[Western Journal] After fatally stabbing a man who attacked him behind the counter of the bodega deli, charges against Harlem bodega worker Jose Alba have been dropped.
The Manhattan district attorney asked the judge to dismiss murder charges against Alba who said he was acting in self defense, the Daily News reported.
According to surveillance footage, a man named Austin Simon went behind the counter inside the Blue Moon Bodega on July 1 and began to attack the 61-year-old Alba.
Alba then stabbed Simon.
The confrontation began after Alba pulled a snack out of Simon’s daughter’s hand because Simon’s girlfriend was unable to purchase it since her Electronic Benefit Transfer card was not working, Fox News reported.
The girlfriend then shouted expletives at the Alba and said her boyfriend would be back to "f** you up."
A few moments later, Simon came into the store, went behind the counter, shoved Alba against a wall of shelving and grabbed him by the collar to lift him out of a chair and force him out of the employees-only area, prosecutors said.
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Bragg will be looking for a scalp in any self-defense case that comes along now...
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Latina Harlem NYC bodega owners formed a cartel. MS13 could have been recruited as enforcers. Bragg coould see the new "graffeti" on the wall.
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So Bragg yields to pressure from another 'mob' - the 'good guys'. No such thing as enforcing the law or protecting the people - just whatever way the wind blows.
Scum.
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Fellow in white shirt and row-crop haircut no longer a threat to society.
More on this story from yesterday. It looks like a normal suicide by cop, long planned.
[IsraelTimes] Police say gunman spent hour in bathroom, possibly assembling rifle, before firing on shoppers, killing three; ’Good Samaritan’ praised for using lethal fire to take out shooter
A 20-year-old man likely assembled a rifle in the bathroom of a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall before shooting five people in the food court, killing three of them before an armed shopper fatally shot him, US authorities said Monday.
Jonathan Sapirman of Greenwood apparently was facing eviction before he shot up the Greenwood Park Mall shortly before it closed Sunday evening, the city’s police chief, James Ison, said at a news conference.
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It didn’t mention its no-weapons policy and its operator, the Simon Property Group, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Cause it doesn't want to lose its pants in pending law suits that it help create the environment that permitted the shooting in the first place while failing to provide adequate protection or deterrent.
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No bets, DarthVader: From deeper in the article:
Sapirman had a juvenile record, including for a fight at school and an incident where he bravely ran away from home, but he had no criminal record as an adult, the chief said.
He said relatives told Sherlocks that Sapirman has been practicing shooting at a gun range, and that records obtained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed he had frequented the range and bought ammunition there over the past two years.
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i would like to no more on the tracking of ammo purchases and tracking range time. Anybody know a range owner who they could ask if they have to report these issues?
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I have to show my DL if I go to the range in Daytona. So I'd imagine that sort of record keeping gets snarfed up by ATF. I can't say what ammo reporting is like, but if I pay cash, all they'd have is maybe a surveillance cam image, if that.
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Whatever happened to mall cops?
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Sapirman had a juvenile record, including for a fight at school and an incident where he bravely ran away from home, but he had no criminal record as an adult, the chief said.
So if he had a juvenile record and he was only 20 years old and 18 is when he's considered an adult then he wasn't an adult for very long. Might be a good idea to withhold gun privileges until he's 25 or so to see if he can stay out of trouble for a little longer than just two years.
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...pre-attack diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister Danielle Woodard, a decade older, is classified as a habitual violent offender...
the admitted gunman in the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Fla., kicks off Monday — and jurors will decide whether he’ll be given the death penalty or rot in prison instead.
The 12-person jury in Fort Lauderdale will not weigh whether Cruz is guilty in the case, since the mass shooter in October copped to killing 17 people at his former school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, on Feb. 14, 2018.
Instead, the jury — which took nearly three months to select — will deliberate on whether Cruz should be sentenced to capital punishment or life in prison without parole. Only one juror needs to oppose the death penalty for Cruz to receive the lesser sentence of life behind bars.
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If the armed officer on scene had done his job, the taxpayers and the victim families would not be providing room and board like #1 by Dron66046 suggests will likely happen.
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The outside area there contains oil-filled stepup transformers. They can explode and produce a LOT of smoke until the oil burns off.
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^ These would be the sort of large transformers I have read are not quickly replaceable off the shelf.
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^^You are correct. When I was there in the early 1990's on a 'deep tour' with an Electrical Group, these were still the old Westinghouse transformers from the 1930's that had been upgraded with cooling fans and to use the newer non-carcinogenic insulating oil.
Each of the 17 turbine generators produces roughly 16,500 Volts per phase. The 2,500 KVA larger single-phase transformers (there are 2 smaller ones for plant operations) step that up to 500,000 volts for transmission.
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^^^ Needles to say that these transformers are the size of a small house. The photos don't do them justice for their actual size.
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^^^^ 'Needles' = 'Needless'
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This one's not nearly as big as the kind Mullah Richard is describing, but it's still impressive...
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The whole southwest grid is overstressed. With Lake Mead low, the station generators and systems have to work harder as there's a lower water flow through the turbines. That heats everything up.
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The 100+ degree temperatures in the southwest don't play nicely with the wind or solar generation either.
Generators/Bushings/Bearings in the Wind Turbines and Solar Panel chemistry and structures.
I expect more system and/or grid failures soon.
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Watch: #Morocco mobilizes more firefighters and soldiers to tackle forest blazes burning for four days in the remote wooded regions in the north of the kingdom, local officials say.https://t.co/p7h8t1sUNFpic.twitter.com/XQFjPlhh1C
From powerlineblog.com, the go to source for all things Minneapolis, much more information about the Minneapolis standoff and police shooting of Tekle Sundberg and Twitter videos from the shooter's adoptive parents. (Sorry. I haven't yet figured out how to copy and paste Twitter posts but they are at the link.)
John (Hindraker)
covered our current local cause célèbre last night in "The victim speaks." You know Minneapolis is suffering another meltdown if attorney Ben Crump is on the scene. While all the facts behind the hours-long standoff that preceded Tekle Sundberg’s death are not yet clear, Crump wants to agitate the mob.
Also, video from Fox 9 in Minneapolis:
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[LB] On Monday, July 18, the Russian military shelled the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region. As a result of a shell hit, a two-story building in which there were people was destroyed, 6 people died, two were saved. This is reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
" This morning, the city of Toretsk was shelled, as a result of a shell hit, a two-story building in which people were located was destroyed. of whom died in the hospital ," the statement said.
The Wagner-linked RSOTM channel posted about HIMARS, which they said are successfully striking "very important" targets. They say that Russian claims that HIMARS have been stolen or destroyed are fiction and that there would be greater evidence if true.https://t.co/kt3DGDWvqFpic.twitter.com/yr6fL1uQBZ
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[Korrespondent] 23:30 The executive director of the Turkish company Baykar Makina, Haluk Bayraktar, said that he would never allow the sale of Bayraktar drones to Russia and supported Ukraine in its struggle for sovereignty and independence.
23:28 Zelensky decided on the most high-profile personnel decisions from the very beginning of the war. The heads of key law enforcement agencies - the head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov and Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova - have been removed from their posts. Tomorrow, July 19, the Rada may vote for the dismissal of Bakanov. According to Venediktova, there is no such clarity yet. More details - in the material Loud personnel audit .
23:09 Washington is "monitoring the situation" in the Ukrainian government after the removal of the head of the SBU and the prosecutor general due to cases of treason, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said. He said the State Department "looks forward to the information" it shares with Ukrainian partners to "help them gather evidence to bring to justice those who may have committed war crimes and other atrocities."
