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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sacramento Shooting Suspect Released on $500K Bail, 2 Others in Custody
Yesterday we learnt it was a Crips v. Bloods exercise with five or more shooters.
[NEWSWEEK] A third person arrested in connection with the early Sunday morning shooting in Sacramento, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, that killed six and injured at least a dozen has been released on bail after he was charged with illegal firearm possession.

Two men, brothers Dandrae, 26, and Smiley Martin, 27,
...both Crips boys...
were arrested earlier this week on firearm possession charges. A third man, 31-year-old Daviyonne Dawson, was arrested late Monday and has been released on $500,000 bail, according to The Sacramento Bee. Police said they are continuing to search for the person or persons responsible for the shooting.

None of the three men has been charged with any crimes directly related to the shooting, which has made national headlines and drawn messages of condolence and condemnation from local and state officials like Governor Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
, as well as President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
. Both condemned the gun violence that is occurring throughout the country, with Newsom calling it a "scourge" in America. Newsom and Biden also called for reform of the nation's gun laws.

Police said that the gun recovered when Dawson was arrested likely was not used in Sunday's shooting, in which over 100 shots were fired, striking several buildings and vehicles in the area, the Bee reported.

The Bee also reported that Dawson has previous felony cases, from 2012, 2014 and 2015, and has been charged with being "engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity and did willfully promote, further and assist in felony criminal conduct by said gang members."

A third person arrested in connection with Sunday's mass shooting in Sacramento, California, was released on bail. Above, coppers at the shooting scene on the corner of 10th and L streets on Sunday.

Smiley Martin also has prior felony convictions. Last year, the Sacramento County district attorney's office requested that he not be released early after serving part of a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault, the Bee reported.

He was seen on a Facebook Live video hours before the shooting with a gun, according to the Bee. Other videos that circulated on social media in the hours following the shooting showed several people involved in fights outside as bars and nightclubs closed at 2 a.m. Several gunshots can be heard in some of the videos.
Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WTFH?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/09/2022 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2 
You don't understand. The gun did it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Well Gavin is already pivoting to punishing gun manufacturers over this.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Gruesome has been targeting gun manufacturers for some time. Basically, he's running a Fast and Furious op in the entire state. Flood the state with murderers, then blame the manufacturers for the carnage. Rinse n repeat. His last gambit was for private citizens to be able to sue manufacturers and distributors. So far, the courts have found that problematic.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/09/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||


Florida Man Poses as Uber Driver, Rapes Female Passenger After Picking Her Up From Airport
Alternate headline: Known Wolf Hunts in Sheep’s Clothing.
[IBTIMES.SG] The 28-year-old victim, whose identity has not been revealed, had just flown in from Salt Lake City and was looking for a cab when Fernando Avila Hernandez, pretending to be an Uber driver and offered to give her a ride to her hotel, NBC Miami reported Thursday.

Hernandez then dropped the woman off at a hotel where she alerted the hotel's staff members about the alleged attack. The suspect was later arrested after cops examined surveillance footage and recognized him from an unrelated incident.

Uber told NBC that Hernandez has not worked for them since 2021 and was not authorized to pick up fares. Hernandez is now facing multiple sex raps. His attorney, Bijan Sebastian Parwaresch, told NBC that his client was innocent. "We're highly objecting to the notion of an unconsensual sexual encounter," he said.
A novel defense.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Bizarre cloud formation over Alaska's Lazy Mountain prompts police investigation as witnesses fear it was a plane crash, a UFO or top secret Russian weapon
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 10:28 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I vote for a first stage re-entry.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Gruck Whalet8389 || 04/09/2022 17:57 Comments || Top||

#3  ...poor waif, already suffering from the food shortage.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2022 18:30 Comments || Top||

#4  food shortage

Lottie Moss? No shortage... it all went to her derrière pulpeux. That 50cm waist looks photoshopped.
Posted by: Vespasian Omereque5237 || 04/09/2022 19:30 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
'If the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy': Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs bill making it a FELONY for doctors to give children medication to alter their gender just 24 hours after Jen Psaki attacked Republican states for 'cynical' transgender laws
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • 'I believe very strongly if the good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl,' Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement on the bill

  • The Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act makes it a felony for doctors to perform medical procedures or prescribe medication to minors who want to alter their appearance or gender

  • The criminal penalty would be up to 10 years in prison

  • The ACLU said the bill was the first of its kind to make trans healthcare
    ...not trans healthcare but preventing child grooming. Time enough for people to decide to permanently mutilate their bodies when they’ve settled into their adult selves...
    a felony and promised to challenge it in court

  • Democrats who opposed the bill said it contradicted Republican principals of small government
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  criminal penalty would be up to 10 years in prison

Fantastic. God bless them. A relief to know there are still people doing their utmost to stem the tide of chaos.

As for Republican principals of small government, they shall have to change.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 3:53 Comments || Top||

#2  ..it is small government. Cuts all the government bureaucracy and medical funded practices that would set up to do the drugging and cutting like Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey Groomer, going to cut out the parents on having a say in the kids having access to alcohol and tobacco too? Most states have laws about parents who give their kids those too. There is a reason. Same applies here.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Tucker: Maybe there is another agenda here
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 8:45 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Biden announces he is giving Slovakia a Patriot missile system so it can pass on their Soviet-era S-300 air defense missiles to Ukraine
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 09:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


''We have significant losses of troops''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2 



I predict next NEWS conf..a new Press Sec. is expected to report that Dmitry Peskov hung himself.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/09/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||


Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 8th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:20 The death toll as a result of the shelling of the station in Kramatorsk has increased to 52 people, the wounded - up to 109 , said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.

22:59 The Pentagon considers "unconvincing" Russian claims that its forces were not involved in the attack on Kramatorsk train station, spokesman John Kirby said. According to Washington, it was a Russian strike, and they used a short-range ballistic missile to deliver it.

22:56 Vereshchuk said that 6,665 people have been evacuated today. In particular, 5,158 people arrived in Zaporozhye from Mariupol and Berdyansk on their own vehicles and buses.

In Melitopol, the invaders have been holding eight buses for evacuation for 24 hours, the Ukrainian authorities are negotiating. The column of buses, which was sent from Zaporozhye to Berdyansk in the morning, continues along the route. 1,507 people were evacuated from Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kremennaya and the village of Gornoe in the Luhansk region.

22:55 According to Pentagon estimates, more than 40 Russian battalion tactical groups are located in the Donbass region or near it, according to ABC News.

22:53 Zelensky: “Like the massacres in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack on Kramatorsk should be one of the charges at the tribunal, which will definitely take place. All the forces of the world will be directed to establish minute by minute who what was done, who gave what orders, where did the missile come from, who transported it, who gave the command, and how this strike was coordinated. Responsibility is inevitable."

22:51 It will take at least four years to restore Chernihiv destroyed by Russian troops, the mayor of the city, Vladislav Atroshenko, said.

22:48 Canada begins to investigate war crimes of the Russian military in Ukraine. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the only law enforcement agency in Canada with a mandate to investigate such crimes.

22:46 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that at the moment, Russian troops in Ukraine are changing tactics and preparing for the next attack. According to her, the threat of an offensive, despite the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, remains, and throughout Ukraine. Malyar stressed that Moscow has not abandoned its plans to seize Ukraine, but is forced to change its offensive plan.

22:44 In German Lower Saxony, the rules for holding pro-Russian actions have been tightened: now they will be banned from the flags of the USSR and St. George ribbons - such a decree was signed by the regional Minister of the Interior Boris Pistorius.

22:43 Zelensky at a briefing with Ursula von der Leyen and Borrell said he was grateful for the new sanctions, "but this is not enough." The President stressed that he "has many questions for Ursula von der Leyen, but the atmosphere of dialogue and relations we have now is the best in many years."

Ursula von der Leyen, in turn, told how the sanctions are hitting Russia: "Exports fell by 71%, inflation rose by 20%, 700 companies left Russia, 225 billion euros of personal assets in the EU are frozen."

22:39 France is ready to ban the import of Russian oil, said Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.

22:36 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, says that after each attack or attempt to break through, the invaders lose from 20 to 40 freshly mobilized soldiers, whom the Russian Federation uses as cannon fodder.

22:31 Estonians have created an online map with the addresses of the Russian military of the Russian Federation, who killed and looted in Bucha. A map called Where do orcs come from? created using Google Maps.

Its authors used open data from Ukrainian intelligence about the place where military passports were issued based on information from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine about servicemen of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 35th Army.

22:28 The Pentagon has found out that Russia is going to recruit "more than 60 thousand military personnel" from among the recruits and mobilize reservists to strengthen the invasion force, reports CNN.

22:26 The Russian military actually does not have a modern communication system that allows them to effectively coordinate the actions of their units. Therefore, the Ukrainians not only listen to the radio broadcasts of the invaders, but also jam their communications by broadcasting heavy metal music right during the battle, writes The Economist.

