Kentucky-born Naomi Judd revealed she 'fell into a deep, dark absolutely terrifying hole' when she wasn't touring and 'considered suicide' before her death at the age of 76
Her death was announced by her daughters in a statement provided to The Associated Press
'Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,' the statement said
'We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory,' the statement continued.
And this is their third year doing this. The school administration has some questions to answer.
A Pennsylvania teacher hosted a drag show event for students as part of the GSA club. Parents were reportedly not notified. The district has confirmed this morning that the teacher is on leave. pic.twitter.com/NSjkJELl6e
'Apple Together,' a group of about 200 Apple employees, wrote an open letter on Friday condemning the company's choice to bring staffers back to its offices
CEO Tim Cook wrote in an email to staffers that they would need to work in the office one day a week, gradually ramping up to three days a week by mid-May
The group said that the shift back to in-person will make the company 'younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative [and] more able-bodied' But older workers are more likely to have work-appropriate attire and trustworthy vehicles, so arguably it will actually work the other way round.
They said it will lead to 'privileges' - like location, age, race and gender - 'deciding who can work for Apple, not who'd be the best fit'
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#1 P2K is exactly right. I did supervise a department in India for several years and was quite impressed with their work ethic and intelligence. AND they worked for less than 30% of the cost in the USA. So develop your skills, Apple workers. You have to be at least 3x as valuable as an Indian employee to justify your existence to the Finance staff.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Doing their bit to ensure their will be taxpayers paying down the national debt — their eldest is already in college.
Kimberly Alarcon, 37, gave birth to her fraternal twin daughters, Kenzy and Kenzley, via cesarean section at Westchester Medical Center on Monday
The odds of having three sets of spontaneous twins is about 1 in 200,000
Alacron had three individual children before she became pregnant with her first set of twins, and three years later, she had another set
In 2021, she learned she was expecting triplets, but she miscarried one of the babies early in her pregnancy and gave birth to her third set of twins
She and her husband, John, a detective, are also raising one of their nephews, and now have a total of 10 children following their latest arrivals
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] And thus begins the annual excitement of living in Tornado Alley. If swksvolFF would be so kind as to repeat his previously shared prep list, we’ll be good to go.
The storm system that passed through the Central Plains will continue moving east and bring strong winds, hail, and tornadoes, to over a dozen states
Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and heavy rain will hit parts of the Plains, Midwest and South well into the week
As the storms continue to move into the Midwest it could bring tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds and localized flash flooding
A massive tornado crashed down in Andover, Kansas, ripping through homes, and community centers as counties throughout the state issued warnings
Videos from residents and storm chasers show the tornado's devastation on the city, with vehicles being tossed at the local YMCA that lost part of its roof
Neighboring cities have dispatched emergency workers to assist Andover as police warn others to stay away
The tornado came just days after the 31st anniversary of the deadly Andover tornadoes that killed 21
[BREITBART] Elon Musk said Friday people on the far left have a deep dislike for others and themselves, but added he was not a fan of the far right.
"The far left hates everyone, themselves included!" he wrote in a Twitter post that morning.
He later appeared to clarify his comments, writing, "But I’m no fan of the far right either. Let’s have less hate and more love."
Followers made their opinions on the issue known in their replies.
"Less hate requires content moderation. It just does," one user claimed while another said, "There is no far right. Anyone who is even slightly right of center is far right for the left."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... leftist Twitter profiles were bleeding followers while conservative profiles gained them after the Tesla CEO’s successful bid to buy the social media giant, Breitbart News reported Wednesday:
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I don't know... you read gab posts for awhile and you will find that there is, indeed, a far right. It is small, and not as vocal as the far left, and they don't get catered to by the media and pols. But they are there.
Very long, and may play into why the Igbo (Biafra) region of the country is suddenly being hit with Muslim attacks in the very Nigerian war of all against all. Herewith the background section:
[TheGuardian] Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands have enthusiastically taken up the faith. Why?
Back in the 1970s, when Moshe Ben Avraham was growing up in Port Harcourt, in southern Nigeria, the town was small and fringed by bush villages, and there were no Jews in sight. Ben Avraham wasn’t yet Jewish himself; he wasn’t even "Ben Avraham", for that matter. His Anglican parents gave him the name Moses Walison — still his official name — and they raised him as a churchgoing boy. In this, they were no different from millions of others in their part of the country. One of the first demographic details anyone learns about Nigeria is that while people living up north are predominantly Moslem, those down south are just as overwhelmingly Christian. The minibuses sputtering up and down these southern highways bear slogans like "Jesus is Needful" on their back windows. On billboards, preachers hype their ministries; a prayer meeting is never just a prayer meeting — it is a "global mega powerquake" or a "harvest of miracles". Islam and Christianity have been in Nigeria for centuries, but Judaism has none of that conspicuous history or heritage. In his childhood, Ben Avraham knew nothing about Judaism, and he’d only encountered Israel as a biblical name: "Israel, Abraham, all those things," he recalled.
Then, in 1986, his father died, and a few years later, in the midst of a growing disaffection with his church, Ben Avraham fell ill: a cut on his tongue that set off a severe infection. At the time, he came across a Christian ministry called the White Garment Sabbath, and after one of its white-robed, barefooted priests healed him, he joined the group. In Nigeria, the White Garment Sabbath calls itself a church, and its prayer halls host icons of Christ on the cross. "But they told me that Saturday is the day of worship, the shabbat — not Sunday," Ben Avraham said. It was the first time he’d heard this, but when they offered him proof — careful readings of Genesis and Exodus — he wondered what else he’d been doing wrong. "On my own," he said, "I started to go deeper."
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Sometimes you have to say things in person and personally collect certain commitments when you are cutting the deal for 33,000,000,000 dollars of the American People's Money. It's important to remember Pelosi's early training.
(Pelosi was born in Baltimore to an Italian-American family. She was the only girl and the youngest of seven children of Annunciata M. "Nancy" D'Alesandro (née Lombardi)[9] and Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.[10] Her mother was born in Fornelli, Isernia, Molise, in South Italy, and came to the U.S. in 1912;[11] her father could trace his Italian ancestry to Genoa, Venice and Abruzzo.[10] When Nancy was born, her father was a Democratic congressman from Maryland (and he became Mayor of Baltimore seven years later).[10][12][13] Pelosi's mother was also active in politics, organizing Democratic women and teaching her daughter the value of social networking.[14] Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971.[15] H/T Wiki)
[NDTV] Mariupol: At least 20 civilians, including several children, were able to leave a badly battered steel plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday in what could be the start of a long-awaited, larger evacuation of the last holdout in the Russian-held city.
Ukrainian fighters of the Azov regiment, which has been defending the site, said the 20 civilians had left, possibly for the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, about 225 kilometers (140 miles) to the northwest.
Russia's Tass news agency carried a similar report, though putting the number of evacuees at 25.
A United Nations-planned evacuation had been in the works, though it was unclear whether Saturday's evacuation was UN-led and whether further evacuations were imminent. There were no immediate details on the condition of the evacuees.
But the fact that the evacuation took place at all was significant. Conditions in a vast network of tunnels under the Azovstal steel plant -- where hundreds of civilians are believed to still be sheltering, along with Ukrainian fighters -- are said to be brutal, and earlier efforts at evacuations had been futile.