23:04 Today, 1028 settlements have been liberated from the invaders, another 2621 are still under the control of the invaders, Zelensky said in an evening video message. He called on everyone who has contacts and opportunities to bring real information to the occupied territory, to support Ukrainians, to spread the truth there: "All over our land from Kherson to Gorlovka, from Genichesk to the occupied regions of Kharkiv region, in Melitopol and Berdyansk, in Energodar, in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, in the Crimea, our people should hear about Ukraine from the Ukrainians."
23:00 The Russians are afraid of new deliveries of Western weapons, so they are in a hurry to hold a "referendum" despite the fact that neither Luhansk nor Donetsk regions are completely under their control, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
22:56 The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the industrial zone in Berislav, Kherson region - they hit the administrative building and the hangar with Russian fuel trucks, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military District, deputy of the regional council Sergey Khlan. According to him, more than 100 Russians were killed, and many were injured.
22:38 The mayor of Energodar, Dmitry Orlov, said that today "an event occurred" on the territory of the occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as a result of which Russians "fell a little physically." In particular, it is known that in the afternoon, nine Russian servicemen were urgently delivered to the city hospital with injuries of varying severity. Some are treated on an outpatient basis, some are hospitalized, one of them is in serious condition. There are also dead, but their exact number is still unknown.
According to Orlov, the Russians "were so frightened that they ran around the station in a panic, blocked for a long time at the enterprise two shifts of operational personnel at once, which were supposed to replace each other, but in the end the people were released."
22:33 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the SBU is undergoing a personnel audit, the issue of dismissing 28 officials is being decided: "Different levels, different directions. But the grounds are similar - unsatisfactory results of work."
22:17 The position of chief rabbi appeared in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which became Hillel Cohen, - he himself said in an interview with the Israeli website Ynet: "The task of the rabbi is to raise morale and help soldiers in difficult situations, he cooperates with the chief military chaplain and ... distributes warriors need equipment in battle. In recent months, Cohen traveled from one Jewish soldier to another on the fronts of Ukraine as a volunteer, and over the weekend his mission became official - Cohen was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
22:14 Shells of Soviet calibers in Europe "are almost running out, if not to say that they have run out," Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said on the air of the telethon. According to him, due to the supply of weapons in sufficient quantities, "we can say that we have reached parity in some positions." But this is still not enough to win, so at the Ramstein-4 meeting an increase in arms supplies will be discussed: "There are high hopes for pleasant surprises for our country from partners."
21:22 Slovak President Zuzana Chaputova granted permission to four citizens of the country to fight against Russia on the side of Ukraine, her speaker Martin Strizhynets said in an interview with dpa. According to him, in these four cases, the president adhered to the recommendations of three ministries - interior, defense and foreign affairs.
21:06 Russian media report that the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko, was in Nova Kakhovka during the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to them, the strike was struck after Kiriyenko visited the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and held a meeting with the "leadership" of the Kherson region appointed by the Russians, none of the participants in the event was injured.
20:56 The "government" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region was headed by Anton Koltsov, who previously held the post of the first vice-governor of the Vologda region, said a member of the "administration" of the region Vladimir Rogov.
20:54 Zaluzhny, in a telephone conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said that Ukraine managed to stabilize the situation: “It is complex, tense, but completely controllable. An important factor contributing to our holding defense lines and positions is the timely arrival of M142 HIMARS, inflicting targeted strikes on enemy command posts, ammunition and fuel depots."
20:52 After the start of the war in Ukraine, 2.7 million tons of Ukrainian grain were exported through the territory of Romania, said Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu. According to him, this is about half of the total volume of grain exported by Ukraine.
20:29 Putin ordered Russian troops to capture Kharkiv and the rest of the unoccupied Kharkiv region, analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War suggest. The Ukrainian military agrees with them. However, both Ukrainian and foreign experts say these plans have a low probability of success. For more details - in the material Putin ordered to take Kharkov - what is the probability .
20:34 European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders proposes to keep Russian assets frozen until the Russian Federation agrees to pay for the restoration of Ukraine after the end of the war.
19:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the Slavic direction and in the area of the Uglegorsk TPP, the General Staff said in an evening report .
19:53 The invaders seized part of the united energy system of Ukraine, said the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov. According to him, in the occupied territories, the enemy took away all the capacities of Oblenergo and takes money from residents for electricity, which he himself is not able to generate. "It is significant that most of the employees of Oblenergo did not agree to work for the rashists. They left the captured enterprise," Fedorov said.
19:35 Adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA, Sergei Khlan, confirmed the strike on Novaya Kakhovka: "The arrival of Russians was recorded in the area of the asphalt plant, which is on the district."
19:29 The EU has found an alternative to Russian gas in Azerbaijan. Baku must ensure the supply of at least 20 billion cubic meters of gas to the EU annually until 2027. More details - in the material Baku will help the EU .
18:58 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, promises to pay $100 for each handed over fire spotter. According to him, the Russians offer the Ukrainians a criminal income - to provide them with the data necessary for more accurate shelling. Kim assured that the spotters are still calculated and detained, and every resident of the region can help hunt them. At the same time the governor emphasized that the action extends only to the Nikolaev area.
18:51 In the Dnieper, rescuers removed from the rubble the body of another person who died after a missile attack on the Southern Machine-Building Plant on July 15. Search and rescue operations at the enterprise have been completed, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. In total, as a result of an enemy attack, four people were killed, 16 were injured, seven of them are now in the hospital.
18:45 Ukrainian troops launched a missile strike "in the area of the hydroelectric power station in Novaya Kakhovka, the degree of damage is being specified," Russian media reported, citing the "head of administration" of the city.
18:33 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Microsoft is "fulfilling the order of the Pentagon and special services" to "take full control" of the entire information infrastructure of Ukraine.
18:17 Turkey will freeze Finland's and Sweden's applications for NATO membership if they do not fulfill their promises to "fight terrorism," Erdogan said. In his opinion, Sweden has not yet demonstrated a desire to meet Ankara's conditions.
18:12 Diplomats from 17 EU countries, as well as Israel, arrived in Vinnitsa today, the mayor of the city Sergey Morgunov said. Diplomats came to express their condolences to the relatives and families of those who died as a result of a Russian missile attack on the city center on July 14.
Diplomats from 17 EU countries and Israel arrived in Vinnitsa to express their condolences to the relatives and families of those who died as a result of the Russian missile strike
18:04 Zelensky said that he had spoken by phone with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro: "I informed about the situation at the front. We discussed the importance of resuming the export of Ukrainian grain to prevent the global food crisis provoked by Russia. I call on all partners to join the sanctions against the aggressor."
17:53 German Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir was skeptical about a possible agreement between Ukraine and Russia on a grain corridor: "If you still believe Putin's word, you might as well believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Approximately the same level of seriousness and credibility."
17:30 The main tool in the liberation of Crimea will be diplomatic dialogue, but the military will still be the first to enter its territory, Tamila Tasheva, permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, said in an interview with Ukrinform. Therefore, according to her, military elements will definitely be used during the de-occupation of Crimea.
17:12 Gazprom announced force majeure on gas supplies to Europe to at least one large consumer, writes Reuters. The gas monopolist's letter says that from July 14 it will not be able to fulfill its obligations on deliveries due to "extraordinary" circumstances beyond its control. The letter concerned deliveries to Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline.
16:49 Based on the materials of the SBU, Belarusian locomotives were arrested, with which the Russian Federation transferred military groups to the borders of Ukraine. The approximate value of the blocked property is over UAH 70 million. According to the investigation, the locomotives were used to transport personnel, weapons, military equipment and logistic support of the invaders to the northern borders of Ukraine.
