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Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs releases new European map


Posted by: badanov || 05/05/2022 01:03 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms-to-controversial-ukrainian-militia-linked-to-neo-nazis/
Posted by: LOL…America || 05/05/2022 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Colored that way, I see a lobster on the right trying to devour some other creature on the left.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/05/2022 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Why is Belarus, which Russia launched the invasion from, white?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/05/2022 23:24 Comments || Top||


Photolog: Remains of almost 300 Soviet soldiers buried in Sevastopol
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

For photos of the ceremony, follow the link. The process of Russia uncovering her history in WWII continues.

[Regnum] The ceremony of reburial of the remains of Soviet soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War took place on May 4 in the village of Dergachi in Sevastopol. The event was attended by a photojournalist of IA REGNUM .

The ceremony was attended by representatives of search teams, authorities, schoolchildren, and public figures.

The remains of the fighters were discovered during search operations, which are traditionally carried out in the spring, on the eve of Victory Day.

In total, the remains of 291 defenders of the Fatherland were buried in the earth - the reburial took place with full military honors.

It was possible to establish the names of 11 dead soldiers. The remains of three of them will be transferred to their homeland, Georgia, for subsequent reburial.

Posted by: badanov || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Briefly about Ukraine. 04.05.2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
After the evacuation of some civilians, massive artillery shelling and aerial bombardment of Azovstal continued. Sporadic breakthroughs to test for seepage from the plant site are stopped. A full-fledged assault on the plant is not being undertaken.

The encircled were told that they would either surrender or be destroyed on the territory of Azovstal. There will be no corridors for them. Information about the capture of the Canadian general has not yet been verified.

2. Zaporozhye.
There are no big changes on the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole line. There were only battles south of Orekhovo. There are also battles on the outskirts of Gulyai-Polye. To the east of Gulyaipole, fighting continues for various villages. There is no significant progress. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are just probing the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are accumulating a strike force, including at the expense of the troops released in Mariupol.

3. Ugledar.
On the line Novomikhailovka-Ugledar-Velikaya Novoselovka without significant changes. The RF Armed Forces entrenched themselves in the settlements south of Velikaya Novoselovka. The Ugledar fortified area continues to cover the Maryinka-Kurakhovo highway.

4. Marinka.
There are no significant advances here. As before, the battles are going on in the area of ​​the waste heap. The battles themselves are of a positional nature, especially since the enemy has the ability to throw reinforcements into Maryinka from the direction of Kurakhovo.

5. Avdievka.
In the Avdievka industrial zone, medium-intensity battles continue without serious advances. To the north, fighting is going on at Novoselka-2 and Novobakhmutovka. The troops of the DPR managed to enter Troitskoye - fighting continues in the area of ​​​​the village. Attempts to advance to New York from the east have not yet brought significant success. At the same time, the enemy continues to shell the settlements of the DPR - Donetsk, Makeevka, Yasinovataya, Yelenovka, etc. 122mm to 152mm cannon artillery, various types of MLRS + OTR "Tochka-U" are used.

6. LPR.
Fighting continues in the industrial area of ​​Rubizhne. Fighting also continues on the outskirts of Severodonetsk. In Popasna, the slow gnaw through of the fortified area of ​​the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues. The pace of progress is low. The enemy has the ability to plant reserves here. Significant losses on both sides in Popasnaya. Both sides understand the operational value of Popasna, so the battle for the city is going on with unrelenting bitterness.

7. Izyum.
Fighting continues north of the Barvenkovo-Slavyansk highway. It has not yet been possible to reach the highway, although it is already possible to carry out its fire defeat. The fighting is going on in the Kurulki-Pashkovo area. Fighting continues near Bolshaya Kamyshevakha. In the direction of Slavyansk, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after the capture of Yampol, partially covered Krasny Liman, fighting is taking place on the outskirts of the city. The enemy is blowing up bridges and preparing a retreat to the next line of defense north of Slavyansk. In this direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to suffer the heaviest losses. The transfer of Volkssturm units here reflects the problem of the catastrophic loss of personnel in personnel brigades.