The apparent ceasefire in Mariupol took place as Russian attacks continued unabated across Ukraine, most heavily in the fiercely disputed eastern regions, but with attacks as far west as Odessa, on the Black Sea coast.
Odessa's regional governor Maxim Marchenko said a Russian missile strike had destroyed the airport runway, as Russia continues targeting infrastructure and supply lines deep in the west of the country.
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[Korrespondent] 23:23 The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated nine enemy air targets in a day: two Su-25 attack aircraft and seven drones were destroyed.
23:21 Zelensky: "There is still a lot of work ahead. The occupiers are still on our land, still do not recognize the obvious failure of their so-called "operation". We still need to fight and send all our forces to expel the occupiers. And we will do it .Ukraine will be free."
23:08 Ukraine is switching to NATO weapons , Zaluzhny said following a conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley: "We discussed with my American colleague a promising model of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Obviously, we are forced to abandon Soviet weapons and equipment and switch to NATO samples. And the sooner we start this process, the sooner we will complete it."
23:03 Russian saboteurs can get into the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on stolen cars, masquerading as volunteers, warns the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, for such provocations, in particular, a bus with the inscription School , which disappeared the day before on the way to Popasnaya, can be used.
22:42 Russian military aircraft An-30 violated the airspace of Sweden and after a short period of time left it, Defense Minister Peter Gultkvist said. He called such actions "unacceptable" and said that Sweden "will respond through diplomacy."
22:40 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that 18,849 people, including 2,359 children, were "evacuated" to Russia from "dangerous regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Ukraine" in a day. In total, since the beginning of the "special operation", according to the Kremlin, 1,062,692 people have been "evacuated", including 192,688 children.
22:36 The leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said in an interview with the Voice of America that she had handed over to the United States evidence of the participation of the Lukashenka regime in the war against Ukraine. According to her, this is "massive evidence of missile launches from our territory, the movement of Russian equipment on the territory of Belarus." In addition, Tikhanovskaya handed over "a list of companies and countries that helped to circumvent sanctions."
22:24 Arestovich said that for the past four days "there is no movement of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine." According to him, troops are not being transferred to Izyum at all, but the wounded, broken equipment and the dead go back.
"A lot of people were killed. Attacks on the headquarters of the Airborne Forces, strikes on the headquarters of the 2nd Army Army - these are about 600 corpses according to the most optimistic forecasts for them. These are senior officers. They began to lose combat readiness, there are no supplies," the adviser to the head of the OP said.
22:12 In the Kherson region, the cellular communication of all Ukrainian operators has disappeared. The same applies to mobile Internet, reports Suspіlne. The company Vodafone told the publication that "it's definitely not a breakdown."
21:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declares that in Nikolaev "militants" conduct "punitive raids", checking residents "for signs of pro-Russian views they have." All suspects are allegedly "detained and subjected to torture, threatened with transfer to the SBU, as well as physical violence against relatives."
Moscow also claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the dam of the Nikolaevsky reservoir in the city of Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk region, "which they themselves plan to blow up," blaming Russian troops for this.
20:53 Kuleba, in an interview with Xinhua, said that Kiev offered Beijing to become one of the guarantors of Ukraine's security. According to him, this decision demonstrates our country's respect and trust in China. He also expressed hope that China would call Russia for a ceasefire.
20:50 The evacuation from the Popasnaya Luhansk region was suspended, the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai said: "Until there is complete information about yesterday's incident with the shelling of our evacuation transport by an enemy DRG, the evacuation from Popasnaya will be suspended."
20:37 From under the rubble at Azovstal, they managed to extract 20 civilians - mostly women and children - who were handed over for evacuation. As the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, captain Svyatoslav Palamar (Kalina), said, the rescue operation is currently ongoing, civilians are being pulled out from under the rubble with cables. According to the agreements, they should be taken to Zaporozhye.
According to Kalina, the silence regime, which was supposed to start at 06:00, began only at 11:00, but as of now, both sides adhere to it. The evacuation convoy, which was supposed to arrive at six in the morning, arrived only at 18:25. "As of 19:40, we transferred 20 civilians to the agreed place, who were released from the rubble," Palamar said.
He also stressed that for unknown reasons, the wounded who urgently need help are not being evacuated. Palamar urged to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
Earlier, information appeared in local public pages that buses with UN symbols were seen in Mariupol.
20:29 In Zaporozhye, where refugees from Donbass gather, the police began "filtration measures," said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council. According to him, law enforcement officers will go from apartment to apartment to check the IDPs. The police can "check documents, ask various questions, conduct a superficial check or inspection", as well as check the presence of temporarily displaced persons in the apartments.
20:25 Zelensky said that he talked with Johnson, discussed the situation at the front and in Mariupol, defense support for Ukraine and the necessary diplomatic steps to achieve peace.
20:01 Residents of the occupied village of Rozovka, Zaporozhye region, told Babel that the Russian invaders are recruiting people to clean up Mariupol. They promise to "pay" for this: 10,000 rubles for removing rubble, 30,000 for collecting corpses. When people clarified how they would pay, they were told that a dry ration equivalent to these thousands.
The locals are also given Phoenix (DPR) mobile communication cards. Houses closer to the highway are occupied by unknown people.
Earlier today it was reported that in Mariupol houses that local residents were forced to leave are occupied by unknown people.
19:58 Russian troops hit the strip of the Odessa airport from the Crimea, said the head of the OVA Maxim Marchenko. They fired from the Bastion missile system. No one was hurt by the missile strikes.
19:39 The British newspaper The Times published an article about the Ukrainian pilot Stepan Tarabalka, whom they called the "ghost of Kiev." However, the Air Force command stated that Tarabalka was not a "ghost" and did not shoot down 40 aircraft. Major Stepan Taralka died on March 13, 2022 in an air battle.
The Air Force emphasizes: "The ghost of Kyiv is a legendary superhero whose figure was created by the Ukrainians. It is rather a collective image of the pilots of the 40th tactical aviation brigade of the Air Force protecting the sky of the capital."
19:14 Employees of the port of Amsterdam refuse to unload a tanker with Russian diesel fuel, which port workers in Sweden had previously refused, reports the Dutch TV channel NOS.
19:11 Podolyak responded to Lavrov’s statement that, as part of the negotiations, Kiev and Moscow are discussing, among other things, the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation: “Russian Minister Lavrov has a strange habit of commenting on things in which he is not personally involved. So, at the negotiations sanctions are not discussed. Because the world imposed them for the occupation and violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The reasons have not been eliminated. Consequently, the sanctions will only increase. But the Russians forever inscribed "denazification and the Russian language" in world history with the blood of peaceful Ukrainians from Bucha, Gostomel, Kharkov, Mariupol and other cities. Now they are synonymous with Russian war crimes. It's time for them to face the truth."