16:31 Foreign Ministers of the EU countries have agreed on a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, which does not contain additional bans on energy supplies , Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Also, according to him, the new package does not contain restrictions against Gazprombank. At the same time, the sanctions will include a ban on trading in gold and dual-use goods. In addition, the package includes 48 individuals, including one of the vice-premiers and regional politicians, as well as nine organizations.
16:28 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has launched about 3,000 missiles of various types in Ukraine: air-to-surface aircraft, missiles of operational-tactical systems (Tochka-U, Iskander), as well as Onyx missiles of the Bastion coastal complex. The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clarified that the Russian Federation is increasingly using old Soviet Kh-59, Kh-22, Kh-31 missiles. In recent weeks, the Russian army has begun to hit ground targets with anti-aircraft missiles from the S-300 complex, the main purpose of which is to destroy air targets.
16:21 Putin and Erdogan will discuss the export of Ukrainian grain at a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday, July 19, writes Reuters. Also on Tuesday, Putin and Erdogan will be joined by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to discuss the crisis in Syria.
16:17 Scholz advocates the abolition of the right of veto, which allows one state to block the decision of the entire EU. The war in Ukraine reinforces the need to end the "selfish blocking" of European decisions by individual member states, the chancellor said: "We simply can no longer afford national veto power, for example, in foreign policy, if we want to continue to be heard in a world of competing greats." powers."
16:15 Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov said that the Ukrainian negotiating delegation does not maintain any contacts with Russia after the Istanbul agreements are reached, and if the negotiations resume, the conditions for them will be "completely different."
16:12 On the eve of the heating season in Ukraine, a new wave of internal displacement of people from east to west of the country is predicted, Vereshchuk said on the air of the telethon. According to her, part of the Zaporozhye region is actually cut off from gas supply, and there is no way to resume it yet. This means that there will most likely be no heating season in those places, and local residents will be forced to leave and seek refuge in western Ukraine.
Vereshchuk added that only 4.5 million internally displaced persons are registered in Ukraine, but in reality we are talking about almost 7 million people.
16:07 The EU is counting on reaching an agreement between Ukraine and Russia on unblocking grain exports as early as this week, Borrell said before a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels: "We are doing everything possible to export grain along the line of solidarity through the Black Sea, through Bulgaria and Romania, but this is not enough, so I hope this week for an agreement to unblock Odessa and other Ukrainian ports."
15:56 The "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR" stated that, according to the results of the "investigation", 14 people became "victims of self-detonation of explosives" by the Ukrainian military in the drama theater of Mariupol.
15:41 Norway has started raising funds for Bayraktar for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the Turkish edition of AA, the organizers of the action said that each citizen can donate at least 10 crowns to Bayraktar TB2. As part of the campaign, it is planned to collect 55 million crowns (about $5.5 million) and transfer them to the aid fund at the Ukrainian Embassy.
15:22 The Turkish Ministry of Defense stated that the plan on the grain issue was agreed upon on general principles, it needs to be specified. A meeting of delegations from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN on the issue of unblocking grain supplies will take place this week.
15:08 Irina Vereshchuk said that the initiative of the Ministry of Reintegration to ban the eviction of internally displaced persons from educational institutions was supported: “I visited two educational institutions in Zaporozhye, through which we received signals to the hotline of the Ministry of Reintegration. We were contacted by about 250 people and reported that they were in "They want to be evicted soon. We contacted the local authorities. The issue is resolved. People will not be evicted, all their rights are preserved. The same is true for other institutions."
The Minister urged IDPs to contact the hotline of the Ministry of Reintegration 1548 in case of problems.
14:57 The New York City Council has approved a bill to rename Brighton Beach Avenue and Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn to Ukrainian Way - Ukrainian Way, said Ukraine's representative to the UN Serhiy Kislitsa. Now the document must be signed by the mayor of the city.
14:55 Ukraine has completed the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. The relevant documents were handed over to the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Bjorn Berge, CE Secretary General Maria Pejcinovic-Buric said. Ukraine became the 36th country - a party to this agreement.
14:53 During a special operation in the village of Dementievka, Dergachevsky district, Kharkiv region, a large unit of Russians was found, located in destroyed buildings. As a result of the fire damage, 36 invaders were destroyed, many were injured of varying severity, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
As a result of the operation, numerous trophies were obtained and a wounded platoon commander of an enemy DRG was captured. It turned out to be Stanislav Trutnev, a native of the Zaporozhye region, a soldier of the 140th special forces detachment to combat underwater sabotage forces and means of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
14:47 The EU will increase gas supplies from Azerbaijan in the next few years, said Ursula von Der Leyen, who is in Baku on a visit to sign the relevant agreement.
14:40 Kuleba said in an interview with Forbes Ukraine that now Ukraine does not intend to negotiate peace with the Russian Federation. According to him, negotiations are possible only after the defeat of Russia: "Everyone understands that negotiations are directly tied to the situation at the front. I tell all partners a simple thing: Russia must sit down at the negotiating table after the defeat on the battlefield. Otherwise, it will again be the language of ultimatums" .
14:26 Russian commanders invaded Ukraine, guided by the topographic maps of 1969. According to the SBU, these cards were found in the possession of Russians in the occupied districts of the Kharkiv region. Saltovka in Kharkov, Travyanskoe and Murom reservoirs are completely absent on the maps. And the invaders drew the border between Ukraine and Russia with a pen, since it was not on the maps at all.
14:03 Negotiations on unblocking Ukrainian ports are in the final stage, Kuleba said in an interview with Forbes: “We understand the political framework. It remains to resolve issues related to logistics and security. Yesterday, delegations and negotiating teams largely removed these issues. Now all this is necessary put on paper."
At the same time, the head of the Foreign Ministry stressed that Ukraine would not agree to any decision that would leave any gap for the possibility of a frontal attack on Ukrainian ports from the sea by the Russian Federation.
Kuleba also said that he sees only one argument why Putin will agree to unblock the ports: “This is his desire to show countries that are neutral or more inclined towards the Russian position on the war (in Africa, Asia) that he saved them from starvation, from rising food prices. Other than that, I don't see why he would need it. By agreeing to unblock Ukrainian ports, he is undermining his own efforts to strangle the Ukrainian economy."
14:01 Kuleba announced an increase in the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine : "The supply of weapons is a very delicate process. I will simply say: HIMARS, other MLRS from other countries, howitzers, tanks - everything is coming and there will be even more. It is only a matter of time. Our task is accelerate processes: from making political decisions to solving logistical problems".
According to him, deliveries from different countries through different channels are quite stable, but quantitatively unsatisfactory. Kuleba also noted that the main problem with the supply is the schedule: "If we had received more 155-caliber artillery, more multiple launch rocket systems in time, then Lisichansk and Severodonetsk would have remained under the control of Ukraine. But everything takes time - this is how the system unfolds" .
13:59 The EU allocates another 500 million euros for armaments for Ukraine , said EU Council President Charles Michel after consultations with EU foreign ministers in Brussels. Thus, the total amount of EU funds for military assistance to Ukraine will increase to 2.5 billion euros.
13:57 Russia has intensified the shelling of the border areas, but the creation of strike groups in the Russian Federation and Belarus, which could make a second invasion, is not observed now, the representative of the State Border Service Andrei Demchenko said on the air of the telethon: "Everything necessary is being done to strengthen both the border line and and border areas in case the enemy, or those who want to join him, try to attack our country."
13:55 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called on the West to increase arms supplies to Ukraine. He said this on the eve of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the EU: "Since Brussels is going on vacation, this is a good opportunity to remind that the Russian military does not plan to take days off from a further attack on Ukraine."
13:46 The Armed Forces of Ukraine explained why most men are mobilized in the western regions of Ukraine. According to Roman Gorbach, head of the personnel service of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more citizens currently live in the western regions, including refugees and migrants. In addition, if the necessary specialists are not available in a certain region, the military command can attract them from other places, the colonel added.
