[ZeroHedge] The bulletproof vests were stolen from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a nonprofit organization based in Manhattan, the New York Police Department confirmed to news outlets on Wednesday.
“People right now in our community, they’re either in church praying or everyone is feeling disenfranchised. They have no power right now, and then this happens, and that absolutely affects people,” Ukrainian Congress Committee of America spokesman Andrij Dobriansky told NBC 4.
Police responded to a call of a burglary at around 9:15 a.m. before they “were informed that approximately 400 bulletproof vests were removed from the location,” NYPD Sergeant Edward Riley told the outlet.
He said that those vests were meant to be sent to medics, aid workers, and others—but not Ukrainian military members.
“Who isn’t being supplied are territorial defenses, the people who are getting humanitarian supplies across. So these kinds of donations—whether they come from Suffolk County, we have a lot of police precincts in New Jersey and upstate New York also donating, these are why it’s important,” said Dobriansky.
“As far as we can tell, maybe about three-quarters of that supply was taken last night,” added Dobriansky.
New York’s Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office told the New York Post that it donated vests to the group but wouldn’t confirm the 400 vests that were stolen were the ones that it had donated.
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I have not seen the movie The Purge, but NYC subways seem to be at least on the Snake Pliskin level. Bulletproofing the thugs is not going to improve matters.
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[Breitbart] A homeowner shot and killed an alleged intruder armed with a knife Tuesday night in Houston, Texas.
CBS Austin reports that the homeowner noticed he could not get inside his own residence from the side door so he went around to the front, where he confronted an alleged home intruder exiting around 7:45 p.m.
The alleged intruder was armed with a knife and allegedly tried to stab the homeowner, who responded by shooting and fatally wounding the suspect.
A detective told ABC 13, “As [the homeowner’s] walking around to the front of his residence, a man approaches him with a knife. The homeowner attempts to retreat, but the man continues to follow him with a knife in a threatening manner. The homeowner discharges his firearm one time, striking the individual.”
The alleged intruder was transported to a hospital, where he died.
RECAP
1. Another voter lost that will require other's extra efforts to vote for him.
2. The dead (D) Voter was just practicing Social Economical Equality.
3. The mother will be on TV crying "Not my Baby" and sue.
4. The Houston DA to file charges for unreasonable use of deadly force.
5. The media will announce the homeowner's address, that he is being held at this time and due to Defund Police, the house is unguarded ☺
6. The Media will announce BLM/AF plans for a bonfire vidual at this location.
[Gateway] Former Missouri State Representative Cora Faith Walker, 37, died unexpectedly last Friday morning after attending cop-hating leftist Mayor Tishaura Jones’ birthday party. There was no known cause of death and this will not be known until toxicology results come back in about a month.
According to St. Louis Medical Examiner, Dr. Michael Graham, who conducted an autopsy on Monday, "There were no physical injuries or signs of trauma to the body."
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There was no known cause of death and this will not be known until toxicology results .
Ha! Report a month later:
The death of Cora Faith Walker, 37, has been ascertained to be of unknown causes after a lengthy forensic investigation. The coroner and chief pathologist issued a statement along the lines of 'I dunno. Bitch shoulda just kept on tickin', beats me...'
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I look at the above comments and wonder about humanity. She will be missed an mourned by her family, friends an acquaintances. If it is drug related, we can blame the XI and Mexico.
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^ Don't forget Brandon.
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If it is drug related, we can blame
...we can blame the lady herself. Ms Walker was fully adult and highly educated — a Master of Public Health followed by a JD and work as a public policy wonk as well as a professional politician — and therefore fully capable of making informed decisions about the likely result of any mind-altering substances she might encounter. Don’t deny her the full agency due to her humanity, Mr. Cookie, just as I’m sure you insist on it for yourself.
[PostMillennial] The Sheriff of Polk County held a press conference on Wednesday talking about the culmination of a massive sting operation which lead to 108 arrests being made, including employees of FunSpot and Disney.
The Sheriff of Polk County held a press conference on Wednesday talking about the culmination of a massive sting operation which lead to 108 arrests being made, including four Disney employees.
This announcement comes after on March 9, just days ago, the CEO of Disney loudly and publicly opposed Florida's new "anti-grooming" law, which, according to polls, is supported by over 60 percent of Americans.
The so-named "Operation March Sadness Two" was a multi-agency effort centered around Florida's Polk County, which lies just southwest of the Orlando urban area, and is a highly touristic area.
According to local area news, people included among those 108 who have been arrested "include a retired judge from Illinois, a few restaurant managers, a man who works at FunSpot and several who work at Disney."
People arrested were as young as 17 years old, and as old as 67. Most of them are now facing charges of soliciting a prostitute, but further charges may be laid in certain cases, as the case may be.
Sheriff Grady Judd during his press conference particularly highlighted the case of the 27-year-old Xavier Jackson of Kissimmee Florida, who was one of the people caught in the operation, and "just happens to be a lifeguard at the Polynesian Resort for Disney."
Jackson is accused of sending explicit photos to someone who he thought was only 14 years old.
The new Florida bill makes it easier for authorities to act against "grooming" behavior in which children are inappropriately sexualized. It has been named the "don't say gay" bill by its detrectors, but also enjoys wide support from people on both sides of the political aisle.
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I think every Disney employee going through an FDLE background check at company expense would be a great thing about now. It would give the C-suite something to attend to besides the education of other people's children.
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108 who have been arrested "include a retired judge from Illinois
Which makes me think what perverts are sitting in those high seats in the cult of the black robe today?
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Pedos are drawn to professions with access to children. Nobody should be surprised, especially when Disney became woke and probably avoided asking their employees questions that might be judgy.
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How is the access to the facial recognition files of children?
ICYMI, the other day some mother asked if there was an alternative for of ID her young daughter could get instead of Facial Scanning...and all the monkeys jumped on this simple question and started throwing poo.
Could it be the park is a glorified Chester Molester Van?
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I don't know what amount of criminality Polk Co. gets but Sheriff Grady gets a lot of good press. Nothing wrong in publisizing the good work of your department and your deputies.
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They sure came down weird and hard against the "Don't Rape Children" bill.
I have no doubt that none of them got farther than “The evil Republicans are pushing through a ‘Don’t say gay’ bill! Reeeeeeee!!” and never actually read the text of the bill at all.
[Zero] By a 183 to 159 vote, New Hampshire’s Republican-dominated House of Representatives approved HB1022, which would allow pharmacists to dispense Ivermectin under a standing order, meaning anyone can go to a pharmacist and get the human-grade of the medication.
NH Republican lawmaker Leah Cushman, a nurse, and the bill’s sponsor, told The Epoch Times in January that she "had absolutely no doubt lives will be saved if human grade Ivermectin was available to COVID patients."
"House Republicans sent a clear message today that we support expanding options for the treatment of COVID," Cushman told The Epoch Times.
She said its approval by the House also means people will not have to resort to buying human-grade Ivermectin from a foreign country in order to exercise their right to use the medication to treat their symptoms.
Cushman added that the provision in the bill that safeguards doctors from any potential discipline—or an investigation by the state’s licensing board—for prescribing Ivermectin for COVID-19 takes "some of the political pressure" off them.
The bill still has to win final approval from the Senate, but that is also Republican-controlled and so far its GOP lawmakers have shown they believe in the state’s Live Free or Die motto when it comes to treatment choices about COVID-19.
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Wasn't ivermectin the reason that Uttar Pradesh province in India was so successful in treating covid patients? Sure as hell wasnt due to Moderna or Pfizer's jabs
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Yes, Nero. That's what I was told too. While HCQ and Ivermectin helped stabilize patients, Covishield by AstraZeneca later came to mass market as vax [tends to not cause any side effects]. Because we told the WHO to fcuk off and made our policy based on our own tests and research.
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Because we told the WHO to fcuk off and made our policy based on our own tests and research.
Wish we Americans had done the same to Pfizer Moderna and Fauci-CDC. Maybe someday we'll be as wise as the Indian health experts (no sarc)
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European big pharma and the Indian pharmaceutical ecosystem have long been at odds over unnecessary high prices, patents on things like the DNA [!] of certain organisms, and such practices. There's even threats. In fact, the cheaper HCQ, which came mostly from India was blocked by Europe for all its 'countries' arbitrarily, just because it was something Trump had advised and later Chinese suppliers were contracted for substandard intermediates to locally produce HCQ for the French military. India was ready with shipments that were then mad to sit in storage. So we sent them to Africa, Afghanistan, even Pakistain free of cost.
A Political Symbolic vote.
But given the FDA and other Federal Dept's can stop or will overrule their vote with a quick re-interpretation of some rule or Reg.
But why would the Biden Admin do this?
Because any alternative to the "____" VAX is sure to have "____" Lobbyists working overtime to donate $$$$$$ Mid-Term Election Campaigns and employ family members in do-nothing $$$,$$$ roles. In order to protect their $$ BILLION $$ revenue.
Edward Bronstein, 38, died March 31, 2020 in Pasadena less than two months before George Floyd died in Minneapolis No riots and marches for him. But he was just a white man panicking because he was afraid of needles, not a black man dying after once again taking an overdose of illegal drugs.
Footage of his final moments was released by LA cops on Wednesday after his family sued to see the harrowing video
He was pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving and police were forcing him to give blood for a sobriety test
His family sued for excessive use of force and violation of his civil rights
Daughter Brianna Palomino said her father 'was treated like trash' and did not deserve to die the way he did
Video shows Bronstein being forced onto a mat in the police station's garage while handcuffed then five officer kneel on his back as they extract blood
He screams 'I can't breathe' 11 times before he eventually falls silent
The California Highway Patrol fought the release of the video tape, but a federal judge ordered them to do so
Criminal justice experts say the tape shows a callous disregard for human life
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I never understood this American obsession with standardization of procedures. I mean there's a hundred ways to arrest people. We usually shoot the resistant types in the calf. The muzz we shoot in the kneecap or groin. And you guys have those fancy whatchamacallits... those stupid star trek things... oh! Tasers, don't you?
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'Cause any American cop who doesn't follow standard procedures and is found out will, at best, spend the rest of hs natural life justifying his actions to bureaucrats and lawyers. Unless he has political protection, in which case pretty much anything goes.
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I never understood this American obsession with standardization of procedures.
Because we're not a 3rd world crap hole like India. Although, I do like the idea of shooting muzz.
[IsraelTimes/JTA] Konstantyn Batozsky believes he is on a list of so-called "neo-Nazis" to be rounded up "Gestapo-style" and "exterminated" by Russian forces seeking to enter Kyiv.
Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the "bounty on his head" by Ukrainian intelligence sources. But as a longtime and avowed Ukrainian nationalist who has collaborated with a paramilitary group that has a reputation for including extremists, he knows that it’s people like him that Russian President Vladimir Putin was talking about when he cited a need for "denazification" as a pretext for invading his country.