22:25 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Ukrainian "neo-Nazis" had mined storage facilities with chemicals at a plant in Avdiivka, they plan to blow them up when approaching the city of "DPR" formations.

22:19 The EU has published the fifth package of sanctions against Russia , which has already entered into force. The sanctions list includes: the Kalashnikov concern, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Konashenkov, the head of Sberbank German Gref, the oligarchs Oleg Deripaska, Boris and Igor Rotenberg. Also on the list are Putin's daughters Ekaterina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova.

Sanctions have been imposed against TASS CEO Sergei Mikhailov, VGTRK CEO Oleg Dobrodeev, editor-in-chief and owner of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief and CEO of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin, president of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Alexei Pimanov.

In total, sanctions were imposed against 217 individuals and 18 legal entities.

22:13 Ursula von der Leyen said following her visit to Bucha: "It was important to start the visit to Bucha. Because in Bucha our humanity was collapsing. My message to the Ukrainian people: those responsible for the atrocities will be held accountable. Your fight is our fight. I today in Kiev to tell you that Europe is on your side."

21:47 The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Gaidai, said that fighting continues in Rubizhne and Popasna. In particular, from Gorny to Popasnaya, the entire section is shelled from morning to night. Today, 640 people have been evacuated from this region.

21:46 Head of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili refused to visit Bucha. He explained this by disagreements between Tbilisi and the government of Ukraine.

21:45 Enemy troops fired at the territory near Odessa in the evening. There were no casualties as a result of the strike, said the head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko.

21:42 The European Parliament has a Twitter account in Ukrainian, the first tweet in it appeared on the evening of April 8: "Together we will succeed: welcome to the new European Parliament Twitter page in Ukrainian! Here you will find the latest news on how the EU supports Ukraine in its struggle."

21:40 Austrian Chancellor Karl Negammer will meet with Zelensky in Kiev on Saturday, after which he will go to Bucha, Austrian media report.

21:38 According to information from various sources, more than 121 thousand children have already been forcibly taken to Russia - both orphans and those who have parents, Ombudswoman Denisova said. It is known that some of the children were taken by the invaders from Mariupol to Donetsk and in the direction of Taganrog.

According to her, Russia is repeating the scenario of 2014, when it took Ukrainian children out of the occupied Crimea on the so-called "train of hope" for their adoption.

21:25 Arestovich says that Putin wants to end the war, and there are several signs of this. In particular, this is Peskov's statement about the significant losses of the Russian army. According to the adviser to the head of the OP, Russia strategically lost on the eighth day of the war. Moscow's main task now is for Putin to come to the meeting with Zelensky "at least with some kind of power position - at least take something."

21:18 Russia has reorganized the command of the war in Ukraine - the invasion is led by the commander of the Southern Military District, General Alexander Dvornikov, who has extensive experience in Russian operations in Syria, writes Air Force.

21:10 Russian invaders forcibly took 31 thousand people out of Mariupol , said the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko. "They go through various humiliations. We know that they take their fingerprints, force them to sign various documents and are very tough on employees of the municipal sector or other government agencies. That is, people sit for weeks and wait for this so-called filtration. People are brought to the very outback Russia - Tomsk, Tambov, Astrakhan and other regions," Boychenko said.

20:55 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the operational-tactical aviation of the Aerospace Forces hit 54 military facilities of Ukraine in a day. In particular, "high-precision missiles destroyed a large warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region."

The Russian ministry also warned that "the threat of Kyiv's provocations and missile attacks on civilians remains high" because the Ukrainian armed forces "still have a significant arsenal of Tochka-U missiles."

20:44 Western countries continue to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons to deter the Russian full-scale invasion. For more information about partner assistance, see From S-300 to Bushmaster: New Weapons for Ukraine .

20:25 Biden called the strike on Kramatorsk "another terrible atrocity committed by Russia." He vowed to continue to provide aid to Ukraine and support efforts to investigate the attack by documenting Russia's actions and bringing those responsible to justice.

20:22 Macron called the missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station "an abomination" and promised to support the investigation throughout Ukraine to ensure justice.

20:19 The Russian delivery service CDEK, through which the Russian military transported property stolen in Ukraine, refused to accept parcels with goods if the sender could not confirm ownership of them, writes UP.

20:17 Russians tomorrow will try to appoint their occupying "authority" in the city of Oleshki, Kherson region, the mayor Evgeny Ryshchuk warned.

19:59 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially handed Zelensky a questionnaire , the completion of which is a necessary step to grant Ukraine the status of an EU candidate.

"We will be ready with answers in a week," Zelensky replied.

19:56 The rescue ship Sapfir, captured by the Russians, has returned under the control of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure reports. All 19 crew members were released from Russian captivity on March 25 as part of a prisoner exchange.

19:53 Johnson and Scholz, after the talks, said they were ready for unprecedented steps to rid Europe of dependence on Russian gas and help Ukraine repel Russian aggression. They also promised to help bring the leadership of the Russian Federation to justice for war crimes.

19:47 FSB General, head of the Fifth Service Sergei Beseda, who provided Putin with information about the political situation in Ukraine, was transferred from house arrest to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, writes journalist Andrey Soldatov, who covers the work of special services.

According to the journalist, the Conversation case is being investigated by the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. Beseda is also accused of embezzling funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine.

19:45 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council reports that Russia is preparing another manipulation about "bad" Ukrainians in order to deliberately demonize Ukraine in the world. So, stuffing appears that Ukrainian refugees, when evicted from an apartment, paint walls, organize pogroms in shops, etc.

19:36 Hungary will violate EU sanctions if it fulfills its promise to pay for Russian energy in rubles, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

19:32 The military leadership has decided to restrict entry to the Kiev Puscha-Voditsa due to "a huge number of objective factors," said the head of the Obolon Regional State Administration Kirill Fesik. There is no exact date for the ban yet, specialists are waiting for a large front of work, he added.

19:23 Twitter has blocked the account of the propaganda TV channel Russia Today.

19:19 The European Council will hold a special meeting on May 30-31, during which it will discuss defense, energy and the situation in Ukraine.

19:16 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 80 percent of the personnel of some Russian units involved in the war against Ukraine do not want to participate in further hostilities. The commanders of the military units of the invaders banned the dismissal of servicemen whose contracts have expired until the end of the "special operation".

The General Staff also reports that the occupying "authorities" in the occupied territory of Donbass received instructions from Russian curators about the return of people who left for Russia during January-February 2022. Citizens must return to the settlements at the place of registration or residence after two months of stay in the Russian Federation.

19:07 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin transferred 1,500 ETH (approximately $4.7 million) to help Ukraine.

19:05 The EU introduces free roaming for Ukrainian refugees. According to the Ministry of Digital Development, 24 EU mobile operators and three Ukrainian mobile operators signed a joint statement on coordination of efforts to ensure affordable and free roaming for international calls from the EU to Ukraine.

19:03 In Kiev, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, handed over a questionnaire on EU membership to the Ukrainian authorities, Radio Liberty reports.

19:00 Zelensky began a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell. Talks are planned in a narrow circle, after which the President and EU representatives will make statements for Ukrainian and foreign media and answer their questions.

18:57 Podolyak: "It's time to think about a new European "currency of exchange". One barrel of Russian oil = one liter of blood of a torn Ukrainian citizen. And 140 European companies that remain to work in Russia is one Buchanskaya massacre. Add your original ones further" blood business ideas.

18:43 In France, on April 10, the first round of presidential elections will take place. The favorite is the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron. However, the main event of the election campaign was the war in Ukraine, which has already corrected the presidential race. More details - in the material Ukraine will decide the fate of Macron .

18:38 Ursula von der Leyen said that they plan to prepare a conclusion on Ukraine's membership in the EU this summer. Then the Ukrainian application for membership will be submitted to the European Council. She stressed that "it usually takes years before the EU Council accepts an application for membership, but Ukraine did it in a week or two."

18:37 The UK will send a new shipment of $130 million worth of weapons to Ukraine, including Starstreak MANPADS, Johnson said.

18:35 Venediktova reported that there were approximately 67 bodies in a mass grave in Bucha. Each of them is examined by forensic experts, criminologists, investigators and prosecutors. Most of the people received gunshot and shrapnel wounds from explosions, some of them only fragments remained. Some of the dead were with documents, the rest will have to be recognized by relatives by clothing or other signs and identified by DNA.

18:32 In Madrid, the street near the Russian embassy will be renamed Bucha or Irpin, and the streets Russia and St. Petersburg will be renamed Kiev and Mariupol, the Ukrainian embassy in Spain reported.

18:28 Medvedev said that Western sanctions against the Russian Federation can be qualified as "an act of aggression against the country," therefore Moscow "has the right to individual and collective defense."

"Unlawful sanctions under certain circumstances can be qualified as an act of international aggression on the part of individual states or their unions. First of all, when their application is aimed at undermining its economic independence, and therefore state sovereignty, and threatens the very existence of the state. In fact, "as our opponents say, this is a declaration of economic war. Taking into account the totality of legal and political circumstances, we can conclude that sanctions in the current situation can be qualified as an act of aggression against the Russian Federation, as one of the forms of hybrid war," Medvedev wrote. .

