Joseph McKinnon, 60, killed Patricia Dent, 65, inside a Trenton home Saturday, the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded to the residence over reports of "an unresponsive male lying in his yard," Sheriff Jody Rowland said in a news release.
When they arrived, they found McKinnon’s body. Medical crews were called to the scene and tried to revive him, Fox Carolina reported. He's dead, Jim.
During their investigation, deputies found a second body in a freshly dug pit, Rowland said. The body was identified as Dent, who lived with McKinnon, authorities said.
He had a "cardiac event" while covering the pit, authorities said. Investigators believe McKinnon attacked Dent in the home. An autopsy determined she died by strangulation.
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[PJ] For those who still live in a world of pink unicorns and think that there is no longer mainstream hate and anti-Semitism, I suggest that we present them with the story of the airline Lufthansa’s overt act of anti-Semitism on May 4.
More than 100 Jews, mostly Hasidic (and dressed in typical Hasidic clothing), were on a flight from JFK to Hungary through Frankfurt to observe the memorial of a great rabbi. Apparently, one or two of them did not wear a mask between sips of drinks, which caused great consternation with the flight attendant and pilot as Lufthansa still requires masks. As a result, ALL visible Jews (the ones who "looked Jewish"?) were banned from their connecting flight to Budapest.
To quote the Lufthansa representative, as recorded on video, "Everyone has to pay for a couple. It’s Jews coming from JFK. Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems."
For a moment, let’s ignore the obvious anti-Semitism, illegalities, and discrimination. Let’s skip over the fact that over 100 people were punished as a group for the questionable actions of one or two people. Instead, we need to look at the reactions and lack of reaction as a result of this overt hate.
Lufthansa issued a qualified apology: "Lufthansa regrets the circumstances surrounding the decision to exclude affected passengers from the flight." This is similar to someone apologizing by saying, "I’m sorry you feel that way." It is simply not an apology for a clear act of hate. Rather than apologizing for their anti-Semitic action, they’re sorry for the circumstances surrounding it? Has the corporate world become so affected and scared by the hate of Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, BLM, and the far left that they can’t even take ownership for the obviously ugly action of discriminating against an entire class of people based on how they look?
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Let’s skip over the fact that over 100 people were punished as a group for the questionable actions of one or two people.
Very few people in America had slave prior to 1865. [There was a reason they were called Free States] Yet, if you are white you are automatically a racist.
[PostMillennial] Senator Josh Hawley has introduced legislation that would strip Disney of it's special long-term copyright protections that had been granted to the entertainment giant by Congress after the company took a stance against Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill.
According to Fox News, the "Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022" would cap copyrights granted to corporations by Congress to 56 years, and would retroactively implement this change on corporations, which would include Disney.
Hawley told Fox that "woke corporations" like Disney had raked in billions of dollars due to these special copyright protections.
"The age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over. Thanks to special copyright protections from Congress, woke corporations like Disney have earned billions while increasingly pandering to woke activists. It's time to take away Disney's special privileges and open up a new era of creativity and innovation," Hawley said.
Hawley's office said that Congress had used the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act," which amended the Copyright Act of 1976 in 1998, to extend copyrights for corporations up to 120 years.
The act, officially called the "Copyright Term Extension Act," increased the duration of copyrights by 20 years.
Hawley's action comes as Disney continued to be at odds with the state of Florida, after the company condemned the state's Parental Rights in Education Act.
Opponents of the bill, including Disney, have said that the legislation protecting children from gender identity indoctrination would harm LGBTQ youth.
[NEXSTAR] — A U.S. Army soldier stationed at a base in Alaska died after being injured by a bear on Tuesday, officials at the base confirmed.
The soldier, who was stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, was participating in a training exercise in Eagle River, Anchorage, with a small group of other soldiers, according to a news release. Officials at the base did not say if any other trainees had sustained injuries.
The name of the deceased soldier was being held until a next-of-kin was notified.
Wildlife Troopers from Alaska’s Department of Public Safety were dispatched to locate the bear. The area has also been closed off to the public.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will provide additional details as they become available, the news release said.
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A 5.56mm using 55 grain rounds would not be a caliber of choice for a charging 400+ lbs Male Black Bear.
A magazine worth of the defender and probably those of his mates would at least slow the beast down. Ripping up tendons and sinew of the limbs would have a tendency to do that.
[Independent] Tom Pursglove also indicates Afghans who served with British Army could face removal under policy
A Home Office minister has refused to rule out that Ukrainian refugees could be deported to Rwanda under Priti Patel’s new asylum policy.
The lady is an idiot, and ineffective one at that.
Speaking to MPs on Wednesday, immigration minister Tom Pursglove said that decisions to ship asylum seekers to the east African country would be considered on a “case by case basis.”
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Point is: yesterday, a video surfaced purportedly shown the release of two Kh-22 (‘AS-4 Kitchen’) missiles from a Tu-22M-3 bomber.
Must admit, had to re-view that video two times just to trust my eyes.
The Kh-22 was originally developed — back in the 1960s — to strike heavily-protected targets on land, like air bases or major air defence installations, or heavily protected naval targets — like aircraft carriers. Developed back in the 1960s, it’s an old weapon: something like ‘1,5 generation’ of Soviet guided missiles. Unsurprisingly, in ‘land attack mode’ it had ‘circular error probable’ of about 3 miles: therefore, back in the 1960s it was usually equipped with a nuclear warhead. Certainly enough, conventional warheads were developed, as was an anti-radar variant, too and during the 1970s — and in conjunction with then brand-new Tu-22M bomber — it was considered the biggest threat for US Navy’s aircraft carriers.
Over the last few years, there were reports about an upgrade to the Kh-32 standard; but, considering the poor state of the Russian high-tech military sector since Moscow lost the contact to over 50 Ukrainian military research and development facilities, in 2014, and how, literally, ‘toxic’ this weapon is (because of its propellant), I have my doubts about that part of the story.
Anyway: apparently, after all these years, the Kh-22 now saw its combat premiere, too. Guess,might explain lots of Ukrainian reports about ‘mysterious detonations’ well away from anything meaningful, which appeared in the last few days.
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A Soviet era long-range anti ship missile. Probably have big piles of them laying around.
When they said 'ancient weapon', I was expecting cross-bows or an atlatl.
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This is the twitter thread purportedly by the Ukrainian engineer mentioned in the article. It's a "there I was..." kind of story, but an interesting quick read.
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And basically the same story appears in Forbes and media outlets other than the Daily Mail.
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They say three tanks in the pic and two have the turrets blown off. I guess that auto loader idea really didn't pan out.
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I think the Americans looked at that tricky Soviet/Russian feature early on, Mercutio.
All M1 Abrams variants are manually loaded. It does add one more to the crew (5) vs. four in the later T-series, though.
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The Russian side attaches great importance to Lysychansk - and Severodonetsk -
This is perhaps because in May 2014, the separatists took these cities but the Ukraine side took these cities back in Sept 2014 and have held them since.
Russia has expended a lot of men and material trying to retake these cities.
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I don't think the turret is going to buff out. Does bondo work on tanks?
I cannot confirm that this is indeed what's happening, but Russia does not have a single semiconductor fab facility, and China can't make any mid-capacity chips, much less high-capacity chips. https://t.co/2TO17Od0e2
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FAKE NEWS
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Joe, Zeihan is usually correct. He is one of the founding experts of Stratfor. Are the fabs you mentioned capable of complex devices? If so then why is the Russian military replacing weapons electronics that required complex chips with chips from dishwashers and the like?
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A quick google suggests Joe's links are to companies manufacturing or selling components and equipment. This is not the same thing as creating complex integrated circuits on slabs of silicon. Think Radio Shack vs Intel.
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Not surprising when you look at the Oran unboxing videos. For a supposed all domestic drone, everything was imported including circuit boards stamped with "Made in Taiwan"
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Last night he explained he had worked for that fashion company until he retired in Malibu, 746. I’m hoping he will become as much an asset to Rantburg as you did. :-)
I generally hope so, to be fair, but every so often it happens.
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[Korrespondent] 23:13 Finnish President Sauli Niinostiio said that Finland's possible entry into NATO would not pose a threat to Russia, and Moscow should understand that they themselves pushed Helsinki to such a decision after decades of neutrality.
23:09 The mayor of Kherson, Igor Kolykhaev, commenting on the reports of the occupying "power" about the intention to become part of Russia, said that "Kherson residents see themselves exclusively as part of Ukraine." In this regard, he demanded "an official statement from the Ukrainian authorities that Ukraine is fighting for its Ukrainian Kherson and appreciates each of its inhabitants who did not leave the city to be torn to pieces."
23:04 Arestovich said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine approached the borders of Russia in the Kharkov direction, and in some places even reached it. And although this is not a guarantee of the cessation of firing in this direction, Kharkov has been largely secured - now only the MLRS reaches it. Currently, troops from near Kharkov, according to him, are being transferred to the Luhansk region.
22:43 Servicemen of the 126th separate brigade of the Odessa Terrorist Defense Forces found ancient amphoras during fortification works - the finds are dated to around 4-5 century BC. The artifacts were handed over to the staff of the Odessa Archaeological Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who promised to add them to the museum's collection.
22:28 The damage to Ukraine as a result of a full-scale invasion of Russia is 92.3 billion dollars. This calculation was made by specialists of the Department of Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis of the National Bank.
Real estate ($32.649 billion) and infrastructure ($31.645 billion) suffered the biggest losses. Almost $12 billion of damage falls on mining and processing facilities, and more than $8.5 billion on social facilities.
22:23 As a result of the rocket attack of the Russians on the Lozova community of the Kharkiv region, one person was killed, Lozova Mayor Sergei Zelensky said.
22:19 Andryushchenko posted a video from the center of Mariupol:
22:16 The IAEA denied Russian fakes that Ukraine is developing nuclear weapons: "Of course, the IAEA firmly denies this ... We do this on the basis of facts, since it is possible to conduct inspections and objectively confirm that nuclear materials are not modified."
22:14 The Times, citing representatives of the space forces of Western countries, reports that Russia is attacking satellites in Earth orbit - this can jam the GPS signals used by planes, ships, cars and ordinary smartphones. American intelligence noticed significant glitches in GPS signals when the Russians deployed their equipment around Chernihiv.
21:59 In the Luhansk region, the Russians have become more active, they are trying to break into Severodonetsk, capture Rubizhne, cut off the Luhansk region from the "mainland", taking control of the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway. The shelling is super-powerful, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
According to him, Bialogorivka is now an "outpost of the Luhansk region", where the occupiers are trying to cross the river, "but they only feed the fish themselves." The humanitarian situation is on the brink, evacuation is not yet possible.
Gaidai also confirmed that the Russians pumped out gas at the distribution station in Novopskov, turned off the taps - in a few days the entire region would be left without gas.
21:56 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that today, near the village of Dolgenkoye, Kharkiv region, "in order to accuse the Russian army of using chemical weapons, nationalists blew up a tank with fertilizers, presumably with ammonium nitrate." As a result, a cloud of orange smoke was formed, which dissipated after a while.
21:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in densely populated areas of the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration, "Ukrainian militants have placed heavy weapons and equipment, residents are kept in basements; in residential areas and more than 10 enterprises of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, nationalists are holding over 90 thousand residents, using them like a living shield." Also in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk allegedly "there is a real threat of a humanitarian catastrophe, the Russian Federation calls on the UN, OSCE, ICRC to take measures to evacuate residents."
21:50 The head of the Poltava OVA, Dmitry Lunin, announced a missile strike in the Karlovskaya community on an infrastructure facility. Rescuers extinguish the fire, information about the victims and damage is being specified.
