[Breitbart] Cold case expert Paul Holes, who played an instrumental role in identifying Joseph James DeAngelo, better known as the “Golden State Killer,” said there could be as many as 2,000 bloodthirsty serial killers living in the United States.
“I’ve seen statistics that some two thousand serial killers are operating in the United States today,” Holes wrote in his new book Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases, the New York Post reported.
Holes, who Los Angeles Magazine notes served as a forensics chief in California’s Contra Costa County, told the Post that the number is “realistic,” though it is an approximation.
Holes explained that serial killers tend to prey on those who are on the fringes of society, including homeless individuals, drug addicts, and prostitutes. The former forensics chief said killers target such people, considering that they often fall out of communication with family, who may be accustomed to them disappearing for long periods.
“Often these predators are preying on people whose lives have spiraled down, so when they go missing, no one is really paying attention,” he told the Post. “Killers are hiding behind the opioid crisis.”
Holes went on to detail that murderers use the crisis as a camouflage, as less violence is required to strangle someone high on opioids as opposed to a sober victim. Pathologists may attribute the cause of death to drug use, not noticing a small bruise around a victim’s neck, or another subtle indicator that foul play was involved due to less violence being used, Holes said.
He referenced Samuel Little, a serial killer who admittedly strangled 93 women over four decades, according to the Post. Little would demand his victims swallow while choking them, which subdued the physical evidence to their bodies and made investigative efforts more difficult for experts, Holes explained.
The former forensics chief went on to chronicle the differences in how serial killers operate today as opposed to four to five decades ago.
Holes explained that while in the 1970s, a predator may have forced entry into someone’s home to commit a murder or targeted a hitchhiker, surveillance systems and other public safety efforts have deterred them from such brazen murders. Instead, they attempt to meet individuals, such as prostitutes, online and get them alone.
Holes used “genetic genealogy” and DNA mapping to help identify DeAngelo as the “Golden State Killer,” leading to his 2018 arrest, according to the Post and L.A. Magazine. DeAngelo pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges in June 2020 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole in August 2020, NPR reported.
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Honestly I'm not sure most congress critters have the competence to be serial killers. Pretty sure they couldn't get away with one, much less more than 4.
[NYPost] Kathy Boudin, who spent decades in prison for her part in the deadly 1981 Brink’s armored truck heist as a member of the radical militant group Weather Underground, died of cancer at the age of 78 in New York on Sunday.
In October, 1981, Boudin and members of the group teamed up with the Black Liberation Army for the robbery to help fund their anti-government campaigns. They targeted a Brink’s armored truck, which they held up in Rockland County, making out with $1.6 million. More at the link
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I do like Mondays. When they start with good news like this.
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Robbing a Brinks armored truck was so old school. Fentanyl and human trafficking across the Mexican border really are the modern methods of political fund raising.
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An example of what liberal colleges hire to teach students and others.
Quoting NY Post "After jail, she was hired by Columbia School of Social Work Associate as an adjunct professor in 2008. She was hired as a full-time professor in 2013, lecturing about issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison."
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You don't cheat the Reaper. Some would say it should have happened sooner.
#2 Robbing a Frank's truck is old school. Setting up phony charities is another method for stealing millions. Stealing elections and getting installed in office is another method.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is tears of his enemies as they are driven before him stuff.
Twitter staff lashed out during 'impromptu' all-hands meeting on Friday
Many vented fury over Musk's deal to buy the company for $44 billion
One staffer accused Musk of being an 'open homophobe and transphobe'
Others expressed fears of mass layoffs once the acquisition deal closes
CEO Parag Agrawal was described as appearing tired and at times annoyed If you strike at the king you must kill him — and he failed. Now he has the distinct displeasure of presiding over mock-worthy revelations and unravellings that he had planned to keep hidden from the light of day, while knowing even that will soon be taken from him.
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You'll note that Agrawal and the board have said nothing negative about Musk, and Elon has been very circumspect in his comments about Twitter.
Turns out there's "disparagement clause" in the buyout deal. Nobody gets to call names. The penalty? $1Billion, against either side.
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That's how business works. Lots of lawsuits have a clause like that too. Whatever gets it closed is fine with me. The lefty tech press is down to a story a day about how Musk already violated the deal or can't pay for the deal, or whatever. It isn't whistling past the graveyard, it's bawling hysterically on hands and knees past the graveyard and I'm enjoying every minute of it.
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Musk participates in many employee interviews looking for tell-tale traits of genius. (His IQ is 155).
Doubt he's going to find much intelligent life in this playground
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[FoxNews] According to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, deadly overdoses among adolescents nearly doubled from 492 in 2019 to 954 in 2020. They jumped another 20% in 2021.
George Youngblood, who has worked with Teen and Family Services in Houston, said the COVID-19 pandemic affected hundreds of children across the country in the same way that it did Lydia.
"The more we isolated our kids without being able to do all the social-emotional learning that they needed to do, I think that the mental health crisis became so acute. They experienced anxiety and depression," Youngblood said.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has found that drugs are becoming deadlier.
"There has been a huge rise in illicitly manufactured prescription pills that contain fentanyl, at least 30% of which have doses that can kill someone," the institute's director, Dr. Nora D. Volkow, said. "We believe this may be one of the factors that’s putting teenagers at a higher risk for overdose mortality."
I seem to recall that fentanyl comes from China...
Last year, the El Paso sector of Customs and Border Protection alone seized more than six times the amount of fentanyl it did in 2018.
Last week, President Biden released the first National Drug Control Strategy focused on untreated addiction and drug trafficking. Federal officials said about two-thirds of drug overdoses over the last year were related to fentanyl.
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"Presently, Mexico is the largest source of illegally manufactured fentanyl entering the United States.". See https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP68838.html
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The thing about fentanyl is that the peddlers put it in everything they sell now. Even high-tolerance, careful users are in for a nasty surprise when they least expect it.
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When the dope boys on Hollowell in Atlanta told me they stopped selling certain things because so many people were dying I wisened up.
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[IsraelTimes] Egypt’s Suez Canal says its monthly revenues hit an all-time record, raking in $629 million in April.
The unprecedented income came as the Suez Canal in March increased transit fees for ships passing through the waterway.
Adm. Ossama Rabei, head of the Suez Canal Authority, says in a statement that 1,929 vessels sailed through the Suez Canal last month, compared to 1,814 in April 2021.
He says the revenues rose by 13.9% compared to April last year, when the crucial waterway received $553.6 million.
About 10% of global trade, including 7% of the world’s oil, flows through the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean and Red seas.
The canal, which opened in 1869, is a major source of foreign currency to Egypt.
