JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who was recently sentenced to death in the killings of two corrections officers during an escape attempt five years ago has died in prison of an apparent suicide, corrections officials said.
Prison guards found Ricky Dubose unresponsive in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson around 4:45 p.m. Sunday, according to a Department of Corrections news release. The guards called for medical help and began rendering aid. The coroner at the prison declared Dubose dead at 5:56 p.m.
Dubose, 29, was sentenced to death June 16 after he was convicted of murder in the June 2017 shooting deaths of Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue.
Dubose and Donnie Rowe were being transported between prisons along with other inmates when they killed the two guards and escaped from the bus in Putnam County, southeast of Atlanta, on June 13, 2017. They were arrested days later in Tennessee.
Dubose was accused of firing the gun that killed the officers after he and Rowe slipped out of handcuffs and burst through an unlocked gate at the front of the bus. Prosecutors say Dubose grabbed one of the officers’ weapons and shot Monica, the guard, and then Billue, the driver, both in the head. Security cameras on the bus recorded the violent escape and roughly 30 other prisoners witnessed the killings.
Rowe was convicted of murder in September. A judge sentenced him to serve life in prison without parole after jurors couldn’t agree whether he should be sentenced to death.
The Department of Corrections is working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to investigate Dubose’s death, which is standard procedure.
The two largest Pride parades in the country - New York City and San Francisco - were interrupted on Sunday by a panicked crowd mistakenly hearing gunfire
In Manhattan, revelers celebrating in Washington Square Park scattered after hearing bangs, which NYPD confirmed were fireworks
In San Francisco, police said they responded to reports of a shooting near Civic Center but were unable to locate any shooting or victims
The Pride celebrations come amid a moment of deep tension nationwide, with Friday's ruling overturning Roe v Wade sparking protests across the country
In Arizona protesters tried to break into the Senate, and in Iowa a man drove his truck through a crowd of protesters; ugly scenes also unfolded in Los Angeles
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[ALARABIYA] A 20-year-old Arab woman was stabbed to death in the United Arab Emirates’ city of Sharjah, local media reported citing the Sharjah Police General Command.
The police caught the murderer within two hours of the crime.
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The woman’s body, stabbed several times, was found in a car.
The police were able to identify the suspect using CCTV camera footage at the parking lot of the young woman’s residence. The footage showed the killer attacking the woman inside her car, stabbing her multiple times.
He was then seen leaving the victim’s car, taking her body with him.
Attempting to run away from the authorities, the suspect was found on a beach where he was arrested. He confessed to the crime due to "personal differences" and has now been transferred to the Public Prosecution.
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[NYT via ZERO] A fresh New York Times report has confirmed what many already suspected - that the CIA is still very active inside Ukraine - especially with training as well coordinating weapons among its Ukrainian allies. The Times report details "a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training," based on US and European intelligence officials with knowledge of the operations. The report says Ukrainian forces are reliant on this Western clandestine network "more than ever" while outgunned by the Russians. "Clandestine?" Well, yes. It was when we started.
This comes months after investigative journalist Zach Dorfman's bombshell expose in Yahoo News which detailed how a prior 8-year long CIA covert program to train Ukrainian fighters helped provoke the Russian invasion. The only question that remained after that March report was the extent to which the CIA was still active in the ongoing fight against the invading Russians. Bombshell? What bombshell ?
The new Times reporting confirms that the US program is not only active and ongoing, but appears larger in scale than previously thought given the CIA's close cooperation with the Ukrainians is happening both inside and outside the country, across multiple locations. Sort of like...."Gain of Function." No ?
"Much of this work happens outside Ukraine, at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials," the report indicates.
It appears much the CIA's work in Ukraine is centered on coordinating intelligence with local intel services and counterparts. "Few other details have emerged about what the C.I.A. personnel or the commandos are doing, but their presence in the country — on top of the diplomatic staff members who returned after Russia gave up its siege of Kyiv — hints at the scale of the secretive effort to assist Ukraine that is underway and the risks that Washington and its allies are taking," NY Times continues. Risks? Yes, that's why we published the story. No one likes surprises.
Over the weekend, Canada also has been reported to have special operations troops inside Ukraine. This was reported months ago, but with a separate NYT report offering further confirmation. "Both CTV and Global News reported in late January that Canadian special forces had been sent to Ukraine, but National Defense did not comment on that deployment," Ottawa Citizen writes Sunday. Back in January, a full two months before the invasion, Yahoo News disclosed the following: That's correct. The Embassy cafeteria is closed indefinitely. Don't come here. Use the alternate messing plan.
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Meanwhile Russia has an army inside Ukraine. Putin started the war, and has threatened multiple other countries since.
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I find it amusing he's threatening the Finn's. It's not like the Russians have a good track record in regards to Finland. And messing with people who like to scream "Hakkapeliitta" (Cut them down) as a battle cry, maybe poking the isn't a good idea? Especially when you are already WAY overextending just fighting the Ukraine. But hey, tap dance through that minefield all you want Putin, I'm just going to make popcorn.
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Perhaps some sort of 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo could be established. Some of the city names could remain the same, and the missions could stay open.
Mission monks? No, French Laundry culinary staff photo.
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I'm not exactly a fan of the Agency, but they'd be incompetent and/or negligent if they weren't doing something of the sort in the circumstances. As for the Russian whining, whose army is on whose side of the border again?
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Seven dwarves. Such bravado in the face of a complete rout.
These idiots have now painted themselves in a corner.
Vershinin demonstrated that the US can't hoe toatch Russian missile and munitions production. The Europeans are now rationing fuel -- the Germans are experiencing a run on FIREWOOD, for fucks sake -- and the Ukrainians are grinding themselves into oblivion.
What's left of that country is completely, totally wrecked. Soldiers are mutinying. Recriminations within the elite are spreading. Zelensky's rivals are openly asking why this idiot insists on reinforcing hopelessly surrounded units in the Kessen's of the East, only to be slaughtered.
It is an utter shitshow. The Ukrainians now are suffering losses of over 70%. They're literally suiting up grandpas and children and sending them into the meat grinder in Donbas.
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What's left of that country is completely, totally wrecked. Soldiers are mutinying. Recriminations within the elite are spreading. Zelensky's rivals are openly asking why this idiot insists on reinforcing hopelessly surrounded units in the Kessen's of the East, only to be slaughtered.
And yet, the Russians can't seem to seal the deal.
In only four months? Against a NATO adversary that's the beneficiary of the biggest military spend in Europe?
It took the US the better part of a DECADE to just get a lid on Iraq -- a much smaller and weaker third world nonentity that the US bombed into oblivion before sending an invasion force that was roughly four times larger than Russia's.
And you expect this to be over in a few months, when instead of random jihadis with no air or artillery support Russia's facing NATO?
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the US can't hoe toatch Russian missile and munitions production.
That's what I always thought. If you can't hoe toatch em, negotiate, right comrade?
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It took the US the better part of a DECADE to just get a lid on Iraq -- a much smaller and weaker third world nonentity that the US bombed into oblivion before sending an invasion force that was roughly four times larger than Russia's. 🤡
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Both sides say the war started in 2014 with the invasion of Crimea. So the clock is still ticking big boy.