21:48 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that the German gas company VNG has already transferred euros to Gazprombank for conversion into rubles and subsequent payment for gas, writes Newsunrolled. "No one has ever said whether the ruble payments violate the sanctions. This is such a gray area. Germany, the largest gas importer, has already paid in rubles, and most importers have opened accounts in rubles," Draghi said.
21:46 Zelensky said that he had spoken with Scholz: "We talked about defense assistance, cooperation in the energy sector, increased sanctions pressure on the Russian aggressor. We appreciate the high level of dialogue with Germany and support in our struggle."
21:44 Russia's attack on Ukraine put an end to the post-Cold War period, Johnson said during a visit to Finland. He added that Russian aggression "rewrote our reality" and "reformatted our future" - a new section of history began.
21:42 The Belgorod governor said that as a result of shelling from Ukraine, one person was killed, three were injured.
21:39 The occupying "authorities" of the Kherson region claim that they will appeal to the President of Russia with a request to include the region in the Russian Federation. Read more in the material Without a referendum .
21:17 The Pentagon believes that Putin does not want to fight NATO, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said: "When you look at Putin's calculations ... My opinion is that Russia does not want to enter into conflict with the NATO alliance." Austin sees signs of this in the fact that the Russian Federation is struggling to achieve at least some goals in Ukraine.
21:12 Vereshchuk said that the Ukrainian side offered Russia a format for the release of Ukrainian defenders from Azovstal: "We are taking out our seriously wounded guys along the humanitarian corridor, at the same time we are returning captured Russians according to the standard rules for the exchange of prisoners of war." According to the minister, there is no agreement yet, negotiations are ongoing.
21:04 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling, two civilians were wounded today - in New York and Novoselovka of the Limansky district, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
20:58 A missile strike from a Russian aircraft was carried out in the Poltava region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Lunin. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.
20:44 The Russian army launched at least 18 missile attacks on the private sector of the village of Kamyshevakh, Zaporozhye region. As the head of the community, Yuri Karapetyan, noted, as a result of the shelling, one person was killed, three were injured, and about 60 houses were damaged, Suspіlne reports.
20:25 The Kiev Metro intends to get rid of Russian-made cars. According to Segodnya, modernization and replacement of Russian-made cars used by the metropolitan metro is already planned, and the International Public Transport Association promises to help with this. In total, 821 carriages are currently operated on the lines of the Kyiv metro, 726 of them were manufactured at the plants of the Russian Federation in different years.
20:14 The use of supersonic missiles by the Russians to hit targets in Ukraine did not play a significant role in the course of the war, said the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. He confirmed that the Pentagon considers these Russian attacks to be the first ever use of supersonic missiles in combat.
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin agreed with Milley's assessment and added that Putin wants to show that he has an advantage in weapons over the rest of the world by using such weapons in combat. However, according to Austin, it is unlikely that Putin is ready to decide on the use of nuclear warheads in the near future.
20:09 Normalization of relations with Putin after the invasion of Ukraine is impossible, Johnson said during a visit to Sweden. His opinion was shared by the head of the Swedish government, Magdalena Andersson. The two leaders agreed that the aftermath of Putin's invasion "has fundamentally changed the architecture of international security."
19:51 Residents of the Kiev region, who lost their homes as a result of hostilities, can get new apartments, said the head of the Kiev OVA Oleksandr Pavlyuk: "Currently, we are considering two solutions - buying apartments in already built houses and building two microdistricts on the territory of Borodyanka and Irpen". At the same time, he stressed that it is necessary to communicate with each family that has lost their housing individually in order to understand their needs.
19:29 Kiev boxing champion Artem Mosha died at Azovstal, his mother said.
19:27 Poland and Slovakia are planning to work together to convince those countries of the bloc that are now hesitant on this issue to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership. This was stated by the presidents of the countries Andrzej Duda and Zuzanna Chaputova.
19:16 Scholz admitted that Ukraine may need about a century to overcome the consequences of the war, in particular, because of the threats from unexploded ordnance and mines: "Those who live in Germany know that we still find bombs that fell during World War II... Ukraine will have to deal with the consequences of this war for another hundred years. Such wars have long-term consequences - all the shells launched now can remain in the ground for years."
19:14 Ukraine will need from 500 to 600 billion euros for the reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the Russian war, said the Vice-President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis. He assured that the EU "will provide great and very meaningful support for these reconstruction needs."
19:10 Ukraine won the first phase of the war with Russia, but this victory is far from final, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. She recalled that the key task of the Russian Federation was to capture Kyiv in a few days and take full control of the entire state. This plan failed, and Russia suffered heavy losses. After that, the enemy changed tactics and strategy in the war.
"Ahead of us is a difficult and lengthy stage of struggle with the complete cleansing of our country and the establishment of sovereignty within state borders. Because Russia still has many resources that it can use in the near future," Malyar explained. She also stressed that Ukraine will receive a lot of assistance from foreign partners, but until this assistance arrives, we will have a difficult period that will last several weeks or even months.
19:03 Among all the ammunition that Ukrainian pyrotechnicians find during demining, 10% are classified as prohibited, said Oleg Bondar, head of the department for the organization of pyrotechnic work and humanitarian demining of the State Emergency Service. These are, in particular, cassette elements and remote mining systems. According to Bondar, such ammunition is found in all territories visited by the Russian invaders.
18:59 There are currently about a million servicemen in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Troop, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. She also said that manufacturers are loaded with military orders until the end of the year.
18:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Nursery in the Kharkiv region, the General Staff reports.
18:44 The meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels on the embargo on Russian oil again ended without results today - attempts to approve the ban ran into fierce resistance from Hungary, writes The New York Times.
18:39 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, showed what is happening right now at Azovstal. Earlier today, Pushilin said that there were no civilians left on the territory of the plant, so "we now have a free hand."
18:37 Training of the Ukrainian military on Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers has started in Germany, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. Germany and the Netherlands plan to jointly train up to 18 Ukrainian crews to use these self-propelled howitzers.
18:35 The Czech Senate recognized the crimes committed by the Russian army in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
18:27 Russia has not abandoned plans to capture Kiev, create a new state entity and include it in the Russian Federation, said Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Gromov.
According to him, the occupiers' plans include: taking control of the territory of Odessa, Nikolaev and partially Zaporozhye regions, creating a land corridor in Transnistria, seizing the territory of central Ukraine, capturing Kyiv, staging re-elections to the legislative and executive bodies of pro-Russian forces, creating a new state formation and its inclusion in Russia. Gromov believes that the Russians will try to achieve these goals, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine will oppose this.
18:13 In Mariupol, everyone who has not passed the filtration and who is recognized as "unreliable" in the filtration camps is taken to the former premises of correctional colony No. 52 in the village. Olenevka, Donetsk region, or to the famous Izolyatsia prison in Donetsk, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor.
The minimum term of imprisonment is 36 days (the filtration procedure takes the same amount). The conditions are inhuman, people can't even lie down, they don't get food every day. All this is accompanied by constant interrogations, torture, death penalty threats and coercion to cooperate.
17:59 Slovakia insists on granting it a three-year transitional period to join the embargo on Russian oil, Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Richard Sulik said.
17:54 With each new crime, Russia loses the desire and ability to negotiate, as well as the possibility of resolving this issue through diplomacy, Zelensky said during a speech to students of the French University of Sciences Po. However, he assured that Kyiv is still ready for negotiations with Moscow.
17:52 The extradition process of Shariy can take up to a year, Venediktova said. According to her, this is always a very long process, and "under the most positive" scenario, it can take 3-6 months. "It is important for us to go to the end," the Prosecutor General stressed.
17:50 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, almost 5 million people have lost their jobs, the International Labor Organization said. The organization estimates that if the fighting escalates, job losses will rise to 7 million people.
17:41 At the summit in Madrid on June 29-30, NATO leaders will approve a new strategic concept, approve a new quality of military presence on the eastern flank, and invite Zelensky and the leaders of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region to the meeting.
17:33 Finnish President and Prime Minister will announce their position on NATO tomorrow at 10:00, according to local media.
17:26 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation accused the US Democratic Party of "military biological activities" in Ukraine, which was allegedly financed, among other things, by the Clinton, Rockefeller, Soros, Biden foundations. According to Moscow, such large pharmaceutical companies as Pfizer, Moderna, Merck, Gilead are involved in this "scheme".
The Russian Defense Ministry also stated that "military biological projects" in Ukraine are being implemented "not only by the United States, but also by other NATO countries, such as Germany and Poland."
Mariupol, according to the "data" of the Russian Defense Ministry, "under Ukrainian control, in cooperation with the US military department, was used as a regional center for the collection and certification of the cholera pathogen." And in 2020, Ukrainians "deliberately infected the inhabitants of the Slavyanoserbsky district of the 'LPR' with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis."
17:04 For the first time, the losses in the war were announced in the National Guard of Ukraine: 501 NSU servicemen were killed, 1,697 servicemen were injured and injured.
16:51 British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons announced that she visited Irpin: "I visited Irpin today. The city center is a story of horrific destruction inflicted by Russia. Houses, schools, kindergartens, clinics and shopping centers were destroyed. I met residents who live in dark, cold basements."
16:39 The Washington Post opens a bureau in Ukraine. The new division, which will be headquartered in Kyiv, will be headed by Isabel Khurshudyan, with Max Berak as the chief correspondent.
16:23 Czech President Milos Zeman allowed 103 Czechs to fight in the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia. Now the decision must be signed by Prime Minister Peter Fiala.
16:10 Anonymous hackers claimed responsibility for hacking the Rutube video service. On Twitter, the group reported that "nearly 75% of the databases and infrastructure of the main version, 90% of the backup and database recovery cluster were heavily affected." According to the hackers, this means that "Rutube is probably gone forever."
15:49 In Ternopil, the organizers of a charitable foundation were detained, who appropriated half of all donations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the "work" the fund appropriated 13 million hryvnia, the National Police reported.
15:38 Great Britain signed an agreement with Sweden on mutual security guarantees, a similar declaration will be signed today with Finland, the British government said.
Johnson said that in the event of an attack on Sweden, Britain would be ready to provide any assistance requested.
15:36 NATO foreign ministers will hold an informal meeting in Berlin on May 14-15, the ministers of Sweden and Finland have been invited, the German Foreign Ministry said.
15:34 In the Kherson region, a referendum will not be held due to ignoring by the world community the results of the "absolutely legal" will of the Crimeans in 2014, said the "deputy head of the military-civilian administration" Kirill Stremousov.
15:30 The GTS operator of Ukraine announced the facts of the theft of natural gas in the occupied territories from transit flows. Thus, an unauthorized withdrawal of transit gas from the Soyuz gas pipeline to gas pipelines to the territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions not controlled by Ukraine was recorded.
The operator emphasizes that in fact we are talking about the theft of gas and the inability of the company to bear responsibility for maintaining transit volumes. As a result of the facts of direct intervention of the occupiers in the operation of the Ukrainian GTS, the operator was forced to declare force majeure at the Sohranivka point, the press service explained.
15:27 Vereshchuk called on the international community to help in a new special operation on Azovstai. According to her, the defenders of Mariupol remained at the plant, half of them were seriously injured, they need urgent medical care. According to the minister, there may be about a thousand fighters on the territory of the plant, fierce battles are constantly going on there. "We need a new special operation that will help evacuate the wounded soldiers from Azovstal," Vereshchuk stressed.
15:25 In the areas of Kharkiv and Izyum, as well as in the Kherson and Melitopol directions, Russian troops went on the defensive, said Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Gromov. According to him, the hottest situation is now in the Liman direction.
"In the Kharkov region, the enemy, after an unsuccessful assault, went on the defensive. In the Kharkov direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have some success and liberate settlements. In the Izyum direction, the enemy also went on the defensive and is conducting containment actions," Gromov said.
