[Breitbart] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a load of cash being smuggled from Texas into Mexico. The officers seized more than $100,000 in U.S. $100 bills and other currency taped to a woman’s body. "I didn't know that was there"
CBP officers assigned to the Hidalgo International Bridge in South Texas on April 24 observed a blue Ford SUV approaching to leave the United States and enter Mexico. Officials identified the vehicle as a taxi carrying a 26-year-old U.S. citizen female out of the country, according to information provided by CBP officials.
The officers referred the taxi driver to a secondary inspection area where officers found 12 bundles of cash taped to the woman’s body. Officials report the woman allegedly attempted to carry $114,294 of undeclared U.S. currency on her person.
Officers seized the cash and arrested the woman. Both were transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations for further investigation and possible filing of criminal charges related to attempting to smuggle cash out of the country.
“CBP officers conduct outbound enforcement operations to protect against unreported exportations of bulk U.S. currency, which often can be proceeds from alleged illicit activity, or currency that funds transnational criminal organizations,” Port Director Carlos Rodriguez, Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry, said in a written statement.
CBP officials added:
Individuals are permitted to carry any amount of currency or monetary instruments into or out of the U.S., however, if the quantity is more than $10,000, they will need to report it to CBP. “Money” means monetary instruments and includes U.S. or foreign coins currently in circulation, currency, travelers’ checks in any form, money orders, and negotiable instruments or investment securities in bearer form. Failure to declare may result in seizure of the currency and/or arrest.
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In Texas at a non-big name bank a couple of young Hispanic girls in a beat up old station wagon were withdrawing HUGE amounts of cash through the bank's drive through. The look on the elderly lady's face who was the drive through teller said it all as they drove away, heading straight for the border. That was years ago. Recently the memory of that event returned when I saw the Clint Eastwood movie, 'The Mule'.
[Townhall] A transgender inmate at Rikers Island reportedly raped a female prisoner and has been sentenced to seven years, the New York Post reported Monday.
Ramel "Diamond" Blount, 33, pleaded guilty to attempted rape on April 7. Investigators said in February, Blount, who lived in the female section of Rikers, approached a female inmate in the restroom after she finished showering and raped her.
The victim reported the rape to officials at the prison who then administered a rape kit. The results matched Blount’s DNA recorded in the New York State Registry. Blount recieved a seven-year sentence with eight years of post-release supervision and will be required to register as a sex offender.
This month, Matt reported how two female inmates at a women’s prison in New Jersey fell pregnant after having sex with a transgender inmate. Kara Dansky of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign told Tucker Carlson in an interview shortly after that “transgender women” should not be housed with women in prison.
"But, a couple takeaways from this that I just want to point out are first of all, the state is not getting away with this by telling its residents that they are housing men in women’s prisons. What are doing, of course, is they are telling the residents that they are housing so-called ’transgender women’ or ’trans women’ in women’s prisons, suggesting that there is some sort of subcategory that is called ’transgender women’ or ’trans women’ and it’s not true. The fact of this story shoots a hole right through the trope that ’trans women are women," Dansky added.
"Obviously, that is not true, because the individuals that are the focus of this story impregnated women and every thinking adult, no matter what the president of the United States has to say on the matter, knows that there is no category of women who can impregnate women," she concluded.
This week, Townhall covered how a federal judge ordered the Bureau of Prisons to secure "gender-affirming" surgery for a transgender inmate. This comes after the Bureau denied the inmate the surgery early this year.
[Townhall] A Texas rancher has offered billionaire Elon Musk free land to build a new headquarters for Twitter, his latest acquisition.
Jim Schwertner, CEO and President of Capitol Land & Livestock, made the offer on the social media platform Tuesday, telling Musk if he moved the company to Schwertner, Texas, he’d give him 100 acres for free.
The main goal is to help his community, Schwertner said, adding that he’s "very serious about the offer."
The area offers affordable housing options, unlike in California, where Twitter is currently based.
"Elon, Move twitter to Schwertner, TX , 38 miles North of Austin and we will give you 100 Acres for FREE," Schwertner tweeted on Tuesday. Sorry, we'll not be able to offer relocation allowances to our employees.
"None of the billions of dollars being paid to the U.S. Treasury or the dollars being freed up for current investors of Twitter are the result of anything except the actions of Musk."
From a posted comment this morning from our own Bugs McGurque
[NYP] The mysterious Ukrainian fighter pilot hailed as the "Ghost of Kyiv" after reportedly shooting down dozens of Russian aircraft has been killed in battle, an outlet said Friday.
The death of the much-celebrated enigmatic pilot was reported by The Times of London, which for the first time also publicly identified Major Stepan Tarabalka, a 29-year-old father of one, as the war hero.
Tarabalka was credited with taking out as many as 40 Russian aircraft until he was himself shot down March 13 while battling an "overwhelming" number of enemy forces, the UK paper said.
Tarabalka was posthumously awarded Ukraine’s top medal for bravery in combat, the Order of the Golden Star, with the title Hero of Ukraine, according to his family.
His helmet and goggles — all that was seen of him when Ukrainian officials promoted his heroism — are now set to be auctioned in London, sources told the UK Times while confirming Tarabalka’s identity.
Zaur – Military serviceman of Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov’s Regiment:
It’s possible that before I came here, I doubted [the stories] a little bit. But back then when we freed the first prisoners from the house, which was directly situated nearby the Azovstal’ [factory], when those prisoners and civilians came out from the basements, they hugged and kissed us. And told us that they are happy to see us. They cried with tears in their eyes! I then realized that I ended up exactly for… (holding back emotions) what was needed. And I don’t doubt one drop that it was the right idea.
I remember that moment, that fragment which laid into my head, when we stormed a house where there were a lot of civilians, and many of those very Azov fighters. (Azov is an extremist organization that is banned in the territory of the Russian Federation.) A mother with her child runs outside, and we’re looking through binoculars. We can’t storm, we can’t enter, we can’t do anything. And then they shoot the mother in the spine. The mother falls… and we scream to the child: “RUN!!! RUN!!!” from all sides. The child froze, not understanding what to do. On one hand he wants to run, but on the other he wants to help his mother. And then suddenly his head, get this, this child’s HEAD gets shot by this scum, this evil BEAST. In this very moment, we all just suddenly forgot what death means, we forgot that there could be snipers there, just as a Crowd, Broke In! We threw smoke grenades so that they couldn’t see us. We broke in and just tore up all of them [fighters] that were inside. Well we got in there, but not just got in there. In the sense that people sacrificed their lives. Many soldiers sacrificed their lives in that moment. But we entered and fulfilled our task.
We could care less about our lives when we saw the life of a child being gone. When we realized that these are not people, but are animals, nothing less than beasts, that can allow themselves to… to kill a child. These are not people. Therefore I think that I ended up here exactly for the right reason. And everything that I have done here, I have done for these people who live right here and are smiling and hugging us. They even take the coordinates of where I live, as well as of my other fellow combat comrades, they want to come to our homeland and thank us for the liberation.
https://youtu.be/NFTZbSU7X9I
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Beautifully written, Mickey M. So few who put on a uniform are also talented with a pen. How delightful that a simple Chechen soldier can express himself so lyrically.
Truly, it reminds me of photos we saw of Russian soldiers carrying out children after they broke the Beslan school siege in 2004.
His helmet and goggles — all that was seen of him when Ukrainian officials promoted his heroism — are now set to be auctioned in London, sources told the UK Times while confirming Tarabalka’s identity.
Not that those are real identifiers; but wouldn't they have been vaporized?
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Have heart!
Perhaps after taking three of the bastards with him, he ejected safely behind enemy lines, and links up with a rag tag bunch of teenagers who, after surviving and fighting, have had their fill and are on their way to the front so they can cross no-man's land into safety.
