[PJ] The weather is warming in The Windy City, and that means there will finally be relief from the ravages of winter. Citizens, locked inside during the days of bitter cold and icy winds, have flung open their windows to let the spring air circulate throughout their stuffy apartments.
The kids are playing ball in the city’s parks, although far fewer today than half a century ago. The basketball courts are full, as are the soccer fields.
Families are once again walking along the lakeshore, and lovers are walking the Magnificent Mile shopping for their weddings.
And Chicago’s gangsters have come out of hibernation to wreak havoc on the innocents.
Every Metro / City should have a site like this One. It shows citizens how the Politician's stupid Gun Controls, only disarm Honest citizens. Because Thugs/criminal/Gangs never obey such laws.
Shocking footage shows the moment nearly two-dozen children are flung out of their seats when a street-racing Mustang rams into the side of a school bus
Seven children were hospitalized after the Albuquerque crash on February 23 - two had serious leg injuries, and one needed surgery for a pelvis fracture
The driver, 49-year-old Mario Perez, was driving at 110 mph, police said
He fractured his femur, and was charged with two counts of reckless driving causing great bodily harm - he was seen in court in a wheelchair and leg braces
Only eight states have laws requiring seatbelts on buses, and only one actually required children to wear them
BTW: The Media interviewed the drivers wife. "...Perez and his wife live near the intersection of Gibson Boulevard and Messina Drive where the crash happened. His wife told KOB 4 that she didn't believe he was at fault, and that she 'heard the bus was at fault.'"
So she thinks doing 110mph on a city street at mid-day is ok????
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The guy was racing in a residential area at 110 MPH and the wife thinks it's not his fault? That the bus was 'in the way' or something? Then she should be careful her face doesn't get 'in the way' of some parent's raging fist.
Also the bus must be built like a freaking tank to take that kind of hit and not fold up. Good design.
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About as good as that gets, including the professionalism to extract street racer before tending to all the children, uprighting and towing the bus, sweeping the street, repainting the curbs, grabbing a sandwich, reading some Walden Pond....
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I almost commented on this last night but I didn't want to get sinktrapped. I have very strong emotions when people hurt kids. I really think the laws need to go back to where if you killed a child, you rode the lightning. you kidnap a child you ride the lightning, you sexual abuse a child you ride the lightning. And the lightning needs to take 20 minutes to do the job.
[NYPOST] A Florida ex-convict accused of fatally shooting his wife in front of her young daughter and other children has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the horrific slaying at a Jewish community center pool.
Carl Watts Jr., 45, entered the plea Monday to a charge of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon for the slaying of 30-year-old Shandell Harris, the Miami Herald reported.
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Only 2nd degree Murder??????
BTW: he may have also killed 2 other baby-mama's in the past...
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Some women do, Frank. Ditto for men falling for girls with crazy eyes. The rest of us are only in the news when we are born, marry, die, and win the Nobel Prize for something worthwhile...
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What's the problem? He was only finalising the Divorce! Seems to be the traditional method for him.
And you don't need to do anything worthwhile to get the Nobel Peace Prize. In fact doing something worthwhile seems to be a detriment. Take Obama getting it for nothing and Trump not getting it even after the Abraham Accords providing much of the sought after 'Peace in the Middle East'.
[NYPOST] A Florida mom was caught speeding at 91 mph Tuesday — with her toddlers unrestrained in the car, cops said.
Carolyn Poitier, 25, from Leesburg was booked into the Volusia County Jail on charges of child neglect and possession of a controlled substance. She was released fewer than 12 hours later after posting bonds totaling $5,000.
According to a statement from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, Poitier was pulled over by deputies around 12:30 a.m. for doing 91 mph in a 50 mph zone on International Speedway Boulevard in DeLand.
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Amazon leadership held a session for employees dealing with the “trauma” of Matt Walsh’s book becoming a best seller and dealing with his trolling. They strategize on how to demote it on their site and claim he will get people killed. @MattWalshBlog broke them. pic.twitter.com/AKH8ihO0iV
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Herds of people literally voluntarily ceding acceptance of reality and turning it into a weapon for all the rest of us to use against them is ironic and weird, but there it is.
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[Rudaw] A bill criminalizing child marriage in the United Kingdom will be presented to the British parliament for its third and last hearing on Tuesday afternoon, a move aimed to safeguard young boys and girls.
A renewed legislative bid aimed at raising the minimum age for marriage in England and Wales to 18 and criminalizing the organization of underage unions is set for its third and final hearing in the House of the Lords, Payzee Mahmod, campaigner and a survivor of child marriage told Rudaw English early Tuesday.
The third hearing is aimed at "tidying up" the amendments in the bill and unless there are any changes, it will then be sent for royal assent.
In both countries, the law allows 16 and 17-year-olds to get married with their parental consent, leaving children vulnerable to coercion by family members to enter into a marriage against their will.
The UK outlawed forced marriages in 2014, a step still seen as insufficient to protect teenagers and children as it requires victims to testify against the perpetrators, often their parents or religious leaders who solemnize the unions. In 2020, 753 cases of forced marriages were reported across the UK.
A sister of a victim of the so-called honor killing, Payzee has been working towards banning child marriage in the UK and Europe, launching a campaign that gained over 250,000 signatures and widespread public approval. The final hearing comes almost six months after MP Pauline Latham brought the bill before the parliament.
Rudaw English reached out to Latham but she was not immediately available.
If passed, the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill would make it an offense to carry out "any conduct for the purpose of causing a child to enter into a marriage before the child’s eighteenth birthday," with a prison sentence of maximum seven years.
The British-Kurdish woman dedicates the step, which could be a milestone in children's lives, to her sister Banaz, who was killed by her own family for leaving an abusive forced marriage. Her murder drew international attention and handed her brother, uncle, and third killer lengthy sentences, according to AFP.
Kurdish women and girls have made up the most high-profile cases of forced-marriage-related violence in the UK and across wider Europe, an act that remains common in the homeland as well.
Child marriage is associated with a series of abuses, including domestic violence, sexual and honor-based violence, and rape.
In 2018, officials recorded 147 legal marriages of teens under 18 in England and Wales, involving 28 boys and 119 girls, AFP said in earlier this month. There were 183 in the year before.
The U.S. has been providing real-time intelligence to Ukrainian forces since Russia invaded the country in February, former and current U.S. officials said
The intelligence partnership allowed Ukraine to shoot down a Russian transport plane carrying hundreds of soldiers in February headed to Kyiv airport
The U.S. officials said the Ukraine is being feed the locations of where Russians are based, as well as where Russia is planning to bomb
The CIA is also instructed Ukrainian forces on how to keep its leaders safe
Since the war began, Russia has lost a total of 873 tanks, 2,238 armored vehicles, 179 planes, 154 helicopters and 408 artillery systems
The U.S. has removed limits on what information it can provide the Ukraine and approved an $800 million package for additional anti-aircraft weapons and aid
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...And reflect on this for a moment: if these are the results you get with our intel and Ukranian gear, imagine our intel, our C3, and our gear.
Think 'War Of The Worlds', but we have immunity to the damned bugs.
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That is what makes the US forces so deadly against conventional forces. All of our stuff, land sea and air, are connected and have a real time view of everyone's targets and locations. One grunt can target an armored group and his company/battalion along with the JSTAR and jet flying Air-to-Mud see it in real time. After the missile/bomb is launched, it can be commanded to go after another target nearby if the situation changes and the grunt can provide that.
Basically you have the fog of war god mode cheat turned on.
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And, JSTARS itself is being replaced by a more distributed system of systems that will be more flexible, robust and responsive.
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Gen Keane was just interviewed on Varney. He mentioned the arty being sent to the Ukies. Also mention "radar" which I assume are counter-battery systems. This could be a significant game changer.
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^Probably doesn't for the most part. At least not with this sort of work. No reason a transgender person couldn't competently operate a drone from a base outside of Las Vegas. Or monitor software.
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Always thought DoD should shadow a game like Modern Battlefield. Players sign up thinking they're doing the latest PS/Xbox/PC game sim but is actually tied into all that distributed stuff to allow them to fly the drones to targets. Is it real or is it Memorex a sim?
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From your favorite bull shit news favorite British tabloid Daisy News ……..According to Ukrainian military, one of the Il-76 transporters was shot down by Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 fighter jet. However, this claim has not been independently verified. The second transporter again it’s not being confirmed on the ground do to military actions.
Sound like British fake news for the idiot population of America and Britain.
