[ConservativeTreehouse] WASHINGTON — Two former FBI agents accused of mishandling sex-abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar will not be charged with a crime, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
In a statement, officials said that after a "careful re-review of evidence," the department "is adhering to its prior decision not to bring federal criminal charges," adding: "This does not in any way reflect a view that the investigation of Nassar was handled as it should have been, nor in any way reflects approval or disregard of the conduct of the former agents."
John Manly, a lawyer for many of Nassar's alleged victims, called the decision "incomprehensible" and said the FBI agents "violated their oaths of office and colluded in the cover up of the worst sexual assault scandal in the history of sports."
The department's inspector general uncovered major missteps in the FBI's early handling of sex-abuse allegations against the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor, allowing him to victimize other patients before his arrest.
From the OIG's report July 2021:
The OIG found that, despite the extraordinarily serious nature of the allegations and the possibility that Nassar's conduct could be continuing, senior officials in the FBI Indianapolis Field Office failed to respond to the Nassar allegations with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and required, made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond to them, and violated multiple FBI policies.
The Indianapolis Field Office did not undertake any investigative activity until September 2nd, five weeks after the meeting with USA Gymnastics—when they telephonically interviewed one of the three athletes. Further, FBI Indianapolis never interviewed the other two gymnasts who they were told were available to meet with FBI investigators.
This absence of any serious investigative activity was compounded when the Indianapolis Field Office did not transfer the matter to the FBI office (the Lansing Resident Agency), where venue most likely would have existed had evidence been developed to support the potential federal crimes being considered, even though the Indianapolis office had been advised to do so by the USAO and had told USA Gymnastics that the transfer had occurred.
Additionally, the Indianapolis office did not notify state or local authorities of the sexual assault allegations even though it questioned whether there was federal jurisdiction to pursue them. As a result, the Lansing Resident Agency did not learn of the Nassar allegations until over a year after they were first reported to the FBI and then learned of them only from the MSUPD.
Moreover, the FBI conducted no investigative activity in the matter for more than 8 months following the September 2015 interview. During that period of time, as alleged and detailed in numerous civil complaints, Nassar’s sexual assaults continued.
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The OIG found that, despite the extraordinarily serious nature of the allegations and the possibility that Nassar's conduct could be continuing, senior officials in the FBI Indianapolis Field Office failed to respond to the Nassar allegations with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and required, made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond to them, and violated multiple FBI policies.
...So sue the bastards. Somebody losing a fair chunk of their pay and pension will put the fear of God into a lot of people.
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End the Civil Service Act. The intent was government service would be non-partisan, that employees would be paid modest salaries and pension in return for secure employment. Now 'civil servants' are partisan, have an pay and pension compensation better than the average taxpayer, and are all but immune from firing for egregious behavior and job performance.
[FoxNews] The Donna Independent School District in Donna, Texas, announced Wednesday night that it will be canceling school district-wide on Thursday and Friday after receiving a "credible threat of violence."
No details were immediately released about what type of threat was made, although the district said it is currently under investigation.
"The safety and security of our students and staff is our first priority," the announcement said. "Classes will resume Tuesday morning."
According to a local news outlet MyRGV.com, a source familiar with the matter said law enforcement found an AK-47 and a list of targeted students inside the home of one of the suspects.
The source told the paper that two to three people were involved in the thwarted plot. No further details were provided.
If it's yellow, let it mellow.
If it's brown, flush it down.
[ZeroHedge] The California Farm Water Coalition issued a dire statement Tuesday warning that California’s agriculture industry and food supply is in peril because of restricted agriculture water supplies. “Today’s State Water Board emergency water conservation regulation continues to demonstrate how serious this year’s drought is. Water conservation measures are reaching farther and farther into our communities and now go beyond the water supply cuts felt by California farms and rural communities earlier this year.”
The California Farm Water Coalition represents agriculture water suppliers, water districts, agribusiness, farmers, as well as the supporting agribusinesses such as farm equipment suppliers, tractor manufacturers, and the like.
It was only last summer that the State Water Resources Control Board eliminated water supplies for thousands of family farms throughout the Central Valley, a mere two years after the state’s reservoirs were full from a particularly wet year. “The California State Water Resources Control Board announced that thousands of farmers in the Central Valley up to the Oregon Border will have their water curtailed until winter, the Globe reported.
When the State Water Board orders water cut off to farmers, the food supply is also cut.
California’s drought conditions are actually historically normal however, each of California’s droughts are billed by government and media as the driest period in the state’s recorded rainfall history. Scientists who study the Western United States’ long-term climate patterns say California has been dry for significantly longer periods — more than 200 years.
The Globe spoke Wednesday with Mike Wade, Executive Director of the California Farm Water Coalition on the State Water Board Emergency Water Conservation Regulation. Wade said the most important measure they can take right to highlight the seriousness of California’s water shortage is to connect consumers through the food they eat.
Wade said that the surface supply of water is short, so farmers will have to rely on groundwater. But the state is encroaching on groundwater availability through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014. And water district irrigation managers are putting caps on water by limiting pumping.
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However there is plenty of water for the settlers to water their nice Kentucky blue grass lawns in the damn desert that was and is California. The same Gaia worshiping clowns who obstruct cutting trees and debris from near power lines seem rather quiet about mandating xeriscaping within a state that is wild about mandating nearly everything else.
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I have noticed that the media has given up on pictures of Joe Bidet snarfing a cone. I'd imagine even that is polling badly for him these days.
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"$2.7 billion bond fund to build water reservoirs sits idle in California
August 16, 2021·
It’s been seven years since drought-wracked California raked in $2.7 billion in bond funds that promised construction of reservoirs to capture excess water runoff during winters.
The money is sitting in a bank account without a single shovel of dirt overturned to begin construction of eight above-ground water holding facilities. Meanwhile, governors and local politicians over the years have called for urban water cutbacks and even rationing for farmers who have watched crops wither and die due to decreased water supply.
All of this is due to the state’s bureaucratic controls that cause major construction projects to take decades to complete.
“That money is held up because of environmental permitting,” Meanwhile, not one gallon of water has been placed in above-ground storage pursuant to this bond measure.”
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Keep building those apartments and condos all over the place, Gavin. We need to make this state affordable for the homeless freaks and illegal aliens. Don't worry about the crops...er, well, keep some water for your own vineyard.
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Roman hydraulic engineers would tell you "Build cisterns, many cisterns!, and catch the falling rain and let nothing escape to the sea!"
But no, that is too unfathomable for Governor Newsom -- we need to ration, ration, Ration! which in practice that only the wealthy get water and the poor suffer from thirst ...besides we need the money for graft on High-Speed Rail and other boondoggles.
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California's mountains get feet of snow in the winter. A plan to catch the melt would solve most of the west coast's water needs. Think. California could sell water (they need the revenue). Instead they let it go into the sea. Snail Darter is happy anyway.
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Old commie Woody Guthrie had the slogan "This machine kills fascists" painted on his guitar. Roy Clark just made people smile with his guitar. No stupid pretentious slogan necessary.
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I had an LP titled "Roy Clark's Greatest Hits" -- great artist.
Jacob Albarado, a border patrol agent, was off work on Tuesday and was at the barber's when he got a text from his wife Trisha Albarado saying: 'Help'
Trisha, mother to their three children - sons Zachary and Jordan, and daughter Jayda, teaches fourth grade maths and science at Robb Elementary School
Albarado leapt up from the barber's, grabbed the barber's shotgun, and drove straight to the school, where eight-year-old Jayda and her mother were inside
A tactical team was already readying to take the room where the gunman was barricaded, so Albarado began searching for his daughter and clearing rooms
Two officers provided cover, guns drawn, he said, and two others guided the children out on the sidewalk
Albarado's friend was the heroic CBP agent who entered the classroom where Salvador Ramos, 18, was holed up and shot him dead
The family say the POLICE are to blame that a 3x convicted felon illegally armed with a gun. Repeatedly avoided arrest, has multiple felonies for aggravated offenses, and then on top of that he's got two objects - one in each hand, that are both black, as he turned towards the officers.
So at what point does the family say, Jalen Randle, was dumb $hit? and got himself killed?
[France24] Hundreds of protesters from a radical leftist party in South Africa marched Wednesday on the French embassy in Pretoria to demand that France leave Africa.
Chanting "F*** off, France" and dressed in their trademark red T-shirts and caps, the Economic Freedom Fighters carried placards reading "West Africa is not a colony of the French" and "France must pay reparations for its colonial crimes".
"You killed a lot of people in Africa. Why are you so scared today?" the party's firebrand opposition leader Julius Malema shouted into a microphone, saying he was speaking to "French white supremacists".
Armed police guarded the embassy. French ambassador Aurelien Lechevallier emerged briefly to receive their demands.
"We are friends to African nations," he said.
The protesters arrived in buses hired by the party, according to AFP correspondents.
Malema, a master of political theatre, broke away from the ruling African National Congress nine years ago.
He has attracted millions of supporters, especially among workers and the unemployed. He routinely denounces European and American imperialism, and has supported Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
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It's an interesting memory hole that while so many bitch about colonialism in Africa, outside of the Congo, one of the rationales and action of the European in their race for territories was to end the sub-Saharan slave trade.
[PJ] A bill is working its way through the Russian Duma that would allow Moscow to seize Western companies that threaten to leave Russia.
