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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Colorado woman missing since 2018 found dead, stuffed in manhole at her home
[NYPOST] A Colorado woman’s lifeless body was found stuffed into a trash bag in a manhole in her home four years after she was reported missing, according to local reports.

Cops discovered 82-year-old Sylvia Frens’ remains after finding a stench coming from the bedroom of her Grand Junction home, Fox News reported. Most of the bedroom floor was covered in a brown stain.

Her 54-year-old son, Richard Voldemort Vandervelde — who lived with her at the time of her disappearance — was charged May 29 with first-degree murder, tampering with a deceased human body, fraud-identity theft, motor vehicle theft, and abuse of a corpse, police said.

Police launched the search for Frens after her daughter reported her missing in May 2018.

Throughout the course of the four-year search, police discovered Vandervelde was using his mother’s debit cards, withdrawing more than $10,000 in cash from her personal checking account.

Vandervelde was also found to be in possession of his mother’s car.
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess Febreeze can only take you so far. Not sure what type of realty set includes a manhole in the house. Sort of convenient for storing grandma’s carcass at least for for years, but I would think you would get other sort of stenches up through the holes as well.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/12/2022 18:02 Comments || Top||

#2  That was some kinda intensive search they did in 2018.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/12/2022 18:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Febreeze can only take you so far

It’s water soluble, so the bound chemicals of the absorbed odors are released when it gets wet. And as the corpse liquifies over time...

/ick!
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/12/2022 18:29 Comments || Top||

#4  The inflation prices on lime are crazee
Posted by: Frank G || 06/12/2022 20:56 Comments || Top||


Kim Foxx's husband calls 911 on her, claims she slapped him in alleged domestic dispute
[NYPOST] The husband of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
’s top prosecutor Kim Foxx
...one of the so-called Soros DAs, though other Progressive billionaires also donate to the project...
accused her of slapping him at their home last weekend — prompting a police visit that ended with no arrests, a report said.

The Cook County State Attorney’s husband made the 911 call following the alleged June 4 feud at the couple’s suburban Flossmoor residence that was sparked over a social media post, according to police records obtained by WGN-TV.

Foxx’s husband told police "that Kimberly got mad about something that was posted on Facebook that he did," according to the police report. "Kimberly asked him to leave and he refused."

According to her husband, Foxx allegedly grabbed him by the collar and threw his video game controller to the ground, according to documents. He also alleged she slapped him on his left cheek.

Foxx told responding officers that "she did put hands on [her husband] but it was only to help guide him out of the house. She never slapped him."

The district attorney said her husband called police "only to hurt her," cops wrote in the report.

The couple’s 19-year-old daughter was home at the time of the incident but told police she only heard yelling.

Police wrote they "did not see any evidence to support an arrest in this incident," in their report, according to the outlet.
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trade her and Smollett for one of those mercenary jokers in Donetsk. She can shack up with the lady baller inmate, braid each other's hair. As for Juicy...
Posted by: Black Bart || 06/12/2022 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  If it had been the other way around, he would have been cuffed and arrested. Period.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 6:32 Comments || Top||

#3 

Political Agenda over Marriage Vows....
Yep! that sound like a Liberal Democrat.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/12/2022 7:02 Comments || Top||

#4  If it's his house too and she's forcing him out, that would seem to be a crime, no?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/12/2022 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I don’t think she will prosecute herself. Michelle will advise her not to.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/12/2022 17:57 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Chicago-area city revokes pride parade permit over lack of officers to work event after ban on police uniforms
[FOX] A suburban Chicago city has revoked the special permit for an upcoming gay pride parade over security staffing concerns following a spat in which local authorities were told that police officers would not be allowed to march in uniform.

The group running the Aurora Pride Parade had been working with the Aurora Police Department to come up with a safety plan for the privately-run event, but a police spokesperson told Fox Chicago the department couldn't make it work.

The city said organizers had failed to meet the required number of law enforcement officers to secure the event.

"Based on the inability of the Aurora Pride board to retain the number of law enforcement officers required to ensure the public health and welfare of participants and spectators the Aurora Pride Parade (70% of which were already provided by the Aurora Police Department), and on the recommendation from the Aurora Police Department that the parade cannot be held without satisfying these safety requirements, the City of Aurora has issued a Notice of Revocation to Aurora Pride," the city said in a statement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2022 15:47 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How were they supposed to maintain order without their uniforms? Did the ban on uniforms include the Village People guy?
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/12/2022 18:12 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL, what happened is the cops don't want to be seen there out of uniform so they said NO. So no parade. Darn.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/12/2022 19:28 Comments || Top||


Counter protester storms stage at 'March for Our Lives' rally in DC shouting 'I am the gun' and causing stampede as activists flee amid demonstrations across US against gun violence
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • More than 5,000 people attending the event at the National Mall in Washington DC cowered on the floor after the unidentified pro-gun protester came onstage

  • The man stormed the stage during the 'March for our Lives' protest, frightening the crowds when he reportedly threw an object and screamed 'I am the gun'

  • Thousands gather across 400 US cities to protest gun violence just two weeks after the Uvalde, Texas, shooting, where 19 children and two teachers died

  • Gun violence has killed more than 19,300 people so far this year in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive

  • Thousands gather in DC, New York, Parkland, and elsewhere to honor the victims of gun violence and protest to protect future ones

  • Parkland survivor and March for Our Lives founder, David Hogg, spoke to DC protesters and called for Congress and states to protect children

  • Major political figures, such as NY Mayor Eric Adams and AG Letitia James also marched alongside thousands of others
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/12/2022 00:13 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Joe Biden claims he owns two shotguns. He once told Jill if she ever was home alone and felt threatened to walk out on the balcony with the double barreled shot gun and fire both rounds in the air (in 2013).

I just hope she is on the White House balcony if she ever does it.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 06/12/2022 2:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Which proves the January 6 riot was not all that bad.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 06/12/2022 3:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Notice they don't march against all the deaths on the roads and highways, which out number any gun related count. Or for that matter deaths in hospitals due to 'oops' which the CDC pegged at over a 100,000 a year. [Maybe because, the people pushing it all don't see those as a threat to their power]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 6:30 Comments || Top||

#4  One guy made 5,000 cower? Talk about power!
Posted by: Bobby || 06/12/2022 7:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Using GVA numbers, if accurate, more than half of the deaths are suicide, 500+ are defensive use, 660+ are unintentional shootings, 299 are murder suicide.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 06/12/2022 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Suicide with a gun = "gun violence victim." Assisted suicide = "death with dignity."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#7  If you are going to commit suicide, do it in the culturally approved manner. Liquor yourself up and drive that car into a tree or lamp post or other inanimate object at 2am in the morning. It will never be reported as a suicide. Do not make it a murder suicide by driving into another occupied car.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#8  A certain percentage of suicides (and I'm not making light of this drastically serious problem) are "see what you made me do" acts. Doing it stealthily and ambiguously misses the entire point in those cases.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 - Still Covid-related
Posted by: Frank G || 06/12/2022 9:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Counter protester storms stage

Where was David Hogg cowering?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/12/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ Behind his pomade jar.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 10:07 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ and several paid armed security guys.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 10:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Some how they will charge this guy along with the Jan. 6 people.
Posted by: Chris || 06/12/2022 10:14 Comments || Top||

#14  What they most specifically dont march against is gang violence.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/12/2022 13:21 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ They are in favor of gang violence as long as it's their gang.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#16  If you really want to die, check into a hospital with a Covid case. They will find a way to kill you. It helps their bottom line. Hopefully, they can do it quickly as the meals get kind of repetitive after about a week in there. Suicide is not about prolonged suffering and poor cable variety.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/12/2022 18:09 Comments || Top||

#17  A couple needle pricks, exposure to MRSA, buh buh...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 18:12 Comments || Top||


Yellowstone peak renamed: Old name 'offensive,' park service says
[FoxNews] The National Park Service announced last week that Yellowstone National Park's Mount Doane would be renamed First Peoples Mountain.

The agency said Thursday the change was taken to remove an "offensive name" from America's first national park.

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted unanimously, 15-0, affirming the decision.

The Wyoming mountain stands at 10,551 feet east of Yellowstone Lake.

The mountain was previously named after explorer Gustavus Doane.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Offensive to radical Lefty whites pushing their anti-Western Civ agenda.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  When you have to really search to find offense from a long dead guy's name unknown to virtually anyone, you know its agenda-driven Woke bullshit. Some NPS jerk had to find a way to get his virtue on display.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/12/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Arizona, Wyoming. The guy got around.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/12/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Virtue ain't what it used to be.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2022 14:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Not all indigenous people were First People. That's like calling all Europeans as Spaniards. Typical lack of awareness by the woke.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/12/2022 17:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Weren't there at least three (3) invasion waves that came over the land bridge from Siberia? Just call it "Siberian Migrants' Mountain".
Posted by: magpie || 06/12/2022 19:28 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Actually four. I was on the last one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2022 19:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Drones that swarmed US warships off the coast of California in 2019 were from a mysterious Hong Kong-registered spy ship, say US Navy
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Pentagon has previously disclosed intriguing photos showing unidentified aerial phenomena flying above US warships in 2019

  • Last month, during a hotly-anticipated Congressional hearing into UAP and possible UFO sightings, military officials said some sightings had been explained

  • On Friday military intelligence website The Drive published new information, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act, about the sightings

  • The found that, off the coast of southern California, there were 10 encounters with suspicious drones from March 30, 2019 to July 30, 2019

  • On July 15, 2019, two US warships - the USS Paul Hamilton and the USS Bunker Hill - reported being followed by drones from a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship

  • The warships radioed the ship, MV Bass Strait, but received no answer: Bass Strait's owner-operator, Hong Kong-based Pacific Basin, has not commented

  • Other incidents saw drones launched by 'local fisherman operating personal quadcopters', and by pleasure craft that failed to respond to radio messages
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So why didn't that ship have an accident during the next night? Do we not have any torpedoes anymore?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/12/2022 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2  ..or just right out have an accident?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Pity we didn't have an Aegis-equipped ship handy. *ZORCH*, What drones?
Posted by: magpie || 06/12/2022 14:29 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kyiv basks in freedom! Ukrainians flock to beaches in and soak up the sun on the banks of the Dnieper in Kyiv... in scenes that were unimaginable weeks ago when Russia launched assault on city
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/12/2022 13:03 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Many pictures, but I noticed the lack of total destruction.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/12/2022 18:03 Comments || Top||


Russia fires five-and-a-half ton Cold War-era missiles designed to destroy aircraft carriers at Ukrainian forces in the Donbas after running out of precision rockets, MoD says
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Using up old nventory.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/12/2022 13:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Kremlin war propagandists claim Russian troops now have a bridgehead on the southern bank of the Siversky Donets

Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Kremlin war propagandists"

🤡

It's over, Fred.
Biden's cutting 'em loose.
The ammo's run out, deserters everywhere you look, the money's gone
(She's so fine
There's no tellin' where the money went
)
Posted by: Black Bart || 06/12/2022 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Are you claiming there is no propaganda coming from Russia?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/12/2022 1:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Plenty here to go around. Media not so much here but in small amounts present. Just able to tolerate. In day to working with public the insanity and absurdity is increasing dramatically. IE; three best presidents, Grant, Carter and Biden, that from a Vietnam Vet. Biden supporters and there are many, best President, best economy ever and speak otherwise they reply, OH you get your news from Fox. Now that money stress increases they don't mellow at all. I see this most among the local caucasian types(all ages).
Posted by: Dale || 06/12/2022 6:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Zelensky has the goods on Biden and his son. Look at those laptop files. Search for Privatbank.
Posted by: Caesar Jons6640 || 06/12/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Zelensky and his sugar daddy, Kolomoisky, know Privatbank well. They're expert money launderers themselves. They know all the details of Hunter's, Archer's, Apter's, and Kerry's numbered accounts.
Posted by: Caesar Jons6640 || 06/12/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ If any of the above named were going to jail they'd already be there. They aren't afraid of anything Zelllllennnnnsssssskkkkkyyyyyiii can say or release.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Z has the goods on The Big Guy. He wants to wash his hands of Z.

