[BBC] At least six people have been killed and 10 injured in a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, police in California's state capital say.
People fled through the streets after automatic gunfire rang out in an area packed with restaurants and bars in the early hours of Sunday.
Police nearby responded to the gunfire and came across a "very large crowd", police chief Katherine Lester said.
No suspect is yet in custody in the wake of the shootings.
"This is a really tragic situation," Chief Lester said.
The officer said investigators had arrived at the scene and urged the public to come forward with any information that might help identify those responsible.
The shooting took place at around 02:00 (09:00 GMT) in an area at 10th Street and K that leads to the Golden One Center, where the Sacramento Kings play basketball.
Do we know anything about that neighbourhood beyond lots of bars and restaurants?
It is also only a few streets from the state Capitol building.
Community activist Barry Accius arrived at the scene at about 02:30 after a city council member called him about the shooting, he told ABC affiliate station KXTV.
Why would a local politician call him in particular?
"It was just horrific," he said. "Just as soon as I walked up you saw a chaotic scene, police all over the place, victims with blood all over their bodies, folks screaming, folks crying, people going, 'Where is my brother?' Mothers crying and trying to identify who their child was."
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The last time I stayed in downtown Sacramento, the Westfield mall by the capital was dead with closed up shops and predominantly vibrant and diverse roving groups of feral youts
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Social distancing would have reduced the death toll...
According to LinkedIn , he is the founder/CEO of Voice of the Youth, a group that mentors and provides life skills training for at-risk youth who, based on the pictures on the website, are entirely African-American.
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2am shooting
and it was crowded???
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1 Block from our old office building for Homeland Security, and only two blocks from the state capitol. Sacramento Bee had it vaguely linked to a Rapper Event a few blocks further downtown. 2am, and not description of the victims beyond one relative named Letitia, and photos of the wounded that were being removed. There is a video of an apparent major fight in the area involving 10-15 young men and it appears to be an Hispanic-African-American fray. My guess is the report of automatic weapons fire might have been a follow-on to that event.
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Bars closed @2AM put crowds in the street.
Drive-by shooting with a rifle reported.
Firing cadence heard in the video suggests semi-auto, not automatic.
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Gangs for certain TW. If you look at the Video you see graffiti in several spots proximate to the interviews. This was a higher end restaurant and shopping area, pedestrian only, no POVs on K street, streetcars only. The Westfield Mall in # 3 above was a huge multilevel shopping mall, center of downtown and linked down to Old Sacramento and the river. But that was the snapshot in 2010.
Tragic urban decline, 2 blocks from the state capitol.
Sacramento’s police chief says there were multiple shooters in the mass shooting that killed six people and injured 12.
Police Chief Kathy Lester also tells reporters Sunday that three of the victims who died were women and three were men. She said all were adults.
The shots were fired early Sunday morning as people filed out of bars and nightclubs. A video posted to Twitter showed people running through the street amid the sounds of rapid gunfire.
[DW] The man reportedly went to eastern German jab centers and got vaccinated up to three times a day. Authorities believe it was all as part of a scheme to sell vaccination passes to anti-vaxxers.
A German man is under investigation after authorities discovered he'd received the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... vaccine at least 87 times, the Freie Presse newspaper reported on Friday.
The report comes as Germany battles a wave of COVID-19 infections and struggles to raise its vaccination rates compared to other western European countries.
WHY DID HE GET THE JAB SO MANY TIMES?
According to information attained by the Frei Presse paper, the 61-year-old man visited several vaccination centers in the eastern German states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
The man is believed to have gotten the jab up to three times a day at different jab sites — logging 87 coronavirus vaccinations in the state of Saxony alone.
A staff member at a center in the city of Dresden grew suspicious when he recognized the man, a front man for the German Red Thingy, Kai Kranich, told the paper.
The next time he entered a vaccination center in the town of Eilenburg, outside of Leipzig, staff called the police and he was detained.
The German Red Thingy pressed charges against the man on suspicion of his involvement in selling vaccination passports. Criminal investigations are currently ongoing in the state of Saxony, with authorities in other German states also investigating the man.
It is unclear how many times the man actually received the coronavirus vaccine — but the number is expected to be higher than the 87 known jabs.
HOW DID HE GET AWAY WITH IT FOR SO LONG?
According to the report, each time the man entered a vaccination site, he would bring a new, blank vaccination document with him.
After getting the jab, he would remove the pages with the information about the vaccine batch numbers and sold them to vaccine opponents.
The man registered for the vaccination appointments using his own name and birthdate, but did not present his health insurance card at the appointments — which could have potentially flagged his actions sooner.
CALLS FOR VACCINE REGISTER FOR GERMANY
The case has also unveiled the gaps in Germany's health care system — where medical information is largely not digitized or centrally stored.
"A national vaccine register or a coronavirus vaccine register would have shed light on the case immediately," Knut Köhler, a spokesperson for the Saxony state medical association told the newspaper.
In Germany, over 75% of the eligible population are fully vaccinated, while around 58% have received a booster shot. The numbers are especially lagging in eastern German states, where the fully vaccinated rate lies at 64.5% in Saxony.
Germany's vaccination rate is far behind its western European neighbors, with Spain logging 85% fully vaccinated and Portugal reporting a rate of over 91%.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A federal judge rejected a new trial for Ghislaine Maxwell, who argued her sex trafficking case was tainted after it was revealed that one juror did not disclose he was a victim of child sex abuse.
Judge Alison Nathan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York upheld Maxwell's conviction in a decision Friday.
"His failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate," Nathan wrote. "The Court further concludes that Juror 50 harbored no bias toward the Defendant and could serve as a fair and impartial juror."
Scotty David, whom the judge referred to as Juror 50, did not disclose the abuse he endured beforehand. All jurors were given a questionnaire before the trial began last winter.
Nathan said David's testimony proved "he was not biased and would not have been stricken" from the jury, "even if he had answered each question on the questionnaire accurately."
The hearing took place in March after news interviews in which David revealed the abuse he experienced in the past. He also reported that he told other jurors about his experience. Maxwell's lawyers attempted to delay Nathan's ruling until after a Paramount+ documentary was released because David makes an appearance.
Maxwell, 60, Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... 's girlfriend and confidant, was convicted in December on five of six felony counts, including sex trafficking. The British socialite had pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." and refused to testify in her own defense. She faces up to 65 years in prison and is expected to be sentenced June 28.
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The judge ruled that she has not had enough time to hang herself, or for others to help her yet!
Female riders threatened to pull out of an event en masse unless male cyclist Emily Bridges was barred from racing against them, it is now being reported https://t.co/O3XB484dQu
Emily began hormone therapy in 2021 and wants to compete as a woman, weeks after competing as a manHowever, she has been barred from competing in women's race this weekend while still registered as a man
Sport's international governing body said she's ineligible following row and also hold 'expert panel' on issue
It has been described as a 'fudge' by Sharron Davies, who fears that she will allow her to compete as a woman
Sharron Davies says 'It's not transphobic to want fair sport, it's anti-female to not'
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This is exactly how you respond to this idiocy.
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If I were 14 again, I would register as transgender so I could take showers with the girls. I wonder if these types of girls get a “Bo.er” when they do. Any info on this would be interesting.
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This is the only way they will stop this idiocy. Just don't compete. These events depend heavily on corporate sponsors and if there are no riders, there will be no eyeballs on the ads.
#5
Finally. They did the sensible thing. Show some damn sisterhood and watch the wokists crumble. We men do it for each other all the time. I hope this becomes a trend and trannies and pervs of all types never get to play any sport at all.
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Tennis star Rafael Nadal claims his chest pain injury (that forced him to drop out of the Indian Wells tournament in March) is not another vaccine-induced heart injury, says it's a "stress fracture" on one of his ribs. Is this another cover story by a prominent COVID vaxx fanatic?
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This is the correct action and every sport should follow suit.
When called transphobic they should push back by insisting that any trans-female athletes must have their penis removed at the very least. They must be committed to being a woman not just a tourist taking advantage of current PC trends.
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For all sports, I tend to watch less in cases where the enjoyment is overcome by annoyance and distraction. PED scandals, labor disputes, domestic violence case, and athletes telling me what to think are not what I am looking for. I almost never watch ESPN these days. For the business of sports the trans-sports movement will be like the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man. It looks like the NCAA is headed for the trash heap regardless. On a lower level maybe kid sports will get moved out of schools where parents have more control.
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[Bus Insider] Night ambushes carried out by a team of Ukrainian special forces and drone operators on quad bikes have helped turn the tide of the Russian invasion, The Guardian reported.
Aerorozvidka is a specialist air-reconnaissance unit within the Ukrainian army, which has claimed to have destroyed dozens of Russian "priority targets," including tanks and command trucks.
The unit's commander, Lt Col Yaroslav Honchar, told The Guardian about an ambush near the Ukrainian town of Ivankiv, which helped stop a 40-mile mechanized Russian column heading to attack the capital Kyiv.
