[Fox8Live] Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades.
Through tears and anger, several of Kelly’s accusers told a court in New York City, and the singer himself, that he had misled and preyed upon them.
"You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel," said one unnamed survivor, directly addressing Kelly, who kept his hands folded and his eyes downcast.
"Do you remember that?" she asked.
Kelly, 55, didn’t give a statement and showed no reaction on hearing his penalty, which also included a $100,000 fine. He has denied wrongdoing, and he plans to appeal his conviction.
The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling songwriter was found guilty last year of racketeering and sex trafficking at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had previously wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women.
Victims "are no longer the preyed-on individuals we once were," another one of his accusers said at the sentencing.
"There wasn’t a day in my life, up until this moment, that I actually believed that the judicial system would come through for Black and brown girls," she added outside court.
A third woman, sobbing and sniffling as she addressed the court, also said Kelly’s conviction renewed her faith in the legal system.
The woman said Kelly victimized her after she went to a concert when she was 17.
"I was afraid, naive and didn’t know to handle the situation," she said, so she didn’t speak up at the time.
"Silence," she said, "is a very lonely place."
Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, said he was "devastated" by the sentence and saddened by what he had heard.
"He’s a human being. He feels what other people are feeling. But that doesn’t mean that he can accept responsibility in the way that the government would like him to and other people would like him to. Because he disagrees with the characterizations that have been made about him," she said.
The sentence caps a slow-motion fall for Kelly, who is known for work including the 1996 hit "I Believe I Can Fly" and the cult classic "Trapped in the Closet," a multipart tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue.
He was adored by legions of fans and sold millions of albums even after allegations about his abuse of maiden of tender yearss began circulating publicly in the 1990s. He beat child pornography charges in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... in 2008, when a jury acquitted him.
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I had to revisit how Macklemore torched him in Thrift Shop. All makes sense now.
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Having worked a hotel/inn in Fresno on Blackstone Ave. (mid 1970's). Where many Music Entertainment groups stayed.
Even before the groups arrived in town, the groupies, ages teen to granny, Parents with older teen daughters were already flooding in from surrounding areas and states.
Too many willing to party, ride or be ridden.
The Hotel Mgt.even hired off-duty police to walk the halls to keep it in the rooms.
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Was at a hotel bar back in the day - they had karaoke, my friends could sing and I can watch and shoot pool, we knew the bartender. Modest crowd for a weekend night.
Suddenly the place started getting packed with girls all dressed up. Filled in for some thirty minutes when I leaned right and asked what the hell was going on. "Celebrity Musician" is going to stay here tonight. "Who the hell is Celebrity Musician" I asked. Turns out CM was on my left ordering a drink.
[NYPOST] Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars for aiding Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He was really surprised when he committed suicide... — but she won’t be doing hard time in high security.
On Tuesday, Judge Alison Nathan recommended that the disgraced British socialite, 60, be sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut — a low-security facility 55 miles north of New York City.
Maxwell won’t be the first famous jailbird to be incarcerated at the prison, with FCI Danbury having housed a slew of other A-list inmates, including songstress Lauryn Hill and "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice.
Author Piper Kerman also spent 13 months at the facility before writing her best-selling memoir "Orange Is the New Black," based on her time there. The book was later turned into the smash Netflix series of the same name.
Since her arrest back in 2020, Maxwell has been incarcerated at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she has complained about dismal food, poor sleeping conditions and "creepy" guards.
In comparison, FCI Danbury will feel like "Disneyland," one prison expert told the Daily Mail.
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/\ This is likely where it is intended to end. She'll do a few years in a quiet setting, write a book, give cooking lessons, keep a dog... then be released due to illness.
Executive level memory hole with a comfort pallet.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is a master manipulator with a penchant for seducing troubled young women. Putting her in Danbury will give her nearly unlimited access to... troubled young women. In relatively pleasant low-security circumstances.
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania man allegedly admitted to beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in front of her two young daughters as one of them pleaded, "Please stop. You are killing my mom," authorities said. He oughta know better than to do that in front of the kids.
They weren’t his kids, so he probably cared about as much as he did about their mom.
Thadius McGrath, 35, was charged with first- and third-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child on Tuesday over the slaying of his 31-year-old girlfriend, Samantha Rementer, in Bucks County.
McGrath, who authorities say tried to kill himself in the aftermath, admitted to murdering Rementer in their home on June 8 "after she made me mad," according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Courier Times. Has anyone ever murdered his girlfriend while feeling content?
He allegedly told cops he hit Rementer with a black step ladder and a lamp in her daughters’ bedroom. He then allegedly strangled his girlfriend with the lamp cord, the affidavit said.
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Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last living Medal of Honor winner from World War II, has died at age 98.
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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as demolition sergeant serving with the 21st Marines, 3d Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 23 February 1945. Quick to volunteer his services when our tanks were maneuvering vainly to open a lane for the infantry through the network of reinforced concrete pillboxes, buried mines, and black volcanic sands, Cpl. Williams daringly went forward alone to attempt the reduction of devastating machinegun fire from the unyielding positions. Covered only by 4 riflemen, he fought desperately for 4 hours under terrific enemy small-arms fire and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flamethrowers, struggling back, frequently to the rear of hostile emplacements, to wipe out 1 position after another. On 1 occasion, he daringly mounted a pillbox to insert the nozzle of his flamethrower through the air vent, killing the occupants and silencing the gun; on another he grimly charged enemy riflemen who attempted to stop him with bayonets and destroyed them with a burst of flame from his weapon. His unyielding determination and extraordinary heroism in the face of ruthless enemy resistence were directly instrumental in neutralizing one of the most fanatically defended Japanese strong points encountered by his regiment and aided vitally in enabling his company to reach its objective. Cpl. Williams’ aggressive fighting spirit and valiant devotion to duty throughout this fiercely contested action sustain and enhance the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
"It staggers the mind to think of what sort of bravery, and there isn’t a man of any age who reads that who does not wonder, “Could I have done that if I was called upon to do so?”
God bless him. What a life. What a patriot. What an American."
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My father was in the South Pacific during WWII in the Army, not the Marines. A lot of people died on those islands by many causes. The ones that survived had to be ruthless in battle. He showed no mercy and was threatened with court marshal for pouring a 5 gallon can of gas he got off of an officers jeep followed by a sack of grenades down a vent in a bunker of 100 jap soldiers who were picking of his men and had blocked all bunket openings with their mattresses to prevent incoming rounds.
General Swift came to his rescue as he asked the lieutenant what was the difference between that and using a flame thrower?
That one act of his killed all 100 japs from the blast and intense smoke inhalation in the bunker.
His group took out 10,000 Japs by sinking 3 large troop transports who had just anchored in a harbor unloading reinforcements into small boats. His men took the harbor shore batteries and kept flying the rising sun flags knowing the three transports were about to arrive per US intelligence.
Two of quite a few events of his groups battle experiences.
During those battles all of his teeth were ground down to the guns from sleeping with stress, two flesh wounds, one bayonet wound from hand to hand combat, and hair singed from his units outgoing artillery fire in close quarter battle formations. They had more artillery than the Marine units had.
When I was a kid a guy showed up one day without both legs from the knee down and wanted to see my father. My mother called my father at work to tell him he had a visitor and when she told him his name. My father told her to ask him to wait outside, lock the doors and get a gun, he was on his way home as fast as he could get there.
When he arrived he thanked my father for not killing him and apologized for when he spun a huge 50 caliber machine gun around and started trying to shoot his own people when he went crazy during battle. My father could only see his legs behind the big gun now facing him and his people and shot them both out from under him.
He learned to be leary of not only Japs during battle but his own units. And he was quick to take out Japs and friendly fire on those islands to live though the South Pacific war.
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To clarify that last sentence he was always quick to bracket friendly fire with his own fire ad only suppression fire while his radio man quickly notified command of the situation which usually worked in a hot battle.
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[BusinessInsider] Don't we just love the way we are getting screwed on top of screwed over gas prices?
* As gas prices rise, the hold on customers' cards at the pump increased from $125 to $175.
* Having a higher price hold increases the risk of overdraft fees for some consumers.
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Pretty much all financial security experts say it's stupid to use a debit card to make purchases. Unlike a credit card, it is a mainline into your bank account. If someone steals the data and empties your account, you have none of the fraud protections that credit cards do.
Yes, I do get some people can't get a traditional credit card. In that instance, a pre-paid credit card is the way to go, for safety's sake.
I don't even use a credit card at the gas station anymore. Skimmer gangs are everywhere. Use your debit card to get cash at an ATM instead.
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^^ Had that happen for the first (and only) time (knock on wood) about four years ago at a 7-11 gas station. A weird charge in Indian rupees (like I said, a 7-11) appeared.
Funny, I drove by that area last week...that petrol station has been levelled. Good.