13:41 The operational command of Pivden reported that the Russian army had attacked the Odessa region with four Su-35 missiles from the Black Sea. One missile was shot down over the sea, two hit a military infrastructure facility where firefighting continues, and another hit a bridge across the Dniester Estuary.
13:28 The National Bank put into circulation a commemorative coin Oh, there is a red viburnum at the puddle . The coin in denominations of 5 and 10 hryvnias is decorated with images of bunches and leaves of viburnum with lines from the couplet: "And my red viburnum is drunk. And our glorious Ukraine, gay, gay, cheer!"
12:46 The Russians fired at the Sinelnikovsky district of the Depropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, the rocket hit the elevator, warehouses with more than 5,000 tons of grain were destroyed. Another blow hit the school yard, the facade and roof of the local lyceum were damaged, more than 50 windows were broken. There is also a hit in a private house. Previously, there were no casualties.
12:27 SBU exposed an agent of the Russian special services, who collected the coordinates of objects for missile strikes on Kiev. According to preliminary information, the enemy planned to use this data for launching missile strikes, as well as for possible sabotage in the capital.
12:17 Zelensky, by his decree, appointed interim acting. head of the SBU, the first deputy head of the special services, Vasily Malyuk.
11:56 In the occupied Snegirevka of the Nikolaev area Russians for creation of "picture" fired at the yard of the high-rise building on city outskirts. As a result, four people were killed, Dmitry Pletenchuk, press officer of the military commandant's office of Nikolaev, said.
11:53 Since the beginning of the war, the State Bureau of Investigation has opened 675 cases for treason and collaborationism, 198 suspects have been reported, 111 have been put on the wanted list. Another 1,234 people are being checked for involvement in treason and collaboration activities. 14 proceedings were sent to the court under these articles. The largest number of production facilities is open in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
11:50 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine monitors around the clock the places of storage of enemy ammunition, military equipment, areas of accumulation of weapons and supply routes for advanced units of the Russian Federation, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said on Apostroph TV: "We understand how much Russia's military resources exceed Ukrainian ones in in all respects. Those stocks that have been since the days of the Soviet Union remained on the territory of Russia. And in order to slow down the offensive pace of the Russian Federation, their resource must be destroyed right on the battlefield."
According to Skibitsky, the enemy really appreciated this threat and began to move their warehouses to further distances from the front line.
11:47 Slavyansk was subjected to a missile strike, as a result of which several microdistricts were left without electricity, including the villages of Mirnoye and Bylbasovka, Tselinnaya Street, partly Slavyansk and Severny, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said. According to him, the repair is hampered by constant shelling. The mayor said that last week, during the departure of the repair team, the car was damaged, the driver was injured.
11:45 British intelligence reports that Russia used the Wagner PMC to strengthen forward forces and reduce the shortage of personnel and losses. The PMC probably played a central role in the battles for the capture of Popasna and Lysichansk. In these battles, the group suffered heavy losses. Wagner, according to intelligence, lowers hiring standards by hiring convicted and previously blacklisted individuals. This is likely to affect the group's future combat effectiveness and reduce its value as a backbone for regular Russian forces, analysts say.
11:42 For the first time, a unified female military uniform will appear in the Ukrainian army - two groups of volunteers are involved in its development with the support of the Office of the President and deputies of the Kyiv City Council, reports the BBC. At the first stage, they plan to engage in individual tailoring, a test batch of clothes will be sent to the military to test convenience and functionality.
The idea came about after numerous requests from women who are now fighting on the front lines. Men's sizes and styles of clothing do not correspond to women's, because of this, the defenders have to alter the uniform or adapt it with pins and a tactical belt in the field, which is very inconvenient and non-functional.
11:18 In Toretsk, Donetsk region, as a result of the morning shelling, six people were killed, the State Emergency Service reported. The shell hit a two-story building in which there were people. The bodies of five dead, as well as three injured, one of whom died in the hospital, were pulled out from under the rubble.
10:57 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Andrei Smirnov said on the air of the telethon that the dismissal of Bakanov and Venediktova does not mean their dismissal. He connects the dismissal of officials with the fact that Zelensky has been waiting for a long time for more concrete and, possibly, radical results to clear the state traitors who are in the departments. In the near future, checks will be held, and the president will decide whether to dismiss Venediktova and Bakanov completely.
10:55 The Russian army shelled the Sumy region in the morning, according to the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. Mortar attacks fell on the Glukhov, Shalygin, Khotyn and Nikolaev rural communities, there were no casualties.
10:46 Adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA, Serhiy Khlan, confirmed that explosions are heard in the Novokakhovka community - it is the enemy's ammunition that is burning and detonating.
10:44 Germany plans to completely eliminate dependence on Russian gas by the summer of 2024, said the head of the Federal Network Agency Klaus Müller.
10:40 One of the Polish Krab self-propelled howitzers has been destroyed in Ukraine, the Polish edition of Onet writes, citing a video with a broken howitzer posted online. Ten out of a batch of 18 Krab vehicles were delivered to Ukraine by July.
10:14 Peskov said that the Russian military "have an order from Putin to avoid harm among civilians and work carefully." Also, on the eve of Putin's visit to Tehran, he said that "restrictions are the price that Russia and Iran pay for sovereignty."
10:11 Peskov said that the Russian "special operation" will end when all its goals are achieved, "there is no clear time frame, the main thing is efficiency."
10:07 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Rustam Muradov is in command of the Russian troops in Donbas. Earlier, they stated that the southern group of Russian troops, which was fighting in Zolote and Gorsky, was commanded by Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces Sergey Surovikin, and the Center group, which was advancing on the Luhansk region, was commanded by Colonel General Alexander Lapin.
10:01 In Moscow on Wednesday, July 20, they will conduct a scheduled check of the readiness of warning systems - sirens will sound and the message Attention everyone! , the mayor's office said.
09:58 Kadyrov announced the need to deploy an air defense base in Chechnya: "Under the current conditions, Russia needs new strategic military solutions. First of all, I believe that air defense systems are in demand more than ever in the mountains of the Chechen Republic, on the southern borders of Russia."
09:56 Ukrainian troops launched rocket attacks on Novaya Kakhovka. Local publics write that the BC warehouse is on fire, and the Russian media, citing the "authorities", reported that "the air defense system worked, but there are hits."
09:50 The delegation of the European Commission went to Azerbaijan for negotiations on gas supplies to the EU. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson will visit Baku on Monday to discuss gas supplies to Europe with the Azerbaijani authorities.
09:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 18. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 38,450 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1687 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 3886 (+7),
artillery systems - 849 (+3),
MLRS - 248 (+0),
air defense systems - 113 (+3),
aircraft - 220 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 690 (+2),
cruise missiles - 166 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2753 (+7),
special equipment - 70 (+2).
09:14 In Kharkiv, at night, the enemy launched artillery strikes on the Kievsky district of the city, only civilian infrastructure was damaged, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also in the region at night, a blow was struck at the Bogodukhovsky and Chuguevsky districts, and during the day the Izyumsky district was subjected to shelling: landfills and winter wheat on a 250-hectare field were on fire. In the region, two people died as a result of Russian aggression per day - in the village. Kalinovo and Pechenegs.
09:12 There are two ships with 16 Caliber cruise missiles in the Black Sea, OK Pivden reports. In connection with a two-day storm, the command warns of an increased mine danger - mines can drift, including towards the shore.