"I have been staying underground away from my apartment where the Russians will try to find me," Batozsky said from a makeshift bunker preparing for what appears to be an imminent invasion as bombs rained down outside the city center.
"I am happy that I’m alive," he reflected, as he coordinated efforts to get much-needed supplies to the Ukrainian army. "It now feels like every day could be the last."
Initially cheerful in the early days of the war as the Ukrainians were surprisingly resilient against the much bigger Russian army, Batozsky now sounded more worried. And angry.
"The Russians are advancing and the West is not helping. Just words are not enough," he lamented. Batozky pleaded for Western countries to intervene militarily.
Among those taking up arms for the first time as volunteers for the civilian army include Jews like Batozsky, who was passionately devoted to the Ukrainian national cause in his native Donetsk years before Russia decided to wage war on the entire country. He was a former adviser to the governor of Donetsk, Serhiy Taruta, now a member of the Ukrainian parliament.
Donetsk is one of two eastern regions where pro-Russian separatists, supported by the Russian military, clashed with the Ukrainian forces from 2014 to 2015. The simmering conflict was the precursor for the current Russian invasion as Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence, which is not recognized by Ukraine. it's a long article I don't have time to unformat
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Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the "bounty on his head" by Ukrainian intelligence sources
But of course.
"Kostya, they even have a photo of you doing the hora! The bastards were throwing knives at it!"
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New Jews - old Jews. People making claims. There ought to be an obligation to drop your drawers when making claims about Jewish heritage. An empty tin of matzah just doesn't cut it with the world at war.
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Ukrainians are looking for outside help using whatever emotional hooks they can find, as are the Russians. I don’t fault them for that. I just wish they wouldn’t go hysterical (Nazis! Nazis! Naziiiiiiiis!) when agreement isn’t forthcoming,
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Everyone knows that the Azov Battalion are neo-Nazis. It's been documented by dozens of independent researchers and investigative journalists from many countries. Why deny it?
[NYMag] Henry Hoeft, a 28-year-old former U.S. Army infantryman and steelworker from a small town outside Columbus, Ohio, was compelled earlier this month to leave his young son to fight in Ukraine, where his father’s family has its roots. After fundraising online and saying his good-byes, Hoeft packed up some of the combat gear he used sporadically in recent years as a member of the boogaloo boys — the extremist, anti-government militia that rose to notoriety in 2020 — and took the route that has become common for the thousands of ex-military types attracted to the newly established Ukrainian foreign legion. Posting about his journey on TikTok and Instagram, he flew to Poland, crossed the border around March 9 with fellow Ohio boogaloo alum Mike Dunn, and joined an outfit accepting combat volunteers from abroad.
“I hope that the war will end tomorrow,” he told the Columbus Dispatch before leaving. “But I will be there for as long as it takes.” Dunn and Hoeft looked energized as they provided family members and thousands of followers with travel updates on social media. After arriving in Ukraine, they described suiting up with the Georgian National Legion (which, unlike some similar groups, does not require foreign fighters to sign indefinite contracts). But within the week, Hoeft had a different message: “People need to stop coming here.”
In a video posted to his Instagram Stories on March 15, Hoeft claimed that he was serving with the Georgian contingent in Ukraine when his base “got fucked up” and a number of foreign volunteers from the U.S. and Great Britain were killed. (A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman referred to military volunteers earlier this month as “mercenaries” who would not be “considered as combatants in accordance with international humanitarian law.”) Hoeft said that when a group of American, Canadian, and British volunteers refused an order to serve in Kyiv with “no fucking weapons” and partially filled magazines, they were told “to get the fuck out” of the brigade. Hoeft says he and two others then hid in the back of an ambulance trying to leave the country. At the border, they stripped off their military gear to pose as civilians when they heard customs officials were sending foreign-legion volunteers back to the front. “It’s a trap,” he said in a video recorded in Poland.
Hoeft’s message and his decision to bow out of the fight early appeared to create a rift between him and Dunn, the former leader of a boogaloo faction in Ohio called the Last Sons of Liberty. A former Marine who says his military career was shortened by a heart condition, Dunn told ProPublica last year that he was “willing to die in the streets” fighting the U.S. government. (Hoeft claims he ditched the Last Sons when the group “got all crazy.”) On his TikTok account, which has now been banned, Dunn pushed back on Hoeft’s claims, while other Georgian National Legion volunteers denied Hoeft’s allegations that they were threatened if they did not leave the unit.
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Hoeft says he and two others then hid in the back of an ambulance trying to leave the country. At the border, they stripped off their military gear to pose as civilians when they heard customs officials were sending foreign-legion volunteers back to the front. “It’s a trap,” he said in a video recorded in Poland
It's almost like we're being fed a bunch of lies about all the "courageous" "heroes" of the "resistance"
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What did he think was going to happen, the potential ground zero of WWIII?
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LOL the media is calling them boogaloo boys now? This is such transparent propaganda. This story was out days ago, and is quite likely a lie from whole cloth.
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^ The boogaloo boys are a militia in America. They also call themselves the boojaheddin just for kicks. Look for Boogaloo Movement. Yes, it's a thing. Described as 'libertarian survivalist nuts', at least one of them also doubled up as a BLMer. I wish I could call them adrenaline junkies, they seems to be more regular retards like.
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Sounds like he arrived kitted out for an episode of Naked and Afraid. You can rule out the term "mercenary" for anyone who arrived at the party unarmed.
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Dron, we had a report about Mr. Hunter here. Possibly you were on walkabout at the time.
Open threat by Russia’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He says joining NATO is an internal matter for BiH but “the other thing is our reaction. The example of Ukraine shows what we expect. If there’s a threat we will react.” https://t.co/LMfrJUi8xN
Putin was pretty clear about this in regards to Ukraine also, but apparently, no one took him seriously. Perhaps being non-serious people themselves, Team Brandon could no believe Putin actually meant what he said.
For the Russians, NATO membership for Sweden and Finland is undesirable, but it does not present the same threat as Ukraine in terms of being a prime invasion route.
[ABC] Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that he personally believes war crimes have been committed in Ukraine, a day after President Joe Biden labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" for the first time since Putin launched his invasion.
"Yesterday, President Biden said that in his opinion, war crimes have been committed in Ukraine. Personally, I agree," Blinken said. "Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. After all the destruction of the past few weeks, I find it difficult to conclude that the Russians are doing otherwise."
Before the U.S. officially labels Putin's actions as war crimes, Blinken said State Department experts from the Office of Global Criminal Justice are documenting and evaluating evidence for a formal determination and will share the findings with those responsible for accountability. But he acknowledged reports on intentional attacks from the bombing of a Drama Theater housing children to opening fire at people waiting in line for bread.
[TheDriveTheWarzone] One of Russia's newest warships was said to have been struck by Ukrainian rockets, but has shown up unscathed in Crimea.
In another example of the fog of war and the myths that have emerged around the conflict in Ukraine, video footage and pictures appeared online today showing the Russian Navy's Project 22160 patrol ship Vasiliy Bykov sailing into the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula without any visible damage. The Ukrainian military reportedly severely damaged, if not sunk this vessel in the Black Sea more than a week ago using unguided artillery rockets fired from the shore. A video purportedly of Vasiliy Bykov burning after the supposed attack may actually show a commercial ship that was seriously damaged by an errant Russian missile early in the conflict and that remains on fire in the Black Sea nearly three weeks later.
The Vasiliy Bykov was the first Project 22160 patrol ship to enter service, being commissioned in 2018. The Russian Navy now has three of these vessels on active duty, all assigned to its Black Sea Fleet, which Russia relocated to Crimea after seizing it from Ukraine in 2014. A fourth Project 22160 ship was undergoing sea trials as of October 2021 and two more are under construction.
The Project 22160s, the design of which you can read more about here, are some of the most modern warships in the Russian Navy today. Destroying one would have represented a significant loss for Russia and it's not necessarily surprising that Ukrainian authorities were quick to say they had taken out Vasiliy Bykov.
In addition, Vasiliy Bykov had been involved in the Russian military's assault on Ukraine's Zmiinyi Island, or Snake Island, in the western Black Sea. The Ukrainian defenders there had attained an almost legendary status after audio emerged of them refusing a demand to surrender and responding instead with the now-iconic phrase "Russian warship, go fuck yourself!" The 13 Ukrainian border guards stationed on Snake Island were initially presumed to have been killed in an ensuing attack, though this later turned out not to be the case, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had quickly announced he would honor them as Heroes of Ukraine. So, sinking, or even seriously damaging this ship would have had clear additional propaganda value as a direct act of vengeance.
Still, from the very beginning, there were questions about the likelihood of shore-based short-range, unguided artillery rocket systems being able to hit a relatively small target, at least by ship standards, sailing out in the Black Sea. Subsequent reports said that the Ukrainian armed forces had pulled this off by using small patrol boats to lure the Russian ship toward the shore until it was within range. Video footage showing a burning vessel accompanied the claims as evidence of the attack at least having successfully damaged Vasiliy Bykov.
There is the possibility that the Russian Navy could have repainted one of the other two Project 22160 patrol ships, either the Dmitriy Rogachev or the Pavel Derzhavin, to conceal the loss of Vasily Bykov. However, comparisons between the imagery of the ship today and of it from before March 7 suggest that this is not the case.
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"the fog of war and the myths"
IOW all the media bullshit and propaganda designed to drag us into another pointless war that concerns us not. Like all of this BS
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Yes of course. Putin painted one of his old ships and gave it the same markings so he wouldn't look like such a loser. Like he secretly buried a hundred thousand Russian soldiers out in Belarus in unmarked graves last week. Fools.
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#3 Yes of course. Putin painted one of his old ships and gave it the same markings so he wouldn't look like such a loser. Like he secretly buried a hundred thousand Russian soldiers out in Belarus in unmarked graves last week. Fools.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-18 01:24
....During the Cold War, both the Russians and the US were known to paint new bow numbers on smaller combatants to confuse the other side. I'm not saying this is what happened; I haven't seen enough comparison pictures to make a call - but it's quite within the realm of possibility. If I see a pennant number on a Russian warship, I start by assuming a better than even chance it's not accurate.
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Here is what Ship Tracker shows...for the VASILIY-BIKOV aka MMSI 273549630.
Note the Last paragraph? "There is the possibility that the Russian Navy could have repainted one of the other two Project 22160 patrol ships, either the Dmitriy Rogachev or the Pavel Derzhavin, to conceal the loss of Vasily Bykov." Could Russia have adjusted and painted VASILIY-BIKOV on one of them as counter Properganda efforts?
BTW: the last "known" location Nov. 2021 puts at 41°07'33.6"N 29°04'53.4"E is in the Maslak, Turkey channel area to the Black Sea.
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Somebody probably donated Mk14 torpedoes to the cause. A good chance to clear old inventory.
