[Fox13Memphis] Columbia police arrested Marquise Love Robinson, 20, on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and battery, and unlawfully carrying a pistol, the department said in a news conference Monday...
The update came one day after police arrested Jewayne M. Price, 22, on a charge of unlawfully carrying a pistol following the shooting, which occurred about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Columbiana Centre...
Police are still searching for a third suspect in connection with the incident. Amari Sincere-Jamal Smith, 19, remains at large and faces the same charges as Robinson, at this point it seems Gang related
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..That part of town has been in flux for a while - we used to live about a mile or so from Columbiana Centre, and the shopping district around it has been up to now pretty safe.
But the ferals are creeping ever outward.
Mike
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Last time I passed through Columbia, SC, I said "never again."
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Obviously White supremacists
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Where Whites involved in any of the weekend’s mass shootings?
[NYPOST] A 22-year-old Michigan man has been found guilty of shooting an 18-year-old woman — and then recording himself kicking her for almost 11 minutes until she died.
Andrew Lafey shot Gracyn Brickley several times with a .22-caliber rifle behind a house on Guy Road in Maple Grove Township on Feb. 16, 2021, WILX reported.
The monster then used his phone to record a nearly 11-minute-long video of himself kicking and taunting her until she died.
He then buried Brickley’s body in snow and showed the brutal footage to his friends and his father — who turned him in to the police, according to the news outlet.
Lafey was convicted Friday of a slew of charges, including first-degree murder, which carries a maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole, felony firearm possession and torture.
"We are pleased with the verdict and that justice for Grace Brickley and her family was served," the Barry County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Prosecutor Julie Nakfoor Pratt described the horrific crime.
"The Defendant video taped himself stomping on and taunting Grace Brickley for close to 11 minutes. The torture seen in the video came after Lafey shot Grace Brickley twice and inflicted multiple injuries to her face and breaking her jaw," she said, according to the outlet.
"Justice for Grace Brickley and her family was served," she added.
The sadistic killer is slated to be sentenced June 9.
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Explain to me again why the death penalty is "inhumane"?
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Since DNA can identify perpetrators of capital crimes, the death penalty should be instated in all states.
“In the 1800s, many people in America and Europe began to oppose the death penalty. Michigan abolished it in 1845 and Wisconsin entered the Union in 1848 without a death penalty in its statutes. The movement against the death penalty grew stronger after World War II, especially in Europe, where many were weary of so much killing during the war.”
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[NYPOST] Most Twitter employees don’t think Elon Musk has the company’s best interests in mind, with some calling him an "a—hole" and questioning whether he is "pumping and dumping" the company’s stock, according to a new survey.
A whopping 68% of Twitter employees disapprove of Musk’s Musk’s tweets about company strategy, which have included musings about potentially eliminating ads and making Twitter a paid service, the poll shows.
An even greater 78% say he doesn’t have "the best interests of Twitter and its shareholders" in mind when he makes such posts, according to a survey of verified Twitter employees conducted by corporate message board Blind and shared with The Post on Monday.
"Don’t want him as CEO," one employee wrote. "He has no compassion."
"I’m not convinced he’s in the best place mentally," another employee said.
A third labeled him a "dangerously insane oligarch."
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... a slim majority — 52% — say it’s better that Musk isn’t joining the company’s board, the poll shows. More than two-thirds of the 232 Twitter employees surveyed also said they disapprove of Musk’s tweets about company strategy, which have included musings about potentially eliminating ads and making Twitter a paid service.
"Elon’s vision and Twitter don’t align," one employee wrote.
Others questioned whether Musk’s purchase of a 9.2% stake in Twitter, which contributed to its stock surging about 25% earlier this month, was all part of a "pump and dump scheme" that could see the mogul make billions by selling his shares at a premium.
"He’s either just pumping and dumping or [has] no plan," another Twitter employee said.
Despite the fury toward Musk, Twitter employees also appear to be unhappy with the company’s board and Parag Agrawal, who succeeded founder Jack Dorsey as CEO in November.
Agrawal initially said Musk would join Twitter’s board, saying he would bring "great value" to the boardroom. Days later, Agrawal said Musk was not joining Twitter’s board after all. Then Musk mounted a bid for Twitter, prompting the company’s board to fight back with a "poison pill" defensive maneuver on Friday.
A whopping 69% of surveyed employees said the CEO and board have done a "poor" job handling the confrontations with Musk.
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Best thing Musk could do would be to effectively shut Twitter down as hopeless. Second best, take names and fire all those who show lack of confidence in his management.
Carlson, 52, is currently gearing up to release a series of new documentaries for season two of his show, Tucker Carlson Originals
One of the episodes, entitled The End of Men, is set to focus on the 'total collapse of testosterone levels in American men'
But when the political commentator suggested that guys tan their private parts as a way to feel more manly, it left many people on the internet bewildered
He shared a preview for the upcoming docuseries last week - which showed a bunch of shirtless men participating in 'bizarre' activities
It contained a montage of half-naked guys wrestling, milking cows, shooting guns, chopping wood, taking an ice bath, and 'testicle tanning'
The video quickly went viral, and many people took to Twitter to troll Carlson - mocking him for the 'homoerotic' and 'outright weird' preview
Even though Carlson refers to it as 'testicle tanning' in the clip, the process that he is referring to is actually red light therapy Is that the same as infrared?
Red light therapy is not about making your body tan, but rather, 'improving the skin's appearance' and 'reducing wrinkles, scars, redness, and acne'
[Rolling Stone] A Trump-appointed Federal judge in Florida has voided a national mask mandate for airplanes and other transportation. "Wearing a mask cleans nothing," U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle wrote in her decision on Monday. "At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ’sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ’sanitizes’ the conveyance."
Mizelle, 35, was only eight years out of law school at University of Florida when Trump appointed her to the lifetime position in 2020. The Daily Beast noted at the time that her only trial experience was as an intern, and that she held four clerkships, including one for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Mizelle was rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association prior to her appointment, citing her lack of experience.
The transportation mandate case on which Mizelle ruled was filed on behalf of a group known as Health Freedom Defense Fund, as well as airline passengers. Mizelle said that the Centers for Disease Control had exceeded its legal authority, that it had failed to justify its decision and follow comment protocols, and that the mandate was "arbitrary and capricious," according to The Washington Post. The CDC had announced earlier this month that it extended its mask mandate to May 3.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it will no longer enforce the mask mandate in light of Mizelle’s decision, according to CNN.
The Biden administration was dismayed by the ruling. "This is obviously a disappointing decision," Press Secretary Jen Psaki said at a press briefing on Monday. "The CDC continues recommending wearing a mask in public transit."
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Airlines are dropping the mandate like a hot potato.
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Mizelle was rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association prior to her appointment
"And we haven't even looked at her high school yearbooks yet!"
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There was story on the local news saying the stewardesses were going to stop complying with the mask mandate anyway. I would honestly love to see the shit show that would create.
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Good for her. The administrative state has often over-stepped its authority and assumed powers not granted.
[FoxNews] The Florida Department of Education rejected textbooks, saying they include language that violates the state standards.
The Florida Department of Education is rejecting more than 40% of the mathematics textbooks submitted to be used in the upcoming school year, citing critical race theory, Common Core and other language included in them that violate the state's new standards.
"Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics," the department said in a news release.
After reviewing 132 submitted textbooks, the department found 54 of them – 41% – were in violation of the state's standards.
"The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies," the department said.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a statement that the rejected books included language that attempts to indoctrinate students.
“It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,” DeSantis said. “I’m grateful that Commissioner [Richard] Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law.”
In 2021, the department sought bids for mathematics instructional materials to be included on the state’s adopted list.
"Florida has been clear that instructional materials must first and foremost be aligned to Florida’s new B.E.S.T. Standards," the department announcement said. The department "proactively informed publishers in June 2021 that textbooks must align to the B.E.S.T. Standards, state laws regarding required instruction, and that they should not incorporate unsolicited strategies such as SEL in their instructional materials."
In 2019, DeSantis signed an executive order to eliminate Common Core standards in the state. This year, he signed legislation that bans classroom curriculum that includes teaching gender identity or sexual orientation to students in grades K-3.
"Despite rejecting 41 percent of materials submitted, every core mathematics course and grade is covered with at least one textbook," the department said.
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Just in the sands hills does CRT have do with math?
Does it teach kids how math and statistics discriminate when applied to adding BLACK CRIMES vs. Other races per 1000 or what?
[HUFFPOST] Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov on Monday explained what may lead to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ouster by his inner circle in a "palace coup."
CNN’s Paula Reid asked the longtime Putin critic and political activist if he expected to see more anti-Kremlin sentiment building in Russia as its invasion of Ukraine falters.
"Eventually, yes," replied Kasparov, a chess grandmaster for the former Soviet Union and Russia.
Kasparov then laid out "the order of moves that cannot be reversed."
"First, the Russian public and Russian elite, they have to recognize the war is lost," he said. "The bad news coming from Ukraine will inspire more people to rise because economic hardship will increase."
