[NYTIMES] For a decade, Lawrence V. Ray exerted near-total control over a group of young people he met after moving into a dormitory at Sarah Lawrence College, prosecutors said. He presented himself as a mentor, isolating students from their parents, pressuring them into degrading acts and extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from them.
Some remained loyal, even after a story in New York magazine in 2019 detailed a host of abuses ascribed to Mr. Ray. But during a nearly monthlong trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, four former followers provided detailed testimony about how he indoctrinated and exploited them.
On Wednesday, three of those witnesses watched from the gallery as the jury forewoman announced that Mr. Ray had been found guilty of all 15 federal counts, including extortion, sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Mr. Ray, 62, wearing a blue shirt and dark-colored dress pants, was impassive as the verdict was announced. Afterward, defense lawyers declined to comment.
Damian Williams, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement that the verdict was just and praised those who testified, saying, "We are in awe of their bravery in the face of incredible trauma."
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
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was the only one killed or injured as all of the other crewmembers were asleep at that time
Ha ha ha! Those Daily Mail schmucks.
Reading it one would visualise a rotorhead starting up a chopper with men on it sleeping in their harnesses like babes, the bird then yawing drunkenly through the sky and smashing into another one. And only the errant pilot died because the rest were too busy still sleeping to die. 😁
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It's a twisty story any way you see it. There weren't any Security airmen walking post when this went down?
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So the crews sleep in quarters next to the flight line. The generally sleep on the furthest side of the building as to not be bothered by other aircraft taxiing by. So getting up and going to an aircraft without anyone noticing is easy. Starting a Blackhawk as a single pilot is not that difficult. It is classified as a two pilot aircraft but it is very capable of being flown by one person.
So I am assuming the question is if it was suicide or was he in a deep sleepwalk induced by meds. If the CPT was stealing the aircraft it would be easy.
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The problem every base commander has. More of a problem in totalitarian regimes, but a whack job can happen anywhere.
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The video was great.
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Poor transgendered baby.
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What a stupid cop! Repeating himself over and over. He should have had the Taser out in the first place and used after she ignored his command for a third time.
"Well, double dumbass on you!"
[Breitbart, via FR] Angry mobs stormed various government buildings in Lima, Peru, on Tuesday night, attempting to burn down the Superior Court of Justice of Lima and fighting police with bricks and sticks.
The violent protests followed a turbulent 24 hours in which communist President Pedro Castillo abruptly announced a "curfew" stripping citizens of their constitutional rights, then repealed the curfew when thousands disobeyed it. The curfew, Castillo claimed, was an attempt to subdue nationwide protests against skyrocketing gasoline and food prices, an increasingly common phenomenon in the world’s most vulnerable economies. Outraged political observers told local media that the curfew was baffling given that the government did not implement such measures even at the height of the terror spree by largely defunct Marxist gang Shining Path, and suggested Castillo had lost control of the country.
Castillo announced the curfew in a nationally televised address on Monday, minutes before midnight on Tuesday. He lifted the curfew at 5 p.m. Lima time on Tuesday after Public Defender of Peru Walter Gutiérrez filed a habeas corpus petition regarding the move, arguing it was unconstitutional. The mayor of Lima, Jorge Muñoz, similarly challenged the curfew through a habeas corpus petition.
"Peru today is capsizing socially, politically, and economically, and there seems to be no way out," Muñoz said. "A solution should immediately be sought to end this situation. You [Castillo] said you would hold early elections if you did not meet expectatations — what are you waiting for?"
Ending the curfew did not stop mobs of "vandals," as local outlets decribed them, attacking the headquarters of the Public Ministry, the National Jury of Elections, and the Superior Court of Justice of Lima, the top regional judiciary. The latter suffered some of the most significant damage. Radio Programas del Perú described protesters ripping cobblestones out of the street and throwing them at the facade of the Superior Court building and "using its door as a urinal." Some in the mob, it continued, found a path around police to the back of the building, where they "united to use sticks, lances, and rocks to break open the locks." At the original article there are links to both twitter and youtube videos on the situation at this point.
The mob broke into the building and reportedly started looting it. Some reportedly attempted to start fires in the basement.
The Peruvian investigative journalism outlet Convoca described the mob looking for expensive technology, office furniture, and appliances like microwaves.
"A mob entered the building and stole computer equipment, refrigerators, microwaves, chairs, fire extinguishers, and other objects," Convoca narrated. "The delinquents started a fire inside the building that was controlled by security personnel."
The head of the judicial branch of Peru, Elvia Barrios, confirmed on Wednesday that the Superior Court of Justice of Lima was one of two judiciary facilities attacked on Tuesday night and that the mob attempted to burn down the former building.
"I’m told it was a mob of about 100 people who directly went to that place [the Lima court]," Barrios told reporters.
In addition to the court and other government buildings, at least one church, the Conception Church in Lima, suffered significant vandalism on Tuesday, and multiple shops were fully looted. The National Police of Peru reported 18 arrests on Wednesday, a small number given reports of hundreds engaging in mob attacks and thousands simply disregarding the curfew prior to its lifting. Even prior to the nighttime mob attacks, local outlets reported that thousands of people had simply chosen to ignore the curfew and attempt to go about their days normally, with minimal police pushback.
"Thousands of people disregarded the order, announced close to midnight on Monday, to protest the government," the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reported. Many, the newspaper relayed, complained that the curfew had stopped public transportation, rendering it impossible for them to go to work.
"Collective taxi drivers did benefit from what happened, taking advantage of the desperation to raise prices and transporting people even in the trunks of their cars," El Comercio narrated.
The outbreak of civil unrest ended a short period of political victory for Castillo that began in mid-March, when an attempt to impeach him in Congress failed. It was the second such attempt since he took office in July.
Peru’s constitution allows Congress to impeach a president on extremely thin grounds, granting a provision for perceived "moral" infractions. As a result, Congress has made a tradition of attempting to impeach presidents when the opposition gains a majority. Castillo is the fifth president Peru has had in six years; Peru had three presidents in 2020.
Following his victory over impeachment, Castillo is once again facing calls to resign, as Lima Mayor Muñoz exemplified. Various political observers told La República, another Peruvian newspaper, that his response to widespread protests against high food and fuel prices indicated that he had no real understanding of how the state operates and should step aside. This bit is important background:
"The president has already violated the Constitution [through the curfew], as the last link in a string of mistakes. His remaining [in power] will only guarantee instability, mismanagement and maintenance of the pipelines of corruption," political science professor Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla told the newspaper. "His resignation is necessary, accompanied by a national agreement to exit the crisis within the framework of the Constitution and the law."
Another Peruvian pundit, Rosa María Palacios, accused Castillo of having "an absolute disconnect with reality" for calling the curfew.
"Not even during the armed seizures by Shining Path did they manage such a restriction of fundamental rights," she noted.
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If someone put a model of the Supreme Court building in a jar of piss and called it Piss Court, they could probably make a few bucks.
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In Peru, trial by bodily waste
Means our docket is cleared in great haste,
For in lieu of a writ
They file handfuls of sh-t
Or a bucket of-- [gavels distaste]
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Old Buddhist saying: The Buddha is a shit stick.
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Let him who is not full of sh-t cast the first stone. What's the smell of one hand crapping? A frog who's loose may need more than one goose. Do robot bidets dream of electric bleep?
[DW] Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is experiencing the largest exodus since the October Revolution of 1917. Many who are leaving are intellectuals and artists. Their future is uncertain.
On the night of March 4, 2022, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Loshak could hardly sleep — in fact, he had slept very little since February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine.
He checked channels on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, and found one message in particular that made him freeze in fear: In the near future, martial law could be imposed in Russia, which would make it impossible to leave the country.
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Ukraine believes, and satellite seems to confirm, that Russia is moving forces into position to try a new major push to take substantial territory west of Luhansk and Donatsk cities (that are capitals of the separatist breakaway regions). This would require effective contributions from new conscripts, units withdrawn from the N and NE battles, the L and D separatist militia and whatever else Russia can put on the field. Ukraine has forces dug in along this front but probably needs to reinforce its units and get civilians out of the way.
Putin presumably wants to proclaim victory or impending victory by May 9 which is V-E day and typically a big parade day in Moscow.
and yet Russia hasn't completely subdued Mariupol yet despite throwing a lot of their forces into this effort for weeks and despite the fact that Mariupol has been surrounded since 2 March.
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[Korrespondent] 22:08 In Vorzel, the Russian invaders nailed the dogs and skinned them, and hung the heads of chickens on clotheslines. 21:33 A cat rescued from the rubble in Borodyanka.
21:30 Putin "has prerequisites" for meeting with the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
21:26 Kharkiv Mayor Terekhov addressed the residents of the city and stated that there was no need for evacuation.
21:22 In the Kiev region, on the territory of the Gostomel village council, a week-long curfew is introduced - from 06:00 on April 7 to 06:00 on April 14.
21:19 Vice Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk, on the air of the All-Ukrainian telethon, called on residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to immediately evacuate while there is an opportunity for this.
"We need this now, because then people will be under fire and the threat of death. They will not be able to do anything against this and we will not be able to help. Because it will be almost impossible to stop the fire. We need to evacuate while there is such an opportunity. Now it is still there" , she stressed.
21:16 The ambassadors of the EU countries at a meeting on Wednesday failed to approve the decision on the fifth package of sanctions against Russia, proposed by the European Commission on Tuesday. Some countries called for clarification of the details of a proposed embargo on Russian coal imports and a ban on Russian ships mooring in EU ports. The discussion will continue on Thursday.
21:09 In anticipation of the offensive of the occupying forces of Russia, the Kharkiv regional military administration advises residents of Lozova and Barvenkove to evacuate by train.
