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richardstevenhack's avatar

Nice recap of why Ukraine should never be believed about anything.

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Sam Ursu's avatar

Once again, a superb analysis. And I've got two pieces of information that'll confirm your hard work.

First of all, I live about a 90-minute drive west of Odessa, so we basically have the same weather, except it does rain a tiny bit more intensely in Odessa than here for whatever reason. Well, guess what? This year, it was definitely a bit chilly and overcast on April 13. But last year? It was gorgeous weather (I remember because the Ukrainians attacked us several times in April, including on April 25 when they fired three RPG and blew up a building two blocks from where I lived), so that video was definitely shot THIS year.

Secondly, there are websites which record historical weather data (although most are US-only, so you got to wade through them and remember to spell the city "Odesa" because that's the "Ukrainian" spelling). Last year, on April 13 in Odessa there was not a drop of rain, and only half a millimeter (0.00000001 inches or whatever the US equivalent is) of rain the entire week before. If it was stormy at sea, it sure wasn't raining on land, and the winds were quite mild as well (30 km/h or less out of the south).

Third, I'll just add that there were plenty of Turkish ships near Odessa in those days - just not military ones. In and around the city of Odessa are three huge commercial sea ports that do a shit ton of business to/from Turkey. So it's definitely possible a commercial Turkish ship of some kind was in the vicinity of the Moskva.

In terms of sunrise and sunset, yep, that's all true for this part of the world. There's no friggin' way the sun was shining at 8pm in April.

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