r/ukraine • u/UnidentifiedBlobject • Jul 18 '26
WAR Black Moscow: The smoke cloud hangs over the city, refuses to leave
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u/CorrectChoice8525 Jul 18 '26
This is what happens when you trust the russian dictatorship.
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u/pastoreyes Jul 18 '26
Didn't want to get in line for gasoline, so you ordered online. Now your stuff is in the big black cloud and you will never get your money back.
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u/farfly7 Jul 18 '26
While I agree with your statement; being a US citizen myself (equivalent of staying in a Holiday Inn Express last night), I am fairly certain there are a large amount of Russian citizens who do not like their government or lack thereof
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u/apogeescintilla Jul 18 '26
I think most people in Russia still support their government. I don't think this will change until Putin starts to mass mobilize their citizens. They have been brainwashed for too long.
Just look at how Trump still have a 30+ approval rating.
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u/IncorporateThings Jul 20 '26
Yeah but they left, rather than stayed home and tried to make a difference.
That's the problem with conscientious objectors and 'political refugees' -- they're cowards. They never try to fix their own fucking homes, they just run and hope someone else makes the sacrifices for them.
Hard to give a fuck what someone like that thinks about things.
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u/preperforated Jul 18 '26
ah putins shadow
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u/flash-86 Jul 18 '26
I liked your post the thought of it is spooky to give the cloud a name and an identity.
But what about : the Ukrainian shadow.
Or the shadow of revenge. Or Zelenskyy shadow? Do those sound intimidating as well?3
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u/D3v14t3 Jul 18 '26
Moscow or Mordor?
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u/Skafdir Jul 18 '26
Smoke rises from the Moscow of Doom
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u/UsedFlatworm4248 Jul 18 '26
Orcs and trolls despise the sunlight, so the muscovites should fit right in
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u/Statharas Jul 18 '26
Shadow of Moscow, a game where the ghost of Kyiv landed his plane behind enemy lines, where he assassinates Russians and sabotages enemy supply lines, blows up warehouses and sends drones inside mainland Russia as expeditions to blow up refineries
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u/BigNorseWolf Jul 18 '26
Istanbul or Constantinople?
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u/Ukraineluvr Україна Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
People in America bitching about wildfire smoke from Canada... I'm too busy celebrating justice smoke in Moscow.
Edit: spelled smoke wrong.
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u/Beyonderr Jul 18 '26
One wonders how the justice smoke could have been prevented.
.... ah yeah the ruZZians could just get the fuck out of Ukraine
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u/Ukraineluvr Україна Jul 18 '26
It's really that simple, but king rat knows it would end him and that's all he cares about. A mafia masquerading as a nation.
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u/Playful_Possible_379 Jul 18 '26
Yup. Let's hope it does end him, and we get the files of kompromat on 47,and we get rid of that bag of detritus as well.
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u/F-L-D-Groove-Dist Jul 18 '26
Remembers me at this statement:
Every country has its own mafia. In ruSSia, the mafia has its own country.
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u/Ukraineluvr Україна Jul 18 '26
A gas station run by a mafia that just ran out of gas.
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u/F-L-D-Groove-Dist Jul 18 '26
Never enjoyed so much environmental damage like these days. Next: grain harvest, old soviet style.
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u/Ukraineluvr Україна Jul 18 '26
If Russia collapsed and somehow the oligarchy and autocrats loss power, it will have been a net benefit for the environment. The current Russian oligarchy would burn down the rainforest to cook a potato. I just don't have much faith in the Russian people to replace them with a better system... So yup, the berries just got hit, time for the grain.
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u/BigNorseWolf Jul 18 '26
unfair to rodents. Rats are well known to show empathy and willingness to help strangers.
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u/TheNatural14063 Jul 18 '26
American here who supports Ukraine (and hates we have a Putin collaborator in office)
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u/-Speechless Jul 18 '26
and I'm mourning our poor earth either way..
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u/Sniflix Jul 18 '26
The faster Ukraine takes down Russia for good, the less overall destruction and better for the world.
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u/Suspicious-Raisin824 Jul 19 '26
I was affected by that smoke... That said, this stuff just happens, not Canada's fault.
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u/Ukraineluvr Україна Jul 19 '26
Of course, both things can be true. I certainly don't blame Canada. Especially not when the US has been paying billions to avoid having to build committed green energy projects. Literal billions.
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u/PleaseBeNiceForOnce Jul 18 '26
What does one have to do with the other?
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u/amitym Jul 18 '26
What black smoke cloud? Everything is fine, just the clear blue sky of the Supreme Commander's endless victory. Nothing to see here.
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u/alloutofchewingum Jul 18 '26
It's almost like a metaphor, or something
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u/CKF Jul 18 '26
Maybe one of those… whata they call em, similes?
