[FoxNews] More than 50 people were shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, including nine fatally, according to police.
Roughly half of the shootings took place on the city's West Side, while the downtown area saw four people shot, according to authorities. There were at least 23 people victims on the city's South Side.
By Monday morning, the number of victims surpassed the number of victims for all of 2021's Memorial Day shootings, when 37 were shot including three fatally, NBC Chicago reported. All in, 51 people were shot over the long holiday weekend.
It was the most bloody Memorial Day weekend for the city since 2017, when 45 people were wounded and seven killed, the Chicago Sun Times reported.
Chicago was braced for a violent weekend and had rolled out Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Superintendent David Brown's holiday safety plan, which included officers working 21-hour days and canceled days off to get more officers on the street.
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Aided by abortion, a falling birthrate and drug overdoses, the problem appears to be resolving itself. Stronger policing and law enforcement would probably be unwelcomed. Stay out of it.
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A lot of decent folks live within the 'gang areas', Darth. Impossible for some to leave as the property they bought in the 60's-80's doesn't sell for some reason, even with the barred windows and doors.
Mostly they live towards the back of their residences, avoiding the rooms facing the street.
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Yes, it's a surrender to give the bangas anything. Territory, money, drugs, guns. The idea that they will stay put and wipe themselves out is misguided.
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Each Memorial Day Chi-town twerks,
Unaware of a peril which lurks...
'Tis the terrible gun
That would ruin their fun,
'Cept it doesn't, cuz gun control works!
Considering they still vote for the same people that allow and help this shit fester, I don't have a lot of sympathy for them. At this point they chose their side and they chose poorly.
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Understood, Darth. Unfortunately the voting in a lot of these neighborhoods is a selection between 'machine' candidates and any conservative need not apply as they'd somehow never get on the ballot (or get their votes counted). It's the 'Chicago Way'.
A guy I worked with (and fished with) for years lives in a north Austin neighborhood, and his area used to be fairly decent. No longer.
Recently helped him find some #4 and 00 for his Model 12 (as was almost impossible to find in Chicago area, gun/ammo control and all that).
He's waiting for his wife to retire and then they'll move on. Doesn't care about what the house sells for (or if at all - except for the taxes) at this point.
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^ More to the point, the GOPe in Illinois would go along for the ride anyway. That's how Illinois became a one-party state. Same with Cali.
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Then there will be shootings at the funerals and the violence will echo out like waves in a pond from a thrown stone.
The only possible way to make things worse in Chicago would be to involve the UN or Palestinian Authority. I don’t think the shootings would go up but the UN would probably increase trafficking. The PA might start paying stipends to the families of drug dealers shot by other drug dealers. The city would go broke quickly.
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[pjmedia.com] Taco Bell is hoping that attention-deprived, lip-synching chicks with d***s will help you get that breakfast burrito down.
The Taco Bell Drag Brunch show is hitting the road and delivering taped weiners and gyrating man-hips to a Taco Bell Cantina (they have booze) location near you if you live in Chicago, Nashville, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, and New York City, through the months of May and June.
Had an amazing time at the @tacobell Drag Brunch with my sisters @aunty_chan and @theemisstoto #tacobellpartner #tacobell #tacobelldragbrunch pic.twitter.com/5cSRDvgdo5
— Tenderoni (@Tender_oni) May 23, 2022
Audience members hoping to watch needy men shake their chili cheese burritos will have to be 18 years old to enter. Members of Taco Bell’s reward group, "Fire Tier," will have the first "crack" (heh-heh) at the chance for tickets. (More at link)
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TACO BELL lost us 10+ years ago with its Salmonella recall, followed by a collection changed or added "filler" ingredients.
#2
Mystery meat? How does anyone know what they are actually eating is anything but? Trust? In this society, in this day and age? Something we really don't want to think about.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations for African Americans will release a report Wednesday documenting in detail the harms perpetuated by the state and recommending steps to address those wrongs, including expanded voter registration, making it easier to hold violent police accountable and improving Black neighborhoods.
It also recommends the creation of a special office that would, in part, help African Americans descended from free or enslaved Black people in the country at the end of the 19th century document their eligibility for financial restitution.
The report, which runs 500 pages, will be the first government-commissioned study on harms against the African American community since the 1968 Kerner Commission report ordered by then-President Lyndon Johnson, task force Chair Kamilah Moore said.
"I hope that this report is used not only as an educational tool, but an organizing tool for people not only in California but across the U.S. to educate their communities," she said, adding that the report also highlights "contributions of the African American community and how they made the United States what it is despite ongoing oppression and degradation."
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation creating the task force in 2020, making California the only state to move ahead with a study and plan. Cities and universities are taking up the cause with the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, becoming the first U.S. city to make reparations available to Black residents last year.
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The release of the remaining California and Illinois slaves is long overdue. Everyone else is being released and moving elsewhere, why not the slaves ?
#2
They have one large memory hole out there. Before the Constitution was ratified the former colonies, now independent states, operated under the Articles of Confederation. It was under that governmental structure that the Northwest Ordnance of 1787 was passed. It organized the western territories in which the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin would emerge. It barred the introduction of slavery into the new territories. It's all one big grifters game.
Reparations are little more than a great election year gimmick for Liberals, Socialists, and Democrats seeking the fleeing Black-American Voters return. The idea has been a LSD voter gimmick since the 1990's.
With some going off the deep end really expecting this is the year it happens.
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"...The report, which runs 500 pages, will be the first government-commissioned study on harms against the African American community since the 1968 Kerner Commission."
Naturally ---->Just in time for Mid-terms <------
How about a report that details what has been spent the last 60 years attempting to right the wrongs of the 150 years previous to 1962? With estimates ranging from $7.2T to $11.2 Trillion. For the 9,360,000+/- (19.5%) Black Americans living below the US Proverty Rate With works out to something between $769,230.76 to $1,196,581.19 per man, women and child alive to date in the Black community.
How about a report detailing the 81% success rate?
How about the 100's of $$$ BILLIONS in private property lost in riots/looting?
How about a detailed crime report showing Black against White/Latino/Asians and on and on. Which in some Serious Felony categories runs 4 and 5 to 1.
How about a 72% single mother with multiple children and fathers family with no male partner present. Being cared for by Taxpayers.
How about a report showing preferred hiring or admissions over more qualified candidates students?
There is a lot more the LSD's don't want to discuss also.
[Breitbart] A high school in a Chicago is implementing a race-based grading system "to adjust classroom grading scales to account for skin color or ethnicity of its students."
The move is necessary, advocates say, because "traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities," a slide used in a presentation said.
Students, depending on their race, will not be held accountable for missing class, misbehaving in school, or for failing to turn in assignments.
The West Cook News reported on the development:
Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.
School board members discussed the plan called "Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading" at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.
[The plan] calls for what OPRF leaders describe as "competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book...encouraging and rewarding growth over time." Teachers are being instructed how to measure student "growth" while keeping the school leaders’ political ideology in mind
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"Teachers and administrators at OPRFHS will continue the process necessary to make grading improvements that reflect our core beliefs," the plan, set to begin in the fall of 2023, says.
The article notes that according to the Illinois State Board of Education, 38 percent of sophomores fail the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
The failure rate was 77 percent for black students, 49 percent for Hispanic students, 27 percent for Asian students, and 25 percent for white students.
#1 ^
Agreed. It seems the LSD's run Metro's are bending over backwards for the desperately needed Black-American Community Vote, that they are losing more and more each election cycle.
Is it to hide their 54+ years of running a Voter Plantation process instead of actual equality?
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Yep, if you are of a certain category, even though you stand there with the same piece of paper as others, it is worthless in its standing.
What this is actually is an admission by the 'educators' that they can not 'educate'. Why are we wasting the money? /rhet question - cause its just another form of the protection racket.
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What this is actually is an admission by the 'educators' that they can not 'educate'.
I took four years of German in high school; Mrs. Hartmann was an excellent teacher, so last Labor Day weekend I tracked her down and paid her a visit, to thank her and to tell her what an awesome teacher she was. Back in the late 70's and early 80's if a student wasn't doing well, they usually got the proverbial kick in the ass; this happened to me then and in college a few years later. Mrs. Hartmann retired in 2001 and told me the dynamic had changed; if a student wasn't doing well, it's now the teacher's fault, not the student's fault. I got the impression Mrs. Hartmann would have kept on teaching for a few more years if it weren't for this new 'dynamic'.
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Call it a "sliding curve" if you will, as opposed to actually teaching. I think it would make more sense and be less racist just to send them back to the cotton fields.
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It will temporarily screw over the two remaking white families that have not moved, homeschooled or put their kids in private schools. For everybody else it will mean passing grades for no effort. Drop out rates will not be impacted as most dropouts consider school to be a waste of time. This policy will serve as confirmations. The result will be only bad things. It will be like a Biden policy on a smaller scale.
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[Daily Wire] A drag queen story hour for children that was reportedly supposed to be held at an American air base library was canceled following public outcry about the nature of the event.
The 30-minute storytime with books read by drag queen Stacey Teed was to be held at a library in Ramstein, Germany, where the headquarters of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe is located.
"An advertisement was posted to the base library social media page before the event had completed Ramstein’s established processes for special observance coordination and approval," Lt. Col. Will Powell, head of public affairs for the 86th Airlift Wing, said, according to The Military Times. "The advertisement has been removed and the event will not take place."
The cancellation followed backlash from Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who sent a letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on May 26, asking officials to stop the event.
"I urge you to immediately cancel this politically divisive event, and take appropriate disciplinary action against all involved in allowing this gross abuse of taxpayer funding to place children in a sexualized environment," Rubio wrote in his letter.
He added that it was "insane" for the military to be using resources to promote the event.
"These inappropriate events are extremely divisive at home for good reason; in all cases, they place young children in close proximity with adults who are intentionally and explicitly sexualized," the senator added.
He also asked for details about other instances of the U.S. military sponsoring events for children with drag queens and if money has been spent on such events.
[Breitbart] The president of the Spanish pharmaceutical company PharmaMar is one of the over 2,200 people listed by Spanish police as having purchased fake coronavirus vaccination documents.
José María Fernández Sousa-Faro, the founder and president of PharmaMar, is one of the over 2,200 people identified as having paid a criminal network to fake their coronavirus vaccination status, following a Spanish police operation known as Operation Jenner.
The 76-year-old was shown in the vaccine registry as having taken at least three doses of Wuhan virus vaccine, investigators stated.
Police say several other high profile names are on the list, including Australian tennis player Álex de Miñaur and Spanish musician Omar Montes.
Police say that the network was able to change vaccine statuses in the Spanish National Vaccination Registry and charged clients cash for the service, the newspaper El Mundo reports.
Fake European Coronavirus Vaccine Passport Sales Surging Online https://t.co/SF8Oe7N7kC
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 3, 2021
According to police, the network facilitating the fake vaccination papers was in operation from around September of last year until January of this year. Operation Jenner also led to the dismantling of a broader network that operated across the European Union.
