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TexasTowelie

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Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:28 PM Apr 2024

Floods in Russia: Why won't Putin visit the affected areas? - DW News



Floods in southern Russia and Kazakhstan forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

Melting snow has caused the Ural River to surge, and flood-defenses around the city of Orenburg to collapse. A rescue operation is underway, but locals say not enough was done to prevent the flooding in the first place.

00:00 Could the Orenburg floods have been prevented?
01:58 DW Reporter Dmitry Ponyavin in Latvia
05:30 Maria Shahgedanova, Professor of Climate Science
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Floods in Russia: Why won't Putin visit the affected areas? - DW News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2024 OP
Russkiy Mir...... getagrip_already Apr 2024 #1
Putie's aversion to being assassinated so he refrains from going out in public crowds to mix and mingle. magicarpet Apr 2024 #2
Putin: "Sorry, most of our national human assets to help you are busy dying in Ukraine. " OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2024 #3
He doesn't know how to swim Augiedog Apr 2024 #4

magicarpet

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2. Putie's aversion to being assassinated so he refrains from going out in public crowds to mix and mingle.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:36 PM
Apr 2024

Being the lying warmonger his is and deaths of Russian soldiers he caused in Ukraine.

OAITW r.2.0

(28,362 posts)
3. Putin: "Sorry, most of our national human assets to help you are busy dying in Ukraine. "
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:38 PM
Apr 2024

Pretty sure this is the start of a major Russian realization that they are fucked and on their own.

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