15:22 Communication with the military at Azovstal is maintained, ammunition and assistance were repeatedly delivered there, but this was possible only until the moment it became known to the general public. After that, the enemy launched airstrikes and made it impossible to help the defenders, said Alexei Gromov, Brigadier General, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:18 Bulgaria has agreed with the United States on the supply of liquefied gas and will buy it at a lower price than from Gazprom, writes the Bulgarian edition of BGNES. Deliveries should begin in June.
15:16 In Trostyanets, Sumy region, SBI investigators found important documents of the Russian military, containing the plans of the Russian Federation to seize the entire territory of Ukraine, the department said, but did not provide details.
15:14 The volume of gas supplied to Germany through Ukraine has decreased by almost 25% compared to yesterday, the German regulator said.
15:12 Near Izyum, the 95th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Russian Ka-52 helicopter, officer Yuri Kochevenko said. The helicopter was hit by Perun MANPADS.
15:11 Ukraine has restored control over a section of the border 1,200 km long, two-thirds of which is the border with the Russian Federation, said Leonid Baran, director of the state border protection department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
15:10 In the Kherson region, the invaders are setting up a drug business: in the Genichesk community, they started organizing the cultivation of hemp, promising local "agrarians" protection, a percentage of profits and positions in their "regional administrations," said Yury Sobolevsky, deputy head of the regional council.
15:05 The invaders launched another missile attack on the Odessa region - the Russians fired a cruise missile from an aircraft, which the air defense forces shot down over the sea, OK Pivden reported.
15:01 The OP promises that the problem with the shortage of gasoline in Ukraine will be resolved in the near future. Delays in deliveries are related to the unavailability of the European infrastructure to provide the required amount of fuel. However, the volume of imports has already increased five times compared to a month and a half ago.
14:54 Pope Francis met today in Rome with the spouses of the defenders of Mariupol - Denys Prokopenko and Arseniy Fedosyuk - who are at Azovstal. They gave the pontiff two letters - from themselves and from the head of the UOC-MP Onufry, as well as the latest photographs from Azovstal.
14:45 The European Union intends to offer limited investment in the infrastructure of member countries that are most dependent on Russian oil. The funds are to be included in the RePowerEU package, a $205 billion plan aimed at freeing the EU from Russian energy supplies by 2027, according to Bloomberg.
14:33 The negotiation process between Ukraine and Russia continues, despite the "deterioration of the situation on the ground," the Turkish state television channel TRT reported, citing its diplomatic sources. According to them, in the coming days, a meeting may be held with the participation of representatives of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN, dedicated to humanitarian issues.
14:29 Podolyak on the appeal of the "authorities" of the Kherson region to Russia: "The only appeal that the Gauleiters of the Kherson region can prepare is a petition for pardon after a court verdict. The invaders can ask to join at least the composition of Mars, at least to Jupiter. Ukrainian army will liberate Kherson, no matter what puns the occupiers come up with."
14:23 Three employees of the Zaporozhye NPP were fired for participating in the Immortal Regiment action, which was organized by the Russians, Energoatom reported.
14:22 The liberation of the Kharkiv region from the Russian invaders is moving forward, but it is not worth returning to the newly de-occupied cities and villages, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, said. According to him, the enemy mined "absolutely everything", including schools, kindergartens and private houses. Two women have already blown themselves up in their own yard. Therefore, residents of the region are asked to wait for permission to return.
Currently, the region is undergoing the restoration of critical infrastructure, primarily gas and electricity supply. Partially in the districts of Kharkov, power supply has already been resumed. Also, experts collect evidence of war crimes of the occupiers.
14:10 Peskov said that the issue of joining Russia should be decided by the residents of the Kherson region. In addition, according to him, this issue “should be clearly and carefully verified and evaluated by lawyers and lawyers, because such fateful decisions must have an absolutely clear legal background, legal justification, and be absolutely legitimate, as was the case with Crimea.”
14:04 In two weeks, the European Commission will propose to recognize the circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions as a crime in the EU, Politico writes, citing its sources. According to them, this will make it easier for EU members to confiscate assets as part of anti-Russian measures.
14:02 The deblockade of Mariupol by military means is not yet possible, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: "We must understand that this topic is very sensitive, every word can be used by the enemy and harm our defenders." Malyar noted that Mariupol is protected by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, border guards, National Guardsmen and National Police forces.
13:58 In the Kramatorsk region, the invaders got into a warehouse with ammonium nitrate. The military administration of Slovyansk reports that there is no threat to life, however, residents are asked to limit their stay in the open air and close windows for a day.
13:55 In the operation to liberate Kherson, there is a question about the price of this offensive, Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, told Channel 24: "The better we prepare him, the fewer victims there will be. There is this work, and not only in the direction of Kherson. I think in the near future, the Russians will be shocked at the location of the strike that our Armed Forces will deliver. The situation will change depending on how we are reinforced by Western weapons."
Andrusiv also said that now the invaders are advancing at the cost of destroying settlements, when Ukrainian soldiers have nowhere to defend themselves. It takes the Russians weeks, and physically they won't be able to fight like that for long. Therefore, the adviser believes that in a week or ten days they will change their tactics.
According to Andrusiv, the Russians have definitely given up any seizures of Ukraine. He is also convinced that in the near future they will give up the land corridor in Transnistria and by the end of May they will concentrate on those lines that they have already captured, presenting this as their victory.
13:42 Gazprom has cut off gas transportation to the Sokhranivka point, the GTS Operator of Ukraine said. In addition, in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the valves of the Shebelinka-Novopskov gas pipeline were blocked without authorization, through which gas was transported to the gas pipelines of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. In fact, Russia has deprived Ukraine of the possibility of transporting gas to consumers in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the report says.
13:37 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports that the slippage of the "special military operation" has become a catalyst for intensifying the hidden confrontation within the Russian generals, in particular, in the General Staff. Differences and covert competition between groups in the General Staff existed long before the start of the war, but recent failures and attempts by other centers of power in the Russian establishment to lay full responsibility for the failures on the military led to a sharp escalation of the confrontation.
13:33 Ukrainian military intelligence sees no signs that the Kremlin intends to end the war in Ukraine in the near future. Instead, covert mobilization is in full swing, and graduates and cadets of military schools are also sent to the combat zone. In particular, from the graduation of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, scheduled for June 25th. Margelov most of the graduates are scheduled to be immediately sent to Ukraine.
It is also known that in the war against Ukraine, the RF Armed Forces have already attracted almost 45% of the number of vehicles of logistics teams (2600 out of 6000). The remaining part is sought to be saved for logistical support in case of other emergencies. At present, the occupiers are trying to replenish the fleet of automotive vehicles with cars stolen in Ukraine.
13:28 The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Mikhail Fedorov, said that there is a huge demand in the world for Ukrainian practical experience in countering an aggressor in the first ever cyber war. Thus, the minister spoke via video link at the Cyber Summit in Paris, where he spoke about the practical cases of the Ukrainian IT army:
the use of crowdsourcing technologies against the occupiers on the example of the єBorog bot;
carrying out informational counteroffensives and spreading the truth in conditions of total control of the Russian media;
identification of marauders of the Russian army through the analysis of mail and informing relatives;
the use of artificial intelligence to recognize the faces of the killed invaders and inform their relatives, etc.
13:21 Austria has extended border controls with Hungary and Slovakia for six months. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, Gerhard Karner, in a letter to the EC, called the reason for this decision "the movement of refugees from Ukraine and the so-called secondary risk potential associated with it."
13:16 Hungary is ready to support the embargo on Russian oil supplies to the EU, but under certain conditions, said Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. In particular, the embargo should apply to offshore oil supplies and some others, but Russian pipeline supplies to Hungary should be exempt from restrictions.
In addition, Budapest is waiting for proposals not only for the reconstruction of its refineries for hundreds of millions of dollars, not only for increasing the capacity of the oil pipeline to Hungary through Croatia for hundreds of millions of dollars, but also for the future of its economy.
13:14 In Kharkiv, the number of attacks has recently decreased after the enemy was pushed back north of the city, but attacks are being made on the Kharkiv region and other settlements, said the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, in the morning the enemy shelled the village of Novy Merchik in the Bogodukhovsky district, one person was wounded.
12:47 "Authorities" of the Kherson region will turn to Putin with a request to include the region in Russia, said "deputy head of the military-civilian administration" Kirill Stremousov. According to him, the Kherson region plans to completely pass under the legislation of the Russian Federation by the end of the year.
12:45 Access to Facebook and Instagram is blocked in the "DPR", Russian media write.
12:19 The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service is already comparing the US State Department with the Third Reich. Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said that the US State Department set the task of launching "a campaign to discredit the special operation in Ukraine in Russian society." Allegedly, Washington has prepared a set of slogans designed to sow panic, calling for large-scale protests in the Russian Federation.
In such actions of the US State Department, "there is a lot in common with the traditions of the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich and its head Goebbels, who considered intellectualism the worst enemy of any propaganda and who owns the phrase "Give me the media, and I will make a herd of pigs out of any nation," Naryshkin said. .
11:56 The Azov regiment reported that over the past day, 38 air raids were carried out on the territory of Azovstal, including four sorties of strategic bombers. The enemy continues to make daily assaults with the support of the infantry.
11:53 The soldiers of the Azov regiment are sure that there is a military way to unblock Azovstal and release the military, Ilya Samoylenko, a spokesman for Azov, said in an interview with Sky News: "It is possible by military means, and it is also possible by political means. We can tell you how to do it by military means." way, but, of course, such operations are classified information. Most people who sit in government offices in Ukraine mostly do not understand the situation well, from our point of view, the reality is different."
11:44 The Czech Republic will tighten passport control for refugees arriving from Ukraine. Also, in order to receive humanitarian assistance, the applicant will need to have a stamp on crossing the border of Ukraine in his passport.
11:40 Putin removed the FSB due to intelligence failures in Ukraine, writes the British The Times. According to the publication, the head of the Kremlin replaced Russian spies with heads of military intelligence, including a former special forces officer accused of involvement in the Salisbury poisonings.
Putin blamed the FSB, Russia's main intelligence agency, for the intelligence failures that ruined the invasion of Ukraine. Therefore, responsibility for intelligence activities in Ukraine was transferred to the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation (formerly the GRU), the military intelligence service.
The GU GSh, which is a branch of the army and has its own special forces, has been involved in high-profile operations around the world, including attempted coups, assassinations, and sabotage of critical infrastructure. The British authorities named, in particular, two agents - Anatoly Chepigu and Alexander Mishkin.
11:16 The Russian military are beginning to realize the defeat of the Russian Federation and, realizing the inevitability of punishment for war crimes against the people of Ukraine, they demand from the command to classify their participation in the invasion. According to Ukrainian intelligence, such appeals have acquired a special scale in parts of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation.
The military intelligence of Ukraine, in particular, identified the identities of war criminals - servicemen of the 277th bomber aviation regiment of the 303rd mixed aviation division of the 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army (military unit 77983), stationed at the Khurba airfield of the Khabarovsk Territory. Most of them were involved in rocket and bomb strikes on the territory of Ukraine.
The occupiers are trying to avoid responsibility by demanding that the command provide them with false documents about being on medical treatment or on vacation. Some pilots demand documents that at the time of the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war they were no longer serving in the unit.
11:08 The American Institute for the Study of War reports that the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the north of Kharkiv has moved further and approached the border with Russia within 10 km. The counteroffensive to the north of Kharkov was continued, the invaders were pushed back to the border of the Russian Federation, several settlements in the northeast of Kharkov were liberated. At the same time, Russian operations around Izyum "remain at a standstill."
10:50 Germany resumed the work of the embassy in Kiev.