19:05 In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is actively fighting along almost the entire line of collision. The main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on the Limansky, Severodonetsky, Popasnyansky and Kurakhovsky directions in order to take complete control of the settlements of Rubizhnoye, Popasnaya and, probably, a further offensive on Liman, Slavyansk and Barvenkovo, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
19:01 In the Kharkiv region, as a result of the offensive by units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, control over the settlements of Verkhnyaya Rohanka, Russian Lozovaya, Slobodskoye and Prilesnoye was resumed , the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
18:55 The occupiers are attempting an offensive in the directions of Izyum - Barvenkovo and Izyum - Slavyansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. The enemy continues to concentrate forces and means both in the occupied territories of the Kharkov region and in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation. Thus, the invaders moved several units to the area of the settlement Volokhov Yar and the city of Izyum. The enemy is also building up the air defense system, conducting aerial reconnaissance of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using drones.
In the Kharkov region, the occupiers forcibly take the population to the territory of Russia and spread disinformation about the seizures of Kharkov, Kyiv and Zaporozhye.
18:38 As a result of a rocket attack on the Odessa region, the runway of the Odessa airport was damaged, its further use is impossible , said the head of the press center of the Security and Defense Forces of the South, Natalya Gumenyuk.
18:00 Russia has concentrated about 20 Caliber missiles in the Black Sea, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.
17:57 Vereshchuk announced another exchange of prisoners: seven soldiers and seven civilians returned home. One of the soldiers is a woman in her fifth month of pregnancy.
17:55 The EU intends to propose a ban on Russian oil, which will come into force by the end of the year, and until then, restrictions will be introduced gradually, Bloomberg writes, citing officials.
17:51 The Russians killed the captured Azov fighter and sent a photo of his mother's body. The fighter recently appeared in a propaganda video in Russian publics - it showed five captured Ukrainian soldiers who allegedly voluntarily laid down their arms. The video emphasized that the preservation of the life of prisoners of war is guaranteed, as well as compliance with international laws for the treatment of prisoners of war.
17:48 Russian media write that 25 people left the territory of Azovstal.
17:43 The Financial Times writes about a new scheme by Russian oligarchs to circumvent sanctions - they offer to exchange their old British mansions or luxury London apartments for real estate in Dubai without bank transfers or financial verification of the transaction. Moreover, British objects are offered with tangible discounts.
Lawyers from the UAE do not believe too much in the success of such a scheme, since Britain is already quite meticulous about the execution of all documents, and with the start of the hunt for the assets of sanctioned Russians, its vigilance has only increased.
17:39 Podolyak on possible mobilization in the Russian Federation: "Many today are trying to comprehend the likelihood of mobilization in Russia from the point of view of military, economic and political logic. But you need to understand that the Russian state machine thinks in slightly different categories, namely, corruption logic. Mobilization in Russia is a national start-up, an opportunity to milk the last savings from the impoverished population. "Pay or die." The security forces are going to fund the conscripts, and the police leadership is already counting their percentage. The spiders in the bank are preparing to start eating each other."
17:17 In Mariupol, the invaders allowed movement between the Left Bank and other areas of the city on the right bank. Movement is open across the bridge to Mukhino. At the same time, checkpoints were set up to strengthen control, Andryushchenko said.
17:15 The governor of the Kursk region said that several mortar shells were fired at the Krupets checkpoint from the Ukrainian side. There are no casualties, injuries or damage.
17:13 The Azov Regiment showed a video of a Russian tank firing point-blank at a residential building in Mariupol. There were no Ukrainian soldiers in it; in the basement of this high-rise building, 16 civilians were hiding from Russian shells.
17:05 "There is hope" for the evacuation of civilians in Mariupol today , the city council said. And the mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko "not very officially" added that "there is a real restrained, but optimism that today it will finally be possible to start a large evacuation."
“Buses should be delivered to Port City by the Russian side, so you are aware that anything can happen. But. Ring all the bells and rails in order to be on time and not miss it. silence along the route? he wrote.
17:03 The representative of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said that Russian troops are gradually increasing the intensity of the offensive in eastern Ukraine simultaneously in all directions. The greatest activity is observed on Slobozhansky and Donetsk. There are signs that the aggressor is preparing for an even greater intensification of hostilities.
17:00 On the eve of the anniversary of the May 2 events in Odessa, law enforcement officers are cleaning up the city from enemy DRGs, the National Police reported. The Russian special services were going to arrange mass riots, protests and riots in the region, using controlled representatives of the underworld. During the searches, weapons, communist paraphernalia, advertising brochures with communist and other prohibited symbols, as well as grenades, cartridges, mobile phones and equipment were found on the suspects.
16:41 Putin signed a decree on the payment of 10 thousand rubles to veterans of the Great Patriotic War who live in the "DPR", "LPR" and "in the liberated territories of Ukraine."
16:39 Zelensky reported on his telephone conversation with Macron and thanked him for his help: "We talked about defense cooperation, interaction on Ukraine's path to EU membership. We are grateful for the humanitarian assistance, the readiness to treat our soldiers. We appreciate the decision to continue the work of the French mission of investigation crimes of the Russian Federation.
16:36 Georgian Foreign Minister Ilya Darchiashvili said that Arestovich's comments to the Georgian government harm relations between the two countries. Earlier, Arestovich said that the Georgian leadership is behaving "somehow strange," but the Georgian people will appreciate the position and statements of the authorities on Ukraine in the upcoming elections.
16:30 The Pechersky District Court of Kiev, on the proposal of the State Bureau of Investigation, seized 51 Belarusian tank cars that crossed the border in Chernihiv region on the eve of the Russian invasion.
After the invasion of the Russians, tank cars actually provided the logistics for the troops advancing in the direction of Chernihiv-Sumy. The tanks were filled with 3,000 tons of Belarusian and Russian diesel fuel. The products were allegedly intended for oil companies within Medvedchuk's sphere of influence.
16:26 Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, is preparing to switch to paying pensions and salaries in Russian rubles, said "acting mayor" Alexander Saulenko. In addition, the "police" began to work in the city, law enforcement officers, together with the National Guard, patrol the streets.
16:25 Angelina Jolie was spotted in one of the cafes in Lviv. She did not announce her visit to Ukraine.
Could it have been someone else who looked somewhat like her?
16:23 Invaders in Melitopol confiscated ATB stores because the company is helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine and flatly refused to cooperate with the invaders, Anton Gerashchenko reports.
16:18 The press center of the JFO denied the information about the undermining of the bridge between Liman and Raygorodok in the Donbass by the Special Operations Forces. In fact, the bridge was destroyed as a result of a Russian air raid. It did indeed have empty boxcars on it to block the passage.
16:11 Macron, in a telephone conversation with Zelensky, promised to increase assistance to Ukraine, French television reported.
15:57 German Economics Minister Christian Lindner said that his country will not pay for gas in rubles: "Turning to Putin, I say very clearly: we will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed. We will continue to pay for Russian gas in rubles. Clearly one thing: we are doing everything possible to become independent from Russia as soon as possible."
15:32 The delegation of the Riga City Hall today handed over 11 modern passenger buses to Kiev as assistance, as well as humanitarian aid, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
15:30 The defense of Ukraine will go down in military history, said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: "Ukrainian hospitals were bombed. Their citizens were executed. Their children were injured. And yet, despite all this, they did an excellent job of protecting their sovereignty. The valor and skill of Ukraine will go down in military history."
15:27 The Russians got a Ukrainian military uniform somewhere and can use it for provocations, warned the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai: "We have 100% confirmed information that they found several containers with the clothes of our military. How will they use it , we cannot say what provocations they are ready to go to. What we just have not seen in the Luhansk region during the Russian aggression."