He had previously stated that Russia could use nuclear weapons in the event of a "threat to the existence of the state."

18:23 The NBU turned to the Cabinet of Ministers with a proposal to withdraw the financial assets of MR Bank (Sberbank) and Prominvestbank, which were withdrawn from the market at the beginning of the war, subsidiaries of Sberbank of Russia and VEB. About 26 billion hryvnias can be directed to the state income.

18:07 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative Josep Borrell and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Geger visited Bucha , where bodies were exhumed from a mass grave today.

17:59 A unit of Russian special forces, who have experience of military operations in Syria, in full force refused to participate in further attempts to storm Mariupol, according to Ukrainian intelligence. In the battles against the Armed Forces of Ukraine from April 2 to April 4, this unit lost about 30 servicemen.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense also reports that the latest data on the selection for military service in Russia indicate a low level of interest of Russians in contract service. According to a report on the results of recruiting in Yekaterinburg, less than 1% of citizens from the reserve agreed to even talk about the possibility of signing a contract. Of the 397 candidates, only two agreed to be interviewed. 52 refused, 203 did not get in touch, work on 140 candidates is underway.

And on March 7, two PAZ buses with wounded Russian servicemen were sent from the Novoaydar polyclinic in the direction of Luhansk. Most of them had leg injuries, the most likely cause of which, according to the conclusions of the doctors, was self-mutilation in order to avoid returning to the combat zone.

17:57 The UK will send armored vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff armored vehicles, said Defense Minister Ben Wallace.

17:52 In Odessa, the curfew will last from 21:00 Saturday, April 9, until 6:00 Monday, April 11. This decision is connected with the missile attack on Kramatorsk. Odessa authorities report that the city is also at risk of rocket attacks.

17:50 According to the results of March, consumer prices in Ukraine increased by 4.5 percent. Inflation for the year reached almost 14 percent, the State Statistics Service reported.

17:43 Because of the Russian invasion, the transit of gas through the Sokhranivka gas metering station is under threat, the GTS Operator of Ukraine says. He reported on "gross interference" by Russians in the process of transporting gas through the Novopskov compressor station in the Luhansk region. Almost a third of the transit of blue fuel to Europe from the Sokhranovka gas measuring station passes through this station.

17:34 The SBI found collaborators among the assistants to people's deputies from the Opposition Platform for Life. In particular, an assistant-consultant on a voluntary basis to a People's Deputy of the IX convocation from the Opposition Platform for Life, one of the top managers of the 112 Ukraine TV channel, co-founder of the youth wing of the political party Opposition Platform for Life, was convicted of anti-Ukrainian activities. According to media reports, we are talking about Artem Marchevsky.

Together with him, this activity is carried out by a personal lawyer, Medvedchuk's confidant. The media note that this is probably Alexander Mamenko.

17:23 One day of war with Russia costs Ukraine up to four billion dollars, Shmyhal said. According to him, the daily expenses from the state budget associated with the Russian invasion amount to about two billion hryvnias. At the same time, the total losses of the state associated with the destruction of infrastructure and the loss of economic potential amount to four billion dollars a day.

17:16 The European Commission has provided Ukraine with a grant of 120 million euros as part of the overall package of emergency financial assistance to Ukraine. The funds will be directed to the general fund of the state budget to finance the most urgent state expenditures.

17:13 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, said that the death toll as a result of a missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk had risen to 50 people. According to him, 38 people died on the spot, 12 more died in the hospital. In total, 98 people have already been hospitalized, including 16 children.

17:06 All Russian invaders who were in the Exclusion Zone received large doses of radiation, their military equipment is also infected, said the head of the Ministry of Energy German Galushchenko. According to him, Russian soldiers "dug with their bare hands soils contaminated with radiation, collected radioactive sand in bags for fortifications, breathed this dust. After a month of such exposure, they had a maximum of a year of life left. More precisely, not life, but a slow death from diseases."

Galushchenko stressed that not only the entire personnel of the invaders and "trophies" were infected, but also all military equipment that passed through Chernobyl - and this is about ten thousand units.

16:59 According to the VTsIOM poll, 74 percent of Russians support the decision to invade Ukraine, 17 percent do not. At the same time, 89 percent of the respondents trust the Russian army, while 8 percent rather distrust the army.

16:47 Ukraine is rapidly moving towards unification with the EU, Shmyhal said. According to the prime minister, the government is now actively working on a joint energy market, customs, transit traffic, and the ACAA agreement. Kyiv is also waiting for a questionnaire from the European Commission, which will allow it to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership.

16:46 Russia has decided to expel 45 Polish diplomats, the Polish Foreign Ministry said. This decision was made in response to similar actions by Warsaw.

16:44 In Ukraine, for the duration of martial law, customs clearance of cars was officially made free, the State Customs Service reports. Thus, the import of vehicles is exempt from import duty, VAT and excise tax.

16:38 Montenegro has finally joined the European sanctions against Russia, said acting. Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovich. The internal political situation and difficulties with the creation of a legitimate government prevented Montenegro from accepting restrictions against Moscow.

16:26 The Office of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers have launched a project that should tell the whole world about how brave the people of Ukraine are. On the site https://brave.ua you can download posters, stickers and merch layouts designed to spread the idea of ​​Ukrainian courage.

"We want the whole world to know: Ukraine is a country where brave people live, bold ideas, bold businesses in which you can safely invest," the project description says. All Ukrainians are encouraged to join the flash mob #BRAVEUKRAINE - upload photos and videos where you can see all the courage of the Ukrainian people.

16:24 In Makarov, Kiev region, 132 shot bodies were found, the village was destroyed by 40 percent, the village head Vadim Tokar said.

16:21 More than 110,000 Ukrainians joined the Territorial Defense Forces, more than 450 volunteer formations of territorial communities have been created, more than 100 territorial defense fighters have already received state awards, Brigadier General Yuriy Galushkin, commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. He stressed that the day before the invasion in Ukraine, there were only six thousand professional soldiers and reservists.

16:17 Belarus published a list of 40 "unfriendly states" - Ukraine was not included in it. The list was formed "in order to ensure the protection of the national interests of the Republic of Belarus." In particular, it included all EU countries, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, Great Britain, USA, Montenegro, Switzerland and others.

16:13 Yermak said that Russian banks are trying to circumvent sanctions through their European brokers. In particular, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank and Otkritie transfer foreign assets of their clients to BCS and ATON brokers. Ukraine is in favor of imposing sanctions against BCS and ATON.

16:08 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called the Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk a war crime and promised to bring "Russia and Putin" to justice.

16:01 During the Russian invasion in Chernigov, about 700 people were killed , the mayor of the city Vladislav Atroshenko said. He clarified that this includes both military and civilians.

15:54 All the details about today's Russian strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk are in the material Another crime of the Russian Federation.

15:40 Finland said that the Russian government aircraft Il-96-300 probably violated the country's airspace on the morning of April 8. The plane entered the country's airspace over the Gulf of Finland in the Porvoo area and stayed in it for about three minutes. This is the first such violation in two years.

15:29 Moscow suggested to Kiev that Belarus be among the countries guarantors of Ukraine's security, Lavrov said.

15:20 Lithuanian media write that after the imposition of sanctions against the well-known Russian propagandist Artem Sheinin, a large family of refugees from Mariupol was settled in his apartment. In response to such actions, Sheinin asks Putin for retaliatory measures, among which may be the arrest of Gerard Depardieu's apartment in Russian Saransk.

15:13 Propaganda RIA Novosti reported an explosion in Kramatorsk at 10:25, although the first chat messages appeared at about 10:30, which is confirmed by most people. On Twitter, the message was posted via TweetDeck, a service used to send delayed posts. That is, the message was written in advance, writes Gerashchenko.

15:11 Mayor of Kramatorsk Alexander Goncharenko announced that an emergency evacuation of residents of the Donetsk region to safe places is starting from the city: “Today we are starting an emergency evacuation of people by all public transport, all private transport, we are looking for drivers. About 30-40 drivers are needed as for today".

15:06 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the governments of the EU countries have frozen 29.5 billion euros of assets associated with sanctioned persons. At the same time, only half of the EU countries submitted information, writes Reuters.

15:03 In Lvov, people brought "trophies of Russian servicemen" to the Russian embassy: washing machines, children's toys, frying pans and even a dog house. All this is covered with red paint. A similar action took place in London.

15:01 Arestovich is convinced that Ukraine will face two to three more clashes with Russia until 2032-2035, regardless of who will be in power in the Russian Federation. However, in his opinion, "this will be an operation on a smaller scale than now, dedicated, for example, to cutting off us completely from the Sea of ​​Azov, or capturing Kharkov, or reaching the borders of the so-called" LDNR "in administrative projections, which they recognized on the eve of the war" .