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there were questions about the likelihood of shore-based short-range, unguided artillery rocket systems being able to hit a relatively small target
Multiple launch rocket systems like Grad are used to attack area targets, like men and vehicles in the open. With a missile, you need to hit the exact target, with MLRS, you just need to hit the 100 meter square the ship is in.
The VB may not have been sunk, since a warship is a harder target than people and trucks, but could have been damaged for a mission kill. Or the Russians decided they had worn out their welcome and it was time to leave.
Or the latest sighting of the Vasiliy Bykov is simply an inflatable rubber decoy.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:38 Thanks to the actions of the DPR army and the RF Armed Forces, 43,000 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol today. As soon as the Nazis lost the opportunity to shoot civilians leaving the city, the hostages poured out of the city in tens of thousands a day. In total, since the beginning of the assault, our military released more than 80,000 hostages, whom the Nazis held in Mariupol as human shields.
21:34 Above the administration city of Rubizhne erected the flag of the LPR. However, fighting is still going on in the city (in some areas), there is still no connection, as well as electricity and water.
20:32 Stories about the "fights near New York" (Donetsk region) - game from couch strategists, now there is absolute silence. Couch strategist would be I. 20:30 Verkhnetoretskoe, which was occupied yesterday, remains under the control of the DPR, all counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repulsed, the enemy has suffered such losses that they are no longer trying to counterattack.
20:27 The Russian coalition occupied two villages to the south-west of Vuhledar, squeezing units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine there. Vuhledar is located 28 km southwest of Donetsk. Founded as a mining village in 1966. The population before the start of the fighting was about 15,000 people. It is an important strategic point for supplying enemy forces in the region, and the Ukrainian headquarters of the Vostok operational-tactical group was also located there.
19:33 The People's Militia of the DPR reported that six units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the military special operation have lost 1,099 people dead and 1,276 wounded.
19:21 During the liberation of Maryinka died three foreign mercenaries are the People's Militia of the DPR. The authorities of the republic call the names: Michael ***, Logan **** and Cruz ****. Also, the people's militia seized weapons: NLAW and SMAW grenade launchers, an AN / TPQ-48 radar station. Names redacted until confirmed dead 19:15 As a result of shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a civilian was wounded in Vasilievka.
18:28 Shelling Golubovskoye village in the Lugansk Republic. Ukrofascists purposefully shoot at civilians. Direct hit to a residential building.
18:06 “We were like in a cage. Our houses were methodically shelled with hailstones by the Ukrainian army.” A resident of Mariupol told a @SputnikLive correspondent that the Azov militants purposefully hit residential buildings, and long before the start of hostilities in the city. “Grads flew from Azovstal. Everyone knows this. The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Mariupol from the very beginning. From the 26th,” he said. "Walked, laughed, creatures (Azov), and fired at houses with incendiary shells."
17:44 Ukrainian armed formations left Rubizhne and retreated to positions in Severodonetsk, local residents report.
17:40 The DPR army seized a shipment of NATO weapons near Donetsk: in Marinka, DPR fighters seized a large number of Swedish AT-4 grenade launchers and other military property at the location of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 54th OMB.
16.48 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 shelling of the territory of the LPR was recorded: n.p. Novotoshkovskoe - Donetsk: mortar 120mm (8 min). n.p. Zolote-4 - Pervomaisk: mortar 120mm (15 min);
16:28 The Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR: the power engineers of the Oktyabrsky Distribution Zone powered 5 TPs, 850 household subscribers in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, and the employees of the Kiev Distribution Zone - 6 TPs, 300 household subscribers, who were also left without power as a result of the shelling of the VFU.
Power engineers of the Yasinovatsky Distribution Zone TE "Makeevskie Electric Networks" SUE DPR "REK" restored power supply to 7 transformer substations, 242 household subscribers of the village of Krasny Partizan, which were de-energized as a result of shelling on the evening of March 16.
15:43 The death of more than 70 people in the DPR in 2018 from multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis may be associated with the activities of a biological laboratory in Ukraine - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
15:34 On the operational line, the DPR Ministry of Health received information about the wounding as a result of shelling by the AFU of two men from the territories previously liberated by the NM of the DPR. All the victims were taken to the Novoazovskaya Central District Hospital, where they receive the necessary medical care.
15:30 Ukronazis fired at the column of refugees. Departure from Mariupol towards the DPR.
15:02 Civilians leave Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor organized by the forces of the DPR and the Russian Federation. If yesterday it was possible to evacuate hundreds a day, today it is already thousands every day, @SputnikLive correspondent reports from the scene. Also, at the humanitarian checkpoint, men are checked for tattoos with Nazi symbols.
14:23 Headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR: Ukrainian troops transported 17 hostage children to Lviv.
13:30 Social networks: AFU deployed three artillery pieces towards the Zhuravlevsky Hydropark across Solidarity Street in Kharkiv. Half an hour later, the guns were destroyed by pinpoint artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces.
13:11 The Russian Federation cannot take into account the requirement of the International Court of Justice and stop the military operation in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov said.
13:10 The use of photos of Donetsk in the media and during Zelensky's speech in Congress with the opposite connotation is a lie and a forgery, - Peskov.
13:05 The JCCC recorded shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 3 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.
13:00 Basurin said that the liberation of Mariupol is going according to plan.
12:25 As specified information, as a result of the shelling of the village of Golmovsky by Ukrainian armed groups on March 16, 2022, houses were damaged along the streets: Shokalsky, 42, Arensky, 18, Arensky, 24, in Klubny lane, 4. A VAZ 2107 car was also damaged.
Also, according to updated information , as a result of night shelling from the side of the VFU of the Gorlovsky village of Kochegarka, significant damage was recorded in the house on Usadebnaya Street, 4.
12:24 During the shelling of the VFU, the village. Alexandrovka, on the street. Gorky,5 a woman born in 1954 received shrapnel wounds. Damage to private sector houses was also recorded:
- st. Gorky, 5 - a direct hit on the house. A wall was destroyed, windows and a roof were damaged; - st. Gorky, 300, 302 - windows, roofing, walls were cut by fragments, households were damaged. the buildings; - st. Shevchenko, 195, 197 - damaged windows, households. buildings - Alexey Kulemzin.
12:15 Ossetian volunteer units put forward to Donbass.
11:57 Chechen fighters in Mariupol broke through defense of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where the Azov people settled. Mariupol will be taken before the end of the week.
11:31 Information about the incident yesterday in the drama theater of Mariupol from the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Serhiy Taruta, with the confirmation of the neo-Nazi Botsman: it follows from it that the information dispersed throughout all Ukrainian media about the death of 1,500 people turned out to be a lie from beginning to end.
11:27 Statements that the Russian military is behind the strike on the drama theater in Mariupol are lies - the Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:12 Possible provocation in Kramatorsk: local residents are outraged by the placement of the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the buildings of educational institutions.
In particular, the warriors and part of the territorial defense were placed in the 6th school (Bolshaya Sadovaya, 71) and in the 91st kindergarten (Shkolnaya, 16). Warriors react extremely aggressively to the comments of the townspeople. Earlier, from documents obtained in the liberated Volnovakha, it became known that the practice of using educational, cultural and health facilities as shelters was introduced at the command level of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Videos from busy schools and kindergartens appear regularly.
This choice is based on the fact that such facilities have high-quality bomb shelters in which the military can hide. Civilians are left to hide in the buildings themselves, which makes it possible for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to repeat the criminal provocation following the example of Mariupol.
11:01 DPR units are conducting offensive operations to capture the settlements of Maryinka, Slavnoe and Sladkoe. Promotion per day amounted to 4 kilometers - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
10:50 As a result of a direct hit by a shell of Ukrainian fighters, on the street. Radishcheva, 11 in the Petrovsky district, the house was completely destroyed, a man born in 1966 received a mine-explosive injury and shrapnel wounds. The victim was taken to the surgical department of the INVH them. VC. Gusak - Alexey Kulemzin.
10:12 DPR turned to Russia with a request to strengthen the air defense of the republic, this work is in progress - Pushilin.
10:35 AFU shelled the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber. and n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yasnoye: fired 5 minutes in 120 mm caliber. — SCCC.
09:45 The DPR representative office in the JCCC on March 17 recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 9 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm.
09:42 295 people were evacuated from Mariupol and its suburbs. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, 295 people, including 66 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol and the settlements of its suburban area to the Bezymennoye Novoazovsky district. In addition, 2 people from Volnovakha were evacuated.
09:07 DPR forces liberated 95 settlements on the territory of the republic, Basurin said.
08:56 Residents of Donetsk are deprived of water supply: according to the Headquarters of Territorial Defense of the DPR, as a result of a strike by Ukrainian militants, Verkhnekalmiuska pumping station remains without electricity. The high-voltage line 35 kV was damaged. Emergency work is underway.
08:04 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Armed Forces of the DPR fordayadvanced 2 kilometers in the Marinka area. There is also a promotion in Severodonetsk with the Armed Forces of the LPR.
07:20 AFU fired at the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Kremenets: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired. — reported in the JCCC DNR.
02:45 In the JCCC, shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
02:30 Shelling from the side of the VFU on the settlement Trinity - n.p. Red Partizan: fired six shells of 122 mm caliber. — SCCC.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23.55 One "Point U" damaged the gas pipeline, which is still on fire, the second one fell outside the city of Melitopol, but did not explode. The sappers are working on the spot. 22:37 Arrival in Melitopol again. Zelensky's terrorists fired a Tochka-U ballistic missile at a peaceful city. Judging by the explosions, again with a cluster warhead, prohibited by all international rules and conventions.
19:30 In social networks, they write that in Zaporozhye, the Nazis have occupied banks and are checking accounts. Wealthy people, entrepreneurs are kidnapped and money is squeezed out at gunpoint for the "needs of the detachments" of the defense. Some civilians tried to escape, but at checkpoints they were detained, beaten and extorted of their last valuables for an unhindered exit from the city.
19:16 Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 29 military facilities of Ukraine - Russian Defense Ministry.
18:09 The attack on Yavoriv land fill was inflicted not only due to the fact that foreign mercenaries were stationed there. A source from the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine distributed a document according to which on March 7 the Ukrainian command decided to deploy 155 mm 2S22 Bogdan self-propelled artillery mounts under a NATO projectile on all units. Together with artillery mounts, all available NATO ammunition for them was brought there. That is, the blow was struck not so much on the "Foreign Legion", but on a possible accumulation of artillery installations, and the Americans.
17:46 MFAN sources sent video recording from Kharkiv, on which a battery of 152-mm howitzers "Hyacinth" of Ukrainian troops is stationed in the Pobeda culture and recreation park in the eastern part of the city. The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed artillery in close proximity to the Church of the Matrona of Moscow, which belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the Ladder school. The guns were directed towards Severnaya Saltovka, the district of Kharkov most affected by the hostilities.
