[ABC] A former White House aide's stunning testimony before the House panel investigating the Capitol attack indicated that the U.S. Secret Service may have had advanced warning of the potential for violence at the Capitol, raising new questions about the agency's planning ahead of the riot and actions taken by agents on Jan. 6. "Stunning" to some possibly. Why would the Capital Police or FBI want POTUS coming around. No sense in taking a chance on executive interference or friendly fire between the Secret Service (who don't fok around) and on-site Law Enforcement, either uniformed or clandestine agent provocateur? Shocking isn't it? The Secret Service either got the memo, or their intelligence cell became witting of a potential problem. Cassidy Hutchinson,
...whose testimony before the committee was contradicted within hours by those she claimed to be quoting, making all her subsequent testimony highly suspect. And those news organizations that breathlessly report her claims, like ABC News, look like gullible suckers...
top deputy to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, told lawmakers on Tuesday that the security team guarding then-President Donald Trump and senior White House officials were aware there was a serious threat posed by some descending on Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, when Trump was planning to address a rally to support his baseless accusations that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
It was that security team that declared itself willing, nay eager, to testify before the committee to contradict Ms Hutchinson’s claims. It’s shocking that the ABC News team, seasoned reporters all, is so far behind developments.
In Hutchinson's telling, the agency famous for its teams of bodyguards, sharpshooters and hyper-skilled drivers was aware that among the throngs headed to Washington were some who were planning to carry a variety of weapons and military gear, and were seeking to target members of Congress and breach the Capitol building.
If so, the Secret Service apparently failed to coordinate effectively with law enforcement partners, the public, or congressional leaders to strengthen the security posture -- and instead ferried a number of people under their protection to the Capitol complex with little more than their personal security details.
The Secret Service declined to answer questions from ABC News.
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.whose testimony before the committee was contradicted within hours by those she claimed to be quoting, making all her subsequent testimony highly suspect. And those news organizations that breathlessly report her claims, like ABC News, look like gullible suckers... Nope, willing perveyors of lies. They know it's not true but have to protect the liberal world order.
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Secret Service was probably afraid they might recognize Ray Epps and friends and blow their cover.
[NYPOST] A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! for a decade.
Jean Marie Bugoma, 24, was convicted on Wednesday after pleading guilty to bestiality, KSAT reported.
The sick acts occurred at a San Antonio equine boarding facility on at least three occasions between June 2020 and February 2021.
In the first instance, Bugoma was caught on surveillance camera walking through the stables naked, according to an arrest affidavit.
The owner noticed soon after that two of his horses were maimed and a vet later determined the animals had been sexually assaulted.
Authorities said Bugoma went to the stables again months later and had sex with one of the horses.
Two other horses had also been "hobbled," which meant their legs were bound together.
When the owner caught Bugoma back at the stable in February last year, authorities obtained a warrant that determined DNA taken from one of the horses matched that of the suspect.
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At least the horse didn’t fall on him and kill him (Catherine the Great legend.)
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Bugoma went to the stables again months later and had sex with one of the horses
I'll bet the authorities said no such thing, it's only an NYPost scribe that could write such a stupid sounding sentence. It sounds like the man and the equine were having a friggin' affair.
[NYPOST] A Florida vegan mother has been found guilty of murdering her 18-month-old son after only feeding him raw fruits and vegetables.
Sheila O’Leary, 39, is facing life in prison after a jury convicted her Wednesday of murder and a string of child abuse charges over the 2019 death of her toddler, Ezra O’Leary, the News Press reported.
Her little boy weighed just 17 pounds — seven pounds below average — when his parents noticed he had stopped breathing.
O’Leary and her husband, Ryan O’Leary, told police that Ezra followed a strict vegan diet — but that he was also breast fed. "Are these Gluten-free?"
They said the boy hadn’t eaten for about a week prior to his death and was having trouble sleeping.
Sheila O’Leary and her husband, Ryan, were both arrested and charged over their son’s 2019 death.
An autopsy found the little boy died of malnutrition complications.
Prosecutors accused the mother of failing to seek proper medical care for her son when she realized he was ill.
“She chose to disregard his cries,” Assistant State Attorney Sara Miller said during closing arguments.
“She didn’t need a scale to see his bones. She didn’t need a scale to hear his cry.”
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Was Ryan O’Leary also found guilty? If not, why not?
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This is a well proven theory. They have had adults just eat raw food and had to cancel the experiment after two weeks. They had to spend most of their time eating, never felt satisfied and lost 40lbs. We have cooked so long and developed organs (especially the brain) we simply can't survive without cooking our food. We can't get enough calories.
Raw... 20% of the caloric value absorbed of the food
Cooked... 80% of the caloric value absorbed of the food
[IsraelTimes] New York City council members hold a hearing to denounce antisemitism at the US city’s public colleges and call for action from university leadership.
Advocates and Jewish groups accuse the City University of New York (CUNY) school systems administration of neglecting widespread antisemitism at its 26 colleges.
CUNY’s chancellor, Felix Matos Rodríguez, canceled his appearance at the hearing at the Committee of Higher Education at the last minute, the second time he has put off his attendance. No administrators from CUNY attend in person.
Five council members are in attendance out of 51 in the council, and a couple dozen protesters gather in front of city hall.
"Him not showing up is perpetuating the antisemitism we’re talking about," Council Member Inna Vernikov says of the chancellor. "What a sham. What an insult to the Jewish community."
Faculty and students are set to address the politicians about their experience of antisemitism on campus. Three CUNY administrators are tuning in via Zoom.
Committee chair Eric Dinowitz shares anecdotes about antisemitism on campuses. Jewish students who were praying were called "dirty Jews," he says, with no response from the administration. In other cases, students called for violence against Jews, or spoke in favor of Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... One former professor, who declines to share her name due to concerns about work opportunities, says CUNY fired some Jewish professors last year, around the time of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... conflict, without providing a reason.
"I know a lot of faculty who are disgusted with what they’re doing," she says.
[IsraelTimes] A Boston-area college has fired an employee it said was responsible for terrorizing the campus for months with antisemitic and racist messages.
Curry College, in the suburb of Milton, announced Thursday it had identified the perpetrator of the graffiti dating back to International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January, when swastikas and other hateful messages began appearing on campus.
The college’s president, Kenneth Quigley Jr., said the culprit had been identified with the help of an FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... investigation, and that the employee was "terminated and removed from our community." At least five separate acts of vandalism were recorded, targeting both the college’s Jewish and Black students.
The employee is not currently facing state criminal charges, the Boston Globe reported.
"The College recognizes and regrets the impact these bias acts have had on our students, families, faculty, and staff throughout the spring semester and hope this will allow us to continue moving forward," Quigley wrote in his statement. "It is our hope that this will bring some closure to the series of events we all suffered through."
Curry College had taken intense measures to protect students during the height of the graffiti, moving classes online in February after threats against the Black community mentioned a specific date. Hundreds participated in rallies and marches in support of the targeted communities on campus. The school had also offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Somebody is playing silly games for headlines, I suspect. Proposing is easy, but no second grader could even spell those big words, let alone understand them.
The Texas State Board of Education is fielding proposals that would update the state's public school social studies curriculum this summer
A group of educators proposed to the Board of Ed that slavery be taught as 'involuntary relocation' during second grade social studies
Members have now been asked to reconsider the phrasing and their language
The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students 'feel discomfort'
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Texas curriculum standards are very important to the rest of the US due to the sheer size if the state. Publishers adopt Texas standards and generally make same books available to other states.
This is a very important issue to watch if you care about what goes on in the classroom.
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Unless they're Sheldon Cooper Texans, the vast majority of kids are not 'aware' of much beyond their neighborhoods and immediate family environment till after elementary school. Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.
I have a better idea. Why not do away with the 'social studies' syllabi altogether? Just take kids on trips to zoos and shelters and let them just camp out like old times.
[HotAir] The next time someone tries to tell you that rising crime rates, particularly for violent crimes, is all some sort of political narrative invented by Republicans in an election year (we’re looking at you, Lori Lightfoot), you can point them to this analysis conducted by CBS News in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s not just your imagination. Violent crimes have continued to rise in frequency, particularly homicides. This awful trend is not just happening in Baltimore, however. It’s showing up in large cities across the country. And to make matters worse, we’re solving far fewer of these killings than we used to. At some point, something is going to have to give.
Baltimore has seen so much pain, with more than 1,500 people killed in the past five years. More than half of those killings remain unsolved.