14:55 SBU speaker Artem Dekhtyarenko said that as a result of a missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, 39 people were killed , including four children. The Donetsk OVA specified that 87 people were injured.

14:51 The Prime Minister of Slovakia confirmed the transfer of S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine.

14:47 Zelensky spoke in the Finnish Parliament and called on Europe to stop payments for oil from Russia, accumulating money in special accounts, to which Moscow will not have access. He also said that Ukraine "needs the weapons that Finland's partners in the European Union have."

14:22 Russian occupiers tonight in the Mariupol commercial port fired at the icebreaker Kapitan Belousov, on which there was a civilian crew. As a result of the shelling, one person was killed and several others were injured, the Azov regiment said.

14:19 Podolyak said that Kiev, in negotiations with Russia, could agree to put the issue of the occupied Crimea "out of the brackets" for the sake of signing a real peace treaty. However, issues of territorial integrity will be determined exclusively by Zelensky, the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added.

14:07 About 5,000 Ukrainians for three days registered as volunteer rescuers to participate in the aftermath of Russian aggression. In particular, these are works to clear rubble, rescue people, provide assistance to the victims, unload humanitarian cargo, etc., the State Emergency Service said.

14:05 In Bucha, on the territory of the church of St. Andrew the First-Called, the exhumation of bodies from a mass grave began to identify people and establish the circumstances of their death.

14:03 A total of 46 UNESCO member countries will boycott the meeting of the World Heritage Committee while it is headed by Russia. The 45th session of the Committee was to be held in Kazan.

13:57 The basic indicator of world food prices rose in March by 12.6 percent - up to 159.3 points, according to the FAO. This growth was influenced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since both countries are large exporters of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil.

13:55 New mail from tomorrow suspends work in the Donetsk region.

13:54 Residents of Lisichansk are being urged to evacuate. According to the head of the Lisichansk city military-civilian administration Alexander Zaika, the shelling is becoming more intense, it is dangerous to stay in the city.

13:49 President of the European Council Charles Michel, in response to Russia's strike on Kramatorsk, announced the need for greater sanctions against Moscow and more weapons for Ukraine.

13:47 Great Britain, following the US and the EU, imposed sanctions against the daughters of Putin and Lavrov.

13:45 Six weeks after the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU Delegation will resume work in Kiev, Borrell said.

13:39 The mayor of Kramatorsk Alexander Goncharenko said that the wounded from the station continue to arrive, doctors from neighboring settlements come to the city. According to him, many are seriously injured, have lost their arms and legs, they are undergoing complex operations. The explosion was very powerful, fragments of the rocket were found 40 meters from the epicenter.

Goncharenko said that the RF Armed Forces deliberately fired at the station: "Trains depart from 10:00, and the occupiers deliberately hit at the moment when about four thousand people were standing on the square."

13:22 Japan expels eight Russian diplomats and expands sanctions against the Russian Federation.

13:06 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "the Russian armed forces did not have any fire missions on April 8 in the city of Kramatorsk and were not planned." Moscow assures that Tochki-U "are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces," and everything that happened is a "provocation" of the Ukrainian side.

13:04 Telegram channel Typical Donetsk at 10:25 published a recording of the launch of two rockets at the station in Kramatorsk. According to the public, they were launched from Shakhtyorsk - that is, from the territory controlled by the "DPR".

The first message about the strike on the Kramatorsk railway station appeared at 10:45 - it was published by the head of Ukrzaliznytsia.

13:02 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for the creation of a tribunal over Putin and Lavrov: "Anyone who is responsible for these crimes will have to explain himself."

12:55 A group of hackers Armageddon is attacking the state bodies of Ukraine, according to the State Service for Special Communications. In particular, emails with the subject "No. 1275 dated 04/07/2022" are received. They contain an HTML file, the opening of which will lead to the creation on a computer of an archive with a file called "On the facts of persecution and murder of employees of the Prosecutor's Office by the Russian military in the temporarily occupied territories.lnk". After opening it, hackers gain complete control over the computer.

12:47 Kramatorsk station was closed to receive trains after the Russian attack, Ukrzaliznytsia reports. Train No. 45 will depart from Sloviansk on an evacuation flight to Uzhgorod today, flights No. 274, No. 276, No. 278 and No. 92 are expected to depart to Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil and Odessa, respectively.

12:45 In social networks, photos and videos are published showing a Russian rocket that fell on the territory of the Kramatorsk railway station. On it is written "For the children":

12:32 The head of the Kiev Metro turned to Klitschko with a proposal to change the names of five metro stations - Friendship of Peoples, Lev Tolstoy Square, Beresteyskaya, Minskaya, Heroes of the Dnieper.

"Our people take refuge in the Friendship of Peoples while this so-called "friendship of peoples" kills their relatives and destroys our country. This cannot be," he stressed.

12:29 In March, the number of Ukrainians who believe that the resumption of friendly relations with the Russians after the current war is impossible at all has increased significantly - from 42% to 64%. At the same time, according to the Rating group, 22% believe that this can happen in at least 20-30 years.

12:27 For the second day, Russia claims that it controls the center of Mariupol, but this is not so: the occupiers have advanced one block and "relatively control" the territory in the area of ​​the destroyed Drama Theatre, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said.

According to him, Primorsky district, part of Levoberezhny near Azovstal, the coast from Azovstal to the port, the port itself and the territories of factories remain under Ukrainian control. By area, this is a large part of the city.

12:23 The EU has adopted the fifth block of sanctions against Russia, the Council of Europe reports. Among the main measures are a ban on Russian ships entering European ports; an embargo on the supply of Russian coal, which will come into force in August; a ban on transportation across the EU territory by road transport operators from the Russian Federation and Belarus, excluding medical and food products.

12:15 The Defense Ministers of Turkey, Great Britain and Italy will discuss the situation in Ukraine today in Istanbul, Ankara reported.

12:13 The "DPR" stated that Ukraine struck Tochka-U at Kramatorsk: "This obsolete Soviet missile system is not in service with the DPR, LPR and the Russian Federation and is actively used by Ukrainian militants."

Eyewitnesses previously reported that a column of Russian vehicles with V marks was moving in Belarus from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway. It contained at least eight Tochka-Us, several BTR-82s, about nine KamAZ trucks, some of which carry Tochka-U missiles, as well as a communications vehicle and a crane.

After the attack on Kramatorsk, messages were published in pro-Russian telegram channels, according to which they "worked on the accumulation of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Soon they were removed or changed.

12:10 Zelensky said that the Russians hit the station in Kramatorsk with Tochka-U.

12:06 A prolonged war is fraught with complex consequences for the Ukrainian economy, but hyperinflation is not expected in the country, Shmygal said: "We did not print money, we are not worried about hyperinflation. We have war bonds. Today, business is buying these papers. Today more than 40 billion were attracted to the budget thanks to this instrument, it gives us the funds to compensate for the budget deficit that arises due to the war."

The prime minister also recalled that Ukraine is going to nationalize all Russian property in Russia in order to compensate for losses from the invasion. Kyiv also expects to receive funds from assets of the Russian Federation frozen in the West.

12:03 The emotional background of the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia has changed after the events in Bucha, but the negotiations themselves are ongoing, Podolyak said. At the same time, he could not name the date of the next face-to-face meeting of the delegations - this will depend on many factors, including the state of affairs at the front.

12:00 Podolyak said that agreements without real preventive mechanisms to prevent war will not work, so Ukraine will not go for Minsk-3 or Budapest-2.

"In a historical perspective, even short-term, all these Minsks lead to grandiose tragedies," he explained.

11:57 Arestovich said that as a result of the strike on Kramatorsk, more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.

"You need to understand that such strikes are preceded by a thorough additional reconnaissance of the target, at least an UAV, gunners on the ground - a missile is too expensive and it is too difficult and risky to organize such strikes. They perfectly saw that they were hitting civilians, early in the morning, that at the station at that time there were thousands of people trying to evacuate, families, children, old people," he wrote.

11:55 Italy is ready to act as a guarantor of Ukraine's security , said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio. He stressed that Moscow has crossed red lines, so Europe needs to rethink its approach to collective security.

11:52 As a result of the shelling of the Kramatorsk railway station by the Russians with a cassette Iskander, 27 people were killed, at least 30 were injured , Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA, said. According to him, at that moment there were thousands of people at the station, as the residents of Donbass are being evacuated. Two children were among the dead.

11:47 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin believes that Putin "probably abandoned" the attempt to capture Kiev, as Russia has shifted its attention to the east and south of Ukraine. The Pentagon, in turn, is focusing on continuing to arm Ukrainian forces as the war enters its next phase, he said.

11:28 In Kiev, services for the rental of bicycles and electric scooters have resumed. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, Bolt, Bike NOW and veliki.ua services are available for rental today. Residents of Kiev are asked to remember the safety rules and follow the rules of the road.

