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War Crime of the first order. Russia burns Mariupol to the ground!
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
"Honey Chile" track from 'Old Crow Medicine Show'
[Garden & Gun] The track "Honey Chile"—which Garden & Gun is proud to premiere below—paints an image of longing, reminiscing about a time, and perhaps a person, from the narrator’s past. Musically, the song is something of a salvo for the whole of Paint This Town, rising out of the gates with a bold swell before settling into a traditional Americana-tinged groove. But as fans of the band might expect, a sense of propulsive rock and roll is hiding just around the corner, showcasing Old Crow’s uncanny ability to make music that honors the past just as much as it looks toward the future. It’s a balance struck all over Paint This Town, which also features a few new members, including drummer and mandolin player Jerry Pentecost and multi-instrumentalists Mike Harris and Mason Via.

Watch the video for "Honey Chile"—filmed at Hartland Studio—below. And read on to hear from Old Crow frontman Ketch Secor on recording the album. Paint This Town is out April 22
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 07:57 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  saw them twice in Bristol, Tennesse. Great show
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/14/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Deacon, I like this group a lot too. For those who might not know, Bristol is that part of Tennessee that is considered birthplace of country and bluegrass music.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2022 16:53 Comments || Top||

#3  "Honey Chile" "Old Crow"
Now dats rayciss.
Posted by: Fat Bob Flaviger6564 || 03/14/2022 19:06 Comments || Top||

#4  These guys are the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XafcAAPhuU0&list=PLYG9UdJdXiEeFwtlvNUvikoz-j6YinAK0&index=118

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYp0fsfUQRI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksuz-LZjTxY
Posted by: KBK || 03/14/2022 23:26 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Nearly 16,000 Afghan children contracted measles in 2022
[Khaama]
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
[BBC] Maps of the current situation in Ukraine Mar. 14
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/14/2022 11:19 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Jeepers, there's still a lot of white on that map!
Posted by: Bobby || 03/14/2022 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, wow...another BBC propaganda map showing the Rooskies "bogged down and losing"

I could die from "Not Surprised"!!!
Posted by: Don Vito Fling5729 || 03/14/2022 19:20 Comments || Top||


Russian cyber attacks against US banks increasing
[NY Post] A good reason to remove Russia from the internet.
Russia appears to have officially declared cyberwar on the US, taking what’s been described as preliminary steps at crippling its banking system and possibly other major industries, The Post has learned.

The Biden administration has been working with bank executives for months about preparing for cyberattacks as retaliation over US sanctions.
How long have they been planning to lay sanctions on Russia?
The big US banks — JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs — are under constant attacks by cyber criminals looking to disrupt operations and steal client information. The usual suspects are most often located in Iran, China and, of course, Russia.

Bank executives tell The Post they’ve spent billions of dollars annually to protect against cyber criminals, but they say the recent wave of attacks is different. Sources describe them as a subtle but intensified assault on banks’ technological infrastructure that began after the sanctions over Ukraine were announced.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 07:50 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey rantburg!
Patriotism is also when media doesn’t lies on info coming from your opponent…and 90% of your Ukrainian reports are pure Cia propaganda.
This is some REAL News today:

In response to Western media reports that Moscow requested military aid from Beijing to conduct its operation in Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has accused US officials of spreading disinformation with sinister intent.

“The United States has been spreading false information against China on the Ukraine issue recently, with sinister intentions,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Monday, answering a foreign reporter’s question on whether China will assist Russia with arms.

Posted by: Caligula || 03/14/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Hmmmmmmm...does this mean that two can play at this economic warfare game? Did our leaders consider anything like this when they were prancing around showing how morally superior they were to Putin?
Posted by: Tom || 03/14/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey Caligula! If you look, you’ll see that Rantburg also carries Russian propaganda from the FSB. We figure that’s a pretty fair balance, unless you want to claim that the CIA is much better at propaganda despite a century of practice, including time under the names of KGB, NIVD, Cheka, and the others in between.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#4  So, you don't like the selection at a buffet.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2022 14:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Also, we have a report of China’s objection here.* Enjoy!

* You tee ‘em up, we hit a hole in one. Fun for the whole family!
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 14:32 Comments || Top||

#6  You tee ‘em up, we hit a hole in one.

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2022 15:39 Comments || Top||


Exclusive-Ukraine has started using Clearview AI's facial recognition during war
(Reuters) - Ukraine’s defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology, the company’s chief executive told Reuters, after the U.S. startup offered to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead.

Ukraine is receiving free access to Clearview AI’s powerful search engine for faces, letting authorities potentially vet people of interest at checkpoints, among other uses, added Lee Wolosky, an adviser to Clearview and former diplomat under U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

The plans started forming after Russia invaded Ukraine and Clearview Chief Executive Hoan Ton-That sent a letter to Kyiv offering assistance, according to a copy seen by Reuters.

Clearview said it had not offered the technology to Russia, which calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation."

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense did not reply to requests for comment. Previously, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation said it was considering offers from U.S.-based artificial intelligence companies like Clearview. Many Western businesses have pledged to help Ukraine, providing internet hardware, cybersecurity tools and other support.

The Clearview founder said his startup had more than 2 billion images from the Russian social media service VKontakte at its disposal, out of a database of over 10 billion photos total.

That database can help Ukraine identify the dead more easily than trying to match fingerprints and works even if there is facial damage, Ton-That wrote. Research for the U.S. Department of Energy found decomposition reduced the technology’s effectiveness while a paper from a 2021 conference showed promising results.

Ton-That’s letter also said Clearview’s technology could be used to reunite refugees separated from their families, identify Russian operatives and help the government debunk false social media posts related to the war.

The exact purpose for which Ukraine’s defense ministry is using the technology is unclear, Ton-That said. Other parts of Ukraine’s government are expected to deploy Clearview in the coming days, he and Wolosky said.

The VKontakte images make Clearview’s dataset more comprehensive than that of PimEyes, a publicly available image search engine that people have used to identify individuals in war photos, Wolosky said. VKontakte did not immediately respond to a request for comment; U.S. social media company Facebook, now Meta Platforms Inc, had demanded Clearview stop taking its data.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 07:25 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  old tech the 4th reich nazis in amerika have full body ones in hospitals!
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 03/14/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  A. Humanitarian gesture
B. Slimy attempt to gather more data illicitly
C. Both of the above.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#3  War makes for one hell of a commercial.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 14:16 Comments || Top||

#4  War makes for one hell of a commercial.
yo, tell me about it
Posted by: Alfred Nobel || 03/14/2022 18:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Can they do two-face recognition?
Posted by: Richard HaAss || 03/14/2022 21:05 Comments || Top||


War Crime of the first order. Russia burns Mariupol to the ground!
[Twitter]
MARIUPOL ON FIRE

In fire, smoke and destruction.
This is what Mariupol looks like from the sky today. It is from this spring, open to the enemy sky, air bombs fly around the clock to the once beautiful seaside town.

Only death can stop enemy pilots.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/14/2022 05:11 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Because rantburg is spewing cia globalists criminals scum propaganda…
This is a bit of reality today:

Zelensky the Jew and the Ukrainian military just shelled and killed 17 civilians in downtown Donetsk, southeast Ukraine, as they have done for eight years.

Civilians killed as Donetsk hit by ballistic missile, the DPR says

The Donbass republic’s officials have said that at least 17 people were killed in the shelling

rt dot com/russia/551874-donetsk-ballistic-missile-strike/
Posted by: Caligula || 03/14/2022 13:42 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ will not matter. The daily mail and English experts will say with conviction that it was a Russian missile.

Because this is as much an information war as it is one of forces.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Ref #1: Is there another Burg link and blog that I am not privy to

Someone help me here, anyone, Bueler?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Your lying eyes are working for allays Schwann and Soros! We are fighting communism when we pluck them out!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/14/2022 14:16 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm just sitting waiting for the dog that isn't barking. All those who accused the US of 'war crimes', in the Middle East where in the American took extreme measures to avoid civilian casualties, seem rather silent or muted with the amount of carnage now unfolding. They were never concerned with the collateral damage. They were just on the other side.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/14/2022 15:39 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ I've taken to looking in on the "Code Pink" website from time to time. Their reaction has been, as you say, muted.
Posted by: Matt || 03/14/2022 16:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Procopius2k : I think we heard from Scott Ritter over the weekend.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/14/2022 18:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Or maybe that was today. Let me see....
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/14/2022 18:10 Comments || Top||

#9  On the good side, the Russian tools are exposing themselves for what they are.
Posted by: Nero || 03/14/2022 18:23 Comments || Top||

#10  C'mon, man! Keep your eye on the ball. RACISM!
Posted by: Porthos || 03/14/2022 18:53 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: 3dc || 03/14/2022 20:20 Comments || Top||


Former US Defense Intel Agent Reveals Putin's Childhood Experience with a Cornered Rat Could Be Guiding His Actions Now
[Western Journal] To explain the dark labyrinths of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s mind, a former Defense Intelligence Agency agent talks about rats.

Rebekah Koffler, author of the book "Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America," said one key to Putin’s thinking is that he feels that he is "cornered like a rat," according to Fox News.

She said an anecdote contained in Putin’s autobiography "First Person" is a key to Putin’s outlook. In the anecdote, Putin wrote that he one day chased a large rat into a corner while walking through a rat-infested apartment building that was his childhood home in Leningrad.

When the rat could not retreat, it attacked, forcing Putting to run, the story went. Koffler said that story was used to show that Putin learned the lesson of fighting back.

"He wants people to know that when cornered, he will be fighting," Koffler told Fox. "He will not be surrendering."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 03:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  His biography id very revealing. It's a "should read".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/14/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  sorry about the double post. I'm not ready for the time change.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/14/2022 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Weak article, propaganda. Western Journal should know better.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 03/14/2022 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Double deleted, Deacon Blues.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 03/14/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 03/14/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Surprised he didn't title it "моя борьба". Might have been too obvious, I guess.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/14/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||


Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 12
[CT - UNCLAS Open Source Reporting] Russian forces secured limited advances east of Kyiv and north from Crimea on March 12 but continue to face logistical challenges, mounting casualties, and sustained Ukrainian counterattacks. Russian forces did not conduct offensive operations northwest of Kyiv in the past 24 hours. Russian forces made limited advances around Chernihiv and toward Kyiv’s eastern outskirts after pausing for several days. Continued Ukrainian counterattacks and successful operations by Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces continue to threaten Russia’s long line of communication in northeastern Ukraine. Russian forces captured unspecified "eastern outskirts" of Mariupol on March 12 and continue to shell the city in a likely effort to force it to capitulate.

Key Takeaways

Lengthy analysis.