21:05 The enemy completes the regrouping of troops. The Russian invaders continue to prepare for an offensive operation in eastern Ukraine in order to establish full control of the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the State Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
21:00 "I can tell you that China is uncomfortable in this position, and you will notice that in the majority of votes they abstained, they did not vote for Russia. China's abstention was taken as an important message that China does not fully support Russia in this shameless war against Ukraine," US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
20:54 Recently, about 1,000 companies with 100% Russian capital have been opened in Turkey, head of the Turkish-Russian Business Council Izzet Ekmekcibashi said. This is a way to circumvent anti-Russian sanctions - businessmen transfer business and capital to Turkey, which did not join the sanctions against the Russian Federation.
20:50 Ukraine's international reserves increased by 2 percent in March and, as of April 1, 2022, amounted to $28.1 billion.
20:44 The American metal band Metallica plans to raise one million dollars by the end of May through exclusive merchandise, auctions, lotteries and contests in order to subsequently send this money to help Ukraine.
20:37 The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, said that 5,000 people died in the city during the month of occupation. Of these, 210 were children, and about 50 more were burned to death in a hospital that was set on fire by the bombardment.
He also noted that the city was completely destroyed. More than 90% of the city's infrastructure has been destroyed, at least 40% can no longer be restored.
20:30 "Ask my parents who lived in the Soviet Union. Russian-speaking people who lived their lives in the Soviet Union. Ask them what they wanted to do with these Russian troops that came to protect everything Russian. I think my father would say, that he would like to strangle them. No alternatives," Zelensky said.
20:25 Joe Biden signed a new package of defense assistance to Ukraine, including Javelin anti-tank systems.
20:17 Ireland supports Ukraine's application for membership in the European Union, Prime Minister Michael Martin said.
20:09 In the Netherlands, they noticed the transportation of the Soviet air defense system ZRK 2K12 "Cube".
20:00 The acting chairman of the Borodyansk village council, Georgy Yerko, said that 14 dead had been found under the rubble today.
19:49 Kiev is returning to normal life, but it's too early to return - the threat of shelling continues, Klitschko said.
19:42 "Chernihiv saved Ukraine from being cut into pieces" - Arestovich.
19:30 The mayor of Skadovsk in the Kherson region Alexander Yakovlev said that he was forced to leave the city. "I was told: either you cooperate, or you go to the basement. There is little use for the mayor in the cell."
19:22 Britain will refuse to import coal and oil from Russia until the end of 2022, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
19:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated Osokorovka in the Kherson region, according to operational information provided by the General Staff.
19:06 Annual inflation in Russia, according to Rosstat, accelerated to 16.7 percent as of April 1.
18:59 Sanctions will cost Russia the last 15 years of development - inflation has already exceeded 15% and is projected to accelerate even higher.
18:49 Zelensky said that there would definitely be a meeting of the alleged countries-guarantors of Ukraine's security, a number of countries have already confirmed it - among them the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Poland, Germany, France and Israel.
18:44 Chinese state-owned refineries avoid new oil contracts with Russia. This caution is due to increased Western sanctions against Russia, Reuters sources say.
18:34 Putin may still try to retake Kiev despite Russia's strategic shift and ongoing negotiations with Ukraine, US and European officials told CNN.
18:26 The Ministry of Defense showed the impact of the MLRS Hurricane on the invaders.
18:24 Reuters reports that EU diplomats for technical reasons today could not agree on a ban on coal imports from the Russian Federation and a new package of anti-Russian sanctions.
18:19 Anti-war action in Vilnius in front of the German Embassy:
18:06 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that his country expects more meetings between representatives of Ukraine and Russia. Including - at the level of foreign ministers.
18:04 Great Britain completely freezes the assets of Sberbank and Moscow Credit Bank.
18:01 The media showed apocalyptic footage of burned military equipment in the Gostomel area.
17:55 The authorities clarified that the Kharkiv region was mentioned by mistake, calling for an urgent evacuation. This applies only to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
17:47 The Anonymous hacker group claimed to have gained access to the Kremlin's video surveillance system.
"Now we are inside the Kremlin," the hackers wrote on Twitter.
17:34 US announced new sanctions against Russia:
full blocking sanctions against Sberbank and Alfa-Bank
ban on new investments in the Russian economy
personal sanctions against Mikhail Mishustin, Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's adult children, Lavrov's wife and daughter.
The White House said that the United States has completely blocked more than 2/3 of the Russian banking sector in total and that the Russian economy will no longer be among the twenty largest as a result of Western sanctions.
The US will also impose full lockdown sanctions on critical large Russian state-owned enterprises, which will be announced by the Treasury Department on Thursday.
17:30 Stoltenberg's main statements at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers:
Killing civilians is a war crime, all the facts must be established and the perpetrators must be punished.
We expect an offensive in eastern Ukraine. His goal is the control of the Russian Federation over the Donbass
We see no signs that Putin has given up his ambition to control all of Ukraine.
NATO must support Ukraine and strengthen its defense
NATO supported Ukraine for many years and provided various weapons, and this, combined with the courage of the Ukrainian army, helped to contain the Russian offensive.
Now NATO also makes a significant contribution to the defense of Ukraine
Ukraine now needs different weapons - light and heavy. NATO sees it is having an effect and it is important that supplies continue
The war must end now, Putin must withdraw his troops, but you need to be realistic. Therefore, sanctions and strengthening of defense are needed
17:24 During his disappearance, Shoigu traveled to China and North Korea to negotiate the supply of missiles for the Iskanders, military expert Oleg Zhdanov claims. Beijing refused, Pyongyang agreed, says Zhdanov.
17:11 Participants of three attacks on the airfield in Chernobaevka told the details about these events.
16:59 A helicopter was hijacked from the Russian army, according to the monitoring group of the Belaruska Gayun project and the editors of @motolkohelp, who received the intercept of the negotiations of the Russian Aerospace Forces on April 4, 2022.
From them it turns out that the night before, at around 20:00, six helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces took off from the Zyabrovka military airfield in the Gomel region, which headed for the Shatalovo military airfield in the Smolensk region.
However, one of the helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces with registration number RF-04812 deviated from the course to the Russian Federation and went south/southeast, towards the border crossing with Ukraine.
The remaining helicopters began to return, and for an hour the helicopter with the registration number RF-90665 dangled around the Gomel region, Belarus, trying to find and catch up with the board, but, in the end, did not find it.
"812, where are you now, tell me honestly? Timurchik, damn it, tell us, please, in Russian. Did you stay there or not?", - said the pilot of one of the helicopters in the group.
Recall that Ukraine promises a large sum for the transfer of Russian military equipment by the invaders.
16:23 In Russian Kostroma, an unknown person broke a stella with a rashist swastika.
16:10 Orban: "Russia started the war, all its atrocities must be investigated."
15:48 Russian General Vitaly Shkolenko, who ordered the shelling of Bucha and Irpen, turned out to be Ukrainian.
15:43 The water in the pond opposite the Russian embassy in Vilnius was painted the color of blood. City officials say it is "an artistic performance aimed at drawing the world's attention to Russia's war crimes."
15:42 Scholz said that Germany is helping Ukraine with weapons from the stocks of its armed forces. And that he will continue to support it in the future "as best as possible, until the war is over."
"Everything that makes sense and works quickly is delivered," the German chancellor stressed.
15:41 Reuters writes that Orban invited Putin to peace talks in Hungary and that the answer was positive, "but with conditions." What - not reported.
15:40 Orban said that if the Russian Federation asks to pay for its gas in rubles, then Hungary will pay in rubles.
15:39 Germany is discussing security guarantees with Ukraine, but this process is confidential and no agreements have been reached yet, Scholz said, speaking in parliament.
What exactly such guarantees might look like, for example from Germany, is being discussed confidentially, and agreements have not yet been written down, the chancellor said.
He noted that Ukraine's offer of long-term neutrality is a "big concession" to Russia, but the negotiations should not end with a "dictated peace."
15:38 A video clip of successful Ukrainian battles against Russian occupiers near Kharkov on YouTube gained almost a million views in a week.
15:37 Putin may still try to capture Kiev again, despite Russia's strategic shift and ongoing negotiations with Ukraine, writes CNN, citing sources in the US and Europe.
15:35 The heads of the military administrations of the Kharkiv, Lugansk and Donetsk regions are asking the population to leave the borders of the regions due to the aggravation of the situation.
15:28 The destroyed Borodianka was shown from a bird's eye view.
15:24 The invaders fired at Severodonetsk, ten high-rise buildings are on fire. The number of victims is not yet known.
15:21 In social networks they write that the Russian invaders are now raping Belarusian girls.
15:19 Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that his country will continue to move to the EU, but at the same time will maintain "sincere and traditional friendly relations" with Russia.
15:18 "Finland's accession to NATO would make it a target for Russian retaliatory measures," said Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
15:13 A video with fresh graves of Russian vveshniks has appeared on the network.
15:06 Scholz assured that Germany will free itself from fossil fuels. Speaking in the Bundestag, he promised to continue to support Ukraine in every possible way until Russia withdraws its troops.
15:04 "Of course, there are no murdered women and children lying on the streets in Florence. But there is so much culture and art here. Great," wrote Ukrainian ambassador Melnik about Merkel's Italian vacation.
15:01 The London maritime insurer market, which accounts for about a third of the insurance market share of all merchant ships in the world, has declared all Russian sea waters a "war zone", Reuters reports. This zone included the Black Sea, the Baltic, and the ports of the Far East.
