An Oregon middle school teacher & #CRT advocate is under criminal investigation after allegedly sending a nude selfie to a student. Dean Wright used Ibram X. Kendi's material in the classroom & was vocal in opposition to Florida's parent rights bill. #BLMhttps://t.co/6Gh1QOxZRG
The hate crime hoax at Rosemont High School (@officialSCUSD) in Sacramento, CA mirrors another #HateHoax from earlier this month at Our Lady of Mercy HS (@OLM_HS) in Rochester, NY. There, a black girl wrote a threatening racist message using the N-word.https://t.co/SWnDgl301H
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If wasn't for fake hate crimes, there would hardly be any at all.
Posted by: Too Old To Work ||
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These Racial Conflict promoters should be charged and convicted to the fullest extent of the law. Given the hate, they generate too many times gets physically expressed on innocent persons, by hood-winked readers and believers.
BTW: It happens so much, there is even a Fake Hate Crimes Web Site now. It tracks the 100's of documented Fake Hate Crimes. Note, it takes a few seconds to load due to the amount of data.
[NYPOST] A career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet, including slugging a 76-year-old man in January, is charged with shooting a tourist for his pricey watch outside a four-star Midtown hotel, police told The Post Wednesday.Nathaniel Owens, 35, who is also on parole for a 2012 weapons rap, was hit with attempted murder charges in the March 18 attack outside the Fifty Hotel & Suites by Affinia in Midtown, the NYPD said.
He was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held without bail.
Prosecutors said Owens attacked tourist Pierrick Jamaux, 33, who was visiting from Hong Kong, and shot him multiple times in the legs and groin to get at his $100,000 Richard Mille timepiece.
Jamaux frequently flashed the ritzy watch on social media.
The cryptocurrency expert later told The Post that he had "absolutely no clue who did this" — only that it was "to steal my watch."
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Yeah, it must have been tough trying to remove this watch from the victim's wrist.
[NYPOST] The father and son duo hailed as heroes for fighting off a pack of goons robbing an elderly woman near their Queens pizza shop said Wednesday the city’s crime scourge has forced them to take public safety into their own hands.
"People have to protect themselves, because the government is not doing it," Cazim Suljovic, 68, told The Post from his bed at Elmhurst Hospital, where he’s recovering from a punctured lung and nine stab wounds.
"There is no law. This is why the people do it. You can stand outside your own door, with many people in the street, and you’re still not safe."
On Saturday evening, Cazim and his son Louie, a 38-year-old military veteran,
...sheepdogs protecting, whether or not they’re wearing the uniform — heroes, both...
were toiling at their Elmhurst pizzeria, Louie’s, when the father spotted a 61-year-old woman being robbed outside of their restaurant.
Robert Whack, 30, his brother-in-law Supreme Gooding, 18, and a third, un-apprehended suspect had allegedly stolen the Korean woman’s purse and stabbed her in the back, prosecutors said.
"I see a lady on the floor and three people around her. I say, ’What are they doing?’ They’re robbing her," Cazim recounted, calling the perpetrators "f—kng bastards" and "animals."
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Disney is at $139.12 today, down 11% since January 1 and 25% over the past twelve months, but still highish for the past five years and higher than the dip earlier in March.
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50? Rookie numbers. Go 95% and, how do they say on Madison Avenue, flip the script. Make the straight characters the 5% and the kookie ones, the Prince Johns and Ursulas.
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@JoshDaws explains what's going on in this Twitter thread
"The left doesn't want to diddle kids. They want to create little revolutionaries. To do that they need to sever the bond between students and the parents they believe are raising their children to be hateful bigots."
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^Josh had better wake up to the power of "and" because hell yes, they absolutely want to diddle.
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Puts on Al Chapeau.
By releasing puppies at various levels of trauma and raising them into adulthood, the puppy torture lab was to determine what levels of psychological abuse are necessary to break the puppy into total submission to its both torturer and rescuer.
SCOOP: I've obtained video from inside Disney's all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive producer Latoya Raveneau says her team has implemented a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and is regularly "adding queerness" to children's programming. pic.twitter.com/eJnZMpKIXT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
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Simply evil. The author of this article says it well-- "evil laid bare."
When you have executives of the most powerful entity with access to the imaginations of children on planet Earth openly admitting, even bragging, about their work propagandizing and indoctrinating children into queerness and gender ideology, the evil is laid bare.
Nobody has an excuse now not to know this. You moms and dads who let your kids watch the Disney Channel, and consume Disney products — what are you going to do? Look away? Don’t you dare look away. The responsibility is now yours. What are you going to do about it?
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Precisely. Disney executives want to replace the parents with their own degraded moral influence over children. This is what their revolution is all about.
#8
Maybe Disney should just rebrand itself as an ADULT Theme Park and do a make-over. Because it seems it has come to the point where they can't be trusted with kids anymore it seems.
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Kids are already under pressure to drink the woke kool-ade or be ostracized. Peer pressure goes from being a bad thing to a good thing just like that.
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SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, "as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child," she supports having "many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories" and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities.
#13
...watch them run like cockroaches when the copyright protection is returned to the original 14 years with another 14 for the original artist. It was never intended to go for the length they got it extended.
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^ That would do it. For that reason, it won't happen.
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Marvel CU is useless too. They had a dwarf of an islamophile Punisher, fags and retards in the X-Men [the exception of Magneto], a Shang Chi which deliberately casted a Jinping lookalike [ugh], and all they make now is slim, sexy girlies acting all super and beating up giants.
After watching The Boys you'll never go back to watching this shit. Blackburn, Chronicle... now that was realistic.
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I've thought for a while a word balloon sticker that says "Want some candy little girl (or boy)?" that could be put next to the Micky Mouse season pass stickers on cars here in Florida would be a fun project.
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"I'm uhhhhh.. oh, yeah. I'm Jill Biden, I mean JOE Biden, and I approve this message"
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I want Elsa to be openly gay, and to hammer the Hunter Biden character with a 12-inch strap-on while he smokes crack in a prone position wearing a British schoolboy uniform.
But none of that tentacles shit. I'm a Christian, I am. I draw the line
[Washington Examiner] President Joe Biden will receive his second COVID-19 booster shot, days after the extra Pfizer and Moderna doses were approved by federal public health officials for people ages 50 and older.
Biden will roll up his sleeve after remarks Wednesday afternoon, in which he is expected to urge Congress to appropriate more emergency pandemic funding and unveil a website to be a one-stop shop for coronavirus information, according to a White House official.
"The shot will be administered by a member of the White House Medical Unit," the official said.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the decision regarding the second boosters for the age group, as well as younger immunocompromised people, without consulting their independent vaccine advisory committees. These people are eligible for the shots four months after their last doses.
The move raised questions given Biden's insistence he would "follow the science," but it also coincides with concerns that the BA.2 omicron variant will result in another wave in the coming weeks.
The new website, COVID.gov, combines Vaccines.gov and COVIDTests.gov. It also provides information about masks and, for the first time, treatments in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
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Imagine for a few seconds.
JB actually does get the same Public issued Booster as the rest of Voter America. He develops a life-taking Clot. K Harris becomes President and N Pelosi VP.
So I am wishing JB a safe booster experience.
Like the old saying slightly adjusted
"better the devil idiot you know..."
US Serious/Critical 2,140, down from 25k in mid-January.
Cases in the last 28 days - the US has less than a million. S Korea had 9.4 M, Germany and Vietnam about 6 M, France and the UK about 2 M.
Italy, Japan, Australia, Russia, Brazil and Austria had 1-2 M.
The US was at the top of that list, every day, for almost two years.
But the US is still firing people who don't get the shot. Why aren't the DC Dopes taking the credit for crushing COVID? Stop the mask requirement on airplanes and declare victory! Too soon before the mid-terms?
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Tapioca does not clot. It curdles or gets moldy.
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[NYPost] Wall Street banks and hedge funds including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are scooping up Russian corporate and government bonds at rock-bottom prices in the hopes of turning a massive post-war profit, according to reports.
The risky investments come as other finance giants who specialize in snapping up distressed debt have stayed on the sidelines, noting that Russia has been sanctioned and ostracized from the Western economy because of its brutal military invasion of Ukraine.
The sanctions, which do not prohibit Western financial entities from trading in Russian bonds, have reduced demand for Russian corporate and government debt while creating irresistibly high yields.
Either they’ll make a killing or lose their shirts. In the meantime, they’re making a market for those who otherwise would be unable to sell.
So failing recruiting gives positive performance?
[Breitbart] The Army this week admitted it was having problems recruiting and announced an unprecedented reduction in its numbers that would shrink the active duty Army to its smallest size since World War II.
“We’re facing, obviously, some challenging conditions in terms of our ability to recruit and attract talent,” Under Secretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo said at a press conference on Monday.
Camarillo blamed a “very tight labor market” for the Army’s recruiting woes.
“What we’re just seeing is given the particular conditions of a very tight labor market, our ability to meet all of our projected recruiting goals were a little bit challenged in FY ’22 and FY ’23,” he said.
Camarillo said the Army’s end strength, or total number of forces, would go from 485,000 soldiers currently to 476,000 in fiscal year 2022, which ends in September, and further down to 473,000 in fiscal year 2023.
He said the Army decided on reducing its recruitment goals instead of lowering standards.
“We made the assessment that we would not want to adjust our specific criteria for quality,” he said. “And so, we made the decision to just temporarily reduce end strength, as opposed to lowering our standards.”
He added that the Army hoped to build back its numbers over the next five years.
“We don’t anticipate that it is a lasting change,” Camarillo said. “It is something that we hope to bring back up over the course of the fight up. And it’s something that we certainly think is reflective of what we hope to be transient conditions in the labor market.”
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense, called the situation unprecedented.
“The Army has not faced such recruiting headwinds in the last 30 years. I am unaware of a situation where the Army has cut its end strength in response to a negative recruiting outlook,” he said.
Spoehr also attributed the decision to the Biden Administration keeping the Army budget below inflation.
“If the Biden administration was not holding the Army’s budget below the level of inflation, I am not sure they would have had to resort to cutting their end strength,” he said.
The reduction would bring the Army to its smallest since 1940, according to Military Times.
Spoehr said the Army’s decision would make units less capable:
The Army has said that rather than reduce the number of units, they will instead man units at a lower level. So, the Army’s companies and battalions, rather than being manned at say 95-100%, with this end strength cut, the Army may only be able to fill them to a 90% level. That means less capable units.
The recruiting difficulties come as the Army has begun discharging soldiers not complying with the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate. More than 4,000 requested a religious exemption, but only two were granted, according to recent Army statistics. An additional 2,735 soldiers have refused.
The difficulties are also despite the Army last year launching animated recruitment advertisements that highlighted women, minorities, immigrants, and the LGBT community, as previously reported by Breitbart News.
Spoehr called the Army’s recruiting difficulties “a perfect storm, all hitting in 2022.”
First, he said fewer and fewer individuals even qualify to enlist. He said:
The biggest disqualifying factors are obesity, fitness and mental health issues. This should not come as a surprise. Obesity in America, including among youth, continues to increase. More and more youth are being treated for mental health issues and being prescribed psychotropic drugs for treatment. Current numbers coming out of the Pentagon are that the percentage of individuals qualified to enlist without a waiver has dropped from 29% in 2016 to less than 25% in 2022.
Second, he said fewer and fewer individuals are interested in joining the military, also in part thanks to the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal:
There are economic reasons for this, many companies are now offering more generous compensation packages that include college tuition to graduating high school seniors. There are lots of jobs available now. And over time American society has placed less and less value on the idea of public service. The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has also caused some to question our military and their competence.
Finally, he cited the perception that the military is becoming “woke.”
“There is a sense among the American public that the military is becoming increasingly political and that topics such as race and gender equity, critical race theory, and wokeism in general are commanding more attention, at the cost of readiness,” he said.
Public polls have backed up that assessment. Earlier this year, a Gallup poll showed that the public view of military leaders has dropped, and a Ronald Reagan Institute poll last year showed that high confidence in the military has dropped.
Spoehr added: “I should note that it is my assessment that for the first time ever, it may turn out that none of the military services will make their recruiting goals for 2022. The Air Force in particular is sounding the alarm.”