#Ukraine: A Russian T-72B3 tank was destroyed by the the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of Ukraine in the East. As claimed, it was hit with a NLAW in top-attack mode, which penetrated the armor and caused an internal fire - shortly after the ammo onboard detonated. pic.twitter.com/X4oIuZJ1Ma
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⚡️Germany approves delivery of anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine in major policy shift.
German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht announced that its government will grant permission to German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann to send the “Gepard” tanks to Ukraine.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 26, 2022
#UPDATE Germany will authorise the delivery of tanks to Ukraine, govt. source tells AFP, in what would be a clear switch in Berlin's policy on military backing for Kyiv.
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IIUC, and please correct, this is a radar assisted AA flak system which was/is supposed to be really neat vs. Frogfoot (Frogfeet?) and Hinds, obviously their lesser cousins, and anything flying low. A West Block/NATO piece of equipment.
Radar Theory and Tactics, Different Languages, Maintenance, all would take time to train up potential Ukraine crews....or is a crew something provided in the package deal?
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^ Well. You can decide it it's a good technique for you, and use it when you will. What you don't get to decide is how people (I left out other, cause the word "people" does not apply to you) react to it or what the longer term ramifications of you being a jackleg are.
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Ahh, I get it! It's a big table. Somehow, I naturally assumed this was miniature Vlad and Tony in a doll house.
I can understand them wanting a big table. It's embarrassing when your parts rub up against the guy sitting across from you.
⚡️Zelensky: ‘No one has the right to turn nuclear energy into weapons or to blackmail the world with nuclear weapons.’
President Zelensky made the comments in reference to Russia's occupation of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and attacks against the Zaporizhzha power plant.
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'No right'. King Canute was wiser to say that had no power over the tides
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Umm … then why did you state that Ukraine was planning to acquire nuclear weapons in February (days before the invasion)? Speculation at that time was reference to a dirty bomb.
[Pravda] The Armed Forces of Ukraine terminated an ammunition depot and a large number of aggressors’ military personnel in Kherson region. Ukrainian fighters took three "very talkative" Russian soldiers prisoner in one of the clashes.
Source: Head of Kryvyi Rih Military Administration, Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Oleksandr Vilkul in Telegram
Quote: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine terminated an ammunition depot and a large number of enemy military personnel near Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson oblast - over 70 people. Orcs [Russian troops -ed.] have suffered losses in other locations."
"In one of the clashes, three Russian soldiers were taken prisoner, who turned out to be very attentive and very talkative. We have obtained additional information about the enemy."
Details: According to Oleksandr Vilkul, the situation in Kryvyi Rih and the Kryvyi Rih region is stable and under control of Ukrainian Armed Forces and Military Administration.
The situation remains tense at the front line, 50 km away from Kryvyi Rih in the Kherson region. However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting successful operations.
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[Korrespondent] 22:55 The invaders warn entrepreneurs in the occupied territories that from May 1 they will pay taxes to the Russian budget, Arestovich said.
22:47 Following Poland, Gazprom stops gas supplies to Bulgaria: the Russian monopolist informed the Bulgarian gas distribution company Bulgargaz about the cessation of supplies from April 27, the Bulgarian Energy Ministry said.
22:24 Nikolaev does not expect a new offensive of the Russian troops, but the Ukrainian army is preparing for a counteroffensive to liberate Kherson, said the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim.
Earlier today, the mayor of Nikolaev, Alexander Senkevich, said that the city authorities were preparing for an attack or siege, equipping defensive structures.
22:07 At the Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, a strategic meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Advisory Group was held with the participation of more than 40 countries. Everything that is known about her is in the material Military Support Summit .
22:02 Zelensky on the occasion of the anniversary of the Chernobyl accident: "After everything that the Russian military did in the Chernobyl zone and at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, no one in the world can feel safe knowing how many nuclear facilities, nuclear weapons and related technologies they have Russian state. If Russia has forgotten what Chernobyl is, it means that global control over Russian nuclear facilities and nuclear technologies is required."
22:00 Germany will train Ukrainian soldiers to handle the provided weapons on its territory, German Ambassador to the United States Emily Haber said. According to her, the country will not only provide the Ukrainian army with tanks, but will also receive fighters on its land who will learn how to handle them.
21:52 The Netherlands will stop issuing visas to Russian citizens from April 27. Before that, Russia expelled 15 Dutch diplomats. The Dutch Foreign Ministry said that they stopped issuing visas because "there are too few diplomats left to manage the consular department at full capacity."
21:43 Russian troops have not yet thrown all their forces into the "big offensive" in the Donbass, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, now they are trying to make a small breakthrough and gain a foothold somewhere, and then throw all their strength in order to develop success.
21:38 Bellingcat investigative journalist Hristo Grozev believes that Moscow's goal is most likely to undermine the situation in Moldova and make it an unacceptable country for NATO and the EU. The Kremlin's other long-term strategies in the region are not yet clear, if they exist at all, he said.
The analyst also admitted that Russia could theoretically use a group of Russian troops located in Tiraspol to attack Odessa, but only if Moscow has a "sensible strategy" for waging war in the future for six months.
"If the thesis that Russia cannot win the war, at least morally, is already accepted, then perhaps there is a desire to involve NATO in this war so that not only Ukraine, but also the global enemy - NATO, the West" will lose, - said Grozev.
The expert also did not rule out that, perhaps, a prelude to the Third World War will unfold before our eyes: it is difficult to imagine a situation in which Romania, a member of NATO, would ignore Russia's attempt to attack Moldova and would not defend it.
21:35 Zelensky today met with Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Chuka in Kiev. "We appreciate Romania's defense support, humanitarian assistance and a clear position on the sanctions policy," the president said.
21:32 Yermak named the cost of Ukraine's losses from the Russian invasion. The analysis was carried out within the framework of the KSE Institute project with the support of the Office of the President and a number of relevant ministries:
total losses of the Ukrainian economy (direct and indirect) - from 564 to 600 billion dollars;
the total amount of direct documented damage to infrastructure - $ 88 billion (data based on public sources);
direct losses to the Ukrainian economy due to destruction and damage to civilian and military infrastructure increased by $3.1 billion over the past week;
destroyed or seized at least 23 thousand kilometers of roads, 32 thousand square meters of housing stock;
damaged or destroyed: 535 kindergartens, 866 institutions of secondary and higher education, 231 medical institutions, 173 factories and enterprises, at least 75 administrative buildings, 277 bridges and bridges, 11 military airfields, one airport.
21:27 VAKS lifted the arrest from $5.95 million, with which they tried to bribe the leadership of NABU and SAP - it was the largest bribe in the history of Ukraine. The money was given to the military. The command of the Special Operations Forces reported that they had already received funds to the accounts of their military units.
For this money, two years ago, the leaders of NABU and SAPO, Sytnik and Kholodnitsky, were supposed to close criminal proceedings against ex-Minister of Ecology Zlochevsky and his gas company. Two intermediaries with bags of cash were detained by Bureau detectives.
21:26 Putin said at a meeting with the UN Secretary General that Russia will not sign security guarantees for Ukraine without resolving the issue of Crimea, Sevastopol and the so-called "DNR" and "LNR".
21:24 By striking the bridge across the Dniester estuary in Zatoka, Russia tried to cut off part of the Odessa region and create tension against the backdrop of events in the unrecognized Transnistria, said the head of the Odessa OVA Maxim Marchenko.
21:07 The office of the UN Secretary General said that Putin agreed to involve the UN and the ICRC in the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal.
20:59 British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said that the agreements on Ukraine's security guarantees "should take into account the security issues of Europe as a whole."
20:51 In Kiev, near the Arch of Friendship of Peoples, a statue erected in 1982 "to commemorate the reunification of Ukraine with Russia" was dismantled. Klitschko said that he would submit a proposal to the Kyiv City Council to rename the arch to Freedom of the Ukrainian people.
20:42 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are beginning to switch to NATO weapons, which until recently was out of the question, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said.
He also said that Zelensky was able to convince Biden that it was time to do this: "And first howitzers went to us. But this is just the beginning, much more will come to us. This is a historic moment."
20:35 Washington is ready to accept a possible peace agreement between Kiev and Moscow, as a result of which Ukraine will become a neutral country, Blinken said. He also added that if Ukraine concludes an agreement with the Russian Federation on renunciation of NATO membership to end the war, "the United States will respect him."
20:32 Putin said that the situation in Mariupol is "simple": "There are no hostilities, they are over. Almost 1,300 people have surrendered. They are in absolutely normal conditions ... The Azovstal plant is completely isolated, there are no hostilities there" .
