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« Reply #30 on: February 21, 2023, 18:45:49 » |
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feature on BBC1 points west at 18:40pm on tuesday.
available on i-player for 24 hours only.
Would any one know how much of the rail lines/bridges/ have been damaged in Ukraine
Always think of my trip to Ukraine in the summer 2012 from the border with Poland at Przemyśl to lviv and onto kiev
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« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2023, 07:05:56 » |
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There have been internal requests to identify any redundant equipment that has no future operational use that could be released to assist the Ukraine
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #34 on: February 22, 2023, 09:46:15 » |
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There have been internal requests to identify any redundant equipment that has no future operational use that could be released to assist the Ukraine
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« Reply #35 on: February 22, 2023, 10:53:06 » |
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« Reply #36 on: February 22, 2023, 17:17:47 » |
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Could they use Mick Lynch for anything?
I thought he was a prominent apologist for Putin. They may be tempted to answer something impolite - or worse. |
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« Reply #37 on: February 22, 2023, 20:41:53 » |
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Could they use Mick Lynch for anything?
I thought he was a prominent apologist for Putin. They may be tempted to answer something impolite - or worse. That's true. The Leadership of both the RMT▸ and ASLEF» (for some reason) seem to be notable for the Putin apologists amongst them. |
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« Reply #38 on: February 24, 2023, 16:48:24 » |
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When Alexander Kamyshin, has finished his job of moving VIPs he may be the ideal candidate for head of GBR▸ . https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/how-ukraine-railways-keeps-people-and-presidents-moving‘Rail Force One’: how Ukraine railways got Joe Biden safely to Kyiv
Alexander Kamyshin, head of the service, doesn’t get much sleep, but his team coordinated the president’s visit without a single leak
Alexander Kamyshin, the head of Ukraine’s railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, doesn’t get much sleep at the best of times. On Sunday night, as Joe Biden was being ferried into Ukraine in a 10-hour night journey from Poland – in a carriage now known as “Rail Force One”, he got almost none.
Along with others involved in the secret operation to bring the US president to his meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Kamyshin watched the progress of the train in a command centre.
A handsome bearded man sporting a hipster-ish braid of hair that falls over the shaved sides of his head, Kamyshin is deliberately vague about many of the details.
But in the past year, his dedicated team has brought in world leaders, VIPs and diplomatic missions on an almost daily basis as part of a programme called “Iron Diplomacy”.
Security is everything, he told the Guardian in an interview at Kyiv’s main railway station. “We have not had one leak. There have been no photographs from train attendants. We respect the confidence of the delegations.
“It’s not a challenge. It’s our job that we do every day. Imagine,” he says with smile, “the president of the United States coming to a war-torn country by train.
“The challenge is treat the delegations properly because, like Biden, they spend more time on the train than they do in Kyiv. He spent 20 hours on the train and four hours in Kyiv. Everyone knows Ukrainians are brave. We also want them to know that we are welcoming.” ... |
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« Reply #39 on: April 20, 2023, 11:20:08 » |
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 Two institutions have played a crucial role in thwarting Russia’s plan to conquer Ukraine. One is the Ukrainian army. It successfully defended the capital, Kyiv, and has recaptured large swathes of territory seized last year by Moscow in the north-east and south. Another counteroffensive looms. The second – surprisingly, perhaps – is Ukraine’s railway. to make the picture fit on (my) screen! - grahame |
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« Reply #40 on: September 02, 2023, 18:12:54 » |
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« Reply #41 on: September 03, 2023, 21:12:38 » |
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Interesting and, yes, sobering, on many levels.
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« Reply #42 on: September 05, 2023, 18:07:50 » |
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Gotta say I'd probably quite like an Ukrzaliznytsia hoody or t-shirt, if they were available in the UK▸ . Well, they probably are available in some form, but I wouldn't buy one cos the funds probably wouldn't go where they should. Perhaps the Coffee Shop should send an intrepid explorer to Ukraine to buy a load and bring back. Or perhaps not.
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« Reply #43 on: September 05, 2023, 20:18:49 » |
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Perhaps something for Messrs Lynch and Dempsey to consider given their own views on the Russian invasion of Ukraine & the company the latter has been known to keep.
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« Reply #44 on: February 25, 2024, 11:09:31 » |
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It's less than forty eight hours since, in the UK▸ 's west country, rail services came to a halt as a result of the discovery of a large and malevolant device, a gift from fascism, dropped among Victorian terraced housing just a few generations back and overlooked during what may have been a night of far greater chaos. With this in mind it was unsettling to come across a long read about a rail journey across the width of Ukraine, the people met along the way and reflect on how close all this is, how fragile our politics. Mark https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/24/a-train-through-ukraine-a-journey-into-the-stories-of-two-years-of-war |
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