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Remember , US soldiers hands are tied with ROE that are moronic with lawyers hovering like buzzards waiting to pounce. Not so much with the Russians.
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I remember Obumble had toyed with the idea of embedding lawyerettes with the troops to Mirandize any prisoners captured during ops.
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Hoo boy. Send in the clowns.
Biden's Freakshow's latest: Chief Economic Clown Janet Yellen's bug idea is for some kind of GLOBAL PRICE-CONTROLS ON OIL -- details to come later, natch -- as a way to punish Russia.
For real. She's that fucking stupid. A global cap on the oil price.
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^ They actually believe they run the world. It's mean to point out they don't.
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NYTimes: The effort to put a price cap on Russia oil is the brainchild of Janet L. Yellen, President Biden’s Treasury secretary. The details are likely weeks or more away from being finalized, requiring intense negotiations by G7 finance ministers, private companies and leaders of countries in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere that buy Russian oil.
And there is no guarantee that the plan will come together quickly, or at all, or that it will succeed as the G7 leaders hope.
There is also a potential political downside in Europe and possibly the United States: To succeed, the plan will need to give China, India and other countries that have not joined the G7 in opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the ability to buy oil at a much lower price than America or much of Europe can.
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These people are.fucking.INSANE.
Have they ever worked in an actual market environment for even one day in their entire lives?
Do they know anything about the global oil trade?
How did we get saddled with such unbelievable shitheads?
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If they keep poking the bear, we're liable to wake up one morning with a devastating Polish object lesson. I'm pretty sure Vlad really doesn't give a fok at this stage in his life.
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The Europeans are now rationing fuel -- the Germans are experiencing a run on FIREWOOD, for fucks sake
I’m afraid they worked hard to get to this point, and hopefully now will work as hard to get past it. They were warned, over and over again, that depending on Russia would have exactly this result when Russia wanted to make a point about something, and so it has come to pass.
They can get all the firewood they need in their extensive forests, and probably get a good start just cutting down the trees killed by whatever insect infestation has been causing problems for decades.
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whatever insect infestation has been causing problems for decades
You mean Turks?
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Remember , US soldiers hands are tied with ROE that are moronic with lawyers hovering like buzzards waiting to pounce. Not so much with the Russians.
Ukraine War/Battle of the Donbas update. Sorry I have not done this for 3 weeks, but actually had a break and went to Sicily and have been trying to catch up with loads since. However, tbh, since the last update far less has happened on the ground than you might think.
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[Censor] The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has released operational information on the situation in the Bakhmut direction.
According to Censor.NET, this is stated on the official Facebook page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
The evening report states: "In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at our positions with mortars, barrel and jet artillery near Mykolayivka, Berestovo, Pokrovsky, Kodema and New York.
Ukrainian soldiers inflicted heavy losses on the enemy near the village of Pavlivka. After an unsuccessful assault, the occupiers withdrew. "
The occupiers suffered significant losses during the enemy assault near Berestovo in Zaporozhye, - General Staff of the Armed Forces
The occupiers suffered losses in the Bakhmut direction and took units to rebuild,
- General Staff
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[LB] Lysychansk suffers from air strikes.
by Irina Gamaliy
After the capture, the Severodonetsk enemy army concentrated all its efforts on capturing the last fortress of the Luhansk region, Lysychansk.
This was announced in the Telegram by the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Haidai.
“Air strikes were inflicted on the city, as well as in the area of Bila Hora. There is a lot of destruction - Lysychansk is almost unrecognizable. There is a TV tower on the ground, a road bridge is seriously damaged, shells hit houses, the SBU building, etc., ”the statement reads.
It is noted that the body of a man without signs of life was found on the territory of the multidisciplinary hospital. He received numerous mine injuries.
After the withdrawal of units of our troops, the enemy established itself in Severodonetsk, Sirotyn, Voronovo and Borivsky.
Finally, the Russians fired on Nitrogen and the SES test site in Severodonetsk, opened fire on the villages of Pavlograd and Synetsky, and tested the strength of the already destroyed and shelled bridges to Lysychansk.
Vovchoyarivka, Loskutivka, Verkhnokamyanka and Zolotarivka were also destroyed by the Russian invasion.
We will remind, Severodonetsk is occupied by the Russian troops . Locals can only leave for Russian-occupied territory. The city is 90% destroyed.
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[LB] The partisan movement is becoming more and more active in the Kherson region.
by Irina Gamaliy
Yesterday the occupiers fired on Chernihiv Donetsk, Luhansk, Rivne regions and Kharkiv. In the morning explosions sounded in Nikolaev.
This is stated in the summary of military-civil administrations on the situation in the regions of Ukraine at 8:00 on June 26.
The night passed relatively calmly in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne region, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky, Zaporizhia, Odessa, Ternopil regions, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Zhytomyr regions.
Kyiv region : the night passed quietly. In the morning, the air defense worked - one missile was shot down. The remains of the rocket fell on the outskirts of one of the villages in the area. There are no destructions and victims.
Sumy region : the night passed quietly. Yesterday, the Russians launched 6 missiles from helicopters that did not cross our state border. Getting on the civil infrastructure of the Krasnopil community: school, club, library, hospital.
Rivne region : two missile strikes on civilian infrastructure were made the night before at 7:20 p.m. Destroyed service stations, car wash and disassembly. In particular, cars for the Armed Forces were repaired here. Three people died. Two are in serious condition. Four - minor injuries. Rescuers are clearing the site of the missile strike.
Chernihiv region: last night - mortar shelling of the territory near the village of Gremyach (Novgorod-Siversky district). At night - shelling of the territory between the villages of Leonivka and Galaganivka (Novgorod-Siversky district), shelling of positions near the village of Girsk (Koryukivsky district).
Kharkiv : yesterday evening the occupiers struck at the northern districts of Kharkiv. One of the shells hit a residential building, previously - two wounded. Cars, outbuildings and warehouses were on fire.
The medical institution in the 602nd microdistrict was damaged. No one was injured.
A total of 7 people were injured in the region during the day due to Russian shelling. One person died in Zolochiv, Bohodukhiv district.
The occupiers struck at Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Izium, and Bohodukhiv districts of the region.
Luhansk region: air strikes were inflicted on Lysychansk, as well as in the area of Bila Hora. A lot of destruction. The TV tower was destroyed, the road bridge was seriously damaged, shells hit residential and administrative buildings, in particular, the SBU building, etc.
Within a day, one person was killed and one was injured.
Donetsk region : small arms, tanks, artillery, mortars, 9M727 cruise missile, MLRS "Hail", "Hurricane", the enemy uses all this both on the positions of Ukrainian defenders and on the settlements of the region. In Avdiivka, a coke plant, a railway station area, a school, a garage cooperative, a football stadium, and a transformer were shelled in the village of Avdiivka. Lighthouses - school; in Slovyansk, with. Pervomaiske and New York are residential areas.
Three were killed and two civilians were injured.
Nikolaevshchina : in the morning in Nikolaev explosions sounded. The information is being clarified.
In the Nikolaev area last night owing to hit of ammunition in the village. Shevchenkove Shevchenkivska community there was a fire on the territory of a private household.