20:22 The Russian army has nothing to do with the events in Bucha, and Moscow knows "who is behind this provocation," Putin told the UN Secretary General. He also claims that the Russian Federation launched a "special operation" in accordance with the UN Charter. Guterres, in turn, noted that there was an invasion of Ukraine.
20:18 The bridge across the Dniester estuary, which was damaged as a result of a Russian missile strike, is open for reverse travel, Suspilne reports.
20:15 Polish PGNIG reported that it had received a notification from Gazprom about the complete suspension of gas supplies from April 27. Earlier, Polish media reported that Russian gas had stopped flowing into the country.
20:13 Guterres told Putin that it was necessary to resolve the issue of evacuating people from Azovstal, and noted his readiness to assess the situation with Russia and Ukraine in 2-3 days. Putin, in turn, replied that it was the Ukrainian military who should release the civilians. He also assured that the Russian side "is in contact with those who sit on Azovstal."
20:09 Putin said at a meeting with Guterres that Russia hopes to reach agreements with Ukraine on the diplomatic track. He also noted that at the talks in Istanbul, they initially managed to achieve a serious breakthrough, but later Kyiv's position changed - "they moved away from their previous intentions, put aside the issues of security guarantees, Crimea and Sevastopol."
19:42 Arestovich connects missile strikes in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky region with a possible Russian offensive in Bessarabia. According to him, Ukraine is in touch with Moldova on this issue.
19:38 Ukraine in the future may again try to enter NATO, said Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. He stressed that NATO will not abandon the open door policy.
19:36 The UN General Assembly will now check every fact of the use of the right of veto by a country member of the UN Security Council. The General Assembly adopted the corresponding resolution on April 26. The draft resolution, informally referred to as the "veto initiative", was developed by Liechtenstein with the participation of dozens of co-sponsors, including the US and the UK.
Now the procedure for vetoing decisions of the Security Council will be changed. This right has five countries that are its permanent members - the United States, Great Britain, France, China and Russia. From now on, when one of them uses these powers, there will be no automatic blocking of the decision of the Security Council. To impose a veto, it will be necessary to convene a meeting of the General Assembly, where all UN members will be able to express their opinion on this matter.
The adoption of the resolution was due to the fact that Russia over the past few years, at least since the beginning of hostilities in the Donbass, has regularly abused the privilege of vetoing. Unlike the resolutions of the General Assembly, the decisions of the UN Security Council are binding.
19:32 Russian troops in the unrecognized Transnistria are on full combat readiness, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. The power structures there have been transferred to an enhanced mode of service.
19:29 Since the beginning of 2022, five cases have already been recorded when people closely associated with the Russian gas business suddenly pass away. More about this in the article Gas suicides .
19:25 The separatist "PMR" has its own army, the KGB, the police, which can be mobilized for the war against Ukraine. More about what is happening there - in the material "PMR" is drawn into the war .
19:19 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the Ukraine Defense Advisory Group will meet every month to coordinate assistance to Kiev.
18:47 The Cabinet of Ministers sent an additional 400 million hryvnia to restore the country's critical infrastructure. Of these, 250 million are intended for the Kharkiv region, another 150 million - for the Chernihiv region to resume water supply. In total, the government has already allocated UAH 1.4 billion for the restoration of five regions.
18:45 In Volnovakha, the director of the school was declared suspected because of the lessons on the educational program of the Russian Federation, the prosecutor's office of the Donetsk region reported.
18:43 The level of radiation in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is "normal". The AFP agency has corrected its previous report, in which the radiation level was called "anomalous" with reference to the head of the IAEA.
18:41 Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand, speaking at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, said that her country would send an "undefined number" of 155-mm M777 howitzers to Ukraine. She added that Canada would also send thousands of rifles, hand grenades and rocket launchers.
18:37 For the first time since the start of a full-scale war, the United States is returning diplomats to Ukraine. They have arrived in Lvov and will evaluate the possibility of opening an embassy in Kyiv, Blinken said.
18:32 The Russians are trying to attract cadets from Libya and combatants in Syria and Chechnya to the war with Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reports. In particular, students of the Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy (St. Petersburg), who are undergoing training in Libya, may soon replenish the composition of the occupying army. The command of the academy is taking measures to return students to the territory of the Russian Federation and involve them in military operations against Ukraine.
Also, the Russians are going to reduce the composition of their group in Syria. In recent days, organizational and staff changes have been carried out there - 200 posts have been reduced in the Aleppo tactical group. Upon their return, the reduced servicemen will immediately be sent to the combat areas.
Also, the Russian Federation is trying to conduct a mobilization campaign in the Krasnodar Territory, Perm Territory, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kalmykia. Among other things, the information is confirmed that the participants in the hostilities in Ukraine are additionally "motivated" by the opportunity to improve their financial situation at the expense of trophies.
18:25 Russia is preparing a missile attack on the "PMR" with casualties among the civilian population. As reported by Ukrainian intelligence, residents of the unrecognized Transnistria receive SMS allegedly on behalf of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the special services of Ukraine with a warning about a "rocket and artillery" strike on the territory of the "MRT" and a call to evacuate the civilian population. The shelling is supposed to start "exactly at 19:00".
The Ministry of Defense emphasizes that the state of Ukraine has nothing to do with this and similar provocations. And such fakes and incidents that are supposed to take place on the territory of the PMR" are nothing more than another provocation by the Russian special services against Ukraine and Moldova.
18:19 German Economy Minister Robert Gabeck said that the country's complete independence from Russian oil is a matter of a few days. According to him, the share of Russian oil in the German market is only about 12%, and it accounts only for supplies to the PCK refinery in Schwedt an der Oder. "Here we are looking for an alternative. This alternative is the task of the next few days," the minister said.
18:15 The Russian Ministry of Defense accused London of "provoking Kiev" to strike at objects on the territory of Russia and threatens with an "immediate proportional response": "The Russian Armed Forces are in round-the-clock readiness to deliver retaliatory strikes with high-precision weapons at the relevant decision-making centers in Kiev. Western advisers based in Ukrainian decision-making centers will not necessarily be a problem for Russia's response."
18:07 Kiev is not ready to break economic ties with Minsk in the near future, Arestovich said: "Belarus provides essential, critically necessary resources for us, the same diesel fuel, electricity, etc. We are not ready to break these ties yet."
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office assured that economic ties with Minsk would be maintained, among other things, by pursuing a "cautious policy" towards Belarus by Zelensky's team: "Any careless step in the Belarusian direction throws Lukashenka into the arms of Russia."
It is this policy of Ukraine towards Belarus that has become the reason why the meeting between the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svyatlana Tikhanovskaya and the Ukrainian president has not yet taken place, Arestovich noted.
17:33 The UN is asking donors to allocate $2.25 billion to support the country's 8.7 million most vulnerable Ukrainians, half of whom are women. The figure is twice the amount that the UN asked for at the beginning of the war, March 1.
17:09 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that the level of radiation in the Chernobyl zone "abnormally" increased after Russian troops seized this territory.
17:07 Over the past day from Mariupol to the village. Nameless, 474 people, including 69 children, were deported to the filtration camp, Andryushchenko said.
16:51 Lavrov called Ukraine's proposal to hold talks in Mariupol "a theatrical gesture."
16:29 Moldovan President Maia Sandu said that Chisinau is not planning a blockade of Transnistria, but stands for peaceful dialogue and diplomatic solutions. Moldova also increases the level of readiness and strengthens the security of public institutions. No talks with Putin are planned, she added.
16:27 The "president" of Transnistria said that "traces of terrorist attacks lead to Ukraine", and allegedly "Ukrainian combat groups" carried them out.
16:23 Podolyak: "Russia is trying to destabilize the situation in the PMR and is hinting to Moldova to wait for the" guests ". Bad news: if Ukraine does not resist, tomorrow the enemy will be at the gates of Chisinau. The good news is that Ukraine will provide strategic security in region. However, we must work as a team."
16:21 In the captured city council of Kherson, the invaders and collaborators held a meeting at which they introduced the so-called "chairmen" of the Kherson Regional State Administration Volodymyr Saldo and the Kherson city administration Oleksandr Kobets.
Saldo was the mayor of Kherson from 2002 to 2012, a people's deputy from the Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation. Since the beginning of a full-scale war, he supported the Russian occupation of Kherson.
16:19 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council names three reasons for Russia's provocations in Pridnestrovie:
Russia's provocations in Transnistria were carried out by the FSB of the Russian Federation in order to open an additional front in the Odessa region. This situation will force the Armed Forces of Ukraine to pull forces in this direction, weakening them in the Nikolaev region. Transnistria will follow the Belarusian scenario - support for Russia without entering the active phase of the war.