Equipped with night-vision goggles, sniper rifles, and remotely detonated mines and drones, the team of about 30 Ukrainian soldiers approached Russian forces by riding on quad bikes through forests under cover of night.
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Even with the MSM and lately Rantburg , probably because pack mentally stench of Russophobia infantilism, and reading in between the lines, I'm truly loving Germany getting the shaft after decade upon decade of their overt stupidity. From importing Musloids to bending over for the Watermelons (Green on the outside, RED on the inside).
When I think of a German. I think of a fat man wolfing down a sausage in a bread roll. Now I guess it's going to be more like white Ethiopian sat by the side of the road waiting for the UN to give him a cup full of rice.
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Almost there, Mr Exception. Paste the URL on top of the placeholding http:// that shows up in the pop up box. That way you tell the link where to take the viewer when clicked. I fixed it for you, so you can see how it should work.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Chervonec001] The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to assemble a shock group in the front-line residents to launch a counterattack in the direction of Kherson. The Russian Armed Forces are able to detect these actions and deliver artillery strikes against any enemy concentrations. Mi-6 reported to the Ukrainian General Staff that the RF Armed Forces began to accumulate military equipment in Kherson, to strike at Nikolaev. Over the past ten days, the number of Russian troops has tripled.
Meanwhile, the Internet is being pulled to Kherson and Melitopol from the Crimea. The fiber optic cable will connect Ukrainian territories to Russian providers with access to Russian services. This is a sign that no one is going to leave the future Tauride region. A map in English is at the link
[Antiwar.com] US officials have said the labs could contain pathogens leftover from the Soviet Union's bioweapons program
A Pentagon official told Congress on Friday that there are no "offensive" biological weapons in any of the dozens of US-linked labs in Ukraine.
"I can say to you unequivocally there are no offensive biologic weapons in the Ukraine laboratories that the United States has been involved with," Deborah Rosenbaum, the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs, told the House Armed Services subcommittee.
The Pentagon funds labs in Ukraine through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). According to a Pentagon fact sheet released last month, since 2005, the US has "invested" $200 million in "supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites."
Moscow has accused Ukraine of conducting an emergency clean-up of a secret Pentagon-funded biological weapons program when Russia invaded. The World Health Organization said it advised Ukraine to destroy "high-threat pathogens" around the time of the invasion.
For their part, the US maintains that the program in Ukraine and other former Soviet states is meant to reduce the threat of biological weapons left over from the Soviet Union. While downplaying the threat of the labs, Pentagon officials have also warned that they could still contain Soviet-era bioweapons.
Robert Pope, the director of the DTRA’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, told the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in February that the labs might contain Soviet bioweapons and warned that the fighting in Ukraine could lead to the release of a dangerous pathogen.
The Biden administration has tried to portray any concerns about the labs as "Russian propaganda." When the issue gained more media attention, Biden officials started accusing Moscow of plotting to use chemical or biological weapons, but the US hasn’t presented any evidence to back up its claims.
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The Pentagon funds labs in Ukraine through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). According to a Pentagon fact sheet released last month, since 2005, the US has "invested" $200 million in "supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites."
1. Why, after 17 years of US involvement and funding are we just now learning about this project ?
2. Under what line-item in the DTRA and DoD budget is this effort listed ?
3. Who specifically is in charge of monitoring, reporting, and safeguards ?
4. What period of time does the "$200 million" in funding cover? Is this a monthly, annual, or life of the current program investment ?
5. Is this project a 'stand-alone' project or is it linked to similar CDC and NIH domestic or overseas efforts ?
6. Prior to recent discoveries, has anyone in House or Senate committees been briefed on this 17 year effort ?
7. Is this a DoD Special Access Program ?
8. Besides the DTRA, what other US Government Agencies are involved or provide assistance (financial or otherwise) to this project ?
9. Is this project a 'bi-lateral' project involving other countries? If so, what other countries ?
10. Have specimines or bacterial pathogens from the Ukraine effort been transported to the US or other locations outside of Ukraine ?
11. Have specimines or bacterial pathogens from the US or other nations been transported to the Ukraine ?
12. It would appear the Congress has initiated an investigation of these activities. Who is in charge of the investigation and what is the timeline? Will classified or unclassified reports be forthcoming ?
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"No Offensive weapon" ???? Is it just a defensive weapon? Or are they just researching unto supporting a bio war? A bullet in a gun is not offensive, its defensive, defending the person carrying the gun. Nuke weapons are a defensive weapon. This is just more of the pentagon talking out its ass!
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"Pentagon Says There's No ‘Offensive' Bioweapons at US-Linked Ukraine Labs"
Where did we hear this before?
Didn't we hear pretty much the same carefully worded denial about the WUHAN Virus (aka Covid-19) from the same talking heads?
Offensive use versus Defensive use is a political dance around.
EG. I own a firearm that can used offensively or defensively depending on the situation.
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There is a difference between having bioweapons and offensive bioweapons. Most labs will not transport the samples and have the military and civilian detection equipment shipped to them to verify it works, how well and what needs tweaked. They may also test antibody kits as well.
An offensive weapon means it has been weaponized, i.e. stabilized and put in a suspended state like a powder or such, loaded into a delivery device and ready for deployment.
Now all that being said given the government's track record on being honest what they have been doing with shit like this, looking at you China and Fauchi, I trust their collective asses as far as I can throw them.
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I suggest an offensive bioweapon would be contagious (Smallpox) whereas a defensive bioweapon would be deployed in an exposure environment for individual consumption (Anthrax).
For example, the Chernobyl Russians were individually irradiated in an exposure environment but could still contaminate others. Is this offensive or defensive?
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I studied Chem, Nuke and Bio weapons at a Navy school. Bio was puzzling to me. The countermeasure wash down system would have been the response to a spray, but attacking a destroyer with a crop duster seemed to be unlikely at the time. Poisoning the crew seemed like a possibility, but we were libel to do that ourselves. Enhancing and releasing a general plague to randomly depopulate the world seemed like it would serve no one, yet here we are. I was a naive young man.
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^ now it comes reconstituted freeze-dried in a package.
LONDON (AP) — The war in Ukraine is the conflict where spies came in from the cold and took center stage.
Since Russia invaded its neighbor in late February, intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain have been remarkably willing to go public with their secret intelligence assessments of what is happening on the battlefield — and inside the Kremlin.
The U.S. this week declassified intelligence findings claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed about his military’s poor performance in Ukraine by advisers scared to tell him the truth. On Thursday a British spy chief said demoralized Russian troops were refusing to carry out orders and sabotaging their own equipment.
Jeremy Fleming, who heads Britain’s electronic intelligence agency GCHQ, made the comments in a public speech where he said the "pace and scale" at which secret intelligence is being released "really is unprecedented."
Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert at University College London, agreed that the very public intelligence campaign "reflects the fact that we now live in a different age, politically and internationally. And this is a different kind of war."
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Rantburg moderators are now linking to the wire services
Still stuck on stupid hung up on this, are we? Yes, it is much better to get cut & paste wire service articles that were 'leaked' by the intel services than to get generic media articles that were 'leaked' by the intel services. Argument from authority and all that.
Come on, man! Do you really think we are fooled by the media war? I cannot speak for everyone here, but in general, it is not our first rodeo. Not to mention that some (Hi, Fred!) actually do intel & analysis for a living.
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We notice, my dear Glavish Tholush7351, that despite your objections under a variety of Fred’s anonymizer nyms you are coming hanging out here long enough to read the articles and discuss the contents.
Rantburg links to all sorts of sources, from local news sites and bloggers to various national and regional wire services and even the Washington Post and the New York Times. We generally avoid the Guardian, though, as that is a bridge too far even for biased sites. I mean, they twice sent their readers to try to influence American voters’ choice for president, the second time getting the exact same “Go f*ck yourselves, you stupid, condescending wankers — we had a revolution so we wouldn’t have to listen to you” response as the first time.
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MI6 and CIA go full TikTok. All of the bullshit, but no tits or ass
Nothing wrong with tits & ass! Emily and Kendall snaps keep the American "professional military analysts" busy. Better than having to become fluent in foreign languages (that be real hard).
#13
dear Glavish Tholush
Finally, someone who appreciates my name! You can't imagine how much angst I've suffered all these years. Helmet or Wolfgang -- even Friedrich-FRITZ would have been better than Glavish. But no! Mutti thought it sounded Hollywood ("Lavish"). If I were a Mahattan Jew I'd be bankrupt from all the psychotherapy sessions to undo this
#14
I didn’t think they would invade, but there was a certain info piece that convinced me that I was wrong - the report that the Russians had moved blood supply to the exercise area. The fact that that level of detail was available in the news surprised me. It made no sense to me that anyone who risk a significant amount of blood in exercises unless they were really bad at exercising.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 20:27 More than 100 nationalists and mercenaries were killed as a result of a high-precision strike by the Iskander tactical complex in Kharkov. 20:26 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed armored vehicles, ammunition and fuel tanks in the areas of the Lozovaya and Pavlograd railway stations with high-precision weapons.