Current update (Mar 13th, 4 PM EST) found at this link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 02:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Putin 'is suffering 'roid rage from steroid treatment for cancer':
[Daily Mail UK] Putin's hands have also been seen shaking uncontrollably.
  • Intelligence sources suggest Vladimir Putin could be suffering with cancer, Parkinson's disease or dementia

  • The 69-year-old despot's 'bloated face and neck' could be potential side effects of prolonged use of steroids

  • Russian President's health condition has come into question over recent months owing to his appearance

  • Putin has repeatedly looked 'ashen and bloated' and with a pale complexion in his most recent public outings

Could be the heartbreak of psoriasis?
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So he and Brandon actually have more in common than we thought;
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 3:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Ref #1: …..except Putin has the balls to actually do what he says and not guided by focus groups….unlike that hamster bidet.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/14/2022 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  And, if Bidet's obvious downward spiral is to be ignored, denied or discounted (by the lamestream media, anyway), what exactly makes any other politician's medical history news or otherwise relevant information right now?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 9:25 Comments || Top||

#4  stopped reading at "...Intelligence sources suggest..."
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  69-year-old despot's 'bloated face and neck

No that was just some bad borscht and cheap vodka while giving chechens a pep talk the night before.

Seriously?
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 12:01 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/14/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Made it myself, SIS logo on curtain an' all. 🤠
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/14/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#8  If his condition was really this obvious, wouldn't there already be actions underway to end this devastating course of action and the consequences on the Russian economy and way of life? Perhaps someone known as a genuine RB member has insight? The proliferation of new names always makes me suspect content, no offense newbie's but the troll-o-verse is getting out of hand of late.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/14/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Hi NMBS - have you ever heard Putin speak at length? I doubt that anyone here has. Try it -- it will open your eyes.

Go here, to the 49 minute mark, where Ray McGovern introduces a 2015 clip of Putin speaking off the cuff for nearly 2 minutes, calmly, expertly, brilliantly explaining to ignorant foreign journalists why Tomahawk missiles placed in ABM sites (!) in Poland and elsewhere next to Russia might, just might, be considered threatening. Putin finally asks them, point blank, "How do I get throught to you people?" They're silent.

Now compare this rational, expert, strong individual with our last five presidents and draw your own conclusions about how he measures up vs Clinton, W, BHO, Trump and Biden for: 1) technical knowledge 2) candor 3) fluency and brevity 4) forthrightness 5) logic 6) command of evidence.

Frankly, he blows them out of the water on every dimension. (Bill Clinton certainly could have mastered the technical details but Putin owns him for all the other dimensions.)
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 14:45 Comments || Top||

#10  I have to wonder just where all of this manufactured Putin abuse goes. Don't like him, fine. But somewhere along there needs to be a realization that he will be in office until 2035, minimally.

So what exactly is the productive end of the hysteria about steroids or what hypothetically scared him as a child? You want the Russians to stop their advance in the Ukraine? Well the man whose cooperation you need is the same man on the wrong end of of this puerile, middle school girl style public abuse.

Speaking of cooperation, I also have to wonder what the plan is for fertilizers. Equally, now that the 'adults' have returned to DC, what is their savvy strategy for when you go to the store and find that so far from paying way too much, there's nothing to buy at any price.
Posted by: Cesare || 03/14/2022 15:29 Comments || Top||

#11  The thing I find most strange is that the intelligent brains here are in denial that the same propaganda machine and activism factories that targeted Trump are employed full bore in this Putin bashing and hero worship of Zelensky. And Russia's not even fighting America! Or even an American ally! It's a very Eurasian conflict.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 16:41 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ The elite machine can turn on a dime. Witness COVID being sent to the back of the bus and Fauxi being disappeared. The machine had it in for the American people in its war against Trump and it has it in for the American people as it beats the drums for us to get involved in a war that's really none of our business.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 16:50 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ Amen. Very well put
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||

#14  the same propaganda machine and activism factories that targeted Trump are employed full bore in this Putin bashing and hero worship of Zelensky.

We’re having fun with the chew toys — not quite the same thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 16:59 Comments || Top||

#15  Do geldings require steroids to perform?
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/14/2022 19:23 Comments || Top||


Putin’s Chechen strongman Kadyrov says he is in Ukraine
[IsraelTimes] Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, says he is in Ukraine alongside Russian forces who are leading an offensive in the country.

Kadyrov, who is accused by international NGOs of serious human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
violations in the tightly controlled Caucasus republic, posts a video on Telegram of himself in military uniform studying plans around a table with soldiers in a room.

He says in a message that the video had been shot at Hostomel, an airfield near Kyiv captured by Russian forces in the first days of their offensive.

This information cannot be independently verified.

"The other day we were about 20 km from you Kyiv Nazis and now we are even closer," Kadyrov writes.

He calls on Ukrainian forces to surrender "or you will be finished."

Kadyrov, who rules Russia’s Chechnya Republic with an iron fist, is a former rebel turned Kremlin ally with a paramilitary force at his command.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great. He can be buried next to his general.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Kadyrov, who rules Russia’s Chechnya Republic with an iron fist, is a former rebel turned Kremlin ally with a paramilitary force at his command.

Offer him a lucrative PJSC Gazprom deal along with a couple of abandoned oligarch yachts. Perhaps he'll switch sides once again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 3:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I've never been very smart. Brave? No, just lucky.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||


Ukraine Army stops advance of Russian troops near Baryshivka
[Ukrinform] Zhytomyr and Vyshhorod are remaining the most dangerous directions, although the situation is controlled there.

The relevant statement was made by Kyiv City State Administration, referring to the data from Kyiv Military Administration as of March 13, 2022.

"Across all districts in Kyiv Region and the city of Kyiv, search and counter-sabotage measures are underway. In the Boryspil direction, battles took place near Baryshivka. The enemy was stopped, suffered losses and retreated. The whole territory is remaining under our control," the report states.

Night shelling was recorded in such settlements as Irpin, Makariv, Borodianka and Vorzel. They are not systemic and are likely to be caused by the enemy’s despair and inability to change the course of battles. The occupiers can fight against civilians only.

The enemy’s actions are showing that continuous losses have demoralized them. Thus, Russian troops are mostly robbing civilians.

Kyiv’s infrastructure is operating in a stable manner. There have been no interruptions in water, electricity and heat supply services. Public transport services are provided free of cost.

Kyiv territorial defense forces consist of more than 30,000 persons and continue to expand their ranks.

Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Bodies of Russian Soldiers Filling Up Belarusian Morgues, Residents Say
[Radio Free Europe] The bodies of Russian soldiers killed in battle in Ukraine are filling up morgues in Belarus, local residents told RFE/RL.

Russian soldiers killed in battle are being brought by truck to the morgues and then sent back to Russia by train or plane, residents said.

Residents described the horror of seeing the bodies loaded on a train at Mazyr for transfer back to Russia.

"The number of bodies was unbelievably large. People at the Mazyr station were simply shocked by the number of bodies being put on the train," a local resident in Mazyr told RFE/RL.

The morgues in Homel and Naroulia are also filled up, according to local residents.

Belarusian doctors have been threatened with the loss of their job if they are caught spreading information about the dead and injured Russian soldiers.

U.S. officials have estimated that several thousand Russian soldiers have been killed so far in the two-week old war.

Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uh huh....

I believe the 10-12K casualties as usually 20% of that number is KIA and the rest wounded, missing or deserted with the killed being around 2,000+ so I doubt this story of "morgues" filling up unless it is the only Morgue in Ukraine.

The 10,000 dead seems propaganda. But, the Russians have been taking fairly heavy casualties and losses that would send the US public into a hysterical fit over.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/14/2022 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  At first I believed that it was 12K all casualties but US intel had estimated 3500-6000 Russian dead.

Ukrainians admitted 1,300 military dead and thousands more civilians killed by shelling.

From March 10:
Up to 6,000 Russians may have been killed in Ukraine so far, U.S. official estimates
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Also, most of the Russian casualties seem to be from destroyed armor. In that case dead:wounded can be 1:2 or less.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 0:40 Comments || Top||

#4  If things were really grim, they would be eating the bodies which would not be accumulating.

I would expect most city morgues to have "weekend in Chicago" capacity. Unsurprising an actual war would overload them.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/14/2022 0:50 Comments || Top||

#5  There is at least one video from Belarus of a train load of bodies being sent to Russia.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 0:54 Comments || Top||

#6  This is all rubbish. I have read reports of thousands of Afghans being killed everyday by Ashraf Ghani's great army until the day the islamic emirate was established. The best part about radio is you can't show pictures.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 3:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^I mean thousands of afghan Taliban being killed.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 3:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Industrial estate in Mozyr, Belarus. Russian soldiers loading the killed and wounded onto a special train back to Russia. At least eight such military ambulance buses were spotted in Mozyr today, so I reckon the train must be full.

https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498340185368678405?s=20&t=SmEjOsvDCKTekPksG_ynBw
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 7:16 Comments || Top||


#10  I thought the Russians had brought portable crematoriums so they could hide how many dead there were.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/14/2022 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Ukrainian farmers towed them away.
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 || 03/14/2022 18:27 Comments || Top||


Russia asks China for military equipment, U.S. officials say; China sez ‘Huh?’
[WaPo] may be real or a preemptive warning to China.
Russia has turned to China for military equipment and aid in the weeks since it began its invasion of Ukraine, U.S. officials familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, did not describe what kind of weaponry had been requested, or whether they know how China responded. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN that the administration was "communicating directly, privately to Beijing, that there will absolutely be consequences" for any Chinese efforts to assist Russia in evading sanctions.

Chinese official says he has no knowledge of reported Russian aid request

[IsraelTimes] A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in the US says he has no information about a reported request from Russia for Beijing to provide military aid.

"I’ve never heard of that," Liu Pengyu says in a statement to CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
"The high priority now is to prevent the tense situation from escalating or even getting out of control. ... China calls for exercising utmost restraint and preventing a massive humanitarian crisis," he’s quoted adding.

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#2  Volodya is hosed.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2022 2:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Paper Tigers. India, China, Pakistan, the Koreas the whole lot. I wonder how anybody puts any trust in them. If Putin was actually depending on them to keep Russia going, he deserves to lose.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 3:00 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Japan too. They don't even have the dollar! Haha!
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 3:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Why Cthulhu, you sound positively ... Russian.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#6  oil down to about $100/bar WTI at comment time

I'm pretty sure that China has no interest in keeping oil at $120/bar since that is one of their biggest imports.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/14/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will meet on Monday with China’s top diplomat,
On Tuesday, he will look for his pants....
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan

Isn't he a character in some Tom Clancy novel?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/14/2022 12:10 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ No that's Jacked Ryan the State Department's rainbow warrior
Posted by: No Fortunate Son || 03/14/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Interesting response to the rumor:

Panic Selling Grips Chinese Stocks in Biggest Plunge Since 2008
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 20:57 Comments || Top||


In Melitopol, Ukrainian Army destroys huge enemy convoy
[Ukrinform] In Melitopol, the Ukrainian Army has defeated and surrounded a Russian convoy consisting of 200 units of armored hardware.