10:48 Elon Musk said that his company Starlink constantly repels cyber attacks from the Russian Federation, but the Russians are stepping up their efforts.
10:41 Despite the transfer of Belarusian troops to the border, the likelihood that Lukashenka will order a ground operation against Ukraine is low, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko believes: "The forces of the Republic of Belarus are conducting exercises, and there were reports that to the borders with Ukraine there are Tornadoes and other installations. But Belarus has one and only training ground where it is possible to conduct the relevant exercises, and it is located relatively close to the Ukrainian border. The situation there is tense, but it is still unlikely to say that there will be an order."
10:38 During the counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region, border guards destroyed 30 enemy soldiers, and two were taken prisoner, the State Border Service reports. The prisoners confessed that they were residents of the Krasny Luch (now Khrustalny) Luhansk region.
10:36 The invaders are not ready either physically or mentally to prepare a naval landing operation in Odessa and the region. At the same time, the threat of new missile strikes by the enemy remains high in the region, said Serhiy Bratchuk, speaker of the Odesa OVA. According to him, the night passed without shelling, but with air raid signals in Odessa and the region.
10:09 There are no provocations and movement of equipment or military personnel on the border with Pridnestrovie, Andriy Demchenko, a representative of the State Border Service of Ukraine, said: "Near the border line, we do not record any provocations, movement of equipment or military personnel. At the same time, in operational activities and we, and other structures of the country's defense, take into account all the information that is pumped up around Pridnestrovie in order to act to prevent, if suddenly Russia still tries to use this direction of Pridnestrovie against Ukraine at some point."
10:02 Borrell, in an interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, supported the supply of weapons to Ukraine, and condemned the opponents of such a decision: “I ask these people: does it really matter how this war ends? Do Ukrainians really have to kneel, torn to pieces? want to?"
He recalled that wars end with negotiations, but they need to start from a position of strength: "The task now is to bring Ukrainians to this position."
09:59 The obvious hatred of Putin and his henchmen for Ukrainians will be taken into account when considering the issue of the genocide of Ukrainians during the current war, Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: "There are statements, comments and speeches, Putin and other Russian leaders who show how they they ignore and hate the Ukrainian people, where they talk as if Ukraine does not exist."
Callamard also emphasized that the violence of this war is based on this mindset: "Violence becomes a mode of action, it is turned a blind eye, and sometimes it is even glorified. There is no control, and this creates conditions for violent behavior, this is a regime of impunity."
"We want to show that this war is not only a problem for Ukraine, Europe and NATO. Russian aggression is a problem for the whole world," the human rights activist said after visiting the de-occupied cities of the Kyiv region.
09:51 The transit of Russian gas through Ukraine today may fall by 18% due to the lack of pumping through the Sokhranivka station, the Ukrainian GTS operator said.
09:38 In a village near Zaporozhye, Ukrainian air defense shot down a rocket that exploded over an infrastructure facility. The object received heavy damage, according to the military administration.
09:17 At night, the invaders attacked the Zaporozhye region. According to the OVA, as a result of enemy shelling, reeds and grass caught fire in an open area near the village of Kamyshevakha. In Gulyaipole, as a result of an artillery attack, a warehouse building on an area of 150 square meters was on fire. m.
09:14 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 11. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Novopavlovsky, Kurakhovsky and Severodonetsk directions.
personnel - about 26350 (+350) people liquidated,
tanks - 1187 (+17),
armored fighting vehicles - 2856 (+48),
artillery systems - 528 (+9),
MLRS - 185 (+0),
air defense systems - 87 (+0),
aircraft - 199 (+0),
helicopters - 160 (+2),
UAV operational-tactical level - 390 (+10),
cruise missiles - 94 (+0),
ships/boats - 12 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 1997 (+17),
special equipment - 41 (+0).
09:00 Minister of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky believes that it is too early to cancel the curfew in any region of Ukraine. According to him, such a measure has fully justified itself and helps to prevent the penetration of saboteurs.
08:55 In Slavyansk, Donetsk region, the invaders launched rocket attacks on two microdistricts of the city, the consequences are being specified, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said.
08:53 Canada provides Ukraine with cyber assistance and intelligence about cyber threats, and also condemns the cyber attack of the Russian Federation on the eve of a military invasion, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.
08:51 By the end of the year, more than 10,000 people may die in Mariupol from diseases and unbearable conditions. Now there are 150-170 thousand people in the city, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said: “The invaders have turned Mariupol into a medieval ghetto. old people and sick people. Without proper conditions, mortality among vulnerable categories will increase significantly."
Boychenko also said that part of Mariupol residents from nearby villages returned to the city, because they are not allowed to enter the territory of free Ukraine due to a tough filtration system. "But the Russians continue the genocide that they started on February 24. Our people are in mortal danger. Therefore, a complete evacuation of the city is needed," the mayor stressed.
08:49 Russian Foreign Ministry on the negotiation process with Ukraine: "contacts are being made."
08:36 British intelligence reported that fighting continues on Zmeiny Island, Russia is trying to strengthen its poorly protected garrison there. Ukraine hit Russian air defense systems and supply vessels with the help of Bayraktar drones. Russian supply ships have minimal protection in the western Black Sea after the loss of the missile cruiser Moskva.
Russia's attempts to strengthen the garrison on the island "give Ukraine more opportunities to fight Russian troops and destroy equipment." If the Russian Federation strengthens its position on the island with the help of strategic cruise missiles, air defense and coastal defense, it can dominate the northwestern part of the Black Sea, according to intelligence.
08:11 Today, in the morning, the enemy fired at the border with the Kherson region, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. There were no casualties or damage.
08:02 The EU cannot become a mediator in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Borrell said in an interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "The Russians will not accept this, just as we will not accept Russia as a mediator," he explained. According to Borrell, "China is not a good fit either, as it leans towards Russia," but "Turkey is doing a very good job, it has good relations with both sides."
07:35 The enemy grouping does not stop trying to attack in order to take complete control of Rubizhne, capture Liman and Severodonetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning report .
07:06 The authorities of New Zealand have added five individuals and three organizations of the Russian Federation to the sanctions list. Among them is the official representative of the RF Ministry of Defense Konashenkov.
06:55 The US House of Representatives supported the ban on the import of Russian oil, now the document is sent to the Senate. It provides for a review of Russia's role in the World Trade Organization and the re-approval of the Magnitsky Act to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation for human rights violations.
06:12 Portuguese police raided a municipal refugee support center on charges of transferring personal data of Ukrainian refugees to the Russian Federation, writes Reuters. The scandal began with an April 29 publication in the Expresso newspaper alleging that Russian dual-citizen couple Igor Khashin and his wife Yulia had photocopied the refugees' personal documents and interrogated them about the whereabouts of their family members in Ukraine.
05:40 The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the allocation of an additional aid package to Ukraine in the amount of $39.8 billion. Now the document will go to the Senate of Congress.
05:24 Allied countries of Ukraine intend to hold another meeting of heads of defense ministries before the end of May. During the talks, military assistance to the Ukrainian army will be discussed, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
02:27 In the port of Hamburg, the yacht Luna, owned by Russian billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov, was detained.
01:51 The occupiers said that over the past day they have taken 8,787 people out of Ukraine, of which 1,106 are children, Russian media reported.
00:48 The European Commission will consider on Wednesday, May 11, a strategy to facilitate the overland export of Ukrainian food stocks, writes Bloomberg.
00:22 88-year-old Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine in 1991-1994, passed away on May 10, last year he underwent heart surgery in Germany and has not left the clinic since then. About how the first president of Ukraine lived - in the material Between the Droplets .
00:02 Russia used "from 10 to 12" units of hypersonic weapons during the war in Ukraine, one of the senior representatives of the US Department of Defense said.
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[RIA Novosti] Political, diplomatic and economic pressure on Moscow, the supply of weapons and military equipment - NATO countries continue to defiantly help Ukraine. However, support of a different kind remains behind the scenes: from the very beginning of the conflict, Western intelligence services have been continuously supplying Kyiv with intelligence. What exactly - in the material RIA Novosti.
COSMIC "EYES"
Back in 2014, the Americans began to transfer satellite images of the Donbass and border areas to Ukraine. However, at first, they kept the appearance of decorum - they blacked out Russian military facilities and reduced the clarity of images.
Canada has granted the Armed Forces limited access to the RADARSAT-2 satellite. And in 2015, the State Space Agency of Ukraine signed a contract with the European company Airbus Defense and Space on the use of data from the Pleiades-1 and Pleiades-2 spacecraft.
Representatives of the OSCE monitoring mission in Donetsk - RIA Novosti,
All eight years of the war in the Donbass, it was not so important. The positional nature of the armed conflict did not imply a sharp change in the operational situation. Now, however, all conventions are thrown aside. Intelligence from orbit arrives in Kyiv daily, in fact, in real time.
NATO does not even think to hide the fact that their devices are constantly hanging over the combat zone. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, just hours after the fire on the missile cruiser Moskva, said the agency already had satellite images of the sinking ship.
And in early April, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin publicly acknowledged the transfer of intelligence to Ukraine. According to him, the Pentagon provides information to Kyiv in order to "help the Armed Forces of Ukraine attack enemy troops in the Donbass."
Private entrepreneurs are not far behind. The American company SpaceX sent more than five thousand Starlink satellite Internet terminals to Ukraine for the rapid exchange of intelligence information.
The Ukrainians can use the information received, in particular, when planning attacks on Russian settlements.
CLOSED SKY
“The border regions of Russia, like the Donbass, are also under constant surveillance from orbit,” says military expert Alexei Leonkov. “The West regularly informs Ukraine about the location of our troops: where they are moving, where they are attacking or defending. the operation of radio equipment in close proximity to the line of contact, especially about the electronic warfare systems that jam Ukrainian drones. Western specialists also designate targets for strikes."
According to the expert, Earth remote sensing satellites are now the main source of information for the Western military. Prior to the Russian special operation, American drones, including RQ-4 Global Hawk heavy strategic drones, were constantly flying along the contact line in Donbass. And the coast of Crimea and the airspace of Ukraine were regularly flown by NATO spy planes U-2SDragon Lady, RC-135W Rivet Joit and P-8A Poseidon.
It is easy to guess what their goals were. The Ministry of Defense emphasizes: Ukraine was going to return by force the uncontrolled areas of Donbass in early March. Kyiv was pushing the West to do this, transmitting to the Armed Forces of Ukraine the coordinates of the positions of the armies of the DPR, LPR and Russia, the locations of military units, air defense systems, and maps of field fortifications. However, Russia now controls the skies over the war zone. And NATO is unlikely to dare to risk the lives of pilots and expensive equipment.
ENEMY EXPERIENCE
NATO ground infrastructure is also used. In particular, at the Polish airfield near the city of Rzeszow, 70 kilometers from the eastern border, American Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems are deployed. They not only guard this important transit point, from where convoys with weapons leave, but also monitor the airspace over Western Ukraine.
The target detection range of standard AN / MPQ-65 radars is up to 180 kilometers. This allows you to view the sky of the entire Lviv region and notify the Ukrainian General Staff in a timely manner about the approach of Russian cruise missiles to military infrastructure facilities.
Western specialists are also working directly in the combat zone. It is no secret that foreigners are fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine - both mercenaries and military personnel. It is they who, according to the DPR and LPR, act as operators of American-made counter-battery radars, helping Ukrainians to identify the positions of Russian artillery.
The other day, the British media reported the arrival in Lviv of about two dozen fighters of the elite SAS special forces, specializing, among other things, in deep reconnaissance. It is not excluded their direct participation in hostilities.