20:25 The RF Armed Forces disabled an airfield in the Poltava region, destroyed several Ukrainian helicopters and a plane disguised in parking lots.
20:24 During the day, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 28 military facilities of Ukraine.
20:23 Since the beginning of the special operation, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 125 Ukrainian aircraft and 1,888 tanks.
19:45 There was an apartment for drug addicts in Energodar stormed by law enforcement officers.
During the search, it was found that the so-called military men lived in the apartment. ATO and Terodefense of Ukraine. Neighbors report that the men distributed drugs to residents of the city, including children.
17:44 In Mirgorod three missiles hit military infrastructure facilities, as well as in Khmelnitsky. In Khmelnitsky destroyed another oil depot.
17:12 “We are glad to see you. Thanks a lot!"
Inhabitants of Berdyansk expressed gratitude to Russia for providing humanitarian assistance. “Thanks to the Russian military, Russia, for the humanitarian assistance. I believe that people should be friendly,” added a resident of the city.
17:00 The police of the liberated Zaporozhye region (after checking the documents and the VIN code) finds and returns lost and stolen cars to citizens.
15:50 In the liberated Energodar, the commandant's office organized business trips to the Russian Crimea for the wholesale purchase of goods.
15:40 In the city of Kakhovka, Kherson region, created military-civilian administration to ensure the normal life of the city. Pavel Filipchuk, ex-chairman of the Standing Committee on Budget and Finance of the Kherson Regional Council, became the head of the Kakhovka VGA.
There was also a change in the chief of police and heads of a number of other key areas. Local rank and file employees continued to work on the management of city services.
15:30 Social networks report that the mayor of Tavriysk Nikolay Rizak was detained for destructive activities in the life support of Tavriysk, sabotage of law enforcement, ignoring the calls of the elders to provide humanitarian kits to rural communities, as well as organizing provocative rallies.
15:21 Ukronazis
...the Russian version of Pakistan’s Hinjoos — utterly meaningless, but containing all the things the speaker most hates...
in Kyiv attacked monument to Pushkin.!
15:19 Received information that the Ukrainian military mined the water discharge locks of the Aleksandrovskaya hydroelectric power station on the Southern Bug River in the Nikolaev region. Civilians in the villages, which will be in the flood zone, may suffer from a water spill. But apparently, this is precisely the main goal of the Kiev Nazis - to inflict as much damage as possible on the civilian population.
15:04 Another gumconvoy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia delivered food to Berdyansk: a convoy of Russian rescuers brought pasta, rice, buckwheat, oatmeal, sugar, sunflower oil, canned fish, meat and dairy products, as well as fruits and juices to Berdyansk.
15:01 Kadyrov: For one wounded Chechen fighter, we destroy ten Bandera henchmen. Even the slightest scratch of our soldiers does not remain without inevitable retribution! The division of my dear BROTHER Sultan Rashaev "Wrestler" immediately carries out this sentence. Fierce and fearless when it comes to the honor and blood of their brothers, the Chechens never forgive the damage done to them! Forward, brothers! Crush this nationalist vermin! Behind you is truth, valor and thousands of brothers, ready to tear apart any enemy who dares to shoot in your direction! What a putz 14:28 The special forces of the Russian Guard prevented a terrorist attack at the place of distribution of humanitarian aid in the Kiev region, the press service of the department reported.
15:00 Officiallynumberdeaths in the Nikolaev Regional State Administration increased to 35 people, unofficially - 59.
14:05 In Melitopol unfolds sowing company. Soil preparation is underway. Also, according to the acting head of the Melitopol
regional administration, work is underway to clear the fields. The agrarians work closely with the commandant's office of the city and this issue is resolved very quickly.
13:55 Russian army fighters showed exclusive video from the liberated Izyum, Kharkiv region. Crossing the river Seversky Donets and Mount Kremenets, the battles for which lasted almost three weeks. From there, the Armed Forces of Ukraine corrected the artillery fire. Now Izyum has been released, and the Banner of Victory has been hoisted on Kremenets.
13:01 In Novobogdanovka, Melitopol district destroyed another ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:25 Workers of the Greek railway company TrainOSErefuseto participate in the transportation of US and NATO military armored vehicles from the port of Alexandroupolis to the Ukrainian border, the company's management is putting pressure on them, according to the information portal of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
09:34 "No Ukrainian troops captured us." Kherson remains under control armed forces of Russia.
09:26 It is reported that four missiles "arrived" at the airfield and air defense units in Poltava. The Mirgorod tactical aviation brigade actively flew to bomb the Donbass. Now a well-deserved boomerang flies right into the lobeshnik.
09:16 In Mariupol, on the Left Bank, the Azov Regiment settled in the next skyscraper, and thoroughly strengthened - with ATGMs and machine guns.
09:14 Russian servicemen helped to evacuate the residents of Izyum during the shelling of residential areas from the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
09:00 They pull to Kherson and Melitopol the Internet from Crimea. The fiber optic cable will connect Ukrainian territories to Russian providers with access to Russian services.
08:52 Sources say that the missile hit in the Odessa region was applied to the base with fuel and lubricants, which is located in Belgorod-Dnestrovsk.
08:42 Write, in Kharkov, flew to the Turboatom (turbo-generator) and KhEMZ (electro-mechanical) plants.
08:12 In the Kiev region passed ceremony presentation of state awards to the military personnel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for their feats of arms "Order of Courage, medals for Courage".
08:10 VFU continues destroying infrastructure of Ukraine. Sumy region Bishkin. Due to the destruction of the bridge, local residents overcome life-threatening obstacles.
07:53 Columns of thick black smoke rise above Kremenchug. According to eyewitnesses, the facilities of the Kremenchug oil refinery, which belongs to the oligarch Kolomoisky, are on fire. Also applied at night blows on targets from Dnepropetrovsk, Krivoy Rog, Odessa, Poltava.
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badanov, you do us all a service by posting these different perspectives, and I thank you for that. But after seeing the photos and reports from Bucha, I find that today I don't give a flying fork what the Russian perspective is. Maybe tomorrow.
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badanov, you do us all a service by posting these different perspectives, and I thank you for that. But after seeing the photos and reports from Bucha, I find that today I don't give a flying fork what the Russian perspective is. Maybe tomorrow.
I doubt anyone was killed. The photos I saw appeared to be staged, similar to what the Syrian "White Helmets" did a few years back.
But then, we can't know the whole story given that western media only follows the Ukrainian version of events, given the Russian defense ministry website is blocked.
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^ I hear you. And again, thanks for your excellent posting.
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No decent human ever should and why has Rantburg felt the need to give a tyrant's side of an international war effort?
They are no less an invader and mass murderer than their CCCP heirs were when they invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
I know why the fringe right is pro Russian, it would be good for the onwership of Rantburg to explain why they are in Putin's pr pocket like Tucker Carlson is.
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Badanov scrupulously posts the perspectives of the Ukraine, Russia, and the "breakway republics". That's a good thing to do, and doesn't mean that either badanov or anyone else here is pro-Putin.
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/\ No decent human ever should and why has Rantburg felt the need to give a tyrant's side of an international war effort?
All sides of the argument should be heard. Confirmations of good and evil is oftentimes determined in this manner. We must assume the Burg readership possesses sufficient synaptic energy to discern truth from fiction, good from evil, fly shi* from pepper.
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#2 and #3: More shitposter links to Daily Mail MI6 I/Ops garbage - good grief. The guy just can't help himself. Must be hooked on all those Emily Ratajkowski sizzling Instagram snaps
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REDACTED is a Putin suck boy like several posters here are. If he was just giving 2 sides, he wouldn't have his big lie "De Nazification Operation" as his title.
Plus, since when do decent humans care about any side that viciously invades a weaker neighbor? Since never.
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when do decent humans care about any side that viciously invades a weaker neighbor? Since never.
Americans are decent humans. They still cared about America after America invaded Iraq, Cuba, Grenada. So are Israelis. Hasn't Israel invaded Lebanon and Gaza again and again? What's your point?
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#12 Badonov is a Putin suck boy like several posters here are. If he was just giving 2 sides, he wouldn't have his big lie "De Nazification Operation" as his title.
"De Nazification Operation" was how the Russians entitled the article. "From the "Russian Perspective:" was my idea.
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I agree with Besoeker. I prefer to have both sides views. We are currently in the most egregious propaganda war I've ever seen and hearing perspectives allow one to parse the reality from what is said (and unsaid).
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If you get both sides, eventually the truth turns out to be one, the other or neither. All three outcomes are instructive with respect to future assessments of source materials.
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I post summaries from the Russians and the Ukrainians, as well as from the breakaway republics. As to the rest, the great lion's share of information about the war is sourced from the Ukrainian ministry of defense.