Now, when a ship is about to enter such territory, the owner of the ship is obliged to notify his insurer and pay a special military tax, which, depending on the conditions, can be up to five percent of the value of the ship, which makes entering these waters profitable only when delivering very expensive cargo.
14:59 The UN General Assembly will vote tomorrow to remove Russia from work in the UN Human Rights Council, reports AFP
After the massacres in Bucha, Western countries came up with such an initiative.
14:58 EU sanctions against Russia, which unleashed a war against Ukraine, have already covered almost 900 people, but a number of Putin's close associates, and some politicians and beneficiaries responsible for the war, have not fallen under them, The Insider notes.
Russian journalists have compiled a list of those who should also be blacklisted by the West.
The first in the article is the former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who "is not just a member of Putin's inner circle, but is also the head of the board of directors of Yuri Kovalchuk's National Media Group, which owns shares in Channel One, REN TV and other media."
Despite the fact that almost all State Duma deputies are already on the EU black list, the former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is missing there, “although it was she who got the role of the main public lobbyist for the constitutional reform, which allowed Putin to “zero out” the presidential terms and extend the reign,” it is stated further.
The publication also included Peskov's wife Tatyana Navka in its list, a number of oligarchs associated with the Russian regime, and billionaire Dmitry Sablin, whom it called the ideologist of the war with Ukraine and one of the richest deputies of the State Duma.
14:53 The German industry supports the sanctions course of the German government and the EU against Russia. "The atrocities in Bucha require a decisive and unequivocal response from the West," said Siegfried Russwurm, head of the BDI.
German coal importers suggest that by the end of this year, Russian coal imports may be completely replaced by supplies from other sources. "Russian hard coal can be replaced by coal from other countries such as the US, South Africa, Australia, Colombia, Mozambique and Indonesia," said Alexander Bethe, chairman of the Association of Coal Importers.
14:51 The European Union has spent 35 billion euros on Russian fuel since the start of a full-scale invasion, while military spending for Ukraine amounted to only one billion euros, EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said.
"We have to help [Ukrainians] protect themselves... We gave Ukraine one billion euros. It may seem like a big amount, but one billion euros is how much we pay Putin every day for the energy he gives us," he said. he is in front of the European Parliament.
Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is "working" on additional measures, including restrictions on oil imports.
14:37 Members of the Czech Parliament unanimously recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. The decision was taken unanimously.
14:32 The authorities of Ukraine called on residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions to immediately evacuate, "while there is still such an opportunity."
14:26 Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko, after a meeting with the head of the IAEA Rafael Grossi, said that the organization is trying to legitimize the presence of invaders at the Zaprorozhskaya nuclear power plant.
"If there are intentions to visit the Zaporozhye station before Ukraine returns control over it, then this is not flirting - this is a game on a foreign field - on the Russian field. For me, this looks like an attempt to legitimize the presence of Russian troops at the ZNPP," he said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine .
Ukraine, according to Galushchenko, insists that it is impossible to talk about nuclear safety while occupying Russian troops are at the station.
"The issue is that only Ukraine, and not the Russian military, can act as a guarantor of nuclear safety at its nuclear facilities," the minister is convinced.
Galushchenko believes that it is simply absurd to talk about nuclear safety or any kind of apoliticality in a situation where shells are located near nuclear reactors.
14:21 In Italy, on Lake Como, the villa of Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was set on fire.
13:56 The Cabinet of Ministers allowed the Terodefense to use grenade launchers and flamethrowers.
13:50 Greece, following other EU countries, expels Russian diplomats - 12 people.
13:49 A total of 27 night attacks on Kharkov. Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, spoke about them today.
"Again at night, the Russian occupiers delivered about 27 strikes from various types of weapons on the residential areas of Kharkov. The enemy wants to demoralize us and continues to inflict chaotic strikes on civilian infrastructure," he says.
Sinegubov says that the fighting in the area of the city of Izyum continues. He asked local residents to follow the reports of local authorities about the evacuation and temporarily move to safer places.
13:48 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen assures that the new package of sanctions proposed by the European Commission for Russia for its war against Ukraine will not be the last.
13:47 Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin said that his country supported Ukraine's application for EU membership and will continue to do so.
13:43 In social networks, they showed the battle of one Ukrainian tank against an entire tank column of Russian invaders.
13:41 Russian mobile crematoriums in partially occupied Mariupol burn the bodies of tortured and killed residents of the city, the city council reports on Telegram.
"Murderers cover their tracks. Russian mobile crematoriums have started operating in Mariupol. After the wide international publicity of the genocide in Bucha, the top leadership of the Russian Federation ordered to destroy any evidence of the crimes of its army in Mariupol," the report says.
The City Council noted that a week ago "cautious estimates indicated five thousand dead."
"But given the size of the city, catastrophic destruction, the duration of the blockade and tough resistance, tens of thousands of Mariupol civilians could become victims of the invaders," the Mariupol authorities report.
Eyewitnesses report that special brigades of "DPR" terrorists were involved in the cleansing.
"The world has not seen the scale of the tragedy in Mariupol since the existence of the Nazi concentration camps. The Rashists turned our entire city into a death camp. Unfortunately, the terrible analogy is getting more and more confirmation. This is no longer Chechnya or Aleppo. This is the new Maidanek. The world must help punish Putin's bigots ", - said the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko.
13:35 Gerashchenko writes that Zhirinovsky died 2.5 months ago. “But they didn’t turn him off so that he was legally alive, in order to have time to re-register that property and assets to his son and his lovers ... And only when the lawyers finished everything and all the rights of claim were re-registered, a long time ago the dead body was turned off” .
13:32 The head of the Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Gaidai: "We fix the constant supply of new forces (occupiers - ed.), equipment and people, I think that they plan to complete the supply of all reserves and in 3-4 days they will try to carry out an offensive" .
13:31 In Russia, the Federal Tax Service instructed the territorial offices, together with the police, to look for currency speculators who trade currency bypassing banks.
13:26 A car at high speed crashed into the newly installed gates of the Russian embassy in Bucharest, and the driver set himself on fire, Digi24 TV channel reports, citing sources.
The prosecutor's office said the car went off the road and crashed into the embassy fence. Authorities confirmed that the driver was killed. Investigators are establishing the circumstances of the incident.
Bogdan Dragich, the head of the non-profit organization TATA, which defends the rights of fathers to their children in divorce proceedings, turned out to be dead, Antena3 reports. Two days ago, Dragic posted on Facebook condemning Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. "I'm Ukrainian too!" he wrote.
13:24 One of the leading suppliers of microprocessors, the American company Intel announced the suspension of its activities in Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
13:22 The Ministry of Finance of Russia for the first time could not make a payment on Eurobonds in dollars through a foreign bank due to the refusal of a foreign correspondent bank to execute a payment order for a total of 649 million, the department announced.
Instead, the Ministry of Finance transferred rubles at the rate of April 4 to the National Settlement Depository for making payments in rubles.
If the Russians do not pay in dollars within 30 days, then this will be a technical default. As a result, Russian property will be arrested on account of debt.
13:17 Ukraine received almost 30 times more defense products from Turkey in the first quarter of 2022 than a year earlier, Reuters writes.
13:11 Vladimir Zhirinovsky died, who really wanted to bomb Ukraine. Now officially.
By the way, in December last year, Zhirinovsky hinted that Russia would attack Ukraine on February 22.
13:03 The State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone has published a video confirmation that the invaders were digging trenches in the Red Forest.
12:58 In Russia, a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles or 15 days of arrest was introduced for comparing the USSR with the Third Reich.
12:53 The director of the latest James Bond film, Cary Fukunaga, visited Bucha and posted photos from the city on his Instagram.
12:47 Marauders map. Mediazone journalists showed where the parcels of the Russian occupiers, who visited the north of Ukarina, went from the Belarusian Mozyr.
12:43 Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov showed a civilian bus fired upon by the occupiers, which followed from Izyum to Slavyansk.
12:41 In Vuhledar, Donetsk region, the area where humanitarian aid was handed out came under fire today. The governor of the region, Pavel Kirilenko, reports that, according to preliminary data, two civilians were killed and five were injured.
12:39 The President of the European Council Charles Michel declares that the crimes of war committed by the Russian occupiers in Ukraine will have serious consequences, and the perpetrators will face international justice.
"We are amazed by the crimes against humanity, against innocent civilians in Bucha and many other cities. This once again proves that Russian brutality against the people of Ukraine has no limits ... Bodies on the streets, mass graves are not a special operation, these are crimes of war" - he said, speaking to the deputies of the European Parliament.
12:37 Pope Francis condemned the massacre in Bucha and raised the Ukrainian flag, which was sent to him from the city.
12:36 At the airfield in Pridnestrovie, they are preparing to receive aircraft, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. It is possible that the Russians will try to use Transnistria to support the offensive in the South Buzh direction.
12:32 According to the intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, every third occupier from Bucha fought in Syria on the side of the dictator Assad.
12:27 Andrei Danilko, speaking of the Russians, quoted Orwell: "People who choose scoundrels, losers, criminals, thieves are not victims. They are accomplices."
12:21 Peskov called the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev region "a goodwill gesture to create conditions for negotiations, during which serious decisions are possible."
"We insist that the images that were presented are the result of an organized falsification. The Russian army does not target civilians, does not bomb residential buildings," he added.
12:01 Police officers detained in Poltava one of the participants in the crime in the Veliko Burluksky district: civilians were shot there and then burned in a car.
On March 23, a group of young people stole grain equipment from a farm, and the farmer and two workers began to pursue the thieves. The kidnappers left the equipment and fled, but soon returned to take revenge.
After organizing an ambush, they shot at the car with automatic weapons, which they seized from a broken military convoy, drove the car to another place and set it on fire, along with three dead, to simulate death as a result of shelling. Citizens born in 1967, 1993 and 2004 died.
