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TexasTowelie

(117,527 posts) 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

getagrip_already

(17,537 posts)

1. Russkiy Mir......

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:31 PM

Apr 2024

About sums it up.

magicarpet

(16,949 posts)

2. Putie's aversion to being assassinated so he refrains from going out in public crowds to mix and mingle.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

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

(28,656 posts)

3. Putin: "Sorry, most of our national human assets to help you are busy dying in Ukraine. "

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

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.

Augiedog

(2,602 posts)

4. He doesn't know how to swim

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:53 PM

Apr 2024

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