The balance between the two sides is roughly six to one in favor of the Ukrainians. I don't begrudge the Ukrainian side their advantage in information, why should you begrudge the Russians their side?
I can't believe I am having to defend a position I have stated. Repeatedly:
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I support Badanov completely. He's trying to show both sides in all their propaganda glory so you semi-sentient non-paid trolls can figure out yerself. If you can't handle it, go elsewhere , or get Spamcopped.
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BTW. he, I and others have had the same nyms since 2001. The anonym cowards lurk temporal and on this one issue. Paid/not paid, ....still trolls. Pick a nym and stick with it if you want credibility
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I vote spamcopping. Besoeker gave him his warning up-thread.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:25 When dry grass ignited in Kirovsky, an explosive object exploded. A local resident was injured with shrapnel wounds. 21:20 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 18 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated territories:
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: 1990, 1969, 1985, 1985, 1963, 1985, 1979, 1976, 1988, 1957, 1969, 1961 years of birth.
- women: born in 1990, 1980, 1957.
The personal details of another man are being established.
Volnovakha district:
- male - born in 1937
- woman - born in 1977
The victims were taken to medical institutions of the Republic, where they receive the necessary medical care.
20:08 A resident of Rubizhne shows where they bury their dead neighbors. Near his house there are already about ten graves. Civilians died after being hit by Ukrainian positions.
20:07 Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 59 Ukrainian nationalists, one infantry fighting vehicle, one ZU-23 crew, two armored vehicles and one truck. One armored car and a warehouse with weapons and ammunition, including those of foreign production, were captured - Eduard Basurin
Six servicemen of the 54th Mechanized Brigade and two servicemen of the 25th Airborne Brigade voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR.
Since the beginning of the special military operation, 525 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have voluntarily defected to the side of the DPR.
18:48 Over the past day in the struggle for independence, five DPR fighters died in the line of military duty and 21 were injured - Eduard Basurin.
18:10 The Civic Chamber of the Moscow Region brought a humanitarian help for residents of the liberated territories of the DPR.
17:34 The assault on Azovstal began. Russian units have begun cleaning up the plant, where the blocked militants of the Ukrainian nationalist battalions are located.
17:14 The Armed Forces of Ukraine were planning to attack in the Novoazovsky direction, which were captured at the location of "Azov" * (an organization banned in the Russian Federation).
The main goal is access to the border of the DPR and the Russian Federation. During the offensive, it was supposed to bypass and block large settlements (Novoazovsk, Bezymennoe, etc.). As previously known, the offensive was planned for March 2022.
16:55 Another 328 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye
During the day on April 2, from 08:00 to 16:00, 328 people, including 72 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky District.
Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
16:30 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of a civilian as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk on the street The path of Socialism. The personal data of the victim are established.
The victim was taken to a medical facility, where she is receiving the necessary medical care.
16:13 Kadyrov announced the beginning of the assault on the plant in Mariupol, where the militants of the Ukrainian national battalions are located.
14:30 Chinese channel CGTN: On board the destroyed Ukrainian Mi-8, destroyed while trying to evacuate the Azov leaders blocked in the city from Mariupol, there could be employees of the Main Directorate of External Security of the French Ministry of Defense.
14:29 The Union of Armenians of Russia sent humanitarian aid to the affected population of the LPR, DPR and Ukraine.
In the first half of April, more than 30,000 families will receive long-term storage products. The total volume of humanitarian cargo from the Union of Armenians of Russia is about 500 tons.
15:40 Due to the undermining of the dam in Izyum by Ukrainian troops, the water overflowed the Seversky Donets and threatens the Svyatogorsk Lavra.
15:38 Truckers from Uzbekistan, whom the Ukrainian side forcibly kept in Mariupol, are heading home. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Yusup Kabulzhanov. Earlier it was reported that the nationalists of Azov took away trucks from truckers. They had to spend 23 days on the territory of the plant. Then the citizens of Uzbekistan were able to get to the DPR.
14:28 The special forces of the Russian Guard prevented a terrorist attack at the place of distribution of humanitarian aid in the Kiev region, the press service of the department reported.
14:13 Almost 2,400,000 rubles were collected. Now expensive andveryThe medical cargo needed for the wounded residents of Donbass has been purchased and is already on its way to Donetsk, to the Republican Trauma Center and the Institute of Emergency and Reconstructive Surgery.
13:54 Officer of the Aidar Battalion voluntarily laid down his arms told how Ukrainian militants fired "Grads" at an Orthodox monastery in Svyatogorsk, blaming the Russian military for this.
13:42 Refugees from Mariupol are in the DPR on full state support. Residents of the liberated territories will receive pensions and child benefits.
13:26 From under the rubble of a house on Pintera Street, destroyed by the fire of the VFU on March 30, the body of a dead woman was removed from the 4th floor - Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
13:18 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact that Ukrainian militants held hostages in the maternity hospital of the city of Mariupol.
13:14 The Russian army is destroying the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the industrial area on the outskirts of Maryinka near Donetsk. Pinpoint strikes are delivered against fortified firing points and positions.
13:02 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
Petrovsky district of Donetsk:
- st. Outskirts, 4, 6.
Settlement of the Petrovsky Machine-Building Plant:
- st. Mendeleev, 3.
n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. Lenina, 21.
13:00 A grouping of DPR troops is advancing in Maryinka. Voenkor NM DPR Pavel Fomenko showed the broken positions of militants of the paramilitary formations of the Nazis in the city, which were defeated by our soldiers during the liberation of the settlement. He added that the enemy was demoralized and was fleeing the fortified area, changing into civilian clothes.
12:36 Battles for Mariupol: Azov snipers slow down the offensive of the NM DPR and the RF Armed Forces against Azovstal. Snipers of the terrorists of the national formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have reduced the speed of advance of the allied forces in the Mariupol Left Bank.
12:35 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 12 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
11:37 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — STsKK DPR
11:30 Seen endless columns second echelon of the RF Armed Forces. Troops go to the largest battlefield of our time - to the Donbass.
11:22 The military brought sweets and hit under fire.
11:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 14 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:02 APU occupied maternity hospitals in Mariupol and this is a fact. The video shows the first maternity hospital, near which military equipment is located - trucks with ammunition, an armored personnel carrier, just cars with military personnel and a medical vehicle: part of the maternity hospital was used as a hospital, and everything else was used as barracks and storage places for BC.
11:01 DPR units have captured most of Novobakhmutovka, there is a battle with the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:00 Exclusive frames broken positions of the VFU in Verkhnetoretsk (18+). Ukrainian militants, running away from the village, threw the corpses of their colleagues. Before escaping, they plundered the village and smashed all the houses.
10:06 DPR forces took control of the SBU building in Mariupol.
09:50 AFU resumed shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk: housing construction along the streets of Outskirts and the Way of Socialism were damaged.
09:45 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 16 civilians as a result of shelling by the AFU of the liberated early part of the settlement. Mariupol:
men: 2001, 1980, 1967, 1959, 1992, 1983, 1992, 2003, 1946, 1971, 1962 years of birth.
women: born in 1973, 1961, 1971, 1955, 1961.
All the victims were taken to medical institutions of the Republic, where they receive the necessary medical care.
09:40 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published frames carrying out demining by specialists of the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the LPR. Specialists of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Armed Forces are cleaning up the lands liberated from Ukrainian nationalists, including with the help of the Uran-6 robotic complex.
09:20 Armed formations of Ukraine fired at N of the item. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:45 The DPR JCCC reported that the AFU was fired upon:
n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): four mines of 82mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Novgorod settlement Zheleznaya Balka: fired six mines with 82mm caliber, four LNG grenades;
n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired; n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired. — SCCC DPR.
08:15 “They tried to kill me as the head of the city of Kremennaya. They just shot him in the yard. I should have been next." The mayor of Rubizhne is now in the territory controlled by the LPR. On RIA Novosti footage, he distributes humanitarian aid packages to local residents.
06:56 Over the past day, 3 attacks on 2 settlements of the LPR were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: (n.p. Pervomaisk, N.p. Donetsk. As a result of the shelling, four residential buildings and a gas pipeline were damaged - the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
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[Korrespondent] 21:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have regained control over the village of Mikhailo-Kotsyubynske near Chernihiv, the Operational Command of Pivnich reported. 21:33 In Prague, the street where the Russian embassy is located has been renamed the street of Ukrainian Heroes.
21:28 Arakhamia said that Russia "orally" adopted the project proposed by Ukraine in Istanbul - with the exception of the issue of Crimea. Now Kyiv is waiting for Moscow to confirm its statements in the negotiations in writing.
He also said that negotiations are underway with China through diplomatic channels so that it becomes the country-guarantor of Ukraine, but with Beijing the issue "is less worked out than with other countries."
20:57 Peskov said that Russia would like to continue negotiations with Kiev in Belarus, but the Ukrainian side does not want this. He also stressed that Ukraine is not a friendly country of either Russia or Belarus. And the military potential of Ukraine, according to Peskov, "is practically destroyed during the "special operation" of the Russian Federation."