11:17 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of April 8:
  • personnel - about 19 thousand people,

  • tanks - 700,

  • armored fighting vehicles - 1891,

  • artillery systems - 333,

  • MLRS - 108,

  • air defense systems - 55,

  • aircraft - 150,

  • helicopters - 135,

  • automotive equipment - 1361,

  • ships/boats - 7,

  • tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 112,

  • special equipment - 25,

  • launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.

11:13 About 12,000 Ukrainians "urgently" received Russian passports, said Oleg Kadochnikov, deputy head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to him, some of the "displaced persons" are in more than 800 temporary accommodation centers, where about 25 thousand people live, including 10.5 thousand children.

11:08 Two rockets hit the railway station of Kramatorsk, there are victims, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.

10:58 The Russians who robbed the Ukrainians, among other things, took a large number of cars to Belarus. Their significant concentration is in Mozyr, Gomel, Rechitsa, Narovlya, Khoiniki and Elsk. In addition, the Russians buy gold with stolen money and have fun in Belarusian establishments, writes Belaruski Gayun.

10:49 The UN has confirmed 1,611 civilian deaths during the Russian invasion, including 131 children. 2227 people were injured.

10:32 Almost the entire convoy of buses traveling to Melitopol with humanitarian aid for further evacuation of people was taken away by the Russian military, said the head of the Zaporozhye regional administration Alexander Starukh. According to him, the drivers were ordered to transfer to one bus and go back. The rest of the buses were confiscated by the invaders.

10:19 The Government of Canada has submitted a new budget for 2022-23 to Parliament, which provides funding for the purchase of weapons and new loans for Ukraine for a billion Canadian dollars.

10:15 Australia has imposed sanctions against 67 Russian citizens, said Foreign Minister Maryse Payne. According to her, all these people are from Putin's inner circle.

10:09 In the Donetsk region, the Russians attacked Vuhledar from a helicopter, as well as a missile attack on Slavyansk. As the governor of the region Pavel Kirilenko said, in both cities there are wounded civilians and a lot of destruction.

Also this morning, Avdievka was hit, as a result of which at least one person died, one was injured, and five houses were damaged.

09:47 Arestovich is convinced that an attempt to take Kiev for the second time is "that crazy plan that cannot be carried out."

"The residents of the capital are not in much danger now - no more than in Vinnitsa or Ivano-Frankivsk," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office believes.

09:36 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that Russia had finished preparing for the battle for Donbass: “We feel the end of preparations for the great battle that we will have in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. We have constant attempts by the enemy to break through the defense line in certain directions "Yesterday, there was a battle in Rubezhnoye from 4 o'clock in the morning. Everything ended well for our defenders: several tanks and armored personnel carriers were knocked out, and up to 50 enemies were killed."

09:35 Payments for Russian gas in rubles will be considered a circumvention of sanctions, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

09:33 Blinken said that the US is imposing sanctions on two Russian state-owned enterprises - Alrosa, the world's largest diamond mining company, and the United Shipbuilding Corporation, which develops and builds most of Russia's warships.

09:15 During the occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Russians destroyed documents and archives that specialists had been collecting for decades, said the head of the Public Council under the State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone Oleksandr Syrota.

09:08 The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen went to Kiev - she announced this on Twitter. She will arrive in the Ukrainian capital as part of a delegation including Josep Borrell and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger.

08:59 Ten humanitarian corridors agreed on April 8:
  • Donetsk region: Mariupol - Zaporozhye (by own transport)

  • Zaporozhye region: Berdyansk - Zaporozhye (by own transport and buses); Tokmak - Zaporozhye (by own transport and buses); Melitopol - Zaporozhye (by own transport); Energodar - Zaporozhye (by own transport)

  • Lugansk region: Severodonetsk - Bakhmut; Lisichansk - Bakhmut; Popasnaya - Bakhmut; from. Mining - Bakhmut; Rubizhne - Bakhmut

08:54 Macron said in an interview with Le Parisien that France would become the guarantor of Ukraine's security. He explained that in Ukraine "at some point" a ceasefire will come and peace will have to be built, and this "cannot be done without a guarantor." At the same time, Macron believes that it is necessary to continue negotiations with Putin.

08:51 According to British intelligence, in the north of Ukraine, Russian troops have now been completely withdrawn to Belarus and the Russian Federation, at least part of these forces will be transferred to the Donbass. That being said, many of these forces will need significant reinforcements before they are ready to move further east, and any massive redeployment from the north is likely to take at least a week.

Intelligence also notes that the shelling of cities in eastern and southern Ukraine continues, and Russian troops have moved further south from the strategically important city of Izyum, which remains under their control.

08:46 According to the UN, more than seven million Ukrainians have become internally displaced since the beginning of the Russian invasion, half of them women. IDPs do not have enough money, medicines and medical care, the UN noted.

08:30 Serbia, which yesterday voted for the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council, said that it was forced to do this by threatening sanctions. "The fate of Serbia is now being decided, whether we will be excluded from the oil sanctions package," President Vučić said.

08:12 In Bucha, 163 local residents were identified who were killed, Mayor Fedoruk said. According to him, about 320 bodies of Bucha residents have already been collected around the city.

07:50 Danilov warned that the men who managed to illegally leave Ukraine during the period of martial law would be detained upon their return "for explanations."

07:31 The Russians are repairing the railway from Kupyansk to Kharkov, Izyum and Svatovo, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. Also, representatives of the "DPR" were seen in Izyum, who perform the functions of the "police", checking the documents of the local population.

07:23 The White House listed the American aid that the United States has already delivered to Ukraine or is preparing to deliver:
  • more than 1400 Stinger anti-aircraft systems,

  • more than 5,000 Javelin anti-tank systems,

  • over 7000 other anti-tank systems,

  • hundreds of Switchblade tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (of which only 100 have been transferred so far),

  • more than 50 million rounds,

  • 45 thousand sets of body armor and helmets,

  • missile systems with laser guidance,

  • puma unmanned aerial systems,

  • night vision devices, thermal imaging systems and optics,

  • satellite intelligence.

06:52 The EU will allocate another 500 million euros for the military needs of Ukraine, said the President of the European Council Charles Michel. He recalled that in total Europe has already spent one and a half billion euros for these purposes.

06:14 The head of the Sumy regional administration, Dmitry Zhivitsky, said that Russian troops had completely left the region. He warned local residents that if they hear explosions, this is the work of explosives technicians and rescuers.

00:29 For one Russian tank, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have 90 anti-tank systems from Western partners, said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. She also said that Ukraine reports what systems are needed for defense, and "we satisfy the vast majority of requests."

00:01 Arestovich believes that Russia deliberately launched a rumor about an attack on Kharkov in order to force Ukraine to keep troops under the city, and not to transfer them to Izyum. The adviser to the head of the OP does not believe in an attack on Kharkov.

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From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary April 8th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:18 In Kherson, on one of the buildings in the city center, local residents removed the old Ukrainian flag and hung the flag of the Russian Federation.

22:27 The main thing from the briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The RF Armed Forces destroyed a large depot of rocket and artillery weapons near the settlement of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region; Aviation equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed at the Kanatovo military airfield in the Kirovograd region; The operation of the group of troops of the Russian Federation and the DPR to completely liberate the city of Mariupol continues.

21:33 Russian air defense in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft in the air.

21:29 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 54 military facilities of Ukraine.

20:59 Aviation equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces was destroyed at the Kanatovo military airfield in the Kirovohrad region.

20:27 High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed a large warehouse of missile and artillery weapons near the village of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region

20:07 A curfew has been announced in the Odessa region.

18:48 Subdivisions of the RF Armed Forces and the NM of the DPR entered the territory of the Mariupol port. The territory is cleaned from the remnants of the Nazis.

17:46 Chechen fighters and Russian marines are clearing Mariupol square by square. Artillery is used only when it is no longer possible to clear the territory from Ukrainian militants with small arms alone.

16:51 Russian marines are removing streamers in the yards of Mariupol.

16:50 In Melitopol, the distribution of targeted humanitarian aid continues.

15:52 The Russian military is taking people out of the Kherson region - in some places there are still battles between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

15:04 The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to recapture the village of Topolskoye, which is south-west of Izyum, but suffered heavy losses and are now hitting it with MLRS

14:04 In Kherson, on the island at the gas station of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, the Russian Guard detained a group of Ukrainian marauders.

12:53 Ex-deputy of the Rada Zhuravko noted a decrease in the morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and connected this with rumors about the removal of organs from the wounded.

12:52 Explosions were again heard in the Belgorod region today, the head of the Volokonovsky district, Sergei Biketov, said. “Everything is calm in the area. There were no damages, no fires, and there were no complaints from citizens about the victims. We understand for sure that this is not shelling,” he said.

11:37 Serviceman of the 25th Specialized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry said that most of the Ukrainian soldiers used drugs.

