[MAIL] Moscow’s claim that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military 'bioweapons' research program in Ukraine is at least partially true, according to new emails obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
The commander of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, claimed there was a 'scheme of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects' and pointed to the 'financing of such activities by structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the investment fund Rosemont Seneca, which is headed by Hunter Biden.'
Intelligence experts say the Russian military leader's allegations were a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US.
But emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons.
He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a 'science project' involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.
And although Metabiota is ostensibly a medical data company, its vice president emailed Hunter in 2014 describing how they could 'assert Ukraine's cultural and economic independence from Russia' — an unusual goal for a biotech firm.
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This is all Russian misinformation, right? Right? The laptop, the bioweapons, the money...all Putin's lies, right? Right? Biden wouldn't engineer a coup in Ukraine so he and his crooked cronies could turn the place into a bio-weapons lab. Would he? Would he?
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Federal Law Enforcement and US Intelligence Community difficulty with Hunter's laptop explained.
Global Viral (GV), previously known as Global Viral Forecasting Institute (GVFI),[1] is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 2007 by Nathan Wolfe[2] to study infectious diseases, their transmission between animals and humans, and the risk involved with their global spread. An original goal of the organization was to develop an early warning system for pandemics and at one point Global Viral coordinated a staff of over 100 scientists in China, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Republic of the Congo, Laos, Gabon, Central African Republic, Malaysia, Madagascar and Sao Tome.
However, as of 2019 the organization has "shifted" these areas of research to Metabiota, an independent for-profit company that focuses on risk analysis of pandemics. GV appears to have "now focuse[d] its research on studying the diversity, ecology and evolution of microbes".
Anyone really believe Metabiota's funding comes from the Department of Defense, Bill and Melinda, or concerned philanthropists? No, me neither.
Anyone really believe Dr. Anthony Fauci had no knowledge of Metabiota's funding and extensive research? No, me neither.
Anyone read... "research on studying the diversity, ecology and evolution of microbes" (above para closing sentence) and NOT immediately default to...'gain of function?' No, me neither.
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Yes, anything that goes against the deep state is certainly Putin's lies. You may go back to sleep now. Our intelligence community has your interests at heart and would never deceive you.
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Going to guess the harness was not big enough for someone that size and the nobody on the staff wanted to get called out for being rayciss by making an issue of it.
"You must be at least this tall must at least fit on it to ride this ride."
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Well, silly-con valley was the home of the $30,000 / yr coffee room attendant back during the dotcom boom. they never quite got around to going the toilet attendant route.
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[FoxNews] A Colorado jury on Friday awarded a $14 million judgment to 12 protesters after finding Denver police officers violated their constitutional rights amid chaotic demonstrations in 2020 over police brutality and racial injustice.
Jurors found Denver violated the First and Fourth Amendment rights of protesters, who claimed police officers injured them during the gatherings that were sparked by the death of George Floyd, the Denver Post reported. They heard testimony about the alleged failure of police to coordinate during the law enforcement response during the three-week civil trial.
The 12 plaintiffs were injured with bean bags and pepper-sprayed during several days of gatherings in downtown Denver. At the end of the trial, attorneys asked the jury to award $17.5 million in damages.
"I think we established that when there are people committing acts of violence, what the police should do is take action against those people. What you can't do is take it out on the peaceful protesters," Tim Macdonald, attorney for seven plaintiffs, told Fox News. "The acts of violence against peaceful protesters by the police were so extensive, I think that's what persuaded the jury.
He added that the city never presented evidence or argued that the plaintiffs had acted violently.
"The Denver protests in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder were unprecedented – the city had never seen that level of sustained violence and destruction before," the Denver Department of Public Safety said in a statement to Fox News. "We were prepared for a worst-case scenario, but we weren’t fully prepared for what transpired."
The agency said it recognizes "some mistakes were made" and that all officers have received additional training on crowd control response and rapid deployment tactics.
High-ranking officers testified about the police department's response, with some saying it was difficult to discern who was throwing projectiles or causing property damage.
"In 40 years I never saw such anger against police," Patrick Phelan, the now-retired Denver police commander who oversaw protest response, said during his testimony, the Post reported.
One plaintiff claimed she was bruised during protests and was targeted by police for recording them with her cellphone, Fox affiliate KDVR reported.
"It shouldn't be a weapons-first policy against peaceful protesters by the police and unfortunately, at least in significant respects, that is what happened here," Macdonald said.
Denver has already paid out $1.3 million tied to lawsuits over protests.
Signals intercepts, and why Ukraine communication systems were NOT taken out by invading Russian forces.
[YouTube] Retired Four Star General Barry McCaffrey and former consultant to the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division Clint Watts discuss the Russian army struggling with logistics, communication, and resources.
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Agree on credible and informative. Most of the General's comments ranged from rational to rational-ish.
THEN he started in on sending S300's (I didn't know we had any) and having the US send in M1 tanks. That strikes me as irrational. It takes a lot of training time to get a tank crew up to speed. Is he implying that US personnel should man those Abrams? God, I hope not. Is he a Biden regime mouthpiece? Kinda sounds it to me.
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Send them some M1-A1 tanks, General? How would that work?
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03/26/2022 9:24 Comments ||
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THEN he started in on sending S300's (I didn't know we had any) and having the US send in M1 tanks. That strikes me as irrational. It takes a lot of training time to get a tank crew up to speed. Is he implying that US personnel should man those Abrams? God, I hope not. Is he a Biden regime mouthpiece? Kinda sounds it to me.
...There are a LOT of nations that use S-300s who would happily trade it for a US or UK system, and those are the people we're talking to about transferring them. That's at least doable.
The M1s...no. Just. No. Even the smartest and most motivated trainees - and the Ukranians qualify on both counts - would take months to be able to competently handle an M1. Now if we're talking about giving them M1s after this settles down, that's something else entirely.
Mike
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Is McCaffrey a credible source? He was a leading voice in the 'Trump is a Russian asset' narrative.
Former Soviet block nations still have them. Romania and Hungary both do and I think Slovakia does as well. It make sense to send these instead of other systems as the Ukrainians know how to use them.
Sending tanks may be needed after the mud dries up, but I would rather just send them a shit load more anti-tank missiles and artillery. With the Russians digging in they make great targets.
Ray McGovern's post-retirement work includes commenting for Consortium News, RT, and Sputnik News, among other outlets, on intelligence and foreign policy issues. In 2003 he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Friend of “Short Eyes” Scott Ritter, whom he brought into VIPS.
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#12 The only nat-sec'y figure in Washington with any credibility is Ray McGovern
Thanks! That's an awesome discussion. 1 million views, wow. That subtitled clip of Putin explaining Russia's opposition to Tomahawk missiles is fascinating. Really valuable context.
Personally I found John Mearsheimer's analysis to be the clearest and most convincing of any I've heard. Amazing how he makes sense of everything that's happened. He's also totally realistic about what's likely to happen.
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Utterly unsurprising that the anonymous cowards gush over McGovern. Same funding source, I'd bet.
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LOL McGovern is a bit of a kook, sure. But John Mearsheimer is brilliant. It's a damn shame that Mearsheimer wasn't making America's foreign policy in the last decade. None of this mess would have happened. He's also one of the rational people in the US when it comes to the Israeli lobby.
This Mearsheimer video has gone viral. 23 million views and 237k likes. Amazing, everyone in the US government should see it
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#16 It's a damn shame that Mearsheimer wasn't making America's foreign policy in the last decade. None of this mess would have happened. He's also one of the rational people in the US when it comes to the Israeli lobby.
Thank you for this. John Mearsheimer is the only American foreign policy expert who speaks sensibly about this conflict. Mearsheimer is very well regarded in India and China. He has no illusions about "human rights" and "spreading democracy." A clear-eyed realist who accepts and understands national pride.
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Retired General Barry McCaffery is a traitor and a genuinely calculatingly evil man, a traitor to America and Americans. Maybe even have convinced himself that what he is doing is correct—disregarding facts available to every American who reads current events about the Russian Z operation against the nazis supported by the USA and NATO on the doorsteps of his country.