Forgers are said to have charged different amounts of cash for their service depending on how many doses the person wished to be marked as having received. A total of 15 people, including a nurse and a nursing assistant, were arrested earlier this year in connection with the operation.
The nurses are accused of having stolen the personal access codes of other medical professionals and used said access codes to commit fraudulent activities.
Over the course of the Wuhan virus pandemic, there have been multiple networks offering fake vaccination documents, as many countries enacted health passport systems requiring vaccinations, proof of recent recovery, or negative tests to access venues, use transportation, or simply be allowed to work.
In December, Italian police claimed the number of fake coronavirus vaccination documents being sold online had surged and warned medical professionals, including doctors, may have been involved in faking people’s vaccination status.
Italian police officer Fabio Ferrari commented at the time on other issues arising from the sale of the fake documents, saying: "What people don’t realise is that they hand over their ID and patient documents to rogue individuals and that this information is then resold."
SpongeBob SquarePants, Adolf Hitler Granted Vaccine Passports in EU Security Breach https://t.co/X02WYNXksY
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 31, 2021
[FoxNews] Omaha Fire Department officials said explosions could be heard coming from the building due to propane tanks and other chemicals burning inside.
[GatewayPundit] Ben Berquam from Real America’s Voice joined Steve Bannon Tuesday morning on The War Room.
Berquam is in Uvalde, Texas. This morning he was broadcasting outside Robbe Elementary School, the scene of the demonic mass murder of children and teachers last week.
During the interview, Steve Bannon asked the questions we still don’t have answers to.
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Another questions:
Why is it we have had and increase in Mass School Shootings during Election cycles the last 50+ years?
Why is it the Police have been told to stand down in too many of these, while the shooter empties mag after mag?
Given the clearly mindless Biden politically picked leadership controlling the DOJ/FBI agencies. Can we ever expect to get to the root of whom is actually involved in these politically timed events?
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one question answered today. The "$70,000 truck" was his grandma's. Now the question is, if the family was so poor, how'd she pay for the truck? Also apparently there have been a number of criminal charges against the family in the past including assault with a deadly weapon.
[Garowe] Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n forces shelled a city in northern Æthiopia last weekend, according to UN and regional forces, as a result of a rare bombing after two months of relative peace in the Tigray conflict.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... bulletin, which was viewed by Rooters, cites data from humanitarian organizations in Shiraro, which say at least 23 rounds were fired, some of which ended up in a school that houses the families of displaced persons.
A 14-year-old girl was killed, at least 18 people were maimed, and 12 houses were damaged, one of the documents says.
Late Monday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (TPLF), the party that controls most of the Tigray region, accused Eritrean forces of attacking its troops on Saturday and Sunday in Shiraro, about seven miles from the Eritrean-Æthiopian border.
Eritrea recently supports Æthiopian Prime Minister Abio Ahmed’s federal forces in the war with TPLF
The TPLF said its forces killed four Eritrean commanders and more than 300 Eritrean soldiers in a kaboom over the weekend.
Eritrean Information Minister Yeman Gebremeskel did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and Rooters was unable to verify the figures or the attack on its own.
The Tigray communication network has not been working for a year.
"As part of a desperate attempt to escalate tensions and draw us into more action, they fired on Sheraro on May 28 and 29," TPLF front man Getachy Redu tweeted.
A front man for Æthiopia’s military envoy, Colonel Getnet Adan, and government front man Leges Tulu did not respond to a request for comment.
Eritrean and Æthiopian troops withdrew from most of the Tigris in mid-2021, and in March the government announced a unilateral ceasefire. This allowed aid to enter the famine-stricken Tiger and led to a lull in hostilities in the conflict, which killed thousands of civilians and snatched millions.
Earlier this year, however, Eritrean President Isaiah Afwerki told state media that his troops would intervene again if Tigrian forces attacked his country or threatened Æthiopia’s stability.
Checking in to see what nonsense is going on in Ethiopia now. Honestly, do none of these people have anything better to do?
[Garowe] The Tigray Defense Forces [TDF] reportedly killed hundreds of Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n soldiers during a counteroffensive, which if independently verified, would be the worst defeat to President Isaias Afwerki, who has been accused of meddling in the Tigray conflict.
For months, Eritrea has been linked to atrocities in the Tigray region where thousands of civilians and local militia have reportedly been killed. Eritrea works closely with the regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who is the architect of the current war.
Getachew Reda, the official spokesperson of TDF and the Tigray administration claimed the Tigray troops responded to an attack engineered by Eritrea troops on May 24th, leading to hundreds of deaths. The troops from Eritrea's 57th and 21st divisions allegedly took part in the fight.
The incident reportedly took place near Adi Awalla village within Tigray and at least 300 Eritrean troops were killed during the offensive which is yet to be verified independently. Several weapons were captured by the Tigrayan forces, he added.
"An offensive launched by Eritrea’s 57th and 21st divisions on the 24th of May was thwarted and the units deployed by the Isaias regime decimated after a successful counteroffensive by our forces around AdiAwalla, Tigray. A brigade commander, three battalion commanders, and more than 300 soldiers were killed and maimed. Many weapons and materiel were also captured," he said.
"As part of their desperate attempt to escalate the tension and drag us into more action, they shelled Sheraro on the 28th and 29th of May. It is clear that the regime will stop at nothing to drag the region into an interminable conflict and sabotage in a real or perceived effort at peace," added the former federal information minister.
Tigray authorities now want the international community to continue exerting pressure on Eritrea over the violation of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... in the country. Eritrea was blamed for orchestrating a massacre in the Tigray region and the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... along with other partners called for immediate withdrawal by Asmara.
"It behooves the International community to exert pressure on the regime to reverse course while reiterating our unwillingness to let the regime prolong the suffering of our people, " Reda added just a few days after he confirmed that several aid groups have arrived in Tigray after the blockade was lifted by the Æthiopian government.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed maintained that his administration is keen to ensure normal operations within the region which has been entangled in war since November 2020. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner has also been accused of promoting intolerance within the Horn of Africa nation.
Æthiopia is also facing a host of internal challenges including ethnic unrest within the Oromia, Amhara, Afar, and Somali regions. The country, which enjoyed relative peace after Abiy Ahmed took over in 2018, has been incomplete shambles and not even efforts by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to restore peace have borne fruits.
[NYP] A Facebook sperm donor fathered 15 children but never told the mothers he has an inheritable condition that causes learning disabilities.
James MacDougall, 37, fathered children with lesbian women through private donations advertised on social media despite knowing he had incurable Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that leads to low IQ and developmental delay.
MacDougall’s identity came out in a family court battle in Derby, United Kingdom, after he applied for parental responsibility and child arrangement orders for four of his children — even though he originally signed an agreement saying he didn’t want contact with some of his children.
The mothers of the children were opposed to the applications.
Derby Court Judge Justice Nathalie Lieven named MacDougall to stop other women from using him as a sperm donor and ruled he should not have any responsibility for the children as it would cause them harm.
Video subtitled in English and more of the transcript at the link.
[DailyBeast] Two high-ranking Russian military officers have been caught shit-talking Kremlin leadership in unimaginably colorful language. The two colonels blast the defense minister and lash out at that “motherfucker” Vladimir Putin for his poor strategy in Ukraine, according to a leaked recording of a phone conversation.
While Western and Ukrainian intelligence agencies have routinely reported on plunging morale among rank-and-file Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, many of whom have been heard complaining of dysfunction in intercepted communications, the latest audio appears to be the first to expose frustrations among high-ranking officers.
Radio Free Europe’s Ukrainian service published the curse-laden recording late Monday, reporting that it was provided by Ukrainian intelligence. One of the men heard in the purported intercepted call—identified as Colonel Maksim Vlasov—is no stranger to the eight-year war in Ukraine’s Donbas. He has been wanted by Ukrainian authorities since 2018 for the 2015 shelling of Mariupol—an attack in which he previously implicated himself by carelessly blabbing about it by phone in an earlier intercepted phone call covered by Bellingcat.
The latest recording, dated April 14, is said to show Vlasov and another colonel, Vitaly Kovtun, a doctor at the Naro-Fominsk military hospital said to hold many military honors, raging against the many failures of Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
They both express particular ire for Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
“There are horrible losses of our guys, fuck. And you know, I am familiar with military history a bit, and I compare this to the fucking Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. It’s fucking one and the same,” said Vlasov, referring to a war in which the Soviets are estimated to have lost 126,875 troops.
He goes on to take aim at Shoigu, whom he describes as an “incompetent fucking layman.”
“He’s a layman in his work. This is not his fucking thing. He’s just a fucking showman,” the man identified as Vlasov says.
Kovtun responds in kind, saying, “Shoigu is fucking shit. [There are] no contracted forces. Of course not! Why would there fucking be? They paid them 30,000 rubles [$490], where are they going to get contractees?”
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It served its purpose. It was a meatgrinder and now the Ukrainians pulled back. We will see how the Russians can get across the river in the western side of the city. So far they have fucked up 2 crossings to the northwest and I don't have a lot of faith in them successfully completing a 3rd.
Currently the Russian forces there will need a break as they have been make combat ineffective so there may be a pause for a while.
Meanwhile a Ukrainian counter offensive is going off in the south Velyka. We'll see how well it will go, but they have put some holes in the Russian lines so far. Time will tell if the Ukrainians will sustain it.
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After flailing and failing to capture Kyiv and Kherson, the Orcs shifted to trying to take Severodonetsk, Lysychansk. After being stalled the flailing Orcs then decided to concentrate on Severodonetsk. 20% of Severodonetsk as still not fallen but the failing orcs are taking catestrophic casualties.
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I find it interesting that Russians think by simply occupying Severodonetsk that the war is over and that they can simply incorporate it into Russia, The Ukranian have mobilized hundreds of thousands that are being trained now and outfitted.The Russians are spent and the war is far from over. The Ukrainians with Western Financial and Military Support and determination could prevail in the long run.The Russians would need to create some sort of Strategic defeat for the war to end. For Russia to win they would need mass mobilization, reconstitute and refit their army which would take a year or years to accomplish, The war as fought now is far from over and currently favors the Ukranians.
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^ This pessimistic (as to Ukraine's chances of avoiding a complete rout in the Donbas in coming days) is the view of most of the German and French, and probably American, military establishments. Especially those analysts who understand the role and usage of artillery.
I'm told many of the Israeli military analysts hold this view as well.
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General Roland Kather: "Ich denke, sie werden sich mit dem Donbass – wenn sie ihn unter Kontrolle haben, und nach meiner Auffassung ist das nur noch eine Frage von Tagen, bestenfalls Wochen"
The French see the same rout in the making. Everyone sees the parallels with 1914-1918... except in this case the Russians have vastly more firepower.
It's also clear that the Ukrainians are isolated, trapped and reduced to throwing under-resources, untrained, inexperienced old men and kids into the meat grinder. We are seeing mutiny after mutiny after mutiny. This too is reminiscent of Workd War One.
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I'm told many of the Israeli military analysts hold this view as well.
Dale, that you?
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Actually, even more Ukrainian units are mutinying. Here are four more units that have posted videos laying out their grievances and their demands of their leaders.
