We are beginning to see a pattern develop.'
Possibly. Or it could just be bad luck. Twice. It’s the third time that it’s enemy action, right? Though even lacking outside help, this kind of thing will not help Russia recover from the secondary effects of Putin’s little war in the Ukraine.
The Dmitrievsky blaze follows a deadly fire around lunchtime at a top secret Ministry of Defence research facility in Tver, west of the Russian capital.

Seven were killed and 25 were injured after the mysterious fire caused the roof to fall in.

Four military scientists were forced to jump out of windows from the burning institute in Tver which develops new space and weapons systems.

The cause was not clear but there were reports of 'poisonous bluish-black smoke' at the plant which produces Iskander missiles.

It was unclear if there were chemical releases before the fire or as a result of the raging inferno.

Iskander missiles have a range of 300 miles and are designed to confound missile defences by flying on a low trajectory.
I suppose they spent everything on offensive systems like Iskander, as if no one would ever shoot back and they'd never need a CIWS to shoot down missiles or drones with. That would explain a lot of recent headlines.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Kind of hope it's coincidental crappy Russian maintenance. The timing won't allow for that conclusion, so the investigation will have to go from one blind alley to the next, with suspects every ten yards.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2022-04-22 00:21||   2022-04-22 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The left over from soviet times penchant for concentrating rather than dispersing this sort of work may become a problem just now.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-22 02:54||   2022-04-22 02:54|| Front Page Top

#3 We, of course, do the same thing, but call it "merger and acquisition."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-22 02:56||   2022-04-22 02:56|| Front Page Top

#4 

Maybe, some UKRAINIAN Freedom Fighters are paying Russia a visit?
Posted by NN2N1 2022-04-22 06:58||   2022-04-22 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 The Soviet military has problems with people smoking where they shouldn't-- is there any reason that problem would be confined to the military?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-04-22 07:38||   2022-04-22 07:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Deadly Blaze Ripped Through Russia’s Top Air Defense Research Lab
Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-22 09:30||   2022-04-22 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Cost of damage to Ukraine's infrastructure rises to $60 billion, World Bank says. The damage to Ukraine's infrastructure has now hit $60 billion and will continue to rise as the war goes on, World Bank President David Malpass told a conference.

US, EU ON THE HOOK FOR $1 TRILLION+

That figure, which Malpass described as an early estimate of "narrow" damage costs, did not include the losses to Ukraine's economy. Analysts have estimated that the country's economy has been cut in half. Estimates are that rebuilding Ukraine will require approximately $5 for every dollar of lost GDP.

"Of course the war is still ongoing, so those costs are rising," Malpass said. The US hopes to prolong the war for years, thereby lifting the cost of rebuilding Ukraine into the trillion-dollar range.

PAY UP, SUCKERS

Zelenskyy told World Bank and IMF leaders on Thursday via video that Ukraine needs $7 billion monthly to prevent its economy from collapsing under the Russian invasion.
Posted by Thrusons Ulaimp2069 2022-04-22 10:27||   2022-04-22 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 US, EU ON THE HOOK FOR $1 TRILLION+

And why would that be? Just Putin-propaganda. The damages should all be laid at that sick Commie's feet
Posted by Frank G 2022-04-22 11:20||   2022-04-22 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Makes perfect sense. I'm already paying for the welfare, healthcare and God-knows whatelse for every illegal alien that invdes my homeland because my government isn't mine, its the globalists who just control its checkbook to enrich themselves, allies and China. SO of course I need to also pay for the salaries of a foreign government, its rebuilding and the cost of arming it in a war on another continent. Because that pesky Constitution and Oath, laws and the idea of sovereignty are all so white supremacist!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-04-22 12:29||   2022-04-22 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 US, EU ON THE HOOK FOR $1 TRILLION+
And why would that be? Just Putin-propaganda. The damages should all be laid at that sick Commie's feet

^ Sucker. How many times do you have to be told the checks in the mail before you wake up and realize they're fucking lying to you? How many trillions will you allow them to scam out of your pockets?

Yeah, the US won't spend a penny on [Iraq's] [Afghanistan's] [Ukraine's] reconstruction! It'll pay for itself!
😂

"Iraq's oil will pay for it all!" NOT.

"Afghanistan's rare earth metal export revenues will pay for it all!" NOT.

"That sick Commie will pay for it all!"
🤡

Posted by Hupeath Elmomolet8986 2022-04-22 14:11||   2022-04-22 14:11|| Front Page Top

#11 We'll just have to put import tarriffs on all the goods the Pro-Invade-Ukraine bloc (including China and India) want to sell in the West.

I mean what good is all this business-as-usual shit with people who want to shoot your kids and say you're a nazi?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-22 14:20||   2022-04-22 14:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Within the first year of the Iraq clusterfuck $12 billion in cash was flown into Iraq in 21 separate flights in late 2003-May 2004, all of which disappeared.

An inspector general's report indicated that "'Severe inefficiencies and poor management' by the Coalition Provisional Authority would leave no guarantee that the money was properly used", said Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., director of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Bowen said the missing money may represent "the largest theft of funds in national history."
Posted by Knuckles Snore3276 2022-04-22 19:29||   2022-04-22 19:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, if you're trying to tell me that we shouldn't be giving thirty billion a month to Putin, I'd say I was convinced by your examples, but to tell you the truth I was already convinced.

Heck, I know you're not supposed to talk about it, it's what you're here to distract away from.

But the plain fact of the matter is, our administration and the other administrations of the West give Putin about a billion a day to obtain stuff we already have but won't get for ourselves because a) they're environmental/religious fanatics and b) they're at war with the working class. Putin's enabled by an extremist religion we really shouldn't have any more time for.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-22 21:01||   2022-04-22 21:01|| Front Page Top

#14 FFS, this is the THIRD TIME that we're being played. We spent fucking trillions on Iraq and Afghanistan. TRILLIONS. Completely wasted.

By now, anyone who doesn't recognize what an obvious scam this is needs to STFU.

Same deal as with those other black holes: Keep this war going as long as possible. Keep sending billions to the MIC. Keep getting robbed by local kleptocrats posing as Saviors of Democracy. Keep the billions in graft flowing to our corrupt warmongers.

Fuck this shit. Twice fooled and trillions wasted... no more.
Posted by Flese Juque2331 2022-04-22 21:12||   2022-04-22 21:12|| Front Page Top

#15 HAHA!
Fuck Russia
Posted by Fester Splat1466 2022-04-22 21:31||   2022-04-22 21:31|| Front Page Top

#16 "Don't respond to his argument! Redirect! Redirect! Your mimeograph says Trillions Wasted! DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE BILLION A DAY WE GET FROM THE WEST! YOU'RE A RED-BLOODED AMERICAN, NO SENATOR'S SON, AND YOU'RE UPSET ABOUT THE TRILLIONS BUT YOU HAVE TO BE MYSTERIOUSLY SILENT ABOUT THE DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE BILLION DOLLARS A DAY WE GET FROM IT! DISTRACT! DISTRACT! DISTRACT!"
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-22 23:35||   2022-04-22 23:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Total scam.

Don't Get Fooled Again
Posted by Clem Splat3186 2022-04-22 23:56||   2022-04-22 23:56|| Front Page Top

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