10:53 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 97 helicopters, 421 unmanned aerial vehicles, 228 long-range and medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems, 2019 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 223 multiple rocket launchers, 874 field artillery guns and mortars have been destroyed , as well as 1917 units of special military vehicles.

10:24 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile forces hit 81 military facilities of Ukraine.

10:19 Russian air defense systems shot down in the air two Ukrainian military helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-24 near the village of Staraya Zburyevka, as well as five unmanned aerial vehicles, including two in the Kryvyi Rih region - "Bayraktar TB-2" .

10:17 High-precision missiles of the Bastion coastal missile system in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Krasnoselka northeast of Odessa destroyed the Center for the Collection and Training of Foreign Mercenaries.

10:03 High-precision air-based missiles in the Donetsk region at the railway stations of Pokrovk, Slavyansk, Barvenkovo ​​destroyed the weapons and military equipment of the reserves of Ukrainian troops who arrived in Donbass.

10:00 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine.

08:32 Over the past day, more than 21,000 refugees from the territory of Ukraine, as well as the republics of Donbass, crossed the Russian border.

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#1 
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 || 04/09/2022 14:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Oy. Where'd you get the notion that badanov's unwashed? He doesn't got shit all over him like some medieval Boris Godunov
Posted by: Greck Fillmore6253 || 04/09/2022 15:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Oy. Where'd you get the notion that badanov's unwashed? He doesn't got shit all over him like some medieval Boris Godunov

He meant my food is unwashed.
Posted by: badanov || 04/09/2022 15:54 Comments || Top||

#4  I hope Badanov's diet is restricted to eating the intestines of dead Ukrainian and Russians from here on out.

The very idea! This is America, the land of milk and honey.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2022 16:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Intestines, no! When Marine Le Pen becomes president of France, he can join Putin for caviar and vodka at the Élysée

The White House is Freaked Out: Putin's next big win could be in Paris
Posted by: Vespasian Omereque5237 || 04/09/2022 16:21 Comments || Top||

#6  J'adore cette femme!

"Cutting gas and petrol imports [from Russia], that will be a tragedy for French families,” Le Pen told French radio RTL. “I’m sorry to tell you, my priority is to defend the purchasing power of French families,” she said.
Posted by: Greck Fillmore6253 || 04/09/2022 16:28 Comments || Top||

#7  J'adore cette femme!

Nous aussi.

Plus d'argent pour le peuple français, et moins d'argent pour les oligarques juifs proches de Z. qui volent le peuple ukrainien
Posted by: Vespasian Omereque5237 || 04/09/2022 16:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Intestinal Fortitude, or, Who Stole the Keeshka?

When it comes to indelicate victuallings,
Americans brook no belittlings.
The stink of our tripas
May reach Tamaulipas
But only the gutless shun chitlins.
Posted by: Kojo Grundy4712 || 04/09/2022 19:59 Comments || Top||

#9  But only the gutless shun chitlins.

Cleverly done!
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2022 22:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Felt as if I (subconsciously) stole the whole thing. Wouldn't it be nice if I'd stolen it from myself? Not quite there yet, though.
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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: April 8th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:37 When staying in residential high-rise buildings, VFU alternate floors: one floor is nationalists, the second floor is civilians -Denis Pushilin

22:28 A total of 160 settlements have been liberated in the DPR at the moment - Denis Pushilin.

21:47 Yesterday and the day before yesterday, in Izyum, the DRG of Ukraine, up to a platoon, tried to enter the positions of the troops of the NM DPR near the village of Donetsk. After a short shooting battle, the enemy retreated to a forest plantation, took cover and was covered by a TOS strike.

21:33 NM DPR: Kramatorsk was fired upon by rocketmen from the same brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that hit Donetsk with Tochka-U on March 14.

[…] “This is the same brigade that fired at that time in Donetsk, along Universitetskaya Street… The launch was north of Krasnoarmeysk, in principle, the same area.”

20:22 Ukrainian troops fired more than 200 shells and mines across the DPR on Friday.

19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired more than 200 shells at the DPR, using 122mm artillery, 120mm mortars and Grad MLRS. Eight settlements came under fire, nine residential buildings and seven civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.

19:00 Today, three civilians of the DPR were injured under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, have destroyed 42 Ukrainian nationalists, three firing positions of 12mm D-30 artillery howitzers, one 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system and two armored vehicles. Two infantry fighting vehicles and one cargo vehicle were captured.

18:42 Half an hour ago, in the area of ​​​​the city administration of Maryinka, nationalists in civilian clothes entered the bomb shelter and drove people out of there. They said they needed it.

17:17 The death toll as a result of the shelling of the railway station of Kramatorsk has increased to 39 people, another 87 were injured.

17:16 In Schastya in the LPR, the first supermarket of a nationwide network has opened. Residents were pleased with the cost and variety of products presented.

17:14 Three settlements of the DPR were left without electricity as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Nazis.

17:13 During the day, 262 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, including 45 children.

17:12 Kiev militants fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing seven rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

17:10 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Yelenovka in the DPR, firing five shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

15:42 Kiev Nazis fired at the village of Yelenovka and Donetsk, fired 12 shells at them with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

15:41 Ukrainian punishers opened fire on Golmovsky in the DPR, firing six 122 mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

15:40 Kiev militants fired at Pervomaisk in the LPR, firing five shells of 122 mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

13:58 In Donetsk, they decided to stop the activities of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.

13:24 Rubizhne in the LPR is under heavy fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The entire southern part is in smoke.

12:46 The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the statements of the Kiev regime about allegedly launching a missile attack on the railway station of Kramatorsk in the occupied part of the DPR:

“On April 8, the Russian armed forces did not have any fire missions in the city of Kramatorsk and were not planned.”

12:31 The strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk was a provocation of the Ukrainian security forces - the representative of the People's Militia of the DPR Basurin.

12:31 According to preliminary data, 27 people, including two children, were killed as a result of a missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk.

12:26 "Tochka-U", which hit Kramatorsk, was allegedly released from the southwestern territory controlled by Kiev. The version of a shot down projectile does not work: in this case, there would be no ejected cluster munitions.

12:25 An inscription "For children" was found on the "Tochka-U" rocket in Kramatorsk. This is a characteristic feature of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which left such messages back in 2014. This indirectly confirms that they are the ones responsible for the attack.

12:24 More than 30 people became victims of the strike on Kramatorsk. About a hundred more were injured of varying severity.

12:23 Kadyrov: Mariupol is 98 percent liberated. Only separately fortified shelters of Bandera remained, including the Azovstal plant, which the Nazis converted into a real fortress.

The rabble of Bandera, as we are convinced, did not waste time all these years. They dug, like gophers, their own holes in case it would be very bad. But we pulled out of the deeper tunnels in the dense forests of the Chechen Republic much more expressively than the hissing rats, and we can even cope with these. In the end, and Hitler ended up in a bunker, and therefore his passionate fans in the same subways and destroy.

12:22 AFU fired at Yelenovka in the DPR, using artillery with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

11:30 Ukrainian Nazis hit about Kramotorska (DPR), which is under their control, using Tochka-U. rocket fragments fell near the station.

11:24 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the villages of Horlivka. The power line in Mikhailovka and the transformer in Komarov were damaged. In the village of Michurin, a residential building was damaged.

11:07 The government has increased funding for payments to residents of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine who came to Russia - the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation.

11:06 Ukrainian Nazis fired at a school in Rubizhne (LPR), where humanitarian water distribution was taking place. Seven people died.

11:05 Kiev militants fired at Aleksandrovka in the DPR, firing ten rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

11:04 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR destroyed 34 Ukrainian militants.

10:25 Basurin: Everything is going according to plan. We approached [from below] the key points, and from the north - this is Izyum, which is completely controlled by the Russian armed forces, the road between Slavyansk and Kharkov is cut off. And slowly they begin to go down in order to pincer the group that is in the Donbass. This is a large group, Ukrainian politicians say that there are about 90,000 here. And they are ready to help, if you make some kind of counterattack, this is 30,000 in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

10:00 Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Nazis fired more than 250 ammunition into the DPR, using 122mm and 152mm artillery, 120mm mortars and Grad MLRS. Ten settlements were under fire. In total, 43 residential buildings, one car and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

10:00 Over the past day, under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, 23 civilians of the DPR, including one child, were injured.

10:00 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed 73 Ukrainian nationalists, 11 firing points, including three mortar crews, two armored vehicles, one infantry fighting vehicle and one cargo vehicle. Two 122mm multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 Grad, two 120mm mortars and two cargo vehicles were captured.

10:00 During the day, 11 militants of the 56th, 54th and 25th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR.

09:22 Kiev militants fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR, using the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

09:22 Ukrainian Nazis fired eight shells of 122mm caliber at Yelenovka in the DPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

09:22 Ukrainian punishers fired at Golmovsky in the DPR, firing 29 grenades at him from the AGS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

09:22 During the day, more than 580 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, out of 102 - children.

08:50 Under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, a civilian Yasinovataya in the DPR suffered.