The annual revenues of the canal reached $6.3 billion in 2021, the highest in its history. The Canal said 20,649 vessels passed through the waterway last year, a 10% increase compared to 18,830 vessels in 2020.
The shipping industry is still under pressure from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine has already added to global economic concerns.
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[Korrespondent] 22:52 Arestovich said that as a result of attacks on Russian headquarters, almost 200 people were killed within five days - "this is what has been established, but in fact there are more of them." Among them are at least 30 senior officers: "The senior officer who commanded the command post died, the elite Russian special forces were liquidated, who were guarding someone serious, many were killed. Whether Gerasimov was there - it's impossible to say for sure yet."
22:49 Arestovich said that the Russian army really has a lot of volunteers, "but they are only manpower, this is also not for long." According to him, of all those "who came in the last two weeks," no more than 30% survived.
22:47 The British edition of The Times reports, citing Ukrainian intelligence, that Russia has developed "clear plans" for an invasion of Moldova.
22:43 The Russians captured the driver of the evacuation bus in Popasna and recorded a propaganda interview with him, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai: "The invaders forced him to say that the Ukrainian authorities are not engaged in evacuating people, that we left our own to their fate. Lies, which the Russians only live on. They kill, lie and destroy. I understand that Mikhail had no other option."
22:41 Scholz said that he is trying to change the position of several states that still remain "neutral" in relation to Russia after its attack on Ukraine. In particular, the chancellor plans to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a special guest to the group's summit to be held in the Bavarian Alps from 26 to 28 June.
22:39 Russian invaders are shelling settlements 50 kilometers from Krivoy Rog from the occupied territory of the Kherson region, said Alexander Vilkul, chairman of the Krivoy Rog VA.
22:37 Lavrov said that Moscow "does not aim to change the Kiev regime - only the United States is doing this."
He also commented on the possibility of completing the "operation" of the Russian Federation by May 9: "Our military will not adjust their actions to any date, including Victory Day."
22:35 Biden insists on the inevitability of punishing Russia for military aggression against Ukraine: "Just as Putin decided to launch this brutal invasion, he could decide to end it. Russia is the aggressor, and the world must and will hold Russia accountable."
22:33 Finland plans to strengthen the defenses on the border with Russia, said the commander of the border service of North Karelia, Marko Turunen. He said that now only thin barbed wire fences separate Finland from the aggressor country, which can only hold animals.
22:17 At the end of the evacuation from Azovstal, the Russians again opened fire on the city, said the commander of the 12th operational brigade of the National Guard Denis Shlega.
22:03 Zelensky: "Today, Russian troops continued to strike at the territory of our state. The fact that they choose their targets proves once again that the war against Ukraine for the Russian army is a war of extermination. They hit the warehouses of agricultural enterprises. They destroyed the warehouse with grain. They also shelled a warehouse with fertilizers. They continued to hit residential areas in the Kharkiv region, the Donbass, etc. They are pulling up forces to the south of the country to try to attack our cities and communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region."
21:16 Japan's largest oil refinery Eneos Holdings Inc announced that it has no plans to buy Russian oil. The Japanese say they will not resume buying oil from Russia until "all the problems associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine are resolved." The company organized alternative supplies from the Middle East.
21:14 The Azov Regiment provided unique footage of the rescue operation in Mariupol:
21:10 Zelensky is convinced that the war in Ukraine will not give Russia anything, but will only increase the number of states that will work to isolate the Russian Federation: "What can be Russia's strategic success in this war? Honestly, I don't know. Destroyed lives of people, burned or the stolen property of Russia will not give anything, it will only increase the toxicity of the Russian state and the number of those who will work to isolate Russia."
20:43 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, published a video of the evacuation from Azovstal:
20:38 Zelensky spoke about the evacuation from Azovstal: "Today we finally managed to start the evacuation of people from Azovstal. After many weeks of negotiations, after many attempts, various meetings, calls and proposals. There was not a day that we did not try to find such a solution that will ensure the salvation of our people.Today, for the first time in all the days of the war, this vital corridor began to work.For the first time there was two days of a real ceasefire.
It was possible to take out more than a hundred civilians - women, children, who were fleeing the hostilities exactly there, precisely at Azovstal. Given all the complexity of the process, the first evacuees will arrive in Zaporozhye tomorrow morning. Our team will meet them there. I hope that tomorrow all the necessary conditions will also be met in order to continue the removal of people from Mariupol. We plan to start at eight in the morning."
20:27 Residents of Transnistria began to flee from there even to Odessa, said the speaker of the Odessa OVA Sergey Bratchuk: "They admit that we are safer, because there is a guarantor - the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They understand that what is happening there is preparation for a certain springboard for, possibly, armed provocations against Ukraine."
Bratchuk says that, in particular, "plans" for landings are being voiced: "If Russia really wants to land troops in Transnistria, they will fly over the territory of Ukraine, our Armed Forces will shoot down military aircraft."
20:25 Representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko trolled colleagues from the Russian Foreign Ministry after the comment of the press secretary of the Russian department Maria Zakharova about Angelina Jolie's visit to Ukraine: "I like it, I don't like it - but Moscow will have to come to terms with the new reality: Ukraine can call" the hyped representative of everything of the world" (as Zakharova called Jolie), but Russia is not. Even marginal stars of foreign show business are now denying the Russian regime."
20:14 Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vadim Denisenko does not exclude that on May 9 a statement will be made about the accession of the "LDNR" to Russia: "I think that somewhere in this direction they will move." According to him, it is customary in Russia to demonstrate new "achievements" by "big dates", and since it will not be possible to boast of military victories, Putin can take such a step.
19:25 Congressman Adam Kinzinger announced the submission of a draft joint resolution that would allow the use of US military forces to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine if Putin intensifies the war against Ukraine, Arakhamia said.
19:16 In the occupied territories, the Russians are destroying medical infrastructure, taking out equipment and leaving the population without medical care, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
19:11 The Mariupol City Council reported that with the support of the UN and the Red Cross, the evacuation of civilians from the territory of Azovstal began, and for security reasons, the evacuation of the civilian population of Mariupol, located in other parts of the city, was postponed to Monday, May 2. Meeting at 08:00 near the Port City shopping center.
19:00 Sanctions against Russia should be strengthened, and Finland is ready for more decisive action in this direction, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said: "Finland is ready to impose increasingly tough sanctions against Russia in order to end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine will also be provided support in the war and help in its restoration".
She also recalled that the purchase of Russian energy carriers is the financing of the war. In addition, the prime minister said that a decision on Finland's accession to NATO is expected before May 12.
