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-Obits-
New Zealand: Massey University's Queer Fat Studies Lecturer and ‘Fatlicious Feminist' Dies Suddenly in Her Sleep at 42
[GP] New Zealand — Dr. Cat Pausé, a Massey University ’fat studies’ lecturer died suddenly in her sleep this weekend.
suffocated under her Bingo Wings?
Cat Pausé’s work focused on the impacts of "fat stigma" and made it her life’s mission to spread ’body positivity’ and health at every size.

Dr. Pausé, 42, described herself and her mission in her Twitter bio: "Fatlicious. Feminist. Glorifying obesity since ’09. Tearing down white supremacy w/my fat fingers. Friend of Marilyn pod. Sociology, Public Health, Fat Studies"
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2022 15:50 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can't imagine why. Perhaps her cardiovascular system is stigmative of fat?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/27/2022 16:13 Comments || Top||

#2  The good news: The stigma of being fat is removed.

The bad news: ...
Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 16:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The impact is already being felt.

Walmart Is Closing These Stores Permanently, Starting April 22
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2022 16:33 Comments || Top||

#4 

In case you were wondering what happened to her corpse.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2022 17:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Gave her a Viking Funeral. It burned for two months
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Mother o' gawd, them poor pigs... though the fireworks and ceremony were pure time travel, for which thanks.

Also...

Two lovers, Tyrone and José,
Turned up at Cat's funeral today --
"How badly we'll miss you,
[sniff] adipose tissue!" --
But, sadly, her girlfriends were gay.
Posted by: Glomort Glolump7614 || 03/27/2022 18:27 Comments || Top||

#7  What is the definitional breakpoint, weight wise, above which it is a carcass rather than a corpse?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/27/2022 18:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Well I can finally say something positive about her is that her death actually made her do something good for the world.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2022 20:18 Comments || Top||

#9  The world is has one less nice personality now. Sad.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/27/2022 21:13 Comments || Top||

#10  And it freed up a cart.

Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/27/2022 21:18 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
FBI remains very tight-lipped about its investigation into a plethora of bomb threats targeting historically black colleges and universities in recent months
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2022 14:04 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since they leak like a bucket with a hole in it, especially if it politically beneficial to the establishment, one can assume that the suspects are very damaging to the narrative and is not white male heterosexual christians.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Or that all of them are hoaxes, which seems usually to be the case these days.
Posted by: Tom || 03/27/2022 14:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Jussie Smollet was released a few days ago. Any correlation there?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/27/2022 15:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Or that all of them are hoaxes

That is the safe bet. But what if this is another supply chain disruption - what if there are simply not enough hate crimes to go around and people are forced to create fake hate crimes to call attention to all the hate crimes going on?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/27/2022 15:52 Comments || Top||

#5  They could be legitimate threats by wacko racists, fake threats by wacko racists or racist-ish types, or false flag threats by Smollet/Sharpton types. Statistics of late suggest the latter, but if I trusted the FBI I would at least agree with pursuing investigation of the other possibilities.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/27/2022 16:26 Comments || Top||

#6  The point to be made is that the FBI is NOT to be trusted. Their cred was squandered the last couple decades+. I wouldn't talk to one if I didn't do anything but didn't have an atty present.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 16:43 Comments || Top||

#7 

Where was Biden?
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2022 17:23 Comments || Top||

#8  The target suggests that this is a hoax. We saw the same in 2017 when Jewish community centers in US and UK.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 03/27/2022 17:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Or they didn't look into anything.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/27/2022 17:39 Comments || Top||

#10  #9 wins.
FBI too busy with the J6’ers.
Posted by: Uliting Shomotch3226 || 03/27/2022 18:52 Comments || Top||

#11  We saw the same in 2017 when Jewish community centers in US and UK.

If I’m thinking if the same bomb threats, Rex Mundi, they were real threats called in by an autistic Israeli lad, for which he was paid by his darknet friends. And for which he went to jail.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2022 20:24 Comments || Top||

#12 
However, many of these bomb threats turned out to be suspected attention seeking hoaxes acording to some local paper / media reports.

Regarding FBI in general... I am still of the mind set there only few ROUGE agents and they hold the higher level positions. There needs to be a serious house cleaning in ALL Federal Agencies of subversives, political agenda focsed staff and anti-USA Staff.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/27/2022 21:22 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Navy Christens Another Guided-Missile Destroyer Headed for San Diego
[SanDiegoTimes] The Navy on Saturday christened its 73rd Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, a 9,500-ton warship named for a World War II Marine hero and headed to San Diego.

The future USS Jack H. Lucas honors a 17-year-old private who fell on two grenades during the Iwo Jima campaign to protect nearby Marines. Lucas survived the blasts, received the Medal of Honor and lived until 2008.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday delivered the principal address as the christening took place at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding on the Gulf of Mexico in Pascagoula, MS.

In a time-honored Navy tradition, the ship’s sponsors, Lucas’ widow Ruby Lucas and nonprofit leader Catherine B. Reynolds, christened the ship by breaking a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow.

The ship is the first of 20 advanced "Flight III" destroyers under contract. Among the upgrades compared to previous Arleigh Burke destroyers is special radar to allow the ship to shoot down ballistic missiles.

The destroyers are armed with a 5″ main canon, anti-antiaircraft guns, 96 missiles of various types in vertical launch tubes, torpedoes and two helicopters.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 10:50 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  17-year-old private who fell on two grenades...Lucas survived the blasts

Miracle baby?

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/27/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn right, and to live until 2008!
Posted by: Chris || 03/27/2022 14:46 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2022 17:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Now that is one tough son of a bitch!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/27/2022 18:06 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Suspected spy detained at site of Lviv rocket attacks
[IsraelTimes] The governor of Ukraine’s Lviv region says a man has been detained on suspicion of espionage at the site of one of the two rocket attacks that rattled the city today.

Maksym Kozytskyy says police found the man had recorded a rocket flying toward the target and striking it. Police also found on his telephone photos of checkpoints in the region, which Kozytskyy says had been sent to two Russian telephone numbers.

Rockets hit an oil storage facility and an unspecified industrial facility, wounding at least five people. A thick plume of smoke and towering flames could be seen on Lviv’s outskirts hours after the attacks.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2022 01:49 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I believe they may have captured an FO (forward observer).

Saying nothing about his being captured and exploiting his mission, phone, contact times and voice, might have been a more prudent approach. You can be reasonably certain he would have cooperated.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2022 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  My guess is the actionable exploitation of his information and technology has already been accomplished and after a rather bumpy descent, his physical being has assumed room temperature, perhaps with visual cues pour encourager les autres!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/27/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||


Putin's invasion stalling because majority of bombs are failing to explode
[YouTube] BLUF: The Telegraph reports that Russian bombs have a 60% failure rate.

More from Red State:
A 60% Dud Rate for Precision-Guided Munitions Explains a Lot of Russia's Problems in Ukraine

One of the staples on social media accounts reporting from Ukraine has been the very high rate of cruise missiles that have failed to detonate.

Problems with fuzing are not unknown. The most famous example of this is the Mark 6 exploder used in the Mark 14 and Mark 15 torpedoes of the US Navy until September 1943. The flaws of the exploder and the torpedo produced a dud rate of over 50% in the standard submarine torpedo. The problem was caused by the Navy weapons designers wanting to avoid the cost of a field trial.

Precision-guided munitions are essential in modern warfare. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
in Ukraine, the proliferation of air defense systems, particularly MANPADS, has made flight below 10,000 feet very unhealthy. By the same token, dropping gravity bombs from above 10,000 feet, given the skill level of the Russian Air Force, which flew eight hours per month before the war, is not much better than using a trebuchet.

If this report is accurate, it speaks to massive manufacturing and possibly engineering design problems in the Russian arms industry.



Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Classic Russian manufacturing? Corruption hiding defects? Both?
Posted by: magpie || 03/27/2022 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  The 40% that aren't duds are causing plenty of damage...
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/27/2022 1:01 Comments || Top||

#3  It will take much equipment and many years to defuse and remove the warheads and Ukranian mines too. Most of the demining machinery was destroyed in Mariupol and Kharkiv. Once this nonsense war ends.
Posted by: Kain || 03/27/2022 1:52 Comments || Top||

#4  It will take much equipment and many years to defuse and remove the warheads and Ukranian mines too.

Sounds like a good career for Russian POW's
Posted by: Slappy || 03/27/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  post conflict

Ukraine can build enormous monument made of damaged tanks, etc.