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"There is a sense among the American public that the military is becoming increasingly political and that topics such as race and gender equity, critical race theory, and wokeism in general are commanding more attention, at the cost of readiness,” he said.
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Who wouldn't want to serve under CiC Biden, Lloyd Austin and "White Rage" Milley?
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Who wouldn't want to serve under CiC Biden, Lloyd Austin and "White Rage" Milley?
.. and to be left in the lurch in Afghanistan, or be called up to fight a nuclear war over another pointless shithole country that doesn't concern us at all
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“We don’t anticipate that it is a lasting change,” Camarillo said. “It is something that we hope to bring back up over the course of the fight up. And it’s something that we certainly think is reflective of what we hope to be transient conditions in the labor market.”
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Take a look at the DoD Office of Diversity Issue Paper on Propensity to Serve if you want to see it broken down with a Diversity and Gender Focus.
YJCMTSU!
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...What's interesting to this former recruiter (USAF, 89-93) is that they cut the numbers.
USAF Recruiting Service was flatly homicidal when it came to the numbers, and the other services were worse. You NEVER cut the numbers - drive the recruiters to drink, divorce, career destruction, breakdown and suicide, but you NEVER cut the numbers.
Something ain't right here. I just can't figure out what it is.
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they want to weaken the military Mike, most people I know who were in/active don't want to deal with the bullshit of wokeism or the vax. Just another part of the lefts agenda to weaken us as a nation.
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Same reason there are 5 million more unfilled jobs than unemployed people in the US today. If you don't feel a need to be a clerk at Dollar General because Uncle Sugar will pay you to stay home, why would you sign up for a hitch in any branch of the armed services?
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If they have to tell you not to drop the soap in the shower...
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^ The old days, when "atheists in foxholes" was the main worry. Good times.
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Something ain't right here I just can't figure out what it is.
RAND has probably told the brass they don't have a prayer of hitting their numbers given the perfect shitstorm of all the damaging stuff Biden has done to American society.
Before the Biden wrecking ball they were already in deep do-do because of the sorry state of our youts: to fat, too dumb, too medicated and too many criminals.
But now even the best and most patriotic kids want nothing to do with a US military that keeps losing and promoting losers. No decent and ambitious person would want to sign up for Milley and Austin's traveling freak show.
We're back to 1975 in that sense, with no Reagan in sight. Five years minimum before we get out of the hole we're in
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In part, it is my observation that they are becoming more selective (In order to do their best in keeping some semblance of military efficacy and cohesion?).
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Let's see: You're a random Russian and some unknown somebody asks you (in person or via phone) whether you support Putin's war on Ukraine? What are you gonna say?
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The notion that Russians oppose Putin is a deep state fantasy. The Russians overwhelmingly support this war. They've been waiting for 30 years for a chance to finally fight back against their serial humiliations by the West. The Crimean and Georgian wars were hugely popular too.
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^ Clarification: Not the Crimean War of 1853 but the Crimean annexation (what Russians call the accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation) in 2008. Was and still is enormously popular, a source of great national pride and rejoicing in Russia
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WHEN USA GOV LIE TO YOU…….
ITS BECAUSE WANTS RETAIN THE POWER
YOUR VOTES ARE IRRELEVANT.
WHEN THE USA MILITARY LIES TO YOU LIKE NEVER BEFORE…
ITS BECAUSE ARE ACCOMPLICES.
The following link show how our military waste money in Ukraine lying to the entire worl.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/03/31/shameful-ukraines-cia-funded-fake-factory/
President Vladimir V. Putin’s approval ratings have reached levels unseen in years, according to an independent poll released on Thursday, as many Russians rally around the flag in the face of mounting international pressure.
Eighty-three percent of Russians said they approved of Mr. Putin’s actions, up from 69 percent in January, according to a poll by the Levada Center, an independent pollster in Moscow. Ratings of many other government institutions, as well as the governing party, have also gone up, the poll indicated.
The poll by Levada — which has been declared a “foreign agent” in Russia — was conducted among more than 1,600 people across the country, with the margin of error not exceeding 3.4 percentage points.
Denis Volkov, Levada’s director, said that initial feelings of “shock and confusion” that many Russians felt at the start of the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine was being replaced with the belief that Russia is besieged and that its people must rally around their leader.
“The confrontation with the West has consolidated people,” Mr. Volkov said, adding that some respondents said that while they generally did not support Mr. Putin, now was the time to do so. According to that line of thinking, he said, people believe that “everyone is against us” and that “Putin defends us, otherwise we would be eaten alive.”
#10
Bush's approval rating was 90% just after 9/11. It went down from there.
Castro used to win his elections by 99% to 1%.
Biden won the most votes of any candidate for president ever in 2020*
There's a lot more to it than any of those snapshots.
The same applies in Putin's case.
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Russians rally around Putin... believe that “everyone is against us” and that “Putin defends us, otherwise we would be eaten alive.”
What else did we expect?
So the American president declares economic war on Russia, gives billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine, announces he's going to overthrow the Russian government like the Americans have overthrown dozens of governments around the world. And we expect a great nation to just collapse and whimper like pathetic little Libya or Iraq?
Did we think the Russians don't have legitimate fears or feelings of national pride?
The degree of misunderstanding and hubris on display is simply amazing
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"I am totally not a Russian Troll. I love Putin and support him"*
*Cut-n-paste
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There's a lot more to it than any of those snapshots.
It's called nationalism. Americans support their leader in times of grave danger and uncertainty, so do Cubans, so do Ukrainians, so do Russians. Shouldn't be a surprise that another nation sees Biden as an shithead and a hypocrite after the buffoons Obama and Bush Jr
#14
About 20-25% of the Russians are what westerners would call liberals or progressives living mainly in Moscow and St Petersburg; they're fairly solidly against Putin. They're like the SPD in Germany or Labour in the U.K., or the hard core of the Democrats in the US: Bernie Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez types, or maybe your typical left-lib Disney executive.
The rest of the population ranges from suspicious of the West to downright hostile. Some are religious, others not, but all of them think the western "woke" movement is batshit crazy. They want nothing to do with the freakishness and cultural self-hatred you see on full display across New York, Berlin, Paris, London. These people -- they're the majority -- are enraged by the West's hypocrisy in supporting American invasions, botched wars and meddling in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria. And the US coup in Kiev is esoecially infuriating to them.
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Navalny's the biggest Russian chauvinist of them all!
Navalny was a major supporter of the Crimean annexation
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know... we all want to change the world LOL
If you replace Putin with a liberal, you're likely to get a hardcore Great Russian Nationalist (like Kerensky).
But you will NEVER find a Russian leader, no matter how progressive or pro-Western, who supports the idea of unilateral Russian disarmament in the face of a hostile and aggressive, encroaching Nato. Won't happen.
[American Thinker] Thanks to imbecilic comments by President Biden, the threat of nuclear war just got a lot more serious if new reports are to be believed. The estimable David Goldman (AKA Spengler), writing with Uwe Parpart, warns us:
What does Vladimir Putin have to do to convince Washington that the Ukraine crisis is a preliminary skirmish in what might be a nuclear war? On February 23, Putin warned of nuclear war. On February 19, he conducted a full-dress drill of Russian ballistic missile forces. On February 27, he put Russia on a nuclear alert — which remains in effect.Joe Biden didn't get the message.
Then on March 29, Moscow sent a red-alarm signal to the West by leaking news that "Putin and his high command have decamped to secret bunkers, following a Kremlin statement that Russia would use nuclear weapons to counter an 'existential threat,'" the Daily Mail reported, citing investigations by journalist Christo Grozev.
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....following a Kremlin statement that Russia would use nuclear weapons to counter an 'existential threat
Putin is very likely to use a small tactical nuke on Ukrainian hold-out cities. The West has been notified. Putin and his high command are simply taking precautionary measures.
The West will not respond militarily. Emergency UN meetings will be announced. An international crisis will be declared followed by National emergency actions. Elections will be postponed. Travel will be restricted. Food, medicine, and fuel rationing will commence. The sale of firearms and ammunition will be suspended. Congress goes on an extended national emergency holiday. Biden and Harris cannot be found, are assumed to be in seclusion.
In the hope of de-escalating the tensions, US and Euro military aid to Ukraine will be immediately terminated.
This is a crisis damn it! It could go on for months, even years! You must do your part.
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Food,medicine, and fuel rationing will commence.
Already have. Gas rationing in Germany. Diesel rationing in the Netherlands. Food rationing in France.
The Financial Times opines that covid restrictions have conditioned the serfs public to accept repression: "what manifests merely as higher food and energy prices in the northern hemisphere will show up as famine in parts of the developing world. In the short term, wealthy European economies should be able to persuade companies and individuals to contribute to ending the horrors endured by Ukrainians. It is spring and turning down the heating is not a big ask for most. Two years of stringent government anti-Covid measures may even have conditioned people to lower their expectations in the wider interest (though anti-lockdown protests suggest the reverse is also possible)."
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First off, it is American Stinker Thinker. They have retracted things in the past for being (and this is a quote) Thomas Lifson (one of the founders and leaders) wrote that American Thinker published statements that were "completely false and have no basis in fact." and that they were based on discredited sources and American Thinker was“wrong to publish these false statements.” (cite
Now assuming they aren't blowing smoke and its not just posturing by Putin:
Target might be Mariupol. They don't want the port or city, they want it gone - cleared so they can use it as a highway to Crimea and turn the Sea of Azov into a Russian Lake again. That's why they are systematically reducing the city to rubble. Bonus for Putin popping a tac nuke there is that he supposedly hits a stronghold for the so-called "Nazi" Azov Battalion.
0.3kt would probably be used. Probably an airburst to reduce fallout issues. And probably in the center of the pocket to avoid water/coastal areas (for fallout reasons) and to avoid the highways around the perimeter the Russians want to use.
Iskander missiles can carry that and they have been in more or less constant use in Ukraine with conventional warheads.
Conveniently 0.3kt is the lowest yield on the US Mk61mod3 "Dial a nuke" bomb, available as a pre-set on Nukemap to see the effects, radius, etc.
So look for a pullback around Mariupol as a sign of bad things.
As an aside, Ukraine has reportedly been shelling targets over the border in Russian territory. Someone needs to tell them to stop doing stupid crap like that. It reason enou8gh to cite as a provocation. Damned reckless fools.
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Ukraine has reportedly been shelling targets over the border in Russian territory. Someone needs to tell them to stop doing stupid crap like that. It reason enou8gh to cite as a provocation.
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First off, it is not from American Thinker. The referenced article is by Uwe Parpart and David P Goldman writing in Asia Times. They state their source for the bunker report is the work of investigative journalist Christo Grozev and they link to it:
What does Vladimir Putin have to do to convince Washington that the Ukraine crisis is a preliminary skirmish in what might be a nuclear war? On February 23, Putin warned of nuclear war. On February 19, he conducted a full-dress drill of Russian ballistic missile forces. On February 27, he put Russia on a nuclear alert — which remains in effect.
Joe Biden didn’t get the message.
Then on March 29, Moscow sent a red-alarm signal to the West by leaking news that “Putin and his high command have decamped to secret bunkers, following a Kremlin statement that Russia would use nuclear weapons to counter an ‘existential threat,’” theDaily Mail reported, citing investigations by journalist Christo Grozev.
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Putin's invasion if Ukraine is wildly popular with the Russian people. His approval ratings have gone up significantly and stayed sky high since the invasion -- 78% of Russians approve of Putin's performance. The American pollster Mark Mellman summarizes the data:
"According to polls by the independent and reliable Levada Center, Putin’s approval rating has been at or above 59 percent in every reading for the past 20 years. In February, as his buildup on the Ukrainian border progressed, but before the invasion began, Putin’s approval rose to 71 percent.
VCIOM, a polling form owned by the Russian government, similarly pegged Putin’s approval in the low to mid-sixties throughout the year, and also saw it rise as the war against Ukraine commenced. Indeed, its most recent reading on March 20 has 78 percent of Russians approving of Putin’s performance.
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The Russians including the overwhelming majority of the Russian people are dead serious. This war is in their view existential -- a necessary last-ditch effort to prevent US missiles eventually being being placed a few hundred km from Moscow.
That's about five minutes' distance, and Russia would not be able to intercept those missiles. The Russians believe they are fighting an existential threat.