WJZ, in collaboration with CBS News, is examining a crime often going without punishment in our country. The national homicide clearance rate is at an all-time low, according to FBI data. In the mid-1960s more than 90% of murders were solved, generally resulting in an arrest. By 1990, the percentage fell into the 60’s. Then, by 2020, as the number of homicides surged, the national clearance rate dropped to about 50% for the first time ever.
Our analysis with CBS News also discovered differences by race. The national homicide rate for white victims keeps improving. The rate of solving murders for Black and Hispanic victims is much lower.
Those are some stark numbers. It’s almost hard to believe that we had a 90% clearance rate for murders in the 1960s. Now the national average is down to around 50%. In the city of Baltimore, it’s even worse. The homicide clearance rate there has plunged to 42% even as they are setting records for the number of murders recorded per year. But that’s still an improvement over the 29.7% clearance rate they recorded in 2015. That means that at least half of the people who murder someone are getting away with it and that applies to more than half of the gunmen in Charm City.
Also, as noted in the linked report, the outcomes are not evenly distributed along racial lines. Black and Hispanic people are killed in disproportionately higher numbers when measured against their percentage of the total population. Those figures are largely driven by gang violence in the cities, as we’ve discussed here in the past. But their killers are significantly less likely to be arrested than those who murder white people. The national homicide clearance rate for white victims is nearly 90%. For Black victims, it’s barely 55%.
So why is this happening? How did we get so bad at solving murder cases? CBS asked Governor Larry Hogan and he said that “We’re not prosecuting enough people, and we’re not sentencing enough people.” He pointed out that last year Baltimore prosecuted 30 people out of 300 murders. That seems to be factually true, but it doesn’t answer the question of why.
One factor may be the reality that there simply aren’t enough trained officers to work the tougher murder cases. In New York City, hundreds of detectives (the class of officers typically assigned to solve murder cases) have quit in frustration in the last year alone. We don’t have any figures for detectives in Baltimore, but we do know that the ranks of the police are down overall.
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That seems to be factually true, but it doesn’t answer the question of why.
You have no problem blaming one community for slavery that ended over a 150 years ago. You are absolutely silent about the community that is responsible for nearly all of today's killing. You ask why?
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The map makes it look like he owns a third of the land in the US. If just his holdings in each state were represented in green, most of the green lines would be too thin to see.
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It looks like Bill bought all the arable land in New Mexico.
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If the land is not used to grow crops or graze stock at the usual utilization per acre rate, tax it at a commercial rate.
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He will probably use the land to grow his crappy beef that nobody wants to eat. No real need to around here. There is plenty of roadkill available throughout NE Ohio. As long as they don't vaccinate all the squirrels, it is probably a safer and tastier diet for me.
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Let's see 1.1 RUBLE's equal 0.02 USD cents.
A Russian metric ton of grain depending on the region & grade selling for between 15,800 and 17,900 rubles or about $316 to $354 a metric ton.
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[Vesti] In Rovenky in the Lugansk region, an oil depot is on fire after shelling. The relevant information is dispersed in Luhansk public with different assessments - from sabotage to shelling by Ukrainian MLRS. In turn, the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirm the information about the fire at the oil depot.
"The city has been occupied since 2014. Deep rear. There is information about a burning oil depot and a destroyed repair plant," the Ukrainian defenders noted.
Russian mass media claim that the Ukrainian military allegedly used the HIMARS MLRS transferred by America from the Bakhmut direction. True, there are no photos or videos of the fire at the oil depot on the Web. The distance from the Bakhmut direction to Rovenky is 130 km.
And in the unrecognized "DPR" they report that in Yasinovataya, as a result of alleged Ukrainian shelling, a civilian was killed, four more were injured. According to the "head of the city administration" Dmitry Shevchenko, three women (born in 1961, 1975 and 1980), as well as a man (born in 1963), were wounded, and "one man died."
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Graphic circa 1931 unrelated trivia. Tank farm fire somewhere in the oil patch. Probably a lightning strike. Civil war cannon fired a 3 inch, lead filled plug to puncture tank battery wall. Crude oil could then drain into holding pond where it was pumped out and recovered.
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[Vesti] Russian military invaders continue to launch rocket attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 Friday, July 1. It is noted that the anti-aircraft gunners of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region destroyed the Russian UAV "Forpost" worth seven million US dollars.
On the Volynsky, Polessky and Seversky directions x without any special changes. The enemy fired artillery at the areas of the settlements of Gremyach, Mikhalchyna Sloboda, Kolos of the Chernihiv region, as well as Starikove and Atinskoe in the Sumy region.
In the Slobozhansky direction , the enemy fired artillery in the areas of the settlements of Chepol, Zolochev, Russkaya Lozovaya, Rubizhnoye, Krestishche, Pechenegy, Kharkov, Pitomnik, Bazalievka, Russkaya Lozovaya and Prudyanka. Launched an air strike with a pair of Ka-52 helicopters near Mospanovo. Continues to conduct aerial reconnaissance.
In the Slavyansk direction, the enemy defends the previously occupied lines, regroups, and tries to improve the tactical position. Conducted artillery shelling near Dolina, Mazanovka, Dibrovnoye, Grushuvakha, Dovgenkiy, Krasnopolye, Aseevka, Slavyansk, Nikolsky and Bogorodichny.
In the Lisichansk and Bakhmut directions, the Russians are shelling from cannon and rocket artillery the areas of the settlements of Sidorovo, Pereyezdne, Krivaya Luka, Mayaki, Seversk, Privolye, Lisichansk, Volcheyarovka, Zolotarivka, Bakhmut, Klinovo, Kodema, New York, as well as Pokrovskoye, Zaitsevo, Maiskoye and Vershina. Enemy air strikes were recorded near Klinovoye and Pokrovsky.
On the Avdeevka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions, the enemy fired from artillery of various calibers and tanks on the settlements of Avdeevka, Novoselovka Vtoraya, Vodyanoye, Thin, Krasnogorovka, Peski, Orekhov, Shevchenko, Novomikhailovka, Gorevo, Gornoye, Staroukrainka, Zheleznodorozhnoe and Maryinka. The Ukrainian soldiers successfully and competently repelled an enemy reconnaissance attempt in the direction of the Lisichansk gelatin plant .
In the Yuzhnobuzh direction , the enemy continued shelling in the areas of the settlements of Posad-Pokrovskoye, Stepnaya Dolina, Tavriyskoye, Pribuzhskoye, Aleksandrovka, Mirnoye, Shevchenkovo, Novogrigorovka, Shirokoye, Partizanskoye, Blagodatnoye, Pervomayskoye, Kobzartsy, Krasny Yar, Kavkaz, Stepov, Dobryanka, Potemkino and Nikolaevka.
In readiness for missile attacks on targets in Ukraine, the Russians are holding two carriers of cruise missiles in the Black Sea .
July 1 - 128th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine . Fighting continues, shelling is carried out in almost all directions, including civilian infrastructure. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
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[Korrespondent] 23:13 Johnson became an honorary citizen of Odessa, the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov said: "We highly appreciate the Prime Minister of Britain. Therefore, I signed an order to award Boris Johnson with honorary signs named after Grigory Marazli I, II, III degrees."
23:03 In Kremenchug, after removing the rubble on 90% of the area of the Amstor shopping and entertainment center, 29 fragments of bodies were found, the State Emergency Service reports. As of the evening of July 1, 19 dead and 64 injured are known, of which 26 were hospitalized.
22:11 Zelensky said that he had held telephone conversations with Argentine Presidents Alberto Fernandez and Chile Gabriel Boric: "I continue to establish ties with an important region - Latin America. I talked with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, thanked for humanitarian assistance, condemnation of Russian aggression and suspension of Russia's membership in the UN Human Rights Council. <...> I am glad to establish contact with the newly elected President of Chile. Thanked for the support in the UN, humanitarian assistance for Ukraine. We discussed the possibility of involving Chilean specialists in demining Ukrainian territories."
22:06 Ukraine turned to Turkey with a request to detain and arrest the cargo ship Zhibek Zholy, which sails under the Russian flag and transports Ukrainian grain exported from Berdyansk, Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar said.
22:00 Moroccan and British servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "sentenced to death" by the court of the so-called "DPR", appealed their sentences, reports Reuters. The Supreme Court of the "DPR" received appeals from lawyers Brahim Saadoun and Sean Pinner. Another "convicted" Briton, Aiden Eslin, has not yet filed an appeal.