But now the Democrats want to throw Biden under the bus. So Biden's hurrying to bury Z -- probably with a fat payoff and secure transit on a C-17 to one of his multi-million dollar villas in Miami or Tel Aviv.
Posted by: Caesar Jons6640 || 06/12/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  If any of the above named were going to jail they'd already be there.

Devon Archer's headed to prison

Hunter Biden’s pal sentenced to prison for role in fraud scheme
NY Post
By Ben Feuerherd
February 28, 2022
Posted by: One Eyed Unaing1295 || 06/12/2022 9:51 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ like the few people caught up in the Mueller's egg noodles farce, Archer got grabbed for something having nothing to do with the central issue.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#10  The Feds already have evidence (wire transfer data) on Hunter for money laundering.

Where it gets sticky for The Big Guy is that his efforts to bolt from the failed Ukrainian adventure pits him against two headstrong little anti-Russian patrons: Zelensky and the government of Latvia. The Latvian authorities broke the story about fraud and money laundering (Privatbank is domiciked in Latvia).

If The Big Guy pisses off either Z or the Natvuans or both, he may be facing serious blowback. Plenty of Deep Staters see Biden as a serious liability and would be happy to help Z and the Latvians expose Biden.

🍿
Posted by: One Eyed Unaing1295 || 06/12/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#11  The deep staters installed bidet. Dumping him via criminal indictment is a bridge too far.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Archer got grabbed for something having nothing to do with the central issue

as with Capone

Dumping him via criminal indictment is a bridge too far.

Who needs an indictment?
Posted by: One Eyed Unaing1295 || 06/12/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#13  PrivatBank diagram and details of a Ukrainian opposition party's press conference from December 2020 showing the money flows.

There's also an American grifter (Alan Apter) plus a Polish politician (Kwasnieski) on the receiving end as well
Posted by: One Eyed Unaing1295 || 06/12/2022 11:49 Comments || Top||

#14  It’s a terrible thing to admit, but it depends on the Yurps. They are scared of Russia, but the closer Russia gets, the scarier it gets. Losing Ukraine would be unaffordable.
Posted by: Not a cat || 06/12/2022 21:09 Comments || Top||

#15  Bailing out Ukraine will be unaffordable. We're talking trillions. They basically have no GDP left.
Posted by: Oil Derek || 06/12/2022 21:53 Comments || Top||


Russians repulsed from Metelkino: operational summary of the General Staff on June 11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] In the Donetsk and Lugansk directions , fighting continues with varying success. Moreover, judging by the summary of the State Headquarters as of 18:00 on Saturday, June 11, the most "hot" battles are being fought in the area of ​​Severodonetsk . In other areas, the situation "has not undergone significant changes."

Thus, in the Volyn and Polessky directions , in the course of checking the combat readiness of the Belarusian Armed Forces, units are brought to the highest levels of combat readiness, practical measures are being worked out for the reception of those liable for military service, weapons and military equipment are being removed from storage.

In the Seversk direction , the enemy continues mortar attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces in the border areas. In addition, the Russian military shelled civilian infrastructure facilities in the village of Miropolskoe, Sumy region.

In the Kharkiv direction, the situation is unchanged. The enemy concentrated his main efforts on holding the occupied lines. To fetter the actions of the defense forces, the positions of our units are being shelled. In addition, the enemy fired at civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Udy, Prudyanka, Tsirkuny and Verkhny Saltov, and also launched airstrikes in the areas of Ternovoy and Rubezhnoye.

In the Slavic direction , the enemy carried out systematic artillery shelling. Ukrainian soldiers successfully repulsed the enemy assault in the areas of Brazhkovka, Dolina and Vernopolye , the Russians withdrew. With the support of mortars, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, the enemy is trying to gain a foothold in Bogorodichnoe, the fighting continues . The enemy is actively using means of electronic warfare.

In the Liman direction , enemy units did not conduct active operations. In the direction of the city of Lisichansk, the enemy has increased the intensity of the use of cannon and rocket artillery, and is taking measures to strengthen the grouping of troops. He fired artillery at civilian infrastructure near Serebryanka and Belogorovka.

In the Severodonetsk direction , the enemy shelled civilian infrastructure in the areas of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Metelkino, Ustinovka and Toshkivka. Ukrainian soldiers successfully resist the enemy's assault actions in Severodonetsk . Part of the enemy units is storming in the Toshkovka area, the fighting continues . In addition, the enemy assault was successfully repelled in the Metelkino area , the Russians withdrew. The enemy had to reinforce the grouping by introducing reserve units into the operation.

In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy was shelling our positions near Nikolaevka, Belogorovka, Gorsky, Kamyshevakhi and Novolugansky. Using army aviation, he launched an airstrike near Pokrovsky. In the Popasnaya area, our defenders successfully stopped the enemy advance, the invaders had to withdraw. The enemy is advancing in the region of Kidney, the fighting continues.

In the direction of Nikolaevka, the enemy's offensive bogged down . Under the well-aimed fire of our soldiers, the Russians withdrew. In the area of ​​Berestovoye, the enemy, while trying to storm, suffered losses and retreated to previously occupied positions. In addition, in order to identify weaknesses in the defense and expose the fire system, the invaders, not sparing the personnel, carried outreconnaissance in force near Vladimirovka . As expected, our defenders competently met the enemy - the enemy retreated with losses .

The invaders did not conduct active hostilities on the Avdievka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions . They shelled civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of New York, Avdievka, Krasnogorovka and Novoandreevka. Attack aircraft struck near Maryinka.

In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction , the enemy, in order to contain our troops, fired at Ukrainian positions in the areas of Dobryanka, Velyka Kostromka, Murakhivka and Pribuzhsky. The enemy also tried to conduct a counter-battery fight.

The occupiers struck with assault and army aircraft near Snigirevka and Topolinoye.

There were no significant changes in the situation in the Bessarabian direction.
Posted by: badanov || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Russians prepare an attack on Slavyansk and Siversk - the General Staff of the Armed Forces
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Censor] The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports about it on its Facebook page, Censor.NET reports.

"In the Slavic direction, the enemy focuses on preparing troops for the attack on Slavyansk. stockpiles of ammunition and fuel and lubricants in preparation for the offensive on Slavyansk and Siversk, "the statement said.

Posted by: badanov || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Russian military fired on 13 settlements of Donetsk region, there are wounded and dead
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Irina Gamaliy
[LB] Last night, the occupiers struck 16 blows in the Donetsk region. Infrastructure was destroyed, civilians were injured and killed.

This was reported on Facebook by the Donetsk Region Police.

The enemy fired on 13 settlements. These are the cities of Avdiyivka, Zalizne, Mykolayivka. The villages of Novomykolaivka, Vysokoivanivka, Cherkaske, Pervomaiske, Sukha Balka, Ptyche, Karpivka, Hirnyk, Netaylove and Novobakhmutivka were shelled.

The enemy fired at the civilian population with tanks, small arms, heavy artillery, mortars, missiles, rocket launchers "Hurricane", "Hail", "Tornado". Destroyed 30 civilian objects: 14 houses, 14 power lines, power lines substations, forests and garages, "the statement said.

Russian war crimes have been documented. The police launched a pre-trial investigation under Article 438 (violation of the laws or customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

We will remind, last days ZSU repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk directions fourteen attacks of occupiers.

Russians killed two residents of Donetsk region today
Another 10 people were injured.

by Natalka Lototska

[LB] On Saturday, June 11, Russians killed two civilians in the Donetsk region.

This was announced by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko .

People died in Netaylov and the Old Caravan.

Another 10 people were injured.

"It is currently impossible to determine the exact number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha," the statement said.

We will remind, the military of the Russian Federation on June 10 fired at 13 settlements of Donetsk region, there are wounded and lost . The National Police recorded 30 damage to civilian objects.

Posted by: badanov || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


In Severodonetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine win - Gaidai
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] Russian artillery destroys all houses in Severodonetsk. According to the head of the Luhansk military administration, Sergei Gaidai, this is the reaction of the Russian military to the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area . " Constant battles are going on in the city of Severodonetsk. The territory of the Azot plant is being shelled very powerfully, everything is simply being destroyed there. Even oil has leaked from the radiators, there was a very powerful fire, " he said.

Gaidai noted that in Severodonetsk "ours win in street battles, but, unfortunately, enemy artillery simply dismantles the floors of houses that are used as shelters." “ In this sense, it’s hard - until ours knock out the enemy from one street, then the enemy starts with tanks, artillery, Grads to dismantle house after house. We have to regroup, move to new positions ,” the head of the region noted.

According to him, the most difficult situation is not only in Severodonetsk, but also in Popasnaya and in the area of ​​the Seversky Donets River. At the same time , the water level in the Seversky Donets River has dropped significantly , so there may be attempts by the Russian military to cross the river and try to make a new bridgehead in the Belogorovka area. Also, the enemy can break through the line of defense of our defenders in Popasna.

In addition, according to Gaidai, there are very powerful battles in Toshkovka. Previously, the enemies used "Solntsepek" there. This weapon is banned worldwide.

Gaidai nevertheless notes that the situation in the Lugansk direction is difficult, but under control.

But evacuation from the area is no longer possible, because you can get into battle or get mortally wounded from arrival.