In his article in The Hill linked above, US pollster Mark Mellman also cites the solid work of an American pollster:
Some of those who have produced surveys recently are fine people with excellent reputations for integrity, and it would seem some of them believe their surveys are producing real and useful information.One of the things they’re finding is support for Putin’s war, at least in its early days.
Noted American pollster Gary Langer helped bring to public attention a survey conducted by serious Russian researchers in the early days of the war; it found58 percent of their countrymen approved of the invasion, 46 percent strongly so.Only about 23 percent opposed the war.
#12
Yeah, and I'm all in favor of eating at fancy restaurants right up until the waiter brings the bill.
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How many Americans and other westerners would support punitive sanctions on Russia if they were informed honestly about the "bill"?
That bill includes: ration cards for gas and food. Spiraling deficits. Hyperinflation. Recession. Hunger and starvation across the Near and Far East as well as Africa. Wars and revolutions in many countries because of food scarcity. Disruptions to every major industry. Redoubling of government control and repression.
Were the western publics informed about this parade of horribles that necessarily attends upon western policy toward Russia? I don't believe so. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
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Whataboutery on display. You just informed one segment of the American public, and nobody is going to censor or restrict the further publication of your comment.
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Secret bunkers or did everyone simply move to the War Room because that is where the Big Board is?
No, of course Matt doesn't. The survey questions posed in the US (including at least one constituent questionnaire sent by a US congressman) asked only whether the respondent would be willing to pay higher gas prices as a result of sanctions.
Nowhere are Americans being told about inevitable consequences such as a steep decline in US living standards, about rationing, about hyperinflation or recession. Let alone 10 million or more deaths from starvation and chaos, wars and revolutions around the world.
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I think they're a bit low on quality external intelligence assets in Russia. China overtook them in number of plants in DC, and Langley may be riddled with closet sunnis, globalists and other critters but very less russkie spies. Also, osint has really made players lazy and incompetent. So the Russians were truly alarmed at Biden's foolhardy statements.
Or they knew it's all hot air and took the opportunity to wave their radioactive shlongs in faces.
Truth is, the deepState in America cannot afford to piss off Russia. It cannot undertake any more grand plans in Russia. And no matter how many fags, clueless poc appointees or crazy wimmin Langley absorbs in service, there're always some clever chaps plugged into the other side doing their job right in the CIA. They will tell you Biden can stuff it, there's going to be no 'Russian Spring' or sponsored Navalnys or zero dark attempts on Vlad. I'll bet all the military and intelligence part of the deepState are doing right now is calling up their friends in the Kremlin trying to convince them that whatever Biden utters is worth jack and shit. Maybe they're also looking to replace him with the pliant kind 'leader' they want.
There is no existential threat to Russia. The only existential threat is to America, and most of it from within. And it can't be circumvented or surmounted by making enemies of a nuclear powered State with a bad case of авось.
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/\ I'll bet all the military and intelligence part of the deepState are doing right now is calling up their friends in the Kremlin trying to convince them that whatever Biden utters is worth jack and shit. Maybe they're also looking to replace him with the pliant kind 'leader' they want.
I would assess the probability of this type of backchannel communication very high.
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OR They knew it's all hot air and took the opportunity to wave their radioactive shlongs in faces.
This. They've seen five US presidents come and go. They have no expectations or assumptions of rational behavior from US leaders after all they've seen these past 30 years. Review:
Clinton was a clever asshole. He lied to the Russians and humiliated them in Russia and the Balkans and began Nato's expansion east in violation of Janes Baker's promises.
W was an unclever asshole. He took Putin's good faith offer of help after 9/11, ignored the warnings about the Iraq disaster put Tomahawk missiles in Poland and pretended they were for "defence", expanded NATO still further and then humiliated Russia with yet another declared Nato expansion, to Ukraine and Georgia in W's infamous Bucharest Declaration in 2008.
Obama was a fool and a flaming asshole who pretended to be friendly while sneering idiotically that "Russia has nothing that the world wants" and humiliating Russia (and the US) with disastrous interventions in Libya and Ukraine and Syria. Once again, more NATO expansion, this time with actual military advisors training and bulking up Ukraine's military to "go on offense," as Sen. Lindsay Graham fond Ukrainian elite troops in 2016.
Trump restored a brief moment of sanity to US Russia policy, combining respect and toughness-- exactly the way the Russians and every great power expect to be treated. Then Trump was overthrown in a rigged election.
And now shit for brains demented Papa Joe Biden. The Russians are now like, "OK, what's new?"
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#16 Nowhereare Americans being told about inevitable consequences such as a steep decline in US living standards, about rationing, about hyperinflation or recession.
I concur about the high probability of backchannel conversations, but the above reference to nuke armed incursions, which you have to assume are genuine, says that Putin is willing to push the envelope on warnings to a level not seen in a very long time.
To quote Fred Thompson in Hunt for Red October:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjXgS5lqqRQ
#24
After watching the current Russian-owned assholes in power in this country dismantle my little corner of the energy industry...
I feel like I'm stuck in 1943 France, and every morning a vichy collaborator screams in my face about "Why is Marshall Petain being so _mean_ and _nasty_ to Darling Adolph?"
It's all fake, it's all kayfabe. And it's all assholes.
#26
As tzar of this nuclear poophole
Cum war surplus store, without scruple,
Permit me to posit
From deep in the closet:
It's NAZIS who'll nuke Mariupol!
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It's NAZIS who'll nuke Mariupol!
From the Ukie perspective, that's not a bad idea. *Everyone* would blame it on the Rus because nobody would nuke their own city just for a propaganda victory, amirite?
OK, it's not just a media victory, it also denies use of the port to its eventual owners for however many half-lifes it takes to cool down.
Video from Yury Butusov showing a captured Russian defensive position in a tree line by Malaya Rohan, including at least 4 destroyed or abandoned T-72B3 tanks, 7 MT-LB, and a DT-30 Vityaz all-terrain vehicle.https://t.co/CqYd9kVydJpic.twitter.com/wYMLoLUfO2
#3
Evacuating the residents, or permanent displacement as you level the land corridor to Crimea as a part of the upcoming partition agreement? A pesky center for resistance erased under the guise of humanitarian motives.
#4
After the evacuation they will level the city. And then bounce the rubble. Just to show they can.
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In other news …
What did Putin say to NATO governments who faked the scandalous pantomime of making him look like a ferocious invader in the eyes of covidiots dazed by experimental gene serums that actually may cause “brain-fog” disorders?
Either you pay me for the gas in rubles or I cut off the supplies
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[NYPOST] Russian forces continued to attack the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv on Wednesday as a small number of Russian units withdrew — just hours after Moscow pledged to "increase mutual trust" by de-escalating its military presence around those same cities.A round of Russian shelling hit a slew of civilian sites, including residential areas and at least one library, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday. The attacks came alongside renewed Russian aggression in the eastern Donbas region.
Russia claimed Tuesday that it would "radically" reduce its attacks around Kyiv and Chernihiv as a goodwill gesture amid the peace talks recently convened in Istanbul.
"Given that the talks on the preparation of an agreement on the neutrality and non-nuclear status of Ukraine have moved into a practical field ... a decision has been made to radically, by several times, reduce the military activity in the areas of Kyiv and Chernihiv," Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin had said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky replied Tuesday, "you can trust only concrete results."
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Who was it who pointed out that "the American symbol is an eagle brandishing arrows in one claw and an olive branch in the other"?
Anyone remember 'Linebacker' in December 1972?
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Official institutions and media outlets, and rantburg in particular are deliberately spreading lies, this is poisonous and destroys their credibility. I can never again listen to an American military spokesman and trust a single word coming out of his mouth.
Of course I’m sure some people in here will be quick to point out that the American government has lied about many things before. Well, yes. But I as a human being can only speak out of my own personal awareness. My nagging doubts about my government were all confirmed by this war.
Dear Fred and dear readers:
Information wars are won by the truth
As far as I can reasonably tell, the Russian MoD have told the truth and done their best to not distribute false information. This is the first and main reason I argue that Russia is not losing the information war. Both Ukraine and their NATO masters utterly destroyed their credibility, nothing they say can be believed
Information wars are won by the truth.
There is this idea that “both sides are equally bad” and everyone spreads disinformation. No. If a general or government spokesman says something, it should and absolutely must be a true statement, not a lie. If he says that 20 enemy tanks have been destroyed, that must be a true statement. If he says that we have had 500 soldiers killed in action, this must be a true statement. See, if a general lies about enemy casualties, and his own casualties, nothing he says can be trusted. This is why it is so important for official spokesmen and outlets to not tell lies.
Our governments in the West want us to believe that everyone lies like them and it’s just not true. Our governments lie, and the Russian government tells the truth. Or at least they try to tell the truth, and frankly, telling the truth is genuinely not hard if you make an honest attempt. Anyone with a functioning brain should be able to see that now.
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#3 Official institutions and media outlets, and rantburg in particular are deliberately spreading lies, this is poisonous and destroys their credibility. I can never again listen to an American military spokesman and trust a single word coming out of his mouth.
Rantburg, as far as I can tell, is one if the few media outlets which presents both sides of the war, unfiltered. We want our readers to choose whom they believe, and for the most part, they have chosen.
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As far as I can reasonably tell, the Russian MoD have told the truth and done their best to not distribute false information. This is the first and main reason I argue that Russia is not losing the information war. Both Ukraine and their NATO masters utterly destroyed their credibility, nothing they say can be believed
Russian and Ukrainian military authorities are telling their version of events. As I have pointed out elsewhere, they may lie, but they cannot lie about everything. Time and space is one element they cannot lie about.
The Russian and Ukrainian MoDs has been professional in their news presentations. The Ukrainian have been less so, lamentably.
News presentations are only as good as the gatherers and your bosses allow it to be.
"In Truth there is no news and in News there is no truth."
I used to laugh at that. We were so much better than the Soviets with our free and open press.
Let us just say my views on that subject have evolved.
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Did any American news outlet infirm their readers as to Putin's stated justification for the war? There was a great deal of opinion, lots of "analysis" aka spin, but we didn't see the actual relevant words the man said. For Russia, NATO’s expansion into Ukraine from the beginning has been viewed as the YS positioning for a potential nuclear war against or nuclear blackmail of Russia. No western outlet even mentioned that Putin alleges, with much evidence to support it, bad faith in the provocative US positioning of US missile "defense" systems in Eastern Europe.
Putin warned on February 23 that “positioning areas for interceptor missiles are being established in Romania and Poland as part of the US project to create a global missile defense system. It is common knowledge that the launchers deployed there can be used for Tomahawk cruise missiles – offensive strike systems…. In other words, the allegedly defensive US missile defense system is developing and expanding its new offensive capabilities.”
"The information we have gives us good reason to believe that Ukraine’s accession to NATO and the subsequent deployment of NATO facilities has already been decided and is only a matter of time [and] American strategic planning documents confirm the possibility of a so-called preemptive strike at enemy missile systems. We also know the main adversary of the United States and NATO. It is Russia… Ukraine will serve as an advanced bridgehead for such a strike.”
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If the truth is on Putin's side why is he closing or restricting independent Russian media outlets?
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Did any American news outlet infirm their readers as to Putin's stated justification for the war? There was a great deal of opinion, lots of "analysis" aka spin, but we didn't see the actual relevant words the man said. For Russia, NATO’s expansion into Ukraine from the beginning has been viewed as the YS positioning for a potential nuclear war against or nuclear blackmail of Russia. No western outlet even mentioned that Putin alleges, with much evidence to support it, bad faith in the provocative US positioning of US missile "defense" systems in Eastern Europe.
Readers should have concluded when a sovereign nation wants to talk about security guarantees for its own borders, and all it gets in reply is economic sanctions, something inevitable is about to take place.
#10
If the truth is on Putin's Zelensky's side why did he ban his entire political opposition including all opposing parties and close or restrict independent Russian Ukrainian media outlets?
We are only hearing one side's arguments, which are very weak. We're not even hearing the other side's arguments, instead we get a daily diet of propaganda and spin and cheerleading. This is not going to end well for us (or anyone)
The summary of the 35th day of Russian invasion to Ukraine, as of 23:59 -30th of March 2022 (Kyiv time).