He's a paid consultant for MSNBC and part of the army of grifters in the civil servants swamp. Hey is just shilling for MIC downplaying the Russian success, so he maybe can get a bone to chewy.
The reality is many countries have start to order Russian armaments after seeing how powerful and effective they are compared to the overpriced and all the string attached of the American ones. What kind of epic dirt do they have on 'this Barry' to go on record like this? America now is a broken country and will take years to repair and return to it's once great and respected standing in the world. If ever ….
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[ZERO] Update(11:43ET): In what's looking like a hugely significant first sign that Russia could be pulling back on the scope of its Ukraine operations, Bloomberg reports Friday that the Kremlin may be limiting its key military objectives to taking full control over the Donbas region. This despite multiple parts of the county, including outside the capital of Kiev, still witnessing intense fighting and shelling.
The hugely important Friday Bloomberg report says that "After a month of fighting that’s yielded limited territorial gains, the Russian military said it’s focusing efforts on taking full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region, potentially a sign it’s backing away from hopes of taking larger swathes of the country."
The Russian military's first deputy chief of the General Staff Sergei Rudskoi said the following as quoted in Interfax: "Our forces will focus on the main thing - the complete liberation of Donbas."
Bloomberg writes further of the Russian commander's surprising words, "Rudskoi claimed Russian troops have surrounded several major cities but deliberately didn’t seek to take them, instead aiming to pin Ukrainian troops down. His comments were the most detailed official accounting of Russian military performance since the Feb. 24 invasion." "We'll just leave the tip in"
#4
Certainly looks like a signal that the map of Ukraine will be altered after a cease-fire, but it will remain a chastened but sovereign nation. What remains is a huge cleanup and rebuild for a nation essentially ruined by war, and a new Cold War against a diminished Russia firmly self-exiled into the Chinese orbit, with decades of cultural and economic isolation ahead. Their energy profits will come with pictures of Mao printed on them, and the much smaller profit margins will reflect their increasingly client/vassal status. Not what Pootie planned, and heads will roll shortly throughout the nomenclatura , perhaps over time including his. The opportunity from all this might well be the significant growth of European self-defense spending, and a far more western orientation of their energy policy from our hemisphere, providing we want that wealth for the USA. Not a certainty given the economic/cultural suicide path of our demokrat polity.
#6
Biden said today that his goal is regime change. He's out of his fricking mind.
Has this lunatic ever handled any successful negotiation? There will be peace talks at some point. What incentive does the other side have to negotiate when you said you want him dead? When did America ever negotiate like this?
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Nine of the Borei class subs sortied from their base in Kamchatka over Thanksgiving weekend. Believe they “normally” remain at sea 120 days before resupply of fresh food (perhaps one of the other readers has more insight on this they could share).
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...Let's use the USN's Trident boats as a yardstick here - they go out on 60 day patrols, and with sufficient warning can tweak that by another week or so. It's entirely possible that you can stuff enough gear for a 120 day patrol into a missile boat, but at that point it's going to be flatly hazardous for the crew just to get their jobs done and get around. There's also the reality that as sound and reliable as the Tridents are, things start to break at the 60 day mark. In short, there would have to be one hell of a reason to have a tour past 60 days.
Russian boats could in theory and principle, do just as well, but there's a problem:
The Soviet and Russian leadership has never, EVER trusted the officers and crews of their boomers. Since the Sixties - and I don't believe this has changed - the crews' families are kept under very close watch when they're on patrol 'so the CIA terrorists don't get them.' Translation, of course, is that the families are effective hostages until everybody gets back. I can't imagine the Russian leadership quite trusting the boomers to be out that long without direct supervision, and the skippers must be terrified of the thought of something going so terribly wrong that they have to surface and call for help.
Mike
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/\ Very interesting Mike. My knowledge of things maritime ends at the rope as you exit the theater.
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Mike -- Speaking as a rank amateur, one impression I've gotten over the last 30 days is that the terms "Russian military" and "maintenance" are mutually exclusive. Are their boomers any better than their tanks?
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Well, subs don't use tires, so that isn't a problem. Leaky Chinese made seals are definitely a problem on a sub.
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^ LOL
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We have a problem, though. The wretched corrupt Americanski Globalist Communist screen doors are much worse than ours Our screen doors are quite inferior to theirs.
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I personally think their nukes are about as maintained as their MRE's. Like the bottle rocket you saved from 20 years ago, good luck setting it off.
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#4 Mike -- Speaking as a rank amateur, one impression I've gotten over the last 30 days is that the terms "Russian military" and "maintenance" are mutually exclusive. Are their boomers any better than their tanks?
Posted by: Matt 2022-03-26 16:45
Matt,
Right now that's the subject of a LOT of discussion. I have no access to anything classified, but there is word from the herd that we are starting to think that their weapons reliability is now south of 60%...and dropping as they dig into the older stuff.
And we've known for years that their fleet's maintenance was getting progressively sketchier - see also their carrier. I shudder to think right now that their boomers might not be capable of anything more than straight, silent running...and God alone knows what will happen if they pull the launch triggers.
NOTE: Actually, I do - they won't get that far, because when they come up to launch depth the USN and RN subs tracking them will blow them out of the water.
Mike
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Thanks, Mike. I don't know whether to be pleased or frightened.
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[IsraelTimes] Some 3.7 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion a month ago, the UN says.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says 3,725,806 Ukrainians had fled the country — an increase of 50,854 from the previous day’s figure.
Around 90 percent of them are women and kiddies, it adds.
Of those who have left, 2.2 million have fled for neighboring Poland while more than half a million have made it to Romania. Around 20,000 have gone to Russia.
Before the crisis sparked a month ago, EU member Poland was home to around 1.5 million Ukrainians.
In total, more than 10 million people — over a quarter of the population in regions under government control before the February 24 invasion — are now thought to have fled their homes, including nearly 6.5 million who are internally displaced.
Ukraine’s refugee crisis is Europe’s worst since World War II.
The UN children’s agency Unicef said Thursday that 4.3 million children — more than half of Ukraine’s estimated 7.5 million child population — had been forced to leave their homes.
It puts at some 1.5 million the number of those children who have become refugees, while another 2.5 million are displaced inside their war-ravaged country, it said.
As leaving becomes ever more perilous even as living conditions in their country worsen, the UNHCR calculated that since Tuesday the number leaving daily has dropped below 100,000.
The figures do not include citizens of neighboring states who have left Ukraine to return home.
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Here's a video purportedly of Shoigu chairing a meeting. This looks like the locker room of a team that's down 42-0 at the half.
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Matt's link. He's right. You can smell the "enthusiasm and confidence".
Russian defense ministry releases this video showing country’s military chief following questions about Sergei Shoigu’s whereaboutspic.twitter.com/lVvde4IjSW
[DW] Chechen warlord and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov boasted of his soldiers' part in Russia's war in Ukraine. But many Chechen and Tatar Moslems are defending Ukraine and settling scores with the rulers of their homelands.
The number of these fighters deployed to Ukraine is unknown, but their reputation for brutality and ruthlessness in enforcing domestic rule is well-known, and their presence has raised memories of grisly urban combat and guerilla fighting from the Chechen wars in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, known as one of the most loyal allies of President Vladimir Putin
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Distorted news is a toolbox for the fascist or heroin for brainwashed.
Even after many readers complained in the comments section,about the continuous barrage of British or nato fake articles lately rantburg is continuously linking nato or cia disinformation articles and aggregate this trash as news this is anti-American,
Stop pushing your racist Russophobia fake news and shilling for the criminals in the nato cia globalists!
IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A INCOMPETENT OR A LIAR
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Russian trolls are active on this website but not terribly convincing.
#6
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS is a designated terrorist organization the Syrian grunts of which have been massacred by Russian and other forces, justifiably so. I'm sure many moslems wanna get back at Russia. Some chechens would too. I never understood Kadyrov's loyalty to the Kremlin, probably a typical moslem opportunist thing.