"So, military defeat in Ukraine, social-economic revolt and then you will have conditions, the right conditions, for a palace coup," Kasparov predicted. "Because many of Putin’s inner circle will be looking for a scapegoat and it’s always a dictator who should be blamed for all the failures."
Putin knows losing the war on Ukraine "is not an option for him," said Kasparov.
"It’s a matter of political survival and in many cases ... of physical survival," he added. "That’s why he has to pretend he is winning the war."
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Russia will probably win but it will be a Pyrrhic victory, especially for Putin. (And we have been seeing suggestions for a while now that Putin has Parkinson’s- which can have mental illness/irrationality elements, which could explain some of the Ukraine actions.)
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Not a "nuclear wasteland," just a Gaza style shithole that the West's grifters will spend $1 trillion or more of their people's money trying to "reconstruct"... just like the Iraq boondoggle and the Afghan sinkhole
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Meanwhile, Russia destroys Ukraine's ability to export anything (except needy refugees), takes over that country's share of the global wheat market and grabs all its natural gas reserves in the Donbas.
All while the US destroys the reserve currency status of the dollar, the West becomes significantly poorer, China gains power and influence and the non-western world orients itself toward Russia and China.
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^ Exactly. Neocons are salivating at the thought of another ten-year overseas war they can lose. Why restrict yourself to fucking up in Iraq Afghanistan and Libya when you can add Ukraine to the list?
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We started in Vietnam with "advisors" and "trainers" around 1960, too. And we all know how that turned out.
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#7: I believe Kennedy was going to get us out. Johnson kept us in on the pretext of he wouldn't be the first us president to lose a war. Nixon got us out. Meanwhile exellent military training.
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[Korrespondent] 23:06 The next US anti-Russian sanctions will be directed against the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, said US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wall Adeyem. 23:04 Zelensky acknowledged that in the east and south of Ukraine, Russian troops are attacking "a little more thoughtfully than before" - they are looking for weak points to enter with the main forces. "But let them not hope that it will help them. The liberation of our entire territory is only a matter of time," the president assured.
22:56 After the Russian attack, the President of Ukraine has become in the eyes of the West an icon of the struggle for freedom. Zelensky won sympathy for his emotionality and straightforwardness. Read more about this in the material Zelensky's Speech: how the whole world listens to the president .
22:52 Zelensky said that Russian troops have begun the battle for Donbass, which they have been preparing for so long. According to him, a significant part of the Russian troops is concentrated there for the offensive. "No matter how many soldiers are driven there, we will defend ourselves. We will fight. We will not give up anything Ukrainian," the president stressed.
22:49 Macron said his dialogue with Putin stalled after massacres were discovered in Ukraine: "After the massacres that we found in Bucha and other cities, the war took a different turn, so I have not spoken since then with him directly, but I do not rule out doing so in the future."
22:22 Yermak said that now a lot of fakes are spreading about the Russian offensive: "The second phase of the war has begun, but I will tell you that the Armed Forces of Ukraine - everything is reliable. Believe in our army, we have it very strong."
22:19 The commander of the Azov regiment, lieutenant colonel Denis Prokopenko, said in an address to international leaders that right now hundreds of civilians are hiding from the "Russian world" at the Azovstal metallurgical plant.
"The Russian-occupation troops and their proxies from the 'LNR/DNR' know this, they know about civilians and willingly fire at the plant. They use free-fall bombs, rockets, bunker bombs, all types of artillery - both ground and naval , for indiscriminate attacks," Prokopenko said.
He called on politicians from all over the civilized world to organize a proper green corridor, ensure its safety and immediate evacuation and protection of civilians, wounded soldiers and the bodies of dead soldiers, and bury them with honors.
22:13 The Central Bank of Russia admitted that it is no longer able to contain the economic consequences of the sanctions imposed because of the war against Ukraine. More about this - in the material of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, a crisis in the economy awaits .
22:11 In the Donetsk and Lugansk directions, the JFO soldiers repulsed seven enemy attacks, destroyed ten tanks, one artillery system, 18 armored units, eight vehicles and one enemy mortar along with the calculation.
Air defense units in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbass shot down one enemy Su-30 fighter and four Orlan-10 drones.
21:42 Yermak said that the Temporary Protected Status announced in early March for Ukrainian citizens who were physically in the United States has been officially introduced from today. The status of temporary protection will allow Ukrainians to stay in the United States for up to 18 months with the possibility of applying for a work permit in the country.
21:33 The rector of the church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Novograd-Volynsky district will stand trial for calling on parishioners to support the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Zhytomyr regional prosecutor's office said.
The suspect tried to convince the community that the Russian authorities had sent troops "to liberate Ukrainians from the Nazis and Bandera, to protect the Russian-speaking population of the fraternal people."
21:28 The US military plans to begin training the Ukrainian military in the handling of howitzer artillery in the coming days, a senior Pentagon official said, Reuters writes. The exercises will take place outside of Ukraine.
21:25 The Mariupol City Council reports that the Russian invaders are attacking Azovstal with super-heavy air bombs. There are at least a thousand civilians in the underground shelters of the metallurgical plant - mostly women with children and the elderly.
21:18 Russian troops set themselves the task of completely getting the Donetsk and Luhansk regions before Easter, said NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov.
21:09 Near Balakleya, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian plane, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, said.
21:07 The EU condemns the ongoing "indiscriminate and illegal" shelling of civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine by the Russian armed forces, Borrell said.
21:03 The US and Romanian defense ministers discussed the need for urgent assistance to Kiev against the backdrop of a possible Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, the US department said. Also discussed was the formation of a multinational NATO battle group in Romania under the leadership of France.
20:59 In the Kharkiv region, 13 civilians were killed today as a result of shelling by Russian troops, the National Police reported.
20:32 In the Zaporozhye region, 155 facts of the abduction of civilians by Russian occupiers were registered, the OVA reported. Of these, 86 hostages were released, 69 people are in captivity.
Of the total number of abducted - 34 representatives of local authorities (24 were released), 14 entrepreneurs (six were released), 12 heads of enterprises, institutions, organizations (five were released), three lawyers (two were released), two journalists (both were released). Also on the list is one teenager - the 16-year-old son of the head of the Zaporizhzhya regional state administration Oleg Buryak. Now his whereabouts are unknown.
20:27 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said that in the morning the Russian invaders began the second phase of the offensive: "Our troops are holding out. Only in two places they managed to break through - this is Kremennaya and another small town. Fighting continues. We do not surrender our territories."
20:15 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "a high-precision strike in the Lviv region struck a joint center for providing rear services to Ukrainian troops, and large batches of foreign weapons from the United States and European countries were destroyed."
Also, in the area of the settlement of Vasilkov, Kiev region, a "large ammunition depot" was allegedly destroyed. And in the Dnieper, a factory for the repair of warheads of Tochka-U tactical missiles was allegedly destroyed. In total, according to Moscow, "operational-tactical aviation of the Aerospace Forces carried out strikes on 84 military targets of Ukraine in a day."
20:07 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that Putin has not canceled the task of destroying the top political leadership of Ukraine.
20:00 Washington and Beijing are closer than ever to an armed conflict over a strategic island. Details - in the material Factor of Ukraine: Taiwan is preparing for war with China .
19:57 The Russian Federation has strengthened its presence in the east and south of Ukraine, a senior Pentagon official said, CNN reports. Since the end of last week, Russia has added 11 battalion tactical groups to its forces in eastern and southern Ukraine, according to US estimates, bringing the total number of Russian BTGs to 76.
19:50 During the war with Ukraine, Alexander Chirva, the commander of a large landing ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Caesar Kunikov, died. The "head" of the administration of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that Chirva died from wounds received in battle on the mainland of Ukraine. He did not provide other details.
The commander of the 49th anti-aircraft missile brigade of the tactical air defense unit of the Russian Ground Forces, Colonel Ivan Grishin, also died.
19:28 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that his country would help Ukraine with weapons - this decision was almost unanimously approved by the country's parliament.
19:17 The grouping of the occupying forces of the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine continues to focus its main efforts on capturing the settlements of Liman, Kremennaya, Popasna and Rubizhne, as well as on establishing full control over Mariupol, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
The enemy stepped up offensive operations in the Severodonetsk, Popasnyansky, Kurakhovsky and Zaporozhye directions. To build up efforts, the enemy continues to concentrate additional tank and artillery subunits. The fighting for Mariupol continues, the Russian Federation is trying to storm in the seaport area.
19:08 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced "signs of the beginning" of an offensive operation in the Eastern Operational Zone. Thus, in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk operational regions, the aggressor intensified offensive and assault operations in certain areas. It is expected to continue attempts to advance on the Izyum-Slavyansk and Izyum-Barvenkovo directions.
The goals of the Russian Federation are the occupation of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and the retention of control over the occupied territories.
In order to strengthen their offensive capabilities, the invaders continue to form additional units on the territory of the Rostov region and in the Crimea. According to available information, the approximate date of formation is until April 24. Also, provocative actions and the use of army aviation by the enemy in the regions of the Russian Federation bordering Ukraine with Ukraine, including strikes against civilian objects, are not ruled out.
