[PJMedia] A peek at the Danish crime statistics from 2010-2021 delivered a gut punch to the globalists looking to tear down Western cultures by gavaging "asylum seekers" into Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North America. It turns out that Moslems commit violent mostly peaceful crimes way more than people of Danish descent.
Back in 2020, Mattias Tesfaye, Denmark's minister for Immigration and Integration, did the unthinkable and decided to create a category for criminals from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), mostly Arab and/or Moslem nations. Guess what Denmark learned? MENA immigrants colonists have a higher tendency for unemployment and violent mostly peaceful crime than any other ethnic group in Denmark.
FACT-O-RAMA! Moslem/Arab men are convicted for rape in Denmark seven times more than Danish-born men.
Leftists flipped their wigs when Denmark "singled out" the group — largely Moslem men — for committing the lion's share of crimes.
"Amazing, why not give them a little symbol to stitch on their clothes, so we can keep an eye on them," a social media commentator blasted, trying desperately to compare the peaceful Jews of Europe sent to concentration camps with the violent mostly peaceful and unemployed Moslems of Denmark.
Moslems in Denmark are allegedly "very frustrated" at being "stigmatized" for their wildly out-of-proportion crime and unemployment rates.
As expected, lefty rags bemoaned the Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... that "besieged" Moslems are feeling as they continue to be the most dangerous people in Denmark. Other members of the Pravda press spoke of Denmark's horrific "rape culture" but refused to point out who the rapists are most likely to be.
Who could have foreseen a Moslem rape epidemic in Denmark? Thousands of women in the UK and the police who ignored the sexual assaults at the hands of mostly Moslem Paks for fear of being called a "racist."
PJ Media's own Robert Spencer has covered the brutality of Asian grooming gangs Moslem rapists in the UK for years, as well as the way the police sat on their hands and allowed it to happen.
Back in 2016, when the rape epidemic was terrorizing Denmark (as it still is), politicians chose not to deport the attackers or curtail the entry of more. They decided to sponsor classes informing them that rape was unacceptable. It doesn’t seem to have worked. Perhaps that’s because the Qur’an allows the "sexual enslavement of infidel women" (see 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, and 70:30, as explained in Robert Spencer’s groundbreaking book, "The Critical Qur’an," page 63).
Moslem men had to choose to either follow the words of a Western teacher condemning rape or Allah, who condones it. How did Denmark think that was going to go down? Just as in the UK, Denmark threw women under the bus to avoid offending Moslem rapists and the "woke" jackpuddings who support them.
Denmark are honest enough to publish true crime figures. What does this mean for our country, which is open to foreign criminal gangs? https://t.co/UncaIl64H2
[IsraelTimes] US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says there is “a moral necessity and a strategic imperative” to protect Palestinian civilians, calling the situation in Gaza a “humanitarian catastrophe” that is “getting even worse.”
Austin’s comments come at the start of the meeting with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon.
“In Gaza today, the number of civilian casualties is far too high and the amount of humanitarian aid is far too low,” Austin continues. “We need immediate increases in assistance to avert famine, and our work to open a temporary humanitarian corridor by sea will help, but the key is still expanding aid deliveries by land.
He tells Gallant he looks forward to discussing surging Gaza aid with him.
Turning to a potential Israeli operation in Rafah — which the US opposes — Austin says, “the safety of the 1.5 million Palestinian civilians in Rafah is also a top priority for the United States.”
“We continue to share the goal of seeing Hamas defeated, so we’ll discuss alternative approaches to target Hamas elements, and we must also plan for Israel’s security after this conflict ends, and that includes working in renewed cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and our regional partners to stabilize Gaza and to move toward a two-state solution,” he adds.
Speaking after Austin, Gallant thanks the US defense chief personally and the US more broadly for its support in the war against Hamas.
“While we are sitting at the Pentagon, on the other side of the world, the leader of Hamas is meeting with senior Iranian government officials. There is no more tangible expression of the war of the free world against the axis advancing terror,” Gallant tells Austin.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops raided a Paleostinian town in the West Bank overnight after shots were fired at a nearby settlement late last night, causing slight damage to a home.
The IDF says troops captured a handgun and ammunition in Beit Ummar, from which authorities suspect shots were fired toward the settlement of Karmei Tzur.
In the nearby town of Beit Fajjar, another two handguns were seized, and bombs were destroyed, the IDF says.
The army says 14 wanted Paleostinians were arrested during overnight raids across the West Bank and handed over to the Shin Bet for further questioning.
During a "brigade-level raid" in the northern West Bank’s Balata camp, adjacent to Nablus, the IDF says a soldier shot up a suspect who allegedly attempted to snatch his gun. The suspect’s condition was not immediately known.
Official Paleostinian news outlet WAFA says the man was shot in the foot, citing the Red Islamic Thingy. According to WAFA, some 25 Paleostinians were arrested during the overnight raids.
Troops in Balata also located and destroyed bombs, the IDF says.
The IDF says no troops were hurt in the overnight operations.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 3,600 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,600 affiliated with Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , according to the IDF.
[IsraelTimes] A survey released by Bloomberg polling voters in seven key swing states in the US finds that 67 percent of Michigan respondents think Israel’s war with Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... is somewhat or very important when deciding on who to vote for in the 2024 presidential election, slightly below the figure found in other states.
Across all seven states, 70% of respondents say it is somewhat or very important. Only 1% of respondents in Michigan list it as their top issue, the same percentage found across the board in the Morning Consult poll, which surveyed voters in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina.
Much has been made of Michigan’s sizable Arab population being unwilling to support Biden over his stance toward Israel, which was seen a factor pushing the administration’s change in tone in recent weeks.
The polling finds that voters in all seven states are more likely to trust former president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... over current president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. ‘This Is A Man ThatDoes Not Seem Demented’... to handle the war, by a margin of 44% to 32%, with 24% trusting neither.
In Michigan, 42% of voters trust Donald Trump to handle the war while 33% back Biden dealing with it.
[IsraelTimes] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s say they mounted six attacks on ships with drones and missiles in the last 72 hours in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, as well as targeting Eilat.
The Houthis attacked the Maersk Saratoga, APL bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , Huang Pu and Pretty Lady after identifying them as either US or British, according to a statement from the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea.
Sarea adds that the group also attacked two US destroyers in the Red Sea as well as Eilat.
It was not immediately clear which, if any, of the targets were struck by the drones or missiles. Eilat was last attacked on Thursday, according to Israeli authorities, but has not been struck.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Directorate releases video footage of Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... operatives detailing how the terror groups used Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City’s Shifa Hospital as a hub for terror operations.
The terror operatives were detained in the vicinity of Shifa Hospital in recent days amid the ongoing large-scale military operation, the military says.
The Islamic Jihad operative, identified by the IDF as Nabeel Rajab Abed Shteiwi, says during the interrogation that he has been working with the terror group in missile production since 2012.
"Shifa, or schools and places like that, are our shelter," Shteiwi says of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas, adding that he has been living in the hospital for three months.
Asked by the interrogator where the group’s headquarters inside the hospital are located, Shteiwi says that the group "does not have specific headquarters. They are in all the buildings, scattered everywhere."
He says that a large number of Hamas operatives use the hospital’s "Specialist Building" as their hub, but adds that this "doesn’t mean that they aren’t in other buildings" as well.
As to how so many terror operatives can move around the hospital undisturbed, he says, "You might see someone who doesn’t look like a nurse but is dressed in nurse clothes walking around."
The IDF also releases footage from the interrogation of Hamas operative Bakr Ahmed Bakr Qanita, who says he was in Shifa Hospital for 25 days.
Telling the interrogator that there are 600-1,000 Hamas operatives inside the hospital, Qanita says that there are "certain places" in Shifa that belong to the group, including in the medical residency department where terror operatives store weapons.
He confirms that the group uses the Specialist Building as one of its primary locations, as Shteiwi said, along with the Management Building.
The two terror groups tend to use hospitals across Gaza as their operation hubs because of "the large population and the large displacement," Qanita says, adding that access to water and electricity is also a factor in the decision.
In a statement released alongside the video footage, the IDF says "the murderous Moslems disclosed details of Hamas terror infrastructure deeply embedded within the hospital, which is used by senior Hamas operatives for planning and directing terror attacks."
[Ynet] The demand that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers adopt German values such as gender equality, LGBT rights, freedom of speech and freedom of the press has been a topic of public debate in Germany for almost a decade, since the mass influx of refugees in 2015.
But on October 7, when thousands of Muslims in Germany went out into the streets to celebrate the Hamas slaughter and protest against Israeli actions in Gaza, many politicians, especially in the Interior Ministry, clarified that some of the new requirements for permanent residents and to acquire German citizenship will now also be linked to the approach by those seeking asylum toward Jews and Judaism.
A leaked document from the Interior Ministry published Tuesday in Der Spiegel sheds further light on the issue and the new changes included in the questionnaire for those applying for German citizenship. At least 50% of this set of 33 questions must be answered correctly if one wants to proceed to the next stage of the German passport application process.
Der Spiegel reveals that, among other questions, refugees will be asked: When was the State of Israel founded? What is the expected punishment for Holocaust denial in Germany? And what is the name of the Jewish place of worship?
"If you do not share our values, you cannot receive a German passport," said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic party, who since the October 7 terror attack has taken a tough stance to expel Islamist organizations and eradicate antisemitism from her country. "We have zero tolerance for antisemitism and racism. This is a red line that we are drawing. Any manifestation of racism or contempt for humanity will prevent refugees from obtaining citizenship."
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[Jpost] Hamas has largely expected a ceasefire and withdrawal of IDF soldiers to allow its members to return to pockets across northern and central Gaza, including Shifa hospital.
Over the last week, the Israel Defense Forces have been carrying out a complex raid at Shifa Hospital. The hospital is a large, sprawling compound. The raid began a week ago, on the evening of March 17. For seven days, the IDF has been combing buildings and the area, clashing with terrorist gunmen, and detaining suspects. Reports say around 800 suspects were found, and 500 of them are confirmed members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This is the largest number of terrorists found in one spot since the war began and one of the IDF’s most important and complex operations of this type since October 7.
All of this requires a larger spotlight. How is it possible that so many terrorists, mostly men in their 20s to 50s, all came to this hospital over the last months? They had to have come in the last few months because the IDF first operated to clear the area around Shifa of terrorists in November. This means that these men infiltrated again. These are men with records, some of them involved in terrorism going back many years, including plots in the West Bank linked to the 2014 war as well as the October 7 attacks.
The IDF has emphasized that it found numerous Hamas commanders and a large swath of the PIJ command at Shifa. “At the beginning of the war, we destroyed the underground infrastructure dug under the hospital, and we confiscated military equipment and weapons hidden in it. The terrorists’ command center at Shifa Hospital was dealt with then. The terrorists fled in the previous operation when we called to evacuate the compound,” IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on March 21.
He also noted that the IDF operated differently to catch Hamas by surprise this time. “We raided the compound by surprise. The operation was led by the 162nd Division and carried out by special forces units led by Shayetet 13, in full cooperation on the ground, shoulder to shoulder with the ISA and Unit 504 for intelligence extraction in the field. We used deception tactics in this operation, and it was this that led to the success and apprehension of all 358 terrorists, and there are more still inside this compound who haven’t managed to escape. This led to Hamas and the Islamic Jihad being severely damaged as a result of the operation,” Hagari said.