What I appreciate is the large numbers of moslems being used as fodder. You have to like that.
[MilitaryLand] The summary of the 29th day of Russian invasion to Ukraine, as of 23:59 – 24th of March 2022 (Kyiv time).
It’s been a month since the Russian invasion of Ukraine has begun. Iconically, it marks the first day when Ukrainian troops reported more successful operations than the invading force. Go to the site. They have improved greatly the graphics presentation of the maps.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23.55 Ukrainian troops fired mortars at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 23.25 — n. Pobeda village - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells fired with a caliber of 122mm 21:46 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of six civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the territories liberated earlier:
n.p. Vladimirovka:
- a woman born in 1950
n.p. Mariupol:
- man born in 1979
- man born in 1975
- woman born in 1947
- woman born in 1946
- man born in 1970
The victims were taken to medical institutions of the Republic, where they receive the necessary medical care.
Also, through the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about damage as a result of morning shelling from the side of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk at the address: st. Podlesnaya, 4.
21:30 Police of the People's Republic of Chinafindslots of technology. An infantry fighting vehicle was found near Starobelsk, inside of which a shell flew, killing 5 soldiers. Local residents reported that the Aidar battalion (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) hit the retreating column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:57 According to subscribers of various TV channels, the Kyiv region is covered with phosphorus shells of the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
20:25 The People's Militia of the DPR reported the destruction of 43 Ukrainian nationalists since the beginning of the day.
18:52 In total, 93 percent of the territory of the LPR and 54 percent of the DPR have been liberated - the Russian Ministry of Defense. The defense department also published the text of the secret order of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine Balan with a plan to prepare for an offensive in the Donbass.
18:21 As a result of the shelling, the building of the Gorlovsky meat processing plant, located on the street. Khlebozavodskaya, 1a.
17:52 As a result of shelling by Ukrainian nationalist gangs, the building of branch No. 1 "Gorlivka Meat Processing Plant of Profgarant LLC" along Hlebozavodskaya Street, 1 was damaged. A 3m2 wall, glazing (7 plastic window blocks), 2 interior partitions made of plastic, building sheathing were damaged from corrugated board 20m2, the floor slab was displaced - Prikhodko.
17:09 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of another civilian born in 1967. at the address: st. Stepana Shchipachev, 2/17 as a result of shelling from the VFU of the village "Tikhiy" of the Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk.
16:50 The representative office of the DPR stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four shells at Yasinovataya.
15:06 Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a pinpoint hit at the base of fuel and lubricants and the military warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka.
15:05 DPR troops, with the fire support of the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 132 settlements, including: Aslanovo, Khersones, Kellerovka, Yalta, Yuryevka, Azov, Melekino, Belosarayskaya Spit, Buryakovaya Balka, Portovskoye, Glubokoe, Ogorodnoye, Demyanovka, Urzuf, Kamyshevatoe, Starodubovka, Red Ukraine, Zakharovka, Babakh-Taramu, Novoyanisol, Lesnoye, Malovodnoye, Zaporizhzhya, Bakhchevik, Druzhnoye, Abundant, Regimental, Kirovskoye, Privolnoe, Vesele (Volnovakhsky district) - Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.
13:48 DPR forces continue to liberate Mariupol, the liberated areas receive assistance. In Mariupol, relevant departments, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Health of the DPR, volunteers are already working, a headquarters for providing assistance has been organized - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
13:30 Shelling of VFU settlement Novozvanovka - Pervomaisk: artillery gun 122mm (10 shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
13:26 As a result of the shelling of the VFU of the village of Ozeryanovka and the village of Mikhailovka, in the Central City district of Gorlovka, a field fire was recorded in the area of the Gorlovka paper mill - Prikhodko.
13:01 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Trinity - n.p. Ozeryanovka: 7 LNG grenades were fired, small arms were also used;
— n.p. Victory - n.p. Aleksandrovka: 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
12:30 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received that as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk on the street. Dagestanskaya, 50, a civilian was mortally wounded. The personal data of the deceased are being established.
Also, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the village of the Lidievka mine of the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk at the address: st. Bastionnaya, 6.
Information about the consequences of the shelling continues to arrive.
12:14 Ukrainian armed formations fired at the village of Ozeryanovka and the village of Mikhailovka, in the Central City district of Gorlovka.
11:25 Today, Donetsk was attacked by two shells fired by Ukrainian punishers from the Tochka-U tactical missile system. In the photo - traces of a fallen shell in the village of Avdotino on the street. Novozavodskaya. A funnel with a diameter of 15 m, a depth of 5 m and the consequences of the arrival of the second shell on Leninsky Prospekt.
11:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of Trudovskaya mine): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
10:53 School in the center of Mariupol. In it and in neighboring houses there were Nazis from Azov at night. The "Azovites" were hiding behind civilians, and kept the equipment in the courtyard of this school.
10:30 The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR destroyed the fortified area of Ukrainian troops near the city of Popasnaya.
10:27 A 17-year-old Mariupol girl was killed by a Ukrainian sniper when she went with her father to get water.
10:13 AFU shelled the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka. A shell rupture was recorded between the residential area "Komsomolets" and the village named after Kirov. Residents - to go into hiding - the mayor of Gorlovka.
09:15 As a result of the night shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district, an apartment building on the street received significant damage. Petrovsky, 129. A part of the outer wall on the 8th floor was destroyed by a direct hit by a shell. The wall between the apartments on the 7th floor was also damaged, window blocks and balcony doors were knocked out - Kulemzin.
As a result of the night shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district, an apartment building on the street was significantly damaged. Petrovsky, 129.
09:06 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the wounding of a civilian in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk as a result of shelling from the VFU: a woman born in 1984.
Information was also received about the wounding of ten civilians as a result of shelling by the VFU of the previously liberated part of the settlement. Mariupol:
- man born in 1972
- man born in 1965
- man born in 1990
- woman born in 1978
- man born in 1947
- woman born in 1978
- man born in 1983
- woman born in 1972
- man born in 1968
- woman born in 1972
The victims were taken to medical institutions of the Republic, where they receive the necessary medical care.
08:21 This is what residential buildings look like on Schipachev Street in the Petrovsky District after the night shelling of the VFU.
This is how residential buildings on Shchipachev Street in the Petrovsky district look like after the night shelling of the VFU.This is what residential buildings look like on Schipachev Street in the Petrovsky district after the night shelling of the VFU
08:04 Evacuated from Mariupol children whose parents were shot by Ukrainian Nazis. The elder gathered the kids in the yard and hid them in the basement until the liberators of Donbass found them. The children were afraid to the last that they would be killed, not realizing that they had actually been saved.
07:57 Ukrainian punitive battalions continue to kill civilians in Donetsk. As a result of a direct hit in a residential building on the street. Dargomyzhskogo, 22 in the Petrovsky district (settlement of mine 29) a woman died - Kulemzin.
07:35 AFU fired at the settlement Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:49 In Vinnitsa inflicted missile attack on the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the air forces of the Russian Federation. 20:51 The Ukrainian Air Force announces a missile strike in Vinnitsa on the command of the air forces. The missiles hit several buildings, causing significant damage to infrastructure, the consequences are still being assessed.
17:00 The city of Slavutych is blocked by units of the Russian Armed Forces. This confirm by authorities of the Kiev region. Most of the inhabitants of Slavutych were and are employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
16:50 RF Armed Forces put out of action 30 key plants of the defense industry complex of Ukraine with high-precision weapons, repairing 68% of weapons and equipment - RF Ministry of Defense.
16:08 Kyiv, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and Nikolaev are blocked by Russian troops, Kherson and most of the Zaporozhye region are under full control - the Russian Defense Ministry.
15:34 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the fighting in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Tikhotskoye in the Kharkiv region - this small village is located south of Izyum in the vicinity of Kamenka, where clashes have been going on for several days.
15:30 The administration of the Kiev region declares that the city of Slavutych near Chernobyl is occupied by Russian troops.