Ukrainian troops continue to mount counter-attacks and drive enemy forces away from the western outskirts of Kyiv. Okhtyrka is no longer besieged, Russian troops withdrew across the border. Ukrainian counter-offensive is also reported from Kharkiv Oblast.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 18:33 The Russian Armed Forces took control of all the main lines of communications, supply and approach of the reserves of the Ukrainian army - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. 18:17 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 124 aircraft and 77 helicopters, 214 anti-aircraft missile systems, 323 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,767 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 186 multiple launch rocket systems, 741 field artillery guns and a mortar, as well as 1657 units of special military vehicles.
18:16 During the day, operational-tactical and unmanned aircraft hit 69 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: three command posts, two installations of multiple launch rocket systems, eight warehouses of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons, and 52 strong points and areas of concentration of military equipment.
18:10 Russian Defense Ministry statements:
All the main tasks of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kiev and Chernigov directions have been completed. A planned regrouping of troops is taking place in the Kiev and Chernigov directions. At the first stage of the operation, it was planned to force the enemy to concentrate forces to hold large cities, to forge them, these goals were achieved.
At the same time, the Russian army was solving another problem - in the absence of an influx of fresh enemy forces from the west and from the center of Ukraine, to create conditions for the final stage of the operation to liberate the republics of Donbass. This goal has also been achieved. The Russian military broke through the well-fortified defenses of the enemy, crossed the Shaitanka River and are fighting on the outskirts of Velikaya Novoselka. There is a cleansing from the nationalist formations of the settlement of Zolotaya Niva.
The forces of the LPR continue their offensive against Severodonetsk, battles are being fought to clear the settlement of Zhitlovka, Ukrainian nationalist battalions in the Severodonetsk direction are suffering serious losses. The Kyiv regime seriously considered the possibility of using biological weapons against the population of Donbass and Russia.
18:03 Volkssturm mined all the exits from Kharkov in order to prevent civilians from breaking into calm areas. The head of the investigative department of the Main Department of the Kharkiv National Police, Serhiy Bolvinov, reports that yesterday, two people were killed and five more were injured after being blown up by one of these mines. Demands people to stop trying to leave the war zone.
17:19 There are no active hostilities in the Izyum direction, local battles are taking place. Artillery skirmishes, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack, but weakly. Everything was frozen in anticipation.
17:15 MLRS of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are working on the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Nikolaev region from the Kherson region.
17:00 In Melitopol, which is under the control of Russian troops, the Eternal Flame was lit at the Mass Grave memorial.
16:32 There is irrefutable evidence that Kyiv was planning an attack on the Donbass - Medinsky.
16:31 “Shame” and “Killers of the children of Donbass” – such inscriptions were made by the residents of Kherson on the “ATO memorial”. Thus, the residents of Kherson demonstrated their true attitude towards the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who fought against the civilian population.
16:20 In Kherson continues distribution of humanitarian aid by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. More than a thousand residents of the city of Kherson received essential products delivered to the Kherson region from the Russian Federation. First of all, assistance from the Russian military was received by pensioners, the disabled and women with children.
15:43 Columns of Russian military equipment in Kherson.
13:57 An Italian journalist openly declares that many Western media distort information about the events in Ukraine, hiding the fact that Nazism flourished in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and terror against the civilian population.
12:58 The National Guard ensures order in the liberated Melitopol.
12:50 The Kyiv regime is using the building of the new city synagogue in Uman as a collection and transfer point for weapons and Nazis to participate in hostilities.
11:30 The S-300 complex of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroyed in the Zhytomyr region, near the town of Malin.
11:06 Russian Defense Ministry briefing:
- On March 20, President Zelensky, speaking with a video message to the Israeli Knesset, accused Russia of allegedly striking the city of Uman in the Cherkasy region. This is a cynical lie. During a special operation, the RF Armed Forces do not strike at civilian targets. Especially - for places of worship and any other places of public worship.
- The object of the Jewish cult in Uman is deliberately used by the Kiev nationalist regime for military purposes.
- In the area of the village of Tumen, Rivne region, near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, a Su-24 of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down during an air battle.
- High-precision missiles destroyed large fuel depots in the districts of Starokonstantinov and Khmelnitsky, from which fuel was supplied for armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass. OTRK "Iskander" destroyed two large depots of rocket and artillery weapons in Kamenka, Donetsk region.
- Aerospace Forces destroyed 10 Ukrainian UAVs in the areas of the settlements of Izyum, Novaya Kakhovka, Donetsk, Nikolaev, Berdyansk, Gorlovka, Luhansk and Rubizhne in a day.
10:40 Russian Ministry of Defense declares that:
- Kyiv orders the national battalions to shoot staged videos about the killings of civilians and looting allegedly committed by the Russian military;
- Neo-Nazis are holding more than 4.5 million citizens and 6.5 thousand foreigners;
- More than 19 thousand people were evacuated per day to the Russian Federation from dangerous regions of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR;
— Over 22.5 thousand tons of humanitarian aid for Ukraine has been prepared in Russia;
- The Russian Federation keeps open a corridor for the exit of 60 foreign ships from Ukrainian ports.
09:48 Holiday troops Russian guards in the liberated Energodar.
09:17 On the night of March 27-28, on the territory of the Azovstal plant, crosses were made to receive Ukrainian helicopters, with the help of which they planned to evacuate the commander of the “Azov” Prokopenko and the commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Baranyuk with a number of very important foreign mercenaries.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23.15 Kiev security forces fired on Pervomaisk with artillery pieces of 152 mm caliber. This was reported by the representative office of the Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime. AFU fired four shells at Pervomaisk from the side of Zolote-4. 22.35 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Nevelskoye - n.p. Lozovoe: fired six mines in 120mm caliber.
20:08 Up to 4,000 Ukrainian military and militants may currently be in Mariupol, said RIA Novosti Basurin.
19:36 Tonight, during the shelling of the Petrovsky district, a civilian was killed - a man born in 1959, living on the street. Fedorovsky, 1.
18:37 The National Battalions do not consider the civilian population to be people, therefore, realizing the imminent end, they try to inflict as much damage as possible, there is no common sense here, they are just non-humans - Denis Pushilin.
18:08 During today, 337 people, including 66 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to the Bezymennoe of the Novoazovsky district.
18:01 Above the center of Donets kworked air defense. Most likely the UAV was shot down.
18:00 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, developing the offensive, broke through the well-fortified defenses of the enemy, crossed the Shaitanka River and are fighting with units of the 53rd mechanized brigade on the outskirts of the Velikaya Novoselka settlement - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
17:55 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU settlement. Gorlovka at st. Fedorovka, 32. Also, damage to the rails was recorded at the Nikitovskaya railway station. According to updated data, as a result of the shelling of the settlement. Oleksandrivka also received damage to housing construction at the following addresses:
- st. Lenina, 185, 187;
- st. Cultural, 70;
- st. Alexandra Ulyanova, 28
As a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a six kV cable-overhead line was disconnected, one transformer substation was de-energized. At the moment, 80 household subscribers are without electricity.
17:54 Nazis in Mariupol trying break out of the environment.
17:53 The only chance for AFU to survive is to lay down their arms and stand trial - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
17:39 The longer we liberate our settlements and cities, the more victims and destruction there will be, so we are accelerating - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
17:36 In Kramatorsk, the Ukronazis dug holes among residential buildings. They are preparing for protracted and stubborn battles, again hiding behind peaceful ones. Local residents understand why everything is done. And they clearly do not agree with this scenario. Therefore, they made a decision: they bury these pits on their own.
16:54 Minister of Communications of the DPR Igor Khalepa on the air of TV channel "Russia 24": About 20 base stations have been installed in the liberated territories. About 75 settlements are already receiving high-quality mobile communication services. Work is underway to restore fixed communications, television and radio broadcasting. In the near future, it is planned to open post offices in Volnovakha and Mangush.
16:53 The 120th humanitarian convoy from the Russian Emergencies Ministry has arrived in the DPR. The humanitarian cargo included food products for the priority provision of the affected population, including in the liberated territories of the Republic, as well as specialized transport.
16:52 Ukrainian troopsare holdingin the siege of a maternity hospital in Mariupol, in which there are about 100 people, including 37 children - the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR.
16:35 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR continues to sort out the rubble and pull out the wounded people from the destroyed house as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the use of the Uragan MLRS.
16:30 In the city of Svatovo, weapons, ammunition and abandoned equipment were found at the former positions of the VFU.
16:28 AFU fired at the settlement Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
16:06 For 40 days of shelling of the territory of the DPR by terrorist Ukraine, 67 civilians were killed. Wounds of varying severity were received by 742 civilians, including 53 children.
15:45 AFU attacked Aleksandrovka: As a result of the shelling of the village, damage was recorded along Lenin Street, 181, 171, 172, 174 (club), 174 (boiler room) and Gorky Street, 37, 39. Walls, roofing and glazing were damaged in the buildings. Shop on the street. Lenina, 172 completely destroyed -
15:42 "We dug in in front, behind and fired." Refugees from Severodonetsktoldabout how Ukrainian neo-Nazis "protected" civilians. “They were in one half of the basement, and we were in the other. They shoot and run to the basement. They used us as a human shield, yes,” added one of the refugees.
15:15 Horlivka is under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They hit with artillery.
15:11 On behalf of the Prosecutor General of the LPR, investigators of the LPR General Prosecutor's Office are checking the fact of the use of the Tochka-U tactical missile system on the territory of Lugansk on March 30. At about 5.30 am, Ukrainian armed formations used the Tochka-U tactical missile system in Luhansk. As a result of the fall of rocket fragments on the territory of the Patriot Park (the territory of the former airport), a fuel truck and a fuel tank truck caught fire. In addition, a serviceman of the NM LPR received injuries incompatible with life. It was established that the rocket was launched from the territory of the city of Severodonetsk.
15:01 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU settlement. Aleksandrovka residential buildings at the following addresses:
- st. Lenin, 181;
- st. Gorky, 37, 39.
Fixed damage to civilian infrastructure:
- st. Lenina, 171 (school);
- st. Lenin, 172 - a direct hit in the store;
- st. Lenina, 174 (cultural and leisure center);
- st. Lenina, 174a (boiler room).
13:54 DPR managed to liberate about 55-60 percent of the territory: the operation to liberate the DPR is accelerating, but it’s too early to talk about the timing of its completion - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
13:46 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the following addresses:
➖st. Udaltsova, 47;
➖Ave. Central, 48;
➖sq. Petrovsky, 5 (administration of the Petrovsky district);
➖sq. Petrovsky, 8;
➖st. Karamzin, 18 (school number 101). 13:41 A school in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:30 Ukrainian troops fired at the village of Staromikhailovka in the DPR, firing eight mines with a caliber of 120mm.
13:04 Sergei Shoigu on the successes in the special operation: there is very little left before the achievement of the main goal - the liberation of Donbass.
13:00 This morning, a powerful artillery preparation began in the Gorlovka region. And everything suggests that a new stage of the battle to encircle the Donbass Front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has begun.
12:57 Almost 70 civilians died in the Donetsk People's Republic in 41 days of escalation due to shelling by Ukrainian troops. More than 810 were injured.
12:56 The head of the People's Druzhina, Vladimir Taranenko, and the supporter of United Russia, Alexander Goncharov, delivered more than 4,000 food packages to Mariupol.
12:49 The head of the People's Druzhina, Vladimir Taranenko, and the supporter of United Russia, Alexander Goncharov, delivered more than 4,000 food packages to Mariupol.
12:41 "Azov people fired at us when we went for water " fact confirming the atrocities on the part of the Nazis who settled in Mariupol. Refugees from Mariupol tell how they were shot at from windows, beaten in the legs, wounded those who were going to fetch water.
12:40 The head of the Kalmius police department of Mariupol, Valentin Popov, went over to the side of the People's Militia of the DPR.
12:38 The mayor of Horlivka said that the water reserves in the city would be enough for another three weeks: “We found a small reserve there. But I just wrote down an appeal to the residents of Gorlovka, I ask them simply as a human being, now the irrigation season will begin, it will simply be a disaster if we continue to water with this water.
That is, we must forget now about bathing, about some benefits of civilization, because the water should be on the ninth floor. It must be that we have to supply it, but now we are not getting enough water, at least supply water to the first or second floor, ”he said on Channel One.