14 Russian attacks repelled in Donbas, fighting continues

[Vesti] On the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, in the zone of responsibility of the fighters of the Joint Forces grouping, on Friday, June 10, Ukrainian defenders repelled 14 enemy attacks. Fighting continues at two more locations, the JFO command said , summing up the day.

To date, the military personnel of the Joint Forces grouping have destroyed:

  • four enemy tanks;

  • two artillery systems;

  • 11 armored combat vehicles;

  • three units of automotive equipment;

  • one ammunition depot.

Air defense units shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles of the Orlan-10 type in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbass.

June 10 - 107th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Heavy fighting continues in the Donbas: daily, according to the Office of the President, between 100 and 200 Ukrainian soldiers are killed at the front.

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 11th, 2022
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€[Korrespondent] 23:53 The US government is boycotting the Russian economic forum in St. Petersburg and is calling for other governments and companies to join the boycott, State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "No business as usual while Russian troops destroy Ukraine."

23:46 Zelensky announced talks with European leaders next week: "Today we had very fruitful talks in Kiev with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. I am glad to note her sincerity. It is the European Commission that will prepare an opinion on our application. Ukraine has provided all the necessary answers, and it was done well. There will be many more equally important and, I hope, fruitful negotiations with European leaders next week."

23:43 In Chortkiv, the gas was turned off - work is underway there with the consequences of the shelling, said the head of the Ternopil OVA Volodymyr Trush.

23:28 Scholz, Macron and Draghi are planning a joint visit to Ukraine, writes the German publication Bild am Sonntag.

23:26 Zelensky confirmed that the Ukrainian military is gradually liberating the Kherson region, today the village of Tavriyskoye has been added to the list of returned settlements , there are certain successes in the Zaporozhye region. Fierce street fighting continues in Severodonetsk.

23:17 Zelensky, in an evening video message, announced Ukraine's prospects in the EU: "Today, the final stage of a large diplomatic marathon began, which should end in a week and a half. And we are really in this marathon together with the European Union - in one team, and this team will have to win "We will soon receive an answer about the status of the candidate for Ukraine. I am convinced that this decision can strengthen not only our state, but the entire European Union."

22:09 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Chortkovsky district of the Ternopil region, residents are asked to stay in shelters, not to film or photograph the consequences of the explosions, said the head of the OVA Vladimir Trush.

22:05 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko urged the head of the African Union, Maki Sal, who, after meeting with Putin, asked Kiev to clear ports of mines, not to believe the Kremlin's statements: "Africa is threatened by a jump in food prices and potential famine due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In this context, it is unpleasant to hear that Ukraine should do something without condemning Russia and calling on it to stop the destructive war."

21:33 Spiegel writes that Germany did not agree with the plans of the Spanish government to supply Ukraine with 40 old German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks. If Berlin agreed, it would be the first time that a NATO member would supply battle tanks to Ukraine, the newspaper notes. But the German government warned the Spaniards in telephone calls that such a move would be a retreat from the informal decision taken by the Western Allies not to supply Kyiv with tanks.

20:49 Zelensky signed a law allowing the use of SRW in combat areas.

20:18 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, reports that the occupation authorities are planning the construction of prefabricated apartment buildings using a technology similar to the construction of shopping centers such as the Metro. In fact, these will be temporary metal booths. And a few hundred meters from these houses, the invaders are preparing a line of defense, including digging in heavy equipment. Such an arrangement of fortifications makes it impossible for Ukrainian artillery to strike at the fortifications of the occupiers.

19:59 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that there are now several difficult directions in the region - from the side of Popasnaya, Severodonetsk and the Seversky Donets River, which has grown numb. Very tough battles are going on in Toshkovka and Severodonetsk. The territory of Azot is shelled for hours from artillery, a fire broke out after Russian shells hit radiators, from which oil leaked. At the same time, in street battles in Severodonetsk, the Ukrainian military wins, but Russian artillery "destroys house after house." Grain is transported from the newly occupied territories by KrAZ vehicles, Gaidai added.

19:41 According to Bloomberg sources, the European Commission on June 17 will recommend granting Ukraine the status of an EU candidate, but with certain conditions, including strengthening the rule of law and strengthening the fight against corruption. However, the conclusions of the European Commission must be approved by all 27 member countries, not all of which support the rapid granting of candidate status to Kyiv.

19:30 Former vice-president of Gazprombank Igor Volobuev joined the Freedom of Russia legion, the legion itself said.

19:27 The seventh package of anti-Russian sanctions should be even tougher and affect Russian officials, judges, banks and companies, Zelensky said during a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen. "Of course, the EU, for its own good, should work towards a total phase-out of Russian energy resources. This is a fundamental security issue for everyone," he added.

19:25 Zelensky created the city military administration of Lisichansk, Valery Shibik was appointed its head.

19:23 In the Odessa region, a man died on the beach while relaxing - he was blown up by a mine, said OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk. He also said that today a mine washed up on the shore, which detonated in the sea.

19:21 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian troops successfully resist the assault of the Russians in Severodonetsk and in the Metelkino region. In the Slavic direction, Ukrainian forces successfully repelled the assault in the areas of Brazhkovka, Dolyna and Vernopol. Also stopped the offensive of the Russians in the area of ​​Popasnaya. In the area of ​​​​Berestovoye, the Russians suffered losses during an attempted assault and retreated to their previously occupied positions; in the direction of Nikolaevka, the enemy’s offensive was unsuccessful.

At the same time, Russian troops are storming Ukrainian positions in the Toshkovka area, the fighting continues. The Russians are trying to gain a foothold in Bogorodichnoye, there are also fights. In the Limansky direction, the enemy is reinforcing the grouping in the direction of Lisichansk. Also, the RF Armed Forces are advancing in the Nyrkovo area, the fighting continues.

19:14 Podolyak refuted claims that Ukraine ignored the threat of a Russian invasion: "If Ukraine" did not "prepare" for war, why did the first Russian strikes fall on mock-ups, all the ammunition was dispersed, and January and February were held in exercises? Ukraine was preparing for war since last year: information about the upcoming invasion was given not only by Western intelligence, but also by ours.Only if someone gave us three days, Ukrainian intelligence said: we will stand.But what other countries did, knowing about Moscow's plans to commit genocide in order to stop it - question. If we started receiving heavy weapons in January, the situation could be different. "

18:50 The Ukrainian army is experiencing a shortage of long-range artillery systems, Russian artillery "plows" the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and dominates the battlefield. In half a day, from 2,000 to 4,000 artillery shells arrive at Ukrainian positions, Dmitry Krasilnikov, head of the Pivnich operational command, said. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer serious losses, constant strikes demotivate the best Ukrainian fighters in 2-3 days, and the demotivation of the infantry leads to the disruption of combat missions.

18:36 The north of the Donetsk region is de-energized, said the head of the OVA Pavlo Kirilenko: "As a result of Russian shelling, power lines were damaged in the Toretsk area, which in turn led to the shutdown of substations of NEK Ukrenergo in the region. Without electricity, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, Bakhmut ". The timing of the repair will depend on the security situation, said Kirilenko.

18:11 The Chinese delegation did not leave the hall during Zelensky's speech at the Asian Security Summit. Political analyst Olivia Enos, who previously reported this, has since deleted her tweet. The media suggest that she mixed up the delegations of China and Vietnam - the Vietnamese really went out for a few minutes and returned.

18:02 The German IRIS-T air defense system will help cover Kiev in the fall, and in 3-4 years it will protect other cities and important objects of Ukraine from missile attacks, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said in an interview with NV. According to him, the production of the system for Ukraine will be completed at the end of summer, then it will undergo training, and the delivery of IRIS-T will take place in October.

"The IRIS-T system is the only thing I thanked both the chancellor and the government for in recent months. This system is the coolest in the world. It can be compared with the American Patriot. It is a German product. The breakthrough is that this is the first non-old-style weapon but the latest," the ambassador said. He also noted that in this case, long delivery times are justified, since the system is only being produced for Ukraine.

17:53 In Mariupol, on the territory near the former OBI supermarket, a tractor of the Russian Emergencies Ministry was blown up by a mine. Two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation and one Russian military man died on the spot, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. He also said that the occupiers changed Freedom Square in Mariupol to Lenin Square and raised their tricolor over it.

17:21 According to Ukrainian military intelligence, Russia still has sufficient potential to wage a long-term war. Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said on the air of the Present Time TV channel that the enemy uses 103 battalion tactical groups on the territory of Ukraine, which are directly involved in hostilities. About 40 more armored personnel carriers are in reserve and can be used against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Also, a representative of the military intelligence of Ukraine said that due to military failures, the General Staff of the Russian Federation has to adjust invasion plans every 30 days and focus all efforts only on certain areas: "We have confirmed information that the Russians have a plan for 120 days of war. Further adjustment this plan will depend on how the enemy succeeds or, conversely, fails in eastern Ukraine. However, the goal of the so-called special military operation, which Putin announced at the beginning of the war, was not achieved by the Russians."

16:45 Ursula von der Leyen said that the talks she held in Kiev with Zelensky would allow finalizing the assessment of Ukraine's application for EU membership by the end of next week: "More needs to be done. Don't get me wrong. There is a war in Ukraine. So your the focus and our support is on overcoming this terrible war, but we want to look ahead."

16:27 During the visit of the head of the European Commission to Kiev, Zelensky said that the future of the European project depends on whether the EU grants Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership: "It is now being determined what the future of a united Europe will be, and whether there will be a future at all. A positive response from the European Union to the Ukrainian application for membership could be a positive answer to the question of whether there is any future for the European project at all."

16:01 The "DNR" announced that they are preparing a trial of the "mercenary" from South Korea, but the trial will take place not in the "DNR", but in his country.

15:38 In the Kherson region, the Russians are strengthening the defense of the North Crimean Canal, which supplies water to the Crimea, reports the Operational Command Pivden. In particular, protective reinforced concrete structures have been built around the North Crimean Canal, and the number of checkpoints has been increased on access roads and near bridges. It is also reported about "quite intense" hostilities on the administrative border of the Kherson region with neighboring regions and in the Berislav region.

15:16 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting a counteroffensive in the direction of Kiselevka, Soldatsky and Aleksandrovka on the southwestern border of the Kherson region, the Kherson City Council reported. It is also reported that the village of Tavriyskoye is completely under the control of Ukraine.

14:55 Yermak said that Russia is trying to repeat the Holodomor: “The Russians are shelling Ukrainian fields with incendiary shells. Those who create a global food crisis, trying to reconstruct the Holodomor, want to destroy the Ukrainian crop. Our soldiers are putting out the fire, but food terrorism must be stopped. with our allies, we are discussing ways to resolve the food crisis."