Russian media reported today that a similar "verdict" awaits two more British prisoners. These are Dylan Healy and Andrew Hill, who were taken prisoner respectively at the Ilyich plant in Mariupol and in the Mykolaiv region.
21:39 The United States is providing Ukraine with a new $820 million military aid package , the Pentagon said. This package was previously announced by Biden. The new military assistance package includes additional ammunition for HIMARS, 150,000 artillery shells for Western howitzers, two NASAMS air defense systems, and four counter-battery radars.
21:13 Today, at about 18:00, a pair of Su-30 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces twice launched an air strike with phosphorus bombs on Zmeiny Island from the Bilbek airfield, where they allegedly "completed the tasks," Zaluzny said. One of the bombs hit the sea.
20:49 Monthly volumes of gas transit through the Ukrainian GTS in June of this year reached a historic low since 1991 - 1.25 billion cubic meters. So, compared to May 2022, the volume of transit through Ukraine fell by 37%, and compared to June of the previous year, transit decreased by almost three times. Gazprom used only 38% of the booked capacity (3.29 billion cubic meters) under a long-term contract, the GTS Operator of Ukraine said.
20:44 Kuleba said that Ukraine has filed a Memorandum with the International Court of Justice: "We prove that the Russian Federation violated the Genocide Convention, justifying its military aggression by groundless accusations of Ukraine of" genocide ". This is an important step to hold the Russian Federation accountable and compensate for the damage caused ".
20:32 A few years ago, the Russian government decided to appropriate the Ukrainian national dish. But now the culture of cooking Ukrainian borscht has been included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko called the UNESCO decision "a victory in the war for borscht". More about this - in the material Borsch is de-Russified .
20:14 Zaluzhny said that he spoke with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, who assured him that "the United States will support Ukraine for as long as it takes."
20:09 The German government called today's shelling of the Odessa region a war crime. "Attacks on civilians are a war crime. Russian President Vladimir Putin and the perpetrators will have to be held accountable," said German government spokesman Steffen Hebeshtreit.
20:02 In Donetsk, the issuance of Russian passports has begun today, the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR" reported. Earlier, the opening of the first point of issue of Russian passports was reported in Luhansk.
19:59 The Ukrainian military repelled a hostile reconnaissance attempt in the direction of the Lisichansk gelatin plant, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in an evening report .
18:42 At the height of the war against Russia, Ukraine decided to change the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights. Lyudmila Denisova was dismissed from this position with a scandal, and people's deputy Dmitry Lubinets will replace her. Read more in the material Scandal with the Ombudsman .
18:25 The Armed Forces of Ukraine knocked out the Russian invaders from Zmeiny Island with the help of not only Western weapons, but also Bogdan's self-propelled artillery mount of Ukrainian design and production. This first Ukrainian NATO-caliber howitzer is capable of effectively destroying the enemy at a distance of 40 kilometers. More about it - in the material Ukrainian self-propelled guns Bogdan .
18:14 Reznikov said that since the beginning of the war, more than 90,000 Russian servicemen have been wounded, Russia's losses amount to more than 30,000 people. There are also a lot of missing people: the Russian leadership passes many off as "lost" in order not to pay monetary compensation to their families.
18:12 Yermak said that a preliminary version of an agreement on international security guarantees for Ukraine may appear during July. At the same time, according to him, the agreement on security guarantees will not become an alternative to Kyiv's movement into NATO.
18:10 Zelensky called the Russian missile attack on the Odessa region a targeted act of terrorism against the Ukrainian people: "Today, the Russian army launched another brutal missile attack. It was a supersonic cruise anti-ship missile. It hit an ordinary residential building in the Odessa region. Such missiles were created to destroy aircraft carriers and other large warships... This is not an accidental strike, as the media in the Russian Federation say about it. This is a targeted Russian missile attack, Russian terror, let's be frank, against our cities and villages, against our people, adults and children" .
18:07 Yermak said that Ukraine considers the possibility of a ceasefire only as the first step towards the withdrawal of Russian troops: "If a ceasefire is the first step towards ending the war and the withdrawal of Russian troops, we can think about it. Just a ceasefire as a step towards a frozen conflict We are not interested. This is not the Ukrainian plan. We are interested in winning this war. And it will definitely happen."
18:04 The European Commission has proposed to allocate the first tranche of emergency macro-financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 1 billion euros, Ursula von der Leyen said.
17:58 Zelensky met with Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Stere in Kiev. "I have come to express support for the people of Ukraine. Norway will transfer 1 billion euros by the end of this year or at the beginning of 2023 for the needs of the people," Stere said at a briefing with the President of Ukraine.
17:47 In Donetsk, graduates of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR without documents are going to be taken to the front. Parents came under the academy and staged a protest, "military men" threaten with weapons, write local publics. The "workbook" of the commander of the 1st separate battalion of the Russian Federation states that the cadets of the academy of the 1st and 2nd courses will guard the air defense crews, warehouses and locations, and the cadets of the 3rd, 4th and 5th courses will be sent to front.
17:40 At night, the Russian Federation launched rocket attacks on high-rise buildings and recreation centers in the Odessa region. Korrespondent.net has collected everything that is known about the tragedy at the moment, in the material of the Russian Federation the terror continues .
17:33 Zelensky met in Kiev with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, thanked him for his direct participation in the process of working on international security guarantees for Ukraine, as well as for agreeing to lead the corresponding platform together with Yermak.
17:27 The European Commission has temporarily exempted EU member states from paying duties and VAT on the import of humanitarian aid for Ukrainians. This measure will apply retroactively from February 24 and will be valid until December 31, 2022, the European Commission said.
17:04 Russia has obliged Ukrainian teachers in the occupied territories to sign a document by July 21 confirming their readiness to switch to teaching according to the Russian school curriculum, writes The Guardian. Otherwise, they should quit. The publication notes that this puts many teachers in a difficult position: if they do not sign the document, they will lose their jobs and risk retribution from the Russian forces, and if they sign, they risk facing accusations from the Ukrainian authorities, who consider studying under the Russian program as form of cooperation with the enemy.
16:49 Forbes has calculated that the Russians have lost a total of $915 million worth of military equipment during the occupation of Snake Island. The biggest loss is the cruiser Moskva, which cost $750 million.
16:35 Putin said at the Forum of Regions of Russia and Belarus that the West is pushing the Russian Federation to "unification processes" with Belarus: "Unprecedented political and sanctions pressure from the so-called collective West is pushing us to speed up the unification processes."
Putin did not specify what kind of acceleration he was talking about, but explained that "during a recent meeting with Lukashenka in St. Petersburg, we discussed this issue in detail, including an agreement to use the transshipment capabilities of the Russian port terminal at Baltic".
16:33 The number of victims of a missile attack on the Odessa region has increased to 21 people , OVA speaker Serhiy Bratchuk said on the air of the telethon.
16:31 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that NATO's decision to recognize Russia as a direct threat is "a serious bid for confrontation with Russia on all fronts and using all tools."
16:17 Gazprom announced that it would completely stop Nord Stream from July 11 to July 21 "to carry out planned preventive work."
16:13 As a result of the Russian missile attack on Sergeevka, Odessa region, the Rehabilitation Center for Children belonging to Moldova was damaged, said the Minister of Health of Moldova, Alla Nemerenko. According to her, the Center on the Black Sea coast was intended for the rehabilitation of children from Moldova with serious illnesses. After the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the center was temporarily closed, with minimal staff remaining.
“The Center itself was not seriously damaged by the shelling, only the windows of the boiler room were shattered. But we were told with regret that five employees of the Center were injured and one died. All of them lived in the building damaged by the shelling,” Nemerenko said.
15:56 Erdogan announced the preparation of telephone conversations between Putin and Zelensky, writes Anadolu. "We will negotiate for the re-export of agricultural products. There are countries that have problems, and we can help. Our 20 ships in the Black Sea are ready for action. After Putin and Zelensky's response, we will determine our next steps," Erdogan said.
15:39 The ECHR, by an interim decision on the claim of the wife of the Ukrainian military, obliged Russia to respect the rights of all captives and provide them with access to the necessary medical care. The decision was made in the case of Oleinichenko v. Russia and Ukraine , the lawsuit was filed by the wife of a captive Ukrainian, Yaroslav Oleinichenko.
The court asks the Russian Federation to confirm within a week whether this soldier is in captivity and in what conditions he is being held, including information on medical examinations and treatment, if any. Ukraine is also asked to report within a week what is known about the fate of the captive Oleinichenko.
