(August 8, 2024 at 12:24 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 8, 2024 at 12:17 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Russian Railway Networks Facing 'Imminent Collapse'
The state-owned Russian Railways faces "imminent collapse" amid a shortage of locomotives, driven by Western-imposed sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, a Russian Telegram channel has reported.
The sanctions have contributed to a ball-bearing shortage in Russia, which has affected locomotive maintenance in the country. This has led to a rise in malfunctions on the network's trains and an increase in the number of vehicles being suspended, Russian newspapers Vedomosti and Kommersant reported in February and March this year.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-railway...ar-1935049
My gramps, who died in a B-17 over NW Europe in 1943, would be smiling were he alive to hear this, about ball bearings.
In other news, the Ukrainians have launched a raid towards Kursk that while not threatening may still put the Russians off-balance.
Putin has called that incursion into Russian territory 'a large scale provocation'. Pot meet kettle.
Boru
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