- the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade
- the 30th Mechanized Brigade 3rd Battalion 9th Company
[Ukrinform] From a conversation intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine, it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated a large unit of mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group in the east.
As the Security Service of Ukraine posted on Telegram, after the Ukrainian defenders smashed an elite unit, "ordinary" Russian servicemen are now afraid to fight at all.
In an intercepted telephone conversation, a Russian invader complains to his wife that even well-trained mercenaries cannot succeed in performing their tasks.
According to him, "miserable remnants are left" out of the large number of militants sent to the task.
In response, the wife advises him to leave the army.
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In an intercepted telephone conversation, a Russian invader complains to his wife that even well-trained mercenaries cannot succeed in performing their tasks.
That is the issue. They weren't well trained. Oh they knew enough to keep some arab peasants beat down, but going against an actual trained army they fail. And fail spectacularly. Just ask the US Army.
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If the Wagner guys are tired, the regular guys are about dying to leave Ukraine. Wagner guys always get much better supplies and all, kinda like their ideological heroes in the Waffen SS did compared to regular Wermacht soldiers.
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And again the cowards conservatives Russophobic imbeciles at the rantburg believe the Ukrainia/Britain homosexuals security services propaganda …..almost 5 months now….incredible how the rantburg imbeciles still drinking British homos koolAid LOL
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That is a lot of homophobia packed into one incoherent statement, Z. Usually a signal of one deep in the closet and a fear of their own desires being discovered. Something you want to talk about?
Russland hat seine Strategie im Ukraine-Krieg geändert. Laut des ehemaligen Generals Roland Kather hat die Einnahme des Donbass aktuell höchste Priorität. Der Militärexperte geht davon aus, dass die Russen sich mit der Eroberung der Region nicht zufriedengeben werden.
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DIE WELT: The British secret service says Russia may be getting bogged down in its strong focus on Luhansk and thereby losing control of other areas. Do you think that's wishful thinking?
General Kather: I would shy away from questioning secret services here, but my assessment is different. I think we are dealing with a very clear tactic here: first of all, getting the Donbass under control, but then making the preparations for how things are to go from there. And I assume that everything will then be done to firmly establish the land connection to Crimea, to establish the land connection via Mariupol and the other port cities...
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Herr General is correct. Securing Crimea -- absolutely and totally -- is the goal, in support of which all the port cities and the land bridge must be under complete Russian control.
More unexpected consequences of Russia’s war in the Ukraine.
[DW] The leader of South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia, has scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... a vote could still be held after consultations with Moscow.
The president of a breakaway region of Georgia, South Ossetia, has scrapped plans for a June 17 referendum on joining Russia.
The new leader of the region, which is recognized as separate by only Russia and a handful of its allies, has said he first wants to hold talks with Moscow.
PLAN OF PREVIOUS PRESIDENT REVOKED
The referendum was called by the region's former leader, Anatoly Bibilov, who is considered by many to have called for the controversial vote to secure his reelection.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Bibilov lost a presidential election in early May to his rival Alan Gagloev, who has called the planned plebiscite premature.
Despite criticizing the referendum, Gagloev has voiced his support for South Ossetia's eventual accession to Russia.
Georgia's government has called the plan for a referendum "unacceptable."
Gagloev has said he plans to consult with Moscow on bringing about the region's integration with Russia. He has announced plans to travel to Moscow for talks.
UKRAINE STOKES FEELINGS OF SOLIDARITY
The war on Ukraine has sparked an outpouring of solidarity in Georgia, which was the subject of a Russian invasion in 2008.
That attack came as Georgia battled pro-Russian militia in South Ossetia, after they fired shells at Georgian villages.
A European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -mediated cease-fire brought an end to the fighting after five days, but the conflict claimed more than 700 lives and left tens of thousands of ethnic Georgians displaced.
The Kremlin subsequently recognized the territory — as well as another separatist region, Abkhazia — as an independent state, stationing its own military there.
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[Korrespondent] 23:27 Russia has switched to outright theft of Ukrainian products in the territories temporarily occupied during the war. How is Ukraine trying to resist such robbery? About this in the material The economic side of the war .
23:15 The United States will announce new defense assistance to Ukraine in the coming days, State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "We must continue to strengthen Ukraine's ability to defend itself in the face of the Kremlin's brutal aggression, and we will have more to say in this regard in the coming days" .
Price did not elaborate, but recalled that Washington has allocated about $40 billion, most of which is "intended for defense support of Ukrainian partners."
23:12 Washington is concerned about Moscow's attempts to institutionalize control over the territory of Ukraine, especially in the Kherson region, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "The Kremlin is probably weighing several approaches, from recognizing the so-called "people's republic" as Russia forcibly did in Donetsk and Luhansk, before the attempted annexation, as it did in Crimea."
“We continue to sound the alarm now, especially after the unilateral decree of Russian President Putin, which will accelerate the issuance of Russian passports to citizens of Ukraine. Russia used similar tactics in Donetsk and Lugansk in 2019. <...> Russia will almost certainly fail to achieve the legitimacy of puppet governments on newly captured territories in Ukraine as protests continue and residents refuse to cooperate," Price added.
23:03 The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in the Kherson region - the Russians were driven out of Nikolaevka, Kakhovka district, suffered losses and retreated to disadvantageous positions. Experts say that the counter-offensive will divide the Russian group and allow the invaders to be encircled in the Krivoy Rog direction. For more details, see the material Offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region .
23:00 Zelensky addressed the Ukrainians, who are trying to urge the Armed Forces of Ukraine and tell them what to do: "Ukraine values every opinion. But Ukraine values, first of all, every life. And this is an axiom. And Ukraine will never do like Russia, which throws people into the hell of fighting only because Moscow wanted to seize something in a few days or by a certain date. Our military, intelligence, the National Guard and everyone involved in the defense of the state, gradually, but inevitably frustrate all the plans of the invaders. "
The President also acknowledged that the situation in the Donbass direction is very difficult: “Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Kurakhovo are now at the epicenter of the confrontation. Given the presence of a large chemical production in Severodonetsk, the Russian army’s strikes there, in particular blind air bombardment, are simply insane. On the first day of such a war, it is no longer surprising that for the Russian military, for Russian commanders, for Russian soldiers, any madness is perfectly acceptable.
22:28 Orban is "ruthlessly" undermining the unity of the EU in his own interests, and this will have its consequences, said German Economy Minister Robert Habeck. Europe's "strength and determination" suffered during the disputes over the sixth round of sanctions against Russia, he said: "This is a compromise, and perhaps we live in a time when too many compromises not only cloud but ultimately destroy clarity. ".
21:44 The Russians have been continuously firing howitzers at the village of Zolochiv in the Kharkiv region today for ten hours, the head of the Zolochiv community, Viktor Kovalenko, told Suspilny. According to him, Zolochev has never been shelled like this before. As a result, a 74-year-old woman died, and a 73-year-old woman was seriously injured.
21:19 The Russians have cut off communications in southern Ukraine, and it will not be possible to restore it in the near future, the State Service for Special Communications of Ukraine said.
21:11 A number of OPEC members are exploring the possibility of suspending Russia's participation in the OPEC + deal amid Western sanctions, writes The Wall Street Journal.
20:56 Washington will provide Kiev with weapons for protection within the borders of Ukraine, but not beyond its borders, said US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
20:53 In the de-occupied territories, railway communication has been restored by 45%, and electricity supply has been restored in 85% of the de-occupied cities, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko said. According to him, medical institutions have resumed work in 326 settlements, and pharmacies have opened in more than 400. All substations operate in the Kyiv region. Currently, power engineers are working on connecting each individual house or apartment in accordance with the submitted applications.
20:37 President of the European Council Charles Michel believes that the process of approving the sixth sanctions package against Russia will end on June 1 or 2.
20:13 Most of Severodonetsk is controlled by the Russians, the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said on the air of the telethon. At the same time, according to him, the city is not surrounded, but because of the shelling it is impossible to deliver goods and carry out evacuation.
19:49 The EU plans to ban the insurance of tankers carrying Russian oil as part of the sixth package of sanctions, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to oil traders and ship owners interviewed by the publication, the ban on European companies to insure tankers with Russian oil will become a serious financial weapon, since few people dare to transport oil without insurance.
19:42 As a result of an enemy airstrike on Severodonetsk, a tank with nitric acid at a chemical plant was damaged, the authorities urge local residents to stay in shelters, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
19:15 The investigation has established the names of more than 600 Russians suspected of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Criminal proceedings have been launched against about 80 of them, Venediktova said.
19:13 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that old Soviet tanks and combat vehicles are being removed from storage in Belarus - they can be transferred to Russia to make up for losses.
19:11 Shmyhal said that for more than three months, support for Ukraine's allies amounted to $7 billion. According to him, the Cabinet of Ministers at today's meeting approved the conditions for attracting financial support from the Canadian government in the amount of about $800 million, as well as a draft agreement with the EU on providing Ukraine with 330 million euros.
19:08 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said that the European Commission will give an opinion on Ukraine's application for EU membership on June 15.
19:07 Almost all major EU countries, except Italy, oppose granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for accession, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said following the summit of EU leaders: "Only we are for the status of an EU candidate for Kiev. Against the status of a candidate for Ukraine in the EU "Almost all major countries object. I would say, all except Italy. <...> But it is necessary to provide a fast path for Ukraine to join. And it seems to me that the European Commission also agrees with this point of view."
19:00 Following the summit, the EU adopted a statement in which it turned to Russia with a request to unblock Ukrainian ports for grain export: "The European Council strongly condemns the destruction and misappropriation of agricultural production in Ukraine by Russia. The Russian aggressive war against Ukraine has a direct impact on global food security and accessibility.The European Council calls on Russia to stop attacks on transport infrastructure in Ukraine and lift the blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports by allowing food exports specifically from Odessa."
Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Mykola Solsky said that about 1.5 million tons of grain were blocked in Ukrainian ports.
18:53 Zelensky said at a briefing that Ukraine will not rush to de-occupy territories if it requires tens of thousands of victims, but will wait for the necessary weapons: "We are not attached to the date of de-occupation, we are attached to people. If these or those of our steps, our operations related to the de-occupation of this or that region will be associated with tens of thousands of our dead people, then we will wait for the appropriate weapons in order to save our people to the maximum ... Because these territories without living Ukrainians, we, frankly, are not in priority".
The President also explained the complexity of the situation in the east: "The situation is complicated in the east due to the fact that the largest number of equipment, military formations, battalions of both the Russian Federation and traitors who are collaborators, separatists, representatives of the conditional "DPR" and "LPR". They concentrated all their forces there in order to carry out this or that plan."
At the same time, the head of state assured that Ukraine would de-occupy the entire territory that belongs to it historically and according to all international laws.
18:50 Kuleba said that Ukraine, together with the UN, is working on creating a sea corridor for the export of Ukrainian grain: "Russia is playing games with hunger for the world, blocking food exports from Ukraine with one hand, and trying to shift the blame to Ukraine with the other. Ukraine is working on organizing international operation under the auspices of the UN, with the involvement of partner fleets, to ensure a safe trade corridor without security threats.