Most Western companies have already left, but the few that remain now face severe pressure to leave or give in.
The law would give the government broad powers to intervene "where there is a threat to local jobs or industry," according to Reuters. It makes it "more difficult for western companies to disentangle themselves quickly unless they are prepared to take a big financial hit."
The law to seize the property of foreign investors follows an exodus of western companies, such as Starbucks (SBUX.O), McDonald’s (MCD.N) and brewer AB InBev (ABI.BR), and increases pressure on those still there.
It comes as the Russian economy, increasingly cut-off due to western sanctions, plunges into recession amid double-digit inflation.
Italian lender UniCredit (CRDI.MI), Austrian bank Raiffeisen (RBIV.VI), the world’s biggest furniture brand, IKEA, fast food chain Burger King, and hundreds of smaller firms still have businesses in Russia. Any that try to leave face this tougher line.
The EU is proposing to toughen its own rules on the Russian sanctions, including stiffening the penalties for violating the sanctions regime. But some Russian politicians don’t get the connection between the sanctions and the war. Former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has been particularly vocal about Western companies leaving, attacking "enemies who are now trying to limit our development and ruin our lives."
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Companies that sold their souls to China (or any other skeevy regime) deserve it. The Hellraiser treatment: "We'll tear your soul apart..."
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Tit for tat. The US unilaterally confiscated 300 billion in Russian assets in the west. Did they imagine there would be no repercussions? If US assets in Russia are nationalized (worth an estimated 500 billion) then Russia not only acquires the physical plant free and clear. They also maintain those jobs for their citizens AND the ongoing business profits remain in country instead of being repatriated to the West. They could even lower the price of the products to their citizens since the cost of building the businesses is effectively zero. The next step is a bill in the Duma to negate US patents. That would likewise be a boost to the Russian economy with little possible direct blowback.
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^Tit for tat well put. China the same. Looks like the West has tied both feet together. Biden leading the charge into the windmill. While Latin America, Africa, and most of Asia Look on to take advantage as events develop.
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If it's the end of gerbilism, I say hip, hip, horray!
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Tit for tat should have been predicted. Especially if Russia really is all those awful things its been accused of, during the current excitement and since 2016.
Whether the local employees have absorbed skills and mindset to continue producing Western-quality goods on their own is an interesting question. The world as well as Russia will benefit in the long run if the answer is yes, but there is a seventy year history to overcome.
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When I think Quality Control, I think Soviet Russian. Vodka and depression build morale and technical capabilities, Comrade!
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Fine with me. The Russians don't have the technical capabilities to run the seized assets and the companies should not have sold their souls to the devil.
[Defense Blog] Photos emerged on social media today reportedly showing the freight train carrying a convoy of older T-62 medium tanks arriving in the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, which was captured by Russians.
The 1960s-era T-62 is a Soviet medium battle tank. The first prototype of the T-62 was completed in 1959. In 1961 this tank was officially accepted to service with the Soviet Army.
Russia is likely facing “a shortage” of modern tanks and trying to make up the deficit with outdated combat vehicles.
The team of researchers at the Oryx blog, who have been compiling photo and video evidence, has reported that Russia is now visually confirmed to have lost 700 tanks since it began its invasion of Ukraine three months ago.
According to open-source-intelligence analysts, Russia has lost 18 T-64s; 417 T-72s; 133 T-80s; 20 T-90s; and 112 unknown tanks.
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...It gets better - the -62 is, more or less, a direct descendant of the legendary T-34 that steamrollered the Wehrmacht all the way back to Berlin. But after the -62, Soviet designers started with a clean sheet of paper to create their next generation of tanks, the -64 and its successors.
Which means that the -62 has a lot in common, in terms of equipment and parts, with its predecessors the -55 and -54 while it has none whatsoever with the tanks that came after it.
Which in turn means that the already logistically challenged Russians are going to have to set up a separate parts and maintenance system for the -62s.
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I remember reading an intel summary in the 70s that a Guards Armor Regiment in Kaliningrad was getting new T-72s....replacing their JS-IIs (that's IIs not IIIs). Russians throw nothing away.
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Spoken by the defense expert of the west. I reserve my opinion as this is the work of a US" defense journalist and commentator". I trust very little of anything presented by various medias. Next we will hear and see our media proclaim the godlike pronouncements of Fauci Monkeypox.
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It all depends on how they are used. As the ground grows firmer there is a use for massed armor -- even if it is not the best. Remember that Soviet Russian Armor doctrine is based on mass attacks not solo tank usage.
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It depends on what you are doing with them. Against modern NATO tanks, T-62s would not fare well. I understand they are being used as assault guns. Given all the positional fighting, this makes sense. As long as you have infantry support.
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I think the story line of 1000 tanks streaming through the Fulda Gap is dead now...
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1000 tanks streaming through the Fulda Gap
Once upon a time, that was a real fear. But the Soviet Union and its army are gone and there is no way Russia could do this now. A bit ironic to note that Ukraine is the opposite end of the route to the Fulda Gap.
^ That's what the Ukrainians on the front lines in the Donbas think. It's really shitty that their leaders insist on getting them slaughtered in Severodonetsk -- for nothing.
Now even the Washington Post and the New York Times are changing the narrative, from "Stupid Russians! / Russians are sure to lose" to "Oh cruel war / Ukrainians prepare to be slaughtered" in the Donbas.
DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine — Stuck in their trenches, the Ukrainian volunteers lived off a potato per day as Russian forces pounded them with artillery and Grad rockets on a key eastern front line. Outnumbered, untrained and clutching only light weapons, the men prayed for the barrage to end — and for their own tanks to stop targeting the Russians.
“They [Russians] already know where we are, and when the Ukrainian tank shoots from our side it gives away our position,” said Serhi Lapko, their company commander, recalling the recent battle. “And they start firing back with everything — Grads, mortars...."
But Lapko and Khrus’s concerns were echoed recently by a platoon of the 115th Brigade 3rd Battalion, based nearby in the besieged city of Severodonetsk. In a video uploaded to Telegram on May 24, and confirmed as authentic by an aide to Haidai, volunteers said they will no longer fight because they lacked proper weapons, rear support and military leadership.
“We are being sent to certain death,” said a volunteer, reading from a prepared script, adding that a similar video was filmed by members of the 115th Brigade 1st Battalion. “We are not alone like this, we are many.”
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^ That's gut-wrenching. Let's hope that Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, uses the new authority just granted him by Zelensky this week and orders these poor souls' commanders to surrender.
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^ surrender. Ah yes, affirming "Oye Come Va's" (clever nym) point? do you use one computer? Or just one boiler room?
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Yes, that mutiny is getting lots of attention in Europe. Mariupol has definitely changed the course of the war.
Here is a link to the formal video announcement of mutiny by Ukraine's 115th Brigade, 3rd Battalion (the Washigton Post journalist got the Battalion # wrong). They uploaded it to Telegram. It's also been uploaded by the American network MSN to their YouTube channel. (The MSN upload screwed up the subtitles; the other upload, linked to here, mistakenly places them as Azov, but that one gets the translation right.)
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Mutinies are to be expected now. The image we receive from the propaganda press is full of lies; it's very different on the front lines.
During the First World War, mutinies erupted among combat units in every one of the nations that had fought from the beginning. The French and Russian mutinies are well known, but the British suffered multiple mutinies as well, and the German navy suffered a mutiny in October 1918. Both the Italian and the Turkish armies experienced mutinies after crushing defeats (Caporetto and Jerusalem respectively).
We can expect more mutinies in coming weeks from the hastily-assembled and poorly-led Ukrainian battalions.
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Thank you, Jean-Paul.
Have you seen the Stanley Kubrick film, Paths of Glory?
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Yes, it's excellent. Very popular in France.
It seems to me that Kubrick was criticizing not so much war as the absurdity of military decision-making -- in the film we are never shown the enemy, only the anguish and struggles of the cadres themselves. To me this subject is much more interesting and subtle than the generic anti-war message film.
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much more interesting and subtle than the generic anti-war message film.
I agree... people who've never seen combat make it out to be much simpler, morally, than it is. Mutineers aren't cowards. "Rambo" types aren't necessarily heroic.
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Serhiy Haidai, governor of Luhansk, said Russians were in part of the city. "It is possible that in order not to be surrounded, they will have to leave."
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^ Their only escape route is west along the road to Siversk. That's right into the jaws of the Russian battalions situated just northof the highway (thanks to the Russian capture of Lyman) and the Russian battalions just south of the highway (thanks to the Russian capture of Popasna).
The Russian artillery is just a few miles away from the highway, on either side -- easy shelling distance. That's one hell of a gauntlet to run. Ouch. Poor Ukrainians.
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“We shot 30 bullets and then they said, ‘You can’t get more; too expensive,’ ” Lapko said.
Sounds like the definition of cannon fodder. And this appeared in the Washington Post (!).
Smells like desperation. How will they spin this going forward? What's going to be WaPo and NYT's New Narrative?
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The image we receive from the propaganda press is full of lies; it's very different on the front lines.
Of course. That is why we have multiple sources from multiple perspectives, and then pool our knowledge to tease out the truth that lays underneath. Your comments here are included in that calculation, my dears, received with the same skepticism as all other information sources — though I fear the BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and similar traditional travesties of journalism have earnt several extra doses of skepticism each.