Justifying their actions in Ukraine. Having blamed the Armed Forces of Ukraine for shelling in Tiraspol, Russia, saving its own people, justifies the invasion of Ukraine and the deaths of thousands of its soldiers.
A diversion of attention from Mariupol, where regular mass graves were found in the pictures. Thus, Russia is covering up the traces of its war crimes and the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
16:03 China is not interested in World War III, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said: "We hope that all parties remain calm and restrained, do not allow the situation to escalate, achieve peace as soon as possible and do not force Europe and the world to pay a heavy price."
16:00 Explosions in Transnistria are connected with the opposing forces within the region, said Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
15:59 The IMF has created a special administrative account through which Ukraine will receive $5 billion monthly, Shmyhal said.
15:57 Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that more than 16 thousand Ukrainians are considered missing.
15:56 Guterres proposed the creation of a UN-Russia-Ukraine contact group to address humanitarian issues in Ukraine.
15:54 An evacuation medical train has started running in Ukraine. It consists of several wagons, including an intensive care wagon, the Ministry of Health said.
15:51 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, residents of Ukraine and non-residents have withdrawn 3 billion euros worth of foreign exchange funds and valuables from the country, Vadim Melnyk, director of the Economic Security Bureau, said during an online meeting with representatives of the customs authorities of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova.
"From February 24 to this day, citizens of Ukraine and foreigners are transporting cash, precious accessories and bank metals in especially large amounts across our state border. They often act by prior agreement with unidentified persons, according to an agreed criminal plan, without the appropriate customs declaration," he added.
15:48 Arestovich said that Ukraine will launch a counteroffensive as soon as it receives weapons from the West. So far, this is impossible, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have a large amount of heavy equipment: "We do not have heavy weapons. We need them. The West will provide them to us, and we will launch a counteroffensive. There will be no delays."
15:46 Lavrov doubts the achievement of a positive result of peace talks with Ukraine. He stated this after a meeting with UN Secretary General António Guterres. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that Russia is in favor of a negotiated solution to the situation in Ukraine, but the behavior of the Ukrainian side "depresses" him.
15:39 Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that at the moment he sees no reason for the war in Ukraine to escalate into a nuclear one: "I agree with Mr. Lavrov that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should not be started. There are no reasons in order for the current conflict in Ukraine to reach this level.As I said earlier, we are monitoring the situation very closely.We do not see anything that would force us to change the readiness of our strategic nuclear deterrence forces, our readiness to defend our country and our allies."
15:37 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that "Russia would like to avoid a scenario in which Moscow would have to intervene in the conflict in Transnistria."
15:36 A source in the "leadership" of Transnistria told the Russian media that yesterday's shelling of the "MGB" building was carried out by "unidentified persons who arrived from the territory of Ukraine, other terrorist attacks are connected with this."
The source also said that "Ukraine seeks to draw Moldova and Transnistria into the conflict, this is evidenced by the shelling and terrorist attacks."
15:28 Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said that there is no social and political unity in the country regarding the supply of weapons to Ukraine. And before this unity appears, he called on citizens to help Ukraine financially. The prime minister announced that he had already donated his salary to Ukraine.
15:24 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation states that on April 25, the Ukrainian military allegedly fired more than 50 mortar rounds at the Troebortnoye checkpoint in the Bryansk region, as a result of which a power line pylon was damaged.
15:20 Erdogan, following a telephone conversation with Putin, repeated his proposal to organize a meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul. Erdogan told Putin that "maintaining the positive momentum achieved in the talks between the delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine is in the interests of all parties."
15:11 The UN predicts that 8.3 million people will leave Ukraine because of the war. As of April 25, about 5.2 million people have already left the country.
15:09 The bridge from Zatoka towards Belgorod-Dnestrovsky is closed. According to OK Pivden, a missile attack was carried out on the bridge: "There is a damage to the bridge of the Dniester Estuary. The circumstances and information about the wounded are being clarified. For security reasons, traffic on the bridge is blocked. We ask drivers to choose alternative routes in advance."
15:07 As early as this week, the EU may adopt the sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, which includes an oil embargo. Experts estimate the effect of this decision differently. More about this in the article The EU oil embargo will hit the Russian Federation more than the gas embargo .
15:04 The invaders are plundering the archival and cultural funds of the Mariupol museums right now. They report about the intention to take everything to Donetsk, and then, after evaluation, "send the most valuable exhibits to the exposition in Russia," Andryushchenko said.
14:46 Podolyak about "the capture of Mariupol" by Russia: "After two months of fighting in the Russian Federation, they say that they took Mariupol. With the amendment:" except for Azovstal ". But here's the thing, guys: Azovstal is 1/5 of Mariupol. Or 22 The Vatican, or three Central Parks NY. They took the city? Yeah. Fake country, fake victories. And real Ukrainian defenders. Made of steel."
14:22 In Mariupol, the invaders break into the surviving houses and draw the letters Z on the houses that they will use to resettle their military. As Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said, "searches and cleansings" are now taking place in the Primorsky district of the city, close to the exit to the village of Melekino.
Rashists rob houses that are unsuitable for resettlement, leave them open, and they are planned for further compact resettlement in the "conditional security" zone of Mariupol residents.
14:03 In the Donetsk region, as a result of shelling by Russian invaders, two people were killed, six more were injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, shelling continues along almost the entire front line.
14:01 At least three people were killed and seven were injured as a result of Russian shelling of Kharkov on April 26, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
13:59 During the occupation of the Kiev region, the Russians abducted at least 200 civilians. They were used for "exchange funds," said the Human Rights Media Initiative.
According to the hostages who managed to return home, the prisoners were kept in the Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod and Rostov regions. They were beaten, some were tortured with electric shocks during interrogations. All the detainees were fingerprinted and had their blood tested. They were forced to sign documents with their eyes closed.
13:35 The evacuation corridor from Azovstal promised by the invaders for Ukrainian defenders and civilians turned out to be another trap - the Russians not only did not stop shelling the plant, but also fired at the conditional exit corridor, said Mariupol Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
According to him, the occupants from the armored car to the big loudspeakers offer to surrender and leave within 10-15 minutes. After that, they make a short pause and begin shelling from artillery on a residential area within the boundaries of a conditional exit from Azovstal.
13:07 Germany will officially approve the supply of Gepard anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine, Bundestag deputy Johannes Vogel from the Free Democratic Party said. Thus, he confirmed the message of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, writes Reuters.
Scholz, who has faced criticism at home and abroad for his government's failure to provide Ukraine with heavy weapons, has pledged anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons from German military stockpiles, which he called "defensive weapons."
13:05 The Azov Regiment reports that Azovstal continues to be covered with enemy fire. Last night alone, 35 airstrikes were carried out, during which one of the workshops caught fire. Civilians, who are now under the rubble, suffered. Servicemen of the Azov Regiment provide them with first aid and make every effort to free civilians from the rubble.
13:02 The State Border Service announced temporary restrictions in the Sumy region: in the Akhtyrsky, Sumy, Konotop and Shostka regions, civilians are prohibited from wearing military uniforms during martial law.
In addition, within these border areas, it is prohibited to move people and vehicles, stay in forests and forest belts, work outside settlements from 21:00 to 07:00, make any flights of aircraft, conduct various kinds of leisure activities, hunting, fishing .
13:00 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that in the Rubizhne area, where fighting continues, Russian invaders are forcing women to scout the whereabouts of the Ukrainian military, threatening to shoot their children.
12:59 The Russian military in Mariupol do not give food to men until they are involved in the work, among which is the removal of rubble, the arrangement of mass graves, etc., said Mariupol Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
12:36 In the unrecognized Transnistria, they also announced explosions in a military unit near the village of Parkany - the city is located 35 km from the Ukrainian border.
Also, local "authorities" reported that checkpoints would be set up in the cities of the "PMR" - they would selectively inspect those entering the cities during the day, as well as everyone who would enter at night. The power structures have been transferred to an enhanced mode of service, the parade on May 9 has been cancelled.
12:20 A red level of terrorist danger has been introduced in the "PMR", it provides for the adoption of "additional measures to ensure security," said the "leader" of the unrecognized republic.
12:15 Poland imposed sanctions against Russian companies Gazprom, NOVATEK and a subsidiary of Novatek Green Energy Sp. z oo, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said.
12:13 The "authorities" of the unrecognized "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic" will soon make decisions in defense of the interests of the "PMR", the Joint Control Commission for managing the peacekeeping operation said: "We cannot ignore what is happening near the security zone . In the near future, the leadership will make decisions to protect the interests of Pridnestrovie."