14:41 Ukraine is currently preparing a document with G7 allies "to determine how they can help our people live without fear," Zelensky said at the Asian security summit Shangri La Dialogue, commenting on the issue of security guarantees.

14:30 Singapore will transfer life-saving equipment, mine detectors, two fire engines, nine ambulances and fire-fighting protective equipment to Ukraine, Ambassador Yekaterina Zelenko said.

14:12 The Chinese delegation left the hall during Zelensky's speech at the Asian Security Summit, said Olivia Enos, a senior political analyst at the Center for Asian Studies.

13:44 Zelensky during the Asian Security Summit Shangri-La Dialogue said that Russia's war against Ukraine is not only Europe: "This is about globally important things. The Russian leadership wants to discard all the achievements of the historical development of mankind, in particular the system of international law that we have today, and return to life as in the 19th century or even earlier, when everything that gave billions of people a chance for harmonious development and well-being was impossible."

"The world today must return Russia to its territory, and not seek understanding with it, because no one can appease the Russian leadership with words alone," the president added.

13:19 The first "passports" of the Russian Federation were issued in Kherson, the document was received by 23 people, including the "head of administration" of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo, appointed by the Russians, Russian media write.

12:47 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning to de-occupy the territories of the Zaporozhye region occupied by Russia in the near future, Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said: “Over the past two weeks, the front line has been moved away from Zaporozhye by about five kilometers, somewhere by seven. Therefore, the de-occupation of the city of Melitopol and others "There will be temporarily occupied territories. This is the agenda our defenders are setting for themselves in the near future."

12:23 Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Russian-controlled "main council of the military-civilian administration" of the Zaporozhye region, said that a "ceremony for issuing the first Russian passports" was held in Melitopol. Earlier, Rogov said that, as of June 6, more than 70,000 residents have already applied for Russian citizenship.

11:55 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced that she had arrived in Kiev: "It's good to be in Kiev again. With President Zelensky, I will sum up the joint work necessary for the recovery and progress made by Ukraine on its European path. Europe is for you!"

11:28 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, refuted the statements of the "LNR" that the Ukrainian military was blocked at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk: "This is a lie that Russian propagandists are spreading. Ours are holding the industrial zone of Severodonetsk and destroying the Russian army in the city."

11:12 "Authorities" in the Kherson region demand from the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "to register and hand over their weapons" - such an order was given by the so-called "military commandant of the Kherson region", said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk: "Everyone already knows what fate awaits those whoever seems to the rashists is a bag on his head, a body exhausted by torture and, at best, a disability.As they write, "get registered, as well as voluntarily hand over weapons and ammunition" means to independently fall into the clutches of the beast, which at the first opportunity will cruelly take life And collaborators who voluntarily fail to show up are threatened with reprisals."

11:08 Biden said that Zelensky ignored his warnings about the impending Russian invasion in February 2022: "I know many people thought that I might be exaggerating, but I knew and we had data to confirm that he was going to cross border. There was no doubt. And Zelensky did not want to hear it, and many others did too."

11:06 In the Kherson region, there is a "clear integration" into the Russian Federation, the region will "never in life" return to Ukraine, said the "deputy head of administration" of the region Kirill Stremousov. He also said that all the debts of the residents of the Kherson region to Ukrainian banks are likely to be written off.

11:03 Heavy weapons from Germany will begin to arrive at the end of June , Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said. According to him, the arrival of seven Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers is expected on June 22, and 15 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns - in July and August. Melnyk reproached Berlin for the fact that on the 105th day of the war, not a single piece of heavy military equipment from Germany had been delivered to Ukraine.

10:27 At the time of the occupation of the city on May 8, there were one and a half thousand people left in Popasna - all of them were forcibly taken by Russians to Pervomaisk. When people were allowed to return home (they walked about 7 km), they saw the houses looted by the Russians, from which they took everything they could, said the head of the Popasnyanskaya city military-civilian administration, Nikolai Khanatov. At the same time, the bodies of the killed citizens remained lying on the streets for a month.

He also said that 60 people were hiding in the temple in Kamyshevakh, the invaders promised to bring them food, but the next day they were also deported.

10:22 Ukrainian officials in the south refuse to work with the occupiers, Podolyak said: "The number of collaborators in the occupied part of the south is so small that Moscow plans to import officials from Russia. But there are also traitors. Every official who agrees to cooperate with the occupiers must understand who signs his own sentence and becomes a legitimate target for the Ukrainian special services and courts."

10:20 In the Donetsk region, two civilians were killed in a day - in Konstantinovka and Gornyak, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. Seven more people were injured.

10:13 In Mariupol, houses are being massively demolished, without dismantling the rubble, under which the bodies of the dead residents of the city are located. They are taken to the landfill along with construction waste. At the same time, residents are not allowed into their apartments, even if they are in the surviving part of the house, they are not allowed to take personal belongings, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.

09:44 British intelligence reports that since April, Russian medium bombers have launched dozens of Kh-22 heavy air-launched missiles at ground targets. However, these missiles were intended to destroy aircraft carriers, and when used with a conventional warhead, they are highly inaccurate and can cause significant collateral damage - in particular civilian casualties.

Analysts point out that Russia is likely resorting to such ineffective weapons systems because it lacks more accurate modern missiles, while Ukraine's air defense system still keeps its tactical aircraft from striking much of the country.

09:27 Zelensky responded to a petition to lift the travel ban for men from Ukraine. The President said that, according to the Constitution, the protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state is the business of the entire Ukrainian people, therefore, the travel ban will be lifted after the end of martial law. As for the queues for mobilization and corruption at the border, the Cabinet of Ministers was instructed to work on this issue.

09:03 In Severodonetsk, the occupiers suffered serious losses during a meeting in one of the buildings of the city, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, most of the city is controlled by the Russians, fighting continues. Gaidai also noted that by the "Day of Russia", which is celebrated on June 12, the Russians are likely to "many times" increase the number of shelling.

09:00 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 11. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions.

  • personnel - about 32,050 (+150) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 1419 (+10),

  • armored combat vehicles - 3466 (+16),

  • artillery systems - 712 (+0),

  • MLRS - 222 (+0),

  • air defense systems - 97 (+0),

  • aircraft - 212 (+0),

  • helicopters - 178 (+0),

  • UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 579 (+7),

  • cruise missiles - 125 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 13 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 2448 (+10),

  • special equipment - 54 (+0).

08:42 In Mariupol, the occupiers are urgently preparing to launch an infectious diseases department based on an emergency hospital. Four boxes for isolation of patients are almost ready. The infectious department will be opened on the basis of the covid department, which was used by the occupiers to store about 600 bodies of the dead during the street fighting in Mariupol, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city.

He also reports that the queue for obtaining permission to bury loved ones is up to ten days, and during this time, Mariupol residents must store the bodies at home or in makeshift morgues. Given the hot weather, the number of self-made graves in the yards is growing, the exhumation has actually been stopped.

08:37 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Ukrainian officials are stepping up and accelerating requests for more advanced weapons systems amid reports of the advantage of Russian artillery. Given the current prevalence of protracted positional fighting, especially in the area of ​​Severodonetsk-Lysichansk, Ukrainian troops urgently need new supplies of artillery systems.

Analysts also report that Russian forces are continuing ground assaults in Severodonetsk but, as of June 10, do not yet have full control of the city. The Russians are preparing to resume their offensive against Slavyansk and have made little progress north of the city. Efforts are continuing to cut the T1302 Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway and storm settlements near the highway. Russian attacks remain mostly road-bound and limited to narrow fronts, experts say.

According to ISW, Russian troops have taken control of the Kinburn Spit, which will allow them to strengthen control over the Black Sea coast. Also, ISW, without confirmation, but citing various sources, suggests that the Russians advanced south of Svyatogorsk and crossed the Seversky Donets River in the Svyatogorsk-Tatyanovka area.

08:28 Russian invaders hit Vrubovka with a flamethrower system, entered Orekhov and are fixed on its northern outskirts, they are storming Severodonetsk, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. During the day of June 10, the enemy opened fire from various types of weapons on Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Ustinovka, Toshkovka, Zolotoy, Kidney, Gorny, Vrubovka, Kamyshevakhe. In Rubezhnoye and Popasnaya, the Russian army did not leave industrial facilities that survived, destroying factories in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.

08:20 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, speaking at the international security conference Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, appealed to the international community to join forces in response to Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the Kremlin's attempts to undermine the world order: "Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this is what happens when the oppressors scorn the rules that protect us all. It's what happens when big states decide that their imperial appetites are more important than the rights of their peaceful neighbors."

Austin stressed that Russia is destroying the rules-based world order. And if not intervened, it will lead to the formation of a world filled with chaos and disorder, in which no civilized country would like to find itself: "Let's use this moment to unite for a common goal. Let's use this moment to strengthen the international order based on rules."

08:12 The Zaporizhia Regional Military District has imposed a long curfew on the territory of the occupied districts of the region - Berdyansk, Melitopol, Vasilyevsky and Pologovsky. The travel ban will last from Saturday, June 11 at 10:00 pm until Monday, June 13 at 5:00 am.

08:09 The occupiers fired at the Krivoy Rog district in the Dnipropetrovsk region. In particular, Zelenodolsk and Shirokovskaya communities were fired from artillery and Hurricanes, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. Two people were wounded, houses, the headman, the house of culture were damaged. The village of Velikaya Kostromka was left without electricity and gas.

07:57 The enemy is focusing its main efforts on preparing troops for an attack on Slavyansk. He is conducting assault operations in the direction of Pasek - Bogorodichnoye, is successful and is trying to gain a foothold on the northwestern outskirts of Bogorodichnoye, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .

07:29 Ukrainian partisans helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy Russian bases in the Kherson region, writes The New York Times. According to the publication, which cites a high-ranking Ukrainian military official, this week "guerrilla intelligence officers sent artillery strikes against two Russian bases in the occupied Kherson region," as a result of which "dozens of enemy soldiers died, including two generals."

06:52 Biden urged Congress to pass a law that will help counter price increases. In particular, he called for the urgent implementation of the necessary procedures to create a reform of the taxation of the richest Americans and large corporations.

06:40 Germany launched a large-scale energy saving campaign: the entire population of the country - 80 million people - called for saving energy, writes DW. German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck announced that his ministry had turned off air conditioning and facade lighting. German business supported the initiative.

06:27 In the Kherson region, scouts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a group of Russian paratroopers, and also captured enemy weapons and means of communication, the operational command Pivden reports. In addition, in the Kherson region, Mi-8 helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked an enemy cluster, and in the Mykolaiv region, Su-27 aircraft hit an ammunition depot and a cluster of enemy equipment.