17:31 Telegram channel "Southern Bridgehead" reports that today Cossack Lopan in the Kharkiv region was covered with artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to sources from the scene, the shelling began around noon. They beat on the square, the school and the village council. In the building of the latter, humanitarian aid was given to civilians. People were just handing out another batch. In total, according to the inhabitants of the village, about 40 shells arrived. Everything - from the side of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from Kharkov. According to preliminary data, 4 people were killed and several were injured. Among the victims was a 12-year-old girl. She came with her grandmother for humanitarian aid. They were already returning home when Ukrainian shells began to fall. One exploded next to them. The fragments killed the woman on the spot, the teenager's leg was torn off.
17:20 In Melitopol, controlled by the RF Armed Forces, the residents are returning cars that were forcibly expropriated earlier by the Terodefense for their own needs.
17:15 Media: Advisor to the head of the Presidential Office and a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia, Mikhail Podolyak, said that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky could take place after the completion of work on the agreement, possibly in the coming weeks. He also said that the agreement between Russia and Ukraine could take from several days to one and a half weeks.
15:36 Personnel objective control of the impact of the Russian Malka (self-propelled guns 2S7M caliber 203 mm) on enemy self-propelled guns. The enemy gun was destroyed, a small ammunition depot with her, too. Forest area near Kharkov.
15:35 Russian Defense Ministry: We believe that components of biological weapons were created on the territory of Ukraine.
15:32 Military infrastructure facilities have been hit in Kharkiv. Reportedly journalists, there were warehouses, a local police station, as well as fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:24 Human Rights Watch calls on Ukraine to stop publishing videos of Russian prisoners of war and violating their rights.
15:10 Head of Chernihiv regiondoneunpacking the humanitarian aid they received from the Kiev authorities. According to the head of the region, instead of oil, there were foam plastic briquettes in the package.
14:23 Headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR: Ukrainian troops transported 17 hostage children to Lviv.
13:30 Social networks: AFU deployed three artillery pieces towards the Zhuravlevsky Hydropark across Solidarity Street in Kharkiv. Half an hour later, the guns were destroyed by pinpoint artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces.
13:11 The Russian Federation cannot take into account the requirement of the International Court of Justice and stop the military operation in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov said.
13:02 Russian Airborne Troops have set up checkpoints to ensure the safety of the passage of military columns and the movement of residents along the roads in the Kiev region. On the most dangerous sections of the roads, the Airborne Forces deployed platoon strongholds. Particular attention is paid to the identification and detention of sabotage groups of Ukrainian nationalists who, under the guise of civilians, attack civilians who want to leave Kyiv and other settlements along humanitarian corridors or on their own.
12:24 The corpse of a Ukrainian civilian smokes after hisshotRussian military. Everything you need to know about stories about the killing of civilians by the Russian military in Ukraine.
12:03 The positions of Ukrainian nationalists in the Kiev region have been destroyed. Videopublished by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The camouflaged fortifications were discovered using UAVs. They were then hit with artillery.
11:31 Information about the incident yesterday in the drama theater of Mariupol from the Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Taruta, with the confirmation of the neo-Nazi Botsman: it follows from it that the information dispersed in all Ukrainian media about the death of 1,500 people turned out to be a lie from beginning to end.
11:27 Statements that the Russian military is behind the strike on the drama theater in Mariupol are lies - the Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:26 The Ukrainian flag was taken down over the building of the Kherson regional administration, occupied by Russian troops. When this happened is unclear. Photo in telegram channels appeared today.
11:25 The special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine does not aim to destroy the statehood of this country or overthrow Vladimir Zelensky-Zakharov
11:23 Social networks: Russian troops entered Chuguev. The units of the Russian army entered the city of Chuguev, Kharkov region. A photo taken by servicemen at the local police department appeared on the network. Apparently, the city came under the control of the Russian army.
11:11 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are abandoning their equipment, retreating near Kharkov. In the area of the village of Bobrovka, which is located one and a half kilometers from the Kharkov district, retreating units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine abandoned their BTR-4 Bucephalus.
11:03 Mayor of Kherso nis silent about the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: A few days ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made a suicidal attempt to break through from Nikolaev to Kherson. As a result, ten Ukrainian tanks were destroyed by Russian artillery. Now, out of revenge, Ukrainian fascists are shelling the suburbs of Kherson, including residential areas. Many houses have already been destroyed, about 15 civilians have been injured.
11:02 And again they report from Kyiv: Again in the morning, a battery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired in Kyiv and fired at a residential building in the Darnytskyi district. Naturally, now they are yelling that this is a Russian downed rocket that fell on the house.
11:00 Briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry on the situation in Donbas: Over the past day, Russian aviation and air defense shot down Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters, as well as 12 UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will publish a new package of documents on the developments of Ukrainian biolaboratories and provide the results of their examination. As part of the US project in Ukraine on the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza, the possibility of causing economic damage was assessed.
10:30 Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station is under the reliable protection of the Russian Guard units.
10:18 The division of the S-300 system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been destroyed over the past day - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
10:17 On the evening of March 16, high-precision missiles delivered an air strike on an ammunition storage arsenal in the village of Sarny, Rivne region. Storage facilities with missiles and ammunition, including missiles for the Tochka-U tactical complex, were destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
09:28 The Ministry of Defense showed footage of destruction of military warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Russian Su-25s. Attack aircraft flights were carried out at night at low and medium altitudes.
8:54 Nazis are hiding for "quiet time" in kindergarten, and in the comments they openly declare that for their brothers there is no longer a quiet place in Ukraine except for schools and nurseries. Planes arrive and multiply them by zero.
8:34 At a briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense listed the regions of Ukraine in which the population, according to them, stands for "good relations" with Russia. These are Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions. In total, 15 million people maintain “strong ties with Russia” in these territories.
7:22 Rockets hit in the Kharkiv region in Merefa - in objects in which strengthened VSU.
2:00 Missiles hit targets near the city of Sarna. There were warehouses with small arms and ammunition.
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"Embarrassing peace deal"?
He wanted to close the deal in the Donbas and createvavlabs bridge across to Crimea. They did that. Ukraine will become a neutral no man's land, and its economy and cities are totally wrecked, as Putin wanted.
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and its economy and cities are totally wrecked, as Putin wanted.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the West continued to throw money at Ukraine afterward, for rebuilding. That’s what they’ve been doing for the Palestinians for years.
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Yeah, while China Saudi Arabia and India throw money at Putin's Russia. Ukraine will cost the West at least $50 billion a year for another 20 years. Europeans now have to pay to rearm themselves, and rebuild Ukraine, and support 3-4 million destitute Ukrainian refugees.
Russia didn't "swallow a hedgehog." It's the EU that's now digesting a financial hedgehog
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Russia has to rebuild a depleted army that did not perform up to expectations, Beldar Darling of the Danes1602, the Ukraine, the heart of the Rus, rejected them to the point of destruction instead of falling gratefully into Russia’s loving arms.
At a time when Russia’s population is falling.
So: a resentful Ukraine not generating profits for Moscow after a very expensive invasion. Both have swallowed hedgehogs, adn probably China will not be nearly as happy with the outcome as they planned, also.
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/\ Concur! China is very likely taking a serious re-look at any action on Taiwan. One would assume there existed some sort of military or economic support agreement btwn the two with regards to Russians recent "Special Operation" in the Ukraine. Any support Russia could give China currently, appears to be evaporating.
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Russia will spit out its hedgehog. The EU will be stuck with a wrecked Ukraine and millions of piss poor refugees for another 30 years. Except this one will cost the EU one hundred times more than the Paleos cost them
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka and Yelenovka
[REGNUM] The village of the mine. Gagarin in the city of Gorlovka (DPR) was fired on the evening of March 17 by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
At 19:40 Moscow time, Ukrainian militants opened fire on the village from the settlement of Novgorodskoye: eight 82 mm caliber mines were fired.
Also, Ukrainian formations fired at the village of Signalnoe (Maryinsky district, DPR) from the ACS: at 18:50 Moscow time, 20 grenades were fired, and small arms were also used. The shooting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was carried out from the settlement of Glorious.
In addition, the village of Yelenovka (DPR) was attacked from the Glorious Armed Forces of Ukraine at 20:25 Moscow time and an hour later at 21:25 Moscow time, using 120 mm caliber mortars (ten mines) and 122 mm caliber artillery pieces (six shells).
Earlier, Yelenovka was fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the settlement of Novomikhailovka: at 19:35 Moscow time they opened fire from a 120 mm mortar, firing six mines.
Luhansk flag raised over the Rubizhnoye
[REGNUM] The city of Rubizhnoye was liberated from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the soldiers of the People's Militia of the LPR raised the flag of the Republic over the building of the city administration, the press service of the Lugansk department reported on March 17.
The representative of the People's Militia noted that martial law had entered the final phase for local residents. On the outskirts of the city, the sounds of gunfire can still be heard, as well as the work of Ukrainian artillery.
“But every hour these episodes become less and less. Local residents gather in the administration, they are provided with assistance. To the best of their ability, the military is providing , ”said the representative of the People’s Militia.
According to him, humanitarian aid will be sent to the city. “And for the residents of Rubizhne, life will become normal again ,” he added.
Surrendered Ukraine officer told of crimes of "Azov" in Mariupol
[REGNUM] The commander of the patrol platoon of the National Guard of Ukraine, who surrendered to the DPR, said that residents tried to escape from the city of Mariupol as soon as the Russian special operation began, but the Azov militants (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) ordered not to let civilians out. The video footage was published on March 17 by the press service of the People's Militia of the DPR.
According to Evgeny Orel , who surrendered , the residents of Mariupol began to leave on February 25-26. Then the Ukrainian command stopped these attempts. The former military man says that he heard "a broadcast with" Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) " , during which the militants said that "civilians should not be released."
He said that the residents of Mariupol were trying to leave in droves. “We saw the signs “children” [on the cars] ,” he said. People fled the city, "knowing what would happen . " “Everyone knew that Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) would fight in a serious way,” he added.
Recall that at present, the DPR forces are actively evacuating residents from Mariupol. The evacuees are transported to the Novoazovsky district of the republic. According to some reports, Ukrainian militants mined a number of civilian infrastructure facilities in the city.
Ukrainian artillery damaged houses in the LPR
[REGNUM] Three houses in Zolote-5 and nine in the village of Kalinovo (LPR) were damaged as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on March 17, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.
Also, four outbuildings were damaged in Kalinovo: this settlement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was fired from artillery pieces. “As a result of the mortar shelling of the settlement of Zolote-5, three housing constructions were damaged, ” the JCCC reported.
Recall that since the beginning of the day in the DPR, 15 residential buildings were damaged by fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, two infrastructure facilities were damaged, six transformer substations were de-energized, the village of Shakhty No. 11, school No. 116, 600 private sector houses were without electricity.