18:44 In the Donetsk direction, the enemy, supported by artillery and mortar fire, is conducting active assault operations in the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions, the fighting continues, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. The enemy is trying to establish full control over Severodonetsk and surround the units of the Defense Forces. He is preparing for an offensive in the directions of the settlements of Seversk and Raygorodok.
18:42 In Mariupol, all the cars found in the city - intact and damaged - without owners, the invaders began to bring to the site of the Azov market. As the adviser to the mayor of the city Petr Andryushchenko said, this is considered the beginning of the accounting of "finds". If the owners do not show up before July 1, all cars will be recognized as the property of the "young republic".
18:38 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: "In the face of Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, EU member states are uniting to strengthen defenses, ensure reliable and sustainable energy supplies and mobilize against the emerging global food crisis."
18:36 In the Black Sea, one carrier of high-precision weapons continues to be ready for use - the frigate Admiral Makarov , which has up to eight Caliber-type cruise missiles on board, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
18:34 Poland and a number of other countries are discussing the introduction of secondary sanctions that would exclude oil supplies from Russia to third countries, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said following the EU summit.
18:19 The Biden administration will give Ukraine missile systems that will be able to hit targets at a distance of more than 64 km - almost twice as much as in M777 howitzers. The systems and missiles will arrive in Ukraine within a few weeks, and military training will take up to ten days, writes The Wall Street Journal.
18:17 Gazprom announced that from June 1, it will stop deliveries to Shell Energy Europe in Germany and to the Danish Orsted, as it had not received payments from them by the end of the day on May 31. Both companies said earlier that they would not pay in rubles.
18:15 The United States decided to send to Ukraine high-precision multiple rocket launchers, which Ukraine has repeatedly requested from Western partners. Experts said that the MLRS could change the course of the war, and in Russia they call their supply a "red line" and threaten to escalate. However, Biden said that these would be shorter-range missiles. More details - in the material the United States will give Ukraine MLRS .
18:10 Sanctions against the Russian Federation will be in effect "for a very long time," Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said at a press conference after an extraordinary meeting of the European Council in Brussels: "Let's not be mistaken: these sanctions will be in effect for a very, very, very long time. So all trade lines will be changed for many years, if not forever."
18:08 The SBU detained the leading design engineer of the State Enterprise Antonov for supporting the Russian "special operation", the prosecutor's office of the Kiev region reported. According to the investigation, during March-April, a resident of Irpen, "having pro-Russian sentiments, distributed publications on social networks aimed at supporting the actions of the Russian Federation and justifying its armed aggression against Ukraine."
18:04 The UN proposed to create a contact group on the withdrawal of ships with grain from Ukrainian ports, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "The UN has a proposal - the creation of a quadripartite contact group consisting of the UN, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine. We said yes "To this, in principle, a meeting at the technical level. There was an idea for its implementation, but there has not yet been a full consensus on this issue."
Cavusoglu noted that Russia and Ukraine have also generally agreed on this issue, but the details are yet to be discussed.
17:56 Greece will supply Soviet-style tanks to Ukraine, and Germany will provide a replacement, Scholz said.
17:23 Rescuers got the bodies of four dead from under the rubble of a 16-storey building in the Industrial District of Kharkiv, the State Emergency Service reported.
17:11 Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan intends to open an office in Ukraine to investigate the crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine: "We cannot fly in and out. In the next few weeks we will work on opening an office in Kiev. We have already seen it, we have there is very good cooperation with the Attorney General. I think it is very important."
16:48 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry welcomes the "green light" from the EU to the introduction of the sixth package of sanctions from the embargo on Russian oil and calls for the preparation of the seventh package of sanctions, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"Ukraine worked at all levels to make the sixth sanctions package a reality... Ukraine worked in this case as a single well-coordinated team. The oil embargo will accelerate the countdown of the collapse of the Russian economy and the military machine," Kuleba said. According to him, the Ukrainian side has already submitted relevant proposals.
16:29 Representatives of a group of countries working on the investigation of Russia's war crimes in Ukraine have gathered in The Hague today, writes AP. The coordination meeting is being held at the EU judicial cooperation agency Eurojust with the participation of members of the Joint Investigation Team and International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan.
The Joint Investigation Team, consisting of Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland, was set up at the end of March, weeks after the ICC launched its investigation into Ukraine. Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia joined the investigation team.
16:06 Canada has imposed sanctions against four Russian companies and 22 individuals, including Kabaeva.
16:03 The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine announced the arrest of 115 objects and corporate rights of Russian Tatneft. Arrested billions of hryvnia Russian owners of the oil company. They are suspected of financing actions taken with the aim of forcibly changing and overthrowing the constitutional order, seizing state power, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement.
15:54 Law enforcement officers are investigating why the Russians were able to capture the Kherson region so quickly and why they freely crossed the isthmus from Crimea, which was allegedly cleared before that, head of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said in an interview with Ukrinform: "Even I have a final answer about what happened there , unfortunately not at the moment, but we definitely need to get an answer with you."
15:52 Putin must be removed from power, otherwise the use of brute force by Russia will continue, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview with Sky News: "Putin will always threaten and blackmail us. Of course, we would like to be completely removed, he represents brute force, and Russia is a superpower."
At the same time, Morawiecki stressed that threats and blackmail from Putin cannot be avoided if he wins the war - then "the whole of Europe will no longer be safe."
15:47 More than 100,000 screens around the world broadcast Ukrainian courage, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said:
15:40 Russia is taking Ukrainian children to the Rostov region to grant them Russian citizenship. As Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said, 540 orphans from the Donetsk region are kept in the Romashka sports and recreation complex in the village of Zolotaya Kosa, Neklinovsky district, of which 267 are from Volnovakha and Mariupol.
Now children are being prepared for a simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship in accordance with recent changes to Russian legislation. The process is supervised by Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children under the President of Russia. Sources report that the occupying authorities received an order to bring homeless children from Mariupol to this particular camp.
15:34 The Rada voted for the introduction of a new public holiday - the Day of Ukrainian Statehood. It will be celebrated annually on July 28, the Day of the Baptism of Russia.
15:32 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva said in a Reuters commentary that Kiev is dissatisfied with the EU's decision on the oil embargo: "If you ask me, I would say that it's too slow, too late and definitely not enough. We are definitely not happy."
15:26 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said that two collaborators who had seized power in the village of Terpenye were injured as a result of an explosion in the city center on May 30.
15:10 The Rada appealed to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine with a demand to impose sanctions against Patriarch Kirill and seven other representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church.
15:08 Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said that Poland, "to all appearances, is already moving on to seizing territories in western Ukraine." He also said that against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine, American corporations and banks "are rapidly expanding into Europe, have taken control of part of the gas market."
15:05 The ban on the import of crude oil from the Russian Federation to the EU will take effect six months after the introduction of sanctions, the ban on petroleum products - eight months later, they said at a regular meeting of the European Commission.
15:03 The Rada dismissed Lyudmila Denisova from the post of Commissioner for Human Rights, People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said. 234 deputies voted for this decision. There will be no appointment today.
15:00 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Ankara on June 8 to discuss the formation of a humanitarian corridor for the supply of wheat across the Black Sea.
14:51 One OSCE employee was released from Russian captivity, three more remain in custody, the organization's Secretary General Helga Schmid said.
14:37 Slovak President Zuzana Chaputova spoke in the Rada. She stated that the country would supply Zuzana howitzers to Ukraine, take care of Ukrainian refugees, and support Ukraine's entry into the EU as soon as possible.
14:25 Lukashenka announced a KGB "special operation" in Ukraine. According to him, it consisted in the release of dozens of Belarusians who were allegedly in Ukrainian captivity: “Obviously, not of their own free will, they turned out to be hostages, and not only the situation, but also individual desires of the worst people in Ukraine. When the special operation of the Russian Federation began, our people, several dozen remained there, frankly, hostages of the situation, and they had to be returned home to their families."
Lukashenka added that before the start of the so-called "operation of the Belarusian special services," two citizens were allegedly killed by Ukrainians. “When the time comes, we will deal with them,” he stressed.
14:03 The Servant of the People voiced claims against Ombudsman Denisova. According to people's deputy Pavel Frolov, the first is the "incomprehensible concentration" of Denisova's media work on the details of "sexual crimes in a perverted form" and "child rape", which she could not confirm with evidence. The Ombudsman also avoided the issues of organizing humanitarian corridors and the exchange of prisoners and spent a lot of time abroad after February 24.
13:46 The number of collaborators in the ranks of law enforcement agencies is no more than 1%, First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Enin said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. According to him, in total, the National Police investigators opened 500 criminal proceedings on the facts of collaboration activities. Six police officers were declared suspected of treason and collaboration activities.
Enin noted that a mass transfer of law enforcement officers was recorded in the Donetsk region - about 80 police officers were identified there who went over to the side of the enemy. At the same time, compared to 2014, there are very few people left in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are ready for betrayal. Then whole garrisons went over to the side of the enemy.
13:34 The Russians hit Slavyansk from the Iskander missile system tonight, the National Police reported.
13:28 Kherson "authorities" together with Russia are studying the possibility of restoring industrial enterprises in the region. In particular, the Elektromash plant is ready to produce spare parts for Kamaz trucks, Kirill Stremousov, "deputy head" of the region, said. He also stated that the Kherson shipyard and shipyards will be ready for full-fledged work "after the liberation of the Nikolaev and Odessa regions."
13:22 The "head" of Melitopol, Galina Danilchenko, after the assassination attempt on the "governor" Yevgeny Balitsky, announced that she was resigning from her position. According to RIA Melitopol, citing its sources, Danilchenko was offered to resign on one condition - to surrender to the special services of Ukraine.
According to media insider information, following the car that exploded on the morning of May 30, a car from Danilchenko was moving from the Kvartal shopping center. The explosive planted in the manhole behind the Storm cafe went off while the car was moving and could clearly have been assigned to Danilchenko.
13:03 Lavrov said that if Kiev "solves the problem of demining ports," then the Russian Navy will allegedly provide "unhindered passage" of ships with grain to the Mediterranean Sea.
12:58 Ukraine needs guarantees from the UN and third countries to export grain from the country's ports, Kuleba said in an interview with La Repubblica: "The Kremlin's unilateral guarantee is not enough for us. We need third countries that will take responsibility for compliance with the agreement. We are also satisfied UN intervention. We are primarily interested in getting the grain to those who need it."
12:37 Residents of some districts of Nikolaev and suburban villages are recommended to temporarily leave the city because of the threat of shelling. In particular, if possible, they are asked to leave the Korabelny and Ingulsky districts of the city, as well as from the villages of Polygon, Nikolaevskoye, the NARP district, Kulbakino, the Military Commandant's Office of Defense said.
12:29 Ukrainian troops can leave Severodonetsk, the head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, told the BBC: "The Russians are attacking Severodonetsk from several directions. Unfortunately, they have already managed to enter the city, and the situation is very difficult." At the same time, Gaidai added that Ukrainian troops have not yet left the city and continue to resist. "But if they need to move across the river to Lisichansk to save troops, they might do it," he suggested.