15:36 In the Odessa region, July 2 was declared a day of mourning in memory of those killed in a missile attack on the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district.
15:34 Russian invaders are increasingly using inaccurate shells in the war against Ukraine. About what this means - in the article Why the Russian Federation is hitting Ukraine with old X-22 missiles .
15:25 The EU may prescribe in the new package of anti-Russian sanctions the corrected rules for the transit of sanctioned goods to Kaliningrad, which will allow it to be unblocked, Bloomberg reports. And Der Spiegel writes that the European Union has changed its position on the issue of transit to Kaliningrad at the request of Berlin.
15:16 The military exercises of the Belarusian army, which were supposed to end today, have been extended until at least July 9, Belarus Gayun reports.
15:07 There are seven battalions of the Belarusian Armed Forces on the border with Ukraine, the threat of an invasion by the Belarusian army remains. However, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a direct military offensive from Belarus is currently unlikely, since a grouping of troops has not been created, and a control system for this grouping has not been deployed. But the presence of enemy troops near the border diverts the resources of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the eastern front, and the constant movement of troops is aimed at keeping Ukraine on its toes, intelligence noted.
15:00 The defense has filed a cassation complaint with the "court" in the "DPR" to mitigate the sentence of the Moroccan who fought for Ukraine, "condemned" to death, lawyer Yulia Tserkovnikova said.
14:51 The EU intends to impose an embargo on Russian gold in a new package of sanctions, writes Bloomberg.
14:38 Poland has signed a $1.8 billion contract for the purchase of 32 AW149 helicopters manufactured by the Italian company Leonardo. The Minister of Defense of the country, Mariusz Blaszczak, said that two squadrons and the first helicopters will enter the Polish army next year. He added that in the face of the war in Ukraine, Poland is modernizing its armed forces and intends to spend more than 3% of GDP on defense from next year.
14:19 On Nikolaev this morning Russians have let out about ten rockets, the mayor Alexander Senkevich reported. The missiles hit private enterprises, one of them was seriously damaged.
14:06 Peskov, in response to a question about a strike on the Odessa region, said that Russia does not shoot at civilian targets: "I want to remind you once again the words of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation that the armed forces of the Russian Federation do not work during a special military operation for civilian purposes and civilian infrastructure".
13:55 As of 13:30, as a result of a missile strike in the village of Sergeevka, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district in the Odessa region, 20 people were killed (16 people - a residential building and four people - a recreation center, one of them is a child), the State Emergency Service reported. 38 people were hospitalized.
13:42 Ukrainian borscht has been recognized as a UNESCO cultural heritage site requiring immediate protection, Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko said. At the V Extraordinary Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the element Culture of cooking Ukrainian borscht was included in the UNESCO Cultural Heritage List .
13:20 Macron announced new assistance to Ukraine: "France will promptly deliver to Ukraine the equipment necessary for self-defense, including six more Caesar howitzers and a significant amount of armored vehicles. France, allies and European partners are and will be."
13:13 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the United24 platform have opened a fundraiser for the Army of Drones. At the first stage, it is planned to purchase 200 drones for aerial reconnaissance, which can fly up to 24 hours at a distance of 160 km and remain almost invisible. The goal is to cover the entire front line with drones, about 2470 km in total. You can help the Armed Forces of Ukraine and join the collection from any corner of the world on the platform https://u24.gov.ua/dronation
13:11 The telephone code of Donetsk in July will be changed from +38 (062) to +7 (856), Russian media reported, citing the "mayor" of the city.
13:07 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the Odessa region, missiles hit "a radar station for detecting air targets."
13:05 The Rada appointed Dmytro Lubinets to the post of Commissioner for Human Rights, People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
13:03 Lukashenka said that the post-Soviet countries should move closer to the "Union State" of Belarus and Russia, "unless, of course, they want to preserve sovereignty and independence."
13:00 The government of the Russian Federation has submitted a bill to the State Duma that will be able to force business to serve state needs in the interests of the army and special services, and Russians to work for this at night, without days off and holidays. The explanatory note to the bill says that in the conditions of the war in Ukraine "there is a short-term increased need for the repair of weapons and military equipment and the provision of material and technical means," especially in the context of foreign sanctions.
The bill allows the introduction of special measures in the economic sphere. They include a change in the legal regulation of labor relations, including work after hours, at night, on weekends and holidays, and changes the procedure for granting annual paid leave. In this case, the legal entity will not have the right to refuse the "offer" of the state, journalists say . We can explain .
12:56 NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoane said in an interview with Moldova 1 that Russia does not yet have sufficient forces to pose a military threat to Moldova: "Now Moldova has no reason to worry. Russia does not have military resources for this. But elements of pressure, destabilization, statements and threats after the good news from Brussels are certainly in the field of our attention."
12:52 The Rada has created a special commission on the law of war and war crimes in the context of Russia's aggression. As people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said, this is an important decision, since the commission is vested with the rights of the main committee of the Verkhovna Rada on these issues. It was headed by Kharkiv resident Alexander Bakumov.
12:38 Peskov, when asked about the message to Putin, allegedly brought by the President of Indonesia from Zelensky, said that "we are not talking about some kind of written appeal."
12:29 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the armies of Russia and the "LNR" went directly to Lisichansk and took control of the Lisichansk Oil Refinery, the Matrosskaya mine, the Gelatin plant and Topolevka.
12:27 US General Christopher Cavoli has taken command of NATO forces in Europe. He is considered an expert on Russia. He is fluent in Russian, Italian and French and holds a master's degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University.
12:24 The invaders are trying to escape from the scene of hostilities to the Crimea through the Arabat arrow. As Ukrainian military intelligence found out, in the occupied Kalinovka, Kherson region, a group of deserters aged 18-20 appeared, they are moving towards Crimea, while moving only at night, and hiding during the day.
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, frequent cases of desertion of the Russian military are recorded in the Kherson region. The main reason is the heavy losses of the invaders due to accurate strikes by Ukrainian artillery. Most often, the fugitives try to get to the Crimea through the Arabat Spit - this route is considered safe and well-established.
12:11 Zelensky, during his speech in the Rada, said that the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU was implemented by 63%. He recalled that recently Ukraine signed a transport visa-free regime, an aviation visa-free regime, received the most open access to the European market - without duties and quotas, joined the common European energy network and got the opportunity to export electricity to the EU countries. Next in line are customs visa-free and digital visa-free, that is, Ukraine's accession to the Digital Europe program.
The President stressed that it is necessary to speed up work on industrial visa-free travel and achieve the abolition of roaming with the EU countries on a permanent basis. The deputies, he said, will have to develop and adopt dozens of bills, even if this or that decision "does not garner applause."
11:58 Scholz said in an interview with CBS News that Putin has been preparing for a war with Ukraine for at least a year, so Moscow will be able to wage war "for a long time": "I think that the decision to start this war was made a year before it started, or perhaps earlier, because he was preparing for it. And so he will be able to continue the war for a very long time."
At the same time, the chancellor expressed the opinion that although Putin "does not really recognize this," Russia feels the impact of Western sanctions: "Now this is happening with a country that is not so developed, that really needs all the technology from the rest of the world in order to have a similar standard of living and have a chance to be part of the growth of the global economy."
11:55 The Office of the Prosecutor General said that at the moment there is information about 19 civilians who died after a missile attack in the Odessa region , whose bodies were removed from the rubble. 38 victims were hospitalized, six of whom are children. Two minors are in critical condition.
11:52 The Czech Republic intends to join the training of the Ukrainian military, Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova said: "At the moment, intensive negotiations are underway on how we could participate in some exercises of the Ukrainian armed forces on the territory of the Czech Republic." The Minister also announced the need to modernize the Czech army, which is gaining importance in connection with the war in Ukraine.
11:25 Zelensky said that together with Stefanchuk and Shmyhal he signed "a joint statement, which is a signal of the unity of all branches of government and evidence of our determination to achieve Ukraine's strategic goal, namely full membership in the European Union." According to the President, the signing of this statement "should mean the same as the signing of an application for entry on the fifth day of the war."
"It took us 115 days to get to the candidacy. And our path to membership should not take years or decades. We must overcome this path quickly. To make our part of the work perfect. To enable our friends in the European Union to accept more quickly and in a consolidated manner for us one historic decision," Zelensky said.