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The New Narrative is of course to blame Trump.
Why the Once-Hawkish Heritage Foundation Opposed Aid to Ukraine
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May 27, 2002
Heritage has embraced the anti-interventionist fervor that defined President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy and has swept the Republican Party.
On Thursday, Mr. Roberts published a podcast interview with Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, one of only 11 Senate Republicans to oppose the Ukraine aid package and the author of a recent op-ed entitled “No to Neoconservatism.”
“Neither you, nor we, intend any opposition to an aid package to be dismissive of the heroism that we’ve seen in Ukraine,” Mr. Roberts told Mr. Hawley. “But I can at least speak for Heritage and say, ‘We’ve had enough of business as usual.’”
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right into the jaws of the Russian battalions situated just northof the highway (thanks to the Russian capture of Lyman) and the Russian battalions just south of the highway (thanks to the Russian capture of Popasna).
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
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"I'm afraid that Putin, at great cost to himself and to the Russian military, is continuing to chew through ground in Donbas," Boris Johnson told Bloomberg.
"He's continuing to make gradual, slow, but I'm afraid palpable, progress and therefore it is absolutely vital that we continue to support the Ukrainians militarily."
Spoken like a true moron with no military or strategic sense.
The right conclusion is not to drag out the losing side's inevitable defeat and cause thousands more deaths but to call for an immediate cease-fire and SAVE LIVES.
Johnson and Biden's foolish, reckless impulses will only cause more slaughter. Foolish goddamned cowards
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They are foolish and reckless because neither Johnson nor Biden has ever seen war. Neither even has a son in the war.
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[Korrespondent] 23:15 Washington warned Kiev that strikes from the Ukrainian side on Russian territory, especially far from the border with Ukraine, carry risks of escalation. US representatives are concerned about the use of Western-supplied weapons by Kyiv for this, Reuters reports.
23:13 The Ukrainian fighter successfully worked out an enemy missile in the sky over the Chernivtsi region, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Osachuk.
23:05 The start of a full-scale war in Ukraine significantly "liberalized" the process of obtaining weapons, but now it's time to legalize it, Reznikov said. In his opinion, networks of shooting galleries and shooting clubs should be developed in Ukraine so that citizens have the opportunity to learn how to use weapons.
23:01 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, after a telephone conversation with Putin, said that he "did not see hope for peace" in Ukraine.
22:59 A senior Pentagon official told reporters that, according to Washington, Russia has lost about 1,000 tanks, about 350 artillery systems, more than 30 aircraft and more than 50 helicopters in Ukraine, CNN reports. At the same time, the Russian Federation still has a great advantage over Ukraine in terms of equipment and manpower. According to a US Department of Defense spokesman, there are now 110 Russian BTGs operating in Ukraine, and the Russians have been able to advance in the Donbas.
22:52 This year, three Ukrainian cities at once entered the rating of the most dangerous cities in the world - Kharkiv, Odessa and Kiev.
22:31 The Russians abducted Viktor Sirota, the secretary of the Oleshky City Council of the Kherson region. According to the mayor Evgeny Ryshchuk, this happened tonight. He also confirmed that the Russians had appointed collaborator Georgy Zhuravko as the "head" of the city's occupation administration.
22:28 Arestovich outlined one of the key problems of the Ukrainian army today - the lack of supplies from the West of long-range multiple launch rocket systems, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine have run out of: is the supply of weapons capable of restoring the ability of the Ukrainian army to "endure" the Russian operational rear.Then the pace of the offensive of the Russian army will instantly drop, they will again begin to suffer heavy losses, and there will be no talk of any striking seizures of Severodonetsk and Kramatorsk, Zaporozhye and Slavyansk. we lost a few weeks ago, and the West did not have time to make up for it for us, because they are thinking about how they would use it on the territory of the Russian Federation."
22:25 The National Bank of Ukraine appealed to the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to temporarily, for the period of martial law and within six months after its termination, prohibit the collection of overdue debts from military personnel.
22:23 The number of those killed as a result of the shelling of Kharkiv has increased to nine, and the injured - to 19, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said on the air of the telethon.
21:50 In Chechnya, men are kidnapped and sent to war in Ukraine, several human rights organizations and local bloggers reported at once. According to Kavkaz.Realii , hundreds of abductees are forced to sign contracts under the threat of prison. In one of the illegal prisons there are 100 people, in the other - 30. These data are reported by men who witnessed the "mobilization".
The Vayfond human rights association reported that they already had dozens of applications from residents of Chechnya who announced they were being forced to go to war, including people with disabilities.
21:42 In Kharkiv, as a result of today's shelling, eight people were killed - the body of a five-month-old child was found, the National Police reported. When the shelling began, a young family was walking on the street: a wife and husband, who had a five-month-old baby in his arms. The man died immediately, the woman was hospitalized in serious condition. Subsequently, the police also found the body of a child - a baby from the hands of his father was thrown up by an explosive wave onto the roof of the entrance.
21:33 Arestovich announced the likely capture of Liman: "According to unverified reports, we lost the city of Liman. The way the Russian army captured it shows that there are very talented commanders, and this shows the increased level of operational management and skills of the Russian army."
21:29 Former head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Alexander Tupitsky was supposed to take part in the return to the legitimate field of Yanukovych, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said in an interview with Channel 24: "We started preparing for war in February 2021. When the first decision of the National Security and Defense Council concerned Mr. on Tupitsky, who received in December last year a statement allegedly from Mr. Yanukovych, who has nothing to do with our country for the last eight years. In the Russian Federation, there was a project to return Yanukovych through a legal procedure through our courts, OASK."
21:08 In the summer of 2021, at a secret meeting of the National Security and Defense Council for Chongar, Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Mykolaiv regions, it was instructed to provide protection in case of enemy invasion. Why, after that, in February 2022, the enemy managed to quickly advance in the Kherson region remains to be seen, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said in an interview with Channel 24.
20:56 Ukraine has sufficient grain reserves to satisfy domestic and global demand at least until the end of 2022, and even in 2023, but for this it is necessary to stop all hostilities in the Black Sea, said Zelensky's economic adviser Oleg Ustenko in a commentary to the American edition of Newsweek.
20:37 The invaders will use the captured Ukrainian soldiers for propaganda purposes and delay the exchange, experts say. Demonstrative executions are also not ruled out, as the political elite in Russia speaks about. More details - in the material What will happen to the heroes of Azovstal .
20:29 Captured Russians Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov, who are on trial for shelling the Kharkiv region with Grads in the first days of the war, pleaded guilty. During a meeting of the Kotelovsky district court of the Poltava region, they confirmed that they had violated the laws and customs of war by prior group conspiracy. The prosecutor's office demands 12 years in prison for them. Sentencing is scheduled for May 31.
20:26 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said that the proposals of Western politicians and experts to give up part of the territory of Ukraine in the name of peace are dangerous for his country as well: "This is a very strong signal to all other aggressors, potential criminals, that if you commit a crime and you will not be destroyed within three months, then everything is fine, everything can remain so.
20:21 Poland wants to buy 500 HIMARS missile systems from the United States, which were claimed by Ukraine, said Minister of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak: "We are building up the capabilities of missile forces and artillery. I signed a request for the purchase of about 500 HIMARS launchers for the needs of more than 80 batteries of the HOMAR program We are planning to integrate the equipment with the Polish command and control system."
20:17 Lavrov said in an interview with RT Arabic that the supply of weapons to Ukraine, which are capable of delivering strikes on Russian territory, will be a step towards "unacceptable escalation": "This will be a serious step towards unacceptable escalation. I hope that sane minds in the West, there are still a few of them left, they understand this."
20:11 There will always be a threat to Kiev from Russia, since conquering the capital is the fastest way to conquer Ukraine, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "We must be aware that there will always be a threat to Kiev. Because destroying Kiev and destroying the Ukrainian authorities is the fastest way to conquer Ukraine.
19:34 On the territory of the Belgorod and Voronezh regions, the enemy continues to prepare reserves and replenish stocks in order to further resume the offensive, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
19:18 The Russians have established control over the settlement of Mednaya Ruda, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
19:16 Despite the war in Ukraine, the United States considers China to be the most serious long-term challenge to the international order, Blinken said in a speech at George Washington University, CNN reports. The US Secretary of State, in particular, criticized China for supporting Russia in the situation with the war in Ukraine, saying that this position of Beijing "sets the alarm for all of us who call the Indo-Pacific region their home."
19:05 Finland will help restore infrastructure and Ukrainian cities, support educational reform in Ukraine, Shmyhal said after a meeting with Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
18:59 Albania has offered NATO to use the former Soviet naval base located on its territory, Prime Minister Edi Rama said. The base is located 180 km south of the capital Tirana, and a project for its reconstruction is already ready.
18:57 In Russia, the trial over the legality of the dismissal from service of 115 National Guardsmen who refused to fight in Ukraine has ended. The contract servicemen were dismissed after they refused to perform their official assignment on the territory of Ukraine and returned to their permanent duty station. They challenged the dismissal in court, but the court did not agree with their arguments and recognized the dismissal as legal.
18:49 Putin, in a telephone conversation with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, said that the exit of civilian ships from the ports of the Azov and Black Seas "is hindered by the Ukrainian side," the Kremlin press service reports.