18:54 Kuleba spoke with Borrell, discussed the next package of sanctions against Russia, which should include an oil embargo. "I also stressed that there can be no alternative to granting Ukraine the status of a candidate member of the EU. We paid special attention to further safe evacuation from the besieged Mariupol," the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry wrote.
18:51 The number of criminal cases on the facts of war crimes of Russians in Ukraine has exceeded 9,000, Venediktova said. They concern, in particular, the death of civilians, the bombing or the deportation of people. Every day there are more such cases.
18:44 Poland became the first country among the potential guarantor states that publicly announced that it would not participate in such a peace agreement, which would provide for the surrender of part of the territory of Ukraine.
18:38 The first photos of the evacuees from Azovstal appeared:
18:32 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "thanks to Putin's initiative" 80 civilians were taken out of the territory of Azovstal, all of them were evacuated to Bezymennoye. And the civilians "evacuated by the Russian military" who wished to leave for the territory controlled by Ukraine were "handed over to representatives of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross."
18:27 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, about 1 million people have returned from Poland to Ukraine, and about 3 million have left in the opposite direction, according to Polish border guards. At the same time, more people have been returning to Ukraine in recent days than leaving it. So, on April 30, 26,800 Ukrainians returned across the Polish border, 23,500 left.
18:24 The President of Brazil is ready, together with the leaders of a number of countries, including Erdogan, to visit Moscow to resolve the situation in Ukraine, the Turkish Foreign Minister said.
18:08 Arsen Avakov said that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov was wounded near Izyum - he received a shrapnel wound to the right shin without a bone fracture.
At the same time, the Conflict Intelligence Team investigators reported that in Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine, aircraft of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian Guard were noticed, and soon two Mi-8 transport helicopters accompanied by Ka-52 attack helicopters arrived. One of the helicopters brought Gerasimov, who soon flew to Moscow. According to investigators, "Gerasimov was alive and well."
"This may be an indirect confirmation of the rumors that Gerasimov was present in the occupied Izyum," CIT said.
17:59 Kursk governor Roman Starovoit called the collapse of a railway bridge in the region a diversion, a criminal case was initiated.
17:57 Ukrzaliznytsia reports that its online services are down again due to enemy hacker attacks.
17:48 The potential of Russian hackers in cyber attacks on Ukraine has probably reached its maximum. According to the State Service for Special Communications, they have already demonstrated all available tools and technologies. Thanks to the sanctions, Russian hackers "will not be able to develop as they did before," the service said.
17:39 Zelensky confirmed that the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal has begun: the first group of about 100 people is already heading to the controlled territory , tomorrow they will be in Zaporozhye.
"Thank you to our team! They are currently working with UN representatives to evacuate the remaining civilians from the plant," the president wrote.
16:36 In the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, a fire broke out near one of the facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:08 Operational command Pivden clarified information about the explosion in the Nikolaev region with a huge column of smoke: the enemy got into an agricultural warehouse with fertilizers during the shelling. About 600 kg of fertilizer exploded, a fire broke out. Rescue services worked quickly, there is no chemical threat to the environment and people.
16:05 Russian publics write that in Belgorod, after a series of "claps", the bridge over the Seversky Donets was blocked. It is reported that the reason for the smoke seen by local residents is the explosion of an ammunition depot in Tomarovka, Belgorod Region. Also, local residents write that they saw helicopters in the sky before the “pops”.
16:01 Anton Gerashchenko writes that yesterday, as a result of an explosion in Izyum near the headquarters of the 2nd Army of the Russian Federation, a "large number" of Russian military officers were killed. We are talking about the headquarters where the headquarters of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Gerasimov, who personally came to lead the attack on Slavyansk, is located.
15:58 A conference of donors to help Ukraine will be held on May 5 in Warsaw. According to the Office of the Polish Prime Minister, the initiators were the Prime Ministers of Poland and Sweden Mateusz Morawiecki and Magdalena Andersson, and the President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will become partners of the event.
15:55 Russian media reported that a group of buses with about 40 refugees left the territory of Azovstal and the quarters adjacent to the plant in the direction of Novoazovsk. There are allegedly 18 men, 14 women, eight children on the buses.
15:54 In the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, a railway bridge partially collapsed, there were no casualties, the causes of the emergency are being investigated, the governor said.
15:49 In the Black Sea, the activation of the forces of the enemy fleet was recorded, in the Odessa region, the invaders continue to conduct reconnaissance using drones, OK Pivden reported.
15:45 On May 1, the NATO military exercises Defender of Europe and Rapid Response started . In total, 18,000 soldiers from more than 20 countries, including about 7,000 soldiers and 3,000 pieces of equipment in Poland, will take part in the exercises, which will take place on the territory of Poland and eight other countries, the Ministry of National Defense of Poland said.
15:34 The Russian Embassy in Germany is spreading lies about the war in Ukraine, and this may have consequences for the so-called "diplomats", German Interior Minister Nancy Feser said in an interview with Handelsblatt: "Some platforms on the Internet create ideal conditions for disinformation campaigns and war propaganda. The Russian embassy also uses this."
She also recalled that the government had already expelled 40 "diplomats" suspected of espionage from the country, and warned that lying on social networks could have additional consequences for the Russian embassy - Germany has "other options."
15:32 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, after a visit to Kiev, answered the question of whether Putin would provoke an increase in the supply of American weapons to Ukraine for something "significantly worse": "Let me express only my personal opinion. Do not allow hooligans to intimidate you "If they threaten, you can't back down. We're here to fight, and you can't give in to a bully."
15:30 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in honor of Labor Day, reminded Ukrainian migrants in the EU about the opportunity to get a job: "On this Labor Day, I express my respect to the people who are fleeing the war in Ukraine and are rebuilding their lives in the EU. In Europe, they can access labor markets and be recognized for their skills. Thank you to all EU countries and Europeans who help them integrate."
15:28 The consequences of two months of hostilities for the environment are comparable to the annual emissions of a metallurgical enterprise, the Ministry of Ecology reported.
15:03 Ambassador Andriy Melnyk proposes that Germany adopt a law on lend-lease for Ukraine, following the example of the United States. He stated this in an interview with Bild am Sonntag.
14:40 The Pope called the war in Ukraine "a terrible regression of humanity." In his Sunday sermon, he said he was "suffering and weeping" because of the war. Francis called the bombardment and destruction of Mariupol barbaric and called for a humanitarian corridor for the people at Azovstal.
13:57 In the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, a rocket hit the warehouses of agricultural enterprises - one was empty, the other with grain. Now both are destroyed, people were not injured, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
13:19 The city council of Mariupol reports that the evacuation of the civilian population in Zaporozhye is possible today. Gathering of people at 16:00 near the Port City shopping center.