That’s according to Vitaliy Kim, Chairman of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Ukrinform reports.

"200 units of hardware in Melitopol, destroyed and surrounded — this is the best gift! Glory to the Armed Forces," wrote Kim.

Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, confirmed that the Russian convoy, along with the command headquarters set to attack Melitopol, had been destroyed by Ukrainian artillery outside Vasylivka, Zaporizhia region.

Also:
Zaporizhzhia defenders restrain massive offensive of Russian troops
[Ukrinform] Defenders of Zaporizhzhia restrain a massive offensive of Russian troops. The enemy continues to actively use artillery, tanks, grenade launchers, and mortars.

This is stated in the report of regional administrations on the situation in the regions as of 08:00 on March 13.

In Kyiv region, fighting is ongoing in Irpin, Makariv, Bucha district. There is a constant movement of the enemy in Hostomel, Borodianka, Bucha communities, Brovary district. Battles are taking place in three communities of Brovary district. Three communities of Vyshhorod district suffer humanitarian catastrophe. Slavutych town was cut off electricity.

At night, the enemy launched three air raids on Chernihiv. Destruction and casualties are being clarified. Defensive battles continue around Chernihiv. On March 12, two populated localities in Kyiv direction were liberated.

In Sumy region, an air raid alert was declared twice a night. During the night, the aggressor's artillery fired several times at peaceful villages in Okhtyrka district and Okhtyrka town itself. Russian troops launch most attacks from the temporarily captured Trostianets. The enemy also used the ceasefire, which lasted periodically for the past few days, to strengthen positions and move troops.

Air raid alerts sounded in Kharkiv all night. Active hostilities are underway in Izium district.

In Lviv region, the aggressor launched an airstrike on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security.

Air raid alerts went off in Chernivtsi, Odesa region, Poltava region, Cherkasy, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky region, Zakarpattia region, Vinnytsia region, Volyn region, Rivne region, Dnipropetrovsk region, Kirovohrad region, Zhytomyr region. The situation is calm.

Air raid alert sounded in Ivano-Frankivsk at night, explosions were heard, information is being checked.

In Luhansk region, the residential sectors of Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Lysychansk and Popasna are under constant enemy fire. There are civilian casualties. Despite the constant shelling, engineers restore power and gas supplies.

In Donetsk region, Mariupol remains under siege, fighting is taking place on the outskirts of the town. The humanitarian column is advancing. Air raid alerts sounded in Kramatorsk all night and in the morning. Russian planes were spotted over the Lyman, Slovyansk, and Sviatohirsk. The enemy launched an airstrike on the area of the Sviatohirsk Lavra last night. Several people were wounded.

Mykolayiv region holds the fort.

In Kherson region, powerful explosions were heard in the evening and all night. Russian Grad systems were spotted near the airport. The information is checked.

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#1  Come on everybody and sing along with me:

"It seems to me I've heard that song before.
It was a long forgotten score.
I knew it well that melodeeeeeee"
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/14/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  It's funny how a theme recalls a favorite dream

Dream that brought you so close to meeee
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/14/2022 13:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Kyiv Kyle (as opposed to Baghdad Bob) been posting shit again I see!
Posted by: Don Vito Fling5729 || 03/14/2022 19:26 Comments || Top||


Strike in Donbas Wounds 30, Russia Accused of Chemical Attacks
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Ukrainian officials accused Russia at the weekend of using phosphorus chemical bombs in the eastern Donbas region, while a separate air strike on a monastery sheltering civilians maimed 30.

International law prohibits the use of white phosphorus shells in heavily populated civilian areas but allows them in open spaces to be used as cover for troops.

Oleksi Biloshytsky, head of police in Popasna, around 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Lugansk city, said late on Saturday that Russian forces had used the chemical weapon in his area.

"It's what the Nazis called a 'flaming onion' and that's what the Russcists (amalgamation of 'Russians' and 'fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
s') are dropping on our towns. Indescribable suffering and fires," he wrote on Facebook.

It was not immediately possible to verify the comments.

Further south, bombs struck the Sviatoguirsk monastery, where nearly 1,000 civilians were sheltering at the weekend, wounding 30 people, the Ukrainian public prosecutor said at the weekend.

And on Saturday night, a train evacuating people from the Donbas to the western city of Lviv was shelled, according to Donetsk military commander Pavlo Kirilenko.

One person was killed and another maimed, he said.

The Lugansk and Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine, collectively known as the Donbas, were partially controlled by Moscow-backed separatists even before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

The areas attacked at the weekend lie outside the so-called separatist "republics" of Lugansk and Donetsk declared by the pro-Russian rebels before the start of the war.

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Stop Attacks On Health Care Centres, Workers, Babies, Others In Ukraine, UN, WHO Warn Russia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  C'mon, Man! You're gonna destroy all those US Biolabs the UKES hid in those healthcare centers!!!
Posted by: Don Vito Fling5729 || 03/14/2022 19:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Tell me more (or not, if you'd have too kill me) about these schreckliche Nazi Buggenwaffen that pass over Ukrainians in favor of, um, East Prussians.
Posted by: Ebbaque Bourbon1193 || 03/14/2022 20:15 Comments || Top||


Six killed as Ukrainian forces hit a hospital in Donetsk Republic
[SANA.SY] Six persons were killed on Sunday morning as Ukrainian forces targeted a hospital in Volnovakha, Donetsk People’s Republic, with tank shells and rocket launchers.

The Ukrainian forces bombed the hospital, then they used the patients, including women, as human shields, and after leaving the hospital, they planted mines in the buildings there, Russian RIA Novosti Agency correspondent, who filmed the event said.
they misspelled "scripted"
He added that the Volnovakha Central Hospital building was seriously damaged

In turn, the hospital’s staff said that the bodies of 6 patients were recovered from inside the hospital, while rubble removal work is underway.

On Saturday, Russian Defense Ministry affirmed that the Ukrainian authorities have violated agreements related the humanitarian corridors and rejected to evacuate civilians to Russia, warning of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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#1  Ukrainian forces targeted a hospital in Volnovakha

This must be warped Syrian humor. Volnovakha was flattened by Russian artillery. The hospital was reported seriously damaged days ago.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  There are no Ukrainian troops in Syria. There are Russians, however...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/14/2022 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, it is implied that Syria is a Russian puppet state.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 7:21 Comments || Top||


Russia distributes humanitarian aid in Ukraine and Donbass
[SANA.SY] The Russian military transported and delivered more than 40 tons of humanitarian aid to an area in Kyiv province of Ukraine, Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

’The Russian military distributed more than 40 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Bortniansky district in Kyiv province,’ RIA Novosti news agency quoted a source at the defense ministry as saying in a statement.

The source added that foodstuffs and basic necessities were distributed to the residential centers located in the area which is under the control of Russian army, noting the aid includes some foodstuffs such as grains, meat, canned fish, sweets, bakery products, as well as bottled drinking water.

In turn, Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said that over the past two days, its staff have distributed more than 330 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Donbass and Ukraine.

Three convoys of the ministry, including 42 trucks of humanitarian aid have been distributed in Ukraine and Donbas, which are facing a difficult situation, the ministry added in a statement on Sunday.

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#1  The Russians are well known for their humanitarianism:
Invaders plunder Mariupol-bound humanitarian convoy

Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Basically feeding the separatist militias they've been running for years.

Remember when they shot down an airliner?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/14/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||


Scott Ritter : We trained neo-Nazis in Ukraine
[SANA.SY] Former Marine Corps intelligence officer, Scott Ritter,
...also US Army brat, convicted pedophile, former UN weapons inspector, anti-war activist, and now posing as a public intellectual attractive for quoting by all the bad guys...
revealed that the US army trained the neo-Nazis in Ukraine contributing to their extending inside the state’s agencies.

"US, British and Canadian armies trained neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
s affiliated to Azov Battalion in Ukraine who later seized the power in the country" Ritter said in a meeting with Journalist George Galloway
... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and terrorists than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ...
Ritter asserted that foreign military units belonging to the US and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, visited Ukraine to form holy warrior nationalist groups and after that they overthrew the elected legitimate president of the country following policies of violence and intimidation against the population."

The former officer added that the influence of those Nazi groups in Ukraine has become so malicious as they threatened the former Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, who was ready to recognize the special status of Donbas in 2015.

He went on to say that a similar fate would have befallen to the current president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had he not joined these groups to the Ukrainian forces and gave them free hand everywhere.
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#1  Ya know, Nazis thought of the Ukrainian as sub-human... right?
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/14/2022 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Who? Oh, him... Why should we believe him more than a taxi driver?
Posted by: magpie || 03/14/2022 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Scott what’s his name is now a leisure time subsidiary of RT. The must be unaware he was a pedophile - similar to their intell failure in UKR. Lay down ur arms and receive our comradely embrace!
So sad…so very sad.
Posted by: Alpha2c || 03/14/2022 1:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Once again: personal attacks on the man. No discussion whatsoever of the overwhelming evidence of Ukrainian Nazis.

DarthVader, the Nazis thought so poorly of the Ukrainians that they organized the Ukrainian 14th Waffen Grenadier Division SS (1st Galician). There is direct video evidence at the link but I suppose Putin time traveled to create that too.

And just in case anyone doubts it, here's the Ukrainian Nazis marching last year, complete with pictures. Boy, Putin controls Breitbart too now? Is there any source that's beyond his tentacles?
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 03/14/2022 2:58 Comments || Top||

#5  If you do not believe me, you too are a Nazi.

BTW, I get all my most accurate news and reporting from the Syrian News Agency.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 3:35 Comments || Top||

#6  OK, Groomer.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/14/2022 6:19 Comments || Top||

#7  If Scott Ritter told me today was March 14 2022, I'd double...no Triple check a calendar.
Posted by: Sonny Black || 03/14/2022 7:49 Comments || Top||

#8  For Omomolet Phutch9064, from Wikipedia:

Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts

Among the approximately one million foreign volunteers and conscripts who served in the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS during World War II were ethnic Belgians, Czechs, Dutch, Finns, Danes, French, Hungarians, Norwegians, Poles,[1] Portuguese, Swedes,[2] and British, along with people from the Baltic states and the Balkans.[3] At least 47,000 Spaniards served in the Blue Division.[4]

Some estimates state anywhere between 600,000 and 1,400,000 Soviets (Russians and non-Russians) joined the Wehrmacht forces as Hiwis. (or Hilfswillige)[5] The Ukrainian collaborationist forces were composed of an estimated number of 180,000 volunteers serving with units scattered all over Europe.[6] Russian émigrés and defectors from the Soviet Union formed the Russian Liberation Army or fought as Hilfswillige within German units of the Wehrmacht primarily on the Eastern Front.[7] Non-Russians from the Soviet Union formed the Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions"). The East Battalions comprized a total of 175,000 personnel.[8] These units were all commanded by General Ernst August Köstring. (1876−1953)[9]


Using the lower estimates, some 500,000 Soviets fought for the Nazis against their own country, compared to 180,000 Ukrainians.