18:38 The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, called the Kremlin’s words that Western sanctions jeopardize the world’s food security a blatant lie: “Stop your disinformation, the Kremlin. Not sanctions, but your war in Ukraine interferes with shipping and jeopardizes food security. "More than 20 million tons of grain are blocked by your mines and your war. We need to stop the war and restart the global food supply chains."
18:34 The occupation of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station threatens with flooding of the city and villages nearby, said Alexei Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexei Gromov: “Currently, a command post of the Southern Military District is deployed at the Kakhovskaya station. At the same time, the Russians are not doing anything to maintain these facilities in proper condition ", which can lead to an environmental disaster. Now two hydroelectric units are not working at the Kakhovka station, which the invaders do not allow to be repaired. This has already led to the flooding of Kakhovka and is fraught with flooding of nearby villages."
18:27 The head of the Chkalov community of the Kharkiv region, Viktor Solovyov, and the secretary of the council, Konstantin Chernyavsky, who suspended their powers on May 6 due to threats and pressure from the occupiers, were kidnapped on May 25. According to Anton Gerashchenko, they were tortured, persuaded to cooperate, forced to hang the Russian flag on the administrative building, but they refused. Their phones were taken away, but nevertheless they were released, and this morning they kidnapped and took away Solovyov's son in an unknown direction. Today, unknown people entered the administrative building of the Chkalov community and declared themselves the new administration, hung up the tricolor.
18:14 Russia has pulled Iskander missile launchers to the border of Belarus and can use them to shell the western part of Ukraine, said Alexei Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:55 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said that the number of victims of shelling in Kharkov had risen to seven, 17 people were injured. among them a nine-year-old child.
17:49 Lukashenka announced the creation of the Southern Operational Command in the armed forces of Belarus: "Military pressure will be exerted on us through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and NATO troops stationed there, as well as by maintaining and escalating hostilities in Ukraine. Unfortunately, a new direction, a new front, and we can't help but pay attention to it."
17:32 Podolyak said that Ukraine is preparing a counteroffensive: "The Kremlin is throwing everything it has into battle, but time is on our side. As soon as Russia is exhausted and loses its offensive potential, Ukraine will accumulate enough forces - the south of our country will be liberated. a matter of one day or a month, but not a matter of a year. The Ukrainian flag will again fly over Kherson. Not tomorrow, but faster than anyone can imagine."
16:37 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov reported five dead and ten wounded as a result of the shelling of the city center.
16:25 In a military mobile hospital in one of the front-line cities, Ukrainian doctors performed a unique laparoscopic operation - the removal of a kidney in a gunshot wound with the destruction of the organ, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. According to her, two such operations have already been carried out, thanks to which it was possible to save the lives of the military: "Such operations, with a combat wound to the kidney, have no analogues in the world. We should be proud of the doctors who become examples for doctors all over the world."
16:23 The next few weeks of the war will be very difficult, the enemy still has a large number of weapons, warned the head of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov: "It is wrong to underestimate the strength of the enemy. Russia's strategic plans remain unchanged - to destroy Ukraine as a state."
16:20 Air defense shot down a Russian missile over Sumy, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
15:56 Zelensky, in an address to the Latvian Parliament, said that Russia would not stop at the occupation of Ukraine. He stressed that today there are "some influential countries" that stand firmly on their feet, but do not have the courage to decisively take the side of Ukraine. Often the reason is money. However, there are those who hope that the world will still be able to pacify Russia.
Zelensky recalled that Russia has openly stated that it does not intend to limit itself to Ukraine alone. Therefore, according to him, today it is necessary to resolutely fight for the interests of each nation. However, calls by some national leaders for territorial concessions from Ukraine show that Kyiv's interests are not valued as highly as those of others.
15:52 The fighting has reached its maximum intensity, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: "The situation remains difficult and shows signs of further aggravation. The enemy has used all his forces and means to capture our territory and encircle our troops. The fighting has reached its maximum intensity today, the enemy is storming positions of our troops simultaneously in several directions. An extremely difficult and lengthy stage of struggle awaits us ahead, and we must understand that this is a war, and, unfortunately, losses on our part are inevitable. "
15:29 The Orthodox Church of Ukraine asks the Ecumenical Patriarch to dethrone the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill (Vladimir Gundyaev), who blessed the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
15:26 The American publication Politico published a list of European companies that could agree to Russia's conditions for paying for gas in rubles. Thus, among the companies that continue to pay for and receive Russian gas are the Hungarian MVM, the German VNG, RWE and Uniper, the French Engie, the Italian Eni, the Austrian OMV, the Czech ČEZ, the Slovak SPP and the Slovenian Geoplin.
At the same time, the Polish PGNiG, the Bulgarian Bulgargaz and the Finnish Gasum refused to comply with Moscow's demands and were cut off from supplies.
15:24 In Kharkov, they report powerful explosions in different parts of the city, they have not stopped for several hours. There is a threat of shelling in the city, people are urged to stay in shelters, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to preliminary information, as a result of shelling seven people were injured, four were killed.
15:22 Iran has offered to organize talks between Russia and Ukraine, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said in Davos: "Last week I told Lavrov that Iran is ready to become a platform for the two sides."
15:20 The National Bank of Ukraine printed 120 billion hryvnias during the three months of the war , the Finance Ministry said. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the state budget has been financed primarily by war bonds and international aid. For two two months, Ukraine received 13.8 billion dollars.
15:18 Ankara is negotiating with Kiev and Moscow to open a corridor through Turkey for grain exports from Ukraine, Reuters reports citing a high-ranking Turkish official.
15:16 Ukrzaliznytsia's refrigerated trains store 270 unclaimed bodies of the Russian military, Chairman of the Board Alexander Kamyshin said in an interview with Meduza. According to him, in this regard, Ukrzaliznytsia is ready to provide free tickets to the mothers of the Russian military who will come to pick up the bodies of their children.
15:12 Russian aggression cannot be pacified, it must be met with force, said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss: "We must be adamant in ensuring Ukraine's victory with military assistance and sanctions. Now we can no longer take our foot off the gas pedal."
Truss also said she would urge European colleagues to provide more weapons to Ukraine and tighten sanctions against Russia. She recalled that "Putin attacked Georgia, Crimea and Donbas" after a series of concessions from the West.
14:48 The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, spoke in an interview with The War Zone about the details of Ukrainian helicopter flights to help the defenders of Mariupol. According to him, the crews of Ukrainian helicopters, as a rule, flew on two sides, only once four sides took off at once. Of the 16 helicopters involved, two were shot down by Russian troops. Another was shot down while flying to the aid of another downed helicopter.
In total, according to Budanov, the helicopters made seven flights to the besieged Mariupol. Helicopters delivered weapons, ammunition, medicines and food. Once, help was brought to the city from 72 fighters of the Azov regiment.
14:45 The Ukrainian military destroyed the Russian checkpoint on the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said on the air of the telethon: "There were about 50 people, they even managed to gain a foothold for a while, they even set up some kind of checkpoint, but it was a situational success. Part The DRG has already remained there forever. The checkpoint has been broken, they have been driven back. The Russian army no longer controls the highway."
14:33 Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, after a visit to Irpen, met with Zelensky, who said following its results: "For us, Finland's military assistance is very valuable. Weapons, sanctions policy and the unity of our partners on the issue of Ukraine's accession to the EU are to ensure the strength of the defense of our land. I thank Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin for her visit and dedicated support."
13:56 Military exercises in Belarus near the border with the Volyn region are designed to deter the transfer of Ukrainian troops to the Donbass, Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said: "With such maneuvers, they are trying to restrain the transfer of our troops to the East. We cannot ignore this threat, therefore we are forced keep strong groups in this direction. The Belarusian army itself is weak, unprofessional and unmotivated."
13:47 Russia plans to destabilize the situation in Ukraine through its agents masquerading as national patriots of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said: "The Russian Federation does not change its plans - this is the destruction of us as a state, the destruction of our population ... The issue of internal destabilization of Ukraine through the Russian agents are number one for the Russian Federation. Now an operation under the conditional name "chameleon" is underway, when Russian agents disguise themselves as national patriots."
13:33 Peskov said that the Kremlin "expects Kiev to accept Moscow's demands and realize the de facto situation, the real situation that exists."
13:29 In the Zaporozhye region, the heads of the "military-civilian administrations" controlled by Russia were "officially" appointed: Evgeny Balitsky became the "head" of the regional administration, and Galina Danilchenko - of Melitopol.
13:23 Podolyak on issuing Russian passports to Ukrainians: "Any attempts to distribute Russian passports in the occupied territories are legally meaningless and unpromising. The Ukrainian passport in the world today is a symbol of courage and heroism. The Russian passport is the mark of an outcast. Our people travel freely around the world without visas and borders Why do they need a ticket to the Russian concentration camp?"
13:17 Scholz, during a speech in Davos, called on countries to join efforts to isolate Russia, saying that Putin cannot be allowed to win in Ukraine, which would "inspire other warmongers," writes Bloomberg.
"Putin wants to return to a world order in which the strong dictate what is right. This is imperialism," the chancellor said. Russia's invasion of Ukraine undermines the international order based on the rules of cooperation, which has limited large-scale military conflicts in recent decades, he said.
13:13 Ukraine received Su-25 attack aircraft from the West in the form of spare parts. For delivery, the planes were dismantled in Eastern Europe, writes Foreign Policy. According to the publication, a field team in Eastern Europe, linked to the European Command, helped dismantle Soviet Su-25 aircraft and Mi-17
helicopters so that they could be sent to Ukraine.