Ukrainian militants fired mortars at the DPR
[REGNUM] The southern part of the village of Zaitsevo (DPR) was shelled on the evening of March 17 by Ukrainian formations, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from the northern part of Zaitsevo. The fire was opened at 19:35 Moscow time. Ukrainian militants fired six 120 mm caliber mines at the village.
According to the People's Militia of the DPR, since the beginning of the day on March 17, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have fired more than a hundred shells and mines from 122-mm cannon artillery and 120-mm mortars.
Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian militants have shelled six settlements of the DPR: four civilians were injured. At the same time, 15 residential buildings and two infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Three American contractors killed in Donetsk Full names redacted until confirmed
[REGNUM] The destruction of three American military instructors who fought on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the liberation of the city of Maryinka (DPR) from Ukrainian militants was reported on March 17 in the press service of the people's militia department of the republic.
While liberating Marinka, the stronghold of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 54th brigade was destroyed. During the inspection, samples of foreign weapons were found - NLAW, SMAW grenade launchers, AN / TPQ-48 radars and personal belongings of American instructors who participated in hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“In a backpack next to the remains of one of the militants, a US Tennessee flag was found, as well as other items that made it possible to identify the dead as: Captain Michael H**** , Lieutenant Logan ***** and Lieutenant Cruz ***** , who came to Ukraine to kill civilians in Donbass in 2018," - reports the People's Militia.
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[Korrespondent] 21:56 Putin does not want peace, and additional sanctions may be required to end the war in Ukraine, the Italian prime minister said. 21:52 Deliveries of American weapons to Ukraine go once a day or every two days, additional military assistance will be transferred just as quickly, Psaki assured.
21:50 The war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine can lead to famine in certain regions of the world.
21:48 Details about the decision of the International Criminal Court on the lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia - in the material Victory of Ukraine: what the Hague decided on the Russian war .
21:38 Over the past 24 hours, 3,810 people have been evacuated, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko said. From Mariupol, 2,000 residents were able to get to Zaporozhye; another 1,810 residents of Vorzel, Bucha, Gostomel, Shevchenkovo and Borodyanka are safe.
21:34 The soloist of the ballet of the National Opera of Ukraine Artem Datsishin died. On February 26, he came under fire, was seriously wounded, and now died in the hospital, said Tatyana Borovik, soloist of the National Opera.
21:33 PayPal has fully earned in Ukraine, now you can not only pay, but also withdraw money to Ukrainian bank cards, Fedorov said.
21:05 The Azov Regiment reports that in Mariupol they cannot begin to dismantle the rubble of the drama theater due to constant shelling.
21:02 Russia stated that 43,000 people left Mariupol today. Vereshchuk denied this information: according to her, 800 cars left Mariupol today.
20:42 The mayor of Khmelnytsky Alexander Simchishin said that the authorities will seize apartments from landlords who inflate housing prices for refugees.
20:28 Italy has announced that it will help Ukraine restore the Mariupol Drama Theatre.
20:25 AFU captured the new Russian electronic intelligence station Thorn-MDM. "This is one of the modern means of electronic warfare of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which is of great value to us and our allies," Gerashchenko wrote.
20:24 Canada has banned the broadcast of Russian TV channels RT and RT France.
20:21 Scholz declared the inadmissibility of insults and attacks on Russians, since, according to him, only Putin is responsible for the war in Ukraine.
20:19 In Severodonetsk, Russian troops fired at a shelter for mothers with children, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
20:11 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that he was contacted by a scammer posing as the Prime Minister of Ukraine. "When the conversation got suspicious, I ended the call," he tweeted.
The head of the British Ministry of Defense stressed that "no Russian disinformation, distortions and dirty tricks can divert attention from Russia's human rights violations and illegal invasion of Ukraine."
20:06 Zelensky awarded the Order for Courage of the III degree to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, who was captured, but refused to cooperate with the invaders.
20:04 Reznikov appealed to Western partners with a request not to transfer weapons to any intermediaries who apply on behalf of Ukraine.
"These people can present themselves as 'advisers', 'assistants', 'heads of departments', as well as demonstrate 'documents' - forgeries. As a minister, I responsibly declare: they are all scum, marauders and traitors who have nothing to do with the defense of Ukraine," - said the minister.
19:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Posad-Pokrovsky in the Kherson region from Russian invaders, MP Goncharenko said.
19:41 If Moscow does not comply with the binding decision of the International Court of Justice on the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, then it must give up the right of veto in the UN Security Council, said the speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko.
19:38 Biden, who yesterday called Putin a war criminal, today dubbed him a "bloody dictator" and "a pure thug."
"A bloody dictator, a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of Ukraine," the American president said.
19:35 The head of the Transcarpathian OVA, Viktor Mykyta, said that in order to revive the economy of Ukraine, the regional authorities decided to create all conditions for the relocation of enterprises and businesses to the region. According to him, a separate unit has already been created for this purpose, and local authorities have received more than 500 applications for business relocation.
19:32 Employees of the SBU, who were trying to extract citizens from the rubble of the Mariupol Drama Theater destroyed by the invaders, came under enemy fire.
19:30 According to the State Border Service, more than 320,000 citizens have returned to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, most of them men.
19:28 In ORDLO, from March 20, another wave of mobilization into the ranks of the 1st Army Corps begins due to the impossibility of high-quality staffing of the group of occupation forces, the General Staff said.
19:24 According to the General Staff, the aviation units of the 960th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 4th Army of the Russian Armed Forces suffered significant losses. The military massively write reports on dismissal.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also inflicted significant damage on units from the 252nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Western Military District, fighting in the Kharkov and Izyum regions. The enemy lost up to 30 percent of personnel, weapons and military equipment. Defense Forces liquidated the commander of the 3rd motorized rifle division, Colonel Igor Nikolaev.
19:22 In the Kherson region, in addition to units of the Russian armed forces, the presence of police officers from the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimea temporarily occupied by Russians was recorded. The operational groups of the FSB carry out punitive functions. The enemy is campaigning to attract the local population to the so-called "police", according to the General Staff.
19:19 Russia has used up almost the entire set of Caliber sea-based cruise missiles and Iskander operational-tactical missile systems in the 21 days of the war against Ukraine, the General Staff reports. As a result, the enemy continues to carry out missile and bomb strikes against infrastructure facilities and residential areas of large cities using indiscriminate weapons.
19:16 In Kharkiv, during the repeated shelling of the Barabashovo market at about 14:00, a rescuer died, another of his colleagues is in the hospital with shrapnel wounds, the State Emergency Service reported.
19:07 Podolyak on the negotiations: "I would like to gently recommend to active commentators on the negotiation process who are not inside. Do not spread your lies in a country that is fighting hard. The negotiations are difficult. The positions of the parties are different. For us, fundamental issues are inviolable."
19:04 In the Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, around 16:30 today, as a result of enemy shelling, cars caught fire and a fire started in a warehouse. According to preliminary data, two people died.
18:54 The soldiers of the Azov regiment destroyed four enemy tanks and two armored personnel carriers in a day, another armored personnel carrier was shot down. Destroyed near a company of enemy infantry, reports Gerashchenko. The fighting for Mariupol continues, including on the streets of the city.
18:49 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated the commander of the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment of the Russian Federation, Colonel Sergei Sukharev, Russian media report.
18:48 Near Priluki, Chernihiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a group of Russian military men and captured the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.
18:29 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Chernihiv, more than 200 civilians have been killed, Mayor Vladislav Atroshenko said.
18:14 In Kiev, the Honored Artist of Ukraine Oksana Shvets died as a result of rocket attacks, the Young Theater reported.
18:13 Kadyrov announced that he was sending another thousand fighters to Ukraine, led by his assistant Apty Alaudinov.
18:11 In the Kharkiv region, the Russians abducted the head of the Veliko Burluk community , Viktor Tereshchenko, directly from the workplace , said the head of the Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov.
18:09 As a result of the shelling by the invaders of Novye Petrivtsi near Kiev, a two-year-old child was killed, four people were injured, the National Police reported. A multi-storey building was damaged, neighboring residential buildings were damaged.
18:06 The Saeima of Latvia also demands the introduction of a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
18:05 Lukashenka allowed the Ministry of Finance under Western sanctions to "fulfill obligations on public debt in the national currency."
18:04 The Russians fired cluster bombs at the village of Cossack Lopan in the Kharkiv region, at least six people were killed, local residents reported.
18:01 The city council of Mariupol said that the situation in the city is critical. More than 350 thousand citizens continue to hide in shelters and cellars. On average, from 50 to 100 air bombs are dropped on the city per day.
17:58 Biden, during a virtual meeting with Irish Prime Minister Michol Martin, said that he considers the actions of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine "inhumane", and called on the West to show unity in this situation.
"We must be united - and we certainly are. The cruelty of Putin, his actions and what the Russian troops are doing in Ukraine is simply inhuman," Biden said.
17:53 In Kharkov, after the shelling of the invaders, the largest market in Eastern Europe, Barabashovo, is on fire.
17:36 Macron admitted the possibility of a military conflict in Europe: "Our forces are the only full-fledged army on the European continent. We need to increase investment in order to be ready for a possible high-intensity armed conflict that could begin on our continent."
17:34 The Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus announced the opening of a case against Arestovich for calling for "acts of terrorism and sabotage at the facilities of the Belarusian railway."
17:20 The Czech Republic has declared that it can no longer accept Ukrainian refugees.
17:17 Erdogan talked to Putin and told him that if a ceasefire is declared, it will be possible to come to a long-term solution to the situation in Ukraine. He also noted that top-level talks may be required to reach consensus on some issues, and reiterated his suggestion that Putin and Zelensky be hosted in Istanbul or Ankara.
17:11 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has suspended all ties with Belarus.
17:08 Rogozin, after the European Space Agency refused to cooperate with Roskosmos as part of the ExoMars mission, said that Russia would land on Mars itself in a few years.
16:55 Podolyak said that Russia "came to the first talks with many wishes, most of which are no longer being considered." According to him, recently the behavior of the Russians "drastically softened" - there is neither rudeness nor rudeness inherent in the Russian authorities.
Podolyak stressed that Ukraine's position regarding the occupied territories remains unshakable: the country's borders cannot be changed .
16:54 The head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry said that it is necessary to hold a war crimes tribunal for Russians not in Nuremberg or The Hague, but in Kharkov or Mariupol.
16:42 The head of the Luhansk regional administration, Sergei Gaidai, said that people were evacuated from Popasna, despite the fact that during the evacuation, the Russians opened fire on the bus. Now they are moving to the western regions of the country.
16:40 One of the key aspects of the peace agreement with Russia is an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territories of Ukraine. But strategically, Kyiv wants to get a specific mechanism that guarantees security in the future, Podolyak said in an interview with WP Wiadomości.