13:44 More and more coming data on the use of social infrastructure facilities in Odessa for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense units. If anyone closely followed the Syrian conflict, then he remembers what fierce battles unfolded for the buildings of hospitals, hospitals and schools, which turned into powerful strongholds. Here is a list of the next objects privatized by territorial defense detachments:
School No. 1 - Mikhailovskaya Square 10
School No. 57 - Yamchitsky 7
School No. 59 - Kanatnaya 89
School No. 94 - Marzliyvskaya 60
School No. 101 - Bolshaya Arnautskaya 9
City Hospital No. 8 - Fontanskaya Road 110
Maternity hospital No. 1 - Slepneva 3
Maternity hospital No. 4 - Pavel Kravtsov 7
School number 14 at the address Crimean, 56A.
And if everything is easier with schools - students have long been sent on vacation or remote work - then the hospital and maternity hospitals continue to work while the territorial defense units replenish stocks of Molotov Cocktails and equip long-term firing points in buildings.
13:40 "Odessa can be encircled" - the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov.
13:10 In the liberated Genichesk, they began to make social payments to public sector employees. According to media reports, pensioners and state employees received 10,000 rubles each.
10:51 A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 24 units of military equipment, including 7 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armored personnel carriers, during night strikes.
During the night, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 51 military facilities of Ukraine, among them: two command posts, three installations of multiple launch rocket systems, two Buk M-1 anti-aircraft missile systems and one S-300 illumination and guidance radar in the Dnepropetrovsk region, three D-30 artillery pieces, two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition, 26 areas of concentration of military equipment - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
10:50 On the evening of March 24, Kalibr high-precision sea-based cruise missiles attacked a fuel base in the Kalinovka settlement near Kiev, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. The largest of the remaining fuel bases of the armed forces of Ukraine, from which fuel was supplied to military units in the central part of the country, was destroyed.
09:34 In Kharkiv, a local resident filmed the work of artillery VSU from a residential area and a few seconds later an answer arrived.
09:30 Ukrainian media and TG channels report a missile attack on a military unit in Dnepropetrovsk.
09:07 The calculations of the Iskander complex destroyed the training base for foreign mercenaries in Ukraine - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
07:13 Servicemen of the Russian Defense Ministry continue to provide help to the local population (Chernobaevka and Antonovka in the Kherson region) in the form of gum delivery. help.
07:05 Mi-28UB attack helicopters destroyed goals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.
07:04 The company stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists has been destroyed. Interview with the commander of the lead crew of the Ka-52 reconnaissance and attack helicopter.
[DefenseNews] Widely circulated videos of Russian armored vehicles being destroyed from the air have thrust forward a lesser known drone called the Bayraktar TB2.
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[Korrespondent] 21:31 The mayor of Vinnitsa said that there were no casualties as a result of a missile attack on the territory of the Air Force Command. 21:27 Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova said she would not go to Budapest for a meeting of ministers of the Visegrad Four countries, because she did not agree with Hungary's position on Ukraine.
21:25 The EU will act as a single buyer of gas so that countries do not compete with each other, Ursula von der Leyen said.
21:21 Gerashchenko writes that the Ukrainian military attacked the Melitopol airfield, which, like Chernobaevka, was used by the Russians as a base for combat helicopters and aircraft.
21:19 The Prime Minister of Poland suggested that the EU stop issuing visas to Russians.
21:17 The Russian military began the transfer of reinforcements to Ukraine from Georgia, according to the Washington Post, citing a senior Pentagon official. According to him, the US Department of Defense saw the movement of "a certain number" of military personnel from Georgia, there are no exact figures.
20:55 Yermak said that the permanent members of the UN, as well as Turkey, Germany, Canada, Israel and Italy, should become guarantors of security for Ukraine. He stressed that Ukraine deserves to be one of the founders of the new security system, because it is opposed to one of the largest armies in the world.
20:33 The Russian occupiers no longer have full control over Kherson, writes The New York Times, citing a Pentagon official. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now conducting fierce battles in the city and are pushing back the Russian invaders there, once again turning the city into a "disputed territory."
20:31 The UN promises to negotiate with the Russians on the opening of a humanitarian corridor to Kherson on March 26 to deliver medicines and food to the city, Vereshchuk said.
20:28 Novaya Gazeta writes that members of Hezbollah are flying to Belarus. In total, we are talking about 800 militants. The first group of 200 militants will arrive next week - they will be transferred from Damascus to a military base in the Gomel region, and on March 29 they will go to Ukraine to fight for Russia. They were each promised to be paid $1,500 a month.
20:25 Russian troops fired six cruise missiles at Vinnitsa, the Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. Part of the missiles were shot down by air defense, the rest hit several structures. The infrastructure of the city was badly damaged, there is no information about the victims yet.
20:21 The Armed Forces of Ukraine captured the "LDNR" sniper, known as "Bagheera". She has been an accomplice of the "DNR" militants since 2014, she is responsible for the death of at least 40 people. According to "Bagheera" herself, she was thrown onto the battlefield wounded by her own people. Now she has received medical attention and is being interrogated. According to volunteer Vlad Ivanov, the captive is in contact with the investigation.
20:19 Kuleba said that there is no consensus in negotiations with Russia yet. He stressed that in order to "stimulate a more constructive approach, we need two things: more sanctions and more military assistance to Ukraine."
20:16 Biden, at a meeting with the US military in Poland, expressed admiration for the courage and strength of the Ukrainian people and said that the stakes in the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine go far beyond Ukrainian borders.
He also again called Putin a "war criminal", specifying that his personal opinion on this issue coincides with the legal point of view.
20:14 The governor of the Nikolaev area Vitaly Kim reported that the Russian invaders left Snigirevka and "hid".
20:12 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the electronic warfare complex, with which the Russian military jammed communications and blocked the work of Ukrainian UAVs and air defense, said the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov. Together with the APU complex, they destroyed about 50 enemies who directly worked with the equipment.
20:00 The United States delivered the first part to Ukraine as part of the largest aid package for $ 800 million, three more similar deliveries are expected in the coming days, the Pentagon said.
19:45 Tiffany stopped buying rough and polished diamonds mined in Russia from March 21. Earlier, Brilliant Earth and Signet Jewelers announced the termination of work with Russian stones.
The Russian group of companies Alrosa supplies 28% of the world's diamonds to the market.
19:27 The head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov said that this morning the 92nd mechanized brigade and the military personnel of the Kharkiv garrison destroyed enemy intelligence officers, including the company commander. 17 invaders were taken prisoner, 15 of which were mobilized from the "LDNR".
Also in the Kharkiv region, mobile units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an enemy helicopter with artillery, which was standing right on the ground.
19:11 The mayor of Trostyanets, Sumy region, Yuriy Bova, reports that the Ukrainian military is liberating the city from Russian invaders.
19:09 Three enemy cruise missiles were shot down over Odessa today, Air Command Pivden reports.
19:02 Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland have created a joint investigation team to investigate war crimes in the Russian Federation, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
18:46 In Luhansk, in a local hospital, the occupiers placed a military hospital, which is completely occupied by wounded Russian servicemen. Part of the hospital is reserved for the storage of corpses - due to the fact that local morgues are overloaded, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
18:37 Russian invaders entered the resort Kyrylivka, Zaporozhye region. The local authorities refused to cooperate with them, said the head of the village, Ivan Maleev.
18:35 Zelensky published information about the states that, in closed discussions, expressed skepticism about Ukraine's entry into the European Union. Read more in the material Who is in the EU for Ukraine's entry, and who is not yet .
18:22 Biden said that the toughest "punitive sanctions" in world history are already in force against Russia, but new ones will follow.
18:09 Switzerland from 00:00 on March 26 introduces full sanctions against Russia, which were previously approved by the EU as part of the fourth sanctions package. This includes a ban on the export of "goods and services for the Russian energy sector", as well as iron and steel goods from Russia. In addition, the export of luxury goods to the Russian Federation is prohibited.
18:03 The Ukrainian Navy announced another Russian manipulation in connection with the alleged creation of a humanitarian corridor for the withdrawal of foreign ships from Ukrainian ports.