Could be a great tourist attraction.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/27/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Putin's invasion stalling because majority of bombs are failing to explode and incompetent Russian military and pissed off Ukrainians!
FIFY
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/27/2022 14:26 Comments || Top||

#7  So the Russian advance is slowed because they fear their own unexploded munitions will blow them up?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/27/2022 16:27 Comments || Top||


From the Western Perspective: Invasion Days 31 and 30 – Summary
[MilitaryLand] The summary of the 31st day of Russian invasion to Ukraine, as of 23:59 – 26th of March 2022 (Kyiv time).

Russian command announced change of tactics and the new primary goal – Donetsk and Luhansk Regions. Ukrainian forces liberated Trostianets in Sumy region.

From the Western Perspective: Invasion Day 30 – Summary
[MilitaryLand] The summary of the 30th day of Russian invasion to Ukraine, as of 23:59 – 25th of March 2022 (Kyiv time).

Ukrainian forces liberated several villages in Kharkiv and Kherson region. Russian Army crossed the river near Izium and have broken through Ukrainian lines.
Go to the site. They have improved greatly the graphics presentation of the maps.

Strongly recommend you read the rest at the link

Credit to Lord Garth
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Ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine revealed the plan of Western intelligence services against Russian-speakers
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] In recent years, the Kiev authorities have been consistently implementing the plan of Western intelligence services to resettle nationalist-minded residents of Western Ukraine to the Russian-speaking regions of the country, ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said in an interview with the Ukraina.ru portal.

Thus, Kiev and the West sought to weaken pro-Russian sentiment in the southeast of the country.

"After the coup d'état, the implementation of a special program of Western intelligence services for the resettlement of Bandera, Nazis, in the eastern lands of Ukraine began. This has never happened in Kharkov! How many neo-Nazi groups are now in Kharkov.

<...> The entire Southeast! Odessa! Odessa has never there were so many Bandera neo-Nazis," Azarov said.

He also noted that the placement of combat positions of nationalist formations in residential buildings in Mariupol shows that the radicals consider this city a stranger to them.

Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And yet, it was Russian speaking Ukrainians who put up the strongest defense. Investigating and doxxing saboteurs, intercepting chatter, negotiating with Russian troops to give up and run off, creating disinformation to be sent to the commanders that got them trapped and killed.

How many problems would not exist in the world if 'western intelligence services' just admitted they were not intelligent? I will make a list in my spare time.
Posted by: Kain || 03/27/2022 1:58 Comments || Top||

#2  "just admitted they were not intelligent?" yes indeed. Am I getting older or is this so apparent.
Posted by: Dale || 03/27/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||


From the Perspective of the Breakaway Republics: Military summary of the LDNR, March 26 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:20 The Kirovsky district of Donetsk was hit by the GRAD MLRS. As a result of an artillery strike from GRAD multiple launch rocket systems on civilians in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk, residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and agricultural facilities were damaged.

21:16 APU struck from the MLRS on two streets in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. As a result of shelling from Ukrainian Gradov, houses of civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk were damaged. Damaged Khersonskaya street and Dynamo street

21:07 In Rovenky, according to preliminary information, Tochka-U was shot down. Civilians report the fire of two houses.

21:00 Over the past day in the struggle for independence, six defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died in the line of military duty and 22 were injured.

20:38 Alexander Oprishchenko visited the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in Mariupol. The minister held a meeting with the staff of the institution, whose employees continue to provide the necessary medical care, perform surgical interventions, take births.

Alexander Oprishchenko expressed his gratitude to the doctors, discussed problematic issues in the work. For the work of the institution and local residents, the Ministry of Health provided the supply of water, bread, medicines and disinfectants. Patients were examined by doctors from healthcare institutions in Donetsk. Provided advice to those in need. Also, 14 people were evacuated by ambulance teams.

20:06 Guys from the Off-Road Club of Donbass take ou twounded children from Mariupol. The family came under sniper fire from the nationalists. So Azov "escorts" the civilians of the city.

19:47 People's militia of the LPR continues evacuation of civilians from the city of Rubezhnoye.

19:45 At the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured in Marinka, not only the flag of the Right Sector (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation), but also stripes with the flags of Canada and Great Britain were found. By words Izvestia correspondent Valentin Trushnin, this indicates the involvement of foreign mercenaries.

19:44 Basurin: In Mariupol, a group of Ukrainian nationalists has been driven out of residential areas and blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant. For the Nazis, this is the end, given that the perimeter of the plant is blocked by units of the Russian Army and the forces of the DPR.

19:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of the Trudovskaya mine): six mines fired with a caliber of 120mm - STsKK.

19:14 The forces of the Donetsk People's Republic on Saturday blocked Ukrainian nationalists in the Mariupol industrial zone - the representative of the people's militia Eduard Basurin

19:05 In the Petrovsky district, the private sector suffered as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fire was fired from the side of Maryinka, the BM-21 GRAD MLRS systems were used.

19:00 Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR took under protection the Luhansk TPP, which is a strategically important infrastructure facility in the energy sector. Earlier, the Ukrainian side argued that the Lugansk TPP does not belong to paramilitary facilities, the finds on the territory of the TPP say something else:
  • - 6 shots for RPG;

  • - 6 jet boosters СР-91;

  • - 324 shots VOG-30;

  • - 656 rounds of 14.5 mm caliber.

In addition, ammunition with foreign markings was found, which once again indicates the presence of foreign weapons in the VFU.

18:36 DPR Special Forces working on the perimeter of Azov-Stal. Today, the @wargonzo project managed to almost come close to the territory of the Azovstal enterprise, where militants from the Azov battalion settled down. Neo-Nazis still hold a few adjoining high-rise buildings, but in general, the perimeter of the plant has already been taken under the control of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian Armed Forces. Our special forces have only a few buildings left to clear, which the Nazis have made their outpost.

18:25 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Trinity - n.p. Ozeryanovka: 58 AGS grenades fired; n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Beam: 25 AGS grenades were fired, small arms were also used.

17:41 On the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received from the Ministry of Health of the DPR about the wounding of twelve civilians, including four children, from the previously liberated part of Mariupol.

17:31 Residents of Mariupol talk about how Ukrainian nationalists fired at them: “This is hell, Azov was shooting at us, I personally saw it.”

17:12 “We gave birth to women, and then lowered them into the basements” - Tatiana Bolyuk, junior nurse at the maternity hospital in Volnovakha tells about how she and her colleagues worked while the UAF used the city as a battlefield. And her mother, who lives nearby, talks about how Ukrainian tanks “drove around the hospital” and hid behind her building, hiding from return fire.

17:00 In the liberated Genichesk Russia starts pay pensions and social benefits to state employees. People are given 10 thousand rubles each.

16:58 Another 183 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye: during the day on March 26, from 08:00 to 16:00, 183 people, including 50 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye of the Novoazovsky District, reports the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.

16:49 They are coming to Mariupolcolorsfor residential areas. It is hard for the Russian military to clear the territory from the Nazis, since there may be civilians in the houses. The Azov people do not enter into open battle, they use the tactics of using the residential area as a cover.

16:33 Russian military caught Ukrainian commander - deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian 503 Separate Naval Infantry Battalion, who tried to leave Mariupol. According to him, their battalion broke up into groups, the rest of the team tried to get out of the encirclement about two days ago.

16:24 Servicemen from South Ossetia left for Donbass to participate in a Russian special operation. This was announced by the President YuO Bibilov.

16:22 In the liberated village of Verkhnetoretskoye, Russian sappers have begun demining.

16:21 Over Lisichansk in the Lugansk region was supposedly hit by a Ukrainian rocket Tochka-U.

15:40 Employees of the criminal-judicial department of the General Prosecutor's Office of the LPR organized and delivered a humanitarian help in the city of Happiness. Residents were given food (cereals, pasta, butter, sugar, canned food, juices), sweets for children were also given.

15:17 Conduct a thorough searches of columns leaving Mariupol. Apparently, they are looking for the runaway mayor of the city. Previously, several Nazis from Azov managed to escape from the city in a similar way, it became known after the cowardly Nazis began to brag on social networks, posting photos that they had left in ambulances and in hearses under the bodies of corpses. Most likely now all columns will be so carefully checked. None of the Azov terrorists will leave the city again.

14:45 As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of Zaitsevo from the side of the VFU, a house fire was recorded along Poletaeva Street - the head of the city of Prikhodko.

14:31 “Ukrainian armed formations daily carry out artillery strikes on the infrastructure of Pervomaisk. There is an extermination of the inhabitants of the LNR, a genocide is taking place, they (the Armed Forces of Ukraine) are driven into a corner like rats and are trying to do as much harm as possible, ”said officer of the LPR representation in the JCCC Viktor Matveev.

14:28 Ukrainian punisher in Dmitrievka shot a civilian from a machine gun, trying to steal a car.

“25 years old boy. In Dmitrievka, he was bringing us firewood and water to the basement in his car. And some wandering Ukrainian soldier jumped out and hit the car with a machine gun.” About it told resident of the village of Donskoye Alexander.