16:34 Podolyak says that the agreement on a peace treaty with Russia may take from several days to one and a half weeks.
16:33 As a result of today's shelling of Merefa near Kharkov, 21 people were killed, 25 were injured, ten of them are in serious condition, the regional prosecutor's office said.
16:29 The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Ankara is ready to hold a meeting between Zelensky and Putin. According to Minister Cavusoglu, Russia does not object to Ukraine's proposal to make Turkey one of the guarantors of security.
16:23 Belarusian television reported that the KGB of the Republic of Belarus prevented a terrorist attack in the Mozyr region, which was directed "against the Russian military and equipment."
16:10 Schwarzenegger addressed the Russians: "I know that your government says that this is a war for the denazification of Ukraine. Denazification of Ukraine? This is not true. Ukraine is a country with a president of Jewish origin. A president of Jewish origin, whose father, among other things, all three brothers were killed by the Nazis. Ukraine did not start this war. Those in power in the Kremlin started it."
16:09 Podolyak said that Zelensky's meeting with Putin could take place after the completion of work on the agreement, possibly "within the coming weeks."
16:00 Ukraine will receive from the United States the most modern type of weapons against tanks and armored vehicles, said Senator Michael McCole. We are talking about a light kamikaze drone Switchblade.
15:53 Aksyonov announced plans to build a new city in Crimea for 50,000 people. According to him, the city can be located on the western coast of Crimea in the Saki region or in the Simferopol region, near the village of Nikolaevka.
15:42 A group of former and current European politicians wants to nominate Zelensky for the Nobel Peace Prize. To do this, they turned to the Nobel Committee and asked to extend the deadline for nominating candidates until the end of March.
15:39 Two enemy missiles were shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region today, a Russian drone was shot down in the Kharkiv region, the Air Command of Skhid reported.
15:32 On March 18, "patriotic actions" will be held in Russia on the occasion of the annexation of Crimea and in support of the war in Ukraine. The central event will be a concert at Luzhniki, Putin's participation is not ruled out. State employees and students are forced to participate in rallies.
According to Russian opposition media, the organizers "recommend" avoiding yellow-and-blue clothing and attracting "only people of Slavic appearance" to the extras.
15:27 The International Committee of the Red Cross promised to intensify efforts to organize humanitarian corridors and facilitate the evacuation of civilians from Ukrainian cities. ICRC President Peter Maurer stated this at a meeting with the Ukrainian government team.
The Red Cross has already delivered 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and the organization's office in Kyiv has been opened on a permanent basis.
15:15 In the Kiev region, the streets of cities are littered with the corpses of civilians, said the head of the Main Directorate of the NP of the Kiev region, Andrei Nebitov. According to him, in the Buchansk region during the evacuation of people, the invaders fired at the evacuation columns with tanks. The Russian military rob civilians.
In Irpin, active hostilities continue, the enemy managed to equip his positions there. Enemy DRGs are also active there.
Nebitov also said that there was a partisan movement in the Kiev region.
15:12 According to the State Bureau of Investigation, since the beginning of March, together with border guards, 1,109 men aged 18 to 60 have been detained who were trying to illegally travel abroad.
15:10 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a column of two Russian regiments that were driving towards Kamenka. According to Zaluzhny, it was possible to destroy enemy equipment on March 16 near the city of Izyum, Kharkov region. The column consisted of the equipment of the new 437th training regiment, as well as the battalion tactical group of the 26th tank regiment of the 47th tank division.
15:06 Arestovich says that on average, one in four Russian missiles are shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces, one hits a target, another one hits civilian neighborhoods.
"Looking at the statistics of hits, we understand that the enemy bombed Sumy, Kharkov, Chernigov on purpose, knowing that the target was residential areas. As for Kyiv, this has not yet been observed. Most likely, in the case of the capital, this is a wrong tip. In the western part Ukraine, the enemy targeted residential areas," he explained.
15:05 Russia used 97 tactical groups in Ukraine, of which 15 were completely destroyed, another 18 lost their combat capability, Arestovich said.
15:00 Human Rights Watch called on Ukraine to stop publishing videos of Russian prisoners of war, as it "violates their rights and the rights of their loved ones."
14:55 The prosecutor's office opened proceedings against collaborators in Kherson, who on March 16 held an illegal meeting in the building of the regional council of the pseudo-authority "Committee of Salvation For Peace and Order" created by the occupiers. The composition of the fake body mainly included people who already have problems with the law.
At the meeting, the criminals convinced local residents that the Ukrainian authorities no longer rule the region, and called for support for the Russian occupation. Now they face imprisonment for up to 15 years or life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
14:51 Scholz, after Zelensky's speech in the Bundestag, said that Germany would continue to support Ukraine, but military intervention by NATO was ruled out.
14:35 In the center of Chernihiv, the invaders fired on civilians from heavy artillery. There are dead and wounded. Among the dead is a US citizen, the National Police said.
In addition, in Chernihiv, when dismantling structures, rescuers took out a family of five dead people - three children and their parents.
14:33 The State Ecological Inspectorate stated that the Russian invaders have already stolen Ukrainian water in the amount of almost 620 million hryvnias. The amount of damage for the unauthorized use of the water resources of the people of Ukraine is 32 million 628 thousand 960 hryvnia per day.
14:31 Peskov called traitors Russians who quit or leave the country because of the war in Ukraine. But by doing so, in his opinion, Russia is "cleansed."
14:30 The head of the financial committee of the Rada, Daniil Getmantsev, suggested that the government consider the possibility of seizing the property of a business that raises prices during the war.
14:26 Arestovich called on Ukrainians to arrange a "total rail war" against the enemy in the occupied territories. According to him, first of all it concerns the directions:
Crimea - Melitopol,
Crimea - Kherson,
Valuyki - Kupyansk,
Gomel - Kyiv (general direction).
and others you find.
"It is only necessary to strictly take into account that the communication routes are guarded by the enemy, so first soberly assess your strengths and capabilities," he stressed.
Arestovich explained that a disruption in the supply of the enemy by rail could radically change the situation in our favor, especially in the Crimea-Melitopol direction. In this direction, Russia supplies the group that is storming Mariupol.
14:11 Lukashenka threatened to "respond" to Ukraine if it "continues to escalate against Belarus and provoke."
He also expressed his conviction that hostilities in Ukraine will soon end, since Kyiv will either sign an agreement with Moscow, or "then you will have to sign an act of surrender."
14:09 Biden is holding talks tomorrow with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, during which he plans to discuss the situation in Ukraine and bilateral relations, the White House said.
14:07 In Russia, due to the depreciation of the ruble and the inability to buy foreign currency, the demand for precious metals has sharply increased, local media write. Queues for gold are already formed from five in the morning. There are only a few points in Moscow where you can buy precious metals. Earlier, the authorities abolished VAT on bullion.
14:02 The Russian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina said that if the country decides to be a member of any international union, this is its internal affair. "But our reaction is another matter. Using the example of Ukraine, we showed what we expect. If there is a threat, we will react," the ambassador stressed.
14:00 Putin said that under the new sanctions, large Russian business structures, including banks, can "calmly come to Crimea" , because now they have nothing to fear.
13:57 In Poland, due to a hacker attack, there was a large-scale stop of trains throughout the country. The authorities are sure that the Russian Federation is to blame for this. According to the publication cyfrowa, a total of 820 kilometers of the country's railway lines became defective.
13:53 Thanks to a long curfew in Kiev and the region, law enforcement officers managed to stabilize the situation and detain several Russian DRGs, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said.
13:50 Only 86 million hryvnias remain on the special account of the National Bank for the needs of the military, so the NBU is asking for support, the press service of the regulator said.
In total, the National Bank transferred almost 12 billion hryvnias for the needs of the military. Of these, about 3.6 billion hryvnia equivalent came from abroad in foreign currency.
13:47 Arestovich said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the command post of one of the armies of the Russian Federation - this could mean the death of several generals and a pause in the conduct of hostilities by the enemy.
13:39 Today, information was spread in the media that Russian ships were noticed near Odessa. The Odessa OVA stated that the maneuvering of the Russian ships is psychological pressure on the inhabitants of Odessa. According to the regional administration, preparations for the landing have not yet been noticed.
13:27 Poland will stop buying gas from Russia after the completion of the current contract for the purchase of gas through the Yamal gas pipeline, the government said. The contract ends in December 2022.
13:25 Mayor Oleshek of the Kherson region said that the Russians had already left the city. He announced their arrival this morning.
13:15 Citizens of Russia and Belarus from tomorrow will be able to move "within the borders of the Union State without restrictions," Mishustin said.
13:11 The world's largest food manufacturer Nestle refuses to leave the Russian market. Shmygal said that he had spoken with the head of the company, but the parties did not come to an understanding.
13:07 Ukraine has requested satellite images from Japan to determine the location of Russian troops, the Nikkei newspaper writes. Japanese satellites can take pictures at any time of the day and in any weather, and are also distinguished by high resolution. The decision to provide images to Ukraine should be taken by the Security Council of Japan.
13:06 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova called the shelling of Ukrainian cities with heavy artillery, aircraft and cruise missiles "staging NATO fakes."
Podolyak replied to this statement: "It's simple: multimillion-dollar lawsuits and compensations to the families of the dead, terms for war crimes - and Zakharova will believe the truth."
13:03 In almost all directions, the enemy is trying to resume the offensive or regain the lost lines, but to no avail, the General Staff says. The occupiers had partial success in the area of Rubizhne, where they consolidated on the northern outskirts of the city and moved towards its southern part, and also continued the assault on Mariupol.
12:53 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has promised to provide Russia with 40,000 fighters for the war in Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported. According to the military intelligence of Ukraine, in the near future, it is planned to move weapons, military equipment and other resources from Syria to Russia and Belarus to support the Russian troops.
12:51 Great Britain will deploy the Sky Saber air defense system and 100 military personnel in Poland, the head of the Ministry of Defense said.
12:50 Russian invaders are reinforcing the grouping with additional units of the 1st Tank Army and coastal units of the Baltic Fleet, the General Staff reports.
12:44 Syrian mercenaries consider participation in the war on the side of Russia as a chance for desertion and illegal migration to the EU, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense said.
12:38 Arestovich said that everything that Ukraine agrees with Russia should be better than before the war, "otherwise, why were there victims of the Ukrainian people then?"
He stressed that "we will never give up our national interests," and also recalled that the president had repeatedly stated: Ukraine should be recognized within the international borders as of 1991.
12:34 In Spain, the 135-meter Crescent yacht worth about $600 million, which is associated with the head of Rosneft Sechin, has been detained, Reuters reports.
12:29 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that "the future of Crimea is forever with Russia," and "no sanctions or threats will change this."
12:22 In Kharkiv, on the night of March 17, the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God on Kholodnaya Gora was shelled. Church utensils were damaged, there were no injured or dead, reported in the Kharkiv diocese of the UOC.