We are talking about the case when a Russian ship fired at the village of Sanzhyka near Odessa, and three hours later announced the so-called security guarantees for the passage of ships.
18:01 The head of Ukrainian intelligence, Kirill Budanov, said that one of the most important tasks of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense is the organization of a partisan movement behind enemy lines. He did not specify the details, noting only that this is "a very large number of people" and "spring will come soon, our forests will turn green, and a real hell will open for the aggressor."
17:48 In Kharkov, the Barabashovo market caught fire again after enemy shelling.
17:42 The United States is planning actions in case of possible Russian strikes on NATO territory, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
17:35 In Melitopol, the Russian invaders blocked the distribution of humanitarian aid to local residents, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, the "head" of the occupation administration, Galina Danilchenko, personally forbade the issuance of humanitarian aid.
"There is information that they are planning to steal part of the humanitarian aid in order to implement it - to feed their pro-Russian fans and military personnel of the occupying army," Fedorov said.
17:33 The fighters of one of the subdivisions of the TRO of the Zaporozhye region carried out an offensive operation and liberated the village of Malinovka, Pohovsky district. Currently, the cleaning of the settlement from saboteurs and the remnants of the Russian military continues, writes UP.
17:30 In Melitopol, 70 Russian soldiers staged a riot and refused to follow the orders of their leadership, the Zaporozhye regional administration reported.
17:26 The State Bureau of Investigation opened criminal proceedings on the fact of high treason of the former mayor of Izyum of the Kharkiv region, as well as two current deputies of the Izyum City Council and a former police officer.
17:23 Severstal of the Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov was the first to enter a technical default: the company was unable to pay its debts due to sanctions, its grace period has ended.
17:15 The Pope promised to facilitate the opening of humanitarian corridors from dangerous regions of Ukraine, Vereshchuk said.
16:40 A village in the Kherson region has become a symbol of the destruction of Russian troops on Ukrainian soil. Details about the place, which has already become fatal for Russians, are in the material What is the phenomenon of the legendary Chernobaevka .
16:19 Kuleba denied Erdogan's information about the consensus of Kyiv and Moscow on four out of six points. In particular, the only state language in Ukraine is and will be Ukrainian, the Foreign Minister said in a commentary to the UP.
Kuleba added that the classification of the key topics of negotiations into four or another number of points is incorrect. He again stressed that the negotiation process is going very hard, but the Ukrainian delegation will not give up its demands.
16:17 The Russians have already captured 14 Ukrainian mayors , Vereshchuk said. At the same time, she clarified that the Russian Federation agrees to the exchange of prisoners exclusively on parity terms, that is, border guards for border guards, sailors for sailors, etc.
"I have a logical question: for whom will we change the mayors, of whom there are already 14 held hostage by Russia? For now, we are solving this issue at the international level," she added.
16:10 Medinsky said that without the "demilitarization", "denazification" of Ukraine, the recognition of Crimea and Donbass, the conclusion of an agreement with Kiev is unlikely. He also said that Ukraine is primarily concerned about security guarantees from third powers in the event of not joining NATO, and this, according to him, is "a completely understandable position."
16:04 Xi Jinping in a telephone conversation with Boris Johnson said that China is ready to play a "constructive role" for the return of peace to Ukraine.
15:51 Medinsky said that Ukraine and Russia at the talks are bringing their positions closer "on minor issues," and on major political issues "in fact, they are marking time."
15:49 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the losses of the Russians: 1351 servicemen allegedly died, 3825 were injured.
15:48 Russian Ministry of Defense declares that "LPR" "liberated" 93% of the territory of the "republic", "DPR" - 54%, battles for Mariupol continue
15:47 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that "in general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed." Now the main efforts will be focused on achieving the main goal - "the liberation of Donbass."
15:45 The Russian Defense Ministry has counted 6,595 "foreign mercenaries and terrorists" from 62 states in Ukraine.
15:43 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the "losses" of the Ukrainian army: "out of 2,416 tanks and other combat armored vehicles that were in the Ukrainian army on February 24, 1,587 were destroyed. 112 out of 152 military aircraft were destroyed, 75 out of 149 helicopters, 36 Bayraktar TB2 drones - 35, out of 180 S-300 and Buk M1 - 148, out of 300 radars for various purposes - 117 ".
15:41 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that over the month the "losses" of Ukrainian troops amounted to about 30,000 people, including "more than 14,000 - irretrievable and about 16,000 - sanitary."
15:38 The Russian Ministry of Defense states that the presence of Russian troops in the area of "blockaded cities" of Ukraine fetters the forces of Kiev, "does not allow to strengthen the group in the Donbass." Moscow claims that Kyiv was going to attack the Donbass on February 28.
“Initially, we didn’t plan to storm them in order to prevent destruction and minimize losses among personnel and civilians,” the Russian Defense Ministry says. forces and means will be concentrated on the main thing - the complete liberation of Donbass."
15:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Russian troops "blocked Kiev, Kharkov, Chernihiv, Sumy and Nikolaev, Kherson and most of the Zaporozhye region are under full control."
15:34 Rumors that Russia is running out of forces and missiles are not true, said Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Gruzevich.
According to him, the enemy has now changed tactics and is tracking Ukrainian air defense, air force and artillery. He also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have information about mobilization in Dagestan.
15:30 Erdogan said that Kiev and Moscow are close to reaching a consensus on four of the six points. In particular, we are talking about Ukraine's refusal from the course of joining NATO, giving official status to the Russian language, demilitarization in the sense of refusing to deploy offensive weapons, as well as issues of collective security.
At the same time, Ukraine does not make concessions on the issues of recognizing Crimea as Russian and recognizing the LDNR.
15:21 In the Zaporizhia region, Russian invaders fired at a brigade of power engineers of Zaporizhoblenergo during the liquidation of an accident in the power supply system of a settlement in the Vasilyevsky district. According to the press service of the company, two people were injured.
15:03 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council confirms that every day there is more and more evidence of the intentions of the Russian Federation to use poisonous substances against Ukraine.
In particular, InformNapalm experts report on the possible use of sarin (it is used for military purposes as a poisonous nerve agent) in those cities where the occupiers cannot break through the defenses.
According to intelligence, on March 17, Russian officers fighting in Ukraine received an injection of Pralidoxime (an antidote for organophosphorus compounds), and on March 20, enemy command personnel received ampoules with atropine (an antidote for chemical poisoning).
14:57 The street in Prague, where the Russian Embassy is located, will be named Ukrainian Heroes.
14:55 Biden is going to make a "significant" speech about the events in Ukraine.
14:53 Washington does not yet see Beijing providing military assistance to Moscow or helping to circumvent sanctions, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. She also sees no point in imposing preventive sanctions against China.
14:47 Arestovich reported that the 200th motorized rifle brigade of Russia had been destroyed. Of the 648 soldiers who arrived in Ukraine with it, 645 invaders were killed, three survived.
He also said that 50 percent of one of the regiments of the 7th Airborne Battalion of the Russian Federation wrote a report refusing to participate in hostilities.
14:46 Arestovich confirmed the destruction of Russian Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev and clarified that this happened in Chernobaevka.
14:42 The Biden administration called fake trading on the Moscow Exchange, which opened this week after almost a month of inactivity. The White House explained that only 15% of the listing is traded, non-residents do not participate, shorts are prohibited. This is not a real market, and such a model is unsustainable, Washington said.
14:36 Poland, together with Slovenia and the Czech Republic, have prepared a ten-point action plan that the EU must fulfill if it really wants to end the war in Ukraine:
disconnect all Russian banks from SWIFT;
introduce a unified asylum policy for Russian soldiers who refuse to serve the criminal regime in Moscow;
completely stop Russian propaganda in Europe;
to block Russian ships in European ports;
impose the same blockade of road transport to and from Russia;
impose sanctions on not only the oligarchs, but also their entire business environment;
suspend the issuance of visas to all citizens of the Russian Federation;
impose sanctions on all members of Putin's United Russia party;
introduce a complete ban on the export to Russia of technologies that can be used for military purposes;
exclude Russia from all international organizations.