The court's ruling prevents Biden from instituting the sort of sweeping emissions rules the EPA tried to implement under the Obama administration
The case declares it unlawful for federal agencies to make 'major' decisions without clear authorization from Congress
It appears to allow for regulations focused narrowly on capping pollution from smokestacks, but blocks wider rules that set state-by-state targets for emissions
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The Guardian, typically, misreports this as "Supreme Court Hobbles Government Power To Limit Harmful Emissions". That's true unless you consider Congress to be a part of the federal government, which, really, it kind of is. The Court is saying that the correct part of the government to make changes this big is Congress, where even conservatives get a vote and politicians sometimes have to go on record.
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[LegalInsurrection] Justice Breyer announced he is hanging up his robe tomorrow.
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Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Stephen Breyer has announced that he will step down from the high court effective Thursday at noon.
Breyer, who notified President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. A latter-day version of Romulus Augustulus, only more friendly to the barbarians at the gates...... in January of his intent to retire at the end of the current term, updated the president in a letter Wednesday, after the Supreme Court made it known that it will issue its final opinions of the term Thursday morning.
"The Court has announced that tomorrow, beginning at 10 a.m., it will hand down all remaining opinions ready during this Term. Accordingly, my retirement from active service under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 371(b) will be effective on Thursday, June 30, 2022, at noon," Breyer wrote.
That statute allows justices to retain their title but step down from active duty and continue to collect a salary if they reach a certain age and serve for a designated number of years. Breyer, who is 83, is well beyond the required 10 years of service for those who retire at age 70 or older, as he has served on the Supreme Court since 1994.
"It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law," Breyer wrote.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will replace Breyer on the bench. Lord help us.
[SARA] A Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday sides with an Iraq War Veteran, determining that states cannot be exempt from being sued for discrimination against Veterans. CNN reports "The ruling will strengthen work protections for thousands of state-employed veterans returning to work after service in the Reserves or National Guard."
LeRoy Torres enlisted in the US Army Reserve in 1989 and was an employee of the Texas Department of Public Safety as a state trooper before he was deployed to Iraq in 2007. While serving in the War, Torres suffered lung damage after being exposed to toxic chemicals in so called burn pits.
CNN reports that upon his return he sought reemployment, but told the agency he could no longer serve as a state trooper and sought a comparable job to accommodate his service-related disability. When he was denied the job, he filed suit under federal law but lost in state courts. He appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court.
Torres argued the DPS failing to offer him a job to accommodate his disability violated the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. The law — meant to protect veterans from employment discrimination — was passed under Congress’ power to "raise and support Armies."
[American Mil News] The USS Montana was commissioned Saturday during a ceremony at a shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia, making it the first Navy ship named after the Treasure State in more than 100 years.
"Today the USS Montana is tested and battle ready," Chris Jessel, executive officer of the submarine, said as more than 100 Montanans sat in the audience at Naval Station Norfolk.
The $2.6 billion Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine will add the next generation of stealth, surveillance and special warfare capabilities to the Navy fleet, officials said.
Gov. Greg Gianforte spoke as he stood near a banner for the submarine that read: "Vigilantes of the deep," a nickname adopted by the crew in an homage to the state’s period of vigilante justice in the 1800s.
"Now more than ever, American strength on the world stage is needed," he said. "Today, the world’s most powerful, advanced and capable Navy adds to its fleet one of the most sophisticated submarines ever built."
Gianforte said missions conducted on the USS Montana SSN 794 will make the nation and world more secure. He hoped the submarine’s crew members would draw strength from the state’s value of resilience, talking about recent flooding that ravaged communities.
"I am proud, honored and humbled you will carry that resilience to all corners of the world in the service of our nation," he said, adding he knew the submarine would live up to its name.
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With the retirement of the Iowa Class battleships, state names mainly went to Ohio Class SSBNs. But not entirely. SSBN-730 is the USS Henry M. Jackson. The Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Georgia were converted to SSGNs, in part to meet treaty requirements.
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I prefer the World War II tradition of Fuck You names.
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I feel old today. I found out the only commissioned ships in the US Navy older than me are the Pueblo and Constitution. The next oldest was commissioned a few weeks after I was born.
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The deep blue sea is hard on a ship.
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Along the lines of retired ships, understand an exhibition basketball game between michigan state and gonzaga will be played on a flattop in san diego. Hope the players can wear long pants, that nonskid can do a number on the knees.
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[Vesti] A large-scale exchange of prisoners was carried out, thanks to which 144 Ukrainian defenders returned home . Among them are 95 Azovstal defenders. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 on Wednesday, June 29.
In the Volyn and Polesye directions , within the framework of the exercises in Belarus, the assigned staff and the possibility of mobilization on the territory of certain regions are being checked.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy continues to carry out enhanced protection of a section of the Ukrainian-Russian border. In addition, the aggressor fired on civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Turya and Lugovka in the Sumy region. Inflicted an air strike on the settlement of Ugroid.
In the Kharkov direction , the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery into the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Bazalievka, Prishib, Shestakovo, Russian Lozovaya, Verkhniy Saltov, Ivanovka and Zamulovka.
In the Slavic direction , the enemy is regrouping troops and holding the previously occupied lines. Shelling was recorded in the areas of the settlements of Dolina, Bogorodichnoye, Nikolskoye, Grushuvakha and Dovgenkoye. Infidels also launched an airstrike near Gusarovka.
In the Donetsk direction , the enemy, with the support of artillery, is trying to block Lisichansk and take control of the section of the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway . He carried out shelling of civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Lisichansk, Verkhnekamenka, Seversk and an air strike on the area of the Lisichansk oil refinery. To support offensive operations in the area of the settlement, Verkhnekamenka deployed sabotage and reconnaissance groups. Ukrainian soldiers discovered and neutralized them , the remnants of the DRG retreated.
In the Kramatorsk direction , the enemy did not conduct active hostilities, fired artillery at the Tatyanovka area.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at the positions of our troops with artillery of various calibers near Klinovoye, Razdolevka, Vyemka and Ivano-Daryevka. Launched an airstrike near the village of Vidrodzhennya. He tried to improve the tactical situation in the area of the settlement of Spirne by offensive actions, but to no avail , he retreated. Our soldiers neutralized the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the enemy not far from Berestovoye.
On the Avdeevka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy fired at our positions from mortars, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Avdeevka, Vesele, Pavlovka, Belogorye, Engineering, Olgovskoye, Preobrazhenka and Gulyai. In addition, the Russian military carried out air strikes against civilian infrastructure near Orekhovo and Shcherbakov.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the enemy carried out systematic shelling of civilian and military infrastructure from cannon and rocket artillery, and is regrouping troops.
On the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, the occupying authorities continue to carry out activities of the administrative-police regime. The collection of personal information of local residents, forced passportization and a ban on the departure of the population to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities continue.
Separate units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine for the restoration of combat capability, cannot complete the units in a timely manner due to the unwillingness of the personnel to participate in the war against Ukraine. Personnel who refused to participate in the war are dismissed, there are attempts to bring such persons to criminal responsibility.
Our units continue to carry out rocket and artillery fire missions in certain directions and beat the invaders in close combat.
June 29 - 126th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine . Fighting continues, shelling is carried out in almost all directions, including civilian infrastructure. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the addresses of the president and the government, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
[Vesti] The situation in Lisichansk is reminiscent of what happened in Severodonetsk just over a month ago.
This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
"The invaders stop at nothing. Once in Severodonetsk, when they could not advance for a long period, they fired about 200 shells from various types of weapons at one of the intersections of the city, turning several houses into ashes. This is the price of the "Russian world" , the head of the OVA recalled.
According to him, the Russian army continues its offensive in the direction of Volcheyarovka - Verkhnekamenka, trying to encircle Lisichansk. Zolotarovka, Volcheyarovka and Lisichansk were shelled.
Earlier, Gaidai said that it was dangerous to move around Lisichansk, since the whole city was strewn with mines.
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[Korrespondent] 23:45 As a result of today's shelling of the Belopolskaya, Krasnopolskaya and Velykopisarevskaya communities of the Sumy region, two people were killed, eight were injured, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
23:38 Putin said that the goals of the "special operation" have not changed, but "tactics can be different." The ultimate goals, according to him, are the "liberation" of the Donbass and "guarantees of the security of Russia itself." He also commented on the missile attack on Kremenchug, saying that "there is no terrorist attack there, the Russian army does not strike at any civilian targets."
Commenting on statements in the West that the war in Ukraine should be ended on the battlefield, Putin said that "we must treat this as a fact," and for Moscow "it was not a surprise that they had been preparing since 2014." He also stressed that Western calls to continue hostilities "confirm our assumptions that the good of Ukraine is not a goal, but a means of protecting their interests."
As for the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO, then, according to the Russian president, if NATO military infrastructure is deployed in these countries, "the Russian Federation will have to respond in a mirror manner."
23:33 Zelensky announced sanctions against Syria: “Russia nevertheless squeezed out from Syria messages about the alleged recognition of the occupation structures in Donbas as supposedly states. This is an insignificant story. And in this case, there will be no more relations between Ukraine and Syria, and sanctions pressure against Syria On the contrary, there will be even more.