12:20 The state news agency Re-inform has been created in Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers has already approved the budget financing of the relevant state-owned enterprise.
12:19 Reznikov said at an extraordinary meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of defense ministers that Russia's goal is to destroy Ukraine. And by fighting with our country, the enemy is fighting against the whole world, "against humanism, international law, peace and freedom."
12:15 Russia refused to fulfill the requirement of the UN International Criminal Court to stop the war in Ukraine.
"No, we cannot take this decision into account. The International Court of Justice has such a thing as the consent of the parties. There can be no consent here," Peskov said.
12:13 The Ministry of Commerce of China said that the country will continue "normal economic and trade cooperation with Russia and Ukraine based on the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit."
12:12 Russia announced that it paid off its foreign debts and avoided default.
11:52 Podolyak on the tactics of the Russian Federation: "Viscous positional battles on the front lines. Local boilers for civilians. Targeted strikes on objects to shelter civilians. Delaying decisions on humanitarian corridors. Active attempts to destabilize public opinion in our country, provoke internal conflicts."
11:50 Russian troops have entered the city of Oleshki, Kherson region, and are going to settle in the city, Mayor Yevgeny Ryshchuk said: "We don't know their position. We were told: maintain order, as they did, we will have nothing to do with you now."
11:41 The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China opposed US sanctions against the Russian Federation, as they "destabilize the world market." China also intends to protect the interests of its enterprises, the agency said.
11:36 Denisenko says that during the 21 days of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down about a third of the planes that are in Russia. Earlier, the General Staff reported that the number of downed aircraft reached 86, helicopters - more than 100.
11:32 Zelensky spoke in the German Bundestag and called on Scholz to take a leadership role and help stop the Russian invasion. The president reproached the chancellor for the fact that countries across the ocean were closer than Germany.
"Why did the states across the ocean turn out to be closer to us than you? Because this is a wall that someone does not notice, but which we fight against while we are fighting to save our people. Chancellor Scholz, destroy this wall, give Germany well-deserved leadership, support us, stop the war, help us stop it," Zelensky said.
11:16 British intelligence notes that the Russian invasion of Ukraine "significantly stalled on all fronts", writes Sky News. Russian troops have made "minimal progress" on land, at sea and in the air in recent days and "continue to suffer heavy losses."
11:03 The Seimas of Lithuania unanimously supported the resolution to close the skies over Ukraine.
10:58 As of the morning of March 17, as a result of the military invasion of Russia, 108 children were killed and more than 120 were injured, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
10:40 Russia will not be able to return to the global financial system until 2037, analysts at The Wall Street Journal say. To do this, the Russian Federation will first have to pay off creditors, and in addition to direct debt, we will talk about debt to Ukraine.
10:33 The General Staff announced the estimated combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 17:
personnel - about 14,000,
tanks - 444,
armored combat vehicles - 1435,
artillery systems - 201,
MLRS - 72,
air defense systems - 43,
aircraft - 86,
helicopters - 108,
automotive equipment - 864,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 11,
special equipment - 10.
10:31 The Cabinet of Ministers allowed the circulation of fuel of the environmental standard Euro-3 and Euro-4, and also simplified the passage of customs procedures for the supply of petroleum products, the Ministry of Energy reported.
10:26 Volga-Dnepr, the largest cargo carrier in Russia, completely stopped flights. His planes are blocked due to sanctions, writes Kommersant. European regulators have banned flights by British and German airlines owned by the group's founder Alexei Isaikin. Experts say that the market for transportation from Asia to Europe is lost for Russian companies for such a period that the business may not survive.
10:25 Taruta said that the bomb shelter in the Mariupol Drama Theater survived, in the morning they managed to start dismantling the rubble, people come out alive.
10:22 Mariupol is destroyed by 80-90%, said Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov. According to him, not a single building was left without damage. It will be impossible to launch industrial enterprises in the city. Including the complete destruction of the Azovstal plant.
10:20 In Russia, state employees are massively herded to rallies in support of Putin and the war, local media write.
10:19 At night, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down two Russian aircraft over the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Air Command of Skhid reported.
10:14 More than 100 saboteurs have already been detained in Kiev, the head of the Kiev military administration said.
10:11 Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korneychuk said that tonight "again" 12 families (women and children) were kept all night at Ben Gurion Airport, and in the morning they were deported to Poland.
10:09 Uzbekistan opposes Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said. He also stressed that Uzbekistan has not recognized and is not going to recognize the LDNR.
10:04 In Mariupol, residents who are trying to evacuate receive messages demanding to follow to the occupied territories. The occupiers directly threaten: "If you go to Zaporozhye, the same thing will happen there, you will be bombed," MP Goncharenko said.
09:56 A National Information Bureau has been created in Ukraine, which will deal with the issues of prisoners. The department was established in accordance with the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949, Vereshchuk said.
09:33 As of March 17, nine routes of humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
Donetsk region: buses will depart from Zaporozhye to Berdyansk to pick up people from Mariupol to Zaporozhye. A tank truck with fuel for refueling private cars will also be sent.
Kyiv region: Borodyanka - Zhitomir, Shevchenkovo - Brovary. It is planned to send humanitarian cargoes with food and medicines to Gostomel, Bucha, Semipolki, Markintsy, Opanasov.
Kharkov region: it is planned to deliver humanitarian aid from Kharkov to Volchansk.
09:29 Bodies of 53 dead as a result of shelling were received in the morgues of Chernihiv during the day, Governor Chaus said.
09:28 Moldovan President Maia Sandu called on the Russian Federation to withdraw troops from Pridnestrovie.
09:04 Great Britain, Albania, France, Ireland, Norway and the United States requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine. The meeting is to take place today at 21:00 Kyiv time.
09:03 According to WHO, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 43 targeted attacks have been carried out on hospitals and medical workers. The WHO emphasized that never anywhere in the world have seen such a number of attacks on the healthcare system as now in Ukraine.
09:01 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Russia only "pretends that it is negotiating," while itself participating in "a dramatic process of prolonged cruelty." He also stressed that "we do not negotiate with a gun to the head."
According to the French minister, the talks now should be focused primarily on a ceasefire - then both sides will be able to make informed decisions.
08:59 According to the UN, more than three million Ukrainians left the country during the Russian invasion.
08:37 Ukraine is now "paying" for the fact that the West did not understand the threat posed by Putin for many years, Johnson said.
08:20 Reznikov said that in Russia the funerals of the soldiers who died in Ukraine were held in more than 200 settlements. According to him, the Russian authorities are no longer able to hide the "crushing losses" of the units of the Russian Airborne Forces.
08:19 Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan sent the Russian Federation an official request for a meeting and discussion of the situation in Ukraine.
08:18 The Russians shelled Rubizhne all night, damaged at least 27 houses, said the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the invaders also shelled Popasnaya and Severodonetsk.
08:15 The United States has created an international group to search for and arrest the assets of the Russian elite in the West. The group included representatives from the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the European Commission.
08:14 According to US intelligence estimates, Russian troops have lost more than seven thousand soldiers during the war in Ukraine, writes NYT. The Pentagon notes that even a 10 percent casualty rate, taking into account the dead and wounded, makes individual military units incompetent.
08:13 China will never attack Ukraine, said PRC Ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong.
08:12 The occupying troops have big problems with the recruitment of combat units and support units, the General Staff reports.
08:09 The Chinese Ambassador to the United States said that China "does not benefit" Russia's war in Ukraine. He also called "pure disinformation" the claim that Beijing knew about this war, agreed with it or gave tacit consent to it.
08:07 Since February 24, the Russian military has hit three Panamanian-flagged ships in the Black Sea with missiles, Reuters writes. One ship sank, the other two remain afloat, but they are damaged.
07:40 There are no more “safe” places left in Ukraine where you can wait out the Russian invasion, said Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky.
"We will no longer name the areas where shelling did not take place or where there were no representatives of sabotage groups. Unfortunately, this phenomenon has already become common for us," he said.
07:33 In Merefa near Kharkiv, a school was hit tonight, a cultural center was also destroyed, the head of the local community, Veniamin Sitov, said. There are no casualties among civilians, several soldiers were injured.
07:19 Russian media writes that in Kherson, the occupiers have created a new "authority" - "Committee of Salvation for Peace and Order." It included the owner of the Tavria News website, Kirill Stremousov, and a local anti-Maidan activist, against whom criminal cases were initiated in Ukraine.
07:00 In the Darnitsky district of Kiev, fragments of a downed Russian missile hit a multi-storey building, there is a dead person. According to the State Emergency Service, an apartment on the 16th floor caught fire.
06:06 Canada has closed its skies for Belarusian aircraft.
05:10 The King and Queen of Belgium announced that they would accommodate three families of Ukrainian refugees in the premises belonging to the royal charitable foundation.
04:44 Russia has run out of precision-guided munitions for air strikes, so the occupiers have begun to resort to older and less accurate means of destruction, British intelligence reported.
#1
Rumors only that started coming out two hours ago F15s piloted by US pilots to patrol Ukraine airspace in the Donbas region. Not sure of this but historically MIG have never been able to shoot down an F-15 which supposedly was designed to clear airspace of MIGs.
24-48 hour rule applies to this chatter which says the F-15 patrols will be based out of Poland.
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Source of above chatter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TykUX0Gqjsc
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Certainly hope it isn't true. The longer-term political downside of a US pilot being shot down and captured is unfathomable.
#4
Link doesn't work ...smells like BS
US pilots in a Russian battle space means a declaration of war on Russia, which means we're going to be hit with Russian hypersonic missiles here in the US.
Not happening
[NYPOST] A Russian model who called Vladimir Putin a "psychopath" has been found dead and stuffed inside a suitcase, a report says.
Gretta Vedler, 23, went missing a year ago after her anti-Putin social media rant, but the two events do not appear to be connected.
"Vedler’s ex-boyfriend Dmitry Korovin, 23, has now confessed to strangling her to death before driving her 300 miles to the Lipetsk region and abandoning the body in the boot of a car.." the Daily Star reports.
Korovin told authorities that he slept in a hotel room for three nights with her dead body, which was stuffed in a newly bought suitcase. The man then left her body in the trunk for a year but kept posting to her social media pages to make it look like she was still alive.
In January 2021 Vedler had raised concerns over Putin’s crackdown on protests and desire to enhance the integrity of Russia
#5
I know the business of Khashogging troublemakers. Yupp, nicely done. While others will just see a pretty face and sweet bod wasted by bad bad bald man, I see a precise and methodical bastard at work.
C'mon, guys. How many of you wanna see the same thing happen to the Don Lemons and Chrissy Teigens?
A glamorous Hollywood scholar,
It studies the face on the dollar.
The look of surprise
In its eyes as it dies,
Getting smaller and smaller and smaller!