The Nazis thought highly enough of all of them to let them be cannon fodder, absorbing bullets meant for the German master race, and used them agains their own people. That is not how you treat soldiers you respect as equals, but fools who will be privileged — those who survive all that went before — to be eradicated last.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 8:29 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Strange TW, I sometimes felt the same way as a government contractor :-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 8:31 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't think anyone benefits from people using "Nazi!" the same way some people use "Squirrel!"

Desensitizing people to true evil is not a solution to any other depredations that anyone undertakes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

#11  More FSB pr on Rantburg. When did this site become loyal to Moscow?
Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 || 03/14/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#12  What's next? Calling these people volkssturm?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#13  /\ Look a little deeper Forkbeard. It will start coming to you in time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 8:54 Comments || Top||

#14  I sometimes felt the same way as a government contractor :-(

Anyone who doesn’t value you properly is a fool, Besoeker.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Yes. It's not even "can't both sides lose?" here. It's more like "Can't both sides come to their senses?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 8:57 Comments || Top||

#16  ...its a tribal thing that has been going on for thousands of years in Europe.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/14/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||

#17  Yes. The left is thrilled about "volunteers" heading to Ukraine to fight. Wasn't that long ago they were vilifying Rittenhouse for "crossing state lines." They need to try to keep their story straight.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 9:39 Comments || Top||

#18  Scottie... ah yes, someone has been turning rocks over again....
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#19  Nazi? You keep using that word! I don't think it means what you think it means!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/14/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||

#20  Nope, nothing to see here, no Nazis, move along now
Posted by: Lonzo Cloluling7727 || 03/14/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#21  Nothing to see here, not killed roasted hacked shot raped by Nazis, no sir
Posted by: Cravick Scourge of the Pixies2119 || 03/14/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#22  Ukrainian Nazis? Ha! clearly more propaganda from those Marxists at the London Telegraph
Posted by: Pholuque Chuns6856 || 03/14/2022 12:00 Comments || Top||

#23  But the tanks rolling into the Ukraine while flying the Soviet flag was an innocent jest, right? Not at all a promise of a Holodomor II.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/14/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#24  No Nazis here, either - thank goodness PBS knows how to blur the Nazi mayor's portrait of Ukrainian Nazi hero Stephan Bandera
Posted by: Thomoth Fillmore5238 || 03/14/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||

#25  Amazing Russian propaganda... they sure like to milk the Nazi-theme to the max.
Posted by: Clyde Untervehr8732 || 03/14/2022 17:31 Comments || Top||

#26  No Nazis here, nothing to see, move along now
Posted by: Pliny Ulavimble1295 || 03/14/2022 17:36 Comments || Top||

#27  Funny how the country with the most neo-Nazis on record is Russia, yet they aren't cleaning up their own.
Posted by: Clyde Untervehr8732 || 03/14/2022 17:38 Comments || Top||

#28  Nope, Nazis didn't roast people alive and chop their corpses into bits in May 2014 in Odessa, no sir
Posted by: Enver Glusoger6103 || 03/14/2022 17:41 Comments || Top||

#29  the country with most neo-Nazis is Russia Ukraine, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center

As opposed to this winner of the 2020 "Friends of Zion" award, original commissioned by Shimon Peres and presented in Jerusalem:

Mike Evans has notified the Russian Embassy in Israel of his decision to honor President Putin. In addition he announced that "Friends of Zion Heritage Center will be building a special exhibition honoring Russia for saving a multitude of Jews during World War II. FOZ is also building an exhibition in honor of President Trump for all he has done to support the State of Israel and combat anti-Semitism," said Evans.
Posted by: Simon Wiesenthal Center || 03/14/2022 17:59 Comments || Top||

#30  Russia claims some of the Azov battalion are Nazis, numbered about 3000. While there about 50,000-70,000 Neo-Nazis in Russia many fighting with Neo-Nazi leader Alexander Petrovich Barkashov against Ukraine.

sorry for original double-post, it was an accident.
Posted by: Clyde Untervehr8732 || 03/14/2022 18:31 Comments || Top||

#31  RussiaAmnesty International, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, US Congress, Guardian-Telegraph-NewYork Times and many others claims have documented that some of the Azov battalion are Nazis
FIFY, Stepan
Posted by: Simon Wiesenthal Center || 03/14/2022 18:42 Comments || Top||

#32  All of you hysterics are ignoring the fact that nothing Mr. Ritter says can be trusted as worth listening to, which is the point of the posted article. The man is a liar, a pervert, and a sell-out to the forces of evil.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 21:12 Comments || Top||

#33  /\ Yes, Scott has some issues and they date back to at least his UNSCOM service in Iraq.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 21:28 Comments || Top||


Breakaway Republic Perspective: Military summary of the LDNR. The situation on the line of contact on March 13 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:30 People have confidence in the future - Daria Morozova following the results of communication with residents of the liberated villages near Mariupol.

22:15 People's militia of the LPR: Ukrainian security forces are moving their positions to apartment buildings.

21:30 The liberated territories are returning to normal life after eight years of occupation and torment. Started today work Prosecutor's office of the Melovsky district of the Lugansk Republic.

21:15 In the liberated Donskoy acting. village head nominated at general meeting of residents Former head of administration removed from office - DAN.

20:31 "Phoenix" will be available to the Zaporozhye region. The telecom operator's specialists have expanded the coverage area to Kominternovo, Sopino, Andreevka, Mirnoye, Granitnoye, Novognatovka, Starognatovka and Petrovskoye, which makes it possible to provide communications to settlements in the Mariupol and Volnovakha directions.

20:24 Pasechnik's press service: administrations have started working in the Troitsky and Belokurakinsky districts of the LPR.

20:21 The morgues of Mariupol are overwhelmed corpses Azov, many are abandoned on the streets. The information came from local residents. The words completely debunk the cynical fake Ukrainian propaganda that the Russian military is killing Mariupol residents.

19:21 DPR evacuated another 44 people from Mariupol and its suburbs. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, during today, from 08:00 to 18:00, 44 people, including 8 children, were evacuated from Mariupol and the settlements of its suburban area to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky District.

19:02 While retreating from Shchastya, Ukrainian nationalist smined Luhansk TPP with hundreds of kilograms of explosives. Sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR are actively engaged in demining the territory. At the moment, the working area is completely safe.

18:07 The DPR has already liberated 90 settlements - the headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic.

17:05 On the operational line, information was received from the administration of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk about damage as a result of shelling from the AFU at the following addresses:

n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. School 223, 246.

the village of the Trudovskaya mine:
- st. Petrovsky 298, 301.
Also at the address: st. Petrovsky, 227 fire was recorded.

In addition, n.p. Aleksandrovka and the village of the Trudovskaya mine are de-energized. Also, according to updated information from the administration of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the village of Trudovskaya mine at the following addresses: st. Nakhimovskaya, 36, 38, 40. Information about the consequences of shelling continues to come.

17:00 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, 9 containers caught fire on the territory of the shopping malls located on the street. Petrovsky - Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR. Firefighters are currently investigating the fire at the scene.

15:30 According to some sources, troops of the CSTO countries can enter the Donbass.

15:19 During the offensive in the Popasnyansky direction, the LPR forces discovered the places of massacre of civilians in the railway area - an emergency statement by the official representative of the NM LPR, senior lieutenant Filiponenko I.M.

15:10 Social networks publishframes, presumably from Kramatorsk, where Russian aircraft are visible in the sky.

13:05 VFU again opened fire on the Kievsky district of the city. As a result of the shelling on the street. Pankratova, 1 there was a fire in the house - the head of Donetsk Kulemzin.

12:43 During the shelling by the Ukrainian military of Yelenovka in the DPR, a civilian was injured.

12:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: fired 6 mines in 120 mm caliber.

11:41 Subdivisions of the Russian Armed Forces advanced up to 14 kilometers in a day. DPR troops have already liberated 89 settlements, including Pavlovka, Nikolskoye, Vladimirovka, Blagodatnoe - media.

11:20 It is reported that VFUfired uponfire and rescue unit in Dokuchaevsk.

11:02 Children's hospital No. 1 in Donetsk suffered from the shelling of the VFU. The shell hit the roof of the medical facility. Shrapnel hit the premises inside the hospital building When the shell hit the roof, there were patients, doctors and medical staff and children inside!

11:00 An armed group of Ukrainian nationalists from the Right Sector organization (banned in Russia) left the city of Mariupol until it was completely surrounded by the DPR forces and moved to one of the villages in the Zaporozhye region, Eduard Basurin said.

10:58 Russian Defense Ministry: The Russian Armed Forces freed about 300 citizens and monks who were held hostage by militants of the Aidar * national battalion (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) in the Holy Dormition Nikolo-Vasilyevsky Monastery in Nikolsky near Donetsk.

10:35 A total of 96 people were evacuated from Mariupol and its environs. Over the past day, 96 people, including 20 children, were evacuated from Mariupol and the settlements of its suburban area to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky District. This was reported by the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR. Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR. In total, from March 5 to 08:00 on March 13, 863 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.

10:20 Fighters of the national battalion "Aidar" * (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) equipped firing positions right on the territory of the Orthodox St. Assumption St. Nicholas and Vasilyevsky Monastery in Nikolsky. The hostages were about 300 civilians and monks.

9:44 In Yasinovataya, during the shelling by Ukrainian troops, a heating main was damaged, 2.7 thousand subscribers were left without power supply - the headquarters of the defense of the DPR.

9:13 Air defense forces intercepted already the fifteenth rocket of the Tochka-U TRK over the republic. Ukrainian militants, as yesterday, used the Tochka-U shopping mall in the direction of Shakhtyorsk. It is noted that fragments of a downed rocket fell in the area of ​​school No. 1.

8:50 The media report that as a result of the shelling of the city of Yasinovataya, apartment buildings and private houses on the street were damaged. Mashinostroiteley, st. B. Khmelnitsky, st. Youth. Without electricity 2700 subscribers. The heating main is interrupted. All emergency services eliminate the consequences of the shelling. There were no casualties.

8:43 Ahat Jami Cathedral Mosque in the north of Donetsk damaged VFU fire. Located on Marshal Zhukov Avenue in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. The mosque has repeatedly come under fire from Ukrainian militants.

08:20 Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.

08:10 Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: 14 mines fired in 120 mm caliber;

07:30 Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired 8 shells of 122 mm caliber;

07.20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye (northern) - n.p. Panteleymonovka: fired 6 mines in 120mm caliber - STsKK.