8. Kharkov.
After an unsuccessful attempt to advance on Kazachya Lopan and the loss of two villages, the Armed Forces of Ukraine changed tactics and started fighting for Russkaya Lozovaya, where fighting continues to this day, and also carried out an attack in the direction of Stary Saltov, pushing a light curtain of LPR reservists. After the transfer of reinforcements, the front again moved south, but due to the lack of forces in this direction on both sides, tactical shifts in one direction or another are possible here in the future.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are also trying to establish crossings across the Seversky Donets in order to create a more serious threat to the flank of the Izyum grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Volchansk. The main task of all these battles is to divert part of the forces of the RF Armed Forces from the Izyum direction through harassing operations against the open flank.

9. Nikolaev.
Medium-intensity battles continue on the line between Kherson and Nikolaev. The front line has shifted somewhat in the direction of Nikolaev, the enemy admits serious losses, but continues to build up forces for possible counterattacks in this direction.

On the Krivoy Rog direction without changes. Despite the statements of the Gauleiter of Krivoy Rog, the grouping of the RF Armed Forces did not go on the offensive in this direction. There is also no significant progress on the front south of Nikopol in the Novovorontsovka area.

10. Odessa.
Missile strikes on military and transport infrastructure continue. Part of the APU grouping is still kept in the Odessa area, fearing a sea landing, although its probability is not very high now. After the UAV raid on Zmeiny Island, attacks on the Shkolny airfield followed. Provocations also continue on the border with Transnistria. Until the situation with Nikolaev is resolved, direct operations against Odessa are unlikely.

From Andrey Chervonets:
Terrorists who have settled on Azovstal want to exchange hostages for food

The Nazis hiding at Azovstal offered to exchange civilians there for food and medicine

"The indicated terms of the deal are fifteen hostages per ton of food, as well as medicines. They warned that no one else would be allowed to go to Ukraine, now they will only be exchanged," said a representative of the headquarters of the operation to liberate the enterprise. Natsiks change their civilians for food.

Can you imagine that the defenders of the Brest Fortress would offer to cancel the women and children who were also there with them for food and pills?

The representative of the headquarters said that he had already encountered similar methods: in particular, in Syria, in negotiations with ISIS militants.

Posted by: badanov || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now the smear begins. "Belarus' dictator Lukashenko, widely seen as Putin's ..." Ally is now a bad guy.
Posted by: Dale || 05/05/2022 21:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Dale: He's always been a Putin pet and asshole. Don't remember his thuggish escapades with migrants and other Commie hijinks?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/05/2022 22:24 Comments || Top||


Down Under
A word from the Australian Government
Posted by: badanov || 05/05/2022 00:33 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That was glorious.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/05/2022 13:23 Comments || Top||


Economy
Update On Food Plants: More Fires, FBI Alert, One Off-The-Wall Explanation
[PJMedia] Last week, PJ Media reported on the suspicious number of food processing plants, factories, logistics centers, and other industrial food facilities across the U.S. that had burned, went kaboom!, or had planes crash on them. In the past week, more accidents have occurred, the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
has issued a warning, possible motives have emerged, and one company offered a rather implausible explanation for the destruction of their facility. At this point, we still have more questions than answers.

Now the fact-checkers have come out in force, so we know there’s nothing to worry about. Right?

To be crystal clear: no pattern has yet emerged. The incidents still appear random. Nobody has produced a connection between all these incidents.

There are just a LOT of them, and they’re continuing.

The FBI has not made any mention of the fires, plane crashes, and explosions, but it has issued an alert about cyberattacks possibly timed to disrupt the grain harvest season:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is informing Food and Agriculture (FA) sector partners that ransomware actors may be…. more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain. The FBI noted ransomware attacks during these seasons against six grain cooperatives during the fall 2021 harvest and two attacks in early 2022 that could impact the planting season by disrupting the supply of seeds and fertilizer.