[Brietbart] Just as soaring inflation has lifted gas prices at the pump under President Joe Biden, now its hitting domestic travel. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian warned Thursday the airlines’ U.S. ticket prices could increase between five and 10 percent in coming weeks as oil costs continue to climb.
The leap in fuel costs for a U.S. domestic flight "is probably about $25 on a ticket, that could be anywhere between 5% to 10% at these high levels of oil ... and international [flights] will be a bit higher than that," Bastian told the BBC in an interview Thursday.
In addition to raising the price of U.S. tickets, Delta is planning to implement an added fuel fee for international flights.
Other airlines, such as AirAsia, Emirates and Japan Airlines have also taken similar steps by adding fuel surcharges, according to the BBC report.
The news comes as oil prices show little if any path downwards in the immediate future and the American public holds slim hopes for change under the current administration.
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I would have thought more. Cost centers are labor, fuel, & debt service, at grossly 1/3 each. Double fuel cost bumps the price 15%, then add the secondary bumps as labor demands rise, and as the interest rates get raised. I bet it comes to 25% increase.
#2
There's a ton of price competition in aviation. Airlines can't just pass on every higher input cost to their customers without losing market share to EasyJet and other cheapo carriers
#3
Packed like cordwood, treated like crap seated next to annoying/uncouth strangers by random chance, and forced to endure hours of senseless displays of government tyranny and corporate cost cutting and indifferent customer service, now even more expensive, What's not to like?
#4
/\ And that's the pre-boarding gate atmosphere.
"Excuse me, but that guy next to you.... yes, the one who was laying on the floor eating spaghetti; He just pushed a paper plate and napkin into your carry-on side pocket. Just thought you should know."
[FinanceYahoo] Russia has transferred U.S. dollars to settle coupon payments due Wednesday on two Eurobonds, according to people familiar with the matter.
The people declined to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly on the issue. A Treasury spokeswoman said U.S. sanctions on Russia don’t prohibit Russia from making these debt payments, mirroring a similar statement from Wednesday.
Russia’s Finance Ministry said earlier on Friday the $117 million payment on the dollar bonds is with Citigroup Inc., and that the nation has fulfilled its obligations to investors. JPMorgan Chase & Co. processed the funds, serving as the correspondent bank Russia used to send the payment to Citigroup, Bloomberg News reported. There are still several steps to go before investors get their cash, and as of 11:00 a.m. in London, five bondholders in Europe say they haven’t received the coupon payments.
The wider market interest in the fact that the transfer was in dollars, and Citigroup has the cash, exemplifies just how complicated Russia’s relationship has become with global investor. In the weeks since it invaded Ukraine, the energy-rich nation has become the world’s most sanctioned and saw its credit grade sink well into junk on expectations of a default -- if not on the coupons due this week, then possibly later. A spokesperson for Citigroup declined to comment earlier on Friday.
“I can’t remember a time when there has been more uncertainty over a sovereign -- the Argentina default back in 2001 was messy but predictable,” said Gary Kirk, a portfolio manager at TwentyFour Asset Management. “This is far more difficult due to the global sanctions.”
Minister Anton Siluanov was cited by RIA Novosti as saying this week that the nation would try to settle the payment in dollars, but if that fails, they’ll use rubles instead. Russia has a 30-day grace period to meet the payment obligations starting Thursday.
Some investors are optimistic that bondholders will be paid in dollars. Russian credit swaps on Friday imply a 48% chance of default within a year, according to CMAI data, down from 60% Thursday morning. And its bonds due 2023 and 2043 -- which had two coupons due this week -- are holding gains that helped boost their price by more than 100% this week. Both are still trading at deeply distressed levels -- at around half their par value.
Russia's hard-currency sovereign bonds mostly traded well above par until mid-February, as investors shrugged off Moscow's troop build-up on Ukraine's border and U.S. warnings that an invasion was imminent. The decline since has been rapid, with longer-dated issues now indicated at around 20 cents in the dollar, although trading has all but ground to a halt.
#1
So.. does that mean that in the USA we should consider Indians at high positions in the US business and government to be potential 5th column? Evena mainly Indian 2nd gen out of Jamaica US VP?
#2
Bank Account Raids Without Borders, then the nuking of Russia's Transaction Economy, actual live casualties be damned, was bound to have side effects. Idjits. But hey, super cool high fives on Tiktok pouring out Russian Dressing.
#3
3dc: our government talks out of all four sides of their mouths on both their faces. They work for decades at a time on deindustrialization and then turn around and expect sanctions to matter after giving Vlad 30 billion a month _net profits_ for being the only guy allowed to make money in the awl industry.
#4
Sanctions - just another way for bad people to make money.
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#5
The best comment was on Instapundit two days ago: "I feel very emotional about this; so we should take drastic action without considering any of the consequences."
All the financial and economic histrionics and actions against Russia were bound to make other countries think twice about trusting the international systems and institutions that had been built up painstakingly over the past few decades. Why wouldn't China, India, and many others think that they don't want to be held hostage to the latest fashionable hysteria in Washington, DC?
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#6
Stealing property and freezing assets from a nation that's not at war with you: there's a great way to make every country think twice about ever trusting your legal and banking system again
#7
So.. does that mean that in the USA we should consider Indians at high positions in the US business and government to be potential 5th column?
Potential? Allowing large numbers of Indians into this country was a mistake. Putting them in high managerial positions in major corporations was an even bigger mistake. I've worked with and around Indians since the late 80's Only about 5% are really competent.
And here is a fact that cannot be disputed. An Indian in managerial position will only hire Indians in this order: family, village, cast, gotra/sub-gotra, nationality.
I can say this because I'm a white man married to an Indian for 20 years, been to India 30 times in that span. My father in and some my male cousins in law sat me down and explained in detail about India and Indians. Pops was a retired Indian Air Force Wing Commander from the Medical Corp.
#9
Totally cynical people. They're happy to side with Putin, like they took the side of the Soviets. But then, they're no different in this regard from most nations outside the self-righteous West
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You’ve mentioned it before, Fat Bob Thereter1848. I think in terms of Kamala Harris’s presidential run.
BLUF: Up a quarter of a point from zero, possibly to 1.75% by the end of the year — calendar or fiscal is not clarified. Inflation forecast up, growth forecast down.
[AlAhram] The Federal Reserve escalated its battle against the wave of prices increases battering the US economy on Wednesday by raising the benchmark interest even as it acknowledged the risk posed by the war in Ukraine.
At the conclusion of its two-day meeting, the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a quarter-point rate hike, the first since 2018 and since it cut the rate to zero at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The central bank is walking a tightrope to ensure its efforts don't derail the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic even as Russia's invasion of Ukraine introduces new uncertainty in an economy battered by supply chain snarls and labor shortages.
In a statement, the FOMC said the fallout from the war in Ukraine is "likely to create additional upward pressure on inflation" and also could "weigh on economic activity," although the "implications for the US economy are highly uncertain."
Pointing to "elevated" inflation due to "supply and demand imbalances related to the pandemic, higher energy prices, and broader price pressures," the statement said that "ongoing increases" in the policy rate will be "appropriate."
While the rate cut in March 2020 was meant to support the economy as Covid-19 caused massive disruptions to businesses, the United States over the past year has been hit by high inflation, with prices for gasoline, food, cars, and rents pushing the overall consumer price index to a four-decade high.
Markets are expecting as many as seven rate hikes this year, which would take the policy rate to 1.75 percent, assuming the central bank increases by a quarter-point at each meeting.
DISSENTING VOTE
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said policymakers will do whatever it takes to keep inflation from becoming entrenched, including larger rate hikes.
One member of the committee, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, dissented from the vote, arguing for a more aggressive half-point increase as the first step in the tightening cycle.
The FOMC also released its quarterly economic projections, showing members of the committee raised their median inflation forecast for the year to 4.3 percent from 2.6 percent previously, and slashed the growth estimate to 2.8 percent from 4.0 percent.
Members were split on how high rates would go, with nine still expecting the level to be below two percent at the end of the year, and seven looking for a higher rate.
The last time the Fed raised interest rates was in December 2018.
US stocks opened the day with solid gains, but retreated after the announcement, although they stayed in positive territory.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was up less than 0.2 percent around 1820 GMT.
#1
I propose a new currency backed by rolls of quality toilet paper. This will reduce the need to exchange the new currency for the old.
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So the Fed has raised rates all the way to a range of 1/4 of 1% to 1/2 of 1%. Boy howdy, THAT will show we're serious about inflation.
And their forecast of inflation of 4.3% would fail any question on an Econ 101 test. They might want to look at BLS releases on what the actual rate is (Spoiler alert: Currently 7.9% and going higher.)
Posted by: Tom ||
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"I don't understand. Can some kind soul explain?"
1. Impose sanctions, create war hysteria and use media shills to tell the world Russia's about to fall off a cliff. Watch the credit default spread (=perceived risk of default) soar.
2. Verify that Russia has plenty of cash to meet its debt obligations and fund the war.
#9
The Russian CDS price is the default risk and it fell overnight from 14000 to 6000 basis points. That means a once in a lifetime profit for someone, probably the Koch Brothers trading arm. The Kochs are still doing business with Russia
#10
I'd bet on Soros (tho agree the Kichs probably made a bundle as well). Soros specializes in arbitraging the state. Plus he's got the best inside information
#11
Arbitrage used to be an easy manual market ploy, but electronic trading and near instantaneous spreads have made it impossible for anyone but institutions to employ. But, if you can move entire world news reporting and build massive expectations on either side of the financial instrument being traded, and you can avoid the regulatory oversight enforcement, then you can make obscene profits. Soros and the Kremlin seems likely winners. A lot of lesser players got ruined is my guess.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults.
The request is broader than rival pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s request earlier this week for the regulator to approve a booster shot for all seniors.
In a press release, the company said its request for approval for all adults was made "to provide flexibility" to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and medical providers to determine the "appropriate use" of a second booster dose of the mRNA vaccine, "including for those at higher risk of COVID-19 due to age or comorbidities."
US officials have been laying the groundwork to deliver additional booster doses to shore up the vaccines’ protection against serious disease and death from COVID-19. The White House has been sounding the alarm that it needs Congress to "urgently" approve more funding for the federal government to secure more doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, either for additional booster shots or variant-specific immunizations.
#3
We need to stop calling the shot a 'vaccine'. It isn't. It doesn't act like a vaccine and I don't think there is a vaccine out there which requires 4+ injections.
#7
Judging by the image you could fake this with a TV monitor in front of you and an iphone taking pictures behind you. Just add mirrors to the tv frame and its basically the same thing.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NYPOST] A Russian model who called 
[Brietbart] Just as soaring inflation has lifted gas prices at the pump under President Joe Biden, now its hitting domestic travel. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian warned Thursday the airlines’ U.S. ticket prices could increase between five and 10 percent in coming weeks as oil costs continue to climb.