“We could barely take them to Donetsk. A vertebra was broken, two lungs were shot through. Just screwed up. He probably wanted to run away from the village.

14:27 Daily summary of the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on March 26, 2022: During the joint operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, the group of DPR troops continues to liberate the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic, which were previously under the control of the VFU. Currently, there are battles for Maryinka, Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka. Measures are being taken to clean up Verkhnetoretsky.

14:26 APU attacked Horlivka. Artillery of Ukrainian militants smashed houses along Velikan Street in the Central City District of Gorlovka.

14:25 “Kill them on the spot. No capture! Women who came under fire from the Armed Forces of Pervomaisk told what kind of reception awaits the captured soldiers in the city. “Idiots! Don't feel sorry for anyone. Let them bring them here. Our May Day women will give for children, and they will give for everyone,” added a resident of the city.

14:10 "When will this end, you scum!" A resident of Pervomaisky about the brutal shelling of the peaceful sector by the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “In 14, my wife, daughter and granddaughter were killed. They put three. For what? That's horrible", -added Man.

13:46 DPR fighters fire at positions of the Ukrainian army from anti-tank systems in the Horlivka region.

13:17 On the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received from the DPR Ministry of Health about the wounding of nineteen civilians, including four children, from the previously liberated part of Mariupol.

13:13 The Russian military are fighting for the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka in the Donbass, said Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov.

12:53 Fighters from the Nazi battalion "Azov" changed combat tactics. Having changed into civilian clothes, they infiltrate in pairs, a sniper and a machine gunner, into the urban territory liberated by the forces of Russia and the DPR in order to open fire from there. Therefore, the fighters of the NM of the DPR and the RF Armed Forces have to re-comb the previously cleared quarters of Mariupol.

12:18 VFU shelled the Kvartal 88 microdistrict, which is in the Central City district of Gorlovka. A direct hit of a shell on a private sector house at 57 Mozhaisky Street was recorded. Details are being clarified - Prikhodko.

11:33 In the DPR, for 36 days of escalation, as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 64 civilians were killed, another 583 were injured, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC reported.

11:17 The JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
  • n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

  • n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.

11:08 The people's militia of the DPR destroyed 64 Ukrainian nationalists in a day, captured 16 people and seized several units of military equipment. This was announced by the Deputy Head of the NM DNR Eduard Basurin.

11:00 DPR forces, with the support of the Russian army, liberated 132 settlements - the headquarters of the defense. During the day they released: Aslanovo, Khersones, Kellerovka, Yalta, Yuryevka, Azov, Melekino, Belosaraiskaya Spit, Buryakovaya Balka, Portovskoye, Glubokoe, Ogorodnoye, Demyanovka, Urzuf, Kamyshevatoe, Starodubovka, Krasnaya Ukraine, Zakharovka, Babakh-Tarama, Novoyanisol, Lesnoye , Shallow, Zaporozhye, Bakhchevyk, Druzhnoye, Abundant, Regimental, Kirovskoye, Privolnoe, Vesele (Volnovakhsky district).

10:51 Construction materials have been delivered to the liberated Stary Krym to restore infrastructure.

10:50 Over the past day, one civilian of the DPR was killed, 54 civilians were injured of varying severity (51 from previously liberated territories), including 4 children.

10:48 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the settlement was recorded. Nevelskoye - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm. — SCCC.

10:44 Nazis from "Azov" made homemade ammunition to kill the citizens of Donbass. The militants, having learned about the approach of the troops of the People's Militia of the DPR, left their military units in fear, which were located in the vicinity of the city of Mangush. Now the bases of Ukrainian nationalists are completely have crossed under the control of the NM DPR.

10:42 "Don't be afraid, speak Russian!" - such posters appeared on the territories of the LPR liberated from Ukrainian invaders.

10:39 The authorities of the DPR in the liberated territory of the Republic provided more than 3,000 people with payments: from March 7 to March 25, pensions were paid to 2,952 recipients in the liberated settlements, 368 people received social benefits.

10:36 The work of police departments has been organized in Mariupol. Addresses of the temporary location of the district police departments of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR:
  • Ilyichevsk Regional Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Sartana village, per. Club, 8b:

  • Ordzhonikidzevsky District Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Vinogradnoe, st. Soviet, 38;

  • Zhovtnevy District Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Mariupol, ave. Builders, 230;

  • Primorsky District Department of the Mariupol Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR: Melekino village, st. Gagarin, 8.

10:23 JCCC recorded the shelling of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.

10:12 Armed formations of Ukraine fired at N of the item. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): fired 5 mines with a caliber of 120 mm and n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber. — SCCC.

09:50 AFU shelled the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 14 shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.

09:22 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received from the DPR Ministry of Health about the wounding of twenty-four civilians (of which three are children) from the previously liberated part of the settlement. Mariupol.

09:08 The JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
  • n.p. Zhovanka - n.p. Zaitsevo South: fired 3 mines with a caliber of 120mm;

  • n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): 18 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;

  • n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Beam: 58 AGS grenades fired;

  • n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired 6 shells of 122mm caliber.

08:27 Ukrainian armed formations fired on the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. Gagarin from heavy weapons. Shell explosions were recorded behind the Galaktika shopping center - Prikhodko.

08:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): 6 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired. - SCCC.

07:00 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 shelling was recorded on 2 settlements of the LPR: n.p. Pervomaisk damaged nine multi-storey buildings and the Central Library of Pervomaisk - the representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.

05:55 AFU fired at the settlement Petrivske (Ukr. Stepovoe) - n.p. Yasinovataya: 40 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad - STsKK.

00:30 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: eight shells of 152mm caliber were fired. — SCCC DPR.

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From the Russian Perspective: Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary March 26 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:41 In Odessa, at the direction of the governor, the Khadzhibey dam was mined, which the neo-Nazis plan to blow up, the RF Ministry of Defense reports. The dam retains the waters of the Khadzhibey estuary, located 7 kilometers northwest of Odessa.

21:36 Media reports about the strike on Lutsk.

21:32 Briefing Mayor of Melitopol Galina Danilchenko: All municipal services of the city are operating normally; On the territory of the air town, repair work is underway to restore the supply of electricity; Utilities debt as of March 1, 2022 will be written off;

The issue of reducing tariffs for utilities is being worked out. The decision will be announced later; On Sunday, from March 26 to March 27, Melitopol and the Melitopol region are moving the clock hands one hour ahead, to Moscow time.

21:28 The armed forces of Abkhazia are put on high alert because of NATO exercises in Georgia.

20:12 During the day, 91 military facilities of Ukraine were hit, including two command posts, 11 field warehouses with weapons and ammunition - the Russian Defense Ministry.

20:09 Three new explosions are reported in Lviv.

20:08 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus knows about 50 members of the "Belarusian battalion" in Ukraine, acting against Russia. Criminal cases have been initiated against the participants, according to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime.

20:03 Over the Black Sea towards Sevastopol Ukrainian drone was shot down - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

20:01 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the number of military facilities destroyed since the start of the special military operation:
  • — 271 unmanned aerial vehicles,

  • — 1,627 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,

  • — 167 multiple rocket launchers,

  • — 669 field artillery pieces and mortars,

  • — 1,474 units of special military vehicles.

19:43 In Irpin during the battle with the RF Armed Forces were liquidated militants from Georgia and Belarus Dato Gobejishvili and Dmitry Apanosovich.

18:38 They began to blame the head of the regional military administration for the missile attack on Lviv, who literally this morning reported on the delivery of fuel to the city and the absence of problems with it.

The head of the regional military administration was blamed for the missile attack on Lviv, who just this morning reported on the delivery of fuel to the city and the absence of problems with it

18:31 Three self-propelled guns "Msta-S" (two of which were destroyed), BMP-2 and Kamaz trucks of the RF Armed Forces in the city of Trostyanets, on which the Armed Forces have taken in counterattack from the Akhtyrka area.

17:39 Explosions in Lviv -report Ukrainian media.

17:25 Yesterday to the city of Izyumwentthe first convoy with humanitarian aid from Russia. Whatever you understand, the city has not yet been completely cleared, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are inflicting artillery strikes on it, but the humanitarian situation is such that it was impossible to wait.

Under the protection of the military police, five KamAZ trucks of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were carried out. Aid is being distributed from Gazelles, on which humanitarian aid has been loaded. Moreover, the distribution takes place in different areas in order to minimize the risk of falling under shelling.

16:39 Russian military helped humanitarian aid to foreign sailors: stew, cereals, condensed milk were brought to the port of Kherson. Kherson region more than a week ago came under the control of Russian troops.

16:12 Chernihiv is in operational environment Russian troops - the mayor of the city of Atroshenko.