7:00 The SCCC reported that 3 attacks on 3 settlements of the LPR were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine. In n.p. Irmino destroyed 1 residential building, damaged 3 houses, an outbuilding, the building of secondary school No. 12 and the Du-57mm gas pipeline of medium pressure. 15 subscribers remained without gas supply.

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Russian Perspective: Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary March 13 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:36 Today, the Ukrainian media massively showed how Zelensky visited the hospital with wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, once again trying to assure everyone that the President of Ukraine is in Kyiv

However, in the footage next to Zelensky, a physician, Inna Derusova, was seen. She died on February 26, and the death of a woman was confirmed by her relatives. Then Zelensky himself awarded her the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously.

It is worth noting: all sources insist that the video published on March 13 is true. Either Zelensky recorded the video in advance, or Ukraine has learned to resurrect the dead.

20:27 Ukrainian "Energoatom": the power supply of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been restored after repair work.

20:10 Russian troops continue to distribute humanitarian aid to the residents of Kherson. Hundreds of city dwellersstandin line at the Yubileiny Cinema and Concert Hall to get food.

19:33 Energy supply has been resumed at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which is under the control of the armed forces of the Russian Federation - NNEGC Energoatom.

18:57 Russian Ministry of Defense: on the morning of March 13, high-precision weapons attacked the training centers of the armed forces of Ukraine in the village of Starichi and at the Yavorovsky military training ground. At these facilities, the Kiev regime deployed: a point for the training and combat coordination of foreign mercenaries before being sent to the areas of hostilities against Russian military personnel, as well as a storage base for weapons and military equipment coming from foreign countries. As a result of the strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large consignment of foreign weapons were destroyed.

18:49 In total, during the operation, 3736 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine were put out of action - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Destroyed: 100 aircraft, 139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,234 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 122 multiple launch rocket systems, 452 field artillery and mortar guns, 1,013 units of special military vehicles.

18:39 Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrovreportedthat units of security forces from Chechnya are "in close proximity" to Kyiv.

18:02 Of the 200 foreign mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine, 170 changed their minds about fighting - American journalist Nolan Peterson. Hedeclaredthat the majority of foreign fighters did not dare to take part in the hostilities, since their staging post was hit by a missile attack today. Probably we are talking about the Yavorovsky training ground in the Lviv region.

18:01 A Ukrainian Tochka-U missile was intercepted near Kherson. According to the source, it was fired from the direction of Tsuryupinsk and was shot down by the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile system.

17:31 Russian special forces destroyed the SSO group,takencaptured the commander of the special forces of the 73rd center of special operations.

16:30 The deceased journalist turned out to be an American intelligence worker. A representative of the New York Times denied the information that journalist Brandt Renaud, who died in Ukraine, worked for the publication. As it turned out, he had previously been spotted during the American operation in Iraq - the Iranian media identified him as an American intelligence officer.

15:46 The Ministry of Defense publishes anothervideostrike of the Russian Armed Forces on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The footage shows the destruction of two infantry fighting vehicles by artillery in the suburbs of Kyiv. Earlier, the agency showed a video of the destruction of the field command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kiev region.

15:38 Russian armyberetn.p. Raisins of the Kharkiv region under their control.

15:31 In Odessa, Ukronazis from the defense,occupiedplacing two schools under their positions.

14:27 There is information about the kidnapping of the mayor of Dniprorudny, Yevgeny Maveev. By the way, he is not the first. This is the second case with mayors in the Zaporozhye region.

12:50 In Izyum, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to hide at the traffic police post from shelling. They almost managed to run, but they were covered by the blow of the "Smerch" a few meters from the shelter. A shot from a drone.

12:42 According to the Ukrainian telegram channel Resident, Azov * (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation) demanded urgent military assistance from the General Staff or Mariupol will fall in a few days, there are almost no reserves left, and heavy weapons have been destroyed by Russian troops.

12:37 A week before the morning strike on the Yavorovsky training ground, the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine spoke about the placement of a large number of recruits in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine there.

Local residents also report a large number of ambulances in the vicinity of the hit military facility.

10:55 Aviation and air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down one Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian air force in the Lyubimovka area and two unmanned aerial vehicles. In total, during the operation, 99 military aircraft and 128 drones of the armed forces of Ukraine - the Russian Ministry of Defense were destroyed.

10:18 Ministry of Defense: Russian Armed Forces destroyed almost 3,700 Ukrainian military facilities.

8:36 Russian Aerospace Forces inflicted hit at the military airfield in Kramatorsk.

7:00 in the morning it becameknownabout the strike on the Yavoriv range in the Lviv region. This colossal system of shooting ranges, tank directors, training centers, etc., inherited by Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR.

6:00 Firing destroyed points Ukrainian nationalists located in residential buildings on the outskirts of Mariupol.

2:00 In social networks, they write that the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk are hitting Popasna with phosphorus shells. Locals note a distinct smell of chlorine.

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Ukrainian Perspective: March 14th
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[Korrespondent] 21:53 British Colonel Richard Camp, who commanded in Afghanistan, believes that NATO should consider all options for removing Putin from power, including his assassination, writes the tabloid The Mirror.

21:50 Today, more than 600 people have been evacuated from Borodyanka and Kicheevo, Kiev region, the governor said.

21:49 In Green Gay of the Nikolaev area as a result of air bombardment the school was destroyed and caught fire. Four people were killed and three more were injured, the interior ministry said.

21:44 Zaluzhny says that the Russian army now, in terms of professionalism, is the Ukrainian army of the early 2014 model.

He also said that today in the Kharkiv region, Russian armed forces shot down their own drone and reported to their superiors that they had destroyed the Ukrainian Bayraktar.

21:41 Podolyak said that negotiations with Russia in video format continue non-stop. On Monday, March 14, a negotiating session will be held to sum up the preliminary results.

21:39 Humanitarian aid, which left Zaporozhye for Mariupol on the morning of March 12, continues to move, albeit very slowly, the Mariupol City Council said. For almost two days, she traveled more than 200 kilometers along a previously agreed route, about 80 kilometers remain to her destination. Subject to all the agreements, a green corridor will open tomorrow morning, and the humanitarian caravan will continue moving to Mariupol.

21:36 Zelensky said that he had discussed with the head of the European Council Charles Michel the strengthening of financial support for Ukraine, further anti-Russian sanctions, as well as the process of Ukraine's accession to the EU.

21:34 NATO March 14 begins large-scale exercises in Norway, which will be attended by 30,000 people. The alliance said that the exercises were not connected with the Russian Federation and were planned eight months ago.

21:32 Time reported that the American journalist Brent Renault, who was killed today in Irpin, worked for them. In recent weeks, he has been working on a project on the global refugee crisis.

21:18 In the occupied Volnovakha, Donetsk region, Russian invaders killed a military chaplain, hegumen of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Platon (Morgunov), the press service of the church reported.

20:43 In the Lugansk region today, it was possible to maintain the regime of silence, 1,600 people were evacuated per day, said the head of the Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, if the same humanitarian convoy can be sustained tomorrow, then the evacuation transport will be sent to Popasna and Novoaidar.

20:36 The Armed Forces of Ukraine now do not have the opportunity to deliver a deblocking blow to break through the siege of Mariupol, Arestovich said. According to him, the Ukrainian troops are pinned down by enemy strikes north of Volnovakha and in the JFO zone, and it is too far to go from Zaporozhye - almost 300 kilometers under Russian air strikes across the bare steppe. Therefore, the only way out for the Ukrainian troops is to hold on.

20:29 Arestovich says that there is no direct military threat to Kiev and is not expected in the near future, all enemy forces near the city have been defeated. According to him, a similar situation is now observed near Kharkov, Chernihiv and Sumy.

Among the hot spots are Mariupol, the JFO zone and Nikolaev, as well as the direction towards Krivoy Rog.

20:04 Ukrainian-Russian talks are scheduled for Monday, March 14, Peskov said.

20:00 Humanitarian cargo for the residents of Mariupol again could not enter the city - the convoy stopped in Berdyansk, as the Russians fired at the humanitarian corridor from the air. There are many civilian deaths, Vereshchuk said.

At the same time, humanitarian corridors in the Luhansk and Kyiv regions opened up, leaving thousands of people.

19:57 Kuleba said he had discussed further support for Ukraine with Blinken: "We both agreed that more must be done to stop Russian aggression and hold Russia accountable for its crimes. Grateful to the United States for its strong support to the people of Ukraine. Ukraine will win ".

19:36 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, three journalists have already died, the Justice Foundation for Journalists (JFJ) said. In particular, journalist Viktor Dudar died during the fighting near Nikolaev, Live cameraman Yevgeny Sakun died during rocket attacks in Kiev, and American video journalist, former NYT contributor Brent Renault was killed in Irpen.

19:28 The Diya application has launched the Diya.Radio service, which will inform Ukrainians 24/7 about events in the country.

19:25 Of the almost 2.7 million Ukrainians who have left the country since February 24, most of all went to Poland - 1.6 million, according to the UN. Another 246,000 left for Hungary. Only 106 thousand left for Russia, and 96 of them are residents of the occupied territories of Donbass, who were evacuated before the start of the Russian invasion.

19:23 As a result of a bombing strike by Russian aviation on a school in the Nikolaev region, two people were killed, two more were injured, the State Emergency Service reports.

19:07 Zelensky thanked Meta and other platforms for supporting Ukraine in the information war.

19:04 Since the beginning of the day, the enemy has concentrated its main efforts on advancing to Krivoy Rog and trying to capture Nikolaev, the General Staff reports.

18:35 According to the UN, almost 2.7 million Ukrainians have left the country since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.

18:28 Kuleba addressed potential mercenaries that Russia is recruiting in other countries: "I warn foreign citizens who may be motivated to join the Russian invasion forces - do not do this. We have already filed cases in international courts - even if you survive, you be war criminals."

18:26 At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, power supply has been restored by the efforts of Ukrenergo specialists, Ukrainian nuclear scientists and electricians, Energoatom reports.

18:23 AACSB (Association for the Development of Collegiate Business Schools), Business Graduates Association (Association of Business School Graduates), AMBA (Association of MBA Programs), EFMD (Global Network of Business Schools, Companies and Associations Engaged in Management Development) decided to remove accreditation from all Russian universities.

18:17 Advisor to the President of the United States Jake Sullivan believes that the strike of the invaders on the Yavoriv test site was caused by Putin's "disappointment" with the course of hostilities in Ukraine.

18:05 In Moscow, about 300 people were detained at an anti-war rally, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported.

17:56 The National Police reported that they are working to reduce the number of checkpoints, which significantly slow down traffic in Ukraine.