15:24 The Australian Olympic Committee will support Ukrainian athletes who want to get a visa to live and train in Australia, said AOC President John Coates.
15:22 The Ukrainian military for the first time told the details of the battle for the airport in Gostomel , which took place on the first day of the Russian invasion. The defenders arrived at the airport early and took up positions. According to their information, an Il-76 transport aircraft with troops was supposed to arrive. The task of the Ukrainian military was to prevent it from landing, or, in the event of its landing, to inflict maximum damage on the enemy. However, instead of the plane, many helicopters flew in, which came as a surprise.
15:20 The White House administration intends to lure leading Russian scientists to the United States , for which they plan to simplify visa requirements for the migration of valuable specialists, writes Bloomberg.
15:13 Russia is running out of stocks of high-precision weapons, writes the Financial Times, citing a source in Western government agencies: "We see that they have to move Caliber missiles from other strategic directions where they can be stored. This indicates that their stocks of precision-guided weapons are being reduced.
Russia's difficulty in resupplying guided weapons was due both to the quality of their industrial base and to Western sanctions that "limit their ability to build up capabilities at a time when they need to have an effect on the battlefield," the source said.
3:08 pm Guterres said lobbyists in the oil, gas and coal industries are "cynically using the war in Ukraine to try to lock in a high-carbon future."
"The transition to renewable energy is critical to restoring the disrupted global energy balance and brings hope to the millions of people who are affected by climate change today." - wrote the UN Secretary General.
15:03 In Chernihiv, a monument to Pushkin was dismantled, meanwhile, in Nova Kakhovka, the occupiers are erecting a monument to Lenin.
15:01 NATO expects further provocations in Transnistria and believes that their goal is to create problems for Ukraine, while there is no military threat to Moldova itself yet, Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoane said in an interview with the Romanian Digi24.
14:55 The FSB in Crimea is driving the Crimean Tatars to the congress in order to create the appearance of their support for the war against Ukraine, said the people's deputy and the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov.
Meanwhile, the Russian media are already writing that the Crimean Tatars are allegedly "ready to participate in the Russian special operation in Ukraine as volunteers."
14:47 A subsidiary of the Russian NOVATEK said that 500 of their railway cars in Poland, filled with liquefied petroleum gas, could explode. The cars were stopped as part of the sanctions.
14:40 On the night of April 30, the Russians fired on residential areas, a hospital and an industrial zone of the Nemyshlyansky district of Kharkov, the State Emergency Service reported. As a result of an enemy attack, the apartments of two residential nine-story buildings were on fire. A man was injured in one of the rooms. The building of one of the medical facilities in Kharkov was damaged.
14:26 On the territory of the Buchansky district, the police found a pit with the bodies of three men who were tortured by Russian soldiers and then brutally killed.
14:18 The head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said that the Ukrainian military were able to get to the place where two evacuation buses disappeared near Popasna. One bus was shot, there are traces of blood in it, but there are no people there. The other bus disappeared, there is no communication with the driver either.
14:06 Podolyak says that the Russian side rejects all proposals to rescue people from Mariupol, because it is "symbolic" for the enemy to destroy the city and the Azov regiment protecting it.
13:59 Mayor of Vilnius Remigius Shimashius called on residents of the city and businesses to collect window glass and double-glazed windows for the needs of Ukraine, since many houses were left with broken windows after the shelling. The Lithuanian capital will provide delivery on its own.
13:48 The chief operator of the Mariupol television, Alexander Ratushny, filmed a ten-minute documentary film MARIUPOL 2022. During the blockade of the city, he lived with his family in the shelter of the Mariupol Lyceum, where he made a film about the people who also took refuge there.
13:10 Mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko: "In two years, the Nazis killed 10 thousand civilians in Mariupol. And the Russian invaders killed more than 20 thousand Mariupol residents in two months. More than 40 thousand people were forcibly taken out. This is one of the worst genocides of the civilian population in modern history. The Russian army purposefully and ruthlessly destroys our city and its inhabitants. "
12:07 Ukraine received Mistral anti-aircraft missile systems from Norway, Minister of Defense Bjorn Aril Gramm said.
11:45 Russia tried to exchange Ukrainian civilians for Russian prisoners of war, which is prohibited by the Geneva Convention, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk told the BBC. According to her, the Russian side initially planned to use the Ukrainians forcibly taken out for further exchange. However, Ukraine refused and demanded that Russia return the abducted civilians.
"We know that there are more than a thousand hostages, including almost 500 women. We know that they are in prisons and detention centers in Kursk, Bryansk, Ryazan, Rostov," she said.
In addition, according to Vereshchuk, Russia does not want to give up captured Ukrainian women. Now Kyiv refuses to conduct an exchange without women on the list. She also said that nine civilians were returned to Ukraine with severe injuries, including those with amputated limbs in Russia, and obvious signs of torture are visible.
11:36 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar asks not to write about the liberated villages or cities until this information is published by the Ministry of Defense or the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She emphasizes that there have already been several cases when, after such disclosure, the enemy attacked these settlements ahead of time, which led to losses on the Ukrainian side.
11:28 During the two months of a full-scale war, law enforcement agencies received more than seven thousand statements about the disappearance of people, said Deputy Interior Minister Mary Hakobyan. About half of them were subsequently found. The status of unidentified received about two thousand bodies of the dead, of which 1282 were subsequently identified. Also, as part of criminal proceedings, 927 DNA examinations have been scheduled for today.
11:20 Medical examinations for "conscripts" have been canceled in ORDLO. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russians have practically exhausted the resource for forced mobilization in the "LDNR", therefore, since April 20, medical examinations of mobilized personnel have been suspended there. The official explanation: "due to the lack of specialists." Potential "conscripts" can no longer obtain documents confirming any health problems.
At the same time, those who have obvious health problems (injury, disability, severe acute illnesses) or managed to obtain the necessary documents earlier are still mobilized, but assigned to logistics units.
The only alternative to forced mobilization is a bribe at established rates (depending on age, specialty and state of health). In particular, in Gorlovka, the amount of a bribe for the purpose of evading service is from 5,000 rubles if paid directly at the place of detention, and upon delivery to the district departments of the "MVD" - from 75 thousand rubles.
10:36 China is in no hurry to buy Russian oil because of Western sanctions against the Russian Federation, even despite the big discounts, writes Oilprice. China's lack of interest in Russian oil is also affected by the costly transportation of Russian cargo due to sanctions, problems with payments and insurance of tankers, as well as long-term contracts between Chinese refiners and oil exporters from the Middle East. In addition, the risks are increasing due to the increasing readiness of the EU for an oil embargo and the likelihood of secondary sanctions.
10:15 Discussions have begun in the EU on banning the import of nuclear fuel from Russia for nuclear power plants in the bloc countries and projects involving a subsidiary of Rosatom, Politico writes, citing information from five European diplomats.
10:12 In the Donbas, military operations are in a stalemate, Janno Märk, head of the planning department of the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Union, said in an interview with the Estonian edition of ERR. According to him, the most critical situation is now in the Kharkov and Izyum directions - there the Russian army is conducting active operations in order to break through the defense. If they succeed, they will be able to surround the Ukrainian grouping of troops in the Donbass. Those troops that are located on the front line in 2014 can be taken into the boiler, and this will significantly help Russia take control of the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
"To a certain extent, a positional war is already going on there today. It can also be said that a stalemate has formed there today, where neither side in this conflict can achieve a significant advantage. It is difficult to say what will happen next, both sides are now developing new tactics," - said the expert.