18:53 The World Bank lowered its global economic growth forecast for 2022 from 4.1% to 3.2%.
18:36 The detention of Medvedchuk, who escaped from custody, stirred up Ukraine. The ex-people's deputy and godfather of Putin is suspected of treason and assistance to the activities of a terrorist organization. Everything that is known at the moment is in the material Medvedchuk's Exchange: a new way to help Mariupol .
18:18 The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine plans within a few weeks to return the possibility of conducting transactions for the purchase and sale of real estate in territories where hostilities are not ongoing, said the head of the department, Denis Malyuska.
18:03 In Mariupol, the invaders are inciting the local population to cooperate, promising to pay compensation for destroyed housing in rubles. According to the Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, in this way the enemy is trying to carry out a ruble occupation of the occupied territories in order to isolate the population later, following the example of ORDLO. They promise to pay compensation only to those who receive fake documents from the invaders. The next step is the forced renunciation of Ukrainian citizenship.
17:56 Russia is carrying out the militarization of children in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. According to the Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova, it is planned to open the largest Cossack cadet corps in the Lugansk region for 400 seats in Starobelsk. In addition, the occupying authorities plan to open cadet corps and classes in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk.
As of the end of 2021, there were 62 cadet classes in the occupied territory of the Luhansk region, with more than 1,200 children, and two cadet corps, with 417 children.
There are already dead among the graduates of the cadet corps. In particular, in early April 2022, Andrei Degtyarenko, a graduate of the Republican Cossack Cadet Corps named after Air Marshal Alexander Efimov (Lugansk), a graduate of 2017, died while performing "combat missions" of the invaders.
17:42 Zelensky handed over the completed questionnaire to the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine to obtain the status of a candidate for membership in the European Union.
Zelensky handed over a questionnaire to the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership
17:39 Putin awarded the 64th motorized rifle brigade, which was located in Bucha, the title of guards - "for mass heroism and courage, fortitude and courage shown by personnel in combat operations to protect the Fatherland and state interests."
17:28 Le Pen said that "Russia is a great power," and she would not want Russia to "finally enter into an alliance with China."
"As Emmanuel Macron said, the rapprochement between Russia and Europe is an important condition for ensuring the security of our continent and our country. Imagine: the largest country in the world will unite with the country with the largest population. The first producer of raw materials in the world, Russia, with the first world plant, China, in order to create, let's say, the first military force in the world. I think this is a great danger. Therefore, it is necessary by diplomatic measures, until the war is over, until the agreement is signed, to avoid this merger, which risks becoming a great danger of the 21st century for us" , - considers the candidate for the presidency of France.
17:25 Russian invaders have stepped up the activities of their sabotage groups in Ukraine. Terrorist attacks are possible on Easter, and not only in war zones, First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin warned: “Unfortunately, DRGs do not walk with parachutes behind their backs and do not have other characteristic differences. That is why we call on our conscious citizens to be vigilant.” .
Earlier today, saboteurs were detained in Zhuliany near Kyiv. And in Moscow they said that the Ukrainians for Easter are preparing "sophisticated monstrous provocations with numerous victims in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions."
17:00 Two British fighters captured by the Russian military appeared on Russian state television. Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin asked Johnson to trade them for Medvedchuk, reports Sky News.
16:51 Russia has concentrated carriers of at least 36 cruise missiles in the Black Sea, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "Over the past day, the number of sorties of Russian operational-tactical aircraft has increased by more than one and a half times, and there are five Russian carriers in the Black Sea sea-based cruise missiles of the Caliber type. Their potential total salvo is at least 36 missiles."
16:49 Belgium most effectively applies sanctions against the Russian Federation - they froze Russian assets worth about 200 billion euros. At the same time, Portugal blocked one account for 242 euros, and Spain arrested three yachts, said Daniil Getmantsev, head of the BP Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy.
16:43 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated several settlements in the vicinity of Izyum , said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk.
16:24 Denisova said that on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, which the invaders are going to storm, there are at least a thousand civilians, including women, children and the elderly. They hide in the premises and basements of the plant, as their houses are destroyed and they do not want to be sent to filtration camps and the Russian Federation.
16:19 Monobank stopped serving customers who were before the war and still have not left the territories of Russia, Belarus, Crimea, LDNR, North Korea, Siri and Eritrea. According to the head of the bank, Oleg Gorokhovsky, there are a total of 11,251 people. Their accounts will be closed.
16:14 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that a total of about 50,000 civilians from settlements controlled by Ukraine remain in the region. In the occupied cities, Russian mercenaries are looking for men, they are immediately seized and sent to fight against Ukraine.
Gaidai also said that the bulk of the local authorities either left for controlled territories or do not cooperate with the occupiers, although there are several collaborators.
16:11 The Azov Regiment reported that, despite the superior forces of the enemy, the defense of Mariupol continues, the Ukrainian defenders are conducting a counterattack.
16:08 The number of official refuseniks is growing among the Russian military. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, among contract soldiers in units of the 150th motorized rifle division of the 8th army of the southern military district of the RF Armed Forces, the number of refusals reached 60-70% of the total number of personnel.
The deputies of division commanders for military-political work and FSB officers "work" with refuseniks. In case of repeated refusal, they threaten reprisals against relatives. Those who have not been convinced, who have not yet participated in the war against Ukraine, but remained in the so-called strategic reserve, as well as those who arrived in the unit during the rotation, but refused to participate in hostilities, are put on a military ID corresponding stamps.
Also, Russian servicemen are promised a payment for a wound or concussion in the amount of 3 million rubles, but it can only be received if the serviceman returns to the unit for further participation in hostilities. Otherwise, there are critical problems with paperwork and even obtaining proper medical services and certificates of the very presence of an injury.
15:57 Ukraine has sent the first part of the completed questionnaire to the European Commission to obtain the status of a candidate member of the EU and is already working on the second part, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanyshina said.
15:54 In the Chernihiv region liberated from the Russians, the bodies of 71 people were removed from the rubble of houses, 41 people were saved, the rescuers said. Since the beginning of hostilities in the region, 14,553 explosive items have been seized.
15:42 In the occupied Genichesk, a monument to Lenin was restored on the central square, local residents report. The monument was dismantled in July 2015 as part of decommunization.
15:33 Vereshchuk appealed to the military-political leadership of Russia in connection with the situation in Mariupol: "We demand the opening of a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol to Berdyansk for civilians. Separately, we demand an urgent humanitarian corridor from the territory of the Azovstal plant for women, children and other civilians Your refusal to open these humanitarian corridors will in the future be the basis for bringing all those involved to criminal liability for war crimes."
15:28 In Russia, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the website of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch was blocked because of an article about events in Ukraine.
15:22 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, believes that after the capture of Kremennaya, the Russians will try to take Rubizhne and Popasnaya. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a very powerful line of defense in Zolote, and Russian troops will not be able to pass this city. But around Popasnaya and Rubezhnoye they have accumulated enough equipment and manpower.
He said that in the Kremennaya Armed Forces of Ukraine they would retreat to new positions, since those that were were well known to the Russians. Gaidai also added that about four thousand people remain in the city.
There is also a risk that Russian troops will move towards the Luhansk region from Izyum. It is not safe for them to move towards Kharkov, since the Ukrainian defense of the city is very powerful, "but if they go down from Izyum, then there is a possibility that they will cut off the Luhansk region completely."
15:16 Austria plans to start its own investigation of war crimes committed in Ukraine. Currently, the Ministry of Justice of the country is sorting out the legal side of the issue so that work can begin, writes Euractiv.
15:04 Among the victims of the shelling of Lviv is a three-year-old boy who, along with his mother, came from Kharkov to escape the war. Nothing threatens his life, Lviv Mayor Andrey Sadovy said. Three other victims are in critical condition in intensive care.
14:55 In Kharkiv today, around noon, the Russians fired at the Osnovyansky district. According to the regional prosecutor's office, shells fell on the territory of playgrounds near residential buildings. As a result of the shelling, a man and a woman were killed, residential buildings were damaged.
14:37 There will be no additional days off in April and May due to martial law in Ukraine. According to the State Labor Service, April 25, May 2 and May 9 will be working days, which will be paid in the usual way.
14:21 The police have completed all the necessary investigative actions in Irpin to fix the war crimes of the Russian military and handed over the bodies of 269 dead local residents for examination.
14:19 According to the UN, more than 4.9 million people have left Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Of these, over 2.7 million people crossed the border with Poland, more than 743 thousand - to Romania, about 522.4 thousand - to Russia, more than 461 thousand - to Hungary, 423.8 thousand - to Slovakia.
14:14 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the country's embassy in Kiev will soon resume work "as a sign of the commitment of the government and Spanish society to the Ukrainian people."