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I gagged, even knowing you were toying with this POS
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We are more fragile and transient than the objects we manufacture. It's a sad philosophical observation. Take heart that there are likely more than one GHOST, and many of them live on!
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I gagged, even knowing you were toying with this POS
I, too, Frank G. The wonder is that Russia did not carpet bomb Chechnya from north to south at the time. Doubly a wonder that they unleashed the Chechens now — a hint of desperation from the beginning of this thing.
From the Tweet:
Graphic video that shows a Russian naval infantryman shot while running to a building in Mariupol, severing an artery. A BTR-82 arrives at the end to help with the evacuation. According to the Russian source, the serviceman did not survive.
Graphic video that shows a Russian naval infantryman shot while running to a building in Mariupol, severing an artery. A BTR-82 arrives at the end to help with the evacuation. According to the Russian source, the serviceman did not survive. https://t.co/g8eflW8l3Ipic.twitter.com/ADXfB9fUOX
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[Korrespondent] 23:22 The offensive of Russian troops near Izyum has slowed down, Arestovich said. According to him, there are two possible reasons for this: either the rotation, or the fatigue of the enemy forces, which needed replenishment.
Also, according to the adviser to the head of the OP, for the third or fourth day there has been no offensive by Russian troops on Gulyaipole in the Zaporozhye region.
22:48 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace believes that Putin may be preparing a statement for May 9 on the announcement of a mass mobilization of the population for a decisive blow to Ukraine, writes The Daily Mail. According to the British official, one of Putin's arguments will be the declaration of a new war against "Nazis" around the world.
22:45 The White House privately conveyed to Indonesia that Russia should not be allowed to the G20 summit, although the country's president announced that Putin had already accepted the invitation, writes CNN.
22:37 In the Kherson region, two languages will be used - Russian and Ukrainian, said the "head of administration", collaborator Volodymyr Saldo.
22:35 Ukraine is ready to exchange electricity produced in the country for gas that European countries have, Zelensky said in an interview with Polish media. According to him, there are very large volumes of nuclear generation in Ukraine, so Kyiv will be able to sell electricity at low prices and receive gas in return in volumes that will cover its deficit in Ukraine.
22:31 There are no signs of preparations for a Russian landing on the Ukrainian coast, the Pentagon said: "The demonstration against Odessa may be an attempt to pin down Ukrainian forces so that they cannot move further to the northeast. Again, we do not know this for sure. <. ..> We do not see them planning an amphibious assault to Odessa or approaching the coast."
22:28 Speaker of the OP Sergey Nikiforov, in a commentary to the UP, clarified that on April 29 another mass grave was indeed found in the Kiev region. However, speaking of 900 dead, Zelensky was referring to the total number of bodies found in the Kiev region.
22:04 Zelensky said that the situation in the Kharkiv region is "tough", but "our military has important tactical successes."
22:02 Zelensky on fuel shortage: "Occupiers are purposefully destroying infrastructure for the production, supply and storage of fuel. Russia has also blocked our ports, so there are no instant solutions to overcome the shortage. Officials promise that within a week or two they will provide a fuel supply system that will will not allow a deficit.
21:54 As the Russian offensive in Ukraine bogs down more and more, and the sanctions and Western assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine only increase, Moscow has no choice but to scare the world with a nuclear war. For more details, see Putin's Dead End .
21:48 Zelensky said in an interview with the Polish media that he had discussed with President Duda the entry of Polish companies into the Ukrainian fuel market.
21:46 In the Zaporozhye region on May 1, the curfew time is increased: it will begin at 17:00 (usually at 21:00) and end at 05:00 on May 2, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
21:44 The "DPR" reported the detention of another OSCE employee in Donetsk, again for "espionage". "We continue to observe the absence of any reaction from official Europe... And you are still surprised by the missile attack on Kyiv during the visit of the UN Secretary General," Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, wrote.
21:42 Zelensky: “I am grateful to the United States, President Biden and Congress for an analogue of the famous Lend-Lease program, which greatly helped the fight against the Nazis during World War II. I am sure that now Lend-Lease will help Ukraine and the entire free world overcome ideological heirs "Nazis who unleashed a war against us. Lend-Lease and other programs to support Ukraine are concrete proof that freedom can still defend itself against tyranny."
21:30 The Cabinet of Ministers increased the trade markup for diesel fuel and gasoline by 40% to prevent a shortage at gas stations - now the marginal cost of diesel fuel should not exceed 40.66 UAH/l, gasoline - 36.05 UAH/l.
21:25 Lavrov said that Russia "does not threaten anyone" with a nuclear war, "Western countries are starting to talk about it." And when asked whether Moldova should worry about the "special operation" of the Russian Federation, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry replied: "They should worry about their future, they are being dragged into NATO."
21:23 Lavrov said that most of the partners of the Russian Federation switched to paying for gas in rubles.
21:21 The column for the evacuation of people from Azov was on the way , said the deputy commander of the Azov regiment Svyatoslav Palamar (Kalina) on the air of the telethon. "I know that they are doing everything possible to get here. For our part, we will do everything to take away our civilians and seriously wounded," he said.
21:15 Zelensky considers "very high" risks of a complete cessation of negotiations with Russia. In his opinion, only direct negotiations between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia are needed to resolve important issues, since "everything is finally decided by one person."
21:14 The commander of the marines at Azovstal, Sergei Volynsky (Volyn), turned to Erdogan with a request to apply the “extraction” procedure to them and take them out of Mariupol to Turkey: “We have 600 servicemen with injuries of varying degrees, who really need help. "We have civilians who have been injured, who also really need your help. With us, hundreds of civilians and dozens of children are also looking for safety at the facility. The youngest is four months old here."
21:12 A satellite image taken today recorded a likely loading of Caliber cruise missiles onto a submarine in the port of Sevastopol, Maxar Technologies reports.
21:10 Legal entities that have lost their property due to the Russian invasion can also register applications in Diy, Shmyhal said.
20:53 The railway bridge Liman - Raygorodok across the Seversky Donets was blown up by the Ukrainian military, the press service of the JFO told Hromadsky. The bridge was blown up along with the wagons, traffic on it was blocked. This disrupted the railway connection with Liman, which is located in the center of the fighting for the north of Donbass.
20:48 Zelensky said in an interview with Polish media that another mass grave was found in the Kyiv region, where the bodies of about 900 civilians are located. "How many people died - no one knows. There will be consequences, there will be an investigation, then there will be a census," the president added.
He also said that, according to the estimates of the Ukrainian authorities, about 500,000 Ukrainians were illegally deported to Russia by the invaders.
20:28 Russia is trying to disrupt the ability of the Ukrainian military to replenish its own supplies and strengthen, a senior US Department of Defense official told CNN. In addition, according to the official, Russian strikes in Odessa are likely intended to pinch Ukrainian forces there and prevent them from reinforcing defenders in the Donbass.
20:26 Zelensky about Russian fakes about Poland's desire to seize Western Ukraine: "Civilized countries will not take this seriously. <...> Information signals are the same information missiles. An information attack is no weaker than a missile one. This is aimed at ensuring that there was destabilization so that the countries of Europe would be disunited."
20:07 After enemy missiles hit in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kiev on April 28, at least two people were detained who photographed the destruction and sent it to the Russians, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
19:46 The US is working on a bill giving the government the power to confiscate the property of Russian kleptocrats. The confiscated assets will be sold and the proceeds will be transferred to Ukraine. More about this in the material Transfer of assets of the Russian Federation to Ukraine .
19:38 A monument to Maxim Gorky was demolished in Vinnitsa.
19:27 Russia fired more than 1,300 missiles at Ukraine - according to Ukrainian Forbes, it cost the aggressor $7.5 billion. Earlier, the Pentagon reported that the Russian Federation fired 1,900 missiles in Ukraine.