10:07 The White House is working on a balanced approach to the G20 summit, to which Putin was invited. According to press secretary of the US presidential administration Jen Psaki, advisers are now actively discussing what the format of the country's participation in the November meeting in Indonesia will be. Washington insists that Russia should be excluded from the G20, but China objects to this. Thus, the US does not see an option to completely ignore the Indonesian summit, since then it will be dominated by China and Russia.
10:04 Odessa received new air defense systems, said the representative of the regional military administration, Sergei Bratchuk.
10:03 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 30:
personnel - about 23,200 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1008 (+22),
armored fighting vehicles - 2445 (+27),
artillery systems - 436 (+1),
MLRS - 151 (+0),
air defense systems - 77 (+4),
aircraft - 190 (+1),
helicopters - 155 (+0),
automotive equipment - 1701 (+6),
ships/boats - 8 (+0),
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 232 (+4),
special equipment - 32 (+1),
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4 (+0).
09:55 In the Kharkiv region in the Izyum direction, the National Guardsmen, together with the artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attacked the location of the Russian troops, destroying more than 30 pieces of equipment of the Russian army, of which more than half were tanks, as well as armored personnel carriers, BMDs and MTLBs.
According to the National Guard, a group of NSU special forces, conducting reconnaissance in one of the Izyum directions, discovered a lot of equipment, a command post and a place of residence for enemy personnel. The intelligence data was promptly received by the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who worked on Russian positions with artillery, and the guardsmen made adjustments to the fire.
09:33 German Finance Minister Christian Lindner proposes to stop funding the bureau of former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder because of his position in support of Russia, reports Funke. The minister called for a general review of the rules for granting offices and employees to former chancellors and federal presidents.
09:08 The Russians shot down two evacuation buses in Popasna, Lugansk region, communication with the drivers was lost, Nikolai Khanatov, head of the Popasnyansk city VGA, said: “Yesterday we evacuated 31 people from Popasna. There were much more people who wanted to, so we sent two more buses to the city. that they reached the settlement and came under fire from the enemy DRG. The buses were shot. There is no contact with the people who were in the vehicle and organized the evacuation."
09:07 The positions of Moldova and Transnistria have drawn closer against the backdrop of tensions related to the situation in Ukraine, said Nikolay Tsvyatkov, deputy director of the Moldovan Reintegration Bureau.
09:00 British intelligence notes that despite the fact that Russia is trying to overcome the shortcomings of its army, it turns out that it is not very successful. The Russian Federation hopes to correct the problems that previously held back its invasion by geographically focusing combat power, shrinking supply lines and simplifying command and control.
But the Russian army still faces significant challenges. She was forced to unite and redeploy exhausted and scattered units in unsuccessful offensives in northeastern Ukraine. Many of these units are likely to suffer from weakened morale.
Shortcomings in Russian tactical coordination also remain. Lack of unit-level skills and intermittent air support prevented Russia from fully exploiting its combat mass despite localized improvements.
08:57 Military assistance to Ukraine, which is included in Biden's request to the US Congress for $33 billion, is designed to pay for military supplies five months in advance, the Pentagon said. First of all, the United States plans to provide those systems that do not require long and complex preparation and to which Ukrainians can switch in a week.
08:51 Lavrov, in an interview with Xinhua, said that negotiations with Ukraine are going on daily via video link. The agenda includes issues of "denazification", "recognition of new geopolitical realities", the status of the Russian language, and the lifting of sanctions.
As for security guarantees for Ukraine, according to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, one of the possible options is "the creation of an institution of guarantor states, among which, first of all, permanent members of the UN Security Council, including Russia and China."
Lavrov stressed that the negotiations are "not easy" because "NATO is doing everything to prevent the completion of the "special operation" by reaching political agreements."
08:42 This morning, the occupiers fired on the neighborhood of Velyka Kostroma in the Krivoy Rog region - they hit the fields, none of the people were injured, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk said. Also, one of the villages of the Sinelnikovsky district, bordering on the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions, was fired upon. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.
08:23 In the Lugansk region, the enemy launched 16 massive artillery attacks over the past day, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians are storming Rubizhne and Popasnaya until they are defeated. Near Popasna, the Russians fired on a car with volunteers, there were no casualties.
07:41 During the day on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 14 enemy attacks. 11 tanks, seven artillery systems, 28 armored vehicles and 14 vehicles were destroyed, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
05:56 Rosenergoatom - a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom - sent a group of its nuclear specialists to the Zaporozhye NPP. They require daily reports from the plant management on confidential matters relating to the operation of the nuclear power plant, the IAEA said in a statement. The staff of the Zaporozhye NPP "works under incredible pressure," the Ukrainian side said.
05:10 Pope Francis appealed to Putin three times with a request to allow a vessel flying the flag of the Vatican to evacuate civilians from Azovstal, but all three times his request was rejected, according to the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero.
04:25 War criminals of the Russian Federation will receive the first sentences in at least a year and a half or two , said the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Denys Malyuska.
03:58 Russia is several days behind the schedule for a military offensive in eastern Ukraine, a senior Pentagon official said, The New York Times writes. According to the source, the Russian Federation is behind schedule for its offensive in Donbas due to stiff resistance and ongoing supply problems.
01:32 The United States began additional training of Ukrainian Armed Forces specialists at one of the military bases in Germany, Pentagon Speaker John Kirby said. He clarified that the bulk of the exercises in Germany are being conducted by the Florida National Guard, which already has extensive experience in interacting with the Ukrainian military. Moreover, according to a Pentagon representative, in addition to Germany, at least two more locations have been deployed in Europe outside of Ukraine, where the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is being trained to use foreign weapons.
01:01 The Upper House of the Parliament of Canada has supported the recognition of Russia's aggression against Ukraine as genocide, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said. According to him, the Senate adopted a resolution identical to the one that was recently supported by the House of Commons.
00:43 Zelensky in an interview with the Polish media called the formula for security guarantees for Ukraine, it sounds like this: "people are hours." The bottom line is that the countries - guarantors of security send their military as soon as possible: "No matter how cynical it may sound. The ability to save the number of people depends on the number of terms, weapons. In terms of blood and losses, these are people - hours ... We just we speak from our own experience, and many countries already agree with it. We say: “people are clocks.” We need security guarantees precisely “people are clocks”.
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- More Ukrainian success in the vicinity of Kharkiv in the north. Russian positions are now far enough from Kharkiv to reduce danger from artillery in that city.
- Russian success in the central part of the front northeast of Slovyansk. Ukraine may not have expect the attack in this place. If the advance continued it would threaten to cut off Ukrainian forces near Lysyyansk from those near Slovyansk. However Russia would need many days and a large force to do this and that would require troops from elsewhere on the front. If it could be done at all.
More Russian troops leaving Mariupol while Ukraine still holds some territory there.
Again significant bombardments by Russia on Ukraine targets. Less so by Ukraine.