00:39 The first deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia, Sergei Kiriyenko, is called the new curator of the Ukrainian territories occupied by the Russian Federation. For more details, see Who Controls the Occupation from the Kremlin .

00:25 Lukashenko said that Western countries can send troops to the territory of Ukraine and attack Belarus from there: "They still have not abandoned the goal of leveling the front so that it passes: Smolensk-Pskov, Smolensk-Bryansk-Kursk and there to Rostov "They need to level the front. And we, almost a thousand kilometers, this balcony, we need to cut it off." He added that "they won't stop there."

“They will come from Western Ukraine or from somewhere else. Also, maybe they will have to fight for Western Ukraine so that they don’t chop it off. Because this is like death for us, not only for Ukrainians. Terrible processes are taking place around,” Lukashenka added.

00:14 Zelensky announced that Ukraine received $1.5 billion in direct budget assistance - $1 billion from the World Bank and $500 million from the UK. According to him, these funds will be used to pay salaries to state employees. In addition, Canada transferred 1 billion Canadian dollars to the Ukrainian administrative account with the IMF.

00:08 First Lady Elena Zelenska spoke via video link at the international conference Women in Conflicts , where she said that the majority of Ukrainian doctors are women, 50% of entrepreneurs are women, and there are 37,000 women in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than a thousand of whom became commanders.

00:04 The issuance of Russian passports to residents of the Zaporozhye region who have received Russian citizenship will begin on June 11, Vladimir Rogov, a representative of the "administration", said: "Tomorrow, residents of the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye region will begin to receive passports of Russian citizens, that is, they will become full-fledged citizens of our great united Motherland."

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Zelensky: Ukraine’s military gradually liberating Kherson Oblast,


Kherson Oblast is just north of Crimea, and has been occupied by Russia since March.
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#1  Unlikely to happen. Everyone is focused on the Donbas right now, but Kherson is too important to Russia.
Nice BBC map

Kherson anchors one end of the land bridge to Crimea, a major objective of this 'special operation'. Also, there is a canal near Kherson that brings fresh water to Crimea. The Ukrainians blocked the canal after the 2014 troubles. Restoring the canal was another Russian goal.
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#2  This is the same asshole who lied about Ukraine not having any casualties to speak of.

Last week, panicking and trying again to extort more billions from us, he suddenly changed his tune and said "60 to 100" per day.

The next day, his spokesman upped that to "100 to 200" per day. Yesterday his top military official revised it to 300 Ukrainian casualties suffered each day.

Which tells you the real number is at least twice that.
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#3  Diogenes ain't looking in the camp of either side there for his one honest man.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden will do to Ukraine what he did to Afghanistan. This should be obviousl to anyone who's been following this reptile over his career.

"When he was trying to persuade Barack Obama to pull out of Afghanistan, the vice-president, Joe Biden, drew an unfortunate analogy with the disgraced former US president Richard Nixon. “We have to be on our way out,” Biden told the veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, “to do what we did in Vietnam.”

Holbrooke, Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, replied that he “thought we had a certain obligation to the people who had trusted us”.

Biden’s response was revealing: “F*** that,” Biden reportedly told Holbrooke. “We don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”
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#5  Biden to Ukraine: "Lie back and think of Kissinger!"
Posted by: Palmerston || 06/12/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#6  So y'all finally admit that y'all and Presnident Zheimer are on the same side?
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From the Russian Perspective: Operation on Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary June 11th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:41 Rockets are rushing towards Ukraine. Air Raid in many areas. A flight of missiles was seen over the Kirovograd region, a cruise missile also rushed over the Odessa region towards Vinnitsa.

21:41 The first store of the new chain opened in Kherson. Price tags are indicated in rubles and hryvnias, the assortment includes Russian and local products. Olga, an employee of the store, shared her impressions of the opening of the retail space.

"It differs in that in this store there are Russian goods and goods of our Kherson manufacturers. ‹…› Of course, we got the store in a deplorable state: the shelves were broken, there was an unpleasant smell. ‹…› As you can see, they put the store in order, everything is fine with us," she told the Izvestia correspondent.

21:41 More than 841 tons of humanitarian aid have been transferred to residents of the DPR, LPR and southern Ukraine.

21:41 More than 50 requests for evacuation from Ukraine came to Russia in a day.

21:41 The militants have equipped an ammunition depot on the territory of the church in Pershotravensk.

21:41 The militants are placing US-made weapons and MLRS in the schools of Sloviansk.

21:05 The first batch of weapons from Germany to Ukraine will arrive on June 22, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said. According to him, the entire complex of combat vehicles, which consists of seven Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers and 15 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, will be delivered only by August.
June 22nd, the anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, also is commemorated as the Day of Sorrrow and Remembrance.
21:05 Forensic experts and other specialists arrive from Russia to serve in the internal affairs bodies of the Kherson region, as there are not enough personnel in the region now, Vladimir Saldo, head of the military-civilian administration (CAA) of the Kherson region, said on Saturday in a video published in Telegram- VGA channel. In the Kherson region, which this spring, as a result of a special military operation, got out of control of Kyiv, police bodies are being formed.

"There are not enough criminologists, specialists in a different direction, and now volunteers from <…> regions [of the Russian Federation] are coming and taking up this service," Saldo said.

21:04 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law allowing the dispatch of military personnel of the Territorial Defense Forces to perform tasks in combat areas.

20:08 In the liberated Energodar began celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the city. An entertainment program was prepared for children in the old park. Free cotton candy, trampolines, sports and interactive competitions were waiting for kids. There was also a drawing competition. All participants received memorable gifts and prizes.

20:06 Ukrainian authorities once again resorted to a pathetic attempt to prevent the inhabitants of the Zaporozhye region from celebrating a holiday, this time - the Day of Russia.

The fugitive mayors announced a curfew from 10 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday. Similar attempts to disrupt the events were made before the holidays of the First of May and Victory Day, but we all remember how large-scale they were in the Zaporozhye region.

The inhabitants of the liberated territories have forever returned their holidays and traditions that Ukraine took away from them. We think it is worth reminding the Kyiv regime that the inhabitants of the Zaporozhye region are no longer under the occupation of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, and such orders cause laughter, and nothing more. Moreover, they are written in an understandable, exclusively Western dialect.

19:17 The swimming season has opened in Odessa. One of the vacationers was blown up on a Ukrainian mine. Obviously, this is not the last death of civilians on Ukrainian mines, which were scattered in the sea and on the beaches in the Odessa area.

19:17 Any attempts by Western countries to cancel Russia only betray their manic belief that the whole world obeys their orders, said the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Naryshkin.

19:17 Russian servicemen held an unscheduled humanitarian action in the village of Veliky Burluk (Kharkiv region) for local children. In connection with the beginning of the holidays, the administrations of settlements controlled by the Russian Armed Forces are working on the issue of sending children to health camps in the Belgorod region.

19:17 Vladimir Putin signed laws on non-execution of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in Russia.

18:29 Ukraine will not be able to return the lost territories even with Western help. The Washington Post has published another article that is not encouraging for the Ukrainian regime.

The publication reports that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have run out of ammunition, and this despite the fact that the prospects on the battlefield are already rather vague.

"The Russians still make mistakes and also lose people and equipment, although at a slower rate than in the first months of the conflict. But the trajectory of the war has deviated from Russia's initial unexpected failures and tilted in its favor as a distinctly more powerful force.

At the same time, Western aid comes too slowly and will not be able to influence the advance of Russian troops in the Donbass. And this leads to an increase in the loss of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the political and military leadership of Ukraine, like no one else, understands this fact."

18:27 APU fired at a village on the coast in the Kherson region.

18:03 Explosions are reported in Kharkov.

17:58 In Ukraine, the first citizen of the Czech Republic, who fought on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, died, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said.

16:59 The armament of the Ukrainian forces is so inferior in artillery that 10-15 shells in their direction are answered with one.

16:59 The number of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one Severodonetsk can reach up to 1,000 (killed and wounded) people a day.

16:58 The Office of the President resumed negotiations with Warsaw on the introduction of the 20,000th group of Poland to Western Ukraine. On Bankovaya, they want to transfer units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the eastern front, which are located near the Belarusian border.

15:56 All loans taken from Ukrainian banks may not be repaid. No one will bear any responsibility for this, - said the head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo.

15:56 Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin: Russia has traditionally been an international guarantor of security and stability. No peace, global or regional, concluded without the participation of Russia, can be neither strong, nor stable, nor durable.

Any attempt by the totalitarian-liberal regimes of the West to abolish Russia only betrays their maniacal belief that the whole world revolves around them and obeys their wishes and orders. In fact, this is not so, and evidence of this is the 1000-year history of Russia.

15:41 Former member of the territorial defense of Kherson Oleg Bohun, who was detained while trying to sell weapons, urged former colleagues to surrender and start cooperating with Russia. He said that most of his colleagues, like himself, were forcibly called up for service.

14:56 Head of the Civil-Military Administration of the Zaporozhye Region Yevhen Balitsky opened a memorial plaque in honor of a Melitopol resident, a fighter against Ukrainian nationalism - Pavel Sudoplatov.

13:46 The military commandant of the Kherson region ordered the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the region to hand over their weapons. The military commandant of the Kherson region demanded that the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and persons equated to them located in the region, voluntarily appear at the military commandant's office, register, and also voluntarily hand over their weapons and ammunition.

The corresponding order "On strengthening public security measures" was signed on June 9. Persons who have complied with the requirements of the commandant's office will not be prosecuted if they did not commit crimes.

Those who try to evade the execution of the order are subject to detention with the seizure of all prohibited items found: weapons, including their components, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices.

13:45 Today, the first Russian passports were issued in Kherson. Volodymyr Saldo became the first resident of the Kherson region to receive a passport of the Russian Federation. The document was solemnly handed over to the head of the Regional State Administration by the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Igor Kostyukevich.

In turn, Vladimir Vasilyevich presented passports to 23 more residents of the region, who expressed a desire to become the first citizens of the Russian Federation in the liberated territory.

"For me, this is a truly historic moment. I have always thought that we are one country and one people," said the head of the CAA.

To date, the mechanism for issuing passports of the Russian Federation has already been debugged. Those who wish will be able to issue a document by contacting the passport office.

12:37 Air defense systems of the Russian Federation shot down MiG-29 and Su-25 planes in the Nikolaev and Kharkov regions.

12:37 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the DPR with high-precision air-launched missiles.

12:36 Rocket troops and artillery destroyed more than 300 nationalists and two Grad multiple rocket launchers.

12:35 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the deployment point of foreign mercenaries in the Kharkiv region with high-precision air-launched missiles.

11:32 Debts of residents of the Kherson region to utility companies and credit organizations of Ukraine will be written off - deputy head of the military-civilian administration Kirill Stremousov.