Bashtansky district: from 23:30 to 05:00 there were shellings outside the settlements, hits were on agricultural lands. There are no victims.
The shelling continues in the Bereznehuvatsky community. The shelling of villages along the demarcation line continues. Information on victims and injuries is being clarified.
Kherson region : residents of the region heard shots and explosions. Again, the settlements of the border areas are suffering as a result of the fighting. The critical situation today in the village of Bila Krynytsia, in Velykooleksandrivska TG: many houses were destroyed, the elevator, social and road infrastructure were damaged. Almost all the villages through which the Ingulets River passes (Kalynivska TG, Davydiv Brid and others) are in serious condition, and the coast in many cities is mined.
Increasingly, local guerrillas are slapping the occupiers, and after recent events, local "leaders" have tightened their security.
[LB] Currently, the entire line of contact is under fire.
Yuri Korogodsky
The head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko stated that the Russian occupiers were drawing forces to Slovyansk.
He stated this on the air of the all-Ukrainian telethon, Donetsk OVA reports.
"We observe the accumulation of manpower, heavy armored vehicles and artillery in the Slavic direction. The enemy is using its tactics and trying to move closer to our line of defense in order to use artillery to shell the city in addition to the missiles and aircraft they systematically use in the Donetsk region. The Russians do not change tactics. We saw what was happening in Mariupol and Severodonetsk , so we are preparing for any scenario with Slovyansk, "Kyrylenko said.
The head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration said that the entire line of contact was currently under fire from the Russian occupiers.
We will remind that the British intelligence considers that for occupation of Donbass the army of the Russian Federation needs to take control of Kramatorsk and to provide protection of the main ways of supply of Donetsk.
After the capture, the Severodonetsk enemy army concentrated all its forces on the capture of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region.
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Estimating that about 20k military fatalities (counting both sides) so far in the battle of the Donbas (probably a few thousand civilian fatalities also) since Mid April.
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[Vesti] Under the fire of the Russians were the cities of Avdeevka, Slavyansk, Toretsk and Konstantinovka.
As a result of shelling in the Donetsk region, a coke plant in Avdiivka, as well as other objects in the city, came under fire. This was announced on Sunday, June 26, by the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko.
Also, according to him, a school in Toretsk came under fire today, and a school in Mayaki was destroyed the day before. In total, 220 schools have already been destroyed in the region.
According to Kirilenko, the military of the Russian Federation used cluster munitions in the Grodovskaya community. It is known about one wounded.
Earlier it became known that Russian troops inflicted 15 strikes on seven settlements of the Donetsk region in a day , as a result of which civilians were killed and injured. This was reported by the press service of the police of the Donetsk region.
In total, 14 civilian facilities were destroyed - nine residential buildings, two schools, an enterprise, and power grids.
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[Korrespondent] 23:26 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that a price ceiling should be set for energy imports from the Russian Federation: "Even when energy prices fall, it is unthinkable to return to the same dependence on Russia that existed before. It is necessary to work to completely eliminate this dynamic."
23:24 On Saturday, June 25, the Russians fired 62 missiles at Ukraine, Zelensky said in an evening video message: “What are these missiles about today? handwriting: to escalate whenever international events take place, and at the same time, they are about decisiveness, about, for example, that the leaders of the G7, who have gathered in Germany today for a summit, have enough overall potential to stop Russian aggression and against Ukraine, and against Europe as a whole. It's possible."
The President clarified that "this is only possible if we receive everything we ask for, and exactly in the time frame we need - weapons, financial support, and sanctions against Russia."
23:15 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after a telephone conversation with Zelensky, assured that at the G7 and NATO meetings this week he will continue to "emphasize the importance of supporting Ukraine and protecting democracy." "You can count on Canada's support," Trudeau added.
23:13 Ukrainian special forces are involved in sabotage deep in the Russian rear, writes The Times. Some details of the operations were told to the publication by the fighters of the MTR unit. They did not name the goals of their covert operations, but the journalists concluded that the explosions at weapons depots and oil depots in Russia were most likely related to the actions of the Ukrainian special forces.
23:08 Turkey will hold in Brussels a new round of talks with Finland and Sweden regarding their membership in NATO. It will take place before the summit of the alliance, which starts on Tuesday, June 28, in Madrid. At the summit itself, one more negotiations are expected - Erdogan will take part in them.
23:01 Zelensky addressed the Belarusians in an evening video message: "I want to address the citizens of Belarus today. To people - both civilians and in uniform. You are being drawn into the war. And even more actively than it was in February and in the spring months. In the Kremlin everything has already been decided for you - your lives are worth nothing to them. But you are not slaves and not cannon fodder. You should not die. And you can not let anyone decide for you what awaits you next. "
22:42 Georgian authorities are helping Russia bypass sanctions, Arakhamia said: "When this information became available to the United States, we heard many words from various Georgian officials that this was allegedly not true. But over time, more and more objective information appears to confirm my words. Soon data on transactions abroad and the accounts of many pro-government MPs and ministers from Georgia will become more accessible, and of course, the connections of Mr. Ivanishvili, who is very deeply involved in helping the country-sponsor of terrorism bypass sanctions.But should disappoint everyone who decided to make money on the deaths of Ukrainians. This will not happen. And Mr. Ivanishvili should be the first to get ready. We are taking off soon, and this is not a tourist trip."
22:19 Blinken said that Putin has already lost, despite local successes. According to him, Putin's strategic goal was to end the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, erase it from the world map and include it in Russia, which failed to be done. Also, Russia failed to quickly capture Kyiv and other major cities of the country. And in a geopolitical context, Putin has failed to divisive NATO.
Blinken also commented on the attacks on Kyiv on June 26: "Ever since Putin lost the battle for Kyiv and had to turn his attention only to Eastern and Southern Ukraine, Russian troops have fired missiles from a distance from time to time, mainly to terrorize people ".
21:44 According to the Georgian opposition TV channel Mtavari, there is a tanker with Russian oil products in the terminal of the Georgian port of Batumi. The journalists found out that the Turkish-flagged ship Esen Ka left Tuapse for Batumi, loading 30,000 tons of vacuum gas oil. The raw materials belong to the sub-sanctioned Rosneft. Mtavari's source said that now the Georgian side intends to change the origin of the cargo and send it to Europe as oil products from Kazakhstan. The TV channel claims that people close to the oligarch Bidzini Ivanishvili, Ucha Mamatsashvili and Grigol Liluashvili, are in charge of the situation around the tanker.
21:29 Reznikov said that the condition for the resumption of dialogue between the West and Russia can only be the demilitarization of the European part of the Russian Federation: "The long-term answer is obvious - the condition for a dialogue on the resumption of relations between the civilized world and Russia should be the demilitarization of at least the European part of the terrorist state. Depth and parameters demilitarization must be determined by experts."
21:00 Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said that Russia is ready for negotiations with Ukraine, "but not decorative," Moscow's conditions "should be accepted."
20:57 On the morning of June 26, the Russians attacked Kiev with X-type missiles - these are modern and expensive missiles, the cost of each is from $ 5 million and more, Yuri Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on the air of the telethon.