19:24 Yermak writes in his column for Time that Kiev is proposing a new collective agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine as a basis for a collective response to global security challenges.
“Obviously, neutrality cannot be a key issue in this agreement. This agreement should ensure the status of Ukraine as a democratic, sovereign and integral state, without bracketing the issues of Donbass and Crimea. The conditions for ensuring such a status are a subject of discussion, but it is clear that among there is a place for guarantors both for the West and for the East," the head of the President's Office notes.
According to him, in the future, the Ukrainian security platform should become the basis of the multilateral U-24 format - United for Peace.
19:07 The number of wounded as a result of an air strike on the Azovstal field hospital has increased from 170 to more than 600 people , Mayor Vadim Boychenko said. According to him, the civilians who are hiding at the plant have almost no water, food and medicine left.
According to Boichenko, at first about 300 residents hid in the bomb shelters of Azovstal, but then they were joined by refugees from the left-bank part of the city, which suffered the most damage due to Russian bombing. How many civilians are now at the plant, it is not known exactly.
19:04 Guterres said that the UN will double its support for Ukrainians: "I was touched by the resilience and courage of the people of Ukraine. My message to him is simple: we will not surrender. The UN will redouble its efforts to save lives and reduce human suffering. In this war, as in in all wars, civilians always pay the highest price."
19:01 The United States and its allies are preparing for a possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in an interview with Meduza: “Unfortunately, since the beginning of this conflict, we have already understood that the threats coming from Putin should be taken seriously. Therefore, the United States and our allies "They are preparing for such a development of events. But if it comes to this, it will be a war crime of such proportions, from the consequences of which neither he nor Russia will ever recover. Definitely not in our lives."
18:49 A new batch of American weapons for Ukraine will include M777 howitzers and drones, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. According to him, the batch will be delivered to Ukraine by 12 planes within 24 hours.
18:48 The US Department of Defense reported that "US Air Force aircraft technicians are loading 155 mm howitzer ammunition bound for Ukraine onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at US Air Force Base Travis, California." The photo was published by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:39 US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby warned citizens of the country against traveling to Ukraine to participate in the war with Russia after the death of former US Marine Willie Joseph Kansel, who was hired by PMCs. "We continue to urge Americans not to go to Ukraine. This is a zone of active warfare, this is not the place where you can go," he stressed.
18:38 The Cabinet of Ministers decided not to raise the price of gas for the population during martial law. The government also recommended that local authorities not increase the cost of other housing and communal services until the end of martial law.
18:36 The occupiers took out part of the surviving ventilators from Mariupol, the city council said.
18:20 According to the World Economic Forum, more than 11 million Ukrainians have left their homes, including 5.3 million people who left the country and 6.5 million internally displaced persons. In addition, about half of Ukrainians lost their jobs and only 2% were able to find temporary work.
18:17 British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons announced that she had returned to Kiev.
18:12 The SBI, the SBU and the police are checking 11 thousand Russians who entered the territory of Ukraine before the start of the Russian invasion and did not leave the country.
18:04 Podolyak recalled that two months ago, the idea of disconnecting Russia from SWIFT caused only laughter among many. A month ago, requests to provide Kyiv with heavy weapons met with categorical resistance. And on February 18, Zelensky said for the first time that we need a lend-lease.
“Today, lend-lease has become a reality. The next step is a complete oil embargo and the inclusion of Russia in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Moscow is waiting for total economic isolation,” wrote the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office.
18:01 The Cabinet of Ministers allocated more than 119 billion hryvnias to the Ministry of Defense "for salaries, equipment, fuel, food, protection, weapons," Shmyhal said. "We are trying to provide our fighters as much as possible," he added.
17:50 The fuel shortage situation will be resolved within a week, Economy Minister Yulia Sviridenko said: "Over the next seven days, the shortage will be eliminated, since operators have contracted volumes in Western Europe, and now we are solving the issue of how to import them as quickly as possible to the territory of Ukraine.
17:42 Pentagon Speaker John Kirby said that during his visit to Kiev, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin remained included in the chain of launching American nuclear weapons and was able to carry it out.
According to him, Austin's preparation for the trip was a full-fledged special operation using a large number of technical means, so that even thousands of kilometers from his workplace, Austin retained all the opportunities to perform his official duties - from advising the US president to implementing his command to launch nuclear weapons. Kirby also made it clear that if Biden wants to visit Kyiv, the experience of Austin's trip will definitely come in handy.
17:35 French specialists with a DNA laboratory and the necessary equipment will work in the Buchansky morgue next week to identify unidentified victims, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said. According to her, 65 unidentified bodies of the dead remain in Bucha. A mission from France will join the collection of genetic material from people who are looking for missing relatives.
17:31 Deputy head of the Presidential Office Kirill Timoshenko said that this year the state plans to provide more than 53,000 apartments for 186,000 internally displaced persons. Apartments will be provided with minimal repairs and appliances. They will be state-owned, and when the migrants return to their homes, these apartments will be given to people who have been on the waiting list for housing for years.
17:28 The Embassy of Azerbaijan has resumed work in Kiev.
17:27 Poland has said that it is ready to protect the airspace of Slovakia when it stops using MiG-29 aircraft, which opens the way for the possible delivery of Soviet aircraft to Ukraine, writes Sky News.
17:24 In the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik, a square called Kiev appeared as a sign of support for the Ukrainian people - it is located at the intersection of streets where foreign embassies, including the Russian one, are located. Officially, the place will have a double name - Kænugarður / Kýiv-torg, and in English the square will be called Kyiv Square. The name of the square in the Old Norse language Kænugarður is intended to emphasize the thousand-year history of Kyiv.
17:22 The SBU announced suspicions of treason to the "governor" of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and the "mayor" of Kherson Alexander Kobts.
17:15 The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation announced that it had fulfilled its obligations in dollars on sovereign Eurobonds maturing in 2022 and 2042. Moscow emphasized that these are those payments in dollars that did not go through on April 4 due to the refusal of a foreign agent bank. Now the payments have passed, and there is no question of any default.
17:11 The Institute for Strategic Studies is developing plans for adapting Ukraine to various scenarios for the duration of the war, Arakhamia said: “Of course, all of us, Ukrainians, want victory in the near future, and we don’t even want to think about a long-term scenario that can last for years. Unfortunately , world experience shows that there were few wars that ended in a few weeks or months."
"Adaptation plans are being prepared for each of the scenarios. That is, we must take into account the risks and those scenarios that are likely. And yet we believe in the victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and that we will be able to expel the enemy in the near future," he added.
17:00 Because of the war in Ukraine, there are problems with fuel. First, the Russians are constantly attacking Ukrainian oil depots. Secondly, they fired twice at the Kremenchug Oil Refinery. Thirdly, logistics chains have been destroyed due to the impossibility of deliveries from the sea, and deliveries from Russia and Belarus have also been stopped. All this translates into a shortage of fuel within the country. Details - in the material The problem with gasoline: Ukraine is waiting for a rise in price .
16:56 Russian media reported today that the occupiers in Melitopol allegedly "saved" museum exhibits, including Scythian gold, which the "intruders" were going to take to Western Ukraine.
In turn, the head of the Zaporozhye OVA Oleksandr Starukh said that all the most valuable exhibits were taken out of the museums of the Zaporozhye region in March 2022 to other regions of Ukraine: “We completely took out everything that was of historical and cultural value from all museums. rescued, good luck to them."
16:48 In the occupied Fedorovka, Zaporozhye region, a conflict arose between the commanders and personnel of the RF Armed Forces because of their unwillingness to participate in offensive operations. Russians complain to local residents about deceit when signing contracts and obtaining consent to participate in hostilities.