11:17 Deputy head of the OP Kirill Timoshenko said that as a result of a missile attack on the village of Sergeevka, Odessa region, a nine-story house and a recreation center were completely destroyed. In a nine-story residential building, 16 people died, 34 were injured, five of them children. Managed to save eight people, including three children and a pregnant woman. At the recreation center, two people died, one of them was a child - a boy of 12 years old, and five more were injured. Three people remain under the rubble of the base, two of them are children.
11:15 The speaker of the Odesa OVA, Serhiy Bratchuk, said that rescuers had completed the search for bodies in a high-rise building in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district. The house was completely damaged on one side, the slabs on the floors were destroyed, the State Emergency Service reported. In total, 150-160 people lived in nine-story buildings. Under the rubble at the recreation center, located nearby, there may still be people.
11:13 In Severodonetsk, Russians are hunting for people who support Ukraine. Fortunately, the vast majority of them were evacuated, Mayor Alexander Stryuk said. According to him, at the expense of the local population, the enemy is trying to replenish the ranks of the so-called "army of the LPR."
It is impossible to restore the city's infrastructure now, there are no regular food supplies to Severodonetsk. People can leave the city in the direction of the occupied settlements, and then get to the free territory of Ukraine.
11:09 The first point for issuing Russian passports has been opened in Luhansk - now you do not need to travel to Russia to obtain Russian citizenship. The "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR" stated that this is the first point for issuing Russian passports in the "republic", but others will appear in the near future.
10:58 For Ukraine to join the EU, it is necessary to adopt a law on the media, reduce the influence of oligarchs and appoint top officials to fight corruption, said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, speaking via video link to the Rada. She stressed that these important reforms are needed as soon as possible, reports Reuters.
Also, the head of the European Commission said that Kyiv now has a “very clear European perspective”, but the path to EU membership will take time and hard work: “Ukraine is a candidate country for joining the European Union, which seemed almost unimaginable five months ago. .. The next steps are within your reach, but they will require hard work."
10:53 The Russians fired at the Sloboda district of Kharkov, also at night the RF Armed Forces launched a missile attack from Belgorod on the Industrial District, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Currently, active hostilities are going on in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the shelling of the RF Armed Forces, four people were killed.
10:48 The flag of the European Union has appeared in the Verkhovna Rada, Stefanchuk said. Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen spoke in parliament.
10:40 In Rivne, a member of the "DPR" was sentenced to 13 years in prison, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The man, having pro-Russian views, at the end of 2015 joined the so-called Legion "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR" Legion for carrying out special rescue operations of special risk. Acting as a detachment commander, he provided armed resistance and illegal opposition to the performance of official duties by law enforcement officers of Ukraine and military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine involved in the ATO / JFO.
10:21 Head of the State Border Service Serhiy Deineko recalled that a visa regime with citizens of the Russian Federation began to operate on July 1: "The visa regime will also enhance the security of our state. Now every Russian will have to justify the purpose of his trip to Ukraine in advance."
10:19 Hungary must radically increase its defense capability, Orban said. According to him, the front line is still far from Hungary, but the situation may change: "We must start the engines and accelerate our defense development program. <...> What will be required is not sanctions, but an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations."
10:16 British intelligence reports that the Russian army left Zmeinoye because of the isolation of the military garrison and its vulnerability to Ukrainian strikes, and not as a "goodwill gesture." The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been hitting the Russian garrison with missiles and drones over the past weeks. Ukraine has also used anti-ship missiles to stop Russian warships.
10:13 The United States has blocked a trust worth more than a billion dollars associated with Suleiman Kerimov, a Russian oligarch close to Putin. According to the US Treasury Department, Kerimov secretly ran the Heritage Trust and transferred money to the United States through shell companies and foundations in Europe.
10:11 In Mariupol, a new mass grave was found with more than 100 bodies under the rubble along the street. Kievskoy, 53. The occupiers are sorting out the rubble nearby, there is no talk of reburial, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. According to him, the exhumation has actually been stopped, temporary street graves are being turned into permanent ones.
10:07 Russia is the "sponsor" of the split and disinformation, anti-European political movements and problems for the entire continent, Zelensky said, speaking via video link at the 4GamesChangers Festival in Vienna: "One power cannot break the life of everyone in Europe or in the world. This game must How many years have they been saying that Europe should not be dependent on Russian energy resources? and problems for the entire continent."
In his opinion, "the war in Ukraine is a continuation of Russia's long-standing anti-European policy, and every Russian occupier understands this. But do they understand this in Europe?" Zelensky called for "strengthening European unity as much as possible, ridding Europe of dependence on Russian energy resources, supporting free media as much as possible, which work according to journalistic standards. To have something to protect the truth from propaganda. Create effective tools to protect against cyber threats. Strengthen international law with maximum punishment for its violation ".
09:48 In Kremenchuk, as of 09:00 on July 1, six fragments of bodies were additionally found at the site of emergency rescue operations on the territory of the Amstor shopping center. Since the beginning of the work, 28 fragments of bodies have been found, the State Emergency Service said. In total, 19 people died as a result of the missile attack, 62 people were injured, of which 26 people were hospitalized.
09:25 In Sergeevka, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district, as of 9:00, the bodies of 18 dead were found, including two children, 31 people were hospitalized , including four children and a pregnant woman. Eight more people sought medical attention. Eight people were rescued from the rubble, including three children. Rescue work continues, said the head of the OVA Maxim Marchenko.
09:23 This morning, 17 mortar attacks were recorded in the Esman community of the Sumy region, there were no victims or injured, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
09:21 In the Nikolaev area Russians fired at the regional center and the Shirokovsky community today, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported. In the city, the blow fell on the enterprise, according to preliminary information, there were no victims.
09:16 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 1. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 35,750 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1577 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 3736 (+10),
artillery systems - 796 (+6),
MLRS - 246 (+0),
air defense systems - 105 (+1),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 186 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 645 (+4),
cruise missiles - 143 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+1),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2610 (+8),
special equipment - 61 (+0).
08:54 In the village of Sergeevka, Odessa region, which Russia fired at with rockets at night, there are already 18 dead, including two children. Wounded and injured 30 people , said the deputy head of the OP Kirill Timoshenko. The rockets destroyed the outer wall of a residential building and the ceiling from the 1st to the 9th floors. At the recreation center, two floors of a residential building were damaged.
08:52 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region over the past day, four civilians were killed as a result of hostilities, 18 more were injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
08:50 Ukraine needs modern missile defense systems to withstand attacks on Ukrainian cities. So far, the Ukrainian defense is more anti-aircraft - that is, it is aimed against aircraft, said Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
He explained that the high-speed X-22 missiles that Russia used to hit the shopping center in Kremenchug are fired far from Ukraine, so enemy aircraft do not enter the range of air defense systems. Once launched, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a few minutes to process information, but, as a rule, air defense systems cannot shoot down the Kh-22.
08:48 In June, for the first time in history, the United States delivered more gas to the EU than Russia through pipelines. The International Energy Agency reported that EU countries are already preparing for winter and are reducing demand for gas.
08:46 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Timoshenko said that Russian missiles hit the village of Sergeevka in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of the Odessa region, which is located right on the Black Sea coast, tonight.
08:44 In the Pervomaisky district of the Nikolaev region, air defense shot down a rocket, it fell on the border with the Kirovograd region, the head of the district administration, Sergei Sakovsky, said.
08:42 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the liberation of Snake Island will reduce pressure on the Ukrainian coast, but will not unblock the Black Sea for cargo traffic. Analysts confirm that the enemy's flight would ease Russian pressure on the Ukrainian coast somewhat by withdrawing Russian air defense systems and anti-ship missiles from the island, but the retreat itself would not end the naval blockade.
08:39 In Nikolaev under blockages of the house destroyed by the Russian rocket found one more victim, the total number of the dead increased thus up to eight, mayor Alexander Senkevich reported.
08:36 The Pentagon is considering 1,300 proposals from 800 companies to manufacture innovative weapons for Ukraine. According to CNN, citing a source, the US Department of Defense intends to come up with ideas for the possible production of weapons for Ukraine, as well as for the US military, in the coming weeks. At the same time, the agency is looking only for those manufacturers who can implement projects in 30 days or more complex projects in 180 days.
08:33 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian troops have made limited progress in their offensives against the Lisichansk oil refinery and around Lisichansk. Also, the invaders continued offensive operations south and east of Bakhmut and north of Slavyansk, continued their attempts to regain control over settlements north of Kharkov.