As for the negotiations with Kiev, they "are not going well, but the main thing is that they continue, the main thing is that hostilities in Ukraine stop through negotiations, and it does not matter on which platform these negotiations will take place," Peskov said.
20:49 As a result of a missile attack on Mirgorod, the runway and the infrastructure of the airfield were damaged, the fuel depot caught fire, the OVA said.
20:33 The entire Kiev region has been liberated from the invaders, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar.
20:17 For a month, law enforcement officers detained about 600 saboteurs in Ukraine, said First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Enin.
20:15 4,217 people were evacuated through humanitarian corridors today, Vereshchuk said.
20:10 The fighters of the National Guard taken out by the invaders from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who guarded the station and were captured by the Russians on February 24, are allegedly in the Russian city of Smolensk and the Belarusian city of Bragin, Energoatom reports, citing the wife of one of the prisoners. According to her information, the captives are starved and not even given water.
20:07 In Shepetovka, Khmelnytsky region, today at about 17:00 a missile attack was launched on an industrial facility. According to preliminary data, there are no victims, the fire is being eliminated by the employees of the State Emergency Service, said the head of the Khmelnytsky OVA Serhiy Gamaly.
19:52 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that "the military airfield Mirgorod in the Poltava region was disabled with high-precision weapons, Ukrainian combat helicopters were destroyed"
In addition, "high-precision missiles in the areas of Lozova and Pavlograd destroyed armored vehicles and ammunition sent to reinforce Ukrainian troops in the Donbass."
19:27 Panic is spreading among the Russian military due to the radiation exposure of the personnel of the units based in the Chernobyl zone, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. The population of the Belarusian village of Bragin was advised to avoid contact with the Russian occupiers who had withdrawn from the contaminated zone.
19:13 The State Bureau of Investigation has initiated the nationalization of almost 1,400 railway cars from Russia and Belarus.
19:11 According to Ukrainian intelligence, local residents of the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region "treated" the Russians from the 3rd motorized rifle division of the Russian Federation with poisoned pies. As a result, two invaders died immediately, 28 more were in intensive care.
About 500 more servicemen of the 3rd motorized rifle division of the Russian Federation are in hospitals as a result of severe alcohol poisoning of unknown origin. The Russian command writes off these cases as so-called "non-combat losses."
19:06 Pope Francis speaks about the war in Ukraine: "Again, some dictator, unfortunately, entangled in anachronistic statements of nationalist interests, provokes and fuels conflicts, while ordinary people feel the need to build a future that will either be common or it won't exist at all.
19:04 In the unrecognized Transnistria, rumors are spreading about forcible coercion of army personnel to participate in the war against Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
In addition, panic is spreading among the military personnel of the Russian Federation due to radiation exposure of personnel based in the Chernobyl zone. The population of the Belarusian Bragin is recommended to avoid contacts with Russian invaders who have withdrawn from the contaminated zone.
18:43 Lithuania has become the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas , the country's Energy Ministry said.
18:35 Russian invaders got to the Balakleya regional hospital: about 70 patients and medical staff need immediate evacuation. According to the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Sinegubov, the hospital building was damaged.
18:30 Belarusian media publish a video and report that on April 1 and 2, six traffic accidents involving convoys of military equipment occurred in the Gomel region.
18:04 As a result of the Russian blow to the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration 36 people were already killed. As the governor of the Nikolaev area Vitaly Kim reported, his secretary who was searched for a long time died.
17:48 The Cabinet of Ministers is considering the possibility of introducing an unconditional basic income for the population , Oleg Ustenko, adviser to the President of Ukraine on economic issues, said. This means that the state regularly pays a certain amount from the budget to each citizen just like that - without any conditions and the need to work off the money received.
17:17 The Cabinet of Ministers decided to pay "combat" compensation in the amount of 100 thousand hryvnias:
defenders and defenders who were injured;
people taken prisoner or hostages;
people who were forcibly deported to other states;
relatives and friends of the victims.
17:13 In Lviv, it was allowed to sell light alcoholic drinks - beer, cider, natural wine - from 12:00 to 20:00, the city council said. However, they cannot be drunk in public places, on summer grounds and terraces. At the same time, the city is tightening control over the sale of strong alcohol: if it is sold and drunk in public places, violators will be involved in community service.
17:10 Podolyak believes that sanctions against Russia are not enough: "In order to bring down the Russian economy and stop the killing of Ukrainians, either a direct embargo on all energy resources is needed, or an indirect embargo by closing ports for goods (85% of oil is tankers). Or tell us: fight to the last Ukrainian."
16:55 The Ministry of Finance has calculated that Ukraine spends about 10 billion dollars in a month of hostilities.
16:52 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 620,000 Ukrainians have returned, the State Border Service reported. At the same time, according to the agency, if in the first weeks the majority of entering Ukrainians were men, now the increase is more due to women and children.
16:50 As a result of rocket attacks of the Pavlogradsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the tracks were damaged and the cars exploded, one person was injured, the regional administration reported.
16:39 Under the rubble of the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration, the body of the head of the Belarusian community in the region Tatiana Demennikova was found, Radio Liberty reports.
16:32 The Office of the Prosecutor General reported that unarmed photographer Max Levin was killed with two shots from small arms.
16:30 First Deputy Economy Minister Denis Kudin said that although a significant number of enterprises have suspended their activities, over the past ten days the economy as a whole has begun to recover, business in safe regions is returning to work. Farmers have already started sowing.
Oh? Perhaps the worldwide famine will not be quite as bad as feared.
16:28 The most fierce battles are now taking place in the Izyum region of the Kharkiv region, Russian troops are trying to break into the Donbass, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said.
16:27 In the Kiev region, a curfew is in effect from 21:00 to 06:00, and in the recently liberated settlements of Brovarsky, Vyshgorodsky and Buchansky districts, the ban on movement will be in effect from 21:00 Saturday, April 2, until 06:00 Tuesday, April 5, according to the regional administration.
16:16 Over the past 24 hours, more Ukrainians have returned to the Lviv region across the Polish border than they left. The flow of refugees from Ukraine has significantly decreased, said the head of the Lviv regional military administration Maxim Kozitsky.
15:57 The mayor's office of Pavlograd confirmed the strike on the city - the strike fell on the railroad. The overpass, rolling stock and several houses were damaged. There are no victims or injured.
15:24 Arestovich said that the Russians began to implement their plan to take the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass into the "cauldron". He confirmed the information that the occupiers were already in control of Izyum, and that an offensive was beginning from the south, in the area of Ugledar.
15:02 Russian troops left Gorodnya near Chernihiv, said the chairman of the local community Andriy Bogdan. According to him, before leaving, the Russians blew up the crossing and cut off part of the community from communication with Chernigov.
14:47 Presidential adviser on economic issues Oleg Ustenko said that, according to the Ukrainian authorities, the country's losses from hostilities amounted to one trillion dollars. He also said that Ukraine expects to receive $400 billion from frozen Russian assets into the country's reconstruction fund.
14:33 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio confirmed that Italy is ready to act as a guarantor of Ukraine's neutrality.
14:20 Turkey is ready to allocate ships to organize the evacuation of civilians and the wounded from Mariupol by sea, the country's Defense Ministry said.
13:51 A large number of enemy troops from the territory of Russia entered the Konotop district of the Sumy region, said the head of the regional administration Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to him, a conditional corridor has been formed through which military equipment from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions is constantly moving towards the Russian Federation. The invaders open chaotic fire on people who appear near this equipment or along the movement of the columns.
13:40 In the Lugansk region, a forest near Kremennaya caught fire due to shelling, there is a threat of throwing fire to residential buildings, Governor Sergei Gaidai said.
He also said that near Severodonetsk, the Russians broke a gas pipeline with a diameter of 500 mm, almost the entire Luhansk region was left without gas.
13:33 In the Belarusian city of Narovlya, Russian invaders have set up a specialized bazaar where they sell property stolen in Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry reports. The assortment includes washing machines and dishwashers, refrigerators, precious jewelry, cars, bicycles, motorcycles, dishes, carpets, works of art, children's toys, cosmetics.
Also, the Russians are trying to exchange the stolen currency, but due to internal restrictions, Belarusians are reluctant to buy euros and dollars, offering to contact local banks. The Russians refuse, explaining this by a command ban.
13:29 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said that on April 1, the Russian invaders refused to let people evacuated from Melitopol in their own cars through the checkpoint.
On the morning of April 2, according to him, the Russians wrote down all the surnames, names and numbers of cars for "checking" and only after that they will decide whether to let them go to the territory controlled by Ukraine.
13:27 The Russians intend to surround the grouping of the Joint Forces and reach the administrative borders of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
13:26 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, more than 120 powerful cyber attacks on the resources of state authorities and military command and control have been quickly identified and neutralized. According to the SBU, the largest number of them fell on the night of the invasion - it was then that the enemy wanted to destroy the entire cyber defense of Ukraine.