It is important to understand that NATO countries are helping Ukraine with military supplies and intelligence information not out of great love for the Kyiv regime. Observing the actions of Russian troops, tactics, peculiarities of the use of weapons, strengths and weaknesses, generals in Brussels and Washington carefully analyze how a potential enemy fights. And there is no doubt: according to their findings, dozens of textbooks for Western military schools and academies will be written.
#1
Some of the commercial small sat constellations are getting quite dense and quick. One has a complete new multi-spectral (and side-band radar) image of the complete earth in 3 meter detail every hour. As their network gets bigger they are hoping for a complete earth image every 15 mins. by next year.
#2
Those are very small sats at most 2 kg. They would be easy to attach to the much larger communications sats like Starlink or Amazons. StarLink has too many up to modify right now but Amazon hasn't started launching yet. 2kg would not effect those sats one bit.
China ‘Deeply Alarmed’ By SpaceX’s Starlink Capabilities That Is Helping US Military Achieve Total Space Dominance
“SpaceX has decided to increase the number of Starlink satellites from 12,000 to 42,000 – the program’s unchecked expansion and the company’s ambition to use it for military purposes should put the international community on high alert,” said the article on China Military Online, the official news website affiliated with the Central Military Commission (CMC), China’s highest national defense organization headed by President Xi Jinping himself.
Here is the referenced China Military Online article (in English). Note that apparently the CCCP does not countenance TLS encryption. Perhaps they know something we don't:
Also note the .htm extension on the web page filename. Hopefully they have been keeping that ancient Windows NT server patched up. And I'm starting to suspect their lack of standard website encryption is not indicative of a beyond pedestrian understanding of such matters. Rather, I now suspect that China Military Online is really just someone with English skills at a desk in an office in Beijing.
#6
The ChiComs are just pissy because all their anti-satellite weapons are designed for single large satellites. Blowing up one of those makes a difference. The Starlink birds are small and distributed. Losing a handful of them would not matter much.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:30 The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that another group of volunteers had flown from Grozny to the Donbass. 21:36 Russia's nuclear arsenal poses serious difficulties for the United States, the head of the Pentagon said.
21:35 As a result of the shelling of the village of Solokhi in Belgorod oblast, one person was killed, three were injured - the authorities. According to updated data, the deceased died in an ambulance, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. The head of the region called the situation "the most difficult for all the time of shelling."
21:20 The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that the village of Solokhi was shelled from Ukraine in the region, there is one victim and destruction.
20:03 The Pentagon reported on the work done on arming and training Ukrainian units: of the 90 M777 howitzers promised to Ukraine, 89 were handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 120,000 artillery ammunition of 155-mm caliber was also sent. 370 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine completed the training program for handling these systems.
18:48 No KhNR will be created on the territory of the Kherson region, there will be no referendums - Deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region Stremousov
“The city of Kherson is Russia, no KhNR will be created on the territory of the Kherson region, there will be no referendums. This will be one single decree based on the appeal of the leadership of the Kherson region to the President of the Russian Federation, and there will be a request to include the region into a full-fledged region of the Russian Federation, ”Stremousov said.
18:46 Kherson region plans to fully pass under the legislation of the Russian Federation before the end of the year - the authorities of the region.
17:42 Doctors of the Nikolaev region are looking for work in Kherson. Kherson doctors are increasingly receiving messages from their colleagues from the Nikolaev region with requests for employment in hospitals in the new Russian region.
Back in 2021, the government of Ukraine set the minimum wage for doctors at the level of UAH 20,000, but since the beginning of the conflict, doctors from Mykolaiv have not been paid extra, but on the contrary, their salaries have been reduced! For example, in the city hospital No. 3, the average salary of doctors fell to 12,000 hryvnia. per month, which is a thousand less than it was in April, and nine less than before the start of the conflict.
17:35 The National Guard of Ukraine called the losses during the Russian special operation in Ukraine. According to official data: 501 National Guardsmen were killed, 1,697 were injured,” said Aleksey Nadtochiy, one of the NGU leaders.
16:50 Issuance of Russian passports to willing residents of the Kherson region will begin before the end of 2022 - Deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region Kirill Stremousov.
16:48 Mayor of Hulyaypole urged local residents to evacuate - OVA.
16:48 Russia demanded from Poland an apology for the incident with the ambassador and security guarantees for employees of foreign missions - Russian Foreign Ministry.
16:47 Kadyrov said that the Zarya gunpowder factory was liberated in the LPR, the settlements of Yuzhny and Voevodovka were taken under control, over 200 Ukrainian nationalists were killed.
16:04 Explosions are heard in the Nikolaev region.
16:04 There were two explosions in the vicinity of Bukovel in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
16:03 According to media reports, the President of the Czech Republic allowed 103 citizens of the country to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:03 Kharkiv got rid of Moskovsky Prospekt and district, Belgorod highway and descent. In Kharkiv, the names of four toponyms associated with the aggressor country have been changed. The corresponding decision was made on May 11 at an extraordinary session of the Kharkiv City Council, the mayor's office reported.
15:10 A former Ukrainian military spoke about bullying during his service because of the Russian language. Former Ukrainian soldier Daniil Kovalev told military investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee about bullying during service because of the Russian language.
According to the man, most of his colleagues in his unit were from the western regions of Ukraine and considered Kovalev a “separatist”, they addressed him as “katsap” or “moskal”, entrusting the most difficult and dirty work.
“One sergeant… said that I was a fascist, began to suspect me of something and locked me in a dog kennel, in a cage,” he said.
And someone still doesn’t believe in the Russian genocide in Donbass… Ukronazis don’t even consider “their” people if they speak Russian
15:08 A powerful explosion thundered behind the back of the APU militants during the filming. The Russian army hit the location of the militants in the Kharkov region.
14:33 Residents of the Kherson region should decide for themselves whether or not to apply for the region to join the Russian Federation, the possibility of including the Kherson region in the Russian Federation should have a clear legal justification - Peskov.
14:26 Kherson region decided not to hold a referendum on joining the Russian Federation, the region will try to become part of Russia without this procedure - the authorities of the region.
13:52 Missile strikes were carried out on targets near Odessa. Explosions in Ilyichevsk.
13:52 Putin does not plan to introduce martial law in the Russian Federation against the backdrop of a special operation in Ukraine - Peskov.
13:51 In the near future, Russia will be shocked by the place of the blow that the Armed Forces will inflict, - Andrusiv, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
13:51 A Ukrainian drone was shot down in the border zone of the Kursk region, there are no casualties and no damage - the governor.
13:16 Passenger trains - Stremousov - will be launched between Kherson and Crimea.
"The passenger direction will be restored after the Liberation of Nikolaev, Odessa. When it is safe, we will launch a passenger route with the Republic of Crimea," said Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civil administration of the Kherson region.
13:16 The government of Ukraine has approved a document according to which Russian assets in the country become the property of the state, said the head of the Ukrainian Cabinet Denys Shmyhal.
12:41 Poland no longer hides its participation in the war in Ukraine. A document has leaked to the network, which indicates that the military personnel of the Polish Armed Forces are sent to Ukraine. The leadership of Poland has long wanted to appropriate part of the "independent" land for itself, and now is the best time for this. While Ukraine is at war with Russia, Poland is slowly but surely moving towards its goal.
12:38 The US State Department recommended spreading fakes aimed at dehumanizing, dehumanizing the political and military leadership of the Russian Federation - Naryshkin.
12:15 Over the past two days, the activity of tactical aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has increased in the Nikolaev-Kherson and Kharkov directions.
Yesterday, fdive sorties of Su-25, Su-27 and MiG-29 aircraft were made from the air bases of Dolgintsevo in Dnepropetrovsk and Vasilkov in Kyiv regions to the area of Nikolaev and Snigirevka. There were 11 MiG-29 and Su-25 flights from the Dnepropetrovsk airport to the Barvenkovo area. Despite missile strikes on the infrastructure of airports and airfields, aviation continues to fly from forward bases, using the tactics of constant change of location.
12:13 The goals of the special operation will be achieved - Medvedev.
12:13 The goal of US support for Ukraine is to continue the proxy war against Russia, the desire to inflict a heavy defeat on the country, limit its economic development and political influence in the world. The USA will not be able to limit the economic development of Russia and its political influence in the world, "their printing press will break faster."
11:06 FSB officers detained an extremist in Kaliningrad. It is assumed that he planned a terrorist attack against one of the military units of the RF Armed Forces on the eve of Victory Day. After that, the young man wanted to leave to fight in Ukraine. Its curators were the field commanders of the Ukrainian "Right Sector" banned in Russia. The search showed that the detainee was holding an improvised explosive device in the apartment.
11:05 In total, since the beginning of the operation, 164 Ukrainian aircraft, 125 helicopters, 807 drones, 302 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,998 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 360 MLRS and 1,455 guns have been destroyed.
11:04 Air defense destroyed 9 Ukrainian drones at night, including 4 near Balakliya in the Kharkiv region, three near Rubizhne in the LPR, one near Serpent Island, and one Bayraktar-TB2 near Arkhangelsk in the Nikolaev region.
11:04 As a result of the strikes, more than 280 nationalists were killed, 59 units of military equipment were put out of action.
11:03 Missile troops and artillery hit 407 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, destroyed 13 command posts, four positions of Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile systems and 14 ammunition depots.
11:02 During the night, 93 objects were hit by aviation, including two command posts, 69 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, and three ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army.
10:45 The West has not yet provided Ukraine with financial credit assistance for “life”. The Office of the President asked for at least $5-7 billion a month, while the EU has allocated $600 million at a time. Also, before that, all countries chipped in a couple of tens of millions, which gave Ukraine the opportunity to hold out for these 2 months.
The rest are mainly loans used to purchase weapons. Now the Ukrainian economy is saved by the fact that the mass sale of grain from storage facilities. The future is very hazy. If there is no money to maintain financial stability in the country, then there will be a further collapse of everything.
10:44 Russian humanitarian aid has been delivered to Kherson. Assistance in issuing food packages was provided by local volunteers, and Russian military personnel ensured the safety of the humanitarian action.
10:22 Pentagon spokesman John Kirby openly admitted that the West has been preparing and supplying the Ukrainian army for combat operations for eight years.
10:14 A supporter of the Right Sector was detained in Kaliningrad, who planned on the eve of May 9 to commit a terrorist attack against soldiers of one of the Russian military units, and then leave to fight in Ukraine - FSB
08:10 The United States begins deliveries of a new batch of Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine. In the near future, Kyiv will receive 11 cars.
08:05 According to Telegram channels, the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived in Germany to learn how to handle PzH 2000 howitzers. A total of 60 people arrived at the Bundeswehr artillery school in Idar-Oberstein.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:25 In the LPR, the settlements of Yuzhny and Voevodovka were taken under control, the Zarya gunpowder factory, assistant to the head of the Chechen Republic in the power unit of Apta Alaudinov, was liberated. 22:31 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 3 civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU on the previously liberated territory of the Republic:
n.p. Staromlinovka: - a man born in 1978.
n.p. Pavlovka: - male born in 1989;
n.p. Novodonetskoye: - child (boy) born in 2019.
21:30 A monument to the first head of the DPR Zakharchenko was erected in the city of Shakhtyorsk.
21:09 Honored Artist of Russia Grigory Leps performed for doctors and military personnel who are being treated at the Lugansk Republican Clinical Hospital.
21:07 After the liberation of Popasnaya, the allied forces are developing an offensive against Artyomovsk and in a northerly direction. From the field they report that today the RF Armed Forces, together with the NM of the LNR, crossed the border of the Luhansk and Donetsk Republics and advanced in the direction of the city of Bakhmut (renamed Artyomovsk), which is still controlled by the troops of the Kyiv regime.
Less than twenty kilometers from the border of the LPR to the outskirts of Artemovsk. The positions of the militants covering this direction are being hit by artillery, including rocket launchers.