11:57 The European Union is considering imposing sanctions against two of Putin's daughters, writes WSJ.
11:35 Residents of Belgorod report on social networks that they constantly hear "pops" and take pictures of smoke in the sky.
11:32 The EU is ready to "give more weapons" to Ukraine. "We must continue to support Ukraine. We want the war to end as soon as possible," Borrell said.
11:29 "Massive investments" will be sent to restore Ukraine after the war. This was stated by the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, during his speech in the European Parliament.
"We will continue to support Ukraine politically, financially, humanitarianly. We agreed to create a trust fund for Ukraine. In the short term, this will help support Ukraine, and in the long term, it will provide massive investments to restore the economy and infrastructure," Michel said.
11:26 The Verkhovna Rada has registered a bill recognizing Russia's war crimes in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian nation.
The text of the bill says that the Russian Federation resorted to deliberate actions aimed at the destruction of the Ukrainian nation. This refers to mass torture, the killing of civilians, the destruction of residential buildings, life support infrastructure, and so on.
11:21 The mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, told BBC News that the Russian military shot at least 320 civilians during the occupation of the city.
The mayor said that he personally witnessed the death penalty of several townspeople.
“I myself saw several episodes. There were three civilian vehicles that tried to evacuate towards Kyiv, and they were brutally shot. There was a pregnant woman whose man screamed and asked not to shoot at her, but they took it and just brutally shot her,” said Fedoruk .
11:18 Estonian authorities handed over a batch of weapons to Ukraine to protect against the Russian invasion.
The military assistance tranche included anti-tank missiles, howitzers, anti-tank mines, recoilless anti-tank guns, automatic weapons, ammunition, disposable grenade launchers and hand grenades.
11:11 All schools in the Belgorod region have been evacuated due to reports of mining, the mayor of Belgorod said.
11:05 The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said that Europe "sooner or later" will expand sanctions on Russian oil and gas.
10:41 Russian troops have stepped up aerial reconnaissance in the Odessa region.
10:17 In the Kursk region of Russia bordering Ukraine, they said that at night the positions of Russian border guards were fired upon.
9:57 Among the dead Russian military, which are officially reported in the Russian Federation, one in five is an officer, calculated in BBC News.
9:33 Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 167 children have died, more than 279 have been injured of varying degrees of severity.
9:20 Russia's war against Ukraine is the most serious threat to the peace and security of Europe and possibly the whole world in recent decades, said General Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking at the House Armed Services Committee.
"The United States is at a critical and historic, geostrategic turning point. We find ourselves in a world that is becoming more volatile and the potential for significant international conflict between great powers is rising, not diminishing," Milley continued.
Russia, Milley noted, "retains a large and diverse nuclear capability to threaten the US" and its allies.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a "dangerous historical turning point." Milley warned that it would be wrong to expect a quick end to the conflict in Ukraine.
“I believe that this is a protracted conflict that will be measured in years. I don’t know if we can talk about a decade, but a few years is for sure. I think that the United States, NATO, Ukraine and all allies and partners supporting it will be drawn into this for a long time," the general said.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who spoke with Milley at the hearing, also called the Russian Federation an "acute threat" to the United States.
"As we have seen in recent weeks, Russia ... remains an acute threat requiring close and sustained coordination within NATO in order to prevent further aggression in Europe," Austin said.
However, in general, according to Milley, China remains the main "geostrategic challenge" for the US in the long term.
According to the general, China continues to develop its potential in various fields and "works every day to reduce the technological gap with the United States."
9:16 In the besieged Mariupol, heavy fighting continues, the city is under attack from Russian aircraft, according to the daily report of the British Ministry of Defense on the situation in Ukraine.
According to British intelligence, the humanitarian situation in Mariupol is deteriorating.
"Most of the 160,000 remaining residents have no electricity, communications, medicines, heat or water. Russian forces are preventing access to humanitarian aid, which could force the defenders to surrender," the British say.
8:54 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 1,480 civilians have been killed, 2,195 people have been injured. We are talking only about confirmed cases, the actual number may be higher, according to the UN.
8:41 Lugansk region is under heavy fire from Russian troops. The situation in the region is very difficult.
7:58 Russian missile attack was carried out on an oil depot in Novomoskovsk and a plant in the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
7:46 Russia is focusing its main efforts in Ukraine on preparing for the offensive and complete control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
7:39 The United States will additionally allocate $ 100 million in military assistance to Ukraine, in particular, for the purchase of anti-tank systems.
7:20 In the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region, a local resident was detained, who is suspected of cooperation and assistance to the Russian invaders.
6:28 The United States should consider sending more troops to Eastern Europe, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said in a speech before the US Congress.
5:31 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recorded a video message to the Russians and urged them to seek truthful information about the war.
4:35 Turkish Foreign Ministry resumed the work of the embassy in Kiev after a month of evacuation in Chernivtsi.
3:39 The US will no longer allow Russia to pay off its national debt with dollars held in US banks, Psaki said.
"The purpose of this decision is to force Russia to make a choice. They do not have unlimited resources, and the government will be forced to choose between depleting the remaining foreign exchange reserves or default," said Jen Psaki, a White House press secretary.
In addition, Psaki noted that the White House hopes that this decision should significantly complicate the continuation of the war in Ukraine.
3:10 About 400 people went missing in Gostomel during the occupation.
2:42 In the Prilutsky district of the Chernihiv region, the prosecutor's office is investigating the circumstances of the death of two civilians and the injury of children as a result of a car blown up by a mine.
1:16 In the Belgorod region, they began to dig trenches. The representative of the local authorities said that this was for "reinsurance". To calm the panicked residents of the region, he recorded a video message in which he said that "earthworks are being carried out at our request."
0:20 Western countries have frozen 60 percent of Russia's foreign exchange reserves - over 350 billion dollars, said British Foreign Minister Liz Truss.
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[KavkazUzel] The case of a former investigator from Makhachkala, accused of extorting a bribe from a suspect, has been submitted to court.
According to investigators, the work of the employee was a criminal case of a local resident, who was suspected of extortion. In October 2021, the investigator demanded a bribe of 1 million rubles from the suspect, and in return promised not to prosecute him, investigators believe. Then, according to the investigation, the amount of the bribe was reduced to 700,000 rubles.
However, a local resident turned to law enforcement agencies. On October 25, 2021, after receiving the required amount, the former investigator was detained, he was accused of extorting a large bribe (paragraphs “b” and “c” of Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan reported today on its website. The employee's case has been sent to court, the report said.
Note that the maximum penalty under this article is twelve years in prison.
There were no comments from the former investigator or his representatives regarding the indictment.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that in September 2021, a case was sent to court on extortion of 24 million rubles from the director of a plant in Makhachkala by a former police officer who had been hiding from the investigation for eight years.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:21 - DPR JCCC reports shelling from the AFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 20 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad. 21:44 A multi-storey building is on fire in Makiivka. As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Makeevka, a multi-storey building located on the street was set on fire. Lazo. Details are being specified.
21:15 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the wounding of 20 civilians, including two children, as a result of shelling from the AFU of the previously liberated part of the settlement. Mariupol:
– children (girl born in 2008, boy born in 2013);
- men: born in 1971, 1970, 1960, 1958, 1986, 1983, 1970, 2002;
- women: born in 1958, 1991, 1967, 1974, 1969, 1983, 1946, 1956, 1967, 1982.
Information was also received on four more injured civilians (two men and two women), the circumstances of the injuries and whose personal data are being specified.
20:58 VFU attacked Yasinovataya, the Donbassgaz building is on fire. As a result of the shelling, the building of the Yasinovatsky Department for Gas Supply and Gasification of the Donbassgaz Group of Companies, located on the street. Makeevskaya, 1.
19:09 Konstantin Ivashchenko, a former city deputy from the Opposition Platform - For Life party, has been appointed Mayor of Mariupol.
18:41 A reception of the Public Movement of the Donetsk Republic has opened in Mariupol. Now residents of the city can directly contact the authorities of the DPR, including Pushilin. You can contact us for any questions - about the restoration of housing, the payment of benefits and pensions, about volunteering.
Mariupol is starting to return to peaceful life. The day before, a meeting of community leaders recognized the results of the 2014 referendum on the independence of the DPR. City deputies also chose a candidate for the post of mayor and turned to Pushilin with a request to approve him. They became the director of "Azovmash" Konstantin Ivashchenko.
18:38 The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, met with families evacuated from the territories of the Republic temporarily under the control of Ukraine, who were placed in a hostel of the Luhansk Higher School of Physical Culture.
18:00 As a result of an explosion of ammunition fired by the VFU, a school and a kindergarten in the village of Kommunarovka (Starobeshevsky district) were damaged. Glass was shattered by the blast wave, fragments of ammunition provoked a fire in dry grass - Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.
17:51 A branch of the Central Republican Bank No. 0601/01 was opened in the village. Volodarskoe, located at the address: town. Volodarskoye, st. Freedom, 89.
17:50 Places for overnight stay, three meals a day, hot tea, the opportunity to take a shower and charge mobile devices - TAP in Bezymenny secured everything necessary.
“In addition, refugees are provided with qualified medical and psychological assistance on the territory, including medical evacuation of seriously ill people to healthcare facilities,” said Oleg Armeev, head of the 52nd fire and rescue unit of the State Fire Service of Makeevka. He also added that up to 450 people can be accommodated at the same time.
17:31 The wounded continue to be taken out from the center of Mariupol. Civilians injured during the shelling are being transported to Novoazovsk. The nationalists who remained in Mariupol since March 31 have never fulfilled the requirements of the “silence regime”, and the day before they increased the intensity of shelling of the gum corridor.