12:32 How the course of the war in Ukraine has changed since February 24:
12:30 Russia deployed an air defense system at the Belarusian airfield in Zyabrovka, Gomel region. According to the Belaruska Gayun monitoring group, despite the withdrawal of most of the Russian forces and equipment from the territory of Belarus, at least eight units of the S-400 air defense system, the Pantsir air defense missile system, several types of radar systems and other military equipment are based at the airfield. It is visible on satellite images of the object.
12:28 Ukrainian Ambassador to Berlin Andriy Melnik in an interview with Bild am Sonntag: "The fear of becoming a participant in the war by supplying weapons is complete nonsense. For Putin, Germany has long been a party to the war. Anyone who wants to prevent the escalation of their war should help us now put Putin in his place. A Russian victory in Ukraine would be the worst thing that could happen to Germany."
12:26 Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region can reduce the pressure of Russian troops on residential areas of the regional center, analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War say. According to them, over the past three days, Ukrainian troops have removed the danger of cordoning off the suburbs east of Kharkov.
Counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can also force the Russian invaders to transfer their units to the Izyum direction.
12:24 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Onyx missiles in the Odessa region at a military airfield destroyed a hangar "with weapons delivered to Ukraine from the West." Also, Russian aviation allegedly destroyed two Ukrainian S-300 complexes in the area of Artemovsk and Zaporozhye, and two Tochka-U missiles were shot down over Tokmok.
12:23 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that on April 30, two groups of civilians, a total of 46 people, left residential buildings nearby Azovstal, "they were provided with accommodation and food."
12:22 The SBU neutralized the enemy DRG, which was preparing a terrorist attack - it was going to shoot down a passenger plane over the territory of Russia or Belarus, in order to later blame Ukraine for this.
12:16 Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin proposes to confiscate business assets from unfriendly countries located on its territory in response to a possible confiscation of Russian assets in the West with their subsequent transfer to Ukraine.
12:14 A Wall of Remembrance in honor of the Ukrainians who died in the war appeared on Galician Square in Lviv. It was created by American Leo Soto from Miami.
12:09 Finland is preparing to cut off gas supplies from Russia, local newspaper Helsingin Sanomat writes. The government of the country does not agree with the condition of paying for gas in rubles. State-owned Gasum must notify Russia of its decision by May 20.
12:00 During the day, the Russian occupiers delivered three blows to Kharkov: Saltovka, Pyatikhatki and the airport area suffered, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also, according to him, in the morning the invaders again fired at the Dergachev community, there is one victim.
Due to heavy shelling, the Kharkiv OVA is urging residents of the northern and eastern districts of Kharkiv not to come out of hiding during the day, even if there is no air raid alert.
11:48 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, Russian invaders kidnapped deputy Igor Protokovilo, the city council said.
11:39 Russia is using a troll factory to spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine on social networks around the world, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: “We cannot allow the Kremlin and its shadow troll farms to invade our online spaces with their lies about an illegal war Putin".
The British government has warned international partners of the danger and will continue to work closely with allies and media platforms to undermine Russian intelligence operations, she added.
11:27 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 1:
personnel - about 23,500 (+300) people liquidated,
tanks - 1026 (+18),
armored fighting vehicles - 2471 (+26),
artillery systems - 451 (+15),
MLRS - 151 (+0),
air defense systems - 80 (+3),
aircraft - 192 (+2),
helicopters - 155 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 1796 (+20),
ships/boats - 8 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 245 (+13),
special equipment - 32 (+0),
cruise missiles - 84.
11:12 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, said that Russian troops were hit with saltpeter, the air in the region is clean.
11:03 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports that a large circulation of a newspaper dated May 2, 2022 has been published in Pridnestrovie. The central material of the newspaper is "Official appeal of the inhabitants of the "PMR" to the President of Russia Putin."
The text contains a request "to involve the armed forces of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the actions of the Russian army." To do this, "mobilization points" are being opened on the territory of Russia itself to recruit volunteers to fight in the army of Transnistria.
Intelligence notes that the Kremlin is thus trying to legalize thousands of its military, who will arrange provocations from the territory of the "MRT".
10:41 The Ministry of Infrastructure has decided to close the occupied ports of Berdyansk, Mariupol, Skadovsk and Kherson until the territories are liberated.
10:39 Zelensky awarded the Order of Princess Olga of the III degree to the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi. The presidential decree says that Pelosi was awarded the order for "a significant personal contribution to strengthening Ukrainian-American interstate cooperation, support for a sovereign, independent and democratic Ukraine."
10:38 Japan and Vietnam call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and also oppose strikes on civilians. This was stated by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida following the talks held in Hanoi with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Min Chin.
10:37 Arestovich on the prospects for the Russian army: "Before our eyes, the professionalism of the armed forces is growing. It is being added by leaps and bounds. This means one thing - the forecast for the Russian army is unfavorable in Ukraine. The defeat could come exactly by May 9."
10:32 Ukraine has established daily grain exports to Germany. From March to April, ÖBB's Rail Cargo Group (RCG) already transported 60 thousand tons of grain by rail, which ran every other day. Now this route will become daily for at least three months, according to RailFreight.
The RCG grain train runs from Ukraine via Cerna (Slovakia) to Brak in northern Germany. Of the 30 trains, five will remain in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, while 25 trains will go to Germany.
10:31 Italian humanitarian organization Cesvi allocates the first 500 thousand euros for the restoration of the Ukrainian Bucha and plans to raise more thanks to charitable contributions.
10:07 The sounds of explosions in Odessa are the result of the work of air defense, said the speaker of the Odessa OVA Sergey Bratchuk. An enemy reconnaissance drone was working over Odessa, it was destroyed by a hit by Ukrainian air defense.
10:00 The occupiers cut off communications and the Internet in the Kherson and part of the Zaporozhye regions, according to the State Service for Communications. The reasons for the lack of communication were breaks in the fiber-optic trunk lines and disconnection from the power supply of the equipment of operators in these regions.
In parallel with the disconnection of Ukrainian operators, fake messages began to spread on enemy information resources that the Ukrainian authorities had given the order to disconnect communications. The department emphasizes that this is not true.
Russian media write with reference to the "Crimean authorities" that "Ukraine has disconnected the Kherson region from mobile communications and the Internet, thereby defiantly abandoning these territories."
09:53 On May 1, evacuation is planned from Severodonetsk, Lysichansk and Rubizhne, as well as from the Mountain community in the Luhansk region. The head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai, urges people to evacuate while it is possible.
09:51 Russia must withdraw all its troops from the territory of Ukraine, only after that it will be possible to talk about establishing peace in Europe and lifting sanctions, said German Defense Minister Annalen Berbock.