20:39 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of two civilians - a pregnant mother and a child born in 2012. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Gorlovka (village Gagarin's school) at the address of the street. Stozhka, 142. The personal data of the victims are being established. Also, as a result of this shelling, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Yaroshenko, 8 - private sector;
- st. Cherkasova, 1 - the private sector;
- st. Pereyaslavskaya, 4a - a direct hit by a shell on the roof of kindergarten No. 51.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
20:21 The Investigative Committee of Russia opened two more cases about shelling by the Ukrainian military of settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic, according to the department's Telegram channel.
“Military investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation initiated 2 criminal cases against servicemen of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade, as well as 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (ill-treatment of the civilian population, the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare),” the report says.
19:50 In the video and photo - houses on the street. Yaroshenko, 8/1, Yaroshenko, 6/2, Cherkasov, 1 and the kindergarten building on the street. Pereyaslavskaya, 4a in the village of the Gagarin mine, in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, damaged as a result of the aggression of the VFU. Materials of the city mayor Ivan Prikhodko.
19:31 VFU continues to “congratulate” the residents of Horlivka on the Day of the Republic. As a result of a shell explosion, a garage in the village caught fire. mine Glubokaya on the street. Yaroshenko, 8. Shrapnel damage to a low-pressure gas pipeline was recorded at this address.
Residents report a shell hit on the roof of a two-story house on the street. Cherkasova, 1. In the village. sh-you Gagarin on the street. Pereyaslavskaya, 4a a direct hit in the corner of the roof of kindergarten No. 51. Reports of destruction continue to come - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko.
19:30 From the beginning of the current day, the servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic, together with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, destroyed 18 Ukrainian nationalists, one firing position of D-30 howitzers, one tank, one ZU-30 anti-aircraft gun, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armored vehicles. Captured one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armored vehicles and two trucks. Also, three servicemen of the 95th Airborne AssaultBrigade and two servicemen of the 25th Airborne Brigade voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the Donetsk People's Republic
19:30 Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 235 shells at the DPR from 220mm BM27 Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122mm cannon artillery, 120mm mortars. The areas of 11 settlements of the Republic came under shelling. As a result of Ukrainian aggression, one civilian was killed and nine were injured. A total of 15 residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.
18:56 DPR military correspondents report that a dam near Avdievka has been blown up.
18:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
18:25 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (village of sh-you named after Gagarin): four shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
18:16 Telegram channels report about the tunnel through which the enemy leaves Azovstal - along the pipes under the railway track. The height of the tunnel is at least three meters, the width allows you to move without difficulty, then the exit to the river, from which, judging by the trodden paths, the enemy is drawing water. Today the tunnel was blocked, from the side of the enemy one "two hundred" and one "three hundred".
17:57 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction of:
16:15 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): two shells of 122mm were fired.
17:38 Today, the Russian Armed Forces, together with the NM of the LPR, crossed the border of the Lugansk and Donetsk Republics and advanced towards the city of Bakhmut (renamed Artyomovsk), which is still under the control of the troops of the Kyiv regime. Less than twenty kilometers from the border of the LPR to the outskirts of Artemovsk. The positions of the militants covering this direction are being hit by artillery, including jet artillery - military commander Yevgeny Poddubny.
17:11 Rescuers from the Russian Federation are helping to restore infrastructure in Mariupol. With the help of special equipment, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are dismantling interfloor reinforced concrete structures and dismantling blockages in residential areas. Video
17:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
17:05 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
16:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
15:45 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (village Zemlyanka): five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
15:45 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
16:30 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
16:35 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
16:39 The Zarya gunpowder factory was liberated in the LPR, the settlements of Yuzhny and Voevodovka were taken under control, over 200 Ukrainian nationalists were killed - the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov
16:35 Vladimir Putin instructed the Sirius Center to support the development of talents among children in the DPR and LPR.
16:34 In Artemovsk (the territory of the DPR temporarily occupied by Ukraine), the hostel that housed the Ukrainian military was hit.
16:27 Mariupol under Ukrainian control in cooperation with the US military was used as a regional center for the collection and certification of the causative agent of cholera - Russian Defense Ministry
16:20 In Ukraine, there was a deliberate infection of residents of the Slavyanoserbsky district (LNR) with tuberculosis with high resistance to drugs - the organizers of the incident began to distribute counterfeit banknotes infected with the causative agent of tuberculosis among children in the village of Stepovoe - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
16:11 Makeevka and Yasinovataya DPR under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The blows are delivered from the MLRS Grad.
16:06 According to Telegram channels, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has sharply worsened the forecast for the situation in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk region. It was expected that the troops would be able to successfully fight and prevent encirclement for about a month.
But now the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area is crumbling, and the leadership is trying to put out the "fire", throwing more and more forces on the front line, sometimes even the defense fighters are removed from Western Ukraine and sent to the front. It is possible that in a week the forces in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will be surrounded.
16:05 Powerful explosions in Artemovsk and Soledar captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the occupied part of the DNR air raid. Our troops have also been attacking the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Slavyansk and near Kramatorsk since the morning.
15:45 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
12:50 — n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
12:52 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: fired two mines with a caliber of 120mm;
12:54 n.p. Dzerzhinsk - settlement Zheleznaya Balka: 40 missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad";
13:02 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Balka: eight LNG grenades fired;
13:27 — n.p. Dzerzhinsk (village sh-you Yuzhnaya) - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): four mines of 120mm caliber were fired;
13:35 n.p. Sands - Donetsk (settlement Gornyak): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
15:28 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:40 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
14:45 — n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:19 Donetsk and Yasinovataya remain under shelling. There are wounded again - military commander Georgy Medvedev.
15:08 Chairman of the DPR Parliament Vladimir Bidyovka said that a group of doctors from Crimea had already arrived in the DPR to help local health workers. A certificate for receiving humanitarian aid was also handed over, which includes five thousand food packages, medicinal and medical products, fiction and scientific literature.
14:54 VFU again attacked the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling on the street. Sofiyskaya wounded a civilian.
14:40 The photo shows damage to the Galaktika shopping center (Stroitel residential area, Nikitovsky district of Horlivka) resulting from shelling by Ukrainian nationalists.
According to updated data, a Ukrainian projectile with a caliber of 122mm broke through the roof of the shopping center and landed in the area of the departments "Garden - vegetable garden" and electrical engineering. The roof was damaged, the flight with household appliances, garden tools. There were no casualties - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko
14:35 Telegram channels report that the fighting in Avdievka has reached the city limits.
"There has been no electricity for several days, there is no fuel in the city to fuel the generators either. It is available only to warriors. The people are scared. Residents were forbidden to report on the places of arrival and photograph hits, they say that this can contribute to the advancement of the DPR army," said a local resident.
14:34 It is reported that as a result of hostilities in the region of Kramatorsk, a tank car of a railway train with ammonium nitrate exploded. There is no threat to the population.
14:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
13:10 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five mines fired with a caliber of 120mm.
13:58 Gorlovka. Getting into the Galaxy shopping center. No casualties — the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko.
13:38 VFU fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS on the neighborhood of the Stroitel residential area, in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. It is reported about the explosions of three rockets - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko.
13:34 AFU shelled the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling on the street. Shchedrin suffered house building.
13:28 A rocket attack was carried out on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kramatorsk. The rocket flew in the area of the TV tower over Mount Karachun. Above the city is a column of smoke.
13:27 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
13:00 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:20 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky, Kirovsky districts): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
12:58 As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Kashtanova was wounded by a woman.
12:57 Fire was recorded from the VFU in the direction of:
12:45 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Chestnut: three missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
12:57 Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin: there are no civilians left at Azovstal, so our hands are untied.
12:34 "The goals of the NWO are to protect the residents of the DPR and LPR from the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime and to ensure that the West will not build military threats to the security of the Russian Federation from the territory of Ukraine" - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Sergey is out of the doghouse, apparently. 12:31 The number of people wounded from the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Ostrovsky Street has reached five people.
11:50 As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the street. Ostrovsky, a man died.
11:48 AFU fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, Tekstilshchik, at least three people were injured. The shell fell in the courtyard of the house on the street. Ostrovsky half an hour ago.
Shrapnel wounded three people: two girls and a woman. Playground at Tekstilshchik now.
11:23 A square named after the Hero of the Russian Federation Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov appeared in Donetsk. The event was attended by the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin and the Hero's father Engels Gadzhimagomedov.
11:12 VFU attacked Dugouts in the Kirovsky district of Makeevka. Ukrainian militants attacked residential buildings on the street. Engels. Details are being specified.
11:05 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
10:40 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:50 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:04 Rodion Miroshnik said that he had already assumed the duties of the LPR ambassador to the Russian Federation, and the embassy was preparing to open.
10:30 Servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic, together with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continue to liberate the settlements of our Republic from Ukrainian occupiers. Over the past day, our servicemen destroyed 35 Ukrainian nationalists, two infantry fighting vehicles, one tank, two 122-mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts, two armored vehicles and five trucks. Two infantry fighting vehicles, one 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, three 120mm mortars and three trucks with ammunition were captured.
10:19 POWs taken in Popasnaya. According to the classics, no one wanted to fight, they got into the war by accident. An interesting fact, but three of them have close relatives living in Luhansk. Here is such a merciless Ukrainian propaganda. Brainwashed so that young boys are ready to fight against their mothers.
10:03 During the clashes with units of the defense department of the LPR, over the past day, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
➖ Five personnel;
➖ One tank;
➖ One armored personnel carrier;
➖ Three units of automotive equipment;
➖ One serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the right decision, laid down his arms and thus saved his life.
09:34 Specialists from the DPR and the Russian Federation are restoring television and radio broadcasting in the liberated territory of the Republic.
09:26 As a result of the morning shelling of the Petrovsky district, a girl born in 2004 was wounded. in the village Alexandrovka. With a craniocerebral injury, concussion of the brain, concussion and abrasions of the face, she was taken to the Doktmo named after. Kalinin. The hit of the Ukrainian shell in Oleksandrivka happened on the street. Gorky, 331. The roof was damaged, 5 m² of ceiling burned down - the mayor of the city Alexei Kulemzin
08:45 The remnants of the Ukrainian troops driven out of the city of Rubizhne in the Donbass are practically blocked at the Zarya plant - Apta Alaudinov, assistant to the head of Chechnya in the power unit.
07:51 After 03:00 shelling from the side of VFU militants was recorded in the following directions:
05:30 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
06:00 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
06:40 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
07:10 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Mikhailovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
07:30 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122mm rounds were fired.
07:45 Over the past day from the armed formations of Ukraine shelling on N of the item is recorded. Zolote-5 with the use of multiple launch rocket systems BM-21 "Grad" (20 shells). As a result of the shelling, a residential building was damaged.
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[RIA Novosti] Most of the militants of the territorial defense in the Odessa region deserted after learning about the plans to send them to the front after a two-week exercise, a source in the Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti, citing his own informant in the Ukrainian army.
"For territorial defense in the Odessa region , two-week courses of enhanced combat training were formed, followed by sending to the combat zone from the last group (about 300 people), more than 70 percent of the militants deserted," the agency's interlocutor said.
According to the source, the escaped militants hid in villages in the Odessa region and some were able to cross the border and go to Moldova.
"They joined the territorial defense in order to avoid service. They found out the real goals of their training and fled. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, are trying to replenish the group of troops in the south-east of the country due to the lack of trained personnel reserves," the agency's interlocutor noted.
Even pro-US governments across the industrial world are starting to reduce their dollar holdings. The US economy is facing stagflation, the US stock markets are crashing, the US president is a deranged and demented clown.
#4
It looks like the ownership of this rag is shilling for pedo-joe narration….