11:54 The Ministry of Emergency Situations announced the danger of the collapse of three more floors of the affected high-rise building on Tekstilshchik. The rescue operation continues. There are two dead and seven injured.
11:03 Results of the work of the Interdepartmental Operational Headquarters for March 29:
Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR examined more than 11 hectares of territories, 6400 m2 of premises. Found 2384 units. GP.
Residents of Mariupol received 4,061 food and hygiene kits, 87 children's kits
. Melekino, Kamyshevataya, Azovskoye, installation and adjustment of base stations were carried out. In Bugas, equipment was installed and a base station was launched.
Acceptance of applications for registration of payments in Telmanovsky, Novoazovsky, Starobeshevsky districts 1739 applications were accepted.
Employees of "Water of Donbass" delivered and organized the distribution of water to the population of Mariupol in the amount of 6 tons.
The reception of patients from the Ministry of Health was organized in the villages of Berdyanskoye, Lebedinskoye and Sopino; specialized specialists traveled;
repair and restoration work continues at the Volnovakha hospital.
Employees of the REC repaired the wire on the Novotroitskaya-Novoignatievka high-voltage line with a total length of more than 1.5 km.
In the village of Zazhitochnoye, 60 meters of the line were restored, in Novotroitsky - 300.
Liquefied gas was delivered to Trudovoe and Rovnopol - 24 cylinders to each settlement.
The Ministry of Agro-Industrial Policy and Food of the DPR organized the supply of humanitarian bread to Mariupol.
Outbound trade was organized in 9 settlements of the Starobeshevsky, Novoazovsky and Telmanovsky districts.
10:46 On March 29, rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR in the liberated settlements issued humanitarian aid to the population in the form of 7,900 sets, of which:
food packages - 3,850 units;
hygiene kits - 3,850 units;
children's sets - 200 units.
10:39 Over 3,000 people were evacuated from Mariupol in a day - the Russian Defense Ministry.
10:36 Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 15 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
10:14 a.m. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:10 Trinity - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:56 In the morning, the Ukrainian fascists shelled several densely populated areas of Donetsk at once - Kirovsky, Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky. There are casualties among the civilian population, and significant damage to residential buildings has also been recorded:
Kirovsky district (microdistrict "Tekstilshchik"): As previously reported, as a result of the shelling of the VFU, the collapse of the 9th and 8th floors of an apartment building at st. Pintera, 8, partially damaged 7th floor.
An operational group of the DPR JCCC headed by the Head is working at the scene of the incident. According to the military experts of the department, under the cover of artillery fire, the enemy used the Uragan MLRS, firing 2 missiles from the direction of the settlement. Thin (https://t.me/online_dnr_sckk/10776), one of which ended up in the upper floors of a high-rise building, the second - near school No. 97.
According to preliminary data, 1 person died, 4 more were injured, including a one and a half year old child, who was hospitalized in a medical facility.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR continues to clear the rubble of the house: an increase in the number of victims is not ruled out.
Also injured was a man born in 1961, who at that moment was on the street.
Damaged:
- st. Petrovsky, 132 (MDOU No. 163);
- st. Tekstilshchikov, 15b (MOU No. 97).
The building of the boiler house was also damaged.
Information about the destruction continues to come.
Petrovsky district (microdistrict "Quiet"): - st. Shuiskaya, 4 (multi-apartment building) - a direct hit.
Kuibyshevsky district (microdistrict "October"): - pr. Kremlin 37-39.
09:52 Two people were killed as a result of the night shelling of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops, 16 houses were destroyed - the headquarters of the defense of the DPR.
09:50 A total of 38 people were evacuated from Yasinovataya to the Russian Federation. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, 38 people, including 13 children, were evacuated from Yasinovataya to the territory of the Russian Federation.
09:46 A group of DPR troops, with the support of the Russian Armed Forces, advanced to the building of the Drama Theater, where the headquarters of militants of the Nazi paramilitary formations was located. During the retreat, the nationalists blew up the theater building in order to destroy evidence of their crimes.
09:15 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR is working at the site of the shelling of the VFU house on Tekstilshchik. Seven people were pulled out from the rubble, one died, six were in serious condition. There are still people under the rubble. The shelling of the area continues.
09:10 One person died, four were injured after a Ukrainian shell hit a residential building in Donetsk, a child was hospitalized - the defense headquarters of the DPR.
08:35 Ukrainian troops fired a Tochka-U missile at Luhansk - the LPR office in the JCCC.
08:24 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction of:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 12 mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:14 As a result of the morning shelling, a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell was recorded on the 9th floor of a residential building on the street. Pintera, 8 (microdistrict Tekstilshchik). Partially destroyed the 8th floor of the 1st entrance, followed by fire. Information about the victims is being specified.
As a result of the morning shelling, a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell was recorded on the 9th floor of a residential building on the street. Pintera, 8 (microdistrict Tekstilshchik). Partially destroyed the 8th floor of the 1st entrance, followed by fire. Information about the victims is being specified.
08:01 The JCCC recorded an encirclement of the settlement. Trinity - n.p. Mikhailovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
07:15 AFU fired at the settlement Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-ty 6/7): 20 grenades were fired from the AGS, small arms were used.
07:00 Shelling of the settlement Sands - Donetsk (Kirov district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC.
06:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Trinity - n.p. Mikhailovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired. n.p. Trinity - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[Korrespondent] 22:08 The Prime Minister of Slovenia supported the sending of S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine.
22:06 The Pentagon said that the United States will reconsider its military presence in Europe with an understanding of the irreversibility of changes in the region and do not rule out a build-up of forces. 22:05 Germany is ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, said Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock.
22:02 Chechens are also participating in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Both supporters of the head of Chechnya Kadyrov, who are fighting in the ranks of the RF Armed Forces, and those who support Ukraine. For more details, see How Chechens Fight in Ukraine .
21:59 Arestovich said that among the countries that have already agreed to be guarantors of Ukraine's security are the United States, Great Britain, Poland, all permanent members of the UN Security Council, Turkey "and many other countries."
21:54 Today, 1,530 people got to Zaporozhye along the routes of humanitarian corridors on their own transport: 812 from Mariupol and 718 residents of the cities of Zaporozhye region. Despite the agreements, the occupying troops are blocking evacuation buses and trucks with humanitarian aid, the OP reported.
21:52 During the month of the war in Kharkov, about 15% of the housing stock was destroyed, the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, said.
21:50 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that the United States is ready to consider joining the guarantee program for Ukraine: "Together with allies and partners, we will have to continue to seriously help Ukraine in the security sphere. If we come to an agreement, it will need international support. But we we will be guided by what Ukrainians think is right, how they want to protect their sovereignty and territorial integrity in the future, and we are ready to do this in the long term."
21:47 In the Dnieper, two enemy missiles hit an oil depot full of fuel - it was destroyed. The wreckage of another rocket damaged two more fuel trucks. There were no injured or dead, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Council, Nikolai Lukashuk.
21:44 The head of the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators, volunteer Yaroslav Emelianenko reports, citing Belarusian sources, that about seven medical PAZs arrived at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology. The photo shows that there are people in the bags. Russian soldiers are brought to this center on a regular basis.
21:35 Arestovich says that Ukraine is waiting for "at least two weeks of the active phase." Then, in his opinion, a protracted stationary phase will follow, when the enemy will not be able to attack, but will stand in position. "There will be more brilliant green, funny guerrilla raids - the war has not gone away," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office noted and added that Russia "does not have much" reserves.
21:15 Lukashenko promised Putin to launch an offensive in Ukraine no later than March 21. Since that moment, fears about the invasion of the Belarusian army have grown significantly. For more information about the attitude of Belarusians to the war and how the army of the Republic of Belarus can threaten Ukraine, see the article Are Belarusians Ready to Fight .
21:09 The Ukrainian military is gradually pushing the Russians away from Kharkov in the Dergachev and Rogan directions, said the head of the Kharkov regional administration Oleg Sinegubov.
He also confirmed that this morning in the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down a Russian fighter. According to the governor, Izyum remains the most critical point in the region.
20:47 The Russian invaders released the priest of the OCU, volunteer Sergei Chudinovich, who was kidnapped this morning in occupied Kherson, the head of the Kherson diocese of the OCU, Bishop Nikodim of Kherson and Taurida, said.
20:35 A missile attack was carried out on the Dnieper, Mayor Boris Filatov said. Details are not reported.
20:28 The Russians used phosphorus shells in Maryinka, Donetsk region. According to the State Emergency Service, about a dozen fires were discovered in the city, they were eliminated by rescuers.
20:26 Danilov confirmed that some of the units that Russia withdraws in the Kiev and Chernihiv regions have been relocated to the Kharkov and Donetsk directions.
20:17 Bloomberg writes that Gazprom offices in Germany were searched as part of an investigation into the company's role in raising gas prices in Europe. For the second year now, a number of experts and journalists have pointed out that the price of gas, which began to rise in 2021, is an artificially created "bubble": traders controlled by Gazprom increased the hype in the market.
20:00 The Ministry of Culture announced that from April 1, institutions of culture and arts - theaters, operas and concert halls - will gradually start working in Ukraine.
19:57 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denied Lavrov's words that "the Ukrainian side demonstrates understanding that the issues of Crimea and Donbass have been finally resolved." Kyiv claims that such a vision is "erroneous", and "the issues of Crimea and Donbass will be finally resolved after the resumption of Ukraine's sovereignty over them."
19:56 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia is considering the possibility of transporting faulty equipment to the occupied territories of the Donetsk region for its further restoration.
19:54 The US is working around the clock to fulfill Ukraine's key requests for security assistance, the White House said.
19:52 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia is focusing its efforts on the capture of Rubizhne, Mariupol and Popasna.
19:50 Johnson, in his speech to a committee of British legislators, said that the West should not lift sanctions against the Russian Federation until all its troops are withdrawn from Ukraine, moreover, anti-Russian measures need to be strengthened.
He also said that the UK is discussing increasing support for Ukraine and is now considering sending it an armored personnel carrier.
19:46 Biden, in a telephone conversation with Zelensky, said that the United States plans to provide Ukraine with $500 million in direct budget assistance, the White House said.
19:44 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on March 28, at the point of permanent deployment of the 83rd separate air assault brigade, a farewell ceremony was held for the dead Russian servicemen. Their number is approximately 200 people.
19:42 The General Staff reports that the enemy is partially withdrawing individual units from the territory of the Kiev and Chernihiv regions.
19:40 In Italy, the tax police confiscated an armored Mercedes Maybach, owned by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, worth 600,000 euros.
19:25 Zelensky spoke with Biden, discussed defense support for Ukraine, a new package of enhanced sanctions against Russia, macro-financial and humanitarian assistance.
19:14 Anton Gerashchenko writes that two Russian columns, which were previously located in the Brovary region and were based near Novaya and Staraya Basan, began their movement towards the border with Russia. According to him, earlier this grouping was subjected to repeated strikes by Ukrainian aviation and artillery.
One goes through Ichnya, the other through Losinovka. In one - 300 units of equipment, in the other - 150. They are probably withdrawing equipment in order to strengthen their grouping in the Donbass, Gerashchenko notes.
19:11 The Prime Minister of the Netherlands said that the peace agreement with the loss of territory and sovereignty by Ukraine will not lead to the termination of sanctions against Russia.
19:09 "President" of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said that the unrecognized "republic" will soon take "legal steps" to join the Russian Federation.
19:07 Kuleba: "Those who say that sanctions and weapons impede negotiations either do not understand the essence of the processes, or play along with Russia. Ukraine's successes on the battlefield and the suffering of the Russian economy significantly help to direct the negotiations in a constructive direction.
19:06 The air command of Skhid reported three downed Russian fighters over the Kharkiv region.
18:54 The head of the Luhansk regional administration, Sergei Gaidai, reports that the Russians are non-stop shelling peaceful cities. Two people died, five were injured, 21 were rescued from rubble and fires.
Lisichansk is being shelled from artillery, Popasnaya from aviation. As a result of powerful shelling of Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Lisichansk, Kremennaya, about 18 objects were damaged, including six apartment buildings and six private residential buildings.