We know that after the raid began, the terrorists retreated to key areas of the hospital and holed up in the emergency room, the maternity ward, and the Shifa burn ward. This fits the usual modus operandi of Hamas. They see hospitals as key assets and nodes in their command and control of Gaza. They believe the IDF would not want to work in a hospital and end up with the place being destroyed. The IDF has said now, on March 24, that Hamas has caused damage to many areas of the hospital.
Hamas clearly felt safe at the hospital. They knew that Israel had raided this area in November. For instance, in November, the IDF exposed a tunnel system under the Qatari building at the hospital. The IDF had to go back into the Qatari building again during the raid over the last year. The fact that Hamas felt secure in this area may relate to another recent raid by the IDF targeting the Hamad Towers near Khan Yunis. This project, funded by Doha, was supposed to provide nice suburban apartments for Gazans. Hamas appears to have infiltrated the towers over the last few months. In both cases, Hamas appears to have felt that they were safe at Shifa and at the Hamad towers. Now, they have lost almost 1,000 terrorists in both places when you add up all the people detained in the two operations over the last few weeks.
WHAT DOES HAMAS TAKE INTO ACCOUNT?
IT’S IMPORTANT to look at the timing here to understand the likely Hamas calculations. In early March, reports indicated that Israel would be pressured into a ceasefire before Ramadan. That meant that the ceasefire was supposed to start around March 10. However, Hamas increased its demands and refused to provide a list of living hostages. Hamas believed that Israel would be pressured into a ceasefire without hostages being released. Israel did reduce operations in Gaza and redeploy some units, but the IDF also stepped up raids in Gaza. This included raids over the last few months in areas the IDF cleared back in November, among them a raid into Shati and then into Zaytun. However, the IDF also warned those in Zaytun about the raid before it happened.
Hamas assumed they would get a warning if the IDF was returning to Shifa. They also assumed that the IDF was facing pressure after having raided Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Hamas figured Israel wouldn’t go back to Shifa, and therefore, almost 1,000 terrorists appear to have congregated there. These large numbers of men congregating together would have been clearly visible. They would have seemed well fed, unlike the tens of thousands of others sheltering near the hospital. In some cases, these men would have been armed. They didn’t need to be armed all the time because arms were stored in various places. Hamas operates like a mafia, and mafia members don’t always need to be armed. The weapons are stored in easy-to-reach locations so members can get to them if necessary. Still, Hamas would have felt secure at Shifa, like returning to their homes, so they didn’t need weapons. They assumed the ceasefire would let them set up a command center there to resume control of northern Gaza, where an estimated 30,000 people are located.
Hamas appears to sometimes operate in Gaza in plain clothes and without weapons, except when it needs weapons. For instance, Hamas gunmen have been involved in killing civilians who were trying to access aid. It appears Hamas is responsible for some of the incidents at the Kuwaiti roundabout near Gaza City. This means that Hamas arms its men when it needs to but often, the men seem to mill around without weapons. When the IDF raided Shifa, at least 180 terrorists were eliminated in gunfights. The terrorists also have mortars nearby.
The overall picture that emerges is that Hamas returned to Shifa because it believed a ceasefire would be announced in early March. When the ceasefire didn’t happen, it likely consulted with its leadership, which is based in Gaza and abroad. It likely heard from them that the West was pushing for the ceasefire and that Hamas should not worry too much; they would soon be reconstituted in northern Gaza.
The surprise raid upset their plans. However, Hamas is still operating in the north and also in central Gaza and the south. For instance, it fired rockets at Ashdod on Monday from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, the first rocket fire of this kind in two months.
Hamas understands the timeline in Gaza. It can read Western media and watch debates at the UN and the news. It is waiting for a ceasefire. It knows it is hosted abroad by two Western allies and assumes that its hosts and patrons will help return the terror group to power in Gaza and help it come to power in the West Bank. For Hamas, places like Shifa are the natural nodes in their empire of terror in Gaza that they need to reconstitute to take power again.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Europe is now on terror alert following the brutal Moscow massacre, after French president Emmanuel Macron revealed the ISIS offshoot that slaughtered 137 at a concert on Friday tried to carry out 'several' strikes in France.
France's security alert system, Vigipirate, was pushed to its highest on Sunday, after Macron held an emergency meeting to discuss the already tense security situation in the country, as it prepares to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
He revealed that ISIS-K, the ultra-brutal ISIS offshoot that Western intelligence believes carried out the attack in Moscow, has 'attempted several times to hit France.'
France's prime minister Gabriel Attal took to X to say: 'Given the Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the attack and the threats weighing on our country, we have decided to raise the Vigipirate posture to its highest level: emergency attack.'
French officials today held a meeting to look at specific measures to step up security, such as checking bags on entrance to concert halls or places of worship.
Travellers to and from the UK have been warned by officials at the Port of Dover to expect 'increased border processing times' following Macron's decision to raise France's border security checks.
Italy followed France's lead, implementing increased security checks around Holy Week observances leading up to Easter this weekend.
Both surveillance and checks will be increased, 'paying the most attention to the places of greatest aggregation and transit of people, as well as sensitive targets,' the Italian Interior Ministry said in a statement. Pope Francis has a busy schedule of events in Rome and at the Vatican in the days leading up to Easter Sunday.
In Germany, Interior Ministry spokesperson Cornelius Funke said the threat from Islamic extremists 'remains acute' but authorities' risk assessment hasn't changed so far as a result of the Moscow attack. Germany is set to host the 2024 Euros in the summer.
In Serbia, secret police officers with machine guns were seen patrolling the streets of Belgrade over the weekend. President Aleksandar Vucic said they and plainclothes police would monitor sports venues and shopping malls in the capital. The measure was criticized by Vucic's opponents as unnecessary and designed to scare the population.
British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt admitted yesterday that the UK should 'absolutely' be concerned about ISIS' comeback following its attack in Moscow.
But while Europe has been open in its anxiety about ISIS, Russia has still refused to admit that the terror group was responsible for the attack, instead pinning the blame on Kyiv, assertations Ukraine denies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not publicly mentioned Islamic State in connection with the attackers, who he said had been trying to escape to Ukraine. Russia has been at war with Ukraine since it invaded its neighbour in February 2022.
Putin said some people on 'the Ukrainian side' had been prepared to spirit the gunmen across the border. Ukraine has denied any role in the attack and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Putin of seeking to divert blame for not securing Russia against such an attack by mentioning Ukraine.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ISIS said: 'To all wild Russians! Stop torturing Islamic State prisoners. Beware! Do not think that we do not have the opportunity to take revenge on you for our captured brothers.
'In Friday's attack, we proved to you that, God willing, the Mujahideen of the Islamic State can punish you for any of your horrors; without this revenge, a lot of blood will remain from the Islamic Ummah.
'Torture of captured Mujahideen in your name and publication of their videos increases your bloodlust for thousands of their brothers.
'This time, let's hit you so hard on the head that future generations, God willing, will remember you and these past pains and wounds will be forgotten.
'Yes! Very heavy, deadly, bloody, stabbing, burning and devastating blows. Wait! Expect a massacre, God willing. Very soon, God willing.'
Meanwhile new arrests were made in the case today. A father Isroil Islomov, 62, and his two sons Dilovar and Aminchon, were under anti-terrorism laws as suspects of the Crocus City Hall massacre. They are believed to have sold the Renault used by the gunman to arrive at the venue, and to flee. The Russian Investigative Committee sees them as accomplices of the terrorist who killed 143 people at the concert venue.
Dilovar, 24, is believed to be the last owner of the white Renault. His relatives claim he is innocent and voluntarily went to the police when they started looking for him.
A statement said: 'With the aim of committing a terrorist act Shamsidin Fariduni involved Aminchon Islomov in the organised group no later than January 2024, and Dilovar Islomov no later than March 11, 2024.
'The investigation is requesting the court to arrest Aminchon Islomov, Dilovar Islomov and another suspect in the criminal case.' The court remanded them until May 22.
Russia doesn't appear willing to back down in its treatment of the four men, who slaughtered 137 people at Crocus City Hall on the western outskirts of Moscow on Friday night.'
Deputy chairman of Russia's security council Dmitry Medvedev urged security forces to 'kill' everyone who assisted in carrying out the terror attack. Referring to the four men, Medvedev said: 'They were caught. Well done to everyone who caught them.
'Should they be killed? Necessary. And it will be. But it is much more important to kill everyone involved. Everyone, who paid, who sympathised, who helped. Kill them all.'
Despite the evidence of torture, dozens of soldiers have been awarded medals for capturing the four terrorists.
A Russian general was wheeled out to present medals to army troops from the Leningrad Military District.
Lt-Gen Esedulla Abachev 'presented state and departmental awards to the military personnel… who distinguished themselves during the detention of terrorists in the Bryansk region that had participated in the attack on Crocus City Hall'.
He 'personally congratulated each one, highly appreciating the accomplishment of the assigned combat missions'.
The awards were for 'Courage' and 'Military Distinction'.
Medals also went to members of the Akhmat-Russia regiment - loyal to Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov - who were also involved in the operation. They 'distinguished themselves in the search for and neutralisation of particularly dangerous terrorists who had carried out a horrendous terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.'
FSB special forces officers were also involved in detaining the four.
Neighbours of the suspected Crocus City Hall killers have revealed that one member of the group was a violent drunk, while another had a budding career as a successful barber.
The revelations come as a father and his two sons were hauled in front of Moscow court on suspicion of providing the terrorists with vehicles and logistical support ahead of their slaughter of at least 139 concertgoers.
Shamsidin Fariduni, one of four shooters detained by Moscow's security services and the man thought to have recruited the family to aid his nefarious plans, allegedly threatened to attack a dog walker in a drunken fit of rage last year.
According to a resident of Podolsk, near Moscow, a drunken Fariduni once nearly ran her over as she was walking her dog, and began screaming at her.
The resident, who asked to remain anonymous, told Lenta that the 25-year-old drove up to her and 'began talking right away, asking what the dog's name was'.
'I saw that he was completely drunk, and I answered him. I went around the car to continue walking on the other side and he drove right up to my legs,' she said, adding that Fariduni then began swearing at her and threatened to assault her.
The resident claimed she contacted the police to report her concern about Fariduni, a married father-of-one, but said officers never got back to her.
By contrast, the youngest terrorist, 19-year-old Muhammadsobir Faizov, was described as a successful barber by neighbours who reported he worked in various high-end salons and had built a group of regular clients in the city of Ivanovo northeast of Moscow.
Ivanovo residents living in a five-storey block of flats where Faizov was staying described the teenager as a 'calm' person and a hard worker who often worked seven days a week, but generally kept himself to himself and did not speak Russian fluently.
Meanwhile, Yamina Safieva, the owner of one barbershop that employed Faizov, insisted in comments to RT that the teen did not arouse suspicion and was a good worker. But she is now the target of threatening messages after her former employee was arrested in connection with the heinous attack in Moscow.
Russian news site Lenta this morning also reported that Faizov appeared to have shown some remorse for the attack, citing a post shared on a private social media profile that read 'I made a mistake, I apologize to everyone Crokys siti Hall'. MailOnline was unable to verify the post.
A third shooter, 32-year-old Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, is said to have been a keen amateur wrestler and often trained at a Mixed Martial Arts gym in the city of Novosibirsk. Mirzoyev, a taxi driver who is believed to have purchased the car used in the attack from a member of the family detained yesterday by Russian authorities, was registered on a temporary visa in Novosibirsk until January but had been living under an expired residency permit since then.