Disgusting pathetic and anti-American.
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#5
The US economy is facing stagflation, the US stock markets are crashing, the US president is a deranged and demented clown.
Biden's Ukraine Adventure is an obvious wag the dog episode.
The most incompetent administration in American history, a literal freak show, is creaming its skinny jeans at the thought of blaming Putin and Evil Russkies for all the damage these demented freaks have wrought upon us.
Deny. Distract. Deceive. Delude. 24/7.
So fucking obvious. Screw these liars and their foolish war.
#6
Seriously, newbie dudes, you need to get a better gig than bitching about our sources. It's boring.
Here at the 'Burg, we have seen the elephant (or at least part of it). We see the Daily Mail for what it is. That doesn't mean we swallow it.
Besides, who isn't interested in the zany hijinks of the Kardashians, both Royal and otherwise?
#7
It's not your "sources" but your schizophrenia. 80% of the non-WOT content at this site catalogs the madness, depravity and perfidy of Biden, the Democrats, RINOs, Feral Youts and the whole left-lib Woke-Freak movement.
But on this one particular issue, you allow the Shitposter to recycle the most obvious bullshit, FUD and propaganda of that same Biden Woke Freakshow!
They're of one piece. These fuckers are lying about Ukraine - ridiculous whopping lies - the same way they lied about Hinter's Laptop and "systemic racism" and "white supremacy" and "temporary" inflation and ""domestic terrorists" and on and on.
Why do you swallow their bullshit about this shithole country? Are you angling for Ukrainian brides?
#8
"Seen the elephant", nice historic touch Steve!
Wiki: The phrase seeing the elephant is an Americanism which refers to gaining experience of the world at a significant cost. It was a popular expression of the mid to late 19th century throughout the United States in the Mexican–American War, the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, the American Civil War, the 1849 Gold Rush, and the Westward Expansion Trails (Oregon Trail, California Trail, Mormon Trail).[1]
#10
No offense, badanov, but nobody except the Ukrainian trolls reads your translated Russian stuff. That sucks but the reality is that Shitposter's tabloid FUD makes up the lion's share of this site's content about Ukraine - and gets 90% of the views.
Very weird. Perhaps the readers are geriatrics hankering for the good ol' Cold War days, or maybe it's just lingering Russophobia.
Whatever, the current US policy of escalating this pointless, horrific war is unbelievably foolish.
Surprising that skeptical and educated people are falling for such an obvious wag the dog maneuver by a decrepit and corrupt band of fools.
#11
No offense, badanov, but nobody except the Ukrainian trolls reads your translated Russian stuff. That sucks but the reality is that Shitposter's tabloid FUD makes up the lion's share of this site's content about Ukraine - and gets 90% of the views.
I'll repeat. Sometime before this war, well before, we found that the Daily Mail covered many domestic news stories that few national publications do. They occasionally have some international stories presented in the tabloid style they are known for.
You notice the dateline that accompanies nearly every article: Where America Gets its News. It's a double entendre.
So will I. DM's Ukrainian "reporting" is a known, pathetically obvious conduit for the U.K. Intelligence services' disinformation campaigns. This has been reported on in great detail for decades. The Blair Administration was the most notorious practitioner of these stunts prior to this foolish, pointless war.
As with our Iraq fiasco, these pathetic stunts are leading us off the cliff. When will we learn? How many trillions will we waste and how much more devastation will we cause before we wise up?
#13
By the way, new guys, Rantburg is not funded by the CIA or the FSB. So wander on over to the lower right-hand column and donate a few bucks (or rubles or whatever your preferred currency is).
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Is it funded by the Daily Mail's Lord Fauntleroy-whashisname? By Soros? Why all the ridiculous, wag the dog pro-Ukraine bullshit?
#16
These fuckers are lying about Ukraine - ridiculous whopping lies - the same way they lied about Hinter's Laptop and "systemic racism" and "white supremacy" and "temporary" inflation and "domestic terrorists" and on and on
Exactly. Such preposterous lies. "Putin's price hike." 🤡
"Freedom and democracy in Ukraine" - YJCMTSU
#17
So no donation, Sholuger? How about you, Albemarle?
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^ Get rid of the DM Ukrainian wag the dog Shitposts, start applying your usual cranky anti-Biden anti-Woke skepticism and I'll contribute a few Benjamins
#20
Some of us have been reading the news like this for the past thirty+ years - 'How are these bastards lying to me now?', so the stated premise in # 7 is false, at least as it pertains to this reader.
I also loved the headline about illegals posing as Black Ukrainian Transgendered Soldiers' Lives Matter to snag billion$ in baby formula from the Biden Freakshow
#23
I loved the story about the brave bold "Canadian Sniper" named "Wali" who just returned home to Canada, sneering at the absolute shitshow of the foreign mercenaries like himself. Some juicy quotes, translated from his interview in French with his Montreal hometown newspaper, La Presse.
Overall, "This war is terribly disappointing"
"Wali," on trying to simply get a gun to fire:
"You had to know someone who knew someone who told you that in some old barbershop they would give you an AK-47. You had to tinker with a soldier's kit like that by picking up pieces and ammunition left and right, in many cases with weapons in more or less good condition."
On the BS about Ukraine "winning" the war:
In the end, Wali said he only fired two bullets into windows “to scare people” and never really came within enemy firing range.
"It's a war of machines", where the "extremely brave" Ukrainian soldiers suffer very heavy losses from shelling, but "miss many opportunities" to weaken the enemy because they lack knowledge technical military, he summarizes.
On his fellow big-talking western mercenary morons, most of whom have thrown in the towel and returned home:
"They arrive in Ukraine with their chests bulging, but they leave with their tails between their legs"
#24
Get rid of the DM Ukrainian wag the dog Shitposts, start applying your usual cranky anti-Biden anti-Woke skepticism and I'll contribute a few Benjamins
Save us all a lot of time if we just asked your mom.
#27
Some how though, the war has not seemed to go your way. Biden offered Zelensky safe passage to leave the country so that your guy could walk in unopposed.
He hinted early in February that he wouldn't object to snipping off a bit more of Ukraine territory.
But Zelensky wouldn't leave, and the attack on Kyev was an embarrassing fiasco for you guys. It was the Europeans who stiffened up to oppose you, and Biden merely jumped on the bandwagon.
There is the psychological term called projection: it means accusing your enemy of your own failings. Do you remember that it saw the Molotov Ribbentrop Treaty that began WW2, and you guys were as guilty as the Nazis for that.
And your judges got to s3entence Germans for their part in starting it!.
Perhaps you guys are the Nazis in this war.
The problem you have this that every small country in the world now fears that if they cannot pay some debt you are likely to invade and claiim the right to rule there. They now feel the same way about China, your buddy. How do yope hope to remove that fear which can leave you total;ly isolated.
Paradoxically, the only way you can do that is by losing the war! And the sooner you do so the better for you and yours as well as everyone else.
By the way Biden was all for your pipeline, and dead against ours, and has done his best to raise gas and oil prices. With enemies like him who needs friends?
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#28
The problem you have this that every small country in the world now fears that if they cannot pay some debt you are likely to invade and claim the right to rule there.
Been that way with every lending nation since time immemorial.
Even pro-US governments across the industrial world are starting to reduce their dollar holdings. The US economy is facing stagflation, the US stock markets are crashing, the US president is a deranged and demented clown.
We are well aware of this, Albemarle Ulease2342. Sadly, if there are no hard consequences for the foolish and venal among America’s politicians and the voters — both real and imaginary — who put them in office, they will never learn. Let us hope that the rest of the world, which generally gets a bad case of Covid whenever America has a slight cold, does not pay too high a price while our idiots learn it.
nobody except the Ukrainian trolls reads your translated Russian stuff.
I do. Also the translated Ukrainian stuff —it’s interesting comparing the two perspectives, which is why badanov gives us both. And from time to time I add a periwinkle in-line comment, though I’m sure there are many insights that I completely fail to see due to my purely civilian lack of knowledge.
#33
Yes, something deeper than ESPN level sportsball coverage about how your team is going to sweep the division despite every team in division, and there are at least 4, has a mark in the L column.
Took the time and effort, might as well make it quality.
#34
Biden's Ukraine Adventure is an obvious wag the dog episode.
Tell me how he got Putin to waste so many soldier's lives and equipment on what y'all now say was a feint towards Kiev.
I mean, most of us don't think he can tie his own shoes in the morning, but you think Biden can get Putin to make all the mistakes needed to create a Russian Tank Turret Space Junk Problem in low earth orbit.
#35
Let's look at the scorecard, shall we?
Losers: Ukraine (biggest loser by far), Russia, US
Winner: can you guess? (see below)
LOSERS:
Ukraine - total devastation, in every sense. Tens of thousands of innocents killed. Every major city in ruins. Economy and infrastructure trashed for at least a decade. Democratic freedoms are gone. Its politics were a corrupt shitshow before the invasion; now it's literally a one-party dictatorship in which minority rights have been extinguished. Ukraine was the poorest, most corrupt and backward country in Europe before the invasion; now it's Europe's Gaza Strip.
Then again, the Euro-Gazan leader has a large following on Instagram and in Hollywood. Nancy Pelosi and Lindsay Graham praise him.
Russia: Russia's economy will shrink by 10% - a much smaller amount than Ukraine's which will shrink by more than 50%, but a not insignificant price to pay. Russia will now orient itself East and South. The US and Western Europe hate the Russians and vice-versa, and the world will be poorer in every sense due to the Western effort to "cancel" Russia as if it were a MAGA supporter in Manhattan.
But Russian control of the real prize, the southern coast and the Donbas, is now assured. In Russian eyes, keeping NATO off its front porch is probably worth the steep cost.
The United States: the US will in the near and medium term be the biggest loser from this war. Ukraine went from the cellar to the dungeon but the US is going from the penthouse to the ground floor. US hegemony is finished. The dollar's reserve currency is certain to disappear within a few years. Biden has saddled America with another multi-year idiotic foreign intervention that will cost the US hundreds of billions, if not trillions, and result in Americans becoming poorer, less secure and less free. And the WINNER is...
CHINA. Is this by accident, or by (the BidenFreaks') design?
#1
If that was Badanov, all the pro Russian sucks will have to do without their daily big lies from Putin.
Just for those folks, read how utterly devoid of even brains Russians are. They just lost an entire BGT trying to cross the Donets River here 2 days ago. Evolution must be in deep storage inside Russia anymore:
#3
OMG! The Ruskies are taking down names of Ukrainian resistance fighters. What are they going to do with this intel, get their Instagram pages taken down?
#1
Note - Ukraine cutoff 1/3 of the of gas to Europe. This means Europe can’t buy that gas from Russia, reducing the income they are providing to fund the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately that also means that Europe doesn’t get that gas to fuel their economy
#4
Embracing green energy and moving away from fossil fuels and nuclear has its downside in the U.S. and Europe.
Got to fill up the old pick-up truck today or tomorrow. I'm getting ready for the ensuing pain. Why, it seems like years ago rather than a little more than a year ago that we were energy independent.
#5
"carrying up to a THIRD of Russia's gas into Europe" is misleading. What they meant to say is "up to a third of Russia's gas that flows through Ukraine into Europe", not "up to a third of Russia's gas into Europe".
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"Misleading," of course. Because it's more FUD spread by MI6 through the resident Shitposter's favorite outlet for MI6 InfoOps bullshit.
Look at the Donbas map changes, kids. Note how they've changed, surely and steadily, and tell us who's now in control of 98% of the Donbas.
The suburban Kharkiv counteroffensive is trivial. It will no more halt the inevitable Russian completion of domination of the Donbas and the entire Black Sea coastline than the earlier Nazi breakout in the Korsun pocket did in 1944.