20:55 Ukraine has become a testing ground for testing Russian missiles of various types, Yury Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on the air of the telethon: "The weapons used by Russia are extremely diverse. Ukraine, unfortunately, is a kind of testing ground for Russia."
As an example, he cited Kalibr sea-based missiles, which are fired mainly from the Black Sea. Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers are launching Russian X-type missiles - they are already flying out of the Caspian region. Kh-22 is a fast missile that can reach speeds of about 3,000 km/h, they are launched from TU-22M3 bombers. If earlier the Russian Federation made such launches from the Rostov region, from the Black Sea, now it has transferred these aircraft to the north. Entering the airspace of Belarus, the plane strikes at the northern regions, such a missile has a range of only 600 km. Ignat called the Iskander and Soviet Tochka-U complexes the most destructive - it is most difficult to shoot down their Ukrainian air defense missiles.
20:48 The Armed Forces of Ukraine again hit Zmeinoye, OK Pivden reported: "Active hostilities continued at Zmeinoye with diverse forces and types of weapons. The results are being specified."
20:46 The drilling platform of Chernomorneftegaz in Crimea was again fired upon, the Russian TASS reports with reference to the "emergency services of Crimea". According to the source of the publication, the shelling was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there were no casualties.
20:18 Reznikov urged the West to respond to today's shelling of Ukraine. In his opinion, the answer should consist of two parts: strengthening sanctions and deploying an air defense system in Ukraine.
20:12 The Verkhovna Rada will strive to adopt all the laws necessary for Ukraine's accession to the EU until 2025, Stefanchuk said on the air of the telethon. He recalled that in more than two years of work of the current convocation of parliament, 81 legislative acts related to European integration were adopted, which was an absolute record. "After that, we will receive a number of EU directives, in accordance with which it is necessary to adopt legislative acts. We are currently working on this set of bills," the speaker of parliament said.
According to him, there will be about a hundred such acts. Stefanchuk promised that the Rada would make every effort to make 2025 "the year when Ukraine fulfills all obligations to become a member of the EU." "There will be no delays behind the parliament, because our direction is clear, we will go towards it, including the well-known turbo mode," he stressed.
19:49 Scholz said that Russia's attack on residential buildings in Kiev demonstrates the importance of international unity in supporting Ukraine: "The fact that this is a brutal war waged by Putin, we have now seen again with rocket attacks on houses in Kiev - this shows that it is right that we stand together and support Ukrainians to defend their country, their democracy, their freedom of self-determination."
19:23 The failure of the G7 countries to import gold from Russia will deprive it of about $ 19 billion a year, Blinken told CNN: "The initiative that we are announcing affects the second most profitable export item that Russia has after energy."
18:59 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that on the territory of Belarus, the preparation of sabotage and reconnaissance groups by the forces of the Russian Armed Forces for further actions on the territory of Ukraine is noted.
18:51 G7 countries plan to commit themselves to indefinite support of Ukraine while there is a war with Russia, writes Bloomberg with reference to the draft document: "We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support and support Ukraine as much as necessary" .
18:32 The invaders suffered significant losses in the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also repelled assaults in the Slavic direction, at the same time, the Russian army is trying to block Lysichansk from the south, the General Staff said.
17:49 Ukraine will not lose the status of a candidate for EU membership even if the conditions of the European Commission are not met, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna said on the air of the telethon: "The decision of the European Council, which was adopted on June 23, is different from the recommendation provided by the European Commission. Because the status We received the candidate unconditionally... As for the seven conditions, the decision provides that the European Commission at the end of the year will assess the fulfillment of these conditions, and from this the further stages related to membership will be determined.
Stefanyshina explained that the fulfillment of these seven conditions would allow the start of EU accession negotiations. "The positive thing is that we have already done something in each of these areas. And literally in the next three days, the president will approve a roadmap for the implementation of each of the seven points," she added.
17:36 Under the cover of a thunderstorm, the enemy attacked the Odessa region with two Onyx-type anti-ship missiles, firing them from the Bastion coastal missile system from the territory of Crimea, OK Pivden reports. Both missiles were destroyed by air defense forces on approach to Odessa.
16:44 Hundreds of civilians of Energodar and nearby villages are being held captive by the Russian military - they are being held for ransom, city mayor Dmitry Orlov said. The standard price for releasing a prisoner under any pretext is 50,000 hryvnias. This money is extorted from the captives themselves or their relatives.
16:40 Johnson said at the G7 summit that he would be honored to receive Zelensky on a state visit, "if he can ever leave and it would be reasonable for him to leave Ukraine." But now, according to the British prime minister, the main thing for Ukraine is that Western leaders remain united in supporting Zelensky: “I think he did an absolutely amazing job leading his country and world opinion in a terrible time.”
16:22 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, the car of Irina Makhneva, who, under the Russian "administration", dealt with education and culture, was blown up. Russian media write that Makhneva herself was not injured, because she did not have time to get into the car.
16:17 In Kiev, search and rescue operations are still ongoing in a residential building, where the Russians hit with a rocket in the morning, Klitschko said. According to him, the body of one deceased was found, six residents of the house were injured. Four of them, including a seven-year-old girl, were hospitalized. According to doctors, the girl was operated on, her condition is stable. The girl's mother is in a state of moderate severity.
16:10 Lukashenka can involve 12-15 thousand combat-ready soldiers of the Belarusian troops in the war against Ukraine, Belarusian opposition leader, commander of the White Legion organization Sergei Bulba said on the air of the Espresso TV channel. According to him, Lukashenka can use against Ukraine the three most combat-ready brigades of the Special Operations Forces of the army of the Republic of Belarus, which constantly conduct training with the Russians. The number of these troops in Belarus is more than 9 thousand people. In addition, Lukashenko may involve the 120th Guards Rifle Brigade, the expert added. He stressed that Putin is in complete control of Lukashenka.
16:01 In the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, Russians are seizing empty apartments and resorting to threats for this. According to the OVA, the Russian army decided to place personnel in the apartments of local residents who left the occupation for the territory controlled by Ukraine. The administration says that the occupiers even demand the keys to empty apartments from relatives and acquaintances, threatening them with physical violence. In case of refusal, the Russians knock out the doors and move into apartments.
15:48 On the Zelenodolsk community of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russians opened fire again, two people were injured. In Zelenodolsk itself, high-rise buildings, a house of culture and a post office were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
15:46 The EU will study the possibility of joining the embargo on Russian gold, which is planned to be introduced by Great Britain, Canada, the USA and Japan, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said on the sidelines of the G7 summit. At the same time, he noted that the ban should not harm the economy of the European Union.
Charles Michel also promised that the EU will provide more military, financial and political support to Ukraine and support efforts to unblock Ukraine's Black Sea ports in a way that would take into account the interests of its security.
15:32 Johnson and Macron came to the conclusion that there is an opportunity to turn the tide of the war in Ukraine, writes The Guardian, citing a Downing Street representative. Britain and France have agreed to continue to support Ukraine in order to strengthen its position both on the battlefield and at the table of possible future negotiations.
