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Related: About this forumFloods 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
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Putie's aversion to being assassinated so he refrains from going out in public crowds to mix and mingle.
magicarpet
Apr 2024
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Putin: "Sorry, most of our national human assets to help you are busy dying in Ukraine. "
OAITW r.2.0
Apr 2024
#3
getagrip_already
(17,436 posts)1. Russkiy Mir......
About sums it up.
magicarpet
(16,513 posts)2. Putie's aversion to being assassinated so he refrains from going out in public crowds to mix and mingle.
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. "
Pretty sure this is the start of a major Russian realization that they are fucked and on their own.
Augiedog
(2,602 posts)4. He doesn't know how to swim