"A ceasefire can only be the first step. Peace on terms dictated by Russia will not bring the desired security to either Ukraine or Europe," Burbock said. She also predicted that there would be no return to the days before February 24: "We will never again be able to rely only on Putin's promises."
09:48 Russia is trying to attract third countries in order to minimize the devastating consequences of sanctions, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate reports. According to military intelligence, Russia wants to organize the production of components for its military products in the CSTO countries, and is also negotiating with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to re-export Russian products to international markets.
09:46 Ukraine plans to complete work on the second part of the questionnaire to obtain the status of a candidate for admission by the end of next week, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna said.
09:43 Russian saboteurs can penetrate into Britain. MI5 officers informed Home Secretary Priti Patel of the high-level threat, the Express reported. It was instructed to strengthen the monitoring of tourists.
09:37 Zaluzhny phoned U.S. Chief of Staff Mark Milley and discussed the transition of the Ukrainian army to NATO-style weapons, the logistics of delivering weapons to Ukraine and control over supplies, and the difficult situation in the Izyum-Slavic direction.
09:29 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrived in Kiev, they have already met with Zelensky.
08:45 British intelligence notes in its daily report that Russia is trying to "legitimize" its administrative power in Kherson and the surrounding area. The new "authorities" declare the impossibility of returning the region to Ukraine and introduce ruble circulation from May 1. This speaks to the Kremlin's plans to establish its political and economic influence in Kherson on a long-term basis.
Strong control over the Kherson region will increase Russia's ability to move north and west. It will also increase the security of Russia's positions in Crimea.
08:43 After a hunger strike in Bucha, Lyubov Panchenko, a sixties artist, died at the age of 85, Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said: “She is one of the sixties patriots who, despite pressure from the Kremlin, developed Ukrainian culture during the Soviet censorship. She could not break in the KGB, but the artist suffered greatly during the new Russian invasion."
08:40 The leader of the German opposition, the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz is going to Kiev. According to Bild sources, he is going to visit the capital of Ukraine on Monday, May 2.
08:28 There are stubborn street battles in Orekhovo near Lisichansk, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the enemy tried to storm Zolote-4, but the enemy groups, which entered under the cover of tanks, were driven back.
08:20 Blinken phoned Kuleba, discussed plans for the return of American diplomats to Ukraine, "including the first visits to Lviv this week and plans to return to Kiev as soon as possible," as well as providing $ 33 billion for security, economic and humanitarian aid "to give Ukraine the opportunity to win the Kremlin's shameless war."
07:57 To increase the pace of the offensive operation, the command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation continues to take measures to strengthen the strike potential of its troops, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . Armaments and military equipment removed from storage in the Western, Central, Eastern military districts and the Northern Fleet are transferred by rail to the regions bordering Ukraine.
A difficult situation is noted in the Slobozhansky direction: the enemy grouping continues to inflict air strikes and fire artillery on Kharkov. The occupiers are carrying out offensive operations in the directions of Izyum - Barvenkovo and Izyum - Slavyansk. The strengthening of the enemy strike force continues. Up to 300 units of weapons and military equipment were moved to certain areas, and about a thousand mobilized people from ORDLO arrived.
For the purpose of air defense of the advancing troops in four areas, the enemy deployed two anti-aircraft missile divisions armed with the Buk-M2 air defense system and the Tor-M air defense system.
02:55 Johnson after phone conversations with Zelensky: "I spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky to determine how the UK will continue to provide military and humanitarian assistance to provide Ukrainians with the equipment they need to protect. I am more than ever committed to strengthening Ukraine and ensure Putin's failure."
02:33 In the Kherson region, artillery fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the enemy electronic warfare station Reppelent-1. According to OK Pivden, another attack on enemy targets on Zmeiny destroyed three anti-aircraft installations, an anti-aircraft missile system Strela-10, as well as a communication machine - a server room with telecommunications equipment. In addition, 42 Russian invaders were destroyed.
02:12 The invaders kidnapped the head of the village of Zmievka, Kherson region, Nikolai Kurivchak. Before that, the invaders carried out searches throughout the village, said the deputy of the regional council, Igor Iosipenko.
01:56 The speaker of the Odessa military administration, Sergei Bratchuk, said that the Odessa air defense "works very well": "The score on enemy aircraft is 7:0 in favor of Odessa."
00:37 Zelensky addressed the Russian soldiers: “We know that the Russian command is preparing for new big losses. New people are recruited into those units whose personnel was almost completely destroyed or significantly weakened in March-April. With weak motivation. weak combat experience. They just want to get the right amount. So that they can throw these units on the offensive ... But why do Russian soldiers themselves? Why do their relatives? Russian commanders lie to their soldiers when they say that some kind of serious responsibility for refusing to fight. And at the same time they do not tell, for example, about the preparation by the Russian army of additional refrigerators for storing corpses. They do not tell what new "planned" losses the generals are expecting."
from Militaryland and Understandingwar; source link to former
Continued Ukraine efforts to erode Russia positions in north near Kharkiv but little actual change in territory.
Russia apparently discontinued its offensive NE of Slovyansk and started a new offensive NW of Slovyansk. Perhaps this was because Ukraine moved troops in to defend against the former. The new offensive area is actually riskier for Russia as the logistic chain is longer and more exposed but there may be strategy behind it that is not readily discernible.
Russia also advanced by some 5 km south of Slovyansk near Velyka Novosilka but met Ukraine resistance and stopped.
Russia is moving to require the use of Russian currency in areas they hold in the south so this may be added to their Donbass war aims.
Ukraine forces still hold on to part of Mariupol, although Russia declared victory back on April 21.
Both sides are bombarding the other. Ukraine apparently hit another Russian command post near Izyum yesterday.
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Governor of Donetsk Oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko reminded that any reports about victims in the region don't include the casualties in Mariupol and Volnovakha, where Ukrainian authorities don't have access.
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Fourteen Ukrainians including a pregnant soldier have been freed in the latest prisoner exchange with #Russia’s forces, #Ukraine says.https://t.co/d6j8CIVUbC
Fourteen Ukrainians including a pregnant soldier have been freed in the latest prisoner exchange with Russian forces, Ukraine said on Saturday, without revealing the number of Russians returned to Moscow.
"Today, we carried out a new exchange of prisoners. Fourteen of ours are coming home, seven military and seven civilians. One of the military women is five months pregnant," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Telegram.
In an interview with the BBC on Friday, Vereshchuk accused Russian forces of deporting large numbers of civilians into Russia and using them as "hostages."
"That’s why they captured all these hostages - civilians, women, employees of local councils, to try and use them," she was quoted as saying.