11:31 Residents of Kharkovur get heir "defenders" lay down their arms. Internet users are actively distributing campaign leaflets with a QR code on social networks, the meaning of which is not too difficult to understand.

The text on the leaflets states that "refusal to defend the Nazis is not cowardice." If you look closely, you can see that one of the leaflets is glued to the military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The code, by the way, leads to the Polite People channel. It is still interesting to observe how the criminal Ukrainian authorities continue to believe in the "integrity and unity" of the country.

Apparently, somewhere there was a miscalculation. Kharkov, in fact, is already ready for surrender.

11:31 Russia was forced to take drastic measures and start a special operation in Ukraine, since it was impossible to leave Donbass to be torn to pieces by neo-Nazis - Russian Ambassador to the United States.

"Kyiv carried out an undisguised genocide against the Russian-speaking population in eastern Ukraine," the Russian diplomat stressed.

11:31 In the Kherson region, there is a clear integration into the Russian Federation, the region will never return to Ukraine in its life - Deputy Head of the Regional Administration Stremousov.

11:31 The first Russian passports have already been issued in Melitopol.

10:33 The combat training of the Brave continues even at the front. Firearms training is conducted with personnel even in a combat situation. Today, the crews of the T-80, BMP-2 and flamethrowers from the RPO "Shmel" improved their skills at the shooting range.

10:32 Six Russian carriers of Caliber cruise missiles are in the Black Sea in readiness to use missile weapons.

10:32 In the Severodonetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces are advancing on Novotoshkovskoye - Orekhovo, they have achieved success.

10:32 In the Slavyansk direction, the RF Armed Forces have concentrated forces for an attack on Slavyansk. The regrouping of the Russian military with similar goals is taking place in the Liman direction.

10:32 In the Seversk direction, the Russian army is firing at the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border areas of the Sumy region.

10:31 Lack of artillery ammunition undermines the morale of the UAF militants - The New York Times. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are running out of ammunition for the Soviet artillery they use. The country did not receive enough weapons from its Western "allies", the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves complained about this to the leading American publication.

"We are running out of shells," said one of the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "We are not being supplied with them as quickly as they should be, and we are forced to save shells," he added.

10:30 A powerful explosion thundered in the area of ​​the settlement. Klintsy, Bryansk region. Previously it became known about the fire in the military unit, there was no information about the shelling. According to local residents, around 6 am there was a strong explosion, and then three more less loud ones. They also write that military equipment that arrived for repairs from the NVO zone in Ukraine was damaged. At the moment, nine rescue vehicles are extinguishing the fire. There were no casualties.

8:20 In the Kharkiv region, with the support of the military personnel of the RF Armed Forces, they began to restore the music school, which suffered as a result of artillery strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The music school will start working from September 1 this year and will accept new students for training. "Ministry of Defense of Russia"

7:10 At night, several missile attacks were carried out on objects and accumulations of the APU residential force in Kharkiv. There were four arrivals in total: two of them were in the area of ​​the Kharkov Aviation Institute (KhAI).

Not far from it are the Kharkov Aviation Plant and the airfield, which have been used by Ukrainian armed forces since the beginning of hostilities. A fire broke out at the site of one of the hits. At the same time, artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was working from the city limits: residents reported several “sorties” from different parts of Kharkov.

0:56 Kyiv for the first time announced the real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - according to Arestovich's calculations, the Ukrainian military lost about 10 thousand people. In an interview, Arestovich said that from the very beginning of the special operation, Ukraine has lost 100 people a day, and the total number of losses reaches 10 thousand people.

"At the beginning of the conflict, we had 100 people per day on average," Arestovich said in an interview with Mark Feigin.

Arestovich agreed with the host that, based on this calculation, the total number of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could reach 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: June 11th, 2022
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A€[NewsFrontInfo] 22:23 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a woman born in 1938. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kievsky district of Donetsk on the street. Felix Cohn.

❗Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:

Donetsk (Kiev district):
- st. Shchorsa, 112 - garage cooperative; a fire was recorded as a result of a direct hit;
- st. Rosa Luxemburg - therapeutic building of the hospital. Vishnevsky;
- st. Baidukova, 1, 6 - private residential houses.

n.p. Makeevka:
- st. Trunk, 1 - substation "Chaykino-330"; the measuring transformer of the 330 kV outdoor switchgear of the switchgear was destroyed, 2 330 kV SF6 circuit breakers, 2 disconnectors were damaged: 1-RGZ-330V, 2-ALSTOMSPO2T, the hardware communication building was hit by fragments.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

21:38 Kadyrov announced success in liberating the industrial zone of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk from Ukrainian troops:

“I want to please the patriots of Russia, Ukraine, and I also want to upset you, false patriots. Today, in the industrial zone of Severodonetsk, a lot of shaitans were destroyed, and another settlement (Metelkino) ... took more than half. Nice results".

21:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will build a new medical center in the LPR in a few months - the head of the LPR Pasechnik. The multifunctional medical center under construction in Lugansk will start operating in mid-November.

"We plan to complete the construction by November 1 and hand over this object. Already today, as I understand it, the Ministry of Health (LPR) is engaged in the selection of medical personnel, is engaged in training," said Pasechnik.

21:37 "Mushroom" from a strong explosion rises in the Avdievka area, where the chemical plant is located, the "mushroom" is visible from Donetsk, reportsRIA Novosti correspondent. Avdievka is now controlled by Ukrainian troops.

21:23 Vladimir Mashkov arrived in Lugansk and met with the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik. The actor's visit took place as part of the Days of Russia in Donbass festival, Mashkov presented the film Upward Movement, in which he played one of the main roles.

"You protect our land. The most important issue of the fight against evil is now being decided here, which, of course, will be resolved. You are the center of the Russian world now. It is a great honor and pride for me that you invited me," said the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation.

21:22 In Mariupol, three workers were injured due to an explosion of ammunition. The tractor they were in was blown up by an explosive object, the headquarters of the DPR’s territorial defense said. The car performed work on the analysis of rubble near the destroyed shopping center. The injured have been taken to hospital and are being treated as needed.

21:22 APU again fired at Donetsk. The blow fell on the Miners' Square.

21:03 Under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was the Kyiv district of Donetsk. This was announced by the mayor of the city Alexei Kulemzin.

19:54 Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik got acquainted with the progress of the construction of a multifunctional medical center in Luhansk, which is being built by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. He said that it is planned to open a medical facility on November 15.

19:20 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
- n.p. Novgorodskoye
- n.p. Golmovsky: fired six shells with a caliber of 122mm;
- n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: fired six mines in 120mm caliber.

19:00 According to the official representative of the NM of the DPR: Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 180 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, barreled artillery of 155mm, 122mm caliber, as well as 120mm and 82mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the districts of eight settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, four civilians were injured. Sixteen residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified. Materials on the facts of the death and injury of civilians, as well as the destruction of civilian objects, will be transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR for inclusion in criminal cases initiated against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

During the current day, the joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two T-64 tanks, one 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, two cargo vehicles and more than sixty personnel.

More than five enemy firing points were suppressed. We regret to inform you that over the past day in the struggle for independence, two defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died in the line of military duty and four were injured.

18:56 Recaptured from the APU a bunker and firing positions with NATO weapons near the town of Shchastya in the LPR.

Ukrainian militants prepared thoroughly for defense. The walls and ceiling of the bunker are made of concrete. Inside the APU bunker were Ukrainian machine gunners, submachine gunners and snipers.

For the defense of the city, the Armed Forces of Ukraine brought a huge amount of NATO weapons to the positions. Our fighters find abandoned Swedish NLAW systems, AT-4 Socrates grenade launchers, American M-72 grenades, ORPG-75, Javelin grenades, etc. in positions.

But all this did not help the Armed Forces of Ukraine to stop the liberation offensive of the allied forces of Russia and the LPR.

18:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of the Trudovskoy mine): 15 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm

18:35 As a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk on the street, received damage to a number of residential buildings, a man born in 1963 was wounded. He was delivered to the Central Bank No. 17.

18:14 Commander of the operational-tactical group "North" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Krasilnikov spoke about the state of affairs at the front:

- APU is experiencing a shortage of long-range artillery systems.
- Russian artillery plows the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and dominates the battlefield.
- In half a day, from 2,000 to 4,000 artillery shells arrive at Ukrainian positions.
- Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer serious losses from Russian artillery strikes.
- Constant blows demotivate the best Ukrainian fighters in 2-3 days.
- Demotivation of the infantry leads to the disruption of combat missions.
- To change the situation, new deliveries of weapons from Western countries are needed.

18:14 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Experimental - Donetsk: 25 shots fired from a tank.

18:04 Fixed shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction: 14:10 - n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

18:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.

17:58 The Union of Afghanistan of the Lugansk Region together with the Union of Paratroopers of the Yamalo-Nenets District of the Russian Federation transferred humanitarian aid for residents of the liberated territories and servicemen of the NM LPR

16:55 The ceremony of presenting awards to the relatives of the fallen servicemen of the People's Militia of the LPR took place in Pervomaisk. This was reported by the press service of the city administration.

On behalf of the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the city administration Sergey Kolyagin and the head of the department of the military commissariat of the LPR for the cities of Stakhanov, Bryanka, Kirovsk, Pervomaisk Major Igor Tverezovsky handed over the awards to the relatives of the fallen defenders of the Republic

16:55 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Bayrak: fired six mines in 82mm caliber.

16:50 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

16:45 The forces of the NM DPR, with the support of the RF Armed Forces, drove the enemy out of the territory of the fortified area in the village of Dolomitnoye, west of Svetlodarsk.

It was through Dolomitnoye that the line of contact passed, from where Ukrainian troops fired on the northern regions and suburbs of Horlivka. The forces of the third guards brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR took part in the operation. According to the latest data, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered considerable losses and retreated in a north-western direction - towards Gladosovo.

16:34 Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin and Chairman of the All-Russian public organization "Russian Union of Youth", member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation Pavel Krasnorutsky signed a Cooperation agreement.

16:28 Houses are on fire in the area of ​​the Topaz plant, hits on the residential sector. Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.

16:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.

16:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad".

15:45 The Ukrainian military is exchanging weapons supplied to them by Western countries for provisions and water. Such cases were recorded on the line of contact, said Ivan Filiponenko, official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR.

15:31 Residents of liberated Svetlodarsk in the DPR told a RIA Novosti correspondent about daily shelling by Ukrainian troops. Children know: if something whistles, then you need to run to the basement or hide in a hole.

15:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Ozeryanovka: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.

15:20 - Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kalinin district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

15:20 - Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

14:35 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kyiv district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

14:26 Special operationin Ukraine. Situation on June 11th.

14:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 13:35 - n.p. Zaitsevo North - n.p. Zaitsevo South: 16 mines fired in 60mm caliber

13:51 Mariupol Tribunal over Ukrainian war criminals from the Nazi regiment "Azov" and the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be held at the end of June in the city of Mariupol.

Preparations for the process are already underway. It will be the first tribunal for Ukrainian war criminals on the territory of the DPR (not counting the already past trial of three foreign mercenaries). Until the end of summer, several trials of Ukrainian war criminals will take place in the Donetsk People's Republic.

13:42 Residential quarters in Gorlovki DNR were subjected to massive shelling from the Ukrainian side. Five civilians were injured.

13:30 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: three mines of 120mm caliber were fired.

13:29 As a result of Ukrainian aggression, a fire was recorded at the Gorlovka paper mill on the street. Richter, 7a, in the village of Ozeryanovka. Behind the house building on the street. Richtera, 19, a high-pressure gas pipeline was interrupted.

13:15 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad";

13:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

12:55 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

12:55 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Acute - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

12:35 “Severodonetsk is not completely 100% liberated. The Ukrainian military, representatives of the Ukrainian national battalions still remain in the industrial zone of the Azot plant, from where they are shelling the city, so it is still impossible to call the situation calm in the city of Severodonetsk.

But I am sure that in the near future, in any case, we will go there, in any case, we will catch on, in any case, we will clean it (the industrial zone) ”- the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik

12:27 As a result of the attack of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, destruction of houses on the street was recorded. Barabinskaya, 36 and Polyarnaya, 2, which is in the village of Russky Krai, Kalininsky district of Gorlovka. The power line was also damaged, the village without electricity.

In the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky, as a result of shelling from the VFU, a three-story house on the street was damaged. Mushketovskaya, 16. In the Gorlovsky village of Ozeryanovka on the street. Richtera, 15/2 due to Ukrainian aggression, a fire was recorded.

12:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

12:17 Fixed shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction: 11:25 - n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kyiv district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

12:10 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

12:05 - Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: 11:10 - n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Golmovsky: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired;

— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Russian Territory: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

12:01- According to updated information, shelling n.p. Pervomaisk was fought with the use of 122mm artillery pieces (eight rounds). As a result of the shelling, the city administration building, the Zarya cultural and leisure center, the art school, a shopping complex and an apartment building were damaged. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

11:29 The headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports that the Kirov power grids of Donetsk were damaged by the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of the shelling of Ukrainian militants, the Shiroky microdistrict remains de-energized, 47 transformer substations are disconnected - more than 1,500 subscribers are left without electricity. The situation is the same in Yelenovka, where 2,500 subscribers were left without electricity.

11:27 DPR military destroyed several batteries of M-777 howitzers supplied from the USA near Avdievka - adviser to the head of the DPR government

11:22 - The outskirts of the Kievsky district of Donetsk. Strongest arrivals.

11:26 - The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, said that representatives of the Republic are negotiating with countries to recognize the independence of the LPR, some of them are already ready for this.
Already ready, already.
11:21 - Regarding the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Chepel-Protopopovka line, where the Vushniks are trying to organize a counteroffensive. The Seversky Donets became quite shallow and many fords opened on its bed.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to drag truck-mounted mortars through them and conduct a DRG in order to try to act on the communications of our group in Izyum. as they say with us, fluffed up).

Such an operation was carried out several times, and now, in order to raise the morale of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, detachments of militants from the national battalions were sent behind them. At least that's what the prisoners and radio interception data report.

11:17 Four citizens injured during Ukrainian shelling of Gorlovka

11:15 The DPR administration and the Russian Youth Union signed a cooperation agreement.

11:07 The Investigative Committee stated that the Azov militants used the Mariupol residents as a human shield

10:53 Ukrainian militants who have settled at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk demand to be released to the neighboring city of Lysichansk with hostages from among the local residents, law enforcement agencies reported.

Now there are more than a thousand civilians in Azot's bomb shelters, including plant workers, their families and residents of neighboring neighborhoods.

10:52 Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation have been working on the territory of Mariupol since the end of April and are contacted by local residents every day.

"More than 2,000 people have been questioned. All residents of Mariupol, against whom unlawful acts were committed, were recognized as victims. There is a lot of evidence about the purposeful execution of residential apartments and houses by Azov militants from small arms," said an employee of the department.

10:50 - Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 10:30 - n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

10:45 Artillery ammunition shortage undermines UAF morale - The New York Times. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are running out of ammunition for the Soviet artillery they use. The country did not receive enough weapons from its Western “allies”, the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves complained about this to the leading American publication.

"We are running out of shells," said one of the APU militants. "We are not being supplied with them as quickly as they should be, and we are forced to save shells," he added.

10:43 People's militia of the LPR reports: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:

-33 personnel;
-seven armored personnel carriers;
-four units of automotive equipment;
-one serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine laid down his arms, thereby saving his life.

10:30 According to the official representative of the NM DPR: Over the past day, the enemy fired more than 530 shells and mines from artillery systems with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, multiple launch rocket systems "Hurricane" and "Grad", as well as 120mm and 60mm mortars.

The areas of fourteen settlements of the Republic were fired upon. As a result of the shelling, five civilians were killed and twenty-one were injured, of which one was a teenager born in 2007.

Thirty-eight residential buildings, three vehicles and eight civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Materials on the facts of the death and injury of civilians, as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure will be transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR for inclusion in criminal cases, raised against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Over the past day, the joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed one tank, two armored personnel carriers-2, two firing positions of 122mm D-30 artillery howitzers, two cargo vehicles and seventy personnel, suppressed three enemy firing points in the area of ​​n.p. Avdievka.

One 152mm self-propelled gun mount 2S3 "Acacia" and two infantry fighting vehicles were captured. In addition, nine servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms in the Gorlovka direction, thereby saving their lives. We appeal to all citizens who are on the territory temporarily controlled by Ukrainian nationalists.

If you have become eyewitnesses to the crimes of Ukrainian militants, try to covertly record a video or photo recording of these facts without endangering yourself. We guarantee your anonymity. After sending the specified information through the official feedback bot (@nmdnr_bot) of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram application, these materials will be used as an evidence base for punishing Ukrainian war criminals to the fullest extent of the law.

10:22 VFU shelled the Central City district of Gorlovka! Two wounded civilians on the street. Nesterova, 9. Another civilian was wounded on the street. Minin and Pozharsky, 140. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations left to eliminate the fire. According to preliminary information, the house and outbuildings on the street are on fire. Tolstoy.

10:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

10:15 - Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 09:06 - n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.

10:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Bayrak: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.

10:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Petrovskoye: one missile was fired from the BM-27 "Hurricane";

9:53 Fixed shelling from the side of the VFU in the directions:
- settlement Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired three mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

09:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122 m caliber.

08:59 Between 300 and 400 Ukrainian soldiers are blocked at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk, LPR ambassador to Russia said.

08:53 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
- n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired five shells with a caliber of 152mm;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Bayrak: fired five shells of 152mm caliber.

08:25 - Liberated Melitopol and Berdyansk are preparing for the Day of Russia - festive billboards are hung on the streets. Russian troops took control of the city on 26 and 28 February respectively.

07:30 - After 03:00 shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: nine mines fired from 120mm.

07:20 In Luhansk, you can easily withdraw money from Russian Sber cards. Moreover, the payment system "Mir", "Visa" and "Master".

06:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: from the direction of the settlement. Golden - four by n.p. Pervomaisk with 120mm mortars (6 min).

01:18 Ukrainian garrison of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk is trying to get in touch with the Russian military. In negotiations, they put forward their own conditions. They are told that no conditions will be accepted. Only the addition of weapons and surrender. "They are leaving to think it over," said the LPR Ambassador to Russia, Rodion Miroshnik.

0:53 Dolomiteour! The guardsmen of the 3rd Gorlovskaya Brigade of the DPR army crushed and took the firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These are the positions from which they corrected the fire on Gorlovka, Zaitsev, Golmovsky district. Dmitry Astrakhan went to the positions of the Ukrainian military and saw pigs there.

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Long Russian recession
[The Bell] Economic indicators for April released last week painted a surprisingly good picture: Russia’s economy appears to have shrugged off the initial effects of Western sanctions. But don’t be misled: the long-term effects of these sanctions are only starting to make themselves felt. Moreover, the EU last week announced a new round of sanctions: including an oil embargo that — as recently as a few months ago — was all but unthinkable.

The government and the Central Bank are most concerned by the fall in consumer spending. However, the reduction in April (8.8 percent) was only a third of that seen at the peak of the coronavirus crisis in April 2020 (26.8 percent).

The recent data is evidence that the current crisis will be very different from the pandemic: back then we saw a sharp fall and a gradual rebound; this time the fall will be steady and prolonged, according to Raiffaissenbank’s chief macro-analyst Stanislav Murashov. Consumer demand will likely continue to decline, firstly due to shortages arising from import problems, then due to a deteriorating labor market (although, for the moment, unemployment remains close to a record low of 4 percent).

Economist Oleg Itskhoki told The Bell in March that we were seeing "an experiment on the Russian economy and the Russian population on a never-seen-before scale". He wasn’t wrong. Even now, economists insist that "specific" and "unprecedented" circumstances make it almost impossible to make forecasts. The only thing we can say with certainty is that things will continue to change unpredictably and that a recession is unlikely to last for less than two years (something even admitted by the Ministry of Economic Development).

Posted by: Matt || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While our economy tanks.
Posted by: Dale || 06/12/2022 6:40 Comments || Top||


Russia braces for economic upheaval as sanctions start to bite
[AFP] Authorities have stopped releasing key data, making it difficult to assess the impact of sanctions.

But the few available economic indicators point to significant problems.

Strict capital controls, high energy prices and a collapse in imports have led to a surge in the ruble, prompting Russia's central bank to slash its key rate last week in a bid to rein in the currency.

And revenues from domestic value-added or sales tax collapsed by more than a half in April, VAT fees on imported goods dropping by a third compared to the same month in 2021.

Read the rest at the link

Posted by: Matt || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  In this country we have just begun our long term recession. We might as well have elected terrorists to lead this country.
Posted by: Dale || 06/12/2022 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Given that too many of them cheated their way into office, Dale...
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/12/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#3  "McDonald's abandoned its restaurants in Russia. They have now been taken over and run by the former managers and employees and are called "Tasty" 20 in Moscow have just opened and they plan to go nation wide. everything is on the menu because the suppliers were Russian. Only the big Mac and Flurry are missing on the menu. Coke is still there because there was a surplus but will run out in a month or two. They plan to replace Coke with regional favorites.
Russia thanks you."
Posted by: Dale || 06/12/2022 13:11 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Hard to see it as anything but a practical response to the creation of a vacuum in the market space.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||


China, U.S. winning in global arms industry shakeup spurred by Ukraine war
[UPI] Russia's general sales pitch for its weapons has been they're "cheaper and easier to maintain than Western alternatives." This is why Russia accounted for 19% of the world's arms exports from 2017 to 2021, second only to the United States, which had 39% of the market.