12:52 In Russia, the Supreme Court postponed to June 29 the consideration of the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office on the recognition of Azov as a terrorist organization and the ban on its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation, the meeting will be held behind closed doors. In the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Azov is called a "Ukrainian paramilitary nationalist association", while officially Azov is part of the National Guard of Ukraine.
12:33 Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin arrived in Irpen.
12:14 Pushilin said that the first stage of the "Mariupol tribunal" over the Ukrainian military could be held before the end of this summer. He added that some "friendly countries" have already agreed to participate in the tribunal. Earlier, Moscow stated that it was premature to talk about the exchange of Ukrainian prisoners of war before the trial.
12:03 First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Andrei Turchak proposed the creation of a special economic zone in the Donbass.
11:59 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, two dead and 15 wounded, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. There were shelling in the area of Pyatikhatki, Balakleya, Tsirkunov and Chuguev. In the morning, they again fired at the Zolochiv community and Slatino of the Dergachev community.
11:54 In Donetsk, another batch of surgical equipment stolen from Mariupol hospital No. 1 was taken to the surgical department of the Kalinin clinic - this time for anesthesia. This unique equipment was purchased by Mariupol in 2021 for several million hryvnias, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said. According to him, this is not the first time that medical equipment stolen from Mariupol is taken to Donetsk under the guise of a "gift" from United Russia.
11:43 Stoltenberg urged NATO to be ready to support Ukraine "for a long time." According to him, the conflict has already turned into a war of attrition, and no one can predict with certainty when it will end.
11:17 Ukraine expects an increase in funding from Western countries in June, Deputy Head of the National Bank Yuriy Heletiy said in an interview with Forbes Ukraine: "More than $8 billion is support for the state budget as part of a $40 billion aid package from the United States. I think we will start receiving these funds already in June, most likely, in parts.
11:04 Today Belarus will start military exercises near the borders of Poland and Ukraine with the participation of forces and aviation. Chairman of the Executive Committee of Brest Alexander Rogachuk called the maneuvers "another stage in testing the response forces."
11:03 Pushilin said that Ukrainian fighters were found at Azovstal, who hid or fell behind during the surrender, so there is no 100% guarantee of a complete cleansing of the plant yet.
10:54 The draft decision of the EU leaders' summit, which starts on May 30, contains a promise to continue to arm and finance Ukraine against the backdrop of Russian "atrocities, suffering and destruction", writes EUobserver.
10:38 The Transcarpathian region received about 45% of all Ukrainian companies that left the war, Governor Viktor Mikita said. According to him, a total of 262 enterprises arrived in the region, 80 of them are at the stage of transporting capacities or are settling in a new place.
10:36 Three cars with a large screen are driving around Mariupol, which continuously broadcast propaganda, and 12 large TVs have been additionally installed, which non-stop talk about the "improvements" of life in the city, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said.
10:34 Ukraine has strengthened the defense of the northern border. According to the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Yenin, the enemy's sabotage and reconnaissance groups are trying to penetrate the border areas, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Armed Forces of Ukraine put up additional outfits there. Also, the Russian Federation conducts regular shelling, preventing Ukraine from redirecting reserves to more “hot” spots.
10:26 Germany intends to increase the pace of grain exports from Ukraine, for which the Deutsche Bahn concern will send additional echelons: "Given the threat of famine in some regions of the planet and the huge need to export millions of tons of Ukrainian grain to world markets, we will organize the dispatch of additional echelons in coordination with the federal government."
10:20 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 16. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Avdiivka direction.
personnel - about 29,600 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1315 (+10),
armored combat vehicles - 3235 (+22),
artillery systems - 617 (+11),
MLRS - 201 (+0),
air defense systems - 93 (+0),
aircraft - 206 (+0),
helicopters - 170 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 502 (+11),
cruise missiles - 114 (+2),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2225 (+8),
special equipment - 47 (+3).
10:15 In the Zaporozhye region, the enemy is strengthening the grouping of troops in the Pohovsky and Vasilyevsky districts, regrouping units, and accumulating a large number of military and heavy vehicles in the occupied territories. The areas of the settlements of Novopol, Volshebnoe, Orekhov and Kamenka are being shelled, the possibility of rocket and air strikes remains, the OVA reported.
10:07 There are tacit agreements between NATO countries not to supply planes and tanks to Ukraine, writes Die Zeit. According to the publication, the West is afraid that the supply of tanks and aircraft, Moscow may perceive as NATO's participation in the war. It was for this reason that Scholz refused to send German tanks to Ukraine.
10:02 Pushilin said that holding a referendum on joining Russia is expedient only after reaching the constitutional borders of the "DNR" and "LNR".
09:53 The Russian-appointed "head of the military-civilian administration" of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, was informed in absentia of suspicion of collaborationism, the SBU reports. He faces five to ten years in prison. Balitsky criticized the current Ukrainian authorities and prepared celebrations for Victory Day, and also issued an order on the temporary organization of "public order", which obliged residents to form "public detachments" to identify anti-Russian activities.
09:25 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and negotiate with Zelensky, Deutsche Welle writes: "Stop suffering and destruction in Ukraine! Withdraw your troops! And do not refuse direct and serious negotiations with President Zelensky" .
According to Steinmeier, "Putin's war of aggression does not only affect the people in Ukraine." Due to the blockade of Ukrainian ports by Russia in the world, grain prices have risen, many regions of the world are threatened with starvation and death in the coming months, especially in East and South Africa.
The consequences of the war will hit states that have not yet recovered from the coronavirus pandemic, and regions where the soil is drying up and becoming barren due to the climate crisis, the German president added.
08:54 Russia is already building a third line of defense in the occupied south of Ukraine. The regrouping of Russian troops in the Kherson region and in the occupied districts of the Zaporozhye region indicates the intention of the Russian Federation to gain a foothold in these territories, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said on the air of Krym.Realii.
08:50 British intelligence states "noticeable tactical failures" of the Russian Airborne Forces. We are talking about an attempt to attack Kyiv through Gostomel in March, where Russian paratroopers captured the airfield. The British also remind of the unsuccessful crossing at Belogorovka and the stop of the advance near Izyum.
Analysts point out that the Airborne Forces were used in missions better suited to heavy armored infantry and suffered heavy casualties during the campaign. The reason for this is "improper management of this potential and Russia's inability to ensure air superiority."
"The failure to anticipate Ukrainian resistance and the subsequent complacency of Russian commanders has resulted in significant casualties for many of Russia's most elite units," the intelligence agency said.
08:44 The US State Department has sharply condemned the violent actions of Russia, the purpose of which is to "conquer the Ukrainians" in the occupied territories. The Russian Federation has chosen deportation, "filtering" and the imposition of Russian citizenship as tools for this, writes Voice of America.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the United States is aware of Russia's brutal actions in the occupied territories of Ukraine: "We saw how Russian forces forcibly took people away from the occupied territory. We saw how Russian troops transported Ukrainians to so-called filtration camps. We saw attempts by Russian troops in other ways to subdue the Ukrainian people in these territories.
08:41 On May 25, the Russians launched a "powerful and prolonged" artillery strike on Lisichansk, the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said. The enemy tried to storm the Ukrainian defense near Ustinovka and at the same time destroyed this village and the nearby city of Lisichansk with artillery. As a result, two people died in Ustinovka and one in Lisichansk.
The projectile hit the center for the provision of humanitarian aid, damaged a volunteer car that delivered food to the Lugansk region. Among the destruction are 25 high-rise buildings and private houses in the region, the building of the Impulse enterprise in Severodonetsk, the cultural center and the Central Scientific and Cultural Center in Lisichansk.
08:37 In the Kryvyi Rih region, the enemy again attacked the Apostolovsky mass from artillery, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. People were not hurt.
08:19 The United States confirms the naval blockade of Ukrainian ports by the Russian fleet. Recently declassified US intelligence shows that a Russian naval blockade has halted maritime trade in Ukrainian ports. World leaders are calling it a deliberate attack on the global food supply chain that has caused a shortage of grain and other food in the world, writes The Washington Post.
The Russian Navy currently controls all shipping in the northern third of the Black Sea, making it unsafe for commercial shipping, according to a US government document obtained by the publication. The document, based on previously declassified intelligence data, analyzes heat signatures emitted by Russian ships to reveal areas of intense naval activity along the southern coast of Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula.
08:12 In Mariupol, the invaders announced the extension of the school year until September 1, that is, the children will not have holidays. The main goal is de-Ukrainization and preparation for the academic year according to the Russian program, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the city. Children will be taught Russian language and literature, Russian history and mathematics all summer long. The invaders plan to open nine schools in the city, but so far they have managed to find only 53 teachers.
07:51 The occupiers moved to the island the Snake boat of the Naval Forces of Ukraine, previously captured in Berdyansk. According to OK Pivden, it can be used for the purpose of provocations.
07:38 Russian troops concentrated on taking control of Liman and trying to improve the tactical situation near Severodonetsk and Avdiivka. Also, the enemy is trying to resume the attack on Slavyansk, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the morning report .