09:10 In Nikolaev as a result of massive rocket attack it is known about hit in a car dealership and salon on sales of agricultural machinery. Other hits were on the outskirts of the city, previously without casualties, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
08:57 Shoigu inspected the Russian group Vostok, which is performing the tasks of a "special military operation" in Ukraine, and instructed the commander "to prioritize the destruction of enemy long-range missiles and artillery with high-precision weapons, from which Donbass settlements are being fired and wheat fields are deliberately set on fire , as well as grain storage facilities.
08:36 In the controlled territory of Donetsk region as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, two civilians were killed - in Avdiivka and New Donbass. Ten more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:33 Russian troops are "mobilizing" men in the occupied territories in the Lugansk region, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, 10-15% of the population remained in the captured cities, and the remaining men are "mobilized" into the army, while some go to fight voluntarily, believing in the promises of high salaries.
Gaidai also said that Lisichansk-Bakhmut remained the main direction for the occupying forces. Yesterday the enemy tried to advance towards Verkhnekamenka, but withdrew with losses. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the attack on Belogorovka.
08:30 The Russians inflicted four strikes on Kramatorsk in the morning, presumably from the MLRS, Mayor Alexander Goncharenko said. All hits fell on the industrial zone.
08:28 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Beijing will not "sit idly" in the event of an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine: "Our country does not belong to the states involved in the crisis in Ukraine, but we do not intend to sit back and parties to passively observe what is happening."
At the same time, the Chinese minister made it clear that these would not be military measures: Beijing is not going to "add fuel to the fire" and will "stubbornly promote peace talks." In his opinion, it is necessary through the coordinated efforts of the world community to create "an effective and stable mechanism for ensuring security in Europe."
08:24 Iran is preparing to provide Russia with up to 300 drones and this month will begin to train Russians to use them, writes The New York Times, citing sources. These UAVs will fill the "critical gap" of Russian forces in Ukraine, the newspaper notes. The urgency for Moscow also lies in the fact that drones help fight against American MLRS.
The publication also indicates that problems with UAVs have begun in Ukraine: according to analysts, Russian electronic warfare systems have nullified the success of American and Turkish drones. According to British experts, Russia destroys any Ukrainian reconnaissance UAV in a maximum of a week.
07:40 APU repelled the assaults of the Russians in the areas of Verkhnekamensky, Disputed and Serebryanka in the Donetsk direction, near Novolugansky, Semigorye and Uglegorsk TPP, as well as near Kamenka, Novomikhailovka and Vugledar, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report .
07:36 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said that at night Russian troops hit Nikopol several times from the MLRS, firing more than 60 shells at residential areas and urban infrastructure. One person was previously wounded, about ten private houses were destroyed, a water supply and a gas pipeline were damaged on one of the streets. The hospital, industrial and energy enterprises, the port were hit.
04:45 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the Russian army, having no new territorial achievements, is dragging out the war in Ukraine to restore and replenish its forces. The Russian troops on July 17 continued their expected return from the operational pause and did not have any confirmed territorial gains. Analysts predict that the end of the operational pause will be characterized by hesitation and a stepwise resumption of ground offensives.
The Russians continued limited ground offensives around Seversk, Bakhmut and Donetsk, and shelled civilian and military infrastructure throughout the Donbass. Also, Russian troops concentrated on the defense north of Kharkov and along the southern direction. In addition, Russian troops continued to create conditions for the resumption of the offensive against Slavyansk.
03:20 In Nikolaev at least ten powerful explosions have thundered, mayor Alexander Senkevich reported.
01:34 In the Kherson region, Ukrainian aviation twice inflicted a fire defeat on a strong point and an accumulation of manpower, weapons and equipment of the enemy in the area of Blagodatny and Davydov Brod, OK Pivden reported. According to the command, the enemy continues to equip defense lines, is limited in the conduct of hostilities due to the demoralization of personnel, problems with logistics and the precise work of Ukrainian rocket and artillery units.
Twice the Russians tried to launch an air strike on the liberated territories in the north of Kherson, but, having attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they immediately retreated under the onslaught of retaliatory fire damage.
00:16 Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, was again shelled, the head of the RVA Yevgeny Yevtushenko said.
Avdievka, along with Opytnye are one of three critical objectives -- Aretemovsk and Slavyansk -- for the Russians.
[RIA Novosti] Troops of the Donetsk People's Republic blocked the road connecting Avdievka and Konstantinovka in two districts, said Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR.
"We have completely blocked the road connecting Avdievka and Konstantinovka in two districts . Avdievka is now covered in a semicircle," he said on Channel One.
Now Avdievka is occupied by Ukrainian security forces, their fortified area is located there.
In addition, for almost eight years, the line of contact between the positions of the Ukrainian army and the forces of the DPR has been near the city . From Avdievka , the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the territory of the republic, namely Yasinovataya and a suburb of Donetsk.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:47 Despite the obstacles created by the Kyiv regime, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 24,623 people, including 4,496 children, have been evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the Donbass republics, and in total since the beginning of the special military operation - 2,668,072 people, of which 422,722 are children. 22:11 In Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, at school No. 6 on (street of Heroes of Ukraine), a stronghold of nationalists has been equipped, ammunition depots have been placed in the basement.
21:45 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped ammunition depots in the residential buildings of the Dobropillia DPR, placed MLRS and armored vehicles in the yards;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine and militants, using helicopters and artillery, set fire to grain fields in the Zaporozhye, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions;
▪️More than 24,000 people were evacuated per day from the territories of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine to the Russian Federation;
▪️Russian sappers have neutralized more than 66,000 explosive objects in the Donbass.
20:54 The government of the Zaporozhye region was headed by Anton Koltsov, who previously held the post of first vice-governor of the Vologda region. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a member of the administration of the Rogov region.
19:49 During the Ukrainian shelling in the area of the Novaya Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the gas pipeline is damaged, emergency services are working, a source in the city administration told RIA Novosti. The damage from the shelling did not affect the important elements of the facility, the power supply was not suspended, he specified.
18:35 Several in the Kherson region report about strikes in the area of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
17:28 Explosions were heard in Nikolaev. Several arrivals in the city are reported.
16:49 Destroyed commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It became known about the destruction of the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign "Fan". It is noteworthy that the destroyed Ukrainian military was part of the so-called "ultras" of the Luhansk football club "Zarya" and since 2014 fought against his fellow countrymen.
15:22 A pension fund has been opened in the city of Holaya Pristan, Kherson region, where they began to issue Russian pensions for June - the head of the organization, Vyacheslav Vasiliev.
15:19 The Operational Command "South" confirmed today's missile attack on the Odessa region. It is reported that four air-launched missiles were fired from the Black Sea by three Su-35 aircraft. Two missiles hit a military infrastructure facility, a fire broke out. Another one hit the bridge across the Dniester estuary. One missile was shot down by air defense forces over the sea. It is stated that there are no victims or injured.
14:47 Having superiority in artillery, the Russian army is advancing kilometer by kilometer. This is a war of attrition, and the question is how long Ukraine can hold out - Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr Alfons Mays in an interview with Handelsblatt.
13:48 An unidentified object was struck in the Odessa region
12:46 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️The RF Armed Forces hit the place of unloading trains with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Udachnoye station in the DPR, more than 10 Grad MLRS installations were destroyed;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two batteries of the Uragan MLRS, three platoons of the Grad MLRS and 14 artillery platoons of the Giacint-B howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▪️During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian UAVs, intercepted two shells of the Uragan MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR;
▪️High-precision missiles of the Russian Federation hit the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries of the "Foreign Legion" in the DPR, up to 250 foreign fighters were destroyed;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Mi-8 helicopters with an artillery attack on the field airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
▪️Up to 60 nationalists were killed by a high-precision weapon strike at the location of the battalion of the 118th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region;
▪️Russian aviation destroyed the Buk-M1 installation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region, three warehouses with weapons and a fuel depot in the Zaporozhye region.