12:10 Moldovan President Maia Sandu convenes a meeting of the Security Council due to the tense situation in the occupied Transnistria.
12:04 In Chechnya, prisoners are sent to war with Ukraine, including relatives of oppositionists.
Really? Fascinating.
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Chechen branch of the FSB collects information about prisoners in local prisons for their further dispatch to the combat zone. Correspondence of FSB officials contains a request to provide the personal data of convicts.
According to Chechen oppositionists, such actions have two goals: to replenish the "human resource" of the units that suffered significant losses in battles with Ukrainian defenders, and also to suppress any protest moods in Chechnya, where the practice of condemning oppositionists' relatives is widespread. Now they are threatened with forced dispatch to the hottest points of the front. In particular, the brother of the well-known Chechen opposition leader Khasan Khalitov has already been taken to one of the units on the front line. Other relatives of Khalitov were abducted, their whereabouts are unknown.
11:43 Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko explained why Russia began shelling the railway: "If at first they were shooting at oil depots, trying to destroy the fuel supply chain, and they failed to do it, now they have changed their strategy and are shooting at the railway infrastructure, believing that this will allow them to stop the movement of goods, and in both directions, both to the center and to the east, where food, manufactured goods and everything that is needed for the army go, and from east to west.
Denisenko stressed that such actions of the Russian Federation only slow down the work of the railway, but do not stop exports.
11:27 The city authorities of Nikolaev prepare for an attack or a siege of the city , equip defensive constructions, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported. According to him, Russia is transferring weapons and resources through the Crimea, accumulating them in the Kherson region.
11:10 The EU intends to reduce dependence on Russian oil and gas by two-thirds by the end of this year and completely abandon them by 2027, said Energy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni.
11:06 Russian publics write that in Pridnestrovie, in addition to shelling towers, a military airfield located near Tiraspol was also attacked. RosSMI claims that supposedly "NATO-style" mines were dropped from 60-mm drones.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses report that queues have formed at the exit from Transnistria.
11:03 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov spoke about the danger from Russia to Moldova and Kazakhstan: "Lavrov said that the Moldovans are their brothers. Moreover, the Kazakhs are brothers. Therefore, they need to prepare, this could be the beginning of such a" brotherhood "on the territory Moldova".
Danilov noted that Moscow's statements about its intention to go to Transnistria can be regarded as the beginning of an intensification of the offensive in southern Ukraine. Currently, about 1.5 thousand Russian military personnel are stationed on the territory of the unrecognized "MRT".
10:54 British Minister of the Armed Forces James Hippie said that Ukraine "is completely legitimate" to attack objects in Russia: "The fact is that Ukraine was a sovereign country that lived peacefully within its borders, and then another country decided to violate these borders and bring 130,000 troops into their country. This started a war between Ukraine and Russia, and in a war, Ukraine has to strike deep into the enemy to attack his logistics lines, fuel supplies, ammunition depots, and this is part of the war."
He stressed that "it is perfectly legal for Ukraine to aim deep into Russia in order to disrupt logistics, which, if not disrupted, would directly contribute to the deaths and massacres on Ukrainian soil," The Guardian quoted the minister as saying.
10:50 Zaporizhzhya District Police Department clarified information about the morning explosions: two Russian guided missiles hit the territory of one of the enterprises of the city, the third missile exploded in the air. Infrastructure facilities of the enterprise were damaged and destroyed. According to preliminary information, it is known about one dead and one wounded.
10:44 Pushilin said that after reaching the borders of the Donetsk region, it is necessary to start "the next stage of the operation, taking into account what is happening in Transnistria and shelling of the regions of the Russian Federation bordering Ukraine."
10:43 In the central regions of the Russian Federation, they are lured into contract service with promises of high salaries, social benefits and the possibility of robbery and looting with impunity. According to the military intelligence of Ukraine, only in the Central Military District of the Russian Federation for the period January-April 2022, 2861 contracts for military service were concluded. At the same time, the majority of Russians, despite the high probability of death in Ukraine, are encouraged to military service by their parents and relatives.
10:33 Russian Foreign Ministry threatens Warsaw with "asymmetric measures" in response to the seizure of Russian diplomatic property in Poland.
10:31 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 26:
personnel - about 22,100 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 918 (+34),
armored combat vehicles - 2308 (+50),
artillery systems - 416 (+5),
MLRS - 149 (+0),
air defense systems - 69 (+0),
aircraft - 184 (+3),
helicopters - 154 (+0),
automotive equipment - 1643 (+77),
ships/boats - 8 (+0),
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 205 (+4),
special equipment - 31 (+3),
OTRK/TRK launchers - 4 (+0).
10:24 In the Donetsk region, the police documented 18 Russian attacks per day, four civilians were killed, two of them are children of nine and 14 years old. 11 people were injured. Over the past day, the Russians shelled 16 settlements.
10:20 Sky News reports that black smoke was noticed over Azovstal this morning:
10:09 This morning, two enemy cruise missiles flew at low altitude over the site of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in the direction of Zaporozhye. Subsequently, explosions from missiles were recorded in Zaporozhye. Energoatom announces the growing threat of nuclear terrorism from Russia.
09:46 The Russians have stepped up shelling in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions, the Operational Command Pivden reports. The Ukrainian units managed to repel two enemy attacks in the Kherson region with the destruction of a tank and an infantry fighting vehicle, the rest of the forces retreated to their previous positions under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
09:42 "Ministry of Internal Affairs" of the unrecognized Transnistria reported two explosions in the village of Mayak, Grigoriopol region. As a result, the two most powerful antennas of the radio center were disabled.
09:33 The US State Department approved the sale of ammunition to Ukraine in the amount of $165 million, writes AP. Legislators can still block the deal, but are unlikely to do so due to the strong support of Ukraine, the newspaper notes. The sale is made at the request of the Ukrainian government and includes ammunition for mortars, automatic grenade launchers and howitzers.
09:26 24th OMBR them. King Danila announced that she had liquidated a group of mercenaries of the Russian PMC Liga near Popasnaya - the former Wagner.
“Mercenaries armed to the teeth, in the most modern equipment, behind whose backs operations in Syria and other hot spots, found their inglorious death on Ukrainian soil,” commented Serhiy Gaidai, head of the Luhansk OVA.
09:17 In Kherson, local residents tomorrow are going to go to a peaceful rally against the "referendum" that the occupiers intend to hold.
09:00 At least 217 children have already died at the hands of the Russian occupiers, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
08:44 In Germany, the defense ministers of 40 countries today will discuss the provision of military assistance to Ukraine. According to General Mark Milley, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, the main task of the negotiations is the synchronization and coordination of military assistance to Kyiv. The meeting should take place on the territory of the Ramstein airbase.
08:33 In the Luhansk region, the Russians fired at the civilian population 17 times over the past day, fighting continues in Popasna and Rubizhne. According to the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai, Popasnaya, Lisichansk, and the Mountain Community suffered the most.
08:31 British intelligence reports that Russian troops are trying to surround well-fortified Ukrainian positions in the east. The city of Kremennaya has fallen, and heavy fighting is underway south of Izyum, where Russian troops are trying to push into the cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk from the north and east. Also, Ukrainian forces are preparing Zaporozhye for a possible Russian attack from the south.
08:14 This morning, the invaders shelled Zaporozhye, the OVA reported. Details are being specified.
08:13 Foreign investors will be able to enter the Ukrainian financial market under a simplified procedure and buy Ukrainian securities, Yermak said. The NBU, in cooperation with the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, unified approaches to accounting for the rights to securities of residents and non-residents on aggregated accounts of depository institutions and made appropriate changes to regulatory documents.
08:10 European parts supplied by the Russian Federation by the EU countries in circumvention of the embargo of 2014 were found in Russian equipment knocked out in Ukraine, writes The Telegraph. 78% of illegal deliveries are made by German and French companies. The scandal will gain momentum and become another lever of US pressure on European allies, the newspaper notes.
07:38 In the Donetsk and Tauride directions, Russian troops are moving command posts closer to the line of combat collision and are shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from mortars, cannon artillery, multiple launch rocket systems along the entire line of collision, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
Near the village of Bolshaya Aleksandrovka, Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an ammunition depot and a large number of enemy personnel (more than 70 people were killed). Also, the units of the invaders suffered losses in personnel in the area of the settlements of Novodmitrovka and Belousovo.