12:08 The Kotelevsky district court of the Poltava region found guilty two Russian military men Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov, who fired at Kharkiv region from multiple launch rocket systems. Each of them was sentenced to 11.5 years in prison.
12:02 People's deputies expressed no confidence in the Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova. Now the issue of her dismissal should be considered by the parliamentary committee, after which it will be submitted to a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada.
11:56 Ukrainian refugees in Russia are summoned for interrogations and demanded to confirm Kiev's war crimes. According to Russian lawyers and volunteers who work with Ukrainian refugees, investigators are interviewing people as witnesses in some criminal cases. People are being pressured to confirm that they were allegedly shot at by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the oppositional Russian channel We Can Explain writes .
Lawyers say that almost all refugees eventually agree with the version of the investigation. "People have experienced absolute hell. Everyone hand over their phones. The task is to survive, get out and leave. They don't even read what they sign. I have no doubt that volumes will appear with evidence of the crimes of the Azov battalion, Aidar, etc.," said one of the lawyers.
11:49 The Kiev city military administration showed how the first line of defense of the capital is being equipped. He will be at a great distance from the city to secure Kyiv in case the enemy makes a new attempt to capture.
11:43 The gas embargo will not be included in the next package of EU sanctions against Russia, said Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer. He explained that it is much easier to compensate for Russian oil.
In turn, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo believes that it is time to pause the sanctions against Russia and assess the consequences of those that have already been introduced.
11:41 Bulgaria, according to the new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, will refuse to supply Russian oil only by the end of 2024, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said.
11:39 The occupying "authorities" of the Zaporozhye region are going to celebrate the Day of Russia in Melitopol on June 12. Also in Melitopol, they began accepting documents for obtaining Russian citizenship, Vladimir Rogov, appointed by the Russian Federation, said.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin said that the accelerated procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine has already been launched, on May 30, more than 50 people submitted applications.
11:28 In Kiev, maintenance of beaches and recreation areas is carried out as usual, but the beach season will not start yet. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, in the territories of the capital's beaches and recreation areas, they will begin to examine the bottom of the water areas for the presence of explosive objects. Under the conditions of martial law and for the safety of citizens, it is not yet recommended to visit these places.
11:26 Over the past day, the enemy fired at the Osnovansky and Kievsky districts of Kharkov, as well as Kharkovsky, Izyumsky, Chuguevsky and Bogodukhovsky districts of the region. As a result, three people died and 14 were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also, according to him, shelling of settlements in the region continued this morning, a 12-year-old child and a woman were killed, another civilian was injured.
11:12 France creates a special group to investigate the circumstances of the death of journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff in the Lugansk region, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Catherine Colonna. According to her, the group will be headed by Ukrainian law enforcement officers. She also addressed the press and urged to give due publicity to the death of a member of the media community.
10:55 The EU cannot prevent Russia from selling oil to third countries, but hopes that it will have to be sold at a discount, Borrell said. Also, according to him, the conflict in Ukraine proved to the EU that soft power is not enough, and therefore the EU should become a military force. In addition, Borrell allowed the imposition of sanctions against Patriarch Kirill.
10:50 Gazprom announced that it had completely stopped gas supplies to the Netherlands in connection with the refusal to switch to payments in rubles.
10:39 After the start of the war in Ukraine, the whole world lined up for Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, drone designer Selcuk Bayraktar said, Reuters reports. According to him, Baykar can produce 200 such drones per year. The designer also added that he is proud that his equipment helps defend Ukraine: "This is an illegal invasion, so TV2 is helping the respected people of Ukraine to defend their country."
10:32 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 31. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Kryvyi Rih and Zaporozhye directions.
personnel - about 30,500 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1358 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 3302 (+20),
artillery systems - 649 (+6),
MLRS - 207 (+2),
air defense systems - 93 (+0),
aircraft - 208 (+1),
helicopters - 174 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 515 (+8),
cruise missiles - 120 (+2),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2275 (+11),
special equipment - 48 (+0).
10:23 Orban said that Hungary is exempt from the oil embargo.
10:19 The Russian military controls approximately half of Severodonetsk, the head of the CAA, Alexander Stryuk, said on the air of the telethon. He also urged civilians not to come out of hiding as street fighting rages on in the city.
10:02 In the Mariupol port, 2.5 thousand tons of steel coils were loaded onto the Russian vessel RM3 and transported to the port of Rostov-on-Don. Also, the occupiers have already announced the "nationalization" of the remaining 34 ships in the port - the process of renaming them and changing flags has already begun, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
09:56 British intelligence reports that Russia's capture of Liman supports its main operational efforts to encircle Severodonetsk and close the pocket around Ukrainian forces in the Lugansk region. Analysts note that Russia has achieved greater local success than before by concentrating forces and fire on a relatively small area. This forces the Russian Federation to take risks elsewhere in the occupied territory.
The political goal of Russia is probably the complete occupation of the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. To do this, the Russian Federation needs to secure further difficult operational targets outside of Severodonetsk, including the key city of Kramatorsk and the M04 Dnipro-Donetsk highway, intelligence adds.
09:27 EU leaders at the summit in Brussels were able to unblock the adoption of the embargo on Russian oil. How the largest dispute over sanctions against the Russian Federation was resolved and what exceptions were made for this - in the material , the EU introduces an embargo on oil from Russia .
09:25 Tonight, the enemy made two missile launches from an aircraft on the territory of the Belopolsky community of the Sumy region. The plane made launches without crossing the border of Ukraine, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to him, immediately after the rocket strikes, shelling of the territory of the community began.
Also at night, Velikopisarevskaya bulk was fired from the territory of Russia, about ten artillery strikes were inflicted. In both cases, there were no casualties.
09:21 Scholz said that Germany will soon have the largest conventional army in Europe within NATO, which will "significantly enhance" the security of Germany and its allies.
09:19 The situation in the Luhansk region is extremely difficult - part of Severodonetsk is controlled by the Russians, but they cannot move freely - the Armed Forces of Ukraine still remain in the city, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the enemy is planning an operation to clean up the territory of the surrounding villages.
Gaidai also said that the wounded volunteers were taken out of Severodonetsk, and there was no contact with the missing doctors from the shelled ambulance for the third day. Humanitarian supplies are delivered only to Lisichansk and the Mountain community.
09:14 Russia's losses from the EU oil embargo could amount to $22 billion a year, Bloomberg calculated. Of these, 12 billion dollars were losses from cutting off exports along the northern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline to Poland and Germany, another 10 billion from a ban on sea exports, which account for 75% of all Russian oil exports.
The publication notes that these volumes will have to be redirected to Asia, where a barrel of Urals is now offered at a discount of $34 compared to Brent. At the same time, Russia will continue to earn $6 billion a year from oil exports to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, for which they made an exception.
09:11 Pushilin announced the appearance of a merchant fleet in the "DPR": after the end of hostilities in Mariupol, several ships remained at the berths of the seaport, "some of them will come under the jurisdiction of the" DPR ". The leader of the pseudo-republic also said that the port of Mariupol is planned to be used for receiving equipment and building materials, with the help of which "restoration work will be carried out in the "DPR".
09:06 Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov has been appointed head of the Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war. The corresponding decision was made by the Cabinet of Ministers, having approved it by Resolution No. 257 dated March 11, 2022.
08:40 As a result of the shelling of the Lugansk region over the past day, two people were killed and four were injured, among the victims is a French journalist, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, now the main efforts of the Russians are focused on establishing control over Severodonetsk. They are also storming, but not having success, in the areas of Zolote, Kamyshevakhi, Nyrkovo, the fighting continues there.
08:27 The first ship after the capture of Mariupol by the occupiers with a cargo of rolled metal left the port of the city, Russian propaganda media reported.
08:24 The NATO Parliamentary Assembly adopted a declaration of support for the Euro-Atlantic course of Ukraine, the press service of the Verkhovna Rada reported. In the NATO declaration, it demands to support Ukraine on the path to Euro-Atlantic integration, to increase the supply of heavy weapons, including air defense systems, missile defense systems, anti-ship systems and artillery, and to strengthen the exchange of intelligence information.
08:02 The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, said in an interview with Fox News that "defining operational battles" are taking place in eastern Ukraine. In his opinion, the next weeks will have a decisive influence on the further course of events.
Milley also believes that negotiations would be the best way to end the war in Ukraine: "I think a solution through negotiations would be the logical choice." But, according to him, both sides must come to this conclusion on their own, "it is up to President Zelensky and President Putin to decide how everything ends."
07:50 The occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine switched to Russian mobile communications and the Internet, Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the "head" of Crimea, said. On the eve it was reported that Ukrainian mobile communications disappeared in these territories.
07:41 The Russian army is conducting assault operations in the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions, preparing an offensive in the Limansky, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . In particular, there was a new attempt at an enemy assault in the Dolgenkiy area on the border of the Kharkov and Donetsk regions, the enemy suffered losses and retreated. The enemy is concentrating his main efforts on establishing control over Severodonetsk.
07:39 The occupiers launched a missile attack on Slavyansk at night, as a result of which at least three people were killed, six were injured, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, the school and at least seven high-rise buildings were damaged. Rescue work is underway.
07:20 EU leaders confirm their readiness to consider Ukraine's application for membership at the next summit in June, the conclusion of the European Council on Ukraine says: "The European Council takes note of the preparation of the conclusions of the Commission on the application for EU membership of Ukraine, as well as the Republic of Moldova and Georgia and will return to this issue at its June meeting."
07:11 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that due to significant losses of junior staff and lack of professionalism and modernization, the Russian army is losing the ability to manage personnel and is experiencing moral decline.
ISW also notes "internal dissent in Russian military circles." At the same time, the institute cites the words of the ex-minister of defense of the so-called "DPR" Igor Girkin (Strelkov), who accused the Kremlin of abandoning the "ideological basis" of the war in Ukraine. Analysts note that Girkin's statements, which sharply criticizes the Russian leadership, are a sign of changes in the military circles of the Russian Federation.
06:33 French journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff was killed in Ukraine when the car in which he was traveling to evacuate civilians near Severodonetsk came under fire. "France demands that the investigation into this drama be carried out as quickly and openly as possible," Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said.
05:36 Ukraine will receive new batches of high-precision missiles with a longer range than it currently has, but not missiles that can reach deep into Russia , Michael McFaul, co-chair of the international working group on sanctions against the Russian Federation, explained Biden's statement. We are talking about MLRS with a range of 70 km, not 300.
02:00 Charles Michel announced that the EU, together with the G7, will allocate 9 billion euros of financial assistance to Ukraine.
01:25 The leaders of the EU countries agreed on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, in particular, they agreed to impose an embargo on the import of two-thirds of Russian oil , said the head of the European Council Charles Michel . At the same time, the ban on the import of Russian oil did not affect supplies through the pipeline. By the end of 2022, the EU will actually reduce oil imports from Russia by 90%, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
In addition, the EU decided to disconnect the Russian Sberbank from SWIFT and imposed a ban on broadcasting in Europe of three more Russian TV channels.