'(Mirzoyev) lived with me in the same microdistrict, the Zatulinsky residential area (of Novosibirsk). I also went to the Zeus sports club for MMA,' one anonymous member of the gym told Lenta, before insisting: 'Personally, I didn't know him, of course.'
The revelations come as Isroil Islomov, 62, and sons Aminchon and Dilovar appeared in Moscow's Basmanny district court last night, having been arrested on suspicion of helping the shooters orchestrate their deadly attack. All three members of the family from Tajikistan worked as taxi and bus drivers and had a good knowledge of transport routes in and around the venue.
Dilovar was named as the latest owner of the white Renault which the terrorists drove to the concert venue before mowing down hundreds of defenceless civilians with automatic weapons.
Aminchon, who has seven children from two marriages at the age of just 33, is believed to have been recruited by shooter Fariduni in January and helped the crew to plan their attack.
Dilovar, 25, is then said to have been brought into the terrorist fold earlier this month and provided the car the terrorists used to travel to the Crocus City Hall, and subsequently make their ill-fated escape.
Both sons are accused of aiding and abetting the terrorists, while father Isroil is being held as a suspect. All three have been detained for two months while investigations continue along with a fourth detainee, Kyrgyz citizen Alisher Kasimov, who was charged with renting an apartment to the men accused of carrying out the attack.
Today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to assign blame, urging the world to wait for the results of the investigation in Russia.
The Kremlin also launched a disinformation campaign targeting the UK, blaming MI6 and other Western intelligence agencies for the Moscow massacre. The Telegraph reported that social media bots had been sharing links to fake websites designed to trick people into believing they were real, established news outlets. According to a report by Meta, Facebook's parent company, EU-sanctioned Russian IT companies National Technologies and Social Design Agency carried out the attack.
The leaks come as Vladimir Putin has scrambled to save face by casting fresh doubt on ISIS claiming responsibility for the Moscow concert massacre that killed nearly 140 people, the deadliest attack on the nation's soil in years.
ISIS twice claimed responsibility for the attack over the weekend, first posting a selfie taken by the four men, all of whom are Russian citizens, in front of an ISIS flag before posting a 90-second selfie video of the devastating attack from the terrorists' perspective.
New footage filed inside the Crocus City Hall venue in Krasnogorsk also emerged, showing people running and cowering behind tables as the gunmen open fire in the main lobby of the building. People can be heard screaming as continuous bullets break through glass doors and mow down victims in what was the deadliest attack on Russia in years.
The four suspected terrorists, who have been photographed and named in the Russian media, were seen arriving in an unmarked white van before they entered the concert hall at around 8pm.
Fariddun was allegedly seen staking out Crocus City Hall on March 7 when he was pictured at the venue.
This coincided with a warning from the US and UK embassies in Moscow about the imminent threat of a strike on a crowded venue.
Separate footage has shows the arsenal left behind by the gunmen who staged the bloodbath at the Crocus City Hall that left at least 137 people dead. Officers said they found four sets of combat ammunition, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and 28 magazines at the scene of the massacre. Two Kalashnikov assault rifles were also recovered from the concert hall.
Shots were first fired at people waiting in the foyer before the killers made their way to the concert hall area. After shooting at concert-goers the suspected ISIS terrorists set the building on fire, causing the roof to collapse.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack and it is thought the men were members of for ISIS-K, an offshoot of the terrorist organisation.
The group released a sickening 90-second selfie after the attack that is too graphic for MailOnline to share. The clip, described by the terror group as 'exclusive scenes... of the bloody attack on Christians yesterday in the city of Krasnogorsk in Moscow', begins with one terrorist holding a knife running into the main hall of Crocus City Hall.
The man filming the video twice says: 'Bring the machine gun. Kill them and have no mercy on them.'
Another man carrying what appears to be a yellow and black machine gun then runs into the hall and begins firing wildly in all directions. The gun appears to match up with images released by Russian authorities of the aftermath of the attack.
The gunman filming the sick attack can be heard saying: 'The infidels will be defeated, God willing. God is great. The infidels will be defeated. We went out for the sake of God and to seek His religion.'
The four heavily armed men are then seen slowly walking away from the entrance to the main hall.
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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:40 Slovenia has joined the Czech initiative to search and purchase artillery ammunition for Ukraine, said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky. Slovenian media write that the country could allocate 1 million euros for these needs, but the amount was not officially announced.
22:27 The UN released its 38th report on the human rights situation in Ukraine. Experts interviewed 60 Ukrainian soldiers who were recently released from captivity and found that most of them were subjected to sexual violence. They also said that the Russian military and officials torture prisoners, in particular, they use beatings, electric shock, force them to remain in an uncomfortable position for a long time, threaten or imitate execution.
In addition, the mission documented credible reports of the execution of at least 32 Ukrainian prisoners of war between December 1, 2023 and February 29, 2024. Experts noted that this is more than in previous periods.
21:15 The reboot of power, especially the security bloc, announced by Zelensky, continues. The President dismissed Alexei Danilov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, his position was taken by Alexander Litvinenko, who previously headed the Foreign Intelligence Service. About what Danilov is remembered for, and about his successor, see the material Rebooting Power Continues.
20:31 Zelensky said that he met in Kiev with a delegation of the Estonian Parliament led by Speaker Lauri Hussar. We discussed further assistance to Ukraine from Estonia and other partners, progress in preparing a bilateral security agreement, and the use of Russian frozen assets in favor of Ukraine.
19:59 France will soon be able to supply Ukraine with 78 Caesar self-propelled howitzers, Defense Minister Sebatien Lecornu said. In addition, according to him, Paris intends to transfer 80 thousand shells for 155 mm guns to Kyiv this year. Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, 30 thousand of these shells have been handed over.
19:28 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Danilov’s dismissal from the post of NSDC secretary took place as part of a “reboot of the management system”, and he will be transferred “to another direction.” According to the president, his successor, Alexander Litvinenko, “will combine his experience in leading the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine with the tasks facing the National Security and Defense Council.”
18:43 This afternoon the Russians hit Kharkov with an X-35u missile, which hit a sports college dormitory. The roof and the ceiling between the upper floors were destroyed, one person was injured, said Sergei Bolvinov, head of the Investigation Department of the State Administration for Police in the Kharkov region.
18:40 In Mariupol, the Russians used excavators to destroy the ancient historical landmark Ded Kurgan, dating back to the 5th millennium BC. Its modern height reached 6 m, diameter - 70 m. The prosecutor's office stated that such actions are a violation of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property and the Provisions of the IV Convention on the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
18:33 The North Atlantic Alliance is considering the possibility of shooting down Russian missiles, in particular over the western regions of Ukraine. About whether the members of the alliance will dare to make such a decision - in the material NATO can protect Ukraine from missiles .
18:27 Macron began a three-day visit to Brazil, where the main issue on his agenda will be an attempt to convince Brazilian President Lula da Silva to take a more pro-Ukrainian position on the war, Bloomberg writes, citing French officials. They said the French leader views Brazil as a key player among the group of countries from the Global South, especially given its rotating presidency of the G20.
17:51 Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said that within the framework of the Prague initiative, Ukraine could potentially receive 1.5 million shells. However, he could not say how long deliveries to the front line would take.
17:30 According to preliminary estimates, the damage to the environment from a missile attack on the Dnieper hydroelectric power station is about 140 million hryvnia, said Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets.
17:18 Director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Alexander Bortnikov said that the primary data received from those detained in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus “confirms the Ukrainian trace.”
Meanwhile, Lukashenko said that the terrorists allegedly wanted to flee to Belarus first: “Due to the combat situation itself, we brought our units into action. Therefore, they could not enter Belarus in any way. They saw this. Therefore, they turned away and went to the section of the Ukrainian-Russian border.” . The President of Belarus noted that he “has suspicions” about the terrorists’ curators.
16:29 Since the beginning of the month, Kharkov has been under massive shelling. At the same time, Russian opposition media, citing sources in the Kremlin, claim that Putin has a plan to re-attack the city. This is partially confirmed by Ukrainian officials. What is known about the situation is in the material Where the Russian Federation is preparing a second offensive .
16:02 The Cabinet of Ministers appointed Artur Dobroserdov to the position of Commissioner for Issues of Missing Persons under Special Circumstances.
15:48 Zelensky, by his decrees, dismissed Alexey Danilov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council and appointed in his place the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Alexander Litvinenko. The president appointed Oleg Ivashchenko , the former deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, as head of the SVR.
15:27 Hungarian law enforcement officers will help the Ukrainian police conduct DNA research to identify those killed during the war. Such an agreement was reached during a meeting of the head of the National Police of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky with his Hungarian colleague Janos Balog.
15:20 Czech volunteers from the Gift for Putin initiative donated 1000 RPG-75M anti-tank grenade launchers for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They reported that they collected more than 900 thousand euros.
14:59 As a result of yesterday's rocket attack in Odessa, ten people were injured, seven remain in hospitals, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OBA. As a result of the strikes, about 300 apartments were damaged and several buildings were destroyed. The Sports Palace also suffered significant damage.
14:28 In the Khortytsia group, a lieutenant colonel from Volyn, who worked for the FSB, was detained, said the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk. According to him, Syrsky, who at that time led this group, helped identify him. At the same time, the detainee refused the FSB salary and worked “for the idea.”
14:12 In the village of Odradokamenka, Kherson region, the Russians hit a bus carrying humanitarian aid with two FPV drones. The vehicle and cargo were destroyed, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
14:09 Shoigu called “complete stupidity” rumors about a new mobilization in the Russian Federation for an offensive in the Kharkov region and the creation of a “sanitary zone” near the borders of the Belgorod region. A number of opposition Russian publications wrote about Russia’s possible attack on Kharkov and the impending mobilization.
14:04 The head of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bortnikov, said that the terrorist attack in the Moscow region “was prepared by Islamist radicals, and the Ukrainian special services contributed to everything.” According to him, Ukraine allegedly trained militants in the countries of the Middle East. At the same time, Bortnikov added that Moscow “preliminarily received information about Kyiv’s involvement in the terrorist attack in the Moscow region,” but the mastermind of the terrorist attack has not yet been identified.
Bortnikov claims that the militants allegedly intended to get from Russia to Ukraine, where they were “waited for” and “wanted to be greeted as heroes.” The head of the FSB said that the SBU should be recognized as a “terrorist organization,” and the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, is “a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces, like everyone who commits crimes against Russia.”
14:00 At night, the Russians shelled Novogrodovka, Donetsk region - one person was killed, one was wounded, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. The missiles destroyed the administrative building and hangar, damaged a dormitory, two private houses and two non-residential premises.
13:51 Russia supplies North Korea with oil in exchange for weapons, writes the Financial Times. According to the newspaper, direct oil supplies began in March of this year. In exchange for this, Moscow receives shells and missiles, which it uses to bombard Ukraine.
13:43 Russia is holding more than 10 thousand Ukrainians on its territory and in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine. “There are different figures. We estimate tens of thousands, more than 10 thousand for sure,” he noted. At the same time, Kostin clarified that we are talking only about those who were forcibly resettled, and not about those who made such a decision at their own discretion.
The Prosecutor General also said that in criminal proceedings alone, 5,600 Ukrainians have been identified as victims of torture, but the real numbers could be much higher, since there is no reliable information from the occupied territories.