As Ukrainian intelligence found out, Russian contractors were promised an operation according to the "Crimean scenario" - that is, the absence of resistance from Ukraine, the allocation of housing in the occupied territories and the smooth passage of service.
Seeing the real picture, many Russians refused to serve further. This led to a conflict, which FSB representatives arrived to sort out. Some of the servicemen were taken away after interrogations in an unknown direction, they did not return to the place of service.
16:43 In the occupied Kiselevka (Chernobaevsk rural community of the Kherson region) there was a skirmish between the military of the Russian Federation of Chechen and Buryat nationality. More than 50 people from each side took part in the night incident. The exact number of wounded and dead is still unknown.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, among the reasons for the conflict are the unwillingness of the Buryats to conduct offensive military operations and the "unequal rights" of conditions with the Chechens. The latter are not at all on the front line, remaining in the rear exclusively as "protective detachments." Another reason is the uneven distribution of the loot. The main "benefit" from looting is received by the same Chechens.
16:33 Sweden has allocated about 155 million euros to strengthen its military infrastructure on the strategic island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea amid rising tensions with neighboring Russia, writes Reuters.
16:28 On the highway Kiev - Kovel - Yagodin near Gostomel, a temporary crossing was opened across the Irpen River, said the head of the Humanitarian Headquarters of the Kiev OVA, Alexei Kuleba.
16:18 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that his country supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine: "We support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, like other countries, and we openly declare this, we do not hide behind a tree. Yes, we do not deny that we have good relations with Russia. The principles of international law should in no case be distorted by reason of political superiority."
16:16 The Norwegian government has joined the fifth package of EU anti-Russian sanctions - the country closes the border with Russia for land transport and its ports. The only exceptions will be fishing boats and ports of the Svalbard archipelago, NRK reports.
16:14 North Korea is preparing to conduct its first nuclear test in five years, writes the Financial Times. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. (CSIS), new satellite images of the nuclear test site at Phungeri show that preparations are "in full swing." The seventh nuclear test is likely to take place between May and September of this year.
16:11 Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that he refused Zelensky's request to provide weapons to Ukraine, but announced his readiness to send humanitarian aid to the country.
16:04 NATO fighter jets stationed in the Baltic and Black Sea region have taken off "many times" over the past four days to intercept Russian aircraft near the airspace of member countries, the press service of the Alliance's air force command said.
15:59 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland want to seek increased protection of NATO's eastern flank at the Madrid summit at the end of June. This was agreed upon by the foreign ministers of the four countries at a meeting in Riga, European Truth reports. The countries propose to expand the permanent presence of the Alliance forces.
15:52 Refugees from Ukraine in Germany will increase benefits from June, writes Deutsche Welle. The amount will be the same as the German unemployed receive - 449 euros. Now Ukrainians are paid about 300 euros. To qualify for the new payments, you need to obtain a residence permit in Germany.
15:49 Russia uses ammunition depots in Transnistria to smuggle weapons. According to Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, exercises are held there every year using ammunition from warehouses in the village of Kolbasna. Part of the ammunition is used for combat training, part, according to military intelligence, for smuggling.
Skibitsky also said that the current situation in Transnistria is a clear signal that the Russian Federation is ready to use the region as an additional springboard for aggression not only against Ukraine, but also against Moldova. According to Skibitsky, there is a serious struggle going on in Pridnestrovie between government officials and the special services of the Russian Federation are very active.
"The terrorist acts committed on the territory of the PMR were aimed at forcing the Pridnestrovian leadership to agree to the expansion of the presence of Russian troops. In addition, explosions at the facilities will be presented as a threat to the population of the region and a signal to the leadership of the Republic of Moldova to abandon the pro-European policy," Skibitsky said and added that the attacks themselves are "a characteristic handwriting of the FSB of the Russian Federation."
"According to our information, everything that happens on the territory of Pridnestrovie is under the control of the FSB of the Russian Federation," a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense said.
15:34 Commander of the 36th Marine Brigade Sergei Volyn told CNN that the situation at Azovstal "goes beyond the scope of a humanitarian catastrophe." According to him, as a result of missile and air strikes, vital medical equipment was destroyed, which remained under the rubble of a field hospital.
"We ended up in the operating room. And all the operating equipment, everything that is necessary for operations, was destroyed, so we cannot treat our wounded, especially those with shrapnel and bullet wounds. And now we have no surgical instruments. We are also in dire need of medicine," he said.
Currently, hundreds of people, including 60 children, are in the basements of the plant. Many are injured, there is very little water and food.
15:28 Kuleba: "Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons for the sake of world peace. We then knocked on NATO's door, but it never opened. The security vacuum led to Russian aggression. The world owes Ukraine security, and we ask states to decide which They are ready to provide security guarantees.
15:25 A long curfew is introduced in Odessa - from 22:00 Sunday, May 1, to 05:00 Tuesday, May 3. In the rest of the region, restrictions will remain the same - daily from 22:00 to 05:00.
15:17 The new weapon that the United States will provide to Ukraine will change the positions of the parties in the war, but it will not be as fast as we would like, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said: "Now a large number of our military are being trained. This is a new weapon, it needs get used to it, you have to learn how to use it."
15:15 Germany will not veto the decision of the European Union on the oil embargo against Russia, said Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habek.
15:12 Ireland can send more than 1 billion euros of Russian assets frozen under EU sanctions for the restoration of Ukraine, said Foreign Minister Simon Coveney.
15:06 Estonian Defense Minister Kalle Laanet visited Kiev and held talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Alexei Reznikov. According to Reznikov, the visit took place "immediately after Ramstein."
14:54 Kyiv City State Administration urges the people of Kiev not to travel by private transport without unnecessary need, in order to ensure the primary need for fuel for the military. Public transport is offered as an alternative.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses report that large queues have formed at gas stations in the capital.
14:46 The State Border Service forbade citizens in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions to approach the border closer than 1 km during the day and 20 km at night.
14:39 The Embassy of the Netherlands has resumed work in Kiev.
14:28 Britain is sending a team of war crimes experts to Ukraine to help Ukraine collect material for the International Criminal Court, Foreign Minister Liz Thrus said: "Our experts will collect evidence of Russian atrocities, including sexual violence. We will reveal the truth and hold Putin accountable ".
14:23 The Russian invaders captured two British volunteers of the Presidium Network, Associated Press and BBC write. According to preliminary data, they were kidnapped in Dneprorudny, Zaporozhye region, where they helped with the evacuation of people.
14:07 Ukraine will receive an additional 495 million euros from the World Bank, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine reports. This money will be transferred in addition to a grant of 88.5 million, which has already entered the Ukrainian state budget.
13:49 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had liberated the village of Russian Lozovaya, Kharkiv region, from the invaders. Currently, it is completely under the control of Ukraine.
"This is a strategically important settlement located on the Kharkiv-Belgorod highway. It was from this suburb that during the occupation the enemy fired at the civilian infrastructure and residential areas of Kharkov," said journalist Denis Kazansky, whose message was disseminated by the intelligence department.
13:24 For the first time since the start of Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine in the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta, the vessel Unity N has completed loading 71,000 tons of Ukrainian corn, Reuters reports.
13:23 Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced that he had invited both Zelensky and Putin to the G20 summit in November. Both presidents accepted the invitation, writes Bloomberg.
13:05 Congressmen passed a law on lend-lease for Ukraine, which will simplify the supply of weapons, and President Biden has asked for tens of billions to help Ukrainians "in the fight for freedom." Read more about these decisions in the material What the new US aid will give .
13:03 Borrell said that the recent events in Transnistria harm the security of Moldova: "The European Union calls on the responsible parties to avoid destabilizing the situation. We strongly welcome the restrained reaction of the authorities of the Republic of Moldova, which contributes to maintaining calm in the country."