14:06 Google Maps opened all the military and strategic facilities of Russia - they became available in the maximum resolution (up to 0.5 meters per pixel). Any user can view Russian airfields, naval bases, intercontinental ballistic missile launch silos, training grounds, command posts, etc. Previously, all these objects were displayed in much worse quality, according to ArmyInform.
14:00 The commander of the 36th separate marine brigade, Major Sergei Volyn, wrote a letter to Pope Francis to help save people from Mariupol: "I have little time to describe all the horrors that I see here every day. People live in bunkers at the plant women with children, babies.In hunger and cold.Every day at the sight of enemy aircraft.Every day the wounded die, because there is no medicine, no water, no food.I turn to you for help.Because the time has come when not by united prayers .Help save them."
13:54 Members of the crews of three cargo ships remain in captivity of the invaders - Azburg under the flag of Dominica, Smarta and Blue Star-1 under the flag of Liberia. According to the Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova, 42 crew members and the wife of the captain of the Smarta ship were taken hostage on the territory of the Mariupol Commercial Sea Port.
According to the captain of the ship Azburg, Sergey Dzysyak, the crews were "checked" in the filtration camp in Mangush. Now they are in Donetsk under the constant supervision of the armed Russian military.
13:38 Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić accused Ukraine of alleged involvement in the mass mining of Serbian aircraft flying to Moscow. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry categorically denied these accusations.
He also stressed that Kyiv is disappointed that Belgrade has not yet joined the sanctions against Russia because of the war against Ukraine.
13:27 The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting reported that 30 European countries have already supported the call to turn off Russian propaganda channels, ten of them began broadcasting Ukrainian channels.
13:22 As a result of yesterday's shelling of the Kharkiv region, nine civilians were killed and another 25 were injured, the IVA reported.
13:19 In Russia, preparations have begun for the Victory Parade on May 9 on Red Square in Moscow. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that more than 11,000 servicemen, 131 units of "modern weapons and military equipment", 77 aircraft and helicopters were involved in the rehearsals.
13:18 Peskov said that "the Ukrainian side does not demonstrate constancy in the agreements reached in the negotiations with the Russian Federation, it is changing its position." According to him, the dynamics of the progress of the negotiation process "leaves much to be desired."
13:16 As a result of today's shelling, fires broke out in Lviv, which have already been completely extinguished, said the head of the OVA Maksim Kozitsky. There were hits in military warehouses that were not used, and a tire shop, both objects were completely destroyed.
The death toll has increased to seven people - these are the first deaths as a result of a hit in Lviv. It is also known about 11 victims, including one child.
Lvov was hit by four air-launched cruise missiles. According to preliminary information, they were released from the Caspian region.
13:11 Medvedchuk turned to Zelensky and Putin with a request to exchange him for the defenders and residents of Mariupol. The video with the appeal was published by the SBU.
12:58 Peskov once again stated that the "special operation" of the Russian Federation in Ukraine "is going according to plan."
12:55 Ukrposhta reported that half of the millionth edition of the stamp Russian warship, go ...! sold out in the first five days. No more stamps with this design will be produced. In connection with speculations, Ukrposhta imposes restrictions on the stamp - no more than five sheets in one hand (six stamps in one sheet).
12:51 Since February 24, a little more than a million citizens have entered Ukraine, spokesman of the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko said. According to him, this week on the eve of Easter, the number of Ukrainians wishing to return home will grow. He also confirmed the information voiced earlier by Polish border guards that last Saturday, for the first time since the start of a full-scale war, border guards recorded more of those who enter Ukraine than those who leave.
12:48 More and more cities around the world are placing banners and billboards with the phrase Be Brave Like Ukraine - Be brave like Ukraine . One of the latest examples is Times Square in New York, said Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development.
12:44 The National Police are investigating almost 900 cases of missing Ukrainians, more than 500 cases of abductions of civilians, as well as more than 2,500 cases of the death of Ukrainian citizens. We are talking about the territories that were and are still under occupation, said the first deputy head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police Sergei Panteleev.
12:40 The Cabinet of Ministers approved the National Bank's proposal to nationalize 26 billion hryvnias of assets of Russian banks withdrawn from the market. The decision must be approved by the National Security and Defense Council and the president, director of the Deposit Guarantee Fund Svetlana Rekrut said in an interview with Economic Truth.
12:37 In Bucha, during the occupation by Russian troops, every fifth inhabitant was killed , the mayor of the city Anatoly Fedoruk said: "We calculated: every fifth of those who remained in the city under the occupiers were killed. And I personally, like thousands of my fellow citizens, I feel hatred for those who tortured and killed peaceful Buchanians."
12:34 In Kharkiv, a point for issuing humanitarian aid was fired upon. According to the director of the Center for Emergency Medical Assistance and Disaster Medicine Viktor Zabashta, according to preliminary data, one person died and six were injured.
12:22 In Bucha, Kiev region, liberated from invaders, the police detained a group of marauders. Four criminals, including two women, robbed one of the construction supermarkets destroyed by shelling. Marauders stole tools and equipment worth five million hryvnias.
12:09 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that even without humanitarian corridors and a regime of silence, more than a hundred people were evacuated from the region today. Together with the patrol police, the State Emergency Service and volunteers, 49 residents of Lisichansk, 18 residents of Severodonetsk, 23 people from the Mountain Community, 14 from Rubizhne and four from Popasna were able to take out.
For the rest, food, medicines and hygiene products have been delivered, they are already being transported to bomb shelters. Tomorrow the evacuation will continue.
12:06 The RF Ministry of Defense stated that "the Kiev regime, with the support of the West, is completing the preparation of sophisticated monstrous provocations with numerous victims in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkiv regions."
"For this purpose, more than 70 mobile groups were formed from among the nationalist battalions in vehicles equipped with mortars (the so-called wandering mortars), with the task of shelling Orthodox churches and churches on Easter night (from April 23 to 24) and then blaming the Russian military," - the message says.
12:02 According to updated data today, the occupiers are holding at least 20 thousand people in filtration camps along the Mangush-Nikolskoye-Yalta line, not allowing them to evacuate due to the deliberate delay in the filtration procedure, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said. Also, at least 5-7 thousand people are in the filtration camp in the village. Nameless at the stage of preparation for deportation.
11:58 In Mariupol, the invaders were not going to release Ukrainian defenders, despite the official offer to surrender and promises to save lives. According to the mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko, the occupiers' plans are clear: "According to their report, the corridor for a safe exit should have been marked with red flags, but no mark was made. This once again confirms only the trap prepared for our defenders."
11:47 The State Border Service confirmed that citizens of Ukraine must have a passport to cross the border. At the beginning of the war, citizens were also allowed to pass on other documents, since then service centers were not working, and people could not draw up the proper documents, but now there is no such "emergency situation", the State Border Guard Service explained.
At the same time, in relation to persons leaving the regions where hostilities are taking place, border guards can make a separate decision.
11:38 The Department of Civil Protection of Kharkiv urged residents of the city not to leave their shelters all day today, as Russian troops continue to continuously shell sleeping areas. They ask to be in shelters all the time, even despite the absence of air raid alerts.
11:26 The deputy of the Lviv City Council Andrian Gutnik said that the guided missiles that hit the infrastructure of Lviv were sent to the Ivano-Frankivsk region, but changed direction at the last moment.
11:23 Vereshchuk said that humanitarian corridors would not work again today, because the occupiers did not observe the silence regime.
11:20 The occupiers took control of Kremennaya , said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, fighting in the city continues, evacuation is no longer possible. People are being taken out of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, Gorny and Rubizhny.
He also said that in Kremennaya, the invaders fired at a civilian car, according to preliminary information, four people were killed, one was wounded. People tried to leave the city on their own, but the Russians opened fire on them. Gaidai urged not to leave the shelters and not to try to leave the city on their own.
11:16 Residential quarters of Kramatorsk were subjected to rocket fire, said the mayor of the city Alexander Goncharenko.
11:13 The representative of the Azov Regiment Vladislav Sobolevsky said on the air of the telethon that the Russians would probably hit the military on Azov with heavy high-explosive bombs, dropping them from strategic bombers.
He called on the authorities to carry out an operation to unblock the city: "If Mariupol falls, it will be worse than Ilovaisk and other tragedies."
11:07 The number of wounded after the attack on Lviv has grown to 11, six people died, said the mayor of the city Andriy Sadovy. According to him, one of the rockets hit a civilian facility - a tire shop, about 40 cars were damaged or destroyed. Also from the shock wave, the windows in the hotel where the evacuated Ukrainians live are broken.
11:02 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 18:
personnel - about 20,600 people liquidated,
tanks - 790,
armored combat vehicles - 2041,
artillery systems - 381,
MLRS - 130,
air defense systems - 67,
aircraft - 167,
helicopters - 147,
automotive technology - 1487,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 155,
special equipment - 27,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4
10:54 Russian occupiers continue to force mobilization in the so-called "LDNR". Men are caught on the streets, taken from work, from apartments and simply removed from buses. "Recruits" are dressed in unmarked uniforms, all documents are taken away and sent to the front line. They are transported in closed railway cars, according to the SBU, based on the results of interrogations of one of the prisoners.