07:17 Western intelligence agencies know where the hideout is where Putin is hiding. Avakov said in an interview with Natalya Vlashchenko that Putin does not dare to "press the button" precisely because he is afraid of a retaliatory strike on his hideout.
07:02 The governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation announced new explosions and shelling of the village of Golovchino, allegedly from Ukraine. According to him, there is damage, there were no casualties.
06:33 In Kherson, 58 children have been hiding in the basement of a local church for more than a month. According to Lyudmila Denisova, we are talking about orphans and deprived of parental care.
04:55 The UK will reduce tariffs on all goods from Ukraine to zero as part of a free trade agreement with Ukraine, the British government has announced.
04:30 In Ukroboronprom, two spotters of fire on armored enterprises were found, among them the leading engineer of the concern, the company said.
01:37 Kuleba on Lavrov's statements: "Russia is losing its last hope of scaring the world away from supporting Ukraine. Hence the talk about the "real" danger of the Third World War. It only means that Moscow feels defeated in Ukraine. Therefore, the world must support us even more so that we won and defended European and global security."
00:33 Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze urged the Ukrainian authorities to return the ambassador and not demand the imposition of sanctions against Russia. According to him, the wording that Georgia does not join the sanctions is incorrect, since the country has joined "all critical sanctions" - the UN, the Council of Europe and others.
He also said that Georgia is doing its best "to show its support to the government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian society."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:41 Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Brazhkovka, Kolesnikovka, Komissarovka, Kozinka, Lozovaya and Lenina. 22:33 The Russian Federation transferred 502.2 tons of humanitarian aid to the population of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Kharkiv and Kherson regions during the day.
20:19 During the day, four Ukrainian weapons depots near Slavyansk and Druzhkovka were hit by high-precision missiles.
Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 33 military facilities of Ukraine, including 23 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the enemy, as a result of the strikes, up to 200 nationalists and more than 40 armored vehicles, artillery pieces and vehicles were destroyed.
During the day, missile forces and artillery carried out 100 fire missions, destroyed two Ukrainian MLRS in the Berezovka area and a Buk-M1.
18:46 Kyiv again marked the use of mines, which he swore to dispose of. RT correspondent @msgazdiev found them at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Markovka. Kyiv joined the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997 and in 2002 reported on their complete disposal. As always, this turned out to be a lie.
18:16 Nazi symbols, military documentation, NATO-style medicines and even a spent hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher discovered representatives of the National Guard on the territory of a former studio in one of the industrial zones of Berdyansk.
18:14 The Russian flag was raised on the building of the executive committee of the city administration of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region. Earlier, the Russian tricolor was raised above the commandant's office in Kamenka-Dneprovskaya in the same region.
17:16 The National Guard took control of more than 10 settlements and infrastructure in the Kharkiv region
17:12 The RF Armed Forces are on round-the-clock readiness to deliver retaliatory strikes with high-precision weapons at decision-making centers in Kyiv - Russian Defense Ministry.
15:41 Putin and Erdogan discussed the situation in Ukraine by phone. The main thing:
The politicians agreed to continue coordination on the exit of Turkish ships from ports to the Black Sea along the corridor organized by the Russian Federation.
Putin noted that there was no fighting in Mariupol and said that the Kyiv authorities, guided by humane considerations, should order the Ukrainian military to lay down their arms at Azovstal.
The head of the Russian Federation added that prisoners of war are guaranteed life and medical care.
15:30 The behavior of the Ukrainian side in negotiations with Russia is depressing, apparently, they are not particularly interested in negotiations, Lavrov said. Negotiations with Ukraine are unlikely to have a result if the Ukrainian side continues its line, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry believes.
14:51 The Russian flag is raised over Vasylivka in the Zaporozhye region.
14:44 In Kherson, the military-civilian administration stopped an attempt to assist the SBU in committing a terrorist act. The detained man said that the SBU officers promised him a monetary reward for provocative actions. The suspect also added that he was part of the territorial defense, where he received the weapon. Interesting fact. Over the past month that I have been in Kherson, the mood of citizens has turned around from the fears of "are you sure you won’t leave here?" to "how soon can we get Russian passports?"
14:29 In Odessa, a missile attack was carried out on the railway bridge in Zatoka. Smoke billows from the bridge.
13:47 Ukraine provokes the spread of the conflict to the territory of Transnistria - TASS source in government circles in Tiraspol.
13:42 There is information that the bridge in Zatoka, Odessa region, was damaged by a missile attack.
13:07 In Kyiv, they began to dismantle the monument under the arch of Friendship of Peoples. The monument symbolizes the reunification of Ukraine with Russia.
The monument represents the figures of two working workers - a Ukrainian and a Russian, raising a ribbon with the Order of Friendship of Peoples
13:05 On April 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 50 mortar rounds at a checkpoint in the Bryansk region - UK.
12:34 Russian Guard Special Forces discovered in the Kherson region, a cache with weapons of Ukrainian saboteurs. AK-74 assault rifles, three PKT machine guns, four anti-tank guided missiles, 40 grenades, more than 40,000 different cartridges and six optical instruments of various modifications were seized from the cache.
12:20 Vushniki more often trying to infiltrate the location of our troops in civilian clothes and in civilian vehicles. This is reported by prisoners and eyewitnesses of this, we ourselves have become more than once.
This gang of Terbatovites tried to get into Kapitolovka, the eastern suburb of Izyum. At the checkpoint they were stopped, they tried to open fire, but they were destroyed by the fighters of the National Guard.
Shortly before this, a four-man Ukrainian DRG was also discovered and destroyed by the National Guard in the forest near Kapitolovka.
11:38 Moldovan President Maia Sandu convened a meeting of the Supreme Security Council in connection with the incidents in Transnistria. The Supreme Security Council will meet at 13:00. After the meeting, at 15.00, Maia Sandu will hold a press briefing.
11:35 Subdivisions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took under the control of the base for the storage and repair of equipment left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:33 Permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the OPCW said that Ukraine has the potential to create chemical weapons, Kyiv can try to play a card with such provocations
11:28 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces on April 26, 2022
▪️During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 404 people killed, wounded and captured. The total losses in killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NGU and State Border Service are over 45 thousand people.
▪️According to the internal report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 12 tanks, 18 armored vehicles, 11 field artillery guns and mortars, 2 long-range and medium-range air defense systems, 21 vehicles and special vehicles and 3 UAVs were lost.
11:24 A center for helping families with small children under two years of age has been opened in Kakhovka.
11:23 The Ukrainian flag was removed from the Kherson City Council building. Waiting for tricolor.
10:34 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
- high-precision air-launched missiles hit 4 military facilities of Ukraine overnight, including 2 ammunition depots in the Kharkiv region;
- 87 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by aircraft, about 500 enemy personnel were destroyed;
- two Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles were shot down in the air over settlements in the Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions.
10:18 In Pridnestrovie, unknown people blew up two communication towers. Presumably, the strike was carried out from a drone.
09:37 Russian military in Kherson. City getting ready to celebrate Victory Day under the flag, which was recently banned by the Kyiv regime.
09:06 Ukraine has turned into a terrorist state, Zelensky should be responsible for planning assassination attempts on journalists in Russia - State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
08:15 Kadyrov announces a million dollar reward for information about the location of the battalion in Ukraine. Dudayev and Sheikh Mansour.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:33 Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 200 shells and mines from 122-mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122-mm cannon artillery and 120-mm mortars. 21:38 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 11 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: born in 1985, 1965, 1966, 1991, 1956, 1977, 1947;
- women: 1944, 1979 years of birth.
n.p. Staromlinovka:
- women: born in 2004, 1984.
21:11 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received that, as a result of the shelling of the VFU, the settlement. Makeevka killed a civilian whose personal data is being established. Two more civilians were also wounded - a man born in 1965. and a woman born in 1948
The injured were taken to health facilities.
In addition, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Pavlova, 109 - a private residential building;
- st. Glazunova, 22, 34 - private residential buildings;
- st. Karganova, 49 - private house.
20:51 Power supply has been restored to 13 more settlements in the liberated lands - Minugleenergo. Light was returned to the residents of Chermalyk, Orlovsky, Zarya, Privrazhny, Vodyanoye, Kirillovka, Kalchik, Pavpolopol, Kellerovka, Novokrasnovka, Nazarovka, Kalchinovka and partly Talakovka.
19:20 Something was shot down over Zhdanovka, raining downfragments.
18:18 Air defense of the RF Armed Forces destroyed aerial target in the sky over Zugres, DPR.