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[Jpost] The hospital treated over 6,000 patients and its return is not the end of Israel's humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
The Israeli field hospital Kohav Meir (Shining Star) has finished its operations and all volunteers returned to Israel on Friday morning after spending six weeks in Ukraine, where they treated more than 6,000 patients.
The humanitarian aid project, led by the Foreign and Health ministries, Sheba Medical Center and other Israeli hospitals and HMOs, and supported by the Shusterman Fund, as well as the Joint Distribution Committee.
Israel will continue granting Ukraine humanitarian assistance, a Health Ministry statement noted.
The hospital opened on March 22 and is named after former prime minister Golda Meir, who was born in Ukraine and founded the Foreign Ministry’s Agency for International Development, Cooperation and Aid program, which oversaw the mission.
Over 60 members of Sheba’s medical staff, even under the threat of Russian missiles, worked in the hospital and operated at the request of Kyiv itself, which asked that the hospital be constructed as part of Israel’s humanitarian efforts to help Ukraine.
The hospital included a triage area; an ER ward; men’s, women’s and children’s wards; labor and delivery facilities, imaging and telehealth technologies, mental health services, a lab, a pharmacy and an outpatient clinic.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:10 The UK government will increase the supply of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, Boris Johnson's office said in a statement following his telephone conversations with Zelensky.
21:44 Servicemen of the territorial defense of Ukraine are detaining residents in Nikolaev for installing Telegram on their phones, SMS messages to Russian numbers and subscriptions to Russian channels on social networks, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said. 20:25 Briefing by official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov. The main thing for the evening of April 30:
– High-precision air-launched missiles hit 17 Ukrainian military facilities during the day
- Aerospace Forces aviation hit two command posts, nine strongholds, five ammunition and fuel depots in Ukraine
— During the day, over 200 nationalists and 23 units of Ukrainian armored vehicles were destroyed as a result of strikes
- Missile troops hit 319 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, 12 command posts and 2 warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons
– By means of air defense in the area of the village of Chervony Yar, Kherson region, a Su-25 of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the air
16:32 Putin signed a decree on a one-time payment of 10,000 rubles. veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in the Donbass and the liberated territory of Ukraine.
15:06 Berdyansk is preparing to switch to the payment of pensions and salaries in Russian rubles - the acting mayor of Berdyansk Alexander Saulenko.
15:04 The coat of arms of Ukraine was dismantled from the facade of the Tokmak city council in the Zaporozhye region.
14:34 Found in Khersonshron with weapons to commit a terrorist attack by a sabotage group. A cache with RPGs, anti-tank systems, grenades and other arsenal was found in the industrial area of the city. Also, in one of the warehouses, cars without license plates were found, which could be used by members of sabotage groups as a means of transportation.
14:27 Kyiv declared war on the monuments to Pushkin. ! Today in Chernihiv, a sculpture of a Russian poet was solemnly demolished. Moreover, the dismantling was carried out not by the city authorities, but by Ukrainian nationalists from the “terrodefense.”
14:00 In the Kherson region began to pay pensions in rubles. Now this process is organized in the Genichesk and Novotroitsk districts, said the head of the temporary military-civilian administration of the region V. Saldo.
13:45 The civil-military administration of Nova Kakhovka restored the monument to V.I. Lenin in front of the city council building.
The military-civilian administration of Nova Kakhovka restored the monument to V.I. Lenin in front of the city council building
13:30 Crimean Tatars are ready to participate in the Russian special operation in Ukraine as volunteers. The head of the regional national-cultural autonomy, Eyvaz Umerov, said that the Crimean Tatars support the president's course and are ready to defend Russia's sovereignty together with the entire multinational people.
12:46 Ukraine continues to fight with monuments and "friendship". In Cherkassy, an inscription was burned on a monument about friendship between Russia and Ukraine.
12:23 In Kherson, the former Azovets was detained. The detainee turned out to be a former participant in the ATO, who fought in the Donbass as a machine gunner. According to him, he was fired due to non-compliance with orders. During the interrogation, he said that he had been at checkpoints in Volnovakha in 2016. He was detained while trying to leave the territory of Kherson. He also assures that he was in Azov from October 2015 to May 2016, being a sapper engineer, he did not kill people.
11:02 In Kakhovka has already begun preparation for the next academic year. This was announced in his address by the head of the CAA of Kakhovka Pavel Filipchuk. The department of education received a new head, who assembled a team of specialists. Work is underway on a new curriculum. School principals are consulted. Those who do not cooperate will not be detained. The academic year should start without delay - September 1. The administration will try to open kindergartens in the summer.
11:01 Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov: Russian air defense systems destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including three Bayraktar TB-2s. During the night, artillery units defeated 389 enemy targets.
10:47 The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that during the night, high-precision missiles destroyed four Ukrainian ammunition and fuel depots, as well as an area where nationalists were concentrated.
As a result of air strikes, nine areas of concentration of manpower and equipment were hit, up to 120 nationalists were destroyed.
In addition, Russian air defense systems shot down 18 Ukrainian drones, and two Ukrainian Smerch projectiles were shot down over Gorlovka and Snezhkovka.
09:54 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces as of April 30, 2022:
▪During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 556 people killed, wounded and captured. The total loss of killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NSU and State Border Service is over 47,000 people.
▪According to the internal report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, six tanks, 39 armored vehicles, 21 field artillery and mortars, seven MLRS, 25 vehicles and special equipment and 23 UAVs were lost.
09:31 The new administration has begun work in the Zaporozhye village of Mikhailovka and the entire Mikhailovsky district, which is controlled by the RF Armed Forces, social payments will soon begin, humanitarian aid will be received, Sushko, the head of the administration, told RIA Novosti.
09:26 Employees of the military-civilian administration delivered humanitarian aid to the nursing home with. Orlyanske, Zaporozhye region.
09:14 “Stop”: a captured Ukrainian militant turned to former colleagues:
"I want to tell my former colleagues and the rest of the Ukrainian servicemen I know - stop. Stop this damn war. Russia, Ukraine, we didn’t start this war, it’s all America. Americans, who are they, who asked them to climb here?" said the captured Ukrainian militant Mikhail Vishnyak.
The prisoner called Russia and Ukraine brothers-Slavs and said hello to his father and sisters in the city of Lugansk. According to Vishnyak, his conditions of detention are good.
08:08 At night, attacks were made on Kharkov (Saltovka region). Odessa and Nikolaev were also subjected to blows.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 In total, 45 civilians were evacuated from Azovstal today - 25 people left on their own, another 20 were released by the Azov people. According to the latest data, the reason why Kalina was talking about 20 released hostages was revealed - these were only those civilians who were released by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Before they left the territory of Azovstal, another 25 people left on their own. In total, 45 people were released, according to military commander Semyon Pegov.
77 buses were sent to the plant from the UN for evacuation, but not all of them were allowed to the plant, as the Azov residents bargained for the number of liberated ones and demanded places for themselves.
23:25 At the moment, a convoy with 25 people evacuated from the territory of the Azovstal plant has arrived in Bezymennoye.
There is a process of checking for participation in hostilities against the DPR and LPR (the so-called filtration), all the necessary medical care is also provided, food is provided.