13:07 The Russians hit civilian housing infrastructure in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kharkov, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. A non-residential building was damaged, and windows in a neighboring high-rise building were blown out. There were no wounded or dead.
12:59 Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, answering the question of who was behind the terrorist attack in Crocus near Moscow - ISIS or Ukraine, said: “Of course, Ukraine.”
12:48 Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez said that neither the EU, nor NATO, nor his country are preparing for any war, despite the threat from the Russian Federation and its unleashed war against Ukraine.
12:09 Kuleba said in an interview with Politico that he receives “irritated responses” from Germany every time he calls for giving Ukraine a Taurus: “Listen, I’m tired of answering this question. Sorry. You can quote me, I don’t mind. But every time, "When I answer this question, I get irritated responses from Berlin. Leave it to them. They got themselves into this situation. Let them look for a way out." The minister also called on the West to give Ukraine “these damn Patriots” to defend against Russian missile attacks.
11:24 NATO is considering the option of shooting down Russian missiles when they fly towards the territory of the Alliance, said Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna: “NATO is analyzing different concepts, in particular, that such missiles should be shot down when they are already very close to the border "NATO. But this would have to happen with the consent of the Ukrainian side and taking into account international consequences. Then NATO missiles would hit Russian missiles outside the territory of the Treaty."
10:58 Kiev did not ask that NATO troops be deployed on the territory of Ukraine, but the West needs to come to terms with the fact that “this day may come,” Kuleba said: “I understand perfectly well that Europeans are not accustomed to the idea of war. But this is carelessness, "which Europeans simply cannot afford - neither for themselves nor for their children. Ukraine can win. But if Ukraine loses, Putin will not stop."
10:47 The southern defense forces reported that the Zircon missile, which the Russians used to hit Kiev the day before, has an average speed of 9,000 km/h. and even more. So, Zircon flies in one minute to Odessa, Kherson and Nikolaev, in two and a half minutes - to Zaporozhye and Dnepr, in three minutes - to Kropyvnytskyi.
10:42 The Navy clarified that the large landing ship Konstantin Olshansky was hit on March 24 during a missile attack on Sevastopol. At the same time, the landing ships Yamal and Azov and the reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs were hit.
10:20 The difficult situation with electricity supply after the Russian attacks remains in Kharkov, Odessa, Krivoy Rog and the Nikolaev region. But there is no threat of negative consequences for the energy supply throughout Ukraine, said the head of Ukrenergo Vladimir Kudrytsky. According to him, in Odessa it was possible to stabilize the situation in the energy system and return to the schedule of planned outages. The worst situation is in Kharkov, where the enemy tried to destroy almost all main-level objects using ballistics.
09:54 EU High Representative Josep Borrell called on the United States to unblock aid to Ukraine, since this is in the interests of the entire West: “We cannot allow Russia to win this war. Otherwise, the interests of the United States and Europe will suffer greatly. It’s not just about generosity. It’s not about supporting Ukraine "because we love the Ukrainians. It's in our own interests. And it's also in the interests of the United States as a global player - which wants to be seen as a responsible partner for the security of its allies. So we urge the United States to release and approve additional assistance."
09:11 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the ship Konstantin Olshansky with a Neptune missile, said Naval Forces spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk. According to him, the damage is being clarified, but the ship is not in combat readiness. This landing ship belonged to Ukraine before the occupation of Crimea. It stood in the bay for nine years, and over the past year the Russians have restored it.
Pletenchuk also confirmed that Ukraine, during a missile attack on Sevastopol on March 23, damaged the ship Ivan Khurs, which received damage to its stern equipment.
08:58 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 26:
personnel - about 438,160 (+770) people,
tanks - 6893 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 13,207 (+24),
artillery systems - 10 904 (+27),
MLRS - 1019 (+1),
air defense systems - 727 (+1),
aircraft - 347 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 8553 (+14),
cruise missiles - 2014 (+4),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 14,498 (+44),
special equipment - 1789 (+4).
08:26 At night, the Russians attacked Kharkov with drones. The building of a private enterprise was damaged, but no people were injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
08:07 Over the past 24 hours, 57 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in a cancer report . In particular, the enemy tried 22 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - near the settlement of Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region. Another 15 enemy attacks were repulsed in the Liman direction - in the areas of Belogorovka, Lugansk region, as well as Ternov, Yampolevka, Razdolovka and north of Vesely, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled one enemy attack in the Ivanovka area of the Kharkov region; on Bakhmutskoye - four attacks in the Kleshcheevka area of the Donetsk region; in Avdeevsky - four attacks in the Berdychi and Pervomaisky districts of the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - four attacks in the areas of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk region, as well as southwest of Belogorye and northwest of Verbovoye, Zaporozhye region. The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Kherson direction.
07:42 In the morning, the Russians shelled Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, with artillery - nine private houses were damaged, one person was injured, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
07:39 Air defense at night destroyed all 12 Shahed-type attack UAVs, which Russia attacked from the Crimean Cape Chauda and from the Kursk region. The drones were destroyed in the Nikolaev and Kharkov regions, the Air Force reported. In addition, the Russians fired two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles in the direction of the Donetsk region.
06:18 Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that as a result of the night attack, destruction of infrastructure was recorded. According to him, on approaching Belgorod, air defense forces allegedly shot down 13 air targets. In the village of Dubovoe, two people were injured.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/26/2024 to 00:00 03/27/2024.
36 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were no reports of civilian casualties
10 shellings in the Donetsk direction
26 shellings in the Gorlovka direction
A total of 108 units of various ammunition were produced.
21:30 Air raid warning announced in a number of regions of Ukraine:
Dnipropetrovsk region
Zhytomyr region
Kiev region
Kirovograd region
Poltava region
Sumy region
Kharkov region
Cherkasy region
Chernihiv region
Kiev
20:21 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Ukrainian formations continue to attack Russian territory: over the past week, the Belgorod and Kherson regions, as well as the Donetsk agglomeration, were most often under enemy fire. To engage the Ukrainian Armed Forces with fire, they also used drones and artillery.
The most difficult situation was recorded in the Belgorod region, in the border area of which the enemy’s DRGs were active a week earlier. Despite the decrease in the intensity of strikes, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 859 ammunition in the region this week. 14 civilians were killed, another 31 were injured of varying degrees of severity.
In the rear regions of Russia, the Kiev regime tried to attack targets in the Voronezh and Saratov regions. In the latter case, Ukrainian drones were intercepted by the Russian air defense system on approach to the city of Engels, where the strategic aviation airfield of the Russian Aerospace Forces is located.
And at the end of the week, the enemy did not ignore the Crimean peninsula, carrying out a massive combined attack. The strikes also hit Sevastopol: one civilian was killed and four more were injured.
It was no less dangerous in the populated areas of the Donetsk People's Republic. Moreover, Ukrainian formations have intensified attacks, including with cluster munitions, on civilian infrastructure. Over the course of a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired over 700 shells: four people were killed and 23 civilians were injured.
While shooting battles are going on in the Krynok region and adjacent territories, Ukrainian formations daily shell settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region. In total, just under 400 shells were fired across the region. Three people were killed and seven were injured. The Kakhovka district was under the most intense fire.
19:19 Around 18.30 Moscow timesuppressedan attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Duty air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Belgorod region.
18:39 Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group -video.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of coordinated actions of units of the Dnepr group of troops, the situation along the front line was improved, and also fire damage was caused to accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 65th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 108th technical defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Rabotino and Novoselovka, Zaporozhye region .
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 50 military personnel, three vehicles, as well as a US-made M777 howitzer.
17:10 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group -video.
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops inflicted fire damage and repelled two counterattacks by assault groups of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk People's Republic.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 105 military personnel, five vehicles, two FH-70 howitzers made in Great Britain, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.
16:15 Summary: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of March 26, 2024)
Within 24 hours, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision long-range sea- and land-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against decision-making centers, SBU facilities, military-industrial complex enterprises, as well as locations of Ukrainian national formations and foreign mercenaries. All objects are hit. The objectives of the strike have been achieved.
In the Kupyansk direction, the active actions of units of the “Western” group of forces inflicted fire damage on enemy units and improved the situation along the front line. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 20 military personnel and two vehicles.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of troops occupied more advantageous positions and defeated the formations of the 54th, 93rd mechanized and 81st airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Kleshcheevka and Verkhnekamenskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 425 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles and seven vehicles.
In addition, four electronic warfare stations, a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar, and a US-made M777 howitzer were destroyed.
In the Avdeevsky direction, units of the "Center" group of troops defeated enemy units and improved the situation along the front line.
Four counterattacks of assault groups of the 24th, 47th, 59th mechanized, 25th airborne brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Novgorodskoye, Vodyanoye, Pervomaiskoye, Tonenkoye and Berdychi of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 280 troops, two tanks, two armored combat vehicles and six vehicles.
During the counter-battery fight, two M777 howitzers made in the USA, an AS-90 self-propelled artillery mount made in the UK, a D-20 howitzer, and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were hit.
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops inflicted fire damage and repelled two counterattacks by assault groups of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk People's Republic.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 105 military personnel, five vehicles, two FH-70 howitzers made in Great Britain, as well as a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of coordinated actions of units of the Dnepr group of troops, the situation along the front line was improved, and also fire damage was caused to accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 65th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 108th technical defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Rabotino and Novoselovka, Zaporozhye region .
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 50 military personnel, three vehicles, as well as a US-made M777 howitzer.
Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery from groupings of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the personnel and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 114 regions.
Air defense systems destroyed 131 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles within 24 hours, as well as shot down two S-200 anti-aircraft guided missiles converted to hit ground targets and 15 rockets from the HIMARS and Vampire multiple launch rocket systems.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 577 aircraft, 270 helicopters, 17,142 unmanned aerial vehicles, 489 anti-aircraft missile systems, 15,604 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,256 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 8,531 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 20215 units of special military vehicles.
15:25 Special military operation. Situation on March 26 –map.
14:45 Hit at the location of an enemy reconnaissance unit in Novogrodovka.
Tonight, Russian troops launched a strike on the enemy’s temporary deployment point in the temporarily occupied territory of the DPR. Ballistic missiles were used.
Coordinates: 48.1985768, 37.3303791
A temporary deployment point was organized in the dormitory building of PJSC Mashzavod. According to available information, the reconnaissance company of the 3rd Specialized Brigade (former Azov* battalion) was stationed at the facility.
A targeted strike from two ballistic missiles destroyed the hostel building and destroyed/damaged military equipment that was in close proximity to the target. After the attack, a fire broke out at the site, which was accompanied by the sounds of secondary detonation.
At the moment, 7 representatives of the Azov* reconnaissance unit are known to have been killed and 9 wounded.
“Azov*” is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.
13:15 Statement by the head of the press center of the “West” group -video.
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the Kupyansk direction.
Motorized rifle units, in cooperation with artillery, repelled an attack by assault groups of the 57th motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sinkovka area.
The artillery units of the group carried out fire strikes on over 350 enemy targets, including temporary deployment points, platoon strongholds, artillery positions, concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
During the counter-battery fight, the crew of the D-30 howitzer under the command of junior sergeant Evgeniy Zheltov destroyed the crew of a 120-mm mortar in the area of the village of Berestovoe.
The group's air defense systems shot down three missiles from the Haymars multiple launch rocket system.