Analysts suggest that the limited gains around Bakhmut indicate that Russian forces may soon attempt to set the stage for an offensive on Bakhmut itself, although they are likely to be more focused in the short term on cutting off and controlling lines of communication leaving Bakhmut. ISW also assesses the shelling by Russians of territories near Slovyansk and the city itself as creating conditions for a further offensive on Slovyansk.
08:29 Reznikov announced "good news" from Canada: "Further deliveries of important assets for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - armored combat support vehicles and drone cameras have been announced. Such assistance is crucial for our ability to resist the aggressor."
08:27 The Russians have resumed fighting in the Kramatorsk direction, in the Donetsk direction they are attacking the logistics support areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and are also trying to take control of the Lugansk region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
08:24 The invaders are storming the Lisichansk Oil Refinery, holding the northwestern and southeastern parts of the plant, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. In addition, the military of the Russian Federation carried out assault operations in the areas of Topolevka and the northern part of Volcheyarovka and Maloryazantsevo, they are partially successful, they keep a section of the Topolevka-Lysichansk road under fire control. At the same time, the enemy offensive in the direction of Loskutovka - Lisichansk gelatin plant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was stopped and forced to withdraw.
07:55 At night, Russia launched a missile attack on the Odessa region, the missile hit a residential building in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district. It is already known about 17 dead (among them one child) and 31 wounded. According to OK Pivden, the strike was carried out by Tu-22 strategic aircraft from the direction of the Black Sea with three Kh-22 missiles (each weighing about five tons). The rockets hit an apartment building and two recreation centers.
04:03 At the entrances to Kiev, checkpoints have been strengthened due to the threat from the DRG from Belarus, said press officer of the National Guard Vladimir Chernyak. In the capital itself, the number of checkpoints has now been reduced, but increased at the entrances and exits to control the situation, combined with a curfew.
03:47 Australia has imposed sanctions against 16 people, including Russian ministers, businessmen and relatives of Putin. Thus, sanctions were imposed against Maria Lvova-Belova, Alina Kabaeva, head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Dmitry Patrushev, as well as Mikhail, Roman and Igor Putin, Minister of Construction Irek Fayzullin, Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev, General Director of Rosgeology Sergey Gorkov, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Russia Mikhail Klishin and others.
03:31 The Russians, retreating from Zmeinoye, could mine the territory of the island and the surrounding waters, OK Pivden reported. According to the command, completing the emergency evacuation of personnel, the invaders destroyed military equipment, documentation and property. According to updated data, as a result of missile and artillery strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an enemy Tor air defense system, one of the small boats, a trailer with a diesel generator, a radar station and a field ammunition depot were destroyed. And the Russians themselves, during the retreat, blew up the transport-charging vehicle to the Tor air defense system, the Tornado-G multiple launch rocket system and lost a helicopter over the sea.
The OK stressed that the operation continues, ensuring control over the island requires a thorough check and the exclusion of provocations.
00:22 Britain is training several hundred Ukrainian soldiers to handle the new weapons that it supplies to Kiev to fight Russian aggression. About how the training goes - in the material the West teaches Ukrainian soldiers.
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[RIA Novosti] Russian troops and forces of the Luhansk People's Republic reached Lisichansk, the Defense Ministry reported.
"The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue their successful offensive in the area of Lisichansk . Over the past three days, the Lisichansk oil refinery, the Matrosskaya mine, the gelatin plant, and the village of Topolevka have been taken under control. The allied forces went directly to Lisichansk," the ministry said.
They added that the Ukrainian army in this area suffers heavy losses.
"Only in the village of Verkhnekamenka, the enemy lost more than 120 people killed in a day and in Verkhnekamensky - 70," the ministry said.
Soldiers of a subdivision of a special police regiment named after Hero of Russia Akhmat-hadzhi Kadyrov of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic participate in a special military operation in the
At the same time, due to the failures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the number of deserters and servicemen evading participation in hostilities is growing on the battlefield.
The Ministry of Defense added that the Ukrainian command in every possible way hides the facts of understaffing of units.
"So, in one of the battalions of the 17th Tank Brigade, operating in the area of the settlement of Novaya Poltavka of the Donetsk People's Republic, no more than 20 percent of the personnel of the regular strength remained in the ranks," the ministry noted.
[RIA Novosti] The allied forces of the Lugansk People's Republic and Russia liberated the settlements of Shipilovka and Privolye in the Donbass, a representative of the People's Militia of the LPR said.
"Units of the People's Militia of the LPR, together with the allied forces, continue to liberate the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic from the Ukrainian invaders. So, today Ukrainian nationalists were expelled from the settlements of Privolye and Shipilovka," he said.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:26 A total of 297 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by Russian operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery. 21:24 "If World War III starts, a huge number of American citizens will die in it, and NATO will be to blame. Nothing threatens us, no nation can invade the USA. And if we do not threaten others, there is no real danger of war. Ordinary Americans have nothing to gain from the endless wars we wage under the auspices of NATO and our allies.
And it is important to understand that when the fireball rises, government officials will take refuge and the world's oligarchs will take refuge in underground cities, but everyone else will be burned by their stupidity. We will have to thank NATO for the death of Western civilization": Former US Senator, retired colonel Richard Black - about the real threat to peace
20:10 The governor of the Kursk region reported damage to several houses in the village of Tetkino bordering Ukraine. There were no casualties, the extent of damage is being assessed.
14:30 Ukraine received 70,000 anti-tank weapons from the West. About a third of them have been destroyed or lost. According to "Come and See", more and more of these installations fall into service with the RF Armed Forces as trophy ones.
“About 70 thousand ATGMs and ATGMs. But a third has already been lost. Either destroyed, or went to the Russians, ”said the source of the channel.
According to the denominations of weapons and deliveries in service with the Ukrainian army:
up to 10,000 Javelin installations and missiles for them;
up to 7,000 NLAW installations;
up to 24,000 obsolete installations of the Soviet and other types, as well as ammunition for them.
In addition, Ukrainian ATGMs "Stugna" are in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, the Ukrainian army is the most saturated with ATGMs and ATGMs in the world.
12:34 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two command posts, five ammunition depots, manpower and equipment in 26 districts with high-precision weapons.
12:34 Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 32 command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a radar station for detecting air targets near Odessa.
12:34 Russian air defense systems shot down two Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Kharkiv region.
12:33 The failures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine provoke an increase in the number of deserters and draft dodgers, there is an unorganized withdrawal of individual units of the Lysichansk troops.
12:33 The Ukrainian army in the Lisichansk region lost about 200 people in a day. Likely an inflated number. 12:33 The RF Armed Forces took control of the Lisichansk Oil Refinery, the Matrosskaya mine, the gelatin plant, and the settlement of Topolevka in three days.
11:46 Snake Island in the Black Sea remains under the control of the fleet and the Aerospace Forces of Russia, State Duma deputy from the Crimean region Alexei Chernyak told RIA Novosti.
10:43 In the village of Aleksandrovka in the Slavyansk region, powerful arrivals by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Troops at this moment. The village itself has long been occupied by the Armed Forces. The nationalists set up their positions in the local school, club and repair base.
08:39 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for June 30, 2022
- The RF Armed Forces hit the enemy positions in the Sumy region.
- Positional battles continue in the north of the Kharkiv region. As a result of the missile strike of the RF Armed Forces on Kharkov, two points of deployment of the territorial defense were destroyed.
-Completed the cleanup of the Lisichansk oil refinery. The Ukrainian units that retreated to Zolotarevka are trying to gain a foothold along the last route of the retreat route from Lysichansk.
To the west of Lisichansk, allied forces are advancing on Seversk from two directions: from the side of the oil refinery to Verkhnekamenskoye and from the side of Nikolaevka to Disputed. On the southern outskirts of Lisichansk, fighting continues in the area of the rubber goods plant and Belaya Gora.
- Chechen units crossed the Seversky Donets near Privolye from the side of Staraya Krasnyanka and, together with the People's Militia of the DPR, are storming the village.
- Detachments of "PMC Wagner" are focused on cracking the defense near Bakhmut, as well as the destruction of enemy manpower and equipment at the turn of Pokrovskoye - Klinovoye.
-In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the RF Armed Forces attacked the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk and Slavgorod.
-In Nikolaev, the deployment point of foreign mercenaries was destroyed by a missile attack. An ammunition depot was destroyed in Shevchenko.
- In the Krivoy Rog direction, the RF Armed Forces shot down two Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
- The RF Armed Forces left Zmeiny Island: due to constant shelling from the Odessa region, further defense is tantamount to suicide. At the moment, the island is empty, the Ukrainian side is not ready to occupy it.