07:17 Russia abducts Ukrainian children and transports them to its territory in order to destroy the Ukrainian nation, Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN Serhiy Dvornik said: "The abduction of at least 230,000 Ukrainian children among 1.4 million Ukrainian citizens forcibly deported to Russia is a crime aimed at destroying the Ukrainian nation by depriving its young generations, which is a modern manifestation of colonialism."
07:13 The American Institute for the Study of War notes that Russian forces have prioritized an offensive east and west of Popasna to cut Ukrainian land lines southwest of Severodonetsk and complete efforts to encircle the entire Lugansk region. Also, Russian troops have probably entered Liman and can use this bridgehead to coordinate an offensive southeast of Izyum to launch an attack on Seversk.
Analysts believe that the Russians can start the battle for Severodonetsk before they completely cut off Ukrainian communications in the southwest and northwest of the region.
06:46 The head of the Khmelnytsky OVA, Serhiy Gamaly, said that a rocket was shot down in the region at night, the fragments of which fell into the field.
03:05 Pushilin said that the "DPR" army has already entered the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine, since "it is impossible to protect the Donbass only by reaching the borders of the republics."
02:14 EU countries have frozen the assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the amount of about 23 billion euros, European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said, Reuters writes.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:36 A total of 407 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by Russian missile forces and artillery of the Russian Federation. 21:44 Joker DNR: My spies reported that today the clown Zelensky was holding an emergency meeting with his entire party in his drug den. He set the task to urgently appoint those responsible for all the troubles at the front and initiate criminal cases. Guilty should be any generals, but not less than four and except for Zaluzhny.
According to Zalugny, he said it was not yet time. But as far as I know, the little clown wants to act more harshly with Zaluzhny, but so far he can’t decide. Ukrainian generals understand the ongoing circus led by a crazy clown and begin to consider the option of eliminating Zelensky with the help of the “Russian” DRG. According to my information, someone from Zelensky's close circle is in cahoots with the generals. Probably the one who will take Vovchik's chair. We are waiting for very interesting events, abruptly than in the Game of Thrones.
21:43 In Odessa, they continue to use educational institutions for military purposes: on the territory of the Odessa Regional Institute of Public Administration on Genoese, 22, there is a large stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Armed men in military uniform constantly flit around the institution. The building has a large courtyard, the gates to enter it are covered with a protective net for camouflage. Nearby is a hostel and school No. 56, where increased activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also noticed.
The site also houses the largest equipped bomb shelter in the area. However, now local residents cannot get there during an air raid.
The building is located close enough to residential complexes, which complicates its defeat.
21:19 Air raid alert in almost all regions of Ukraine.
20:55 The idea of a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine is premature, for its consideration it is necessary to achieve a ceasefire in the country, said Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations.
20:50 The conditions that Zelensky puts forward for a truce are categorical to the point of idiocy and are impossible in principle - Medvedev
20:48 In the village of Belozerka, Kherson region, gas supply was restored in the houses of Mira, Kherson and Cathedral streets. This was announced by the press secretary of "Khersongaz" Natalia Pyatnichenko on her page in the social network. The gas pipeline was damaged during shelling by Ukrainian armed formations on May 22.
19:23 The governor of the Belgorod region will impose a ban on entry into the border village of Zhuravlevka due to ongoing shelling from the territory of Ukraine.
19:00 A special operation turning into a civilizational confrontation is a new reality, about which he speaks Mr Kirienko. And he explains in more detail. And yes, it looks like it is.
18:00 Alexander Lukashenko instructed to immediately create an operational command of the Armed Forces of Belarus in the Ukrainian direction.
17:14 In the Belgorod region, shelling of the village of Zhuravlevka from Ukraine continues all day long, there are victims - a statement by the governor.
16:47 Residents of the village of Voznesenka, Zaporozhye region, were given humanitarian aid. Food packages are received by those who really need them: the poor, migrants, families with many children and the disabled. It is planned to distribute 250 packages in Konstantinovka and 200 in Voznesenka.
16:32 Nothing will change for Russians if the US declares a technical default on Russia, - Siluanov.
16:16 Russian products with double price tags appeared on the sticks of stores in the Kherson region. The bi-currency system was introduced in the Kherson region on May 23. The exchange rate is two rubles for one hryvnia. At the same time, all non-cash payments are made only in Russian currency. Goods are regularly delivered through Crimea on a daily basis.
16:14 In Melitopol, the street of the Ukrainian nationalist Dontsov was renamed Sudoplatov Street.
16:00 Plant of auto-tractor spare parts in the village of Obilnoe, Melitopol region. Now the plant is focused on the production of agricultural machinery and components for it. Russia and Belarus remain the main sales markets for the plant.
15:44 Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar psychologically prepares Ukrainians for monstrous losses at the front:
"The Russian Armed Forces are storming the positions of our troops in several directions at the same time. An extremely difficult and lengthy stage of struggle awaits us ahead. We must understand that this is a war and losses on our part are inevitable."
15:36 Ukrainian media report on the work of air defense in the Sumy region.
15:20 Even now in the Kherson region, you can buy SIM cards of Crimean operators, said the deputy head of the region Stremousov.
15:10 Residents of Berdyansk are listening to Radio Krym at 90.9 FM.
15:00 Explosions sound in Kharkiv. Local residents report arrivals in the Pavlovo Pole area.
14:48 According to updated data, the outskirts of the village of Vorozhba were fired from Ukraine. Several buildings were damaged, incl. school. Glass fragments injured a local teacher, who was treated on the spot.
14:26 The captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine called on his colleagues to lay down their arms and said that the national battalions are catching Ukrainian servicemen who refuse to continue hostilities and taking them away in an unknown direction.
"Commanders are threatening that for failure to fulfill combat missions they will be court-martialed and shot according to martial law."
14:02 "We are untrained people. 80 percent of the people who were taken in Uzhgorod did not even serve," Kadyrov posted a video with forcibly mobilized Ukrainians.
As the head of the Chechen Republic notes, the Ukrainian Nazis "literally abduct local residents and force them to take up arms to resist the Russian military. Moreover, Bandera’s people take away not only young guys, but even older residents."
13:48 The Russian Federation is not going to leave the global economic arena, they want to squeeze us out, but this is impossible - Putin.
13:43 A draft law on the seizure of Belarusian property has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada.
13:41 The head of the non-canonical "Orthodox Church of Ukraine" Epiphanius proposed to the Patriarch of Constantinople to "dethrone" the Russian Patriarch Kirill.
13:38 Ukrainian nationalists fired at the village of Novovoskresenskoye in the Kherson region with rocket-propelled cluster munitions for remote mining. Immediately after the shelling, military police and military engineers arrived at the scene and reconnoitered the area for unexploded ordnance and explosive ordnance.
12:30 More and more real problems are brewing in the army, about which the authorities do not tell the public. If Zelensky and the OP continue to ignore the appeal of the fighters, then this will launch a protest case already in Kyiv, which will be easily supported, and possibly led by Poroshenko and Co.
12:20 In the Kherson region, Russian mobile operators have started working - the head of the administration Vladimir Saldo.
11:38 Ukraine, with the assistance of the United States, mobilized the IT army for action against Russia - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Syromolotov.
11:30 In the Nikolaev area the Ukrainian center of electronic intelligence is destroyed, including 11 military men and 15 arrived with protection of foreign experts of engineering technical and operative staff — the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The department also reported that the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Pokrovsk station destroyed units and military equipment of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which arrived to reinforce the Ukrainian group in the Donbass.
11:10 Russian rocket artillery staged a real hell for the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Izyum. Not surprisingly, over the past week, most of the defense sent to the front has surrendered or refused to fight.
11:07 On fields in Akimovka Zaporozhye region are agricultural work.
10:22 Passport points should appear in Kherson in the near future, where you can get a Russian passport, which can be obtained under a simplified procedure under the decree that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed yesterday.
10:20 Refugees from Mariupol stationed in the Kherson region are returning home - head of the Genichesk military-civilian administration Andriy Klochko.
08:55 The Russian city of Kherson returned the historical coat of arms. History has come full circle.
The Russian city of Kherson returned the historical coat of arms. History has come full circle.
08:08 The DPR army has already entered the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine - it is impossible to protect the Donbass only by reaching the borders of the republics, Pushilin said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
08:00 Russia is developing a set of response measures to US sanctions - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:25 Soldiers of the NM of the LPR, with the support of detachments of the NM of the DPR and the RF Armed Forces, liberated the strategic city of Svetlodarsk. By decree of the Head of the DPR, Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin, the head of the administration of the city of Debaltseve, Igor Zakharevich, has already begun work on the spot. All the necessary meetings were held and the most important instructions were given. 22:08 During the next shelling of Gorlovka from the armed formations of Ukraine, three civilians were injured. One of them, a man born in 1955, who lives on Bogun Street, was hospitalized in the city hospital No. 2 in a state of traumatic shock. The victim lost his leg.
20:46 Mariupol port will start receiving and sending cargo tomorrow or the day after tomorrow - Pushilin.
20:46 Three or four Ukrainian militants hiding on Azovstal surrendered - Basurin.
20:45 They write that Krasny Lyman has been completely liberated. Let's wait for official announcements.
20:06 The mine danger in the water area of the port of Mariupol has been eliminated, the harbor can be safely used by civilian ships - Russian Ministry of Defense.
19:13 A child died in Mariupol due to an explosion of ammunition on the territory of a school - the headquarters of the DPR.