17:52 Advisor to the US President Jake Sullivan and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, Director of the Foreign Affairs Commission Office Yang Jiechi will meet tomorrow in Rome to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

17:50 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine published the rights of Ukrainians, which they receive according to the policy of "temporary protection" in the EU countries:

residence permit (for one year with the possibility of extension);
access to work (there is no requirement to wait for six months, unlike refugee status);
access to education;
providing housing;
access to social security;
access to health care;
the possibility of obtaining refugee status in the future;
the opportunity to return to the country of citizenship at any time.
17:38 The United States is confident in its ability to continue "significant deliveries" of weapons to Ukraine, the White House said.

17:28 In the Kirovograd region, as a result of an air strike on the Kanatovo airfield on March 12, seven people were killed, the head of the Regional State Administration said.

17:21 The Ukrainian military has almost completely destroyed the units of the 155th Separate Marine Brigade. In total, about 600 Russians were killed and the same number were injured, journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk said.

17:20 The authorities of Irpin have banned journalists from entering the city after today's murder of a US citizen. Also, Ukrainians are asked not to publish military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their equipment on social networks.

17:17 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 369 educational institutions have been damaged by the invaders, 57 of them have been completely destroyed, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.

17:14 Another 162 people were evacuated from the Volnovakha district, including 44 children. The column left under fire from Russian troops who tried to prevent the evacuation, according to the National Police.

17:12 Zelensky visited the wounded Ukrainian soldiers.

17:08 Since the beginning of the invasion, 2,187 people have died in Mariupol from the attacks of Russian invaders , the city council said. Over the past 22 hours, 22 bombings have been carried out, about 100 air bombs have been dropped.

16:54 The head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai said that 540 people from Lisichansk are already on the evacuation train. Seven wagons of humanitarian aid have arrived, 11 more are on the way. The shelling does not subside along the entire front line, an enemy aircraft has been shot down over Rubizhne.

16:50 In the Nikolaev region, Russian invaders fired at a school in one of the settlements. People who were in the building fell asleep, said the head of the Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim. Now they are being pulled out from under the rubble and evacuated.

16:43 In the occupied Melitopol, the chairman of the district council, Sergei Pryima, was kidnapped. According to RIA Melitopol, at 07:30, eight people came to his house with a "search", took his documents, all mobile devices, and then took Pryima away.

16:38 The US Department of Commerce has published a list of luxury goods that will be prohibited from being imported into Russia from March 16. It includes 570 commodity items, including alcohol and tobacco products, cosmetics and perfumes, fur and silk, jewelry, etc.

16:36 Arestovich warned Ukrainians that the second phase of psychological breakdown is now beginning in society, accompanied by a drop in faith in victory and disappointment in the actions of the country's leadership. He advises not to succumb to despondency and switch attention to more positive events.

16:03 Venediktova announced the launch of an investigation into treason under martial law against Galina Danilchenko, "appointed" by the occupiers of the "acting mayor" of Melitopol instead of the kidnapped Ivan Fedorov.

15:54 The New York Times has confirmed the death of journalist Brent Reno, but said that he did not have accreditation, and his certificate was issued a very long time ago.

The second wounded journalist is well-known photojournalist Juan Arredondo.

15:52 Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin said that the Ukrainian army is preparing for a counteroffensive near Kiev.

15:51 The United States "made it clear" to China that no one will be allowed to compensate Russia's losses due to sanctions, the White House said.

15:49 The mayor of Nikolaev Senkevich said that there is a humanitarian corridor in the city only towards Odessa, in other directions the roads are controlled by the Russians. An "emergency reserve" is being created from canned food and long-term storage products. The substation was destroyed, high-voltage lines were interrupted.

15:41 Pope Francis, in his Sunday speech, on the anniversary of his election to the throne, made a statement in support of Ukraine: "This week, the city that bears the name of the Virgin Mary - Mariupol, became a city-martyr of a fierce war devastating Ukraine. There is no reason which can justify the barbaric killings of children, innocent and unarmed civilians."

15:35 The French Foreign Ministry announced new sanctions against the Russian Federation: a ban on imports of steel products from Russia to the EU, a ban on the export of luxury goods to Russia, a ban on any investment in oil production and refineries in Russia, as well as an expansion of the sanctions list of oligarchs.

15:30 According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Federation has opened 14 centers in Syria to recruit local mercenaries. They will be taken to Russia by aircraft and sent to the war in Ukraine. Payment - 300-600 dollars. There is also information about the recruitment of mercenaries in Libya.

15:29 Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said that despite the targeted destruction of energy infrastructure facilities by the enemy, the Ukrainian energy system is stable, there is no need to specifically reduce electricity consumption.

15:26 A member of the Russian delegation, Slutsky, announced "significant progress" in negotiations with Ukraine. According to his expectations, this progress can develop into a common position of both delegations and into "documents for signing," he said in an interview with RT Arabic.

15:23 The occupants launched an artillery strike on the psycho-neurological boarding school in Pushcha-Voditsa. The staff and wards were evacuated in advance, according to the Kyiv City State Administration. One shell hit the boiler room, the second hit the morgue.

15:15 The situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant contradicts one of the seven essential components of nuclear safety and security, the IAEA said. This component assumes that operating personnel must be able to perform their duties and make decisions without undue pressure.

15:11 The SBU warns that the Russians are deliberately throwing information about alleged traitors and saboteurs into groups and messengers, publishing their names and car numbers with a call to immediately detain them. Often such "stuffing" is directed against members of law enforcement agencies and the military. Ukrainians are asked to be extremely careful about the dissemination of unverified information, especially when it is anonymous.

15:01 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar explained why the data on the number of Russians killed in Ukraine has not changed for several days. According to her, the calculation of enemy losses during the active phase of the war is complicated, since the data comes from different sources, often with a delay of several days.

In addition, as of today, the enemy has been stopped and there is no such intense confrontation as it was a few days ago.

14:56 Podolyak said that Russian representatives at the talks "are no longer saying anything as an ultimatum, but are attentively listening to our proposals."

"Ukraine will not give up its positions. Our demands are the end of the war and the withdrawal of Russian troops. I see that there is an understanding of this process and dialogue," he wrote on Twitter.

14:41 Today, in Irpen, the invaders shot The New York Times correspondent , 51-year-old US citizen Brent Renaud. Another journalist was wounded, they are trying to take him out of the combat zone, the National Police reported.

14:33 Hospitals and morgues in Belarusian Gomel, Mozyr and Narovlya are overflowing with the wounded and corpses of Russian soldiers, the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty reports. The doctors have signed a non-disclosure agreement and cannot tell the truth under threat of dismissal.

14:31 Energodar's local television channel EnTS stopped broadcasting. As the channel reported on Facebook, from now on its employees are not related to the broadcast content.

14:27 Zelensky: "I am grateful to everyone. Everyone who does not give up. Who protests. Who demonstrates to the invaders that Ukraine is our land. Kherson, Melitopol, Berdyansk and other cities. Ukraine will win!"

14:23 The General Staff reports that in the direction of Brovary - Boryspil, the enemy is blocking the E95 highway, continues to regroup, replenish supplies and conduct reconnaissance. The enemy has gone on the defensive and is holding a network of roadblocks along key routes of movement. Probably, after the regrouping of troops and the introduction of additional units, the enemy will resume offensive operations with the aim of capturing the left-bank part of Kyiv.

14:19 According to the General Staff, on March 9-10, 800 servicemen of the 102nd military base were transferred to Russia from Gyumri, Armenia, the Southern Military District for further transfer to the combat zone.

Up to 1,500 people of the 40th Separate Marine Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) of the Pacific Fleet are sent by train to Belarus. In the 820th main missile attack warning center (Solnechnogorsk), personnel are being selected to participate in hostilities against Ukraine.

In order to urgently replenish the losses of the occupying troops, the Russians are transferring part of the "peacekeeping" contingent from Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan) to Ukraine. A large number of mercenary fighters from other countries (Syria, Serbia) are also involved.

13:47 Russian Finance Minister Siluanov said that about $300 billion - or half - of the central bank's gold and foreign exchange reserves are frozen due to sanctions. At the same time, he stressed that the country does not intend to refuse to pay the public debt, it will simply do it in rubles until the reserves are unfrozen.

13:45 Russia disrupts the work of the green corridor in the Lugansk region, said the head of the OVA Gaidai. According to him, the buses are ready to leave, but they cannot do this because of the shelling.

13:37 An anti-war rally has begun on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, people are being detained en masse.

13:26 In the occupied Energodar, people are openly beaten right on the streets, the press service of Energoatom reports. Cars are taken away from some, and someone is "packed" and taken away in an unknown direction.

13:11 According to the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Putin, during a telephone conversation with Erdogan, said that he was not against meeting with Zelensky.

13:05 Indefinite rallies against the Russian occupiers continue in Kherson and Berdyansk.

12:52 Polish President Andrzej Duda does not rule out that Russia's use of chemical weapons in Ukraine could force NATO to reconsider its decision on non-intervention.

12:34 The number of victims as a result of the shelling of the Yavorivsky firing range has increased to 35 people , another 134 were injured, said the head of the Lviv OVA Maxim Kozitsky.

12:31 Moldova starts accepting digital documents in Dii. "I am sure that this is only the beginning of a great international story," Fedorov wrote.

12:29 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, 85 children have been killed, another 100 injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports. Most of the victims are in Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Sumy, Kherson, Nikolaev and Zhytomyr regions.

12:27 Arestovich says that the enemy has decided on the direction of the main attack - this is the JFO zone. In other areas, the Russians do not take active steps.

12:19 In Kiev, a two-week supply of necessary food products has been formed for two million residents who remained in the capital, according to the Kyiv City State Administration.

12:17 Metropolitan Arseniy, in connection with the airstrike on the Svyatogorsk Lavra, said that there were no military formations there, and the blow was inflicted on the civilian population.

12:03 There is no green corridor from Izyum, Kharkiv region today, fighting is underway.

12:00 In the Lugansk region, as a result of shelling of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk and Rubizhny, about 22 multi-storey and 33 private residential buildings, one building of a state institution, two educational and educational institutions, one electrical substation, one trade establishment, one enterprise were damaged. One person died, another was injured, the RSA reported.

11:59 In Kharkiv, a Russian rocket hit a five-story building, killing a 73-year-old woman, the State Emergency Service reports.

11:56 The mayor of Irpin Alexander Markushin denied fakes about his injury and flight from the city. According to him, 70% of the city is currently controlled by the Ukrainian military, while fighting continues for the rest.

11:53 Toyota, which did not want to leave Russia, nevertheless stopped the production and import of cars in the Russian Federation.

11:41 Special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense destroyed the invaders in one of the parks of Irpen and captured trophies.

11:39 Aircraft that fired at the Yavoriv military training ground flew from Russian Saratov to the Black Sea and fired rocket attacks from there, said the mayor of Lviv, Sadovy.

11:38 Residents of Melitopol continue to go to rallies against the invaders.

11:30 Vitaly Kim reported nine dead as a result of bombings in Nikolaev.