17:10 The authorities of the DPR in the liberated territory of the Republic provided payments to more than 3,000 people. From March 7 to March 25, pensions were paid to 2,952 recipients in the liberated settlements, 368 people received social benefits.
17:01 Since the beginning of the special operation, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR have destroyed more than 3,500 Ukrainian militants. In the Republics of Donbass, measures are being taken to exhume the bodies of the enemy. In compliance with the requirements of international humanitarian law, the bodies of the dead undergo all the necessary procedures for identification, documentation and burial. The Ukrainian side does not respond to requests for the transfer of bodies.
17:00 Calculation of the MLRS "Grad" DPRleadsfire on the positions of nationalists of the Azov detachment on the territory of the Azovstal industrial zone. One volley - five missiles from each vehicle. Such fire is not fired at residential areas and settlements to prevent civilians and civilian objects from entering the affected area. The deeper the Azov militants retreat deep into the industrial zone, the freer our gunners work.
16:13 More than 100 people, including 16 children, were evacuated from the Mariupol hospital number 4 in the Levoberezhny district. Marine units of the Black Sea Fleet of the Southern Military District, together with the reservists of the DPR, ensured the evacuation of all patients of the medical institution in the zone of combat contact with the Nazis of the units of Azov.
15:30 An underground city of 8-9 floors has been built under the Azovstal plant since the times of the USSR. And all this today is a military fortified area. That is, now the sweep will fall from the ground under it. A giant network of communications, its own power supply and ventilation. There is no way to use heavy equipment.
15:28 Civilians continue to be evacuated to Starobilsk from the temporarily occupied regions of the Republic and settlements, which are under fire from Ukrainian militants.
15:26 Nazis blocked Mariupol, gun emplacements in apartments, residents expelled. "Yellow barricades" at the exit from the Vostochny microdistrict, with them "Azov" blocked the city. Using the population as a human shield, the Nazis from the Azov regiment set up loopholes in residential apartments, driving people out into the street.
15:00 A resident of Popasna showed the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city center. According to him, an hour before this shooting, Ukrainian armed formations attacked residential areas. “My area is being bombed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not the Russians. So that our people know how you are "protected".
14:45 Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Yasinovataya in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing three artillery shells with a caliber of 122mm.
14:40 In the DPR, places in Mariupol and Volnovakha are being chosen for the construction of new residential areas. A meeting of representatives of various profile and municipal departments was held on the subject of the possibility of building new houses in Volnovakha and Mariupol. The meeting participants also discussed the issues of connecting new houses to communications: electricity, water, gas.
14:24 DPR power engineers restored power supply to the recently liberated village of Khlebodarovka - Ministry of Coal and Energy.
14:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired three shells from 122mm artillery.
13:16 "For all civilians": Rocket artillery of the NM DPR suppresses firing points of nationalists in the area of the settlement.
13:06 There is information that in Mariupol, in one of the bomb shelters at Azovstal, there is a NATO general. The MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was tasked with evacuating him.
12:18 NM LPR received help from Russian public figures. A total of 10 generators were delivered to the employees of the People's Militia of the LPR. In total, more than 100 tons of humanitarian aid were delivered to the LPR for needy residents and refugees.
12:06 A large cargo of food and medicine has been sent to the healthcare institutions of the DPR. During the period of the special operation, the healthcare institutions of the DPR are under a particularly heavy load.
To facilitate the recovery process for the wounded soldiers of the NM DPR and civilians, Russian public figures sent more than ten tons of food and medical supplies to the hospitals of the Donetsk People's Republic with the assistance of the People's Militia of the DPR.
12:04 Military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC confirmed the fact of the use of the BM-27 "Hurricane" in shelling from the VFU of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk on 04/06/2022.
11:35 Subdivisions of the NM LPR are moving forward to the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
11:30 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Novotroitsk, in the area of the building of the local administration, two people were killed and one more was injured. Details are being specified.
11:25 Russian Defense Ministry published video, where residents of Mariupol told how the Ukrainian national battalions equipped firing points in kindergartens and hospitals and fired at civilians.
11:05 A branch of the Central District Hospital has been opened in Volnovakha.
11:03 Restoration of the railway communication of the Rostov region with the DPR and LPR may occur in the near future, for this it is necessary to resolve security issues - the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev.
11:01 Water and power supply has been restored in Shchastia. Shchastia is one of the first cities that was liberated in the LPR. There were tough fights. High-rise buildings and infrastructure also suffered. Plus, the “wars of light”, leaving, blew up everything they could reach behind them.
Today Luhansk specialists have restored gas, water and electricity supply in Shchastia. Next will be repairs of supplies to houses and apartments, restoration of damaged housing.
10:54 The village of Donetsk in the LPR was fired from howitzers! From Ukrainian positions in N. p. Novotoshkovskoe along the settlement Donetsk fired 12 artillery shells 152mm.
10:34 In Dokuchaevsk, law enforcement officers found and seized 23 grenades, 21 fuses, two MANPADS, a machine gun and 630 5.45mm cartridges.
09:45 The Rostov region intends to help Donbass in the restoration of the region. The head of the region, Vasily Golubev, believes that other regions of Russia will also take part in the restoration of the territories.
09:40 As a result of hostilities, 60 transformer substations, 4,855 household subscribers in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the Yasinovatsky district of the Republic are de-energized - Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR.
09:25 During the day, 56 people were injured in the liberated territory of the DPR - the Ministry of Health of the DPR.
09:22 Residents of Mariupol told about the atrocities of the nationalists "Azov." Residents of Mariupol have been waiting for 8 years for liberation from the nationalists and thank the servicemen of the DPR and the Russian Federation for their liberation.
09:05 According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, over the past day, 572 people, including 110 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky District.
08:58 Ukrainian armed formations fired at Dokuchaevsk in the morning - five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:42 Units of the NM LPR are moving forward to the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
08:00 The Russian Armed Forces evacuated 18,654 people from dangerous regions of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR to Russia in a day, including 2,837 children, a total of 620,760 people have already been evacuated, the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, General- Colonel Mikhail Mizintsev.
07:25 As a result of the night shelling of the village of Grabari, Kuibyshev region, by a shell of Ukrainian militants on the street. Staromontazhnaya, 42 damaged fence, gas pipeline, power line - Kulemzin.
07:50 Ukrainian troops over the past day made five attacks in the direction of the settlements of Pervomaisk and Donetsk in the LPR.
06:55 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: five 122mm rounds fired. — SCCC.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 20:08 Presumably, a ship's anchor mine was found on the western coast of Crimea - the Ministry of Emergency Situations. After the storm cleared the mines laid by the Armed Forces of Ukraine off the coast of Odessa, ammunition is regularly found on the Black Sea coast of Turkey and Romania. 18:40 Weapons and ammunition that was distributed to the civilian population in Snigirevka withdrawn Russian Guard.
18:36 Izyum is under fire from Ukrainian rocket artillery right now. Cluster munitions explode right above the city center.
17:47 Kherson and Zaporozhye regions begin trading in rubles: “Crimea is very closely and fruitfully restoring cooperation with the southern regions of Ukraine, which have always been drawn to us, have always helped Crimea as a tourist territory to supply food to a large number of tourists. Our friends in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are restoring this function. They are starting to trade in rubles,” said Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Georgy Muradov.
17:05 Kyiv has been disrupting the exchange of prisoners of war for a long time, and on previously agreed conditions: the exchange of prisoners of war planned for April 6 has been thwarted by the Ukrainian side.
17:04 Russia treats all prisoners in accordance with the norms of international humanitarian law - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
17:03 I accuse the Western media, and above all the American ones, not just of spreading fakes and misinformation, but of complicity in the crime in the city of Bucha-Zakharova.
17:02 The Russian Defense Ministry calls on the UN, the OSCE, the ICRC, as well as the leadership of Germany, Turkey and France, which are actively working in the Ukrainian humanitarian direction, to demand that the Ukrainian authorities immediately provide access for representatives of the ICRC to Russian prisoners of war, in order to establish conditions of detention and conduct an in-depth medical examination, with the subsequent transfer of reporting documents to the Russian side and international organizations.
16:47 It has been reliably established that torture, violence, bullying are used against Russian servicemen, which, with their inhumanity, copy the actions of punishers during the Second World War - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
16:33 The Turkish Defense Ministry announced the successful neutralization of a drifting mine found in the Black Sea.
15:51 After the provocation in Bucha, it seems quite likely that Kiev is preparing new sabotage, including the use of chemical weapons.
Radicals store ballistic missiles containing more than two thousand tons of highly toxic fuel at the Pavlograd Mechanical Plant. These weapons
can be used by neo-Nazis to carry out a chemical attack on the civilian population with the aim of subsequently accusing the Russian military.
15:31 Head of the Georgian Legion fighting in Ukraine declared that neither he nor his subordinates will take Russian soldiers prisoner. Mamuka Mamulashvili stated this on the air of the Air program.
Previously, videos appeared on the network where Russian soldiers lying on the road with their hands tied were finished off with a shot in the head. Mamulashvili confirmed that the employees of his legion do this.
15:08 The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a resolution allowing the defense (Volkssturm) to use rocket systems and artillery. What does it mean? This means official, state "good" for terrorism.
15:05 This create fakes about "civilians" killed by the Russian military. Pinocchio by UkrNaziFilm. It’s troublesome with the living, sometimes they smoke corpses, sometimes they remove hands from under the wheels and rise up like zombies in a side view mirror, and these quiet, calm ones, where you put them, lie there.