It’s been a heckuva couple of weeks.

So is this a mere anomaly, or is something else going on?

According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), fire departments across the U.S. respond to a fire call once every 23 seconds. That’s an estimated total of 1,388,500 fires in 2020. In October 2021, the NFPA released a report showing shifting trends in fires in America over the past two years corresponding to the pandemic:

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released findings from its latest “Fire Loss in the U.S.” report, which shows that the total number of U.S. fires overall rose eight percent from 2019 to 2020. While some year-to-year fluctuation is normal, this increase reflects a far from typical year due to the pandemic.

“In 2020, more people were working and studying at home, commuting far less, and spending more time socializing outside,” said Lorraine Carli, vice president of Outreach and Advocacy at NFPA. “It appears that the fires followed these shifts.”

According to the report, which provides a broad overview of how, when, and where U.S. fires occur and their impact on life and property, residential structure fires rose five percent from 2019 to 2020, while non-residential structure fires fell eight percent. Highway vehicle fires fell nine percent; outside and other fires rose 17 percent. Civilian deaths and injuries fell six percent and eight percent, respectively.

What’s notable is the increase in residential fires and the decrease in commercial fires, as more workers stayed home during the pandemic. It follows, then, that as our economy is permitted to open back up by the public health officials who shut it down, certain forces are at play. More people are at more worksites, doing more things to cause fires there than they would have if they stayed home.

Other factors could also be at play, and nothing is conclusive. Despite rumors to the contrary, our economy and our supply chains have experienced widespread weaknesses for years. The economic pause, as it were, implemented by global public health agencies, caused much deeper fractures in supply chains as producers found it difficult to switch from wholesale to retail production and back again. Those broken supply chains, in turn, faced difficulty in meeting increased demand in some industries, while labor markets continue to struggle to find and pay enough workers. Could some of the fires be an easy way out for some facilities that have struggled and have lucrative insurance coverage? Could some of the incidents have resulted from year over year of deferred maintenance in industries with a thin profit margin?

Remember, on the other hand, those same public health officials who shut down our economy deemed workers at such facilities "essential," so no shutdown orders affected them. Plants didn’t simply lie around empty for two years, and personnel levels stayed mostly normal to handle maintenance issues that arose during that time. Lockdowns cannot explain the decrease in fires in 2019-20, nor the expected increase in 2022, because those lockdowns didn’t affect essential industries.

Is something more nefarious going on? Let’s remember back to May 2021 and what the Department of Energy calls the Colonial Pipeline Cyber Incident. The entire pipeline was shut down for a week, severely impacting the availability of airplane fuel and gasoline in several states in the Southeast. Colonial turned the pipeline back on, but only after paying Russian hackers $5 million in ransom.

Again, without jumping to conclusions, it seems many forces have begun to negatively affect our domestic food supply. This, on top of expected global food shortages as we progress through 2022. It would be wise to prepare accordingly.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe if they hired American citizens who can read and communicate in a common language, English, your safety issue might be less.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/05/2022 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Government school systems Education Unions will have to insist that districts adapt to the native migrate native tongue (Spanish). The only way gov't school systems can survive in "move away" states such as NY, California, Illinois. Large families of school-age children are the key.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2022 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Is something more nefarious going on?

Sure, a burnout is easier and pays better than a buyout for a failing business.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/05/2022 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  This year's church burning epidemic.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/05/2022 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  The FBI has not made any mention of the fires, plane crashes, and explosions, but it has issued an alert about cyberattacks possibly timed to disrupt the grain harvest season:

All stuffed into some dark inaccessible hole by the Feds next to Hunter Biden's, and Hillary's computers.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/05/2022 14:19 Comments || Top||



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  ISWAP Terrorists Kill Three In Borno As @UN Chief Visits Maiduguri
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  Oil depot on fire in occupied Makiivka
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  Russian Army’s Chief Of Staff Wounded In Ukraine, Other Officers Feared Killed
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  Russia's offensive along a broad front in Ukraine’s east has been stalling
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