The restoration of control will allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to release most of the resources involved in the Odessa region. The main part will be directed to the Soledar direction, and the other, most likely, will be used for the planned counteroffensive in the Kherson region.
05:16 Missile strikes from Kherson on targets in Nikolaev
Above the city is a huge column of smoke at the site of the explosion.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:29 Our troops approached Lysychansk directly, Ukrainian troops suffer heavy losses. In the suburbs, the villages of Privolye and Shipilovka have already been liberated, a cleansing of the nationalists of Novodruzhesk is underway. 21:40 The northern outskirts of Lisichansk are under the complete control of the allied forces of the LPR and the Russian Federation. Currently, the territory is being cleaned up, said the LPR ambassador in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik.
21:04 In half an hour, the Ukrainian army fired 60 shells at the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic from several Grad MLRS, informs representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC). Novobakhmutovka, Panteleimonovka, Mikhailovka (in the direction of each of them, Ukrainian security forces fired 10 rockets), as well as Yasinovataya (30 rockets), were subjected to shelling, the report says. The shelling was recorded in the interval from 19:35 to 20:00 (Moscow time), clarified at the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
21:01 The Ukrainian military is trying to destroy the industrial facilities of the LPR, the target of shelling the city of Rovenka "Tochka-U" could be an oil depot, declared in the prosecutor's office of the LPR
20:59 Investigators in the frontline region of Donetsk fixed consequences of an artillery strike by Ukrainian militants
19:48 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
19:48 VFU launched a massive artillery strike on Yasynuvata, wounded and killed civilians As a result of the shelling of the city from the positions of Ukrainian militants, the following were injured:
Dzerzhinsky - a woman born in 1975;
- st. Ilovaiskaya - woman born in 1963;
- st. Nut - a woman born in 1961;
- st. Skrypnika is a woman born in 1980.
- st. Oktyabrskaya, a civilian was killed, personal data are being established.
19:43 The first points of issue of Russian passports in the DPR opened in Donetsk
19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn are not military facilities and do not pose a danger to the enemy.
Over the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than two hundred and twenty shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, as well as 122mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the districts of eight settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, four civilians were injured. Seventeen residential buildings, one civil infrastructure facility and two cars were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, six defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and ten defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:14 In Novodruzhesk, allied forces are actively advancing and clearing the city from Nazi formations. The situation is close to completion! Reported by Radion Miroshnik.
19:05 The People's Militia of the LPR announced the liberation of the settlements of Privolye and Shipilovka, the Ukrainian security forces suffered heavy losses.
19:00 Operative information from the official representative of the NM of the LPR: Units of the People's Militia of the LPR, together with allied forces, continue to liberate the territory of the Luhansk People's Republic from Ukrainian invaders. So, today Ukrainian nationalists were expelled from the settlement. Privolye and Shipilovka. The enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment. The offensive of the allied forces continues.
18:57 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Zaitsevo South: four4 shells fired 122mm; — n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Shirokaya Balka: three shells fired with a caliber of 122mm.
18:54 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): five shells fired with a caliber of 155mm.
18:26 Ukrainian troops are shelling the forests near Lisichansk with incendiary shells, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR.
18:18 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR. One person was killed, four more were injured, according to the headquarters of the defense. The shelling was carried out by the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the squares - in the peaceful areas of the city.
18:06 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
18:01 For the six months of this year, the republic fulfilled the plan for state budget revenues by 102.6 percent. This was reported by the Ministry of Finance of the LPR.
17:59 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
17:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Gornyatsky district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
17:26 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
16:45 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
16:11 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad".
16:09 There are more than 10,000 civilians in Lisichansk, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said.
15:58 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
15:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:12 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
14:43 Headquarters of TerO DPR reports:
As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, two civilians were wounded, and housing construction was also damaged:
-- On st. True, two civilians received mine-explosive injuries and were taken to the 17th city hospital;
-- On st. Izotov damaged housing construction.
14:40 The head of the Luhansk military administration, Sergei Gaidai, said that the militants of the Luhansk Teroborona received 10 "school buses", attaching a corresponding photo.
14:39 The DPR forces are conducting offensive operations in the direction of Slavyansk, there is an activation in the south in the area of Vogledar, the Ministry of Information reports.
14:13 Artillery officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vitaliy Milostivtoldhow for two weeks his unit fired from several self-propelled guns at settlements with civilians.
The positions were at the plant. Ilyich in Mariupol.
On April 12, 2022, they surrendered to the Russian servicemen - the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ran out of food and ammunition.
14:08 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
14:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
13:03 Soldiers of the special forces "Akhmat" and the second corps of the People's Militia of the LPR crossed the Northern Donets River and approached the settlement of Novodruzhesk, which is located north of Lisichansk. Soldiers of the allied forces surround the positions of the Ukrainian forces and systematically squeeze Lisichansk into pincers.
12:39 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Lastochkino - n.p. Vasilyevka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
12:31 The first microdistrict under construction in Mariupol is twelve five-story buildings, one thousand and eleven apartments, which will be commissioned before the onset of cold weather, - Pushilin.
12:30 Ukrainian soldiers are trying to escape from Lisichansk by country roads. They leave in small groups, they say that they were thrown, they don’t want to fight and they don’t advise others.
12:03 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kyiv district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
12:01 Consequences of shelling armed formations of Ukraine, the city of Rovenka.
According to updated information from the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC, the shelling of the city of Rovenka was carried out using the Tochka-U tactical missile system. The enemy fired 2 rockets with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead into the city.
As a result of the shelling, a private garage and a car were destroyed, the contact network of the railway track was damaged, and the glazing in a number of industrial and administrative buildings adjacent to the shelling sites was damaged. There are no victims or injured.
Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
11:57 Yasinovataya is under fire again! The AFU dealt another blow to the civilians of the city.
11:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kyiv district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
11:42 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber and 10 rockets from the BM-21 Grad were fired.
11:34 Shelling of the city of Rovenki in the LPR by Ukrainian troops speaks of American supplies of long-range ammunition to Ukraine - Lieutenant Colonel of the NM LPR Andrey Marochko
11:29 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
11:07 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
10:50 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— settlement Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
10:21 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Nikolaevka-2 - n.p. Vorobyovka: eight missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Dolomite: fired six mines in 120mm caliber.
09:52 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:35 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
09:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military targets.
Over the current day, according to information from the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 540 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 82mm and 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of sixteen settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, seven civilians were injured, of which one child was born in 2010. Thirty-four residential buildings and 11 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: six vehicles, five armored personnel carriers and more than 50 personnel.
09:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
09:15 Consequences of the shelling of the village of Holmovsky by the armed forces of Ukraine on June 30, 2022:
-- Nikitovskoye highway, 5 (photo 1);
-- st. Soviet Army, 16 (photo 2);
-- st. Gardina, 9 (photo 3);
-- st. Gardina, 8 (photo 4);
- st. Soviet Army, 11, the building of the recreation center "Golmovsky" (photo 5);
-- st. Soviet Army, 26 (photo 6);
-- Nikitovskoye highway, 7 (photo 7);
-- st. Gardina, 10 (photo 8).
Residential buildings along the street were also damaged. Soviet Army, 44, 46, Palladina, 1, Selidovskaya, 8.
08:35 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
-- Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
-- Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
07:32 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling was recorded: 06.30 from the direction of the settlement. Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) according to the settlement Rovenki with the use of MLRS M142 HIMARS (two missiles). Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
07:00 The Liberal Democratic Party proposes to add Z and V to the list of letters that can be used on Russian license plates.
As RIA Novosti was informed in the Duma faction, such an appeal was sent to the head of the traffic police Chernikov.
06:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
06:39 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
06:35 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— settlement Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired three mines with a caliber of 120mm.
04:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: four shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
04:24 After 03:00, shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Lastochkino - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
0:16 The forces of the LPR and the Russian Federation have liberated the settlements of Disputed, Zolotarevka and Belaya Gora and are developing an offensive against Seversk, a source reports.
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[REGNUM] The lifestyle of the Cossack is based on the Orthodox faith and love for the Fatherland, thanks to which the Cossacks have always been the backbone of the state. Real Cossacks, as they were, and remained warriors by nature. Nikolai Dyakonov , commander of the Don Cossack detachment, wrote about this in his telegram channel .