15:10 Kherson returns to a peaceful way of life. Car washes began to operate in the city. The city continues to support security of Russian troops.

13:34 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed personnel destruction of the Ukrainian air defense system "Buk". Strike with high-precision missile weapons. They used the operational-tactical complex "Iskander".

13:00 In Kherson they stopped work on Ukrainian radio channels in the FM range. Residents of the city report that now only Russian radio channels are broadcast in this range.

12:50 The Ministry of Defense showed personnel mass surrender of officers of the armed forces of Ukraine - more than 60 people.

12:30 Another Ukrainian fighter jet has been confirmed destroyed. Ukrainian media have confirmed the loss of their next MiG-29 fighter. An obituary for the killed pilot, Major Dmitro Chumachenko, has been published. He was the flight commander of the MiG-29 fighters of the 204th tactical aviation brigade. The aircraft was destroyed on 23 March.

11:35 The head of the administration of the Kiev region said that Russian troops entered the city of Slavutych, not far from Chernobyl.

11:01 The crew of a small missile ship of the Black Sea Fleet from the Black Sea carried out a salvo start four cruise missiles "Caliber" on military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of a precise hit with high-precision weapons, an arsenal with weapons and military equipment was destroyed on the territory of the Zhytomyr region.

10:40 Russian troops were already seen in Slavutich itself.

10:37 Aleksey Smykov, a militant of the Ukrainian nationalist regiment "Azov"* (an organization banned in the Russian Federation), who voluntarily laid down his arms, called the vile tactics of his colleagues to use civilians as human shields.

10:26 High-precision cruise missiles "Caliber" destroyed a warehouse with ammunition and weapons in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe settlement of Velikie Korovnitsy, Zhytomyr region - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

10:24 During the day, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 117 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: six command posts, three MLRS installations, one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, nine warehouses with weapons and ammunition, two with fuel and lubricants, 92 strong points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, nationalist battalions and the military equipment concentration area - the Russian Ministry of Defense.

10:22 The high-precision Onyx cruise missile destroyed the fuel base in the Nikolaev region, from which the APU grouping in the southern part of Ukraine was supplied with fuel.

10:21 Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian aircraft (two Su-25 and one Su-24), as well as six unmanned aerial vehicles in the air over the village of Vishnevoe, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. In addition, one tactical missile of the Tochka-U complex was destroyed near the village of Vasilievka.

09:10 Russian Defense Ministry publishes personnel destruction of the command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of the Ka-52. The armed forces used guided missiles of the Vikhr complex.

08:36 A missile hit the military base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zhytomyr. This was stated by the mayor of the city S. Sukhomlin.

07:00 The Russian army shot down seven Ukrainian military UAVs in the Chernihiv region near the Russian border.

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#1  Someone needs to denazifi Rantburg and bring us back the old Rantburg that opposed brutality and evil
Posted by: Omaing Stalag1261 || 03/27/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Lame.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/27/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." ― Winston S. Churchill
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/27/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  There is no Hitler in Ukraine. Mot even a Hitler manque or a Hitler wanna-be or a baby Hitler or a Hitler Starter Set™. There is a lot of moist panty pearl clutching going on in various places with the invocation of Hitler and nazis as an excuse.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/27/2022 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Anything in defense of Vlad's invasion
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#6  It's funny how they completely ignore one entire side of the equation. But then paid trolls gotta troll.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/27/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Anything in defense of Vlad's invasion Biden's pretext for making you poor, weak and dependent on the globalists
Posted by: Squinty Schwarzeneggar3170 || 03/27/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Sorry, but the term "Nazi" means nothing to me anymore. It was trotted out a couple of hundred times too many for me to take such charges seriously.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/27/2022 16:51 Comments || Top||

#9  It never did, did it?
Posted by: Clyde Untervehr8732 || 03/27/2022 20:59 Comments || Top||


News from the Breakaway Republics, March 27th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Ukrainian tanks of nationalists move among the residential buildings of Mariupol
[REGNUM] Ukrainian nationalists used the inhabitants of Mariupol as a "human shield". This was announced on March 26 by the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.

The headquarters published a video recording of the story of a local resident, according to whom the base of the “Azovites” (the neo-Nazi battalion “Azov” is an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) has been located near the city since 2014. Now, according to him, since the start of the special operation, the tanks of the nationalists drive up to residential "nine-story buildings" and, having fired a shot, quickly leave, provoking return fire on residential buildings.

“Tanks of the nationalists fired principally from residential areas, maneuvering in the yards of residential buildings ,” he noted.

REGNUM recalls that earlier the representative of the People's Militia of the DPR , Eduard Basurin , said that the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic drove Ukrainian nationalists out of the residential areas of Mariupol. Now a group of nationalists is blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant.

Air defense forces of the LNR shot down a Ukrainian missile "Tochka-U"
[REGNUM] The Air Defense Forces (PVO) of the People's Militia (NM) of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) shot down a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile near the village of Rovenki. This was reported on March 26 by the People's Militia of the LPR.

"Ukrainian nationalist formations are again shelling residential areas of the territory of the LPR," the report says. "So, at 19:45, our air defense units of the NM LPR shot down a tactical missile “Tochka-U” in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Rovenki."

No casualties or injuries have been reported.

As REGNUM reported , on March 25, the DPR air defense forces shot down a missile of the Tochka-U tactical missile system of Kiev militants on approach to Donetsk.

Donetsk blocking Ukrainian nationalists in the industrial zone of Mariupol
[REGNUM] The forces of the Donetsk People's Republic drove the Ukrainian nationalists out of the residential areas of Mariupol. This was stated on March 26 by the representative of the people's militia Eduard Basurin.

"In Mariupol, a group of Ukrainian nationalists was driven out of residential areas and blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant," he specified.

Basurin also added that six DPR fighters were killed, 22 people were injured over the past day.

"Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 300 shells and mines from 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 122mm cannon artillery and 120mm mortars," Basurin was quoted by the Izvestia newspaper. According to him, nine settlements of the republic came under shelling.

As a result of enemy shelling, 21 residential buildings and one infrastructure facility were damaged during the day.

Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Donetsk again
[REGNUM] AFU fired at Donetsk, fired 6 minutes. This was reported on March 26 at the DPR representative office in the JCCC.

“The shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 19:09 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (settlement of the Trudovskoy mine): 6 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired, ”the message says.

Earlier, Ozeryanovka and Zheleznaya Balka were fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Armed Forces fired more than 300 shells and mines at DPR
[REGNUM] Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) fired over 300 more shells and mines at the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was stated on March 26 in the message of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram channel.

“ Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 300 shells and mines from 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122mm cannon artillery and 120mm mortars ,” the message says.

It is noted that the areas of nine settlements of the Republic came under shelling.

As REGNUM reported, on March 26, the DPR representative office in the JCCC

In Donetsk, six servicemen were killed
[REGNUM] In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) over the past day, during the fighting with representatives of the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU), six servicemen were killed. This was stated on March 26 in the message of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram channel.

"Over the past day, in the struggle for independence, six defenders of the DPR died in the line of military duty and 22 were injured," the report says.

As REGNUM reported, on March 26, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that Ozeryanovka and Zheleznaya Balka had been fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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From the Ukrainian perspective: Russian invasion of Ukraine, March 27th, 2022
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[Korrespondent] 22:05 Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in his article, Russia has declared war on the West. How to win outlined the main steps of the West in the confrontation with the Russian Federation:
  • arm Ukraine "to the teeth" by making Putin's imperial restoration goals unattainable;

  • increase defense investment, including the US should rearm allies and partners, including Ukraine, with the help of a new Lend-Lease program;

  • to increase the number of NATO troops on the eastern flank in Europe;

  • sanctions should be in place until the Russian Federation leaves Ukraine and pays reparations;

  • the perpetrators of military atrocities in Ukraine must be punished.

  • In addition, in his opinion, it is necessary to prepare a plan for the restoration of Ukraine, in particular, at the expense of the assets of Russian oligarchs who financed Putin's aggressive policy.

22:00 The United States will provide Ukraine with another $100 million to "ensure border security, maintain law enforcement functions and protect critical infrastructure," Blinken said.

21:58 Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in addition to Trostyanets, liberated the settlements of Slavgorod and Krasnopolye in the Sumy region, MP Goncharenko said.

21:56 Vereshchuk said that all ten humanitarian corridors have worked today. A total of 5210 people were evacuated.

21:55 In the Rivne region, the Russian Federation also struck at the oil depot, said the head of the Regional State Administration Vitaly Koval.

21:54 Poland has already received 2.3 million Ukrainian refugees, President Duda said during a video conference with Zelensky.