18:47 Putin from tomorrow banned government customers from purchasing foreign software for critical infrastructure without the consent of the relevant department. From 2025, the use of foreign programs on critical infrastructure will be completely prohibited.
18:45 Podolyak on the role of Abramovich in the negotiation process: "He is an extremely effective mediator between delegations. That is, he partially moderates the process, from the point of view, so that there is no misunderstanding at the entrance. That is, when a party declares something, and the other side is not so clear, from the point of view of the logistics of the negotiation process."
18:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation explained: "At the first stage of the" special operation "it was planned to force the enemy to concentrate forces to hold large points in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions, including Kiev, to tie them up on the battlefield and without storming cities (in order to avoid losses among civilians) to inflict a defeat that would prevent them from using their forces in the main direction of Russian operations - in the Donbass."
18:32 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that "a planned regrouping of troops is taking place" in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions.
According to the agency, "all the main tasks of the Russian forces in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions have been completed, the goal of the regrouping of Russian troops is to intensify actions in priority areas and, above all, complete the operation to completely liberate Donbass."
18:25 Human Rights Watch said that Russian troops used banned anti-personnel mines in the eastern part of the Kharkiv region. The mines were discovered by Ukrainian sappers on March 28.
We are talking about the anti-personnel mine Medallion, equipped with a seismic sensor - it detects an approaching person and throws an explosive charge into the air. It is known that such ammunition is in service with Russia, Ukraine does not.
18:21 The Chernobyl nuclear power plant receives electricity from Belarus, said the head of the State Agency for the Management of the Exclusion Zone Yevgeny Kramarenko. According to him, there is no power supply in Chernobyl itself and in other territories of the exclusion zone.
18:17 Local residents should not return to Irpin, Kiev region, for at least a month, warned the mayor of the city, Alexander Markushin. According to him, now it is very dangerous. The authorities will inform about the possibility of returning later.
18:09 The head of the Servant of the People party Olena Shulyak said that Ukrainians will be able to receive compensation for housing damaged or destroyed as a result of the Russian invasion in the form of providing living space with a limit of up to 150 square meters.
She clarified that the relevant bill No. 7198 has already been registered in the Rada. People whose houses and apartments are destroyed or damaged must register through the Diya application.
The bill provides that a person will be able to choose the city where he wants to settle.
18:01 Google has launched the Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund to support Ukrainian startups in the amount of five million dollars.
17:59 Austria, following Germany, also activated the emergency early warning mode in the event of a cessation of Russian gas supplies.
17:52 Slovakia demands to reduce the staff of the Russian Embassy in Bratislava by 35 people, Reuters reports with reference to the country's Foreign Ministry.
17:26 Russian invaders abducted eight people in Hola Pristan, Kherson region, including several representatives of local authorities, Suspіlne reports. Among them are the Golopristan mayor Alexander Babich and the headman of Staraya Zburyevka Viktor Marunyak.
At the same time, local authorities note that there are no occupying troops on the territory of the city, public utilities, medical and educational institutions are working.
17:22 The White House believes that information about the real state of affairs at the front, as well as the impact of economic sanctions, does not reach Putin. Therefore, US officials are not even trying to talk to the Russian leader now, a Biden administration official told NBC.
The US leadership proceeds from the fact that the inner circle is simply afraid to tell Putin the truth.
17:09 Podolyak said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine "set specific accents" that the Ukrainian side uses in negotiations. Thus, Russia no longer uses ultimatums in negotiations. He also stressed that the territorial integrity of Ukraine is beyond doubt.
According to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, the Ukrainian side is already discussing points that will help prevent such attacks by Russia in the future. He once again confirmed Kyiv's position that the referendum on peace agreements would take place only after the RF Armed Forces had withdrawn to positions as of February 23. And only after the referendum can be the ratification of the treaty on security guarantees.
16:57 Norway will provide Ukraine with 20 million euros to pay salaries, pensions and social assistance. The funds will be channeled through the World Bank's emergency financing package, the Norwegian government said. We are talking about the salaries of medical personnel, teachers and public sector employees, as well as the payment of pensions and social assistance.
16:55 Ukraine is discussing with Norway the supply of about five billion cubic meters of gas in preparation for the next heating season, Zelensky said.
16:51 There are all the prerequisites for a meeting between Zelensky and Putin, preparations can begin, Podolyak said.
“When exactly this will happen is a question already, rather a logistical one. Because the Russians need to look at our proposals, give some kind of preliminary answer to them,” he specified.
16:44 Medinsky said that Ukraine yesterday "for the first time recorded its readiness to fulfill a number of important conditions for building good neighborly relations with the Russian Federation." According to him, Ukraine "essentially agreed to Russia's fundamental demands of not joining NATO and refusing to deploy military bases."
"Russia's principled position on Crimea and Donbass remains unchanged, negotiations continue," he added.
16:37 In Irpin, according to preliminary data, up to 300 civilians and up to 50 military were killed , said the mayor of the city Alexander Makrushin.
16:22 The United Jewish Community of Ukraine stated that all synagogues and Jewish facilities in Ukraine are used exclusively for their intended purpose - to carry out religious activities or help members of Jewish communities and the local population.
And the synagogue in Uman, in which, according to Moscow, the "Nazis" allegedly settled down, has been generally closed since mid-September last year. The fact that the gates of the synagogue are closed and no one is inside can be seen even in the photo given by the Russian media.
16:16 Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets proposes to stop paying Russia for oil and gas and direct these funds to the restoration of Ukraine. She also said that before the end of the year, the EU will reduce the supply of fossil fuels from Russia by two-thirds.
16:04 Peskov responded to Kiev's proposal on Crimea: "We will not invade Crimea, this is part of the Russian Federation. According to our constitution, we cannot discuss with anyone the fate of the territories of the Russian Federation, the fate of Russian regions, this is out of the question."
16:01 Zelensky addressed the Norwegian Parliament and asked the country for weapons against Russian ships.
15:52 Poland will completely abandon Russian coal in April-May 2022, and will stop importing oil from Russia by the end of the year, Prime Minister Morawiecki said.
15:47 According to operational information, the enemy has not completely abandoned attempts to capture or at least surround Kiev and Chernihiv, the Ministry of Defense said. Mass withdrawal of Russian troops from these areas is not observed.
15:42 Belarusian media write that today columns of Russian military equipment with V marks continue to move across the country near the border with Ukraine, including Tochki-U, armored personnel carriers, Tigers, KamAZ trucks and fuel trucks.
15:27 Near Odessa, ships of the Russian Federation are maneuvering and the threat of landing remains, Vladislav Nazarov, officer of the operational command Pivden, said. According to him, the enemy persistently conducts aerial reconnaissance, presses and attacks from the sky.
15:25 Johnson's deputy Dominic Raab said that the UK may consider Ukraine's request for the opportunity to become a guarantor of its security, but excludes the assumption of obligations that NATO members have within the alliance, writes The Guardian.
"We have made it very clear that we are not going to be drawn into a direct military confrontation with Russia. Ukraine is not a member of NATO," Raab said.
15:22 The NAPC reported that it is not necessary to submit a declaration now, it will be necessary to submit it within three months after the end of martial law.
15:20 Arakhamia said that the Ukrainian delegation is still in Turkey, as meetings with Turkish officials are being held today to discuss cooperation in the military-technical sphere. Members of the delegation will return to Ukraine tonight.
15:13 The city council has adopted a number of decisions to stimulate the work of the capital's business:
the payment under contracts for mobile trade and restaurant sites has been reduced to a symbolic one hryvnia, the payment of equity participation for them will be 50% of the existing one;
businesses operating on communal areas are exempt from paying rent;
for parking benefits from the city;
advertising companies that place social and patriotic advertisements on advertising planes in the city will receive benefits.
The Kiev authorities expect that the amount of benefits provided will be compensated by tax revenues.
15:05 In Lisichansk, evacuation buses came under fire from the Russians, the Luhansk OVA reported. There were no casualties, in just one day 260 people were taken out. In addition, 25 people were evacuated from Rubizhne, 73 from Severodonetsk, 58 from Kremennaya, and 13 from Popasna. Many more people wanted to leave Popasna, but the bus could not return for them, because at that time the Russians launched an airstrike on the city .
15:01 Strelkov-Girkin said that Russia has lost its "golden month" and now it is unlikely to be able to defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction, since the Ukrainian command is acting "an order of magnitude more adequate" than the Russian one. He also called Shoigu a "plywood marshal" who cannot say that he "has screwed up" and therefore claims the allegedly successful first stage of the "special operation."
14:58 The Russian government legalized parallel imports "to meet the demand for foreign goods in demand" (previously, their sale in the country without the permission of the copyright holder was prohibited).
Parallel import is the importation into the country of goods without the permission of the right holder of this trademark (that is, "parallel" to the official import of such goods through authorized dealers).
14:53 Arestovich said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine took Irpin "with a fight": "A part of them withdrew from the Kiev region. They lined up columns and leave, they leave en masse. But they leave with a fight, this must be understood correctly. This is not what we are letting them go. They are coming battles, foundations, counter-bases. They have mined a vast territory. Leaving, they are shelling houses, infrastructure facilities."
14:48 Germany is "generally ready" to become the guarantor of Ukraine. Scholz has already discussed the topic with Zelensky, the German Cabinet said.
14:45 Rocket attack on the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration was accompanied by the movement of the opponent on one of the sectors of the front, said the head of the Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim. He also expressed his conviction that the talks in Turkey did not lead to a de-escalation in the region.
According to Kim, there is a buildup of troops, and the situation remains "constantly bad." Positions of Ukraine in the negotiations, in his opinion, will depend on the events at the front.
14:40 Chinese Foreign Ministry urged to learn a lesson from the war in Ukraine and create a security mechanism in Europe. According to Beijing, what is happening now is the result of long-standing security contradictions in Europe.
14:27 The number of victims of shelling of the building of the regional state administration in Nikolaev increased to 15 people. According to the State Emergency Service at 13:00, the bodies of 14 dead were removed from the rubble, another person died in intensive care. Search and rescue work continues.
14:08 Peskov said that the process of transferring payment for Russian gas into rubles for Europe will not be launched directly on March 31, "this is a process that is extended over time."
13:57 The Ministry of Agrarian Policy has calculated that during the month of the war, Ukraine lost $1.5 billion in food exports.
13:54 The UN is concerned about the risks of sexual violence against Ukrainian women both in Ukraine itself and abroad. The war can provoke an increase in the number of unplanned pregnancies, the organization notes.
Preliminary studies have shown that more than 20% of refugee and internally displaced women have experienced sexual violence, and these figures may be underestimated, writes The Guardian.
13:51 Peskov said that there are progress in negotiations with Ukraine, but there is no serious breakthrough yet. Commenting on calls made in Russia to "go to the end in Ukraine," he noted that "Stalingrad is not on the calendar and should not be, there is no place for emotions."
13:48 As a result of yesterday's shelling of Nizhyn by Russian invaders, one person was killed, six more civilians were injured, including one child, the mayor's office said.
13:45 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine believes that yesterday in Russian Belgorod there was a detonation of ammunition due to violation of transportation requirements - this is an example of the use of obsolete dangerous ammunition typical for Russians.
13:43 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy's attempts to mobilize "volunteers" did not meet with the support of the population. So, in the Kaliningrad region, only 17 so-called "volunteers" were gathered.
13:32 Arakhamia explained how the security guarantee agreement differs from NATO: Article 5 of the NATO Treaty assumes that an attack on one country is equal to an attack on all. In this case, there is no such thing, because we are talking about guarantees not of collective security, but specifically for Ukraine.
When ratifying this agreement, Ukraine will require approval that it will take precedence over local legislation. The Russians say it's tougher than NATO's Article 5, Arakhamia added.
He once again confirmed that as long as the occupiers remain in the territories that they occupied after February 23, there can be no agreements, let alone referendums.
13:17 According to the General Staff, the enemy is deploying reinforcements near Izyum and intensifying military operations in the Donbass. In the Kiev direction, the Russian Federation is strengthening its positions in the Chernobyl zone and is accumulating troops there.
12:58 The mayor of the city of Primorsk, Zaporozhye region, Alexander Koshalevich, exchanged himself for his father, who was captured by the Russians, MP Vladimir Kaltsev said. According to him, from the first days of the occupation, the mayor publicly declared that Primorsk is Ukraine, and participated in rallies along with the townspeople.