11:13 Podolyak called any "referenda" that the Russian occupiers are trying to hold "absolutely worthless." "Russian troops will leave the territory of Ukraine, collaborators will receive criminal prosecution," he assured. The same applies to fictitious sessions of local councils and the distribution of passports in occupied cities.

10:52 The hottest spots in Ukraine, except for Kiev and Mariupol, are the Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rog and Nikolaev directions, said the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yevgeny Enin.

10:47 According to British intelligence, Russian troops will try to bypass Nikolaev to attack Odessa. The invaders are trying to cordon off the Ukrainian army in the east from Kharkov and Mariupol.

10:33 As a result of the shelling in the Lviv region, nine people were killed, 57 were injured, the leadership of the region reported. According to preliminary data, more than 30 missiles were fired at the Yavoriv range. The air defense system worked, a number of missiles were shot down.

10:10 Vereshchuk said that the column that moved to Mariupol from Zaporozhye along the humanitarian corridor is now in Berdyansk, captured by Russia. Vereshchuk hopes that by the evening he will be able to take someone out of Mariupol.

Today they plan to send 25 evacuation buses from Borodyanka to Zhytomyr; from Brovary buses should pick up people from the villages of Svetilnya, Ploskoye, Gogolevka, Krasilov. From the village of Peremoga near Kiev, people will be taken out by bus through Berezan and Boryspil. People from Bolshaya Dymerka will also be taken to Brovary.

In the Lugansk region, people are planned to be taken from Kremennaya to Liman. They will also take out refugees from Rubizhne, Shchastya, Novoaydar, Severodonetsk and Popasnaya to Slavyansk.

10:06 In Chernihiv, after an air strike on the morning of March 13, a nine-story residential building was destroyed. According to preliminary information, one person died, one was injured, seven were rescued, according to the State Emergency Service.

10:04 Mayor of Dniprorudny Yevgeny Matveev has been kidnapped , said Alexander Starukh, chairman of the Zaporizhia OVA.

09:53 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have captured the electronic warfare complex of the Russian army, which will now work against the enemy, the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade reported.

09:32 Russia may well be planning an attack in Ukraine using chemical weapons , NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. According to him, the alliance heard Russia's absurd statements about chemical and biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine.

09:09 The General Staff named the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 13:

personnel - more than 12 thousand people,
tanks - 374,
armored combat vehicles - 1226,
artillery systems - 140,
MLRS - 62,
air defense systems - 34,
aircraft - 74,
helicopters - 86,
automotive equipment - 600,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 7.
09:01 The mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk announced rocket attacks on the airport and urged residents of neighboring houses to move.

08:58 Trump said that the situation around Ukraine could escalate into a third world war, because "there is no one to talk" with Putin.

"This could lead to a third world war, I see what is happening. Because if you think that Putin will stop, then he will not accept it. It will get worse and worse. And we have no one to talk to him, we used to have such a person “It’s me. No one has been as hard on Russia as I have,” Trump said.

08:55 Ukrzaliznytsia reports that on the night of March 13, near the Brusin station in the Donetsk region, a passenger train was damaged by shelling, which was heading for an evacuation flight to Liman. As a result, one of the conductors died, another was injured.

08:53 Podolyak, in an interview with the Russian Kommersant, said that the fourth round of Ukrainian-Russian negotiations will take place after "legal formats" have been worked out. Despite the complexity of the negotiations, the next round could take place on March 13 or 14.

08:51 The enemy bombed the research and production complex of gas turbine building Zarya - Mashproekt, the head of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim said.

08:17 The enemy fired eight rockets at the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in the village of Starichi, Yavorivsky district, Lviv region, Sadovyi said.

According to the Academy of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a missile attack was carried out on one of the military units. According to preliminary data, there were no deaths.

07:53 Due to heavy losses, the Russian invaders are forced to form new units to participate in the war against Ukraine, the General Staff reports.

06:28 The UK will pay its citizens to open their homes for Ukrainian refugees . So the government is trying to reduce the burden on the eastern EU countries, according to Reuters.

05:57 Ukrzaliznytsia announced the introduction of a " iron stable schedule " for trains.

05:00 During the bombardment of the Popasna Luhansk region, the Russian invaders used phosphorus munitions prohibited by international agreements, the National Police said.

04:35 Ukraine is provided with basic food products for the coming months, Shmyhal said. The government is also implementing a plan to support the sowing campaign, which should start soon "where possible."

04:08 The Ukrainian Port Authority has lost contact with the Mariupol branch. So far, only two ports of Ukraine - Izmail and Reni - can transship cargo for export, but in small quantities, the Cabinet of Ministers said.

03:41 Zelensky turned to the collaborators and said that they were signing a sentence for themselves - "to follow more than 12 thousand occupiers."

01:46 The Pentagon believes that Russian troops can move westward. This is evidenced by the shelling of a number of airports in the western part of Ukraine.

01:04 The coordinating headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war was headed by Irina Vereshchuk.

00:23 Russian invaders fired at the Svyatogorsk Lavra in the Donetsk region, where women and children were hiding from the fire of the invaders. According to the media, there are victims.

00:12 Serbia, due to harsh criticism, reduces the number of flights to Moscow to pre-war levels.

00:01 Shmygal called on all Ukrainians who can work and who have a job to work. "Whoever has a business in territories where there are no active hostilities, resume activities. You are part of the economic front. And now the state needs you more than ever," he said.

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Breakaway Republics Perspective: Combat News Roundup, March 13th, 2022

Lugansk People’s Republic: Ukrainian militants are moving their positions to multi-story buildings
[REGNUM] Ukrainian nationalists, leaving their advanced positions on the outskirts of settlements, are moving into residential buildings, including apartment buildings. This was announced on March 13 by the official representative of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Ivan Filiponenko .

“Traditionally, they abandoned their positions, which were at a distance from settlements, or were knocked out and are now actively occupying defense in residential areas, equipping firing points in apartment buildings, in general, hiding behind the civilian population, they are preparing defense lines in settlements,” he told reporters.

According to him, the movement of Ukrainian fighters to residential areas slows down the advance of the LPR forces.

“This is due, first of all, to the fact that we are trying to save the lives of our civilians and cannot afford to randomly shoot at residential areas, therefore enemy firing points are identified, accurately, purposefully and systematically destroyed. Our units continue to move forward, ”Filiponenko specified.

As REGNUM reported , the settlement of Novokrasnyanka in the Lugansk People's Republic on March 13 was fired upon by representatives of the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU).

A child was injured in the LPR in artillery shelling
[REGNUM] A child was injured as a result of the shelling of the village of Novokrasnyanka in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) by the armed forces of Ukraine (APU). This was announced on March 13 by the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).

"As a result of the shelling of the Novokrasnyanka settlement, a girl born in 2008 was wounded, and a residential building was also damaged," the report sid.

As REGNUM reported, on March 13, the LPR office in the JCCC reported that representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the settlement of Novokrasnyanka in the LPR.

APU fired at another settlement in the LPR
[REGNUM] The settlement of Novokrasnyanka in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) was fired upon by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on March 13 by the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).

"On the part of the armed formations of Ukraine, one shelling was recorded: the settlement of Severodonetsk - the settlement of Novokrasnyanka," the message said.

It is noted that the Ukrainian security forces used the BM-21 MLRS.

Ukrainian militants fired eight shells at Gorlovka
[REGNUM] Ukrainian militants fired eight 152-mm projectiles at Gorlovka, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported on March 13.

“Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 20:45 (coincides with Moscow time) - n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 152 mm caliber were fired,” the representative office wrote on Telegram.

As REGNUM reported, on March 13, the LPR office in the JCCC reported that the settlement of Zolote-5 in the LPR was fired upon by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU).

Two residential buildings damaged in the LPR due to shelling
[REGNUM] As a result of the shelling of Zolote-5 in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), two residential buildings and four outbuildings were damaged by the Ukrainian security forces. This was announced on March 13 by the representative office of the LPR in the joint center for control and coordination of the ceasefire regime (JCCC).

"As a result of the mortar shelling of the settlement of Zolote-5, two residential buildings and four outbuildings were damaged," the report said.

No casualties or injuries have been reported.

Ukrainian Armed Forces shell the settlements of the DPR
[REGNUM] In the second half of March 13, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and nationalist battalions shelled the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported at the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).

At 17:50 in the direction of Zhovanka and Zaitsevo (southern) 5 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired.

At 18:20, 5 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired at the settlements of Dzerzhinsk (South mine) and Gorlovka (settlement of the Gagarin mine).

Around 18:45, 7 mines with a caliber of 82 mm were fired at the villages of Novomikhailovka and Aleksandrovka.

In the DPR, two more settlements are de-energized due to shelling
[REGNUM] About 500 houses were left without electricity in the settlements of Luhanske and Signalnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) due to shelling by Ukrainian security forces. This was announced on March 13 by the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).

"As a result of the shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine, the power lines were de-energized. n Luhansk and n.p. Signal", the message said. "There are about 500 private housing constructions without electricity."

As REGNUM reported, on March 13, the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR reported that due to the shelling by the Ukrainian security forces, more than 1,100 houses were left without power supply in Aleksandrovka, and 120 houses in Kremenets.

Bastrykin to open a case after the hospital shelling in Volnovakha
[REGNUM] Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate the circumstances of the shelling of a hospital in the city of Volnovakha of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), which killed at least six people. This was reported on March 13 in the press service of the TFR.

"The Chairman of the Investigative Committee instructed to collect and record evidence of these attacks for further thorough and comprehensive investigation of the criminal activities of Ukrainian military personnel," the department said.

According to the investigation, Ukrainian nationalists fired at a medical facility with patients from a tank and rockets from Grad multiple launch rocket systems while retreating from Volnovakha.

The nationalists had previously equipped a combat position in the hospital and fired at the DPR servicemen from grenade launchers and tanks from there, hiding behind patients, including women in childbirth, like a human shield, the ICR specified.

LPR troops liberated the city of Popasnaya
[REGNUM] The grouping of troops of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) during the offensive liberated the city of Popasnaya from the nationalists. This was announced on March 13 by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov at a briefing.

"The group of troops of the LPR, continuing offensive operations, liberated the city of Popasnaya from the nationalist," he said.

Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Zolote-5 in the LPR
[REGNUM] The settlement of Zolote-5 in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) was fired upon by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on March 13 by the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).

"On the part of the armed formations of Ukraine, one shelling was recorded: the settlement of Zolote-4 - the settlement of Zolote-," the report said.

It is noted that the Ukrainian security forces used a 120 mm mortar.

In the DPR announced the release of 90 settlements
[REGNUM] Servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have already liberated 90 settlements since the beginning of the operation. This was announced on March 13 by the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.

"As of the evening of March 13, the DPR group of troops had liberated 90 settlements, including Ivanovka," the report says.