23:30 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the "transport visa-free" signed today removes barriers for Ukrainian carriers in the EU: "This is precisely the task of our state now - not to lose a single week in relations with the European Union. We will always be, despite this war, despite all the difficulties, to do what brings us closer to full membership in the European Union."
23:14 Branson shared his thoughts after visiting Ukraine: "I would like to convey what I think many of us feel in the West: every day Ukrainians fight and die for the entire free world. The least that the rest of the world can do is - is to give our unwavering and unconditional support until the last Russian soldier leaves the territory of Ukraine. Anything else would be a defeat - a defeat not only of Ukraine's right to freely choose its own destiny, but also of the rule of law and the sovereignty of peoples."
22:49 Ukraine has received $1.3 billion in grant aid from the United States as part of a $7.5 billion budget financing package, Shmyhal said.
22:10 Beijing called on the G7 to stop attacks and slander against China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said. According to him, the G7 inflates the rhetoric in the spirit of "democracy against autocracy" and provokes confrontation, fully proving that the Group of Seven does not intend to conduct dialogue and cooperation on the basis of equality and respect.
21:58 Podolyak commented on the results of the NATO summit: “Giving heavy weapons to Ukraine, our partners can not be afraid of the “Russian military machine” at all. According to a well-known tradition, any machine made in Russia quickly breaks down, stalls and turns into scrap metal. ".
21:47 NATO has been preparing for a confrontation with Russia since 2014, Stoltenberg said in Madrid: "NATO has been preparing for this for a long time, not that on February 24 we realized that Russia is dangerous. The reality is that we have been preparing for this since 2014 Therefore, we have increased our military presence in the east of the alliance, and NATO has begun to invest more money in defense."
21:29 Fighting is going on in the vicinity of Lisichansk, the Russians are trying to storm the city, the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said on the air of the telethon. According to him, 15,000 people remain in Lisichansk, and the "quiet" evacuation continues. Due to shelling, the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway is not passable, so alternative routes are used.
21:20 If the fact of sending a message about the work of the Amstor shopping center during an air raid is confirmed, it will be a fact of official negligence, Yury Belousov, head of the war department of the Office of the Prosecutor General, said on the air of the telethon: "Their actions led to such grave consequences. These people must be punished, accordingly, they will be held accountable."
20:59 Putin has not abandoned plans to seize most of the territory of Ukraine by military means, said Avril Gaines, Director of National Intelligence of the United States: "We are still in a situation where we consider Putin and believe that he has essentially the same political goals that were before, that is, he wants to capture most of Ukraine."
According to Gaines, American intelligence has developed three possible scenarios for the further development of the war in the short term. She considers the scenario of a “mired” conflict to be the most probable, in which the Russian Federation will achieve only minor gains. Other scenarios are a large-scale Russian breakthrough or successful stabilization of the front line by Ukrainian forces, with possible but insignificant successes in the Kherson region and other settlements in southern Ukraine.
"In short, the situation looks pretty bleak," summed up the US Director of National Intelligence.
20:46 The EU political community proposed by Macron should include not only Europe, but also the countries of North Africa, Johnson said in Madrid. In his opinion, such a community should become a kind of modern likeness of the Roman Empire.
Earlier, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that London would not join the new community.
20:44 The Czech Republic plans to transfer two Bivoj drones of its own production to Ukraine, the ČTK news agency reported. The Bivoj UAV is designed for reconnaissance, it is equipped with a high-precision video surveillance camera, and can also be used to correct artillery fire.
20:42 As a result of the NATO summit in Madrid, Ukraine will receive more non-lethal weapons through trust funds in the amount of up to $300 million, Yegor Chernev, chairman of the permanent delegation of Ukraine to the NATO PA, said on the air of the telethon. He called the recognition of the Russian Federation a threat (for which the eastern flank is being deployed) and the rearmament of Ukraine in accordance with NATO standards as other important decisions. Commenting on today's start of the meeting between the presidents of the United States and Turkey, Chernev suggested that a compromise would be found on Syria.
20:40 Zelensky met with Branson: "The visit of British businessman Richard Branson to Ukraine is another reminder that the world and famous people continue to support us. We talked about maintaining world attention to the war in Ukraine, as well as about the prospects for cooperation in post-war reconstruction."
20:16 Indonesian President Joko Widodo offered to convey Zelensky's message to Putin, Sky News reports. After meeting with Zelenskiy, who is now on his way to Moscow, he said he would urge the Russian President to agree to a ceasefire: "Despite the fact that this is very difficult to achieve, I expressed the importance of a peaceful solution ... I offered to convey the message of President Zelensky to the President Putin, whom I will meet soon.
20:11 Johnson urged Western colleagues not to boycott the G20 summit in Indonesia if Putin visits it: "If you miss events like the G20, you risk giving others propaganda opportunities." The British prime minister also added that he would be "genuinely surprised" if Putin came in person.
20:05 The occupation "administration" of Kherson, together with employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and a local collaborator, seized individual facilities that belong to Khersonoblenergo and provide electricity to the residents of the region, the company said. Thus, Khersonoblenergo partially lost control over the maintenance of the power grids of the Kherson region. The occupying authorities are now putting pressure on workers and forcing them to cooperate with the Russians. During the seizure of the enterprise, the invaders introduced a new "leader" by the name of Zhakhanovich.
19:53 The Armed Forces of Ukraine neutralized Russian DRGs in two directions, the Russian army continues to try to blockade Lisichansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the evening summary .
19:22 In the village of Demidov, Kiev region, as a result of a lightning strike and detonation of an explosive device, a bridge over the Irpen River was destroyed, traffic was impossible. The Kyiv regional military administration reported one dead and two wounded.
19:16 The European Commission is discussing the possibility of excluding the Kaliningrad region from the sanctions regime, which provides for the restriction of transit through Lithuania, so as not to provoke an escalation with Moscow, writes Reuters.
18:59 Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, more than 5.5 million displaced persons out of 11.7 million have returned to their homes, the International Organization for Migration reported.
18:57 The Ministry of Infrastructure signed an agreement with the EU on the liberalization of road transport. Thanks to it, Ukrainian carriers will not need permits to carry out bilateral and transit traffic across the EU countries and will be able to freely deliver goods to European markets, the agency said.
18:46 One of the outcomes of the G7 meeting was an agreement on the introduction of a price ceiling for Russian oil, which, according to the leaders of the G7, will reduce the possibility of financing Russia's war against Ukraine. A similar initiative is being discussed with respect to Russian gas. About what this means - in the material G7 introduces a ceiling on oil prices in the Russian Federation .
18:20 NATO has officially started the process of Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. This was preceded by long negotiations with Turkey, which slowed down the process of integration of the Scandinavian countries. As a result, Turkey, Sweden and Finland reached special agreements. About what Ankara managed to bargain for - in the material NATO Expansion .
18:18 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva, who heads the Ukrainian delegation at the NATO summit, said in Madrid that Ukraine is already compatible with the standards of the alliance: "Today, during the war, it is difficult to say that Ukraine does not meet NATO standards - this applies strategies or tactics of military operations. Ukraine is at war, if not with the second army in the world, but not with the weakest. And we prove that every day we are mutually compatible with NATO standards." Zhovkva stressed that NATO membership remains the best security guarantee for Ukraine.
18:04 The father of a Moroccan "sentenced" to death in the "DPR" turned to Putin with a request to help pardon him, Russian media report.
18:02 Ukraine and Indonesia have agreed to introduce a visa-free regime between the countries , Zelensky said.
18:00 Zelensky said at a joint briefing with Indonesian President Joko Widodo that Ukraine's participation in the G20 summit in Indonesia would depend on the situation in Ukraine and on the composition of the summit participants: "I am grateful to you, Mr. President, for the personal invitation to take part in the Group's summit twenty. And, of course, I accept this invitation. Ukraine's participation will depend on the situation in Ukraine and on the composition of the summit participants."
17:58 Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdan said that the signed memorandum with Finland and Sweden "does not mean at all that the process of the two Scandinavian countries joining the Alliance is completed." According to him, Turkey "will continue its struggle for these countries to stop being a base for terrorist organizations, and also for them to return the terrorists that Turkey wants." In particular, now Ankara will demand the extradition of 33 terrorist suspects by Sweden and Finland.
17:47 The prosecutor's office announced the suspicion of the "head of the commission" appointed by the Russians in Kherson to hold a "referendum" on the region's joining the Russian Federation. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the collaborator has repeatedly participated in election processes under Ukrainian law and headed the Kherson city election commission. And in May-June, she agreed to cooperate with the "authorities" appointed by the Russian Federation and voluntarily took the position of "chairman of the commission" for holding a "referendum" in the Kherson region.
17:33 During the next exchange of prisoners of war, 144 Ukrainian defenders returned home - this is the largest exchange since the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion. Of the 144 released - 95 defenders of Azovstal , including 43 servicemen of the Azov regiment, said the Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war.