If this does not stop the war, it is necessary to move on, the authors of the idea believe.
14:30 Most Ukrainians (83 percent) are in favor of Ukrainian being the only state language in the country, according to a poll by the Rating group .
14:28 Xi Jinping said that the world community should facilitate negotiations on the Ukrainian issue.
14:10 The chairman of the occupied village of Nizhniye Serogozy, Genichesk district, Kherson region, Dmitry Takadzhi, has disappeared, the local council reported.
14:05 Germany, Austria and Hungary oppose the termination of purchases of Russian energy resources, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
14:01 The media have calculated that the yachts of Russian oligarchs worth a total of two billion dollars have already been arrested in the world.
13:56 Canada will increase oil exports by 5% to help the EU overcome dependence on Russian energy imports. Canada is the world's fourth largest oil supplier.
13:53 In Izyum, Kharkiv region, four officials committed high treason and became collaborators, said city council deputy Maxim Strelnik. We are talking about the deputies Anatoly Fomichevskiy and Yuri Kozlov, as well as the former mayor of the city Alexander Bozhkov and ex-policeman Vladislav Sokolov.
13:49 Russia is building up the ship fleet in the Sea of Azov. The small minesweeper Valentin Pikul, the missile boat Naberezhnye Chelny and two landing craft passed through the Kerch Strait in a northerly direction, the General Staff reports.
13:47 In the Chernobyl area, the Russians deployed a rear area (field camp) of a group of troops from the eastern military district, the General Staff reports.
13:42 The occupiers form and send to Belarus consolidated units from the 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade (Kyakhta), the 5th Specialized Rifle Brigade (Ulan-Ude) of the 36th Army, the 38th Motorized Rifle Brigade (Yekaterinoslavka) of the 35th Army, 40 Separate Brigade Marine Corps (Petropavlovsk-Komiysky), reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:36 Great Britain clarified that sanctions on operations with foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Federation also apply to operations with gold.
13:34 Girkin-Strelkov openly announced the failure of Russian troops in Ukraine and criticized the activities of the Russian Defense Ministry and intelligence.
13:13 In Slavutych, which is surrounded by Russian troops, the townspeople were forbidden to take to the streets and move around the city, even in cars. Such measures were introduced due to the work of snipers, the City Council reports.
12:51 Ukraine has denounced an agreement with Russia on the recognition of diplomas and academic titles.
12:36 The EU and the US have signed an agreement to supply Europe with more liquefied natural gas from the US. Thus, this year the United States will supply an additional 15 billion cubic meters of LNG. The long-term goal will be to provide about 50 billion cubic meters per year of additional LNG from the US until at least 2030.
12:20 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated another top general of the Russian Federation - lieutenant general, commander of the 49th combined arms army of the Southern Military District Yakov Ryazantsev, MP Goncharenko said.
12:17 Deputy head of the National Police, General Vyacheslav Abroskin, said he was ready to personally surrender to the invaders in exchange for children from Mariupol. He asks the Russians for three days to organize the removal of children, after which he is ready to surrender.
12:15 The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine asks the EU to completely block land and sea transport links with Russia and Belarus, block the possibility of transporting goods and people to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus through the territory of the EU and its borders, and also prohibit the provision of customs services for goods delivered to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus .
12:05 In the Osnovyansky district of Kharkiv today at 7:45 Russian troops fired at the city clinic, killing four people, the National Police reported. The hospital has a distribution center for humanitarian aid.
12:02 Yesterday, the leaders of NATO, the G7 and the EU spent the whole day discussing the month of Russia's war against Ukraine. What Zelensky spoke about at each of the three summits and what he was told in Brussels - details in the material Did they hear Ukraine in the West .
11:55 Erdogan once again confirmed that he will not transfer the Russian S-400 air defense system to Ukraine, which the United States asked him to do.
11:47 Since the beginning of the war, the SBU has liquidated more than 20 enemy DRGs and detained more than 350 of their participants.
11:29 Finland canceled passenger trains to Russia. The Ministry of European Affairs and Property Management reported that the further operation of Allegro high-speed trains that ran to the Russian Federation is "inappropriate".
11:25 In Mariupol, in the premises of the Metro shopping center, the invaders opened the headquarters of United Russia, the city council reports with reference to local residents. According to Mariupol residents, party newspapers are being distributed at the headquarters, campaigning for the Russian Federation, they are issuing cards of the Phoenix mobile operator, which has been working in the DPR since 2014.
11:05 Kommersant writes that out of a billion rubles allocated by the state for the repair of anti-aircraft missile systems in 2013-2016, officials stole 692 million. Captain of the first rank Igor Supranovich for money admitted dubious enterprises to the competition for a state contract, whose leaders plundered budgets.
10:56 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of March 25:
personnel - about 16,100 people
tanks - 561
armored fighting vehicles - 1625
artillery systems - 291
MLRS - 90
air defense systems - 49
aircraft - 115
helicopters - 125
automotive equipment - 1089
ships / boats - 5
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 72
UAV operational-tactical level - 53
special equipment - 18
10:50 In the Drama Theater of Mariupol, which was bombed by Russians on March 16, 300 people were killed , the city council said, citing eyewitnesses.
10:47 The Russian military has problems with funding. As it turned out, the payment of these expenses is not provided for in the budget, and due to the sanctions imposed, it is impossible to find additional funds, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
In particular, in Crimea, after the payment of “travel allowances” to participants in the war against Ukraine in February, the limit of funds for military units has been completely exhausted, and there is no funding for March.
The situation is similar with the payment for the participation in the war of mercenaries of Russian PMCs, among which cases of refusal to travel to Ukraine are becoming more frequent. The militants do not receive funds for participation in hostilities, compensation for injuries and the promised "social guarantees".
10:43 Johnson believes that Putin's talk about the use of nuclear weapons is a way to divert attention from what weapons and how exactly Russian troops are using in Ukraine.
Johnson also doesn't believe that Putin wants peace: "I think Putin is going to do to Ukrainian cities what he did to Grozny." At the same time, he is convinced that Ukraine will win this war, although it will not be easy.
10:34 Switzerland froze Russian assets worth $6.17 billion. According to the Swiss civil servant, this amount will increase over time.
10:24 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that last night Caliber sea-based cruise missiles attacked the fuel base in Kalinovka near Kiev.
10:19 In Chernihiv, the only pedestrian bridge across the Desna is closed - its condition was recognized as emergency as a result of shelling, Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said.
10:13 Arestovich says that many invaders are already fleeing Gostomel, some of them are changing into civilian clothes for this. He added that Gostomel is still partially captured by the Russians, "but they won't sit there for long."
09:58 Japan and Australia have imposed new sanctions against Russia. In particular, Japan added 81 more organizations and 25 individuals from the Russian Federation to the list and banned the export of luxury goods to Russia.
Australia has added 22 "Russian propagandists and disseminators of disinformation" to the sanctions list. Lukashenka and his eldest son also made the list.
09:48 In Kharkiv, Russians fired at the airport terminal at night, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, the Metro supermarket was under fire in the morning. During the night, as a result of shelling in the region, six people were killed, 17 were injured.
09:33 During the month of the war in Ukraine, Russia lost at least 39 billion rubles of heavy equipment, the opposition telegram channel calculated. We can explain. These are only visually confirmed losses of modern models of tanks and armored personnel carriers, not counting old modifications, whose cost cannot be estimated.
Among the most painful losses for Russia is the loss of at least 74 T-80 tanks - this is one of the most expensive tanks in service with the Russian army. The cost of these losses alone reaches 185 million dollars.
09:27 British intelligence announced the success of the Ukrainian army in the defense of Kiev. In addition, yesterday's successful strike on the occupying ships in the port of Berdyansk lowers the morale of Russian soldiers.
09:22 To date, two humanitarian corridors have been agreed: from Mariupol to Zaporozhye and from Melitopol to Zaporozhye.