Damned lawyers
[KavkazUzel] Drawing a picture with the letter Z on someone else's fence should be qualified as hooliganism, says Igor Trunov, president of the Union of Lawyers of Russia. By erasing the letter Z, the man did not discredit the Russian army in any way, said Moscow lawyer Yevgeny Chernousov, commenting on the conflict in Stavropol.
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[KavkazUzel] Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, representatives of regional authorities have reported the deaths in Ukraine of at least 250 natives of the North Caucasus and 100 residents of the Southern Federal District. Most of the dead are in Dagestan, the authorities confirmed the death of at least 129 natives of the republic.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on February 26, the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, was the first to report the death in Ukraine of a military officer, Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov. The Russian Defense Ministry for the first time recognized losses in Ukraine only on February 27, without specifying the number of dead.
On March 2, the department reported that 498 Russian servicemen were killed in the special operation, another 1,597 were injured, on March 25, the department announced the death of 1,351 military personnel and the wounding of another 3,825 people.
Since March 25, the Ministry of Defense has not voiced data on the number of deaths, but the authorities of regions and municipalities regularly report the death of fellow countrymen. By May 12, the number of deaths in Ukraine, which was informed by representatives of the authorities of the regions of the North Caucasus and Southern federal districts, reached 300.
Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, the authorities of the regions and districts have reported the deaths of at least 129 natives of Dagestan, 49 natives of North Ossetia, and 29 Stavropol residents.
The authorities also reported the death of 20 residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, ten residents of Ingushetia, nine residents of Chechnya and four natives of Karachay-Cherkessia. Thus, since the beginning of the military operation, the death in Ukraine of at least 250 natives of the North Caucasian Federal District has been officially confirmed.
Since the beginning of the military operation, the authorities of the regions of the Southern Federal District have reported the death of at least 100 people. Thus, the authorities of the Volgograd region confirmed the death of 38 natives of the region, the Krasnodar Territory - 23, the Astrakhan region - 19. Officially confirmed the death during a special operation of 13 natives of the Rostov region, six natives of Kalmykia and one native of Adygea.
The "Caucasian Knot" maintains a list of names of natives of the south of Russia who died during the military operation in Ukraine. The list is based on data regions officially confirmed by the authorities.
The number of security officials from the North Caucasus who died in Ukraine is higher than in the last eight years of the armed conflict in the North Caucasus, during which 143 security officials were killed.
In the material "more security officials from the Caucasus were killed in Ukraine than in eight years of terror," the "Caucasian Knot" also presented a pie chart that clearly shows how the situation has changed in each region of the North Caucasus Federal District over eight years, and interactive infographics that allow you to compare the dynamics in different regions of the North Caucasus from 2011 to 2022.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that analysts pointed to the lack of information on the death toll in Ukraine. The true extent of the losses during the special operation in Ukraine cannot be assessed until it is over, said the chief researcher at the IMEMO. EAT. Primakov RAS Alexey Malashenko.
As a rule, most of the contract soldiers are from poor regions, which explains the frequent reports of casualties among the natives of Dagestan and other republics of the North Caucasus Federal District, Akhmet Yarlykapov, a senior researcher at the Center for Eurasian Studies at MGIMO, suggested.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:21 In the Belgorod region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired seven shells that hit the Politotdelsky oil plant and almost flew to the village of Veselaya Lopan. According to eyewitnesses, one workshop was smashed by a shock wave. There were two workers inside - they got off with a fright. The field near the village is in craters, the power lines are seriously damaged, the houses were not touched. The director of the enterprise said that "multi-million dollar losses." 21:31 Russia is open to negotiations with Ukraine and signing agreements that "would lead to peace," Matviyenko said.
20:54 More than 200 residents of Zaporozhye have already applied for Russian passports. Alexey Selivanov, deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, told us about this.
"Since May 30, a center for receiving applications from citizens wishing to obtain Russian citizenship has been opened in Melitopol on the basis of a police department," Selivanov said.
19:51 Russian troops came close to Svyatogorsk. The Russian troops managed to drive the enemy out of the vicinity of Yarovaya.
Recall that a few days ago in this village there was a comparative calm. The Russians undertook 2 diversionary maneuvers: they imitated active actions in the area of Apiary (they built a crossing) and Bogorodichny - massive strikes were inflicted. Currently, residents of Svyatogorsk report fighting with small arms in the vicinity of the city.
Establishing control over Svyatogorsk will be complicated by the artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are equipped on the opposite bank of the river near the Lavra of the same name
19:51 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation began accepting Russian citizenship in a simplified manner for orphans from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine. Recently, Putin signed a corresponding decree.
19:10 The command of the "V" group is making every effort to prevent losses among the civilian population of Ukraine. A dedicated vehicle delivers everyone who wants to be evacuated to Belgorod. After registration, people are placed in temporary waiting camps, where they are provided with food and necessary medical care.In the footageexport of people from Izyum.
19:06 Shell Energy Europe has notified Gazprom Export that it will not pay in rubles under the contract for the supply of gas to Germany.
18:05 The network appeared video destruction of artillery of the 63rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Krivoy Rog.
18:03 There are more and more supporters of the SVO in Ukraine: SBU detained design engineer at the Antonov plant in Kyiv. The SBU said that the engineer supported Russia's special operation in Ukraine, and also turned to the President of the Russian Federation with a request to grant him Russian citizenship.
17:25 In the Rada, they propose to allow sending subpoenas from the court through Diya.
17:24 Greece will supply Soviet-style tanks to Ukraine, will receive their replacement from Germany - Scholz.
16:32 Melitopol residents line up for filing documents for Russian citizenship.
16:31 Canada has imposed new sanctions on 22 citizens of the Russian Federation and four Russian companies, the Foreign Ministry reports.
16:31 The Horlivka and Slavic diocese does not accept decisions of the UOC Council and will continue to commemorate Patriarch Kirill, Metropolitan Mitrofan said.
15:29 The Verkhovna Rada dismissed Lyudmila Denisova from the post of Commissioner for Human Rights.
15:26 The Verkhovna Rada appealed to the National Security and Defense Council with a demand to impose personal sanctions against eight representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church.
According to people's deputies, they "systemically and actively support the war against Ukraine." The appeal was supported by 292 deputies. The list, in particular, includes Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the department for external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, deputy head of the department for external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, and a number of other representatives of the ROC of the status of archpriests.
14:55 The Russian Navy will ensure unhindered passage for ships with grain if Kyiv solves the problem of demining its territorial waters, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
14:55 Poland, apparently, is already moving on to seizing territories in western Ukraine - Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Patrushev.
13:44 Day of Russia, June 12 in the Zaporozhye region will be celebrated for the first time as a public holiday, the regional authorities said.
13:44 The first 50 people from the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have applied for Russian passports, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said.
12:41 At the request of residents, the authorities decided to remove the checkpoint in Kindiyka. This was announced by the head of the CAA of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo.
According to him, the situation is gradually stabilizing, and there is no more need for this checkpoint.
12:40 Grain transshipment is planned through the ports of Berdyansk. The deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region said that the possibility of transporting grain through the ports of Berdyansk is being considered.
12:40 Ukrainian court sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11.5 years in prison each.
12:27 We will not join the sanctions against Russia and will not allow it to be done through us - the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
11:43 Aviation of the RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 290 nationalists and 23 units of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:43 Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian UAVs, one in the area of Snake Island.
11:42 Aviation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 plane near the Nikolaev region.
11:42 The Russian side plans to transfer the bodies found at Azovstal to representatives of Ukraine in the near future.
11:41 The captured Azov militants* said that the mining of the bodies left at Azovstal was carried out on instructions from Kyiv.
11:41 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed four command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 13 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian equipment with high-precision missiles.
11:40 The military of the Russian Federation found a van with the bodies of 152 dead militants at Azovstal, under which there were 4 mines.
11:13 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation will give a legal assessment of the next facts of the criminal actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in relation to the civilian population, the department said.
11:12 Kyiv plans to disconnect the Kherson region from the Ukrainian banking system - Krym-24 TV channel.
10:47 Russian military delivered humanitarian aid to the crew of the Turkish ship Ferhanaz, which was blocked in the port of Kherson for about 3 months due to mines laid by the Ukrainian military, the Ministry of Defense reports.
10:47 Zelensky told Erdogan that he wants to meet with Putin, Cavusoglu said.
10:46 The conflict in Ukraine proved to the EU that soft power is not enough, so the EU must become a military force, Borrell said.
10:43 The acceptance of documents for obtaining Russian citizenship in Melitopol has begun, the first point - the authorities - has been opened.
10:43 RS RF launched a missile attack on a military unit in the village of Gradenitsy on the border with the PMR. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard slept there.
10:43 A few more "lost" Ukrainian militants were found at Azovstal - Pushilin.
09:50 "Odessa is the Russian Federation!" Another brave woman opposes Nazis and Banderites who came in large numbers. Despite the many military, the woman freely and aloud expressed her opinion.
09:10 Military correspondents FAN visited the site of the tragedy in Stakhanov. The bodies of two dead pregnant women have already been removed, but traces of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are still visible.
08:05 Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have crossed on Russian mobile communications and the Internet, said Oleg Kryuchkov, head of Crimea for information policy.
08:03 Foreign and Ukrainian journalists rubbed next to the Ukrainian military and caught an artillery arrival. At least one Ukrainian soldier and one journalist were injured.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:40 The total cleansing of Severodonetsk has been completed, Ramzan Kadyrov announced this. According to the head of Chechnya, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left "a lot of surprises in the form of improvised explosive devices." He promised that they would be cleared soon. 22:12 A total of 85 percent of the territory of Severodonetsk is already under the control of the RF Armed Forces. The enemy is resisting in the area of the Severodonetsk thermal power plant, the Azot plant and in the southern districts of the city. Apparently, Severodonetsk will be completely liberated in the coming days. The Armed Forces of Ukraine failed to organize the second Mariupol from Severodonetsk.
21:38 The explosion of a tank at the Azot plant, presumably with nitric acid, was calculated in such a way that the wind sent a poisonous cloud towards the liberated Rubizhne and Kremennaya, said the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Ivan Filiponenko.
"The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, retreating from the industrial zone of Severodonetsk, in order to create obstacles to the successful offensive of our troops, attempted to create a zone of chemical contamination and blew up a tank at the Azot plant, presumably with nitric acid. The moment of detonation was calculated in such a way that the wind sent a poisoned cloud towards the liberated settlements of Rubizhnoye and Kremennaya,” Filiponenko said.
20:52 In Severodonetsk, at the Azot plant, a tank was blown up, in which, presumably, there was nitric acid, said LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik.
20:46 State Duma Vice Speaker Anna Kuznetsova visited refugees from Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in a temporary accommodation center.
20:43 A peaceful resident of the DPR was wounded during shelling of the village of Aleksandrovka by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
19:50 The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired on Yasinovataya's rail car depot today. Apparently, they are trying in this way to respond to the “calibration” of railway junctions throughout Ukraine. It turns out weak. But in the destruction of the civilian population, there are no equal Ukrainian militants.