In total, 59 fighters of the National Guard, 30 - of the Naval Forces, 28 - of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 17 - of the State Border Service, 9 - of the Territorial Defense, 1 - of the National Police were released. Of these, 23 officers and 69 military sergeants and petty officers. Most of the liberated Ukrainians have severe injuries: gunshot and shrapnel wounds, explosive injuries, burns, fractures, limb amputations.
17:28 Arakhamia said that he had discussed with Branson the issue of building a new Mriya aircraft and the prospects for cooperation in the space sector. According to him, Branson "expressed his willingness to help in any way he can, was pleasantly stunned by our optimism and the fact that even in such difficult times we are thinking about how to make a leap in aerospace construction."
17:22 Podolyak said that the victory of Ukraine is the unconditional goal of the West: "Every day I communicate with advisers, members of parliament and representatives of Western countries and I can say one thing. The fact that Putin should shamefully lose this war is the absolute consensus of the leaders of the civilized world. I emphasize once again: the loss of the Russian Federation is the unconditional goal of the civilized world for the sake of the progressive development of mankind, and not a return to the Soviet camps and cold wars ... There is no question of concessions and compromises. There is a question of specific areas that must be worked on for the sake of victory. "
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office emphasized that Ukraine would return the temporarily occupied territories by military means: "This is not a 'soothing mantra' and not a political slogan, this is pure mathematics and military calculation. All that is needed for this is a specific number of positions of specific heavy equipment to form parity weapons. We are working on this."
17:14 466 people were deported from Mariupol to Russia with the active participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the city, said. According to him, the house at Blvd. Meotida, 8, was completely destroyed by Russian artillery and aircraft, and the surviving 466 Mariupol residents were deported by the Russians to Novoazovsk during March 25 - April 10. Later, all of them were taken from Novoazovsk to the Chuvash Republic of the Russian Federation - with the active participation of the ICRC. In time, this coincides with the announcement of the opening of the ICRC camp for refugees from Ukraine in the Rostov region.
16:52 Summons to the army through the Diya application are not issued and will not be issued, Fedorov said and urged not to believe the Russian propaganda.
16:39 Stoltenberg said that NATO is now focused on supporting Ukraine: “Now we are focused on supporting Ukraine. This war, like most other wars, will someday end at the negotiating table. But it is important that Ukraine be able to agree on its own terms. And so we know that there is a very strong connection between what they can achieve at the negotiating table and their strength on the battlefield."
16:36 For two days across Nikolaev 19 rockets were let out. Today, the situation in the city and the region is even more dangerous than three weeks ago - the region is shelled every day "many times more", said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. On June 28, the Russians fired 11 missiles in the region, on June 29 - eight. There were hits on residential buildings, a stadium, a market, a garage cooperative, and infrastructure facilities. According to Kim, the Russian army is shelling the region "to intimidate the local population and demoralize our military."
16:17 The families of the victims and those injured as a result of the shelling of the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk will be paid material assistance, Mayor Vitaliy Maletsky said. Families of each deceased will receive 50,000 hryvnias, 25,000 hryvnias will be allocated to each victim who is on inpatient treatment, and 10,000 hryvnias to everyone who is treated on an outpatient basis and seeks medical help.
16:14 Syria has decided to recognize the independence and sovereignty of the "DPR" and "LPR", Russian media report, citing the Syrian Foreign Ministry.
16:10 The NATO summit decided to strengthen the military force, increasing the eight battalion groups in the east to brigades and response forces from 40 to 300 thousand.
16:08 NATO leaders left the strategic nuclear forces of the alliance as the highest guarantee of the security of the allies. At the same time, NATO believes that circumstances in which the alliance may have to use nuclear weapons are extremely unlikely.
16:06 NATO's new strategic concept says that the alliance wants to maintain channels of communication with Russia to reduce risks, but no longer considers Moscow its partner. It also states that NATO does not seek confrontation and does not pose a threat to the Russian Federation, but is strengthening its capabilities to contain it. At the same time, the rapprochement between China and Russia is contrary to the interests of NATO, the document says.
16:03 The United States, together with its allies, blocked and froze $330 billion worth of Russian assets in 100 days, the US Treasury said.
16:01 Madrid became the first Spanish sister city of Kiev, the corresponding memorandum was signed by the mayors of the cities, Klitschko said.
15:59 The NATO summit communiqué also says that "China is challenging our interests, security and values and is seeking to undermine the rules-based international order."
15:43 Zelensky, in an address to the NATO summit, said that the real goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is to seize and enslave countries that were previously in Moscow's zone of influence: "She wants to swallow, city after city, everyone in Europe whom the Russian leadership considers their property, not independent states. This is Russia's true goal. The question is who is next for her? Moldova? The Baltic States? Poland? The answer is all of them. Russia's goals are known. They are obvious. The Russian leadership sees the world differently. Not the way you "They look at Lithuania, for example - not as a member of your alliance, but as a republic of the Soviet Union. For us, it is a former republic of the USSR, for us it is the past, but they see it as a possible future, they want to enslave it again."
15:39 NATO leaders approved a new strategic concept for the alliance until 2030. In the summit declaration, Russia was called the most significant and direct threat to the security of the alliance.
Also, NATO countries officially invited Sweden and Finland to join the alliance and approved an assistance package for Ukraine , including accelerating the supply of non-lethal equipment, strengthening cyber defenses and modernizing the defense industry.
15:24 This morning, as a result of enemy shelling in the Izyum district, one person was killed, another was injured. During the day, four civilians were injured in the Chuguevsky district, among them an 11-year-old girl, Kharkiv OVA reports.
15:19 Severodonetsk thermal power plant has been almost completely destroyed by Russian troops, Energoatom reports.
15:07 The Russians fired a rocket at the Odessa region, it was shot down by air defense forces, reports the Operational Command Pivden. The Kh-22 missile was fired from a Tu-22 aircraft from the Black Sea. Air defense shot it down over the fields of the Odessa region, no damage or casualties.
14:52 NATO is ready to return to considering the issue of Ukraine's entry after its victory in the war with Russia, an alliance representative said during a summit in Madrid: "Now the focus of the Ukrainian government is to win the war. And this is what we fully support. And when Ukraine wants to talk again about the next steps, we will return to this issue. Now the focus of all of us is to make the greatest contribution that would help Ukraine on the battlefield against the Russian invaders. And when Ukraine is ready to return to the issue of time gaps ... And, again It's up to Ukraine to decide, but the focus now is to win the war."
14:47 The founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson visited Gostomel, the head of the local village administration Taras Dumenko reports. The billionaire was interested in the Antonov airfield and the possibility of restoring it.
14:44 The Russians are preparing a provocation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant - they want to accuse Ukrainian nuclear scientists of storing weapons on the territory of the plant, Energoatom said. Thus, the occupiers detained several workers and tortured them to "confess" that in March they dropped some kind of weapon into the concrete bowls of the cooling pools at the ZNPP.
The Russians insist the cooling pools need to be drained to check the bowls and to stop the sediments supplying water to the safety systems of the power units. Energoatom says that during the "test" the Russians can throw explosives, non-detonating shells and other weapons into concrete bowls, and then blame ZNPP workers for this.
14:40 The ECHR accepted for consideration the claim of Ukraine against Russia received on June 23. The head of the ECHR, Robert Spano, referred the case to the fourth section of the court and informed Russia about this. This case was preceded by four other submissions by Ukraine and some 8,500 individual complaints. Ukraine accuses Russia of violating a number of rights enshrined in the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
14:37 Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia, in response to the strengthening of the US military presence in Europe, "will take compensatory measures, we have opportunities and resources."
14:32 Great Britain imposed sanctions against 12 Russians and eight companies. Among them are the oligarch Vladimir Potanin, the head of the main operational department of the Russian General Staff, Sergei Rudskoy, and the Moscow Industrial Bank.
14:29 Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich published a video of the consequences of a morning missile attack on a five-story building. A rocket hit in one of the entrances destroyed apartments from the third to the fifth floor. Nearby residential buildings were also damaged from the shock wave and debris.
14:27 Odesa OVA from June 30, 2022 prohibits the use and sale in the territory of Odessa and the region of pyrotechnics, including fireworks, salutes and firecrackers, regardless of class. It is also prohibited to operate vehicles used in unauthorized auto and motorcycle competitions.
14:14 Zelensky, in his address to the NATO summit, urged "to find a place" for Ukraine in the common security space: "NATO's open door policy should not resemble the old Kiev metro turnstiles: they are open, and when you come up, the turnstiles close until you pay. Is Ukraine still little paid? Is our contribution to the defense of Europe and the whole of civilization still insufficient? So what else is needed? "
14:07 Norway will remove from storage and transfer three MLRS M270 installations to Ukraine, the country's Ministry of Defense said.
13:43 Zelensky addressed the participants of the NATO summit in Madrid: "To help Ukraine now end this war with a victory on the battlefield, that is, to give a really strong response to Russia's actions - this is what we need, and each of your states, and everything alliance, the entire Euro-Atlantic community. If you really define Russia as your main threat, you must fully support its main, first target. This is not a war of Russia only against Ukraine, this is a war for the right to dictate terms in Europe. For what the future world order will be Therefore, to support Ukraine in particular now with weapons, finances and politically such sanctions against Russia that will stop its ability to pay for the war is an absolute necessity.