09:09 There were 20 tanks, 45 armored personnel carriers and 400 personnel in the Saratov ship destroyed in Berdyansk by landing, Arestovich specified. Two more large landing ships, Novocherkask and Tsezar Kunikov, were also damaged.
08:47 Near Kiev, Ukrainian troops hold the defense and go on the counteroffensive, said Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs. According to him, the key battles that night took place in the Kiev region. There were strikes in the area of Vasilkov, Belaya Tserkov. Very serious battles were fought near Baryshevka and in the area of Bucha, Gostomel, Irpin.
08:28 In the Kiev region, an oil depot in the village of Kalinovka came under fire last night. According to the State Emergency Service, the remains of oil products continued to burn in the morning. There is no information about the victims.
08:27 A sharp rise in world food prices due to the war in Ukraine could provoke food riots in poor countries, the World Trade Organization said.
08:25 In Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 135 children have been killed, 184 children have been injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports. Children suffered the most in the Kiev and Kharkov regions.
08:24 The leaders of the EU countries pledged to support Ukraine and assist in the reconstruction after the war - for this a Solidarity Trust Fund will be created.
07:55 In Zaporozhye, an enhanced curfew will begin at 20:00 on March 26 and end at 05:00 on March 28, said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleksandr Starukh.
07:40 Ex-commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Wesley Clark, suggested that Russia could launch a nuclear strike on Poland: "If Putin really wants to contain NATO, if he believes that he can destroy NATO, he can use tactical nuclear weapons. Where is he will it be used? Perhaps not in Ukraine, but somewhere in a crowded place in Poland."
06:50 Over the past day, the Ukrainian military repulsed nine enemy attacks, destroyed 12 tanks, about 20 armored and automotive vehicles and nine artillery systems, as well as more than 200 Russian military personnel, two aircraft, two UAVs and four cruise missiles, the General Staff reports.
06:17 Deputy Prime Minister of Poland said that the country will continue to accept Ukrainian refugees and will not forcibly send them to other EU countries.
05:09 The Russian military not only lay down their arms, but also go over to fight on the side of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said.
04:00 In Kherson, the Russian military abducted a deputy of the Ship District Council, head of the European Solidarity faction Dmitry Afanasiev.
02:42 Zelensky, addressing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, urged him "not to hesitate in making decisions on sanctions, at a time when Russian occupiers in Ukraine are engaged in massacres."
01:12 Zelensky awarded the title of Hero City of Ukraine to four more cities: Bucha, Irpin, Nikolaev and Akhtyrka.
00:49 The Armed Forces of Ukraine specified that not the large landing ship Orsk, but Saratov, was destroyed in the port of Berdyansk.
00:31 Russia fired two missile attacks on one of the military units on the outskirts of the Dnieper in the evening, the State Emergency Service reports. Information about the victims is established.
#Russia’s defense ministry says the first phase of its military operation in #Ukraine is mostly complete and that it would focus on completely “liberating” eastern Ukraine’s #Donbass region.https://t.co/VmO34tAIVS
New satellite imagery this morning of southeastern Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov that shows a Russian alligator-class landing ship burned and partially submerged. Ukraine says it hit the ship yesterday. Also looks to be fire at nearby fuel tanks. 📸 @Maxarpic.twitter.com/b0Dr6lDwdp
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Russia has lost another of its generals in the war in Ukraine, Kyiv military sources said, as Ukraine inflicts punishing losses on Moscow's war machine, Daily Mail reports.
Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev, 48, commander of the army's 49th combined arms division, became the fifth general to be killed after being taken out in a strike by the Ukrainian armed forces.
The general's death means the Russian army has now lost a staggering 15 military commanders in a month, as Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's invading forces suffer heavy losses at the hands of dogged Ukrainian defenders.
Rezantsev, who bragged on just the fourth day of the war that it would be over in a matter of hours, was apparently killed after the Ukrainian army destroyed the commanding post of the 49th Russian Army in Southern Ukraine.
It is not clear the exact location of the strike.
A soldier claimed Rezantsev told them on the fourth day of their deployment, "It's no secret to anyone that there are only a few hours until this special operation is over.
[IsraelTimes] Another Russian military general has been killed and a senior commander murdered by his own troops in Ukraine, The National reports, citing Western officials.
Yakov Rezantsev was the seventh Russian general killed since the start of the invasion. Only 13 others remain.
Separately, a colonel in charge of the 37th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade was killed by his own soldiers, The National reports.
"We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately as a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade," a Western security official says during a briefing. "That gives an insight into some of the morale challenges that Russian forces are having."
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Didn't see Enemy at the Gates? Don't give them the rifle or ammo till you shove them across the line of departure. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[WIRE] A Russian brigade commander was allegedly killed by his own troops in response to the staggering number of losses the unit had suffered during its invasion of Ukraine under his leadership.
"A Russian brigade commander has been killed deliberately by his own troops after his unit suffered many losses in Ukraine," Sky News reporter Deborah Haynes reported. "Colonel Medvechek, commander of 37 Motor Rifle Brigade, was run over by his soldiers."
"The brigade commander of one of the units was killed by his own troops...we believe, as a consequence of the scale of loss that had been taken by his brigade," a Western official reportedly told Haynes. "That just gives an insight into perhaps some of the morale challenges that Russian forces are having."
"We believe he was killed by his own troops deliberately," the official reportedly added. "Indeed we believe he was run over by his own troops and I believe he was the commander of the 37 Motor Rifle Brigade."
Reuters, using claims from Ukrainian officials, reported that up to six Russian generals had been killed during the war along with dozens of colonels and other officers.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) revealed this week that it believes that the Russian military has suffered up to 40,000 casualties during its invasion of Ukraine, which began one month ago.
#11
Yes indeed, here we are!
At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen
An' wheedled on the Bingo Cards
and blew up the latrine
I saw a handsome parish lady
Make her entrance like a queen
Why she was totally chenille
And her old man was a Marine
As she abused a sausage pattie
And said why don't you treat me mean?
(Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, ooh)
At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
(Hah! Good God! Get off the bus!)
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen
Saint Alfonzo
Saint Alfonzo
Saint Alfonzo
Saint Alfonzo
Oo-oo-wah
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Wife of US Army veteran, 47, who left Connecticut to join Ukraine's battle against Russia says 'it's in his DNA' as a soldier to fight and that he 'couldn't sit and watch the war on TV'
American veteran James Vasquez, 47, joined Ukraine's military as a foreign volunteer earlier this month
He has been fighting on the front lines alongside Ukrainians to repel Russia's invasion forces
Vasquez left his work as a home renovation contractor in Connecticut to join the fight
Now he posts harrowing updates on Twitter showing his unit's battle triumphs over the Russians
On Thursday Vasquez shared video of a decimated Russian tank, saying an occupied village was liberated
His wife Tina tells DailyMail.com that being a soldier is 'in his DNA' and she supports his decision to fight
Provincial govts in China are mandating univ teachers to attend "lectures correcting one's thoughts on Ru-Ukr situation", where attendees are told Russian military action is legitimate & it's all NATO/US/Ukr's fault. Meanwhile, univ students are "reporting" their teachers who... pic.twitter.com/BHXTalVkkZ
Vladimir Putin defends JK Rowling in speech condemning ‘cancel culture’ in the west
“They cancelled Joanne Rowling recently - the children’s author, her books are published all over the world - just because she didn’t satisfy the demands of gender rights,” he said during a televised speech.
He continued: “They are now trying to cancel our country. I’m talking about the progressive discrimination of everything to do with Russia.”
#2
I still see so many "We're hiring" signs in front of these establishments when I'm out and about. I guess sitting up in the exec suites, they miss that all.
#3
Mighty easy to walk out the door and go next door for a job these days.
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#4
Brilliant grasp of the idea of inflation by a highly educated executive. Maybe he got his idea from a counterpart at ChiChi's or Ponderossa.
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#5
If you read most of the e-mail, you'll see it's not all sensationally bad.