18:15 Senior Sergeant of the 501st Battalion of the Marine Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Cherednik Anton Vladimirovich tells how he shot a civilian resident of the Vostochny microdistrict in Mariupol: “I also asked this question - Palyanitsya ... It was quite common. In our unit and not in ours. "... He twitched, I fired a shot."
18:03 As a result of the shelling of Kalinovo in the LPR by Ukrainian militants, a civilian was killed.
17:06 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about another injured civilian born in 1950. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Makeevka at the address: st. Abrikosovaya, 131. Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Makeevka: - st. Abrikosovaya, 126, 128, 131, 132 - private residential buildings; - avenue of the 250th anniversary of Donbass, 78 - State Enterprise Trading House "Medicines of Donbass".
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - st. Pavlova, 107 - a private residential building.
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): - st. Kirova, 429 - MOU "School No. 77 in Donetsk".
17:02 As a result of the shelling of the highway between Makeevka and Yasinovataya by the VFU, one person was killed and another was injured, - the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR.
16:50 A rocket from the Uragan MLRS flew into a residential building in Makiivka from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Luckily it didn't detonate!! There were many people in the house.
16:35 In Lisichansk, the market on Stekolny is on fire. Also, according to the latest information, there were arrivals in the area of the 13th school for RTI (hitting the roof of the school).
16:18 During the day on April 26, from 08:00 to 16:00, 249 people, including 47 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky District. Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
16:14 The road between Makeevka and Yasinovataya is under fire from the VFU. According to preliminary data, there are victims.
15:57 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the village of the Abakumov mine of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Konstantinovskaya, 1 - apartment building;
- st. Dagestanskaya, 20, 22, 26, 30 - apartment buildings;
- st. Kirov, 441 - apartment building;
- st. Boychenko, 2, 4, 6 - apartment buildings;
- st. Upper, 3 - multi-apartment residential building, housing office.
15:56 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): 10 shells fired 122mm caliber.
15:37 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
15:29 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (village Zemlyanka): 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
15:27 First frames with the consequences of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. The Ukrainian side continues to strike at Donetsk. The Kirovsky district of the city came under fire, residential buildings on Dagestanskaya and Konstantinovskaya streets were damaged, and the Veteran store was also damaged. According to preliminary data, there were no dead or wounded. Readovka special correspondent Kirill Imashev shares footage of the aftermath of the shelling from the scene.
14:01 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded from the direction of the settlement. Kamyshevakh along the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of 122mm artillery guns (12 shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
13:51 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the death of a civilian born in 1963. as a result of the shelling of the VFU village. Dugouts n.p. Makeevka at the address: st. Abrikosovaya, 127. Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Makeevka: - st. Abrikosovaya, 127 - apartment building.
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - st. Glazunov, 32 - a private residential building.
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): - st. Konstantinovskaya, 2, 3, 4, 5 - apartment buildings; - st. Yugo-Vostochnaya, 18 - a private residential building; - st. Bashtanskaya, 5 - a private residential building.
13:22 Yesterday there was an attempt to negotiate between the National Battalion [at Azovstal] and our command. Ours immediately ceased fire, offered a place before surrender - the central checkpoint. The members of the National Battalion agreed at first, then they said that they were not satisfied: let’s give another checkpoint, but let’s not now, but tomorrow, but rather on Wednesday. Our people realized that they were being led by the nose. The plant was controlled by our drones and they saw how the Nazis were trying to drag a tank from shop to shop. After that, the negotiations immediately ended - Dmitry Steshin, military correspondent for Komsomol Pravda, is now near Azovstal.
13:18 Sappers of the international mine action center of the RF Armed Forces continue to clear mines from the liberated settlements of the LPR.
13:04 More than six tons of food were handed over by the National Guard to the residents of Ukraine as part of a large-scale humanitarian action in the Kharkiv region. The servicemen and employees of the Russian Guard, participating in a special military operation, provided another humanitarian aid to the civilian population of Ukraine. The National Guard on four trucks brought residents of the settlements of Izyum, Kunye and Veseleye of the Kharkiv region more than 500 food packages weighing more than six tons, as well as basic necessities.
13:00 At the moment, no one has been able to use the humanitarian corridor from Azovstal in Mariupol - DPR Foreign Minister.
12:30 Ukrainian nationalists fired on the village of Gorky in the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, damage was recorded on the street. Apricot. Fixed ten shells falling, there are wounded. Near the house, a woman's arm was torn off by a shrapnel.
Information on the number of victims is being specified.
11:25 The head of the Administration of the city of Yasinovataya, Dmitry Shevchenko, said that as a result of the shelling, the Yakovlevka settlement was de-energized. The shelling was carried out from rocket artillery. Emergency services began to eliminate the consequences of the shelling.
11:22 The Russian military shot down two Tochka-U missiles over the settlements of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region and Svatovo, Kharkiv region. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian missiles were shot down in the air by the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft system.
11:08 During searches at the OSCE headquarters in Mariupol, the archives of the organization since 2014 were found: war crimes of the Ukrainian side were documented, which did not reach official reports; in the garage of the OSCE building at Primorsky Boulevard 25 (47.07778405053987, 37.52516695990234) a warehouse of Italian-made mortar mines was found. The markings on the boxes indicate that they were packed for shipping by sea on March 11, 2022; the delivery was carried out from the NATO warehouse in Italy.
11:06 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction - n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:01 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Gorskoe along the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of artillery pieces 122mm (10 shells).
10:50 After reaching the borders of the Donetsk region, it is necessary to start the next stage of the operation, taking into account what is happening in Pridnestrovie and the shelling of the regions of the Russian Federation bordering Ukraine with Ukraine - the head of the DPR Pushilin.
10:36 A cluster shell fell next to a mass grave in the LPR. Unexploded ordnance was found on the grave of the Great Patriotic War in the village of Muratovo. A total of 135 soldiers of the Red Army are buried here. According to the deputy of the People's Council of the LPR, it is impossible to clear the projectile because of the dangerous situation. Cluster munitions explode in the air, releasing dozens of smaller bombs capable of hitting a huge area. Human rights organizations consider their use in populated areas a war crime.
10:27 We have repeatedly said that the Nazis occupy the homes of civilians. On the video proof of this. Avdievka area. The coordinates where the fascists were located were given to our guys by civilians.
10:17 OSCE transmitted data not only to Ukraine, but also to foreign intelligence services - Denis Pushilin on Soloviev Live
10:16 Nationalists in Mariupol are asking to be evacuated not to Ukraine, but abroad, for example, to Turkey - Denis Pushilin on Soloviev Live
10:04 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
09:51 According to updated information, this morning three more civilians of the Petrovsky district suffered from VFU shells. A woman born in 2000 received a mine-explosive injury and multiple shrapnel wounds to her face. Also, a man born in 1962 received a mine-explosive injury and a shrapnel wound to the chest, he was sent to the DOKTMO. Another man born in 1992 with a mine-explosive injury, a shrapnel wound and a contusion of the brain, he was hospitalized in the city hospital No. 24.
09:10 Russian servicemen delivered humanitarian aid to the Lugansk region.
09:04 Full restoration of water supply in Donetsk is possible after the establishment of control over Slavyansk - Denis Pushilin.
08:46 As a result of morning shelling by the Ukrainian troops of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk the woman was lost, the mayor of the city reported about it.
08:45 Two hospitals in Mariupol came under the jurisdiction of the DPR - the mayor of the city. We are talking about regional hospitals - intensive care and ambulance.
08:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
07:00 — n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six mines with a caliber of 120mm were fired.
08:01 Ukrainian militants opened fire on the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka. The occupying forces of Ukraine again attacked civilians in the Donetsk People's Republic. As a result of the shelling of a residential area from the MLRS, a civilian was killed, and residential housing construction was seriously damaged.
[NYPOST] Explosions rocked the small, Russian-aligned breakaway region of Moldova known as Transnistria Tuesday, raising concerns that a new front could open in the war in Ukraine.
Two explosions Tuesday morning took out a pair of powerful radio antennas along the Ukrainian border, Transnistrian police said. The incident follows reports of several explosions on Monday at the break-away region’s Ministry of State.
Transnistria, a Kremlin-friendly strip of land in eastern Moldova, sits along Ukraine’s southwestern border, and hosts some 1,500 Russian troops on a nominal peace-keeping mission.
The breakaway region is within 40 miles from Odessa.
Monday’s attack, in which the Ministry of State was reportedly hit by rocket-propelled grenades, took place during a public holiday for Orthodox Easter, when most workers would have been home.
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⚡️ General Staff says Russian troops in Transnistria on high alert.