12:54 Crypto exchange Binance blocked the cryptocurrency accounts of relatives of a number of Kremlin officials, among them Lavrov's stepdaughter, Peskov's daughter, son of tycoon Malofeev. They will not be able to use their accounts to sell, purchase or transfer crypto assets.
12:51 Vinnitsa City Council renamed Moskovskaya Street to Mariupolskaya.
12:45 The units of the Russian Armed Forces, which were removed from combat missions in Mariupol, were moved closer to the JFO zone in order to encircle the Ukrainian troops, said the head of the Zaporizhzhya OVA Oleksandr Starukh: "We know that the movement of their forces is also taking place in the east of the Zaporozhye region, they have become more active there hostilities in recent days. The main direction is Gulyaipole and to the east, their goal is to reach Pokrovskoye (north of Gulyaipole, in the Dnepropetrovsk region) and encircle the Donbass."
12:43 Pavel Podvig, expert on nuclear weapons, head of the Russian Nuclear Arms project, claims that the nuclear forces of the Russian Federation are not suitable for delivering a first strike - they are designed only for a counter attack.
“There are practically no opportunities for delivering a first strike,” the expert says. “Such a strike could be carried out only by minimizing the damage to oneself from a retaliatory attack. And the USSR did not have such an opportunity, and Russia does not now either.<...> Strategic Russian forces are built precisely on the concept of a retaliatory strike. They can strike from under attack in order to guarantee that they reach the territory of the enemy."
12:36 The German press draws conclusions from the cessation of Russian gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria and warns of the likely consequences of this decision by Moscow for Germany and the European Union. Details - in the material Act of Despair Putin .
12:18 The City Council of Polish Gdansk has given one of the city squares the name of the Heroic Mariupol.
12:12 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has published new recommendations for the work of journalists. So, you can collect information immediately after the shelling, but publishing photos and videos from the places of hostilities is allowed only after 12 hours for military facilities and after three hours for civilian ones.
In addition, military administrations are encouraged to provide more information to the media about the destruction caused by the actions of the enemy, no later than one day after the incident.
12:09 The French Foreign Ministry announced that it expects the EU to adopt the sixth package of sanctions against Russia on oil supplies next week.
12:06 Russia from its territory - from the village of Gorodishche - on the morning of April 29 again fired at the Sumy region. Enemy forces fired more than 30 mortar rounds that hit the crossroads between three villages in the Shostka region. During another shelling, mines exploded on the outskirts of one of these villages, the State Border Service said.
12:04 Anti-aircraft missile forces of the Pivden air command received the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system from partner countries, which significantly strengthened air defense in the southern region, the command said.
11:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Caliber sea-based missiles destroyed three traction electrical substations in the areas of the railway junctions of Fastov (Kiev region), Krasnoselka (Odessa region) and Polonne (Khmelnytsky region).
11:52 Poland has transferred 200 T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which will equip two tank brigades, Polish Radio reports. In addition to tanks, Ukraine received several dozen infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers 2S1 Gvozdika and MLRS Grad.
11:50 As a result of yesterday's missile attack on Kiev, Radio Liberty journalist Vera Girich died. According to her colleague Alexander Demchenko, a Russian missile hit her house.
11:47 Podolyak on the meeting between Zelensky and Putin: "I don't see that this can be done tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, as Turkey says... Unfortunately, we need to wait a bit. The talks between the two presidents today are still out of time. A little later, probably, they will be, but we want Ukraine's positions in these negotiations to be very, very powerful."
11:32 In the occupied Novoaidar, Luhansk region, local collaborator Pavel Sharogradsky was found killed. According to Ukrainian intelligence, he disappeared on April 25 and was soon found shot in the head and with wounds on his body. A criminal case of treason was initiated against him.
11:27 Occupants in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are forcing students to donate blood en masse for their wounded, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said. According to her, about 700 such cases are already known.
11:22 Ukraine has turned to other countries and international organizations with a request to provide specialists and equipment for demining territories, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said. He explained that one day of active hostilities is equal to 30 days of demining. So, if in the Kyiv region the fighting lasted for 30-35 days, then it will take about a year and a half to clear mines.
11:18 In the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, entrepreneurs are forced to switch to rubles, the military-civilian administration reports. Also, in the villages of Botievo and Stroganovka in the Melitopol region, the Russians demand that entrepreneurs open shops, cafes, places of recreation and leisure, provided there are no Ukrainian-made goods on the shelves of stores. Ukrainian entrepreneurs are being agitated to sell goods from Crimea and enter the ruble zone.
11:16 Ukraine received grant funding from the World Bank in the amount of 88.5 million euros. The funds will be directed to the general fund of the state budget to ensure priority social, humanitarian, health care costs, and support for internally displaced persons.
11:10 The Kiev military administration asks students, women with small children, and the elderly not to return to the city yet.
11:00 GBR stopped deliveries to Russia of components that could be used in rocket science. Deliveries were carried out by the enterprise of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Investigators found that the Glukhovsky quartzite quarry, owned by the offshore company of the oligarch, illegally mined high-purity quartzite, silicon and other minerals in the Banitsky deposit in the Sumy region. These components can be used for the Russian tactical missile system Tochka-U. Law enforcers are asking the court to seize corporate rights, land plots of the deposit, and property.
10:51 Yesterday, in Mariupol, the occupiers issued the child's first birth certificate in a month - on the letterhead of the "DPR", according to Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. "For the first time in Mariupol, a Russian terrorist satellite officially stole the citizenship of our Ukrainian child," he wrote.
10:47 The Federal Service for Technical Export Control of the Russian Federation informed the enterprises of the military-industrial complex about the danger of using anti-virus programs developed in the Russian Federation. An analysis of information security threats indicates that "foreign hacker groups actively exploit software vulnerabilities when implementing computer attacks on the information structure of the Russian Federation." The corresponding letter came into the possession of Ukrainian intelligence.
The document says that the main danger is associated with the use of Russian "import substitution" software products by government agencies. First of all, these are Kaspersky anti-virus programs. The level of danger associated with their use is rated from "medium" to "critical".
10:44 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "a launcher with a combat crew of the Ukrainian Tochka-U missile system, from which yesterday a strike was struck on residential areas of Kherson, was destroyed near Gorokhovsky in the Nikolaev region."
10:40 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "VKS with high-precision long-range weapons destroyed the production buildings of the Artem rocket and space industry enterprise in Kyiv.
10:35 During the analysis of the rubble of a residential building in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kiev, where a rocket hit yesterday, the body of the deceased was found , Klitschko said.
10:34 The General Staff announced the losses of the enemy on the morning of April 29:
personnel - about 23,000 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 986 (+16),
armored combat vehicles - 2418 (+29),
artillery systems - 435 (+4),
MLRS - 151 (+0),
air defense systems - 73 (+1),
aircraft - 189 (+2),
helicopters - 155 (+0),
automotive equipment - 1695 (+7),
ships/boats - 8 (+0),
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 229 (+14),
special equipment - 31 (+0),
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4 (+0).
10:25 The negotiation process with Moscow has slowed down after information about the atrocities of the Russian military in the Kiev region and the Kremlin's desire to intensify military operations in the Donbass, Podolyak said in an interview with Radio Liberty.
In addition, according to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, the Russian Federation still has enough resources to conduct active military operations in eastern Ukraine, "and they want to get certain tactical victories in order to show that they know how to fight, so that they continue to be afraid."
10:22 In Melitopol, Russian invaders are kidnapping people en masse, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said: "They are kidnapping people at checkpoints, they have already switched to mass kidnapping. They are kidnapping all men of military age. Two weeks ago they began to offer them to join the Russian army, and today they are kidnapping at checkpoints and taken in an unknown direction. People are kept in inhuman conditions in the basement. I think they want to use them as an exchange fund or as cannon fodder to participate in operations during the war with Ukraine."