18:39 The servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic, together with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continue to liberate the settlements of our Republic from the Ukrainian occupiers.
Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 57 Ukrainian nationalists, one firing position of 122mm D-30 artillery howitzers, three wandering 120mm mortars, one tank and two armored vehicles. Captured one BMP, one 122mm D-30 artillery howitzer, one ZU-23/2 anti-aircraft gun and one cargo vehicle.
18:37 Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired over 260 shells and mines from 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122mm cannon artillery, 120mm and 82mm mortars across the territory of the DPR.
Areas of seven settlements of the Republic were fired upon. A total of 13 houses were damaged, and one vehicle damaged. The materials on the fact of damage to civilian infrastructure were transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR for inclusion in the criminal cases initiated against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:21 State flags of Russia and the Donetsk People's Republic installed on the building of the city administration of Svetlodarsk.
16:14 It is reported from the field that the troops of the DPR, with the fire support of the Russian Armed Forces, have entrenched themselves near the Avdiivka industrial zone, they are preparing to block the route to Konstantinovka, which in turn may make it difficult for Ukrainian units to bring weapons to their positions.
15:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 14:47 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: nine LNG grenades fired.
15:44 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
15:00 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
15:02 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
14:50 Popular Front introduced a large-scale fundraising project to support the military units of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics.
The People's Front united the efforts of war correspondents, bloggers, artists and athletes, as well as residents of Russia, who organized the purchase of things needed by the security forces of the Republic of Donbass. Quadcopters, walkie-talkies, body armor, sleeping bags, clothes, shoes, medical supplies - all this is really necessary and can save the lives and health of fighters.
13:41 Headquarters TerO DPR reports: As a result of shelling on the street. Severodvinskaya, Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, housing construction was damaged and the gas pipeline was broken. Details are being specified.
13:41 The representation of the LPR in the JCCC from the armed formations of Ukraine recorded shelling:
13:00 from the direction of the settlement. Zolote-4 by settlement Pervomaisk with 82mm mortars (12 mines)
12:58 Allied forces have taken control of 95% of the territories of the LPR - the head of the republic, Leonid Pasechnik.
12:58 The resistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of the Liman will not last long - the representative of the DPR army Basurin.
12:58 Kyiv does not allow employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the captured military of the Luhansk People's Republic - LPR Ambassador to Russia Miroshnik.
12:57 Yelenovka under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of the shelling in Yelenovka, on the street. Miner, housing construction suffered.
12:16 We propose the creation of a special economic zone in the Donbass, - Turchak.
12:13 The Liman area is littered with the corpses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Retreating, Ukrainian militants leave a large number of bodies of those who made the main mistake in life - did not give up. The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not even try to bury their own.
12:11 On the Alley of Heroes in Donetsk, a memorial was opened to the Hero of Russia and the Hero of the DPR, the commander of the legendary battalion "Sparta" of the guard, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Zhoga "Vokha".
11:17 Ukrainian fighters were found at Azovstal, hiding or lagging behind when surrendering, while there is no 100% guarantee of a complete cleansing - Pushilin.
10:40 Our flag appeared over the Red Liman.
10:39 The 2nd company of the 46th rifle battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fled from the village of Kamyshevakha in the LPR. They usually reported this in the format video- appeals.
09:45 Three mobile population information systems have been deployed in Mariupol. One of these complexes is installed permanently, the other two run around the city. Also, such complexes operate in Volnovakha and Krasnolimansky district.
09:42 Since the very morning, a strong battle has been going on in the direction of the Avdievka industrial complex. Yasinovataya under fire. The outskirts of Makiivka/Donetsk are in danger, may occasionally arrive. Don't go out unnecessarily. Take care of yourself.
09:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:53 The Russian experts have started restoration of the schools of Luhansk which have suffered as a result of attacks of Armed Forces of Ukraine. Today, as the head of the capital's administration Manolis Pilavov said, major repairs are being carried out in schools No. 29, No. 39 and No. 51.
08:40 The number of Ukrainian prisoners in the LPR and DPR is about eight thousand - LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik
08:36 Shelling from the VFU in the following directions was recorded:
n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
08:26 Exclusive frames from the port of Mariupol. Russian sappers have completely cleared the harbor of dangerous items. Now begins the disposal of ammunition, which are scattered throughout the city itself.
08:10 All foreign ship crews from the port of Mariupol have already been sent to their countries with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPR, Pushilin said in an interview with RIA Novosti. He noted that the issue of ownership of the ships remaining in the port and their further fate will also be decided through the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
08:04 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
08:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm.
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The Russians are systematically cutting off the remaining Ukrainian battalions in Luhansk, Donetsk and in the South. They are being very deliberate and carefully coordinating artillery, infantry, engineers, intel / recon and drones.
They are advancing on Mykolaiv, the gateway to Odesa. US military planners expect Odesa to fall by the end of June.
They are finalizing the cauldron in the North, at Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. US and other NATO military experts expect that cauldron to be complete by end of next week. They're also pushing north up the Dniepr, and threatening to encircle and cut off the Ukrainians near Zaporizhzhiye.
The Ukrainians can probably hold out for two more months at most, after which Russia will be in complete control of the entire southern Black Sea coast from Odesa to the Azov Sea.
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They're back. Russia doesn't observe our Memorial Day Holiday
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Ukraine's Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi now has authority to order a retest of the 15,000 or so Ukrainian troops who are on the brink of being encircled near Lysychansk.
Previous to May 25, per Ukrainian law only the Supreme Commander i.e. Zelensky could order Ukrainian forces to retreat, but the Z-man overrode that law -- he has outlawed all opposition, remember, and is effectively now Ukraine's generalissimo -- and gave his #2 the authority to order a retreat after 48 hours.
That time has passed as of 18:40 Washington time. Let's see whether the 15,000 Ukrainian elite forces are ordered to retreat this evening.
If not then we will see an enormous victory next week, even bigger and more consequential than Mariupol.
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* authority to order a retreat of the 15,000 or so Ukrainian troops
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Great news, thanks Billy!
We'll see if they retreat or surrender
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Well, there is one potential remaining escape route available, the road west to Siversk, but that's nonetheless under "fire control" now. Russian artillery is only 5 miles away, so they can pound and degrade the retreating Ukrainian forces. But every other route (including roads and the rail route) is now cut off after today's fighting. Watch that Siversk corridor tonight (tomorrow Ikraine time).
We can only hope that Zelensky's panic leads him to agree to cut his losses and accept territorial concessions at the peace table.
Given Poland's aggressive designs on western Ukraine, it could be that Z-man gets safe passage to Warsaw and a new rump government gets established in a new rump republic covering what remains in Galicia / Western Ukraine.
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[ZeroHedge] A report released in April by real estate data aggregator ATTOM has bestowed Chicago with a dubious honor. Amid a national surge in residential foreclosure rates, Chicagoans are currently losing their homes in greater numbers than in any other metro area in the country.
“A total of 50,759 U.S. properties started the foreclosure process in Q1 2022, up 67% from the previous quarter and up 188% from a year ago,” the report stated, with Chicago alone seeing over 3,000 foreclosures in the first three months of the year.
If you interpret the numbers as a per housing unit rate, Cleveland manages to pull ahead of Chicago with almost one in every 500 homes foreclosed since the start of 2022. But by the same metric, Illinois still leads the nation on a state level – close to one out of every 800 homes. California, as the country’s most populous state, wins out as the state with the highest raw numbers of foreclosed homes this year. More than 5,300 households in the Golden State had begun the foreclosure process as of April.
As shocking as this spike in home loss is, experts said it was predictable – the inevitable result of the end of the pandemic eviction moratorium. Enacted by Congress in March 2020 under former President Donald Trump and struck down in August 2021 by a supreme court ruling under current President Joe Biden, it was a national exercise in decommodified housing that staved off homelessness for an estimated 1.5 million Americans.
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Wonder how many foreclosures were of people who abandoned the property after being unable to find a sucker buyer and deciding to leave the state now was better than staying around.
#4
The banks learned their lesson about being stuck with properties last time. I'd imagine they will sell the foreclosures off at prices that will depress the market.
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The banks aren't stuck trying to recoup what they lost in the MBSs in 2008. They have more flexibility this time.
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Just as long as they don't foreclose on homes they have no paper on.
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^ Hah. Court is asked to side with Joe homeowner or the bank. How do you think that will go?
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In Florida the homeowner won. Bank was slow in paying lawyer fees, so a lean was put on a branch. Sheriff showed up taped off the place. Was in the process of removing furniture when the check showed up.
Lots of people have no idea what to do when foreclosure paperwork arrives in their mail. If they actually are not paying their mortgage, they will have little luck hiring a lawyer. Yes, there are pro-bono ways to go, but the people described above don't even know where to start looking for a contact to that.
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May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has expanded its collaboration with Danone's Nutricia business to boost supplies of specialized medical baby formula bottles to address its shortage among infants with certain allergies or critical health conditions.
The health regulator said about 500,000 additional cans manufactured by Danone would be sent to the United States.
Meanwhile, lawmakers grilled the agency officials on Wednesday over what they saw as a lack of urgency in their response to complaints about possible baby formula contamination at a now shuttered Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) plant that led to severe nationwide shortages. read more
Abbott controlled 40% of the market before the plant closed, Christopher Calamari, president of Abbott U.S. nutrition, told lawmakers, and the plant accounted for 40% of Abbott's product. read more
(The story corrects to say 500,000 cans, not 5 million, in paragraph 2)
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The Global solution. Why should we not be surprised.