Enemy losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to up to 20 military personnel, two mortar crews, an ammunition supply point, two pickup trucks, three control points for unmanned aerial vehicles and a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled gun.
12:35 Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group -video.
The Center group of troops continues to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
Artillery fire and air strikes hit 370 identified targets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including 20 strong points and about 100 field artillery positions. During the counter-battery fight, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, a D-20 howitzer, an MT-12 Rapier anti-tank gun, and three 120-mm enemy mortars were destroyed.
Air defense systems shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles and a Khaimars MLRS rocket.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 120 military personnel. Six tanks, a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, an M113 armored personnel carrier, and seven vehicles were destroyed.
11:52 From Krasnoye (Ivanovsky)report paratroopers:
Our 11th brigade took the village completely, the Ukrainian Armed Forces rolled in, but nothing worked out for them, the guys sat out at night, the commander told the guys to rest, they worked on the Ukrainian infantry, which was going to be evacuated, to rotate, and in addition, they also worked on duty targets.
The enemy really made a powerful attack yesterday, again actively entered Krasnoye and tried to seriously gain a foothold there. The fighting went on all day. The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was intended to stabilize the deteriorating situation in the Artemovsk direction, where the Russian Armed Forces were advancing towards Chasov Yar. Perhaps the enemy will try his luck near Krasny a couple more times.
10:30 Area settlement Marinka.
It is reported that our assault units carried out a successful attack andcapturedseveral enemy armored vehicles.
Our mortars preliminarily worked and suppressed the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
09:53 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
according to n.p. Dnepryan 5 shells;
according to n.p. Kakhovka 6 shells;
according to n.p. Staraya Zburevka 5 shells;
according to n.p. Alyosha 7 shells;
according to n.p. Korsunka 4 shells;
according to n.p. Cossack Camps 6 shells..
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Peschanivka, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Kardashinka, Maslovka village, firing a total of 16 shells from cannon artillery.
In Kakhovka, Kyiv militants entered a residential building, as a result of which an innocent child was injured - a four-year-old girl is in intensive care.
09:28 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning of 03/26/2024
- Zaporozhye Front. On the Rabotino-Verbovoye line, the Russian Armed Forces continue to put pressure on the positions of the Ukrainians. The Armed Forces of Ukraine remotely mine the approaches to their positions in order to impede the advance of Russian troops. Long-range weapons are actively working. In Rabotino itself there are no changes. There are fierce oncoming battles, where neither side has yet achieved an obvious advantage.
– On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces advanced to Novomikhailovka, capturing almost the entire eastern part of the village. At the same time, Russian troops are advancing towards the village from the south. In the Pobeda area, in Georgievskoye, on the southern approaches to Krasnogorovka and in the Nevelskoye area, there were counter battles. In Pervomaisky, the Armed Forces of Ukraine stubbornly hold the line, offering serious resistance, but the Russian Armed Forces are still gradually pushing through the Ukrainian defense, taking more and more new positions. The fighting is taking place in the central part of the village. In the Tonenkoye area, Russian troops continue to develop their offensive in the direction of Umansky and Yasnobrodovka. Fierce fighting on the approaches to Semyonovka, where the Russian Armed Forces are attacking from Orlovka and from the area between Orlovka and Berdychi, trying to take control of the road supplying the Ukrainian garrison in this settlement.
– Artemovskoe direction (Bakhmutskoe) direction. Russian troops took assault actions in the Kleshcheevka area, and continue to develop an offensive towards Chasov Yar south of Bogdanovka and along the heights north of Ivanovsky (Krasny). In the last n.p. The Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to counterattack on the western outskirts. No success.
08:55 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation for March 25, 2024
– Ukrainian formations carried out another raid on a Russian energy infrastructure facility, firing two dozen drones at the Novocherkassk State District Power Plant. Also in the sky over the Rostov region, air defense systems destroyed two modified S-200 anti-aircraft missiles.
– In turn, the Russian Armed Forces again struck targets in the rear areas of the so-called. Ukraine. In Kyiv, the targets of the attack were the airport in Zhulyany and buildings used by the SBU; in Odessa, an explosion occurred on the territory of a sanatorium, and in the Odessa region - at several substations.
– In the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) direction, under pressure from the Russian Armed Forces, Ukrainian formations are gradually withdrawing forces from Bogdanovka to prepared positions near Chasov Yar. In the Donetsk direction there are battles in Krasnogorovka, where the control zone has been slightly expanded east of the O0532 highway.
– In the Avdeevsky direction, Ukrainian formations are trying to hold the lines in the Berdychi area and are preparing a defense line in the vicinity of Novobakhmutovka and Ocheretino.
– In the Ugledar direction, the enemy was driven out of the farm in the north of Novomikhailovka, and in the center of the village, Russian troops occupied buildings on Sobornaya, Tsentralnaya and Mira streets.
08:10 Official summary Representative office of the DPR in the JCCC
15 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
Damaged:
4 residential buildings,
1 civil infrastructure facility.
9 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
5 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Gorlovsky,
One shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was recorded on Yasinovatsky.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces produced 40 units of various ammunition.
[IsraelTimes] 32-year-old US citizen is being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, notorious for its harsh conditions; is to be kept in custody until June 30
A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Wall Street Journal news houndEvan Gershkovich held in jail on espionage charges until at least late June, court officials said.
The 32-year-old US citizen was arrested in late March 2023 while on a reporting trip and has spent a year behind bars. His arrest was extended until June 30.
Photos from the courtroom released by court officials showed Gershkovich, clad in a black checkered shirt, smiling from the glass defendant’s box.
Gershkovich and his employer have denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! and the US government has declared him to be wrongfully detained.
His arrest in the city of Yekaterinburg rattled journalists in Russia, where authorities have not detailed what if any, evidence they have to support the espionage charges.
Gershkovich is being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, which is notorious for its harsh conditions.
US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy attended the court hearing on Tuesday and reiterated that "the accusations against Evan are categorically untrue."
"They are not a different interpretation of circumstances. They are fiction," Tracy told news hounds outside of the courthouse. "No justification for Evan’s continued detention, and no explanation as to why Evan doing his job as a journalist constituted a crime. Evan’s case is not about evidence, due process or rule of law. It is about using American citizens as pawns to achieve political ends."
Analysts have pointed out that Moscow may be using jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Americans as bargaining chips in soaring US-Russian tensions over the Kremlin’s military operation in Ukraine. At least two US citizens arrested in Russia in recent years — including WNBA star Brittney Griner — have been exchanged for Russians jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in the US.
Gershkovich is the first American news hound to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since September 1986, when Nicholas Daniloff, a Moscow correspondent for US News and World Report, was arrested by the KGB. Daniloff was released without charge 20 days later in a swap for an employee of the Soviet Union’s UN mission who was arrested by the FBI, also on spying charges.
[FoxNews] The interviewer recalled that critics derided Obrador's requests as 'diplomatic blackmail'
Mexican President Obrador, nearing the end of his term, warned that the flow of migrants from Latin America into the United State will continue unless billions of aid is sent every year.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned on Sunday during an interview with "60 Minutes" that unless the United States complies with Latin America’s requests for aid, the tide of migrants will continue.
In January, Obrador issued a series of demands for what the U.S. must do to stop the flow of migrants to the border, ranging from sending Latin American countries $20 billion in aid a year to granting some level of amnesty to illegal immigrant workers in the U.S.
Mexico has reportedly taken some state-level action to curb mass migration at President Biden’s request, making crossings drop, however, the number of migrants began to rise again in February, with Border Patrol expecting another surge in thespring.
"Everybody thinks you have the power in this moment to slow down migration. Do you plan to?" "60 Minutes" corrrespondent Sharyn Alfonsisaid asked Obrador.
"We do, and want to continue doing it. But we do want for the root causes to be attended to, for them to be seriously looked at," a translator interpreted Obrador’s response from Spanish.
Alfonsi noted Obrador's demands for the U.S. to send $20 billion a year to Latin America countries, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo and legalize millions of Mexicans that are living in the U.S.
"If they don’t do the things that you’ve said need to be done, then what?," she asked.
"The flow of migrants will continue," Obrador responded.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s defense ministry announced on Thursday it targeted alleged Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in the mountainous areas of the Kurdistan Region.
The ministry announced on X that it had targeted a total of 39 alleged PKK positions consisting of "shelters, hideouts and caves" in the Zap, Metina, Gara, Khakurk, and Qandils areas on March 19 and March 20.
The announcement comes two days after the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry stated that PKK fighters attacked its forces in the Kurdistan Region, killing one soldier and injuring four others.
On Saturday the PKK announced that its fighters attacked Ottoman Turkish army positions in the Kurdistan Region, killing two soldiers and injuring three others.
According to the ministry, the targeted positions harbored high-ranking PKK operatives.
The PKK announced on Wednesday that it had downed 15 drones since February 2023, the latest drone being shot down on March 1. The group also noted that it has acquired new missile systems to shoot down Ottoman Turkish drones, without providing details on the type and quantity of the acquisition.
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[Regnum] In Poland, Brigadier General, Chief of Staff of the Allied Operation Althea Command, the EU-led military mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Adam Marczak, died unexpectedly. The operational command of the country's Armed Forces reported this on the social network X.
It is alleged that the death of the Polish officer occurred on March 26 from natural causes, while off duty.
Adam Marczak graduated from the Higher Officer School of Mechanized Forces. He participated in command positions in operations in Bosnia and Afghanistan. In 2017, Marczak led the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade, and then headed the Council for Intelligence and Electronic Warfare at the High Command of the Polish Armed Forces.
In mid-2021, Marczak became deputy chief of staff of the Eurocorps command in Strasbourg. After some time, he took the post of chief of staff of the EU operational command “Althea” in Mons, Belgium, the Polish publication Rzeczpospolita clarified.
[ColonelCassad] In the Chasov Yar area, the Russian Armed Forces killed Polish Brigadier General Adam Marczak. The bunker with the general was visited by an Iskander OTRK missile.
The Poles confirm Marczak's sudden death, but say that the general "died of natural causes."
Marczak once commanded the Polish occupation contingent in Afghanistan, as well as in Bosnia. He was also involved in NATO command structures.
This is the highest-ranking NATO military personnel killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg vowed the federal government would rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday, calling it a 'cathedral' of American infrastructure.
'This is no ordinary bridge, this is one of the cathedrals of American infrastructure,' he said. 'It has been part of the skyline of this region longer than many of us has been alive.'
He cautioned that the 'path to normalcy' for the Baltimore community after the tragedy 'will not be easy, will not be quick, and will not be inexpensive.'
Buttigieg spoke at a press conference in Baltimore Tuesday afternoon, several hours after the bridge collapsed in the early hours of the morning after it was struck by a cargo ship.
He warned that the closure of the port would cause ongoing problems with supply chains and transportation in the region.
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Someone who knows much more about this than the Mayor of Mudville (which is pretty much anybody) noted the NYC and NJ ports handle 9x - 10x the volume Baltimore does.
The IDF seems to be finding plenty to occupy itself with while ostensibly waiting to go after Rafah.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli Air Force fighter jets stepped up air attacks in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... over the past day, hitting more than 60 targets across the Strip, largely in support of forces maneuvering on the ground, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The targets included attack tunnels and buildings where button men were gathered, according to the IDF. The number of strikes is higher than it has been in recent weeks.