The goals of Ukraine absolutely coincide with the goals of the alliance. We are interested in security and stability on the European continent, in the world. We are interested that the life of peoples be determined not by the notorious Munich speech of one leader, but by international law. We are interested in ensuring that there are no "gray" zones and territories of total war, where nothing remains but ruins. NATO is also interested in this."
13:17 To compensate for the refusal of Russian gas supplies, the EU countries will need at least three years, according to a Fitch Ratings report. The most dependent on Russian gas are Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, analysts say.
13:03 NATO will supply weapons to Ukraine for as long as necessary, Scholz said in Madrid. In addition to weapons, the members of the alliance will continue to supply Kyiv with financial and humanitarian aid.
12:53 Russian troops fired at least 11 missiles across Nikolaev in the morning, Anna Zamazeeva, head of the regional council, said. According to preliminary information, as a result of falling into a high-rise building, four people died and five were injured. The rescue operation continues, people remain under the rubble.
12:49 Oleksandr Babich, the Golopristan mayor, and Ivan Samoylenko, the village head of Stanislav, were returned from Russian captivity, the Association of Ukrainian Cities reported. Alexander Babich was abducted by the invaders on March 28, Ivan Samoylenko - on June 24. Four more mayors remain in captivity, their fate is unknown.
12:43 The US has imposed sanctions against five Chinese companies for supporting the Russian army. As Deputy Secretary of Commerce Alan Esteves said, this decision "sends a powerful signal to businesses and individuals around the world: if they try to support Russia, the US will cut them off from its market."
12:41 It is becoming increasingly difficult to train recruits for the front or reserves on the territory of Ukraine due to Russian shelling, Arestovich said: “There are no safe places in Ukraine. Russian cruise missiles always fly - it’s impossible to shoot them all down. attacks on training centers.
Therefore, according to the adviser to the head of the OP, it is difficult to simultaneously concentrate a large number of military personnel in training centers. Britain has offered to train 10,000 men, but basic standard quality infantry training takes four months.
12:37 Collaborator of the occupiers of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov announced the start of preparations for a "referendum" on joining Russia: "Yes, we are preparing for a referendum, and we will hold it. And, oddly enough, the Kherson region will make a decision and join the Russian Federation, becomes a full-fledged entity. At the same time, the representative of the occupying "authority" did not name the date of the "voting".
12:24 Biden announced his intention to create a permanent headquarters of one of the US army corps in Poland.
12:23 Reznikov said that he had a telephone conversation with the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin: "On the eve of the NATO summit, I had a telephone conversation with my friend Lloyd Austin III. He confirmed NATO's strong support for Ukraine's struggle for freedom and independence. We also discussed another package military assistance to Ukraine from NATO member countries. To be continued".
12:17 Zelensky said in an interview with NBC that the atrocities of the Russian troops are a consequence of the information policy of the Russian Federation: "The leadership influenced this. These people are not free. They do not choose what to watch, what to read. They live in the information forest, deaf and dark. "And they don't even understand how civilization develops. And they are told that they are a super-nation. The same that the Nazis had. All the rest are second, third, fifth grade, like in a butcher's shop. Information policy always comes from the leadership. The leader does not tells them - go, rape. The leaders have made of them those people who are capable of these terrible steps. "
11:50 SBU interrogated a Russian sailor who, after the crash of the cruiser Moskva, joined the infantry. He participated in an attempt to rescue the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in April: “There were a lot of corpses and, basically, the rescue was very sad. The ship was lost, it sank, they couldn’t tow it ... I had seen enough of what was in Moscow, and did not want to see further "You die in the middle of the sea. It's very scary. And I refused."
11:47 Zelensky said in an interview with NBC that, despite the growing war weariness of the world, the civilized world cannot afford to let Ukraine lose: "We have no right to lose ... If we lose, whoever and whatever said, then democracy will lose, which means the United States will lose. European states that declare the values that we all talk about so much will lose."
"The war will definitely end. I am sure that it will end with the victory of Ukraine. Whatever it is. No matter how hard it is. We must oust the occupiers from our land. And how else can the war end? This is the only way," the President stressed and urged more allies to support Ukraine, because "we cannot win alone."
11:43 Biden said the United States will send two additional squadrons of fifth-generation F-35 fighters to Britain, strengthen air defense forces in Germany and Italy, and increase the number of destroyers based in Spain from four to six.
11:28 Zelensky, in an interview with the American NBC television channel, said that where Ukraine loses one tank, Russia loses five: "We need to understand that not only we are losing. Where we are losing one tank, they are losing five. That's how we "We fight, but it's difficult for us. Because, again, the numbers are different. They have ten tanks for one of our tanks, ten of their soldiers for one of our soldiers. There are ten times more of them, and it's very difficult."
11:26 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in Madred that peace talks with Russia are possible only after her defeat in Ukraine: "We need to ensure Russia's defeat in Ukraine. This is necessary for European security, freedom and democracy. This is the only way we can achieve lasting peace in Europe."
She stressed that she does not consider it possible to negotiate with the Russian Federation while its troops remain in Ukraine: “There are people who say that there are opportunities for negotiations now, while Russia is still in Ukraine. But I think that this will bring a false peace. This will lead to further aggression in the future. We must learn the lessons of the past - the mistakes of the Minsk protocol, for example, which failed to ensure lasting peace in the region."
11:21 The occupiers are collecting personal data of Mariupol residents and are trying to recruit evacuated citizens. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in order to collect data, an acceptance of applications for damaged property has been organized. In applications, citizens must indicate without fail that property was allegedly damaged as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It is also necessary to list all owners of housing and citizens registered there and provide information about the place of their current residence. If the citizens registered in the house left for the territory controlled by Ukraine or abroad (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus), then the people who filed applications are summoned for interrogation and further required to establish contact with those who left and try to force them to cooperate with the occupiers.
At the same time, the process of restoring residential premises has not yet begun, no compensation has been paid, and options for relocation to other housing have not been provided. Those who lost their homes are offered to move to the housing of local residents who have left the city.
11:14 The death toll as a result of a rocket attack on a residential building in Nikolaev has increased to four people , the State Emergency Service reported.
11:12 Ukraine does not give up the idea of joining NATO, Kuleba said in an interview with the French radio station RFI: "Why not? The issue of joining NATO is spelled out in the Constitution. In addition, the structure of the alliance is the most effective security mechanism in the European space."
11:11 Briton Sean Pinner, "sentenced" to death in the "DPR", filed a cassation appeal against this decision, Yulia Tserkovnikova, the prisoner of war's lawyer, said: "We filed a cassation appeal, the consideration period is two months. If it is rejected, we will write a petition for pardon. The client asks, I am obliged."
11:09 Poland has included the anti-war survival simulator This War of Mine in the extracurricular program. A detailed plan of lectures has already been prepared for teachers, the country's Ministry of Education and Science said. This War of Mine was released in 2014 and is based on the siege of Sarajevo during the war in Yugoslavia. Users play for the civilian population, which is trying to survive in the fighting.
11:07 France will give Ukraine six more self-propelled artillery mounts Caesar, said the Minister of the armed forces of the country, Sebastien Lecornu. At the same time, he did not specify the delivery time. The self-propelled guns will come in addition to the 12 howitzers that were delivered earlier.
11:03 British intelligence reports that Russian troops continue to gradually advance and are trying to cordon off Lisichansk. Since June 25, they have advanced another 2 km in the area of the Lisichansk oil refinery to the south of the city. Analysts believe that Russia will continue to strike and will try to prevent the Ukrainian military from resupplying. The lack of modern high-precision strike weapons in the Russian Federation is likely to lead to the fact that there will be new victims among the civilian population.
10:56 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock confirmed media reports that Berlin does not want to abandon the Russia-NATO Founding Act of 1997: "We have a new strategic concept here at the NATO summit, which we will adopt. We are facing this new the bitter reality that we should now be able to defend ourselves against the Russian Federation if this happens ... But we have always made it clear, as the federal government of Germany, that we, for example, do not want to denounce the Russia-NATO Founding Act" .
10:52 Stoltenberg confirmed that Russia in the new Strategic Concept of the alliance will be called the main threat to security, and the concept itself "will become a blueprint for how to lead the alliance into a future more competitive and dangerous world and how to ensure the security of NATO and almost a billion of its citizens in it."
The Secretary General also said that the expansion of NATO response forces from 40 to 300 thousand will take place next year. These forces will be paid for and organized by their NATO countries, they will be deployed in their countries, but will be dedicated to the defense of specific territories. In addition, a large number of heavy weapons and equipment will be placed, as well as warehouses in these territories.
10:48 Johnson said in an interview with ZDF that Putin's actions towards Ukraine are "a perfect example of toxic masculinity."