10:46 In the village of Stoyanka near Kyiv, on the Kyiv-Chop highway, Ukravtodor opened a temporary crossing over the Irpin River. The first overpass on the Kyiv-Chop highway was previously destroyed. It was on this bridge that the Russians planned to get to Kyiv, which is seven kilometers from here, but it was blown up.
10:27 The State Bureau of Investigation, during the investigation of the treason case of Ilya Kiva, discovered the property of the Russian general. The property was registered in the name of Kiva's business partners - relatives of the Russian Colonel General, head of the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons under the Russian Munitions Agency Valery Kapashin.
Among the identified property are hotels, restaurants, land plots, etc., through which the general laundered funds in Ukraine.
10:14 The head of the Lviv OVA, Maxim Kozitsky, announced four missile strikes on Lviv: three - on military infrastructure facilities, and one more - on tire fitting. So far , six dead and eight injured are known , with one child among the injured.
10:03 As a result of a missile attack on Lviv, there was a hit "next to railway facilities," Alexander Kamyshin, head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, said. There were no casualties.
10:01 Podolyak announced five powerful strikes on the civilian infrastructure of Lviv.
09:58 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that the hottest spot now is Kremennaya, where there is a lot of Russian equipment, evacuation is no longer possible.
09:51 Ukrzaliznytsia announced the delay of trains as a result of attacks on Lviv: “The situation at the Lviv railway station is under control, passengers were placed in safe shelters. Disembarkation and boarding of trains resumed after the end of the alarm signal. Trains that still reach Lviv were delayed at the entrance to the city until the end of the alarm, traffic has now been resumed.
09:45 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that at night the enemy managed to break into Kremennaya, but could not gain a foothold. Fighting continues in the city itself. Due to the failure to go deep into the cities, the Russians began to shoot them remotely.
09:32 The Russian command will be concerned about how long it will take to capture Mariupol, according to British intelligence. The concerted Ukrainian resistance put Russian forces to a severe test and distracted men and equipment, slowing the Russian advance elsewhere.
The British Ministry of Defense also notes that the strikes on settlements in the Mariupol region are in line with Russia's approach to Chechnya in 1999 and Syria in 2016. And this is despite the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense on February 24, 2022 that Russia will not strike at cities and threaten the population of Ukraine.
09:10 In the Lviv region, according to preliminary information, the enemy launched four missile strikes, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky. At the same time, the mayor of Lvov, Andriy Sadovy, reports five targeted missile attacks on the city.
09:04 A morning missile attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region was carried out on an infrastructure facility in the Sinelnikovsky district, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. Two people were hurt.
08:40 Kiev metro from April 18 will carry passengers from 06:30 to 20:00, ground transport - from 07:00 to 21:00, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
08:36 The police of the Kiev region, while cleaning up the territories liberated from Russian invaders, found secret documents of the special forces of SOBR, OMON and the National Guard, among which was a detailed plan for the capture of Kiev.
Andrey Nebitov, head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kiev region, said that the police also found chemical protection suits - apparently, the Russian military believed in the Kremlin's fakes about biological laboratories. According to Nebitov, the costumes were packed in World War II pouches, and the overalls consisted of "fishing boots" and a raincoat "from museums."
08:29 In the morning, the invaders launched missile attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, 60% of the missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defense, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said.
08:05 The Russians fired at the building of the patrol police in Lisichansk, as a result, six employees were hospitalized, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Sergei Gaidai.
He also said that the occupiers hit the recently rebuilt Olimp sports complex in Kremennaya, where representatives of the Ukrainian Olympic team used to train. The fire area is 2400 sq. m. Rescuers are trying to localize the flame, near the forest.
Artillery shelling of Kremennaya continued on April 17 and became more frequent and powerful at night. Seven residential buildings, outbuildings, and forest litter caught fire. Residential areas in Rubizhne were also damaged - seven local residents were evacuated from the rubble of three houses, two injured were taken to the hospital.
07:44 More than 140 cases are being investigated in Germany to approve Russia's war against Ukraine - most of the open cases involve the use of the letter Z, DW reports, citing the Redaktionsnetzwerks Deutschland group of publications.
07:13 The General Staff expects that the enemy will continue to conduct hostilities to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region. In total, 87 enemy BTGs were involved in the groupings to carry out combat missions on the territory of Ukraine.
07:11 In the East, the enemy is restoring combat capability and replenishing supplies. He is trying to improve the tactical position of his units and intensify the fighting. Russian occupiers continue shelling N. p. Seversk and Pokrovskoye, according to the General Staff.
The main efforts of the enemy were concentrated in the areas of the settlement. Liman, Kremennaya, Popasnaya and Rubizhne, tried to establish full control over Mariupol. He carried out offensive operations in the Severodonetsk, Popasnyansky and Zaporozhye directions.
Also, the Russians unsuccessfully tried to gain a foothold in the areas of the settlement. Kremennaya and Rubezhnoye. They tried to storm in the areas of the settlement. Novotoshkovskoe, Popasnaya, Avdeevka and Maryinka. There was also no success.
07:06 In order to expand the bridgehead on the left bank of the Seversky Donets River and create conditions for the operational deployment of troops, the Russians conducted reconnaissance in combat in the areas of the settlement. Factories, Dmitrovka and Dibrovnoe. They had no luck, they suffered losses and retreated, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
06:50 OSINTtechnical researchers released the first photos of the cruiser Moskva after the shell hit. The author of the public admits that he cannot confirm the authenticity, "but this is a Glory-class cruiser, and I do not think that any of them were destroyed in this way."
06:17 Civilians, including women and children, are hiding on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. People are hiding from shelling in the plant's storage facilities, they have no medicine, food or water, said Mikhail Vershinin, head of the city's patrol police.
06:01 At night, the Russians fired at the outskirts of the Krivoy Rog district from the territory of the Kherson region, one person died, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk.
03:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt another blow to the invaders in Chernobaevka, Arestovich said.
02:40 Arestovich said that Medvedchuk was already giving evidence to law enforcement officers. In addition to him, people who were detained together with Medvedchuk began to be interrogated. When asked about the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk, Arestovich replied that he "hadn't told everything yet."
02:12 Ukrzaliznytsia said that to cross the border with the EU countries, you must have a passport. Exceptions are possible at the discretion of the border guards in the presence of other identification documents and the presence of hostilities in the region from which the passenger left.
UZ reported that it had not received warnings from the State Border Service about changes in the rules for crossing the border by citizens of Ukraine and expected "more clear explanations from colleagues to prevent refugees without international passports."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:59 In Gorlovka, on the street. Likhachev, 35, a direct hit of a Ukrainian shell on the veranda of the house was recorded, fortunately, no one was injured.
In Gorlovka as a result of damage to the power cable on the street. Belgorodskaya, 117 de-energized microdistrict "Quarter 88", stopped the upper and lower pumping stations. Gorlovsky RES is reconnecting. According to the Eastern RES, the 6 kV line has been de-energized in the area of the State Enterprise Stirol. Employees of the enterprise eliminate the accident. 22:35 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received that as a result of today's shelling, three more civilians were injured:
n.p. Gorlovka: - man born in 1969;
n.p. Yasinovataya: - woman born in 1966;
n.p. Makeevka (settlement of Zemlyanka): - a woman born in 1968.
The injured were provided with the necessary medical assistance.
In total, during April 18, seven civilians suffered from shelling by armed formations.
22:10 Has it begun? In Donetsk and Lugansk, there is a terrible roar of powerful strikes, volleys of the largest calibers are hitting towards the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
.
“I hear the work of something very heavy salvo,” they transmit from Luhansk.
21:40 More than 12,000 were evacuated to Russia from dangerous regions of Ukraine, the LPR and the DPR.
21:00 Today, VFU once again struck from the MLRS "Hurricane" in the village. Novoaydar.
As a result of the shelling, several rockets hit the playground on the street. Oktyabrskaya, where the child, born in 2012, received a shrapnel wound to the lower extremities. Currently, the victim is receiving medical assistance.
20:00 The Ministry of Internal Affairs published a video of the execution of the Ukrainian convoy, which broke through to Azovstal. The subdivisions of the operational-combat tactical formation of the DPR recorded about 400 servicemen of the armed formations of Ukraine and 65 units of automobile and armored vehicles lining up in a column. Then the militants advanced in the direction of the Azovstal steel plant.
19:10 Assault units of the DPR and the Russian Federation took under CONTROL the northern sector of the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant and are currently cleaning up there, including underground utilities.
The offensive of our forces is actively supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces, which strike at enemy strongholds, not only fighters are involved, but the famous White Swans bombers.
18:51 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): two shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Georgievka - n.p. Kremenets: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
18:31 Three Georgian mercenaries were liquidated in Rubezhnoye: Arkady K*****, Alika T****, Zaza B*****.
17:52 “I've only been here for five minutes, and they tell me that the first five bodies found are five severed heads. These are civilians." American journalist George Elison shows the grave, which is located near Lugansk. Mostly civilians, brutally murdered by the military-political leadership of Ukraine, are buried here.