08:20 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR, firing seven shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

08:19 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing eight rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

08:17 Kiev militants shelled four settlements in the DPR in the morning. They fired 22 122mm shells and six 120mm mines. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

08:14 Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire four times on the territory of the LPR. Two settlements of the republic came under fire. Kiev Nazis used 152mm artillery and 120mm mortars.

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News from the Breakaway Republics, April 8th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR damaged residential buildings
[REGNUM] Three residential buildings in the village of Kalinovo (LPR) were damaged as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime reports on April 8.

Ukrainian militants fired at 13:30 Moscow time, firing ten mines at Kalinovo.

Recall that during the day on April 7, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the LPR four times: as a result of one of the attacks, a civilian was wounded.

Ukrainian militants shelled Yasinovataya with Grads
[REGNUM] On the evening of April 8, Ukrainian armed formations shelled the cities of Yasinovataya and Gorlovka in the DPR, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.

So, Yasinovataya was attacked at 16:30 Moscow time. From the direction of Avdiivka settlement, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired seven missiles from the BM-21 Grad.

Ukrainian militants opened fire on Gorlovka at 19:15 Moscow time, firing 15 shots from the BMP-2 from the side of the village of Shumy.

A fighter from the LPR about the “negotiations”: “Bandera is in front of us, Vlasov is behind us”
[REGNUM] Ordinary Lugansk militias have long understood who is worth listening to, who is not. This was announced on April 8 to REGNUM news agency by a serviceman of the people's militia of the LPR Ivan Sintsov.

Recall that in Istanbul on March 29, the next round of negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations ended. After that, a number of Russian officials announced the prospects for an early conclusion of a peace treaty.

“In seven years, everyone has already understood everything - who makes sense to listen to, and who does not. Whoever has not understood either in the past seven years or in these seven weeks will never understand," said the agency’s interlocutor.

Now ordinary Luhansk peasants are doing their job, smoking the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of the fortifications around the 29th checkpoint near Novotoshkovka, and they simply have no time for this, Sintsov noted. “When they’re done and there’s time to take a break and look at the Internet and everything, I think they’ll just shrug their shoulders and say: "Another f ... offered to give up. Dill, probably," said the fighter.

"One of my acquaintances, a local militia, who has been fighting from the very beginning, somehow very correctly said: “Bandera is in front of us, Vlasov is behind us.” This is what people think about those who do not want to end Ukrainian Nazism," Sintsov concluded.

Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Golmovsky in DPR from artillery
[REGNUM] Kiev militants fired artillery at the village of Golmovsky in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was announced on April 8 by the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).

It is noted that the shelling of Holmovsky by the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded at 15:10 (coincides with Moscow time) and during it six shells of 122 mm caliber were fired at the settlement.

As REGNUM reported , earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia wants to see Belarus among the countries that guarantee Ukraine's security.

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#1  Does it make sense that this sign, allegedly in Tbilisi, Georgia would be in English?

Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/09/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||


Day 44 Russian invasion of Ukraine - little movement of battlelines
Militaryland.net

- both sides preparing for battle of Donbass

- Russia hit a RR station, 50 civilian fatalities

- Russia still hasn't captured Mariupol completely
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The Russian general behind the attack on a Ukrainian railway station that was branded a 'crime against humanity' after it killed at least 50 civilians - including five children - who were fleeing Kremlin's atrocities
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Ukraine's state railway company announced attack on Kramatorsk's station, a city in the east of the country

  • The governor of Ukraine's Donesk region said later on Friday the death toll had risen to at least 50 people

  • Pictures from outside the station showed bodies strewn across the ground. Some were in body bags

  • Other pictures showed wreckage of a missile with Russian text written on the side reading 'For (our) children'

  • Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky took to Instagram to decry the attack, confirming the casualties

  • Russia's defence ministry denied the attack, and instead claimed Ukraine was attacking its own civilians

  • Kramatorsk is found in the east of the country, about 80 miles west of Luhansk in the country's Donbas region

  • Ukrainian authorities have urged residents to flee west as Russia refocuses its military efforts in the country's eastern Donbas region after recently pulling its forces back from Kyiv

  • Western officials believe Captain General Aleksandr Dvornikov, a Russian commander who oversaw devastation in Syria, is likely to have ordered yesterday’s fatal air strike on the station in Kramatorsk
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The peoples pushing this sort of trash are for some strange reasons the same scum that imposed masks and vaccines on their populations It’s very sad the industrial scale killing that’s happened in Ukraine personally as a Russian I feel sorry even for the Azof’s…….it’s very sad. Even if they are Nazi’s, they are someone’s sons, fathers, they are men. But it has to be done. Genetically we are basically the same. And you can check this. Their genotype does not differ from Russians from ..(names a lot of cities in Russia) they dream in russian, speak in russian, think in Russian. But thanks to Cia and nato criminal propaganda and brainwash, they don’t consider themselves Russians. This is what lead to this.”
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 04/09/2022 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Cherese Bumble5078 || 04/09/2022 6:14 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Greck Fillmore6253 || 04/09/2022 7:13 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Jock Flerong3451 || 04/09/2022 8:25 Comments || Top||


#6  Moving the war to the Donbas area is peculiar in that it involves inflicting bombardment and war on Russian speakers, for their own good of course, and apparently trying to do it by use of Syrian and Chechen mercenary forces.
If the Ukrainian forces attack their logistic support, they will undoubtedly take revenge on the residents of the already "independent" areas of the Eastern Ukraine.
Will local residents of the area stand up and cheer for this approach?


How popular will this be to anyone?
Posted by: Goober Choluque6459! || 04/09/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, it's NATO and the CIA that convinced the Ukrainians they're a distinct people, not the repeated Russian attempts to exterminate them.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/09/2022 11:49 Comments || Top||

#8  There bubbled a cauldron of frogs
Who gobbled intelligent blogs
And never were rude
But subduedly stewed,
Until... New and Improved! With more wogs!
[Cyrillic Campbell's multiple]

Oriental despotism innit?
Posted by: Glusoth Glereling8225 || 04/09/2022 23:53 Comments || Top||


Moment a frantically fleeing Russian soldier is chased down by Ukrainian drone… before he unwittingly leads Kyiv's forces straight to his unit
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The soldier is shown being chased down the side of a country road in Ukraine

  • He is being followed by the drone that is filming him, operated by Kyiv's forces

  • The Russian is shown frantically checking over his shoulder as it follows him

  • But he inadvertently leads the drone right to his unit's position in a forest

  • Images later shared online showed the position had come under attack by Ukrainian artillery fire and abandoned by Moscow's troops
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China-Japan-Koreas
University of Kansas professor faces 20 years in federal prison after he is convicted of hiding his ties to the Chinese government while working on US-funded research
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Feng 'Franklin' Tao faces 20 years in jail after being convicted for fraud Thursday

  • He concealed ties to China's government while working on US-funded research

  • Moved to Fuzhou to work with a university there but told KU he moved to Europe

  • Tao found guilty on three counts wire fraud and one of making false statements
Tao's is the latest trial to come out of a now-ended Trump-era crackdown on Chinese influence within US research amid concerns of economic espionage and intellectual property theft.

He was one of two dozen academics charged under the US Department of Justice 'China Initiative' which fell apart following several failed prosecutions and criticism that it chilled academic research and fueled bias against Asians.

Tao, who was born in China and moved to the US in 2002, began working in 2014 at the University of Kansas Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis on projects involving renewable energy, including shale gas, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship after applying to participate in one of China's 'talent plans'.

As part of that program he traveled to China to set up a laboratory and recruit staff for Fuzhou University, telling the University of Kansas he was in Germany instead.

The Justice Department says China uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it.

Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship. The Justice Department says China (pictured, President Xi Jinping) uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it

Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship. The Justice Department says China (pictured, President Xi Jinping) uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it

Prosecutor Adam Barry said Tao falsely in reports filed with the school claimed no conflicts of interest, describing it as 'an elaborate lie' to defraud the university, the DOE and NSF.

Tao also caused KU to submit to the US government hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursement requests for expenditures associated with research grants he was working on, according to the Department of Justice.

But Zeidenberg argued that Tao was merely 'moonlighting' and stressed throughout the trial that Tao remained such a prolific researcher that the University of Kansas honored him in April 2019 - just months before his arrest.

He contended that Tao completed all the research he received grants to conduct and said his work in China was not against the rules because he was not paid for it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Gee, I don't know but maybe a little focus on "profiling" Chinese named individuals might be a consideration? Near as I can tell the CCP is/has stolen an awful lot of our stuff and intellectual property?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/09/2022 11:49 Comments || Top||

#2  At KU all they had to do was look.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/09/2022 11:58 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
IRS will "absolutely" resolve backlog before end of the year, Commissioner Charles Rettig says
[CBS] The IRS could wipe out its massive backlog of returns by the end of the year, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said Thursday. His optimistic prognosis comes as millions of people are still waiting for the overburdened agency to process returns from past tax filing seasons and send their refunds, even as the IRS entered a new tax filing season.