21:33 In Melitopol, the Russian occupiers were not able to hold a paid rally in support of the Russian Federation because of the patriotic position of local residents, the Zaporozhye regional administration reported.

21:31 Mayor of Slavutych Yuri Fomichev said that the city is occupied by the Russian military. He also confirmed the deaths of three local residents.

21:26 Zelensky signed a law criminalizing the publication of data that could damage the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is strictly forbidden to publish:
  • street names, bus stops, shops, factories;

  • movement of the Ukrainian military, military facilities;

  • air defense work;

  • rockets that fly or hit somewhere;

  • places of shelling or projectile impact;

  • addresses, visual reference or battle coordinates;

  • numbers of cars, armored vehicles;

  • injured or dead (other than official data).

The minimum sentence is three years in prison, the maximum is eight years. And if mercenary motives and a preliminary conspiracy are proven - from eight to 12 years.

21:25 Martial law has been introduced in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the authorities are asking Putin to increase the "peacekeeping contingent" of the Russian Federation.

On March 25, the Armenian Foreign Ministry stated that the armed forces of Azerbaijan had violated the line of contact of Nagorno-Karabakh in the zone of responsibility of the Russian "peacekeeping mission". The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan denied reports of an armed incident and noted that the units of the Azerbaijani army continue the process of clarifying positions and deployment points without the use of force.

And the NCC stated that the Azerbaijani army is trying to ensure the advancement of the line of contact of Nagorno-Karabakh in the eastern direction.

21:20 Venediktova said that since the beginning of Russia's war against Ukraine, 12 journalists have died at the hands of the invaders.

21:17 A ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine are key conditions for lifting sanctions against Russia, said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

21:14 The Volyn regional administration reported that, according to preliminary information, a Russian drone was shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces approximately ten kilometers from Lutsk. It is possible that it could be a rocket, the information is being specified.

21:11 Zelensky, in a conversation with Duda, expressed disappointment that Soviet-made aircraft that Eastern European countries, in particular Poland, have not yet been transferred to Ukraine. Although publicly, both these countries and the United States declared their readiness for such a decision.

"The price of delay with planes is thousands of Ukrainian lives that we are losing from missile and air strikes on peaceful Ukrainian cities," the Ukrainian president said.

21:07 Sadovyi said that Lviv suffered two attacks tonight - an oil depot in a residential area within the city and a plant, also in a residential area, were hit. Each object received two strikes. It is known about five victims, there are no victims yet, the fire is still being extinguished.

The mayor of Lviv noted that this is the second blow to infrastructure in a week. In his opinion, in this way the aggressor "says hello" to Biden, who is in Poland. At the same time, Sadovyi stressed that all military facilities were taken out of Lviv before February 25, so the enemy is hitting civilian targets.

He also said that the rockets were fired from the occupied Sevastopol.

21:00 The White House clarified Biden's words that "Putin cannot remain in power": "The president's point of view was that Putin should not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or over the region. He did not discuss Putin's power in Russia or regime change.

20:38 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claims that 439.4 thousand people were delivered to Russia from Ukraine, of which almost 92 thousand are children. Including 19.7 thousand people were illegally evacuated to Russia per day, including 3.3 thousand children.

20:35 Russian missile attacks on Lviv are an attempt to scare Ukrainians and diplomats who are in the "city of democratic countries," Yermak said. “Ukraine is definitely not going to be frightened by such crimes of the Russians, and I want to say to Western partners once again: close the sky, show strength, such as the Ukrainian army shows in the fight against the Russian one,” he wrote.

20:32 People's Deputy Goncharenko said that information about Russian intelligence officers in Ukraine is being sold by Kadyrovites.

20:22 Podolyak about missile strikes on Lviv: "Another big Ukrainian city. With great historical value. Near the border. Inside the city there are embassies of many countries. But the barbarians of the Russian Federation are not interested in anything - neither history, nor heritage, nor foreign diplomatic missions. Is it really Europe continue to "pacify?"

20:19 Russian troops again fired at the research nuclear installation in Kharkov at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation reported.

19:59 Trostyanets has been liberated from Russian invaders, said the head of the Sumy OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.

19:57 Putin signed a law on awarding the status of a combat veteran to all participants in the "special operation" in Ukraine. It entitles them and their families to receive tax, transportation, land and housing benefits, as well as increased payments in case of injury and death.

19:52 Biden said in his speech that the war against Ukraine has already become a failure of Russia. He called "a cynical lie" Putin's claims that he wants to "denazify" Ukraine - he wants to unseat Zelensky, "who is a Jew, who is legally elected, whose grandfather fought Nazi Germany."

What happened during the Second World War, the Russian army is doing now in Ukraine, the American president said. According to him, Putin "can and must" end this war, and he cannot remain in power. And Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, Biden is convinced.

He said that thanks to Western sanctions, the ruble "turned into ashes" and a blow was dealt to the very heart of the Russian economy. "We made real proposals to the Kremlin to stabilize the situation, but the Kremlin rejected them all," the US president added. And democracies, he said, are now recovering in months, not years, as they used to be.

Biden also reiterated that "the US military is not here to participate in the war, but to protect NATO."

19:44 Sadovyi said that as a result of new missile attacks on Lviv, "significant damage was caused to infrastructure facilities." Residential buildings, he said, were not damaged.

19:34 Biden called "the lies that Russia is spreading" the information that "we are going to expand NATO."

19:30 Biden said that the West needs to prepare for a "long struggle" between democracy and autocracy, and this struggle "will not be won in a couple of days or months."

He also said that "now Ukraine is at the forefront in the struggle for democracy and freedom," and Putin does not really need negotiations.

19:16 Another missile strike was inflicted on Lviv, Mayor Andriy Sadovyy said.

19:11 The Russians demand that the police be removed from Slavutych, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said. But everyone understands that after that there will be other requirements, he added.

Now the city is under siege by Russian invaders, but without the inhabitants of Slavutych it is impossible to ensure the vital activity of the Shelter and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. So it is not yet clear what plans the Russians have.

19:09 In the Kiev region, the DRG of the enemy does not leave attempts to penetrate the capital. The saboteurs dress up in civilian clothes and use cars stolen from the civilian population, the General Staff reports.

19:07 In some settlements of the Chernihiv region, the invaders forcibly distribute "humanitarian aid" among the local population in order to create propaganda reports by the Russian media, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

19:05 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Kherson region, an increase in the terror of the local population by the invaders is recorded. They conduct searches in houses in order to identify ATO/JFO participants, military personnel, volunteers and members of their families. Numerous cases of abduction of women and torture of local residents are reported.

19:03 Russian invaders continue to actively use the transport network of Belarus, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. There is an increase in the number of air transportation of military cargo from the Russian Federation - mainly for the transfer of missiles of various types and ammunition, the enemy uses An-124 transport aircraft. This method of delivery is due to the blocking of railway tracks in certain directions.

The population of Belarus still does not support involvement in the war against Ukraine, but the provision of military support for Russian aggression and the issue of sending Belarusian units to Ukraine is being lobbied by a group of high-ranking officials and generals from the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.

18:59 In Avdiivka, the invaders used phosphorus ammunition today, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavel Kirilenko.

18:57 The occupiers were pushed back from Kyiv by 35-70 kilometers, the Defense Ministry said.

18:41 Reznikov says that the US top leadership no longer has any objections to the list of weapons that Ukraine needs: "I spoke about the Stingers in November, and they answered us: what are you talking about, Stingers are impossible. Today we are not even talking about about this name. It's just a matter of logistics."

18:30 Russian invaders fired on Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region, with cluster munitions from Tornado-S MLRS - they fell on the streets of a residential sector, the National Police reported. Local residents are urged not to approach cluster munitions in any case, as they can detonate at any moment. Explosives are on the scene.

18:19 In Mariupol, Russian invaders forcibly took out doctors and patients of city hospital No. 1, as well as people who were hiding there in the basement from shelling, the City Council reports. It is known that there were about 700 people on the territory of the hospital, but it is not known exactly how many Mariupol residents were deported.

18:12 Very heavy fighting has been going on in Irpin for the third day, the invaders attacked from three directions, but their attacks were repulsed, the mayor of the city Alexander Markushin said.

18:09 The head of the Kiev OVA, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, explained the abolition of the enhanced curfew in the capital and the region: they decided not to introduce it so as not to create "excessive social tension." He also noted that there was a threat to the activities of sabotage groups, but now "the situation is stabilized."

Pavlyuk said that in the region the enemy is trying to regroup and attack the capital, the defenders are actively working to push the enemy back.

In Slavutych the situation has been stabilized, the organization of a humanitarian corridor from the city is proposed, information about the deceased local resident is being checked.

18:01 Pope Francis donated an ambulance to Ukraine, which he personally blessed. The car is already on its way to Lviv, it will be handed over to the city by the papal elemosinary, Cardinal Konrad Kraevsky.