22:55 The DPR JCCC reports that eight civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Olginka: - a man born in 1960.
n.p. Pavlovka: - a woman born in 1956.
n.p. Novotroitskoye: - a woman born in 1964.
n.p. Mariupol: - women: 1971, 1965, 1971, 1956, 1966.
22:32 The Kiev security forces fired at Stakhanov from the installations of the multiple launch rocket system ( MLRS ) "Grad". At 21:30, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 20 shells from the BM-21 MLRS into the city.
22:10 Kyiv security forces fired at Irmino and for the second time since the beginning of the day - Pervomaisk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine at 20:00 fired at Pervomaisk from a 122mm artillery gun, firing 10 shells into the city. At 20:25, the Kiev security forces fired on Irmino, firing 40 shells from the multiple launch rocket system ( MLRS ) BM-21 "Grad" at the city.
21:40 Belarus has started humanitarian cooperation with the DPR and LPR. This was reported by @readovkanews, which received the text of the decree signed by Alexander Lukashenko. In particular, it provides data on the allocation of 3 million Russian rubles to the DPR and LPR from the budget of the Union State as humanitarian aid.
21:15 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 settlement. Yelenovka at the addresses:
- st. Shevchenko, 129 - a private residential building;
- st. May 1, 2, 6 - private residential buildings.
The streets of Chapaeva, Frunze, Shevchenko are de-energized. Without power supply 950 subscribers.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
21:06 Ukrainian troops fired on the village of Irmino in the Luhansk People's Republic on Saturday, firing 40 shells from the BM-21 Grad, informs representation of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
21:04 The industrial zone of the city of Rubizhne, which the nationalists turned into a fortified area, came under the control of the LPR.
Anton Mikuzhis, an officer of the press service of the People's Militia of the Republic, told reporters about this:
“The resistance was fierce. Machine guns fired, snipers fired. They were under some kind of means, they were not afraid of anything, they had no fear.
19:33 The MGB of the DPR detained a citizen of Ukraine Tutov Roman Alexandrovich, born in 1989.
It was established that in 2014 the specified citizen joined the ranks of the nationalist regiment "Azov", recognized as a terrorist organization on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic. From the indicated time, R. Tutov took an active part in the hostilities against the military personnel of the UNM DPR in the area of the village. Granite, pos. Kominternovo, pos. Shirokino, pos. Zaitsevo, settlement Krasnogorovka, n.p. Novoluganskoye, Mariupol, while carrying out intelligence activities and recruiting recruits into the ranks of the Azov regiment.
A criminal case was initiated against the said person on suspicion of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 234 of the Criminal Code of the DPR “Organization of the activities of a terrorist organization and participation in the activities of such an organization.”
19:10 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Yelenovka, the school building on the street was also damaged. Chapaeva and housing construction on the street. Postal.
18:35 A total of 25 civilians left the territory of the Azovstal plant. Six of them are children.
The UN and the Red Cross are involved in the evacuation. Today, about 20 buses with 30 seats arrived to take out the hostages. But the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Battalion released only 25 people.
18:10 VFU shelled Yelenovka. As a result of the shelling on the street. Frunze suffered housing construction. Details are being specified.
17:23 Consequences of the shelling of the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk 30.04.22.
Military experts of the operational group of the JCCC DPR confirmed the fact of the use of the BM-21 Grad MLRS and specified the direction of firing in the Petrovsky district: from the positions of the VFU in the area of the settlement. Nevelskoye, area of responsibility of the VFU 56 separate motorized infantry brigade (commander - Colonel Sergey Anatolyevich Sirchenko).
Also, according to the clarified data of military experts of the JCCC, the shelling of the Kirov region was carried out from the positions of the VFU in the area of the settlement. Krasnogorovka with the use of cannon artillery caliber 122mm. The area of responsibility of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the VFU (commander - Colonel Maistrenko Alexey Sergeevich), 2nd Mechanized Battalion (commander Lieutenant Colonel Stets Sergey Olegovich).
As a result of the shelling, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
Petrovsky district:
pl. Victory, 5 "a" - MDOU "Nursery-garden No. 149";
sq. Victory, 19 - MDOU "Nursery-garden No. 180";
sq. Victory, 21 - MOU "school number 100 in Donetsk";
sq. Pobeda, 20, 22, 24 "a" - multi-apartment residential buildings;
sq. Pobedy, between houses 22 and 24 "grocery store" - fire;
sq. Victory, 36 "a" - MDOU "Nursery-garden No. 264";
st. Summer, 37 - a private residential building;
In addition, rocket explosions were recorded on Petrovsky Square.
Kirovsky district:
st. Commonwealth, 43 - apartment building;
st. Flotskaya, 12 - a private residential building.
17:03 In Dobropolye, as a result of the shelling of the VFU,seven people were injured, including three children, the youngest of them is five years old.
16:47 Another 78 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe. During the day on April 30, from 08:00 to 16:00, 78 people, including 11 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.
16:36 The consequences of the use by the VFU of the Tochka-U shopping center in the settlement Snegno. 04/30/2022. According to military experts of the task force of the JCCC in the direction of N. p. The snowy armed formations of Ukraine fired two cluster-type Tochka-U missiles, one of which was shot down by air defense, the second managed to partially release cluster submunitions, which led to damage at the following addresses:
st. Koshevoy, 166 - pumping station;
st. Balabaeva, 1 - car park;
st. Balabaeva, 14, 16 - multi-apartment residential buildings.
15:44 "They drove people into bomb shelters and blew up the house." Inhabitant of Pionerskoe village, Donetsk regiontoldabout the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists.
15:35 In Luhansk resumed motion trains interrupted for eight years. It would seem that this is the usual news for everyone. But for the inhabitants of the republic, this is a real bridge to peaceful life, evidence of a return to normality, an opportunity to feel like full-fledged people again.
Passengers themselves admit that this is a great event for them. They can again visit each other, travel for food and medicine. People are happy that in Russia they are accepted as their own. After all, they so lacked a simple human attitude and the opportunity to touch peaceful life again, something that the Kyiv authorities and nationalists once deprived them of.
15:31 The column of transport lined up almost at Azovstal itself, the OSCE mission is inspecting the route for the withdrawal of civilians, there have already been three times demands to delay positions even further ... Nevertheless, the auction does not stop and there is no certainty that the evacuation will take place today - Khodakovsky.
15:02 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Zolote-4 by settlement Zolote-5 with the use of 120mm mortars (Five mines) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
14:18 According to updated information as a result of shelling of the VFU, injured man born in 1944 delivered to the Central City Hospital of Debaltseve and the injured woman, born in 1984. delivered to the Departmental hospital of the station in Debaltseve.
13:37 As a result of today's shelling of the Petrovsky district from the side of the VFU, doors, glazing, roofing, fences, gates were damaged, the walls of a residential building in the private sector on the street were cut with shrapnel. Zheleznovodskaya, 61.
The destruction of houses in the village of Aleksandrovka was also recorded:
- st. School, 349: the roof is completely destroyed;
- st. School, 354: the glazing of 5 windows is damaged.
13:22 The city of Debaltseve came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They were hit with Hurricane rockets. Two civilians were injured.
13:20 According to updated information, yesterday as a result of artillery shelling of the settlement. Pervomaisk (one civilian was injured (a woman born in 1959), four residential buildings and the Center for Out-of-School Education - the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC were damaged.