#9
Zelensky's Post of Ukrainian Soldier With SS Insignia
Lol. It fits him well.
Remember, this is the little chappie who's made himself a dictator, banning all opposition parties and criminalized all use of the Russian language in any shape or form.
Regarding his Instagram post of his Totenkopf warrior, the little shit tried to scrub his "Zelensky / Official" account by deleting it. But the internets are forever: here it is, thanks to Telegram
#10
Regarding his Instagram post of his Totenkopf warrior, the little shit tried to scrub his "Zelensky / Official" account by deleting it. But the internets are forever: here it is, thanks to Telegram
I had the same story, but I didn't post it. Posting images of Nazism while typing Zelenskiy to them seemed petty compared to the issue at hand.
#13
Posting images of Nazism while typing Zelenskiy to them seemed petty compared to the issue at hand.
Did you mean to type "tying" instead of typing "typing"?
It was Zelensky who "tied" himself to SS regalia. Zelensky chose, on the day commemorating the defeat of the Nazi war machine, to proudly post his Totenkopf-warrior. Nice.
This is the same clown who told Trump what he wanted to hear and then did a 180 and told Biden what he wanted to hear. The brave warrior for "freedom" and "democracy" who provoked Russia by proclaiming he would seize Crimea and join NATO, who then crowned himself dictator and banned use of Russian.
The little big man who celebrates the memory of Ukraine's notorious wartime fascist, Stepan Bandera, every year. The corrupt little puppet of one of Ukraine's criminal bandit-billionaire thugs who bankrolled the neo-Nazi battalions that launched this civil war eight years ago.
We are yet again supporting our own corrupt little fascist puppet in a shithole of no strategic importance to us.
So predictable: Another multi-year sinkhole, another trillion dollar fuckup by our foreign policy shitheads.
And a cool billion or two skimmed off by Hunter, War-Profiteer Brother Jim and The Big Guy.
#14
#12 More Ukrainian shitposter trolls out in force again. They're desperate. Except for a few acres near Kharkov, the Donbas is now in Russian hands. Russia now has completely landlocked Ukraine. It's Europe's version of the Gaza Strip now.
Why are funding Europe's version of the Gazoos?
How does this benefit America?
Ukrainian trolls, fuck off. Fight your own foolish pointless war. Take the Bidens and Pelosi, Schiff and Miss Lindsey with you.
[BBC News] One of the Catholic Church's most senior members has been arrested in Hong Kong for breaking China's national security law, police have confirmed.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, is one of four people detained for being associated with a now-defunct organisation that helped protesters in financial need.
The others are a Cantopop singer and actor Denise Ho, ex-legislator Margaret Ng, and academic Dr Hui Po Keung.
They are accused of colluding with foreign forces.
If found guilty, they could face life in prison.
Human Rights Watch called it a "shocking new low for Hong Kong." Read the rest at the link
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[Townhall] Consumer inflation — once dubbed "transitory" by the White House — has stuck around four-decade highs in recent months after surging upward after President Biden took office, and April's year-over-year increase is nearly double last April's reading. Here's a quick look at the YOY inflation data for each month since Biden took office in January 2021:
January 2021 - 1.4%
February 2021 - 1.7%
March 2021 - 2.6%
April 2021 - 4.2%
May 2021 - 5.0%
June 2021 - 5.4%
July 2021 - 5.4%
August 2021 - 5.3%
September 2021 - 5.4%
October 2021 - 6.2%
November 2021 - 6.8%
December 2021 - 7.0%
January 2022 - 7.5%
February 2022 - 7.9%
March 2022 - 8.5%
April 2022 - 8.3%
President Biden, however, continues to refuse any accountability for the pain being felt by Americans under the crunch of rising prices and lower real wages. Instead, he has attempted to blame Putin's invasion of Ukraine (which came after YOY inflation had hit >7% for multiple months) and the COVID-19 pandemic (a virus which candidate Biden promised he would "shut down" instead of the U.S. economy).
[Yahoo] Sweden and Finland are one step closer to joining NATO after signing a mutual defense treaty with the United Kingdom on Wednesday.
The treaties were announced by British prime minister Boris Johnson during his visit to Stockholm and meeting with Swedish prime minister Magdalena Andersson. Formally termed “A Political Declaration of Solidarity,” the treaty pledges that the United Kingdom – a nuclear-armed state and NATO founding member – will intervene to defend Sweden if it “suffers disaster or an attack,” said Andersson.
Johnson signed the treaty with Andersson during his visit and is expected to sign an identical instrument in Helsinki later today, during his bilateral meetings with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and PM Sanna Martin.
The agreements come as Finland and Sweden telegraph an impending decision to join the NATO, which currently has thirty members across Europe and North America. Though a public debate on membership has been ongoing in both countries for years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has jolted public opinion in support of NATO. A recent poll by Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper showed that 57 percent of Swedes supported joining the military alliance, a jump from 37 percent in January of this year. In Finland, the figures were even more lopsided: soaring to 76 percent in support of membership from 28 percent in January.
#1
At the end of WW2 Finland who fought with the Nazi's and were involved in the staving of over a Million people in St Petersburg were forced to seek peace with Russia.
In the peace treaty of 1948/9 the Russians said that Finland must remain Neutral in perpetuity or else the Russians would annihilate them. The Finns were very happy to sign that agreement under those terms. However we see that once a group of Nazi's reappear in Ukraine the Finns rush to their aid.
So, for the Finns it seems to be once a Nazi lover always a Nazi lover.
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All these "Nazi lovers" the Putinistas go on about happen to have either been targeted for genocide by the Russians or invaded by them.
Trying to murder people does tend to drive them towards others who are fighting you.
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Ima beginning to think Joe's not actually from Acapulco
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#4
More vodka than rum, eh?
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possibly LOL
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[Breitbart] Wednesday on FNC’s "Fox & Friends," Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) demanded action from President Joe Biden and the Food and Drug Administration to solve the nationwide baby formula shortage crisis.
Stefanik, noting the importance of formula access for babies, called the shortage "harrowing." She lamented there was "no plan from Joe Biden."
"This is a crisis across America," Stefanik advised. "I can think of no more harrowing just crisis for parents as they are desperately trying to find access to baby formula. [My son] Sam is nine months. He is formula-fed. We are lucky in the sense that there is not a particular brand of formula, but for health issues, some babies only take a certain type of formula. The shelves have been fairly empty in upstate New York, and I’m hearing from parents all across America. We are demanding action."
"I actually saw this crisis coming and demanded FDA respond in February of this year when there was the recall of the Sturgiss, Michigan plant, so this is a huge crisis," she added. "We want to make sure that there is a plan. And we have seen no plan from Joe Biden or the FDA."
[Al Ahram] Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig have discovered the organ harbored an animal virus but cannot yet say if it played any role in the man’s death.
A Maryland man, 57-year-old David Bennett Sr., died in March, two months after the groundbreaking experimental transplant. University of Maryland doctors said Thursday they found an unwelcome surprise — viral DNA inside the pig heart. They did not find signs that this bug, called porcine cytomegalovirus, was causing an active infection.
But a major worry about animal-to-human transplants is the risk that it could introduce new kinds of infections to people.
Because some viruses are "latent," meaning they lurk without causing disease, "it could be a hitchhiker," Dr. Bartley Griffith, the surgeon who performed Bennett’s transplant, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Still, development is under way of more sophisticated tests to "make sure that we don’t miss these kinds of viruses," added Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director of the university’s xenotransplant program.
The animal virus was first reported by MIT Technology Review, citing a scientific presentation Griffith gave to the American Society of Transplantation last month.
For decades, doctors have tried using animal organs to save human lives without success. Bennett, who was dying and ineligible for a human heart transplant, underwent the last-ditch operation using a heart from a pig genetically modified to lower the risk that his immune system would rapidly reject such a foreign organ.
The Maryland team said the donor pig was healthy, had passed testing required by the Food and Drug Administration to check for infections, and was raised in a facility designed to prevent animals from spreading infections. Revivicor, the company that provided the animal, declined to comment.
Griffith said his patient, while very ill, had been recovering fairly well from the transplant when one morning he woke up worse, with symptoms similar to an infection. Doctors ran numerous tests to try to understand the cause, and gave Bennett a variety of antibiotics, antiviral medication and an immune-boosting treatment. But the pig heart became swollen, filled with fluid and eventually quit functioning.
"What was the virus doing, if anything, that might have caused the swelling in his heart?" Griffith asked. "Honestly we don’t know."
The reaction also didn't appear to be a typical organ rejection, he said, noting the investigation still is underway.
Meanwhile doctors at other medical centers around the country have been experimenting with animal organs in donated human bodies and are anxious to attempt formal studies in living patients soon. It’s not clear how the pig virus will affect those plans.
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[BBC] US scientists say they have discovered what caused thousands of soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf War to fall sick with mysterious symptoms.
They have pinned the blame on the nerve agent sarin, which was released into the air when caches of Iraqi chemical weapons were bombed.
Many veterans have complained of a range of debilitating symptoms which developed after their service.
But for decades the cause of Gulf War Syndrome has remained elusive.
Sarin is usually deadly, but lead researcher Dr Robert Haley said the gas that soldiers were exposed to in Iraq was diluted, and so not fatal.
"But it was enough to make people ill if they were genetically predisposed to illness from it."
Dr Haley said the key to whether somebody fell ill was a gene known as PON1, which plays an important role in breaking down toxic chemicals in the body.
His team found veterans with a less effective version of the PON1 gene were more likely to become sick.
The latest study - largely funded by the US government - involved more than 1,000 randomly-selected American Gulf War veterans.
Dr Haley, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, said: "This is the most definitive study.
"We believe it will stand up to any criticism. And we hope our findings will lead to treatment that will relieve some of the symptoms."
MANY BRITISH CASES
More than 50,000 British troops served in the war which followed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
The Royal British Legion said research suggests up to 33,000 UK Gulf War veterans could be living with the syndrome, with 1,300 claiming a war pension for conditions connected to their service in the Gulf.
A quarter of veterans who served in Gulf War are suffering unexplained symptoms.
Soldiers' samples were tested for a gene called PON1, which break down chemicals in the body.
One variant — called PON1Q — generates an enzyme that breaks down sarin.
Another variant — called PON1R — helps the body break down other chemicals but is not efficient at destroying sarin.
Everyone carries two copies of PON1, giving them either a QQ, RR or QR genotype.
The findings, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, show Gulf War veterans with the QQ genotype who heard nerve agent alarms – a proxy for chemical exposure – were 3.75-times more likely to have the syndrome than those who had not heard the alarm.
For those who had a QR genotype, hearing the alarms raised their chance of having Gulf War syndrome by 4.43 times.
And for those with two copies of the R gene — which is inefficient at breaking down sarin — the chance of the condition increased by 8.91 times.
#1
But, but, but how can this be? Washington POLS and the media all said Saddam's WMD was a lie. Next thing you know, they'll be telling us Agent Orange actually does cause cancer in lab animals.
#3
We were about 20 miles south of an Iraqi chemical weapons cache that was hit. Our detectors did go off and higher reported that this was due to exactly what is reported above...diluted fan of gas drifting into our AO.
The PB pills (pre-antidote for chem exposure) made five of our soldiers immediately sick...a couple to the point of evacuation to Germany. I always believed that that stuff (PB) was largely responsible for the syndrome.
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[NEXSTAR] — A U.S. Army soldier stationed at a base in Alaska died after being injured by a bear on Tuesday, officials at the base confirmed.
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[BBC News] One of the Catholic Church's most senior members has been arrested in Hong Kong for breaking China's national security law, police have confirmed.
This was the 'baby milk' plan:
[BBC] US scientists say they have discovered what caused thousands of soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf War to fall sick with mysterious symptoms.