17:59 It's still too early to talk about the refusal of the Russians to storm Kiev, said Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs. “Indeed, they have no strength now. But at the same time, we understand that they are concentrating their units to the Belarusian-Ukrainian border,” he added.

At the same time, Denisenko confirmed that the Russians are now abandoning their main forces to gain control over the Donbass.

17:57 Russian occupiers launched two rocket attacks on Lviv. According to preliminary data, five people were injured, said the head of the Regional State Administration Maxim Kozitsky. He warned that the threat of a new strike still remained.

17:56 Russian troops fired on Boyarka in the Kiev region today, four civilians were wounded, including a child, the regional prosecutor's office said.

17:51 All 48 buses that the occupiers blocked in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, are already moving to Zaporozhye after passing the last Russian checkpoint, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.

17:43 In the Odessa Regional Council, the OPPL faction dissolved itself - all 24 deputies wrote statements about leaving it.

17:25 Biden, when asked by a journalist about what he thinks of Putin, said: "I think he is a butcher."

17:21 The air command of Skhid reports the destruction of an aircraft and a drone of the Russian invaders near Kharkov.

17:16 South Ossetia has officially announced the dispatch of its military to the Donbass. In Melitopol, eyewitnesses are already reporting the appearance of vehicles with their flag on the streets.

17:02 The Turkish Ministry of Defense stated that an unknown object, due to which the Bosphorus was blocked today, turned out to be a sea mine, which the Turks neutralized. Turkey turned to Ukraine and the Russian Federation with a request for consultations.

Earlier, the Russians said that the Ukrainian side had allegedly mined the approach to its shores of the Black Sea, but the mines began to drift towards the Bosphorus. However, Russia even named their exact number - 420. Experts say that these are probably Russian mines, since it is almost impossible to accurately calculate their number in a stormy sea, Babel writes, citing Turkish media.

17:00 Since the beginning of the war, the State Bureau of Investigation has registered 330 criminal proceedings, of which almost 200 are for high treason and collaborationism.

16:59 Russian propaganda is spreading fakes about the cyber landings of US and NATO specialists in Ukraine to explain the power of Ukrainian cyber defense, reports the State Service for Communications.

16:57 The invaders launched a missile attack on the outskirts of Lviv, an oil depot was attacked, MP Goncharenko said.

16:53 Kuleba and Reznikov handed over to Biden, Blinken and Austin the fragments of one of the Russian missiles that had been fired at the Yavoriv military training ground.

"Today, in the development of contacts between Presidents Zelensky and Biden, we agreed on the next steps to ensure that fewer such missiles fall on Ukrainian soil. And, of course, for Ukraine to win," Kuleba wrote after the meeting.

16:42 The social network VKontakte massively blocks opposition publics. Among these have already turned out to be The Insider, the fan community of Ekaterina Shulman, the pages of Khodorkovsky and Navalny, The Village, Rain, Echo of Moscow, Meduza, Present Time, Radio Liberty and many others.

16:20 The rector of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, said that "dozens of communities and several monasteries" voluntarily joined the OCU.

15:57 Podolyak says that two destructive processes are happening simultaneously in Russia:

15:42 From today, Ukraine has launched a program to provide free food to residents of settlements located in the war zone, Shmyhal said.

15:35 The city council of Slavutych asks local residents to remain calm and warns that occupiers' equipment is moving around the city in order to check the absence of weapons.

15:24 The Armed Forces of Ukraine will return control over Kherson today , adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky is convinced.

15:06 The Ukrainian military almost completely destroyed the elite tank army of the Russian Federation in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, Arestovich said.

14:57 In Crimea, mobilization is underway to participate in the war on the side of Russia against Ukraine. Men of military age are massively trying to leave the peninsula through the Russian Federation, the representative office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea reported.

14:55 The occupiers are trying to break through the Izyum to the Donbass , said the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, they are trying to bypass Izyum, pass partially through it in order to transport their troops to the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, in fact, cut off the JFO line.

14:51 Kuleba spoke about the meeting with Biden:

Biden is convinced that what is happening in Ukraine will change the 21st century. And this is not about the war of Russia against Ukraine, but about the war of tyranny against the whole world. The American president also promised that the United States will continue to support Ukraine and increase assistance.

We discussed sanctions, agreed how and with which countries to work so that they do not become a loophole for Russia to circumvent sanctions.

On the supply of weapons, "there was a substantive discussion, progress and developments."

14:34 Ukraine has offered its underground storage facilities for storing fuel purchased jointly by the EU countries and their partners. According to Energy Minister German Galushchenko, Ukrainian underground storage facilities are the largest in Europe.

14:32 Russia hit Lisichansk with a Tochka-U missile, several houses are on fire in Severodonetsk, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, because of the shelling, the mine, where the workers are underground, has been de-energized.

14:24 There is no electricity and central water supply in Chernihiv, water is delivered to people in affordable containers. The footbridge across the Desna River has been damaged and may fall, moreover, it is under cross fire. It is not possible to arrange a large-scale evacuation from Chernihiv - they are trying to organize it only for seriously wounded people, said the mayor of the city Vladislav Atroshenko.

14:22 Great Britain will provide food supplies worth two million pounds to the regions of Ukraine surrounded by Russian troops.

14:20 In the center of Energodar near the city council, on the building of the communication center of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the Russian invaders installed their dish to ensure broadcasting and conduct enemy agitation among the townspeople. Armed guards were posted around the building, Energoatom reports.

14:09 In the West, mainly in the US and Britain, there are funds from the Russian Federation in the amount of about one trillion dollars, according to Anders Åslund, a Swedish economist and diplomat, an expert on the economy of Eastern Europe.

14:07 There will be no enhanced curfew tomorrow in Kyiv and the region , Klitschko specified. The curfew will operate as usual, from 20:00 to 07:00 the next day.

14:04 In the Chernihiv region last night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked an accumulation of enemy equipment and an ammunition depot near the village of Vyshneve to the north of Chernihiv, Command Pivnich reports. Among the enemy equipment were electronic warfare equipment, therefore, after their destruction, the broadcasting of Ukrainian radio resumed, which until that moment had been jammed by the occupiers.

13:42 The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the "neutralization" of an object similar to a mine in the Bosphorus Strait.

13:39 Anton Gerashchenko, citing his sources, claims that Shoigu has a heart attack, and today's video in the propaganda media allegedly with his participation is a classic "canned food" dated March 11. Moreover, according to Gerashchenko, Shoigu's condition has worsened and he continues to receive treatment at the Burdenko military hospital.

13:32 In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian army launched a counteroffensive and liberated several settlements in the direction of Malaya Rogan, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said.

13:14 Russian invaders fired on and damaged the memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Drobitsky Yar on the outskirts of Kharkov, the Ministry of Defense reports.

13:11 In the Kiev region, an official Telegram bot was launched to search for missing citizens: https://t.me/findme_kyivobl_bot

13:10 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announces the withdrawal of units of the armed forces of Belarus from the points of permanent deployment to the training grounds.

13:09 Russian troops retreated to the outskirts of Slavutych, said Tatyana Melnik, adviser to the mayor.

12:48 In the Kiev region at the Tarasovka station, Russian troops fired at the Shepetovka-Kiev train, one person was injured.

12:45 Russian invaders tried to land the DRG ashore in the Odessa region, using high-speed boats, Vladislav Nazarov, officer of the Pivden operational command, said. According to him, the enemy received a worthy rebuff, the saboteurs were destroyed. The Russians continue to conduct reconnaissance of the coastline and the Black Sea with the help of aircraft, but they are actively opposed by Ukrainian air defense.

12:43 Borrell said that Europe supports Ukraine without forcing an escalation: "We do not want a conflict of a larger scale, but at the same time we want to put pressure on Russia with all our might so that it pays the price."

12:33 On the morning of March 26, the invaders launched a missile attack on an oil depot near Kiev, MP Elena Krivoruchkina said. According to her, there are no victims or injured, but rescuers cannot start extinguishing the fire because of the danger of repeated shelling.

12:27 Near Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, Russian invaders have created a many-kilometer traffic jam in which there are refugee cars and ambulances with wounded children, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, the Russians carefully check everyone who crosses their checkpoint and create obstacles for the rapid movement of the column.

12:18 At the rally in Slavutych, one person was killed , two were injured. The Russian military throw stun grenades into the crowd and open fire, Suspilne reports.

12:16 The "authorities" of the so-called "DPR" have allowed the circulation of the hryvnia along with the ruble on the territory of the illegal formation. The Decree will be in effect until July 1. The rate is fixed at 2.5 rubles per hryvnia.