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Yes, Ukraine DOES Have Biolabs - Admits US Government. w/Glenn Greenwald
Snip. Duplicate. We had this here days ago. Do try to keep up, Herb.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are now arriving in the upscale Turkish resort of Antalya for peace talks. To recap: Zelensky announced one year ago he would take back Crimea and capture the crucial base at Sevastopol. Going into the peace talks he has already abandoned that goal, renounced all desire to join NATO and acquiesced in Russia's control of the Donbas.

The main question to be discussed is the terms of Ukraine's capitulation, including the key question of which nation will give refuge to Zelensky in his exile. He wants Poland, but almost certainly he will have to leave Europe, with Israel, home to dozens of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, a strong contender.
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 1:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Jimmy and journalist Glenn Greenwald discuss the question, pointing to the misinformation surrounding the 2001 anthrax attacks to suggest that there may be more going on in the Ukrainian biolabs than the US government is prepared to acknowledge.

Absolute rubbish! More conspiracy theories. The lab closures begun 17 years ago were nearing completion. Our top men are not it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 3:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah, but will Russia and Putin survive afterward? As an independent regional power, I mean, rather than a dependent of China.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 3:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Alexander Nevsky era (?) keep to local but acknowledge the Khan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/14/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  will Russia and Putin America survive afterward? As an independent regional a prosperous and free republic power, I mean, rather than a dependent of China. FIFY
Posted by: Pearl Ghibelline3727 || 03/14/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Hey, another Russian comedian, like Yakov Smirnoff, is only mildly amusing.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Oops
Posted by: Kojo Smiter of the Antelope2968 || 03/14/2022 11:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Dummy, your Russian warehouses are running out of food stocks. Your leaders are stuffing the retail markets even as prices rise several times for the good food (imports), hoping the invasion was short. When it runs out, poof, no more.

Russia is isolated and Russian money is worthless. Hope you like bread and borscht for the next 30 years.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Hope you like bread and borscht for the next 30 years.

There's always kasha.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Democracy in action
Posted by: Omeretle Bonaparte5992 || 03/14/2022 11:28 Comments || Top||

#11  There's always kasha.

Only a slight improvement over Russian toilet paper.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Child soldiers? Fond memories of Berlin 1945
Posted by: Whimble Protector of the Hatfields5494 || 03/14/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#13  described the teenaged volunteers as a somewhat ragtag band wearing ill-fitting knee pads and, in one case, carrying a yoga mat
but are they wearing covid face diapers?
Posted by: Otto de Medici8096 || 03/14/2022 11:38 Comments || Top||

#14  There's always kasha.

I lived on kasha in university, because my scholarship didn’t cover the meal plan. Made with a can of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup and an egg, with a glass of milk and an apple for dessert, I had most of my dietary needs met in one meal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 14:54 Comments || Top||

#15  Haha! Stupid Russians! Their cereal prices can't even begin to compare to ours... Biden will show 'em
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 15:00 Comments || Top||

#16  will Russia and Putin America survive afterward? As an independent regional a prosperous and free republic power, I mean, rather than a dependent of China. FIFY

A good question. It depends on who gets the majority in Congress this November, and who is elected president in 2024. Let’s all watch together, and see which culture handles economic challenges better. It’s my understanding that the Russian government was carrying an impressively low level of debt before this started, but despite the talents and frequent intellectual brilliance of the Russian people, the economy is highly dependent on raw material wealth rather than being well-diversified. So each economy has advantages and disadvantages — this is a wonderful opportunity for a real life experiment. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 15:07 Comments || Top||

#17  Americans quoted in the NYT article. Stick it to those Americans, Joe!

“As everything goes up in price, my savings diminish.”
“Everything is going up, but our wages are not.”
“Hard to not call it price gouging. Everything has gone up with no end in sight.”
“Everything is on the rise except for my pay. Makes living hard.”
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 15:11 Comments || Top||

#18  Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Laptop. The problem is that when America gets a cold, the rest of the world gets influenza.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 16:47 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ ima 'merrican. tbh, I really couldn't care less about the R.O.W. What our president is doing is incredibly stupid and harmful to America's interests imho
Posted by: Hunter Bidens Laptop || 03/14/2022 16:54 Comments || Top||

#20  R.O.W.? Definition, please. And yes, of course President Biden is destructive. Even his former boss predicted it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2022 16:58 Comments || Top||

#21  Rest Of World. A common expression in marketing.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/14/2022 17:04 Comments || Top||

#22  Right Of Whacky
Posted by: Clyde Untervehr8732 || 03/14/2022 18:44 Comments || Top||


Economy
Here's where Russian oil flows
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Croatian defense minister says Soviet-made drone that crashed carried a bomb
[IsraelTimes] A military drone that apparently flew all the way from the Ukrainian war zone over three European NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
-member states before crashing in an urban zone of the Croatian capital was armed with an bomb, Croatia’s defense minister says.

The Soviet-made aircraft crossed Romania and Hungary before entering Croatia, slamming into a field near a student dormitory late Thursday. About 40 parked cars were damaged in the large explosion, but no one was injured.

"Traces of explosives and clues suggesting that this was not a reconnaissance aircraft were found. We found parts of an air bomb," Croatian Defense Minister Mario Banozic says at the crash site.

He says that this further raises a question about whether the drone belonged to Russia or Ukraine.

"There are elements that indicated it could have come from both," he says.

Air crash Sherlocks have pulled most of the drone’s remaining parts from a large crater it created on impact, including a partly damaged black box that should reveal the drone’s flight path.

Croatian officials have criticized NATO for what they called a slow reaction to a very serious incident and called into question the readiness of the military alliance’s member states to respond to a possible attack.

NATO said the alliance’s integrated air and missile defense had tracked the object’s flight path. But Croatian officials said the country’s authorities weren’t informed and that NATO reacted only after questions were posed by journalists.

"If this situation had been detected and resolved in time in neighboring countries, we would not be here today," Banozic says.

"We will seek answers to what happened. The defense ministers of Romania and Hungary said that day they were evaluating what happened. We are waiting for an answer," he says.

Croatian Sherlocks identified the unmanned aircraft that crashed in Zagreb as a Soviet-era Tu-141 that was used for reconnaissance missions in both countries in the 1980s.
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Government Corruption
The Real Cost of Pandemic-Era Policies
[Cannon] It’s bad enough when politicians enact witless economic policies with huge price tags, but it’s even worse when those policies destroy American lives and livelihoods. New research shows that this will be the pandemic-era legacy of the politicians that forcibly closed businesses, made people stay home, then incentivized millions of out-of-work Americans to give up the opportunity to get their lives back on track.

It’s now clear that half the states kept destructive policies in place even after their devastating effects were known. What should have been a temporary bridge to keep people afloat while America tackled COVID-19 became a nightmare of dependence and depression.

In March of 2020, the federal government began paying weekly "bonuses" known as supplemental insurance to people on unemployment. That meant many people received more money from unemployment insurance than they did while working. It was even expanded to include those who hadn’t paid into the program.

By the fall, the country began emerging from the pandemic, vaccines became available, and business started to open again and look for workers. The speed of American resilience was something to behold. But the government refused to make the transition with the rest of the country and kept paying people to stay home.

Eliminating people’s jobs and paying them to be unemployed was robbing millions of Americans of the dignity that comes with finding purpose and achieving self-sufficiency. It destroyed lives, driving dependency on government, contributing to drug and alcohol addiction, and exacerbating isolation and depression.

These effects of the program were blatantly obvious through the spring of 2021 but that didn’t stop the Biden Administration and Congress from extending the benefits through September. By the summer of 2021, the nation had nearly 11 million unfilled jobs, a spike from just under 7.2 million at the beginning of the year.

That’s why 26 states decided to terminate the unemployment bonuses early instead of letting them expire in September 2021. At the time, some in the media portrayed the move as cruel, ripping critical funds away from those struggling during the pandemic.
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#1  The real cost can be learned by reading "The Boy Who Cried Wolf..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||


#3  send Fauci to Yavoriv
Posted by: Omurong Speretch5142 || 03/14/2022 11:19 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The Mossberg 590A1 Retrograde Mil Style Shotgun
[GA] Of all the fighting shotguns out there, the 590A1 has always been one of my favorites. I was issued one in my days as a Marine for a short period, and since then, I’ve been a fan. Mossberg’s famed 590A1 pump-action shotgun. The 590A1 came from a list of requirements made for the United States military. The 590A1 would form the basis of the fighting shotgun for the United States military. One of the latest models blends all the military’s requirements with a dose of old-school cool to form the Mossberg 590A1 Retrograde.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 07:37 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At MSRP of $1018. about $450. over priced.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  If you need the look, they will take your money. If you just want a good riot pump, several makers offer completely functional and nondescript ones for under $300. And that's without buying Turkish cr@p.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm not fancy. Any of the Remington 870s will do.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm with AU. I've seen a few used but in excellent condition 870's around here for under $350. Short Hickok video here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Why pay new prices for used?

Remington
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/14/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ "New" comes with worrying about nicks and scratches. Besides, I'm not good at forms and paperwork.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2022 8:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Never been into shotguns for self defense.... I HATE spackling.
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Keep you Remingtons. I still have my 45 year old 500. In all the decades it has never jammed nor misfired.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/14/2022 19:20 Comments || Top||


Now we need to get VAX'd a 4th time?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/14/2022 06:53 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is getting to be like the gas company offering to sell me insurance on the pipes inside my house for "only $5.00 a month."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/14/2022 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Sure, why not

Money shot:" Additionally, gp120 protein is located in the spike protein of Sars-Cov-2, and spike protein is used in all “Covid vaccines”."
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Do we still need to get vaxxed when WWIII starts?
Posted by: Jiggs Poodle3664 || 03/14/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  There's nothing that inspires confidence like trying to hide your test data for 75 years after you've been given immunity from liability.

< /sarc>
Posted by: Nero || 03/14/2022 13:35 Comments || Top||

#5  I was a good soldier and got the booster
I immediately had issues with extremely high pulse rates, breathlessness fatigue headaches and joint pain
I still occasionally have a recurrence of the high pulse rates which would be in excess of 155
I’m not going to take another booster because I’m afraid it will kill me
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 03/14/2022 14:07 Comments || Top||

#6  The Vax does not work against the so-called Omicron variant. New Monoclonals are needed along with Vitamin D.
Posted by: Ho Chi Squank7858 || 03/14/2022 15:15 Comments || Top||

#7  I still occasionally have a recurrence of the high pulse rates which would be in excess of 155

Stop watching pron.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2022 15:42 Comments || Top||

#8  No, Skid, it's the only thing that keeps mine beating at all.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/14/2022 19:14 Comments || Top||

#9  I have an 8 pound maul that says no.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/14/2022 19:24 Comments || Top||



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