The IDF says it also struck targets in an area from which three rockets were fired at the southern city of Sderot last night.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand...... the IDF’s operation against Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital continues, with the military saying troops killed several button men and captured weapons over the past day.
The raid at Shifa, which began early March 18, is being carried out by the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit, the 401st Armored Brigade, and Nahal Infantry Brigade.
The IDF says many more Hamas operatives were killed during operations over the past day in southern Gaza’s al-Qarara and the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis, where troops of the Commando Brigade and Paratroopers Brigade also captured caches of weapons.
The 7th Armored Brigade, also operating in the Khan Younis area, raided several buildings used by Hamas, and in the process captured weapons, destroyed infrastructure, and killed operatives, the IDF says.
Nahal troops operating in central Gaza killed several more Hamas operatives over the past day, including by calling in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against cells spotted near them, the IDF says.
[DavidCollier] On Monday 18 March, Israel arrested Al Jazeera ’journalist’ Ismail Al Ghoul. As usual all was not as it seemed.
THE COLLAPSE OF MEDIA HONESTY
Since October 7 we have witnessed a complete breakdown in the quality and honesty of western media coverage on Israel. The media lens has never treated Israeli fairly, but since the Hamas ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
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[IsraelTimes] Heavy damage caused to winery in Avivim; IDF says ‘no harm to capabilities’ in strike on Mount Meron air traffic control base; Israeli response marks northernmost strike amid war
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday said it carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Hezbollah sites deep in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , after the terror group targeted a sensitive air traffic control base in northern Israel and a winery in a border community, causing damage in the latter attack. The Israeli airstrike, near the northeastern town of Zboud, which is more than 110 kilometers from Israel’s border, marked the deepest strike in Lebanon amid the Israel-Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war.
The IDF said the strike, in response to the Hezbollah attack on the Mount Meron air traffic control base earlier in the day, targeted "a military compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial unit" near Zboud in the Baalbek District. The compound included several buildings and a landing pad for drones, the IDF said.
The IDF also said it struck a building and other infrastructure used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab and Kafr Kila, and an observation post in Maroun al-Ras.
According to the IDF, several projectiles, apparently anti-tank missiles, were fired from Lebanon at the Meron base earlier Tuesday. The strike caused no injuries and "no harm to the unit’s capabilities," the IDF said.
Hezbollah has attacked Mount Meron, which is located some eight kilometers (5 miles) from the Lebanon border, several times amid the ongoing war, launching large barrages of rockets at the mountain, as well as missiles at the military base that sits atop it.
Hezbollah also fired three anti-tank missiles at the northern community of Avivim, hitting a structure at a vineyard and causing a fire, according to the IDF and fire services. The terror group claimed to have targeted buildings used by Israeli forces.
There were no reports of injuries in the attack, but heavy damage was caused to the winery, local authorities said and footage showed. Sirens did not sound in the largely evacuated community.mThe owner of the winery told the Ynet news site that it was the fourth time his business had been hit by projectiles fired from Lebanon.
The IDF said it shelled the launch sites used in the two attacks with artillery.
After the IDF’s strikes in Baalbek, Hezbollah fired a barrage of around 50 rockets at northern Israel, claiming to target an army base in the Golan Heights. The IDF said the Iron Dome air defense system intercepted some of the rockets with the remaining striking open areas. There were no reports of injuries.
In response to the barrage, the IDF said it carried out another strike against Hezbollah in northeastern Lebanon’s Baalbek. The Israeli fighter jets targeted another "military compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial unit," which included a launchpad for drones and several buildings, according to the IDF.
In additional strikes Tuesday, the IDF said fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in Hanine and another site in Beit Yahoun.
Overnight, the IDF said two rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the northern border communities of Shlomi and Betzet, where sirens sounded at 12:50 a.m. Footage showed damage to a home in Betzet as a result of one of the rockets. Another video showed damage to an agricultural area, with the Walla news site reporting that high-tension electricity cables were severed as a result of the attack.
Hezbollah claimed the attack.
The IDF said fighter jets carried out airstrikes on buildings used by Hezbollah in Tayr Harfa and Dhayra in southern Lebanon during the night, as well as attacking the source of the overnight rocket fire.
[IsraelTimes] Israel targets sites belonging to IRGC units involved in attempts to smuggle advanced arms to West Bank terrorists; Quds Force officer named among the dead
The Israeli Air Force carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning in eastern Syria, targeting Iranian assets and operatives involved in a recent plot to smuggle advanced arms to West Bank terrorists, The Times of Israel has learned.
More than 15 people were reportedly killed in the strikes in the Deir Ezzor and al-Bukamal areas, close to Syria’s border with Iraq.
The strikes targeted assets belonging to Iran’s Unit 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Intelligence Organization, and the special operations unit of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria, known as Unit 18840, according to Israeli defense sources.
On Monday, the Shin Bet announced that it had foiled attempts by the two Iranian units to smuggle advanced weapons to West Bank Paleostinian terrorists.
The strikes overnight were a response to the smuggling attempts and targeted assets related to the Iranian plot, the defense sources said. Israel was aware that several Iranian or Iran-linked operatives were killed in the strikes.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, previously accused of inflating tolls and false reporting, claimed 15 people, most of them pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... fighters including an IRGC official, were killed in the strikes. The Observatory said that an IRGC adviser, "his two Iranian security escorts, two Syrian fighters" and five other combatants belonging to pro-Iran groups were killed in a villa in Deir Ezzor city.
The Observatory also said that a few hours earlier, an Iranian cargo plane flew from Damascus to the eastern city of Deir Ezzor carrying technical equipment and IRGC soldiers.
Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported the attack was "carried out by the Zionist regime," its term for Israel. It identified the dead officer as Behrouz Vahedi, saying he belonged to the Quds Force.
The World Health Organization said one of its staff members was killed in the airstrike, naming him as Emad Shehab, an engineer in Deir Ezzor. Shehab worked as WHO’s focal point for water, sanitation and hygiene in the city.
The Observatory said the villa "served as a communications center" in the area, reporting that the building was destroyed and its Syrian owner, a civilian, was also killed.
Four other fighters were killed in a separate strike in the town of al-Bukamal on the Iraqi border, said the Britannia-based Observatory, which claims to have a network of sources inside Syria.
It said in total nine of the dead in the strikes were Iraqi nationals.
Syria’s state-run SANA broadcaster, meanwhile, said the strikes killed seven Syrian soldiers and one civilian.
Citing a military source, SANA claimed the strikes were carried out by the United States. A US defense official told AFP the United States "did not conduct any airstrikes" overnight.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a press conference officially confirms that Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing, was killed in an Israeli airstrike carried out in the central Gaza Strip earlier this month.
Alongside Issa, senior Hamas commander Ghazi Abu Tama’a was killed in the March 10 strike in Nuseirat, according to Hagari.
The US previously announced that Issa was killed in the strike, although at the time, Israel said it was still evaluating the results of the bombing.
Is it time for Israel to build some bullet factories instead of buying from foreign supplies?
[IsraelTimes] La Belle France’s defense minister denies allegations from investigative journalists that La Belle France supplied components for ammunition used by the Israeli army in its war against Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Marseille-based firm Eurolinks had sold Israel M27 links, metal pieces used to join rifle cartridges into ammunition belts for machine guns, investigative websites Disclose and Marsactu wrote.
Such ammunition "could have been used against civilians in the Gaza Strip," they claimed.
The investigative outlets’ reporting was supported by photos of the links that they said were taken on October 23, weeks after Hamas’s bloody October 7 massacre in southern Israel that triggered the intense fighting in Gaza.
AFP was unable to verify the reported shipment.
But French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu tells news hounds in Gay Paree that Eurolinks’ license to export to Israeli firm IMI Systems "only covers re-export to third countries" rather than use by the Israeli army.
According to a 2023 report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which studies conflicts and arms, 69 percent of Israel’s arms purchases come from US firms, 30% from Germany and 0.9% from Italia.
[IsraelTimes] The Hezbollah terror group announces the death of three members killed "on the road to Jerusalem," its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes.
They are named as Ali Din, from Zboud in the Baalbek District; Ali Jawhari, from the nearby city of Hermel; and Ali Akhras, from south Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Toul.
Their deaths bring the terror group’s toll since the beginning of the war in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip to 251.
The announcement comes following several recent IDF strikes on Hezbollah targets over the past day, including in the Baalbek and Hermel regions in northeastern Lebanon.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah announces the death of a fighter “on the road to Jerusalem,” its code for operatives killed in ongoing hostilities with Israel.
It names the fighter as Hussein Ali Dabouq, 29 or 30 years old, from the town of Chabriha, on the coast north of Tyre.
Dabouq is the 248th Hezbollah fighter killed in nearly six months of fighting with Israel, according to the Iran-backed terror group.
Israel said late last night that it carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah in Mays al-Jabal and Abou Chach in southern Lebanon
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[EngMilRu] Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by long-range sea-based and ground-based precision weaponry and unmanned aerial vehicles at decision-making centres, Ukrainian Security Service objects, defence industry enterprises, as well as deployment areas of Ukrainian nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries.
All the targets have been engaged. The goal of the strike has been achieved.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted losses on enemy units and improved the tactical situation along the front lines.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 20 Ukrainian troops and two motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on units of the AFU 54th, 93rd mechanised brigades, and 81st Airmobile Brigade near Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Kleshcheyevka, and Verkhnekamenka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 425 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and seven motor vehicles.
Moreover, four electronic warfare stations, one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery warfare station, and one U.S.-made M777 howitzer were neutralised.
In Avdeyevka direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces inflicted losses on enemy units and improved the tactical situation along the front lines.
Four counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 24th, 47th, 59th mechanised brigades, and 25th Airborne Brigade were repelled near Novgorodskoye, Vodyanoye, Pervomayskoye, Tonenkoye, and Berdichi (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 280 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, and six motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, two U.S.-made M777 howitzers, one UK-made AS-90 self-propelled artillery system, one D-20 howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were wiped out.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces delivered strikes and repelled two counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade near Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 105 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, two UK-made FH-70 howitzers, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
In Kherson direction, as a result of Dnepr Group of Forces' cohesive actions, the tactical situation along the front line was improved, and losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 65th Mechanised Brigade and 108th Territorial Defence Brigade near Rabotino and Novosyolovka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made M777 howitzer.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 114 areas during the day.
Over the past 24 hours, air defence units shot down 131 unmanned aerial vehicles, two S-200 surface-to-air guided missiles converted to hit ground targets, and 15 HIMARS and Vampire MLRS projectiles.
In total, 577 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 17,142 unmanned aerial vehicles, 489 air defence missile systems, 15,604 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,256 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,531 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 20,215 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[RIA] The people who came to the Crocus City Hall for the concert of the Picnic group were far from the war - but it came to them in the same way as it once did to Donetsk, Lugansk, Belgorod. They, unarmed, died in a war unleashed against us by Western countries using Ukraine (losing the characteristics of a state and acquiring the features of a terrorist entity) and radical Islamism as a weapon of death.
Can what happened be justified? No. But it is necessary to understand the enemy. It pains us to even think about it, but we must penetrate into its logic - this is the only way to win.
In itself, no matter how terrible it is, an act of terrorism is not capable of changing the course of events at the front: every day the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer much more significant losses from a military point of view. But as one of the elements of a network war, it is quite meaningful: in combination with attacks on oil refineries, a suicidal attack on the Belgorod and Kursk regions, arson of polling stations and damage to voting ballots, panic messages spread on social networks, this could have tangible consequences.