12:12 The mayor of Slavutych was released. He spoke to the local residents and said that the Russians "will let them live in peace" if there are no military men in the city. The possibility of leaving the city will be resumed, the invaders will bring humanitarian aid. The mayor stressed that the city remains under the Ukrainian flag.

12:08 In the western part of Mariupol, which is now under the control of the invaders, sweeps have begun. According to the city council, citing local residents, Russians go to the apartments of surviving houses and conduct a population census. If no one opens, they break down the doors, conduct searches, and ask neighbors.

12:03 Zelensky said at the Delphic Forum that Russia does not receive punishment for its atrocities and uses its nuclear status to threaten the whole world, so international institutions need to be reformed to restore justice. He also stressed that due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the whole world will face problems with food.

11:59 A meeting between Kuleba and Reznikov with American colleagues Blinken and Austin began in Warsaw. A meeting of Ukrainian ministers with Biden is also scheduled.

11:57 Venediktova said that the former people's deputy from the Party of Regions Oleg Tsarev was suspected. Prosecutors are asking for a life sentence for him.

11:55 Bucha City Council warned local residents that today the occupiers will try to carry out a fake "evacuation" to Belarus , you can't go anywhere with them.

11:54 Vereshchuk said that the occupiers planned a demonstrative action: they are going to forcibly deport ethnic Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Meskhetian Turks from Kherson to the occupied Crimea.

11:45 According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russian Federation is often faced with the impossibility of restoring equipment after "reopening" from warehouses. Optical devices and electronics containing precious metals were completely stolen from combat vehicles.

In particular, in the 4th Panzer Division of the Russian Federation, they found out that out of ten "reactivated" tanks, only one is in a more or less operational condition. The rest are completely dismantled. Some of them don't even have engines. At present, plans for the transfer to the front of equipment removed from storage have actually been thwarted.

Intelligence also reports that, according to available information, the commander of the 13th tank regiment of the 4th tank division of the Russian Federation shot himself.

11:33 In Kyiv and the region, the curfew will last from 20:00 Saturday, March 26, until 07:00 Monday, March 28.

11:22 There is no power supply in the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev: two lines are disconnected due to the shelling of the invaders in the suburbs in the directions of Gostomel and Irpin, the Kyiv City State Administration reports. Now the work of specialists is impossible, because the occupiers continue shelling. It will take several hours to repair the damage.

In addition, lower water pressure is possible on the right bank during the day. The shutdown of the lines led to a blackout of three pumping stations in the capital.

11:17 Mayor of Zhytomyr Sergei Sukhomlin said that on the evening of March 25, a military unit came under fire. In turn, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Caliber missiles destroyed a warehouse with ammunition and weapons in the Zhytomyr region. The missiles were launched from the Black Sea.

11:10 Ten humanitarian corridors have been agreed for March 26:
  • Donetsk region: Mariupol - Zaporozhye (by private transport)

  • Kyiv region: Plesetskoye - Fastov; Severinovka - Belogorodka; Borodianka - Bila Tserkva; Chervonaya Sloboda, Rozhev, Sitnyaki - Bila Tserkva

  • Luhansk region: from Rubizhne, with. Lower, Lisichansk, Popasnoy, Severodonetsk, Gorsky

  • In addition, work is underway on the gum corridors for Slavutych, Dymer and Ivankov.

11:09 Zelensky addressed the politicians of Qatar and the participants of the Doha Forum: "It is a matter of time when European countries refuse to purchase Russian oil and gas. Responsible states, in particular, the state of Qatar, are reliable and solid suppliers of energy resources. And they can make their contribution in stabilizing the situation in Europe. They can do a lot to restore justice."

11:05 In Kiev, from March 28, the Centers for the provision of administrative services are resuming work. They will work from 10:00 to 16:00.

10:56 In the Sumy region tonight, the occupiers withdrew a significant part of the troops to the territory of Russia. There was shelling of the suburb of Sumy, information about the victims and destruction is being specified, the IVA reported.

10:37 The occupiers kidnapped the mayor of Slavutych Yuriy Fomichev , the head of the Kiev OVA Oleksandr Pavlyuk reports. The city council in full force continues its work. Also, Russian troops seized the city hospital.

10:26 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russians on the morning of March 26:
  • personnel - about 16,400 people,

  • tanks - 575,

  • armored fighting vehicles - 1640,

  • artillery systems - 293,

  • MLRS - 91,

  • air defense systems - 51,

  • aircraft - 117,

  • helicopters - 127,

  • automotive equipment - 1131,

  • ships/boats - 7,

  • tanks with fuel and lubricants - 73,

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 56,

  • special equipment - 19,

  • launchers OTRK - 2.

10:04 Lebanese prime ministerial candidate Omar Arfush called on Hezbollah to fulfill their leader's promise and not send their soldiers to fight with Ukraine.

10:02 The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has decided to suspend all contacts with scientists and research centers in Russia and Belarus.

10:01 Germany will punish for public demonstration of the sign Z. According to Deutsche Welle, such a decision has already been made by two federal states - Lower Saxony and Bavaria.

"Anyone who, using the Z sign, publicly expresses his approval of Russian President Putin's aggressive war against Ukraine should expect criminal prosecution in Lower Saxony," said Lower Saxon Interior Minister Boris Pistorius.

09:57 Residents of Slavutych took to the action for Ukraine, while a column of Russian tanks and infantry stands under the city. They shoot at checkpoints around the city, some houses in the city suffer from the blast wave, Energoatom reports.

09:52 Ukrainian air defense is forcing occupiers to use more drones, British intelligence said: “Robust Ukrainian air defense has almost completely restricted manned flights beyond their front lines, so Russia has most likely been forced to use more UAVs instead. This is likely leading to an increase demand for these assets and their depletion".

09:48 The Belarusian battalion named after Kastus Kalinovsky became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was created at the beginning of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine and consists exclusively of Belarusians.

09:42 Medvedev named four situations in which Russia can use nuclear weapons:
  • if the territory of the Russian Federation is struck with the use of nuclear weapons;

  • in the event of any other use of nuclear weapons against Russia and its allies;

  • if there is an encroachment on critical infrastructure, as a result of which the Russian nuclear deterrent forces will be paralyzed;

  • in the event of an act of aggression against Russia or its allies, as a result of which "the existence of the country would be in jeopardy."

09:38 After a month of the war, 45% of Ukrainian families began to worry about the lack of food. And one in five is already forced to use different ways to overcome hunger, the UN report says. According to the organization, people are cutting back on their portions and number of meals, and forgoing food in order to feed their children.

09:24 Johnson, following the results of negotiations with Erdogan, said that Britain would provide Ukraine with anti-battery systems, and Turkey would provide another batch of Bayraktars. According to him, anti-battery complexes will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine "destroy the long-range artillery of the Russians, from which they shoot Mariupol." They will also be able to destroy Russian ships at a long distance.

09:21 YouTube removed the channel of Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who called the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of Britain, introducing themselves as Ukrainian ministers.

09:09 Scholz said that Germany is able to abandon Russian gas faster than previously thought. He stressed that the process of gaining independence by the EU countries from Russian gas has now become irreversible.

09:06 Elon Musk said that after the start of the war in Ukraine, hackers tried to hack into the Starlink system. According to him, all attacks have so far been repulsed.

09:05 British intelligence believes that Russian troops do not want to participate in large-scale urban infantry operations, so they are going to bomb cities with aircraft and fire artillery to demoralize Ukrainian forces.

09:02 Adviser to the Minister of Defense Markiyan Lubkivsky in an interview with CNN said that PMC Wagner was supposed to kill Zelensky and Shmyhal. According to him, the conspiracy was confirmed by the Ukrainian special services and special forces that protect the president. Ukrainian intelligence tracked saboteurs in Ukraine, several groups were eliminated.

09:00 In Melitopol, the invaders began to hunt for those who do not want to obey them, the Zaporizhia District Police Department reported. So, representatives of the Russian commandant's office gather the heads of condominiums and offer to report where "fascists" live - that is, everyone who is pro-Ukrainian.

08:34 The Russians are targeting food trains in Severodonetsk, said the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. He is sure that it could not have done without a fire spotter. "Another sign of the 'Russian world' is to leave civilians without food," he added.

08:21 As a result of the shelling, the gas pipeline was damaged in Trostyanets, the invaders dropped a large bomb on Akhtyrka, the surroundings of Sumy are under fire, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.

08:00 The introduction of the NATO peacekeeping mission to Ukraine was supported by Denmark and Lithuania, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. According to him, there is also approval from other countries, but they are waiting for the reaction of the alliance.

07:43 According to the General Staff, the invaders are trying to intensify the activities of sabotage and reconnaissance groups in Kiev.