15:13 At the NATO summit in Madrid, the largest military deployment of the alliance's forces since the Cold War will be discussed, writes El País. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in NATO recognizing Russia as its main threat. A significant increase in the alliance's troops in Eastern Europe is expected to protect the allies.
14:58 Johnson said that now is "not the time to turn our backs on Ukraine": "They need the support and determination of the G7 more than ever. The UK will continue to support Ukraine at every step, because we know that their security is our security, and their freedom is our freedom."
14:39 Yermak said that the G7 summit should respond to Russian strikes on Kiev. The head of the OP suggests four steps:
sanctions should be more aggressive: "an embargo on gold exports is good, but a gas embargo is needed in the new EU sanctions package";
response to the food crisis - military convoys to unblock Ukrainian ports;
recognition of Russia as a sponsor of terrorism;
more heavy weapons for Ukraine - "this is the way to defeat an enemy who understands only force."
14:28 As a result of two rocket strikes near Cherkassy, one person was killed, five were injured , an infrastructure facility was damaged, the head of the IVA Igor Taburets said.
13:47 Scholz said after the meeting with Biden: "We remain united, we remain together. This is our clear message to President Putin."
13:35 Biden said that Russian missile strikes on Kiev are "another manifestation of their barbarism."
13:24 Johnson noted Scholz's activism regarding Ukraine: "I never thought I would see from the German Chancellor what Olaf Scholz is doing, that he is sending weapons to help Ukrainians defend themselves." The British prime minister also stated that Scholz had made "tremendous progress" in refusing Russian gas, despite the damage to Germany.
13:19 The leadership of institutions and organizations of the Gomel region of Belarus has been warned about the likelihood of the return of units of the RF Armed Forces. At the same time, the Russians are planning to increase the number of operational-tactical aviation on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, according to the military intelligence of Ukraine. The official reason is the joint patrolling of the airspace as part of the training of aviation and air defense units. For this purpose, a flight of ten aircraft to the Baranovichi airfield is planned.
Also, since June 22, mobilization exercises have been ongoing in the Gomel region. The combat training classes with reservists announced earlier in the Belarusian media are not being held, the reservists themselves are used to carry out chores.
13:04 Kuleba called on the G7 summit to respond to attacks on Kiev and other cities of Ukraine with new sanctions against the Russian Federation and the supply of heavy weapons.
13:01 For the fourth day in a row, large columns of military equipment are moving through Mariupol in a westerly direction. A limited military corps remains in the city, mainly to protect potential military facilities - the port, factories, and the railway. "The mood of the occupiers cannot be called victorious. Leaving an already familiar place by the sea for the sake of the front is not the best prospect," wrote Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
12:56 The Russians are gathering forces in Slavyansk, they will try to repeat the scenario of Mariupol , the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko said on the air of the telethon: "We are observing the accumulation of manpower, heavy armored vehicles and artillery in the Slavyansk direction. The enemy is using his tactics and trying to move closer to the line our defense in order to, in addition to missiles, aircraft, which they systematically use in the Donetsk region, use cannon artillery to shell the city. The Russians do not change their tactics, we saw what happened in their native Mariupol and Severodonetsk, so we are preparing for any scenario with Slavyansk" .
12:50 People's Deputy Goncharenko urges the people of Kiev to respond to air alerts - especially those who live in the area of the government quarter on Lipki.
12:24 Rescue work in the Kiev high-rise building, destroyed by a rocket hit this morning, faced problems, Klitschko said on the Kiev TV channel: "The situation is complicated by the fact that there is quite a lot of smoke, and firefighters, given the people [under the rubble], do not want much fill it with water, because people can also die from a large amount of water."
12:07 In the courtyard of a private kindergarten in the Shevchenko district of Kiev, a water main was damaged after a missile attack, the Kyiv City State Administration reported. The leak was promptly localized, the kindergarten is temporarily without water, the pressure in the city's water supply networks is within normal limits.
12:04 Rocket attacks on Kiev should be regarded as a deliberate escalation, said the former Prime Minister of Sweden, co-chairman of the European Council on Foreign Relations Carl Bildt. According to him, the shelling of residential areas of the capital is a signal for the G7 summit, which started today in Bavaria.
12:00 In Mariupol, Russians, on a tip from priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, burned books from the library of the church of Peter the Grave, among them there were unique copies, said Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
11:53 The speaker of the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat said that the Russians fired at Kiev from Tu-95 and Tu-160 aircraft with X101 missiles , which can fly at a distance of up to 5500 km. Bombers took off from Astrakhan, missiles were launched over the Caspian Sea.
11:51 The head of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration Oleksandr Skichko reported explosions in the city.
11:49 There is no point in waiting until Russia's offensive potential runs out or the enemy "gets tired." The Russian Federation replenishes its armed forces through covert mobilization, and it is possible to achieve victory over it only with the help of military force, Major General Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, told Reuters reporters.
"The strategy is very simple. Stabilize the situation. Get the necessary amount of equipment and prepare the necessary amount of forces and means to launch a counteroffensive in order to return our entire territory. <...> We should not wait for a miracle that they will get tired, stop wanting to fight, and so on We will recapture our territory as a result of our counter-offensive," Budanov stressed.
11:44 Podolyak compared Russia with terrorists: "Sunday morning woke Kiev not with birdsong, but with explosions. Four "high-precision" Russian missiles hit residential facilities in the center of the capital. The Second Army of the World is no different from the Taliban or Hezbollah, destroying civilization But terrorists always face one end - retribution."
11:40 Enemy aircraft was spotted over Belarus, three bombers flew towards Ukraine, reports Belaruski Gayun.
11:31 A strike on Kiev was delivered from the Caspian Sea region, the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
11:28 Ukraine in the near future will not do anything in the direction of rapprochement with NATO, because the alliance has clearly "rejected the aspirations" of Kiev, Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the OP, Igor Zhovkva, said in an interview with the Financial Times: "We will not do anything more about this." He acknowledged that Ukraine's accession to NATO in the short term is impossible. At the same time, Zhovkva called for the exclusion of references to Russia as a partner of NATO from the strategic concept of the alliance.
In turn, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez, in an interview with the El País newspaper on the eve of the NATO summit in Madrid, said that the issue of Ukraine's entry into the alliance "was never discussed, and now it is not."
11:12 From the house in the Shevchenko district of the capital, where the rocket hit, 25 residents were evacuated. A total of four victims were hospitalized, including a seven-year-old girl and her mother. Search and rescue operations continue, Klitschko said.
11:10 The second rocket in Kiev hit a kindergarten, Anton Gerashchenko reports from the scene.
11:05 From under the rubble of a house in Kiev, where a rocket hit today, they managed to get a woman, the mother of a seven-year-old girl, who was taken earlier. The injured woman turned out to be a citizen of Russia, Anton Gerashchenko showed her passport to journalists on the spot. The dead man is probably her husband.
10:30 Russian media report that Shoigu inspected "the Russian group of troops involved in a special military operation" in Ukraine.
10:28 Today at about 6:00 an enemy missile flew critically low over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant, Energoatom reported. The missile flew from the south to the north of Ukraine, probably its target was Kyiv.
10:26 After the shelling of a house in the Shevchenko district of Kiev, five people were injured, the National Police reports.