10:46 NATO told Zelensky that Russia needs to be defeated militarily, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Cros said at the summit of the alliance in Madrid: "We had the opportunity to talk with President Zelensky ... We made it clear: this war can only be won by battlefield, and we must continue to support President Zelensky and the Ukrainian population as much as possible to win on the battlefield against Russian aggression."
10:43 Andrey Klishas, head of the constitutional committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, said that Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard is "a big question" after the refusal to let Russian cargo go there. The day before, the Norwegian government announced that it had joined the fifth package of EU sanctions against Russia and closed the border with the Russian Federation for land transport and its ports. For trucks and cars from Russia, the only checkpoint on the Russian-Norwegian border, Storskog, will be closed.
Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev said that Oslo violated the Paris Treaty of 1920, according to which the parties, including Norway and Russia, recognize Norway's sovereignty over Svalbard on the condition that the import of goods from countries participating in the agreement will not be subject to restrictions.
10:29 In Dnipro, as a result of yesterday's missile attack, seven people were injured, among them a six-year-old boy - he was hit by a fragment from a broken window glass, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
10:26 In Kremenchug, rescuers examined and dismantled the debris of building structures on 75% of the total area of the shopping center destroyed by the Russian missile. As a result of the shelling of the Amstor shopping center, 18 people were killed (one of whom died in the hospital), eight fragments of human bodies were found during the rubble, the State Emergency Service reports. 61 people applied for medical help, 26 of them were hospitalized.
10:17 Kuleba urged partners to disconnect Gazprombank from SWIFT, which Russia uses both to receive payments for oil and gas and to pay salaries to its military.
09:54 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the provision of new assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 151.7 million Canadian dollars (about 117.7 million US dollars). Canada will also provide a $200 million loan to Ukraine through the IMF. The funds will be used for humanitarian aid, agricultural solutions, demining, as well as establishing accountability for human rights violations.
09:49 NATO today at the summit in Madrid will take Sweden and Finland into an alliance , Stoltenberg said.
09:47 The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that Azovstal fighters who had surrendered would not be exchanged: “We decided not to give them up, we agreed where it was supposed to. in a pre-trial detention center. Now there are two thousand such fighters who arrived yesterday. We are working with them in detail and thoroughly."
09:28 In Kharkiv, the Russians fired at the Industrial, Shevchenkovsky and Sloboda districts, six people were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. In the region, during the day, the Russian army fired at Izyumsky, Chuguevsky, Kharkov, Bogodukhovsky districts - two people were killed, three were injured.
09:10 Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced that he was already on a train to Kiev. One of the main topics that Widodo and Zelensky will discuss will be the November G20 summit.
09:07 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 29. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 35,450 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1572 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 3720 (+16),
artillery systems - 781 (+3),
MLRS - 246 (+3),
air defense systems - 103 (+1),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 185 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 640 (+4),
cruise missiles - 142 (+3),
ships/boats - 14 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2598 (+9),
special equipment - 61 (+0).
09:02 More than 20 residents of Lisichansk were wounded as a result of shelling by Russian cluster shells, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. Among the wounded there are children aged 14 and 15.
08:48 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has ruled out the possibility that London will become part of the European Political Community, the creation of which was initiated by Macron. Presenting the new community as an alternative to EU membership, Macron noted that this idea could unite countries with EU-like values in trade, the rule of law and freedom of movement from "the UK to Ukraine."
08:44 The main efforts of the enemy are focused on conducting military operations in the Lisichansk and Bakhmut directions with the aim of encircling Lisichansk. The enemy is advancing with partial success in the Bakhmut direction and is storming in the Slavic direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . Near the border of Ukraine, the Russians are deploying MLRS Grad to strike at the Sumy region.
08:36 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian defense of Severodonetsk cost the Russians dearly, despite Moscow's new tactics aimed at limiting Russian losses. Russian forces advancing in Severodonetsk will need time to recover before participating in the Lisichansk assault. At the same time, the location and number of Russian troops that captured Severodonetsk remain unclear.
Analysts believe that Ukrainian forces are likely to withdraw, which could include a withdrawal from Lysychansk and the Luhansk region in the near future. Kyiv can continue this approach until the Russian attack culminates or Ukrainian forces move into more secure positions along a straighter line dotted with fortified cities and towns.
08:32 The situation in Lisichansk is reminiscent of what happened in Severodonetsk, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He also said that now the Russian army continues its offensive in the direction of Volchoyarka - Verkhnekamenka, trying to surround Lisichansk.
08:23 The number of victims after blow on a high-rise building in Nikolaev grew to three, five people are injured , the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported.
07:55 The Russians launched a missile attack on a residential high-rise building in Nikolaev in the morning, it is known about two dead and three wounded , the rescuer of the State Emergency Service also suffered, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said.
07:21 In the south of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched five airstrikes, eliminating 22 Russian soldiers, the Uragan MLRS and two ammunition depots, OK Pivden reported. According to the command, the Russians attacked the outskirts of Aleksandrovka in the Kherson region with a pair of Ka-52 attack helicopters, in response, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used aviation five times, in particular in the area of the administrative border of the Nikolaev and Kherson regions.
07:13 In the Dnieper, under the rubble of a building of a motor transport company destroyed by an enemy missile, rescuers found two dead - a man and a woman. They were not military, there was a peaceful enterprise where peaceful people worked, stressed the head of the UVA, Valentin Rezichenko. At the scene, experts found fragments of a Caliber rocket. The day before, the enemy sent six such missiles across the Dnepropetrovsk region, four of them were shot down.
07:09 The partisan movement in Melitopol is working in close communication with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The occupiers and collaborators are afraid to leave the house and enter the entrance, said the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov.
06:47 The leadership of Ukraine specially stores weapons supplied by the West in the centers of large cities, covering it as a shield with civilians, Russian diplomat Dmitry Polyansky said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
01:38 The UN Security Council condemned the death of people due to a Russian missile attack on a shopping center in Kremenchug: "We strongly condemn the death of civilians as a result of these rocket attacks, in particular, the shelling of a crowded shopping center in Kremenchug, Poltava region of Ukraine. This strike was flagrant attack on civilian infrastructure and the civilian population."
The UN Security Council also condemned the intensification of Russian missile strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure on June 25-27. Countries stressed the need to investigate and bring to justice violators of international humanitarian law and perpetrators of war crimes.
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[RIA Novosti] About 500 Ukrainian soldiers and 74 mercenaries left Lisichansk overnight for the Seversk region, Vitaly Kiselyov, assistant head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People's Republic, said on his Telegram channel.
“At the moment, there are six battalions of Ukrainian troops in Seversk, and foreigners are also arriving. The personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine live in “abandoned houses” and apartments,” he wrote.
According to Kisilev, some battalions are going to leave the city in the near future.
Mercenaries from Poland and Georgia spotted in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk.
"Since April 28, there has been no water, no gas, no electricity. People communicate with the help of Kyivstar and Life. They charge batteries with a generator, but only if they produce gasoline," the assistant to the head of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs concluded.
On February 24, Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years."
The DPR has already liberated Volnovakha , a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and Svyatogorsk, where a large Orthodox monastery with the status of a lavra is located. In the LPR, almost the entire territory of the republic was liberated, with the exception of Lisichansk.
[RIA Novosti] In Lisichansk, a group of Russian troops "O" ("Brave") actually cut the last major road connecting the Ukrainian military with the "mainland", RIA Novosti correspondent reports citing a military source.
As the interlocutor of the agency clarified, we are talking about the city of Seversk in the Bakhmut district.
"Already now we can talk about the operational encirclement of the enemy in Lisichansk," he said.
At the same time, according to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to stop the offensive of the Russian army and are actively mining the fields and forest plantations around Lysychansk with the help of the PFM-1 "Lepestok" (Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention in 2005, which prohibits the use, accumulation and production of anti-personnel mines.
In addition, the enemy is conducting intensive shelling, anti-tank crews are operating, but the Russian military continues to move forward, the source said.
Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces reported that they had taken control of an oil refinery 16 kilometers southwest of Lisichansk and liberated the neighboring village of Topolevka, Popasnyansky district.
Direct Translation via Google Translate Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
22:49 Nationalists and foreign mercenaries intend to wipe the city of Avdiivka in the DPR from the face of the earth. They plan to blame the Russian military for this, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.
He stressed that the Ukrainian military for this will copy the tactics of the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.
21:37 Children's playgrounds will be banned in the capital's shopping centers.
18:36 Melitopol School No. 15 was the first in the Zaporozhye region to receive Russian accreditation. This was announced by the head of Rosobrnadzor of the Russian Federation Anzor Muzaev. And now the 15th school has received the right to issue Russian-style certificates.
17:30 The first branch of Promsvyazbank was opened in Kherson. From June 29, Kherson residents can open accounts and issue bank cards at Promsvyazbank. This is the first Russian bank that started its work in the liberated Kherson region.
17:05 Russian Armed Forces column moving on the Kharkov direction.
15:33 NATO informed Ukraine that they do not want its membership in the alliance.