17:28 The People's Front, farmers and agricultural enterprises from various regions of Russia have launched a campaign to provide Donbass with seeds. The composition of the humanitarian cargo from the Popular Front included seeds: pumpkin, cucumber, flowers, peas, dill, zucchini, pepper, radish, eggplant, basil, squash, carrots, tomato, parsley, beets, radishes, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, strawberries , watermelon, melon. A successful sowing campaign is a guarantee of stability and food security of the Republic.
17:15 AFU fired from the settlement Novoselovka - n.p. Panteleymonovka: 10 122mm shells were fired.
17:05 As a result of artillery shelling of the settlement Pervomaisk damaged 7 objects of urban infrastructure:
➖art school;
➖children's sports complex "Youth";
➖Administration of Pervomaisk;
➖Pension Fund Office in Pervomaisk;
➖branch of the State Bank of the LPR;
➖cinema "Zarya";
➖shop "Katyusha"
Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
17:02 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian born in 1945. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Red Partizan at the address: st. Selskokhozyaystvennaya, 30. The victim was taken to the Yasinovatsky Central District Hospital, where she is receiving the necessary medical care.
16:45 On the territory of Azovstal there may be mercenaries from the USA, Romania, Canada - Pushilin.
16:40 Information was received through the operational line of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of two civilians born in 1935. and born in 1961 as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Lugansk at the address: st. Komsomolskaya, garden partnership "Ugolek". Also, information was received that as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district, the settlement. Makeevka on the street. Shevchenko, two civilians were injured - passengers of the route taxi No. 34 "Makeevka - Yasinovataya".
One of the wounded was a woman born in 1965. The data of the second are specified. All the victims were taken to healthcare facilities, where they are receiving the necessary medical care. Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
settlement "Zastantsionny" (Donetsk): st. Lugovaya, 40 - a private residential building.
village Zemlyanki (n. p. Makeevka):
- st. Frunze, 83 - a fire was recorded in a private residential building;
- st. Frunze, 12, 35, 85 - private residential buildings;
- st. Komsomolskaya, 11 - a private residential building.
Molochny village (n.p. Gorlovka):
- st. Meretskova, 4a, 6 - private residential buildings;
- st. Cossack, 32 - a private residential building;
16:35 Not far from the checkpoint of Azovstal, a lot of corpses of civilians were found. They are dumped under the wall of one of the buildings of hospital No. 4. - It is still impossible to approach them on the ground: Ukrainian snipers are shooting through this territory. We show what could be filmed through a hole in the wall, - Andrei Guselnikov, @urallive correspondent, reports. Some victims have their hands tied. Judging by the traces of the shelling, the hospital was fired from the side of Azovstal, the last neo-Nazi lair.
16:26 Kyiv really does not want certain persons hiding on Azovstal to enter our territory. According to the testimonies of Ukrainian servicemen who surrendered, up to 400 foreign mercenaries are surrounded at the enterprise - Denis Pushilin.
16:21 The demining of the power line feeding the filtering station near Mariupol, the Starokrymsky reservoir, which will be further used to supply water to the city - Denis Pushilin, is coming to an end.
16:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of Trudovskaya mine): two shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Lastochkino - n.p. Makiivka (village dugout): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
15:07 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of shelling from the APU, two people were injured.
15:01 According to updated data, in the village of Molochnoe, as a result of today's attack by Ukrainian nationalist formations, significant damage to housing construction was revealed along the streets: Meretskova, 4a, 6, Kazatskaya, 32 (the outermost streets near the rate). Fixed shrapnel damage to glazing on the street. Fruit, 33, 36, 41, 44 - Prikho
15:00 More than 119 km of streets have been cleared in Mariupol, over 5,000 tons of municipal solid waste have been removed - Alexey Kostrubitsky.
14:12 VFU shelled Yasinovataya. As a result of the shelling, an apartment building on the street was damaged. Leningradskaya.
13:54 Units of the NM DPR freed 450 people who were blocked in the Nikolo-Vasilyevsky Monastery.
13:52 Kindergarten No. 38 has resumed work in Mariupol. “Two nurseries and six garden groups have been opened. Now the issue of organizing hot meals and payment is being resolved, ”an employee of the children's institution said.
13:45 Containers (850 liters) with technical water for the population are being installed in Yasinovataya. Barrel access will be permanent (excluding curfews). Water will be replenished as needed. Tanks already installed:
- br im. Lenina V.I.;
- st. School (Supermarket);
- st. School (Tax).
During the week, it is planned to install at least 10-15 pieces throughout the city. At the same time, water supply will continue to be carried out according to the schedule.
13:39 In Avdiyevka, a steel structure plant was struck, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repairing their equipment.
13:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
13:07 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad".
13:02 Local resident told why in Mariupol they never liked Azov.
12:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Molochnoe): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired. As a result of the shelling, the village is de-energized.
12:32 DPR units, with the support of the RF Armed Forces, inflicted blows according to the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, heading from the seaport of Mariupol to Azovstal. About 400 Ukrainian soldiers and 65 pieces of equipment, lined up in a column, planned to cross to the Left Bank and reunite with the Azov national battalion. As a result of the artillery strike, up to 150 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed and wounded.
12:31 In Avdievka, a blow was struck at the Nazi repair base. “In the shops of the metalwork plant, the “ukrops” repaired their equipment. Yesterday, something very serious flew into this enterprise. “Pravoseks* settled in the premises of the former incubator, and there are a lot of enemy vehicles in the communications depots and mechanized convoys,” explains a local resident
12:14 In the village of Markino, Novoazovsky district, a military bakery (Russian Defense Ministry) has started working, with a capacity of eight tons of bread per day. The manufactured products will be delivered by servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR to residents of Mariupol.
11:21 Information was received through the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR about the wounding of a civilian born in 1958 on April 17, 2022. in n.p. Zaitsevo at the address: st. Geroichnaya, 48. According to the victim, the incident occurred as a result of the dropping of a VU from an UAV that arrived from the side of the positions of the VFU. The victim independently turned to the otorhinolaryngological department of the City Hospital No. 2, where he received the necessary medical assistance. Also, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU: n.p. Gorlovka, pos. sh-you im. Gagarin: - st. Stozhka, 65, 67, 69: apartment buildings;
11:20 As a result of the morning shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of the city in the garage cooperative "Magistral" on the street. Tekstilshchikov,5a a car was damaged by shell fragments, plastic boxes also caught fire - Kulemzin.
11:17 Rocket troops strike with Iskander high-precision ground-based missiles. Four depots of weapons and Ukrainian military equipment were destroyed, as well as three areas of concentration of enemy manpower near the settlements of Popasnaya, Yampol and Kramatorsk.
11:16 The city of Kremennaya came under the control of the RF Armed Forces. Now for sure. In mid-March, the capture of Kremennaya was announced, but prematurely. Now the information is confirmed by Ukrainian sources.
11:06 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 20 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Novoselovka - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122 mm rounds were fired.
10:08 NM LPR: During the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely: 12 personnel; four armored personnel carriers; two vehicles.
09:35 LPR artillery inflicts strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pervomaisky area. To avoid return fire, units are forced to constantly change their deployment. With the help of spotters, it is possible to avoid hitting residential buildings.
09:32 Units of the NM of the LPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation entered Kremennaya. There are street fights.
09:31 Reservists captured 25 Marines. According to sources @wargonzo, a group of 25 Ukrainian marines surrendered in the village of Volodarskoe, which is located near Mariupol.
09:30 VFU shelled the village of the mine named after. Gagarin. As a result of a mine explosion, damage was recorded to a house and a car on the street. Stozhka, 65 - head of the Gorlovka administration.
09:25 Over the past day, 421 people, including 59 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to the Bezymennoe of the Novoazovsky district.
09:21 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:10 As a result of hostilities, nine transformer substations, 1,771 household subscribers of Yasinovataya have been de-energized. Power engineers have already left for the site to inspect and repair the damage.
09:00 "All vehicles of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were taken away by the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Resident of Mariupol told that the Ukrainian military placed mortars right in residential buildings. Rescue services did not work, because even fire engines were placed at the disposal of the nationalists.
08:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): two shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:23 When trying breakthrough encircled enemy forces from the territory of the Primorsky district to "Azovstal" on April 15, 43 pieces of equipment were destroyed and damaged, up to 150 people were killed and wounded - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR.
08:21 AFU fired from the settlement Novoselovka - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:08 Head of the LPR handed overawards to the soldiers of the Russian Army, saving the inhabitants of Donbass from the deadly "gifts" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Sappers of the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were awarded.
07:37 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:44 Kiev authorities are blocking 76 foreign ships in seaports.
21:42 Nationalists are holding hostage 6,208 foreign citizens from nine countries. 21:41 Since March 2, Russia has delivered over 12.9 thousand tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
21:35 Humanitarian aid from Russia was brought to the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region.