The Russian military searched for the mayor and, not finding him, captured his father. Koshelevich exchanged himself for his father, the Russians took him away towards Berdyansk.
12:40 In Belarusian Gomel, Russian equipment was seen returning to Russia. According to Arestovich, this equipment will be transferred to reinforce the enemy's western grouping.
12:39 In the Kharkiv region, a 12-year-old boy was detained, who transmitted information to the Russian invaders about the placement of facilities for the 500 hryvnia promised by the military intelligence of the Russian Federation. The boy was never paid any money, the SBU reported.
12:35 Yermak said that the main efforts of Ukraine in the fight against Russia will be aimed at convincing Western partners of the need to urgently impose an oil embargo and transfer heavy weapons to Ukraine, including air defense systems, aircraft and artillery.
12:32 Germany declares an "early notification" stage of an emergency in the event of a cessation of Russian gas supplies. According to the Ministry of Economy of the country, Germany will not put up with the violation of the gas contract by the Russian Federation and pay for gas in rubles. The country is also activating an emergency plan to ensure the supply of natural gas.
12:29 Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko called on UNESCO to exclude Russia from the organization, as well as to move the 45th session of UNESCO, scheduled for June this year, from Kazan to Lviv.
12:23 PM found Kadyrov's villa in Dubai worth at least seven million dollars. According to the publication, in 2021-2022 alone, he was able to visit the UAE 14 times on his private Airbus A319 aircraft worth about $80 million.
The villa is located on the territory of the five-star Zabeel Saray Royal Residences hotel in Palm Jumeirah on Dubai's famous man-made Jumeirah palm tree.
12:13 The death toll from a missile attack on the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration increased to 14 people - rescuers got 13 bodies from the rubble, another person died in intensive care. According to the head of the region Vitaly Kim, search and rescue operations will continue at least the entire day.
12:09 pm The Kyiv City State Administration urges private entrepreneurs to resume the rental of electric scooters and bicycles in the capital - they can become an alternative to public transport for traveling short distances.
11:57 A large number of people are returning to Kiev, public transport is being launched, said Nikolai Povoroznik, First Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration. According to him, many still hide in the subway, but some of these people go to work during the day.
11:42 Arestovich said that the active phase of hostilities "will last another week, maybe more." In his opinion, near Kiev, the enemy will leave part of the contingent, whose task will be "to hold our troops, not to allow them to be transferred to difficult directions." Troops are not being withdrawn from Chernigov yet.
Russia, according to the adviser to the OP, is moving troops from near Kyiv to the JFO zone and near Mariupol in order to gain an advantage there and encircle Ukrainian forces. In the south, in the Kherson region, the enemy is on the defensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine "are conducting accurate tactical actions there."
11:25 Ukraine demands the introduction of a special UN mission into the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kyiv fears that the detonation of the ammunition depot, equipped by the Russian invaders, could lead to a new nuclear catastrophe, Vereshchuk said.
11:21 Russian invaders shot at the premises of the Mariupol office of the EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine, Borrell said.
11:20 Anatoly Fomichevsky, a deputy of the Izyum City Council from the Opposition Platform for Life, allowed Russian invaders into the city, showing them an unprotected road, said Maxim Strelnik, a representative of the City Council.
11:19 In Kherson, Russian invaders kidnapped OCU priest Sergei Chudinovich. According to local media, citing eyewitnesses, he was taken directly from the church. Unknown persons introduced themselves as "police" officers, conducted a search in the church, checked the documents and instant messengers of the audience. However, they refused to show their documents.
11:17 Russian hackers are trying to find weaknesses in the system of US energy companies, the FBI cybersecurity department said. They called hacker attacks on the country's energy sector, carried out with the support of the Russian state, a threat to US national security.
11:13 British intelligence notes that Russian units, having suffered heavy losses, were forced to return to Belarus and Russia to reorganize and replenish supplies. Such activity puts additional pressure on Russia's already tight logistics and demonstrates the difficulties Russia is facing in reorganizing its units in Ukraine's forward areas.
Russia's stated focus on offensives in Donetsk and Luhansk is likely a tacit admission that it is struggling to maintain more than one significant offensive, experts say.
11:11 The Russians launched airstrikes on Maryinka and Novomikhailovka in the morning, after which they began to work with artillery in the area of these settlements, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District, Pavel Kirilenko. He added that Avdievka, Maryinka, Krasnogorovka and their suburbs have been shelled since the night, under fire from the Russians and the Ocheretinsky community. There are civilian casualties.
11:10 According to the UN human rights mission, thousands of residents may have died in Mariupol. "We believe that there could be thousands of deaths and civilian casualties in Mariupol," said Matilda Bogner, head of the UN human rights mission in Ukraine.
11:09 The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Ukrainian authorities used the synagogue in Uman as "a point for collecting and transporting weapons and Nazis to participate in hostilities."
11:07 Over the past day, Russian invaders fired at the Kharkiv region from artillery, mortars and Gradov, damaged residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
11:03 In Lisichansk, as a result of the shelling of the occupiers, significant destruction in high-rise buildings. Five people have been rescued so far, and one death is known.
11:00 In Mariupol, the invaders fired on a building marked with the Red Cross, the Azov regiment reported. "This is one of the most egregious war crimes. Such crosses mark places where there may be wounded, civilian or humanitarian cargo," Azov said.
10:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the destruction of large fuel depots in the Starokonstantinov and Khmelnitsky regions by "high-precision air-launched missiles". The Iskanders also destroyed two large depots of rocket and artillery weapons in Kamenka in the Donetsk region.
10:47 In the Khmelnitsky region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down one of the Russian cruise missiles, which was aimed at civilian infrastructure facilities. She was shot down by an air-to-air missile from a Ukrainian fighter jet, Zakhid Air Command said.
10:41 A food warehouse burned down near Kiev due to shelling. The area of the fire was 20,000 square meters, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.
10:33 In Nikolaev, rescue work continues in the building of the regional state administration. As of 08:00, the bodies of 12 dead were pulled out from under the rubble, 33 people were injured, the State Emergency Service said.
10:18 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of March 30:
personnel - about 17,300 people,
tanks - 605,
armored fighting vehicles - 1723,
artillery systems - 305,
MLRS - 96,
air defense systems - 54,
aircraft - 131,
helicopters - 131,
automotive equipment - 1184,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 75,
UAV operational-tactical level - 81,
special equipment - 21,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
10:00 "Decrease in activity" in the Chernihiv region, the enemy showed attacks on Nizhyn, including air strikes, and all night attacked Chernihiv, said the head of the UVA Vyacheslav Chaus. According to him, civil infrastructure facilities, libraries, shopping centers and other facilities, a lot of houses were again destroyed.
09:42 The first volunteers of the Legion of Freedom of Russia from among the former Russian military personnel have begun individual additional training, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. The commanders of the legion subdivisions got acquainted with the operational situation on the fronts and expressed a common desire on behalf of all the volunteers to conduct the first battle against the Kadyrovites.
09:40 Humanitarian corridors agreed on March 30:
Berdyansk - Zaporozhye
Melitopol - Zaporozhye
Energodar - Zaporizhia
Columns of buses and trucks with humanitarian aid have already left Zaporozhye. On the way back to the columns from Berdyansk and Melitopol, people on their own transport will be able to join, the OP reported.
09:37 At night, the Russians delivered three blows to industrial facilities in the Khmelnytsky region. The fires are localized, information about the victims is being checked, said the head of the regional administration, Sergei Gamaly.
09:35 Russian oligarch Deripaska tried to lift the sanctions imposed against him back in 2018 in an American court. The court denied him for the second time.
09:28 The invaders fired at Chernihiv at night, several rockets were shot down over Kiev. According to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko, the Russians do not reduce the intensity of fighting in the Kiev and Chernigov directions. According to him, the battles near Irpen went on all night, and in the Chernihiv region, the withdrawal of some Russian units to Belarus is more like a rotation.
09:25 The US State Department warned American citizens about the risks of detention in Russia and again asked them to refrain from traveling to this country.
09:23 Great Britain is ready to act as a guarantor of security for Ukraine and will respond if it receives an appropriate appeal, said the country's permanent representative to the UN Barbara Woodward.
Johnson's spokesman also confirmed that London would join other countries in securing Ukrainian security if Kyiv agreed to a neutral status as part of a peace treaty. At the same time, he clarified that so far no such request has been received from the Ukrainian authorities.
09:16 The US State Department has accused Putin of provoking a global food crisis. They recalled that the Black Sea region is responsible for 73% of world exports of sunflower oil, 30% of wheat grain exports and 20% of corn.
"The consequences of Putin's war extend far beyond the borders of Ukraine, posing an immediate threat to world food security. Make no mistake: Putin created this food crisis. And he is the only one who can stop it," Sherman, deputy head of the State Department, said.
08:54 In Kiev, from today, the South Bridge opens for public transport, reports the Kyiv City State Administration. The North and Darnitsky bridges will operate for road traffic on the left and right banks of the capital.
08:49 Chinese Ambassador to the UN Dai Bing called the war in Ukraine a "conflict situation" and urged not to impose new sanctions against Russia, because this would lead to a "new humanitarian catastrophe." He asks "to refrain from unjustified export restrictions."
08:30 The White House called the circumstances under which Biden can meet with Putin: “It will depend on what President Putin wants to talk about. President Biden made it very clear that there must be a tangible de-escalation from Russia and a clear, true commitment diplomacy before he engages in such a conversation."
08:26 Russian invaders staged a provocation at the Ryzhevka border checkpoint. They set up and blew up their own armored personnel carrier there, said Dmitry Zhivitsky, head of the Sumy OVA. In order to "revenge" the Ukrainians, the Russians burned down a border checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Russian border.
08:14 At a star concert in British Birmingham last night, they managed to raise 16 million dollars for Ukrainian migrants.
08:11 The UK is convening a donor conference tomorrow to raise more funds for lethal weapons for Ukraine. The initiator was the head of the British Ministry of Defense Ben Wallace. According to him, at the conference "we will see what we can gather from around the world to ensure that Russia does not succeed in its illegal occupation and invasion of a sovereign country."
08:09 Venediktova announced the creation of an international legal working group on liability for crimes committed in Ukraine. Its scope will include providing advice on accountability, including through the UN and regional organizations.
08:00 Great Britain will strengthen its military presence in the Arctic due to Russian aggression in Ukraine, said Minister of Defense Ben Wallace.
07:53 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock admitted that the EU was aware of the danger of increased energy dependence on Russia after the occupation of Crimea, and now they are paying for ignoring the problem.
07:30 The Parliament of Canada supported visa-free travel with Ukraine. The deputies voted for the report of the Standing Committee of the Parliament, whose members had previously approved the introduction of a visa-free regime with Ukraine.
07:07 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the conscripts of the Russian Federation of the 26th Tank Regiment from the 47th Tank Division, who signed contracts, after their participation in the war with Ukraine, began to submit reports with a request to terminate the contract and send them for further service to the point permanent deployment.
07:02 In the occupied territory of the Luhansk region, the Russians plan to conduct another wave of mobilization from April 1. It is possible that there will be such attempts in the recently occupied territories of the region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
06:51 Russia is transferring units of the 4th (South Ossetia) and 7th (Abkhazia) military bases to Ukraine from the occupied territories of Georgia, the General Staff reports.
From the 4th military base, three armored personnel carriers with a total number of up to 1,200 Russian and Ossetian military personnel were formed and sent to Ukraine. From the units of the 7th military base, two armored personnel carriers were formed, that is, about 800 people.
05:21 According to the UN, 3.9 million Ukrainians have already left the country since the beginning of the Russian invasion, another 6.5 million have become internally displaced.
02:59 Scholz said that Russia attacked Ukraine, guided by "extremely imperialistic views," and the aggressive war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is aimed at seizing territory.
02:15 The White House said that the Russians are blocking 94 civilian ships with food in the Black Sea region and have already bombed three civilian ships carrying goods from Black Sea ports around the world.
01:37 The Foreign Ministry says that Russia, having mined the Black Sea, is trying to discredit Ukraine in front of its international partners - the invaders are using mines seized in Crimea in 2014.