10:19 Arestovich on Ukraine's losses at the front: "We have losses, the losses are large, but the losses of the Russian side are much, much greater. The Russian army ends faster than it has time to advance. The losses of the Russian Federation are colossal, but due to the concentration of firepower they can afford the squeezing tactics."
10:17 Russian troops are moving away from Mariupol and moving towards the Zaporozhye region, a US Department of Defense spokesman said. He did not specify how many Russian troops he was talking about, but said it was "significant."
The retreat of part of the Russian troops from the Mariupol area, according to a US Department of Defense official, does not mean that the city is already considered occupied, since shelling continues.
09:52 Elon Musk, in addition to Starlink, handed over Tesla Powerwall stations to Ukraine. Fedorov said that today two outpatient clinics in Borodyanka and Irpin received solar panels and Tesla Powerwall energy saving systems. These solar panels and generators have become very popular in the US. The Powerwall energy system has high autonomy and provides backup power during power outages.
09:48 Zelensky thanked Biden: "I thank the President of the United States and the American people for their leadership in supporting Ukraine in our fight against Russian aggression. We defend common values - democracy and freedom. We appreciate US assistance. Today it is needed more than ever."
09:43 The US will "strongly support" the decision of Sweden and Finland to join NATO, Blinken said.
09:39 Russian troops carried out several successful local attacks from Kherson towards Nikolaev, the American Institute for the Study of War reported. It is also reported that the invaders have increased the pace of artillery and air strikes on Ukrainian positions on Azovstal.
In attacks directly southeast from Izyum towards Slovyansk, Russian forces have made little progress and will likely try to bypass Ukrainian defenses by attacking further west, analysts say.
The Russian army is trying to increase the pace of offensives. Probably the most important battles in the Donbass will take place in the next 2-3 weeks.
09:35 The operation to evacuate civilians from Azovstal is scheduled for Friday, April 29, a source in the OP told Reuters.
09:08 Germany is ready to stop buying Russian oil, paving the way for an EU ban on oil imports from Russia, writes WSJ. Berlin has been one of the main opponents of sanctions on Russian oil and gas. However, on Wednesday, Germany's representatives in the EU institutions lifted the country's objection to a total embargo on Russian oil, provided that Berlin gets enough time to secure alternative supplies.
08:52 Borrell commented on yesterday's attacks on Kiev: "Shocked and amazed by Russian missile attacks on Kiev and other cities of Ukraine. Russia again demonstrates blatant disregard for international law by shelling the city during the stay of UN Secretary General António Guterres and Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov".
08:41 In the Luhansk region, the invaders fired at Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Gornoe, Privolye, Popasnaya, and the battles for Orekhovo continue, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said.
08:40 In the morning, Russian troops fired at Velyka Kostroma and Maryanskoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region from Gradov, Governor Valentin Reznichenko said. Outbuildings were damaged, there were no casualties.
08:39 Kyiv City State Administration clarified that as a result of yesterday's missile attack on a residential building in the Shevchenko district of Kiev, four people were hospitalized, ten people were injured in total. In the morning, utilities began cleaning near the house.
08:37 British intelligence reports that the battle for Donbass remains Russia's main strategic direction - to achieve the stated goal of controlling the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. In these areas, the fighting was especially heavy around Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, with attempts to advance south from Izyum towards Slavyansk. But due to the strong resistance of Ukraine, the territorial gains of Russia were limited and achieved at the cost of significant losses for the Russian troops.
08:33 The UK is preparing the largest deployment of its troops in Europe since the Cold War: about 8,000 British soldiers will go to Eastern Europe in the summer for exercises against Russian aggression, Sky News reports.
Troops will be deployed from Finland and the Baltic countries to North Macedonia. They will have dozens of tanks and over 100 armored vehicles. In addition to the British, tens of thousands of military personnel from other NATO countries will take part in the exercises.
08:31 More than 1,900 missile strikes have been carried out by Russia on Ukraine since the beginning of a full-scale war, the US Department of Defense reported. Most of the strikes are in Mariupol and the JFO zone. The Pentagon noted that the vast majority of strikes against Ukraine are carried out from air bases on the territory of the Russian Federation.
08:16 A ship from Spain arrived in Poland with 200 tons of military aid for Ukraine.
07:39 Russian troops continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone and are actively conducting reconnaissance. Ukrainian defenders are conducting active mobile defense, and in some places they are delivering counterattacks, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning report .
05:15 The United States will not succumb to nuclear blackmail and is just as ready for strategic deterrence as it has been for decades, Ambassador to Russia Sullivan said.
03:20 Arestovich said that the war unleashed by Russia on the territory of Ukraine is developing according to the principle of expansion to neighboring countries : “The shadow of the war fell on Moldova, Belarus and Russia itself. not within the borders of Ukraine. It has cast a very serious shadow, and flashes of fires are visible in this shadow."
01:34 Under the rubble of a field hospital at the Azovstal plant, at least one Ukrainian defender was killed, and about a hundred more wounded soldiers received another shell shock. The Azov Regiment reported that the blow was delivered purposefully at the hospital.
00:17 On Thursday, April 28, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit 15 air targets of Russian invaders: one aircraft (Su-34), five cruise missiles, nine UAVs.
00:14 In the Khmelnitsky region, the enemy launched a missile attack on an infrastructure facility in one of the territorial communities of the Shepetovsky district, the fire was extinguished, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gamaly.
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The "Ghost of Kyiv" has been shot down after being swarmed by Russian migs. The 29 year old Ukrainian pilot was said to have shot down 6 enemy aircraft on the first day of the invasion and up to 40 total.
[Aljazeera] Two British volunteers providing humanitarian assistance in Ukraine have been detained by the Russian military.
The non-profit Presidium Network said on Friday that the two civilians were seized at a checkpoint south of the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. It identified the pair as Paul Urey and Dylan Healy.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:40 VFU shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, 1 person was killed and 3 more were injured, - DPR JCCC 21:40 Preliminary information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the death of one and the wounding of three civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. There is also information about damage to the housing stock and civilian infrastructure.
20:22 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 15 rockets from the BM-21 Grad. The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC stated.
20:20 Military investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia recorded the consequences of the shelling of the city of Stakhanov by Ukrainian armed forces, the agency reports.
“It has been established that on the night of April 27-28, the command of the military unit, knowing that civilians who do not take part in hostilities live on the territory of Stakhanov, gave an illegal order to fire on it from various types of weapons, including artillery, in order to destruction of the local population and destruction of civilian infrastructure. As a result of the incident, private households were damaged, two people received shrapnel wounds, one of whom died,» the message says.
20:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: 18.10 from the direction of the settlement. Kamyshevakh along the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of artillery guns 152mm (four shells).
20:15 The Russian Investigative Committee is investigating the circumstances of the shelling by Ukrainian nationalists of one of the monasteries in the LPR.
20:14 A family of three was able to leave the Azovstal plant, Rossiya-24 TV channel reports.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired more than a hundred shells of 122mm and 120mm caliber in the DPR. Seven settlements came under fire, where 11 residential buildings and two civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
19:00 During the day, under the fire of Kyiv punishers, one civilian of the DPR was killed. Another person was injured.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR have destroyed 26 Ukrainian nationalists, eight firing points, one infantry fighting vehicle and one armored personnel carrier. Two 122mm D-30 howitzers and two cargo vehicles were captured.
18:19 DPR detained an OSCE SMM officer on suspicion of espionage.