13:37 On July 1, Promsvyazbank starts working in Kherson. Address: Ushakov Ave., 53
12:50 “The entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO and the attempts to blockade Kaliningrad together may mean the beginning of NATO attempts to take Kaliningrad away from Russia as punishment for Russia taking the Black Sea coast from Ukraine. They want to make the Baltic Sea a NATO sea," they write inTelegram.
11:37 New briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry, the main thing:
- In the area of the settlement of Pitomnik, Kharkiv region, as a result of a strike by Russian artillery, up to a 100 militants of the Nazi Kraken formation and about 10 units of military equipment were destroyed
- The high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed four command posts in a day, including the Kharkiv-1 and Kharkiv-2 territorial defense battalions and the training base for foreign mercenaries near the city of Nikolaev
- Affected: manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 32 districts, a base for the repair of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lysichansk region, eight ammunition depots and weapons in the regions of the Kherson region, the Donetsk People's Republic, Mykolaiv region, as well as a fuel base in the Mykolaiv region
11:08 A resident of Kherson told how, for a reward of 1,500 hryvnias (about 3 thousand rubles), she went to the frontline zone with her son, who is not even two years old, to collect data on the location of the Russian military.
11:05 The calculation of the Krasukha-S4 electronic warfare complex suppressed the airborne radar of a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The performance characteristics of the Krasukha-S4 complex make it possible to detect all types of air targets, including those moving on the ground.
09:40 The war will end with the victory of Ukraine - Zelensky in an interview with NBC.
09:00 The military-civilian administration of Berdyansk reports that today, June 29, demining work continues in the port of Berdyansk. Residents are asked to remain calm.
08:30 4 Tochka-U missiles were fired at Novaya Kakhovka. All of them were intercepted by Russian air defense, but three adults were injured and one child was killed by the wreckage. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kherson region clarifies that the missiles were supposed to strike civilian and social infrastructure.
08:20 Mi-35M VKS of the Russian Federation with BKO Vitebsk in the NVO zone. Work from the cabling, the operator's story.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:28 The operational lines of the JCCC DPR receivedadditionalinformation on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- st. Rodnikovaya, 75 - a direct hit of VFU ammunition in a private residential building;
- st. Rodnikovaya, 77 - a direct hit of the VFU ammunition in the outbuilding;
- the power line was damaged, without power supply to 92 subscribers of the Mandrykino village. 20:33 Eduard Basurin said that the joint actions of the military personnel of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed:
-three units of automotive equipment,
-two armored personnel carriers;
-38 personnel.
-two enemy firing points were suppressed in the Krasnogorovka area.
19:18 Buses that will carry passengers from Kherson, Melitopol and Berdyansk to Crimea will be guarded by armed security forces until they arrive at the border with the peninsula, - the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov.
18:22 Denis Pushilin: Today we are returning home 144 fighters of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Russian Federation who were captured by the enemy.
We handed over to Kyiv the same number of prisoners from the armed formations of Ukraine, most of whom were wounded. Several of them are ordinary nationalist battalions, their condition is deplorable: severe wounds, with amputation of limbs and other complications.
At the same time, our main task is to rescue the fighters who took part in the liberation special operation. The enemy turned out to have very valuable military personnel. Among the liberated there are those mobilized who were taken prisoner under various circumstances. Most of them are injured and need urgent qualified medical assistance. I wish them a speedy recovery.
18:07 Additional information about the death of a civilian, a man born in 1980, was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Red Partizan on the street. Factory.
Additional information was received about damage caused by shelling of the VFU in the following settlements:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- st. Petrovsky, 233 "g" - the fire of the Petrovsky landfill No. 4 was recorded.
17:13 The Sakhalin Region handed over a batch of new vehicles to Shakhtyorsk.
17:04 In Mariupol, 160 former Ukrainian police officers entered the service of the DPR police.
17:02 Arrival in the Kievsky district of Donetsk. Gorlovka and Yasinovataya are also under fire. In Yasinovataya, a man was killed as a result of shelling.
17:00 Report on the work of air defense in Donetsk.
15:30 Petrovsky district of Donetsk is now under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:20 The 108th battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is almost completely destroyed during the fighting near the Lisichansk oil refinery.
Of the 350 people, only 30 survived.
15:12 Kulemzin: Rescuers removed from the ground and took out an unexploded shell of the VFU in the Petrovsky district, at the address: pl. Pobedy, 6. The picture shows the place where the ammunition hit.
15:10 Residents of Snizhne are watching Russian fighter jets in the sky. The subscriber who shared the video with us said:
"Russian aviation for me has become a symbol of liberation and the nearest victory. Every time my soul becomes calmer when I notice her in the sky."
14:25 A man died in Yasinovataya. As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Victory killed a man.
13:20 Almost 200 foreign mercenaries are in Ukrainian-controlled Seversk, mostly Poles. This is reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR.
13:03 Lisichansky cauldron: AFU retreats to Seversk. The NM of the LPR in the Kremennaya area is moving south to join the troops of the Donetsk Republic. The enemy is trying to retreat towards Seversk, leaving small mobile groups in the forests, which are destroyed upon detection.
13:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:35 New briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry, the main thing:
- During the offensive operations in the area of the Lisichansk oil refinery, heavy losses were inflicted on the 10th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- As part of the counter-battery combat, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit two Ukrainian platoons of Grad multiple rocket launchers, as well as two artillery platoons in the Avdievka area, which were shelling settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:31 Attack on Lysichansk: Exclusive frames from RT military correspondent Anna Abakumova from a key point in this direction - the village of Toshkovka. Allied troops managed to take control of this settlement. The abandoned positions of the militants are again abandoned by the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, their uniforms and foreign-made products.
11:21 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: five 152mm shells were fired;
n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:31 According to the official data of the DPR JCCC since the beginning of the escalation* as of 10:30 06/29/22
During the 133 days of the escalation, 206 civilians were killed, incl. 12 children.
Complete data on the dead civilians in the territory liberated during the NWO are being established.
On the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, 962 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. 72 children.
On the territory liberated during the NMD, 1451 civilians were injured, incl. 79 children.
Total: 2411 including children - 151.
Damage:
— 5,003 residential housing construction;
— 1,082 civil infrastructure facility, including 65 medical institutions, 204 educational institutions, 386 social security facilities, 31 critical infrastructure facilities, 396 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attack Petrovsky district Donetsk, Makeevka, Elenovka, Gorlovka i Yasinovataya.
- 581 vehicles.
At the moment, it is impossible to establish for certain the data on damage and destruction of residential housing constructions and civil infrastructure facilities in the territory liberated during the NWO.
During the 133 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 5,038 facts of firing were recorded, of which 4,713 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 42,944 ammunition of various calibers, including 31 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", 14 MLRS missiles BM-30 "Smerch", 114 MLRS missiles BM-27 "Hurricane" and 7,597 MLRS missiles BM-21 "City".
09:08 The Russian Orthodox Church will undertake the restoration of churches in Mariupol. A delegation of priests of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate visited Mariupol to assess the state of the destroyed churches.
08:50 A third gave up, two thirds remained lying on the field. LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik on the air of Soloviev Live spoke about the losses suffered by the enemy in the battles near Lisichansk. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, the number of killed Ukrainian militants near Lisichansk exceeds a thousand.
08:45 As a result of night shelling of the Kirovsky area 65 transformer substations are de-energized. 5550 subscribers of the Kirov region and 750 subscribers of the Kuibyshev region were left without electricity. The mine "17-17 Bis" is de-energized. Two miners remain underground, rescue work is underway.
08:23 During the day, three people were injured on the territory of the DPR. Over the past day, from 08:00 June 28 to 08:00 June 29, three civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
--n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
--n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: seven 152mm shells were fired;
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[REGNUM] Western leaders need to cut back on alcohol to keep fit. This was announced on June 29 by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following the results of the VI Caspian Summit.
“I don’t know how they wanted to undress, to the waist, below the waist. I think it would be a disgusting sight anyway,” Putin said. Except for the Finnish prime minister
“Well, if you recall the words of Pushkin, he said the words, in my opinion: you can be a sensible person and think about the beauty of underwear. Therefore, I completely agree with this. Everything in a person should be harmonious: both the soul and the body. But in order for everything to be harmonious, you need to give up alcohol abuse, other bad habits, go in for physical culture, sports. Colleagues - I know them all personally. We are not in the best period of relations, this is understandable. But nevertheless, they are leaders, they have character. And if they want, they will achieve the desired success. But you need to work on yourself,” he continued.
But was he in one of his customary shirtless glamour poses when he said it?
Earlier, the heads of the G7 remembered the Russian leader at the dinner table. Preparing to be photographed, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked the others whether to keep their jackets or take them off to look "cooler" than the Russian leader. Later, Johnson also said that the special operation in Ukraine was a sign of the "toxic masculinity" of the Russian leader.
The Kremlin strongman made the snarky comment during a visit to the Russia-friendly Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan Thursday when asked about G7 leaders poking fun at him earlier this week.