Appears the United States has suffered a baby formula "single point of failure." Is anyone examining the potential for other single points of failure ?
#2
Remember when Nestle got in trouble for trying to sell formula powder in Africa? It was legitimate to point out that trying to re-constitute powdered nutrition product without access to clean water was problematic.
Of course, the reason there was no clean water went unsaid.
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Why is it I hear President Reagan whispering his warning of the words that have lead to disaster after disaster in America.
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I like to say "Some people can fuck up taking toilet paper off the roll..."
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If we had a real FBI someone would be looking at the decisions at the FDA that kept Abbot shut down, and the Globalist solution that may now become a permanent "program" to offshore more money that back-channels to officials in the decision matrix.
And I want a pony!
[Red State] If we were to just look at the facts of the case against Michael Sussmann, they would all appear to support the charge against him: that he lied to the FBI when he said that he wasn’t working for anyone, when in fact he was working for the Clinton campaign. He even wrote a text to FBI General Counsel James Baker, specifically saying that he wasn’t coming in to see him on behalf of a client.
But the judge in the case, Judge Christopher Cooper (an Obama appointee) just made a finding that is likely to hurt the case, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy notes.
I mentioned the damning text. But the judge just ruled on Thursday that the prosecution can’t argue in its summation that the text is the false statement with which he is charged. In the text, Sussmann said, "Jim — it’s Michael Sussmann. I have something time-sensitive (and sensitive) I need to discuss. Do you have availability for a short meeting tomorrow? I’m coming on my own — not on behalf of a client or company — want to help the Bureau. Thanks." That would appear to be the smoking gun.
But the problem is that they didn’t have the text when they filed the indictment, it wasn’t part of the alleged evidence so they weren’t alleging that was the false statement. Baker claims he didn’t find the message until six months after the indictment was filed, so he didn’t turn it over to them before then. But because it was past the statute of limitations by the time that was found, the Durham team who might ordinarily add it as a separate charge in a superseding indictment couldn’t do that.
That means that their main evidence is James Baker’s somewhat sketchy memory. Because he felt he was talking to a "friend," he didn’t follow the normal protocol that one might if he was an FBI agent doing an interview—that would be one agent conducting the interview, while a second agent would be taking notes.
But that said, that doesn’t mean that the text can’t be considered by the jury.
[The War Zone] Since the China-India border crisis last erupted, Beijing has secured its territorial claim by installing massive military infrastructure.
Two years have passed since the height of the most recent flare-up in the border crisis between China and India that started in May 2020. The event saw lethal melee combat over Aksai Chin, which the Chinese claim as a part of Xinjiang and India claims as a part of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir. Both India and China reported casualties as a result of a June 2020 altercation in this region's Galwan Valley. The crisis itself ended through a number of limited withdrawals of frontline positions on both sides. But now, two years later, the overall strategic picture is one of remarkable Chinese military buildup and encroachment.
Being one of the largest disputed areas between India and China, Aksai Chin sits adjacent to the Kashmir region, another turbulent border for India due to its overlapping claim on the region with Pakistan. Sitting at 38,000 square kilometers, Aksai Chin is a cold, arid, and largely uninhabited desert just a little bigger than Maryland. The area has been long disputed between the two with China extending its first military grab over the region after the Sino-Indo war of 1962. Four decades passed with both countries regularly entering into minor scuffles in the region, but 2020 witnessed a complete change in tempo, pushing two nuclear-armed neighbors into a rapid escalation. Some reports have suggested that China’s aggression came as a result of a new road — the Darbuk—Shyok—Daulat Beg Oldi Road, or DSDBO — that India was building in the region. Another possible catalyst linked to the conflict was a move by India to change the status of Jammu & Kashmir, redrawing maps and borders which included the disputed area — a move China has regularly voiced opposition to.
As the crisis dropped from the headlines following the initial de-escalation, no further progress was made in negotiations. Chinese and Indian troops remain just kilometers apart while steadily increasing their military capacity. Through the crisis, China managed to effectively take control of Aksai Chin — in a practical military sense, this is a departure from its previous disputed status — and has heavily militarized the entire region around it.
During the border crisis in 2020, China established improvised positions at key locations along the edges of its own territorial claim in the region. Chinese forces established tent camps in the Galwan Valley, occupied critical patrol points, sent forces to camp atop mountain ranges along high altitude lakes and set up new bases in open plains. Negotiations during the crisis itself led China to abandon a small minority of these improvised frontline positions, but over the next two years, the vast majority of them developed into permanent all-weather military encampments.
The strength that China has rapidly developed along these borders will severely constrain India’s ability to ever recover access to the Aksai Chin region. Despite the public appearance of the crisis being settled in a Chinese withdrawal, this withdrawal has remained negligible compared to the scale of the territory that China has militarized. As such, China has achieved a form of territorial expansion by bringing Aksai Chin from a disputed status to a de facto militarily occupied status.
India has, of course, not been entirely passive throughout the course of the crisis and the two years that have followed. Initially, its stern response to Chinese expansions into the Galwan Valley quite literally pushed back the Chinese efforts to establish new positions, but its risk-averse approach did eventually allow the Chinese military to dig in at Aksai Chin. Lots more and maps and pretty pictures at the link. It's like I'm four again and at the doctors office waiting room reading Highlights.
[WCIA.com, hat tip Dallas Morning News] The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease.
One bright spot? Booster shots can provide strong protection against the new mutants, Liu said. In general, vaccines and prior infection can protect people from the worst outcomes of COVID-19. At this point, scientists say, it’s too early to know if the new mutant gaining ground in the U.S. will cause a significant uptick in new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
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'might', 'can', and 'it's too early'
Losts of solid reporting there.
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DeltaChronLGBTQWERTY
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Elections must be coming soon. Then again scientists have again projected another apocalyptic hurricane season.
Bullshit. They are made from the same Alpha strain from 2020.
You are correct, the shots are completely worthless now. In fact, they have negative efficacy. All one needs to do is look at the highly vaccinated countries rates of infections and deaths and compare to places that didn’t vaccinate much, like most African countries. South Africa, which vaccinated the most in Africa, looks as bad as western countries. Covid in US has a 300/100,000 death rate. Most unvaccinated African countries are in the single digits per 100k.
In San Diego I track the weekly Covid statistics and when Omicron hit the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated numbers looked bad so they just split the vaccinated into 2 groups. Those with 2 shots and those with 3 (boosted). So for example, last week for a population of 100,000 people, .31 unvaccinated people will be hospitalized, .17 vaccinated (2 shots) and .17 boosted (3 shots) will be hospitalized. Then they give you a headline number saying “unvaccinated” are twice as likely to be hospitalized as “vaccinated and boosted”. In reality, most normal people consider 2 or 3 shots “vaccinated”. So if you add the people with 2 shots and the people with 3 shots together you get your “vaccinated” group. Which, in San Diego, was .34 per 100k vaccinated were hospitalized. So if you are vaccinated in San Diego and get Omicron you are equally as likely to be hospitalized as unvaccinated. (Plus, they spike the unvaccinated group with anyone where vaccinated status is unknown (homeless people, drug OD’s, illegal aliens, etc)
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Bill Gates in Davos says Vaccinations are Pointless
🔥 Bill Gates, of COURSE, attended this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he has been outgassing his pie hole again. Apparently he’s an expert on vaccine science because he finagled the rights to the source code for Windows out of his developer business partner back in the day.
The first thing Gates opined about was vaccine passports, which apparently are now “out.” Speaking on a WEF panel, Gates, looking thoughtful and throwing his hands up in frustration, ventured that “the idea of checking if people are vaccinated; you know, if you have breakthrough infections, what’s the point?”
Yes, Bill, that’s the point: there is no point. So I guess this means we can question vaccine passports on Facebook now without going to virtual jail?
Then Gates made some other interesting comments — as an expert on pandemics — about how pathetic the current vaccines are. I am not making that up. Chuckling ruefully, he complained, “we should have much better therapeutics … as we do come up with vaccines, we want vaccines that are infection-blocking and long-duration, which, today — you know, the vaccines have saved millions of lives — but they DON’T, uh, have much in the way of duration, and they’re not, they’re not good at infection blocking.”
No duration? Not good at preventing infection? How DARE he! Anti-vaxxer! Hesitant! Science denier!
Here’s a fact about the world we live in: He who has a checkbook is an expert on whatever subject he says he is.
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/\ I need absolutely no input on anything from Bill & Melinda. Not now, not ever.
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^#10 WCIA sounded familiar to me, because my wife is from Champaign, IL, where it is a TV and radio station. But the article was in the Dallas Morning News with an AP credit. WCIA is just the first place I found it on the web.
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Never got the shot and I'll never wear a mask again. Fool me once, shame on you--fool me twice, shame on me.
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Had one of my IT Security Team get infected in Dublin Ireland. He was in lockdown for weeks until his tests came back negative twice. He said being there the last few weeks was a like a jail.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[The War Zone] Since the China-India border crisis last erupted, Beijing has secured its territorial claim by installing massive military infrastructure.
[WCIA.com, hat tip Dallas Morning News] The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease.