11:47 In Kherson formed administration. Local and visiting competent specialists have become employees of the administration, who will help to establish work. At the same time, on a number of issues, including the formation of organizations, tax and financial services, ministries and departments of the Russian Federation provide significant assistance.
However, there are still serious personnel problems in Kherson. The Ukrainian authorities continue to intimidate and threaten local residents, demanding that they not contact the new authorities and impede their activities.
11:47 The distribution of humanitarian aid continues in the Melitopol region. In each of the 15 territorial communities, people receive everything they need: food kits, personal hygiene products, clothes.
11:47 The resignation of the Ukrainian kvnschik from the post of head of the SBU is an attempt to shift responsibility and find someone to blame. In fact, the SBU has long been supervised and controlled not from Kyiv at all.
So all these layoffs and the search for shpiguns surrounded by debility Bakanov are nothing more than a picture to divert attention from the really very successful strikes of Russian missilemen on Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Kharkov.
11:45 Zelensky dismissed Irina Venediktova from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He also removed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, from his duties.
10:51 Russian Ministry of Defenseshowedfootage of the combat work of the Iskander complexes in delivering strikes on the objects of the Ukrainian troops in the special operation zone
10:50 Peskov, before Putin's visit to Iran, made several statements on Ukraine and sanctions:
🔺The special operation, no doubt, will end - when all its goals are achieved
🔺There are no clear time frames for the CBO, the main thing is efficiency
🔺The Russian military has orders from Putin to avoid harming civilians and are working carefully
🔺The nationalist battalions of Ukraine do not disdain anything
🔺Sanctions against Russia began to be introduced long before the special operation, now they are measured in hundreds and thousands
10:49 Arrival at the Ukrainian military facility in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
09:49 The first Polish self-propelled howitzer "Crab" was destroyed in Ukraine, the onet.pl Internet portal reported, citing Ukrainian sources.
Recall that in May, the Polish authorities announced their intention to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with 18 self-propelled guns of this type, 10 vehicles from this batch were delivered to Ukraine by July.
09:20 An Azov member from the 14th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in an interview with the Ukrainian media that he has already lost more than half of his comrades
08:13 Special operation, July 17. Highlights from the past day:
- the launcher used by the Ukrainian military and the HIMARS MLRS transport-loading vehicle in the Krasnoarmeysk region, as well as about 65 nationalists, were destroyed;
- VKS with high-precision weapons destroyed four Ukrainian command posts, six ammunition depots, manpower in 19 districts, including foreign mercenaries;
- in the course of a counterbattery fight, Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian MLRS platoon, nine platoons of Giacint-B howitzers and D-30 guns in the DPR;
- Russian air defense intercepted Tochka-U missiles in the Kherson and Kharkov regions and 8 Uragan and HIMARS MLRS shells in the LPR, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions;
- in Chuguev, Kharkiv region, 200 military personnel of Ukraine were destroyed by air strikes of the Russian Federation;
- Russian combat pilots shot down a Ukrainian Mi-17 helicopter near Slavyansk in the DPR;
- Russian aviation destroyed in Odessa a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles transferred from NATO;
- Slutsky said that the Crimean bridge was reliably protected, and in the event of a strike by Kyiv, a tough response would follow;
- the head of the Zaporozhye region, Rogov, said that Western curators had given Zelensky an ultimatum not to hand over the city of Slavyansk to the DPR, otherwise military funding would be stopped;
- Medvedev said that the West's endless attempts to continue the military campaign "to the last Ukrainian" will lead to the collapse of the existing Kyiv regime.
06:38 A blow along Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, by Ukrainian militants this morning.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:17 Demining units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Russian Emergencies Ministry continue to carry out tasks to clear the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics of explosive objects.
Total verified: 4,099.08 hectares of territory; 41 buildings (of which 13 are socially significant objects); four bridges and 9.64 km of roads. 66,936 explosive objects were found and neutralized.
22:07 In Kalinovka, Bakhmut district of the Donetsk People's Republic, on the territory of the granary, neo-Nazis placed artillery and MLRS, from which they systematically fire at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces, provoking them to return fire.
21:20 Additional information about the injured civilian, a man born in 1974, was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC. as a result of a VFU mine explosion in N. p. Lugansk (Artemovsky district).
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka, microdistrict "Komarova":
- st. Shashurina - boiler room No. 121 was damaged.
💣Today, as of 21:00, the enemy fired 334 ammunition of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
20:32 Ukrainian troops at 19.10 fired a rocket from the Hurricane at the village of Bayrak in the DPR,reportedrepresentation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
"Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 19.10 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) - the settlement of Nelepovka - the settlement of Bayrak: one rocket was fired from the BM-27 Uragan MLRS," the representative office reports in its Telegram channel.
19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: for the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than 260 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were injured. Fifteen residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, two defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and four were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:15 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novoselovka: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.
19:11 The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation intends to initiate the creation of a football league with the participation of the clubs of the Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic - Deputy Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Odes Baysultanov.
19:00 Today APU destroyed another school in Donetsk. Petrovsky district, the area of the so-called Zhilploshchadka, is shelled regularly. School No. 103 gets it for the second time.
18:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
- n.p. Ocheretino - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
18:27 Consequences of the Ukrainian strikes school in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
18:23 The headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Verkhnetoretskoe, on the street. Kalinin, a man died.
18:19 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka (Yasinovatsky district) - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: seven each 152mm shells were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yakovlevka: fired six shells of 152mm caliber;
— n.p. Avdieivka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:19 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Dolomite: fired 8 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye:six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:18 Effects of today's shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
17:15 Endwater blockade of Donbass. Russian military builders launched a water pipeline connecting the Khanzhenkovskoye reservoir with the Severny Donets-Donbass canal. The water pipeline can pump up to 72,000 cubic meters per day.
17:15 Seversk came under the operational control of the allied forces, liberation battles for the city are being waged in its vicinity, said Vitaly Kiselev, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the LPR.
17:02 Representatives of the "People's Front" with the support of the NM LPR delivered humanitarian aid in the city of Kirovsk for temporary accommodation for refugees.
16:31 In the south of the DPR, a "certain springboard" is being prepared for the liberation of the entire territory of the republic, declared Eduard Basurin, press secretary of the NM DNR.
"The same thing is happening in Avdievka and in the Gorlovka region," he added /TK Zvezda/. Avdievka has been a shit show for the separatists since 2014. 16:28 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired 12 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Semigorye - n.p. Dolomite: fired five minutes with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:33 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): eight mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Kalinovo - n.p. Panteleimonovka: eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:30 In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a woman was injured and the building of hospital No. 19 on the street was damaged. Tumanyan.
15:18 Effects of today's shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which a fire broke out in school No. 103.
15:18 Consequences of shelling in Gornyak village in Donetsk today.
15:03 On a photo- a house destroyed as a result of a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell at the address: st. Oktyabrskaya, 18, which is in the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka.
14:53 LPR sappers with explosions clearing blockages at the site of bridges blown up by Ukrainian soldiers during the retreat from Lisichansk.
14:45 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
14:20 AFU fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells of 152mm caliber.