14:53 Another Nazi from "Azov" went to the cauldron to Bandera and Shukhevych. This time, the militant Yaroslav Briginets, callsign "Makhach" was disposed of.
14:02 The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the discovery of another mine in the Black Sea.
Turkey found another one mine in the Black Sea.
13:25 The staging in Bucha needs to be investigated, but a real, impartial, independent investigation is needed - Peskov.
13:07 The order to withdraw Russian troops from the Kiev region was personally given by Vladimir Putin - Peskov.
11:43 Descendants of the victors on the reclaimed height of Kremenets above Izyum. Ivan III defended himself from the Tatars on it, bloody battles took place on it in the Great Patriotic War. It is now controlled by Russian troops.
Descendants of the winners on the reclaimed height of Kremenets over Izyum
11:10 Captured weapons and ammunition,capturedin the city of Snigirevka. This city with a population of just over 12,000 people became one of the first large settlements in the Nikolaev region, which completely came under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
11:06 RF Armed Forces to Kherson delivered more than 10 tons of humanitarian aid, among the goods - various cereals, sugar, sunflower oil, canned food. They also handed over blankets, pillows, household chemicals and medicines to the residents of Kherson, and the children were given school supplies.
11:03 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed video strikes with Onyx missiles at fuel depots supplying Ukrainian troops.
10:36 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 125 aircraft, 93 helicopters, 407 unmanned aerial vehicles, 227 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1981 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 215 multiple rocket launchers, 854 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 1882 units of special military vehicles.
10:27 Russian air defense systems shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles in the air in the areas of the settlements of Berdyansk, Gornyak, Uvanskoye and Chernobaevka.
10:25 During the night, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile forces hit 24 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: the Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, five warehouses for logistics, as well as 11 strongholds and areas of concentration of military equipment of Ukrainian troops.
10:15 On the morning of April 6, high-precision air and ground-based missiles destroyed five bases for storing fuel and lubricants in the areas of the settlements of Radekhov, Kazatin, Prosyanaya, Nikolaev and Novomoskovsk. From these facilities, military equipment was supplied with fuel to groups of Ukrainian troops in the regions of Kharkov, Nikolaev and in the Donbass.
09:43 APU yesterday fired mortars at the positions of Russian border guards in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region - Governor Roman Starovoit. There are no casualties or destruction.
09:20 A missile attack was launched on objects in the town of Kozyatyn, Vinnytsia region. An oil depot and a military unit were destroyed.
08:57 Briefly in Izyum: at 0500 hrs, units of the 20th Combined Arms Army (252 SMEs of the 3rd Vislenskaya Motorized Rifle Division) occupied the village of Brazhkovka, for which there were fierce battles for several days. At the moment, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are pulling up forces and preparing to counterattack.
08:52 In Nikolaev, held by Ukrainian troops, local residents draw V and Z symbols on the streets.
08:47 Ukrainian official sources confirm the destruction of two oil depots - in Kazatin and near Dnepropetrovsk.
08:08 At night, the Russian Air Force struck exclusively at military facilities, bases, warehouses and locations in Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov, Vinnitsa, Novomoskovsk, Odessa.
08:00 As a result of the blows of rocket artillery of the Kiev regime in residential areas of Izyum injured seven civilians. A total of five people died. APU use cluster munitions around the city. barbarian way of warfare. Unfortunately, this is the norm for the neo-Nazi regime.
New warnings about deliberate attacks on civilians by either side likely will become de rigueur as the war wears on. [NewsFrontInfo] In the city of Pervomaisky, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian special services are preparing a major provocation using poisonous substances.
There was also information that the special services were planning to blow up a storage facility with 120 tons of chlorine in the Kharkiv region to blame Russia for this.
In turn, the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region destroyed the fuel base and the accumulation of foreign-made military equipment and weapons.
“High-precision ground-based missiles in the Donetsk region destroyed: the command post of the Ukrainian 56th separate motorized infantry brigade in the area of the village of Novogradovka, as well as the base of nationalists in the village of Grodovka,” the representative of the department noted.
During the day, operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 34 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: an artillery battery, two logistics depots, as well as 9 strongholds and areas of concentration of military equipment of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Russian air defense systems shot down a Bayraktar TB-2 unmanned aerial vehicle in the Taranovka region of the Kharkiv region.
Not for long. When they're introduced to Goldman Sachs, they will learn that they and the rest of the Russians can make windfall profits trading Russian debt thanks to the Biden Administration's carve outs for western banks and hedge funds. (Stay away from that animal who calls himself "Hunter", though)
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Goldman are telling clients they can make a killing by scooping up Russian bonds at artificially low prices.
They can also make a fortune by shipping Russian wheat. Russian wheat shipments were up 60% in March. Volumes are increasing and prices are soaring, and Russia is taking over Ukraine's market share.
This is because Russia's victories in the South and East have made Ukraine effectively a landlocked nation; they cannot export anything through the Black Sea. There are rail lines but they cannot handle more than a tiny fraction of the volume demanded by countries like Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Libya, and Israel. Russia has grabbed Ukraine's share of exports to those crucial markets.
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Goldman are telling clients they can make a killing by scooping up Russian bonds at artificially low prices.
They can also make a fortune by shipping Russian wheat. Russian wheat shipments were up 60% in March. Volumes are increasing and prices are soaring, and Russia is taking over Ukraine's market share.
This is because Russia's victories in the South and East have made Ukraine effectively a landlocked nation; they cannot export anything through the Black Sea. There are rail lines but they cannot handle more than a tiny fraction of the volume demanded by countries like Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Libya, and Israel. Russia has grabbed Ukraine's share of exports to those crucial markets.
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And they can.
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Apologies for the duplication.
Anyway Russia is taking over Ukraine's vital export markets. Wheat, coal, steel, sunflower oil: even if the EU tries to rebuild Ukraine's infrastructure that's been completely destroyed, Ukraine will not be able to ship through the Black Sea any longer. As well, Russia has taken control of the lands in the East that have extensive reserves of natural gas.
For these reasons investors in Switzerland, New York and London (also Dubai) are buying up heavily discounted Russian debt from Goldman, JPMorgan and other US brokers. As the poster above said, it's entirely legal, and it is enabling Russians and others to lock in enormous profits.
If by "they" you mean Russia, yes that is correct. Ukraine's remaining Black Sea ports are closed, their harbors are mined. By contrast Russia's ports are open for business and are "very busy," according to the leading consultancy focussed on Ukrainian and Russian grain exports, SovEcon.
Another consultancy reports that "export vessels are being loaded at all five Black Sea grain terminals after a pause of 7-10 days at the beginning of the conflict....The export pace is so hot that SovEcon recently upped its forecast for the country’s March wheat shipments from 1.3 million tonnes (Mt) to 2Mt due to the strong export demand. That expectation was supported by IKAR last week, which announced it now expected March wheat exports to exceed 2Mt. While freight rates are substantially higher, so too are global prices."
#10
They is a critical mass thing. If you have the money, you have the entre.
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Ah so you mean the Russian politicians and the oligarchs. Yes, those are some of the private banks' best customers. Most of Putin's money is in Switzerland. Most of their trading is done through houses like Goldman Sachs.
They also own oil trading companies in Switzerland too. Also trading companies for wheat and other commodities. The US sanctions aren't going to hurt them much.
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WooHoo. I have dollars and I'm not going to Ekaterineburg.
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"dipshit"?
Is that supposed to be an attempt at an insult?
@Lampedusa: The Chinese and Indians are supporting the ruble. Africans as well.
It's very easy to get around the sanctions. The Biden Administration created so many loopholes that anyone with a correspondent bank and a connection to a broker like Goldman can evade the sanctions.
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If there's demand for rubles from sovereigns and big investors then the sanctions will fall apart. Word from traders in the City is the sanctions have become a joke. Russia's exporting even more than before the war and the Asian central banks and trading firms are on Russia's side.
#17
"dipshit"?
Is that supposed to be an attempt at an insult?
These guys are sharp...
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Ruble's continuing to rise. Up 74.76% in the last month. Russia's making a killing (haha, bad joke, I know) by cutting off Ukraine's exports and by diverting their oil exports from the West to countries like India.
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I'll be honest. The more homely one looks "needy." The other one thinks she's Ivanka. I'll bet even Jared would slap her.
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#16 Word from traders in the City is the sanctions have become a joke. Russia's exporting even more than before the war and the Asian central banks and trading firms are on Russia's side.
This is correct. The rupee/ruble trading mechanism is being finalized. Bankers and investors are confident that they can accept ruble payments now and that the combined power of backing by China's yuan and Russia's gold will preserve the value of their ruble holdings. This is why the ruble is the best performing currency in the world now.
"De-dollarisation" is coming, much faster than expected. The Emirates just announced they're supporting Russia. All of OPEC plus all of the BRICS nations have a higher GDP than the EU. The West's sanctions are collapsing.
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"The City." They'd sell nukes and futures on their use if they could.
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So going after the families is a truly democrat event. We all pissed and moaned over the poor treatment of the Trump kids. What evidence do we have that they had anything to do with the invasion of Ukraine? Or are we going to just go after them for being born into a family? This whole going after the families and oligarchs is a bad move. If this continues we will see Bill Gates or other rich Americans getting arrested abroad every time The US does something in our best interests that the world does not like.
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City & Wall Street profits in the last month from exploiting sanctions loopholes that allow trading in derivatives and credit swaps on Russian debt:
Goldman Sachs $100m
JPMorgan $100m
Barclays $50m
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#26 If this continues we will see Bill Gates or other rich Americans getting arrested abroad every time
They're not getting arrested, they're getting even richer. All the oligarchs including the West's oligarchs are making bank from inflation and sanctions. The sanctions have holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through. You think that's not on purpose?