10:21 Johnson intends to use the upcoming G7 and NATO summits to urge France and Germany to provide more military support to Ukraine. The British prime minister also fears that pressure will be intensified to "force Ukrainians into a bad world," writes The Independent.
10:14 At night, the invaders again fired at residential areas of Kharkov, in particular Nemyshlyansky and Kholodnogorsky, only civilian infrastructure, including a medical facility, was hit, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Two Kharkiv residents were hospitalized. The Izyum direction remains the hottest in the region, the enemy is trying to hold their positions.
10:10 Explosions were heard in Nikolaev this morning. According to Mayor Alexander Senkevich, citing the military commandant's office, Ukrainian defenders destroyed a Russian drone that was conducting reconnaissance.
10:06 British intelligence assesses the capture of Severodonetsk by the Russian army as a significant achievement, but notes that this is only one of many tasks in the stated Russian goals to reach the borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
According to intelligence, most of the Ukrainian defenders most likely abandoned defensive positions in Severodonetsk. It is an important industrial center and is strategically located on the Seversky Donets. However, this is only one of a number of difficult tasks that Russia will have to perform in order to capture the entire Donbass. This, including the attack on Kramatorsk and maintaining the main supply chains in Donetsk, analysts say.
09:47 State Emergency Service reported that one person was killed in Kyiv as a result of a missile strike.
09:36 In Sarny, Rivne region, under the rubble of an object that was hit by a Russian missile last night, they found the body of another deceased, said the head of the Regional State Administration Vitaliy Koval. The total number of victims thus rose to four, all of the dead - men aged 30 to 51 years.
09:27 Johnson invited Zelensky on an official visit to Britain in October, it is possible to arrange a meeting with the Queen, writes The Sunday Times.
09:12 Klitschko said that a seven-year-old girl was pulled out from under the rubble of a residential building in the Shevchenko district, she is alive, now her mother is being rescued.
09:05 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of June 26. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Kurakhovsky directions.
personnel - about 34,850 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1532 (+21),
armored combat vehicles - 3659 (+14),
artillery systems - 764 (+0),
MLRS - 243 (+2),
air defense systems - 99 (+0),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 184 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 630 (+4),
cruise missiles - 139 (+2),
ships/boats - 14 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2564 (+4),
special equipment - 60 (+0).
08:58 The G7 summit starts in Germany, Biden has already arrived there. The summit will include seven working sessions to discuss the global economy, partnerships for developing countries, foreign and security policy, sustainable development, food security, multilateralism and digital technologies. The participants will also discuss the situation around Ukraine.
08:51 Rescuers showed a photo of a destroyed house in Kiev:
08:49 After the capture of Severodonetsk, the Russian army concentrated all its forces on the capture of Lisichansk. Massive airstrikes are inflicted on the city, said the head of the Lugansk Regional Military District Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians entrenched themselves in Severodonetsk, Sirotin, Voronovo and Borovsk. In Severodonetsk, the Russians “finally” fired at Azot and the State Emergency Service training ground, opened fire on the villages of Pavlograd and Sinetsky, as well as on the already destroyed bridges to Lisichansk. Volcheyarka, Loskutovka, Verkhnekamenka and Zolotarevka suffered from Russian shelling.
08:40 There are people under the rubble of a residential building in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kiev, where a Russian missile hit. Some residents were evacuated, two victims were hospitalized, Klitschko said. Rescuers and paramedics are on the scene.
08:29 The UK is ready to provide an additional $525 million to Ukraine as guarantees for a World Bank loan at the end of 2022, the press service of the British government said. The new support raises the UK's total fiscal aid to $1.5bn.
08:24 As a result of the shelling of Kiev, a fire started in a nine-story residential building, the top three floors were partially destroyed, the State Emergency Service reported. The fire occurred on a total area of 300 square meters. m. According to preliminary data, there are victims.
08:07 In the Kiev region, air defense worked - one missile was shot down, the head of the OVA, Alexei Kuleba, said. The remains of the rocket fell in the vicinity of one of the villages, no damage or casualties were reported.
07:49 The Russian Army is concentrating its main efforts on the Lisichansk direction and attempts to encircle the units of the Defense Forces in the Lisichansk region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
07:46 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian military leadership probably wants to centrally coordinate the actions of partisans in the occupied territories. The goal is to undermine Russian control and possibly prepare for coordinated operations with Ukrainian forces. Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Marchenko said that the Ukrainian partisans are just waiting for the right moment to join the fight against the enemy.
07:03 Klitschko said that in two houses "rescue and evacuation of residents are taking place."
06:44 Klitschko reported several explosions in the Shevchenko district of Kiev. Ambulances and rescuers are on the way, the mayor said.
02:25 Lithuania will not succumb to the Kremlin’s threats regarding transit to the Kaliningrad region, President Gintas Nauseda said: “Lithuania must maintain control over goods transported through its territory. speeches about concessions to Russia in response to the Kremlin's threats. I clearly explained to the head of the European Commission how Lithuania sees this situation."
01:37 Commandos of different NATO countries continue to operate on the territory of Ukraine, including those from Great Britain, Lithuania, Canada and France. Also, CIA special agents remain in Kyiv, they all work to fight the invaders, writes The New York Times.
[SHAFAQ] A secret plot to oust Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... could already be underway within his inner circle, according to a CIA insider.
Putin's cronies could already be lurking in the wings if Russia's invasion of Ukraine fails, with concerns and speculation mounting over the president's health.
Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister and a close Putin-ally, may be central to a mutiny to overthrow the president, according to ex-CIA Moscow station chief Daniel Hoffman.
He added that if anyone is going to overthrow Putin then it'll be done in secret so that he doesn't find them and kill them first.
"Nobody’s gonna ask, ’Hey Vladimir, would you like to leave?’ No. It’s a f***ing hammer to the head and he’s dead. Or it’s time to go to the sanatorium," Hoffman told The Daily Beast.
"They schwack him for it. That’s what they’ll do."
#4
Of course, there's no plan for who's going to take over afterwards. How many times has the CIA murdered someone only to have a worse situation emerge?
It's because they're not that smart. They don't think that far ahead. They just fixate on the immediate goal and think, "oh this will solve all our problems."
#10
Someone has been using too much of their own product
"Only users lose drugs..."
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...Will bet the house payment that when Volodya does shuffle off this mortal coil and join the Choir Invisible and/or face Mandatory Retirement, it will be a COMPLETE surprise to the national security agencies.
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I sincerely resent the fact that my tax dollars are used to fund the CIA.
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/\ And we don't have the slightest idea in HELL how much funding the Klingons receive. Their budget data is SECRET. Nor do we have any idea how much of the DoD (grudgingly) and SOF (enthusiastically without shame) budgets go to support Klingon endeavors.
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It doesn't matter if U.S. “intelligence” tells you wrongly that the enemy is running out of ammunition, or that their leaders have hemorrhoids or cancer, as long as U.S. “Intelligence” doesn't run out of imagination.
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^ Actually, you are correct.
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News: The US plans to announce as soon as this week that it has a purchased a NASAMS—an advanced surface-to-air missile defense system— for Ukraine, a source familiar with the announcement tells CNN. with @kaitlancollins@Phil_Mattingly
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Brought to you by Raytheon!