18:41 Ukrainian forces probably used cluster munitions during the shelling of the village of Gusarovka, Balakleysky district, Kharkiv region in March - New York Times.
15:38 In the liberated Genichesk, Kherson region, a monument to V.I. Lenin.
15:22 For a week in the southern regions of Ukraine, the National Guard ensured the issuance of over 520 tons of food. More than 50 thousand residents of Kherson, Berdyansk, Genichesk, Melitopol and other settlements received essentials, canned food, cereals, pasta and other durable products.
15:15 Putin has established payments of five million rubles in the event of the death of Russian border guards on the borders with Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR.
14:00 At this moment, the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is conducting a powerful artillery shelling of Izyum and its suburbs. Shells are exploding in a residential area. Shelling, including cluster munitions, has been going on since 0500 hrs with different intervals.
13:19 SBU publishes a video, in which Medvedchuk asks Putin and Zelensky to exchange him for military personnel and residents of Mariupol.
13:01 The Russian Aerospace Forces are striking at positions, locations and military facilities of the enemy in the area of the settlement. Dnepropetrovsk and regions.
12:56 Two British prisoners who surrendered in Mariupol asked the British Prime Minister to exchange them for Medvedchuk.
12:48 The Cossack squad will be involved in ensuring the safety of students in Melitopol schools. Currently, there are five schools in the city: the fourth, seventh, ninth, thirteenth and fifteenth.
12:42 The special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine is going according to plan. The Ukrainian side does not demonstrate constancy in the agreements reached in the negotiations with the Russian Federation, changes its position - Peskov.
12:05 Kyiv, with the support of the West, is completing the preparation of a provocation with the shelling of churches in a number of regions of Ukraine on Easter night - the Russian Defense Ministry.
11:50 The Russian Ministry of Defense for the first time published the lists of the dead Ukrainian soldiers and fighters of the banned "Azov. According to the agency, the irretrievable losses of the Ukrainian side are 23,367 people. Also at the disposal of the ministry there are documents about a large number of deserters, wounded and missing in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:49 In the Kharkiv region, a special unit of anti-tank guided missiles of the 95th air assault brigade was captured, which shot down two Russian Ka-52 helicopters.
11:46 Over the Eternal Flame in Kherson again the Banner of Victory! It was raised by Crimean Konstantin Knyrik and Kherson Kirill Stremousov. “May 9 will be celebrated in Kherson with heads held high, the Banner of Victory and St. George ribbons! Just like all over the country."
11:27 The village of Malinovka near Gulyaypole came under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
11:19 Russian artillery units during the night attacked 315 objects of the Ukrainian troops. The following were hit: 18 command posts, 22 artillery batteries, the OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, as well as 275 enemy strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower. Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian combat aircraft in the air: two MiG-29 fighters in the area of the IZYUM settlement and one Su-25 in the Avdiivka area.
11:02 In Melitopol resumed work kindergarten №38. The team went to work and today the first pupils have come to the kindergarten. Now the issue of organizing hot meals for children is being worked out. It will be organized shortly.
11:00 A number of Ukrainian sources report the start of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces and the DPR in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions. The movement of troops goes towards Gulyai Polye and Velikaya Novoselka. There is also information on movements in several sectors of the front in the Kharkov region.
10:53 Nikolaev is waiting for the fate of Mariupol. According to sources, the Ukrainian command is pulling military equipment into the city, which is placed in many urban infrastructure facilities and in residential areas. There is a mining of objects of the city. Western curators, following their usual military tactics, believe that the most important points of defense are coastal cities, writes the Southern Bridgehead telegram channel.
10:38 A Ukrainian MIG-29 was shot down near Izyum. The Russian calculation of the Buk-M2 air defense system destroyed the enemy aircraft.
09:52 According to preliminary data, during the night attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, a military facility in the Sinelnikovsky region and the railway infrastructure in the Pavlograd region were hit.
09:37 Five missile attacks on Lvov are reported.
09:02 It is reported that an explosion occurred in Vasilkov near Kyiv.
08:42 Media reports about explosions in Kyiv and Lvov.
08:07 AP Uhit "Point-U" in the Zaporozhye region. The impact damaged the Tokmak farm, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
08:05 In Berdyansk, the coat of arms of Ukraine was removed from the building of the city executive committee.
07:56 In social networks they write that powerful explosions thundered in Kyiv.
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More than 25k Russian troops have been mustered and attacks have begun at several points along the Donbas front. No breakthrough at last report, midnight local time.
Ukraine believes main Russian effort will try to push south from Russian held Izium toward Ukraine held Slovyansk along a major highway (into what some people call the Ukraine held Donbas Salient).
Some Ukraine elements in Mariupol still holding out.
Russian forces attempted to take Oleksandrivka in the south but were repelled.
Otherwise considerable shelling but little movement.
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Day 54 of Putin's strategic taking Ukraine in 2 days with regime change. Hope he's loving being adored by his countrymen as Russia's new Stalin idol.
[Jpost] Sanctions have stopped production of the T-14 Armata, Russia's widely anticipated next-generation tank, which was expected to start serial production and delivery this year.
Russia is struggling to produce more tanks for its military due to crippling financial sanctions and import restrictions imposed on Moscow due to the invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claimed on Friday.
The Russian firm UralVagonZavod, located in Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, is the world's largest main battle tank manufacturer and has a long history dating back to Josef Stalin's second five-year plan. Since then, it continues to produce tanks, such as the T-90, T-72 and T-14 Armata.
Despite having revenue in the billions of dollars, sanctions have crippled the company's ability to produce tanks. This is due to rising interest rates on loans, lack of funds for foreign currency loans and rising material prices, including for steel.
According to the GUR, production of T-72s has significantly slowed while production of T-90s and T-14 Armatas has completely stopped.
This latter stoppage is particularly significant, as the T-14 Armatas are Russia's next-generation tank and were expected to begin serial production and delivery this year, according to TASS. This tank also sparked concerns among the West due to its technological advances, such as heavier armor; unmanned turret; touchscreen controls and built-in instant messaging system linked to other T-14 Armatas and newer T-90 models; and software aimed to cover Russian tanks' traditional weakness of night fighting by autonomously tracking several targets.
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider, NATO commanders feared it could jeopardize their standing in Eastern Europe and threaten the security of the Baltics. It even inspired Germany and France to work together to develop a new main ground combat system to combat the advanced T-14 Armata.
This struggle also further compounds the losses Russia has suffered in its invasion of Ukraine, which has seen them lose 773 tanks so far, according to the Ukrainian military.
Reports of Russia struggling with production issues due to sanctions is not new since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
Earlier in April, the GUR reported that some Russian shipyards are unable to construct warships or conduct maintenance on vessels due to financial hardships and a lack of foreign components.
In particular, a Vladivostok shipyard was allegedly unable to meet 25 billion rubles worth of government orders to build two tankers, two missile boasts, and to maintain and repair other vessels.
"It is obvious that the Russian military-industrial complex remains dependent on imported high technologies," wrote GUR at the time "Without the supply of which Russia is unable to continue production of modern weapons."
Despite these setbacks, however, Russia by far still has a massive army with considerable supplies of vehicles, with a 2021 Global Firepower annual ranking pointing at them having the largest number of tanks in the world by far.
Further, a recent Russian Defense Ministry report claims that Russian troops are actually capturing Ukrainian tanks and restoring them to fighting condition.
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Sanctions have stopped production of the T-14 Armata, Russia's widely anticipated next-generation tank, which was expected to start serial production and delivery this year.
...Production never really got started on the Armata. At BEST, fewer than a hundred have been built, and the best way to describe them is hand-built prototypes, not production vehicles. None have been reported in Ukraine yet, which, given the supposed capabilities of the tank, is a little...curious.
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a little...curious
Destined for other realms,
or effects of GPS jamming?
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I'm pretty sure Russia's tank industry is loving this war. They can't get enough of it I'm sure. The cost of replacement parts alone should fund their kids' college tuitions for years to come.
What's more like a sitting duck than a Russian tank vin Ukraine? I don't know you tell me.
Western Lviv has been spared much of the fighting since February 24 invasion, but was struck on Monday
Attacks also rocked towns near Donetsk and Kharkiv, killing more civilians, and a military target near Kyiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wanting to 'destroy' the entire eastern region of Donbas as Russia prepares assault, and vowed that his forces would fight on to defend Mariupol
Ukraine's forces are preparing for a final defence of the besieged, strategically vital southern port city
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces were reported to have mounted a counter-attack in eastern city of Izyum
Russian forces are said to be building in the region, preparing to mount their assault on Donbas
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin sent up his nuclear-capable bombers in the skies over Western Russia today
The planes, believed to be Russian Tu-95s, appeared to be flying in striking distance of Ukraine
Also today, the first images of Russia's sunken Black Sea flagship Moskva - after it was blown up by Ukrainian missiles last week - have emerged on social media. Footage also appeared to show the vessel sinking
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Kreminna has fallen:
"Russian invading forces have taken control of the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the city," the regional governor said on Tuesday
[Breitbart] China’s ruling Communist Party strategically labeled expanding nationwide Chinese coronavirus restrictions over the weekend as “temporary controls of social activities” after some residents in certain affected cities, such as Xi’an, reportedly “panicked” after first learning of the restrictions, China’s state-run Global Times acknowledged Saturday.