Fortunately, the planned chain of events fell apart into separate links and the instigators of the online war (the purpose of which is to disperse attention, cause paralysis of political will and force the victim to voluntarily surrender) did not achieve the effect they had hoped for: they failed to disrupt the elections and shake the political system. However, one strike still reached its target - and its consequences could be disastrous for the country.
The organizers of the terrorist attack surgically pinpointed the pain point of our society: migrants and the radical Islamism associated with them. That is why four citizens of Tajikistan were chosen as performers : Dalerjon Mirzoev (32 years old), Rachabalizod Murodali (30 years old), Shamisidin Fariduli (25 years old), Muhammadsobir Fayzov (19 years old). All of them speak Russian extremely poorly (or pretend to), three of them communicate only through an interpreter.
Reuters and the New York Times (NYT) stated in the very first hours of the attack that the ISIS group took responsibility for it. It should be especially emphasized here that this banned organization does not have official channels where the mentioned publications could receive this information. To add “unambiguity” to what was happening, the Kyiv authorities immediately disowned the bloody massacre - and in this they were instantly supported by the American authorities, placing responsibility on the same ISIS.
Further, following the logic of this diabolical plan, the next chain of events should have started. The emotions of society, which is in a state of righteous anger after the terrorist attack, are heated through a controlled media network that operates on the principle of a swarm (that is, network elements are supposedly independent of each other) and (ideally) masquerading as the opinions of the citizens themselves.
At the same time, a narrative is launched about the fight against the “ultra-right”, who incite ethnic hatred and are ready to carry out pogroms. Then these two points of view (more precisely, the people captured by them) collide, which leads to a new round of mutual aggression. Categorical demands are being made to the authorities: some call to punish migrants and Islamists (soon this hostility will spread to all non-Russian ethnic groups and Islam as such), others to curb the aggression of the “ultra-right.” As a result, each side accuses the authorities of weakness and inability to cope with the situation, which (in the extreme) leads to open civil confrontation. Need I repeat that in war conditions such a development of events could be fatal for Russia?
But the enemy miscalculated again.
Despite the grief that gripped the people, calls for lynching and pogroms were not heard anywhere, and no “ultra-right” groups entered the arena of history. Moreover, society showed its best: queues lined up at blood transfusion centers, entrepreneurs and large companies provided assistance to the families of the victims. The heroic behavior of the young guys who brought hundreds of people out of Crocus deserves special attention : Artem Donskov, Nikita Ivanov, Islam Khalilov and Ilya (whose last name is not yet known). The examples of courage shown by people at this tragic moment are so numerous that we cannot list all the names here.
However, the brilliant work of the special services, which in the shortest possible time revealed the motives and background of the terrorists, played a huge role in the sustained reaction of society: these creatures carried out the massacre not because they were radicals, but simply for money. They are not ideological fighters, but banal mercenaries. And this only emphasizes the staged nature of the terrorist attack with the aim of inciting interethnic and interreligious hatred. If the customers needed it, they would have found Russians, Jews or blacks from Africa to carry it out. But it was Muslims and precisely migrants from Central Asia that were needed.
However, it should be recognized that the problem of illegal migration is acute - and no less acute is the situation when legal migrants, from a legal point of view, in fact do not have (and do not want to have) any immersion in Russian culture and have a consumerist attitude towards our country. This ultimately creates the vulnerable spot that the organizers of the massacre in Moscow were targeting. Considering how decisively many government officials have spoken on this issue, there is every reason to believe that migration policy will be revised - rationally, balancedly, consistently, and not under the influence of emotions, as the enemy is seeking.
Finally, it is incorrect to assign the status of “terrorist” to any nation. Vladimir Putin directly pointed this out, saying that “terrorists, murderers, non-humans who do not and cannot have a nationality face one unenviable fate - retribution and oblivion. They have no future.”
This should be understood in such a way that a terrorist, crossing the line of what is permitted, loses his human face, betrays his faith and his people. The Russian President’s call to the world community for a joint fight against international terrorism is essentially a continuation of the joint struggle with the countries of the Global South against the collective West, which is behind the terrorist attack in Moscow. And although Russia is at the forefront of this struggle, victory can only be achieved together with other countries - regardless of differences between religions and peoples.
[FoxBusinessNews] There are 200 homes currently in the program in Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland, city officials approved a program that would sell city-owned vacant homes for next to nothing at $1 for some applicable residents.
According to the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the Fixed Pricing Program was created to combat the more than 13,500 homes in Baltimore that are vacant.
City officials said Tuesday that just over 200 homes are currently in the program.
According to the DHCD, the homes would only be sold to individuals who are willing to invest their money in fixing the dilapidated homes.
Applicants must provide proof that they have at least $90,000 to complete a renovation, as well as pass through an application vetting process.
Interested parties can apply beginning April 1.
The applicants will be vetted by the funds they have available for rehabilitation, their criminal history and if they have any open federal or state liens or judgments.
Officials said that the city would prioritize city residents by giving them a 90-day window for priority buying.
Developers would have to pay $3,000 per home, and so would large nonprofits with 51 or more employees.
An article remarkably spare of the details we care about: who, from where, who he is connected to…
[IsraelTimes] Police say suspect has ’extensive connections’ with jihadists across globe, accuse him of offering ’training and instruction in terrorism’ along with propagandizing
Spanish police said Tuesday they had arrested a man on suspicion of carrying out "intensive efforts to encourage terrorism" and who had extensive ties with an international network of jihadists.
The suspect was arrested in Barcelona on suspicion of links to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, with a Guardia Civil police statement saying he had "extensive connections" with other group members in Asia, Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North America.
Police began investigating him last year after noticing he was "using encrypted instant messaging platforms to express support for IS" and engaging in an "intense propaganda effort to encourage terrorism."
Through his online profiles, he spread and translated "a great deal of jihadist content about terrorist activities in different contexts and about materials for making explosives," it said.
The suspect followed "strict security measures" in all his communications, using "tools that let him operate anonymously" online, and was in touch with other jihadist sympathizers abroad to "offer training and instruction in terrorism."
Investigators also found he was using cryptocurrencies, saying they "did not rule out his involvement in funding terror activities."
The suspect was brought before a Spanish court on March 19 and remanded in jug, with police in Canada and Sweden also arresting several of his contacts, the statement said.
"Propaganda efforts by terrorist groups using the internet and social media are key to keeping up the terror pressure in the West," it said, referring to online propaganda as "one of the main strengths of different jihadist organizations."
The police operation was carried out with the collaboration of Spain’s CNI intelligence agency, Sweden’s SAPO intelligence service, La Belle France’s domestic intelligence agency DGSI and the European policing agency EUROPOL.
The Justice Department took the rare step earlier this month of moving to dismiss a $3.3 billion civil fraud lawsuit against Dish Network — months after founder Charlie Ergen and his wife donated more than $113,000 to President Biden’s re-election campaign late last year.
Ergen, a former professional poker player who helped launch what was then called EchoStar Communications in 1980, has battled the federal fraud claim for nearly a decade.
But the Tennessee native saw his luck change shortly after he and spouse Candy contributed $100,000 to Biden’s super PAC and maxed out with matching $6,600 donations to the president’s principal campaign committee in December, according to campaign finance filings.
This past January, Dish nabbed a $50 million grant from the administration to help expand 5G coverage nationwide — the "largest award" of its kind, the company crowed — through a $1.5 billion fund created by the CHIPS and Science Act.
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[Jpost] Iran doesn’t care that much about the tactics in Gaza, it cares more about the grand strategy.
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi believes that the war in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... will lead to a "transformation in the unjust order that rules the world." He made the claims at a gathering on Monday, according to Iran’s pro-government Fars news.
Iran’s president appears to believe that the war in Gaza will accelerate various processes in the global order. He said that after the war the new world order is "very close and achievable."
In Iran’s view the war in Gaza is part of a larger process. It could be seen as a kind of first shot of a major war in the world. This war is not always being fought on battlefields.
It may be other types of struggles, such as Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... joining BRICS and the SCO, two economic groups that are linked to China or Russia, and which Iran wants to be part of in order to balance the western-led economies such as the G7.
WHY RAISI'S STATEMENTS MATTER
Iran’s president’s statement matters. It shows how Iran is thinking about October 7 and the long term plans that Iran has. Iran sees the fighting in Gaza as a benefit. It also sees the suffering of Gazooks as a benefit. What that means if that Iran believes it can use suffering in Gaza to take advantage of the war, and exploit it for its own interests.
Iran’s president also "described Paleostine as the most important issue in the Moslem world, and stressed that the resistance by the Paleostinian people in the Gaza Strip will lead to changes in the status quo in the world," Fars News said.
His comments show the janus-face of Iran’s talking points. On the one hand it claims to back the Paleostinians. But it also wants to exploit them as part of its war on the West and its war on Israel. Iran also wants to use the war to reduce US influence in the region.
Iran is also working with Russia, supplying drones to Moscow to be used in Ukraine. Russia also sees the war in Ukraine as part of a war on the US-led world order. China is taking advantage of the Ukraine war and the October 7 war.
It's important to listen to the words of Raisi because it isn’t that often that Iran openly says how it will exploit and use this war to reshape the region and the world.
Iran has long-term plans. As such Iran doesn’t care that much about the tactics in Gaza, it cares more about the grand strategy. It doesn’t care that much about a ceasefire. It is happy to see the war go on and on.
[Rudaw] Suspected Ottoman Turkish artillery hit two villages in Duhok province’s Amedi area late on Friday, causing fear among villagers, locals told Rudaw.
The bombs struck Sargali and Barchi villages, which are both located in areas known for frequent festivities between the Ottoman Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
"The shelling is carried out by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ," Sherwan Sargali from Sargali told Rudaw.
Shelling of both villages has been going on for two days and has scared residents, he added.
Seven shells struck Barchi village on Friday, resident Lazgin Barchi told Rudaw. The holy man said they do not know who carried out the shelling.
Turkey has recently upped its efforts to curb the PKK threat on its border with the Kurdistan Region. Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said earlier this month that Ankara is close to completing a zone that will "permanently resolve" security issues along the border.
He called on everyone in the region to respect Ankara’s security strategy or "be the cause of the tensions that will arise."
Earlier this month, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defense Minister Yasar Guler, and head of its intelligence agency (MIT) Ibrahim Kalin visited Baghdad for a second round of high-level security talks. The first round was held in Ankara in December.
A day after the meeting, The Iraqi National Security Council announced it was banning the PKK from operating in the country, claiming that the group poses a threat to Baghdad and Turkey.
[[Rudaw] Five people were killed in an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attack on pro-regime militia and civilians gathering truffles in Syria’s Raqqa province this weekend, a war monitor reported.
"The bodies of three members of the National Defense Forces [NDF] militia were found, killed in an ISIS attack on truffle hunters" in regime-controlled desert areas of Raqqa province on Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor.
On Saturday, the monitor said the corpse count had risen to five - three NDF fighters and two civilians. Three others remain missing.
The NDF is a pro-government militia that has fought alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.
Hundreds of poverty-stricken Syrians venture into the desert between February and April each year in search of truffles, despite repeated warnings from authorities.
The desert is known to be a hideout of jihadists and contains landmines, making it a high-risk area to search for the delicacy. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... it is known for producing some of the highest quality truffles in the world that can fetch up to $25 per kilogram in a country where the average monthly wage is only around $18.