Guys like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett know how to turn hyperinflation to their advantage and they can easily bust sanctions without getting caught... or even breaking the law.
Gates is the biggest private landowner in the United States: he's making huge profits from spiraling food prices and the real estate landgrab. Gates and Buffett are collecting windfalls from all the freight charges for tar sands oil shipped on the train companies they own. Buffett bought a huge stake in Occidental Petroleum just before Putin invaded Ukraine.
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So going after the families is a truly democrat event.
Dems do it at the drop of a hat. saying "That's not us," is rank stupidity.
Any weapon your enemy uses is fair game.
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protecting their own corrupt families
It's money. The people handling it refuse to make a distinction.
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Short version: The West is screwing itself and will never recover from this own goal.
Long version: "We are witnessing the birth of Bretton Woods III – a new world (monetary) order centered on commodity-based currencies in the East that will likely weaken the Eurodollar system and also contribute to inflationary forces in the West.” – – Zoltan Pozsar, Former Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department official, and now Credit Suisse Global Head of Short-Term Interest Rate Strategy based in New York.
In a note published earlier, Zoltan wrote this crisis is not like anything we have seen since President Nixon took the U.S. dollar off gold in 1971 – the end of the era of commodity-based money.
When this crisis is over, the U.S. dollar should be much weaker. From the Bretton Woods era backed by gold bullion, to Bretton Woods II backed by inside money (Treasuries with un-hedgeable confiscation risks), to Bretton Woods III backed by outside money (gold bullion and other commodities), Zoltan believes the global monetary system will never be the same post the crisis.
These trenches dug by Russian forces during their invasion of the region were dug in the most irradiated areas of the Chernobyl Radiation Area, see this map of soil Caesium radiation around the disaster area, with the location of the trenches marked. No wonder some got sick. https://t.co/hbvVuatJS1pic.twitter.com/kbBhfKR070
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#2 Hey mike!
The only failed state is your fucking USA shithole and all the homosexuals cuntservatives like the seniors brainwashed fucks in this mierda that you call rantburg
All the shit that you and your crew are aggregating in this crap of rantburg is fake news courtesy of nato and foreign interests, this is disinformation and interference, this it’s not necessary or not in the interests of the American people.
Rantburg is a pile of crap disgusting disinformation. Managed by ignorant old idiots.
Report the fucking news or go to hell!
Posted by: Rinaldeddu 2022-04-07 13:28
Rinaldeddu,
Seriously? You're going to have to do a lot better than that, Sugarplum.
Mike
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[mods wearing their utility belts, putting on their zap guns, rolling up the giant smoky the Bear posters]
#8
There's no consensus, no conclusion, no valid argument. The things are just out to fcuk with your head.
Kind of like trying to discuss something with a liberal, of which I'm becoming somewhat insusceptible.
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#9
Isn't this how we get zombie soldiers?
There's them, and the nod-alongs for when their messaging matches a conclusion. They try to add weight to your thought while getting you to stop thinking and tow the message.
#10
There's no consensus, no conclusion, no valid argument. The things are just out to fcuk with your head.
Kind of like trying to discuss something with a liberal, of which I'm becoming somewhat insusceptible.
See: Andrew Vachss' The Zen of Violence - It is the Zen of violence. It has no logic, only essence. There are no computations, no calculations. No facts. Therefore, no theories.
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[NYPOST] Ukrainian activists claim to have identified the so-called "Butcher of Bucha," a decorated Russian commander leading the unit that massacred hundreds of civilians in what is being widely condemned as genocide. Lt. Col. Azatbek Omurbekov, thought to be around 40, was first identified by InformNapalm, a Ukrainian volunteer group that monitors Russia’s military and special services.
It shared his home address as well as email and telephone number, calling him the "military villain" behind the massacre in Bucha, the suburb of Kyiv where bodies have been left strewn in the street or thrown into mass graves.
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#5
*raises hand*
So what would be the official position on African Migrants, specifically associated no-go zone areas and practices such as street prayers to disrupt traffic?
The man famous as The Vegetable in a Russian joke and as Obama's go-between when the Lightbringer whispered on a hot mike, "Tell Vladimir I will have more flexibility after the election". Darth Putin should have strangled him when he had the chance.
Back when the USSR was a thing, the Red Army could not have made to Lisbon (the army army, not the hockey team). The Russians certainly could not do it now. The hysteria becomes tiresome.
#8
What has the Russian Olympic Hockey Team done lately?
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Bareback, or... dunno. Hypersonic?
Our Tsar, scared to death of kielbasa,
And cornered by NATO, er, TOSSER,
Will sweep to the East!
Once the Asians are policed,
He'll head west till he's dancing the bossa,
Then north to the Tijuana plaza
Or southward to brain-drain Kinshasa
And bombard the bars of Barossa!
Interesting that Youtube is yet another group of people talking out of all four sides of their mouths on both their faces - pretending to be Pro-Ukranian in the English language while continuing censorship of dissident opinions on the subject on videos in Chinese. [Radio Free Asia] YouTube has suspended the account of Odessa-based Chinese national Wang Jixian after he reported on atrocities committed as Russian troops withdrew from Bucha, RFA has learned.
Odessa-based programmer Wang has been uploading videos since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began last month, but hasn't published any new videos since one on March 30 in which he hits out at pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) critics as "human trash," and translates news reports of gang rape being committed by Russian troops in Bucha, including of a young girl.
Wang had been uploading to the site daily, with the same introduction every time: "It's Jixian. I'm in Odessa."
YouTube told Wang that his account had been suspended for posting "violent content" in his March 28 video, ignoring an appeal submitted by Wang.
"I find this inexplicable," Wang told RFA. "YouTube claims that my account was reported for violent content, which violates the rules, but where is the violence? I didn't include photos [of violence] in my video."
"This was a front-line war report ... In my appeal, I asked them to say which video or photos weren't allowed, but within five minutes of my submitting the appeal, YouTube sent its final decision, which was that my account has been suspended for a week," he said.
Wang said he didn't blame YouTube, but the "ulterior motives" of whoever reported him.
Wang's March 28 video included footage of Odessa with air-raid sirens going off, and the sounds of missiles exploding, but also footage of him cooking in h is kitchen, and compiling Ukrainian government and media dispatches about the war, including news that the Ukrainian army had intercepted a Russian missile over the city.
In the second half of the video, Wang turns his attention to the CCP-backed media in China, which is still strongly supportive of Russia, particularly the claim that Russia has the upper hand in the war, despite arms sales from Western countries.
He shows photographic evidence suggesting that large numbers of Russian tanks have been captured by the Ukrainian army, as well as Russian soldiers fighting from electric tricycles and motorbikes.
The video also included footage of Ukrainian soldiers taking Russian soldiers captive, with one handed one a coat with the words, "Welcome to Ukraine, you bastard!"
Wang also takes issue with praise by pro-CCP commentator Sima Nan's claim that Russian president Vladimir Putin is "kind-hearted," and had refrained from sabotaging the power and water supply to Ukrainian homes.
'COUNTERING LIES AND PANIC'
Wang said his suspension came after he was targeted by multiple messages warning him "don't provoke the Chinese government," and "don't be too aggressive with your comments."
He told RFA he is trying to stem the flow of "lies and panic" by spreading accurate information.
"I'm countering lies and panic by reporting from the front line," Wang told RFA. "Panic can be very contagious and spreads like a virus, like a plague."
"If an authoritarian power tries to intimidate you, you have to give back as good as you get ... I humiliated them mercilessly," Wang said. "The more you fear them, the happier they will be and the more they will do to you."
Wang has since shifted to Twitter, where his account quickly garnered tens of thousands of followers within a day of opening.
Wang has been subject to repeated vitriol on social media sites in China, however, where he is accused of spying for the U.S., and insulting China and the CCP.
But he thinks his videos will remind the world that not all Chinese nationals follow the official line on the war without question.
"I kept going with the YouTube channel so at the very least there would be a Chinese voice in the international community," Wang said. "I've been asked by ... journalists why all Chinese people support Russia, and I ask them in return why they only give a platform to one voice in such a huge country."
"[The party line] does not represent all voices in China; it's just that any dissenting voices are being filtered out," he said.
'WEAPONIZING PROPAGANDA'
Japan-based Chinese national Ding Dong said Wang's YouTube suspension wasn't the result of "normal reporting," suggesting a malicious reporting campaign by pro-CCP actors.
"Wang Jixian hit CCP propaganda and lies about the Russian war in Ukraine especially hard," Ding told RFA. "The suspension of his YouTube channel was likely the result of a large number of organized, [pro-CCP] supporters."
"I am really indignant that a big company like [that] will carry major channels for foreign propaganda [like Chinese state media outlets] for economic gain," he said.
Chinese blogger Wangguo Wahaha agreed.
"Wang Jixian made his opposition to Russia's violent invasion very clear in his videos, but because his stance didn't conform to the CCP official line, he was maliciously reported, which triggered the suspension mechanism," he said. "The CCP weaponizes propaganda every day ... and there is now a tendency for the CCP ... to extend its tentacles beyond the Great Firewall, to overseas social media platforms."
"We have seen a whole string of such instances ... we really need to put pressure on platforms like YouTube to re-examine their terms of service, which are so easily abused by the CCP," he said.
Earlier this month, Twitter briefly suspended an anonymous account translating online internet comment about the Russian invasion of Ukraine from inside the Great Firewall for readers outside China, in a bid to highlight online opinion about the war, which has been heavily influenced by ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda and a ban on criticism of Russia.
The crowd-sourced Great Translation Movement account @TGTM_Official on Twitter features online comments made on Chinese social media platforms rendered into English by volunteer translators.