13:21 After the end of martial law in Ukraine, a state of emergency will be introduced , Shmyhal said. Such a situation, according to him, will be maintained during the liquidation of the consequences of hostilities throughout the territory of Ukraine.
13:16 In the Kiev region, after several weeks of searching, they found the body of photojournalist Max Levin, who disappeared on March 13. According to LB.ua, the body of the photographer was found near the village of Huta Mezhyhirska.
It is known that Levin, accompanied by Alexei Chernyshov, a serviceman and former photographer, went to Guta Mezhigorskaya on March 13 to document the consequences of Russian aggression, since then contact with them has disappeared. The whereabouts and fate of Chernyshov are still unknown.
13:11 As a result of an enemy missile attack on the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration on March 29, 35 people were killed , Governor Vitaly Kim said.
12:42 The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine predicts a decline in GDP in the first quarter of 2022 by 16%, and by the end of the year - up to 40%.
12:38 The media cite a screenshot from the official website of JSC Sukhoi, the manufacturer of the Su aircraft that Russia uses in the war against Ukraine. The general director of the enterprise, Yuriy Slyusar, allegedly condemned the war in Ukraine, announced the reduction of the company's staff due to the impossibility of working under sanctions and his dismissal. The statement from the site soon disappeared.
12:35 In Nikolaev explosions are heard today, the mayor Alexander Senkevich told that pyrotechnicians who are engaged in clearing of enemy shells work. Residents are asked not to worry.
12:31 Investigative journalists from the Conflict Intelligence Team found evidence that the missile in Belgorod came from Russia. The CIT also believes that it was a cruise missile - the Ukrainian army does not use such.
At the same time, investigators doubt that this was a deliberate provocation on the Russian side. Most likely, this is an error in pointing or descent of the ammunition from the trajectory.
12:28 Arestovich spoke about yesterday's events in Chernobaevka: "With two blows, the Ukrainian military destroyed almost a battalion of invaders. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the invaders' self-propelled artillery, a tent camp and about 32 armored vehicles."
12:26 Local residents in Energodar went to a rally, sang the anthem of Ukraine, and when they began to disperse, paddy wagons arrived, in which the invaders began to "pack" the locals, Energoatom reports. After that, a series of powerful explosions sounded, the inhabitants of the city began to scatter. It is already known about several victims who were hospitalized.
The city began to jam communication, the Internet disappeared, mobile operators do not work.
12:24 In Energodar, the invaders are shelling the city center, dispersing the local residents who went to the rally, eyewitnesses report.
12:15 Belarusian media write that Russian invaders are storming courier deliveries in Belarus in order to send home the loot - jewelry, things, phones.
12:13 In the Zaporozhye region, the Russians used phosphorus ammunition, the military-civilian administration reported. There were no casualties.
12:10 The United States sent personal protective equipment to Ukraine in case of a potential attack using chemical weapons, the Biden administration said.
12:03 Russian troops are moving across the territory of Belarus, leaving Ukraine, said a representative of the leader of the Belarusian opposition Tikhanovskaya. According to some reports, they are relocating to the east of Ukraine.
11:57 Arestovich is convinced that the Russians will launch missile strikes on Ukraine until the last day of the war - simply because "they have a lot of air-launched cruise missiles," and they hit them from strategic bombers that do not even enter the airspace of Ukraine .
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office also predicts the Ukrainian army will reach the border with Belarus: "I think that our troops will go there [to the north] today or tomorrow, and it will be possible to say that the territory of the Kiev region will be liberated to the Belarusian border."
11:42 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Russian troops launched rocket attacks on storage facilities with gasoline and diesel fuel of the Kremenchug oil refinery, as well as on military airfields in Poltava and Dnipro.
11:26 Under the rubble of the building of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration, which was hit by a Russian rocket on March 29, found the bodies of 31 dead already, another person died in intensive care. Rescuers continue to dismantle the rubble.
11:05 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 2:
personnel - about 17,800 people,
tanks - 631,
armored fighting vehicles - 1776,
artillery systems - 317,
MLRS - 100,
air defense systems - 54,
aircraft - 143,
helicopters - 134,
automotive equipment - 1236,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 87,
special equipment - 24,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
11:02 In the Sumy region, the invaders captured the deputy chairman of the Novoslobodskaya territorial community of the Konotop region Alexei Shibaev.
11:01 Fedorov said that after the victory, Ukraine, together with Elon Musk, will build its own Starlink ground station to improve the quality of satellite Internet for all Ukrainians.
11:58 Anonymous hackers hacked into the server of the Russian Lipetsk Mechanical Plant, which produces components for anti-aircraft missile systems. According to the hackers, 20 GB of the plant's internal data has already been leaked to the network.
10:57 The leader of the "DPR" Pushilin signed a "decree", according to which in the settlements that came under the control of the militants, they will take into their ownership all movable and immovable property that was previously in state or communal property of Ukraine.
10:50 Occupants kidnapped the mayor of Tavriysk, Kherson region Nikolai Rizak , the city territorial community reported. Since the evening of April 1, there has been no information about his whereabouts, the requirements of the Russians to Rizak are also unknown.
10:36 "Afghanization" and a long, exhausting conflict for Russia, as someone expects, will not happen, Podolyak said: "The Russian Federation will leave all territories except the south and east, will try to dig in tightly there, put up air defense, sharply reduce losses and dictate terms. Heavy weapons are indispensable if we want to take the Russians away."
10:08 The Embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow and the Consulate General in St. Petersburg are significantly reducing their activities. The Kingdom said that due to the aggressive war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, it was impossible to maintain normal diplomatic relations.
10:03 Vereshchuk named the seven humanitarian corridors agreed on today:
From Mariupol to Zaporozhye by private transport: Mariupol - Mangush - Berdyansk - Tokmak - Vasylivka - Kamianske - Zaporozhye
From Berdyansk to Zaporozhye: Berdyansk - Tokmak - Vasylivka - Kamianske - Zaporozhye. The route will be followed by buses and private cars.
09:52 In the Kharkiv region, servicemen of the 95th airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down two Mi-8 transport and combat helicopters of the invaders with the Korsar anti-tank missile system. The Command of the Airborne Assault Forces stated that "this is, in fact, the first time that an air target has been successfully destroyed from an anti-tank system."
09:48 Zelensky said in an interview with Fox News that Ukraine could strengthen NATO: “NATO does not want to accept us. I think this is a mistake, because if we joined NATO, we would make the alliance much stronger. We are not a weak state "We do not propose to strengthen us at the expense of NATO countries ... We are an additional force, a driving force. I think Ukraine is the most important component of the European continent."
09:42 Ukrainian troops continue their offensive during the withdrawal of Russian forces in the vicinity of Kiev, moving from Irpen to Bucha and Gostomel, British intelligence reported. In the East, after stubborn fighting, the Armed Forces of Ukraine strengthened the key route in the east of Kharkov after the liberation of Trostyanets in the Sumy region.
09:23 Moldova will remain neutral and will not join Western sanctions against Russia, President Maia Sandu said.
08:57 Anonymous hackers claimed to have leaked 15 GB of data stolen from the charity wing of the Russian Orthodox Church and published about 57,500 emails via DDoSecrets.
08:54 In the Lugansk region, the invaders again fired at Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Lisichansk, Kremennaya, Gornoye, Berezovo, Toshkovka, the governor said.
08:52 The US military postponed the test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, scheduled for April 2, in order to reduce nuclear tensions with Russia amid the war in Ukraine, writes Reuters. Now the rocket test should take place at the end of the year.
08:48 The US Department of Defense will provide Ukraine with a military aid package worth up to $300 million. We are talking, in particular, about machine guns and drones, the Pentagon said.
08:35 Russian occupiers fired at the outskirts of Krivoy Rog from Gradov at night, the head of the military administration of the city, Alexander Vilkul, said. There are no victims.
08:22 British intelligence believes that the destruction of ammunition depots and an oil depot in Belgorod further complicates the Russians' attempts to attack Kharkiv, since the likely loss of supplies from these depots will put an additional burden on the already stretched supply chains of the Russian Federation.
08:10 The occupiers launched rocket attacks on Poltava and Kremenchuk at night, said the head of the regional military administration Dmitry Lunin. In particular, in Poltava there was one strike on an infrastructure facility, in Kremenchug there were many strikes on infrastructure facilities and residential buildings.
07:57 About 30 wounded Kadyrovites were admitted to the Alchevsk hospital in the Lugansk region from the combat area near Popasna. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the invaders leave the dead on the battlefield. Over the past week, the irretrievable losses of personnel in the units of the so-called 2nd Army Corps amounted to about 800 people.