I tell you, those arms manufacturers were having a tough year until all this started. Now they're doing great! It's good news all around, like Christmas in June.
#2
...It ain't that advanced, but it's still pretty impressive: 6 AIM-120 Slammers on a truck, something we should have been turning out like nickel hamburgers.
Mike
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When are they going to announce what train and time it will be arriving in the Ukraine so the Russians can immediately blow it up?
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At the Pentagone, they are negotiating whether a ghey or a trans will breathlessly spill the beans.
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Too little. Too late. Ukrainian elite units have lost EIGHTY PERCENT of their troops. From SkyNews yesterday - watch the whole thing... it's appalling:
[An Nahar] The United States said Sunday that the G7 group of nations will ban imports of Russian gold with the aim of tightening sanctions screws on Moscow and crippling its war effort in Ukraine.
"Together, the G7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia," President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... said on Twitter.
The measure was initially flagged by Britannia as joint action being taken along with fellow G7 members Canada, Japan and the United States.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the rest of the G7, which is holding a summit in Germany, will also join in with a formal unveiling of the sanction on Tuesday, a senior US official said.
"You'll see that on Tuesday. This will be a G7 principal that is articulated," said the official, who spoke to news hounds on condition of anonymity.
With its economy already under huge pressure from Western sanctions against banks, energy companies, airlines, high-tech and consumer goods, the choking off of the gold market will have a significant impact, according to G7 officials.
Given London's central role in the international gold trade, "this measure will have global reach, shutting the commodity out of formal international markets," Britannia said.
"Gold, after energy, is the second largest export for Russia and a source of significant revenue for (President Vladimir) Putin and Russia," the US official said, adding that the blocking of Moscow's gold sector "will further isolate Russia from the global economy."
According to the White House, Russia accounted for about five percent of all gold exports in 2020 and 90 percent of Russia's output went to G7 countries -- mostly to Britannia.
[An Nahar] Explosions rocked a residential neighborhood in Kyiv Sunday morning as G7 leaders gathered in Germany to discuss their backing of Ukraine against Russia's invasion, with a crucial NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... meeting set to follow in days.
The first attack on the capital in nearly three weeks was intended to "intimidate Ukrainians... at the approach of the NATO summit", the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
"Some of the inhabitants have been evacuated. Two maimed people have been hospitalized," Klitschko said after visiting the apartment building that was hit, adding people remained "under the rubble".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is expected to address both the G7 and NATO gatherings, said cities as far away as Lviv, near the Polish border, had been struck by a wave of attacks on Saturday.
"This confirms... that air defense systems -- the modern systems which our partners have -- should not be on (their current) sites or in storage, but in Ukraine," he said in his daily address.
Hours after Sunday's attack, Britannia announced it would join together with fellow G7 powers Canada, Japan and the United States in banning Russian gold experts to stop oligarchs from buying the precious metal to avoid sanctions aimed at Moscow.
The move "will directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of (President Vladimir) Putin's war machine," said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... At their meeting in the Bavarian Alps, the Western allies will take stock of the effectiveness of sanctions imposed so far against Moscow, consider possible new aid for Kyiv, and begin turning their eye to longer-term reconstruction plans.
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Do we know what the actual target in Kiev was? Some half-assed searching turns up an apartment building/shopping mall/residential neighborhood.
Kiev has been pretty much left alone since that business back at the start. It is possible that the Rus are just being jerks or are reminding the G7 that there is a war on, but it seems unlikely that they would expense precious long-range ordnance to no military purpose.
My guess is some high-value target of opportunity
popped up, like those fancy new artillery pieces, and either said target or the rail infrastructure transporting it got waxed.
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Remember all the fanfare about Russell Honore being tapped to "get to the bottom" of Jan 6? He is way off the radar these days, eh?
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Is colonel-general a real rank?
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#4: Just like Major Major? Major Major was an awkward child, disliked by other children and even by parents, who found he made them uncomfortable. Major Major majored in history in college, distinguishing himself in no way, then entered the Army, where he was promoted to Major through a glitch in a computer system. Once promoted, he remained a major, even though he had no military experience—no one saw fit to demote him. Major Major was thus a major even before he completed boot-camp with Lieutenant Scheisskopf, whom he outranked. When Major Duluth of the 27th Squadron was killed in action, Major Major was assigned by Cathcart to take his place, despite the fact that Major had only just arrived to Pianosa.
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Great book. Decent movie. Orson Welles was past his prime but excellent as Gen. Dreedle.
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Yup. Height of his career, the Paul Massoon phase ("sell no wine... before it's / its time, heh, get it?").
Plus Bob Newfart, Art Garfinkle, AEllen BArkin. The Van Patten Family.
A winning lineup of B-List Hollywoodies from the Golden Age of 60s Schlock.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] The planned opening of the Ukrainian checkpoint for civilians "Pervomaisk-Zolotoye", located in Katerynivka, was surrounded along the perimeter by the firing positions of the Ukrainian security forces, dugouts and military equipment, despite the agreements on the separation of forces and means operating in this area during the period of the Minsk agreements, told RIA Novosti a serviceman of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic with the call sign "Pisar."
Earlier, the People's Militia of the LPR stated that the settlement of Katerynivka came under the control of the forces of the republic and the Russian Federation.
"Judging by the dugouts, by their fortifications, there were quite a few of them (Ukrainian security forces - ed.). Heavy equipment was also present, there are camouflaged caponiers, which proves that they systematically violated the Minsk agreements. There are also firing points along the perimeter..." - said the clerk.
According to him, all positions and equipment were hidden behind a high fence.
By the decision of Kiev , since 2015, a permit regime has been in effect with the territories of Donbass not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. You can enter or leave the DPR and LPR only through checkpoints.
In November 2020, the Ukrainian authorities announced the opening of two new checkpoints near the line of contact in Donbass: Luhansk-Happiness and Pervomaisk-Zolotoe. The LPR called the unilateral opening of checkpoints a provocation. In fact, these checkpoints remained closed. Forces were withdrawn in these areas, including military equipment, but the LPR repeatedly accused Kyiv of violating these agreements.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:03 286 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by Russian missile forces and artillery. 19:32 An air raid alert is roaring in almost all regions of Ukraine. It is reported about the flight of a rocket over the Vinnitsa region.
18:26 High-precision weapons and "Caliber" hit the territory of the training centers of the Ukrainian troops in the Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Lvov regions.
The Pantsir-S missile system of the Russian Armed Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft and 12 rockets, repelling another attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike at Zmeiny Island.
17:24 New arrivals in Odessa. Something is on fire north of the city.