The account started out in mid-February, amid growing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, with volunteers selecting and tweeting various examples of Chinese online comment using the hashtag #TheGreatTranslationMovement in various languages.
The suspension, which was reversed on April 3, came after the account was criticized by the CCP-backed Global Times newspaper in March, which accused it of "smearing China with malicious words and deeds."
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[Breitbart] Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) published a study on Tuesday concluding that years of Chinese government data indicate government surgeons have killed prison inmates by tearing out their organs for transplants.
The ANU study pored through years of descriptive documents on the executions of death row inmates and found inconsistencies that indicated the inmates were not brain dead when surgeons tore out their vital organs, to be used in transplant surgeries. The researchers concluded that, in many of the cases they identified in Chinese government reports, tearing out organs was the "proximate cause" of death for the inmates.
"Might the transplant surgeon become the de facto executioner? Evidence suggestive of such behavior has emerged over many years from the People’s Republic of China (PRC)," the report stated.
The researchers concluded that China had likely breached a medical ethics standard known as the "dead donor rule," which asserts that doctors should not kill people to transplant their organs into another person. The report follows years of mounting evidence — organized similarly by medical researchers, human rights activists, journalists, and attorneys — suggesting that China has systematically killed political dissidents and members of religious and spiritual communities it disapproves of to sell their organs to wealthy buyers.
#2
It is lucrative. And someone will do it. Why not the State? This way it doesn't get done to innocent accident victims and appendicitis patients. And there's catch, but no release. Win win win.
#3
This sounds like a slippery slope. When the police begin to nab criminals based on age, health, blood type…. The actual crime can be determined later.
The late governor of Pennsylvania Bob Casey went in for a routine physical and came out with new organs. Surprise! A Governor jumped to the top of the organ donor list.
#5
Could we worry about Americans suffering judicial malpractice first?
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Bob Casey. Haha. Good Catholic. Hated abortion. If the organ transplant rumors are true (I have no idea) he still didn't last long and might have wound up in a "mortal sin" situation.
Which would be fine with me.
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[Breitbart] Brexit leader Nigel Farage has accused the European Union of rank hypocrisy for "funding Putin’s war machine", as the bloc admitted to spending €35 billion on Russian gas since the invasion of Ukraine.
Once again taking up the mantle of criticising the globalist bloc, Nigel ’Mr Brexit’ Farage said that German and other EU member states are propping up the Russian economy with one hand while sanctioning the country not the other.
"Not only is the Russian ruble back to where it was before the invasion, but the Germans keep buying huge volumes of gas and oil. Germany and other EU states are funding Putin’s war machine," Mr Farage wrote on social media.
The statement came after the European Union’s Foreign Affairs and Security Policy representative, Josep Borrell told the European Parliament that since Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24th, some €35 billion (£29/$38 billion) has been sent to Russia from EU member states in exchange for natural gas.
At the same time, the EU has sent some one billion euros (£0.83/$1.09 billion) worth of weapons and other armaments to Ukraine, the foreign policy chief admitted.
"It might seem a lot, but €1 billion is what we pay [Vladimir] Putin every day for the energy he provides us," the Spanish politician said per Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
"Since the beginning of the war, we have given him €35 billion, compared to the €1 billion we have given Ukraine in arms and weapons."
The Eurocrat used the striking figures to bolster his call for more sanctions on Russia and for the bloc to send more weapons to Ukraine.
"We have to keep arming Ukraine. We need less rounds of applause and more assistance. We want to say less that Mr Zelensky is a hero and give more weapons. That is what the Ukrainians expect and that’s what we’re doing," Borrell said.
Half-measures: EU reportedly exempting key Russian banks from SWIFT ban to keep buying gas, meanwhile Gazprom... https://t.co/APDc3yaJak
In contrast to the push for more weapons and more sanctions, there has been little appetite for negotiating for peace, with the exception of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has been conducting repeated bilateral conversations with Vladimir Putin.
Despite German Chancellor Olaf Scholz joining some of the calls with Macron, the role of mediator has largely fallen to France, which has a relatively robust domestic nuclear power industry, with Germany effectively sidelined due to its over-reliance on Russian gas, after decades of attempting to transition to a so-called green economy.
While Europe has been keen to sanction Russia and send or sell weapons to Ukraine, there has not been much political pressure placed on globalist financial institutions such as the European Investment Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank to cancel Ukrainian debt — which following the invasion is likely to struggle even servicing the $129 billion in external debt.
The EU has also so far refused to ban Russian gas outright, with economically critical countries such as Germany and Italy being heavily dependent on gas from Russian pipelines to keep their economies churning. Indeed, even the sanctions banning Russia from the international SWIFT payment system allowed for carveouts for European countries to continue purchasing gas from Putin’s regime.
The bloc has proposed a ban on Russian coal, however, this has yet to be approved, with all 27 member states needing to sign off on such a move. European countries purchase around €4bn ($4.4bn; £3.3bn) worth of coal from Russia every year...
[NYPOST] Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors slammed a report by New York Magazine that detailed the organization’s purchase of a swanky $5.8 million Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, home — claiming the story is a "racist and sexist" attack on the movement.The 6,500-square-foot mansion features more than six bedrooms and bathrooms and was "secretly bought" with BLM’s donation funds, the magazine reported and The Post later confirmed. The luxe property once hosted Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe as house guests — and comes complete with a sound stage, music studio, pool and a two-bedroom guest house.
Cullors called the article about the massive home a "despicable abuse of a platform that’s intended to provide information to the public" in a Tuesday Instagram post.
"The fact that a reputable publication would allow a news hound, with a proven and very public bias against me and other Black leaders, to write a piece filled with misinformation, innuendo and incendiary opinions, is disheartening and unacceptable," she wrote of the piece authored by Sean Campbell.
The article revealed that the seven-bedroom residence was purchased by Dyane Pascall two weeks after BLMGNF received $66.5 million from its fiscal sponsor. Pascall is the financial manager for an LLC operated by Cullors and her spouse, Janaya Khan — Janaya and Patrisse Consulting.
Ownership was transferred within a week to an LLC in Delaware, ensuring the property’s owner wouldn’t be disclosed and the purchase of the nearly $6 million home had not been previously reported, the magazine claimed. BLM officials tried to keep its existence a secret from members of the media looking into the transaction.
Cullors recorded a video last June outside the home to mark the first anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, in which she remarked she was in "survival mode" after The Post’s exclusive reporting last April revealed her purchase of four high-end US homes for $3.2 million.
"What’s happening to me and to our movement is both racist and sexist," Cullors wrote regarding the reporting on her purchases. "What is happening to me is not about accountability or healing. It’s about destroying my life and destroying a powerful movement."
In the post, Cullors said the reason the purchase wasn’t announced was the house — which she claims was bought to "be a safe space for Black people" — required "repairs and renovations."
Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety documents reviewed by The Post showed the last renovation done on the property was roof work by the previous owner in 2017, and pictures of the listing showed it in mint condition.
Cullors goes on to say that she "never misappropriated funds," a claim the article does not accuse her of. She also said the scrutiny she is facing is "unfair and unjust."
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I wish I could show some of the charlatans what racism is.
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I am losing count, does anyone have a list of all the things that make a NON-AfroKon racist?
[OneIndia] The threat intelligence firm Recorded Future Inc. said in a report published on Wednesday that suspected state sponsored Chinese hackers targeted the power sector in India in recent months as part of an apparent cyber espionage campaign.
The report said that the hackers focused on seven load dispatch centres in northern India that are responsible for carrying out real time operations for grid control and electricity dispersal in areas located near the India-China border in Ladakh.
The prolonged targeting of Indian power grid assets by Chinese state-linked groups offers limited economic espionage or traditional intelligence gathering opportunities. We believe this is instead likely intended to enable information gathering surrounding critical infrastructure and/or pre-positioning for future activity, the report said.
The report also said that the hackers compromised an Indian national emergency response system and a subsidiary of a multinational logistics company.
TAG-38, the hacking group used a kind of malicious software called ShadowPad, which was previously associated with the People's Liberation Army of China.
Senior manager at Recorded Future, Jonathan Condra said that the method the attackers used to make the intrusions using compromised internet of things devices and cameras was usual. The devices used to launch intrusions based in Taiwan and South Korea, he also said.
[IsraelTimes] The US military says it conducted a new test of a hypersonic missile, as Pentagon officials seek to match or get ahead of China’s and Russia’s advances in the cutting-edge strategic weapons technology.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it recently completed a free-flight test of an aircraft-launched hypersonic missile that maintained a speed of more than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound (at least 3,800 miles per hour, or 6,100 kilometers per hour).
The missile flew to greater than 65,000 feet (189,812 meters) and soared over 300 nautical miles, says DARPA.
It was the second test under the agency’s HAWC Program — named for hypersonic air-breathing weapon concept — and the missile had a different configuration from the first, which was tested last September.
According to CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... , the newest test took place in mid-March but was kept quiet to avoid appearing to escalate the geopolitical tensions surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
#6
I seem to remember something about these tests; that it worked but wasn't everything they were looking for? If I'm not confusing it with something else, pretty sure Russia knew about it. Especially with spit swapping going on with China.
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.
[NewsFrontInfo] In the city of Pervomaisky, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian special services are preparing a major provocation using poisonous substances.
[Radio Free Asia] YouTube has suspended the account of Odessa-based Chinese national Wang Jixian after he reported on atrocities committed as Russian troops withdrew from Bucha, RFA has learned.
[Breitbart] Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) published a study on Tuesday concluding that years of Chinese government data indicate government surgeons have killed prison inmates by tearing out their organs for transplants.