13:17 "Sparta" burned positions of neo-Nazis near Avdievka.
13:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:00 Information about the injured civilians of the Kirov region as a result of the military aggression of Ukrainian militants continues to arrive. On st. Commonwealth, a woman received a head wound, and a man born in 1967 received a shrapnel wound to the chest. A woman was also wounded in the private sector on the street. Naval.
Destruction recorded:
- st. Levitan, 22: damaged glazing, gas pipe.
- st. Commonwealth, 43, 44: the glazing of the house was destroyed;
- st. Flotskaya, 1 (garage): damaged car;
- st. Petrovsky, 126v: glazing on the 1st and 2nd floors is damaged;
- st. Flotskaya, 10: the car burned down.
12:42 Liberated residents of Luhansk region tell, about the atrocities of the national battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Popasnaya:
“On March 8 it was. I hear a big white car drive by. Representatives come out of there, on this car there was a black and red flag. They take a machine gun and say now we will congratulate these creatures and let's shoot from a machine gun at windows, at residential buildings, at civilians. A tank drives into the street and starts firing. Any house is set on fire and that’s it.”
12:17 Opponent knocked out from a fortified area in the industrial zone of the city of Rubizhnoye.
12:00 Representatives of the ONF in the LPR delivered potatoes and targeted assistance to the suburbs of Lugansk.
11:42 Preliminary information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of two civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
- st. Flotskaya, 10;
- st. Commonwealth, d. 43 - a direct hit by a VFU shell in the apartment.
On st. Prints, 10 fire of the car is fixed. There is also information about damage to the housing stock and civilian infrastructure.
11:33 As a result of today's shelling of the Tekstilshchik microdistrict by Ukrainian militants, a girl was injured. The glazing of residential apartments on the street was also damaged. Commonwealth, 43. Full information about the destruction is being specified - Kulemzin.
11:23 Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and members of the territorial defense of the city of Cherkasy, who survived and were captured in the city of Popasnaya in the Lugansk region. They were abandoned by their command for slaughter, by deception that they would serve on the third line of defense.
The wounded soldier told how his “brothers” left him to die in a damp basement, taking away his helmet and body armor. However, the latter was saved by the military with red armbands. For refusing to go to the front end, they were threatened with a prison term.
11:14 Servicemen of the Russian special forces provided the security of the UN delegation and the Red Cross, who arrived at the negotiations on Azovstal.
11:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:52 Mariupol is under full operational control groupings of troops of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the remnants of the militants of the paramilitary formations of the Nazis took refuge in the catacombs of the industrial zone "Azovstal".
10:40 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Snezhnoye, 24 objects were damaged: one water pumping station, 15 private sector houses, two apartment buildings, a bus station building, a motor transport company building, one transformer substation, three gas distribution substations.
10:35 AFU shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling, the house building on the street was damaged. Lunin. Details are being specified. Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
10:08 During the day, 586 people were evacuated from Mariupol. Over the past day, from 08:00 on April 29 to 08:00 on April 30, 586 people, including 72 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. In total, for the period from March 5 to 08:00 on April 30, 25,936 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.
09:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:45 According to updated information, as a result of massive shelling of the Petrovsky district from the VFU, mine-explosive injuries, fractures and multiple shrapnel wounds were received by six civilians, including a nine-year-old child. The injured were taken to hospitals.
Damage was also recorded:
- School No. 100 - a direct hit on the building;
- Kindergarten No. 180 - a direct hit on the building;
- kindergartens No. 149, No. 264 - glazing is damaged;
- st. Summer, 37 - an outbuilding burned down;
- sq. Victory, 22, store "Lukoshko" - burned down completely.
08:35 Over Snezhnoye, air defense systems intercepted a Tochka-U missile. Rocket fragments fell into the Cheryomushki microdistrict, transport, infrastructure and many houses were damaged. Details are being specified.
08:23 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Kamyshevakh along the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of 152mm artillery guns (four shells) Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC.
08:02 AFU fired at:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Wide Beam: heavy machine guns were used.
n.p. Novgorodskoye - Gagarin Mine: heavy machine guns were used.
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Beam: fired 5 mines in 120mm caliber.
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: 7 LNG grenades fired.
04:50 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
#4
ISS is a waste at a time when waste seems to be all the gummint can do. It's sure doing a great job of fostering cooperation between the USA and Russia. Retire it early. Use the money NASA spends on it for anything worthwhile.
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#5
Not to worry China will push forward. From landing on the moon to stuck on stupid. Perhaps Musk will save the day for NASA. Not likely as he is not wokeafied enough to satisfy this administration.His efforts with EV technology not even recognized. With this administrations efforts so far I see them shooting themselves in the foot on this.
#6
It's pretty clear all the things we can lose by making war on Russia. What do we gain?
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#7
The modern US model says "we," as in people like you and me, can gain nothing. The elites and the beltway bandits, OTOH, expect to cash in big and escape ahead of the bright flash.
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#8
All the ISS project has been for the last thirty years has been Midnight Basketball for Russians. It didn't work, and I don't think we need it any more.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has repeated his warning that Pyongyang could “preemptively” use its #nuclear weaponry to counter hostile forces, state media reports.https://t.co/PL2PKWt0kO
[Aljazeera] While Finland and Sweden appear keen on membership, there is little public or political support for joining the alliance in historically neutral Switzerland.
The security architecture on the European continent is changing dramatically as Russia extends its war on Ukraine.
While Finland and Sweden are increasingly likely to join NATO, closer cooperation with the alliance is also the subject of a lively discussion in Switzerland.
But will the mountainous, landlocked Central European country abandon its principle of neutrality and make a bid to the Washington-led Western military alliance?
Laurent Goetschel, director of swisspeace and professor of political science at the University of Basel, told Al Jazeera there could be some advantages.
"The country might benefit from additional networks regarding intelligence and other security-related exchange formats," said Goetschel, adding NATO would have an additional member and there would be "no discussions anymore about being allowed to use Swiss airspace — or even land routes — for transports and communication".
But he added: "Neutrality is historically rooted in the two past centuries, when it served the country to maintain its independence in a Europe characterised by major wars. It also helped national cohesion, when parts of the population would rather have supported France and other parts of Germany.
"Over the years and through its success, neutrality became part of Swiss national identity. By now, it still represents the county’s major foreign policy orientation."
#4
I don't think a lot of people are thinking through the fact that a larger NATO might mean future NATO votes that aren't unanimous "gung-ho let's go" rubber stamps for war.
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#5
How would it benefit the Swiss to get dragged into a war? That's all NATO does these days.
[Jpost] The Chinese FK-3 surface-to-air defense system, similar to Russia's S-300 or the US Patriot system, was purchased by Belgrade in 2019 and delivered earlier this month.
Tens of thousands of troops from NATO and its European allies are gearing up for a series of military exercises that the United Kingdom is calling one of the "largest shared deployments since the Cold War."
#3
Let's move a huge mass of troops to the Poland-Ukr border. That will reassure the Russians that NATO is not a threat. Or convince them that they made the right move by preemptively trying for a more defensible position.
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
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[Aljazeera] While Finland and Sweden appear keen on membership, there is little public or political support for joining the alliance in historically neutral 