"We know there are more than a thousand hostages there - including almost 500 women," she said, adding that they were being held in prisons and pre-trial detention centers.
She emphasized the difficulty of securing the liberation of women in the exchanges.
"Now we refuse to hold an exchange with no women in the list. That is how we try to somehow rescue our women and civilians," she said.
Several exchanges between Moscow and Kyiv have taken place since Russia invaded on February 24.
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Pregnant soldier? Male? Female? I'm not a biologist...
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More than 50 civilians have been evacuated from #Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works in a convoy with vehicles bearing UN symbols, signaling a deal had been struck to ease the ordeal of the most destructive siege in the #Russia-#Ukraine conflict.https://t.co/ENdk10m3Ml
#Ukraine's army says that #Russia's offensive along a broad front in the country’s east has been stalling amid human and material losses inflicted by Kyiv’s forces.https://t.co/u2Zn0ksTdA
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"The Arab world’s leading source of global news and opinion". Sounds like opinion. News today is mostly psyops. Strategically Influence and Deceive.
One person was injured in a fire on a Russian defense ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, Belgorod region governor said on Sunday.
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a local resident suffered minor injuries and his life was not in danger. There were no immediate comments from the defense ministry.
Images posted to social media showed a large funnel of smoke rising above the ground. Rooters could not verify the reports.
Separately, governor of the Kursk region which also shares a border with Ukraine said that a railway bridge had been damaged on a line used by freight trains.
Speaking in a video posted on his Telegram channel, governor Roman Starovoit called the incident an act of sabotage.
Russia last month accused Ukraine of a helizap on a fuel depot in Belgorod, for which Kyiv denied responsibility, as well as shelling villages and firing missiles at an ammunition depot.
Other Russian regions that share a border with Ukraine have also reported cross-border shelling incidents since Moscow sent thousands of troops into Ukraine on February 24 in what it called a "special military operation."
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Doesn't take mucho start a fire. Two issues, though; getting away with it, and does it really make a difference?
Sabotage the finance office will annoy a lot of people but it's not going to slow down the artillery any time soon. But the artillery ammo dump....
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still ties up resources
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Agreed. Better than nothing. But if you have a choice....
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If accurate, here's a fire near Moscow. To really get a handle on this you'd have to have a baseline number of "how much stuff blows up in Russia during an average year".
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Well, did a Russian defense ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region catch fire or not?
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"Your beloved Obama" *snort*
Idiot hasn't been here but a minute and he's already shown he's a fool
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Frank, they think they're being "clever" because we're supposed to suddnely support Putin because the corrupt assholes Biden and Obama are pretending to oppose him all the way to their bank accounts. The mere fact that they pay lip service while they've given Putin 300 billion or so over the past year with their energy policies is supposed to be enough, I guess.
(I thought Obama was the one who wanted it transmitted to Vladimir that he'd be more flexible for him after the election. I don't wanna know what that means, but it sounds too kinky for me.)
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:27 A total of 80 civilians were rescued from the territory of Azovstal in Mariupol thanks to the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation. 21:37 Kyiv continues the war with everything Russian. The sign "Glory to Russian weapons" was removed from the monument of 1904 in Odessa.
It was removed from a captured cannon from a British warship during the Crimean War of 1854-1855.
The day before, local neo-Nazis and part-time "terrorists" proposed to demolish the monument to Catherine II in Odessa.!
20:05 Ukrainian propaganda in the morning threw in a fake about “the wounding of the head of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces near Izyum”, and in the evening they themselves denied their own fake. Peremoga from the category of "ghost of Kyiv" with an instant transformation into evil. And all by themselves.
18:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine use the mobilized as cannon fodder. About ittoldserviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Volodymyr Mamchuk.
“The mobilized were sent to the front lines, placed like a shield so that the high command could withdraw to the rear,” he said.
17:03 May 1 is celebrated in Melitopol.
17:00 The Russian Aerospace Forces disabled the logistics terminal at the military airport, where a large number of NATO weapons were stored.
15:17 In Kherson, they found a warehouse full of weapons and documents from the local police. In addition, among the documents there were materials of cases against residents for Soviet symbols and St. George ribbons.
15:01 In Melitopol raised the Banner of Victory on the main flagpole of the city.
15:00 Report about "claps" and "fire" in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.
11:53 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the previously received information that two Su-24s of the Ukrainian Air Force were shot down in the Kharkiv direction. The vehicles were destroyed by air defenses.
11:51 Today, a May Day demonstration took place in Melitopol. In recent years, Melitopol residents have been deprived of the opportunity to publicly demonstrate the unity and friendship of peoples, but this year the communists came out without fear.
11:50 Russian Defense Ministry confirmed yesterday's attacks on the airfield in Odessa, pointing to the destruction of a warehouse with NATO supplies, as well as damage to the runway. The blow was delivered by Onyx missiles.
11:44 Russian aviation destroyed two Ukrainian S-300 complexes in the area of Artyomovsk and Zaporozhye - Russian Defense Ministry.
11:42 The Russian Ministry of Defense published frames of destruction of Ukrainian military facilities and equipment by helicopters.
11:36 From May 1, Novaya Kakhovka switches to the ruble. The return of Ukraine to these territories is not planned.
11:05 Hundreds of weapons and ammunition have been seized in Berdyansk. According to the city police department, hundreds of weapons were identified and seized from circulation in Berdyansk in April.
🔹PM pistols seized 207
🔹Nagant pistols — 8
🔹traumatic weapons 35
🔹gas pistols — 2
🔹50 AK submachine guns
🔹161 rifled hunting and sporting weapons
🔹76 hunting weapons
🔹in addition to weapons, more than 3,000 rounds of 9 caliber were seized mm, over 10,000 rounds for the AK assault rifle, almost 400 rounds for the SVD rifle
08:19 Subdivisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine subjected to fire the liberated settlements of Kiselevka and Shirokaya Balka of the Kherson region. The fire was directed at purely civilian targets. A school and a kindergarten were subjected to artillery shelling. Also, artillery fire was purposefully fired at the cemetery, where people were at that moment. As a result of the shelling, there are injured and dead among civilians.
08:03 Russia has paid more than 70 million rubles to Ukrainian pensioners and state employees. More than 7,000 people received payments of 10,000 rubles each, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:15 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 8 civilians as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the previously liberated territories of the Republic: Volnovakha district: - a man born in 1978. n.p. Mariupol: - men: 1966, 1947, 1974, 1966; - women: born in 1959, 1965, 1973.
Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1309 people, incl. 67 children.
21:52 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of eight civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
Volnovakha district:
— male, born in 1978.
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: 1966, 1947, 1974, 1966;
- women: born in 1959, 1965, 1973.