07:50 Russia is holding military training with reservists from April 4 to May 23, 2022. At the same time, work has intensified to attract units of Russian troops, which are based on the territory of Pridnestrovie, to carry out provocations and demonstration actions on the border with Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
In particular, Russian troops and units of the so-called "Pridnestrovian-Moldavian Republic" are being redeployed in order to demonstrate their readiness for military operations against Ukraine.
01:29 Zelensky said that Russia is trying to take people to the army in Crimea, and this is a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime.
The DPR reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 100 shells and mines in the republic
[REGNUM] Since the beginning of the current day, representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have fired more than 100 shells and mines in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was stated on April 2 in the message of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram channel.
"The enemy fired (according to the DPR) more than 100 shells and mines from 122-mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122-mm cannon artillery and 120 and 82-mm mortars," the report said.
As REGNUM reported, on April 2, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that the village of Vasilyevka in the DPR was fired upon by representatives of the armed formations of Ukraine (VFU).
In the DPR, three people were injured as a result of shelling by Ukraine
[REGNUM] Ukrainian security forces have shelled areas of seven settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) since the beginning of the current day. This was reported on April 2 by the press service of the People's Militia of the DPR.
"The areas of seven settlements of the Republic came under shelling," the report said. “ As a result of Ukrainian aggression, three civilians were injured.”
It is noted that as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, five residential buildings and one civilian infrastructure were damaged.
As REGNUM reported , on April 2, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov , at a briefing, said that the Russian Armed Forces (AF) delivered a precision strike with Iskander at the defense headquarters in Kharkov.
In the DPR, five soldiers were killed during the fighting
[REGNUM] In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), five servicemen were killed during the battles with representatives of the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) in a day. This was stated on April 2 in the message of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram channel.
"Over the past day in the struggle for independence, five defenders of the DPR died in the line of military duty and 21 were injured," the report said. "We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims."
As REGNUM reported, on April 2, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that a woman was injured as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
Eight more Ukrainian military units went over to the side of the DPR
[REGNUM] More than 500 Ukrainian servicemen have defected to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) since the beginning of Russia's special operation in Ukraine. This was reported on April 2 in the People's Militia of the Republic.
"Six servicemen of the 54th mechanized brigade and two servicemen of the 25th airborne brigade voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR," the message said.
It is noted that since the beginning of the special operation, 525 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have voluntarily defected to the side of the DPR.
As REGNUM reported, on April 2, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that more than 320 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe in the DPR, including more than 70 children.
Nearly 60 Ukrainian nationalists killed in DPR
[REGNUM] Servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) killed 59 Ukrainian nationalists in a day. This was announced on April 2 by the People's Militia of the DPR.
"Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 59 Ukrainian nationalists, one infantry fighting vehicle, one ZU-23 crew, two armored vehicles and one truck," the report said. "One armored vehicle and a warehouse with weapons and ammunition, including those of foreign production, were captured."
As REGNUM reported , on April 2, the LPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reported that the Ukrainian security forces had fired at the Donetsky settlement in the LPR.
My friend is writing: "My husband's friend, a doctor from Zaporizhzhia, says a group of girls from Mariupol was admitted to their hospital. The oldest one is 10 years old. They have recto-vaginal tears." https://t.co/3vA7wDqU1X
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Remember that little girl who played in Poltergeist? "They're here!" she said in a spooky voice? Yeah, she died of similar anal tears after being left alone on set in Hollywood with Steven Spielberg and his friends. A strange medical mystery, usually people who have that problem have a history of intestinal issues. But Heather O'Rourke was a healthy, beautiful blonde girl when she died at the age of 12. I guess it'll never be solved.
Russia has withdrawn almost their whole army that was attacking Kiev from the North. Russia's forces in the NE are also under Ukraine counterattack.
Presumably Russia will take their troops that were in the N and NE and deploy them in the East but most analysts think these units are too badly mauled to be effective in the short term.
Russia is close to taking Mariupol completely and will probably do so sometime in the next 7 days.
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Possibly, but I still haven't seen the Russian Operations Order and neither would I be anxious to mistake what hasn't happened yet with what won't or can't yet happen.
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My friend (who reads all the military reports a civilian can read) thinks I'm crazy but I think Putin never expected to hold the entire Ukraine and that was just an extra grab to make the peace treaty negotiations easy. As is I suspect he'll be given the eastern areas and Crimean to stop the war.
So the plan (if that was the plan) succeeded even though the blowback of being an international pariah and economically hobbled were probably far worse than Putin expected.
“Poltava. A missile struck one of the infrastructure facilities overnight," Dmitry Lunin wrote in an online post. "Kremenchuk. Many attacks on the city in the morning."
Lunin later said at least four missiles hit two infrastructure objects in Poltava while, according to preliminary information, three enemy planes attacked the industrial facilities of Kremenchuk.
Poltava city is the capital of the Poltava region, east of Kyiv, and Kremenchuk one of the area’s major cities.
There was no immediate information about possible casualties, Lunin said. Rooters could not immediately verify the report.
Russia denies targeting civilians in the war that 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... launched on February 24, calling the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two "special military operation."
In the Dnipro region in southwestern Ukraine, missiles hit an infrastructure facility, wounding two people and causing significant damage, Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the region, said in an online post.
In the city of Kryvyi Rih a petrol station has been shelled, causing fire, he added.
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Ukrainian officials say their forces have recaptured the city of Brovary, 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the capital #Kyiv, from #Russia.https://t.co/IduR1eOVvL
Local authorities in the occupied Ukrainian town of #Enerhodar say Russian forces have violently dispersed a pro-Ukrainian rally and detained some participants.https://t.co/5Czxo4j3Yy
Russian police detained 211 people Saturday at protests against Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, an NGO said.
OVD-Info, which monitors arrests during protests, said police had detained at least 211 people during demonstrations in 17 cities in Russia.
An AFP journalist in Moscow witnessed more than 20 people detained by riot police under heavy snowfall in the capital’s central park Zaryadye, a short distance from the Kremlin.
Police escorted away people sitting on park benches or just standing around without explaining the reasons for the detention, the news hound said.
One of the detained women held a bouquet of white tulips, while another several times exclaimed "No to war in Ukraine!" as she was being taken away.
A national sit-in Saturday against what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine was announced on social media by activists in around 30 Russian cities.
The organizers said in a statement they wanted to protest "the collapse of [Russia’s" economy," against 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... and to demand freedom for enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
"Russia deserves peace, democracy and prosperity," they said.
In Russia’s second city, Saint Petersburg, AFP saw multiple arrests near the city’s Legislative Assembly where around 40 people gathered, although it was unclear how many were there to protest.
"Nobody will come, all the active ones were detained at previous protests," said 30-year-old Sergei Gorelov, who said he came to "take a look and show support if necessary."
"I just came to stand around, to somehow express my protest to everything that is happening. It’s scary to protest actively," Galina Sedova, 50, told AFP at the scene.
Protesters risk fines and possible prison sentences by taking to the streets.
OVD-Info says that over 15,000 people have been detained at rallies across the country to protest Russian military action in Ukraine, which was launched on February 24.
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[PJMEDIA] Ukraine has recaptured more territory around Kyiv as Russian forces leave the area. In some instances, Russian troops are abandoning their positions in an orderly fashion, and Ukrainian forces are largely letting them leave.
But Rooters reports that there’s a trail of smashed tanks and dead bodies that marks Russia’s retreat from the outskirts of Kyiv, attesting to some fierce battles that took place in the last several days.
Ukraine recaptured more territory around Kyiv from Russian soldiers who left shattered villages and their own abandoned tanks as they moved away from the capital, while a disputed cross-border strike in Russia complicated peace talks on Friday.
In the hamlet of Dmytrivka to the west of the capital, smoke was still rising from the wrecks of armored vehicles and the bodies of at least eight Russian soldiers lay in the streets, Rooters correspondents saw.
"From one side we were hearing the tanks shooting at us, and from the area of Bucha was a massive mortar shelling," said resident Leonid Vereshchagin, a business executive, referring to a town to the north.
On Friday, PJ Media’s Kevin Downey Jr. covered the attack on a Russian fuel depot that destroyed several million gallons of fuel. There was some initial speculation that the attack was actually carried out by disgruntled Russian helicopter pilots who were refusing to fight in Ukraine. But U.S. intelligence analysts are now confirming the attack was initiated by two Mi-24 helicopters of Ukrainian origin.
Washington Post:
Despite this apparent trolling, many military and intelligence analysts said it had been a Ukrainian attack carried out by two Mi-24 helicopters that swept in low; fired rockets at the fuel depot, causing a massive explosion and igniting fuel tank fires; and then departed, still flying at a very low altitude. No casualties were reported.
If the attack is confirmed, it would mark an audacious and risky move by Ukraine, with its forces shifting from a largely defensive posture to a direct Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Russia at a time when the Russian military appears weakened.
Hitting the fuel supply depot was a stroke of genius. Every drop of fuel used by Russian forces in Ukraine has to be brought over the border by Russian trucks — trucks pulled out of mothballs and put in service for the war. The trucks are poorly maintained and are breaking down regularly.