"Brother Cossacks! I call on you to mobilize, to act together as a united front and to complete the destruction of the Nazism that has raised its head in Ukraine. We cannot be divided into registered and social activists, our own and others - among the soldiers of Christ there are no Cossacks of strangers. We announced a muster under our banners for a campaign against Nazism, against those who set it as their goal to destroy us and publicly admitted this. Hurry up to do your manly work,” Dyakonov addressed the Cossacks.
REGNUM reported that in the spring of 2022, the Cossack units went to the Donbass. The volunteer Cossack detachment "Don" named after the Archangel Michael, which included representatives of the Union of Cossack Warriors of Russia and Abroad (SKVRiZ), also takes part in a special operation to protect the republics of Donbass.
[REGNUM] In the Rostov region, the Cossacks of the Platov Hundred of the Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University were given cornet shoulder straps. The solemn ceremony took place in the Patriarchal Ascension Military All-Cossack Cathedral in Novocherkassk, the capital of the Don and world Cossacks, the Don government told REGNUM news agency .
The first officer rank of cornet was assigned to 18 young Cossacks of the Platov Hundred platoon. Ten representatives of the village Cossack society "Platovskoye" were participants in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2021 as part of the consolidated parade crew of the All-Great Don Army.
IA REGNUM notes that the SRSPU named after Platov (formerly the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute) is one of the oldest in the South of Russia and the first Cossack in the history of the country. On the basis of the military institute of the SRSPU, a Cossack village was created, and later - the Cossack Platov Hundred of young Cossacks. Among other things, young Cossacks master such disciplines as the organization of Cossack self-government, legal support for the activities of Cossack societies, the basics of Orthodox culture, and the economy of Cossack regions.
[REGNUM] Cossacks of the military Cossack society "Great Don Army" will make a horse march in memory of the feat of the 110th Kalmyk Cavalry Division. This was reported to IA REGNUM today, July 1, by the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy of Kalmykia.
The cavalry will set off on July 10. The route of the Cossacks runs through the places of military glory of grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who in 1942 detained the many times superior forces of the Nazi troops on the Don, ensuring the crossing of a number of formations of the Red Army.
The beginning of the campaign will be laid in the Small Derbets, where the 110th Kalmyk cavalry division was formed. The riders will be dressed in the military uniform of the cavalrymen of the 1942 model. In 12 days, the horsemen will travel 470 km, visit memorable places in Kalmykia and the Rostov region, and commemorate the dead during the Great Patriotic War with a minute of silence.
The horse crossing will end in the village of Razdorskaya, Ust-Donetsk region, where Hero of the Soviet Union Erdni Delikov took his last fight .
[NYPOST] Russian missile attacks on residential areas in a coastal town near the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Friday killed at least 18 people, including two children, authorities reported, a day after Russian forces withdrew from a strategic Black Sea island.
Video of the pre-dawn attack showed the charred remains of buildings in the small town of Serhiivka, located about 31 miles southwest of Odesa. Ukrainian news reports said missiles struck a multi-story apartment building and a resort area.
"A terrorist country is killing our people. In response to defeats on the battlefield, they fight civilians," Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Kirill Tymoshenko, said 18 people died, including two children. A front man for the Odesa regional government, Serhiy Bratchuk, said on the Telegram messaging app that another 30 had been injured.
Sixteen of the 18 victims died in the strike on the apartment building, Ukrainian emergency officials said.
The Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s followed the pullout of Russian forces from Snake Island on Thursday, a move that was expected to potentially ease the threat to nearby Odesa. The island sits along a busy shipping lane. Russia took control of it in the opening days of the war in the apparent hope of using it as a staging ground for an assault on Odesa.
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North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... is blaming its COVID-19 outbreak on "alien things" — including balloons flown from South Korea.
The state media report said the hermit kingdom’s epidemic prevention center had found COVID clusters in the town of Ipho near its southeastern border with South Korea and that some Ipho residents with feverish symptoms traveled to Pyongyang.
The center said an 18-year-old soldier and a 5-year-old child had contact with "alien things" in the town located in the eastern county of Kumgang in early April and later tested positive for the Omicron variant.
In what it called "an emergency instruction," the epidemic prevention center ordered officials to "vigilantly deal with alien things coming by wind and other climate phenomena and balloons" along the inter-Korean border and trace their sources. It also stressed that anyone finding "alien things" must notify authorities immediately so they could be removed.
The reports did not specify what the "alien things" were. But laying the blame on things flown across the border likely is a way to ease public complaints about its handling of the pandemic while repeating its objections to the ballooning activities of North Korean defectors and activists in South Korea, observers say.
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...Yeeeeeeeeeeah, let's go with that.
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The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2022 is -1.0 percent on June 30, down from 0.3 percent on June 27. After recent releases from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and the US Census Bureau, the nowcasts of second-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and real gross private domestic investment growth decreased from 2.7 percent and -8.1 percent, respectively, to 1.7 percent and -13.2 percent, respectively, while the nowcast of the contribution of the change in real net exports to second-quarter GDP growth increased from -0.11 percentage points to 0.35 percentage points
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The hope here is that the Fed will stick to its anti-inflation guns and not wimp out as it did throughout the early- and mid-70s, which only makes the inevitable solution much more painful.
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[AlAhram] The rust-colored tower rising from an industrial site near the banks of Berlin's Spree river looks nothing like the sleek flasks Germans use for coffee, yet its purpose is similar: to provide some warmth throughout the day, especially when it's cold outside.
With a height of 45 meters (almost 150 feet) and holding up to 56 million liters (14.8 million gallons) of hot water, utility company Vattenfall says the tower will help heat Berlin homes this winter even if Russian gas supplies dry up.
``It's a huge thermos that helps us to store the heat when we don't need it,'' said Tanja Wielgoss, who heads the Sweden-based company's heat unit in Germany. ``And then we can release it when we need to use it.''
While district heating systems fueled by coal, gas or waste have been around for more than a century, most aren't designed to store significant amounts of heat. Instead, they burn as much fossil fuel as needed, contributing to the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming.
By contrast, the new facility unveiled Thursday at Vattenfall's Reuter power station will hold water brought to almost boiling temperature using electricity from solar and wind power plants across Germany. During periods when renewable energy exceeds demand the facility effectively acts as a giant battery, though instead of storing electricity it stores heat.
``Sometimes you have an abundance of electricity in the grids that you cannot use anymore, and then you need to turn off the wind turbines,'' said Wielgoss. ``Where we are standing we can take in this electricity.''
The 50-million-euro ($52 million) facility will have a thermal capacity of 200 Megawatts - enough to meet much of Berlin's hot water needs during the summer and about 10% of what it requires in the winter. The vast, insulated tank can keep water hot for up to 13 hours, helping bridge short periods when there's little wind or sun.
It will also be able to use other sources of heat - such as that extracted from wastewater, said Wielgoss. While it will be Europe's biggest heat storage facility when it's completed at the end of this year, an even bigger one is already being planned in the Netherlands.
Berlin's top climate official, Bettina Jarasch, said the faster such heat storage systems are built, the better.
``Due to its geographic location the Berlin region is even more dependent on Russian fossil fuels than other parts of Germany,`` she told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. ``That's why we're really in a hurry here.''
``The war in Ukraine and the energy crisis teach us that we need to be faster,'' said Jarasch.
``First of all to become climate neutral,`` she said. ``And secondly, to become independent (of energy imports).''
Figures released Thursday by Germany's utility industry association BDEW shows efforts to reduce natural gas use are having an effect.
Consumption of gas dropped by 14.3% in the first five months of this year compared to the same period in 2021.
Part of the decline was due to milder weather, but the industry group said even accounting for warmer temperatures there was a measurable drop that it attributed to bumpier economic conditions, appeals from the German government to save energy and individuals' personal efforts.
Wielgoss said she was confident that Vattenfall's customers won't go cold this winter, despite the looming gas squeeze from Russia as Moscow retaliates for Western sanctions by reducing the gas flowing through key pipelines.
``Consumers in Germany are very well protected,'' she said. ``So they for sure will not suffer any shortages. But of course, we plead with everybody to really start saving energy.''
``Each kilowatt hour we save is good for the country,'' she added.
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"...and about 10% of what it requires in the winter."
"...using electricity from solar and wind power plants across Germany."
"...insulated tank can keep water hot for up to 13 hours"
So it is 50-million-euro ($52 million) that could have been invested in a small nuclear facility, for example, that actually generates energy when they will desperately need it in the cold weather. Madness...
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
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[NYPOST] A Texas man who admitted to having sex with a horse and sexually assaulting several others has been 
Greek mythology. Transequestrian? When will it end ? 
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