In recent days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been hitting Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka with some kind of especially fierce hatred, hitting precisely residential areas, where there is the highest probability of killing a woman, child or old man. It's agony - Commissar Kitten.
19:48 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about a fire in a high-pressure gas pipeline with a threat of burning a combined heat and power plant at the Yasinovsky Coke and Chemical Plant as a result of shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky District of the settlement. Makeevka on the street.
Also, information was received about the entry of VFU ammunition into the territory of the Makeevka correctional colony at the address: st. Repin, 144.
19:46 Today, the area of the settlement was completely cleared. Novoselovka-2, forest plantations, expanding the zone of control.
"We advanced to Krasnogorovka, probing the enemy's defenses. Ukry tried to counterattack from Avdiivka in the direction of Novoselivka-2 and Novobakhmutovka. They didn't have success. The fights continue."
19:08 The operational line of the DPR JCCC received refined information on civilian casualties as a result of shelling of the VFU pos. Panteleymonovka in Gorlovka on the street. Grape, 4 - they turned out to be two teenage guys born in 2007.
Also, as a result of this shelling, additional addresses damage:
- st. Grape, 48, 50 - apartment buildings;
- st. Grape - boiler room No. 66 "Donbassteploenergo";
- st. Vinogradnaya, 14 - outpatient clinic №9 CPMSP №1 g. Gorlovka.
In addition, the official car of the DonbassGaz Group of Companies was damaged, and eight transformer substations were de-energized, as a result of which about 1,200 subscribers of the village. sh-you im. Lenin without electricity.
Damage reported as a result of shelling of the VFU Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the address: st. Fighting, 38 (private residential building).
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
17:13 Chicken produced in the liberated territory will soon appear on the shelves of the Republic.
In the Volnovakha district, the Dianovskaya Poultry Farm received the first batch of 18,000 day-old broiler chickens. In 42 days, after growing and fattening this batch of chickens, about 35 tons of broiler meat will additionally enter the shelves of the Republic, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Industry of the DPR reports. Meat's back on the menu! 16:52 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of a teenager as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Panteleimonovka. Another civilian is under the rubble of a house at st. Grape, 4.
Personal data and the nature of the injuries of the victims are being established.
Also, as a result of this shelling, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Grape, 32a - kindergarten "Golden Key";
- st. Grape, 4 - a direct hit in a residential building;
- st. Grape, 2, 38 - residential buildings.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yelenovka at the addresses:
- st. Frunze, 179, 196 - private sector.
16:35 The Avdiivka-Konstantinovka highway was cut by the fighters of the NM of the DPR with the support of the RF Armed Forces.
15:29 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about another injured civilian - a man born in 1985. as a result of the morning shelling of the VFU of the Chervonogvardeisky district of the settlement. Makeevka at the address: Pervomaisky village, st. Tychyny, 24, apt. 2.
Information was also received about damage to private residential buildings as a result of shelling of the VFU of the village of mine named after. IN AND.
Lenina n.p. Gorlovka at the addresses: st. Orlovskaya, 18, 20, 22.
14:21 As a result of today's shelling of the AFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, the number of victims increased to seven people: two were killed and five were injured.
13:42 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about civilian casualties as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- Sufferedmale, born in 1977
n.p. Elenovka:
- a man born in 1940 was wounded.
Also received updated information, about the victim as a result of shelling of the VFU Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka at the address: st. Kirovogradskaya, 3 - it turned out to be a guy born in 1997.
Information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
- st. Tychyny, 22, 34 - private houses;
- st. Tychyny, 27 - School number 77;
- st. Kirovogradskaya, 13 - a private residential building;
- st. Menzhinsky, 29 - a private residential building.
n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. Lenina, 171 - Alexander School.
12:35 The operational line of the DPR JCCC received additiona linformation on civilian casualties as a result of shelling of the VFU of the Chervonogvardeysky district n.p. Makeyevka at the address: Pervomaisky settlement, st. Kirovogradskaya, 3:
- a woman born in 1975 died.
- a man was injured (personal data is being established).
Information was also received about the fire of a farm building as a result of shelling of the VFU Chervonogvardeisky district, n.p. Makeevka at the address: Pervomaisky village, st. Collective, 14.
12:03 The operational line of the DPR JCCC received information about civilian casualties - a child born in 2017 died. as a result of shelling of the VFU Chervonogvardeisky district, n.p. Makeevka at the address: Pervomaisky village, st. Beregovaya, 39.
There was also information about a fire in the garage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the Chervonogvardeysky district n.p. Makeyevka at the address: Pervomaisky settlement, st. Tychyny, 30.
11:37 AFU attacked the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka. As a result of the shelling on the street. Tychiny there was a fire in the garage.
11:14 In the DPR, they announced their readiness to award the death penalty to some prisoners. The head of the Ministry of Justice of the DPR, Yuri Sirovatko, said that a separate trial and investigation is underway for each prisoner, but "there are people who will be awarded capital punishment. According to the Criminal Code of the DPR, this is the death penalty."
10:43 Information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. Agricultural, 1/3 - a hit in the farm building was recorded.
10:22 The Tribunal is just around the corner, there are already enough materials. For the residents of Donbass, Azov is a symbol of many years of terror.
The “library” prison at the airport was set up as soon as Azov entered the city — May 7, 2014, they are the ones who are guilty of terrible crimes in Mariupol since 2014 — Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on Soloviev-Live.
10:21 Our source in WHOP said that Zaluzhny told Zelensky about the need to leave Severodonetsk, which there is no way to hold. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine proposed a phased withdrawal to Lysichansk, which would allow maintaining the combat capability of the units and would not be perceived as surrendering the city without a fight.
10:17 AFU attacked Oleksandrivka Information about the destruction is being specified.
10:16 The clearing of forests near Krasny Liman is already underway - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on Soloviev-Live.
10:00 The port of Mariupol is planned to be used to receive equipment and building materials, with the help of which restoration work will be carried out in the DPR, Pushilin said.
09:57 Ukrainian militants are going to leave Severodonetsk hiding behind civilians!
People in shelters at the Azot chemical plant were ordered to pack their things and prepare for evacuation.
The militants are going to take hostages on the territory of the plant and leave Severodonetsk under their cover, leaving only reserve forces to cover the retreat on the 170th building.
People who were on Azot should try to avoid evacuation, move to other places, where there is where to hide.
09:51 "Russia does not abandon its own." The Roscosmos rocket was named "Donbass". It also depicts the flags of the republics.
09:26 AFU shelled Yasinovataya. Damaged building on the street. Kashtanova.
08:30 Ukrainian militants attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk from positions in Krasnogorovka. 122mm artillery is used against the population.
08:07 Employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia started investigative actions on the territory of the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
07:58 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, three shellings were recorded on the settlement. Stakhanov, Pervomaisk and Popasnaya with the use of BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket systems (five rounds) and 120mm mortars (12 mines). As a result of shelling in N. p. Stakhanov, two people were killed, 24 people were injured, of which eight were children. Damaged 2 infrastructure facilities, a school and a hospital.
[FoxNews] The Biden administration is expected this week to approve sending shorter-range rocket missiles to Ukraine as part of the $40 billion aid package for the besieged country.
The Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), known as HIMARS (High Mobility Rockets System), have a range of 83 to 185 miles based on the kind of artillery rockets and mobile platform being used. There are also wheeled versions of the MLRS that fire 6 missiles and there are tracked vehicles that fire 12 missiles.
MLRS had reportedly been a top request from Ukrainian officials, who say they need it to stop the advance of Russian forces in the east, which has taken control of the key city of Lyman last week.
The approval comes after President Biden said Monday the U.S. would not send rocket systems to Ukraine that could potentially reach into Russia, though he was referring to longer-range ATACMS missiles, which have a range of 185 miles.
#3
Extraordinarily reckless and foolish. This will, at most, merely prolong the war and with it, the Ukrainians' agony. Biden is ensuring that all of the east of Ukraine will be reduced to ruins. The outcome will be the same -- a Russian victory and the loss of a substantial portion of Ukrainian territory. More innocents will die and more people around the world will become poorer or starve.
Just as he did during his Asian trip, Biden's foolish and incendiary behavior is creating chaos and havoc in every situation he touches.
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'The Ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets in Russian territory,' a senior administration official said.
Just like Biden assured Putin that NATO would not deploy Tomahawks on his border.
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#6
Personally, I think it's a total waste of money as it looks like Ukraine will soon no longer exist as a country. I suspect east of the Dnepr River, will all be part of Russian and West of the Dnepr River will possibly become part of Poland as it used to be.
The first in line is apparently Poland, with Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev baselessly claiming on Tuesday that Poland is moving to seize territories in western Ukraine and accusing numerous unnamed countries of “actively working to dismember Ukraine.” Meanwhile, on Russian state TV hosts and pundits routinely refer to Ukraine as “the territory formerly known as Ukraine” and matter-of-factly discuss how many millions of Ukrainians might have to die for Russia to complete its so-called “denazification.” In his recent interview, Russian State Duma Deputy Defense Committee Chairman Vladimir Shamanov, former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Airborne Troops, admitted that Russia “was built through territorial enlargement” and named Poland as one of Russia’s main adversaries.
#8
Currently, the Russians are launching attacks on the west Ukrainian railroad tunnel through which fuel and arms enter Ukraine from Poland and the West.
After Donbas, the Russians will focus on taking the final piece of the puzzle, Odesa.
At that point Ukraine will be completely dead economically. The government will have no revenues and will be totally dependent on Congress, and Zelensky (assuming he does not flee and is not deposed in another US-backed coup) will effectively be an employee of the State Department.
It would be prudent to begin negotiations posthaste.
#9
"baselessly claiming on Tuesday that Poland is moving to seize territories in western Ukraine"
baselessly - LOL
Zelensky has essentially removed the border, waiving customs and duties and offering citizenship to Poles. He is inviting Polish soldiers to enter Ukraine and join the fight.
The Poles see their opportunity and are moving aggressively to exploit it.
#12
Immediately after Biden into the White House and brought back Victoria Newland and the entire team from 2014, Zelensky announced his intention to seize Crimea. Throughout the summer of 2021, the Biden administration raised the ante with provocative actions including June 2021's hostile US-UK naval maneuvers right next to the base at Sevastopol itself.
The final straw occurred on November 10, 2021, when Zelensky and Biden signed a formal agreement to seize Crimea. This “charter on strategic partnership” pledged that Ukraine would join NATO and underscored what it called the US-Ukrainian “unwavering commitment” to the absorption of Crimea, and its extraordinarily important Russian naval base, by Ukraine.
The parallels with World War One are obvious.
Putin, like all of the national leaders in August 1914, believed he had to attack before NATO attacked and seized Crimea. Again, Zelensky and the US president had formally pledged their nation's to seize Crimea. The US had been engaging in threatening naval exercises next to Crimea.
In the face of this clear demonstration of both the intention and the capability to seize the most valuable military, strategic, economic and political territory that Russia possesses outside its main two cities, Putin decided that he must attack before NATO attacked and seized Crimea.