Ukraine has taken back the 'whole Kyiv region', the country's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said
Russian armoured vehicles on outskirts of Kyiv have been reduced to rubble amid Ukrainian counterattacks
Dozens of burned out tanks, troop transport trucks and armoured vehicles line the once-bustling highways
No10 said Boris Johnson spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky to congratulate his troops' push back
Ukrainian units report more possible war crimes after finding the bound bodies of dead civilians in Bucha
President Zelensky warned Moscow's retreating forces left behind 'catastrophic' situations and mined homes
Streets of Kyiv suburb 'littered' with bodies, 280 buried in mass grave
[NYPOST] Almost 300 people were buried in a mass grave in Bucha, a commuter town northwest of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, its mayor said Saturday, after the Ukrainian army retook control of the key town from Russia only to find corpses strewn throughout the community.
"In Bucha, we have already buried 280 people in mass graves," Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP by phone. He said the destroyed town’s streets are littered with corpses.
In one residential street, the bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes were found strewn over an area of several hundred yards.
Graphic videos and photos of that street and others in the community circulated online.
One showed a man’s body with his hands tied behind his back, and an open Ukrainian passport lay on the ground beside him. Another had a gaping head wound.
Two lay near bicycles and a third was next to an abandoned car. Some lay face up, with their limbs askew, while others were lying face down.
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Why is the attack on the fuel depot" audacious and risky". Sounds pretty smart to me since the russians are already having supply problems.
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If a fighter catches a blow, a bleeding to the right brow, his opponent may wish to concentrate future strikes to the right eye.
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According to Scott Ritter, the Russians' war is proceeding to plan. From his twitter feed:
1/ Big Arrow War—a primer. For all those scratching their heads in confusion, or dusting off their dress uniforms for the Ukrainian victory parade in Kiev, over the news about Russia’s “strategic shift”, you might want to re-familiarize yourself with basic military concepts.
2/ Maneuver warfare is a good place to start. Understand Russia started its “special military operation” with a severe manpower deficit—200,000 attackers to some 600,000 defenders (or more). Classic attritional conflict was never an option. Russian victory required maneuver.
3/ Maneuver war is more psychological than physical and focuses more on the operational than on the tactical level. Maneuver is relational movement—how you deploy and move your forces in relation to your opponent. Russian maneuver in the first phase of its operation support this.
4/ The Russians needed to shape the battlefield to their advantage. In order to do this, they needed to control how Ukraine employed it’s numerically superior forces, while distributing their own smaller combat power to best accomplish this objective.
5/ Strategically, to facilitate the ability to maneuver between the southern, central, and northern fronts, Russia needed to secure a land bridge between Crimea and Russia. The seizure of the coastal city of Mariupol was critical to this effort. Russia has accomplished this task.
6/ While this complex operation unfolded, Russia needed to keep Ukraine from maneuvering its numerically superior forces in a manner that disrupted the Mariupol operation. This entailed the use of several strategic supporting operations—feints, fixing operations, and deep attack.
7/ The concept of a feint is simple—a military force either is seen as preparing to attack a given location, or actually conducts an attack, for the purpose of deceiving an opponent into committing resources in response to the perceived or actual actions.
8/ The use of the feint played a major role in Desert Storm, where Marine Amphibious forces threatened the Kuwaiti coast, forcing Iraq to defend against an attack that never came, and where the 1st Cavalry Division actually attacked Wadi Al Batin to pin down the Republican Guard.
9/ The Russians made extensive use of the feint in Ukraine, with Amphibious forces off Odessa freezing Ukrainian forces there, and a major feint attack toward Kiev compelling Ukraine to reinforce their forces there. Ukraine was never able to reinforce their forces in the east.
10/ Fixing operations were also critical. Ukraine had assembled some 60,000-100,000 troops in the east, opposite Donbas. Russia carried out a broad fixing attack designed to keep these forces fully engaged and unable to maneuver in respect to other Russian operations.
11/ During Desert Storm, two Marine Divisions were ordered to carry out similar fixing attacks against Iraqi forces deployed along the Kuwaiti-Saudi border, tying down significant numbers of men and material that could not be used to counter the main US attack out west.
12/ The Russian fixing attack pinned the main Ukrainian concentration of forces in the east, and drove them away from Mariupol, which was invested and reduced. Supporting operations out of Crimea against Kherson expanded the Russian land bridge. This phase is now complete.
13/ Russia also engaged in a campaign of strategic deep attack designed to disrupt and destroy Ukrainian logistics, command & control, and air power and long-range fire support. Ukraine is running out of fuel and ammo, cannot coordinate maneuver, and has no meaningful Air Force.
14/ Russia is redeploying some of its premier units from where they had been engaged in feint operations in northern Kiev to where they can support the next phase of the operation, namely the liberation of the Donbas and the destruction of the main Ukrainian force in the east.
15/ This is classic maneuver warfare. Russia will now hold Ukraine in the north and south while its main forces, reinforced by the northern units, Marines, and forces freed up by the capture of Mariupol, seek to envelope and destroy 60,000 Ukrainian forces in the east.
16/ This is Big Arrow War at its finest, something Americans used to know but forgot in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan and Iraq. It also explains how 200,000 Russians have been able to defeat 600,000 Ukrainians. Thus ends the primer on maneuver warfare, Russian style.
I have absolutely no idea if any of this is true; we'll just have to see how things pan out. But I do know "our" MSM is no more trustworthy than any Russian outlet... and that the Zelenskyy regime has lied through their teeth right from the beginning.
"The Russians are shelling the nuclear reactor!"
"There's been a radiation leak!"
"The Ghost of Kiev!"
"The brave martyrs of Snake Island!"
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Scott Ritter, convicted pedophile and pet commenter of Russia Today, et al, who believed in Saddam Hussein’s WMD until he didn’t. Ugh. He may know what he’s talking about, but I am not qualified to judge.
I’ve forgotten my Twitter password, so a link to the tweet leading off that series would be helpful, Mr. Exception. Your choices are to paste the bare URL into a comment, to paste the embed code into a comment, or to bury the URL in a hotlink by writing a bit of text in the comment box, highlighting it, clicking on the icon below the comment text box that looks like the world sitting on two links of a chain, then pasting the URL over the http:// placeholder in the box that pops up.
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Once again: personal attacks on the man. No discussion whatsoever of the overwhelming evidence of Ukrainian Nazis.
Plus undeclared biological warfare by “Our” government against another country. (Russia)
And rantburg participation on the Cia\ Nato disinformation campaign against the American public put this blog at the same level of an MSM prostitute
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And rantburg participation on the Cia\ Nato disinformation campaign against the American public put this blog at the same level of an MSM prostitute
So, the sons of bitches have stiffed me for payment!
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And rantburg participation on the Cia\ Nato disinformation campaign against the American public put this blog at the same level of an MSM prostitute
The floor manager must have walked by, and he doesn’t want to be caught off-message.
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badanov, it's interesting that's you're accused of being a Putin stooge on one thread and a CIA stooge on the other. Keep up the good work.
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I think the answer in the aftermath will be The Clinton Global Initiative. They have a track record for knowing how to make a difference in opportunities where large sums of money are necessary to resolve problems especially if orphans are available.
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The #US sanctions five entities it accused of providing support to #NorthKorea’s development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, increasing pressure on Pyongyang following a recent series of missile launches.https://t.co/N8vwWNines
[Gateway] Last year it was revealed that Pentagon scientists working in a secretive united created a microchip to be inserted underneath the skin, that can detect Covid-19 before the body exhibits symptoms.
60 Minutes interviewed retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease physician, who spent years with the secretive defense advanced research projects agency or DARPA, working on technology he hopes will ensure COVID-19 is the last pandemic.
"Dr. Hepburn showed us a few current projects, some sound like they’re from an episode of "Star Trek." Consider a ship like the USS Theodore Roosevelt — hobbled last year when 1,271 crew members tested positive for the coronavirus. What if everyone on board had their health monitored with this subdermal implant, now in late-stage testing. It’s not some dreaded government microchip to track your every move, but a tissue-like gel engineered to continuously test your blood," 60 Minutes host Bill Whitaker said.
Dr. Hepburn told 60 Minutes that the microchip is like a "check engine light."
#4
Bill Gates also is the largest land owner in the USA. I'd bet you he will have the land set aside as national parkland or something like that to put it out of use. He is getting old.
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.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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[Bus Insider] Night ambushes carried out by a team of Ukrainian special forces and drone operators on quad bikes have helped turn the tide of the Russian invasion, The Guardian reported.
One or two of our readers need an occasional assist. My wife gives me a hand in the kitchen from time to time also. 
...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...
...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...
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[Gateway] Last year it was revealed that Pentagon scientists working in a secretive united created a microchip to be inserted underneath the skin, that can detect Covid-19 before the body exhibits symptoms.