13:08 Highlights from the new briefing by the RF Ministry of Defense:
In an air battle, a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region;
The Ukrainian side made another unsuccessful attempt to launch airstrikes and MLRS strikes on Zmeiny Island;
Russian air defense systems destroyed eight Ukrainian UAVs and 19 MLRS rockets, including over Zmeiny Island;
The RF Armed Forces with high-precision weapons and Kalibr missiles attacked the territory of the training centers of the ground forces, air assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
The successes of the Russian army, the People's Militia of the DPR and LPR significantly reduce the moral and psychological state of the Ukrainian army;
As a result of air strikes, missile troops and artillery, more than 720 Ukrainian nationalists were killed;
As a result of the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Kalibrov, two motorized infantry brigades and an airmobile brigade from the strategic reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost their combat capability;
Aviation, rocket troops and artillery hit two command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four ammunition depots and the western outskirts of Lisichansk;
Ten MLRS platoons were hit by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Donetsk direction;
"Pantsir-S" of the Russian Armed Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and 12 rockets near Zmeiny Island, there are no casualties among the personnel;
Since the beginning of the special operation, the RF Armed Forces have destroyed 1,363 UAVs and 3,809 armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:03 Gas supply will be restored in Berdyansk. This was announced by the head of the State Administration of Berdyansk. A specific date for the supply of raw materials to the city is not yet known, but work is already underway. Specialists of the military-civilian administration report that they have already established contacts with the gas supplier.
11:35 A terrorist attack was prevented in Kherson. Ukrainian deserters who were hiding in the city were going to arrange a mass execution of civilians and blame the Russian military for this.
10:15 Shoigu inspected the Russian group of troops involved in a special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
09:47 The possibility of Ukraine's entry into NATO is not considered - Spanish Foreign Minister.
08:06 Kyiv time were hit by cruise missiles.
08:05 Personnel combat work of the MLRS "Hurricane" during a special operation in Ukraine. Russian rocket artillery units are engaged in the destruction of manpower and military equipment of nationalists and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
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As a result of air strikes, missile troops and artillery,more than 720 Ukrainian nationalists were killed
A fucking slaughterhouse now. A complete rout.
SkyNews just did a lengthy piece on an elite Ukrainian commando battalion holed in Lysychansk that has lost EIGHTY PERCENT of its men.
Their commander shrugs and says all they can do us keep replacing their hardened professionals with cannon fodder trainees, and watch those are chef souls get slaughtered, and on and in it goes.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:22 During the day, residential buildings of the private sector in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk were damaged, at the following addresses:
Address: st. Slepneva, 78, VFU ammunition hit the garages. 22:31 Tonight, during the shelling of the village of Dolya, at the address: st. Pobedy, 25 killed a civilian born in 1949 Enemy fire damaged three houses of the private sector at the following addresses: st. Wins 65, 67, 81.
20:30 As a result of today's shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk People's Republic, two people were killed, eight more were injured.
20:23 The firing position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Azot chemical plant, destroyed by our projectile.
On the territory of the enterprise, Ukrainian troops threw samples of weapons supplied by the West everywhere. The people's militia of the LPR has already taken all this stuff into circulation and is mastering the trophies. They are very grateful to Kyiv and the collective West for saving republican ammunition.
19:40 In the DPR yesterday, a monk of the Holy Assumption Nikolo-Vasilyevsky Monastery was blown up by an anti-personnel mine.
This happened outside the territory of the monastery, located in the village of Nikolskoye. Monk Amphilochius (Kozakov) received serious leg injuries and was hospitalized.
17:04 Ambassador of the LPR to the Russian Federation: the soldiers of the People's Militia of the LPR evacuated about 250 more people from the territory of the Severodonetsk Azot plant, among them small children.
15:23 VFU subjected to repeated shelling the village of Korolenko in the Central City district of Gorlovka, as a result of which four civilians were injured, who were at the Korolenkovskiye ponds near the catamaran parking lot at the time of the shelling. In the village of Golmovsky on the street. Voroshilovgradskoy, 5/14, two civilians were injured.
14:18 Consequences of the shelling in Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk from the VFU.
13:18 On the orders of the Ukrainians, the military formations of Ukraine attacked the peaceful Stakhanov (LPR) with a missile of the Tochka-U tactical missile system.
11:24 LPR servicemen are evacuating the residents of Severodonetsk.
11:13 Defense Minister Shoigu arrived in the NVO zone in Donbas.
10:34 According to the official data of the DPR JCCC since the beginning of the escalation * as of 10:30 06/26/22
During the 130 days of the escalation, 199 civilians died, incl. 12 children.
Complete data on the dead civilians in the territory liberated during the NWO are being established.
On the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, 930 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. 69 children.
On the territory liberated during the NMD, 1,442 civilians were injured, incl. 79 children.
Total: 2,371 including 148 children.
Damage:
— 4,927 residential buildings;
— 1,064 civil infrastructure facility, including 64 medical institutions, 202 educational institutions, 378 social security facilities, 31 critical infrastructure facilities, 389 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attack in Kuibyshevsky district, Donetsk, Makeevka, and Yasinovataya.
- 578 vehicles.
At the moment, it is impossible to establish for certain the data on damage and destruction of residential housing constructions and civil infrastructure facilities in the territory liberated during the NWO.
During the 130 days of the escalation of the JCCC of the DPR, 4,937 facts of firing were recorded, of which 4,616 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 42,237 ammunition of various calibers, including 30 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", 14 MLRS missilesBM-30 "Smerch", 112 MLRS missiles from BM-27 "Hurricane" and 7,394 MLRS missiles from BM-21.
09:22 Cossacks of the 6th Regiment in the city of Zolote handed out local residents bread and food.
09:10 Today, Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko could have turned 46 years old. He was a true patriot of his land. Defended Russian people and Russian Donbass. He would have defended even now, but a vile terrorist attack took his life.
08:03 The entire left-bank territory of the Seversky Donets within the borders of the LPR has come under its full control - the Ministry of Defense.
08:01 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Leninskoye
- n.p. Gorlovka (village of Gagarin sh-ty): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:00 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded from the direction of the settlement. Druzhkovka Stakhanov using the tactical missile system "Tochka-U" (1 missile) - Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC.
[Axios] Sanctions drive Russia to first foreign debt default since 1918
Russia is set to default on its foreign-currency sovereign debt after bond holders reported the Kremlin missed two payments late Sunday, per the Wall Street Journal.
Why it matters: This is the foreseeable outcome of sanctions imposed due to the invasion of Ukraine, even though Russia had successfully pushed off the inevitable for months. For now, the default is mostly notable for its symbolism as Russia's first foreign debt default since 1918, reflecting the country's international pariah status and crumbling economy.
Our thought bubble, via Axios' Felix Salmon: Bond defaults normally happen because the issuer doesn't want to make the payment. In this case, Russia was clearly willing to do so; it just wasn't able to.
The big picture:Russia hasn't defaulted on international debts since the Bolshevik Revolution, though it defaulted on domestic debt during a financial crash in 1998.
Russian officials have struggled with payments on $40 billion of outstanding bonds since the U.S. and allies moved to impose sanctions on the country after Putin's forces launched their invasion last February.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a decree last week for a temporary measure giving the government 10 days to pick banks to handle payments under a new scheme, indicating Russia will regard its debt obligations fulfilled by paying bondholders in rubles, Reuters reports.
What to watch: Although the deadline passed for Russian officials to meet a 30-day grace period on interest payments that were originally due on May 27, it could be a while before a default is confirmed, AP notes.
Maybe the debtors should require payment in bullion?
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