In the Russian-occupied regions of Moldova, there are currently about 8,000 soldiers, including nearly 3,000 Russian troops, according to Vadym Denysenko, advisor to the interior minister.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 26, 2022
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Militaryland and Understandingwar
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- Russia has made about a half dozen 1km to 5km advances on the central part of the front. Ukraine claims that these advances were associated with considerable loss of men and equipment.
- Ukraine made small advances in the South in vicintiy of Kherson.
- In Mariupol Ukraine forces still holding out.
- More bombardment of west Ukraine by Russian missiles and of Russia military positions by Ukraine.
- Some increase in alert level, maybe in mobilization on the border part of Moldavia self identified at Transnistria occupied by Russia soldiers.
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[SCMP] Foreign exchanges seem to have concluded that there are not only good reasons to buy the US dollar but also specific reasons to sell the renminbi. The attractiveness of rising US Treasury yields accounts for much of the current allure of the US currency to investors.
The US Treasury market is rapidly pricing in the likelihood that the Federal Reserve moves hard and fast to raise benchmark interest rates in an attempt to rein in US consumer price inflation that has reached levels not seen since 1981.
The net effect of accommodative PBOC monetary policy and a hawkish Federal Reserve has been the compression of the nominal China-US benchmark 10-year bond yield differential that previously favoured yuan-denominated Chinese government bonds over US Treasuries. The absence of a yuan-supportive China-US yield differential removes a bulwark of support for the renminbi on foreign exchanges.
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I was assured that China's support of Russia knew no bounds.
[Fortune] When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted payments giants Visa and Mastercard to suspend services in the country, Moscow expected it could lean on the Chinese alternative, UnionPay, to plug the holes torn out of its domestic banking system. But that plan appears to have fallen flat, as UnionPay has reportedly decided not to expand its presence in the country, fearing it could become the next target of devastating sanctions.
UnionPay’s hesitance to enter the Russian market is the latest example of large Chinese companies growing wary of doing business in Russia, despite the fact that China has not officially joined Western leaders in piling sanctions on Russia.
China’s three major state-owned oil companies have reportedly been warned by Beijing to avoid making new investments in Russia, and last month, state-owned oil producer Sinopec suspended talks on a major joint venture in Russia with Sibur, the country’s largest petrochemical company.
Both the Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, two of China’s largest lending banks, have also stopped offering clients finance options for purchases of Russian commodities, reports Bloomberg.
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Visa and Mastercard cutting ties is very old news. Russia has made many changes ahead of this. The west has managed to shoot itself in the foot and will continue to do so. Russia and China will work together but Russia knows the ways of China. Latin America, Africa and the Arab world will continue to work well with Russia.
[NBC] As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike, prompting Ukraine to move air defenses and aircraft out of harm’s way, current and former U.S. officials told NBC News.
That near real-time intelligence-sharing also paved the way for Ukraine to shoot down a Russian transport plane carrying hundreds of troops in the early days of the war, the officials say, helping repel a Russian assault on a key airport near Kyiv.
It was part of what American officials call a massive and unprecedented intelligence-sharing operation with a non-NATO partner that they say has played a crucial role in Ukraine’s success to date against the larger and better-equipped Russian military.
The details about the air defenses and the transport plane, which have not previously been reported, underscore why, two months into the war, officials assess that intelligence from U.S. spy agencies and the Pentagon has been an important factor in helping Ukraine thwart Russia’s effort to seize most of the country.
[Dawn] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... has pledged to speed up development of his country’s nuclear arsenal while overseeing a huge military parade that displayed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), state media reported on Tuesday.
The parade took place on Monday night during celebrations for the 90th anniversary of North Korea’s armed forces, the state news agency KCNA said.
Pyongyang has recently stepped up weapons tests and displays of military power as denuclearisation talks with the United States have stalled and a new conservative administration takes power in South Korea.
"The nuclear forces of our Republic should be fully prepared to fulfil their responsible mission and put their unique deterrent in motion at any time," Kim told the gathering, according to KCNA. He said the fundamental mission of the North’s nuclear force was deterrence, but that its use "can never be confined to the single mission".
"If any forces try to violate the fundamental interests of our state, our nuclear forces will have to decisively accomplish an unexpected second mission," Kim said.
Dressed in a white emperor-style suit, a smiling Kim waved and shook hands with bigwigs when North Korea’s largest known ICBM, the Hwasong-17, appeared in the parade, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
footage showed.
The missile was unveiled in 2020 and first tested last month, but Seoul officials believe it went kaboom! in mid-air. The video featured what appeared to be hypersonic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles being carried on trucks and launch vehicles.
Kim saluted as a squad of people wearing orange hazardous material suits and gas masks, an apparent symbol of anti-coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... efforts.
In a memo sent last year, engineers for the site pointed out flaws in its data management system, saying they can't track where its 2.9billion users' data goes
The leak comes as the company has come under fire for collecting unwitting users' personal information for purposes including advertising targeting
The practice is currently automated, workers who wrote the memo revealed
The leak comes as the company continues to face scrutiny from privacy regulators over its handling of users' sensitive information
Staffers who penned the memo referred to the system as one with 'open borders' - one that doesn't allow for careful management regulators have called for
A Facebook spokesperson denied Tuesday that the document shows the company is not complying with mandated privacy regulations
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, has given the reason the microblogging app was sold to United States’ billionaire, Elon Musk.
Musk on Monday night reached an agreement to buy Twitter for approximately $44 billion.
The 50-year-old acquired the company at $54.20 a share, the same price named in his initial offer on April 14.
Giving reason for selling Twitter, Jack said Elon Musk is the only solution to achieving the purpose of Twitter being run for the public good.
According to him, he trusts Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive.”
His tweets read, “I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to global consciousness. The idea and service is all that matters to me, and I will do whatever it takes to protect both. Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step.
“In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving the problem of it being a company, however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.
“Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive” is the right one. This is also @paraga’s goal, and why I chose him.
“Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path…I believe it with all my heart.”
Jack assured that Twitter will continue to serve the public conversation.
[FoxBusiness] Trucking has proven to be a somewhat reliable bellwether for the US economy
A sharp, unexpected downturn in trucking demand since the beginning of March could be evidence of a looming economic recession, according to Bank of America strategists.
A Tuesday analyst note from Ken Hoexter, the managing director of Bank of America's trucking research, shows that shippers see rapidly softening demand for trucks, with a gauge tracking truckload demand falling for the fourth consecutive month to its lowest level since June 2020.
That is "near freight recession level," Hoexter wrote. On an annual basis, the gauge has plummeted about 23%.
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Here in Ga., we have our own Reverend turned Politician problem.
Reverend - Senator Warnock (LSD Senator) is running dozens of misleading ads a day on streaming channels. Saying he is going to stick it to the Freight companies for inflated charges.
I guess he isn't aware that it takes FUEL to deliver stuff. Thanks to his LSD party ANTI-FUEL policies, fuel prices are 200+% more than what they were 18 months ago.
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This is why a lot of retired and left-the-business drivers were reluctant to help out during the recent supply chain screams of "we need drivers".
They treat you like temps.
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[AMC] SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — As of 22 April, 2022, all restrictions on space-available (Space-A) travel have been lifted.
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense temporarily suspended most Space-A travel aboard Air Mobility Command and contracted aircraft, effective March 21, 2020 in order to limit COVID-19’s spread and impact on the force.
Medical screening protocols may still apply for travelers heading OCONUS. Members traveling to a foreign country will need to follow any testing requirements listed within the Electronic Foreign Clearance Guide at https://www.fcg.pentagon.mil/fcg.cfm.
This reopening permits Space-A travel for uniformed service members, retirees, dependents and reservists to travel within the continental United States and outside the continental United States, if space allows.
Per Department of Defense policy, if necessary, Space-A travel limitations can be reinstated to help stop the spread of any future outbreaks of COVID-19. Mobility aircrew readiness is paramount to ensuring the Department is postured to project mobility airpower and global reach.
For additional information on Space-Available Travel, visit Air Mobility Command’s Travel website online at https://www.amc.af.mil/Home/AMC-Travel-Site/
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] The weather is warming in The Windy City, and that means there will finally be relief from the ravages of winter. Citizens, locked inside during the days of bitter cold and icy winds, have flung open their windows to let the spring air circulate throughout their stuffy apartments.
[NYPOST] A Florida ex-convict accused of fatally shooting his wife in front of her young daughter and other children has 
[NYPOST] A Florida mom was caught speeding at 91 mph Tuesday — with her toddlers unrestrained in the car, cops said.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Twitter founder, 