The IRS still had 23 million items in its backlog to get through heading into this year's tax filing season, as it struggled to overcome hurdles exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this year, the Taxpayer Advocate wrote in her report the IRS was in a crisis. Treasury and IRS officials warned this could be the most challenging tax filing season for taxpayers and preparers to date.

Rettig appeared before the House Ways and Means committee Thursday for a hearing on the tax filing season. He said the agency will "absolutely" make it through the backlog before the end of 2022.

"If the world stays as it is as of today, we will be what we call healthy by the end of calendar year '22, and enter the '23 filing season with normal inventories — healthy through the eyes of the taxpayer," Rettig said.

The Treasury Department and IRS announced last week a plan to catch up on the pandemic-related backlog this year. The effort includes the hiring of 10,000 IRS employees over the next year, including 5,000 in the next few months. The IRS has also been granted more hiring authority, allowing the agency to get new employees in the door more quickly. Previously, the onboarding process took as many as six to eight months, Rettig said, but with their new abilities, employees could be onboarded in 30 to 35 days.
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#1  (Checks crystal ball) I see a great fire in a building.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/09/2022 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2 
The only agency that goes over and above to ensure the State is not denied.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  They had 2 million pieces of unopened mail at their Kansas City processing center two Augusts ago and apparently it's still there, albetit maybe a tad smaller. I'm calling BS and I haven't sent shit to KC since that IRS appeals guy told me that (mail backlog).
Posted by: Raj || 04/09/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  They haven't processed my return yet but they sure as fuck cashed that check as fast as they could.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/09/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Did they say which year?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/09/2022 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6 
We were held up 45+ days in filling the latest FED/GA returns.

It seems the IRS failed to provide a Social Security Admin form needed for SSA retirees to file late into Feb. 2022. Then took the Tax S/w people a week+ to add it.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/09/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#7  And - try calling the IRS for anything. I haven't gotten through on my last four calls. My old CPA boss said in an e-mail last month - 'the tax system is in shambles'. No argument here.
Posted by: Raj || 04/09/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||

#8  They haven't processed my return yet but they sure as fuck cashed that check as fast as they could.

Ain't that the truth.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/09/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Its only work if you do it...

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig testified to the Senate Finance Committee today. Rettig said agents are only picking up one in five taxpayer phone calls.

Rettig said: “We are currently running around 19 to 20 percent level of service.”

https://www.atr.org/irs-picks-up-the-phone-only-19-to-20-percent-of-the-time/
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 04/09/2022 14:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Good thing the IRS was so on top of things back in the Lois Lerner era.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/09/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Rettig said: “We are currently running around 19 to 20 percent level of service.”

So you're telling me I have a chance on my next call? Nice!
Posted by: Raj || 04/09/2022 14:55 Comments || Top||

#12  I filed my taxes a couple of weeks ago and haven't heard back. Nor have they taken the money from my account. I am wondering - if they don't take it before the 18th - will I have to pay a penalty?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/09/2022 14:58 Comments || Top||

#13  if they don't take it before the 18th - will I have to pay a penalty?

If you mailed a hard copy to them Return Receipt, you have a signed record of when they got it, Crazy Fool, useful for discussing the question with them. Beyond that, I don’t know.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2022 15:54 Comments || Top||

#14 

Yep, they sure will, the same way FedEx got rid of their backlog.....throwing them into ditches and dumpsters.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/09/2022 22:40 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
New People Arrive at ISS Today
[Florida Today] Liftoff of Axiom-1 from Kennedy Space Center at 11:17 a.m. ET! Michael López-Alegría, Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe are en route to the International Space Station in their Crew Dragon capsule and should arrive early Saturday.
Launch video at link.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/09/2022 09:03 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More hostages for Putin?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/09/2022 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Hope they're more qualified than the new people arriving at Rantburg.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  But are they skilled at shitposting?
Posted by: Sholulet Untervehr1373 || 04/09/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Even shitposting takes skill, finesse. As opposed to shit smearing and shit flinging.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  You still rootin for Putin, Dron?
Posted by: Elmeamble Glusomble1674 || 04/09/2022 10:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Of course.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Quite honestly I couldn't care less about either party. My interests are aligned with my own nation. And against the globalists. Vlad may be an asset, a true product of the vicious komitet gosudarstvenoy bezopasnosti. All I know is NATO must be challenged, the west's ability to obstruct sovereign nations's economic development curbed, and that bastard Soros denied at every turn. If I have to ally with the devil to do that I would.

No, don't throw me the tinfoil hat, I know I'm right.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 10:18 Comments || Top||

#8  ✊🏽
Posted by: Elmeamble Glusomble1674 || 04/09/2022 10:18 Comments || Top||

#9  * Vlad may be an asshole.

stupid autospell
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 10:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Quite honestly I couldn't care less about either party. My interests are aligned with my own nation.

Now that's a breath of fresh air. Hear, hear
Posted by: Elmeamble Glusomble1674 || 04/09/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||


#12  ^ Bill Gates won't be going to Space.

Says he's got a 'mission' on earth.
He must eradicate poverty, poop,
and popups.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/09/2022 10:51 Comments || Top||

#13  Say... this should've been on Page 3! I was in a hurry to beat 3dc.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/09/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#14  If I have to ally with the devil to do that I would.

Soros is the devil.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/09/2022 12:38 Comments || Top||

#15  Unfortunately Dron, Vlad is one of the globalists you despise. If you don’t understand that, you’re not as astute as you think you are.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 04/09/2022 17:09 Comments || Top||

#16  Vlad is one of the globalists

No, he is most definitely not a liberal imperialist or other type of western globalist. He is similar to Xi or Modi, a proud nationalist who rejects the West's pretensions to "universal" values. He puts Russia first just as Modi puts India first.
Posted by: Unump Panda5428 || 04/09/2022 17:45 Comments || Top||

#17  a proud nationalist who rejects the West's pretensions to "universal" values

In other words, a normal leader of a normal nation. Imagine how much more peaceful and stable the world would be now, if we'd only had "proud nationalists" who put America first in charge of the US since 1992...
Posted by: Elmeamble Glusomble1674 || 04/09/2022 17:51 Comments || Top||


Tanis: Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim
[BBC] ...But it's not just their exquisite condition that's turning heads - it's what these ancient specimens are purported to represent.

The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.

The impact site has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula. That's some 3,000km away from Tanis, but such was the energy imparted in the event, its devastation was felt far and wide.

The North Dakota fossil site is a chaotic jumble.

The day 66 million years ago
Regrettably, their Zoomers were completely destroyed, so no exact date available.
when the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.



The remains of animals and plants seem to have been rolled together into a sediment dump by waves of river water set in train by unimaginable earth tremors. Aquatic organisms are mixed in with the land-based creatures.

The sturgeon and paddlefish in this fossil tangle are key. They have small particles stuck in their gills. These are the spherules of molten rock kicked out from the impact that then fell back across the planet. The fish would have breathed in the particles as they entered the river.

The spherules have been linked chemically and by radiometric dating to the Mexican impact location, and in two of the particles recovered from preserved tree resin there are also tiny inclusions that imply an extra-terrestrial origin...
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#1 
But did other Science tell us that DINO was already on the way out. To the tune of something like 250,000+ years BEFORE the big rock hit?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/09/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||


Astronauts will grow artificial STEAK from beef cells on the ISS in a bid to produce 'tender and juicy' meat for humans to enjoy on future trips to the moon and Mars
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

NASA seeks Media Headlines.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/09/2022 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm going to class "artificial steak" with "virtual $ex" as something I can't imagine ever feeling a need to try.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/09/2022 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  If it costs roughly $9,850.00 per lbs. to put things in orbit. Imagine what a lbs. of this meat well end upcosting?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/09/2022 15:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Apollo managed to make the trip in leaky bathtubs and Spam.

I do like the optimism fights to the moon are so routine soft people will need a porterhouse to make the trip, instead of The Moon being a large battlefield for drones.

But this is NASA, so Media Headlines kiss kiss Bill Gates.

In the prophecy film Demolition Man the artificial sex was easily taunted. Much more subtle, since film doesn't do tasting (yet) was the artificial meat at Taco Bell being taunted with the rat burger tasting so good.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/09/2022 15:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Hope, for their sake,
they successfully grow steaks 🥩
Otherwise, they may face,
death by misadventure.
A-1 comment, was this not?
Posted by: Sletle Angoluper4388 || 04/09/2022 17:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Imagine what a lbs. of this meat well end upcosting?

I would think it’d be much cheaper to transport a few cultures to be grown up there than to transport mass quantities of actual food. And once the cell cultures are started, it’d just be a matter of cutting off the end before cooking and throwing it back into the matrix to grow more.

Kind of like adding ornamental sweet potatoes to the planters for their beautiful vines, only to discover that there are vegetables to harvest under the soil at the end of the summer.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2022 19:59 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
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