17:29 Kyiv militants fired on Zolote-5 in the LPR. They fired five 120mm mines at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:07 Kyiv punishers shelled Gorlovka in the DPR. They fired five shells from an anti-tank grenade launcher into the city. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:24 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Shirokaya Balka and Lozovoe in the DPR. They fired 19 grenades at them. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:24 On Friday, 125 people, including 22 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe.
15:27 The fire at the oil depot in Donetsk was extinguished. The object caught fire as a result of shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:18 Kirovsky district of Donetsk: houses are on fire. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to hit the area with artillery.
14:54 Kyiv punishers fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. They fired seven 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:12 Kyiv Nazis fired at Olginka in the DPR. Four people were injured.
13:42 Another Ukrainian "heroes" tried to escape from Mariupol dressed as a woman. The border guard and the fighter of the National Guard were caught at the exit from the city. During interrogation, like all Ukrainian soldiers, they said that they did not want to fight, they worked in the kitchen, and they joined the army because of benefits and pensions.
12:36 Ukrainian punishers fired five rockets from the Grad MLRS in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:36 Kyiv Nazis fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR. They fired six 122mm rounds at her. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Pervomaisk in the LPR. They fired five 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:45 The People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, has already liberated 173 settlements.
11:45 Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. They fired five 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
10:30 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis fired more than a hundred shells of 122mm, 120mm and 82mm caliber in the DPR. Nine settlements came under fire, where 56 houses, ten infrastructure facilities and two cars were damaged.
10:30 Over the past day in the DPR, under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, seven civilians were killed, including one child. In addition, another 54 were injured, including five children.
10:30 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed 52 Ukrainian nationalists, two firing positions of 122mm D-30 howitzers, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armored personnel carrier and two cargo vehicles. One armored personnel carrier and one cargo vehicle were captured.
10:20 During the day, the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR destroyed 15 Ukrainian militants.
10:20 More than 600 people, including 80 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in a day.
09:32 A civilian in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk died as a result of shelling by Kyiv militants. Another person was injured.
09:29. The Kyiv regime intends on Friday to try to get the Azov militants out of Mariupol. A source in the Ukrainian presidential administration told Reuters that "an operation to evacuate civilians" from Azovstal is scheduled for Friday.
08:42 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR. They fired three 122mm shells at her. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:20 During the day, fire was opened on Pervomaisk in the LPR six times. Kyiv Nazis used howitzers and RZSO Grad. Four civilians were injured, nine buildings were destroyed.
08:20 A resident of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, born in 1995, was injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian militants.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:25 The Russian language has returned to the Mariupol school. Military correspondent "KP" Dmitry Steshin visited a school in Mariupol. The number of Russian language lessons in the schedule has noticeably increased. 21:15 Russian Aerospace Forces hit 22 Ukrainian military facilities, including five strongholds.
21:15 Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian drones and three Tochka-U missiles.
21:15 The RF Armed Forces hit 38 Ukrainian facilities with high-precision missiles, including a fuel depot in Volny and a radar station in the Pechenegy region.
21:14 Ukraine continues to fight against the Soviet legacy. In Chernivtsi, by decision of the authorities, two monuments to the Red Army soldiers who liberated the city from Nazi occupation were demolished.
"Soviet rubbish has no place in our beautiful city!" - said in the Chernivtsi city council.
20:13 Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee General Zavarzin called for missile strikes on headquarters in Kyiv and Lvov.
19:09 The new supply of American weapons to Ukraine will include howitzers and UAVs, the batch will be delivered within 24 hours by 12 aircraft, the Pentagon said.
18:00 The National Guard confiscated weapons and drugs in a children's camp near KhersonWhen checking information about the propaganda of Nazi ideas among. Underage fighters of the Russian Guard seized two Bernardelli pistols, 292 cartridges of various calibers, an integral part of a weapon, two bags and 38 transparent packages with marijuana, as well as two metal boxes with the image of cannabis, where there were 58 pills.
18:00 In two districts of the Kherson region, they began to pay pensions in rubles.
16:43 More than a thousand fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard are doomed to death near the Oskol reservoir in the Kharkiv region. The command refused to release the units of the 1st brigade of the NSU, which had previously tried to advance on Izyum. The Russian army has pressed them to the water and is methodically destroying them, Ukrainian insiders write.
15:59 US citizen, 23-year-old Willie Joseph Kansel died in Ukraine. Was a mercenary.
15:58 Fighting is underway, the Russian Army has transferred units that fought in Mariupol to the Zaporozhye direction. The head of the Zaporozhye regional military administration, Starukh, explains the intensification of hostilities. Gulyaipole remains the main hotspot of the region.
15:58 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation delivered humanitarian aid to the city of Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region.
14:53 Another S-300 air defense system from Slovakia has reached Ukraine. This was stated by the air command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "South".
14:47 The President of Indonesia said that he refused Ukraine's request to supply weapons.
14:20 Problems with gasoline continue in Ukraine. Huge queues at gas stations. Fuel shortages are observed throughout the country. Authorities urge to save fuel.
13:31 Explosions at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy region.
12:55 At the airport in Chisinau, a Ukrainian was detained with an American civilian who tried to smuggle helmets, body armor, optics and weapon accessories.
12:52 Two civilian cars were blown up on the mines set by the Ukrainian military. In the area of the city of Makarov located in the Kyiv region, two civilian cars were blown up today. In total, one person died and five were injured.
12:51 Warsaw delivered 200 T-72M1 tanks to Kyiv, which makes it possible to equip 2 tank brigades. In addition, the Ukrainian military received several dozen Polish infantry fighting vehicles. Deliveries are not limited to armored vehicles. Poland supplies Ukraine with self-propelled guns 2S1 Gvozdika and MLRS Grad, as well as air-to-air missiles. The total amount of Polish supplies is almost $1.6 billion.
11:55 Russian air defense destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones and a missile from the Smerch installation.
11:54 The Russian Armed Forces hit ten Ukrainian military facilities with high-precision air-launched missiles, including an ammunition depot near Ilyichevka.
11:53 Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 112 Ukrainian military facilities overnight, including two command posts and four weapons depots.
11:53 Rocket troops hit 13 military facilities of Ukraine during the night.
11:53 The RF Armed Forces "Caliber" destroyed three traction electrical substations in the areas of railway junctions.
11:52 Children of the Kherson region believe in the victory of the Russian people over the Nazi Kyiv regime and support the morale of their defenders with postcards with patriotic verses.
11:52 On May 3, kindergarten No. 10 resumes its work in Energodar. The enrollment of children in four age groups continues.
11:51 In the Nikolaev region, a launcher was destroyed along with the combat crew of the Tochka-U complex, from which a blow was struck at Kherson - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
11:51 This morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Russian border crossing near the Belaya Berezka village in the Trubchevsky district of the Bryansk region. This is reported by local publics.
11:50 In Kyiv, the production buildings of the enterprise of the rocket and space industry "Artem" were destroyed by high-precision long-range air-based weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
10:49 In Kherson, a Terodefender was detained and his weapons were confiscated.
10:48 The Russian army pushes the Ukrainian one away from Kherson.
10:47 APU is trying to attack near Kharkov.
09:33 Ukrainian militants opened fire on a border checkpoint in the Kursk region. They fired mortars at a checkpoint in the village of Krupets. There are no casualties or destruction.
08:44 The Ukrainian authorities have stopped paying pensions and salaries to state employees in the Kherson region.
If they win this one, they’ll go after all the other companies that pulled out, one after another. Interesting times, indeed.
A Russian law firm says it has filed a lawsuit against #US tech giant #Apple seeking 90 million rubles ($1.28 million) in damages for consumers affected by Apple withdrawing its payment service from #Russia.https://t.co/WwPIy5yN1y
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Dishwasher died in a power surge.
I pulled the control panel to replace.