00:59 Russia withdraws troops from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions in order to transfer them to the Donbass, the General Staff declares.
00:11 Zelensky said that a new functionality is already available in Die to compensate for the destruction of houses or apartments as a result of hostilities.
00:02 British intelligence admits that Russia's statements about a decrease in activity around Kiev and the withdrawal of some units from these areas may indicate a recognition that the Russian Federation has lost the initiative in the region. It is likely that Russia will try to transfer combat power from the north to the offensive in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Ukraine shells Makiivka, Lozovoe and Panteleymonovka
[REGNUM] A number of settlements in the DPR were shelled by Ukrainian militants on the evening of March 30, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
At 18:10 Moscow time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire on the village of Lozovoye from the side of the settlement of Nevelskoye: five 120 mm caliber mines were fired. The attack was repeated at 20:15 Moscow time: six mines were fired.
At 19:00 Moscow time, Ukrainian militants attacked the village of Panteleymonovka from the side of the Troitskoye settlement, firing six 122 mm artillery shells.
At 21:10 Moscow time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Chervonogvardeisky district of the city of Makeyevka: two shells of 152 mm caliber were fired from the village of Opytnoe.
Ukrainian militants shelled Donetsk with Grads
[REGNUM] On the evening of March 30, Donetsk was subjected to numerous shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
Petrovsky district of the capital of the DPR was shelled from artillery, heavy mortars and from BM-21 Grad. At 16:47 Moscow time, two artillery shells of 122 mm caliber were fired from the direction of Georgievka.
At 18:05 Moscow time and at 18:15 Moscow time, Grads were fired from Georgiyevka in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk: ten and 40 rockets, respectively. The attack was repeated at 20:10 Moscow time: ten rockets were fired.
At 19:30 Moscow time and at 20:35 Moscow time, Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district from the direction of the settlement of Krasnogorovka from a 122 mm artillery gun: ten and five shells were fired.
At 23:15 Moscow time, Ukrainian formations fired at the Kirovsky district of the capital of the DPR from Krasnogorovka, firing six shells of 122 mm caliber.
24 Ukrainian Nazis were destroyed, 12 surrendered
[REGNUM] Units of the People's Militia of the DPR liquidated 24 Ukrainian Nazis in a day, destroyed nine firing points, and also captured several units of Ukrainian armored vehicles, the Telegram channel of the NM DPR reports on March 30.
Two infantry fighting vehicles and one armored car were also destroyed. The trophies were a tank and two armored vehicles.
“Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 24 Ukrainian nationalists, nine firing positions, two infantry fighting vehicles and one armored vehicle. One tank and two armored vehicles were captured , ”the message says.
In addition, 12 Ukrainian militants surrendered to the People's Militia during the day. Since February 24, the total number of prisoners taken by the NM of the DPR has amounted to 476 people.
[Yahoo] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is set to fly to India this week, sources said, finding time to visit to one of the biggest buyers of Russian commodities since the international community began isolating Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
There is little sign that buying will slow down any time soon, as more deals get signed. One source said the two countries could discuss smoothening trade payments disrupted by Western sanctions on Russian banks. Media have said he could hold talks in the Indian capital on Friday.
It will only be Lavrov's third visit overseas since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, after a trip to Turkey for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart earlier this month and a scheduled meeting in China on Thursday.
Russia is India's main supplier of defence hardware but overall annual trade is small, averaging about $9 billion in the past few years, mainly fertiliser and some oil. By comparison, India's bilateral trade with China is more than $100 billion a year.
But given sharp discounts on Russian crude oil since the attack on Ukraine, India has bought at least 13 million barrels, compared with nearly 16 million barrels imported from the country for the whole of last year. Many European countries have also continued to buy Russian energy despite publicly criticising Moscow.
#1
Why should India jeopardize its close and beneficial alliance with Russia by halting imports of arms, food and other vital supplies when the western nations aren't even halting their own gas purchases from Russia? For the love of Joe Biden? No thank you
[BBC] Late last week, a proposed security treaty between China and a tiny chain of islands in the Pacific sent shock waves across the ocean.
The leaked draft signalled that China could deploy troops to the Solomon Islands - and potentially establish a naval base there.
Nowhere was more alarmed than the Solomons' neighbour to the south, Australia - the bedrock regional partner of the Aukus alliance, a new security pact in the Pacific Ocean with the US and UK.
"The details of this deal are still uncertain. But even if it's smaller than the feared military base, it would be China's first foothold in the Pacific," says Prof Alan Gyngell from the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
The Solomon Islands and Australia have long been interlinked. Since World War Two, Australia has been the islands' largest aid donor, development partner and until now the sole security partner.
Australia's government was rocked and likely blindsided by the move, analysts say. Not that it hadn't been warned. Five years ago, Canberra sensed that China was encroaching on its "backyard" with Solomon internal politics at the time also driving up Chinese loans and economic investment.
[BenarNews] A controversial security agreement with China is "ready for signing," the leader of the Solomon Islands told Parliament but without revealing the details, saying only that his government had not been pressured to let China build a naval base in the country.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made the remarks to Parliament late Tuesday, according to multiple news reports. Neighboring powers have expressed concern over the pact that China has defended as normal cooperation with Pacific island nations.
"We are not pressured in any way by our new friends and there is no intention whatsoever to ask China to build a military base in the Solomon Islands," Sogavare was quoted as saying.
A draft agreement leaked online last week would allow Beijing to set up bases and deploy troops in the Solomon Islands, which lies about 1,700 km (1,050 miles) from the northeastern coast of Australia.
The document provoked fears in the region’s traditional powers, Australia and New Zealand, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying that her country sees the pact as "gravely concerning."
It is unclear whether the leaked draft differs from the final agreement.
Sogavare told politicians that to achieve the nation’s security needs, "it is clear that we need to diversify the country’s relationship with other countries" but existing security arrangements with Australia would remain.
His policy of "diversification" was evident in November 2021 when Sogavare asked Australia, and after that China, to send police forces to help him quell violent mostly peaceful riots that rocked the capital, Honiara.
Alexander Vuving, a professor with the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, said Sogavare’s strategy is not unusual for leaders of small Pacific island states who are "willing to play the major powers off against each other, thus bloating their states’ values to the major powers."
A Chinese foreign ministry front man said on Tuesday that "normal law enforcement and security cooperation between China and Solomon Islands ... is consistent with international law and customary international practice."
"We hope relevant countries will earnestly respect Solomon Islands’ illusory sovereignty and its independent decisions instead of deciding what others should and should not do in a condescending manner," front man Wang Wenbin said.
CHINA’S GROWING PRESENCE IN PACIFIC
Beijing doesn’t hide its ambition to set up military bases in the region. Some Chinese analysts, such as Qi Huaigao, an associate professor at Fudan University, suggested that in order to compete with the United States in the Western Pacific, China needs to have bases in Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu for commercial and military supply purposes.
In 2018, media reports about China’s plan to build a base in Vanuatu prompted a stern warning from then-Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
David Capie, director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, told Radio Free Asia earlier this week that China "wants to be able to operate its rapidly growing navy out in the wider Pacific, complicating U.S. plans in the event of a future conflict."
"A base in the Pacific would let People’s Liberation Army Navy vessels operate far away from their home ports for longer and in the future might also be used for intelligence gathering and surveillance," he said.
It would greatly boost China’s capabilities in intelligence-collecting which is alleged to have often been done by marine research vessels.
Data provided by the ship-tracking website MarineTraffic show that China’s spacecraft-tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is currently operating in the Western Pacific, not far from the Solomon Islands.
Yuanwang-class ships are "multi-purpose signals and technical intelligence gathering platforms," said Paul Buchanan, director of the Auckland, New Zealand-based 36th Parallel Assessments risk consultancy.
The Yuanwang-5’s presence is normal but "it would not be surprising if it makes a port visit to Honiara as part of the deployment in order to register the seriousness of China’s intent in the region," Buchanan said.
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On the Road for Uncle Sam
by Joey Adams
New York, NY: Bernard Geis Associates, Random House
1963
Pg. 188: To tell the truth, I have difficulty separating Column A from Column B on a Chinese menu.
[BBC] The head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is losing his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, reports say.
Seven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for "inadequate briefings" and a "lack of mastery of subjects".
The US correctly assessed that Russia was planning a large-scale invasion, while France concluded it was unlikely.
Gen Vidaud was blamed for that by France's military chief, a source said.
However, the military source told AFP news agency that his job was to provide "military intelligence on operations, not on premeditation". As Gen Vidaud's service concluded that Russia had the means to invade Ukraine, the source said that "what happened proves him right".
When contacted by the BBC, a military spokesman said French armed forces chief Gen Thierry Burkhard had no comment to make.
However, in early March Gen Burkhard acknowledged that French intelligence had not been up to the level of US or UK briefings, which were publicised to pile pressure on Russia's Vladimir Putin. "The Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, they were right," he told Le Monde newspaper.
"Our services thought instead that the cost of conquering Ukraine would have been monstrous and the Russians had other options" to bring down the government of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, he added.
France's misreading of President Putin was all the more embarrassing because President Emmanuel Macron had spoken to him regularly in the days leading up to the invasion on 24 February.
Intelligence specialist Prof Alexandre Papaemmanuel told AFP it was too easy to blame military intelligence for the failure, which lay with France's entire intelligence community.
But Gen Vidaud, France's former special forces commander, appears to have been squeezed out for other reasons too.
Weeks after he took charge of military intelligence, his service came in for criticism when Australia scrapped a multi-billion dollar submarine contract with France in favour of a security pact with the US and UK. The Aukus pact came out of the blue in France and prompted a diplomatic spat.
IIUC, with the right equipment a nuke on board can be detected, something I read about back in the day about Bear Bomber intercepts. I don't think that is standard equipment on interceptors, but maybe it is being a neighbor of USSR and all.
Fake punch to keep everyone in place, makes sense. Also just watched 2 years of Daily Mail overhype bad information to support The Narrative, and this seems a story more appropriate 2 weeks ago, or more.
[DW] The Russian leader said money would be paid into Gazprom Bank, which is not a subject of sanctions, and then transferred in rubles to Russia, according to a German statement.
Germany's government said on Wednesday it has received assurances from Russia that Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... would not have to pay for Russian gas supplies in rubles.
Olaf Scholz's office said Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... told the German Chancellor that European companies could continue paying in euros or dollars.
In a phone call with Scholz, Putin said the money would be paid into Gazprom Bank and then transferred in rubles to Russia, a German statement said. The bank is not currently subject to sanctions.
"Scholz did not agree to this procedure in the conversation, but asked for written information to better understand the procedure," the statement added.
DEMAND FOR RUBLE PAYMENTS REJECTED
Putin said last week that Moscow would only accept rubles as payment for gas deliveries to "unfriendly" countries, including European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nations.
According to a Kremlin statement, Putin told Scholz that "the decision taken should not lead to worsening of contractual terms for European importer companies."
He also sought to justify Russia's demands for ruble payments, saying that "in violation of the norms of international law, the foreign exchange reserves of the Bank of Russia were frozen by the member states of the European Union."
The Kremlin said the two leaders agreed that experts from each country would hold further discussions on the matter.
G7 countries have rejected Moscow's demand to pay for gas in rubles, describing it as a breach of contract.
Germany on Wednesday triggered an emergency plan to manage gas supplies that could see Europe's largest economy ration power if a standoff over a Russian demand to pay for fuel with roubles disrupts or halted supplies. Just hours after Berlin's announcement, Austria also said it was activating an emergency alert over its gas supply.
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Russia has the power to really fuck with NATO via the gas and oil shipments. They could tell Germany and Turkey that they can keep their lights on while everyone's else goes out if they only leave NATO.
#6
The rouble reached 75 this morning. It's below where it was when Putin launched his war. He's just laughing at us, laughing all the way to the bank. Fuck.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A career criminal with a lengthy rap sheet, including slugging a 76-year-old man in January, is charged with shooting a tourist for his pricey watch outside a four-star Midtown hotel, police told The Post Wednesday.Nathaniel Owens, 35, who is also on parole for a 2012 weapons rap, was hit with attempted murder charges in the March 18 attack outside the Fifty Hotel & Suites by Affinia in Midtown, the NYPD said.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