21:25 DPR Prosecutor General Alexei Spivak: “The investigation into two British mercenaries, Sean Pinner and Aiden Eslin, has been completed. The case has been taken to court. The maximum penalty for their crimes is the death penalty.”
20:36 A monument to the famous grandmother, who went out with the Soviet flag to the Ukrainian militants and refused to exchange the red flag for food, will be erected in the center of Mariupol, the mayor of the city.
19:50 “We tried how many times to leave, but they returned us back and did not let us in. They swore at us that you are a pro-Russian city.”
More than 80 civilians left the territory of Azovstal in Mariupol today. Some told their stories.
19:41 Additional information was received via the operational line of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Gorlovka:
settlement sh-you im. Gagarin:
- st. Chernikova, 1 - residential building;
- st. Yaroshenko, 6, 47, 49 - residential buildings.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
19:29 Today, as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the city of Yasinovataya, 16 houses of the private sector were destroyed. The shelling continues. The city's power supply has been restored.
19:10 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man born in 1983. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yelenovka at st. Shevchenko, 19.
Also, as a result of this shelling, residential buildings at the addresses of the street were damaged. Queen, 19, 20.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
18:13 Shells of Ukrainian punishers damaged the houses of the private sector in the village of Olenivka. As a result of the shelling, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Shevchenko, 11: damaged window glazing;
- st. Koroleva, 20: glass windows and roof damaged. There were no casualties.
17:01 On the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1939. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk at the address st. Savrasov, 15.
The victim was hospitalized in the central city clinical hospital No. 24. As a result of the shelling of the VFU, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
Kirovsky district of Donetsk:
- st. Sintsova, 32 - a shell hit a car;
- st. Sintsova, 39a - hit in a residential building;
- st. Savrasova, 19 - the gas pipeline is damaged;
- st. Savrasova, 15 - a direct hit in the apartment.
- st. Shaposhnikova, 17, 19 - residential buildings;
- st. Korchagina, 28/33, 28/47 - residential buildings;
- st. Sokolovsky, 17, 19, 19a - residential buildings;
- st. Medical, 15 - the building of the polyclinic was damaged;
- st. Medical, 9, 24a - the buildings of two boiler houses were damaged.
The buildings of kindergarten No. 32 and the House of Children's Art were also damaged.
n.p. Elenovka:
- st. Shevchenko, 11 - residential building.
17:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
16:45 Sources report that the SBU and the GUR are massively recruiting residents of Russia and even the PMR to organize various special operations. For example, mass arson of cars, night pogroms, arson of crops and other “special actions”, as they call it in the GUR and SBU. Yesterday, for example, a man was detained in Moldova, who, on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, printed and distributed on behalf of the military registration and enlistment office summons for the mobilization of those liable for military service.
16:10 Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR Alexei Kostrubitsky awarded the wounded sapper of the pyrotechnic detachment of the RRC of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR Igor Cholanyuk with the medal "For Courage".
15:21 According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the settlement. Stakhanov, a man born in 1982 died, and four residential buildings were also damaged. Thus, two people became victims of yesterday's shelling - the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC.
15:20 As a result of the aggression of Ukrainian militants, damage to civilian infrastructure in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka was recorded. In particular, damage to varying degrees was received by residential buildings along the streets: Shaposhnikova, 17, 19, Korchagin, 28/33, 28/47, Sokolovsky, 17 19, 19a, the building of the clinic at Medicinskaya Street, 15, school buildings No. 49, No. 50 , boiler houses on the street. Medical, 24a, Medical, 9 - Prikhodko.
Also, damage to the building of kindergarten No. 82 and the House of Children's Art.
15:19 An OSCE car was found, in which the militants were moving around Mariupol. The car was found in a shopping center, from which the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned into a military facility.
15:11 The Kirovsky district was again shelled by the VFU. A man was injured as a result of a direct hit in the apartment. The data is being specified. The following damage was also recorded:
- Sentsova st., 32: a direct hit in a car;
- st. Sentsova, 39a: hit in a residential building without subsequent burning;
- st. Savrasova, 19: broken gas pipe and electrical wires;
- st. Savrasova, 15: getting into the apartment.
15:07 Another child who was injured during the shelling of Makeevka on April 28 died - the administration of the city of Makeevka. Today, May 1, in the Clinical Mine Hospital of the city of Makeevka, a girl born in 2017 died from injuries sustained as a result of shelling of the Central City district of the city on April 28.
14:30 Fixed damage to the gas pipeline on the street. Enegels in Yasinovataya. The shelling of the VFU continues. Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter. As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Yasinovataya on the street. Orekhov, a house-building fire was recorded. The shelling continues. Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
VFU again struck at the street. Yaroshenko in Gorlovka, the gas pipeline was broken in several sections. The gas pipeline along the street was also damaged. Cherkasov.
15:06 TASS: A total of 40 more people, including eight children, were evacuated from the territory of the Azovstal plant. According to some estimates, about 300 civilians may still remain in underground bunkers.
13:55 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded:
n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Kalinin): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 3 rockets fired from BM21 Grad.
13:05 About 16 houses along the streets of Yaroshenko and Cherkasov, in the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. Gagarin was damaged as a result of daytime shelling by the VFU.
11:49 Gorlovka resident Yu. T. A., who suffered as a result of today's shelling from the VFU, was hospitalized in the ophthalmological department of the city hospital No. 2 in Gorlovka in a state of moderate severity. According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. Gagarin also recorded damage to housing construction on the street. Yaroshenko, 27, 29, 37, 39 - Prikhodko.
11:33 On April 30, as a result of the establishment of a regime of silence and the opening of a humanitarian corridor, two groups of civilians came out from residential buildings adjacent to the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. During the day, 25 local residents came out. With the onset of the dark time of the day, the second group of 21 people left, who were taken to the settlement. Nameless. All civilians were provided with accommodation, food and the necessary medical assistance.
10:34 AFU attacked Horlivka. As a result of the shelling by Ukrainian militants of the village of the mine named after. Gagarin damaged a number of residential buildings along the streets of Yaroshenko and Cherkasov. A civilian was injured. The subscribers of the village of the Gagarin mine and partly of the Komsomolets residential area remain without electricity.
10:22 According to official data of the DPR JCCC, in the territory within the borders before the start of the NWO from 17.02.22 as of 09:30 01.05.22
During the 74 days of the escalation, 94 civilians were killed, incl. two children.
Wounds of varying severity were received by 428 civilians, incl. 37 children.*
Damage:
— 2846 residential buildings;
— 629 civil infrastructure facilities, including 37 medical institutions, 100 educational institutions, 165 social security facilities, 26 critical infrastructure facilities, 301 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attackKirovskyiPetrovskydistricts of Donetsk,snowy, Debaltseve.