As they sat down for talks in the German Alps, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson quipped that G7 leaders could take their clothes off to “show that we’re tougher than Putin” and “show them our pecs.”
His Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, joked that they could try to match Putin’s infamous 2009 naked torso pictures with a “bare-chested horseback riding display.”
#1
NO WORRIES Putin, they'S be the WOKE pronoun army.
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Does Congress need to vote on this, or at least the Senate advise and consent?
...There's no legal requirement for Congress to approve deployments - that comes under the President's prerogative as CinC. However, Congress does have the power of the purse, and can say no in whatever passes for the Budget these days.
Mike
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Anything new? Other than operationally, the Baltic geographical position is rather exposed to being cut off.
#3
The Russians were onerous, paranoid bastids prior the invasion of Ukraine. The Russians will be onerous, parnoid bastids long after the invasion of the Ukraine.
Sort of like the views of the Zermatt across the Lake Riffelsee. Nothing changes really that much.
#4
The fascinating thing is that since Peter the Great, Russia has been invaded by the Swedes, the French (who at least got to Moscow), and the Germans. They all failed. The last one to actually conquer Russia were the Yuan Chinese (aka the Mongols). You would think that the ones that kept them in a yoke for hundreds of years would be of significant concern.
#5
^ This is why they are onerous, paranoid bastids. And they must know they are really not good at war fighting, or much of anything else except making vodka and Kalashnikovs. They have always relied on thousands of miles of empty steppes between their enemies and Moscow so that anybody who actually makes it to Moscow will be worn out, freezing and over extended.
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One might also understand if they are not impressed with NATO claims of strictly peaceful, defensive intentions. They've heard all that from other Western powers many times in the past.
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Also Britain dinking around in Chrimea and central Asia.
#8
To me it just looks like two more freeloaders who will be leveraging the US military to back up their provocations of Putin. If Lithuania and all the pipsqueaks are going poke the bear, I need at least a couple of months in the gym to get back in passable shape to mobilize in my late 50’s. It would be impossible to form a decent military out of what the left is churning out of our schools.
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[AmericanMilitaryNews] Chinese agents pretending to be concerned Texans executed an online disinformation campaign against a company building a rare earth minerals facility in Texas for the Department of Defense, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant revealed on Tuesday. The Pentagon later released a statement confirming Mandiant’s findings.
Mandiant found that agents for a pro-China disinformation campaign used fake social media accounts to cast doubt on Lynas Rare Earth Ltd. and other mining firms in an effort to weaken the rare earth minerals supply chain in the United States and elsewhere.
Lynas is the largest rare earth mining company in the world and currently has a contract with the Pentagon to build a facility in Texas.
Mandiant said Chinese actors lied about being local Texans online in order to stir up opposition to Lynas building a rare earth minerals plant in Texas. They used thousands of fake Twitter and Facebook accounts to claim the plant would cause permanent environmental damage, in addition to exposing residents to harmful contamination that could cause cancer, gene mutation and newborn deformities.
The accounts "promoted various narratives in support of the political interests of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)," Mandiant said.
"We observed accounts post primarily in English, with an additional lesser amount of content in Chinese," Mandiant said in a report on the campaign. "Additionally, we observed extremely limited messaging in Malay, and Dragonbridge accounts promoted photos of demonstrations against Lynas that took place in Malaysia sometime between 2012 and 2019, due to controversy surrounding the disposal of radioactive waste produced by its rare earths processing facility in the city of Kuantan." That must be the Thorium produced as a by-product of the mining. It can be used as a nuclear fuel.
"Dragonbridge" is a code name used by Mandiant to identify Chinese disinformation efforts.
Liu Pengyu, a Chinese Embassy spokesman, said that while he has not seen Mandiant’s report, he thinks it is the result of "forces in the world" that want to slander China.
"China is one of the biggest victims of disinformation," Liu said in an email, according to The Washington Times. "China always opposes the creation and dissemination of disinformation. There are some people and forces in the world who are keen to fabricate rumors, slander and discredit China."
The disinformation campaign comes as China moves to dominate the market for rare earth minerals, which are used in numerous tech productions, including smartphones, TVs, medical equipment, water treatment systems and more.
"DoD appreciates the diligence of Mandiant in identifying this disinformation campaign, and will continue to work with our partners to provide accurate information related to this and other supply chain investments," the Pentagon’s statement read.
#7
This really isn't about whores and whore keepers. Revealing client lists would reveal intelligence shortfalls and endanger other ongoing project efforts. We really don't have a need to know.
#8
Seems like all the stuff we didn't have a need to know is coming home to roost the last few years.
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Apparently no record of Hunter ever visiting Little St. James Island. I thought he liked wimins? Who kept him away and why ?
Separate funding streams, separate assert.
Who kept him out? Compartmentation was essential. One goes down, they don't all daisy-chain into oblivion together.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I'll try to be more vocal in my dislike for Meghan Markle. And she probably meant "visceral" rather than "gutteral."
Guttural means in the gut, right? Clearly a synonym for visceral.. and nothing to do with gutters, no matter where she’s from.
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That's cold, tw.
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I enjoyed her as an actress, Abu Uluque. I had hoped to enjoy her as a princess, too, but she chose to make it political. She dragged that nice young man into strife with his family, demonstrating the very old-fashioned idea that the character of the woman a man marries can make or break him.
#4
Harry can't stand his father, Prince Charles, as he takes after his mother Diana who divorced his father. I think his marriage to Markle is more of a rebellion against the Royals in general. An American African American wife is his ultimate middle finger to the British Crown and their values.
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By the way Harry's father, Prince Charles, refuses to take his calls.
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Ref #6: I think his marriage to Markle is more of a rebellion against the Royals in general.
"Rebellion" leading to a sad ending, as is so often the case.
#11
Meghan, I was counting on all the male 'birthing people' using their outrage for this issue. Clearly they are more impacted than myself. With so many issues to be outraged over, I have channel my outrage for maximum impact. Sorry!
#13
It's from the Latin guttur which means throat, not gut.
See? The reward for channeling my inner B-class starlet is to learn something I didn’t know. Thank you, Lionel Hatfield8646 — you’re responsible for my learning of today. :-)
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Ditto Badanov. There is something wrong with people who think "celebrities" are a good source of information they should go find for themselves.
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Someone should ask her if she's a biologist to be able to gender all those people ;p Honestly Harry used to be cool, now he's just his daddy writ small.
#21
I thought the way the Royals dealt with Prince Harry and the Tramp during the Jubilee was perfect. Utter cold indifference and icy correctness. Even Chuck didit right refusing to even make eye contact. Harry came home seeing he has descended to being adrift and without even the trappings of status. He's just HER husband now, and they are discovering even D list invites are drying up. Whatta Moroon as Bugs would say!
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I thought men weren't allowed to comment on abortion.
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I have to wonder what would happen if Meghan went and got herself an abortion at this point. The Royals may be cold to her but I think that would be a bit too far.
[Washington Examiner] NATO is putting Russia and any other "nuclear-armed peer-competitors" on notice that the trans-Atlantic alliance can and will retaliate against any nuclear attack.
The latest edition of the security bloc’s guiding strategic concept evinces a more muscular posture regarding NATO’s nuclear forces than the 2010 document, which characterized Russia as a "partner" just four years before the Kremlin seized Crimea from Ukraine. And the latest document implies that as North Atlantic allies send a stronger signal about threats from Russia’s nuclear threats, they also won’t fail to keep an eye on China’s nuclear arsenal.
"We have a wartime strategic concept, actually, not a peacetime one, so [we] want to use stronger language," a senior European official told the Washington Examiner. Like it wasn't clear before? Only a puff has to blowhard their way to respect. Grow a spine and be consistent.
The balance of nuclear military power emerged as a burning issue in the last several months, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has invoked Moscow’s arsenal to deter at least some Western support or intervention for Ukraine. His nuclear saber-rattling has spurred some European officials to wonder if Putin thinks he could win a limited nuclear war; the allies, for their part, asserted such a conflict would be a losing proposition for their enemies.
#3
I seriously don't trust Bidet to nuke anyone back even if we get nuked. At this point I also have zero faith we have military leaders with enough spine to do anything other than their nails either.
#5
All the Trump haters I know hoisted the blue and gold within hours, and were pretty darn excited about a nuclear exchange.
Everything Team Brandon has done has been an escalation; saw something about deploying the 101st and 35s into theater, in addition to the HIMAR transfer.
That bottled covid power; addictive stuff. Remember them all wetting their panties when some artillery was near Chernobyl and they were like NUkes! NUkes! WMDs!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
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[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania man allegedly admitted to beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in front of her two young daughters as one of them pleaded, "Please stop. You are killing my mom," authorities said.
Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last living Medal of Honor winner from World War II, has died at age 98.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
[SARA] A Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday sides with an Iraq War Veteran, determining that states cannot be exempt from being sued for discrimination against Veterans. CNN reports "The ruling will strengthen work protections for thousands of state-employed veterans returning to work after service in the Reserves or National Guard."
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