Last week, a landmine left behind by ISIS killed at least 16 truffle hunters in Raqqa.
Earlier in March, at least 14 civilians and four NDF fighters were killed in an attack carried out by ISIS button men in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
Days prior, at least five people were killed in an ISIS ambush while truffle hunting in central Homs province.
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[Regnum] The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, dismissed Alexey Danilov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine. The corresponding decree was published on March 26 on Zelensky’s website.
“Dismiss Aleksey Myacheslavovich Danilov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,” the document says.
By another decree, Zelensky appointed Alexander Litvinenko as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, having previously dismissed him from the post of head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. Oleg Ivashchenko was appointed to this place.
Danilov has served as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine since October 2019.
As Regnum reported, Zelensky, in a video message published on March 4, announced a number of new personnel appointments in the Ukrainian defense forces. Then he did not specify what kind of reshuffles were expected. He only explained that “real combat commanders from the front” were involved in developing solutions.
Earlier, Ukrainian media reported that Zelensky was thinking about dismissing Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. According to sources, many complaints have accumulated against him regarding the ambassadorial candidacies provided by the ministry. In addition, the administration of the Kyiv regime is generally dissatisfied with the work of the Foreign Ministry.
On February 8, Zelensky dismissed Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On March 7, it became known about Zaluzhny’s appointment as ambassador to the UK. The head of the Kiev regime explained this by saying that he himself asked for this position.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, was forced to dismiss Alexey Danilov from the post of Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine under the influence of a number of factors, one of them was the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. This opinion was expressed to a Regnum news agency correspondent on March 26 by Nikolai Kostikin, an expert at the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis.
The expert believes that Danilov’s dismissal was due to the fact that he confirmed Ukraine’s involvement in the terrorist attack at Crocus and stated that “Russia will have such fun more often.”
“After the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, the US statement about Ukraine’s alleged non-involvement in this terrorist act and Russia’s attack on the location of the SBU, the leadership in Kyiv began to panic. Russia has made it clear that it is starting a hunt for those responsible for this terrorist attack,” says the military expert.
That’s why Zelensky fired Danilov in order to comply with US policy and distance himself from participation in the terrorist attack, Kostikin clarified.
As Regnum reported, Alexander Litvinenko became the new secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine. The corresponding decree was signed by the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky. Litvinenko previously served as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, asked who would believe the US words that Kiev was not involved in the terrorist attack, if in the past the West applauded extremists in Ukraine.
She recalled that Washington says that supposedly Ukraine had nothing to do with it. And who will believe them, when in 2013-2014 it was Washington, it was Britain, it was Germany, Brussels, Paris, Warsaw, all the Baltic countries applauded, distributed money, as much as they could, cookies, and so on to those who threw Molotov cocktails at the same civil buildings, infrastructure in the center of Kiev, Zakharova said.
Terrorists attacked Crocus City Hall on the evening of March 22. The armed men began shooting visitors and then set the building on fire. According to data as of March 26, 139 people were killed as a result of the attack. The list of victims includes 121 people.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister’s Office points to ’damage’ caused by Security Council resolution, as Gazoo terror group digs in on demands Israel calls ’delusional’
Israel on Tuesday recalled its negotiating team from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... after Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... rejected its latest offer in talks on a hostage deal and truce, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel.
The delegation had been in Doha for eight days.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... several news outlets reported that a small Mossad team remained in Qatar to continue talks. The Prime Minister’s Office would not comment on the reports. Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, told news hounds that negotiations on a truce in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... were still ongoing, without providing details.
In a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Hamas’s decision to reject a US-brokered compromise is "clear proof it is not interested in continuing talks, and a sad testament to the damage caused by the UN Security Council resolution," referring to a call for a ceasefire passed Monday night that the US did not veto, thus enabling its passage.
The PMO accused Hamas of retreating to its "extreme demands," including a complete end to the war and full IDF withdrawal from Gaza.
"Israel will not cave to Hamas’s delusional demands," it said.
A diplomatic official quoted by Hebrew-language media said Hamas demanded that Gazooks be given carte blanche to return to their homes in the north of the Strip and did not even address a hostage release.
"There is no one to talk to on the other side and the Israeli negotiating team has nothing to do in Qatar," the source was quoted as saying.
Hamas said on Monday night that it had informed mediators that it will stick to its original position on demanding a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, a return of displaced Paleostinians, and a "real" exchange of "prisoners" — demands Israel has repeatedly rejected as delusional.
While the terror group has conditioned any further hostage releases on an Israeli commitment to end the war, Israel has insisted that its military campaign to destroy Hamas’s military and governance capabilities will resume once any hostage-truce deal is implemented.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in a radio interview Tuesday morning that the US decision to withhold a veto on the Security Council resolution would hurt Israel in talks to free its hostages.
Katz drew a direct line between Hamas’s rejection of Israeli terms for a truce and hostage deal in exchange for prisoners and the US decision to allow the Security Council resolution to pass, which he called "a moral and ethical mistake."
"Hamas is building on the fact that... there will be a ceasefire without it needing to pay a thing," he said.
Katz said Israel will now need to up the military pressure to prove its commitment to releasing the hostages and taking down Hamas.
"In our view, there was a message, a no-good message, to anyone on Hamas’s side that the US does not support Israel as much, and so we need to prove, militarily, that we will stand by our goals," he said.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday that the US decision gave Hamas reason to believe "they’re going to get a ceasefire without giving up the hostages."
Saying the war is in "the home stretch," Dermer implored the US to "stand with us, let us finish the job, and let’s get to a day after where can have a real grinding of the peace processor that can give hope not only to Israelis, but also to Paleostinians."
The Security Council resolution demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages taken by Gazan terrorists on October 7. The US abstained, and the 14 other council members voted for the resolution, backed by Russia and China, that called for a ceasefire without conditioning it on the release of hostages.
In a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office after the adoption of the resolution, Israel warned that the US decision to abstain was harming the war effort against Hamas and undermining attempts to free hostages.
The statement called the decision “a clear retreat from the consistent US position in the Security Council since the beginning of the war,” and one that “gives Hamas hope that international pressure will allow them to get a ceasefire without releasing our hostages.”
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[Regnum] There remains a threat of terrorist acts in Russia. This was announced by the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, on March 26 after participating in the expanded board of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.
“Yes, unfortunately, this is so,” the FSB director answered the corresponding question.
At the same time, he recalled the prevention of terrorist attacks organized by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in many regions of Russia, especially in the regions bordering Ukraine.
“This happened last year and is happening now,” Bortnikov added.
On the same day, the press service of the Russian Guard reported that after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, the number of calls calling for terrorist acts to be committed in Russia increased.
Earlier, the Russian Federal Security Service called on residents of the country to be vigilant due to calls from Ukraine encouraging terrorist attacks.
The department noted that parents need to warn minor children from communicating with the authors of incoming provocations.
As reported by Regnum news agency, Russian special services almost daily neutralize terrorists and stop attempts to commit terrorist attacks on the territory of the country. Thus, on March 26, the FSB announced the prevention of terrorist activities in the Zaporozhye and Samara regions.
A day earlier, on March 25, the FSB reported that it had thwarted an attempted terrorist attack in Barnaul on the eve of the Russian presidential elections.
Before this, on March 18, a Russian woman was detained in Crimea for planning to set fire to a relay cabinet on a railway. She was supposed to carry out the terrorist attack in Simferopol on instructions from the Ukrainian special services.
[FoxNews] New York will spend $12 billion on illegal immigrants in the next three years while our troops suffer
New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to pilot prepaid debit cards to 500 illegal migrant families who have already received a voucher to stay in select hotels for 28 days — credit cards which can be used at illegal migrants’ leisure for up to $10,000 each in taxpayer money with no ID check and no fraud control.
Those who violate the program’s stipulations "risk" being removed from it, but not from the country. The cost of caring for illegal migrants in New York is estimated to reach $12 billion over the next three years.
Then there is the American service member — who not only obeys the rule of law but puts his or her life on the line to protect it and our way of life. How is it that in New York, illegal migrants receive better compensation than American service members do while deployed overseas?
While on the Korean Response Force, Captain Christopher Wilson wrote a letter to Congress on behalf of his soldiers. He noted that several soldiers in his company were making less while deployed than while serving stateside. He rightly called this discrepancy "unacceptable."
The Military Times reported that in Wilson’s company, enlisted soldiers always receive $452.56 a month in basic allowance for sustenance. While deployed, however, those soldiers suffered $399.90 in monthly meal deductions, even if they don't use base dining halls. The only entitlement for the deployment itself which off-set this deduction was $195 a month of assignment incentive pay.
The current system results in more than $200 lost each month for each deployed soldier and their family. While soldiers with dependents receive an additional $250 per month in family separation allowance, this does not begin to compensate for the actual additional childcare costs of one-parent households.
This means that these soldiers each received about $1,860 less cumulatively during a nine-month deployment than they would have had they not deployed over the same nine months. To add insult to injury, if inflation continues on its current trajectory, the problem will only get worse.
Meanwhile, in New York, illegal migrants are about to be given prepaid debit cards — each person receiving about $360 monthly — which for a family of four would be roughly $1,440 per month. Thus, while an average military family is suffering from a deficit of $1,860 over a period of nine months, a similarly sized illegal migrant family is being given nearly seven times more by virtue of illegally occupying the country.
As Wilson’s letter highlights:
"The fact that some of our Soldiers are paying more while deployed is not even the worst hole in the current system which requires a presidential declaration to enable the tax exclusion. Because Somalia was not declared a combat zone in 1993 [which means the American Soldiers deployed there did not qualify for the Combat Zone Tax Exclusion (CZTE)], the 43 Soldiers that paid the ultimate sacrifice during Operation Restore Hope (Black Hawk Down) were also forced to posthumously pay income tax on every cent they made with their dying breath."
Rather than the tax exclusion being dictated by a presidential declaration of an area as a "combat zone," it should apply whenever a soldier is deployed.
This issue was recently brought before the House Armed Services Committee by California Republican Rep. Mike Garcia. Garcia cited him directly, stating that when service members deploy, they lose some of their food subsidies. Garcia went on to say that this is both a financial concern for our service members and a retention concern for the force at-large — and therefore a national security concern.
Before states can pass new legislation to support illegal migrants, Congress should update outdated legislation in support of our troops.
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Congress should adjust the current tax exclusion into a "Deployment Income" tax exclusion (DITE) for any service members on an overseas tour of duty.
On Wilson’s deployment, the average sergeant with a spouse and children received an additional $45 a month once all deductions and entitlements were aggregated. Forty-five dollars a month is nowhere near enough to cover even one day’s average childcare costs.
If the tax exclusion were reformed, the average sergeant would retain $724 more each month — enough to cover 21 hours of childcare monthly in his or her absence.
DITE would exempt the less than 0.1% of Americans currently serving on overseas deployments or rotations. Considering the U.S. averages over $100 billion dollars in increased tax revenue year-over-year and because this is a tax exclusion and not a revenue allotment, it would not even require an enumerated allocation in the next National Defense Authorization Act.
Unlike the illegal migrants that disregard our laws, our soldiers put their lives on the line protecting them. Our military is shrinking, and it is no wonder. Unless we take care of them, we will find ourselves with no one to take care of us.
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...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...always the voice of sweet reason...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