'Out of stock', 'backordered', 'no delivery date'.
Wiring a tiny house.
Underground service meter housing, 'Out of stock', 'backordered', 'no delivery date'. Lowes, Home Depot, electric supply houses, 'above ground only'. Amazon, 'shipping 6-8 weeks'.
[Breitbart] Disposable income fell in March after adjusting for inflation, the Commerce Department said Friday.
Real disposable personal income, which is income after taxes and inflation, fell 0.4 percent in March compared with February. This was the seventh time in the last eight months that disposable personal income in the U.S. fell from the previous month. It rose in February by 0.15 percent.
In nominal terms, disposable personal income rose 0.5 percent but consumer prices rose 0.9 percent, swamping the income gain.
Consumer spending rose 1.1 percent before adjusting for inflation. After inflation, however, expenditures were up just 0.2 percent.
On a year-over-year basis, income plunged 19.9 percent from the stimulus check inflated figure for March 2022. A year ago, income jumped 22.2 percent thanks to the Biden administration’s fiscal expansion. That excess income helped set off the explosion of inflation that currently grips the U.S. economy.
[PoliticalInsider] Instead of relying on China to source and manufacture the materials needed for a range of products including electric vehicles, drones and wind turbines, U.S. companies like Las Vegas-based MP Materials and AllianceTexas are creating a U.S.-based alternative.
MP Materials broke ground on its first rare earth metal, alloy and magnet manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday. It the first-of-its kind facility to be built in Texas, and in the U.S.
"Bringing magnetics capabilities home is transformational for MP Materials and America’s supply chains," James Litinsky, chairman and CEO of MP Materials, said. His company "is leading the restoration of the full supply chain and the revitalization of the American manufacturing spirit in our sector."
MP Materials is the largest producer of rare earth materials in the Western Hemisphere. It owns and operates the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, the only active and scaled rare earth production site in North America.
The majority of mining for rare earth materials and 92% of global magnet production occurs in China, the U.S. Department of Energy reports.
Separated rare earth elements are critical components necessary to produce the most powerful and efficient magnets used in electric vehicles, drones, defense systems, wind turbines and other advanced technologies. MP Materials is developing U.S. metal, alloy and magnet manufacturing capacity to build them domestically as an alternative to U.S. dependence on China and other countries, it announced in a statement.
The company’s invested $700 million to fully restore the U.S. rare earth magnetics supply chain in two years, it says, with the new Fort Worth facility playing a major role.
The new facility, being built in Hillwood’s 27,000-acre, mixed-use development, will create an estimated 150 high-skilled jobs and 1,300 indirect jobs once operational in 2023.
Hitting the ground running:
Under a definitive and binding supply agreement announced last December, MP Materials will supply U.S.-sourced and manufactured rare earth materials, alloy, and finished magnets to General Motors for it to use to build a range of electric vehicles. The new Fort Worth facility will be able to produce approximately 1,000 tonnes of neodymium-iron-boron magnets a year. This represents only 1% of the world’s supply but it’s enough to support the production of approximately 500,000 EV traction motors, with room to scale, MP Materials says.
Last July, U.S. Defense Department representatives visited the Mountain Pass production facility to determine how MP Materials could develop domestic-sourced critical minerals for defense and commercial manufacturing. By February, the Defense Department awarded the company $35 million to refine and separate heavy rare earth elements at its California facility.
The refined feedstock from Mountain Pass will be transformed into finished products in Texas in order to deliver an American-based end-to-end supply chain. Starting in California with mining, the refining and production of metal, alloy, and magnet manufacturing. Recycling would be completed in Texas, MP Materials said.
Since February, the Department of Defense has spent more than $100 million on projects to expand domestic rare earth element processing capabilities and develop rare earth supply chain resiliency, it says.
A ship loaded with Ukrainian corn has left a Romanian Black Sea port, allowing #Kyiv to dodge a Russian blockade of its key grain exports.#Romaniahttps://t.co/LUBVR8E1MD
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But I was assured that international sanctions on Russia would cause global famine.
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Going to guess all the bombs dropped in Iraq and Afghanistan could not have wiped out all the farm fields in Kansas.
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When we say "global famine", we don't mean global global famine. It's more like global localized shortages as the supply chains reconfigure, which is kinda sorta like a mini-famine. Also, we are using 'global' in the hair-on-fire sense of the word.
#5
Oh global famine is coming. This is the winter wheat that was harvested and shipped before the war and was sitting around as Odessa was blockaded.
There will be little planting in the east of Ukraine this season and by fall/winter, the wheat shortage in North Africa and the Middle East will be severe.
#Poland’s state gas giant says it is gradually restoring the flow of natural gas to municipalities that lost it after a Russian company halted supplies.https://t.co/eauHL580iI
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The thing about these Twitter bites is they don't tell you squat... like where are they getting the replacement supplies from. Since we're skipping spring and possibly summer this year, I'd like to know that US gas will be kept here.
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The tweet links to an Al Arabiya article, Mercutio — click on the text block at the bottom of the thing to go to the article instead of the original tweet. To whit:
Poland’s state gas giant said Friday it was gradually restoring the flow of natural gas to municipalities that lost it after a Russian company halted supplies when Warsaw slapped it with sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The supply cut was a separate development from Russia’s decision earlier this week to stop gas deliveries to Poland.
PGNiG said the Russian firm, Novatek Green Energy, complied with the demand to make its pipelines available to Polish companies that are now starting to convey their gas to the 10 affected areas.
They include the popular Baltic Sea resort of Leba, which was anxious about a lack of gas ahead of Poland’s long weekend through May 3, which usually brings many tourists there.
PGNiG said the handing over of Novatek’s infrastructure and the necessary documents took place “without problems and in good atmosphere.”
All affected locations should have gas on Friday, it said.
Earlier Friday, government spokesman Piotr Mueller warned that Novatek could face legal action under the country’s crisis management laws if the company didn’t immediately comply.
A subsidiary of a group controlled by OAO Novatek, Russia’s second-largest natural gas producer, Novatek was put earlier this week on Poland’s list of sanctions against 50 Russian and Belarusian businesses.
The sanctions are intended to curb the outflow of money from Poland to Russia’s war coffers. They come on top of European Union measures in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Upon reading, it is not as momentous as the headline suggests, for which I apologize. But Fred wasn’t feeling well last night, so we were rushing to cover his usual sources.
[Breitbart] A U.S. agriculture inspector whose job was to keep disease and pests out of the country pleaded guilty to letting ranchers bypass animal quarantines in exchange for bribes. The inspector received between $40,000 and $95,000 from Mexican cattlemen for allowing them to cross into Texas without incident.
Monday, 68-year-old Roberto Adams went before U.S. Magistrate Judge John Kazen in Laredo, where he pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a public official. Adams was a lead animal health technician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture until he left the service in December 2021, after being discovered. He is expected to go before U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo on August 3 for a sentencing.
The case against Adams began on January 8, 2021, when an anonymous tipster reported him to the USDA Office of Inspector General claiming that an inspector was letting cattle with live ticks into the country. By March of that year, authorities spoke with a cattle broker who told them that a Laredo-based inspector named “Roberto” was accepting bribes in exchange for letting cattle with ticks into the country. Investigators recruited informants and were able to learn that Adams was using a secret cell phone to communicate with Mexican ranchers.
By November, federal authorities obtained a search warrant to go through Adams’ phones and interviewed him. Adams revealed that he accepted bribes in exchange for letting sick cattle or animals with “dry ticks” into the country without quarantines or other measures. A search of the phones revealed that Adams would use a messaging application to coordinate the wiring of funds into his bank account.
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.
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[Townhall] A Texas rancher has offered billionaire Elon Musk free land to build a new headquarters for Twitter, his latest acquisition. 