13:53 Attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 22 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
13:46 Minus another "three axes" (M-777) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:06 The liberation of the Donbass territories will be completed this year, Basurin, a representative of the NM DPR, said
12:45 The formation of administrations in all cities and regions of the LPR is completed - the head of the republic
12:43 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
- The RF Armed Forces hit the place of unloading of echelons with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Udachnoye station in the DPR, more than 10 Grad MLRS installations were destroyed;
- The RF Armed Forces destroyed two batteries of the Uragan MLRS, three platoons of the Grad MLRS and 14 artillery platoons of the Giacint-B howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian UAVs in a day, intercepted two shells of the Uragan MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR;
- High-precision missiles of the Russian Federation hit the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries of the "Foreign Legion" in the DPR, up to 250 foreign fighters were destroyed;
- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Mi-8 helicopters with an artillery attack on the field airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
— Up to 60 nationalists were killed by a strike of high-precision weapons at the location of the battalion of the 118th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region;
- Russian aviation destroyed the Buk-M1 installation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region, three warehouses with weapons and a fuel depot in the Zaporozhye region.
12:42 The DPR JCCC reports shelling of the territory of the DPR:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Dolomite: fired three shells with a caliber of 155mm.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells fired - caliber 152mm.
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
- n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
12:23 In the Rostov region, a resident of the LPR recruited by the SBU was identified, who arrived to collect information about the movement of Russian military equipment, the FSB reported.
12:15 From Donetsk, it is reported that the allied forces began to suppress the firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka, southwest of the capital of the DPR. It was from Maryinka that the Petrovsky district of Donetsk was regularly shelled. Now we know about the defeat of four positions of Ukrainian formations.
12:08 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Maryinka (western) - n.p. Aleksandrovka: fired 10 mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired six shells with a caliber of 122mm.
12:00 The head of the administration of the city of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports: Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts are under fire. Eyewitnesses report arrivals in the microdistrict Azotny. Also, the fall of the Ukrainian projectile provoked a fire in school No. 103, located on the street. Dunayevsky.
11:58 DPR troops completely blocked the road from Avdievka to Konstantinovka in two places. Thus, Avdievka is taken into a semicircle - the official representative of the NM DNR Eduard Basurin.
11:13 Pushilin appointed Petrikin Alexander Mikhailovich as Head of Administration of Krasny Liman
11:07 Kramatorsk, series arrivals in shop 16 of NKMZ
11:04 The joy of local residents from the meeting with the Russian army. A few warm words from the residents of the liberated Lisichansk about the fighters of the Brave group
11:03 Another destroyed location of the APU. This time in Dzerzhinsk. Officially declared 6,200x. Unofficially they say from 30-40.
11:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 07/18/2022: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
The enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities.
Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Stakhanov using American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing two missiles.
Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining the territory of the Republic. So, yesterday, sappers of the NM LPR cleared more than 8 hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Sirotino and Metelkino.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories of the Republic.
10:57 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:56 Last night, the air defense crew of the allied forces destroyed targets in the sky over Alchevsk (LPR). The nature of the target is not clear. The burning ball fell to the ground for more than a minute.
10:36 Air raid alert in Luhansk
10:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: over the past 24 hours, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 660 shells from Grad multiple rocket launchers, barreled artillery of 155mm and 122mm caliber, 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were injured. Nineteen residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Over 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 BM-21 Grad MLRS, two off-road vehicles. Four enemy firing points were suppressed in the area of the settlement. Marinka.
10:25 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:19 The headquarters of the Tero DPR reports: Ukrainian militants fired at Verkhnetoretskoe using 122mm artillery from positions in Nelepovka.
09:39 The authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic, during the investigation of the explosion in the drama theater of Mariupol, received reliable information that it was the fault of the military of Ukraine. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source close to the investigation.
"The DPR authorities have reliable data, established during the investigation, which indicate that the explosion in the Mariupol Drama Theater was the fault of the Ukrainian military," the agency’s source said.
09:29 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 12 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:06 Denis Pushilin presented the Order of the Republic, medals "For Courage", insignia "For Merit to the Donetsk People's Republic" III degree with swords, "For Merit to the Donetsk People's Republic" III degree, "St. George's Cross" I, II, III , IV degrees to 82 fighters of the operational-combat tactical formation of the Donetsk People's Republic "Cascade".
08:25 From 6 am to 8 am, Ukrainian militants fired about 40 shells at the settlements of the DPR: Panteleymonovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Mikhailovka.
07:00 Summary of the Luhansk People's Republic Representation in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, July 17. From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded on the settlement. Stakhanov using MLRS HIMARS (two missiles). Information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
[RT] The foreign and defense ministries in Beijing issued harsh statements on Monday condemning the Biden administration’s approval of a new US arms sale to Taiwan. The deal is worth an estimated $108 million and includes armored vehicle parts and technical assistance.
Beijing “demands” that the United States “immediately withdraw the above-mentioned arms sales plan to Taiwan,” as well as halt all other arms deals and cut military ties with the island, said Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Tan Kefei. “Otherwise, the US side will be solely responsible for undermining the relationship between China and the US and the two militaries and the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.”
“The Chinese People's Liberation Army will take all necessary measures to firmly defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely thwart any form of external interference and separatist attempts for ‘Taiwan independence’,” the colonel added.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin echoed this sentiment, saying that Washington’s arms supplies “gravely undermine China’s sovereignty and security interests, and severely harm China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
“China will continue to take resolute and strong measures to firmly defend its sovereignty and security interests,” Wang added.
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^^^ The previous poster used not enough words; Me.
I'll say "Go F--k Yourselves" - We used {The Bomb Twice} Biden does even know how to tie his shoes, but I bet he is just itching, to play with the "Football".... Hey Joe, open up the case, and lets light up a place known as "China", soon to be known as "Glazed China".
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Iran first please, THEN China.
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In the world of military expenditures, $108M is peanuts.
I'd rather it be $108B. That might have an impact.
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The weekly Three Gorges Dam target folder update will be held at 1400 this afternoon. Our USAF ARWO geek, LTC Fleisterman will provide a special Air Recce Weather impacts report.
#8
A much easier solution would be to ban their cargo ships from all US ports...which they never should have been allowed to enter in the first place. Oh, and stop issuing visas for their people to enter the United States and revoke all outstanding visas for Chinese nationals. Fuck 'em.
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They're already at war with us. Fentanyl is a chemical weapon and covid is a bio-weapon. Both were and are being deployed maliciously and deliberately. Fuck the Chinese.
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[NaturalNews] European researchers put together a study revealing that government-run Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) information websites are a privacy-invading nightmare — let the public beware!
Entitled "Measuring Web Cookies in Governmental Websites," the paper, which was funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union (EU), and the Spanish government, explains that government websites are basically being used as "a single point of monitoring and tracking for the entire population of a country" using web cookies. More at the link.
Is this unusual? I was under the impression that many private websites do this as well, unless precautions are taken.
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Hence, why many of use an app called MadMac's, a cookie monster, along with an open source VPN and TOR
[CNBC] Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Monday that inflation is deeply embedded in the global economy and it’s unclear whether the situation will improve later this year.
"We see inflation deeply entrenched in the economy, and what’s unusual about this particular period is that both demand and supply are being affected by exogenous events, namely the pandemic and the war on Ukraine," Solomon told analysts during a call to discuss second-quarter results.
Solomon, who leads one of Wall Street’s top advisors to corporations, then laid out one of the central debates occurring in markets right now: It is known that inflation is at multidecade highs; but how long will it persist?
"My dialogue with CEOs operating big global businesses, they tell me that they continue to see persistent inflation in their supply chains," Solomon said. "Our economists meanwhile say there are signs that inflation will move lower in the second half of the year. The answer is uncertain and we will all be watching it very closely."
As central banks around the world continue to tighten financial conditions to combat inflation, already volatile markets across asset classes will remain choppy, he said. Very high inflation, 8-12% I think will last until next year. Then just high inflation of 5-7% will be the new normal for several years. With supply lines still in flux, oil markets hit, food shortages, etc. inflation is just gonna be a fact of life for most of the decade.