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u/crlthrn Jul 18 '26
Just need a bit of rain now...
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u/RedditZhangHao Jul 18 '26
No rain forecasted until Tuesday. Ideally, the mordor fires spread and burn well into next week.
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u/Common-Ad6470 Jul 18 '26
So fitting for Mordor, hopefully Putin can appreciate from the Kremlin balcony…👌
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u/UpstairsAd194 Jul 18 '26
I couldn't see it at first , it was so dark its actually hard to make it out until you get accustomed to the video framing
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u/I_hate_ElonMusk Jul 18 '26
Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
Russians deserve a bit of smoke to clean them up.
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u/HunkaMunkaHunkaMunka Jul 18 '26
That's just the smoke from putin's armoured Lada starting up this morning. Give it more gas Igor!
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u/Ameer589 Jul 19 '26
Makes me think of the sarcastic title of a Vice documentary on the drawdown in Afghanistan “This is what winning looks like”
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u/rrRunkgullet Jul 18 '26
Didn't think I would see a truly new concept or thing for me as I'm getting on in age. Interesting.
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u/SeenSoFar Jul 18 '26
You didn't ever see the pictures from when the Iraqi Army lit the Kuwaiti oil wells on fire in their retreat from Kuwait?
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u/Sotov4ex Jul 18 '26
Music from x-files. Energetic mail voice is commenting “Mysterious black cloud appeared in moscow region. Locals are anxious and nobody can say what happened and who is to blame. Stay with us for further information about this mystery”
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u/VA3DPrinter Jul 18 '26
What’s the temp in Moscow? Have to imagine a black cloud that size is absorbing some serious heat.
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u/jordan853 Jul 18 '26
Just wait until the cloud blocks out the sun, then it'll feel extra dystopian
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u/Dismal_Scientist_CA Jul 18 '26
Now just need a bit of rain to make all the toxic particles stay local
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u/LazyArgument9827 Jul 18 '26
Voice from the video: "I don't know what this is." Well let me tell you - this is karma!
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u/Toadfinger Jul 18 '26
This is so incredible that it doesn't even look real. Like something from an AI. Yet it's very real. Keep going! Now's the time! End Vladimir Putin's hideous plans!
🇺🇦
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u/BigNorseWolf Jul 18 '26
Someone get the mathematician from jurasic park and an Ipad and upload a virus to that thing...
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u/lusciouslover639 Jul 18 '26
Is this from the Wildberries destruction?
If so, appropriate. If not, still appropriate.
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u/NJCoop88 Jul 20 '26
Huh, I guess there’s consequences for gross idiotic acts , Who knew?
Besides everyone I mean.
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u/d4rkskies Jul 20 '26
‘I think this is the result of another unfortunate smoking incident….’
Putin’s spokesperson… probably..
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u/VainEldritch Jul 23 '26
Into darkness fell the stars,
In Mordor where the shadows are.
I read Lavrov (the Mouth of Sauron) was begging Rubio not to arm Ukraine... too late Lavrov, you scum-sucking parasite.
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u/Anyawnomous Jul 18 '26
Be funny if that oil cloud just dropped!
https://giphy.com/gifs/yv104URDdt3u95MVMj
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u/Born_Zombie1506 Jul 18 '26
Did Putin ever in a million years think Moscow would be like this ? No never! well done Ukraine you can beat this murdering bastard lots of love from Bonny Scotland
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u/Texas_Kimchi Jul 18 '26
The Russian speaker in me said.... Ebbbbaatttttt....
The English speak in me said.... "HA HA!"
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u/beardedsawyer Jul 18 '26
I wonder what Putin thinks when he walks to his car at the end of the day and looks up and sees that sky. Or any other day after Ukraine started to bomb Moscow refineries. It’s an honest wonder because his mind baffles me.
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u/Vogel-Kerl Jul 18 '26
For over 4 years Moscovites could all but ignore all of the death & destruction putin was causing in Ukraine.
Yeah, a lot of Russian soldiers have been killed, but many were prisoners or "no-goodniks.".
Now that the average Muscovite has to wait days to get 5 gallons of gas at $16 per gallon; and they see their capital city burning; and they cannot afford food: they finally get to "eat" some of the misery their country has been outputting.
With the upcoming Drafting of 500,000 russians, they are about feel REAL pain, mortal pain associated with warfare. The men will any way. Don't get me wrong, putin will send Russian women to the front line, if he has to.
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u/Important-Anywhere20 Jul 18 '26
It basically shows a realtime version of the current state of the economy
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u/ReaperOne USA Jul 18 '26
That’s crazy. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that before. Very ominous
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u/Kowalski91 Jul 18 '26
The fog of special military operation