07:40 The enemy deployed almost all units of the Russian Guard, which were stationed on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and in certain areas of the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions, in order to suppress the resistance of the inhabitants of Kherson, Genichesk, Berdyansk and Mariupol, the General Staff reports in the morning summary.

04:52 The mayor of Kherson, Igor Kolykhaev, did not rule out that the Russian occupiers could hold a referendum in the Kherson region by force. At the same time, he believes that the Russians are not interested in creating KhNR - it is more profitable for them to annex Kherson to ORDLO or the occupied Crimea.

04:46 Great Britain has imposed sanctions against another 65 individuals and enterprises involved in Russia's war against Ukraine. In particular, the Russian defense company Kronstadt, which is the main manufacturer of the Orion drone and other drones, fell under the sanctions.

03:14 The invaders are gathering in Melitopol a paid rally in support of the Russian Federation, the Zaporozhye regional administration reported.

02:55 Anonymous hackers released 28 GB of information from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation into the public domain.

01:58 During the day on March 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed three enemy aircraft, three Orlan-10 drones, one helicopter and at least five cruise missiles.

01:16 On the evening of March 25, in the Chernihiv region, Russians fired at a convoy with civilians, where there were foreign journalists and TSN correspondent Andrei Tsaplienko, who reported the incident. The journalist himself was wounded, the shelling lasted at least an hour and a half.

00:45 In the Kharkiv region, Russian invaders restrict the movement of the civilian population by establishing a network of checkpoints, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

00:26 A Moscow City Duma deputy said that it is necessary to expand the boundaries of the "military operation" and "denazify" Poland, Moldova, the Baltic countries and Kazakhstan. Podolyak, in turn, commented that Russia, apparently, intends to attack a number of European countries on a full scale.

Posted by: badanov || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


UN human rights team in Ukraine says monitors have received more information about mass graves in the besieged port city of Mariupol
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Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Ukraine’s authorities say Russian forces have effectively surrounded the northern city of Chernihiv
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China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia
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Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Looks like China loves their investment money more than they love Tucker Carlson's Putin worship???
Posted by: Omaing Stalag1261 || 03/27/2022 17:20 Comments || Top||

#2  nice non-sequitur anonymous troll-guy. I don't believe Carlson's shared that love publicly, so perhaps it's just you in the privacy of yer Mom's basement?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 17:32 Comments || Top||

#3  lots of weirdos around here lately... interesting
Posted by: 746 || 03/27/2022 19:13 Comments || Top||

#4  China knows the Russian energy production is fucked.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/27/2022 22:24 Comments || Top||


Russia’s forces take control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live
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China-Japan-Koreas
US calls for tougher UN sanctions after NorthKorea tested its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile
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Posted by: Fred || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  This dramatic video starring the leader was shown to NKoreans on its television.
Posted by: Kain || 03/27/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  North Korea's Fonzie
Posted by: Frank G || 03/27/2022 14:01 Comments || Top||

#4  It's just marvelous to have 'the adults' in charge in the USA!
Posted by: Bobby || 03/27/2022 15:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Sanctions? *Wow* What will Russia and the PRC do, hmmmm?
Posted by: magpie || 03/27/2022 17:49 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey's authorities have warned vessels to stay away as a dive team inspects a “mine-like object” found floating north of Istanbul near the BlackSea
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Government Corruption
Hunter Laptop Contains Multiple DoD ‘Encryption Keys' With 20 Plus Year Expiration Dates To Allow Holder Access To DoD Databases
[CDmedia] This story is developing...

CDMedia has confirmed the Hunter Biden infamous ’laptop from Hell’ contains many U.S. Department of Defense ’root encryption certificates’, or encryption keys to DoD databases. The keys have unusual long-term expiration dates, with many lasting twenty years or more.

This information was discovered during a deep forensic investigation done over the last couple weeks, by Jack Maxey and his team in Switzerland.

This situation raises multiple questions, such as...

  • Why did Hunter Biden have a large number of Department of Defense encryption codes to allow access to national security data?
  • Did Hunter Biden give anyone else access to this information?
  • Who gave the codes to Hunter Biden?
  • Why do the codes have long-term expiration dates, when the usual practice is to provide a user access only during his ’need to know’, or time in the job, which is usually 2-3 years at most?

    We have been informed the Department of Justice has been alerted to the situation.

    We have also been informed the DoD has been told of the discovery.
    This story is unconfirmed.
    Courtesy of NN2N1: Dump of Hunters Laptop for Ukraine
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  All of those question are quickly answered if you acknowledge the fact that Hunter was an Intelligence Community source or stringer. The Encryption of his communications was essential.

    The Hildebeest's mysterious 'home brew' server communications were likely Encrypted as well, which might explain the indifference to the improper or illegal use and transmission of classified data. I don't recall the Hildebeest's servers ever having surfaced. I believe she took care of her cell phones with a hammer.

    Two items that are routinely seized in the course of warranted Federal investigations and sweeps are computers and cell phones. The problem here was, Hunter had a computer in the shop.

    Nothing will come of this. Nothing ever comes of it. All will be consumed by the memory hole.

    Posted by: Besoeker || 03/27/2022 2:21 Comments || Top||

    #2  Hunter's Beijing-based Chinese joint venture partner was a tool of the Chinese military. (The America-based Chinese partner is in federal prison for bribery and money laundering.)

    Hunter's business partner in Kazakhstan was a crony of the ruling family.

    In addition to his Burisma loot Hunter received $3.5 million for god knows what from a powerful Russian oligarch.

    The man is obsessed with pr0n and had thousands of images and videos involving himself and prostitutes. He is walking kompromat.

    Posted by: Count Galeazzo Grumble1045 || 03/27/2022 8:42 Comments || Top||

    #3 
    Some of the questions these keys raise are:

    What year were they issued, was it during OBAMA, Trump, or BIDEN's watch?

    Were the keys issued to him, by a _ _ _ agency, or were they issued due to Daddy's request?

    Whatever the case it must be treated as a serious Nation Security Breach and officially addressed.


    Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/27/2022 9:12 Comments || Top||

    #4  The Bidens are obviously compromised by both the Russians and the Chinese. No wonder Old Man Biden is doing so much damage to US interests.

    Think about it: If you wanted to make America weak while pretending to be "tough" on Russia and China, you'd pretend that Trump was a Russian spy and try to hang the Chinese virus around his neck. You'd open the southern border and hand over Kabul to the Taliban.

    And if you wanted to weaken America economically and reduce its standing in the world, what better way to do so than to prolong the war, piss off all the powerful non western nations with clumsy sanctions and force Americans to pay higher prices for everything?

    Biden and his family have been compromised. Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate.

    Posted by: Percy Unaigum2120 || 03/27/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

    #5  I had a weird thought today. What if g-d wanted Trump out of the way while g-d re-set the US of A?
    Posted by: irish rage boy || 03/27/2022 16:50 Comments || Top||


    #7  Biden Crime Family. Corrupt as sin, dumb as rocks, setting the world on fire with their blundering stupidity. Remove them from power before they do even more damage to this country
    Posted by: Albemarle Thrusoth4588 || 03/27/2022 18:18 Comments || Top||


    Science & Technology
    Surprise! CDC Data Shows That Vaccinated Children Aged 5-11 Are Now More Likely to Catch Covid Than Their Unvaccinated Peers
    [GatewayPundit] According to the latest data from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Covid infection rate among vaccinated children aged 5-11 is now higher than it is among their unvaccinated peers for the first time since the data started being collected.

    The flip has been in the making for months, as the infection rate for vaccinated children has been creeping closer to the rate of unvaccinated cases for quite some time, eventually surpassing the latter in the week ending on Feb 19th.

    Despite a meteoric drop-off in cases — over 10× in just a month — the vaccinated case rate lept above the case rate for the unvaccinated.



    The swine flu vaccine was pulled after approximately 50 deaths. Why not the spike shot? Follow the money.
    Posted by: Woodrow || 03/27/2022 10:09 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

    #1  Fucking liars. Most corrupt government in our history
    Posted by: Albemarle Thrusoth4588 || 03/27/2022 18:22 Comments || Top||

    #2  No one leaves a CDC data link, but, "The Epoch Times" and "Gateway Pundit" are being referenced as accessing the CDC for this "data" and Rantburg is reporting it.
    This is horseshit and you guys falling for these putrid propaganda stories need to at least start growing up.
    Posted by: Omaing Stalag1261 || 03/27/2022 20:50 Comments || Top||

    #3  The posted Gateway Pundit article does indeed link to an Epoch Times article. If you do the free sign in to the Epoch Times, you’ll open the premium article, which yields this CDC link; that should contain exactly the information you want, Omaing Stalag1261. I look forward to reading your analysis of it, my dear.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 03/27/2022 21:16 Comments || Top||



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