However, this pitch may no longer be effective for many countries that have seen Russian equipment losses and failures in Ukraine.

To date, the U.S. estimates Russia has lost almost a thousand tanks, at least 50 helicopters, 36 fighter-bombers and 350 artillery pieces, according to Business Insider. Thousands of Russian soldiers have been killed, with estimates ranging from about 15,000 to as high as 30,000, and Russia is still unable to control Ukraine's airspace.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: Matt || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  However, this pitch may no longer be effective for many countries that have seen Russian equipment losses and failures in Ukraine.

If all you want to do is to suppress the peasantry, its perfectly fine.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 6:35 Comments || Top||


Ukraine war casts shadow over China's belt and road ties with Russia-led Eurasian trade bloc
[SCMP] "Collaboration between EAEU and [Belt and Road Initiative] is affected because sanctions from America and Europe increased the risk of secondary sanctions for Chinese companies," said Zhao Long, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute for International studies.

Contractors and investors involved in EAEU and belt and road joint projects could run afoul of restrictions if they seek financing or conduct other business with companies that have been targeted by Western sanctions, he said.

The risk of these "secondary sanctions" has prompted hundreds of businesses and multilateral institutions to suspend ties with Russia.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Bank of China have curtailed Russian access to capital markets, according to a database compiled by Yale University’s School of Management.

Chinese tech giant Huawei has also halted new orders and furloughed some staff in Russia, the database showed.

Oil and gas behemoth Sinopec has suspended talks with Russia for a gas chemical plant worth up to US$500 million, and at least five Chinese companies stopped work on Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project in northern Siberia at the end of May.

Posted by: Matt || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China-Japan-Koreas
China threatens Defense Secretary with WAR: Minister tells Lloyd Austin that Beijing will 'smash to smithereens any Taiwan independence plot' and will 'definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Economy
Inflation costing Americans an extra $460 per month, analysis says
[NYPOST] White-hot inflation has forced the average American household to cough up an extra $460 per month, as surging prices for food and fuel put family budgets across the nation under strain.

Moody’s Analytics senior economist Ryan Sweet calculated the figure based on data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed the Consumer Price Index had jumped 8.6% in the 12-month period ending May 31 — the largest increase since December 1981.

Sweet compared average US household spending in May to what would have been spent in 2018 and 2019, when annual inflation averaged 2.1%.

"Having inflation at 8.5% on a year-ago basis, compared with the 2.1% average growth in 2018 and 2019, is costing the average household $346.67 per month to purchase the same basket of goods and services as they did last year," Sweet told The Post. "However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
the pure cost for households for having inflation running at 8.5% is $460.42 per month."

Soaring inflation has some economic experts worried a recession is coming, as President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan......
and the Federal Reserve face pressure to enact policies to slow down the increase.

Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

The average SSA retiree collects $1,553.68 +/-per month (2021).

With inflation said to be costing at $460 (29.60%) a month vs the official 8.5% ($132.06). Either way, it shows the LSD's hosed the handling of the economy during the pandemic.

The result was their wild "social agenda" spending for this and that, took $$$$$ out of retiree pockets.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/12/2022 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Inflation is just another tax. You can either reduce the value of people's income by direct taxation or you can reduce it by printing (or whatever the digital means are employed today) more currency without backing. If you raise taxes directly, the voters know exactly who to blame. Do it by debasing the currency, the pols can try to blame 'others'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||


Smithfield Foods to shutter California meat-packing plant
[ABCNEWS] Meat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state.

The Farmer John meat-packing plant in Vernon, an industrial suburb south of Los Angeles, will shut down in February, with its 1,800 employees receiving severance and job placement support along with bonuses for those who choose to stay on the job until the closure, said Jim Monroe, vice president of corporate affairs.

Some workers, who on average earn about $21 per hour, also will have opportunities to relocate to other facilities owned by the Virginia-based Smithfield Foods Inc.

The Vernon plant slaughters pigs and packages products such as ham and bacon. Some operations will be moved to other facilities in the Midwest, but the overall reduction in processing capacity is prompting Smithfield to reduce its sow herd in Utah. The company also said it is exploring ways to exit its farms in California and Arizona.

Monroe said operating costs in California are much higher than in other areas of the country, including taxes and the price of water, electricity and natural gas.

Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Monroe said operating costs in California are much higher than in other areas of the country, including taxes and the price of water, electricity and natural gas.

Not to mention the cost of moving your stock and product into and out of the place.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2022 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Won't be long anyway til Cali outlaws meat altogether. For the proles, anyway...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3 
Being in Social-Veggie-Fornia, how were they able to enslave poor defenseless animals (🐄 🐐 🐑 🐖 🐓)
and transport them to their Death Camps, given the area's culture? 😱
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/12/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  They didn't see that coming along time ago?
Posted by: Chris || 06/12/2022 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  So Chinese-owned Smithfield can't deal with California Socialism?
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/12/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Even money says those empty containers coming back may soon have pigs as passengers. Why spent the processing money here for product you are sending back to China.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/12/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm all for leaving California with just almonds they can't grow because they don't have the water, seafood they can only get to the coast because of high gas prices, interior farms that go fallow as they don't have water and a bunch of snotty idiots that don't understand why what very little food there is costs the sky.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/12/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#8  My vote is to give California back to Mexico and all Californians must become Mexican citizens (with Mexican EPA, OSHA and other standards). Then build a BIG wall
Posted by: Cloluck Bourbon1058 || 06/12/2022 16:59 Comments || Top||

#9  It will move to Reno or someplace just over the border. California will still be the market served at a lower cost.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/12/2022 17:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Replacement People employment and lodging update:

Rural Super-8 Hotel provides deep discounts on lodging...to some.

The Super-8 Hotel at I-64 and Illinois Route-1 vacancy problem has been solved. Owner Arpip Travidi (or somebody, perhaps the US Taxpayer) provides deeply discounted fares to English Language Challenged (ELC) long-term guests.

According to a local source, the ELC personnel are employed at the nearby (historically low paying) PetroClear Oil Filter manufacturing facility. A sharp increase in SNAP food supplement use has also been reported.

Super-8 owner Arpip Travidi (dot not feather) was unavailable for comment.

https://www.projectveritas.com/tip/ and Carlson info copied this evening. Feel free to pile on.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2022 17:57 Comments || Top||


National sriracha sauce shortage may lead to spiceless summer for some
[FoxNews] Huy Fong Foods, Inc. warns of an impending hot sauce shortage due to poor chili crops — production halted
This didn’t happen under Trump, just saying’
Fans of sriracha sauce in the U.S. might have to find a new spice alternative this year because there’s going to be a shortage of the condiment.

Huy Fong Foods, Inc. — the nation’s leading sriracha sauce manufacturer — sent a letter to its customer base in April about the impending shortage, which would directly impact retailers and restaurants.

The letter, distributed through an IFD Foodservice Distributor portal and recently shared on Twitter by concerned sriracha consumers, says Huy Fong Foods Is expecting a shortage of its signature Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce.

The hot sauce is made from sun-ripened red jalapeño-hybrid chili peppers.

At the time, Huy Fong Foods reminded its customer base that the company started experiencing a shortage of chili pepper inventory back in July 2020. The shortage worsened in recent months after poor weather conditions adversely affected chili crops this year.

"Unfortunately, this is out of our control and without this essential ingredient we are unable to produce any of our products," the letter said.

"Therefore, all orders submitted on or after April 19, 2022, will be scheduled AFTER Labor Day (September 6, 2022) in the order it was received."

Other unconfirmed orders are being put on hold until September, Huy Fong Foods wrote.

"We understand that this may cause issues," the letter continued. "However, during this time we will not accept any new orders to be placed before September as we will not have enough inventory to fulfill your order."

Huy Fong Foods also expects to have a shortage of Chili Garlic Sauce, a chunky hot sauce made from hot red peppers and garlic — as well as Sambal Oelek Sauce, a hot sauce made purely from hot red peppers.

The letter advised retailers and restaurants that carry Huy Fong Foods products to not promise any to customers unless they actually have it in stock.

Fox News Digital reached out to Huy Fong Foods for comment.

Sriracha is a popular hot sauce that has roots in Thailand and Vietnam.

It can be used on a variety of foods. The sauce has become a global export in recent decades.

Huy Fong Foods is largely credited with introducing sriracha sauce to the American market. The company was founded in 1980 by Chinese-Vietnamese businessman David Tran.

Today, the spicy sauce is manufactured at the Huy Fong Foods factory in Irwindale, California.

Past sale records show the company typically sells more than 20 million bottles of hot sauce per year.

Related: Homemade Sriracha Sauce Recipe

Posted by: Beavis || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wanna lose the remaining hispanic vote?
Or will they blame Putin and then ensure a flood of Sriracha prior to the midterms.
Posted by: ruprecht || 06/12/2022 17:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank goodness I use Cholula sauce.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/12/2022 17:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks for that homemade version TW. I’ll try that been pickling everything of late.
Posted by: Beavis || 06/12/2022 17:49 Comments || Top||

#4  You are very welcome, Beavis.

Americans are ingenious — remember the bread-making craze at the beginning of the shutdown that morphed into a sourdough-making craze when shortly thereafter yeast disappeared from store shelves?

That signals to me that the predicted shortages aren’t going to hit Americans as hard as expected.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/12/2022 18:15 Comments || Top||

#5  So long as we still have Frank's and Chipotle Tabasco...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/12/2022 18:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Gator Hammock
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/12/2022 18:35 Comments || Top||


Europe
EU chief visits Ukraine to discuss its bid to join bloc
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
US surpasses China as India's biggest trading partner in FY22
[EconomicTimesIndia] The US surpassed China to become India's top trading partner in 2021-22, reflecting strengthening economic ties between the two countries. According to the data of the commerce ministry, in 2021-22, the bilateral trade between the US and India stood at USD 119.42 billion as against USD 80.51 billion in 2020-21.

Exports to the US increased to USD 76.11 billion in 2021-22 from USD 51.62 billion in previous fiscal year, while imports rose to USD 43.31 billion as compared to about USD 29 billion in 2020-2021.
China disputes this and uses a different methodology.
Posted by: Matt || 06/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  All part of the India-Russia-China partnership, Dale?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/12/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||



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