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Blinding flash of the obvious... Global energy drives the world economy, slow production or restrict future product causes a giant economic impact across every commodity. We, the US, is one of the largest providers of energy, with it cut or restricted the markets respond. oil prices tie to every commodity and service. The rise in energy was such a spike it drove this recession. Getting out of it is easy, but he is right, it will take a year or two to recover.
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Persistent inflation in the global economy? Even if your government didn't blow trillions on 'pandemic relief' and 'building back better'?
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You can't ignore the laws of economics forever.
With central banks everywhere throwing money into their economies like it was going out of style, what did the think was going to happen (though "think" might be the wrong verb here)?
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I like the way they always blame covid and Putin, never taking any responsibility for their own sins.
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Gas prices up, Putin's fault. Gas prices down, feather in Joe's cap.
COVID up, it's not because the vaxx doesn't work. COVID down, it's because the vaxx works.
Got it?
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[NYPOST] Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Democratic mayors and city councils have "abdicated their responsibility" in fighting crime and addressing mental illness, which has forced his company to shutter stores due to fears over employee safety.
Schultz made the comments in leaked video that was posted to Twitter over the weekend by Ari Hoffman of KVI-AM talk radio based in Seattle.
Last week, Starbucks announced it was closing 16 restaurants in various cities across the country due to what the company said was employee complaints of drug use and violent mostly peaceful crime on the premises.
Schultz said he believes the Seattle-based coffee chain will have to close "many more" locations.
"This is just the beginning," said the interim chief executive, who came back to run the company earlier this year following the retirement of his predecessor, Kevin Johnson.
"There are gonna be many more [store closures]."
The leaked video of Schultz shows him addressing Starbucks employees. He told them that the company was "beginning to close stores that are not unprofitable."
Schultz said he was "shocked" to hear from employees that "one of the primary concerns that our retail partners [baristas] have is their own personal safety."
"And then we heard about the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms," Schultz said.
In 2018, Starbucks implemented an "open bathrooms" policy after a store manager had two black men arrested for not ordering coffee while sitting down in a Philadelphia location.
Video of the arrest went viral, and Starbucks apologized following intense backlash.
Now the company is giving store managers discretion to alter the policy due to complaints that Starbucks bathrooms are a magnet for drug abusers and homeless people.
In the video leaked over the weekend, Schultz cited the "issues of mental illness, homelessness, and crime."
"Starbucks is a window into America," Schultz said. "We are facing things in which the stores were not built for."
Schultz then took Democrat-run cities to task for not providing solutions.
"In my view, at the local, state, and federal level, these governments across the country and leaders — mayors, governors, and city councils — have abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental illness," he said.
Schultz added: "We are going to have to refine and transform and modernize many of the things we do to meet the needs of our customers in a very changing operating environment in which customer behavior is changing."
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You not only voted for them, Howard, you contributed cash to their election.
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^ Which points up the crux of the matter. Leftists do not think through their actions or desires. They begin with the premise they are correct and when negative results ensue, they are unwilling to reflect on how their initial premise was wrong.
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^ State capitals always have lots of homeless and leftist NGO grifters. My theory is it's about being as close as possible to the source of the welfare money gummint teat.
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Harvard "educated" for sure.
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^^^^ Increased Birth Rate in New England ... 🤔 Hmmm... might be the cold ❄ Winters' ... need to snuggle up 👆 ... and with that nature takes its course...😁🥰😉😂
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Baby outgrows mom's ability to produce, mom is unavailable (asleep, sick, out of town, so forth), babysitters/day care, and of course there are the ones who are just inconvenienced by the whole experience (hurts, whatever).
Then there are those who are so biologically toxic with their habits, its probably the safer choice. They may be so intoxicated, they may not even be producing.
[Dawn] At least 19 people drowned on Monday while several others were missing after a boat capsized in the River Indus near Machka, approximately 65km from Rahim Yar Khan.
The boat, carrying a wedding party of over 100 people, was returning from Rajanpur to Machka when the incident occurred, Rahim Yar Khan Deputy Commissioner Syed Musa Raza said.
The passengers, he said, belonged to the Solangi clan, adding that the boat capsized due to "overloading and high flow of water".
The DC said that immediately after the incident was reported, 30 rescuers, five ambulances, and a water rescue van arrived at the spot.
"Nineteen bodies, all women, have been pulled from the water while a search operation is underway for the remaining passengers," he added.
After the news was reported, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took to Twitter and expressed grief over the loss of life, praying for the dear departed souls and their families.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... Foreign Minister Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... instructed authorities to use all the possible resources in the rescue operation and prevent any such incidents in the future.
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[Breitbart] A Florida family recently discovered that replacing the battery for their electric vehicle costs more than what they paid for the car.
Avery Siwinski, 17, of St. Petersburg, received a used 2014 Ford Focus Electric from her parents that cost $11,000 and had 60,000 miles on it, WTSP reported.
After six months of driving, the vehicle started having some mechanical issues before it stopped running altogether.
Siwinski’s grandfather, Ray, sought to help her with the car problems, as her father had passed away in June from Stage 4 cancer.
Ray Siwinski realized it was a common problem for this type of vehicle to need its battery replaced.
But when he received a quote from the Ford dealership, he was told it would cost a whopping $14,000 to replace the battery — $3,000 more than what the family paid for the used electric vehicle.
He also noted that the quote did not include "installation and labor costs," WTSP reported.
After more research, Ray discovered that Ford was no longer producing batteries for that type of electric vehicle.
He issued a warning to anyone who was thinking about buying an electric vehicle.
"If you’re buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars," he told WTSP.
Despite the reliability and financial problems electric vehicles may pose for owners, such as what the Siwinksi family faced, the Biden administration is heavily pushing American families to ditch their gas-powered cars for electric ones.
"People from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in March, amid record-high gas prices.
A Wall Street Journal reporter recently rented an electric vehicle for a four-day road trip and noticed she was spending more time charging the car than sleeping. The reporter then noted that "[f]umes never smelled so sweet" when filling up her gas-powered vehicle after the conclusion of her trip.
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I seems to recall that there was a federal law requiring automotive manufacturers to support their products for some 10 to 25 years from date of manufacture? (Exact length of time varies depending on the web sites I checked in a quick research.)
yes I actually tried to do my homework! (Sometime.)
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Since this financial dilemma is the now obvious, I would suggest all parties holding "E-Vehicle" stock shares consider selling them now; EV's do not pay in anyway, recycling, environmentally, nor in plain financial viability; new or used.
Get out while the going is good.
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Atttn Seeking Cure For Ignorance
I am not sure in the US, but in Australia, if they have a battery for $14,000 and will replace it then that is considered supporting.
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In northern areas with salted roads life of the EV electronics is severely compromised. Also as with any computer systems planned obsolescence is ever present flaw. So you go in for service and you are told sorry your system needs to be replaced with new system. Windows 7,8,9,10,11 to infinity and beyond. That's why mechanics in my area actively look for prior 2000 models. One fellow with 50 year old truck keeps getting people wanting for him to sell his truck (10 times he was approached in one week).
[NYPOST] Sri Lanka’s acting president on Monday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the country’s lawmakers are set to elect a new president.
Ranil Wickremesinghe became acting president on Friday after his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled abroad on Wednesday and resigned after months-long mass protests over the country’s economic collapse.
Wickremesinghe’s move to impose a state of emergency comes as protests demanding his resignation too have continued in most parts of the country, with some protesters burning his effigy.
Lawmakers who met on Saturday began the process of electing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by Rajapaksa.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CNBC] Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Monday that inflation is deeply embedded in the global economy and it’s unclear whether the situation will improve later this year.
[Breitbart] A Florida family recently discovered that replacing the battery for their electric vehicle costs more than what they paid for the car.