If they have to get a second job, make sure Applebee's is their favorite. That's the jist of that part of the lengthy e-mail, suggesting even the DM can sensationalize information.
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#6
Stand up and take bow all of you smug graduates of high priced elite B-schools and your maximizing stockholders equity paradigm
#8
I'd heard that Applebees and their entire category of restaurants are having real trouble these days as Gen Z prefers non franchise local foods. Perhaps the exec is lashing out a bit at his Gen Z employees.
[NU] Anyone showing the pro-Russian Z symbol in Bavaria can count on criminal prosecution. That says the Minister of Justice of the southern German state Georg Eisenreich. Criminal law allows prosecution of people who defend certain crimes, including violent crimes, he says.
The war that Russia is waging in Ukraine is against international law and is criminal, the minister said. The Public Prosecution Service therefore takes action against anyone who expresses ideological support for that war.
"Freedom of expression is a great asset in our constitution," Eisenreich told DPA news agency . "However, freedom of expression ends where criminal law begins."
Many Russian army vehicles participating in the battle in Ukraine are painted with a letter Z. Why is not clear. Possibly the letter stands for the word "zapad", which means west. The letter has quickly become a pro-Russian symbol.
Anyone walking around with the Z symbol in Bavaria risks a fine or a prison sentence of up to three years.
#4
These are the same Bavarian fascists who get their thrills from the mob scapegoating and exiling of the unvaccinated. They have just transferred the same sentiment onto Russia. The doctors are the worst. Bavaria is drenched with Covid hysteria.
Munich anesthesiogists announced, "We will not treat Russian and Belarusian citizens. Our solidarity is with the Ukrainian people!"
Munich, 4 March 2022
Dear Colleagues:
We strongly condemn the invasion of the Russian army with the help of the Belarusian government. Russia is not only attacking Ukraine militarily without any justification – this country also threatens Europe, this country threatens our freedom and democracy.
Therefore, from now on and until further notice, we will not treat Russian and Belarusian citizens.
You can save yourself the trouble of registering.
There will be no exceptions, just as Covid-19 and Mr Putin make no exceptions.
In case of doubt, we will dismiss the patients on the day of surgery.
This also applies to patients who have already registered.
Our solidarity is with the Ukrainian people and our measures are the consequences of the military invasion of the Russian army!
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03/26/2022 9:30 Comments ||
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#7
Germans, Canadians and Australians seem to enjoy being ruled by fascists
The Bavarian fascists will have a grand time spreading their Gospel of Covid to the heathen Ukrainian refugees. The Ukrainians (with good reason) don't trust the "vaccine" and hardly any are vaccinated. One said, "I fear Russian billets less than I fear German needles."
But that's not stopping the mad Bavarians: Ukrainische Geflüchtete und Corona: Angst vor "Zwangsimpfung"
Nur wenige Ukrainer sind gegen Corona geimpft. Das könnte in Sammelunterkünften ein Problem werden. Städte wie Nürnberg und Fürth versuchen, das Thema sensibel anzugehen, denn einige Geflüchtete haben Angst vor einer "Zwangsimpfung".
#13
4th, no. I can't complain. Even the sniffles avoid me.
It's spring. The cherry trees are starting to bloom.
People are out, enjoying the sun, having drinks.
Many are helping Ukrainian refugees (and most are women with small children).
Even US tourists are back ;-)
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#14
My, but someone is thin-skinned. Bavarian Covid fascists can't take a joke. Must be connected to the Bavarian authorities.
He'll have lots of fun trying to persuade those Ukrainian refugees to get jabbed
#15
Caution: the Ukrainians don't like to be ordered around. (They hate German needles even more than Russian bullets.) They're not Bavarians, after all
#18
You misunderstand. It's a Bavarian Covid thing (also an Austrian Covid thing). Have you been to the region recently? They've gone off the rails with their Covid hysteria.
#19
As I said people are enjoying spring. No hysteria to be noticed.
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#20
Perhaps Bavaria's bureaucrats have moved on from Covid-hysteria to demonising Russia. The Austrian people fought back recently, maybe the Bavarians are developing a spine too.
"We are being vaccinated like pigs"
The backlash against Austria's mandatory COVID-19 vaccine law
#30
#5 The Germans, Canadians and Australians seem to enjoy being ruled by fascists.
Not just the Germans, the German-speaking peoples. The Austrians are the worst covidians. Don't know how to explain the Canucks and Aussies however. Maybe they were too loyal to the Crown.
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#31
I think the Aussies suffered from having an already nany-state type eurine style gummint coupled with irrational fear of COVID due to their proximity to Asia and Asian travelers. In not so many words, 'em rayciss blokes was afraid of wogs, mate...
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#32
the German-speaking peoples. The Austrians are the worst covidians
No need for us to bash Turkey, Zenobia Flase5021. We’ve just been keeping track since 2003, so have a pretty good idea of what President Erdogan (and before that Prime Minister Erdogan) has been doing to your poor country. The question is whether he will go full neo-Ottoman and declare himself sultan.
#42
"Tis springtime! The heavens are brightening
All over Ukraine!" "Ain't it frightening?"
"The kvetching, the kvelling--"
"The bombing and shelling--"
"It's Blitzkrieg, for sure!"
"Russian lightning."
[FOX] More than half of U.S. households paid no federal income taxes in 2021, a temporary spike attributed to massive COVID-19 relief spending in the form of tax credits and stimulus payments.
A recent analysis from the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center estimated that 57% of Americans paid no taxes last year. While that's down slightly from last year's 60%, it marks a significant increase from the 44% recorded before the pandemic began.
"The number of households who paid no income tax last year truly was eye-popping," Tax Policy Center Senior Fellow Howard Gleckman wrote. "But keep in mind: It was only temporary."
#10
Well I remember that Saint Rush the Limbaugh once said that the top five percent of wage earners pay ninety something percent of the income taxes
So this doesn’t surprise me
#11
Pay up, wage earners. Pay up for covid relief.. for "Build Back Better"...for "temporary" inflation... for Ukraine
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@#10 - not quite. 2019 data from TaxFoundation.org shows the top 5% paid just under 60% of the taxes. This pre-Brandon so that % will likely go up in 21 n 22. Still not paying their fair share.....
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[India Today] Dell has updated its premium laptop offerings under the XPS series with the latest Intel chipsets. Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 will now be equipped with Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake-H processors. With this, the Dell laptops will be available in a total of three new CPU configurations.
These will include an option between Intel Core i5-12500H, Core i7-12700H, and Core i9-12900HK. These chips have been clocked at 4.5GHz, 4.7GHz, and 5GHz respectively. The top-end i9-12900HK option is only available on XPS 15 as of now.
Other than the new CPUs, Dell's XPS lineup now gets an upgraded DDR5-4800 RAM. Interestingly, this will be configurable up to 64GB of memory. Everything else about the laptops remains the same as before.
For those unaware, Dell had launched the XPS 15 and XPS 17 in India back in August last year, at a starting price of Rs 2,23,990. The premium laptops from the house of Dell came with 11th Gen Intel Core i9H processors and featured up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics on the XPS 17.
Except for the 12th-gen Intel chips, things remain largely the same with the revised models. The new XPS 15 and XPS 17 still carry a durable, lightweight design, with a 15.6-inch 16:10 display on the XPS 15, which extends to 17-inch on the XPS 17. There are both touchscreen and non-touchscreen options on the two laptops, with a 3840 x 2400 pixels and a 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution respectively.
As mentioned, memory onboard the new Dell laptops extends to up to 64GB of DDR5-4800 RAM across two channels. There are also storage options between 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. The XPS laptops support up to 8TB of total storage expansion. Other features on the XPS 15 and XPS 17 include Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 3.5 mm audio jack, and an SD card reader. Around $1900. USD.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Rode one of these years ago. Never rode anything since. With a few exceptions, if I ain't drive'n, I ain't ride'n. 
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Russia has lost another of its generals in the war in Ukraine, Kyiv military sources said, as Ukraine inflicts punishing losses on Moscow's war machine, Daily Mail reports.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