- 319 vehicles.
During the 74 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 2386 facts of firing were recorded, of which 2149 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 24,159 rounds of various calibers, including 27 missiles fromOTRK "Point-U", four MLRS missiles BM-30 "Smerch", nine MLRS missiles BM-27 "Hurricane"and MLRS missiles BM-21 «City».
*Information about civilian casualties in the liberated territories of the DPR is published by the JCCC in the evening information report.
10:20 April 30, the Ministry of Health of the DPR provided medical assistance to 1,232 patients in the liberated territory:
in the liberated settlements of the Novoazovsky district:
➖25 people were examined in Bezymenny;
➖in Krasnoarmeisky - 14.
in the liberated settlements of the Telmanovsky district:
➖in Granitny, Mirny, Stepanovka, Andreevka, Chermalyk, Staroignatievka, Novoselovka and Kamenka, 62 people were examined.
in the liberated settlements of the Starobeshevsky district:
➖15 people were examined in Bugas, Nikolaevka, Novotroitsky and Olginka.
in the liberated settlements of Volnovakha district:
➖106 people were examined in the Volnovakha Central District Hospital. Restored power supply on the 1st floor and in the surgeon's office on the 2nd floor;
➖in the Volnovakha Center for Primary Health Care, five outpatient clinics and 7 feldsher-obstetric stations continue to operate, 33 patients have been received;
➖18 people were admitted to the Volnovakha city hospital.
in the liberated settlements of the Volodarsky district:
➖State Budgetary Institution "Volodarsk Central District Hospital": 152 people were examined, 108 of them were on inpatient treatment;
➖GBU "Center for Primary Health Care of the Volodarsky District": 140 people, 19 of them in temporary accommodation centers.
in the liberated settlements of the Mangush region:
➖146 people were treated as outpatients at the Mangush Central District Hospital. 91 patients are hospitalized, 14 of them are children. 9 surgical interventions were performed. 54 women are registered for pregnancy;
➖220 patients were examined at the Mangush Center for Primary Health Care, including 51 children.
in Mariupol:
➖outpatient reception of patients by a traumatologist and a family doctor continues, 210 people were examined.
08:50 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three rockets fired from BM21 Grad.
08:34 MGB DPR detained Ukrainian citizen Roman Alexandrovich Tutov, born in 1989
08:27 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 8 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated territories of the Republic: N. p. Olginka:
- a man born in 1960.
n.p. Pavlovka:
- a woman born in 1956.
n.p. Novotroitskoye:
- a woman born in 1964.
n.p. Mariupol:
- women: born in 1971, 1965, 1971, 1956, 1966.
Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1301 people, incl. 67 children.
#3
The troll farms really need a QC program. E.g., yesterday one of our new-found friends advsied us that "the rubble is the strongest currency in the world".
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If troll farms are the future, then Rantburg is well ahead of the curve.
#6
Ironically, in an honest world, most Burg regulars would be better at the Ministry of Truth's job than they are. But we have day jobs and wouldn't stoop to that.
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There's something ironically repetitive about a dictator in the east, pointing west and shouting "Release the Trolls!"
(Of course, if Larry Corriea is correct, some of them may literally be trolls. You'd have to read the 'Monster Hunter" books to get that.)
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Though, if the bennies included getting to go around putting ball g@gs on people like Crapper and Brennan, I'd consider it.
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/\ Clapper and Brennan should be in a Super Max.
When Germany does something, they do it thoroughly.
[IsraelTimes] Germany says it has made progress in sharply reducing its reliance on Russian energy, a strategic shift Europe’s biggest economy has embarked on since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russian supplies now make up 12 percent of Germany’s oil imports compared to 35 percent previously, the economy ministry says in a statement.
Coal from Russia has also been slashed to eight percent compared to 45 percent of Germany’s purchases previously.
Dependence on gas remains substantial, but Europe’s biggest economy had also reduced its Russian sources to 35 percent of the total compared to 55 percent before Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
The government had in March laid out plans to halve oil imports from Russia by June and to end coal deliveries by the autumn.
Germany is also expected to be able to largely wean itself off Russian gas in mid-2024.
"All these steps that we have taken require an enormous effect from all players and they also mean costs that are being felt by the economy and consumers," says Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
"But they are necessary if we no longer want to be blackmailed by Russia," he stresses.
The reliance of Europe’s biggest economy on Russian energy has been exposed as an Achilles’ heel as Western allies scramble to penalize Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... for his attack on Ukraine.
The export giant has since been racing to find alternative energy suppliers to replace Russian contracts.
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[Right Scoop] Dinesh D’Souza was on Fox Business last night talking about his new 2020 election film that comes out next week, making clear that it does show the heist did happen, not simply that it could’ve happened. Watch:
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With due respect to Dinesh, if you are a resident of George, you don't need to go see a documentary or read a book to know you got fok'd at the polls.
[Washington Examiner] Newt Gingrich is forecasting what could be a historic red wave this November.
The former House speaker predicts Republicans could pick up as many as 70 seats in the House in the midterm elections, as well as four in the Senate, returning control of both chambers of Congress to the GOP.
"I think we’ll pick up between 25 and 70 seats in the House. We'll probably pick up about four seats in the Senate," Gingrich told Maria Bartiromo on her Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures.
In the House, that would top the 63-seat gain by Republicans in 2010, the height of the Tea Party movement and the highest gain for both parties since 1948, notes the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard. Democrats currently have a dozen more seats in the House than the Republicans. In the Senate, Democrats and two independents have control, with Vice President Kamala Harris as a tiebreaker.
#India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state says, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives.https://t.co/Tf9fihHO4Z
[IsraelTimes] Pakistain and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... say they will discuss extending the term of a $3 billion loan to help Islamabad’s faltering economy.
The Gulf nation has long been an intelligence partner of Pakistain as well as a regular source of financial relief for successive governments.
The latest sign of support follows a visit to Saudi Arabia by new Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , who has inherited a crippling national debt, galloping inflation and a feeble rupee.
A joint statement says the kingdom would continue to support the Pak economy and had discussed "augmenting the $3 billion deposit with the central bank through term extension or otherwise."
Saudi Arabia also pledged "to further enhance the financing of petroleum products" at a time when the South Asian country is suffering from frequent power cuts.
The statement comes after recent talks between Pakistain and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the release of funds under an existing $6 billion aid program that had stalled due to concerns about the pace of reforms.
The cash-strapped nation’s foreign exchange reserves plunged below $11 billion last month.
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Any likelyhood they discussed the purchase of a few more nucs?
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] 
[FoxNews] According to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, 
[IsraelTimes] Egypt’s 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
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