The government of central China’s Xi’an on April 15 ordered all 13 million-plus residents of the city to observe “temporary controls of social activities” from April 16 through April 19 to contain a fresh local outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus. Xian’s municipal “anti-epidemic command center” issued a press release announcing the lockdown on the night of April 15, or mere hours before the restrictions went into effect starting at 12:01 am on April 16. The last-minute notice shocked many Xi’an residents and caused some to “panic,” according to the Global Times. The edict detailed how the city would assign local Communist Party monitors to stand guard outside Xi’an residential compounds during the lockdown and ensure no one escaped the buildings.
“[R]esidents are encouraged not to go outside their residential communities, with volunteers being deployed to register and take the temperature of those who come in and out,” the statement read.
Xi’an’s latest movement restrictions came as a surprise to many of the city’s residents, in part because the community had only just emerged from the admittedly “tough days” of a month-long Chinese coronavirus lockdown from December 2021 to January 2022, as acknowledged by the Communist Party-run Global Times on April 16.
Outside of Xi’an, at least eight other Chinese cities and counties have entered new Chinese coronavirus lockdowns over the past month. A separate article by the Global Times on April 17 attempted to paint the nationwide lockdowns as anything but, carefully categorizing affected residents as “under static management.”
“[U]nlike city lockdowns that cause massive standstills of work and life, the measures are specified and targeted at different local situations, trying to minimize the impact on people’s daily activities,” the newspaper claimed.
The publication named several Chinese communities that imposed lockdowns on their populaces in recent days, writing:
On Sunday [April 17], the main city of Wuhu, East China’s Anhui Province, temporarily implemented static management and launched nucleic acid testing for all residents in the city after one positive case was found on Saturday [April 16].
Shanghai’s Pudong and Jiading districts also issued notices on Friday [April 15] and Saturday [April 16] respectively to adopt the prevention and control measures of “static management of the whole region and nucleic acid testing of all personnel.
Also, cities and counties in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and East China’s Jiangsu Province have issued the similar notice against the Omicron in recent days.
A Chinese coronavirus lockdown of all of Shanghai — which is China’s most densely-populated metropolis and home to nearly 26 million inhabitants — launched on April 5 and continued unabated at press time on Monday, April 18. The global financial hub’s movement restrictions have caused dire food shortages among the city’s residents, all of whom have been sealed off inside their homes for nearly two weeks.
[GlobalTimes] The J-20, China's most powerful, domestically developed stealth fighter jet, has started to patrol the East China Sea and the South China Sea in routine training sessions, and experts said on Wednesday that the move will enable the advanced warplane to better safeguard China's airspace security and maritime interests.
With the J-20 switching to use domestically developed engines, it has become a training routine that this type of aircraft conducts combat patrols in the East China Sea and alert patrols in the South China Sea, Ren Yukun, head of the discipline inspection and supervision team and a member of the leading Party group at state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) (the J-20's manufacturer), said at a presser on Tuesday.
Ren's announcement came after General Kenneth Wilsbach, Commander of the US Pacific Air Forces, said in mid-March that US F-35 stealth fighter jets recently had a close contact with China's J-20 stealth fighter jets over the East China Sea.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force shoulders the sacred duty of defending national security in China's airspace. It must be emphasized that when it comes to defending national illusory sovereignty and security, the PLA will always be ready and capable of wielding its sword, said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson at China's Ministry of National Defense, at a regular presser on March 31, when asked to comment on Wilsbach's remarks.
[NYPOST] Boston University’s controversial "antiracist" professor, Ibram X. Kendi, has bluntly branded Republicans "the party of white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... The "How to Be an Antiracist" author insisted in an op-ed for The Atlantic that the GOP has used "dog whistles" to brand itself as the "party of parents," dismissing that as a "myth, a great myth."
"The foundational assumption of this great myth is that Republican politicians care about white children," claimed Kendi, who runs Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research.
"But if they did, then they would not be ignoring or downplaying or defending or bolstering the principal racial threat facing white youth today" — that of "white children being indoctrinated" into white supremacy online, "causing them to hate," he wrote in Saturday’s op-ed.
Kendi described white supremacist ideology as "the toxic blend of racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic ideas that is harmful to all minds."
"Which group is the prime target of white supremacists? White youth," he wrote.
The woke professor then plugged his upcoming book, "How to Raise an Antiracist," while insisting that such anti-racist education "protects white children — all children — against the growing threat of white supremacists."
[Guardian] People of color and low-income communities are at disproportionate risk of pesticide exposure, a new study has found.
Roughly 90% of pesticide use in the US is in agriculture, making farmworkers — 83% of whom identify as Hispanic — more vulnerable to the synthetic chemicals intended to kill, repel or control pests.
"These workers somehow are seen as expendable," said Robert Bullard, a co-author of the report and the director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University. "This study shows the systemic neglect that [led to] a whole workforce being an underclass and not given the same weight when it comes to health and safety."
The study reviewed CDC and EPA data, along with existing pesticide research, and found that structural injustices, gaps in regulation and weak farmworker protections have led to disproportionate exposure to pesticides among people of color. It was conducted by the Center for Biological Diversity; researchers from Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and advocates from farmworker, racial justice and conservation groups.
Twelve out of 14 markers for harmful pesticides, tracked over the past 20 years, were found in the blood and urine of Black and Mexican Americans at levels up to five times higher than those found in white Americans.
Pesticide safety laws in place today by the Environmental Protection Agency set standards for pesticide exposure among consumers through food, but they specifically exclude farmworker protection from occupational exposure. "Laws and regulatory practices that we have in place right now are really perpetuating this," said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity and co-author of the report. Center for Biological Diversity is a leftist whackjob outfit.
Jeannie Economos, pesticide safety and environmental health project coordinator at the Farmworker Association of Florida, said: "We need to get rid of these pesticides and find alternatives. They’re not only poisoning farmworkers, they are in our groundwater, on our food, and depleting our soil."
Marginalized communities are at a higher rate of exposure both in the workplace and at home, whether due to proximity to a pesticide manufacturing plant or from use inside residences.
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"These workers somehow are seen as expendable," said Robert Bullard
Disposable people? Gold watch, Social Security not an option? Who knew? They're arriving this country in record numbers. Surely someone will tell them. Obviously more studies are needed.
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Perhaps we need to create people of obvious color who are more pesticide resistant. We could do this by building giant dunes of pesticides along our southern border. Illegal immigrants that make it across the dunes will be fitter than average and the ones that don't die from chemical exposure will be more resistant to pesticides. Sure, it would work. It is the same mechanism we use to create antibiotic-resistant microbes.
[FOXBUSINESS] SpaceX successfully launched a spy satellite into orbit on Sunday, a process that aided the National Reconnaissance Office after previous attempts were postponed.
The Hawthorne-based company conducted the launch out of the Vandenberg Air Force Base Sunday afternoon after its initially scheduled launch on Friday was delayed twice over
Colonel Rob Long, Space Launch Delta 30 commander, said in a statement that the NROL-85 launch sent "critical" equipment that would aid in securing "vital intelligence data."
"Today the Western Range teamed with the National Reconnaissance Office to deliver a critical national security payload, which will provide our warfighters and decision-makers with vital intelligence data," Long said Sunday, according to the report.
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The main problem? Politicians want their boondoggle projects regardless of how it affects military efficiency and capability. Case in point: SLS, The Senate Launch System, A.K.A. Sen Shelby's Rocket.
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Have you heard of the Iron Law of Budgeting? To avoid bureaucratic infighting erupting into messy public squabbles the bean counters divided the Budget Pie into thirds -- the Air Force gets a third, the Army gets a third and the Navy gets a third (roughly). It may not win wars but it makes it safer from career ending turf fights.
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It is by Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
For a given value of ready that means not any time soon. But all that training keeps otherwise unemployed fighters busy and out of trouble, and goodness knows most of them can use more training. Besides, it sounds totally scary to threaten their imminent arrival in the Ukraine...
[Rudaw] During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating bandidos krazed killers in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops "will lead to great successes in the future."
Now members of Brig. Gen. Suheil al-Hassan’s division are among hundreds of Russian-trained Syrian fighters who have reportedly signed up to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, including Syrian soldiers, former rebels and experienced fighters who fought for years against the Islamic State
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A 22-year-old Michigan man has been found guilty of shooting an 18-year-old woman — and then recording himself kicking her for almost 11 minutes until she died.
[NYPOST] Most 
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[Rolling Stone] A Trump-appointed Federal judge in Florida has voided a national mask mandate for airplanes and other transportation. "Wearing a mask cleans nothing," U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle wrote in her decision on Monday. "At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ’sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ’sanitizes’ the conveyance."
[HUFFPOST] Russian chess legend 
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