The return of Biden and the Maidan coup-plotters, along with Bidens reckless and absurd rhetoric directed personally or Putin, only helped convince the Russians that the new US administration was intent on seizing Crimea.
#14
Considering how Putin has been treating Ukrainian cities, I personally have no problem with Belgorod or Kursk getting the shit blown out of them. See how the orcs like it.
#16
'The Ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets in Russian territory,'
And if you can't trust the Ukrainians...
Dateline: the near future
In a last-ditch defiant effort, Zelensky raised a defiant middle finger in the form of a long-range rocket attack on Moscow itself. "*Bleep* you, you Russian *bleep*ers.", the President was quoted as defiantly saying.
#17
Our usual trolls defending Russia seem to all log in around the same time. Boiler Room tactics
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#18
The Russian tactics are quite different from how they've been presented by the official sources in the West. This American analyst seems to have a more solid grasp:
“It has been assumed that the Russians were trying to generate larger pockets and encircle large numbers of Ukrainians in major ground movements,” the American source said. “The Russians may have adopted a different tactic, one that has been used very effectively by the Israelis ...."
This tactic involves "finding a weak spot, using coordinated artillery, armor and infantry for a small, localized breakthrough and then penetrate behind the local defense and rapidly turn and roll up small pockets of the enemy. This appears to be a deliberate tactical choice by the Russians,” the American source said.
#19
Given the close cooperation between the Russian military and the Israeli Defense Forces, it makes sense that they would share tactical knowledge and advice.
The Israelis have been pounding Hezbollah and Hamas for years, and now they're helping advise the Russians on how to pulverize Azov and the remaining Ukrainian battalions.
#20
Given the close cooperation between the Russian military and the Israeli Defense Forces
Eh? I must have missed that while reading the news from Israel these past many decades, though I admit to having no knowledge of matters military. I understand that in recent years Israel informed the Russian command in Syria when they were about to raid various sites in Syria, but it is not clear to me that it went beyond that.
#21
Invoking Juice is their last resort to defend the Russian aggression and killings
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#22
The Russians and the Israelis are quite close, both culturally and politically. Many Israelis (esiecualky tge wealthy) have dual citizenship. Russian is spoken by a large percentage of the Israeli population.
Most importantly, they share a common realpolitik view of international relations and a fierce devotion to using military force, at times brutally, against their enemies -- regardless of international censure or sanctions.
#24
The joke in Tel Aviv used to be that when a Russian made Aliyah, and he or she did not enter customs at Ben-Gurion Airport carrying a violin case, then he or she must be a pianist.
:-)
The ties between the nations are deep and long standing.
The largest number of Russian Jews now live in Israel. Israel is home to a core Russian-Jewish population of 900,000, and an enlarged population of 1,200,000 (including halakhically non-Jewish members of Jewish households, but excluding those who reside in Israel illegally).[2][failed verification] The Aliyah in the 1990s accounts for 85–90% of this population.
The population growth rate for Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrants were among the lowest for any Israeli groups, with a fertility rate of 1.70 and natural increase of just +0.5% per year.[3] The increase in Jewish birth rate in Israel during the 2000–2007 period was partly due to the increasing birth rate among the FSU immigrants, who now form 20% of the Jewish population of Israel.
Recalling from Modern Jewish History lessons in Hebrew school, back in the day:
The first waves of aliyah — Jewish immigration to the Holy Land — were indeed from Eastern Europe and Russia starting in 1880 or thereabouts. They spoke mostly Yiddish, loathed Russia, and many were communist or socialist. To them Zionism was as much a back-to-the-land folk movement as it was a Jewish nationalist movement. They established agricultural kibbutzes and moshavs, folk dancing, and eventually decided that Hebrew would be the language of the reestablished Jewish homeland.
The next waves, in the 1930s through the post-WWII period, came mostly from Nazi Europe. Some spoke Yiddish, some the language of their home country, some also German. Committed Zionists from the Americas and the British Empire started joining them after Israel was established in 1948.
Then starting in 1952 or so the Muslim Middle East emptied itself of the Jews who had lived there for millennia — some communities dating back to the time of King Solomon, others to the Babylonian conquest in 586 BC.
For perspective, the population of Israel as of this month is about 9,506,100, 74% of whom are counted as Jewish — so approximately 7,034,500 are Jews. Resident non-Jewish relatives of Jewish immigrants are another few percent — I calculate the FSU immigrants as about 15% of Israel's Jewish population.
An influential group, to be sure, and mostly fond of their former homeland — though not fond enough of it to remain there. They arrived highly educated and highly cultured, and proceeded to transform Israel even before they mastered Hebrew. And yes, they did not at all indulge in the fashionable guilt of the Euro-style labour socialists who had run the country from the 1930s until Menachem Begin’s victory in 1977, another way they impacted the country beyond their raw numbers.
It’s a waste of time for poor President Biden to host anything — strictly kabuki for the rubes. This is an FDA non-execution issue. The FDA belongs to the Department of Health & Human Services, currently headed by former congressman Xavier Becerra, who clearly does not want to be connected to this debacle.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden will meet infant formula manufacturers on Wednesday in an effort to solve ongoing supply chain problems, almost four months after the product first started disappearing off shelves.
The White House said Biden would host a roundtable with leaders of manufacturers ByHeart, Bubs Australia, Reckitt, Perrigo Co. and Gerber.
#2
Never mind the Brandon theater. Why is the factory in Sturgis, Michigan not up and running yet? Maybe Donald Trump could look into it. He is good at that business stuff.
#5
I have thought something similar NN2N1. 5 year sunset clause in all laws passed by congress. Can be pushed to 10 years with a 2/3 vote. If it was a good(ish) and useful law, it will be brought back later. Otherwise it dies at its appointed time.
#3
Might as well. We are gonna have a tight labor market until 2040 when the people being born right now enter the labor force and a good chunk of the boombers exit planet Earth.
#1
Fake collage of different videos.
Pathetic British propaganda.4 months of British sourced trashy propaganda
Rantuburg you sucks
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#2
Rantuburg? You're losing it, Joe errr... Z. Have another bottle.
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#3
The name on it is Pravda Garashchenko. We know pravda means truth... I did wonder if it was a collage.
Here is the text, if someone wants to take a stab at it:
Запорожская область.
Филигранно точная работа спецназа 15 Главного Управления ДВКР СБУ
Прилетели, увидели и разбомбили БТР-82 орков.
Если бы у нас было 300 таких хорошо обученных экипажей боевых дронов, как в 15 ДВКР СБУ и раз хотя бы в 3 дня такой экипаж уничтожал хотя бы одну единицу бронетехники противника, то за месяц мы бы уничтожали 3000 Танков, БТРов и транспортных средств противника!
Стоимость такого ударного коптера - Дрона, который делает объединение «Аэроразведка» - всего лишь 35-40 тысяч долларов.
Стоимость снаряжение группы на 2-3 пикапов, группы сопровождения и прикрытия всего лишь 150 тысяч долларов. 300 таких групп - 45-50 Миллионов долларов. А эффект по уничтоженной русской технике измерялся бы миллиардами долларов в месяц.
Тем кто за это отвечает в ВСУ необходимо немедленно организовывать массовое обучение экипажей для ударных Дронов. Это недорогой и действенный метод борьбы с оккупантами.
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Zaporozhye region. The filigree precise work of the special forces of the 15th Main Directorate of the DVKR SBU Arrived, saw and bombed the BTR-82 orcs. If we had 300 such well-trained crews of combat drones as in the 15th DVKR of the SBU, and at least once every 3 days such a crew destroyed at least one unit of enemy armored vehicles, then in a month we would destroy 3000 tanks, armored personnel carriers and vehicles of the enemy! The cost of such an impact copter - a Drone, which is made by the Aerorazvedka association - is only 35-40 thousand dollars. The cost of equipping a group for 2-3 pickups, an escort group and cover is only 150 thousand dollars. 300 such groups - 45-50 Million dollars. And the effect on the destroyed Russian equipment would be measured in billions of dollars a month. Those who are responsible for this in the Armed Forces of Ukraine need to immediately organize mass training of crews for strike drones. This is an inexpensive and effective method of fighting the invaders.
British Colombia is set to decriminalize possession of up to 2.5 grams opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA starting January 31, 2023
While the newest policy does not legalize the substances, for three years drug users 18 and over caught with the substances will not be arrested and charged
The exemption would not apply to airports, schools and members of the Canadian military
The policy comes after British Columbia has become the epicenter of Canada's opioid crisis
Since 2016 there have been over 9,400 deaths due to toxic illicit drugs in British Columbia and a record 2,224 last year
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#5
Sounds like a plan to increase the number of overdoses and death. I guess the overdose rate will fall after the death rate picks up. Canadian policy seems to be moving towards eugenics via euthanasia. Maybe they consider death to be herd immunity for life.
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#6
Yet he de facto bans pistols🤔
I wonder of this is scheme is to unleash cokeheads and tears on a defenseless population? Then the feds can consolidate more powers🤔🧐
[NYP] More than 20 black White House aides have departed the Biden administration since late last year, an exodus some have dubbed "Blaxit," according to a new report.
While some of the departing staffers have left on good terms to pursue additional career or educational opportunities, others have attributed the turnover to a lack of mentorship and opportunity, Politico reported Tuesday, citing nine black current and former White House officials.
"We’re here and we’re doing a lot of work but we’re not decision-makers and there’s no real path towards becoming decision-makers," one current staffer told the outlet. "There is no real feedback and there’s no clear path to any kind of promotions."
"They brought in a ton of black people generally to start without ever establishing an infrastructure to retain them or help them be successful," another current official said. "If there is no clear infrastructure of how to be successful, you become just as invisible in this space than you would be if you were not in it."
Some "people have not had the best experiences and a lot of that has to do with the death of black leadership," a former official agreed. "Think about any workplace. Black folks need some person to go to, to strategize and be a mentor, and we just don’t have as many folks who can be mentors to us."
The first departure of a top black official from the administration came in December, when Vice President Kamala Harris’ senior adviser and chief spokesperson Symone Sanders left to take a hosting gig with MSNBC.
#7
"They brought in a ton of black people generally to start without ever establishing an infrastructure to retain them or help them be successful,"
On a more serious note, there's a certain stage of someone's career where 'mentoring', 'establishing an infrastructure' and all that professional training-wheel bullshit should no longer be necessary. Ever since I've heard these same phrases applied to (current) Vice President Knee-Pads, it's nothing more than the usual leftist whining and excuse making.
#10
I don’t think they left soon enough. Many Biden Administration vets of all races will take jobs at Rent-A-Center and call centers to try to expunge their resumes.
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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.
[FoxNews] More than 50 people were shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, including nine fatally, according to police. 
[pjmedia.com] Taco Bell is hoping that attention-deprived, lip-synching chicks with d***s will help you get that breakfast burrito down.
[Daily Wire] A drag queen story hour for children that was reportedly supposed to be held at an American air base library was canceled following public outcry about the nature of the event. 
Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that leads to low IQ and developmental delay.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
